Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...strangers this assortment may present some difficulty. It is just possible that some day a man will walk into the new Doric pillared dining room hoping to make a deposit in the new Bank of Cambridge. But with the passing of the years when age has blended all the buildings into one symphonic mass, everyone will realize that the dining room is but the melting pot of Adams House where all the raw gold of the coast is being alloyed...
...Undergraduate Council calls to the notice of the Freshman Class the following important and traditional customs: 1. Only black ties may be worn by Freshmen. This restriction applies only until Washington's birthday. 2. The regulation head-dress for Freshmen is a black skull cap. 3. Freshmen may not walk on the grass. 4. Freshmen may not smoke on the street or on the Campus. 5. Freshmen may not enter Renwick's. 6. Freshmen may not use the walk in front of Nassau Hall or McCosh Walk. 7. Freshmen are not allowed on Prospect Street at any time. 8. Freshmen...
Last summer Father Hubbard. as he had done for three years prior, took four football players into Alaska for a long geological walk to the end of the Aleutian Islands. Their jaunt took them into the hearts of Aniakchak and Veniaminoff. There they pitched their tents, found in their subsequent explorations great spurts of steam issuing from cracks in the craters' icy floors. They put a pot of beans over one of the steam streams, baked them for dinner. Another characteristic of the region which made Father Hubbard know that the two great peaks were alive was the lava...
...sincerity and earnestness were the keystone to artistic success, John Galsworthy would have built by now a triumphal arch. What he has made is a solid garden wall around a corner of Old England. The people who walk there are known to many as the Forsytes. This book of short stories Author Galsworthy calls "footnotes to the chronicles of the Forsyte family." As his reason for adding to the family saga he pleads that "it is hard to part suddenly and finally from those with whom one has lived so long...
...Manus are isolated, unreformed by missionaries, almost uncontaminated by white men. They live in thatched huts set on piles in a lagoon. Children learn to swim, to use a boat, almost before they can walk. For six months Margaret Mead and her husband lived among the Manus, learnt their language, their tabus, took photographs, asked questions, saw as much as they were allowed. Anthropologist Mead's conclusion is that among the Manus only the children have a really good time. Children do exactly as they please; parent's may plead, they never discipline. But with marriage a hard life begins...