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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people--men, women, and older children--climb it every summer and fish and camp; we passed hunting parties going in for the deer season, September 1, but the country is so immense we met few on the trails. Some young people, ror economy, hire a pack-mule and walk, but the trails are steep and often dusty, so that a horse is a necessity for real pleasure. Our horses were mountain bred, sure-footed, and gentle. We estimated the cost for the six days at about $50 each, including food, horses, etc. Nature provided fuel, water, and light, thus giving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. E. Wolf Describes Trip to Vicinity of Mt. Whitney in the Sierra Nevadas | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...still striving to live down "The Plastic Age", has broadcast his opinion to the effect that Dartmouth students have thrown off the shackles of the "sweatshirt period" only to sink into the toils of dilettantism. A Dartmouth undergraduate ably reputed Mr. Marks' aspersions and emphatically denied that students "walk about Hanover with tiger ljlies beween their teeth and green carnations pinned to their jackets. Once more the voluble Mr. Marks offers himself as a target for criticism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGER LILIES | 12/4/1926 | See Source »

Memorial Hall was gloomy. Its loca tion placed it a long walk from many dormitories, particularly those in the Mt. Auburn St. district. The choice of food was limited, the meal hours not elastic. It was expensive. No wonder the cafeterias lured the students away. They were more pleasant, were more conveniently located, offered a wider variety of food and meal hours, and were cheaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Build New Dining Halls" Is First Suggestion of Winner | 12/1/1926 | See Source »

Dozens of important men in finance have worked on Mr. Barren's staffs. When they first take a walk with him they feel like Falstaff's page. But he is no antic master, rather always the teacher. Brokerage houses hunt his men, offer them salaries even larger than they get from Mr. Barron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Arch-Service | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...Freshman shall wear a Gown or walk with a Cane or appear out of his Room without being fully dressed and with his Hat," Later the headpiece comes in for further attention: "When ever a Freshman speaks to a Superior is spoken to by one he shall keep his hat off until he is bidden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN AT YALE TROD PATH OF THORNS IN 1787 | 11/20/1926 | See Source »

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