Word: gun
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following challenge has been sent to the secretary of the Yale Gun Club...
CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 12th, 1891.The Harvard Shooting Club challenges the Yale Gun Club to a match to be shot on the morning of the 21st of November, at the grounds of the Springfield Gun Club. The teams to consist of five (5) men, each man to shoot at thirty (30) blue rock targets from five (5) unknown angles...
...club was defeated at the last match, and its position therefore demands that it be the challenger this fall. If the club is really anxious for an opportunity to retrieve itself in the eyes of the college, it will lose no time in sending a challenge to the Yale Gun Club, and will begin daily practice shoots immediately...
...meeting of the year today. If there are any new men in college who enjoy shooting they should certainly attend the meeting this afternoon and join the club. They will find the weekly "shoots" of the club very pleasant affairs. Each year two matches are shot with the Yale Gun Club. Both of these matches were lost last year, and the club must retrieve itself during the coming year. New material will be gladly welcomed, and therefore new men may be doubly sure of meeting a cordial reception at the club house on the Allston marshes...
...recall the shells, if necessary, the referee's tug will stop and the second barrel of the gun will be fired, but there can be no signal after ten strokes have been rowed...