Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There may be people who still smile at the hottest June nineteenth and twentieth since 1884 and say that even such weather "stands in some rank of praise." The only possible occasion for such depressing optimism is the report of the doings of Mount Etna in Sicily. Granting that Italy could be no hotter than New England, yet such heat plus the temperature of molten lava must call up memories of Dante and his Inferno. Therefore the unselfish faith of the people, of Linguaglossa must be colossal, for they have approached within scorching distance of the lava to pray...
...former private secretary to Lloyd George, declared that America could not remain aloof, since Mr. Kerr was followed by another Englishman. Mr. G. L. Mallery, a noted mountain climber, who gave a vivid description of the perils encountered by the party which recently attempted to reach the submit of Mount Everest. The vividness of his narrative was heightened by many lantern slides taken on the expedition...
Some time ago the "Chicago Trlbune" felt in duty bound to expose the irresponsible juvenility of American colleges. In its editorial columns it called attention to the unpleasant details of "the Mount case" at Northwestern University, and the comment resulting from it, throughout the world. For the French press had secured a version of the incident, and the Paris "Matin" wrote: "the tragedy sheds a great light upon the strange customs of American university life...
...Mount case", which, briefly, is that of a student trampled to death in a college rush, buried secretly by his classmates, and discovered long afterwards by the authorities, has achieved a tremendous amount of undesirable publicity. It is an incident which justified the righteous anger of the Chicago editor, although it scarcely seemed to justify his conclusion that most college undergraduates were "gilded youth--fantastic, megaphonic, and acrobatic; full of false importance, and indifferent to the future...
George W. P. Hunt of Arizona William E. Sweet of Colorado Jonathan M. Davis of Kansas Joseph F. Dixon of Montana J. C. Walton of Oklahoma and by the Presidents of eleven colleges : Vassar, Mount Holyoke, Smith, University of Wyoming, Oberlin, Trinity, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, Temple University, St. Stephens, Catholic University of America...