Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rousseau and J. Crampton Anderson, President of the Pan-American Petroleum Co., were named joint receivers. In order to protect the Government's naval and oil interests as well as the interests of the lessee, the receivers were empowered to carry out the existing contracts, and to drill additional wells, if necessary to protect the Government's oil from drainage into private wells nearby. Mr. Doheny's companies will also complete the Government's oil storage at Hawaii, at an estimated cost of about $2,000,000, Mr. Doheny having personally guaranteed to bear the loss...
Coach Herbert is giving his men anchor of stiff workout every afternoon. Explanation of and drill in the fundamentals of passing and throwing with the lacrosse, for inexperienced men, occupied Coach Herbert's time yesterday. Practice at present is confined to stick-work and long runs for conditioning. The team will be entirely equipped with new sticks and headgear...
Real education, in place of the fatuously, inefficient machine symbolized by the "little red school house", is the chief ultimate remedy for the ills of America, according to Rabbi Wise. "Our present educational system does no more than drill the memory, and entirely neglects to teach students to think. That is why thousands of men make themselves ridiculous parading as Klan members in costumes ordinarily associated with the privacy of the home; that is why we have political corruption, party politics, and many other ills. Men will remain in criminal mental lethargy, however, until education is a democratic reality rather...
...original report received by the CRIMSON had it that the Yale football men had already had about 40 days of intensive practice this winter, including signal drill, dummy scrimmage, and training in fundamentals, the latter particularly for Freshmen. The CRIMSON quoted these facts and asked the News for corroboration and further details, with the result noted above...
This winter drill replaces the customary spring practice and is not, despite rumors to the contrary, a violation of the new Harvard-Yale-Princeton agreement, which limits practice only before the opening of the universities in the fall...