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...Endicott found my reply too severe he must remember that I was then dealing with an unknown being, more or less in ambush and in the dark. Now, however, when he is plainly himself and in the day light, it is my duty to consider...
...rules of the American Association will govern the match. Five men constitute a team, each man to shoot at 30 birds in strings of 5. There will be three traps arranged 5 yards apart in the are of a circle and concealed by a screen. The traps will be unknown; that is, the bird may fly from any one of them...
...some imitations and some indigenous to the English soil. The poem of "Sir Thomas Gawain and the Green Knight" is only French in its materials, for it has been worked up by an English artist of genius. Unfortunately, this poet, though second only to Chaucer in his century, is unknown. The whole poem contains the highest artistic, religious and ethical purpose. It is written in a more northern dialect than Chaucer's. The metre is a combination of alliterative metre and rhyme, and, as is generally the case with such verse the language is somewhat rich and artificial...
...shot on November 2, at a place to be agreed up on 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...
...case. Comparison with foreign countries in this respect is mortifying. In England, France, of Germany, boys of sixteen, or at the most seventeen, are as far advanced in their education as are college freshmen here. More than this, what they have learned they are familiar with in a way unknown to the boy who has here squeezed through college examinations which are often the sole end of his study...