Word: mountainers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expecting news from them. The latest letters from them were mailed at Panama. Mr, W. H. Pickering, a brother of Professor Pickering, is in charge of the expedition. It is expected that many important discoveries will accrue to science from the work which has just been begun at this mountain city of Peru...
...value to lovers of nature and of the science of nature is H. H. Blalard's article on "Greylock," the highest mountain in Massachusetts. "An American Landseer" treats of Alexander Pope, the Boston animal painter and his works...
...hunting both birds and large game and accounts of bicycling, skating and the old Princeton cane spree, all of which are highly entertaining. The illustrations in this Outing deserve particular attention-they are much better than those found in the ordinary magazine. Those who are interested in western mountain life will enjoy reading "Shasta of Siskiyou," and "Lost in the Rockies," a story of Avalanche Gulch, near Helena, Montana...
...John Fiske contributes an historic article, "From King's Mountain to Yorktown;" other articles. of the historical critical-literary character, are by Louise Imogene Guivey and Margaret Christine Whiting on Slr Walter Raleigh and Mrs. Pepys. "Carriage Horses and Cobs' seems a curious companion for Birge Harrison's "New Departure in Parisian Art," and poems by Dr. Holmes, T. W. Parsons, R. W. Gilder and Helen Gray Cone. One other article deserves especial mention, that on Cardinal Newman. The present installments of the serials do not indicate any disposition to set the world on fire...
...courses of research. Geology 4, elementary half course under professor Shaler. This course can be taken by seniors as an extra only. It gives a general knowledge of the subject, and includes lectures on the origin and nature of the earth's crust, continental and mountain fold, volcanoes, dykes, glaciers, etc. Goology 4a, elementary half course, supplementary to Geology 4; consists of laboratory and field exercises with occasional lectures. Course 8, a starred course, treats of general critical geology, under Professor Shaler, Assistant Professor Davis and Dr. Wolff. The work consists of lectures, field work and theses. This course...