Word: offs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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"Every morning now we have mounted regimental drill. Six hundred horses galloping in column of fours is a fine wave of power. The dust lifts up so thick it is like a fog, and you can barely see the next man ahead. Half-blinded, wet with sweat, and the horses...
An opportunity such as is now offered for a Harvard encampment this summer, is altogether too good to be lost. It is to be supposed that the greater number of those who have joined the drill companies have done so in order to be ready for service if required. They...
The past season has shown what can be done in the line of working up new material, and because there are now a fair number of point winners for a start off is no reason to be confident of a successful season next year. What will contribute in no small...
To speak of the men briefly, Dobyns, at stroke, uses excellent judgment and drives his crew well. He is, however, a hard man to follow and Biddle is not yet quite with him. Biddle gets a hard catch but has been inclined to weaken on the finish. Captain Perkins, in...
The current number of the Lampoon is easily up to the standard. The centre page drawing, although evidently intended to be taken seriously is yet very funny from the artist's curious conception of horses and his grotesque style. The best individual picture are a halfpage drawing representing an optical...