Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Utterly out of the rut of "travel books"are two volumes, respectively about the Far East* and the Far North.** Aldous Huxley, a goggled-eyed aesthetic master at turning trifles into significant facts, sets forth the searing paradoxes which he constructed on a trip around the world featuring the Orient but including (and devastating) the U. S. The Scandinavian wanderers have caught uniquely well the healthy rural glow, the astounding civic progress and the insufferably"countrified" social life of Scandinavian...
...publishing a scientific story of considerable interest and special appropriateness for that oldtime fishing centre. Mrs. Marie Poland Fish, biologist of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries station at Woods Hole, Mass., in working over specimens and data brought back by her husband, Dr. Charles J. Fish, from his trip last year to the Sargasso Sea, Galapagos and the prehistoric gorge of the Hudson River, had identified certain fish eggs dredged from the Challenger Bank near Bermuda as eggs of the common American eel. Science had never seen such things before. The identification was by a sure method: the eggs...
...along past the phaetons and runabouts and sulkies and dogcarts and victorias to the mingled amusement and admiration of the people who confined their sporting activities to parchesi, crokinole, the schottische and 'Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay'?" Of course the reader remembers, with gusto. The museum trip continues. ". . . And when Michigan Avenue [the book is dedicated to Chicagoans who turned the century] was a dirt road leading south from the greasy river, past brownstone respectability to prairie pioneering in those windblown, grass-grown suburbs, Oakland, Hyde Park, the Midway? And how Chicago sprang up and spread...
Under John Donovan '22, the Sophomore coach, and M. A. Cheek '26, the head coach. I spent one of the most pleasant football seasons of my life. Games and scrimmages were frequent, and everyone played. There was one short trip for each team...
...expected, furthermore, that the Arena, which is now rapidly nearing completion, will be ready for practice purposes by the first part of January. Until then the hockey squad will make two practice trips a week to Springfield, the first trip being by bus tomorrow afternoon. During the Christmas vacation the team will practice on the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink at Princeton where it will be the guest for several days both before and after Christmas, of the Princeton Athletic Association...