Word: traps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...clubs. The club lost so many of its best shots last year that over half the team will have to consist of new men. This ought to be a sufficient stimulus to bring out new material. Men who have shot in the field and who have never done any trap-shooting are especially urged to come...
...this formidable list with hardly the awe which the mid-years inspired, yet there is far more of fate hidden in these cabalistic figures than the mid-years could possess. Aside from this, too, the freshman who gets through all his other examinations long before, will find a fatal trap for his detention in the Physics on the last day. In the position of this and the English C, that is, the junior English examinations, the faculty has shown its pristine fondness for keeping most of the students indurance vile, when they are eager to fly to far distant homes...
...gratuitously, being either allured by food, warmth or shelter. They enter flowers either for these purposes, or for that of depositing their eggs. Flowers are peculiarly adapted for various kinds of insect propagation; gnats taking some of the long tubular ones, and being restrained by a kind of a trap till their work is finished. Bees and balancing flies are fond of tubular flowers. Moths fertilize Orchids, carrying pollen balls clinging to their tongue or eyes. Humming-birds attack long necked flowers like the Trumpet Vine. Flowers allure these animal friends by colors and odors, and guide them...
...Sheffield Gun Club has not definitely accepted the Shooting Clubs' challenge yet, but the Yale News thinks that an acceptance is very probable. The conditions of the challenge are "there shall be an 18 yard rise, the pigeons shall be thrown from a trap at five angles, and each team shall consist of from four to eight...
...quiet afternoon, with just enough of coolness in the air to make a warm gun barrel acceptable to the fingers, attracted a dozen marksmen to the Watertown grounds on Wednesday. The changes made in the arrangement of the shooting shanty and the trap pits have greatly improved the grounds, and the men present seemed well pleased with the accommodations. The first match contested was at 10 clay birds, 18 yards rise, thrown from five angles. The scores were as follows: W. H. Slocum, 9; F. S. Palmer, 8; M. H. Clyde, 6; F. S. Mead, 5. On the conclusion...