Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the visitors were Major General J. G. Harbord, Major General Robert Lee Bullard, Lady Armstrong, Congressman Hicks, Walter Camp, Jr. Waving flags dotted the scene...
Thirty members of the University attended the Harvard Engineering Camp at Squam Lake, Ashford, New Hampshire, last summer, which closed on August 11 after eight weeks of instruction in map making and railroad surveying. Mr. Albert Haertlein who has given the course for several years was unable to attend this year and his place was filled by Mr. H. B. Alyord, head of the civil engineering department of Northeastern University...
...week the work consisted of the study of instruments and preliminary compass and chain surveying. During the next three weeks plane and topographical surveying was studied and a complete contour map made of 15 acres of representative country. Railroad surveying was taken up the last four weeks of the camp, each student mapping out an imaginary railroad three miles long and computing the curves and grades. The best of the plans was selected and the railroad was staked out ready for construction...
...From other cities came other pictures and bronzes -enough to fill ten galleries in the art buildings of the Fair Ground. Manager Erwin S. Barrie of the Grand Central Galleries accompanied his shipment to Aurora. When he had sold 20 paintings and sculptures he declared the fair " an artistic camp meeting." Said he: " Aurora buys more paintings per capita than any other city in the U. S. . . . The people of Aurora believe that art is a big asset and drawing card to the fair, held there annually. This year they came as far east as New York with an offer...
According to vows taken by Jack Dempsey at his Saratoga camp, Harry Wills has eliminated himself as a championship possibility. Wills, through his manager, Paddy Mullins, attempted to stop the Firpo-Dempsey fight with injunction proceedings on the grounds that he had a prior right to meet the champion. Dempsey had asserted his intention of meeting Wills shortly. Now he will never meet him. Not until some promoter waves $400,000 or more in his vicinity...