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Inhabitants of Whipsnade, London's famed zoo, looked down their noses at 100-odd new arrivals last week. With ill-concealed disgust they observed the plebeian habits of 25 chattering monkeys, 50 impertinent parrots, two elephants, two brown bears, one polar bear, two spotted hyenas, one striped hyena, 13 lions, two tigers, two wolves, five leopards, two dromedaries, a pelican, a crane, a leaping kangaroo and a sloppy old sea lion named Bonzo. Wondered the Manchester Guardian: "Will they bring the circus habit into the glades and meadows of Whipsnade? Or will the old circus performers keep themselves entirely...
...think it is an interesting fact that now when polar exploration is over for the present, the public has become interested in the subject," said Vilhjalmur Stefansson '06 in an interview recently. Mr. Stefansson, who is one of the best-known of the explorers of the Arctic region, is at present collaborating with Dr. A. H. Rice '01, professor of Geographical Exploration, and donor of the new Geography School, in giving the course in Geographical Exploration at the School...
...airplane, and, less important, the tremendous enthusiasm of the public for air exploration. The average man thinks of the submarine only as an instrument of war, and does not realize its importance in scientific work. Practically every branch of science is interested in finding out more about the Polar sea; for example, the geologists and anxious to ascertain its depth, a necessity in computing the average density of the Earth...
...time element," continued Mr. Stefansson "Byrd was gone only about six months on his trip to the arctic, whereas the elder explorers used to stay away for five years or more." The reference to Byrd led to the interesting fact that the use of the radio in polar exploration increases homesickness, rather than diminishes it, as is commonly taken for granted by the public. If is a matter of actual record that Byrd had more trouble with his men being homesick in the one year that he was in Antarctica that Peary did in five years in the North...
Returning to the topic of polar exploration by air, Mr. Stefansson declared that the airplane is only a means of scouting or reconnoitering in the polar regions, not a means of real exploration. "Exploring a region by air is just like describing the botany of a country by flying over if," Mr. Stefansson said in conclusion