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...exploring tyro is "Bob" Bartlett. He is 53. He was with Commander Peary on two of his expeditions to the North Pole. He commanded the Karluk, Canadian government vessel which was splintered to pieces by ice pressure. Last week Capt. Bartlett returned from Siberia, whither he had taken a party from Manhattan's Museum of Natural History...
There is no absolute whereby to measure the rise and fall of the level of college journalism, if any. Periodically there arises the question of whither is the undergraduate newspaper going; the medium of judgment chosen by observers is the editorial pages of college papers. The latest criticism, from the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, is an epitome of all that has been said on the subject lately. It asserts that college editors fail to harmonize the tone of their editorial columns with the responsibility that is theirs by virtue of their place as representatives of the college in print. Cynicism, flippancy...
...have confidence, however, that when the ntelligent, the patriotic, and the well-to-do, as .veil as the plain people, face the real issue, vhen they see whither we are tending in mak-ng fun of the law and of its violation, all of vhich tends to lead to support those who are engaged in violating it, when they realize that others not so patriotic, and who are evilly-minded are only too glad to bring about a demoralization of all law, as the open violations of the liquor law necessarily tend to do, then I believe we shall rouse...
...protested. There was dispute and even gunfire as late as 1921, when President Harding insisted that Panama accept the White award. * The white potato (Battata) was "discovered" along with Incas Andes gold etc. etc. by 16th century Spaniards. The potato entered Spain, Italy, Belgium before its supposed home Ireland, whither it was taken in 1586 by colonists returning from Raleigh's venture in the Carolinas...
Harrison Williams was the man who entertained the Prince of Wales on and around Long Island and showed him Wall Street. Mr. Williams has a volcano named after him in the Galapagos, whither he helped finance the expedition of William Beebe. Mr. Williams, too, has studied the ocean floor from his fine yacht Warrior, recently sold to George Whelan...