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Sprawling like a high-humped lizard on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean is a mighty ridge, its lazy length (about 50 degrees N. lat. to 40 degrees S. lat.) following the S-shaped outlines of the continents on either side. A sheer 9,000 feet of height, it towers in the way of deep sea fishes scurrying from Pernambuco to Benguel. Its knobby head rises curiously above the waters in the north (Azores plateau); St. Paul, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha mark its southern peaks...
...like an ostler at his master's wedding, awkward but proud, mortified but grinning, sheepish without shame. There was much in store for him to endure ? the prodding of Mississippi's Harrison, the cold twitting of Nebraska's Norris, the rabbit-punching of Missouri's Reed. The lat ter chewed softly on his cigar, glancing only now and again across the aisle where sat the other Reed, haggard but urbane, threatening to fili buster for his colleague...
Fourteen men will make the trip to West Point. They are: Captain J. F. Carr '28, Bernard Barnes '30, A. R. Blackburn '29, Durk Bodde '30, E. F. Clark '28, N. R. Danielian '28, L. LaT. Driggs '28, H. C. Haskell '28, S. C. Henry '28, Louis Kerness '29, A. S. Rudd '29, Reed Ryan '29, A. M. Stollmeyer '30, and W. D. Vogel...
...boundary (Lat. 39" 43' 26.3" N.) between Maryland and Pennsylvania. It was surveyed in 1763-67 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon who were sent over from England to settle the dispute between the Baltimore and Penn families following Charles IPs grant to William Penn. When slavery became a U. S. issue, the Line was thought of as extending west via the Ohio River and the upper boundary of Missouri, separating free from slave states, North from South...
Lectures were given during the year by Dr. H. J. Spinden '06, Colonel LaT. Driggs, General Umberto Nobile, Professor H. E. Barnes, Colonel C. W. Furlong, Dr. W. M. McGovern, J. F. Leys, F. M. Ford, Professor S. K. Hornbeck, Captain R. A. Bartlett, W. H. Hays and F. B. Young...