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This hike, an annual foot journey of the hiking class, will take the participants over an area of about 100 miles, through country already traversed this year by members of the Appalachian Club. The entire distance, however, will not be made on foot, provision being made at certain stop-off places for short lifts by motor. Each hiker will carry his own food, but shelter will be provided...
Meantime Lincoln Memorial University, near the junction of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia, an institution founded in 1897 without any "trumpet blast" but with a quiet, non-sectarian religious purpose and with the idea of carrying to four and one half million Appalachian mountaineers some of the enlightenment for which Abraham Lincoln, wilderness boy, so hankered-Lincoln Memorial University issued a dignified statement to the public that it needed a million dollars to go on with its work. To describe the handicaps it was working under with inadequate buildings and endowment, it quoted a most Lincolnian remark addressed...
...following article was written especially for the Crimson by Mr. P. R. Jenks, permanent secretary of the Committee on Trails of the Appalachian Mountain Club. His many vacations spent in the White Mountains make him an authority on the the subect of which he writes...
...mile trail system of the Appalachian Club in the White Mountains, mostly on rough, remote and storm-swept ridges, is substantially the by product of the brain and muscle of a few business and professional men. It is their avocation, their hobby, their dream Comparatively only a handful among the four thousand members of the Club, these few men of two generations, largely with the labor of their own hands, have made it possible to traverse the White Mountains with nearly perfect safety, and with the maximum of pleasure, ease, and comfort Cui bono? "For why?" What is the charm...
...contraction of the cooling earth and to decrease in rotational velocity because of tidal retardation. "At the close of the Paleozoic Era, the east-west geosyncline of the northern hemisphere was intensely crumpled by the sliding-together of the North Polar and the Equatorial dome. The result was the Appalachian-Hercynian system of mountains...Meantime, the continent was being domed as a whole. In this way sliding-slopes, directed toward the primitive Pacific Ocean, which was then larger than now, were generated...At last, about the middle of the Mesozoic Era, the unique continent finally succumbed to the pull toward...