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Asked to enumerate U. S. liberal editors of consequence, one might name Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation), Herbert David Croly (The New Republic)-and search one's mind in vain for others. Last week the little list was halved by Death, which came to Editor Croly in Santa Barbara, at the age of 61, of progressive paralysis...
...States, no longer seek Cornell. Now many of those from outside New York State come as sons of loyal old graduates. Hiram Sibley's grandson is a Harvard sophomore. Cornell never drew young socialites from smart Eastern schools. Once it did draw serious young men in search of a thorough, modern education Now it has little to offer. Its teachers, sadly underpaid, are at best average. Its library, once unequalled, still boasting great collections (Dante, Petrarch, Icelandic) is slowly decaying in Willard Fiske's old building. Lack of funds prevents the erection of a new one; prevents...
...will not make a raid on any man's whiskey still, or search a bootlegger's premises without first notifying them 48 hours in advance...
...worst journey" Author Cherry-Garrard tells about was not Scott's fatal march, but a trip taken by himself and two others in search of eggs of the Emperor Penguin. It required five weeks of fearful hardship; when their tent blew away in a gale they thought they would die, almost gave up hope. But they got three eggs, brought them back safe and sound. Blurbs Playwright George Bernard Shaw: ". . . a very horrible experience. Compared with it Amundsen's victorious rush to the South Pole seems as cheerful as a trip to Margate...
...Oates went out of the tent, declared he might be gone some time, never came back. But his sacrifice was vain; 177 miles from safety, Scott and two last survivors pitched their last camp, wrote farewell letters, climbed into their frozen sleeping bags, lay down to die. There the search party found them...