Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hundred muzzle-loading Springfield rifles for Peabody breech-loaders and corresponding accoutrements. The amendment to the Constitution carried at the last meeting provides that attendance at half the number of regular company drills (one weekly) shall be necessary to entitle a member to target-shooting in the spring. A drum corps is in process of formation, and Freshmen or Sophomores, having instruments and being able to use them, are invited to join. Recruits will be received at any time, and the Constitution lies for signature at the Gymnasium...
LOST, STRAYED, OR STOLEN. - The Pierian Drum. Last seen at the Torchlight Procession of 1872. Any information in regard to it will be gladly received by members...
...grasps his drum, and, war-inspired...
Beats he on his army drum...
...regime to which the scholars are subjected. In the morning - at five o'clock in summer, at five and a half in winter - the drum beats the signal for rising. Twenty minutes are allowed for dressing; then everybody descends to study. The scholars take their places at their desks, that of the master occupying a platform from whence he can see everything that goes forward. Breakfast follows, then recreation, and after that recitations; and the whole day is thus divided between study, eating, recitation, and recreation. Every exercise is indicated by the roll of the drum. All is done literally...