Word: guns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...three members of the successful 1915 gun team-now in college are planning to reorganize the University Gun Club and commence shooting at the traps on Soldiers Field three times a week immediately after the spring recess. With these men as a nucleus, a team will be formed, and weekly shoots will be arranged with other gun clubs in and about Boston in practice for the Spring Intercollegiate Tournament, which comes about June...
This form of sport can offer a great deal of recreation in a minimum amount of time to every undergraduate who enjoys shooting and is not otherwise occupied. In order to insure the success of the Gun Club it is essential that a real interest be shown by a considerable number of men. All upper-classmen interested are requested to get in touch with P. S. Howe '17, temporary manager, Randolph 12, or make inquiries at the H. A. A. Office; Freshmen should report to W. A. Flagg '19, Standish A 32. This should be done as soon as possible...
...University and the entire expense will be borne by the graduates. The buildings that will compose the armory will be two in number, The larger will consist of a drill hall, 100 by 210 feet, and several smaller rooms on each side, storage rooms for each battery, gun rooms, lockers, and a lecture room. The smaller building is to be used as a stable...
...Harvard Machine Gun Corps is once more in active service and is doing excellent work, with a full rank list of 50 men and a waiting list besides. Lieutenant Renwick, who is in charge of the corps, hopes to carry out an idea of General Wood's which would make the company an "armored car corps"; that is, every one in the company would have a place on an armored motor truck. This would make a unique corps, which could be carried on in the form of an experiment for the United States army. In order to accomplish this, however...
...Machine guns were first used in the Franco-Prussian War, but the English first proved their value in the Egyptian and Indian campaigns, the gun at that time consisting simply of a circular collection of barrels, turned by hand. The automatic received its first try-out in the Russo-Japanese War, and such terror did it inspire that the Japanese likened its fire to a continuous rod of iron thrust from the barrel. In the German trenches today there is one machine gun to every six men, while in the United States a whole company has but four guns...