Word: stickfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Haines this fall will again be in charge of the Freshmen, his appointment being purely automatic. Whether or not he will attempt any such change in methods as are expected from Brown is not known, but it is to be presumed that he will stick to his old methods that in the past have produced a fair share of winners, and that last year were climaxed by an undefeated eight, several times conqueror over the University shell in practice brushes
...chapter of shorn Colombia, spunky Panama, and the big U. S. In 1903 Panama revolted from its mother-country Colombia, declared itself independent. Colombia accused President Roosevelt of aiding the revolutionaries because he wanted the Canal Zone. Indeed, the President who advocated the soft word and the big stick, was quoted as saying: "I took Panama." Colombia demanded an indemnity, which was promptly refused. A decade later, President Wilson negotiated a $25,000,000 indemnity treaty with Colombia, but the U. S. Senate refused to comply. Finally, in President Harding's administration, the Senate ratified the treaty, after striking...
...Christian art, and today are extremely handsome. Naturally mystics associate it with the Shepherd symbol. Once it was suggested that it had often been utilized to hook in the weak-willed and wandering. The Eastern Catholic churchman has a short pole, resembling and being used as an ordinary walking stick...
...Arizona, Professor Byron Cummings of the state university refused to comment on the efficacy of a divining rod (a wishbone-shaped stick with a wooden thimbleful of "certain chemicals" at the fork) by which one of his geologists, one Charles Udall, located a mammoth's shoulder blade near Arivaca. Diviner Udall's thimble contained something sensitive to lime deposits. The stick dipped to outline a mammoth's tusk, a whole mammoth's skeleton, a buried dinosaur. Dr. Cummings, instead of theorizing about the instrument, proceeded to investigate further whether an important new fossil bed had been...
Captain R. D. Pinkerton '27, at back for the winners, displayed a brilliant brand of horsemanship and stick handling which was largely responsible for many of the University tallies. In the fourth chukker the University captain cut loose with the most spectacular shot of the game when he scored unassisted from far down the field. Alexander Shaw '28 at number one and R. B. Burnett '27, number three turned in brilliant exhibitions of polo and aided largely in the Crimson point gathering. For the losers J. Dudley Clark, father of the Crimson Freshman polo player, was the outstanding star...