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...Crystal Cave paid eagerly to see the caver's body displayed in a glass-topped coffin. It is still there, though no longer on display, and minus a leg pilfered by rival cave owners. Modern cavers, say the authors, often have a word with Floyd as they head onward and downward...
...decades since the institutionalization of Gen Ed have also seen a progressive disillusionment throughout American society that has affected Harvard. As Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty for the Colleges, says, "As opposed to 1945, this is a more pessimistic time, less expansive, lacking the 'upward and onward' mentality. When Gen Ed began, we had just won the World War and things looked rosy. Now it seems like there are problems everywhere, and who feels qualified to decide what an education should be about...
...grain has been piled up in impromptu warehouses, like unused college buildings, where the rats are having a field day. Hence the need for more snakes. Curiously, both animals are considered sacred-and thus inviolable in some regions. Even though India has conducted antirat campaigns from at least 1881 onward, lingering reverence may be one reason why the pesky rodents continue to thrive...
...composed of equal parts of missionary zeal to help others and fierce self-interest. It was best described, he says, in the admonition that Rebekah Baines Johnson, formidable matron of Johnson City, delivered frequently to her son Lyndon. "Do good," she said, "and you will do well." Onward Calvinist soldiers from Plains and Dixon and Grand Rapids...
...headstrong woman explores higher and higher-above the last town, above the encampments of the nomadic Gujar tribe, above the tree line -the air becomes cleaner and thinner and her life more elemental. The solitude and longed-for "power of seeing, really seeing" pull her onward. Leah's servant, Ahmed, shares her drive, but he is eager only to leave behind a life of error. Despite their backgrounds the un likely pair draw closer until the purity of the landscape erodes their differences...