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...evening with athletic recreation in the afternoon. The athletic program will include a baseball series, a tennis tournament, and a track meet in which teams representing the various colleges will compete. For those who do not care for organized athletics there will be plenty of opportunity for swimming and mountain climbing...
...Name and locate an important seaport in China; one of the world's largest cities not situated on navigable waters; a source of electric power in Africa; a mountain range of the complex type; the seat of an ancient civilization in Central America; a powerful city of ancient Syria, now fallen into decay; a country at the headwaters of the Nile; a region in the Southern Hemisphere with a monsoon climate; a French possession in the West Indies...
...date of this fire, and it agreed almost exactly with that estimated for some of the newer type buildings which form our second group. These were located at varying distances from the central point, one group in particular consisting of five large buildings, being on the verge of the mountain-side overlooking the Urubaniba River valley. These buildings were all of the finest type, luxurious residences with individual bed-chambers and spacious, well-lighted studies. Unfortunately these rooms were so large, and apparently so much had been spent on their construction in the finest type of High-Inca architecture, that...
...majority of the 32 colleges visited were located in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast districts, since it is these sections that furnish the school with most of its western attendance...
...entirely new surroundings. The place where we had come out was nothing less than Machu Picchu, the old capital city which Bingham discovered, the Hub of the Inca universe. You will remember from my earlier letters that the University was situated on a spur of the same mountain-unit on which the city was perched, but separated from it by a steep ridge which made it almost inaccessible. The tunnel had been built underneath to communicate between...