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Finally Yale is enjoying the last of autumn pageantry, whereas our north country already is drear with days like cold slate. It is pleasant to go from a dying season southward into...
...first voyages north with the sealers, she carried as a member of her crew a youth named Ronald Amundsen, whose achievements later became famous in the annals of polar exploration. It was Captain Amundsen who, in 1926, recommended the staunch old ship to Admiral Byrd for the long voyage southward to the Rose. Barrior, where Little America, the base camp of the Antarctic Expedition, was later to be located...
After boiling the then king's favorite general in oil, Nadir Khan, "the Afghan George Washington," ascended the throne in picturesque Kabul and has since successfully remained there (TIME, Oct. 28, 1929 et seq.). He has waxed friendly with his neighbor to the southward beyond the Khyber Pass-Lis Britannic Majesty's colonial government in India. Thus the British have been far happier than when plump Amanullah reigned, taking millions in gifts from them but making the Russians his closest economic allies. Far, far happier are they than during the subsequent brief reign of Bandit-King Bacha Sakao...
...always, there is a little pathos in the sentimental farce. Could their steamer but cross the equator southward bound, what joy there would be for the "gobs" and the "girls" at the rites of Neptune, especially if that God of the damp and dripping should unmask and betray the broad, carmen grimace...
...never known, and men will be more at peace there than anywhere on the earth. . . . But I know what will happen in 200 years. . . . New York will be like a ripe apple. All things must ripen. And then New York will drop away. Its vast population will move southward. There will be no coal to keep the millions warm here. . . . All of this that we are building will mean nothing except something for men to remember for a thousand years-the great steel city. ... Its climax will be the climax of the Steel Age. . . . There will be no more...