Word: sand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Lacrosse Club of New York has recently been organized by graduates formerly interested in lacrosse here. Its object is the extension of interest in the game at Harvard and the promotion of friendship and intercourse among former players. H. A. L. Sand '95 has been elected president and R. E. Swezey L. S. '97, secretary...
...drawings, the cover-piece alone shows an artistic touch; but, unfortunately, it is scarcely original. Representing a "lone couple" sitting on a sand dune and gazing fixedly on the open sea, it looks like a crude copy of Gibson's "Solitude." The centre picture is intended as a caricature on the recent yacht race, but is neither clever in design nor amusing in point...
...claimed independence from England, but the latter power proclaimed all the Boers' territory English soil up to the Vaal River. This action on the part of England drove many of the Boer farmers to cross the Vaal, where they set up a government for themselves, England consenting at the Sand River Convention, held in 1852. The next advance movement of the English came in 1877, when an armed force was sent into the Transvaal to suppress an uprising of the Zulus, and took possession of the Boer government. Although the townspeople wished to be annexed to England when the Boers...
...printed merely to fill space. The center page is excellent and quite timely. The most amusing picture in the number is number of five the series "As Others see Us." The takeoff on Rattle at the Riverside Recreation Grounds is good, and the letter describing the drill at the "Sand Oldbonio" is cleverly patterned on the original. "An Everyday Fable" is rather more serious than ordinary Lampoon fiction. The short jokes in the number are very poor, in marked contrast to the longer articles. Many of these witticisms savor of old age, a failing which should be carefully avoided...
...other who men won points by second and third places all deserve credit for showing pluck and sand...