Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every evening except Saturday for instruction of squad leaders and others who are willing to assist in drilling. All candidates for company officers will be expected to be present at three meetings a week at least. The instruction will cover manual of arms, bayonet exercise, school of the soldier, school of the company, extended order drill, and school of the batallion...
...second two lectures in the course on Soldier's and Sailor's Life, on "Life in the Naval Reserves," and "Aid to the Sick and Wounded," announced for this evening, are of exceptional significance at the present date. There was a comparatively small attendance at the first two lectures on Tuesday evening, but this we believe was due to the short notice of their occurrence, and we are confident that the effort of the Corporation to thus cater to the immediate interests of the undergraduates by providing for a course of such public interest, will be justified by large audiences...
...every evening except Saturday for instruction of squad leaders and others who are willing to assist in drilling. All candidates for company officers will be expected to be present at three meetings a week at least. The instruction will cover manual of arms, bayonet exercise, school of the soldier, school of the company, extended order drill, and school of the batallion...
...third and fourth lectures in the series on Soldier's and Sailor's Life will be delivered in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Dr. F. G. Balch, lately assistant surgeon in the Naval Brigade, Massachusetts Militia, will be the first speaker, and has chosen as his subject "Life in the Naval Reserve." Dr. Myles Standish, captain of Ambulance corps in the Naval Brigade, Massachusetts Militia will follow with a lecture on "Aid to the Sick and Wounded...
...Burrell, lately surgeon-general in the state militia, spoke upon the personal care of volunteers in campaign. He said in substance that the ability to make forced marches and to win decisive victories depends no less upon the health of the individual soldier than upon the maintenance of good discipline. The number of men killed in a war is always less than the number of those who die of disease. In the Crimean war the proportion was one to twelve; in our Civil War, however, only one to two. To keep the troops in perfect physical condition is the great...