Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said it: that calisthenics (his profession) is a commercial exploitation of people's desires to keep fit; that people should better walk far at 4 m.p.h., play tennis and golf, swim, ride horseback, tramp, hike; that for "physical illiterates" setting up exercises are good; that his getting up exercises were better...
...first time since 107 years ago. According to somewhat indifferent records the only other time that the cadets have been in Boston en masse was in 1821, when a corps of 235 marched up the Hudson and over the mountains from the plains of west Point, a hike of some 250 miles. Unlike the trip last night when all were protected in luxurious sleeping case, the corps of 1821 weathered in their tents and lean-tos varying degrees of clemency. Much of the trip, according to the newspaper account published in the Boston commercial Gazette of August...
Edna May Wilbur, schoolteacher, daughter of Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, was taking a hike with a girl companion in Yosemite Valley, California. They were having a good time, throwing snowballs and leaping down a rocky trail, until they found themselves on a ledge from which it was impossible to descend and dangerous to retrace their trail up the valley. It was midnight before a party of five rangers came to their rescue, hauled them up 100 feet with ropes...
...overnight hike to Mount Wachusett will be made this weekend by the members of the hiking recreation class, conducted by R. H. Lee 3L. About ten trampers will leave Cambridge Saturday noon and plan to return the following night...
...group will travel to Fitchburg by train, and then meet after a few miles the trail recently opened by the New England Trails Conference, which runs over wooded and hilly country from Mount Watatick to Mount Wachusett. The hike will be about 14 miles...