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...mountain-side overlooking the Urubaniba River valley. These buildings were all of the finest type, luxurious residences with individual bed-chambers and spacious, well-lighted studies. Unfortunately these rooms were so large, and apparently so much had been spent on their construction in the finest type of High-Inca architecture, that they were entirely too few in number. This at least was an explanation for certain curious structures which we had found in the vicinity--little platforms set in the branches of nearby trees, with scanty-walls and roofs. No doubt these tree-huts had been the overflow dormitories...
...hour of walking we came to the end. Digging our way out, we reached the upper air and looked about us in entirely new surroundings. The place where we had come out was nothing less than Machu Picchu, the old capital city which Bingham discovered, the Hub of the Inca universe. You will remember from my earlier letters that the University was situated on a spur of the same mountain-unit on which the city was perched, but separated from it by a steep ridge which made it almost inaccessible. The tunnel had been built underneath to communicate between...
...posted in public places. Further perusal of the college news sheet reveals that this custom, as well as the others here enumerated, had been received with mixed feelings and that such terms as paternalism, laissez-faire, and indifference were common tender. At all events, it is evident that the Inca University was run on a carefully organized, well-detailed plan. Indeed, one record purporting to be a payroll indicates that the number of executive officials deans, secretaries, registrars, and the like was at least three times the number of professor and members of the faculty. Cordially yours. J. BLAIR-DUNGAM...
...letter today concerns the popular Inca pastime of Rolo, which our specialists have just discovered. At the base of the mountain we came upon a huge pile of rocks stacked haphazard at the foot of a broad ramp which led up the slope to the site of the university. We were long in a quandary about their significance, but by means of various records unearthed in the city above, or cut in the rocky faces of the cliff (details of which I must spare you), Senor Alvarotez has deduced this astonishing explanation...
...wherefore then, do they roll rocks?" And indeed this was true; no longer did anyone come there to gain training of the mind. They came only for the great sport of Rolo. Rolo was the raison d'etre of the university, the paramount appeal to the people of the Inca realm. The furore which this revelation caused must have been tremendous, says Senor Alvarotez. The cry was taken up on all sides. Leaf after leaf of the college paper was covered with wild appeals to reason, conjecturing what the future would bring forth, suggestions for a remedy of the awful...