Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moving pictures of a rock climb on the Aiguille du Grepon and of a ski ascent of Monte Rosa will be shown in the Living Room of the Harvard Union on Sunday at 7.30 o'clock, under the joint auspices of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and the Harvard Union. The pictures of the climbing of Grepon, which is a part of the Mont Blanc Massif at Chamonix, show the mountaineering technique of professional guides in their ascent of what is considered by tourists as one of the most difficult peaks in Chamonix...
Willis Chatham Hawley of Salem, Ore., has succeeded Iowa's Green (who was "kicked upstairs" to a judgeship last session) as chairman of Ways & Means. He was a pedagog (Umpqua Academy, Oregon State Normal School, Willamette University) from 1884 to 1905. "Don't rock the boat," is his fiscal motto, while New Jersey's Bacharach provides the vessel's steam. Big of frame, with thinning sandy hair, he wrestles happily with infinite details...
Professor Leonide Kulik, Russian scientist who risked his life to look a little longer on a stone, last week "was rescued by the relief expedition sent into the tundra wilderness of Siberia to seek him. No marvel of jasper or onyx, this; it is a large rock with a fused crust, composed of iron and silicates. It is the largest meteorite ever found on the earth, and Prof. Kulik has been looking at it ever since last summer...
...Rock Alteration as a Guide to Ore Deposits", Professor McLaughlin, Rotch Building...
...make the best saints. Youth, itself is balance enough. And if it be feared that the University would, free from an artificial mixing within itself, turn into a closed circuit of thought, let it be remembered that, short as was the distance from the Capitol to the Tarpeian Rock, the distance from Widener to the Harvard Square rotunda is no longer. Harvard shows no sign of turning aloof from life...