Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing in regard to the recent tragedy on Mount Washington in which Jacques Parysko '54 and Philip Longenecker 3G were killed, and which occasioned a letter from the Harvard Mountaineering Club (CRIMSON Feb. 5). Having been one of Parysko's closest friends for several years, and having climbed Mount Washington in the winter with him, I cannot agree that panic and inexperience caused the fatalities...
While granting that the advice in their letter is fine, I feel that the H.M.C.'s concern is belatedly expressed, and does little to excuse their evasion of a vital responsibility to the climber and skier, not in print, but on the slope of mount Washington. R. Michel Zilberstein...
Next night the Met gave its sixth performance (in two years) of the only contemporary composition in its repertory, Igor Stravinsky's Rake's Progress, which has cost the Met more than 60,000 hard-won dollars to mount. Reported Critic Olin Downes of the Times: "The opera suffered the worst fiasco that we have seen occur at the Metropolitan in 30 years of attendance there." Only a slim crowd turned up in the first place, and "by the end of the second act, people were leaving in scores ... It is clear that the public has tired...
Ever since he showed up on campus in 1951, the quiet young man with the white glove has been watched and admired by the students and professors at little (enrollment: 750) Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. The glove bears all the letters of the alphabet, and the young man wears it when among strangers so that they may talk to him by pressing the letters. Richard Kinney, 30, is totally blind and deaf, but through his fine mind and the wondrous sensitivity of his right hand he has managed to become a campus legend...
...learned Braille at the Waring School in Cleveland, took special courses from the Hadley Correspondence School in Winnetka, ILL., finally returned to graduate as valedictorian of his high-school class. In 1943, during his sophomore year at Mount Union, Richard was struck again. Just as mysteriously as he had gone blind, he went deaf...