Word: guns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exhibition in Military Headquarters in the basement of University Hall, and will remain open for inspection for the remainder of the college year. The collection includes examples of the more important material used in the conduct and observation of fire, in addition to a Browning machine gun; sectionalized projectiles and fuses for the 75 mm., 3 inch, and 155 mm. gun; McClellan saddle and saddle bags; and a cavvesson. The fire control apparatus consists of a battery commander's telescope, battery commander's periscope, aiming circle, one meter base range finder, field telescope; and portable switch boards, and plotting boards...
Practice has been commenced by the University Gun Club at the trap-house on Soldiers Field, and shooting at clay pigeons has been started. An average of six men are shooting there every day, but as more than a dozen men have joined the club, there is every prospect of a good team being formed with the opening of College next fall...
...committee in charge of the smoker has also announced that Matthew Luce '91, regent of the College, and H. B. Colt '22, president of the class, will speak. The motion pictures will be "Johnny Get Your Gun," featuring Fred Stone, and a Mack Sennett comedy called "Rip and Stitch." Bert Lowe's six piece orchestra will furnish the music...
...order to promote the sport of trapshooting and to increase interest in the use of the scatter gun, the pistol and the high and low power rifle, the Harvard Gun Club is being reorganized. The committee active in this work are H. O. Apthorp '20, R. Fiske, Jr., '20, A. D. Hamilton '21, and E. C. Storrow, Jr., '21, who state that it is their intention to reopen the club-house on Soldiers Field, to install traps, and to begin shooting early in May. Most of the shoots will be open not only to members...
Uniforms for the Cornell R.O.T.C. have arrived at Ithaca. Among the armament received are Browning machine guns, automatic rifles, and automatic pistols. Recently more than 1.500 Enfield rifles were placed in the gun racks of the New Armory...