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Last week, as the Skipper drove toward Chapel Beach, the Venture swept in its herd, and the small boats closed around more than 150 thrashing whales. Young men and old-like Isaac Higdon, 75, and Bob Newhook, a pothead killer since 1918 -beat empty oil drums and shouted at the top of their voices. The best boatmen in Newfoundland danced their craft among the whales and the long spiked lances stabbed out, turning the frothy water crimson with blood. In its death throes, a whale rammed the boat containing three generations of Higdons. It smashed three planks below the water...
...atmosphere of sameness permeates virtually every aspect of student life. It ranges from compulsory attendance at daily chapel, four years of physical training for all, and required R.O.T.C., to a fraternity system where every house contains an identical amount of floor space...
...students must attend daily chapel services and a vesper service on Sundays. Courses of Biblical Study are required through the first two years of the school...
Local skiing enthusiasts are not the only ones who hope for a long, hard winter; Merrill wants to see if the Metasequoia can stand a Northern habitat. Ideally the Metasequeia grows best in humid regions--Chapel Hill. North Carolina, now holds the record for height here with a 12 and a half foot specimen Shropshire, England, beasts the largest plantation with 2,000 trees...
...century. His last illness was brief. Though he had lived among the nuns for eleven years, with characteristic ambiguity Santayana never officially returned to the Roman Catholic Church in which he was baptized; he did not receive the Sacraments on his deathbed. His body was taken to a chapel in Rome's Catholic Verano Cemetery, and left there without ceremony until it is decided where and how he will be buried...