Word: fields
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since no Seniors are to accompany the third battalion, which goes to Wake field on Monday, none of the companies will return to Cambridge next week...
...promptly at 2 o'clock with a review of the scouts, who filed around the Stadium and before the reviewing stand where the officers of the local councils sat. The colors were then raised, the pledge of allegiance given and after the audience and the scouts sang "America" the field events began...
Then in various parts of the field, signal towers built of light branches, which served as the framework for the human pyramids, sprang up. The fire lighting without matches then followed and in just 17 seconds there came to the representative of a Newton troop a reward in the form of a thin curl of smoke and the dry tinder burst into flame...
...semaphoring signaling contest was won by two Chinese boys, members of a troop of Chinese scouts in the first district, who repeated their victory of last year in this event. Some of the other demonstrations and competitions in the field day events included building a fire and boiling water, pyramid building for signaling purposes, making camps, and a bugle and drum corps review. The exercises closed with the lowering of the colors, "The Star Spangled Banner," and "retreat," sounded on the bugle...
This week will see the first serious work in bayonet combat. Not only will the dummies and rings which were installed on Soldiers Field last week be made use of, but actual fencing with the use of wands will be started...