Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beer will flow Saturday evening at the Ski Cabin to start off a spirited weekend which bids to become a Harvard tradition...
...also pious. In his journal, he usually timed events by "tierce, vespers and compline, three of the canonical hours of prayer." Whenever possible he said his prayers in his cabin at these hours. Says Morison: "A decent formality has always been observed aboard ships at sea, even to our own day . . . any departure from the settled custom is resented by mariners. In Columbus' ships these formalities were observed with a quasi-religious ritual, which lent them a certain beauty...
Sparks from his torch must have shot into the pile. Smoke puffed up. Flames spurted. Only two buckets of water were at hand. Workmen had to flee. From the deck outside they poked a hose through a window. A feeble stream had no effect. Fire licked along ceilings, cabin walls, panelings...
Miss Fenner long ago gave up trying to explain to her youngsters why Tom Sawyer is a good book and Tom Swift not. She just makes the good books sound interesting so that the kids start reading them. To introduce Uncle Tom's Cabin, she tells her children that it started a war. When a seven-year-old demands "a good murder mystery," Miss Fenner suggests Freddy the Detective: it generally turns out to be just what he wanted, though it has no murders and Freddy is only a pig. Titles, says Miss Fenner, are important...
Although somewhat hampered by the tire shortage, the Outing Club is running two ski trips over the holiday weekend. One of the groups is going to the Plymouth Youth Hostel, and the other is going with Radcliffe skiers to a cabin in Pinkham Notch...