Word: peake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More evidence, if more is needed, that the undergraduate at Harvard is becoming also, and primarily, a student, may be drawn from the serious decline this year in the number of men who have reported for social service at the Phillips Brooks House. Descending from a peak of over four hundred in 1921 to half that amount last year, the number dropped this fall, according to Mr. McTurnan, the social service secretary, to 160 men. Despite all that has been done to interest students in work that is said to pay richly in human experience, the thirty-five settlement houses...
...strapped on his climbing shoes with the heavy iron spikes, and disappeared across the plateau and into the Reading Room. A minute later he came in sight. He had two natives under each arm, whose whole lives, as he told us, had been spent in the vicinity of the peak. Had they ever been to the top? Answering with fluent hands in sign language they said, No, they never went so high, but they knew...
Different explanations have been advanced for the tragedy, which has come to be known as "the Child Memorial Climb affair". Some have said they lost their way, wandered around the peak, and died in the deep bernhardts of the Theatre Collection. Others have said they reached the summit, only to meet the white card that had already broken so many slout hearts: "Open only from 8 to 6 on misty, moisty mornings...
...clock this afternoon. The first year men will give Andover one of its best battles of the winter. Undefeated, and having beaten Belmont Hill 12 to 0, St. Mark's 1 to 0, and Milton Academy 3 to 0 recently, the Crimson Freshmen are now approaching the peak of their form in team-play and condition. They are favored to win over the Andover sextet because of the latter's 1 to 1 tie with Belmont...
...Pickard, electrical engineer, has been operating in his private laboratories, but is being transferred to the Astronomical Laboratory because of the more advantageous location and the recent study that is being made there of the sun-spot cycle, a phenomenon which is expected to reach its peak in size and number this month...