Word: drills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other contests between the Houses, that will take place this year, are a squash match on Saturday, a crew race, and a rugby match to take place sometime this month. Dunster has not yet formed a crew, but residents of Lowell turned out yesterday for a hard drill in the tank and on the river...
...final drill to polish up the rough places on the offence and defence was the fare of Harvard's hockey team yesterday afternoon as it went through its last practice in preparation for the first game with Yale, which comes tomorrow night in the Boston Garden...
...Castle last week and sniffed. "Opium!" said he, and set about with his crew of 40 to find it. They went down to the base of the forward mast, deep in the hold. There, surrounded by impassive Chinese the Inspector tapped the steel mast, found it hollow. "Bring a drill!" said he. Out of this hole in the hollow mast he soon extracted tins of opium worth $150,000 at $25 an ounce. Owners of the ship, James Chambers Ltd. of Liverpool are liable to fines equal to the dope's value, if they cannot prove ignorance...
...life, we must have an excellent tool, our brain; and to perfect this brain we must educate it. And by education I do not mean coming to college for four years, for the college cannot educate us. A man must self educate himself. A school or college may drill facts into a student's mind, but what good will that do? All education is self education, and a man must come to college prepared to earn this education. It cannot be given...
Facing a strong team from Vermont on Saturday, the first two days are to be devoted to drill in handling the ball, and to speeding up the passing, which the recent game with C. C. N. Y. revealed as sluggish. A day will then be devoted to defense work, another on the offense, leaving Friday open for light scrimmage...