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Between this boulder and the river is the place where Benedict Arnold first met Major John André, Adjutant General of the British Army, to plan for the surrender of West Point to the British. Major André" landed from the Vulture the evening of Sept. 21, 1780. Early the following morning the conspirators repaired to the home of Joshua H. Smith, about three miles to the north, where Arnold finally agreed to surrender West Point for £10,000 and a commission in the British Army. From the Smith house André" attempted to return to the British lines. He was captured...
...tons of rock were lifted in one explosion which cut off some trees 18 inches thick that grew farther down the mountain. The cliff on which the work was done was very steep and rose for 400 feet on the side of the mountain. One large boulder 40 feet long and 10 feet wide was found some distance on occasion and smaller fragments from the block clipped off an oak tree two feet in diameter...
...Arthur R. Davis of Middlebury, Vt. (chemistry); Jose M. Hernandez of Norman, Okia, (Romance languages); Arthur R. Knipp 1G., of Baltimore (physics); Robert R. La Follette of Terra Haute, Ind. (history); William T. MacCreadie of Northfield, Vt. (mathematics); Charles M. McCurry of Georgetown, Ky. (English); Howard B. Poole of Boulder, Colo (Romance languages); and Ernest E. Stanford of Cleveland, Ohio (botany...
...Arthur R. Davis of Middlebury, Vt. (chemistry); Jose M. Hernandez of Norman, Okia, (Romance languages); Arthur R. Knipp 1G., of Baltimore (physics); Robert R. La Follette of Terra Haute, Ind. (history); William T. MacCreadie of Northfield, Vt. (mathematics); Charles M. McCurry of Georgetown, Ky. (English); Howard B. Poole of Boulder, Colo (Romance languages); and Ernest E. Stanford of Cleveland, Ohio (botany...
...generation. The work that college men are doing in Labrador, by changing these lives by example, helps to make all the difference in the world. I have seen the proof of this, while they have been unloading coal vessels--a tough job, or digging foundations in a boulder bank glued together by heavy clay, or blasting out a water supply through granite rocks almost under water all the time, or firing in the tiny engine room of a hospital steamer with dusty coal, or cutting down trees and hauling them for firing, or getting peat from a fly-beset...