Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spring of '65, however, a nine was formed which played nine matches. It won seven of these games, - two from the Tri-Mountain Club of Boston, two from the Lowell Club of Boston, one from the Granite Club of Holliston, one from the Charter-Oak Club of Hartford, and one from Williams. The two games which it lost were, - one to the Lowell Club of Boston, and one to the Atlantic Club (professionals) of Brooklyn. In these nine matches Harvard scored 361 runs, to 258 for her opponents, an average of 40 runs to a game for Harvard...
...comes to us abounding in stories of snow and winter. That tale which would prove the most interesting to Harvard men is "A Christmas Ascent of Mount Adams," and because the author is himself an undergraduate - J. Corbin '92. The story is the description of an ascent of a mountain and deals almost entirely with the account of the climb and return. It is in parts cleverly written and is interesting, which is always praise. Walter Camp contributes a practical article on "Training." He points out the difference in the meaning of the term "training" now and what...
...Mountain" is a more imaginative effort and "In the Vatican" is a simply and naturally (and therefore well) told reminiscence of a sight-seer at the Vatican who unconsciously slept in the great chair of the Pope of Rome...
...Brunt '92, read a paper at the Wednesday meeting of the Appalachian Mountain Club, entitled "A Trip to Mount Adams and the Club-Hut in a Mid-Winter Storm...
...find that his reduction of the coinage was much later than his abolition of debt, but that he did both. The nine archons were chosen by lot, as was not understood before, from forty men elected in tens by the four tribes; the division of the tribes equally into mountain, plain and seashore is now first known...