Word: ago
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...Temple, under the auspices of the Victorian Club, there were address by the following men in commemoration of the centennial anniversary of the death of Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar; Professor F. C. de Sumichrast, President of the Victorian Club, who compared England's situation 100 years ago with that of today; Captain Alfred T. Mahan, U. S. N. L.L.D., who spoke about Nelson's distinct individuality; Sir E. H. Seymour, G. C. B.; Commander Takeshita, Imperial Japanese Navy; and Surgeon-General Baron S. Suzuki, who told about the battle of Japan...
...captain of the fencing team, W. MacLeod 2L. will issue a call for candidates the first of November. The prospects of the team are very good, as A. Tyng '05 has returned, W. L. Bowman 2L., captain of the Cornell team two years ago, will probably come out, and all last year's substitutes will be available again this year...
Although West Point was defeated last Saturday by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute by the score of 16 to 6, the team is a strong one, and the defeat was due rather to the fast work of Virginia than to West Point's poor playing. Two weeks ago West Point defeated Colgate by a score of 18 to 6 and last Saturday Colgate won from Dartmouth. The average weight of the West Point team is somewhat less than last year...
...Webster 1M. presided, and explained briefly the nature of the sport. Formerly there were many schools of jiu-jitsu, but about twenty years ago the president of the Tokio normal school consolidated the best systems and developed the present art. Mr. Webster then introduced Mr. Koizumi, Mr. Nakamura, and Mr. Horikiri, who illustrated the different forms of fighting, throwing, falling, and combinations of all the forms. The exhibition was concluded with a short wrestling bout between Mr. Nakamura and G. F. Evans...
...will it bring forth", and the head-piece to "By the Way", all excellent work. "By the Way" itself, however, offers serious ground for the suggestion, already often made, that this column be definitely done away with. All the possibilities of this department seem to have been exhausted long ago. The jokes are mainly of the pun variety, in general of the poor pun variety, and the verse, excluding perhaps that on the last page, hardly justifies its selection for printing. The Lampoon is always so well supported by undergraduates that it owes them the best of which...