Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...combined course in how mountains are built and how they are climbed will be given by Professor K. F. Mather, head of the Geological Department in the University, in the Swiss Alps, where a special class will be conducted this summer...
According to the proposed program for the summer, actual climbing of 13 peaks ranging from 9000 to 15,000 feet high, will occupy the peripatetic students. Following the summer of training those who have shown themselves most proficient will try the Matterhorn, which is considered one of the most difficult climbs in Europe. This course is open to students in the University and to other aspirants who have proved their interest in Geology and Geography...
...thorough course in Geology will be part of the summer's work, the daily program consisting of alternate periods of two hours of climbing and one hour of study. The investigation of rocks and glaciers is expected to take on new interest as new specimens are encountered at every few hundred feet of climbing in the setting of renowned scenic grandeur...
...cruising lunchers were read messages from President Gerrit Fort of Raymond & Whitcomb (travel experts) and B. O. Foster of the Standard Oil of New York (Socony), delineating their plans to advertise New England's pleasures this summer. Immediately Major Patrick F. O'Keefe, redoubtable Boston advertising man cried out: "Let New Englanders stop talking about things and start doing them." Shouted the conferees: "Hey! hey! Hear! hear...
Blonde and beautiful Maria Jeritza, Austrian soprano, golden star of the Metropolitan in the winter and the Vienna State Opera Company in the summer, last week grew angry. She had recently gone to Paris with the Vienna company and had sung there in several performances. Medals and decorations were awarded to several members of the troupe, among them the great Jeritza. Jeritza's fury, which newsgatherers for no valid reason regarded as unjustified, resulted from the fact that she had been given, not the medal of the Legion of Honor, but the insignificant one of "Officer of Public Instruction...