Word: glaciered
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Then comer the story of the ascent of the East glacier, culminating in the reaching of the Northeastern ridge, and the failure of the expedition due to storms, and the giving out of the oxygen tanks. The end is the assertion of Bruce--the leader of the party "you wait till 1924!" It will be interesting to hear of this second expedition, and to know whether the king of mountains shall be conquered. Meanwhile the story of the first attempt is full of strangeness and adventure
...Story. There are books that find their audience instantaneously- and oblivion soon. There are books whose first popularity the years do little to diminish. And there are books whose progress toward a place in the ranks of acknowledged greatness is as gradual and irresistible as the advance of a glacier. Travels in Arabia Deserta* (first published in 1888) belongs in this last rare class. One recognizes that, if any tale of a journey in modern times may stand beside the tale of the wanderings of Ulysses, it is this...
Continuing up the Panhandle, the transport Henderson with the President aboard, stopped next at Juneau, capital of the territory. As the transport steamed into the bay, she had planned to fire a few five-inch shells into Taku Glacier, so that the President could witness the great ice precipices crumbling and falling into the sea. Fog settled down, however, and the firing could not be attempted...
...party will go directly to Cody, Wyoming, where it will enter the Yellowstone Park for a seven days' trip by motor through the reservation, returning to Cody on July 4 in time for the annual "Cody roundup". An eight-day trip in the saddle is scheduled in the Glacier National Park in which the party will cross the Great Divide three times...
...term of six years to take the place of those who go out of office at the close of Commencement. The nominations are as follows: Samuel Smith Drury '01, of Concord, N. H.; Howard Elliott '81, of Boston (Overseer, 1905-15); Francis Lee Higginson, Jr., '00, of Boston; Amory Glacier Hodges '74, of New York; Mark Antony DeWollfe Howe '87, of Boston; Hugh McKennan Landon '92, of Indianapolis, Ind.; John Pierpont Morgan '89, of New York (Overseer, 1909-15); William Thomas '73, of San Francisco, Cal.; Eliot Wadsworth '98, of Boston; Samuel Ellsworth Winslow '85, of Worcester...