Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most outstanding characteristic of the people of the Arctic Circle, we found out this past summer, is their hospitality," asserted S. K. Platt 2L in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Platt, with three other University graduate students, A. E. Driscoll 2L, A. P. Leeto 2L, and Pierce Onthank 2 G.B., travelled the waterways of Northern Canada and Alaska during the last summer vacation...
...friendly," continued Platt. "They always received us with invitations to 'tea' which means in that region the largest meal the home can afford. Their hospitality exceeded that of the most generous families in the South of the United States. In one Indian home in McPherson, a village in the Arctic Circle, Driscoll happened to mention his fondness for apple pie and that evening there were three freshly baked ones awaiting us before we left...
...fact that no one in the North ever asks you where you are from. This is a result of the influx of a number of questionable characters during the gold strike, men whom it would have been dangerous to question. Nearly all of the trappers in Arctic Canada and in Alaska for that matter, are gold miners who entered the territory 28 years age and have not been able to leave it. Most of them make from $3,000 to $1,000 a year selling furs to the Hudson Bay Company, but in spite of their comparative prosperity, they...
...shall present it to the Bronx Zoo. The S. S. American Trader the same week picked up a white owl 600 miles at sea, and will adopt it as mascot. The coast of Maine has lately reported large numbers of white owls landing there, evidently driven by starvation from Arctic regions...
...progress deeply impressed upon me. I had but to regard the bleak wastes of snow and ice below me to visualize the unfortunate explorers of the past. Brave men had wasted their lives in crawling toward the Pole over the ice and snow and frozen drifts of this Arctic area which we were flying over in comfort at ten times their best speed! When I considered these explorers with their dogs and sleds and years of wasted effort, I felt almost guilty because of my own easy progress. I think we all felt somewhat solemn when we reached the region...