Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...each drill one third of the hour will be spent in review...
...normal student the idea of drilling at 7.30 is not alluring; he does it because it is the only possible time he can spare and because he wants to do something to prepare himelf for future service. Yet yesterday and the day before showed that to drill without over-coats when the thermometer refuses to register is not too instructive and extremely uncomfortable. It is difficult to drill when all feelings except those of distinct pain have left the fingers...
...meditate in this icy strain, we must admit there is a good side to this winter drill. It is extremely healthy and it wakes us up. Though a sacrifice, it has to be done, as going indoors is decidedly preventive of good military manoeuvres. We want to stay outdoors as long as we possibly can; it is the same and sensible though uncomfortable solution. We have started this drill and we will carry it through, ralic or shine, warm or cold. They do it at Devens, not for an hour, but for hours at a time. They have been doing...
...change was made by the Memorial Society, under whose auspices the short exercises will be held, in order that a detail from the R. O. T. C. might take part in the celebration. Detachments from the 1st and 2nd Battalions, and possibly both battalions entire, which hold their regular drill on Tuesday morning, will march to John Harvard's statue for the exercises. Exact plans for the participation of the University Corps are now being considered by Major Flynn...
...penalty for not paying is a tempting one for the tired scholar. Though the use of Hemenway Gymnasium is forbidden there are rewards. The bankrupt student may not go to recitations or to the Stadium (thus exempting him from drill) and so days of long sleep and no work are within his grasp. In spite of these visions of a paradise at Cambridge we advise paying up at any cost for the arm of the Dean is long and the days of rest would precede months of hard labor. Our watch-ery today must be: On, on to Dane Hall...