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Riverside Military Academy certainly qualifies as a "migratory" school with its two complete, school-owned and unencumbered plants-in Gainesville, Ga., for fall and spring and at Hollywood, Fla. for the winter. In addition, it is for the fourth consecutive year the nation's largest military preparatory school with an enrollment of more than 630 boys from 36 States and eight foreign countries...
...graduate of Webber College I challenge your statement in Oct. 5 issue that the most famed educational wanderer is a boys school. Since 1928 girls at Webber have studied in Boston during the fall months and migrated to Babson Park, Fla. each January for their winter semester. Starting with five students, Webber now has 62 daughters of fathers prominent in U. S. affairs who have concluded that Webber, at a cost of $1,550 per year, offers the best preparation to young women for future business and financial responsibilities...
...crime. File on Bolitho Blane is a collection of various objects found at the scene of a murder, together with telegrams, memoranda, stenographic reports of interviews with suspects, bound together in a bulky loose-leaf binding. First exhibit is a telegram from Carlton Rocksavage to the police of Miami, Fla., announcing the suicide on his yacht of Bolitho Blane. Next is a police memo ordering Officer Keys Kettering to investigate. Most of the subsequent exhibits are Kettering's reports, but there are also police files on the individuals involved, photographs of the scene of the crime...
Most famed educational wanderer is Adirondack-Florida School, which opened last fortnight in cabins on the shore of Clear Pond near Onchiota, N. Y. After the Christmas holiday Headmaster Kenneth Wilson, a onetime Princeton instructor, will move his 24 pupils and six tutors to Coconut Grove, Fla. Swank Adirondack-Florida specializes in outdoor life, provides canoes in the Adirondacks, a beach and 35-ft. cruising sloop in Florida. Tuition is $1,500 plus extras. Enrolled there this year are George Nichols, grandson of J. P. Morgan, and Drayton Phillips, son of William Phillips, U. S. Ambassador to Rome. Alumni include...
...Institute ($950 tuition, 225 enrollment) was established at Franklin Springs, Ky. in 1845. It moved to Lyndon, Ky. a half-century ago, went on the move two years ago when its headmaster Colonel Charles Blair Richmond bought a Depression-crippled resort hotel and a block of stores at Venice, Fla., whither K. M. I. repairs every January...