Word: merk
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...Merk, however, showed up at the usual hour of 9 a.m. for his class in the History of the Westward Movement. On hand were two or three startled students who had managed through combined effort to push a path across the snow-clogged Yard to the classroom...
Astonishment was widespread when Merk's achievement became known. Many of his students, realizing that the professor lived four miles away in Belmont, had abandoned efforts to extricate themselves and had gone back to bed. It seemed incredible that the diminuitive historian had braved four miles of snowdrifts as deep in spots as he is tall...
...Just like the frontiersmen he lectures about," students told one another as they marvelled at the feat. "Pioneer Merk," he was referred to affectionately by the undergraduates...
...done it? Merk, it was said, had employed a brawny Eskimo guide named Owtaluk, a native of Kodiak, to drive him to class in a sled drawn by a dozen Eskimo dogs...
...fact it was said that the professor, in a remarkable display of foresight, annually employed Owtaluk to stand by each winter at Merk's home; ready for any such emergency as the Great Snow...