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...fact that many U.S. parents long to give their sons "a year abroad before going into business," have encouraged the organization of a preparatory school at Oxford, of and for Americans only, by Professor Edgar C. Taylor of Washington University. Himself a former Longfellow Scholar at Oxford (from Bowdoin), Prof. Taylor will employ both American and British colleagues in a school organized along the combined lines of an Oxford hall and a U. S. preparatory school. The school opens "soon...
Headwinds buffeted the Bowdoin and Peary as they sought to leave Etah harbor. They got only to Igloo-da-Houny, across Booth Sound. MacMillan made a last flight in one of the Navy amphibian planes, to see Dog-Driver E-took-a-shoo, a friend, bringing him back to the anchored Bowdoin by air. Next day another start toward Baffin Bay was made, through blinding fog and raging blizzard. In Murchison Sound, the Bowdoin grounded her oaken keel on a rock ledge and stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were...
...National Geographic Society (his sponsor), Commander MacMillan detailed his plans for retreating down the Greenland coast in advance of the winter ice-floes already making in Smith Sound. At every step, the Far North had rebuked the trespassers with unusually inclement weather. In July, ice-floes delayed the Bowdoin and Peary as far south as Battle Harbor, Labrador. When they reached Etah, they found that heavy winter storms had pared down the beach and piled it with boulders until it was impossible for the planes to take off from land. This cut down their cruising radius from...
Radio communication between the expedition and the U. S. continued successul, both in code and voice. Signals from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station (Lake Bluffs, Ill.) were received most clearly by Operator Reinartz of the Bowdoin. Beside reports to the U. S. Navy Department and the National Geographic Society from Operator Reinartz of the Bowdoin, Chicago operators distinctly heard Song of the Snow Bunting, Song of the Raven, and Song of the Fox rendered by Singers Imyou-Getook, Kangak, Nu-Ka-pingwa and Ah-Kom-oing...
...Sailors from the ships Bowdoin and Peary occupied a few of their many consecutive hours of daylight with a hunting trip, were attacked by "an infuriated herd of at least 100 walrus," escaped without injury...