This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...their pleasant home, and to meet many of their friends and neighbors. On Thursday evening, we were driven in automobiles to the home of Senator Sproul, Lapidea Manor, where he and his wife received us most cordially. After a stroll about the grounds, from which we had a fine view across the low rolling hills to Chester ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...their pleasant home, and to meet many of their friends and neighbors. On Thursday evening, we were driven in automobiles to the home of Senator Sproul, Lapidea Manor, where he and his wife received us most cordially. After a stroll about the grounds, from which we had a fine view across the low rolling hills to Chester, we sat down to what was styled a "Pennsylvania Country Supper." President Joseph Swain, President Isaac Sharpless of Haverford, and Provost Edgar F. Smith of the University of Pennsylvania, as well as other guests, friends of the College and Observatory, were with us. We spent the evening inspecting the many art and antique treasures of the Sproul home. On Friday at noon we were taken in hand by a group of Swarthmore citizens, who took us in their automobiles on an excursion to historic Valley Forge, of which it is written, "No spot on Earth--not the plains of Marathon, nor the passes of Sempach, nor the place of the Bastile, nor the dikes of Holland, nor the moors of England--is more sacred in the history of struggle for human liberty." We visited here the various points of interest, and saw the many relics and memorials. Of especial interest at this time, when most of the world is represented by thousands of soldiers burrowing in trenches, were the still clearly visible lines of entrenchments prepared by Washington's army. The day was rather warm, and it required somewhat of a stretch of imagination to picture the sufferings from the cold of the ragged and poorly shod and famished continental army, Our way on the return took us through the campus of Bryn Mawr College. We drove into the quadrangle, and looked about at some of the buildings. It is certainly a most attractive place, even without the young ladies--for schoo...
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