Word: sunsetting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...specialize in some form of religious activity, as, for instance, mission work, a Bible Study course, and so on. At eleven o'clock there is a general "plat from meeting, " at which an address is made by some speaker of national reputation and real power. In the evening at sunset there takes place the "Round Top" meeting, at which the college student's greatest problem--his life work--is discussed. After this comes the delegation meeting, where students from each college, assembled separately, discuss the problems of their own institutions...
...first prize has been awarded to Monroe Buckley, 1L., for ten pictures mostly of mountain scenery. Numbers 24, "East Rock, New Haven;" 25, "The Franconia Notch;" 26, "Sunset on Mt. Lafayette;" and 28, 29 and 30, of Mt. Osceola and the Waterville Valley, are deserving of mention. The last two show striking cloud-shadow effects. Second prize is given to H. H. Ruston, 1G. His principal picture, "Morning," number 157, is an artistic view of a hillside pasture, with clumps of hard wood trees, and a hazy distance. "A Barnyard Study," number 154, and "Sheep" and "Firelight Study," numbers...
Five instruments are now being used every night from sunset to sunrise to take photographs of different parts of the sky. During the day these plates are developed in the observatory dark room, by a mechanical method, recently devised by a member of the department. Twelve plates are placed at one time in a brass frame, which is kept in vertical motion by the action of a large pendulum. As the object is to get the faintest details, rather than the artistic effect of lights and shadows all plates are treated as if under exposed. In this way twenty-four...
...Botanic Garden is open Sundays as well as week-days, from sunrise till sunset...
...much freedom of movement and expresses the thought admirably. In a very different vein is "The Ballad of the Overconfident Pollywog," by F. R. DuBois. This "fable for Freshmen" is full of life, amusing, and all the better for being quite different from the usual run of Advocate verse. "Sunset in Penobscot Bay" by W. B. W. shows appreciation of nature and is written in a metre well adapted to the subject. The number closes with several long book-reviews...