Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bigoted as the editorial would like us to believe. The Harvard man who has been scouting the Dartmouth aesthetes during their secret practice brings back many strange tidings. He reports that no Dartmouth man is considered to have written a "real" poem unless he has taken a sixty mile snow-shoe ramble up and down the mountains, and that nobody is worshipped as a football hero who cannot prove by his trousseau his impeccable taste in knickers, sweaters, and socks...
...Emerson A History 32b Adamowski-Riemer New Lect. Hall Robinson-Zofnass Harvard 5 Latin B Prof. Moore's Sect. 1 Sever 17 Prof. Greene's Sect. 2 Sever 18 Latin 1 Sever 14 Mathematics 2 II Bacardi-Henderson Sever 13 Hervey-Martin Sever 19 Meyer-Sereque Sever 20 Snow-Wooten Sever 24 Mathematics 5b Abello-Mallinson Sever 23 Merrill-Wilkins Sever 24 Music 3a Music Bldg. Palaeontology 2 Geol. Lect. Rm. Philosophy 14b Emerson F Semitic 13 Emerson J Spanish 5 Emerson J 2 P. M. History 9 Harvard...
During the winter of 1924 the explorer's ship was icebound and covered with snow. The party built three snow-houses on top of the ship and to these Esquimaux visited all during the winter to see the white man's moving picture, to hear the white man's radio and victrola, and to eat the white man's food...
...They are," he said, "the most northern people in the world, yet they are just as keen as we are. They live, not in snow huts according to popular conception, but underground in rock houses...
Captain MacMillan early in the spring of 1924 made a long trip over the snow and icefields southward from the spot where his ship was frozen in, to the first Esquimaux village, the settlement of humans which is the nearest in the world to the North Pole. There he found the children coasting down the hills, exactly, he said, like children elsewhere. The Esquimaux were very clever with their hands, and also with their feet. In illustration of this fact the speaker showed pictures of Esquimaux ladies holding their sewing in their toes. These Polar inhabitants had last been visited...