Word: forest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...disputed schooting club championship between the Yale and Princeton teams has been decided in favor of Princeton by the editor of Forest and Stream who was asked to decide the matter...
...thrushes, and vireos. Of these the thrushes are by far the best singers, and best of all perhaps is the song of the hermit thrush. The hermit's song is not intrusive or passionate but is like some grand hymn, rising pure and clear from the depths of the forest. Other fine singers are the brown thrush, the purple finch, and the winter wren. Most of the singers are finches. As a rule these are small and insignificant, but there are some brilliant exceptions, as the goldfinch and the rose breasted grosbeak. Next in rank come the warblers. These...
...been appointed: Captain, Preston Brown; First Lieutenant, A. C. Hume; Second Lieutenant, G. L. Coit; First Sergeant, G. S. C. Badger; Second Sergeant, P. S. Richards; Third Sergeant, R. R. Upton; First Corporal, L. P. W. Marvin; Second Corporal, B. M. Allen; Seventh Corporal, H. B. Treeman; Eighth Corporal, Forest Shepard. The positions of third lieutenant, fourth and fifth sergeants, and third, fourth, fifth and sixth corporals are as yet unfilled, and the men to fill these positions will be selected from the ranks by competition. The equipment of Company F, Second Regiment will be made...
...people of the West have begun to take an active interest in the cause and this interest has shown itself in the formation of the Chicago Society for University Extension. Prominent citizens of Chicago together with the State Universities of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, the Northwestern University, Lake Forest University, Beloit College, the University of Chicago and Wabash College, have united their efforts and organized on a co-operative bases like that of the New York and London Societies. The officers chosen were Franklin M. Head, president; Mrs. Charles Henrotin, vice-president; Franklin Mac Veagh Yale '62 treasurer...
...first number on the programme, MacDowell's Suite, reminds one repeatedly of Grieg's "Peer Gyut" Suite. There is the same strangeness and weirdness about the various movements, so characteristic of this latter work. The first movement is entitled "In a Haunted Forest." It represents the sounds of a forest on a windy night, the effect of the moaning and shrieking wind being brought out very distinctly by a rapid crescendo by the violins from lower to higher tones. The movement suggests the approach, the actual presence and the departure of a tremendous gale. Then follows a short movement, full...