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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Colt Company a weapon of the model of 1917. This gun was tried out on the range yesterday afternoon at 300 yards and proved to be entirely suitable. Before the companies leave Wakefield each man will have received instruction in the assembling and dissembling, the loading, firing and practical use of a machine...
...machine guns have been presented to the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps by a donor whose name has not yet been announced. The guns were received at the armory yesterday, and will be immediately shipped to Wakefield, where their use will be demonstrated to the various companies during their week on the range...
...ground covered by the instruction is substantially that of the "American Practical Navigator," Bowditch. A considerable part of the time will be devoted to the theory and practice in the use of nautical instruments, including the chart, compass--corrections and adjustments--lead, log, and sextant in the determination of the position of a ship at sea. The course also instructs in the determination of time, as well as the latitude and longitude, by means of the sextant...
...members of Company A of the University R. O. T. C., impressed by the importance laid by the French officers on the use of the machine gun, started yesterday among the companies of the First Battalion a campaign with the object of securing such a gun for the use of the Corps before the end of the week...
...truth so plainly truthful as to need no statement that the bonds of our Government are the safest way in which an investor may conserve his money for future use, at the same time enjoying interest. Behind them rests all the resources of this land, every factory, every railroad, every mine, and all the incalculable wealth of fields and forests. Behind them rests even the skill, the enterprise and ingenuity of our people. If property is safe, if the nation is safe, if life is safe, then those bonds are safe. And if those bonds are not safe, then...