Word: trips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trip, which will take the greater part of the summer, Ostheimer hopes to ascend four of the highest mountains in the Rockies; Mount Columbia, the North Twin, and Mounts Clemenceau and Robson, a feat which has never been accomplished before. Seven men will go on the expedition, two besides Ostheimer being Harvard undergraduates...
...weather conditions are favor able while the party is in camp it will try to ascend Mount Alberta, which was first scaled in 1925 by a party of Japanese. Hans Fuhrer who will be the guide on this trip was also on the Japanese expedition and it is rumored that a silver ice axe, a gift from the Emperor of Japan to the leader of the party, was left at the peak...
Rockwell Kent paints only his adventures. Wherever he sails he is on the watch for rugged seascapes. He does no portrait work on order. Nor does he paint for a living. He lives first and paints afterward. His last trip was to Ireland. Consequently his recent exhibition at the Wildenstein galleries, Manhattan, was a collection of Irish crags, cliffs, inscrutable waves, symbolical shadows, all stark, bleak, sternly ecstatic. Some critics deplore Artist Kent's dearth of variety-"his gaunt monotonous forms are always inflexibly the same." All critics admire his virile compositions, his color effects. In his art they...
...City last week General Passenger Agent P. H. Woodward of the Long Island R. R. greeted Henry W. Gaines of Huntingtpn, L. I. Mr. Gaines, aged 70, had just achieved a half-century of daily commuting over the L. I. R. R. between Huntington and Manhattan (73 miles round trip). Passenger Agent Woodward declared that, assuming Commuter Gaines to have taken the train between his home and office twice daily, except Sundays, since 1877, he had ridden the equivalent of 45 times around the world on the L. I. R. R. For this the railroad gave Commuter Gaines a free...
During his Sabbatical, Professor Spalding will travel in France and Italy. As he did on a trip six years ago, he may lecture in several French Universities. He expects to spend some time visiting the musical unit of the American Academy in Rome, which the University Music Department helped to found...