Word: erichsen
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Marshall Scholarships have been awarded to three Harvard students Jonathon Thor Erichsen '72, of St. James, N.Y. and Leverett House: Benedice Hyman Gross '71, of west Orange, N.J. and Adams House; and, Richard Stephen Swanson '72, of Seattle, Wash, and Winthrop House...
...flight. Later he captured world attention by leading the 1906 Anglo-American polar expedition, a two-year journey that established the fact that there is no land directly north of Alaska. Between 1909 and 1912, Mikkelsen led a mission in search of the diaries of another brave Dane, Mylius-Erichsen, who had died while exploring the northeast corner of Greenland. After recovering some of the ill-fated explorer's papers, Mikkelsen and a single companion were marooned for two years...