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...Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Drake fitted for college at the Cambridge Latin School and graduated with the class of '88. After graduating he taught school for a time in New London, Conn., and for the last three years had charge of the classical department at St. George's Hall, Summit, N. J. While in college Drake was on the University lacrosse team and was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and several literary organizations. His high intellectual attainments and congenial nature won him many friends...
...faces are too much alike, yet everyting of his is lovely. Besides this, he was one of the half dozen sublime painters of the earth. In all his figures there is a certain puissance, which in a few years had exerted an influence over all Italian painting. The summit had been reached, however, and the decadence of art soon began...
...made partly by coach, partly on broncho-back. Connected with Wilson's peak by a narrow ridge is a mountain, which Harvard experts tried to get in order to secure photographs of the transit of Venus. They were unable to do so then. Recently, however, the entire summit and its approaches, a space of ten acres, has been tendered to Harvard College. This peak will be the site of a coast observatory, for which there is already a liberal endowment. While President Eliot was there, the peak was christened "Mt. Harvard...
...home during the erection of the stone-house. Through the assistance of the American Minister of Bolivia, Mr. Anderson, an expedition of much archaeological interest, was made to Tiahuanuco and the sacred islands of the Incas on Lake Titicaca. A trip was also made to the summit of El Misti, a nearly extinct volcano, some nineteen thousand feet in height...
...present. Heffelfinger, who appeared to enjoy the "Hoodoo" song so much at the concert, was present at the reception with several other well-known Yale men. The next morning the fellows straggled back to St. Paul. In the afternoon a very delightful tea was given by Mrs. Stone of Summit Avenue; this was one of the most enjoyable events of the whole trip. In the evening the concert was given before a large audience in the Peoples' Chuch and at its close all the Harvard men present, graduates and undergraduates, gathered in front of the platform and indulged in some...