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...ranking. Since its inception the course which the sport has followed has tended to increase rather than diminish, the fears of the doubting Thomases. Rivals like M.I.T. and the Coast Guard failed to provide the kind of opposition the team needed, and with Virginia the only opponent worth its salt, the inadequacy of the rest of the schedule more than justifies throwing the whole intercollegiate show overboard. And although the action of the A.A. does not appear to have been influenced by the Yale flare-up last winter, undoubtedly the final damning evidence in the minds of many...
...Valley searched for gold while fleeing for their lives, thereby setting a pattern that prospectors into that dismal region have followed ever since. On Christmas Day, 1849, a party of emigrants in 27 wagons known as the Sand-Walking Company, lost while trying to find a short cut from Salt Lake City to San Bernardino, Calif., entered the Valley by way of Furnace Creek and never got out. Ahead of the Sand-Walkers there was a band of young men, traveling in 20 wagons, unencumbered by women or children, known as the Jayhawkers, who split off to save themselves when...
Last week Dane Coolidge made the Jayhawkers' tragedy the starting point of a rambling, formless but interesting account of the perils of gold-hunting in the hottest region on earth, the 500 square miles of volcanic rock, salt deposits, borax mines, poison springs and complete desolation that make up Death Valley. Divided into eleven brief chapters and illustrated with 17 excellent photographs by the author, Death Valley Prospectors is partly an account of Author Coolidge's travels through the Valley, partly history as he picked it up from his reading and his talks with Indians and oldtimers like...
...Huger Smith, a 52-page discussion of the Rice Coast by Dr. Herbert Ravenel Sass, a 38-page memoir of boyhood on a rice plantation by the late Daniel Elliott Huger Smith. The result is a handsome gift book in which Alice Huger Smith's paintings of lagoons, salt creeks, rice fields in winter, threshing and harvesting scenes, easily carry off all honors. Dr. Sass's discussion is about evenly divided between interesting facts on the Rice Coast and dull arguments about slavery, the main point of which is that a true Athenian democracy was developing...
...acquaintances. Because a bullying, stupid army man named Hodges makes a blunder, the colonists put in three weeks' labor building their cabins the wrong way, are ordered to tear them down and rebuild according to specifications. Ill-humor reaches a peak with a shortage of fruit, vegetables and salt; a raid on the commissary is nipped by Hodges who has turned one colonist into a spying stoolpigeon...