Word: swing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reaction against all things military produced in our minds by months of wartime service, coupled with the present diminished need of armed force, is hard for the moment to overcome. Nevertheless, the time now seems at hand for us to swing back again to a normally balanced viewpoint on the subject. In other colleges the tide is already turning toward a renewed preparedness for possible war. At Princeton men are already signing up, though slowly at first, for the Field Artillery Unit to be formed there this summer. Columbia has established a form of military department, in which Government instructors...
...most opportune, coming at the time of one of the worst periods of cold which the East has experienced. The foresight of the Massachusetts Forestry Association in arranging this expedition must not escape commendation. This society made it possible for men, who were unable to carry a gun, to swing an axe for their country. The Harvard Corps of Woodchoppers is a body which ranks with the most efficient and patriotic organizations of Cambridge students. It has helped to keep warm the citizens for whose protection other men are fighting...
During the past week, military plans in nearly all eastern universities and colleges have been put in final shape, and the different military organizations have gotten well under way in their year's war work. At Yale, naval and military courses have for some time been in full swing, the former under Admiral C. M. Chester, U. S. N., retired, and the latter in the hands of Captain W. S. Overton, U. S. A., retired, assisted by Captain A. Dupont of the French Military Mission, and by Captain Bland and Lieutenant Massey of the Canadian Army. Both courses will extend...
Today marks the beginning of a new epoch in the history of the University, for Harvard has at last an officers' training corps for Navy men. The ensign school, formerly at Technology, has been moved here. With the radio school in full swing and the ensign candidates coming here for instruction, the University is indeed in war paint...
...being made. Wyche was the star at bat, knocking out a single and a double, and Bond and Henderson continued their good hitting, each driving out a single. Coach Duffy gave the men an extra half-hours practice in batting after the game, emphasizing the importance of a quick swing and took his turn at the bat to illustrate his points. During the batting practice, Ellis, who has been playing in left field for Team A, was hit on the head by a ball thrown by Murray, who was catching, and was knocked unconscious, but quickly recovered with no lasting...