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...continuation of the rather intensive theoretical instruction that has marked the military courses during the winter. Plans for the work to be undertaken by the University corps after the spring recess were announced by the Headquarters Office yesterday. The dates upon which the different battalions will go to Wakefield for range practice were made known, as well as a general schedule of the practical training to be done regularly by the entire regiment. Morning drill will be continued by companies for at least one hour a week and will, for the first part of the term, be concerned chiefly with...
...three battalions have been scheduled to hold their field target practice on the Naval Range at Wakefield on the following week-ends...
...these trips the men will, according to the present plans, travel to Wakefield by trolley on Friday afternoons. There they will be provided with quarters in the Range houses or in tentage supplied by the Naval Reserve Force. The rifle practice will commence early Saturday morning, in each case, and will be continued on Sunday morning if necessary in order to complete the course. The men will then march back to Cambridge on Sunday afternoon...
Lectures at Wakefield Range...
...will be used for this phase of the training, as was done last spring, and all the men will receive ample opportunity to use the sub-calibre rifles. This work will perform a highly important part in preparing the men in Military Science 1 for the range work at Wakefield in May. In addition to the rifle practice, the work with bayonets will continue as usual, until the men perfect themselves in the prescribed exercises...