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...foregoing statement by Mr. Caspar Whitney appeared in the current issue of Collier's Weekly under the head of "The Sportman's View-Point." The essence of the paragraphs devoted to Harvard is that basketball and swimming were given up because they did not pay, and that "minor sports" here are being discouraged. Both of these assertions simply denote total unfamiliarity with the situation...
Before any arrangements can be made to shoot other clubs or to compete in the Sportman's Exhibition in March, it is necessary to find out just what material is available, and to have some regular practice. Thus every man is urged to notice the special calls each week, and to come out if he possibly can when his turn comes...
...enough men turn out, and the shooting is satisfactory, the club intends to enter a team to compete in the various rifle and pistol matches at the New England Sportman's Exhibition to be held in Mechanics Hall in March. Every man at all interested in any branch of rifle shooting is therefore urged to join the club and compete in the practice shoots, one of which takes place at Walnut Hill this afternoon...
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