Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...although it was more or less a side issue and not taken as seriously as the R. O. T. C. in the United States, nevertheless, it has given hundreds of men a grounding in the first principles of military training. For years we had a certain amount of military drill, so when the war came we had a solid foundation on which to work. The college men of England furnished a great many officers for the army, and it does look now as if this class of men were going to provide the officers for the United States, because from...
...companies up to those which drill at 3.30 will drill today as usual...
...system of voluntary military training has been installed at Cornell University, in addition to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and the Cadet Corps already established there. The purpose is to assist a larger number of students to qualify for officers in a shorter time. The drill will be offered three times a day in periods of three hours each...
...Yale two groups of training have been formed, one going through physical exercises on the campus each morning and the other taking up the regular military drill. The course in military science consists of instruction lectures three nights a week, in addition to the drill...
...have to make up in a short time a considerable amount of work which the men now enrolled have already covered, Captain Cordier stated last night that they would find it to their advantage to do certain text-book assignments during the vacation. The work should cover the "Infantry Drill Regulations" through paragraph 231, the "Small Arms Firing Manual" through page 59, and the first four problems of Captain Bjornstad's "Small Problems for Infantry." The Drill Regulation assignment, which covers the School of the Soldier, the School of the Squad, and the School of the Soldier through extended order...