Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...peace unable to divest myself of the military habits formed by four years of arduous service, I continued to follow the occupation for which I was best adapted by nature and most familiar by practice. But here I must pause, for with the remembrance of the Monday night drill, the words of command and battle struggle for utterance. Yes, gentlemen, let the historian chronicle my exploits in war if he will; let the poet sing them in paeans of martial melody: but do you, while memory keeps her tablet green, treasure me in your hearts as the FOUNDER...
...what exercise each man needs. A simple teacher of gymnastics without the light of anatomical knowledge to judge of each student's condition and powers by careful examination, would be no improvement on the present state of affairs, and under him all exercises might gradually give place to class-drill or that most worthless form of physical exercise - the military drill...
...drill-hour of the H. R. C. has been changed from 6.30 to 6.45 P. M. The corps will leave promptly at 7 for the field, and all members are requested to be present...
...earnest work succeeds in triumphing over college indifference. That the Rifle Corps has so succeeded is now well assured; and it is to be hoped that the University at large will take an interest in the work which the corps is doing. The importance of a knowledge of military drill is well known; and the corps offers great facilities for drill to all members of the University. Excellent rifles and accoutrements have been provided by the State; and the new Gymnasium will have a spacious armory, and afford a drill-hall unequalled by any in New England. The time required...
...Rifle Corps had the last drill of the season on Monday evening, the 27th...