Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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work appeared inOuting in the middle eighties, and anexamination of those first pictures showsthe same individuality and sense of valueof personality that characterized hiswork throughout. His art studies werebrief and desultory, but his study of his Western material in the field was longand minute. The size of those earlycommissions was insignificant comparedwith the prices paid him in later years,but his drawings bore no relation totheir cost; they were always the bestthat he could do. Though not yet old as men countyears, he had seen the passing of a greatepoch in his well-loved West, and thereis a pathetic significance in the endingof his own life close after the disappear-ance of the period to which his pictureshad given a touch of immortality. FOOTBALL ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE TWO letters have been receivedfrom the Pacific Coast which areinteresting in view of the recentcontroversies over changes in the rulesof the intercollegiate game. Californiaalone among the States of the Union
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ONE OF FREDERIC REMINGTON S FIRST PICTURES. This picture appeared in Outing for December, 1886, as an illustration for Lieut, (now Maor) JohnBigelows After Geronimo. Even at that early date Mr. Remingtons work possessed the quality andpersonality which characterized it throughout his life. 646 THE OUTING MAGAZINE plays the Rugby game, and apparentlyplays it well and to the entire satisfac-tion of everyone concerned. In Novem-ber I addressed a letter to the chairmenof the Faculty Athletic Committee ofthe University of California and LelandStanford Junior University, containingthe following questions: Does the game as your students play itseem to you to possess the dramatic anddisciplinary qualities ascribed to the Amer-ican Rugby? Does it possess the further advantage ofrelative freedom from injury? Does it elicit the participation of as manyor more students than the American game ? In your opinion, are your students heartilyin favor of it as against the game as playedat other institut

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