Word: drills
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...South Dakota a course in navigation, added last fall for aviators, will be continued. A special course dealing with the diplomatic and factual history of the world war will be given. Compulsory military drill for all male students during the freshman and sophomore years has been added...
...announced last night that the University has completed the purchase from the Navy Department of the large drill hall formerly used by the Naval Radio School while it was in session at Cambridge during the war. Negotiations for this purchase have been under way for some time...
...This training", he said, "is planned to be essentially sport and fun, rather than routine and drill. There is no idea of having it supplant organized athletics among the Freshmen, but rather it shall supplement them, in that it will bring the majority of men out for teams, and thus supply material which otherwise might never be discovered...
...proposed Artillery School takes the lead in being the first course in the University to put forward physical exercise as an absolute requirement. The fact that Colonel Goetz intends to accept participation in any of the recognized forms of college athletics as a temporary substitute for compulsory physical drill, emphasizes the importance of sports in the eyes of a profession which requires the utmost in the powers of endurance, and mental stability...
...probably under pay from the government, will be required to attend two summer camps of six weeks each at Fort Monroe. The first camp will be held at the end of the first year of military training in order that the student may be taught the fundamentals of drill and military view point. The second camp will come after the student has completed all of his theoretical training so that he will be competent at this time to determine firing data and to conduct target practice with big guns...