Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Macmillan Company is the publisher of "The Friendly Arctic", which tells the story of Stefansson's latest expedition to the Far North...
...conclusions to be drawn from statistics recently published concerning the correspondence courses in thirteen universities. Of the forty-thousand "going to college by mail", a large majority were far past youth. They ranged from young clerks to aged clergymen, from laborers in Chicago to successful engineers on the Arctic Circle; they-were studying dozens of widely different courses. When we consider that the University of Wisconsin alone enrolled over twenty thousand students in its mail courses, and the thirteen universities mentioned are only a few of the institutions offering such training, we can see readily enough that our so-called...
Referring to his past experience as a lecturer, Mr. Stefansson declared that he had always found it necessary to describe a few facts concerning the Arctic, about which the general public is in complete ignorance. "For instance," he declared, "it is possible to go more than 500 miles farther north on the Atlantic side than on the Pacific, due to the fact that the Gulf Stream penetrates much farther north than does the Japan Current in the Pacific, and as a result the open water extends much nearer the Pole. For this reason it means nothing to ask an Arctic...
...Most people suppose that the Arctic Circle is extremely could, but it really has a temperature which is about the same as northern Montana in the winter time. In the plains just east of the Rocky Mountains in Alaska for instance, there is no trace of glaciation, while it is known that at one time, all of New England was covered by an immense ice-sheet...
Following this address, Mr. Stefansson showed a series of lantern slides, which graphically depicted his experiences among the inhabitants of the Arctic and in the ice fields of the North...