Word: marksmen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...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...
...with great rapidity in the past two or three months, and the Harvard Rifle Club was formally organized some weeks ago, as we announced at the time. This club has laid out a plan of work which cannot fail, if carried out in all its particulars, to develop skilful marksmen. The club will hold at least ten matches a year, - monthly matches, at which all members of the club who have rifles can compete; spring and fall matches for teams representing the different buildings as they are divided into boat-clubs; and an annual match for the championship...
...reply to a letter from a Harvard undergraduate, suggesting that sporting rifles would be more acceptable than military rifles to college marksmen, the Forest and Stream says: The use of a military rifle would not prevent the riflemen from using any other weapon for amusement or practice. We should be glad to hear the sentiments of college men on this subject as applied to our badge, and stand ready to so amend the conditions as to make them satisfactory to the greatest number...