Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of the Lampoon which comes out today is on the whole better than the average, and in spite of two very old jokes and an uninteresting article on "Dangers of Arctic Industries," is very good reading. The best thing in the issue is a take-off on "The Voice" showing the effects of prohibition at Harvard and the lack of it at Yale. The illustrations are all very fair and the poems are cleverer than usual. The editorial on the new board of the Lampoon contains bright hits on the other college papers. But it is to be hoped...
...Nansen, the Arctic explorer, has received from Knox College the degree...
...interesting to note the increasing popularity of the Arctic regions as a summer resort for scientists, tourists and sportsmen. As far as colleges are concerned, it began in 1894, when the Cook expedition took parties from Harvard, Yale and Oberlin colleges, and which came to such an unfortunate ending. Again last year Technology and Cornell sent small parties to Greenland, and the coming summer Dartmouth, Harvard, and possibly Yale, will be represented in the field...
Lieutenant Peary began his lecture by describing the position of Greenland, the earliest known Arctic land, which was first supposed to from a great Arctic continent, but is now known to be an island. It is by passing from the northernmost point of this island through the open sea that Lieutenant Peary thinks the North Pole will be reached. The old supposition that a volcano or deep hole would be found at the Pole is now discarded, and explorers expect to find there either land or an open ocean. The pole is now only 260 miles from the farthest northern...
Lieutenant Peary than explained the geological structure of Greeland and geological structure of Greeland and closed his lecture with a description of his ship and captains, the animals of the Arctic regions, and a short account of his return from a perilous sledge trip overland...