Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hotel Statler. Miss Britton, known as Miss Universe or at least one of the Miss Universes, seemed inclined to talk about the event with an also willing CRIMSON reporter. "I've never heard the Harvardians play but I understand they made quite an impression in Europe last summer," she volunteered, "but then I suppose the Dartmouth orchestra must be good too. It will be sort of a battle of music before the real battle...
Professor G. A. Reisner '89, recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on Egyptian archaeology, will address a gathering in the Main Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock to night. His subject will be the high lights of last summer's Harvard expedition for purposes of excavation in the neighborhood of the great pyramids. He will be introduced by E. A. Hooton, Associate Professor of Anthropology...
...latest expedition, completed last summer, was another fact-finding tour of Egyptian parts. One of his interesting discoveries was that of the empty sarcophagus that once contained the mummified body of Queen Hetep-Heres I, mother of Cheops. Another was a "haunted" fort, which no one dared investigate, because the natives feared being punished by the "shiekh" for a crime committed generations before...
Pictures of the European trip last summer will be shown; and other members will give several short talks on the history of past achievements of the club...
...travel between the widely separated British dominions. In anticipation mooring masts have been built at Cardington, England (where the R-100 was put together), at Ismailia, Egypt, Karachi, India (where there is a hangar), Groutville, South Africa, and St. Hubert, Canada. As both ships were nearing completion this summer, dire were the prophecies that they were not airworthy, that they would crack up. So impoverished Englishmen, troubled by the spending of $10,000,000 on the ships and their accessories, were glum last week when the R-101 sailed from her Cardington hangar. Nor were they as joyous...