Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be the general mode of exercise. This plan must certainly commend itself to every one, for a great difficulty in the past has been that fully three weeks of valuable time after the Christmas recess have been devoted to getting the candidates into trim for the regular gymnasium drill. The Columbia freshmen must be beaten this year, and we are glad to see that the freshmen have started out in the right way to accomplish...
...games,' at which the athletes of all the Hellenic tribes met for trials of strength at intervals varying from six months to four years. The disgrace of being defeated in the presence of an assembled nation was as bitter as the honor of being crowned was great. Besides the drill-grounds and the public gymnasia-of which every town had one or two, and where the complete apparatus for all public sports was often combined with free baths and lecture halls-the larger cities had associations for the promotion of special favorite exercises. Wrestling, javelin-throwing, running, leaping, pitching...
...senior and junior classes. He himself says of his appointment: 'Mr. Quincy said it was not proposed that I should have anything to do in the way of teaching by recitation from books, occasional examinations and lectures were proposed. For anything else I am not responsible. Let the tutor drill the boys.' Every college professor of history will sympathize with Mr. Sparks' view and be glad to see it put into practice. Mr. Sparks did his own work thoroughly and conscientiously, but he did not expect much from "the boys." Like them, he thought examination a good deal...
Special instruction in elocution, fencing, sparring, wrestling and military drill will be given to those who desire it, by assistants prominent in their special lines...
Special instruction in elocution, fencing, sparring, wrestling and military drill will be given to those who desire it by assistants prominent in their special lines...