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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thursday afternoon, the club finished the present series of matches and held the monthly contest for the "Founder's Cup." The shooting was the best of the year. In the "Founders' Cup" match, Palmer and Clyde both broke 13 birds out of 15. In the shoot off, Clyde won. The following men came next with a score of 12: Frye, Jackson and D. C. Holder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Shooting Club. | 5/5/1888 | See Source »

...been selected, but will undoubtedly be very strong, as the shooting this year has been unusually good. On Thursday evening, May 10, the club will give a dinner to the University of Pennsylvania team, and it is earnestly requested that as many of the members as possible will be present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Shooting Club. | 5/5/1888 | See Source »

...average weight of the present Yale crew is one hundred and sixty-nine pounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/4/1888 | See Source »

...first place, the number and kind of athletic contests of all sorts are regulated in advance by the faculty's committee on athletics. If the faculty decide that it is best to have but fifteen intercollegiate contests in a year, they can limit them to that number. The present number is such as the faculty consider consistent with the performance of other college duties. It is not left to the students themselves is not left to the students themselves to regulate. The days on which these matches occur, the time the teams leave Cambridge and return are all regulated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Dana's Letter. | 5/4/1888 | See Source »

...nine, foot ball team and boat crew, with the three chief substitutes for each. Their average for the past year was not below, and probably a little above, the average of the college at large, and the figures show there are both high and low scholars among them. The present method of marking is such that the averages cannot be obtained as exactly as a few years ago, but the conclusion is undoubtedly correct. Morgan's "University Oars" has settled the question for Oxford and Cambridge, that the men rowing in university races have a life longer and a health...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Dana's Letter. | 5/4/1888 | See Source »

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