Word: match
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Cadet Corps has begun rifle practice, the government furnishing the ammunition. The ambition of the corps is stimulated by the prospect of a match with Harvard...
...meeting of the club Wednesday evening it was voted that the regular fall championship match take place Saturday, December 16. To give interest to the match competitors will be divided into two classes; to the first any member will be admitted, to the second none who have ever made a score of thirty-eight or more out of a possible fifty in any match whatsoever. Of course no second-class man will be entitled to a first-class prize...
OWING to the wind and storm on Saturday, the match of the Rifle club was not a success. In such a gale it was impossible to shoot, but the excellent condition of the club and the interest taken in rifle-shooting were shown by the large number of men who entered for the match. The weather has changed so decidedly during the week, that we hope for more satisfactory results at the regular fall championship match to take place to-morrow. Columbia and Cornell are beginning to take up rifle-shooting, and the prospect of an intercollegiate match...
...refuse to enter into the controversy about the foot-ball match with Yale, it is simply because it would be a waste of time and space. Our readers understand clearly enough that questions as to courtesy and gentlemanlike treatment cannot be settled by any amount of writing. They understand, also, only too well the reception which our Nines and Teams generally receive at New Haven. Yale undergraduates seem to lack the faintest idea of what hospitality is, and we have no desire to undertake the hopeless task of teaching them...
...agreeable event. The various spreads, etc., could take place on various afternoons, and need not interfere with each other. And if the societies wished to have any special ceremonies of their own they might perfectly well do so. At the same time, a boat-race, a ball-match, and an athletic tournament would be interesting, while the whole might reach a climax in a University ball in Memorial Hall...