Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...technical subjects," he stated, "are taught in the basic course. Instead, the men concentrate on the more fundamental subjects, such as marksmanship, practice with hand-grenades, manual of arms, drill, map work, and simple tactics, the kind of knowledge that they would need immediately, as privates...
They warmed up two tractors, roared out to the fields to disc and drill the low-lying, gently undulant land between the well-filled streams. By the time the sun was high in the sky, at 8, they had done a full hour's work; by noon, when they went back for dinner of steak & potatoes, they had nearly finished some fields. By week's end a full 200 acres would be sown to oats-oats that would be harvested in July, fed to the sleek steers that Ralph Delair ships off to the markets...
Director Rubin claims two big advantages over R.O.T.C. for his course: 1) it saves time; 2) it uses civilian instructors. In his basic infantry course, students get nine weeks' instruction, three hours a week in marksmanship, grenade and bayonet practice, close order drill, map work, the manual of arms, elementary tactics. From the basic course, students go on to specialized ones...
...most amusing of the "rough" spots in the drill occured when two irate Yardlings, having been officially pronounced "dead," were forcebly, ejected on stretchers protesting that they had a History 1 test for which to prepare...
Coincidental with the drill, Peter Mcgowan '42, chairman of the Adams House Committee, announced that plans were being discussed to hang black curtains and Venetian blinds over the Adams House Library and Common Room so that students could study in the event of a real air raid