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Four years ago a number of sophomores, of the class of '86, desirous of obtaining better accommodations for trap-shooting than the clubs around Boston afforded, organized the Harvard Shooting Club. From the very first the club was a success. The grounds of the Middlesex Gun Club at Watertown were leased, and meetings were held every week. At first the members contented themselves with shooting for cups and medals offered from time to time by the club. Last year two new features were introduced - matches with outside clubs and an inter-class team match. Two matches were shot...
...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...