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Spurred by the success of Germans with the world's fastest first-class ships (TIME, Jan. 26. 1931), the French Line put on the Atlantic last week its new Champlain, fastest cabin & tourist-class liner and larger than the French Line's first-class liner France...
Before dawn on May 10, 1775, Ethan Allen, Revolutionary irregular, led 83 soldiers, mostly Green Mountain Boys of his own recruiting, across Lake Champlain. On the way Allen and Benedict Arnold wrangled profanely as to who was to command. They landed under the Grenadiers' Battery at Fort Ticonderoga. As the clear sky reddened into the day the American troopers, drawn up in three ranks, marched up to the British fort's sally port. The red-coated sentinel's fusee missed fire. The invaders pushed headlong and shouting into the walled parade ground...
...these regular courses in Cambridge there is to be a special five weeks field course which will offer an opportunity for selected students to study during the summer the early Paleosoic sedimentary rocks. Pre-Cambrian crystalline rocks, and a varied assortment of glacial and post-glacial deposits in the Champlain Valley of New York and Vermont. The course is conduced by Professor A. C. Swinnerton of Antioch College...
...region around Lake Champlain, New York, rich in Paleozoic rocks, crystalline rocks, glacial, and post-glacial formations, will furnish an abundance of material for students who have completed courses in Geology 4 and 5 or their equivalent. The party, under the tutelage of A. C. Swinnerton, professor at Antioch College, will be formed at Ticonderoga, New York, July 7. From there, the group will continue to the borders of Lake Champlain, near which a five weeks' study of field methods and geologic structure will ensue. Members of the party will have tents and cots furnished for their...
Married. Howard Joseph Sachs, Manhattan banker & director (department stores, realty, silk); to Eleanor Burtis Saxe, staff-member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; on Coates Island, Lake Champlain...