Word: indians
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Folk Lore Club. Dr. Franz Boaz of Columbia University will lecture under the auspices of the club on the "Growth of Indian Mythologies in British America." Peabody Museum...
...Keef" (by T. W. Coakley; published by Charles E. Brown and Co.) suggests DuMaurier's "Peter Ibbetson" and Kipling's "The Brushwood Boy." It is the story of an artist who gives himself up to the charms of smoking a king of Indian hemp called keef, and meets in his dreams a charming authoress. Although he sees that their dream companionship is bringing her to an untimely end, he smokes on until she dies. A death struggle between his faithful servant and her husband then ensues, and the keef-smoker leaves the country...
Folk Lore Club. Dr. Franz Boaz of Columbia University will lecture under the auspices of the club on the "Growth of Indian Mythologies in British America." Peabody Museum...
...many years past collections of relics from the different Indian tribes have been accumulating in the museum. A number of these were obtained a hundred years ago or more and are of great importance, as, owing to the changes in Indian customs they could not now be replaced. These, with a few exceptions, have never been on exhibition, and Professor Putnam has now intrusted their arrangement to Mr. C. C. Willoughby, acting assistant curator of the museum. In a short time the arrangement will be completed and the collection labelled...
...Brown game showed Yale's lamentable weakness in defense and also her strength in straight-away offensive football. During the week following the game with Brown the work was confined to strengthening the line and the whole defensive play. The result of this was encouragingly apparent in the Carlisle Indian game. Yale's defense was much stronger but still far from perfect. The week before the West Point contest was used in practicing a method for breaking up mass plays, but the work went for nothing when the team lined up against the Cadets. Saturday's game with the Chicago...