Word: drilling
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Four hundred twenty-one graduates of the Silver Anniversary session of the Chaplain School were graduated with impressive ceremonies at 9 o'clock on Wednesday of this week. Following a drill and review at Andover Field, the student body paraded past Chaplain (Col.) William D. Cleary and his staff. Music was provided by the band of the 241st Coast Artillery...
Following a drill and review at Andover Field, the student body will march to Sanders Theatre for the graduation exercises, at which Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity School will give the principal address...
Here's a thing or three we thing you'd like to have unsucttled. . . How soon may we jump over the Charles afternoons for laundry, tailoring, and other "necessities"?. . . Instead of the mud ball game some of us tried to play after drill Monday, when do we get started on a physical training program of some kind--cause man, we need un. . . How is Ship's Service coming along, and what's for sale at the Fargo Building store?. . . How's the co-op housing move
Discipline among the chaplains is hardly necessary, however. A superior officer merely asks that a job be done, and it is. Furthermore, the men don't have to be given an order twice; they have a cooperative spirit which gets things done on the drill field or in the barracks...
Although the preachers have a long and tedious academic schedule along the scholastic line, they are not allowed to sit around and get soft. They must take four forty-minute periods of military drill every day, take the 5:30 o'clock calisthenics classes every morning, and spend a considerable period practising gas defense, first-aid, and other vital practical duties...