Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...entries must be made to the Secretary before eleven o'clock Saturday morning, and no one will be allowed to shoot who arrives after the last man has finished shooting. It was also voted to award a prize to the member having the highest average for the year, provided that he shall have shot in at least three matches...
...sport is excellently adapted for this season of the year, and it should be remembered the weather will not hold this way forever. We hear that at Yale a rifle club has been formed, and there is a prospect - somewhat faint at present, but a prospect, nevertheless - of a shooting-match next spring between the two colleges. This should act as an incentive to all those who shoot: last year we saw how rapid the improvement was, when the practice of the club was regular. We hope a target will be up within a week...
...Shoot the boat!" cried the boys; said the girls, "Did you ever...
...MORROW the Harvard Rifle Club will shoot with the Cambridge Rifle Club at the range on Brattle Street. This is the first match in which our new Rifle Club has engaged, and we believe it is the first time that any college team has tried its skill with other marksmen. In the past four months the shooting has been steadily improving, as we have shown from time to time, and any score made in the last monthly match of the club would have taken the prize in the first match. In their match to-morrow the team that...
...them should be removed. The advantages of this plan are obvious. Should it be adopted, the ordinary scratch-race course would be much improved. As the races are, with the exception of single and double sculls, rowed now with coxswains, there would be no difficulty in having the boats shoot the bridges, one boat under the draw and the others under the proposed arches. The only disadvantage of the plan is the difficulty of carrying it into execution; and this, it must be confessed, is a serious drawback. If the change in the construction of these bridges should be made...