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Outside Congress: he lives at No. 1661 Crescent Place, N. W. (Washington), has a summer home in Glacier National Park. When in Washington he is a popular dinner-guest, golf part ner. His clubs: the Montana at Helena, the Silver Bow at Butte, the Chevy Chase at Washington...
...Lumber Co. in the heart of Yosemite National Park. The U. S. paid $3,300,000 for the tract, half the purchase price being donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr.* Last year, over the vigorous protest of Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana who owns a summer home in Glacier National Park, Congress ordered the Interior Department to buy up all private land within national parks to save them from mutilation (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929). Under the law the U. S. pays one-half of such cost, private contributors the other half. In his announcement of this first major acquisition...
...trip to British Columbia will be made up of three caravans. The first will be led by O'Brien; the second by Noel Odell, of Oxford, instructor of Geology, and the third R. L. M. Underhill '09, instructor of Philosophy. Head quarters will be made at Glacier. B. C. with other camps in various valleys. Odell is known for having reached the highest altitude on Mount Everett and surviving the trip. The caravan expects to attain an altitude of 7000 feet. A cook and helpers will supply plenty of fresh food, while large tents will be used as sleeping quarters...
...club has been active this season, with a mountain climbing or skiing trip each week end. To be an active member of the club one must have made the ascent of two major glacier-hung peaks. By "major" is meant a difficult climb...
...shores of the lake at the foot of Mount Robson, the monarch of the Canadian Rockies. Here again the weather proved quite unsatisfactory, but on Thursday it was possible to spend the day outside the shelter of the camp. One group under the leadership of Dr. Parejas crossed Robson Glacier and climbed the Lynx. Traversing its summit and the neighboring ridge, they reached a previously unclimbed peak on the summit of which they built a cairn as a record of their presence. To this unnamed summit the name of "Mount Harvard" was joyously though unofficially attached by the members...