Word: eskimo
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...instructive to note the air with which the lecture room greets the remarks of the French officers. If the orals are a test of the average college man's ability as a linguist, French should be as intelligible to him as Hottentot to an Eskimo. Yet we hear the voluminous applause of six hundred men at the proper dramatic pause, and the right ripple or broad guffaw of as many at the humorous interlude. It may be that a few, habituated to the Gallic tongue, lead the applause, and the rest follow to show that they also...
Professor Franz Boas of Columbia University was appointed Lecturer in Anthropology for the second half-year at a meeting of the President and Fellows of the University held Yesterday. Professor Boas is generally recognized as an authority on anthropology and ethnology, having made a special study of the Eskimo and Indian tribes of the north. His research work and discoveries, of a recent date, concerning the immigrants of this country have also brought him before the public lately. He is a member of a great many scientific societies here and in Europe and has held chairs at the University...
...Hancock '12 Dardanelles Bixby, Ward of James Higdig and office man in Chalkstones' office, R. C. Benchley '12 Pinkering Snaffles, ex-roommate of Bixby and ex-book seller of New York, P. M. Hollister '13 Stolid Steve, Hugglesland manager of American Ice Trust, T. W. Barnes, 2nd, '12 Eskimo Frity, proprietor of the "Three Jolly Whalebones" in Hugglesland, S. Nichols '13 Chief Wug, of the Hugglesland Eskimos which are related by marriage to the Wah-oh-wahs, H. T. Deane '12 Ariovistus Paterson, uncle of Anne Higdig, K. S. Billings '12 Gloriana Griggs, one of the New York Griggs...