Word: travel
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...course of the year, when the members of the school visit many historical sites, and make the acquaintance of peasant and bedouin life. Occasionally there are adventures with the bedouin, as where the party of two years ago was robbed on the border of the Dead Sea. But travel is ordinarily safe in Palestine. The members of the school last year made many short trips, not requiring tents, and three of greater length with tents. These were to the southern end of the Dead Sea in company with the Dominican School of Jerusalem; to Beersheba and the country...
...University four-oar, Burchard being substituted for Amberg at 3 in the afternoon work. In the morning the four-oar rowed a trial upstream over the two-mile course, but the time was deplorably slow. The crew seemed to pull well together, but they were unable to travel with satisfactory speed. The Freshman four raced them over the last mile, and won by six lengths. After the change in the afternoon, the crew went only a short distance, but the boat went better and defeated the Freshman four in a short brush...
...this case the suicide is not only more clearly inevitable but better justified by the dramatic effect. Mr. F. E. Green in a "Mender of Dreams" has worked out a capital situation with good effect of suspense, and has made telling use of his setting. The buoyant and graceful "travel paper" of Arminius "Concerning Watering Places Mostly German," which alluringly conjures up the atmosphere of the Continental Spa, is refreshing after so much that is subdued or gloomy (even Mr. Green's story has a dying mother in the background) and one is grateful, too, for the pure...
...Desert Wanderings," the eighth of the "Travel Papers of Arminius," is disappointing. Perhaps the earlier papers of the series have raised our expectations too high, but this instalment certainly lacks the freshness of the earlier numbers. The workmanship, too, is careless in places, and suggests the approach of the end of the year. "We had reached the Fayoum after a long day's travel over the desert the night before," would hardly be expected on an entrance examination. D. Carb's "Ellen Terry" is a thoughtful and well-written appreciation, and R. Altrocchi's "Vaudeville" an excellent bit of satire...
...task, in using the quick, easy, and inconclusive stop of suicide, but up to the point where he thus drops an unfinished situation his workmanship in this most trying field is admirable. This is a case, I imagine, of decided gifts waiting for material on which to work. Travel papers are not a favorable form in which to reveal what is special to the writer. Those of Arminius show culture and intelligence, but on the question of the author's talent are not illuminating. About the verse I shall not attempt to write, being poorly equipped. "Their Salad Days" seemed...