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...fundamental trouble with the St. Paul is overcompetition from the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, the Canadian transcontinental lines and shipping lines through the Panama Canal. The northwest territory is overbuilt with railroads in proportion to its traffic needs; and St. Paul, as the latest comer, has fared worst in competition. President Harry E. Byram naturally is preserving as cheerful a countenance concerning the approaching bond maturity date as he can; and even yet the bonds may be extended or exchanged in some way so as to avoid a receivership. But, since the immediate crisis is financial, the real future...
...Then comer the story of the ascent of the East glacier, culminating in the reaching of the Northeastern ridge, and the failure of the expedition due to storms, and the giving out of the oxygen tanks. The end is the assertion of Bruce--the leader of the party "you wait till 1924!" It will be interesting to hear of this second expedition, and to know whether the king of mountains shall be conquered. Meanwhile the story of the first attempt is full of strangeness and adventure
...tightening up of secondary school requirements and a boosting all along the line of a sagging elementary school system With this done, college work in spite of increased vigor will probably be less difficult to the freshman of the future than it is to the less well-trained new-comer today...
...Sigrid Onegin, contraito of the Metropolitan Opera Company, is the soloist on the program. She is a new-comer in the operatic world, having stepped into the limelight by her concerts in the past two years. She will sing two groups of songs. "Der Feuerriter" (The Fire Congerer) by Hugo Wolf and "Epiphanias" (Epiphany) also by Wolf are her two most interesting numbers, according to her own statement in a recent letter to the Glee Club manager. She further added that this will be the first singing of "Epiphanias" in America. I Since Christ Our Lord, from "The Seven Words...
...gala night came. The public, respectfully heeding the great maestro's command that no late comer be admitted, arrived in early crowds. They were greeted by a file of soldiers who lined the lobby and began searching everybody. The search went slowly and the crowd swelled before the theatre. The people who had been searched trooped back to check their cloaks. In the cloakroom stood the same single old fellow of yore. Nobody had thought of putting on extra help for the wholesale cloak checking. Between these two sources of delay only a few hundred people got into the auditorium...