Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Lacrosse has attained great popularity in England, especially in the southern counties. The game was started at Cambridge University about twenty-seven years ago as the result of a visit of a Canadian team composed chiefly of Indians. Some years later, an American team, made up of men from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and other colleges made a tour of the United Kingdom, and this trip gave a great impetus to the game throughout Great Britain and Ireland...
...will be divided into squads and drilled in the rudiments of the game and in light stick work. Outdoor practice will begin as soon as the ground is in condition. Class teams will then be formed, and the interclass games will be played before the Easter recess. The customary southern trip during the Easter vacation will probably not take place this year, and the men will remain in Cambridge through the vacation in order to get more steady practice...
...that again the nearing sun slants warm each southern slope on, Belinda, of a sudden, leaves the noisy town behind...
...some years past it has been customary for the team to take a Southern trip during the vacation, playing Stevens Institute of Hoboken, Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn, Swarthmore College, and Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore. It has been found advisable to discontinue the trip this year, as it comes at a time when the team must necessarily have had very little practice together, and is of little or no benefit to the men. Instead of the Southern trip, the squad will probably remain in Cambridge during the vacation and special attention will be given to each man and also...
...recent addition to the Ethnological collection, consisting of photographs illustrative of the natives of Southern Africa and the islands of the Southern Pacific, has been placed in position in the Warren gallery at the Peabody Museum. The photographs are arranged in fourteen cases, each containing from eight to ten pictures and show the typical dress and customs of the natives of these regions. The photographs were taken by Alexander Agassiz, W. McM. Woodworth, A. G. Mayer, H. K. and W. E. Faulkner, and by members of the "Albatross" expedition...