Word: tin
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Travelling north from Chili, Professor Brewster entered the tin-producing region of Bolivia with its picturesque adobe houses, hilly cities, and gaily clad women selling their wares in the streets at remarkably small prices. Here the Hamas, small camels which have been domesticated since the time of the Incas, do all the draught work and haul the orange-laden wagons across the plains...
...your oldest clothes--(you will get your bath at the beach). Bring your bats, gloves and balls. Shoot a dog (at Rammey's) and proceed northwest by west to the front of Holworthy. If you haven't got your ticket, badges, tin cups and horns get them there. A competent artist has been engaged to take a picture of the class. Headed by the Boston Symphony, under the capable leadership of Kanrich, an inspiring march will wend its way to wake those who by chance are still asleep...
Volume three of the series is "The Stannaries: A Study of the English Tin Miner," by S. R. Lewis '02. This thesis won the Wells prize last year. The fourth volume which will also appear soon is "Railroad Reorganization" by S. Daggett...
...still take life light heatedly, in fact facetiously. By far the longest story, "A Boola Banish Tale," although suggestive of the outline of a comic opera, is very amusing in its ingeniously extravagant setting and in its clever bits of dialogue. The Chghan, with his painted tin poultry, sneezing twice to call his slave, is a successful comic centre for the tale. The story would be improved by a little more reasonableness of action--not reason; far be that from Boola Ban! Even foolishness, however, has its foolish laws, and there is a kind of absurd orderliness in nonsense...
...laude, Ph.D. '06, Austin Teaching Fellow, and assistant in Economics 1 and 6. This prize of $500 is offered for the best thesis, embodying the results of original investigation, upon some subject in the field of economics. The subject of Mr. Lewis' essay was "The Stannaries of the old Tin-Mining District of Cornwall, England." This subject was taken as typifying an important class of mines and miners in the Middle Ages. On the basis of this subject with the aid of footnotes, Mr. Lewis has also traced the history of all the mining classes in England down...