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Back from four months of exploration in the little known regions of Yukon territory, Alaska, H. Adams Carter of Dunster House, Ex-President of the Mountaineering Club, reported yesterday that the National Geographic-Washburn Expedition had discovered four or five mountains hitherto unknown and uncharted. In memory of England's Silver Jubilee, two of the mountains were named King George and Queen Mary...
Each of these has an altitude of over 13,000 feet. They are in the Southwest corner of Yukon Territory. The Expedition, led by H. Bradford Washburn '33, comprised six men, three of whom are Harvard men; Robert H. Bates being the third...
George Lee Haskins '35, of Cambridge has been awarded the Philip Washburn Prize of $150 for his thesis entitled "The Statute of York and the Interest of the Commons," it was announced yesterday. Haskins, who concentrated in Medieval History during his undergraduate career, was recently chosen winner of this year's Phi Beta Kappa essay contest on the basis of the same thesis, which has received a summa rating from the Department of History...
...LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL-John Blakeney (with a foreword by the Baroness Orczy)-Washburn ($2.50). In the form of a full-dress biography, Author Blakeney tells all that is left to tell about the Scarlet Pimpernel...
...Robert M. Washburn, columnist, and former senatorial candidate, will speak at the Christ Church dinner for Harvard students tonight at 6.30 o'clock...