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BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL FOR BOYS

HENDERSONVILLE, N. C.

deet, accredited school of high standards, resultful ods, and of sound principles and ideals.

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Ideally ed in the "Land of the Sky." Junior DepartNon-Military. For Catalogue, address

J. R. SANDIFER, Headmaster.

Brenau College Conservatory

:lect patronage 32 states; location, foothills Blue ge Mts. North of Atlanta. Standard A. B. course; ial advantages in music, oratory, art, domestic ice, physical culture. 32 buildings. Outdoor sports; aming, boating, horseback riding, etc.

Catalog and illustrated book. Address: BRENAU, Box E, Gainesville, Ga.

ROXBURY

A Special Type of Boarding School.
College Preparation

und Instruction by the Tutorial Method
High Record of Efficiency in College
Entrance Examinations.

A. L. Sheriff, Headmaster
Cheshire, Connecticut.

Westminster

Prepares Boys for College

er and Lower School. Summer and Winter Sessions
Laymond Richards McOrmond, A. B. (Yale)
Head Master
SIMSBURY, CONNECTICUT

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ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY

of

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

Also High School,
Write for catalog.

andard senior college for men.

and school for smaller boys.

Ideally situated in the

'INTER PLAYGROUND OF AMERICA

THE ORATORY SCHOOL
College preparatory school for the sons of
gentlemen.

Conducted by the Oratorian Fathers.
Classes taught by competent laymen.

Preference given to applicants to Lower School.

Apply to Headmaster,

Summit, New Jersey

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KENILWORTH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

A resident and day school for girls, from five to sixteen
years or age. A thorough school with delightful home life,
at the Nation's Capital. Kindergarten primary and inter-
mediate courses. Educational advantages of Nation's
Capital fully used. Sports and Recreation. Moderate
Cost. For Catalogue, address

KENILWORTH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
1862 Wyoming Avenue
Washington, D. C.
Garrison Forest School for Girls
A Modern, Well Equipped School on a Country Estate
in the Beautiful Green Spring Valley near Baltimore.
Location Favorable for Outdoor Sports and Horseback
Riding.

Intermediate, College Preparatory, or General
Courses, including Music and Art.
Special Care for Junior School Pupils.
For Catalog and Views Address:

MISS MARY MONCRIEFFE LIVINGSTON, Box 8,
Garrison, Md.

ST. ANGELA ACADEMY

CARROLL, IOWA

Boarding School for Girls

Accredited Academic Department. Separate oneyear Con.mercial Course. Two-year course in household arts for young ladies desiring to prepare themselves for successful home-making. Board, tuition and laundry, $250 per year.

For further information, address Sister Superior

LEARN LANGUAGES

Private and Class instruction in all modern languages. English included. Skilled native teachers. Reasonable tuition. Day and Evening Classes. Enroll at a BERLITZ SCHOOL in New York Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Detroit, Chicago, etc.

HOME STUDY COURSE for out of town students. Write for particulars to New York Berlitz School, 80, West 34th Street.

T. MARY'S COLLEGE University of Southern California

ST. MARYS, KANSAS

Comprises the following schools and colleges: Liberal
Art, Law, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Music, Speech, Com-
merce and Business Administration, Religion, Social
Welfare, Education, Graduate School, Metropolitan

TOM PLAYFAIR'S SCHOOL"
esuit Boarding School for Boys College.
For catalog, write

REV. B. J. RODMAN, S. J., President

President, Rufus B. von Kleinsmid, A.M., Sc.D., J.D., D.M.C.P., Ph. et Litt.D.

For bulletins, address Registrar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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249 West 13th Street, New York

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Entered as second-class matter, January 22, 1889 at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879.

