Word: marksmen
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...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...