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...from the fact that in Europe, especially in Germany, millions of dollars are annually expended in industrial chemical research. In America, too, although to a lesser extent, this side of technical chemistry is receiving increasing attention as the large research laboratories of the General Electric Company and the Du Pont Powder Company and many similar smaller laboratories show. This research has led to such results as the discovery of carborundum, the artificial production of indigo and caoutchouc, the development of the coal-tar industry, the electrical production of nitric acid from the air, and the practical synthesis of ammonia from...
...prize for the highest actual score made during all the shoots was won by E. E. du Pont '03, who killed 118 birds out of 120. The second prize offered by the gun club for the man who was second in the "miss-and-out" shoot was won by J. W. Bell...
...Parker gun will be shot off at 3.45 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field, by the following eight men: E. E. Du Pont '03, J. W. Bell '06, J. Hinckley '06, H. L. Corbett '06, S. S. Breese '05, N. C. Ward '05, L. W. Wright 2L., J. A. Remick, Jr., '06. All practicing must be done before 3.45 o'clock, as the shoot will begin promptly. Each man will shoot at a string of 30 birds, the handicap being added to the actual score. In case of a further tie a "miss-and-out" shoot will be held...
...Pont '03, tied with Statesman of Princeton for the individual championship, but on the shoot-off Stutesman won, breaking 23 out of a possible 25. In his last 33 shots, Du Pont broke 32 birds, making a straight run of 28, which is the highest on record in intercollegiate shooting. Ingalls did the next best work for the University team. The individual scores follows...
Harvard--Du Pont, captain, 44; Marsalis, 39; Ingalls, 42; Corbett, 37; Bancroft, 38. Total...