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...expedition will start early next year. Mr. Akeley is going, not for mere sport as some hunters go, but to collect museum specimens. He will sail for Africa before the New Year. In March the remainder of the party-including Mr. Eastman-will follow. They will start from Mombasa and travel into the hinterland 24 hours by rail to Nairobi. Six months will be spent in the great game country, where Theodore Roosevelt hunted elephants, hippopotami, rhinoceri, lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, antelopes and gazelles in 1909. This is Mr. Akeley's fifth trip to the same region. Guns, cameras...
...Britain's debtors are: Russia, France, Italy, Yugo-Slavia, Poland, Rumania, Portugal, Greece, Belgium. The total amount is about $10,000,000,000, but Britain is seeking only to collect $300,000,000 as a final settlement...
More than two years have rolled by since the French stirred the world to uneasiness by marching into the rich Ruhr territory to collect by armed force the reparations which Germany failed voluntarily...
...think aright. It is then that opinions can, and should, be formed that will direct action when the stress comes. Let us not forget that in peace the conflicting opinions are formed that later produce wars; that in quiet times the social ideas grow which, if erroneous, collect the explosives for subsequent catastrophes. It is then that the duty is incumbent to form, and help others to form, correct, unbiased opinions, particularly upon these subjects in which we may have special means of reaching a right judgment...
...Senior Album Committee will hold its last office hours this morning at the Crimson Building between 9 and 1 o'clock. Men who cannot call for their copies today must inform the committee in writing where they wish copies sent unless they have already ordered copies sent express collect. No Albums will be sent unless the complete subscription has been paid...