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Another annual event is the lecture by Frederick Merk, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, which has been dubbed Otter Catching by his students...
...Merk gives the valuable for of the sea otter as a reason why white men wanted to open up the Oregon territory, and then procedes to explain how the Indians used to catch this elusive creature...
Thus Prof. Frederick Merk is accorded his rightful place in history as a 20th Century trail-blazer no less resolute, determined and tenacious than those hardy, self-reliant pioneers about whom he lectures...
Owtaluk, it was reported, lived in an apartment over Merk's garage with his wife, Nosuchluk. The two Eskimos arrived in Belmont each November and stayed until the following spring when they and their dogs returned to Kodiak...
Professor Merk left hame early that morning bundled heavily in topcoat, muffier, gloves and snow-boots. Resolutely he fought his way eastward through head-high drifts toward Concord Turnpike two blocks away...