Word: briens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newark the grand jury indicted Rev. Elmo L. Bateman, pastor of the First Christian church of Maplewood. The indictment specifies that he libeled the Knights of Columbus and Edward J. O'Brien, master of the Fourth Degree of the First Division, New Jersey Knights of Columbus. It is charged that Mr. Bateman printed pamphlets containing the oath, on a press in the basement of his home...
...annual collection of best short stories edited by Mr. Edward J. O'Brien for the last fourteen years no longer needs a reviewer's praise. It has arrived, so to speak, and looking to the future, let us hope it is here to stay. Previous issues have been so well thought of that they have found their way into the college short story writing courses where examples of the best are desirable...
...purpose of the film showing was explained to a CRIMSON; reporter by Lincoln O'Brien '29, president of the Harvard Mountaineering Club. A few years ago, when O'Brien was in Chamonix, the guide who took the pictures was the victim of a tragedy on one of the peaks above the Mer de Glace...
...seems," O'Brien said, "that the guide, who took the pictures, which are to be shown on Sunday, was climbing an almost perpendicular cliff on the Aiguille du Dru, which rises 12,000 feet above the Mer de Glace, in company with a young guide and an American climber. This cliff has the longest sheer drop on the mountain--perhaps 1,000 feet. The older guide who ranked as the second best in Chamonix led the way while the two less experienced climbers followed. It was the duty of the younger guide to 'belay' the rope to a rock while...
...Brien in answer to a query about the dangers of mountain climbing and ski ascents remarked that the peak upon which the incident described above took place has received the reputation of being a bad one because of the long drop of the perpendicular cliff. The mountains which will be shown in the moving pictures are two of the best for the experienced climber. The Aiguille du Grepon is a massive rock structure that was not scaled until thirty years after the Matterhorn was conquered...