Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...squad drill in the gymnasium is not an entirely new thing. A few years ago, when the Homenway Gymnasium was first opened, similar squads for practical and systematic use of the building were organized by Dr. Sargent, and the number of men working together was large. Since that year the work of the director has increased in other directions, and the regular squads were given up. The idea in reviving the practice this year is to benefit unattached workers in the gymnasium as well as the regular university teams. The latter will keep on in the old way, exercising...
...Jones, briefly stated that the object of the club was to cultivate the art of speaking in public, and that it was the intention of the club to continue these public meetings at intervals throughout the year. The selections, he said, had been prepared by the speakers without any drill or assistance whatever, on the part of the instructors in elocution...
Meeting to discuss gymnasium drill-Hemenway Gymnasium...
...meeting of those interested in gymnasium drill, and especially of those men who wished to go into training for the Mott Haven sports was held in the director's room yesterday afternoon. Dr. Sargent thought that more interest ought to be taken by the students in general athletics; that training for the various events ought not to be confined to those who had already showed a marked proficiency in them, but should be extended to those who might by proper exercise develope into excellent athletics. The trouble in the past has been that too much dependence has been placed upon...
Meeting to discuss gymnasium drill-Hemenway Gymnasium...