Word: trout
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After telling something of his passion for games and sports, especially for tennis and salmon and trout fishing, he spoke of books, which he characterized as "the greatest of all recreations, for without the power of reading no man can be independent...
...University Library has recently received from D. B. Fearing '82 a large collection of books on angling and fishing. Starting with only a scrapbook on trout and trout and trout-fishing, the collection grew to some 12,000 volumes, including treatise on all sorts of fishing, and even whaling. The most valuable single volume is a first edition of Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angle," copies of which have sold for more than $6,000. The library is also the most complete in the world in official documents of all countries on fishing. Mr. Fearing himself describes this collection...
...library books on angling, fishing, fisheries, and fish-culture, now numbering 12,000 volumes and pamphlets in 20 different languages, has its start in 1890 in the form of a scrapbook on trout and trout-fishing. From that scrapbook began the collection of books entirely on trout and trout-fishing; then there were added books with chapters on those subjects and so no until the four heads mentioned above were gradually drawn in and the library began to grow...
Donald Robertson Fiske 1G., of Philadelphia, Pa., has been awarded the Topiarian Club Trophy of the School of Landscape Architecture for the best set of drawings on the development of a given piece of property as a small country club. Second place was won by Edward Hunts Trout, 2G., of Los Angeles, Cal., and third place by Elbert Peets 3G., of Cleveland, O. The competition was judged by Professor F. L. Olmstead, of the Landscape Architecture Department...
...Tormo the Trout" by Mr. Weston is a daintily worded and slightly mystie sketch of the sort that is pleasant to read but which leaves no particular impression on the reader's mind. Mr. McCormick's vivid study based on a shipwreck makes a definite impression. So little emphasis is laid on the first phase of the story, however, that the plot does not receive the full benefit of the sharp contrast as the character develops...