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Dates: during 1880-1889
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MATCH C. 10 glass balls, thrown at 5 angles, 18 yards rise. Open to freshman members of the club who have never won a club prize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Shooting Club. | 11/13/1884 | See Source »

Match 3. Five glass balls. First, Allen. Mead; second, Austin; third, Clyde, Kennard, Slocum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Shooting Club. | 11/6/1884 | See Source »

...this case, but will pass on to other curiosities. On the shelf of a bookcase stands a cast of that grim old Puritan soldier, Oliver Cromwell, from the original mask taken after death and presented to Prof. Charles Eliot Norton by Thomas Carlyle. Next you turn to a glass case which contains many a precious book, whose leaves have been thumbed by men whose names have been household words for centuries. Here is the old Indian Bible of that heroic soul, John Eliot; also the Bible of John Bunyan, with his autograph on the title page, which bears the date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Curiosity Room in the Library. | 11/6/1884 | See Source »

...each match. Conditions in both matches ; 7 clay birds, thrown at 5 angles, 16 yards rise. Ties will be shot off at straight-aways, 18 yards, miss and out. Cars for the range leave the quare at 2 P. M., sharp. The price of clay birds is 3 cents, glass balls, 2 cents. After the matches as many practice scores will be shot as the time allows. New men man join the club by applying to the secretary on the grounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Shooting Club. | 11/5/1884 | See Source »

...Columbia quarters and boathouse are right across the river, and each crew can know, with but little trouble the movements of the other. The Yale quarters are about half a mile above ours, but their movements too can be observed to a certain extent with the aid of a glass. Our quarters are a great deal exposed to both sun and wind, but the broad veranda supplies shade, and shelter from the wind can always be found. The one large room up-stairs is entirely devoted to the purposes of a dormitory. Underneath it is the room, which serves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREW AT NEW LONDON. | 6/18/1884 | See Source »

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