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There are many men in college who have cameras and a few who use them during the college term. Some say that there is nothing to photograph during the winter, but I think they are wrong. Let us see what we can do. During the last week I "took" at least eight or ten fellows in my room; some in their torch-light uniforms, some in fancy dress, and some in their ordinary clothes. I also got a good picture of the ruins of the car stable after the recent fire, and Thanksgiving day I took two very amusing instantaneous...
...people who thoroughly enjoyed the lecture. In the course of the lecture, Mr. Huntington described an ascent which he made of Monte Rosa, a mountain nearly as high as Mont Blane. The mountain is a very difficult one to ascend, so difficult that it is impossible to carry a camera along, so that no views of the ascent itself could be given. Views, however, illustrating the various difficulties in the ascent of a snow-covered mountain were given. Mr. Huntington's ascent and descent was made very quickly, so quickly that, when he returned, the people at the hotel from...
...members of the school presented him, in behalf of his last class, a beautiful "Loving Cup," inscribed with a quotation from one of the "poet's" own poems. This proof of the esteem of his pupils was a hard blow to the doctor, but the inevitable photographer and his camera gave him time to recover sufficiently to begin his lecture. There were three times in a man's life, he said, when he might properly consider himself the centre of attraction-at his christening, at his marriage, and at his own funeral. And this, the beginning of his thirty-sixth...
While the camera doth stare...
...distended to a degree not pleasant to contemplate. And likewise with the mouth, which is often drawn down about the corners in the attempt to convey a firm and decided expression. In fact, the ear is about the only feature that preserves its normal state when exposed to the camera's awful gaze...