Word: snow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...deaths of Professor Cooke and Doctor Snow bring sadness into the thoughts of the summer just past. The students can never be unmoved when those who have added much to the enrichment of the Harvard life are taken away from its activities...
...FREEMAN SNOW '73.Dr. Freeman Snow, Instructor in International Law, died at Nelson, Penn., September...
...Snow was born in Palmyra, New York. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted and was in active service until wounded at the battle of Malvern Hill...
II.Poetry in Homely Lines.I have known people who had to go to Europe to see a sunset, who could never find out how beautiful snow was till they saw it on the Alps. The familiar miracles of nature at home were too cheap, and there could be nothing wonderful in what they had only to look out of their back-windows to see. It seems incredible to them that God should come down in all his pomp and glory upon the hills that clasp the homely landscape of their native village,- that he should work his wonders with the paltry...
When a country is conquered and taken possession of by an emigrating tribe who bring with them their women and children, the material of the population is changed, the aborigines take refuge in the mountains and their language perpetuates itself there, as snow maintains itself all summer in certain mountainclefts inaccessible to the sun. But here a nation is conquered by an invading army, where the dynasty or governing class alone is changed; only so much of the language of the conqueror infuses itself as is absolutely necessary to the commerce of life, and the speech of the people gradually...