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...unable to meet the formal admission requirements. To provide for such girls, the residents of Old Bennington, Vt., laid plans six years ago to establish a college. Under the leadership of Dr. Vincent Ravi-Booth, townsmen and summer visitors raised over $500,000 and provided a campus on a slope of the Green Mountains where oldtime Mount Anthony Seminary was founded...
...capital in the coffee-growing highlands. From there, the expedition has radiated into the surrounding country on field trips of varying length, which the courtesy of landowners has made possible. Early in October interesting collections were made in Pejivalle in Cartago Province, an upland, jungle section on the Atlantic slope. Two weeks at Santiago de Cartago gave opportunity for many finds from the lower portions of the volcano. Turrialba, and the deeply-forested canon of the Rio Reventazon...
Since his court-martial, he has been living on his private estate "Boxwood," at Middleburg, Va., on the east slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains and not far west of Washington. Nominally he goes in for farming and horse & stock raising. While doing that and making frequent trips to Europe and Asia he has kept up his bombardment of the Government's air program. At first his attacks were heavy barrages of magazine articles and pamphlets. Lately he has directed only a desultory fire...
...motive force gliders use air currents which swell over hilly terrain. Dune country, such as that near Chicago and off the Carolinas, is best for gliding. Knolls, ranges or terraces should slope toward the prevailing wind. One knoll should be 50 to 200 feet above all. And all should be bare of poles, trees, shrubs or other obstructions...
After a day of uncertainty, they saw the lava slip slowly down the slope. Little jets of steam hissed from the mountain's side. The 10,000 inhabitants reluctantly prepared to leave. White surpliced priests marched chanting part way up the volcano. In supplication and prayer they bore relics of St. Vitus, born in Sicily, or St. Leonardo, their patron saint...