Word: bartlette
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present there are only three speakers but a fourth will be announced later. H. C. Bartlett '28 and R. A. Magowan '27 will take the negative and J. C. Furnas '27 will uphold the affirmative side of the question...
Discussing the findings of specimens of arctic fish and animals for the American Museum of Natural History on the Putnam expedition, Captain Robert A. Bartlett spoke last night at the Union on "The Cruise of the Morrissey...
Before his talk Captain Bartlett gave his opinion as to the mysterious disappearance of Marvin one of Peary's Polar associates in the Polar regions. Setting out with only Eskimo companions, Marvin had sought to make his way over the arctic floes. For some reason he disappeared. The explanation given by one of the Eskimos that on crossing between the floating masses of ice, Marvin missed his footing and plunged into the water. Last year the Eskimo repudiated this entire explanation and declared that he was the murderer himself. Although great publicity was given to this episode, the latter story...
President Coolidge selected him as a member of the board to investigate the northern flight in the Shenandoah. In the World War, Bartlett wore the strips of Lieutenant-Commander in the American Navy. During this period his knowledge of the North Atlantic was used in planning the trips of the transport ships...
...photographic section of the expedition was most successful, and hundreds of photographs as well as many thousands of feet of motion pictures were obtained. These Captain Bartlett will use to illustrate his talk...