Word: calisthenicization
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The Right to Gripe. Bernstein's most unpredictable tour of duty was with the actors (as press agent) of This Is the Army. At drill, intimidated sergeants would hesitate to give the order "Fall Out" because of the three or four irrepressibles who obeyed by falling flat on their...
¶ In a sunny Atlanta courtyard, men with only one arm and men on crutches throw baseballs at dummies of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito. In another, men with hooks for hands, in airplane splints and on crutches take a half-hour calisthenic drill : "Hup, hoop, heep, one; hup, hoop, heep...
Conditioning classes start to strain the top floor at 11 o'clock, and another group comes in at noon. The middle floors also swing into action at this time, with Hal Ulen taking his swimmers into the wrestling room at 11:15, 12:15, 2:15, and 3:15 for...
During the last two afternoons, the candidates have first gone through calisthenic drills, later reporting to different coaches for work in either line, end, or backfield tactics.
Of an hour's duration, each class will begin with a calisthenic session upstairs followed by supervised swimming for the remainder of the period. In this manner four classes, each containing a maximum of 100 undergraduates, can be held.