Word: accustomed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hope that the projected formation of a Drum Corps to assist the drill squads in their work, will commend itself to enough men to insure its success. An individual drummer or two can be of use now, to lead the different squads at each hour of drill, and accustom the men to keeping regular time in going through the manoeuvres. When the companies are permanently organized and battalion drill begun on Soldiers Field, not only will an efficient drum corps be an absolute necessity, but the College Band will be expected to proffer its services...
Yesterday afternoon the nine had short practice in the cage of the new Carey Building. A few of the men were also sent to the diamond for throwing practice in order to accustom themselves to the new grounds. McCornick has recovered from his injury, but Lynch has a lame leg which may prevent his playing in the game today...
...teams should go into their contests, and discouraged the idea of organized cheering on the part of the undergraduates in order to support the men and help them to do better work. He said that a team ought not to need this kind of support; that it ought to accustom itself to playing under disadvantages, and that it ought to play even better when on the field of a rival team than when in Cambridge. These are, no doubt, the conditions under which an ideal team should play its games. But, from an undergraduate standpoint, there is no team which...
...Yale stroke at all, but to make an improvement in the methods of tank work. The slow work in the tank has always made it difficult for the men to acquire proper action in the boat, so it will be the purpose of this season's coaching to accustom the crew to the same line of action in tank work as in open water. Mr. Cook's plans are so unsettled that he can not yet say whether he can accompany the crew abroad...
...this afternoon and take up their headquarters at the Vendome while they are here. Peck and Hill, who are entered for the two-mile bicycle race, arrived at the Vendome yesterday. They came out to Cambridge during the day and tried the track with their wheels, in order to accustom themselves to the turns...