Word: fields
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...practice, too, combines sport with experience, although the latter is its best feature. Sub-calibre rifles and short ranges cannot make anyone an expert, but they develop a true eye, a steady hand and a reliable trigger-squeeze. Shooting Boches requires more skill than can be acquired on Soldiers Field, yet beginners may learn the rudiments, and experienced marksmen may improve their aim. The student who practises with rifle or bayonet furthers his own military prospects, and, at the same time, obtains exercise and recreation...
...University leads all other American colleges and educational institutions in the number of men who served in the American Ambulance Field Service which has recently been dissolved. According to figures collected by Professor Paul Van Dyke of Princeton, associate director of the University Union in Paris, Harvard has been represented by 311 out of the 1,890 college men who, have been in the American Service. Yale is second with 192, and Princeton third with...
...following record of Harvard men in the American Field (Ambulance) Service has been prepared by J. H. Hyde '98, of Paris, and published in the current Alumni Bulletin: There were 348 Harvard men, volunteers, in the American Field Service, prior to its being taken over by the United States Army...
...combined University Musical Clubs will give a concert this evening at 7.30 o'clock for the benefit of the United States Naval Radio School. The entertainment will be held in the Y. M. C. A. Hut on Jarvis Field and will be open to all officers and enlisted men of the school...
Plans are being made under the auspices of the rifle team to put up several sub-calibre rifle ranges on Soldiers Field this spring for the use of members of the University, and especially of R. O. T. C. cadets. The rifles purchased by the Corps last year will be used for this purpose and charge will be made only for the ammunition expended. All the R. O. T. C. sub-calibre work last summer was done under the seats of the Stadium, and these spaces will undoubtedly be used again for the same purpose...