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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Practical training for the University R. O. T. C. recommenced yesterday morning when companies I and K assembled on Soldiers Field for the first drill of the final half-year. For the present, the work will be confined to position and aiming drills, and bayonet exercises, but as the weather grows warmer, it will be varied with drill in close and extended order, together with calisthenics...
...unusually small number of both University and Freshman oarsmen reported at the Locker Building for the first practice of the season yesterday. Only 50 men from the upper classes answered the call, as compared with 70 last year and 108 the year before, while for 1921 the showing was still more meagre, less than 45 candidates being on hand for the initial workout. However, as the crew work will not be allowed to interfere with the R. O. T. C. schedule, it is expected that the squad will be materially increased within the next few days. Candidates who come...
More candidates from the Freshman class are particularly in demand. As Coach Haines asserted yesterday, if the University is to make a creditable showing on the water within the next few years, the nucleus of the eights for those years must be formed from the Freshman class of this year...
...meeting yesterday, Captain F. Parkman '19, in outlining the work for the coming season, emphasized the necessity of conducting the practice as rigidly as in former years, with faithful observance of training rules and absolute attendance at practice. He pointed out the fact that if crew work is to continue on a firm basis during the period of the war, it must be put on that basis in this, its trial year; that to do this all men must put their efforts into the practice as though normal conditions existed. He stated that no formal training rules had yet been...
More candidates for Freshman manager and assistant manager are desired, as only 12 men reported yesterday. Those who come out today or tomorrow will not be handicapped. The competition, which will last about eight weeks, consists mainly of running the launches, listing crews and performing a small amount of clerical work...