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...Forest and Stream we learn that the National Rifle Association has offered to make any rifle club in the country an auxiliary, as it were, of the Association, in return for an annual payment of twenty-five dollars. This sum will secure to the club who pays it the right to send some of its members to the annual matches at Creedmoor, to receive a bronze medal from the Association to be competed for by the different members of the club, and several other like privileges. We recommend our Rifle Club to consider the proposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

...here, I thought, "the old meeting-house, before which the Americans awaited the charge of the British," must have stood. They waited until the British got unpleasantly near, when Putnam and his men, concluding that "discretion was the better part of valor," rode away. To the right of the meeting-house are the stone steps down which Putnam rode. To the left is the road along which the British dragged their cannon after firing a random shot at the retreating hero. This ball, I was informed, fell on the road, and with half-spent force was rolling along, when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEUTRAL GROUND. | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

Another point in this connection was mentioned in a late Crimson. If the graduates are to influence or to take part in our boating affairs, it is only right that they should take their place on the subscription list. At Yale, graduates supply about one half the funds necessary to support their crew. Why should our graduates be less generous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COACH OR CAPTAIN. | 2/11/1876 | See Source »

...early date, and in general its wit is very pointed; but there are some humorous touches in it which we cannot satisfactorily explain. For instance, we find on page twelve an apparent reference to our modern games with forfeits. "A student who fails to do this forfeits her right to washing for the week." Was that a joke practised in the school or convent where we are led to think that this work originated? Certainly, if anything more than a joke, it points to a drought or a peculiar state of civilization. In another place we see evidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR HUMOROUS WORKS. | 2/11/1876 | See Source »

...have had our attention called to the fact that some few Juniors intend to give spreads in their rooms next Class Day. There is no question but that every man has the right to retain the use of his room on Class Day, and give a spread, too, for that matter; but it has always been customary for the lower classmen to do all in their power to oblige Seniors on that day and to make it a pleasant one for them. Class Day, by its name, would seem to point out the impropriety, to say the least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/11/1876 | See Source »