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...course America has no pyramids or Swiss Chalets; but the villages of prehistoric cliff dwellings in the Mesa Verde National Park have been found quite as interesting, while the great ranges about Mount Rainer are thought to compare favorably with the Swiss Alps. As for the animal life in the Yellowstone, the majestic pageant of the Grand Canyon, the giant groves in the Sequoia, Europe can nowhere offer parallels. The Harvard trip, in touring this western country, will not only give its explorers a suggestion of the extent and resources of their country but prove to them that Americans...
...interesting to note the geographical division of the honor men. Greater Boston, of course, leads with twenty-four men; New Hampshire has thirteen, far out of proportion to her total enrolment. Nearly all of the men come from the New England states; distant states are practically unrepresented. Mesa, Arizona, sends the one representative of the Far West. Perhaps the most interesting contributor of all is the Realgymnasium of Bremen, Germany. Out of the clouds of war, Germany is the only foreign nation whose scholarship is represented in the list. Even world-strife will not conquer her intellectual supremacy...
...Kappa Alpha Fraternity which has for its purpose the furthering of interest in forensics among American college men, has recently elected the following officers for next year: president, M. Suravitz '13, of Scranton, Pa.; vice-president, E.C. Porter 1G., of La Mesa, Cal.; secretary, J.A. Donovan '13, of Lawrence; treasurer, I. Levin '14, of Detroit; historian, N.E. Pierson 1L., of Stamford, Conn...
...outside of St. Louis. The party will then proceed to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they will spend a day at the important Jarvy Museum. From here they will go south to the large modern pueblo of Isleta, and the Laguna and the Acoma pueblos. The latter, built on a mesa 400 feet high, is in nearly the same condition that it was when Coronado found...
Among the slides are views of the Petrified Forest, the Enchanted Mesa and the Moki Snake Dance...