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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...falls, it is clear why they are called "salmon." (Latin salmo means "a leaper.") Goal of the jostling, leaping fish is the quiet of the Yukon's upper pools. Swimming stoutly against the current, it will take them all summer to reach the headwaters. On the long trip (2,000 miles) they eat nothing, slowly burning up the fat oil they have amassed in the sea. In the autumn they reach the clear, placid upper reaches of the river. There the males, haggard, savage from starvation, tear each other with fierce beaklike jaws, fighting for mates. The female scoops...
...drew a walk in the first inning. E. H. McGrath '31 singled, and a passed ball which rolled into the Crimson dugout let them both in. A moment later when the catcher dropped his third strike. Ticknor saw first base for the first time since early in the Southern trip, but was stranded there...
Among the other gifts the George G. Wheelock Holiday Fund is the most unusual. Established by W. H. Wheelock '98, of New York City, in memory of his father, it will enable a few boys who could not otherwise make the trip to return to their homes for vacations...
...coaching launches, the "John Harvard" and the "Veritas" drew up at the float of the Newell boathouse yesterday afternoon, completing a trip which started two weeks ago when the two boats left Greenport, Long Island. They were delayed until yesterday at Monument Beach by the rough water conditions in Massachusetts Bay caused by the recent storms...
Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology, will lecture at the Harvard Union tomorrow high at 7 o'clock on the topic "From Alpine Snows to Vesuvian Lava." The address, which will tell in part of the Geology Summer School's trip in 1928, will be open to Union members only. L. T. Grimm '29, vice-president of the Union, will introduce Professor Mather...