Single Copy. 50 Ce

GIRLS' SCHOOLS

ST. JAMES SCHOOL
Episcopal

A select home school for BOYS of the GRADE Ideally situated on a beautiful trant of 180 acre MILITARY. All sports under supervision. Parenti care. Limited number. Small classes. Individu attention. Graduates enter all leading secondai schools. 25th year. For catalogue address

College of St. Elizabeth FREDERICK E. JENKINS, Headmaste

Convent Station, New Jersey

45 Minutes from New York

Catholic College for Women
Registered by Regents

Standard College Preparatory Courses
Academy of St. Elizabeth
Send for Catalogue

Saint Mary's School
Mount Saint Gabriel
PEEKSKILL-ON-THE-HUDSON, N. Y.

Boarding School for Girls Under the charge of the Sisters of St. Mary New fireproof building beautifully situated

For catalogues address The Sister Superior

CHEVY CHASE SCHOOL

Residential school for girls. Senior high school, with two years advanced work beyond. Twelve-acre campus. Address CHEVY CHASE SCHOOL, Box N. FREDERIC ERNEST FARRINGTON, Ph. D.,

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Box S. Faribault Minnesota

THE ORATORY SCHOOL College preparatory school for the sons of gentlemen.

Conducted by the Oratorian Fathers. Classes taught by competent laymen. Preference given to applicants to Lower School. Apply to Headmaster, Summit, New Jersey

Virginia Episcopal School

LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA

prepares boys at cost for college and universit Modern equipment. althy location in the mour tains of Virginia. Cost moderate, made possib through the generosity of founders. For catalog apply to

REV. WILLIAM G. PENDLETON, D. D., Rector

RANDOLPH-MACON ACADEMY

BEDFORD, VIRGINIA

Beautiful and healthful location at foot of fame Peaks of Otter in Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia Work thoroughly accredited. Military training. Spects emphasis on Character building. Rates only $500.00 nine months session. For catalog address:

COLONEL WM. R. PHELPS, M.A., Principal.

ROXBURY

A Special Type of Boarding School.
College Preparation

Sound Instruction by the Tutorial Metho
High Record of Efficiency in College
Entrance Examinations.

A. L. Sheriff, Headmaster
Cheshire, Connecticut.

Westminster

Prepares Boys for College

Upper and Lower School. Summer and Winter Session Raymond Richards McOrmond, A. B. (Yale)

Head Master

SIMSBURY, CONNECTICUT

LEARN LANGUAGES

Private and Class instruction in all modern lan guages. English included. Skilled native teacher: Reasonable tuition. Day and Evening Classe Enroll at a BERLITZ SCHOOL in New Yor Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore. Washiri ton, Detroit, Chicago, etc.

HOME STUDY COURSE for out of town students. Write for particulars New York Berlitz School, 30 West 34th Street.

Second Educational Section, Third Cover Page

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BY LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR GEORGE MACMUNN, K.C.B., K.C.S.I., D.S.O.

THE story of Sadon, which rhymes with atone, is the story of a subaltern going berserk, and when that subaltern has reached the rank of Lieutenant-General, and has joined the ranks of those with tired feet, to use the Persian metaphor, it is perhaps permissible to tell it.

In the beginning of the year 1892 I was the junior subaltern with an Indian mountain battery at the frontier station of Loralai, in the province of British Baluchistan, as wild a mountain station in the Suliman hills or the mountains of Solomon as any frontier soldier could desire. Sixty miles of Sixty miles of mountain passes from the railway line the line to Quetta up the Hurnai gorges, through

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which I had marched to join my battery-stood the cluster of mud huts which formed the cantonment.

I had come a long way to get there, was thrilled with the mountains, the tribesmen, and the hard-bitten frontier troops, when an order came transferring me to another battery to fill a death vacancy, many hundred miles away on the other frontier, the Chinese border of Upper Burma.

There was nothing to be done save pack up and go, and so, with my chestnut Arab charger, my Indian groom and bearer, and my subaltern's whatnots on shaggy frontier camels, I started down through the passes, this time deep in snow, for the railway.

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