Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...volunteer military company has been formed at Cornell to drill this winter...
...electrical department of the L. S. S. has been fitted with a Thompson-Houston 500 volt motor and a complete outlay of shop machinery, including 2 machine lathes, 2 speed lathes, drill press and milling machinery...
Brown University has military drill this fall. It is required of Freshmen and Sophomores...
...first sight it seems as if all the drudgery had fallen to the lot of the team, with all their incessant practice at small details. But if any one will consider for a moment who it was that had to drill all these details into the men, who had to keep them up the high standard of activity which they had set for themselves at the beginning of the year, and to see that their efforts were all expended in the right direction, he will recognize at once that the thanks of the college will be due to the coachers...
...Mott Haven team is now hard at work, there being in all 206 candidates. They work in four squads and have about the same exercise as the other teams. They begin with the chest weights, practice hurdling at different heights, go through the dumb-bell drill, practice starting in the cage, and wind up with a short run. There are some very promising candidates and it seems as though the Harvard men should get a large majority of the novice events, as well as the handicaps, in the B. A. A. Meeting. Since the list of entries was published...