Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Outing for February is not a good number, there is much more to be criticised than is be commended. The illustrations are very poor, especially the front-piece, "The Veteran's Last Fight," painted expressly for Outing. It would be hard to imagine a tamer fight. It is a picture of a wild hog with two dogs on him and three or four more looking on with a sleepy kind of interest. The effect is almost absurd. The illustrations of "A Comedy of Counterplots" are the worst in the number; one is a fanciful portrait of two men dancing hand...
Harper's Weekly contains an interesting article on the "Varsity Veteran...
...Veteran" is a rather mediocre story from the stand point of college writing of an old man with a termagant daughter-in-law. It is told with patches of Yankee dialect...
...spite of the absence of champion O. S. Campbell in Europe the affair will be of increasing interest, as more high-class experts than ever before are to compete. Among those expected being Messrs. V. G. Hall and Edward W. Hall of New York; F. H. Hovey the veteran champion of Harvard College and several English cracks, who will lend the affair an air of international importance...
...beginning of the year Harvard had before her the task of developing three centre men and all the left side of the line and of finding a quarter-back. Yale had at the left side of her line and the centre, - except the one position of snap-back - veteran men. She had to find-a full-back. In other words, Harvard had everything to do which Yale had; and moreover had the centre to make...