Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale will be chiefly an artillery unit, as was the former Yale Battery. The students will have the use of the new Artillery Armory, which was dedicated last June, and which contains a huge drill hall in which the artillery-men can practice with the battery of the famous 75 millimeter guns loaned them by the French Government. A miniature village of clay will be constructed in the Armory for use in sub calibre target practice. Horses have already been secured...
...Princeton the Faculty Committee on Military Affairs has worked out and put into effect a tentative plan of drill for the year. The work takes up two periods of two hours each during the week, and is entirely voluntary. All the training will be under the direction of Professor R. K. Root until the arrival of Major H. H. Sargent, U. S. A., retired, who is expected soon to take charge of the course...
...account of the visit of Secretary of War Baker the drill under the French Officers for Military Science 2 scheduled for Thursday, October 25 at 4.30 p. m., will be held on Tuesday, October 23rd at that hour. R. G. FULLER, Captain, R. O. T. C., Regimental Adjutant...
...rookie's equipment. Guns will be at every angle, many of the men in each company will be out of step. All this is to warn the public not to expect too much. Yet the spirit is there. The members of the corps have been doing extra voluntary drill day after day. Five or six hours is the maximum the average have been under military dicipline and, keeping that in mind, the progress has been excellent...
...point of view. Except to amuse them there can be no reason for this joust. Crowds there will be none for who will travel to New Haven to see a puny two thousand would-be soldiers, when they can go to Yaphank or Ayer and watch tens of thousands drill...