Word: record
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...range the first part of the time will be spent in shooting at known ranges. Each man will shoot the regular army qualification course for his record, which provides for 10 shots at 300 yards, 5 sitting and 5 kneeling, 10 shots prone at 500 yards, and 10 shots prone with a sand bag rest at 600 yards; and also, at rapid fire, for 10 shots at 200, 300, and 500 yards in one minute, one minute and 10 seconds, and one minute and 20 seconds respectively...
...Alumni Association has appointed a committee to keep a record of the service performed by every graduate or undergraduate of the University throughout the present war. Not only is employment in any branch of the Army and Navy and in training camps to be included, but also services performed on national, state, and municipal committees. The information will be collected and preserved, forming as complete a record as possible...
...bond committee is hoping to obtain many small subscribers in Cambridge to swell the total throughout the country. There were 8,000,000 subscribers to the last British loan of $5,000,000,000, or a ratio of one in six, and the British are proud that their record was superior to that of the Germans of whom one in ten subscribed to their most recent issue. In contrast to these records is that of the United States in the Spanish War when there were only 325,000 bond purchasers, or one in 256, to the small loan...
That is the simple record of sixteen months' development. From no beginning, under command of Captain Cordier there has been established at the University a camp prepared to furnish trained and competent officers for the country in its need. It may be believed without exaggeration that the post of Commandant of the Harvard Corps has become in the work of preparing leaders for our armies second only to the post of Commandant at West Point...
Moreover, all students who are in the intensive training in the R. O. T. C. and did not take all of their final examinations from April 28 to May 5, must complete their record by taking those examinations from which they were absent during the special final examination period...