Word: forest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...years ago Forest and Stream offered a silver cup as an intercollegiate shooting trophy, for which the gun clubs of Harvard, Yale and Princeton were to compete in annual spring shoots. The club which wins the cup the best three out of five times is to keep it for good. Yale won in '93 and '94. Last year Harvard was unable to compete as the shoot was held at Princeton during the final examinations here. As Yale has won both matches held so far, Harvard must make every effort to win this year. To accomplish this the managers...
...baseball team will go to the training table next Thursday. Carter and Trudeau will alternate in the pitcher's box again this season. Greenway will catch again, and de Forest '97 and Twombly '96 will probably be taken along on the Easter trip. Capt. Rustin will probably play at centre field, with Keator at right and Speer at left field. Quinby for short stop, Redington for second, Stephenson for first, are probably sureties, while third base will go either to Fincke '97 or McCandless '96 S. The team played its first practice game Friday...
...February number of the Outing, Mr. Harry Kendall, Outing's correspondent for the Middle West, gives his opinion as to what should constitute the "All Western Eleven." He takes into consideration the football teams of the Universities of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Purdue, Chicago, Illinois, Northwestern, and Lake Forest, and chooses five men from Wisconsin, three from Minnesota, two from Michigan, and one from Purdue...
...February number of the Century Magazine devotes several pages to opinions by distinguished men on Professor Charles S. Sargent's plan for preserving the forests of the United States. Professor Sargent is director of the Arnold Arboretum and has given much of his time to the study of the subject. His plan has four features, the establishment at West Point of a chair of forestry, with supplementary practical work, the purchase of an experimental forest reservation, the assignment of educated officers to supervision of such reservation, and the enlistment of a special forest guard...
...Waltz, "Forest Spirits," Zach...