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...reported that Forest and Stream is to offer a prize for an inter-collegiate rifle contest...
...current number of Forest and Stream is a communication from a college graduate on the subject of an inter-collegiate rifle association. This writer favors the formation of an association of American college clubs, which should hold an annual match either at Creedmoor or at New London during the race week. Another point which he advocates is the admission of graduates to the association on an equal footing with the undergraduates, this action of course making them eligible for places on the college teams. Unfortunately he mistakes the strength of the few college clubs which now exist, and overestimates...
...military, marine and artillery schools to which they gain admittance on leaving the Idadiyes. Besides these schools the capital contains others of equal importance. There is a school forming professors for the Rushdiyes, a school where foreign languages are taught to some of the employees of the Porte, a forest school, and one for mechanics...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON-Dear. Sirs : The following is clipped from Forest and Stream, Nov. 15th, and seems to be quite a sensible suggestion : "Harvard has a rifle and gun club. Princeton has something of the kind, and so has the University of Pennsylvania. Why can we not see a series of intercollegiate rifle, or clay pigeon matches ? When students graduate, they put away base-ball (unless they join the professionals), boating, foot-ball, and other like amusements ; but the collegian who learns to use the gun or rifle has acquired something that will last through his lifetime. The recreation...
...continual good humor with his apt word pictures. "No other people in the world," he said, "have developed so far the art of resting." Manufactures are rapidly increasing in importance, especially those of cotton, iron, steel and lumber. In North Carolina alone there are 40,000 square miles of forest as yet untouched. This amount is exceeded in Florida and Georgia, and equalled in Alabama and Mississippi...