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Word: marksmanship (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recollections as a place where "Turkey Shooting," a very popular pastime, was engaged in by the under-graduates. An enterprising yanker kept the turkeys on the Delta and allowed the students for a small fee to shoot at the birds. He trusted to the inaccuracy of the collegiate marksmanship for the preservation of his turkeys and being very successful. managed to make a large profit on his investment. Col. Higginson writes that one of his earliest recollect s is of standing at his fathers gateway, on what is now Kirkiand street in Cambridge and seeing the forms of young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Delta. | 10/28/1884 | See Source »

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