Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...formation of a Rifle Club at Harvard, and we wish to say a few words in favor of the plan. The articles in question express, we think, the almost unanimous sentitiment of the university, and there seems to be every reason why we should encourage the growth of a sport that is at once so manly and so healthful, especially since being self-supporting, no pecuniary reasons can be urged against it. It would unquestionably be most advisable to have this club embrace all that portion of the students who use the shot-gun. The two bodies are necessarily closely...
...article published in your last number on the project of forming a rifle club meets with the hearty approval of many among the undergraduates, and as lover of field sports I am glad to see that the small spark of interest in shooting seems in a fair way to being rekindled. Let me suggest, however, that a club be formed which shall devote some of its attention to the class of students whose skill lies in the use of the shot-gun. Many of us are in the habit of devoting a part of our summer vacation to brush-shooting...
...Massachusetts this sport has always been exceedingly popular, and every Saturday the range of the Massachusetts Rifle Association, at Walnut Hill, is occupied by an enthusiastic gathering of gentlemen, whose rivalry for high places on the score sheet results in the production of magnificent scores...
Perhaps it is best to put forth the strongest argument for this pastime at the end of our article; here it is, and it ought to appeal directly to every Harvard man,-rifle shooting is a self-sustaining sport, there are no subscription friends required to foster and keep it alive, and though the victories of a rifle team could bring credit to the college; yet, to play for those victories, the college would not be obliged to subscribe a cent in addition to its already too numerous burdens...
...hoped then that the few words here written may arouse some interest in this manly but semi-forgotten sport, and that some other student-rifleman may contribute some suggestions for the formation of a club, to these columns...