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...Harvard University Rifle Club is sadly in need of encouragement. At the present time there are hardly enough men practising to make a team, to say nothing of picking one. We urge strongly every man who enjoys shooting to become a member and to practise continuously, in order that Harvard may get together a team which will do her credit in the contests that are expected to take place during the year...
...once be made for the exchange of one hundred muzzle-loading Springfield rifles for Peabody breech-loaders and corresponding accoutrements. The amendment to the Constitution carried at the last meeting provides that attendance at half the number of regular company drills (one weekly) shall be necessary to entitle a member to target-shooting in the spring. A drum corps is in process of formation, and Freshmen or Sophomores, having instruments and being able to use them, are invited to join. Recruits will be received at any time, and the Constitution lies for signature at the Gymnasium...
Captain Bancroft said that, as a member of the crew, he should enjoy rowing two races, since it offered a greater reward for the hardships of training, and since the first race was good discipline for the second. He was, however, undecided as to the advisability of entering into a series of races with any college besides Yale. At all hazards, the Yale race should be kept independent of all others and above all others...
Sumner was a member of the Hasty-Pudding Club, and it was on his motion that the first catalogue of that club was prepared. When a Senator, it was his custom to make additions to the Pudding library. He and eight classmates formed themselves into a secret society, known to themselves as "The Nine," a title which has since been usurped. From the description of college life in one of Sumner's letters, it will be seen that time has not made many changes, save, perhaps, in the last particular quoted...
...Crimson of April 20, 1877 (Vol. IX. No. 5). It is there proposed that the four subordinate clubs consolidate with the H. U. B. C., still preserving, for the sake of races, the divisions according to residence; that the membership fee be ten dollars, and that every member of the University who subscribes ten dollars or more to the crew be made a member of the new H. U. B. C., and that the crew give up to the club their shells and barges as they are through with them. The writer shows with a few figures that...