Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...MILK WHITE FLAG.- The presentation of anything from the pen of America's popular playwright, Chas. Hoyt, not only calls out a large and expectant audience, but it is an event eagerly looked forward to by amusement lovers all over America. At the Park Theatre, beginning Monday evening, Feb. 1, his greatest success, "A Milk White Flag," which is claimed to be a departure from his previous efforts, will be presented. Mr. Hoyt does not claim it as a comedy, a farce, or an opera. He only announces it in his usual modest way: "A musical entertainment...
...scrimmage, but it is really nothing more than a disorderly "scrap." It is a form of fighting more characteristic of a scuffle of "thugs" in a barroom than of an assembly of students about to receive the Bachelor of Arts degree from the first centre of learning in America. Not a single manly quality is called forth. No premium is set on courage, strength, or endurance. On the contrary, the most noticeable feature of the whole affair is often some underhand slugging, "pasting" a man, as it is called. The remark is not unfrequently made by men that they...
Bishop John H. Vincent, of To peka, Kansas, was to have preached at Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening, but he has unexpectedly been called to South America. In his place Bishop W. X. Ninde of Detroit, Mich., Mich., will conduct the services...
...issue of Harper's Weekly for Dec. 26, Mr. Casper W. Whitney gives the following as his selection of an All-America Football Eleven...
...Whitney's All-America elevens since 1888, Princeton has had 26 men; Yale, 26; Harvard, 23, Pennsylvania 12, Cornell...