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...Poles. Nearer earth, but still far off, were the speculations about polar geography offered by Dr. R. N. Rudmose Brown. The Arctic, he felt, will be of great importance when economic pressure sends American and European herdsmen to replace the vanishing Eskimo on the five million square miles of treeless Arctic tundra, to raise billions of sheep, reindeer, musk ox, caribou. The possibilities of such herding are already indicated by the half million reindeer that have been reared in northern Alaska from a herd of 1,300 introduced in 1902. The Antarctic will always be less important than the Arctic...
...proper control of traffic. However, in 1857, the trouble was due to the herds of cattle that were driven through daily on their way to the Brighton market. Several hundred steers, direct from the fields, would be driven into the Square each day by a few herdsmen. There they would promptly start milling around to the danger of all citizens nearby. For the better part of an hour, their custodians would yell and crack whips in an attempt to straighten out the cavalcade and herd it on to the Brighton road...
Swimming, gulls' egging, clamming, spearing eels through the bay ice, are more in his line than schoolbooks. He gravely swaps yarns with the bearded herdsmen of Montauk Point. The sea's spell is on him early...
...following members of the University have been selected to act as super-numeraries in the plays: herdsmen, R. Horween '18, P. A. Means '16, and E. F. Woodruff '16; executioners, A. L. G. Jensen '17, L. D. Le Fevre '18, D. L. Moody '18, W. W. Sanders '17, J. F. Seal '17, W. W. Spencer '18, and A. L. Whitman '18; soldiers, H. L. Dayton '17, W. Edgar '16, L. B. Everitt '17, N. Fell '17, H. W. Flagg '16, A. C. Gilligan '18, E. F. Henderson '18, C. A. Herter '15, R. C. Kelley '17, R. V. Kleinschmidt...
Down on the herdsmen flying...