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...ALLINGHAMS-May Sinclair -Macmillan ($2.50). To Author Sinclair the most engrossing of all the phenomena of human behavior are those of growth. She writes about children as they get older, watches their instincts and emotions stiffen in the mold, closely observes tendencies hardening into characters. In another book, Arnold Waterlow, she riveted her attention to the slow shaping of a single personality. Now she brings six children into the world of her mind...
Aside from the autographed volumes on exhibit, there is a whole case of letters, written by such people as Florence Nightingale, Horace Walpole, Max Muller, John Stuart Mille. Bulwer Lyton, John Tyndell, John Drinkwater, E. A. Robinson and Donald MacMillan...
...northernmost regions of the world will be explored by dirigible and not by airplane," Commander Donald MacMillan revealed to the CRIMSON yesterday. "The future of the North Pole regions will be determined by the dirigible. In my Polar Expedition in 1925 I went as far north in a ship as it is safe to go. No one will ever go beyond Etah without endangering his life...
...problem," said Commander MacMillan speaking of Polar discovering expeditions, "is not in getting to the North Pole, but in knowing you are there if you get there. I am certain that one or two explorers have passed over the extreme top of the world, but they have no way to prove it. The only exact way of locating the Pole is by a careful study of the sun, the moon and the stars, in their relationship with each other, but since the moon and stars cannot be seen in summer when explorations can be made, no one has yet found...
Looking into the future, Commander MacMillan said, "When your generation is grown up, you will be making yearly excursions to the North Pole regions. My generation will find it and yours will develop...