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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another expedition is being planned now in the hope that the fate which has met countless climbers will be vanquished...
...Yale team came to Boston to do battle with the B. A. A. skaters and were sent home on the short end of a 4 to 3 score after playing fast hockey against the Boston amateur team. The following Monday the Elis journeyed to the Hobey Baker rink and met with a 2 to 1 rebuff at the hands of the aggressive Tigers. This was the second time that the Nassan sextet has humbled the Bulldog this season on the ice. Yale showed a great improvement over the first Princeton loss. The result was not decided until the last play...
...class B division, last week without mishap. G. H. Perkins '26, manager of the University squad and number three player on the second team was the first of the Crimson entrees to meet defeat. J. L. Pool '28, number one man on the second Crimson racquet team met with no serious opposition, and H. B. Jackson '27, P. R. Pease '26, and E. D. Pratt '27 experienced no difficulty in surviving the opening rounds. The play is expected to reach the semi-finals by the first of next week...
Engaged. Nicholas Llewellyn Davies, youngest of the four adopted children of famed author-play-wright Sir James Matthew Barrie; to the Hon. Mary Beatrice James, daughter of the noted sportsman Walter John James, third Baron Northbourne. As everyone knows, Mr. Barrie met the four Davies children years ago in Kensington Gardens, and adopted them after the death of their parents. Their mother, Sylvia (Du Maurier) Davies, was the beautiful daughter of famed artist George Du Maurier and a sister of Sir Gerald Du Maurier. She and her children figure in many of Barrie's works. George, the eldest, suggested...
...because of the stoutness of his legs and constitution. He had a fleet of aeroplanes, a corps of pilots. He had contracted to whisk letters and packages from Cleveland and Chicago to his home city, Detroit, and vice versa. His first plane, though he was not in it, was met at Cleveland by a fleet of Army pursuit planes. Unloading, loading, it soon sped back with Detroit's first air mail. There the citizens again gave thanks for their genius loci, Mr. Henry Ford. The New York-San Francisco air mail was started 1924; New York-Chicago service started July...