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Speaking from the portico of white-pillared Monticello on a hilltop five miles out of Charlottesville, he did not even recall that Thomas Jefferson had been the Founder of the Democratic Party, praised him instead as the champion of freedom. Only the loftiest of allusions to the political present were there in the President's cry of the Founding Fathers: ''Theirs were not the gods of things as they were, but the gods of things as they ought to be. They used new means and new models to build new structures." Nor could any but the rudest...
Another party was led by Walter D. Wood '26, who, accompanied by his brother, Harrison Wood '36, reached the unconquered peak of Mt. Steele. This mountain, which is also in the Yukon region, is 16,400 feet high, making it one of the ten loftiest peaks in North America...
Ascents are to be made of the principal peaks in the region visited. These will include the Weisshorn, the Breithorn, and Monta Rosa, the second loftiest mountain of Europe, which is considered one of the best of Alpine climbs and said to offer some of the finest snow work in Switzerland...
Leaving aside water walls of earthquake origin, skyscraper waves are piled up by steady gales blowing over a great expanse of deep sea. Once formed, such waves may continue their majestic roll until broken up by slackening wind or shallow water. Loftiest ocean wave mentioned in encyclopedic discussions of the subject is a 70-footer reported by the Majestic's, officers twelve years ago. At tales of bigger ones scientists and seamen are inclined to scoff...
...JOURNAL OF THESE DAYS-Albert Jay Nock-Morrow ($2.75). Of the few One of the few writers who hold themselves aloof from the contemporary scene, Albert Jay Nock is one of the loftiest. Like the anarchist who enjoyed his freedom from all political allegiances, Bystander Nock is in the comfortable position of running no danger that his superior wisdom in economics, politics et al. will be put to a test in practice. Not given to the loud laugh, he has spent much of his time recording in his journal his amusement and disgust at his fellow-countrymen's behavior...