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Late Christmas afternoon 54 members of the Harvard Instrumental Clubs will leave Boston on their annual Christmas trip. The men will arrive back in Cambridge shortly before the recommencement of classes in January. Seven concerts will be given in as many cities of which Cincinnati, Ohio, is the farthest West...
...rekindle the Flame nine torches were ready. They had been lit the day before in the farthest villages of Belgium's nine provinces. War veterans had carried them in "Sacred Relays" to Brussels-no great distance since the remotest edge of the kingdom is only 114 miles away. While the last nine relay runners panted and held their flaming torches high, King Albert laid a huge wreath of purifying chrysanthemums around the polluted orifice. Then with a loud S-s-s-s-s the gas was turned full on. Simultaneously the runners thrust their torches into...
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...
Commander Donald B. MacMillan, the noted Arctic explorer, obtained about 90 impressions of the teeth of the Eskimos of Smith Sound, "the meat eaters," who live the farthest north of any human beings. He did this at the request of Dr. Fernald, who desired the models for the Dental School Museum. The impressions were made on one of MacMillan's most recent Artic expeditions. From the impressions, models have been constructed. Commander MacMillan said that "the Smith Sound Eskimos average about four ounces of vegetable matter each year per capita...
Indeed, an impartial observer, mindful of the origin of many a Christmas custom, might think of this holiday as one that embraces all creeds, all times, in a common human experience. It occurs at the time of the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its farthest point south, and the day begins to grow longer. Pagans throughout the world, in ages past, held festivals at this period. In ancient Rome at the Saturnalia (Dec. 17-21), windows and rooms were decked with holly wreaths; and at the Sigittaria (Dec. 22), it was customary to give presents, especially dolls...