Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be perhaps going too far to say that Dartmouth is little more than its Winter Carnival, but the perennial February function is indeed the best-known feature of this monastic college. Although the purpose of the Carnival may have degenerated from the intention expressed at the Carnival's inception in 1911--to have "good, wholesome, outdoor fun," into a device to give Dartmouth sufficient appeal to attract women there, it does serve this purpose, as well as that of being the major unifying activity of the college...
...seem strangely prophetic: at four, "one of the best block builders in the group; his dramatic play is very vivid"; at six, "outstanding for clear thinking and intelligent planning"; at eight, "a ready fund of first-hand knowledge." His mother taught him to read at five during a Connecticut winter away from school. He remembers his first book: The Little Fir Tree. By the time he was eight, his parents would find him with his light on at 11 p.m., reading anything that was handy. "Children should be allowed to read things they don't understand completely," says Mark...
Vatican City has always been a rookery of rumors; the highest-flying ones these days have to do with the next consistory. During recent months the Pope has been variously reported to be 1) planning to call his third consistory this winter or spring, 2) unwilling to call a consistory because of a prophecy (by Mystic Therese Neumann) that he will die after his third, 3) working on a reorganization of the Sacred College of Cardinals that would increase its membership from...
Varsity skiers scored a total of 460.6 points in six events over the week-end, to stand ninth in a field of eleven at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival...
...winter of 1918 Andre Gide "plunged into that tale of L'Aveugle which has been inhabiting me for so many years and which I was giving up hope of writing." Later he put it into the form of the diary of a pastor living in the Swiss Alps. He gave it the name of Symphonie Pastorale, a recit that frames the story of a blind girl with the judgments, which often appear to be self-deceptions, that the pastor's Christianity allow...