Word: chocorua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paintings are beautiful, but there is no mark of actual and reverberating content in his work. Marin, on the other hand, with his contrapuntal placement of emphatic colors, arrives at an emotional shorthand which leads him to pointed interpretations of scenes and aspects of nature. His "Mt. Chocorua" exemplifies this phase of his painting and also serves to show traces of nineteenth century French art on his work. Marin's art is superior to that of Homer because his technique is used not simply as an end in itself but as a means for expressing a vigorous kind of aesthetic...
...inches of snow, in Canaan, New Hampshire--6 degrees with 30 inches, in Gorham, N. H.--6 degrees with 55 inches, in Warren, N. H.--8 degrees with 60 inches, Peterborough, N. H.--18 degrees with 36 inches, in Franconia, N. H.--6 degrees with 45 inches, in Chocorua, N. H.--zero with 50 inches, in East Jaffrey, N. H. 18 degrees with 40 inches, and in Groton, Massachusetts, 20 degrees with 31 inches...
Towns with suitable conditions for skiing are Hanover with 30 inches, Gorham with 25, Warren with 43, and Franconia and Chocorua with 23 each...
Weld 8: John H. Pratt '30, of Chocorua, N. H. (Georgetown University) Cum Laude. Now a second year law student...
...armed lunches, seeking only little sets of personal acquaintances, often very narrow ones, and tutors except professionally or at a starched reception. Such were the conditions which prompted Professor George Pierce Baker to observe with praiseworthy candor one Easter recess, when a party of us were joiting up to Chocorua in the most accomodating of all accommodation trains: "Parents suppose when they send their boys to Harvard that they are sending them to college. What they are really doing is sending them out into the world." The chill isolation of coming to a big college unknown and unfriended and remaining...