Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumors to the effect that Frank Shaughnessy, Canadian Rugby coach who is instructing Crimson football candidates in the art of the lateral pass, would bring a McGill backfield well versed in the intricacies of lateral passing, down to Cambridge were spiked last night by a statement from Manager W. A. Magie '28. The Spring Recess at McGill does not begin until May 1, so the Canadians would not be able to leave the university until that date. Shaughnessy, however, takes his post as baseball scout for the Detroit Tigers on that date and will not be available...
...expedition into the hitherto practically unexplored Clemenceau ice field region of the Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies will be made this summer by A. J. Ostheimer '29, who last year made the first ascent of Mt. Lyell, another peak in the same range, on which he collected much valuable data and many geological specimens of value. This expedition will have as its objective the ascent of Mt. Tsar, an unclimbed peak with an altitude between 11,000 and 12,000 feet, and the topographical and geological exploration of the Chaba and Whirlpool peaks which are in the same...
...direction of the flow of the glacial streams which makes all the water at times flow toward the Arctic and at other times toward the Pacific. Since these streams serve to distinguish the boundary lines between Alberta and British Columbia, observations, regarding them are desired by the Canadian government. At one time, in fact, the shifting of the courses of these streams was so erratic that one of the mountains of the range was sometimes included in the boundaries of British Columbia and sometimes was the property of Alberta...
...average collegian nurses a desire to spend his summers abroad, going places and seeing things. Realizing this, the Canadian Government and the Canadian Pacific Railway have cooperated in inviting Oxford students to Canada in order that they may see England's American colony and also help harvest the Dominion's wheat crop...
Stockholders of Cities Service Co., $650,000,000 corporation selling gas, oil, electricity and transportation to more than 600 U. S. and Canadian communities, received an intimately colloquial letter from their President, Henry Latham Doherty, last week. The letter, like the lines of drama, revealed the tribulations of a quasi servant of the U. S. public: "I am not an impatient man and I am not given to making impatient statements, but I have got to a point where it is hard for me to preserve the semblance of good humor when somebody makes a statement that Cities Service...