Word: stickfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...EDUCATION:--At Mr. Wackford Squeer's Academy, Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification and every other branch of classical literature. Terms twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations and diet unparalleled...
...advocating the adding of new groups to the list--the Endowment Fund men, the families of Harvard boys who died in the war, and a host of other meritorious suggestions, but with all the care and study given by various committees to these suggestion, it is usually agreed to stick to the present plan of allotment...
...ones, few and far-between, are found nearer than a hundred and fifty miles to the North. In the third place, with the possible exception of this Northern Straits tribe, Eskimos do not live in the interior of Labrador, the purported home of the wild Fish Fang tribe; but stick close along the shore. In the fourth place the glorious name of Fish Fang may belong to some far northern or extinct tribe, but its application today to Labrador Eskimos is altogether doubtful...
...afternoon on Soldiers Field, the Boston Lacrosse Club defeated a team of University men 5-4. This completes the final practice for this fall, but the graduate coaches will continue to come down to the field every day to give those men who desire it; practice in handling the stick and other essentials of the game, Freshmen who anticipate playing this spring are especially urged to take advantage of the opportunity offered...
...existing conditions it is hard to see how any far-sighted Irishmen can ask more than the new constitution gives. An oath of allegiance to the King is required of every member of the new Parliament, but that is a form more than anything else and ought not to stick for long in the Irish throat. The Crown, too, retains a viceroy in Iceland, but he is governed by the wishes of the wholly Irish executive council. Except in the case of actual invasion the Irish Free State is not committed to active participation in any British war without...