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...Montreal, The Mount Royal...
...England grew away from the rivers and valleys and Harvard was no exception to the rest of the country. But in the same way the college was not far behind when railroads and better transportation drew the population into the once dangerous lowlands. The movement from the Yard to Mount Auburn Street started with the transfer of the athletic center to Soldiers Field in 1891 and was closely followed by the erection of the famous "Gold Coast" dormitories...
Betty Jean was born on a desert mountain in Argentine. The past three years she has played in the dead crater of an African mountain, Mount Brukkaros, near Keetmanshoop, South West Africa. Living there was necessary, for her father's job, and Mr. Greeley's, was to measure the sun's heat every day. That was to enable a Dr. Abbot (Charles Greeley Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and director of its astrophysical observatory) to compare the sun's heat at Mount Brukkaros with its heat at Table Mountain, Cal., and at Montezuma, Chile, where...
...prudent courtesy, because Spain is planning a dirigible hangar at Seville, which will be useful when the Germans establish their Europe-South America Zeppelin line. But some passengers were vexed at the out-of-the-way delay. Their nerves were jumpy because one Frederick S. Hogg, retired Mount Vernon, N. Y., businessman, had smoked a cigar in the ship's lavatory. One spark might have blown up her hydrogen lifting gas. Some of the other passengers wanted Passenger Hogg imprisoned. Capt. Lehmann only reprimanded him, took his cigars and pocket lighter ignominiously away. The ship made the Lakehurst-Friedrichshafen trip...
...Russian and Persian government wouldn't let us climb Mount Ararat so we had to turn back. At Kutais we hired a motor bus for $75. It was too expensive for us so we picked up passengers and collected $38 in fares. We charged extra for all bundles though the Caucasians kicked. One young man said he had heart failure and wanted to ride on the front seat, but Mabel and I chucked...