Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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GERMAN A.- General review and drill on exercises, this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Bring all the books...
...first exhibition of the Boston Athletic Association was held last Thursday evening, at which over 500 members were present. The exhibition consisted of a dumb-bell drill by a squad of sixteen from the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium, followed by an exhibition on the vaulting or German horse. After this came a class exhibition on the parallel bars, which was followed by an exhibition of Indian club swinging and juggling by D. J. Conroy, of the Y. M. C. A. The next event was a wand drill by sixteen members of the Boston Turn Verein, which...
Probably the scope and purpose of this institution cannot be better described than in the words of President Hyde, of Bowdoin College, in the last number of the Atlantic Monthly: "It is the province of the university to take men who have the drill of the academy and the breadth of view which the college gives, and help them to carry forward self-chosen lines of special study to the limits of the world's attained knowledge, and on into regions yet unexplored. Not the teaching how to walk, nor yet the easy and rapid journeying along the beaten paths...
...battalion of the '92 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, held its annual winter drill and dance last Saturday afternoon...
...order that it might be prepared for use this winter. The old gymnasium was at first determined upon, but an inspection showed that nearly $800 would have to be expended to put the building in order. The heating expenses would also be very large. The old barracks or drill shed back of College House was next thought of, but here the cost would also be too great. Finally, the basement of the old Hasty Pudding Club building on Holmes Field was chosen, and through the efforts of Captain Finally permission was obtained of the corporation...