Word: burnham
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...John Morrow Jennings '16, of New York, N. Y.; Brayton Nichols '15, of Worcester; Richard Hordon Morris, Jr., '17, of Milwaukee, Wis.; Francis Grover Cleveland O'Neill '16, of St. Louis, Mo.; Oliver Garrison Ricketson, Jr., '16, of Fernandina, Fla.; Walter Winsor Weld '16, of Chestnut Hill; and Frederic Burnham Withington '15, of Honolulu, Hawaii...
...Massachusetts Infantry for the purpose of explaining the details in regard to the formation of a machine-gun company from the University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology students was attended by over 60 men from the two institutions, about 35 of whom were Harvard men. Captain F. J. Burnham in stating that the company would be mobilized immediately pointed out the advantages that might be derived from military life, and a half hour was spent in demonstrating to the men the use of the Benet-Mercier machine guns...
Tonight Colonel F. A. Graves and Captain F. J. Burnham will address all men interested, and will discuss the purposes of the new organization, the advantages which military training affords, and the special benefit derived from a thorough knowledge of the machine-gun, a weapon which is such a powerful factor in offensive fighting...
Captain Franklin J. Burnham of the Regimental Commissary Department, will be aided by Lieutenant W. W. Austin in the command of the newly organized company, both men being commissioned offers in the U. S. Army, Lieutenant William Renwick, a graduate of the Law School, who presented the Benet-Mercier machine-gun to the State, and who has, in addition, given much of his time to the practical demonstration of this powerful offensive weapon, will teach the men the mechanical workings of the instrument...
...preliminary meeting to which all men in the University who are interested in military training in its broadest sense, are cordially invited will be held tomorrow night at the Armory on Massachusetts avenue at 8 o'clock. Colonel F. A. Graves and Captain Burnham will address the men and discuss the purposes of the company, the advantages offered by military training, and the special benefit derived from thorough knowledge of the machine-gun, a weapon which has tended to revolutionize modern war-fare...