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...August 1st to 9th, at or near Catskill, in charge of Professor Davis. This week will be given to the examination of the Silurian and Devonian formations exposed in the foothills of the Catskill mountains, with collection of the characteristic fossils, study of structure in its relation to topography, and construction of geological maps and sections. A day or more may be given to the ascent of the Catskill mountain front, returning by the Kaaterskill clove...
...August 10th, Catskill, N. Y.; to North Adams, Mass...
...August 11th to 16th, at or near North Adams, in charge of Mr. J. E. Wolff. This week will be spent in the study of the Taconic rocks and stratigraphy as found in the Greylock mountain mass, and of the metamorphic rocks of the Green mountains and their stratigraphy as exemplified by the structure and rocks of Hoosac mountain...
...August, 1869, the Times in its account of the Harvard-Oxford race, spoke of the "Ah! Ah!-Ah!" of the American college men. A letter to the Nation comments on this, and attacks the college for its abandonment of the "fine old lung" cheer (Hurrah), and its adoption of this "mouth-cheer, without either force or dignity." This brings out better several answers in strong support of our present cheer. The arguments or impressions of the writers are hardly interesting, except from what they say of the origin of the "Rah!" cheer, as follows: "In 1864 the college turned...
...form of a newspaper called "The Collegian." The heavy tone of the magazine was abandoned, and none but light and interesting articles were admitted into its columns. But, unfortunately, "The Collegian" met with an untimely end, being suppressed by the faculty for certain disrespectful allusions to that august body. Its last number appeared in April...