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...Grenfell, famous Labrador settler who lectured last night at the Phillips Brooks House told a CRIMSON reporter an amusing story of how he was almost shot as a burgler on one of his earlier visits to Cambridge...
...immediate North and West there are over eight hundred million Islanders and Asiatics. Australians, rightly or wrongly, have conceived it to be their duty to hold Australia for the white races. They have been led to this not only by knowledge of the former problems of the carly Australian settler, but also by considerations of the present racial problems of South Africa and the United States. This has led to the much discussed "White Australia" policy. This is the one question on which the various Australian political problems seem to be unanimous...
Engaged. Mary Ann Payne, descendant of early Virginia settler, Sir Robert Payne, whose forefathers landed in England at the time of King William I, able conqueror; to James Blanchard Clews, head of the banking firm of Henry Clews & Co., founded by his uncle, the late Henry Clews...
...Eric the Red; Icelandic chief and settler of Greenland; also called "Leif the Lucky." Blown out of his course while returning from Norway in 1000 A. D. to Christianize Greenland, he reached a far-western land where "self-sown" wheat grew, and vines. He called it Vineland, later exploring it, wintering there-in southern Nova Scotia...
These books are published in the name of municipal individualism. With spectacular adjectival vehemence, the authors shout into the thickening ears of young U. S. cities, loud reminders of the peculiar zest and color of their rambunctious settler days, laying special emphasis on downright iniquitous conduct that is calculated to cover the adipose priests of respectability with shame for their own vegetating passions. The books are part of a current crusade against standardization and the civic inferiority complex that leads Kansas to ape California, Montana to mimic Minnesota, in their timorous search for "the right thing...