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...later under the conditions usually governing intercollegiate matches, viz: each team to consist of five (5) men, each man to shoot at 30 birds, each string to consist of five birds to be thrown at three unknown angles or three set so as to be the same as one trap. The rules of the American Shooting Association to decide on all other points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shoot with Princeton. | 10/17/1895 | See Source »

...practice of the Shooting Club yesterday the trap broke and, as none of the old ones could be made to work, the shoot was postponed until this afternoon. The Founders Cup, novice and match B will be continued at two o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Organizations. | 11/13/1894 | See Source »

...claim that the new method was the only right method of writing. As a novelist he was an artist, but in criticism he was narrow-minded and bigotted. He wrote too much, too many pages of mere detailed description. In this way he has fallen into the trap of Psychology, making his characters tell what they think instead of trusting to their individuality to demonstrate their thoughts. He might well have relied on this feature of his characters, for no one knew better than he how to make mere paper men and women talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Copeland's Lecture. | 4/3/1894 | See Source »

...shot November 24th or 25th at or near Springfield, as may be agreed upon later, under the conditions usually governing the Yale-Harvard matches, namely, each team to consist of five (5) men, each man to shoot at 30 birds, fifteen at a time, three unknown angles from one trap (or three set so as to be the same as one trap). The rules of the American Shooting Association to decide on other points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gun Club Challenge. | 11/14/1893 | See Source »

...dark shades are raised and lowered easily from the back of the room. In one side of the platform for the stereopticons is a trap door which leads to the basement of the building. On the whole this new lecture room is far better than the old one, not only on account of its greater size, but because of the completeness and convenience of the fittings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Improvements in Harvard Hall. | 2/11/1891 | See Source »

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