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...Glee Club left Cambridge Tuesday morning arriving at Saratoga Springs, New York, that afternoon. After the concert there for Skidmore College and a night spent in a local hotel, they departed for Elmira, New York, and thence to Rydal, Pennsylvania. Returning to New York, the club stopped at Briarcliffe Manor and Poughkeepsie, and finally returned triumphantly to Cambridge late Sunday night...
...Britain's Rydal School lives a cock sparrow which, in the solemn opinion of one K. G. Britton (as communicated to Nature), is badly in need of psychiatric attention...
...rare thing for a bird or a dog to twitter, bark or glare at its reflection (see cut). But unlike most such birds & beasts, the Rydal sparrow disdains all other windows and reflectors. So infatuated is the sparrow that it utterly ignores other sparrows, despite their "auxiliary attractions of smell and song...
Later this property was purchased by the Ogontz School which now has moved to Rydal...
Last fortnight, on a lush campus in the swank Rydal section north of Philadelphia, a battalion of 150 uniformed girls, toting wooden rifles, marched in precise military review. It was Ogontz School's commencement day. Military drill has been a feature of Ogontz training since 1890. The late General Thomas D. Landon, commander of neighboring Bordentown (N. J.) Military Institute, who inaugurated military training at Ogontz and drilled the girls until 1935, held the view that you never knew when Amazons would come in handy...