Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foot of slush which the Alaskan churned high in the air as she shot forward. Lifting slowly but easily, she circled to a height of 1,000 feet over the landing field, then squared off north-by-west for Point Barrow, northernmost settlement on this continent, where her commander, Captain George Hubert Wilkins, wished to deposit supplies before asking her to carry him over the Arctic seas. About noon, Fairbanks reported a radio from Captain Wilkins saying he had sighted Point Barrow. That meant that the Alaskan was soaring over the great triangular tundra, about the size of Texas, north...
...this load, or in subsequent ones, were 400 letters which Captain Wilkins contracted to carry over the Pole and mail in Spitzbergen, for $10 a letter. A New Jersey philatelist hopes to sell them to his customers for $12.50 each. Similarly. Lieutenant Commander Byrd is taking U. S. flags on his trip for societies wishing to possess flags that have been to the North Pole...
...undergraduate speakers in the morning will include the following: W. I. Nichols '26, member of the Student Council and former President of the CRIMSON, who will tell of present undergraduate tendencies and the relations between the students and the college officers of instruction and administration; W. L. Tibbetts '26, captain of the track team, who will speak of developments in studies employment; J. R. Burke '27, manager of next year, football team, who will discuss extra-curricular undergraduate activities; and C. D. Coady '27, captain-elect of the football team, who will talk of athletic conditions from the students point...
...same time F. R. Chevalier '29 was elected captain of next year's team. The record of the chess team this year has been very satisfactory. The University players defeated Yale in a dual meet last fall, and in an intercollegiate tournament, in which Yale, Princeton, West Point and Harvard were entered, came second to Yale by one half a point...
...outfield, the University will be represented by Captain Todd, who will also assume the burden of clean-up batter, Ellison, a veteran of two Yale games, and Burns, Sophomore sprint star whose batting prowess and speed on the base-paths have won him the lead-off position on the Harvard batting array...