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Professor Woodworth has been in charge of the University seismographic station since 1908. The seismographic is used to detect movements in the earth's crust, and in war to detect the location of hostile batteries, for gun-fire affects the landscape much like an earthquake. The tremors of the crust due to gun-fire can be recorded by this instrument...
...vessel which has been renamed the "Harvard" is 240 feet long and has a speed of about 20 knots. She will carry two two-pound guns, two one-pound guns, and a three-inch gun, and will patrol the coast, 150 miles out, from Barnegat, N. J., to Montauk Point, Long Island, N. Y. The undergraduate portion of the "Harvard's" complement will be composed of the following men: J. A. Burden '20, Russell Cobb '19, Haley Fiske '19, O. F. Flynn '19, L. K. Garrison '19, J. L. Leighton '19, E. S. Sherman '19, P. E. Stevenson...
...available for belligerent purposes one must note first of all the manganese ore of Brazil. At present practically all of the manganese used by the steel industries of the United States is obtained from Brazil. Because of the importance of this material in the manufacture of heavy ordnance, gun carriages, etc., it is highly desirable that our relations with this southern republic should be just as cordial as possible...
Band, Machine Gun co., Company D: 1-5 P. M., Friday, April...
...Machine gun Company.--Cadet Corp. R. L. Wolf. C. CORDIES. Captain, U. S. Army, Commandant...