Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back to the mountains for Smith women. By a 58-36 vote, the Smith College House of Representative has decided henceforth to restrict the annual "Mountain Day" exclusively to hikes and communion with local nature...
...student resolution forbids Smith women from visiting men's colleges on the fall "Mountain Day." The Student Council, delegated to enact a positive plan of activities on mountain paths to replace the practice of spending the day on the roads toward men's schools, hopes the holiday will return to its original form...
...Deeply Shocked." Almost five years ago, when Father Dubois first came to his new parish-a group of seven mountain villages 59 miles from Toulouse -his flock hardly knew what to make of the energetic priest. Sometimes he seemed to talk darkly of dogma, hinting that the Scriptures, not the church, was the only place where one should look for truth...
...masses." Father Dubois did not believe in collections, either, never pleaded for money to buy a new altar cloth or fix the roof, and packed his eight Sunday services with fiery sermons. As time went on, the peasants began to like their abbe. Watching him striding up the mountain trails, Bible in hand, the wind whipping his cassock about his knees, many thought he looked inspired...
Ironically, even the earliest painters of the West were recording an already vanishing era. The bustling scene of the stockaded fur-trading post at Fort Laramie was painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in 1837, when the Rocky Mountain fur trade had already passed its peak. Paris-trained Miller's paintings of a fur trappers' rendezvous, done with blue-tinted mountains in the romantic manner of Delacroix, are the only surviving pictorial records of the mountain men's great annual blowouts of drinking, fighting, "squaw doin's" and trading. The Swiss painter Charles Bodmer, first artist...