Word: turning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first sergeants will make careful note of the names and companies of such men drilling with them and will turn them in at Headquarters on the report of attendance at the drill...
...fifty-one fortunates who are leaving us for Yaphank. These men are starting down the path that leads to commissions and France, and many of them may not have a chance to return here before going "over there." This is their Commencement Day; we still have to await our turn. They are going away from Harvard not to come back until the end of the war. Most of them will not re-enter college, for the University will seem a petty school after the trenches of France. We hate to have them leave us for we are temporarily losing some...
...Darrah Kelly was under-weight, and no amount of argument and pleading could make up for the deficiency. I felt extremely sorry, but was powerless to do anything. After a few months at Quantico, Va., we got off in the early part of September. As I stood a regular turn in the submarine watch,--two on and six off,--I can assure you very sincerely that the transports take no end of precautions to evade the 'fish,' as commanders call them. In thirteen days we sighted France, going slowly up a tiny river into a small port, just as dusk...
...wish one to be universal and the other to be continued. By injecting the rivalry of intercollegiate competition into the work of the R. O. T. C. 's, not only will training be undertaken more enthusiastically and thoroughly, but also it will become more widespread. Every effort to turn sports to direct advantage in military preparation is to be encouraged, for then increased practice in necessary tasks of war accompanies better physical development. Many grenadiers in many universities can now be developed to a high point of efficiency through the adoption of this new plan. Let competitions of this sort...
Practices and home matches were usually held on the Bay State Rifle Range at St. Botolph street, Boston. The shooting was done with the 22-calibre, heavy gallery rifles, at a distance of 50 feet, and candidates were required to shoot and turn in three targets a week...