Word: clay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University of Pennsylvania Gua Club has accepted the challange of the Harvard Shooting Club to a match at clay pigeons. The match will take place on the latter club's grounds at Watertown about the middle of May. The men from the Quaker city are said to have a crack team, and without doubt will give our team a hard fight. The Shooting Club's dinner, which was to have come off next month, will probably be postponed to the evening of the day of the match, in honor of the visitors...
...considerable depth - perhaps three feet or more - to cover amply all the undulations and irregularities on the surface of such a large field. This means a considerable expense. The second and by far more serious objection is that as the soil of Holmes Field is more or less clay-ey, such a large bulk of water will not only disappear very fast, but will also be swelled considerably by the drainage of the surrounding land; for Holmes Field is on a much lower level than the gymnasium ground or North Avenue or Jarvis Street. Hence, there will be a large...
...Harvard's proximity to Boston tends to inculcate in young minds the dilletate spirit which pervades the Athens of America. Take it all in all, though, President Eliot has accomplished a great deal even if he has not been as wholly successful as he hoped. Our immortal orator, Henry Clay, once said, 'The noblest task possible to man is to teach the young to be earnest and upright; self-reliant and confident; patriotic and courageous.' This Mr. Eliot has done, or striven to do, and as far as he has succeeded, we can rightly congratulate and praise...
...conditions of the match were 20 clay birds to a man, 5 angles, 18 yards rise. By an accident two members of the Dedham team were unable to be present; so the remaining four shot two extra rounds, in order that the total number of birds shot at by each team might be the same...
...Guel with his native clay...