Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...revised list of the nomination for the class officers follows: For marshal, Charles Pelham Curtis, Jr., '14, of Boston, and Donald Earl Dunbar '13, of Springfield; for secretary, Bruce Ditmas Bromley, of Pontiac, Mich., Lawrence Clayton, of Salt Lake City, Utah, Shakelford Miller, Jr., of Louisville, Ky., Kurt Friedrich Pantzer '14, of Indianapolis, Ind., Dale Miller Parker, of Kansas City, Mo., Marion Rushton '14, of Montgomery, Ala., and Joseph Nye Welch, of Primghar...
With the securing of second place in the intercollegiate championship meet, the University fencing team concluded one of the most successful seasons it has had in past years. Victories were won over Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, Bowdoin, Pennsylvania and Columbia, while the only defeat in a dual match was suffered in the meet with Yale. Yale was later defeated in the intercollegiate meet...
...past season appears the more successful in comparison with last year's record. In 1915-16 the University lost to both the Springfield College and Pennsylvania swordsmen, and finished in fifth place in the intercollegiate meet. The tournament with Yale last year was lost by a much larger score, despite the absence of Captain W. H. Russell '18 in the match at New Haven this year. Throughout every contest on their schedule the University team displayed a more finished brand of fencing than has been the case in past seasons...
Arrangements have been completed whereby the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will have for use in a very short time a thousand Springfield rifles in place of the Krag-Jorgensens in use at present. The Corps is very fortunate to be able to secure these new guns at the present time, for there is a heavy demand for them from military organizations throughout the country, and in addition every available weapon will be needed for the new army which the Government will raise. It is expected that the rifles will be delivered by the time the R. O. T. C. goes...
...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 the top. The calibre of the new arms is 30-30, and the muzzle velocity is 27,000 feet a second. It has an effective range of over a mile...