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...large audience assembled in Sanders last evening to hear Maj-Gen Crook's lecture on our Western Indians. Rev. Edward Everett Hale introduced the speaker, and said that Gen. Crook had been connected with the U. S. Army for many years. Since the civil war he has been stationed in Idaho and has had charge of the Indians in that district. Gen. Crook then said: In former years, treachery has been extremely prevalent among the Indians. It was their mode of warfare to fall upon an unarmed band of men and massacre the entire party. Originally they did this...
...Crook believes in giving them the franchise as the one means of making them law-abiding citizens and raising them from their present degrading situation. As the case stands now, they can get no redress for wrongs committed against them by white...
...Crook interspersed his remarks with many pleasing personal reminiscences and answered many questions put him by members of the audience...
...there is one branch of athletics at Harvard which at present stands in great need of support from members of the university. We refer to cricket. As we have stated before in these columns, the association is obliged to procure new grounds this year by hook or by crook. Such grounds they already have in view, and they are likely to remain in view unless substantial support is received, and that before long The officers of the association have labored diligently in the part, to promote a greater interest in cricket at Harvard, than is at present apparent. We trust...
...lecture last evening by Gen. Crook on the Indian question gave the students of Harvard, as well as the citizens of Cambridge, an opportunity to listen to the most famous Indian fighter in the country. That Gen. Crook, a principal actor in the stirring scenes which are constantly being enacted on the frontier, and a man whose bravery and intrepidity are as well known as his patriotism, and his earnestness in defence of the oppressed race for whom he speaks, should deliver an address in Sanders Theatre, seems to remind us once again of the many privileges enjoyed by Harvard...