Word: indians
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Carlisle Indian School at Cambridge...
...collection of ethnological objects in the main hall of the Peabody Museum has recently been re-arranged and enlarged. Several models of Indian tents are shown. Among the rarest specimens are examples of stained porcupine quill work and of black and white tanning. Both the quill work and tanning are now lost arts to the Indians. The contents of the Omaha sacred war tent, which have been stored away for some time, were recently examined and are now on exhibition...
...Yale-Carlisle Indian football game will be played at New Haven on October...
Brown University requires each student to exercise four hours a week in the gymnasium. For class drill the freshmen use Indian clubs, the sophomores dumb-bells, the juniors single-sticks, and the seniors fencing foils. During the sophomore and junior years boxing and wrestling may be substituted. In addition there are class-divisions for exercise with chest weights, bars, etc. Each student is regularly marked and credited in his gymnasium work, faithfulness and punctuality being the tests...
...given the Freshman class. On entering college every student is examined and given a list of prescribed exercises. During the winter term each class is required to spend a half-hour on four days of the week in the gymnasium. For this class drill freshmen have military drill and Indian clubs; sophomores, wrestling and dumb-bells; juniors, boxing and fencing; seniors, fencing with foils. In addition there are class sections for the apparatus exercises...