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[email protected]. Vol. 34 APRIL, 1953 . No. 7 Published monthly from October to June inclusive by the University of Maine General Alumni Association, Business office, The Maine Alumnus, University of Maine,• ? n*’ per ?ear> included in annual alumni dues of $5 00 Member: American Alumni Council Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Orono, Maine, under act of March 3 1870 « ’ V. - . ■"'V then outright gifts of money and food climbing the mountainside to a beautiful have a strong toehold here—a quasi- home at its peak then down the sheer drop tiagic, natural setting, we thought. thousands of feet below to the sea, jolted In the fertile farmlands, about every a trifle as the bus bites off a sizeable square inch of soil is under cultivation. piece of mountainside, forcing a donkey With equipment and methods as primitive and cart to spraddle the low, much- as in Biblical times, the fruits of the broken-through retaining wall, and we farmers’ labor come from groves of lem tore on, horn blaring, to our destiny, or on, orange, fig and other fruit trees, end destination! less vineyards with silkworms busy among Armed with guidebook information, the vines, vegetables with ponderous we invaded Rome.