Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Introductory remarks on Pausanias. Translation from his Piriegesis, I. 22, 4-23, 4, with some omissions. 2. Description of the Propylaea. 3. The ascent of the Acr polis at different periods. 4. Later history of the Propylaea...
...high jump. Barney withdrew after jumping 4 ft. 9 1-2 in.; Bell continued, winning finally at 5 ft. 2 1-2 in. C. E. Curry, '89, had a walkover in the rope-climbing. Although considerably hampered by the safety rope, attached to his waist, he made the ascent in 21 1-2 sec., coming quite close to the record. The high kick brought out E. E. Buckingham, L. S., and R. B. Hale, '91. Buckingham could not touch the disk at 8 ft. 6 3-4 in., and Hale at the following height. Hale thus took the event with...
...these vesper services have been undertaken; to draw us apart a moment from the cares and perplexities of our engrossing daily life. Like those stations of the Cross on a "Calvary Hill" in Roman Catholic Austria, these services stand for some solemn thought, and give strength for each successive ascent until at last the summit is reached...
...given to the examination of the Silurian and Devonian formations exposed in the foothills of the Catskill mountains, with collection of the characteristic fossils, study of structure in its relation to topography, and construction of geological maps and sections. A day or more may be given to the ascent of the Catskill mountain front, returning by the Kaaterskill clove...
...Huntington gave a continuation of his lectures with magic lantern views of different place in Europe. His subject was Switzerland. The hall was entirely filled with people who thoroughly enjoyed the lecture. In the course of the lecture, Mr. Huntington described an ascent which he made of Monte Rosa, a mountain nearly as high as Mont Blane. The mountain is a very difficult one to ascend, so difficult that it is impossible to carry a camera along, so that no views of the ascent itself could be given. Views, however, illustrating the various difficulties in the ascent of a snow...