Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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April 28-"Glimpses of the Arctic Regions," William Bradford...
...bathe their bruised limbs in tepid steam and ease their wounds, nothing but the coldest of water can be had to solace them water so cold that it parches the skin and cracks the muscles and sends a man tottering out to the bleak entry prematurely aged like an Arctic explorer. Not so with the rugged stoic who delights, like Caesar's Germans, to lave his sturdy limbs in ice water; the streams of Socrate have turned hot ere he reaches the bath, and he may count himself happy an he is not scalded alive like a miserable shellfish. Dear...
...article on the prospects of the 'varsity nine, in Saturday's Record, makes pleasant reading for a Harvard man. This arctic weather, to be sure, is suggestive of anything but base-ball, yet it will be but a short time before the nine displays in the field the results of the steady and energetic work done in the gymnasium. The outlook for the crimson is very bright. Nothing ensures success like the consciousness of success already won, and the record of last year's nine cannot fail to stimulate to every effort the nine of the present year. With...
...Shakspere Club held its second public meeting last evening before an audience of about 200 ladies and gentlemen. The programme was as follows: L. Litchfield, '85, "Rufus Choate," by Wendell Phillips. T. H. Root, '85, "Wreck of the Arctic," by H. W. Beecher. E. T. Sanford, '85, "Enmity towards Great Britain," by Rufus Choate. J. W. Richardson, '86, "Treason of Slavery," by Carl Schurz. D. Kelleher, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," by H. W. Longfellow. I. Dickerman, '86, "Sectional Services in the late War," by Caleb Cushing. E. Stevens, '86, "White Murder Trial," by Webster. T. Rogers, "Aux Haliens...
Freshmen beware of cigarettes. According to Lieutenant Greeley's account, of the nineteen men who perished on the Arctic Expedition all but one were smokers and that one was the last to die. The seven survivors were non-smoking...