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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...athletes at Westminster College in Missouri are writing their impressions of the games in which they participate in order to store up information for guidance in future contests. James E. ("Possum") Pixlee, the Westminster director of athletics, is the originator of the idea and has thus far found it successful...
...office has had its share of amusing requests for information. Outstanding among those was a request for information about the average weight of an hippopotamus. Another time a young girl called up to know if the University Museum was going to exhibit the mermaid which Boston newspapers had reported found off Swampscott. Among the irritating experiences of the operators are inquiries by persons who call up to learn "if the operator is asleep or not", and the arguments of persons who refuse to believe the operator who tells them the line is busy...
...Adelbert Fernald, who found the tooth during a trip to Alaska, related the unusual manner in which it was found to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon. The exploring party traveled up the Yukon until it reached the Porcupine river, a tributary extending almost due north from the Yukon. Inasmuch as there was practically no night at this stage of the journey, the sun being up 22 hours a day, the party continued on their way without a stop for 160 miles up the Porcupine. Although they were well within the Arctic circle, the temperature was about 98 degrees...
...tusk was found sticking in a river bank, which was 200 feat high, at that point. Half of the tusk was protruding from the bank, the other half being wedged between stratas of rock, as was discovered when excavations were made in the attempt to dig it up. This work took several days, as care had to be taken not to injure the tooth, which, although cracked in places, was otherwise in excellent condition...
Efforts are being made to locate the mate of the tooth, and it is hoped that other remains of the monstrosity will be uncovered. The erosion of the river bank at the point where the tusk was found, was most fortunate, as it would not have been discovered otherwise, due to the depth at which it was buried...