Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article was written especially for the Crimson by Mr. P. R. Jenks, permanent secretary of the Committee on Trails of the Appalachian Mountain Club. His many vacations spent in the White Mountains make him an authority on the the subect of which he writes...
...That is why they have personally done as much as possible of the actual work. Compare it with other sports, and the physical effort is surprising. Contrast a round of golf in foot-pounds of work, or a set of tennis in the lung power required with climbing a mountain under a forty-pound pack; compare chopping one big cross-log with the strokes of nine holes: and you will see why a seasoned tramper and axeman will "kill" a college athlete at this game...
...comic relief and to resuscitate the nobler characters after arduous adventures in the forest primeval, was laid down before Prohibition. Proud, independent and flirtatious though she is, Heroine Monica Dale, wilderness virgin, is made to explain in pretty confusion that the hero, after helping her to her lonely mountain-top cabin in a deluge, must go out and sleep in the barn. Otherwise she would be?er ?compromised...
...does she more than "understand" him, and he her, though other possibilities, and a deep-dyed hydraulic. company villain, stalking various tracts of real estate, suffice to complicate the prospects of Hero Anthony Garland, cultivated consumptive, until the last paragraph, where man and woman throb together on a mountain beholding the usual "promise of another...
...audience; by the end of the year more than three hundred were active followers of the temporary 47 Workshop. For the five opening performances on Friday, Saturday and Monday over five thousand people from the theatre and interested world at large were invited. The "Patriarch," a West Virginia mountain tragedy, by Boyd M. Smith, who was with Professor Baker at Harvard, was chosen for the opening; and although this is not the place for a discussion of the play, it is pleasing to note that it was bought for New York production at the end of the second...