Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shoot announced for yesterday afternoon, at Watertown has been postponed, It has not been decided when the meet will be held...
...last regular meeting of the club will be held at Watertown this afternoon. The clay-bird cup will be awarded to the member who has won the greatest number of competitions up to and including the present date. In case of a tie, the competitors will shoot the tie off at strings of five birds, until one drops out. Members will take the 2 o'clock...
Tomorrow's shoot, the last of the season, marks the close of the first year's work on the part of the Shooting Club. Founded for the purpose of giving those of our students who have a taste for shooting an opportunity for practice, it has fulfilled its purpose as far at least, as shot gun members are concerned, and is to be congratulated on the success of its first attempts...
...died out. It was through no fault of the Harvard Club, however, that there was no inter-collegiate match this spring, for every effort was made to induce Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and the College of the City of New York to put rifle teams into training to shoot for the college championship. Each of these colleges answered the letters that were sent them with the statement that it was too late in the season to make any arrangements for a match. We are inclined to think that our own club was a little late in writing to these...
...students of the present day that Harvard once boasted as large, as fully manned and one may say a much more realistic navy than any of the establishments which now are in full swing among the two hundred colleges which are trying to teach the youthful mind how to shoot. Those Harvard students in the year 1776 who yearned after a nautical, or rather a piratical life and the salt of the ocean met together in that year and formed what was then called a "Navy Club." and later earned for itself the title of the "Harvard Navy." For some...