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...team, led by Wilbert K. Carter, teaching fellow in Anthropology, was sent by the Peabody Museum and sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. The group spent two months at Point Barrow the northernmost tip of Alaska on the Arctic Ocean; excavations can be made only during the summer months in this region, since the ground is too hard for careful digging at any other time...
...Michigan, knows Eskimo, and is a veteran of two major expeditions to Greenland. In 1937 he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota, served as professor and director of admissions until World War II called him to Washington. Finally, after three years as a top consultant on Arctic affairs, ex-Colonel Carlson was ready for a presidency-first at the University of Delaware, then at Vermont...
Finno-Ugrian, a dialect of the Ural-Altaic language, is spoken in Lapland, Estonia, and Northern Siberia. Friesian is the vernacular of the Northern Netherlands and Friesland. Hyperborean, the oral-communication of the Chukchi and Koryak Eskimo tribes of the Arctic, is also spoken in Outer Mongolia...
Vilhjalmur Stefansson is obviously one man who believes in making donations where they will do the most good. The noted Arctic explorer, now 72, has just donated his collection of Arcticana--comprising 35,000 books, 13,000 pamphlets, and many rare manuscripts and maps that he has collected in his 40 years of exploring--to Dartmouth College...
...launched the first graduate studies in history in the U.S. As a practicing historian, he wrote a classic, nine-volume study of the Jefferson-Madison administration. He hobnobbed with the great, picked every first-rate brain of the Victorian era, traveled from the South Seas to the Arctic Circle, and finally totted up the findings of a lifetime in his pessimistic masterpiece, The Education of Henry Adams...