Word: summer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Matthews. Brill, l. t. r. t., Coonley. Carr, l. g. r. g., Kinney. Hooper, c. c., Chase, Barney. Coonley, Bissell, r. g. l. g., Weeks. Hogan (captain), r. t. l. t., Botchford. Lasley, Strassburger, r. e. l. e., Burke. Connor, q. b. q. b., Colton, Summer. Preston, l. h. b. r. h. b., Collins (captain), Owsley. Knibbs, King, r. h. b. l. h. b., Reeves, Stoddard. Littig, f. b. f. b., Levine...
...bits of description incidentally thrown in are wonderfully vivid at times and stay in the memory. "The Hostelry of Drownding Creek" by R. W. Page '03, also contains some appreciative description in a fresh, original manner, though the phrasing is occasionally awkward. The selections of verse, "Indian Summer," and "My Lady on the Links" are both anonymous. The latter is daintily written and an agreeable change from the more serious efforts sometimes presented...
...Peabody Museum received last week a box of Pueblo Indian relics from Arizona. Dr. Frank Russell, instructor in Anthropology, spent last summer in Arizona and collected these relics from the ruins of ancient Pueblo villages. He visited the ruins of about seventy large and small villages, some of which once contained over 1000 inhabitants. The villages are on the Moki Indian Reservation on the Colorado River. Dr. Russell's collection will prove to be of especial value, since the Pueblo relics are gradually being destroyed by traders. The Indian Department has recently prohibited any exploration in this region...
...year in California is divided almost equally between the prolonged drought of the summer and the long rains in the months that correspond to the Eastern winter. The certainty with which the general character of the weather can be predicted for weeks ahead makes the farmers to a great degree, independent of the weather, and makes farming simple and easy. The absence of snow or frost makes travelling possible throughout the year, and the owners of estates, hampered by very little care of their crops, may leave their lands at will. As a result, the men are not obliged...
...Peabody Museum has received an old stone lamp as a gift from the Brown Expedition which visited Labrador last summer in charge of Professor Delabarre of Brown University. The lamp is a very old one, believed to have been used by the Eskimos in public ceremonies and games, and it is said that there are only two such in Labrador...