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...providing facilities for summer tutorial reading, the authorities are simply raising this vagabond branch of the University to the standard set by the College. The Summer School will now become something more than a short cut to a degree or a life raft for low rank students...
Thompson and Clark, who had come up with Warner, left ahead of the others, travelling on houseback to Lanehow where they came down the Yellow river on a small skin raft to the railhead and a hence by rail to Peking. Starr, Stimson and Warner brought up Lie rear more slowly on carts till they too reached the river and changed to a raft. On the return march five sets of small early Buddhist cave chapels were explored, two of them hitherto unreported. The early sculpture at these sites had been entirely destroyed and the wall paintings had been restored...
...Spitzbergen, with a blizzard raging, came Commander Richard E. Byrd with his U. S. comrades and airplanes aboard the Chantier. They were blocked from Kings Bay's one pier by the Norwegian gunboat Heimdal (she was coaling), and had to cast anchor half a mile offshore. Making a raft out of heavy planking and four lifeboats, they labored all one night at the ticklish task of hoisting from the hold delicate wings and fuselages and towing them in on the raft. The Hobby, Amundsen's 1925 baseship chartered this year by Byrd, put in an appearance and was at once...
Tired and sore of foot, they there constructed rafts of logs, planks, boxes, and essayed to float down the Chitina River to McCarthy. This feat one raft accomplished without let or hindrance from rock or snag. The other, skippered by Explorer McCarthy, capsized in boiling rapids, left its passengers a 70-mile trudge...
...livery-stable keeper's son. His father intended him for the priesthood, but he crossed himself and went out to lick the boys. His first fight was with Joe Choinyski, whom he calls "one of the gamest and best fighters that ever lived"-a slugging match on a raft in San Francisco Bay. Then he made a wreck out of Jake Kilrain, was matched with John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston. Sullivan "fell hopelessly on the ground, on his stomach, and rolled over on his back." After that battle, Corbett made milk famous all over the world...