Word: flintlocks
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...Military Science Department has on exhibition in the basement of the Freshman Athletic Building its annual display of small arms. The types of firearms range from the old revolutionary muzzle-loading flintlock to the modern automatic pistol and double action revolver...
...wild rush of seeking advisors and signing up for courses is practically over; and in consequence the present elective pamphlet takes its place in the figurative waste basket, save for a temporary resurrection about the middle of February,--along with other back numbers such as horse cars, and flintlock muskets. Very good in their respective ways all of them; but all have the common characteristic of furnishing great opportunity for improvement...
...from this war is great prosperity? Who is there who conceives of Europe and her agony as the woes of another planet, to be scientifically investigated and discussed, but never to be partaken? Who is there who trusts to the Monroe doctrine the wide sea, and the inherited flintlock over the fireplace, to keep us from the ambitions and intrigues of martial peoples? Who is there who thinks as he thought before, and as previous generations have thought before during all our national life? Who indeed, save a Senator from Wisconsin, and an anarchistic leader, and a well-known newspaper...
...various home guards being established through the country by locally patriotic citizens who still cherish the traditions of the Revolution, are admirable. These men remember the time, well sung by poets, when a man's house was his castle, a flintlock over the mantelpiece his artillery, and his neighbors and himself the defending army. At the call of the tocsin from every home would emerge the embattled citizens, and foreign soldiers would melt before their aroused wrath like the milky way before the sun. For the sake of truth, which is always a prosaic busybody, we must admit that occasionally...
Humbly we beg to submit that the times have somewhat changed. The sturdy farmer so longer defends his one man castle. The flintlock has been superceded by breech loading machine guns which fire four hundred shots at a clip. To defend his home a man may have to defend a trench some four thousand miles away, over seas and foreign soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well...