Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Furlong then gave a brief account of the trip: "We left Newport in the spring of 1916 in a 22 ton schooner, the 'Kitty A'. Its dimensions were 53 feet in length and 16 feet beam, one of the smallest vessels to cross the Atlantic. The members of our research party were Dr. William Erving of John Hopkins, Mr. Harry Armony of Harvard who owned and navigated the schooner, my-self and crew. The purpose of the expedition was to collect zoological specimens, especially of the bird life of the West African Island and to make a general study...
...next made sail for the Madeira Islands. The incident by far most interesting on our stop here was a week's hunting trip on three lonely islands in this group, the Desertas. These three long, narrow islands, nearly unapproachable from the sea because of the steep rock cliffs rising out of the water, are owned by two Englishmen who purchased them from the Portuguese government at auction and who used them as game reserves. These Desertas are uninhabited by human beings because of the scarcity of water and the un-favorableness of the approach from...
Annapolis has also been asked to enter the Harvard-Pennsylvania-Columbia race on May 10 at Cambridge. But it is as yet uncertain whether or not the Annapolis authorities will give the Navy crew permission to make the trip to Cambridge at that time...
This committee met last evening and fixed the expense which each delegate must bear for the Indianapolis trip. The total expense of the trip, including railroad fare, berth, hotel bill, registration, amusement, etc., varies in three amounts, $92.33, $88.27, or $82.20, according to whether the delegate occupies a lower berth, upper berth, or shares a lower berth...
...prevented the completion of the drive. H. K. Thayer '25, in charge of the drive, announced last night that he had yet to hear from many collectors as to the amount and the location of their collections. The P. B. H. truck will, he cald, make one last trip this afternoon to get the contributions of all those collectors who telephone the head collector at Brooks House before 2 o'clock today...