Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Barbee '28 of Chicago was elected captain of the University basketball team for 1928 at a meeting of the lettermen yesterday afternoon. Only eight players were eligible to vote, and of these eight, Barbee is the only one to return next year...
...Captain Bartlett was in charge of the voyage, made in his ship, except in regard to technical work of obtaining the history of the natives and specimens of the sea animals, this work was carried on by G. P. Putnam, for whom the expedition was named...
This adventurer has sailed to many of the most remote parts of the world. He was Captain of Perry's famous Polar ship, the Roosevelt; he followed the dogsleds out over the Polar zone to within 100 miles of the Pole itself. Again, he sailed as Commander of the Karluk of the Canadian Arctic expedition, and, when that ship met the perils of floating Ice, it was Bartlett's prompt action that kept the party alive. Four men went off into the bitter Polar night and were never heard of again. Captain Bartlett marched across the floes to the coast...
...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...
Norton, who was captain and stroke of last year's Freshman eight, will hold his present captaincy only until the return of Geoffrey Platt '27, captain elect of this year's University crew. At present Platt is ill at his home in New York and probably will be unable to row for about two weeks...