Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University swimming team will meet Amherst in the Ocean Pier tank at Revere tonight at 8 o'clock. Since mid-years the University team has been seriously handicapped by the loss of first string men who went on probation or on the sick list. The weekness of the team was recently shown in the meet with Andover when the University team secured only two first places. Amherst relies chiefly on the freshmen, who compose the greater part of the team, to defeat Harvard. Their greatest strength lies in Nelligan, who competes in all the short races and has been...
Professor W.M. Davis, Sturgis-Hooper Professor Emeritus of Geology in the University, leaves today to visit various island groups in the Pacific Ocean with the purpose of studying the coral reef problem. He will return next November...
...start was made on July 2, 1913, and the first leg of the race was the ocean-trip, on the Mauretania. Among those on board was Mr. Marconi, the inventor of the wireless. After spending a night and a day in London Mr. Mears went to Paris where he met the holder of the "round-the-world" record up to that time. It had been made in 1911 and the time was 39 days. A night train took Mr. Mears to Berlin from where he started for St. Petersburg. At each of the capitals he visited the United States diplomatic...
...Koren and three other white men, who were later reinforced by two Eskimos. The expedition was for the purpose of gathering zoological, botanical, and natural history specimens in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. It visited the islands off the coast of Alaska, the Behring Sea, and the Arctic Ocean. No lives were lost in the wreck...
...University swimming team will compete with Brown in a four-man relay race at the Ocean Pier Baths at Beachmont this evening at 8 o'clock. Each man will swim 40 yards. B. M. Fullerton '16 and J. A. Gilman '16 will enter the 100-yard handicap event. Another feature of the meet will be a relay race between McGill University and the Brookline Swimming Club. Reserved seats at $1 and 75 cents and admission tickets at 50 cents each are on sale at Leavitt & Peirce...