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...first monthly match of the Harvard Rifle-Club was shot last Saturday, February 19, at the Mt. Auburn range. The weather was cold and chilly, and the light on the targets poor. The following is the score...
...manner we were led, much to our regret, into making an unjust attack upon an officer of the College who is much respected by all who have anything to do with him. We think we see two ways by which such a mistake might have been avoided. In the first place it would have been prevented if the Faculty had adopted the plan of making public all their votes regarding the government of the students; and, in the second place, we should certainly not have committed the error had they refrained from passing a vote which we agree with...
...MORROW the Harvard Rifle Club will shoot with the Cambridge Rifle Club at the range on Brattle Street. This is the first match in which our new Rifle Club has engaged, and we believe it is the first time that any college team has tried its skill with other marksmen. In the past four months the shooting has been steadily improving, as we have shown from time to time, and any score made in the last monthly match of the club would have taken the prize in the first match. In their match to-morrow the team that...
...remove the slight misunderstanding under which the Yale papers seem to be laboring, we will state briefly the present condition of affairs in regard to the arrangements for the next Yale-Harvard base-ball match. The first game will be played in New Haven, the second in Cambridge, and the third in Springfield. The misunderstanding which caused the Record to speak of us in terms more forcible than polite resulted from the fact that the two Nines in fixing the time for the match found difficulty in finding three days which would be equally convenient for both sides, and also...
...Courant, "to remind some of those gentlemen who took such delight in plunging from one end of the hall to the other in three steps, and bumping everybody on the way, that it would be well to take a few lessons either in dancing or etiquette." We thought at first that this little peculiarity must have proved quite unpleasant for all who chanced to be on the floor at the time it was indulged in. On reading further, we discovered our mistake, for "the only really unpleasant feature of the evening was that little scene around the lunch counter during...