Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Friday, the entire regiment will have battalion muster. The first and second battalions will go through the ceremony in the morning, and the third as its regular drill hour in the afternoon. Company commanders are responsible for preparing the muster rolls. Blank forms for this purpose should be obtained by them at Military Headquarters...
...Friday, November 16th, battalion muster will be held...
...satisfied with flunking all men who believed a muster and a parade to be synonymous, the military caste decided to allow no such ignorant individuals to hold any position of authority. The former captains and top-sergeants will now condole with each other as they stand at attention in the rear rank. To have blown first sergeant's call once to often or to have put an extra mule in the field kitchen,--such mistakes brand a man as being unworthy of command...
...resources of our country are great, they are incomprehensible save by the mind that may reckon in millions. But the need of the world is greater, and its dire famine far more incomprehensible. The very utmost producing power we may muster from our whole continent may well be needed before we have fulfilled that which we are called upon to do by our allies of Europe, and those small neutral nations which are stricken by a war in which they have no share nor control...
Also it is obviously impossible to select a championship team for any section. The game calls for too much physically from its players to make it possible to stage a sufficient number of games to decide a football championship. Players who have put forth all that they could muster against a traditional rival might show up stale against an inferior football team a week later. Certain games call for the supreme effort; others are merely football games to fill in a schedule. --The Outlook...