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...several weeks no receiving station in North America was able to pick up messages from Donald Mix, radio operator of the Bowdoin, Dr. Donald B. MacMillan's boat now in the Arctic (TIME, Sept. 10). Fin- ally an amateur operator at Prince Rupert, B. C., 2,200 miles from Greenland, and later the station of the Calgary (Alberta) Herald, caught faint and fragmentary messages in Morse, reporting the Bowdoin frozen solid in the ice floes of Smith Sound, at about 79° latitude, some 706 miles from the Pole. This is the strait separating northwest Greenland from the large group...
...first known white-faced visitor to come to this continent, Leif Ericson, being converted to Christianity, was so eager to carry the gospel to others that he brought a priest back with him from Scandinavia to Greenland, whence he himself went forth later in search of further shores. Nearly a thousand years later there has come to America a primate among Scandinavian priests, Dr. Nathan Soederblom, the distinguished head of the Church in Sweden and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Upsala...
...completely equipped for radio communication with a syndicate of newspapers through the American Radio Relay League. Two amateur stations last week picked up a message giving the latitude of the Bowdoin as 78° 30' N., which indicates the expedition has reached Etah, on the north-west coast of Greenland, the point of departure of many pole dashes, 2,300 miles north of Boston...
...Donald B. MacMillan, former classical instructor and accomplished explorer, sailed from Wiscasset, Me., July 16, for a two years' Arctic voyage. He plans to coast along the Greenland shore, studying terrestrial magnetism, and will winter at Cape Sabine, returning in the fall of 1924. Under the auspices of the National Geographic Society, he will erect a bronze tablet on the site of the old Greeley expedition camp, where 18 men perished...
Some day the University may find itself with only fifteen million dollars in the coffers, and a bill of twenty million to pay. Then, and probably not until then will all these facilities be fully utilized,--the chance to shoot the sun or the stars; guess the time in Greenland; or take a trip to the moon for nothing;--and then the value of the Astronomical Laboratory will be estimated at its true worth...