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When President Roosevelt last January called in Dr. Isaiah Bowman, 62-year-old President of Johns Hopkins University and a famed geographer, to find a definition of the Western Hemisphere. Dr. Bowman first suggested the 26th meridian, which would still leave Iceland in Europe's hemisphere. When the 26th meridian proved unsatisfactory to the President, Dr. Bowman pondered some more, obligingly came up with Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson's mid-channel theory. According to Explorer Stefansson, the line should run midway through the "widest channel" between Europe and the Americas, would give Iceland to the Western Hemisphere...
...laid down his civilian job (vice president of Doubleday Doran & Co.), put on his uniform as a reserve infantry colonel. He was ordered to Fort Devens, Mass., there last week won thumping recognition. He was made commanding officer of one of the Regular Army's crack regiments, the 26th Infantry* of the war-famed First Division. It was his second assignment to the same job, for in 1918, in the Argonne, Roosevelt was upped from battalion command to lead the 26th, stumped away from a hospital (he had been twice wounded) on a cane...
Colonel Roosevelt is the only one of his famed father's four sons now in U.S. service. Brother Kermit is a major in the British Army; Brother Archibald (disabled by wounds in 1918 as a captain in the 26th) is at his bond business in Wall Street; Brother Quentin (the family's only flying officer) in a hero's grave in France. Young T. R.'s son, 21-year-old Harvardman Quentin, goes into service in June as an Army lieutenant...
...26th's most famed enlisted man: Private Winthrop Rockefeller...
President and Mrs. Conant will be away on Sunday, January 26th and therefore will be unable to be at home to students on that...