Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...close of the Overseers' meeting on Monday, it was announced that the University was to purchase the Palfrey estate, on which the Naval Radio School drill hall is erected. This was the decision reached by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt after a conference on the subject with Mayor Edward W. Quinn, of Cambridge. It is planned to maintain the site as a public park and the drill hall for community purposes. The value of the estate is placed...
...City of Cambridge, led by Mayor Quinn, is endeavoring to have the Navy Department donate to the city the large drill hall at the Radio School, which was built last Spring. The drill hall has the largest floor space in the city and could be used for many purposes. Unless the Naval authorities take some action it would cost the city $80,000 which is more than it is willing to pay. It is the city's belief that it deserves me reward for lending the Common to the Navy as a building site without charge...
...coming R. O. T. C. will be different from that of the past in that it will not interfere with other studies and activities but will be a group of academic courses, and that it will take for granted as far as possible that the principles of infantry drill, interior guard duty and small arms firing will have been previously learned...
...revival of athletics at Cornell is proceeding rapidly. Jack Moakley, the track coach, has a squad of over 150 candidates, including a few of last year's men, from which to build up a university team. The track men will probably have the use of the large drill hall, devoted until recent times to training aviators. This hall contains space or a big track, a straightaway, and also for a basketball court and other gymnasium equipment. The new hall, together with the out-door board track, the baseball cage and the Schoellkopf Field will give Cornell an athletic plant equal...
...present time membership in the unit entails no obligation whatever. The government will aid the Unit in every possible way and is now outlining a course which will eliminate as far as possible, the monotonous drill features...