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...third time in three years, and with high prospects of success, a party of British army officers and explorers will attempt this summer to scale Mt. Everest, king of the Himalayas and the world's highest peak (est. 29,002 ft.). Brigadier General C. G. Bruce, who led the almost successful expedition of 1922, will again be in command. With him will be Major E. F. Norton, D.S.O., George Leigh Mallory, T. Howard Somervell, Captain C. J. Morris and Captain Geoffrey Bruce, of the 1922 party, all of whom reached heights of 27,000 ft. or over...
Broad Jump.--C. D. Bent '24, J. M. Bruce '25, T. R. Hull '25, R. L. Hyatt '24, David Neiman '24, D. J. Quirk '26, L. L. Robb '25, G. Rountree '25, M. R. Smith '24, Donald Spencer...
...chief political figures in the Anti's firmament were Senator Bayard of Delaware and Senator Bruce of Maryland, both Democrats, and Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland, Republican. Besides the regular sessions of the Conference, there was a dinner at which Representative Hill toastmastered and the two Senators spoke, advocating modification of the Volstead Act to permit the Government, without the reincarnation of the saloon, to sell regulated amounts of alcoholic beverages for home consumption (a system similar to that in force in various parts of Canada...
...effective cure for sleeping sickness would transform equatorial Africa into a desirable habitation for mankind. From Berlin have come repeated reports that F. K. Kleine has perfected a cure which will soon be announced. In 1895 Surgeon General Sir David Bruce showed that the parasite (try-panasoma gambiense) was communicated to human beings and to cattle by the tsetse fly. In 1907 the British Government called an international conference to deal with the evil. No help could be found. In the Autumn of 1921 Dr. Kleine went to Africa with a compound. He set up a camp of wooden huts...
...Bruce collection of Chinese landscape paintings, recently presented to the Fogg Art Museum by Mr. Galen L. Stone, of Boston, will go on exhibition this afternoon at the Museum. There are 83 paintings in the collection, but not all of them will be exhibited...