Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while the Continental Divide at Fortress Pass has been perplexing geologists for a number of years by its queer fluctuations. Water from the Columbia-ice fields runs to the Atlantic, the Arctic and the Pacific Oceans. Ascending the Athabaska River the party will approach the region from the north; camp will be made and the peaks of Mount Columbia 12,295 feet high, and the North Twin 12,085 feet high, will be attempted. If the peaks are reached, it will represent the first ascents from the northern sides, which are rocky as compared to the snowy and ice covered...
...There is something inherently funny in sassing military discipline. When a little fellow (George Arthur) is the sasser, and a bulky one (Karl Dane) symbol of the sassed, there is the added Mutt & Jeff twist. All this is stuffed into the story of a rookie at a military training camp, making for a minimum of subtlety, a maximum of facial contortion, a modicum of hilarity...
...Muir, who is the swimming instructor at the Big Tree Pool, is giving American Red Cross Life Saving test on Mondays and Fridays every week between 4 and 5 o'clock. He strongly urges that any men who plan to be councillors at some camp or who will be taking care of children at the shore this summer should try this test. Many camp directors require their councillors to have this Life Saving Emblem...
...Harvard Summer School of Field Geology will have its headquartars at the Mount Royal Hotel, Banff, during the coming summer. The camp will be 12 miles east of the city on Lake Minnewanka and the party will leave the hotel for work around the lake on July...
Brisk workouts during the past few days have greatly improved the style and teamwork of the CRIMSON nine, and several members of the team have become quite astonished at their own proficiency. The daily reports from the Princetonian camp indicate that the Nassau newspapermen are rounding into shape fast, under the constant admonition of the unknown coach, "New Jersey expects every man to do his duty...