Word: waddington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unsuccessful attempt was made by William F. Loomis '36 to scale Mt. Waddington. This peak has never been climbed, although thirteen previous expeditions had tried Loomis was only 500 feet from the summit before he was forced to admit defeat...
...Katrin has time to think about her misdemeanors. While Dr. Fane is busy treating cholera-stricken natives, she sits at home, listening to the babble of her Chinese maid who calls her "Missy" and a cockney resident named Waddington (Forrester Harvey). By the time the doctor has relented so far as to offer to send Katrin back to Hongkong, she has decided to stay in Mei-tan-fu as a nurse. Dr. Fane is wounded in a riot and at the same time the attaché arrives in Mei-tan-fu to see how Katrin is making out. She gives...
...feature speakers of the evening were Charles S. Houston '35, who showed moving pictures of his ascent of Mt. Foraker, a 17,300 foot peak in the Alaska range, and Henry S. Hall '19, who explained and showed photographs of his four attempts to climb Mt. Waddington, a 13,000 foot peak in the Coast Range of British Columbia. The evening was concluded with a brief account by Bradford Washburn '31. President of the club, of the conquest last summer, of Mt. Crillon by a Harvard-Dartmouth expedition under his leadership...
...succeeds as an actress. Jane Waddington Wyatt will do so at the expense of the hollow tradition that cheap theatrical boarding houses, one-night stands, hardships in stock companies and the pangs of poverty are indispensable incubators of talent. She was born 21 years ago near smart Tuxedo. N. Y. Her upbringing in horsy Dutchess County was well calculated to make her think of the theatre as a place into which nice people do not venture until the middle of the first act. Her first experience in drama was playing Shylock at fashionable Miss Chapin's School in Manhattan...
...Waddington (1826-94), French-born, was the son of a British manufacturer who became a naturalized French citizen...