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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This type of rifle is known officially as the United States magazine rifle, Model 1903. It differs in many features from the Krag-Jorgensens, the model of 1898, which were supplied by the Government for the use of the Regiment last year, and which the Corps is now using. The barrel is considerably shorter, a fact which changes to a certain extent the balance of the piece. The same bolt action is used in both types, but instead of the side feeding magazine of the Krag-Jorgensen, the clip used in the Springfield are shoved in from...
...clubs are planning to co-operate in securing speakers and instruction in aeronautical subjects. An engine has been promised by the Government to the Tech. club, and it is due to arrive some time soon. With this engine as a working model practical instruction will be given on aeronautical machines. Both clubs are to secure speakers; the addresses at Tech. will be of a practical nature, while those to be given at the University will be of the more popular sort, and will be given by well-known pilots and constructors...
...Chapman (Victor) 124th Aerial Squadron, sergeant pilot in the fighting section, a model of audacity, energy and initiative, and the admiration of his companions of the Squadron, and who, though on the 17th of June seriously wounded in the head, refused to be relieved from duty. A few days thereafter he made a dashing attack upon several aircraft and in the course of the struggle met a glorious death...
...19th Centuries, will be given as a half-course; Fine Arts 5m hf., Durer, Holbein and Cranach, will be a new course; Fine Arts 5n hf., Leonardo, Michaelangelo and Raphael, will be a new course; Fine Arts 5p hf., Florentine Engraving, will be a new course; Music 2b hf., Model Counterpoint, will be a new course, given by Mr. Wallace Goodrich...
...Brat" is a waif--you never know her name, she herself has probably forgotten it--is picked hungry from the gutter to serve as model for a writer of best-sellers. He is hailed as a genius by his family, sought by all the females within sight and preaches ever and anon to his younger brother of the evils of his drinking ways. Mother and "Uncle John," the bishop, also do their best to impress on the same brother that he is sullying the family name and proving himself irretrievably the black-sheep of the family. "The Brat...