Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hunting both birds and large game and accounts of bicycling, skating and the old Princeton cane spree, all of which are highly entertaining. The illustrations in this Outing deserve particular attention-they are much better than those found in the ordinary magazine. Those who are interested in western mountain life will enjoy reading "Shasta of Siskiyou," and "Lost in the Rockies," a story of Avalanche Gulch, near Helena, Montana...
...John Fiske contributes an historic article, "From King's Mountain to Yorktown;" other articles. of the historical critical-literary character, are by Louise Imogene Guivey and Margaret Christine Whiting on Slr Walter Raleigh and Mrs. Pepys. "Carriage Horses and Cobs' seems a curious companion for Birge Harrison's "New Departure in Parisian Art," and poems by Dr. Holmes, T. W. Parsons, R. W. Gilder and Helen Gray Cone. One other article deserves especial mention, that on Cardinal Newman. The present installments of the serials do not indicate any disposition to set the world on fire...
...courses of research. Geology 4, elementary half course under professor Shaler. This course can be taken by seniors as an extra only. It gives a general knowledge of the subject, and includes lectures on the origin and nature of the earth's crust, continental and mountain fold, volcanoes, dykes, glaciers, etc. Goology 4a, elementary half course, supplementary to Geology 4; consists of laboratory and field exercises with occasional lectures. Course 8, a starred course, treats of general critical geology, under Professor Shaler, Assistant Professor Davis and Dr. Wolff. The work consists of lectures, field work and theses. This course...
...Rocky Mountain Harvard Club held its fifth annual dinner Wednesday evening, the 28th. Before the banquet there was a short business meeting, when Mr. W. H. Smiley, '77, was elected president, and Rev. S. A. Eliot, '84, secretary. Mr. Eliot responded to the toast "Alma Mater." Other toasts were: "Proctors of Yore," "College Widows," "Colorado in Harvard and Harvard in Colorado," "The Medical School," and "Harvard in Literature." In replying to "Harvard Athletics," D. H. B. Whitney said that he should send his son not to the college that has gained the most victories, but to the college that gave...
...laboratory of Physical Geography has lately received a set of geographic models designed by Professor Albert Heim of Zurich, Switzerland. They represent an Alpine glacier, a mountain torrent, a bold coast line with branches and dunes, and a volcanic island of complex structure. Each model is about a foot and a half by two feet in size. All are delicately colored in remarkably natural tints giving an admirable combination of artistic and photographic effects. The model of the glacier represents a mountainous district with much variety and detail of structure and form, including two lofty gathering basins, where the snow...