Word: tent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...three of the battalions are in Cambridge. This will consist of a ceremonial review in the Stadium, which will be followed by intercompany sports such as took place in the field days at Barre last summer. Among the exercises to be included in the list will be bayonet fencing, tent pitching races, grenade throwing, competitions in the Manual of Arms and in squad drill, and running races...
...white his resources will be wheedled from him by the smooth-tongued upperclassman. Under the present Reign of Terror where the cost of living is impossible and Follies' seats cost three dollars the Freshman must keep from his home unless he wishes to go into receivers' hands. A pup-tent on Soldiers' Field seems the only solution; there at least, the youth from 1921 can rest in peace...
...bump. Henry had left the front, where we are stationed, and gone back to our base, when a Boche avion passed over the camp and dropped four bombs on it. When the first fell Henry hurried out to see if any one was hurt, and, as he left the tent, was struck by an eclat from the second which made a ghastly wound in his hip and thigh. Fortunately one of the ambulances was near and he was hurried to the hospital and operated on with all possible speed...
Instead of putting the entire assemblage under canvas, as was done in the camps last summer, the supply of tent-age in the country is so low that the officials have found it necessary to build barracks. Each company will therefore be housed in a long, low frame structure, which will be heated by stoves and lighted by electricity...
...work of the cadet corps in the fall consists mainly in thorough instruction in close order drill and the manual of arms, with tent pitching, bayonet exercises, calisthenic drill and the like. The corps continues out-of-doors drill even through the winter months, except when such work is absolutely impossible. At such times the corps is addressed in assembly by men of authority, or meets by companies for instruction in and discussion of field problems in detail...