| | 342 | Author: | Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Conquest of Canaan  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A DRY snow had fallen steadily throughout the still night, so that when a cold, upper wind
cleared the sky gloriously in the morning the incongruous Indiana town shone in a white
harmony—roof, ledge, and earth as evenly covered as by moonlight. There was no thaw;
only where the line of factories followed the big bend of the frozen river, their distant
chimneys like exclamation points on a blank page, was there a first threat against the supreme
whiteness. The wind passed quickly and on high; the shouting of the school-children had ceased
at nine o'clock with pitiful suddenness; no sleigh-bells laughed out on the air; and the
muffling of the thoroughfares wrought an unaccustomed peace like that of Sunday.
This was the phenomenon which afforded the opening of the morning debate of the sages in the
wide windows of the "National House.'' | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 346 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia met, in
Open Session, at 10:10 a.m., on Monday, August 21, 1995, in the
East Oval Room of the Rotunda;
Hovey S. Dabney, Rector, presided.
John P. Ackerly, III, Franklin K. Birckhead, Robert G. Butcher,
Jr., Warner N. Dalhouse, T. Keister Greer, Mrs. Elsie Goodwyn
Holland, Evans B. Jessee, Arnold H. Leon, C. Wilson McNeely, III,
Mrs. Elizabeth D. Morie, Ms. Elizabeth A. Twohy, and Matthew W.
Cooper were present.
Also present were John T. Casteen, III,
Alexander G. Gilliam, Jr., Peter W. Low, William W. Harmon, Leonard
W. Sandridge, Jr., Ernest H. Ern, Robert W. Cantrell, Earl C.
Dudley, Jr., Robert T. Canevari, Ronald J. Stump, Ms. Patricia
Lampkin, C. William Hancher, Carlos Brown, Alvar Soosar, and Ms.
Jeanne F. Bailes. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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