Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...football team must be drilled in much the same manner as a company of recruits. It takes a long time to learn the fundamentals and after these the finished team must master a varied attack...
...That age in which we live is but a barren period set between sparks of brave accomplishment. It would be well, all men say, to have lived when Napoleon lived; and empires were upbuilded in a day; or to live in succeeding centuries, when man will know, and be master of himself...
Monday: 8-9 (section rooms) Infantry Drill Regulations; review up to p 122. 9.15-10, Physical training by battalions Koehler, pp. 148-163. 10-11.45, Gallery practice; bayonet combat under Master of Fencing. 1.30-2.30 (section rooms) Minor tactics; text, Bjornstad, pp. 78-88. 2.45-3.15, Signalling, wig-wag code. 3.15-4.15, First Aid demonstration by Dr. Darling and assistants. 4.15-5.30, Squad and Company drill, close and extended order. 7.45, Lecture by an Officer of the French Mission...
Friday: 8-9 (section rooms) Infantry Drill Regulations, pp. 31-38. 9.15-10, Physical training by Battalion; Koehler, pp. 72-85. 10-10.45, Bayonet Fencing under Master of Fencing. 10.45-12, Battalion drill, close and extended order. 1.30-2.30 (section rooms) Minor Tactics; text, Bjornstad, pp. 43-47. 2.45-3.15, Signalling, wig-wag code. 3.15-4.15, Company drill, close and extended order. 4.15-5.30, Battalion combat exercise...
...uninterrupted drill. Class-rooms are something to which he has become inured by long training. Much as he may tremble on the field before the eye of the omniscent instructor, once safe behind the first-line trenches of a bench in a Sever Hall room, he feels himself master of his own destiny. The instructor is there to find out how little he knows. He is there to show how much...