Word: guns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course open to Freshmen, will include theoretical and practical field artillery, materiel and gunnery, hippology, and motor mechanics, which will amount to a total of three hours of lectures each week. The theoretical instruction in materiel will include a study of the part that various types and calibers of guns played in the recent war, and the possibilities of these guns. A thorough study of at least one example of each type of gun, rifle and howitzer will be made...
relations to field artillery, the work will pass on to the drill of the firing battery, and the duties in detail of the members of the gun squad...
Specimens of field artillery material have been on exhibition on the grass plot south of University Hall since August 1, and will remain there indefinitely. The present exhibit includes a battery commanders' periscope, and telescope, a range finder, aiming circle, ordnance compass, Browning machine gun and automatic rifle, projectiles of various sizes, and a British 75 mm. field piece. The exhibition is being changed constantly so as to include other types of material...
...University crews spent the morning practising starts with the gun, finishing up with a fast half-mile race, in which the first shell out-distanced the second boat by half a length...
...military department received yesterday a British "75." This gun was being manufactured for the British in this country and was adapted to the use of the French. "75" ammunition. It differs from the French "75" mainly in that the recoil chamber is above instead of below the barrel. It also lacks the compensatory mechanism of the French weapon...