Word: event
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Rifle and Pistol Club matches for the year have been arranged as follows: A pocket revolver match beginning today and lasting until Thanksgiving; an open handicap from Thanksgiving to mid-years, in three events -- rifle, pistol and revolver -- with cups for the winner in each event; an open championship match, lasting from next Tuesday until Easter, with a championship cup for the ten best scores in each event--rifle, pistol and revolver...
...duty of the captains to choose questions for debate, to procure judges-who are usually members of the University Debating Club - and to open and close the argument for their side. It is usual; too, for each camp to elect a vice captain to act in the event of the captain's absence. It is also the captain's duty, at some time before the debate, to assign points for their men to look up and present. In this manner is prevented needless repetition of a point advanced and a logical presentation of their case is assured...
...preparations of the Yale Bicentennial Committee should make the celebration a famous event in that University's history. Both graduates and undergraduates have lent their aid willingly. It is estimated that about 4000 men will take part. To these must be added the members of the different departments of the university, the families of the graduates and the many invited guests...
...regular routine of work has been carried on at the Harvard Observatory during the summer, and little of particular interest has occurred. The principal event has been the photographing of the spectrum of chain lightning by means of a spectroscope and large telescope attached to a camera. Several of these photographs turned out very well, and are probably the first successful ones of the kind ever taken...
...contest will be conducted by the coaches, and accuracy, quickness, height, placing and distance will be considered. The cups will become the property of the winners. As these cups are offered to develop kickers no one will be allowed to win more than one cup in the same event in successive years, or more than one cup in one year, although he may enter in all three events. For example, a man who won in punting last year can compete this year only for place and drop kicking, and one who should win in drop kicking this year could compete...