Word: appalachian
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...mouths of smutty holes in the earth at Scranton, Pa., came forth mules, blinking, tottering. Terrified by the sun, not to be pacified by the raucous calls of miners, they stampeded toward the Appalachian heights...
...create a new National Park in the East, somewhere in the Southern Appalachian Region. (A committee appointed to select a site for such a park is soon to report...
...evidences of a broadening vision of the whole educational system. This has included a recognition that education must not end with the period of school attendance, but must be given every encouragement thereafter. To this end the night schools of the cities, the moonlight schools of the southern Appalachian countries, the extension work of the colleges and universities, the provision for teaching technical, agricultural and mechanical arts, have marked out the path of a broader and more widely diffused national culture...
...Weeks proposed and was instrumental in the passing of the Appalachian Forest Reserve Bill, which provides for the purchase by the government of forest lands about the headwaters of navigable rivers in the mountains of Maine and New Hampshire. Considerable difficulty was at first experienced because of some doubt as to the constitutionality of the measure, but this was overcome by the fact that the government is empowered to protect navigable streams...
...recess by Professors W. M. Davis '69 and D. W. Johnson, and Mr. F. H. Lahee 3G., in company with some of their students and a number of instructors and students from other institutions. The locality offers excellent opportunity for the study of geological structure, especially folding of the Appalachian Mountain type; for the collection of fossils; and for the description of topographical features...