Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work will consist of one two-hour drill and a one-hour lecture each week, the drill being of close order work and rifle practice in the Baseball Cage and Hemenway Gymnasium during the winter and next spring open order drill, coupled with some field work and practice in minor tactics. The lectures will be given by army officers on the elements of military science and problems of strategy...
General Leonard Wood, M'84, chief-of-staff of the United States army, stated yesterday, when interviewed by telephone by members of the Military Preparedness Committee of the University, that he would endeavor to have a special officer detailed to drill the University battalion and to have the men's equipment supplied by the War Department, provided 400 men should sign up for the proposed Harvard Volunteer Battalion before Friday night at 6 o'clock. The committee has consequently placed blue-books in Leavitt & Peirce's, the Union, Memorial Hall, and the Freshman Dormitories in which men may enlist...
...teams had signal drill yesterday afternoon, and the Sophomores, with two full teams and several substitutes, had a short fast scrimmage...
...proposed Harvard Battalion must be enlisted by Friday. If the delegates who are going to New York to interview General Wood on Saturday can report that this number has enrolled, the success of the battalion is assured, as General Wood will then endeavor to provide an officer for drill and equipment free of charge...
Freshman hockey candidates will be called out about a week later than the University squad. Their practice will consist of drill in the rudiments of the game until the ice rinks in the Stadium are ready for use. This will probably be directly after the Christmas recess. The Freshman squad will remain as a unit until after Christmas, when a first and a second squad will be chosen. The three dormitory teams will be picked from the latter squad and will engage in the regular series for the inter-dormitory championship...