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With a picked crew of six men, MacMillan sailed from Maine July 16, completely equipped for radio communication with a syndicate of newspapers through the American Radio Relay League. Two amateur stations last week picked up a message giving the latitude of the Bowdoin as 78° 30' N., which indicates the expedition has reached Etah, on the north-west coast of Greenland, the point of departure of many pole dashes, 2,300 miles north of Boston...
...Radio for the first time will penetrate the frozen Arctic regions, as Captain Donald B. MacMillan in his little craft Bowdoin makes his way toward the North Pole...
Among the former pupils who spoke briefly in praise of Professor Winter and testified to the advantage they had gained from his teaching were the Hon. Edmund C. Billings, former collector of the port of Boston; Professor S. L. Garrison '12 of Amherst; Professor W. H. Davis '12 of Bowdoin; the Hon. Joseph E. Warner '06, former speaker of the Massachusetts House: Professor W. J. V. Osterhout and Professor Zechariah Chafee of the University; Mr. John Nolen G. '05, landscape architect; and Professor N. C. Maynard of Tufts...
Awards of the Bowdoin classical prizes are as follows: graduate, to Frederick Mason Carey 4G., of Somerville; undergraduate Greek, to Frederick La Motte Santee '24, of Wapwallopen, Pa.; undergraduate Latin, to Leon Medoff '23 of Philadelphia...
...Bowdoin prizes for graduate students, for "essays of high literary merit belonging to a special field of learning", have been won by Christian Oliver Weber 1G., of Lincoln, Nebrasska, whose subject was "Modern Physics in the Light of the Metaphysics of Aristotle", and John Edwin Bakeless 4G., of Cambridge, who wrote on "The Migration of Insects, with special reference to Lepidoptera...