Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which sits at the southern end of University Hall is a 75 mm. American-made British, Model 1917. It is very much like the British 18 pounder, with the exception of the bore and the sighting apparatus, and is remarkably accurate. Along with this gun are some of the fire-control instruments to be used in the courses given at the University...
...University has just announced the appointment of William McDougall, the well-known British psychologist, as Professor of Psychology. Prof. McDougall, who is at present Reader in Mental Philosophy and Fellow of Corpus Christi College at Oxford, will not be able to come here this year, and the governing boards of the University have, therefore, dated the appointment from September 1, 1920. Professor McDougall was educated at Owens College, Manchester and Cambridge, and subsequently studied medicine. He has been at Oxford for many years. During the war he served as a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. The books which...
...have been on exhibition on the grass plot south of University Hall since August 1, and will remain there indefinitely. The present exhibit includes a battery commanders' periscope, and telescope, a range finder, aiming circle, ordnance compass, Browning machine gun and automatic rifle, projectiles of various sizes, and a British 75 mm. field piece. The exhibition is being changed constantly so as to include other types of material...
...military department received yesterday a British "75." This gun was being manufactured for the British in this country and was adapted to the use of the French. "75" ammunition. It differs from the French "75" mainly in that the recoil chamber is above instead of below the barrel. It also lacks the compensatory mechanism of the French weapon...
From a start of seven volumes in 1723, the Harvard Law School Library has now more than 175,000 books in its possession. The Library is most complete and includes reports, digests, statutes, codes, and laws of American, British, Canadian, and British Colonial origin, as well as text books and treaties on American and English law. Roman, foreign, and international law are also well represented, and a great number of legislative journals and reports are included as well...