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...often happens that a man does not get an opportunity to bring his strongest muscles into play, or that he is handicapped in his strength of legs by having a weak grip, or in his strength of arms (that is; the times he can pull and push his weight up) by having large hips and lower limbs...
...Whitney among the amateur sportsmen of the college, athletic clubs, and the better element of sportsmen generally. His experience, his training, and his associations have all tended to make him thoroughly competent, and his weekly comments and criticisms will be sure to command attention. "What Whitney says" has so often helped the perplexed captain of a team, or settled the final standing of a doubtful amateur, that what he will have to say in the Weekly will carry weight with it, and will be looked for with keen interest...
...often that Cambridge people or Harvard men have had the chance to hear so clear and concise an exposition of the Indian Question in South Dakota as the Rt. Rev. Wm. H. Hare, Bishop of Dakota, gave at Sanders Theatre last evening. The speaker is one of the foremost, if not the foremost Indian missionary and worker in the country, and to this important educational labor Bishop Hare has given his undivided attention for the past eighteen years...
...education and missionary work have done much for the Sioux in recent years. It is often asked, however, if education really subdues the inherent fierceness of the Sioux blood-if these Indians do not often relapse into vicious modes of life after leaving the mission school? Not often, but sometimes. Can not any one cite examples of college friends who have had every advantage of education and surroundings, and yet have gone to the bad? And should one expect better things of the Indian? Can a settlement of Indians be very vicious where it is perfectly safe for a single...
...Frankness Unrewarded" relies entirely upon its dashing style for success. This success it achieves; the comments of the narrator, his similes and implications are often very amusing...