Word: drilling
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Auxiliary Police--infantry drill, police duties, law and responsibilities, control of crowds, problems of college police, etc. The course will be open to students, faculty, and male employees (with no other Civilian Defense obligations). With meetings yet to be arranged, the course will require two hours a week or less throughout the year. The first meeting will be held at 5:30 o'clock Thursday, January 8, in Sever 11. Address questions to Professor Mason Hammond, Widener Library 184 or 63 Brattle Street, Kirkland...
...waste time on half-baked military drill," the headmasters of some 30 famed Eastern schools (among them: St. Paul's, Taft, Horace Mann, Loomis) were told when they met at Pawling School in the Berkshire foothills to ponder the role of "Private Schools in This Emergency." They called in an Army and a Navy man, who flatly affirmed that the best service they can render the nation is to give their boys better training in fundamentals...
...drill-press operator and tool grinder was a janitor...
...World War I most colleges encouraged students to enlist, made degree-getting easy by giving academic credit for military drill, even Army service. Now conditions are more favorable to college attendance: !) Selective Service has superseded the old hit-or-miss enlistment system; 2) the Navy, advertising for college men to be trained as officers, promised they could finish their course before going into service; 3) President Roosevelt himself has urged collegians to stay in school until called...
Training Center students do the same things a doughboy does, often under tougher conditions. Under big, hardboiled, disciplinarian Lieut. Colonel Leigh Bell, onetime line coach at U.C.L.A., they are broken out at 6:15 a.m., spend the rest of the day at everything from close-order drill to digging emplacements. In wrinkled fatigue uniforms, with packs on their backs, they pile through mud and brambles, scrape out fox holes and rifle pits whenever their "noncom" gives the word. To serve as their enemy in mock warfare, the Training Center employs maneuver-wise enlisted men. Students who make mistakes hear about...