Word: snow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seven Harvard men who snow shoed in the White Mountains this last vacation succeeded in making the ascent of Mount Washington. Mount Washington has been climbed by snowshoers but twice before...
...light men and affords a good opportunity for sprinters to keep in training during the winter months without danger of injury, There is no reason why this should not be the initial movement for the establishment of the Association game at Harvard. It is played between November and March, snow and ice making no difference, and would fill up the gap left between the seasons of Rugby foot ball and base ball...
...scenes, "The Conquered" and "The Road of the War Prisoners" are the most striking. The painting of "Jesus in the Desert" gives an extraordinary sense of loneliness. The faces in the large groups and small portraits alike are executed with great care and individuality. Among the smaller pictures the snow scenes show a unique power in the use of white; and the paintings of the Pearl Mosque give the effect of reflection on a marble floor so perfectly that it is difficult to believe, at first, that the scenes are only on canvass. The mosque pictures also show a remarkable...
...Freeman Snow has an able paper entitled "A Defence of Congressional Government," in a recent issue of the "Papers of the American Historical Society...
...Struggle with Fate," by Mr. M. O. Wilcox is a smoothly written story of excellence in the descriptions. The closing passage, portraying the vast snow covered plain and the bursting into flame of Ornoff's love, is notably effective. The story might be accused of a tendency towards sensationalism, but not sufficiently to detract from its merits...