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...Cadillacs nuzzled each other along the gaudy length of Collins Avenue. Women in sun-top dresses stretched beside swimming pools, contemplating headlines that happily proclaimed: ARCTIC BLASTS RIP COUNTRY. Flamboyant young New Yorkers leafed through stock-market reports...
With the acquisition of the polar library of famed Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Dartmouth developed a program of Northern studies that has become a national center for Arctic research. It is also one of the few small (3,006 students) liberal-arts colleges to have a Department of Russian Civilization. But in ten years. Dickey has made a name for himself as more than an able administrator. A practical man with a scholar's tastes, he has earnestly tried to produce alumni who will be men of both thought and action. "I do want," he once said, "this generation...
Moose & Caribou. When Patty first went to the new campus 90 miles south of the Arctic Circle, it hardly seemed the sort of place to accept any type of challenge. It was called the Alaska College of Agriculture and School of Mines. It had six professors, six students, one building. Moose and caribou wandered freely about; foxes raided the garbage pails; the desks were made of packing cases. But somehow, under the leadership of President Charles Bunnell, the campus grew. One reason: Ernest Patty's School of Mines...
Bison & Oxen. The fame of the school of mines soon spread to the whole institution. The university's 13-building campus is uniquely equipped to give special training. Its geologists have studied the chemistry of the arctic's soil and the effect of frost and thaw. Its Geophysical Institute has become a center for research into the upper atmosphere and the aurora. Last year some 30,000 visitors trooped through its museum to examine 100,000 Indian and Eskimo exhibits as well as the skeletons of the hairy mammoth, super bison, musk ox, Pleistocene horse and saber-toothed...
...trip, which carried the group within 150 miles of the Arctic Circle claimed the life of 36-year-old Arthur Moffat, adventurer and lecturer. He died of shock and exposure after being hurled into the icy waters of the Dubawnt River, as the party neared the end of an 87-day expedition...