Word: summits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Huguley, of Swampscott; for Orator, Samuel Kunen, of Marlboro; for Chorister, Richard Gardiner Edwards, of Swampscott; for Odist, Arthur John Joseph Bohn, of Saint Louis Missouri, and Arnold Louis Kowarsky, of Brooklyn, New York; for Album Committee, John Handy Henshaw, of Rye, New York, and Robert Westervelt Chasteney, of Summit, New Jersey...
...taken into consideration and Shields appeared somewhere quite a way down the list; but this year he showed his real calibre, and if he decides to take his tennis a little more seriously in the future, he will be a very hard man to keep off the summit. Wood also is on the up and up, and should soon be with Shields as one of the world's premier exponents of the court game...
Fifteen miles from Atlanta rises the bleak face of Stone Mountain. Weather-beaten tool houses and engineers' shacks balance precariously on its summit; ladders, derricks, remnants of scaffolding cling to its flank. Two sculptors have blasted and worried a hole in its face into a semblance of General Robert E. Lee on his horse, Traveller. They have left a pile of granite debris at its base which Quarryman San Venable of Atlanta, former owner of Stone Mountain, declares will take five years to remove. To Stone Mountain there returned last week Gutzon Borglum, carver of mountains...
Concluded Correspondent Smythe: "Our blood is up. We intend to get as far as possible on the mountain." Warned by the avalanche, the expedition changed its route to another ridge approaching the summit...
...Mount Robson, the monarch of the Canadian Rockies. Here again the weather proved quite unsatisfactory, but on Thursday it was possible to spend the day outside the shelter of the camp. One group under the leadership of Dr. Parejas crossed Robson Glacier and climbed the Lynx. Traversing its summit and the neighboring ridge, they reached a previously unclimbed peak on the summit of which they built a cairn as a record of their presence. To this unnamed summit the name of "Mount Harvard" was joyously though unofficially attached by the members of the climbing party. In the meantime another group...