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...northeast Wyoming, near Sundance, one day last week, Parachutist George Hopkins leaped out of an airplane to win a $50 bet. The problem was to collect. For George Hopkins landed, as the bet prescribed, on Devil's Tower. A lava blister, formed by an eruption 20,000,000 years ago, Devil's Tower is a gigantic rock stump rising 1,200 feet into the sky. Teddy Roosevelt made it the country's first national monument. Its weathered sides are fluted, nearly vertical, practically unscalable...
Harvard doesn't invest in football players, but there are still some University holdings which Treasurer William H. Claflin '00 doesn't like to be reminded of too often, and the Ritz Tower in New York is going to be one of them. The betting around Milk Street is that the sky-scraping Park Avenue hostelry will be dropped into the pot of so-called "special investments," which don't deserve to get into the big pool of Harvard property because of their "not quite respectable" character...
With a view of the Memorial Church Tower on its crimson cover, the Alumni Bulletin has made its first issue of the year in considerably revised format. This year's changes are by no means as radical as those made last year. At that time the Bulletin was completely revised and modernized, but was based on a two column page. The major innovation this year in the substitution of three for two columns which thereby increases the nize of the page considerably...
Straightforwardly though not brilliantly written, the volume is a bit of Harvardiana which well repays undergraduate browsing. Even the Ivory Tower, needs some one to get the coal for winter and watch over the plumbing installation...
...Henry Dana, with the stipulation that Harvard melodies be played on them on Commencement morning Class Day, and Centennial celebrations. Though an ancient College song to the tune of "How Dry I Am" has not startled parishioners in recent years, "Fair Harvard" continues to ring out from the ecclesiastical tower, and on rarer occasions the more boisterous "Harvardiana" has been attempted...