Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Donald B. MacMillan will give an illustrated lecture to members of the Harvard Union Tuesday evening, December 3, on the topic, "Under the Northern Lights...
...Captain MacMillan sailed for the Arctic in June 1927, from Wiscasset, Maine, on the schooner "Bowdoin", with the purpose of establishing a scientific research station on the north coast of Labrador. During the fall and winter of 1927 to 1928, contact with home was constantly maintained by radio, and the programs he received were also appreciated by the Eskimos as well as his whole party. This winter Captain MacMillan is telling, by story, motion pictures, and slides, the experiences of the expedition and some of the results obtained, as well as the accumulative results of previous expeditions...
...Captain MacMillan has accomplished much in the Arctic: he found the caplining of Elisha Kent Kane, left at his "Farthest point north", in 1853; and he discovered the record of the British expedition of 1875 written by Captain Nares and left at Cape Sabine. He is the first to have reached Finlay Land, and the Northern, Eastern, and Southern sides of North Cornwall, as well as the first to have traveled along the Eastern shore of Ellesmere land from Cape Sabine to Clarence Head...
...current Nation ("radical" weekly), one Clarence E. Cason, sometime University of Wisconsin rhetoric pedagog, tells the woeful tale of Jeff Burrus, "the university's best electric signboard," Phi Beta Kappa member, Junior Prom chairman, footballer, crew captain. Pedagog Cason said that Paragon Burrus suffered a nervous breakdown from his wide participation in college affairs. Winning a Rhodes scholarship, he went abroad, suffered another breakdown. "Out of his experience has come the conviction that college athletics used him rather shabbily. . . . His picture tends to show conclusively that a football player has no time or thought to give to anything...
...first time in three games Captain Barrett was relieved of his duties as running guard and he subsequently played a much better game at defensive tackle. Kuehn justified his assignment at right tackle and Talbot again proved that he is still to be considered for a first team guard berth. His tackle of Bethea on the kickoff opening the second half was one of the cleanest and fiercest seen in the Stadium this year. The line as a whole clicked much better than it did against the Big Green, bad tackling being its only weakness...