Word: hourly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This week two companies are drilling each morning from 7.30 to 8.30 in the Stadium and the cage. Each spends half an hour in executing the bayonet exercises under the guidance of Captain Leslabay and his assistants, and the other half of the period is employed for practice in handling the rifles when aiming. The present schedule of drill for the regiment is as follows...
Step into any lecture room toward the close of an hour and observe an occurrence which is not uncommon, but which is quite characteristic of the American student. The professor is completing his lecture. Immediately there arises a noise of shuffling feet, of closing note-books, and of clattering tablets as each student prepares to leave the hall. The closing words are a meaningless jumble lost in the general disorder. The students rush out; the professor resignedly gathers up his notes and joins the crowded mass at the door...
...object of this is not a saving of time. The action can only be taken as an expression of relief at the end of a trying hour. Students forget that the effectiveness of speech requires a complete silence. They ignore the fact that others may care to hear what is said, that the professor is both embarrassed and outraged by their conduct. It is an unhealthy sign in the development of the cultured man. If it be thoughtlessness, let men come to think; if it be ignorance, it is time that they come to know...
...minister of the Arlington Street Unitarian Church, Boston, will conduct morning prayers in the Faculty Room of University Hall today and every day this week at 8.45 o'clock. The service closes promptly at 9 o'clock in order to permit students to reach their classes at that hour...
Bayonet Practice, one half hour. Position and aiming drills, one half hour. Review previous instruction: Add Small Arms Firing Manual, Sections 47-51, 52-55. Devote five minutes to the Manual of Arms...