Word: drills
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Rifles began regular drill again yesterday afternoon. With the new year the long expected guns have arrived. They were used for the first time yesterday and will be regularly in future. With them the equipment of the men is completed...
...this afternoon lined up for practice on the 'varsity field, but did not oppose the scrub team as the coaches have changed their policy and will not work the candidates as rigorously as they declared after the Harvard game that they would. The team took about an hour's drill in going through the signals. The surprise of the day was that Butterworth was out and in uniform. He resumed his old position as fullback and showed that he was in as good form as ever. The injury to his eye has been taken care of and he will surely...
...Harvard Rifles drilled in Armory Hall for the first time yesterday afternoon. Hereafter the drill will be held there instead of in the gymnasium...
Yesterday afternoon, after the regular drill, Lieutenant Robinson drilled the new squad for a short time. The drill is still held in the gymnasium, as no reply to the application for the use of Armory Hall has been received from the adjutant-general. There is no doubt, however, that permission to use the hall will be granted. There is always considerable delay in answering such applications...
...conditions under which the United States government details an officer to give a course in military science here is that he also conduct drill. Obviously then if he can not make a success of the drill, the other course must be given up. It is hard to assign the exact reason for the lack of interest. There is, we know, a feeling with many men that the military company is a schoolboy institution and is more a thing to poke fun at than anything else. But it is not a "sign of freshness" for a man to join the Rifles...