Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Board of Public Roads of Rhode Island states that routes in that state will all be in good condition. The best road from Providence is the New London turnpike through Royal Mills. Arctic, Washington, and over Noose Neck hill to Westerly. This road is reported in better condition than the shore route via Wickford. The Putnam turnpike through Putnam. Conn., is also in fairly good shape, though not so wide as the New London...
...Donald B. MacMillan, who has recently spent 14 months in exploring the Arctic regions and in charting the west short of Baffin Land, will speak at the Astronomical Laboratory on Jarvis street at 10 o'clock this morning on his experiences in working near the magnetic pole. All members of the University are invited...
Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, has laid claim to Wrangel Island, for the British Government, on the grounds that the vanguard of his expedition composed of himself, four Eskimos and four Americans, raised the British Flag there last September. The claim would be merely interesting if it were only a case of discovery but like most actions at present it has grave international complications...
Wrangel Land is an icebound bit of Arctic prairie about the size of the island of Jamaica, and has had no qualifications for the hall of fame save some granite cliffs and a considerable population of polar bears. But hitherto the Island had been regarded as American property by right of discovery, inasmuch as two expeditions from America landed there, in 1881, took possession in the name of the United States, surveyed and mapped the country, and then sailed away leaving notice of their discovery on shore in a bottle. This action was regarded as particularly important, as the Island...
...organized some twenty years ago by Professor W. M. Davis '69 and his associates "for the promotion of intelligent travel and exploration." It includes among its 200 members as noted men as Mr. W. Cameron Fobes '92, former Governor-General of the Philippines, and Vilhjalmur Stefanson, the noted Arctic explorer, and awards annually a gold medal to some prominent traveler. The holding of this meeting at the Union is an innovation designed to attract such graduate and undergraduate students in the University as are especially interested in travel and exploration...