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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before the war," Colonel McIntyre continued, "we were equipped with three inch guns, now in use at Harvard's R. O. T. C. unit. When we entered the war, it became necessary to get enormous quantities of all field artillery equipment and materials, and consequently the French, British, and American governments arranged to have these necessities produced for us in the Allied mills, which had the facilities for large scale production and which were operating at top speed. The United States industries could not get into condition to produce large a mounts of field artillery for many months...
...French manufacturing concerns could only produce the 75 mm. gun, and as a result, the standard unit of the American Field artillery was changed from the perfectly satisfactory three inch gun to the 75 mm. gun. Gun rifles, projectiles, caissons, everything had to be changed from the three inch basis...
William Orpen, the latest unit in Messrs. Putnam's lucrative series of " Outlines," attains neither the scientific authority of Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, nor the literary distinction of John Drinkwater. It is a frankly popular attempt to illumine the main peaks of painting in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the end of the 18th Century, covering the Italian, German, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, French and British schools. Its chief aim is to reproduce several ; hundred of the world's recognized! masterpieces and to say enough about; them and their painters to give the: layman some notion...
...enrolled in course 4 on military law and history. To admit such men to advanced Military Science courses would be in keeping with the general aim of the University, but it would not fulfill the purpose of the War Department, which established and maintains a Field Artillery unit at Harvard for the primary purpose of preparing men to become officers in the reserve corps of the army...
Such is the material which Mr. Hagedorn builds together into one volume, and, from the right placing of this material, brings about the charm and success of the book as a distinct unit...