Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Union at 8 o'clock this evening. These pictures are some of the most remarkable in existence since they show the actual conditions under which a polar expedition has to work. They vividly present the life in camp and on the march. Pictures of various creatures living in the arctic regions, such as seals and penguins, form a most interesting part of those to be exibited. A game of football on the ice fields, participated in by the members of the party is another novel feature...
According to a dispatch from Nome, Alaska, the vessel which John E. Thayer '85, of Lancaster and Boston, sent into the Arctic three years ago to secure specimens for the University and for Mr. Thayer's museum, has been lost, and is a total wreck on the shores of Siberia. Captain John Koren, however, who is leading the expedition, gave the further information that the material which the expedition had secured, has been preserved in Siberia, and that the only loss sustained was that of the vessel...
...vessel left Tacoma, Wash., April 26, 1910, manned by Captain Koren and three other white men, who were later reinforced by two Eskimos. The expedition was for the purpose of gathering zoological, botanical, and natural history specimens in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. It visited the islands off the coast of Alaska, the Behring Sea, and the Arctic Ocean. No lives were lost in the wreck...
...their endeavors to create the beautiful in form, in sound, or in color. As it has been with the religious and artistic spirit in the past, so is it with the modern scientific spirit. The desire to find out the secrets of nature impels men to trudge over Arctic and Antarctic ice-fields with the satisfaction of all bodily requirements reduced to a minimum and burdened with a load of scientific instruments. Other men expose their bodies to the attacks of pestilential microbes for the advance of knowledge and the betterment of man's estate, while Alexander Agassiz rises with...
JOINT MEETING OF THE HARVARD ENGINEERING SOCIETY AND HARVARD MATHEMATICAL CLUB. "With Peary in the Arctic". Mr. Donald MacMillan, Assistant to Peary in the last Arctic Expedition. Pierce...