Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning the 57th Regiment of the Filipino Scouts and part of the Twelfth Medical Regiment refused to turn out for drill and other martial exercises. Their white officers exhorted them; the 600 Filipinos shook their heads. As a matter of fact, they wanted more pay. They are paid on the same scale that American soldiers are paid, but whereas the Americans are paid dollars, the Filipinos are paid pesos. Pesos are worth 50? each, and the Scouts had discovered that the arrangement worked to their disadvantage. They considered what fitting action should be taken and decided to prepare...
Coach Davidson spent a long session yesterday in preparation for this afternoon's contest. The infield, which has not been functioning well lately, was given a stiff practice drill and should work together much better than it did in the Worcester game. Gates, whose only defeat this year was by Dean Academy, when his teammates failed to support him, will be the most probable starter in the box, although Phelps, who has been shifted from pitcher to third baseman and now back to pitch again, may get the assignment...
...Program in detail possesses much of the appeal of a vigorous vacation. Athletic competitions in baseball, swimming, and track games, calisthenics, shooting, military drill and instruction, practical engineering problems, and radie instruction are all included in the curriculum. Four courses, Basic, Red, White and Blue Courses, will be given. The Basic Course requires no previous military training and provides all preliminary instruction. Applicants for the Red Course must be graduates of the Basic Course, or have had military training equivalent thereto. This course provides training in different branches of the Army infantry, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, Corps of Engineers, Cavalry...
Head Coach R. T. Fisher '12 was on hand to conduct personally the first drill, and included in his staff of assistants were J. L. Knox '98, D. C. Parmenter '13, George Owen...
Amherst College has begun spring football practice. Other colleges and universities have started spring football practice. It seems to be quite "the thing to do." At Williams we are apparently characteristically attracted to "the thing to do," so we shall probably witness shortly the beginning of spring drill in football...