Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...result of this general sentiment the Student Council has adopted a resolution in favor of organizing a company of students for military drill supplemented by lectures on military tactics. A committee of graduates, law school men, and undergraduates has been appointed to take general charge of inaugurating the system...
...plan has not yet been worked out in any great detail, but a general scheme has been mapped out. The course, which is to begin immediately after the Christmas recess, will comprise two hours a week of drill in the fundamentals of tactical formations, and a supplementary lecture of one hour, intended to take up military science from a more theoretical point of view. The drill is planned to be held under the direction of a United States army officer, assisted by those men who have already had some military training in one of the troops, batteries, or summer camps...
...perhaps not too much to hope that enough men will answer the call to form an entire infantry regiment of 1200. This would mean that a little more than one-quarter of all the men in the University would enlist,--a number which seems reasonable since the military drill will in no way interfere with scholastic work or athletics...
While St. Paul's School has offered its camp site, a splendid drill ground and an admirable country for field manoeuvres, the project is not a St. Paul's School movement. Enlisted in it will be Exeter, Andover, Pomfret, and other boarding schools in New England, and possibly some from neighboring states. The detailed plans will be worked out by a committee representing all the schools which will send boys to the camp. The training will be somewhat more moderate than that at Plattsburg, which would be too severe for the younger boys, but it will be along the same...
Candidates for the Freshman hockey team 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. These men will engage in the usual series for the interdormitory championship. The Freshman manager candidates will...