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...guest rooms, the auditorium, the pictures of the founders of the country's scholastic hierarchy. There was a festive meal with more speakers of distinction: Dr. John H. Finley of Manhattan, President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia (representing Governor Byrd), President Mary E. Woolley of Mount Holyoke College. Among others present, though modestly silent, was John D. Rockefeller Jr. whose aid in the society's current million-dollar endowment drive has not been confined to signing checks but has included extensive travel and speechmaking from city to city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shrine to Learning | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...north of Owen's Lake, crossing the crest at Whitney Pass, and following just below the rim north to the reak, passable for horses when the snow is not took deep in some of the gulches. From here it was a short and easy climb to the top of Mount Langley...

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

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountaineers Meet in Union | 11/23/1926 | See Source »

...Calf had led 26 of his Blackfeet tribesmen from Montana for a polytribal "powwow" at famed Haskell Institute, which had a new football stadium to dedicate.† Secretary Work conversed briefly with Mr. White Calf, then went along to lecture to the students of the University of Kansas, on Mount Oread, overlooking the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Far West | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Coliseum, ancient centre of Paganism. In its midst, borne aloft on the shoulders of the faithful, was a huge cross. Made of wood, it contains pieces of olive trees from Gethsemane. It had been blessed in the Basilica of the Holy Cross. On a base containing a stone from Mount Calvary, it was set up in the centre of the Coliseum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Busy Pontiff | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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