Word: brooks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last year's form, his fielding and batting being very streaky. Cochran, the football player, is the substitute for this position. After a great deal of experimenting Dougal Ward has been brought in from the out-field and placed on second base. This is an excellent move on Captain Brook's part; for Ward, though not a speedy man, is at all times perfectly cool and collected, which will help materially in steadying the infield...
...been impossible to get much of a line on Captain Brook's playing at short, but in the few games he has played his fielding has been gilt-edged, showing himself to be one of the coming short stops of the season. In hitting he is not quite up to last year's showing. Naturally this is due to the cares of the captaincy. As the season progresses and matters become more settled we will find him playing his same steady game. Gunster at third, like Otto, has been exceedingly uncertain, both in his fielding and batting. The general substitute...
...Colony bummers;" Forum 12 p. 758: Quar. J. Econ. VI, p. 464. - (z) As a class discriminated against by outside employers on leaving. - (3) Lower wages in neighborhood of colony. - (4) Industrial village will be unsuccessful. - (x) Dependent on uncollectable city refuse. - (5) Cooperative farms always have failed. - (x) Brook farm experiment, etc. - (c) The Oversea or Out-west Colony is objectionable. - (1) Difficult to procure suitable land. - (2) Few "farm" graduates wishing to go to the borders of civilization. - (3) Success of those who go is dubious. - (d) Farm colonies exceedingly hard to manage. - (e) Salvation Army officers have...
...introduced him to a great many fashionable people, whose portraits he painted. During the time he lived in Suffolk he painted a great many landscapes, which show the first signs of his manner. He possessed a wonderful pictorial memory and there was scarce a tree or bush or rambling brook in the neighborhood that he could not sketch while in his studio. His work was not the result of observation alone, but modelled much after the Dutch school. His early landscapes are of a reddish color, usually contain a gnarled oak, a girl and a boy, or some cattle...
...Dunlap, 6 ft.; 178, F. G. Neal, 6 ft.; 181, C. S. Fuller, 6 ft.; 182, C. L. Smith, Jr., 4 ft.; 184, B. C. Jutten, 4 ft.; 185, H. A. Bull, 8 ft.; 187, J. A. Neal, 6 ft.; 188, F. L. Harden-brook, 5 ft.; 189, A. M. Eaton, Jr., 4 ft.; 192, H. F. Raynolds, 6 ft.; 193, M. G. Gonterman, 7 ft.; 196, J. L. Little, Jr., 6 ft.; 197, B. D. Howard, 6 ft.; 199, A. R. Wendell, 7 ft.; 200, H. L. Williams, 5 ft.; 201, W. A. Holt...