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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Thus. Thin 8vo. Pp. 26. Frontispiece photo of the 24 attendees to the festivities. Contains a necrology and the causes of death. List of living graduates and their addresses. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering stamped on front cover. Slight wear. Among the 44 surviving members of the class was Captain Clarence Edward Dutton, geologist and explorer of the American Southwest, of whom Wallace Stegner wrote Dutton is almost as much the genius loci of the Grand Canyon as Muir is of Yosemite. Dutton also dragged a half-ton vessel up to Crater Lake and thereby ascertained the depth of the lake using piano wire. The crews assessment, 1,996 feet, was pretty damn accurate, as sonar has proven the lake to be 1,943 feet deep.…