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...Jacob Gould Schurman, onetime (1892-1920) President of Cornell, onetime (1921-25) Minister to China, taking ship for his new post in the Embassy at Berlin...
...pilot, Lincoln Ellsworth of Manhattan, still missing somewhere up towards the Pole (TIME, June 1 et seq.) the Norwegian steamer Ingcrtrc, sent to rescue them, dropped anchor in a Spitzbergen fjord. A party of aviators aboard her unlashed their two seaplanes and waited for Amundsen's base ship, the Fram, to come back from the icefloes with a weather report before taking off for a flight to inspect horizons further north...
...This famous portal swings only one way--in, always in. It's high time, says almond-eyed Chu-Chin-Chow, to declare a Monroe Doctrine for China, including "exploitation" along with "colonization" in the text. Perhaps he doesn't like having his affairs regulated by strange, jabbering merchants and ship's cooks. And who shall say him nay? After all, the "heathen Chinee" may be human--who knows?--just like all the other heathen...
...Captain Zackery Lansdowne, commander of the Shenandoah, submitted plans to his chief, Secretary Wilbur of the Navy, showing how the big dirigible could fly to the Pole via the mooring-mast at Pulham, England, and her own mast-ship Patoka, which could be sent ahead to Spitzbergen. No intimation came from Washington that this was intended, or would be received, as anything more than a plan...
...many people from no opinions of their own and merely reflect their surroundings--Laodiceans, neither hot nor cold--spineless drifters without self-direction--still they have an effect, and may both prevent the spread of right thought and promote a mischievous course. They are a shitting cargo in the ship of state, a peril if the bulkheads break...