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Despite the record enrollment, classes at America's "farthest-north university" were still small, rarely more than 20. President Bunnell wanted it that way: he thought students ought to know each other and their professors well. As in past years, there were a good many sourdough scholars, older than the average undergrads in the States; they had gone to the university for its courses in agriculture, mining and engineering. But this year there were also 215 ex-G.I.s and former WACs who had traveled thousands of miles, some because they liked Alaska, others because they couldn...
Sparks & Spaghetti. Archeologists had rounded up 75,000 specimens of Eskimo handiwork for the university, pieced together exhibits of prehistoric monsters. Campus scientists had collected important data for the Government on magnetism and the upper atmosphere, incidentally scotched an old sourdough's tale that the flashing northern lights set off sparks in their whiskers...
Spring came to interior Alaska with a crash, a splash and $108,000. As in 28 previous years, last week's icebreak on the Tanana (rhymes with Anna gnaw) River was big news. To the lucky sourdough or trapper who guessed the day, hour and nearest minute the ice went out would go a record $108,000. And like other big news, Alaskans knew they would hear it first from Fairbanks radio station KFAR, whose special events crew was camped at Nenana (rhymes with keen Anna), 150 miles south of the Arctic circle...
...continent. By using commercial-free Armed Forces Radio Service records, KFAR offers the pick of U.S. fare without plug-uglies. Its record library gives Alaskans the music they like best: symphonies and operatic arias. Most popular non-musical program: Tundra Topics, full of each day's sourdough gossip (who is prospecting where, conditions on Woodchopper Creek...
...with oo to pay for 104 their private printing. The composing-room crew, who set up the ringing, romping lines in type, were so enthusiastic that the publisher returned Service's $100 and decided to take a chance on the book himself. He claims that Songs of a Sourdough sold 1,000,000 copies...