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...battalion connected with the Institute of Technology will give an exhibition drill Saturday afternoon, in the gymnasium on Huntington Avenue...
...pitchers: Nichols, Wiuslow, Boyden and G. P. Baker. Five men have caught at different times, Allen, Crocker, Hurd, Tilden and Litchfield. Nothing however, is known as to the positions which the men will eventually ill. The course of training will for the present be general, consisting of daily squad drill and cage work three times each week. Phillips' health will not permit him to do any work at present, so that the entire cage work will be in the charge of Winslow...
...Every member must be ready for exercise every day except Saturday at the proper time, and must participate in every part of the team drill, or else give proper excuse for not doing so to the gentleman in charge of the division...
...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...