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...party reached a shallow ledge on the almost-vertical face of Dent du Geant. While the other three waited below, McNear continued up the face and hammered a thin piton--a metal spike commonly used by mountain-climbers for support--into a crack in the granite rock. Then he fastened his rope to the piton and continued up the wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNear Buried Soon, Fell-from 'Giant's Tooth' | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

...HARVARD WESLEYAN Faude, g. g., Hamel Heard, l.f.b. r.f.b., Blakeslee Catinella, r.f.b. l.f.b., Moss, Lundstedt Bland, l.h.b. r.h.b., Aherns William Carter, c.h.b. c.h.b., Skirm Edward Carter, r.h.b. l.h.b., Summerville Broadbent, c. c., Krementz, Kratz Schumacher, Tatham, l.o.f r.o.f., Davison Frame, l.i.f. r.i.f., Davis Grover, r.o.f. l.o.f., Piton Eaton, Carrigan, Dorman. r.i.f. l.i.f., White...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM WINS FIRST CONTEST OF SEASON, 3-1 | 10/4/1930 | See Source »

...Harvard Fencing Team will meet Columbia in its first dual intercollegiate match this year on Friday night. The Columbia team is composed of the men who fought last March in the intercollegiate tournament in which Columbia won second place: Piton (captain), Clark and Mahan. They have already defeated Annapolis in this year's preliminary series. The Harvard team will be composed of H. W. Holmes '03 (captain), T. D. Roberts '03 and H. St. Gaudens '03. Roberts is the only man on the team who fought in last year's intercollegiate matches, but the team as a whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencing With Columbia Friday. | 2/10/1903 | See Source »

...early age of thirty-three, a high repute in two hemispheres. An entertaining sketch of the artist by Edward Strahan, a fellow-pupil in the atelier of Gerome, is illustrated by a portrait and a number of drawings by the artist; while the frontispiece, drawn by Camille Piton, represents Bridgman's "Lady of Cairo Visiting." A special feature of the number is Caryl Florio's long review of "Billee Taylor," the new English comic opera, giving the vocal score of the four principal songs, some of which are likely to become as popular as the airs of "Pinafore." There...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

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