Word: guns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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National weakness is not a source of international strength--not yet. Harvard has always done its share in the past; a machine-gun company is a small contribution to the future. F. SCHENCK...
...Department has authorized the organization of a machine-gun company in the 8th Infantry and it is proposed to form this company from students of the University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Technically, the men will be detailed to other companies in the regiment, but in reality they will constitute a separate company under the command of its own officers and fulfilling the duties required of all regular companies in the United States Army. Equipment will be issued to all enlisting, and besides the regular drilling and work in military tactics, expert, instruction will be given...
Tonight Colonel F. A. Graves and Captain F. J. Burnham will address all men interested, and will discuss the purposes of the new organization, the advantages which military training affords, and the special benefit derived from a thorough knowledge of the machine-gun, a weapon which is such a powerful factor in offensive fighting...
...Harvard is infinitely great. It is the duty of the University to attempt a wise solution of this problem by the exercise of the fullest knowledge and most careful deliberation and not by giving apparent judgment through lending the name of Harvard to the formation of a Machine Gun Company...
...held tomorrow night at the Armory on Massachusetts avenue at 8 o'clock. Colonel F. A. Graves and Captain Burnham will address the men and discuss the purposes of the company, the advantages offered by military training, and the special benefit derived from thorough knowledge of the machine-gun, a weapon which has tended to revolutionize modern war-fare...