Word: landed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...LAND AND WATER, The Authority on American Amateur Sport." Leading article in December number by W. H. Rand, Harvard '98. Other articles on the National Horse Show, Training for the Half and Mile Run, etc. Also editorials on various athletic topics. Single copies for sale and subscriptions received at Memorial Hall News Stand. Single copies 10 cents...
...Land and Water," for December opens with an article on "Lessons from the Football Season of '97" by W. H. Rand, Jr., '98, captain of the Harvard nine. He outlines briefly the conditions and systems of training at the four leading universities. Harvard and Princeton started the season with a large number of old players and endeavored to keep their elevens intact and to develop team play. On the other hand, Yale and Pennsylvania started with green players and pursued the policy of giving their teams hard, fierce work. No attempt is made to argue for or against any system...
...Hawaii. He said that possession of Hawaii would not shield the Pacific coast, since Vancouver, the South Sea Islands, China and Japan would become bases of poerations against us, and we would be forced to protect our seaboard and Hawaii in addition, involving an enormous expense for additional land defences and an increased navy. The natural defensibility of our Pacific coast makes this expense unnecessary. Our past experience shows the alternative, annexation without for-tification, to be preferred. Annexation would be merely following our unwise foreign policy...
...Mary land...
...some years the estate of the poet, James Russell Lowell, on Brattle street, has been in danger of being sold and divided up into small lots. A committee, consisting of President Eliot, Bishop Lawrence, Professor Norton and others, has been trying to raise a sum sufficient to redeem the land and make a park of it. $19,000 of the necessary $35,000 has already been subscribed; but in order to make interest in the matter more widespread an appeal has lately been sent out by prominent men in other parts of the country...