Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bennet accompanied the inventor of a diving machine under water, remained there 40 minutes, "was greeted on her ascent by the cheering plaudits of a very numerous concourse of people. Mrs. Bennet is now generally known as the diving belle...
...only too clear that the relaxation of administrative rules does not prophesy a return to 1910. As Mr. Valentine has so pointedly asked, "Is it not education . . . that constantly narrows and regiments the way of ascent?" Though the 1934 student works freely at his honors and tutorial work, generals and divisionals are, and must necessarily remain, the restrictive and regimenting agents that require a sturdy foundation that should be prepared before the student enters college...
...ascent was made this fall and was reported this week from Haiti by Darlington to the director of the Museum. Darlington, as far as records show, is the first zoologist to reach the summit...
...first ascent by a zoologist to the summit of Mount La Hotte, the least known and most difficult mountain peak in Haiti, has been accomplished by Philip J. Darlington, Assistant Curator of Insects in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, it was announced yesterday...
...feature speakers of the evening were Charles S. Houston '35, who showed moving pictures of his ascent of Mt. Foraker, a 17,300 foot peak in the Alaska range, and Henry S. Hall '19, who explained and showed photographs of his four attempts to climb Mt. Waddington, a 13,000 foot peak in the Coast Range of British Columbia. The evening was concluded with a brief account by Bradford Washburn '31. President of the club, of the conquest last summer, of Mt. Crillon by a Harvard-Dartmouth expedition under his leadership...