Word: indians
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...music by O. A. Gundlach '17. The plot of the piece, stronger than that of the usual musical comedy, follows the adventures and misadventures of a young couple who, after exciting adventures on a summer night are put into a deep hypnotic sleep by a jealous and very wealthy Indian prince. One hundred years later the pair are awakened by a Hindoo Swami, a son of the jealous prince. They awake to see a changed world. Woman has attained her desired supremacy and man in consequence is relegated to a humble position in society. Eventually the confusing situation clarifies...
Machine guns were first used in the Franco-Prussian War, but the English first proved their value in the Egyptian and Indian campaigns, the gun at that time consisting simply of a circular collection of barrels, turned by hand. The automatic received its first try-out in the Russo-Japanese War, and such terror did it inspire that the Japanese likened its fire to a continuous rod of iron thrust from the barrel. In the German trenches today there is one machine gun to every six men, while in the United States a whole company has but four guns...
...second period added to the figures, for McKinlock and King each made to touchdown. The first was the occasion of an attempted Indian forward pass, when McKinlock took the ball out of Pratt's outstretched arms and ran down the sidelines while his interference bowled over all opposition. The second came after a pretty pass, Mahan to Coolidge, which placed the ball on Carlisle's 9-yard line. King took the ball over on three successive tremendous smashes through the line. Mahan kicked both goals...
...Harvard Historical Series Professor C. H. McIlwain '03 G. has published a reprint of the Indian Records of New York State. When the Capitol at Albany was burned, Professor McIlwain's transcript of the records was the only copy in existence...
...from the Venzuelan collection it has acquired several hundred pamphlets and books, which gives it a very strong collection from that country; from the Bolivian library it has gained material of a similar nature on Bolivia; and from the Brazilian collection it has secured a number of works on Indian linguistics, a subject in which it was already strong. In all instances the Library has secured a great number of books and pamphlets printed in the southern countries themselves which would be impossible to obtain except by such a mission as Dr. Lichtenstein undertook...