MOUNTAIN ASH 



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MOUNT STEPHEN 



MOUNTAIN ASH, a tree belonging to the 

 rose family, widely known throughout Europe 

 and America. It bears crisp, green leaves, clus- 

 ters of white flowers and red berries, and in the 

 wild state seems to prefer a home in cold, un- 

 protected mountainous places. It is sometimes 

 found as a shrub, and rarely grows taller than 

 thirty feet. Although it is ornamental its hard 

 wood is useful for handles of tools and imple- 

 ments that are manufactured from the wood, 

 and the scarlet berries which cling to its 

 branches throughout the winter often furnish 

 the chief food for the birds at that season. In 

 Europe the mountain ash is known as the rowan 



MOUNTAIN LAUREL, law'rel, a species of 

 kalmia, an evergreen shrub of the heath family, 

 bed under the title KALMIA. 



MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY, an insti- 

 tution for higher education, located at Sack- 

 ville, N. B. By its charter the ultimate owner- 

 ship of the university is vested in the General 

 Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada. 

 The direct management of its affairs is in the 

 hands of a Board of Regents, which is also the 

 supreme governing body of Mount Allison 

 Ladies' College and Mount Allison Academy, 

 affiliated institutions. Twenty-four of the re- 

 gents are selected by the General Conference, 

 eight by the Alumni Society, and four by the 

 Alumnae Association of the Ladies' College. 

 Ive of the regents and the members of the 

 faculty comprise the Senate, which controls edu- 

 cational matters, such as the framing of courses 

 of study and the conferring of degrees. In its 

 internal administration the university is strictly 

 nondenomi national, and many of its students, 

 who number about 250, are not Methodists. 

 Mount Allison was the first chartered college 

 in Canada to admit women to all the privi- 

 leges of regular courses and degrees. 



Mount Allison was named for Charles F. 

 Allison (died 1858), a resident of Sackville. 



MOUNT CARMEL, PA., is a city of North- 

 umberland County, in the rich anthracite coal 

 fields in the east-central part of the state. It 

 is 129 miles northwest of Philadelphia and sev- 

 -> northeast of Harriaburg, and is 

 on the Northern Central, the Philadelphia & 

 Reading and the Lehigh Valley railroads. The 

 population, about one-third foreign born, in 

 1910 was 17,532; in 1916 it was 20,268 (Federal 

 estimate). 



Coal mining and shipping are the principal 

 industries. There are manufactories of miners' 

 supplies, cement blocks, shirts and cigars; there 



are also silk and planing mills, a packing plant, 

 foundries and machine shops and wagon works. 

 Mount Carmel was incorporated as a town 

 about 1848, and was chartered as a borough 

 in 1862. HJ.K. 



MOUNT DESERT, a mountainous island, 

 abounding in beautiful lakes, fourteen miles 

 long and seven miles wide, in the Atlantic 

 Ocean off the southern coast of Maine. In 

 1918 it became Lafayette National Park, by 

 special act of Congress. Green Mountain, the 

 highest point on the island, rises to a height 

 of 1,535 feet. There are three convenient har- 

 bors, Bar Harbor, Northeast and Southwest, 

 and many small towns and villages, the most 

 noted being Bar Harbor. The latter is one 

 of the most exclusive summer resorts in the 

 United States. 



The island was discovered by Champlain and 

 !. d by French Jesuits in 1608, their settle- 

 ment, Saint Lawrence, being destroyed by an 

 expedition from Virginia in 1616. Somerville, 

 the oldest village on the island, was settled by 

 the English in 1761. The permanent popula- 

 tion is not quite 2,000. 



MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, at South 

 Hadley, Mass., one of the first colleges for 

 women established in the United States, 

 institution was founded by ' n (which 



in 1837, as Mount Holyoke Seminary and 

 College. It has borne its present name since 

 1893, when the seminary charter was given up. 

 The purpose of its founder was to make it pos- 

 sible for girls of moderate circumstances to re- 

 B college training. Most of the students 

 live in dormitories on the campus, where board 

 and lodging may be obtained for 1275 a year. 

 The degree of B. A. is given to those com- 

 pleting two years of prescribed and two yean 

 of elective work. With college property val- 

 ued at $2,256,000, and productive funds amount- 

 ing to over $1,480,000, Mount Holyoke takes 

 high rank among American colleges for women. 

 The library, which has the use of a 

 manent fund of $10,000, an income increased 

 by annual appropriations, contains over 58,000 

 volumes. The college has a faculty of about 

 ninety, and a student enrolment of nearly 800. 

 It is the special ol> nut Holyoke Col- 



lege to combine with hush M-hntorly ideals a 

 strong influence for Christian character. 



MOUNT STEPHEN, GEORGE STEPHEN, First 

 n (1829- ), a Canadian financier and 

 railway promoter, firrt president of the Cana- 

 dian Pacific Railway, whose completion was 

 due in a large measure to his energy, foresight 



