Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Produally the two long-awaited volley courts take shape in the drill field of Mellon Hall. A couple of Glass grasshoppers were seen out there this week batting an innocent bird to and fro--mostly the latter...
Coeducation in another sphere was temporarily thwarted by an abundance of spring rain last Friday and Monday. The review on May 6 necessitated drill practice with the MEN--an unprecedented event in this lady's Navy--and we would gladly have given up some of May's flowers for the opportunity of meeting the schedule. But plans washed up the first two days. Sorry to say, some girls who never liked rain before actually blessed the elements for spoiling things. But honestly now, girls, wouldn't it have been better that way--all pals together, as it were--than having...
...marked the starting time for a series of practical and theoretical tests and demonstrations by select units of the R.O.T.C. The Field Artillery demonstrated gun drill with four 105 hewitzer guns; the science of managing artillery battalions at field headquarters; motorized drill with a battery of 75a, infantry foot drill, and Army calisthenics...
Apparently that New England curiosity is causing traffic tie-ups along Soldiers Field Parkway from 1600 to 1700 o'clock daily, when the potential 2nd Lieutenants have their physical training period clad in shorts, showing off their Miami suntanned legs--to say nothing of their drill-ability...
...group will meet this Thursday at 2:30 o'clock on the steps of Baker Library in the Business School. They will learn the marching orders, how to salute, squad and platoon drill, and as much else as can be absorbed from the manual of arms before the examination period...