Word: guns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Beginning next Monday, the shooting traps on Soldiers Field will be open for practice on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays at 3 o'clock. All candidates for the Gun Club, and all who are interested in trap shooting, are expected to report...
Just at present the United States Navy has great need of college men to fill certain positions aboard battleships; which require a peculiar kind of intelligence and training. For example, gun pointers, sight setters, spotters, and turret crews are needed, and would be deplorably lacking if the country were faced by sudden war. The elements of mathematics are all that would be required for such work, although greater knowledge, especially in mechanics and engineering, could be used to advantage...
Captain C. C. Marsh, U. S. N., outlined a plan for summer naval training before an audience that filled the Living Room of the Union last evening. College men are needed for certain positions on board the battleships which require their intelligence and training. For example, gun pointers, sight setters, spotters, and turret crews are needed, and would be deplorably lacking, if the country were faced by sudden war. The elements of mathematics are all that would be required for such work, although greater knowledge, especially in mechanics and engineering, could be used to advantage...
...shoot with Harvard and Princeton at the Yale traps Saturday, Yale won with a total of 396 points, Princeton was second with 393, and Harvard a poor third, being thirty three points be hind Princeton. White of Princeton was high gun with 85 out of a possible 100 bird. R. Bullock '15 of Harvard was a close second with 84. Although Yale's average was consistently good, none of the shooting was considered extraordinary...
...following men have been selected to represent the University Gun Club in the annual shoot with Yale this afternoon and in the intercollegiate shoot tomorrow morning, both meets at the Yale traps: C. E. Benson '15, R. Bullock '15, H. Cutting '13, D. Lockwood '13 (captain), and C. B. Swift...