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...club, he shows plainly that he has himself made no investigations on the subject, and that he has either forgotten or never heard the arguments in favor of this choice. Walnut Hill is as accessible as any of the ranges near Boston, and is, as all shooting men know, the best equipped range in the United States, both in respect to its accommodations for rifle shooting, and those for shooting glass balls and clay pigeons. It is hoped that the match committee will determine upon a series of rifle and shot-gun matches, to be shot during the winter months...
...better be secured by getting a range, (there are several,) nearer the university than Walnut Hill, where we believe the club proposes to shoot because of the advantage of having a 800, a 900 and a 1000yd. range. Now there are not more than two men in college, who know how to shoot at these ranges, and very few who would care to if they had by long and careful practice acquired the very difficult art of long range shooting. A 200 or 300 yard range is quite long enough for a college organization of raw and new shots...
...made upon the skill of the artist who is to represent the form and features of the founder of our college. Little assistance can be derived from the history of his life. We have no information in regard to his birthplace, parentage or lineage. All we know of his English life is, that he received a bachelor's degree at Emanuel College, Cambridge, in 1631 and a master's degree...
...John Harvard's contemporaries, who,-though he had been so short a time in the country, must have known something of his personal history,-speak gratefully of his generous gift, not one of them has left for us the slightest information of facts which we should be glad to know of this youthful, delicate scholar, fading away of consumption early in the second autumn of his exile. While the descendants of large numbers of the earliest New England colonists, whose genealogies have an interest only for their own families, have easily traced their localities and lineage in the mother country...
...directors of the Athletic association held a meeting last evening, but the prospective layout across the ground was not now of the subjects discussed. "It will be time enough to talk about the matter," said one of the directors this morning, "when we know that the line laid out across our grounds is to be the one that Hartford and Harlem directors decides upon...