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...moment coming last fortnight when the Putnams, father and son, and Dan Streeter touched off their rifles simultaneously into the bulk of a polar bear on a cake of pan ice. David Putnam, 13, veteran of William Beebe's last Galapagos cruise, had been spending days in the crow's-nest sighting for bear; it is unlikely that he will neglect to mention the episode in his projected treatize: David Goes to Greenland...
...crisis. No, she would tell them nothing about the annexation of Canada; she knew nothing. Yes, she was going up to Maine with her brother-in-law, Charles Dana Gibson. No. . . . Yes. . . . No. . . . The U. S. public votes for its "Ma" Fergusons, its W. C. T. U. reformers, its crow-voiced, flat-heeled "careerists," then gazes sheepishly, enviously, abroad to this woman twice ennobled-once by Virginia birth, again by British marriage-awards her the respect invariably awarded by democracy to true aristocracy...
...first crow that, barring accident, will face the Princeton eight on Lake Carnegie, is as follows...
...Before her stretched a season of snooping af-ter icebergs. On April 15 she, or her alternate iceberg scout, the Modoc, will heave to at latitude 41° 46' north, longitude 50° 14' west. Her crew, except for the ever present watch in crow's-nest and bridge, will fire three volleys, will moan "taps" in lament for the sinking of the Titanic on that spot 14 years before...
...telegram from some Fisk undergraduates asking him please to investigate "the situation" (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925, et ante). This latter was created by Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, then President of Fisk. The students were striking-indeed 150 resigned and decamped-because of Dr. McKenzie's alleged "Jim Crow" methods: allowing a Negro bishop to be insulted, segregating audiences at college concerts, banning mixed dancing, silk stockings, decollete gowns, leading Fisk entertainers into a white men's club by the kitchen door. The students were striking and they were demanding a new president, a black president...