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...warm day early last month. Correspondent Smythe had not accompanied his four comrades and eleven porters of the advance party on the morning's push to move camp one ice ledge higher. He was typewriting in his tent when: "... I heard the thunderous roar of an unusually large avalanche. Going outside I was horrified to see an enormous portion of the ice wall . . . breaking away and sweeping down the snow slopes below, on which was the climbing party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Kanchenjunga's Tithe | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...that Princeton athletes are losing faith in the present highly-organized state of intercollegiate sports, and are registering a healthful distaste for the modern business of athletics. This in itself is hardly to be regretted. Any move on the part of the "big three"--Harvard, Princeton, and Yale--to make their sport events less elaborate, and especially in the case of football, less of a business and more of a pleasure, is to be welcomed. At any rate, let us have an end to judging athletic morale by number of victories. --Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: This Business of Athletics | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...innovation in Fradd's routine will be the introduction of Faculty classes which will be open to all members of the University Faculty. In this connection special locker and shower room facilities have been built, an accommodation that has been hitherto impossible. Fradd also stated that he expects to move into his offices at the Gymnasium sometime in the next few days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY INCLUDED IN PHYSICAL INSTRUCTION | 5/29/1930 | See Source »

...acquaintance with the light in which this would be received by members of the Class of 1933 has convinced those concerned of the error of their judgment. The members of the committee are to be commended for their apt appreciation of the point of view opposed to their intended move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUTTING ON THE RITZ | 5/29/1930 | See Source »

...Cause. No doctrinaire Socialist, Debs participated in the rise of the "cooperative commonwealth" theory in the U. S., saw Socialism split and divide again and again. With each group he would lose patience and move leftward. The Knights of Labor were too idealistic for him, too nonmilitant. The A. F. of L. (''Unionism pure and simple") was too non-political under Samuel Gompers. The railway brotherhoods, opposed to strikes, sought too hard to become "respectable." The Industrial Workers of the World gave promise of a big rival union until it be came an organization of bums addicted to sabotage. Debs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leftward | 5/26/1930 | See Source »