Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fall track activities will start at the University next Tuesday afternoon when meetings will be held at the Locker Building for track and Cross-country candidates at 2.30 and 4 o'clock respectively. The work for the track than, which will last about a month, will consist mainly in drill in fundamentals and preparation for the discus and javelin throwing event which will be added to the regular Intercollegiate schedule for the first time this year. The work for the cross-country candidates, however, will last through the Intercollegiate meet...
...Hanford of Ohio State University, together with the Units from Virginia Military Institute, Ames College, Iowa, and Culver. Upon reporting at camp the men were issued complete equipment and assigned to quarters by sections. A battery organization was soon arranged and on the Monday following the students' arrival drill began...
...Drill in Morning and Afternoon...
...first week, work consisted of physical training, close order drill, gun drill, and an intensive review of the principles of firing. The daily schedule began at 5.45 A. M. with first call, followed fifteen minutes later by assembly and a half an hour of physical exercises and calisthenics. Mess came at 6.30 At 7.30 drill began and lasted until 11.45. Afternoon drill lasted only two hours and a half in only two hours and a half in order to allow time for athletics. At the end of the season, all-regimental teams were made up in base-ball, track...
...suggested that a man can loaf half a year or half a lifetime, then, after a few minutes of musical massage, jump in and accomplish feats to astonish the natives. But when the preliminary drill has been faithfully performed, such a period of relaxation before the final effort, be it examination, art or business, does marvelously heighten the powers of concentrated effort. --Boston Globe...