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...John Lyell Dampeer, of Cleveland, Ohio, and John Chubb Develin, of Oxford, England, have been chosen to captain the Freshman basketball and squash teams respectively. Dampeer, holder of one of President Conant's prize scholarships, is a graduate of Cleveland Heights High School. Develin prepared at Middlesex School, where besides squash, he played football and baseball...
...John Lyell Dampeer, aged 18, of Cleveland Heights, O., graduated from Cleveland Heights High School. He is the son of James W. Dampeer, a newspaper auditor. He ranked first...
...habits and character of barnacles. After this, he was ready. For four years, 1855-59, he wrote The Origin of Species. Until its publication he had had no allies in his opinions. Afterward he found a few (notably Thomas Huxley, Asa Gray, Alfred Russell Wallace, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Lyell), but most of the civilized world thought the book was a fairy tale and the author a misguided fool...
...expedition into the hitherto practically unexplored Clemenceau ice field region of the Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies will be made this summer by A. J. Ostheimer '29, who last year made the first ascent of Mt. Lyell, another peak in the same range, on which he collected much valuable data and many geological specimens of value. This expedition will have as its objective the ascent of Mt. Tsar, an unclimbed peak with an altitude between 11,000 and 12,000 feet, and the topographical and geological exploration of the Chaba and Whirlpool peaks which are in the same...
Speaking will begin at 8 o'clock, when A. J. Ostheimer '29 will talk on his experiences in the Canadian Rockies last summer, particularly of his ascent of Mount Forbes and Lyell. He was the first man ever to reach the summit of Mount Lyell...