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Show ALPINE SCHOOL HISTORY TOLD Article About Unique Summer Sum-mer Institution Is Given Wide Publicity. The. folIi;nvmr article regarding regard-ing the Alpijie summer Kohool is Issued by Western Features, n feature service of th Scripps-Canfleld Scripps-Canfleld newspapers, of which tile I'rovo Evening Herald is a mi niher. The article and picture pic-ture will appear in a dozen western papers, members of the S-C croup. . I Perched 6800 feet above sea level, much of the time above the clouds, in a picturesque aspen Riovo in the Wasatch ranee of the Rockies is located the highest summer sum-mer school in the world. It is known as the Alpine summer sum-mer school and is operated during July and August each year by Erig-ham Erig-ham Young university, the leading "Mormon" educational institution. Virgin Forest Situated about 20 miles from Provo, the' campus comprises ten acres of mountain land and is augmented aug-mented by a lease of more than 50 acres of virgin forest used as a laboratory lab-oratory by the botany students of the institution. The school is co-educational. Charming und beautiful young women, wo-men, as well as stalwart young men are enrolled. Several married men attending the unique school and many of the faculty members have their families with them at the camp. A community dining room is maintained by the university for the unmarried students. Classes are generally conducted out-of-doors, sometimes in tents provided with tables and chairs. Recreational activities are featured daily, and once or twice a week the dining room is pressed into service as a dancing pavilion, while music is furnished hy an improvised impro-vised orchestra of three or four pieces. The school came into existence eight years ago when a group of students and two teachers camped in Aspen grove for six weeks to study geological formations and flora. Since then a permanent camp has been established. According to Dr. Henry C. Cowles, eminent ecologist of the University of Chicago, who taught at the school two years, the location loca-tion is ideal. The campus is located locat-ed about half way up Mt. Timpa- ! nogos, the highest peak in the Wasatch Wa-satch range, in close proximity to one of the greatest and most famous fa-mous "faults" in the world. The mountain, says Dr. Cowles, presents all the types of flora to be found between old Mexico and the region north of the arctic circle. Five distinct plant zones are encountered. en-countered. At the Alpine summer school is found each summer an art colony of landscape painters in oils and water colors, and on two different ' summers, a colony of scluptors. Such well-known painters as Lee 1 F. Randolph, head of the California School of Art; Lee Greene Richards, Rich-ards, world-known artist of Salt Lake City, and B. F. Larsen of the art department of thi Young university. uni-versity. The sculpture work has been under the direction of T. S. Knaphus, a well-known Norwegian sculptor. Students from all over western America are attracted to this school in one of natures' greatest out-door laboratories. |