Word: northern
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Museum of Padua. The other picture is by a pupil of the Paduan Squarcione, Gregorio Schiavone; it was recently shown in the exhibition of Italian primitives at the Kleinberger galleries, New York. It represents a Madonna and Child, both of which have a distinct charm somewhat unusual with this northern master. The paintings will remain at the Museum for about two months...
...nearly as can be made out from the newspaper accounts, the completely ruined area is the poorer, northern section of Halifax, called Richmond, lying along the Narrows for a mile and a quarter, and extending inland half a mile. But for a half mile further south--toward the centre of the town--and inland, the destruction is only less complete. And still another three-quarters of a mile of wharves and warehouses is badly shattered. The waterfront laid waste is equal in extent to that of Boston from the South Station around to the North Station, and across Charlestown...
...University has received a bequest of $10,000 from the estate of Horace Davis '49, the income of which is to be used for the purchase of books relating to the Northern Pacific Ocean and its shores for the Widener Library...
...weary months of war are bound to cause a shifting of emphasis from the immaterial ideal with which we entered the war to the material results of victory. We are more apt to stress the importance of winning or losing a few miles of shell torn fields in northern France than of preventing the formation of a Mitteleuropa. Casualty lists and the first complaints at heavy taxes will deaden our interest in a possibly far-distant victory. Yet whether we believe in a military decision, or in a peace without victory as the solution of the war, we must make...
...students come from the South, where hospitality is a universal quality. Conservative Cambridge has shown herself a considerate and genial hostess to these men, and it has been through the efforts of the women. When the war is over and these Southerners return to their homes, remembrances of a Northern city will be related which will correct some erroneous impressions, and it is not to be doubted that they now exist...