Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seemed somewhat strange that such a healthful and exciting sport has been allowed to drop out of the list of college pastimes, for the art of skillful rifle-shooting ought to appeal to the support of our students for many reasons...
...first place it should be remembered that skill in the use of the rifle is distinctively an American attribute; then, too, rifle-shooting is a sport which is as yet free from all taint of professionalism; it is a sport which is free from the dangerous overexertion which renders foot-ball and boating objectionable to many; and it is also a means whereby many men can obtain invigorating out-door exercise, who are debarred by inferior physique from engaging in the muscular sports, though it must be well understood that no man can hope to become a good shot unless...
...seems strange that America, the very birth-place of rifle-shooting, should be outstripped by England in the adoption of the sport by colleges and schools, yet it is a well known fact that, at the great annual meetings of the National Rifle Association of Great Britian, the teams from Eton, Harrow, and Rugby roll up excellent scores, and make a most creditable showing on the score cards...
Secretary's hours of business, Wednesday and Saturday, from 9 A. M. to 10 A. M., 1 Grays. "No member of the university shall be admitted to witness any sports unless he be a member of the association. None but active members of the association, or honorary members as provided for in article 12, shall be allowed to enter as competitors in any sport except in case of open or graduate sport," (From article 11 of By-laws...
That you've sport for the springs and the falls...