Word: alaska
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...least resistance. The obstruction of Greenland and America on one side and of Asia and the northern archipelago on the other keep the ice in the Arctic Sea. Much of it piles up on the shores in great packs; the rest is forced by the southern winds from Alaska in a narrow path across the polar regions. A cache set adrift at Point Barrow on the Alaskan coast by Captain Melville of the Jeannette, was picked up off the coast of Iceland five years later. It had been driven along by the moving ice-floes...
...will lecture at the Summer School of the University of Washington, at Seattle. While in Seattle he will be entertained by the Harvard Club, whose secretary, Mr. D. B. Trefethen L. '01, is already making active preparations for Professor Hart's reception. Before sailing, Professor Hart will go to Alaska. He will return in time to resume his College duties in the autumn...
...Hudson Stuck, Archdeacon of Alaska, will deliver an illustrated lecture on "Work in Alaska," in Peabody Hall, Brooks House, at 7.30 o'clock this evening. The lecture will be given under the auspices of the St. Paul's Society and will be open to the public...
...Stuck was graduated from King's College, London, in 1883, and from the University of the South at Suwannee, Fla., in 1892. From 1894 to 1903 he was Dean of the Episcopal Cathedral at Dallas, Texas. Four years ago he was appointed to the archdeaconship of Alaska. His work there extends over the territory of the valley of the Yukon river and its tributaries, where he is constantly founding and visiting missions...
This is his first return to the United States since beginning his work in Alaska, and the lecture tonight will be an unusual opportunity to hear of that little-known country...