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...story of an Arctic egg hunt reached Pittsburgh last week. Month ago George Miksch Sutton, onetime Pennsylvania game commissioner, and John Bonner Semple, retired Sewickley, Pa. manufacturer of Navy ordnance* were 40 mi. north of Churchill on the western shore of Hudson's Bay. With them were Olin S. Pettingill of Bowdoin College and Bert Lloyd, Saskatchewan ornithologist. They were collecting birds, plants and insects. Competing with them was a party of the Canadian Ornithological Society. Hope of both groups was to be the first to find eggs of a Harris's sparrow...
...President elected last week, according to the Association's custom of alternating male & female, was a woman: Florence M. Hale, director of rural education in Maine, who succeeded President Willis Anderson Sutton, superintendent of schools in Atlanta, Ga. One of N. E. A.'s vice presidents, she was elected without opposition, prompting Will Rogers to say: "America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it. ... There was elected to a very high office . . . just a plain, pleasant-looking, fat (and enjoying it), commonsense woman. ... I guess from her name, 'Miss,' that she is an old maid...
...liability." City children have every advantage, but "the son of the farmer goes to school in a shack, has a teacher who may not even have been to high school. . . . The State must actually favor the country child or take over the whole responsibility for education." (Dr. Sutton...
Modesty. Teachers are excessively modest. "At present they fit so noiselessly into the social and political fabric that the public does not hear the sound of the spindle and the loom." (Dr. Sutton...
...changes were two. First, John Hope Doeg, lefthanded, 22, nephew of famed May Sutton Bundy, youngest of the younger players, emerged and won the National Championship at Forest Hills. Second, three new players, younger than the "younger players" and with normal personal differentiation, made their appearance. These were Frank Shields, im- mensely tall, convivial and handsome, Roxbury graduate; Sidney Wood, a yellow-haired, wiry, California youth, with a delicate physique but strong wrists and forearms; and Clifford Sutler, a cherub-faced collegian from New Orleans, with self-consciously graceful but effective ground strokes...