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...while waiting for Congress to demobilize the Continental army, George Washington made a tour of inspection of New York waterways, laid out a route for a canal linking the western frontier with the Atlantic seaboard. In 1817-25. Governor De Witt Clinton of New York dug the Erie Canal ("Clinton's Ditch") from Troy to Buffalo. It was later found that his engineers had followed, inch for inch, the Washington route. More lately, the Erie Canal has been modernized as far west as Syracuse, where it joins the Oswego Canal to form the main New York State Barge Canal...
Smith Halls will again be under the charge of J. W. D. Seymour '17, Secretary to the University for Information, who has been interested during and after college in University dramatics. He started on the swimming team while in college. Seymour is a graduate of the De Witt Clinton High School of New York...
Bicycles. Before the 21st Annual Convention of the Cycle Trades of America, at Manhattan, rose De Witt Page, a vice president of the General Motors Corporation, to tell the assembled sellers of man power two-wheelers how the four-wheeled motor is actually pushing their sales. "Many of my friends," said Mr. Page, unsmiling, "now find parking conditions so intolerable that they ride on bicycles to their offices. . . The automobile has made suburban life possible. In the suburbs children can and do ride bicycles in safety. In nearly all of the fashionable girls' colleges and preparatory schools there...
William De Witt Hyde was elected President before he had reached his 27th birthday, and is consequently to be regarded as a younger college president than any given in the list of the Detroit News. The present head of the College, Dr. Kenneth C. M. Sills, was elected at the age of 38. Bowdoin College since its foundation in 1794 has had but eight presidents. The average age at the time of election was just 39. If we still think that a college president ought to have the flowing patriarchal beard, it is interesting to recall that Dr. Jesse Appleton...
There Lou left him. with the little Welsh groom whose lunar spiritual isolation had mastered not only the horse but, momentarily, the stony Mrs. Witt. Lou went on, into New Mexico, with her mother and their other groom, a half-breed Navajo from Arizona. The latter, detached, impassive, had seemed more than human back in England; but here, with dusky squaws about, he could be seen as himself, stupid, ratlike, sexually predatory...