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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gun Club to be Reorganized. | 4/14/1916 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gun Club to be Reorganized. | 4/14/1916 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LE TO HAVE ARMORY FOR USE OF BATTERY NEXT YEAR | 3/2/1916 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MACHINE GUN CO. RESUMES WORK. | 11/18/1915 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRICACIES OF MACHINE GUNS FULLY EXPLAINED | 11/17/1915 | See Source »

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