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...following table, compiled from reports of recent weeks, indicates how populous a place the Arctic Circle will be this summer. It shows ten known expeditions and one more rumored. Five nations are represented: the U. S., France, Norway, Italy, Russia. All these traveling by air will be in search of a hypothetical continent or large island. Six parties mean to visit the Pole...
Leaving aside the defects of Mr. Merritt's power as a conjurer, the reader who is in search of an antidote to the present school of literary photography will doubtless enjoy "The Ship of Ish, tar." It is an adventurous glimpse at at a forgotten civilization which the author has convincingly re-created. There are to be sure, dull parts in the story, and at times the narrator loses himself and his reader in a labyrinth of suggestive but unintelligible passages. A glance at the jacket, however, is reassuring. There is no mention of subtle satire or of involved philosophical...
...students at Smith College is lost. A country wide search has been organized but no one has yet been able to find the missing lady. It is time for reflection on the problem: Can the college girl take care of herself? Psychologists and others claim that she can--when she is in a crowd. For safety the question resolves itself into: Should the college be maternalistic? Facts seem to show that it is so. Facts seem to show that it is so. There are all sorts of rules to take good wholesome care of the undergraduates--no smoking, restricted week...
Besides Mr. Dix and Miss Wilson, especially good work is done by Edna May Oliver, the sorrowful comedienne, who does the out-of-town hymn book buyer in search of a thrill to perfection; and "Gunboat" Smith, who, as the minion of the law, proves that the cauliflower industry is sometimes capable of producing something besides real estate agents...
News candidates will enter upon the duties required of all reporters on any metropolitan daily. They will be as signed to certain stories, will be given the opportunity to meet any and all people of interest within reach in the search for news and special articles and will be given comprehensive instruction in the mechanics of writing news...