Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Polar Pilgrim Nobile planted the flag of Italy upon the North Pole, dropped upon its icy wastes the cross given into his hands by Pope Pius, conducted the first religious ceremony ever held on top of the world and, warmed by the glow of an object accomplished, headed back through icy winds toward Kings Bay. It had taken him 19 hours to reach the Pole. The first 17 hours of the return trip brought many messages to the base ship Citta di Milano complaining of heavy winds and encrusting ice. These difficulties had interfered with Pilgrim Nobile...
Father Gianfranchesci, chaplain of the expedition, telling his beads in Kings Bay, pinched himself to make sure he was alive. Chosen to drop the cross upon the Pole, he had his mystic misgivings. So when Signora Nobile wired her Polar Pilgrim to drop the cross with his own hands for luck, the good Father gladly remained behind...
...Stadum. There has been an understanding that if such a plan were presented, with the assurance that construction would be complete by the fall of 1929, permission to rebuild the temporary stands would be given for this fall. Home games with the Army, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania and Holy Cross will tax the seating capacity of the Stadium during October and November of this year...
...Adams, of Cornell, and A. K. Potter, of Brown, arranged the names of the twenty Crimson and Blue contestants in order of the excellence of their papers, and the points were scored by adding the number of places on the list. As in the similar scoring of a cross country meet, the team with the lowest total wins...
During the indoor and outdoor track season of the past two years Reid has shown himself to be a remarkable distance runner, having placed in every 1-8 mile cross country record of W. L. Tibbetts '26 in the Yale race by 28 and 1-5 seconds. He prepared fro Harvard at Somerville High School...