Word: south
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Professor J. B. Woodworth '94, now on the Shaler Memorial Expedition in South America, will spend the rainy season in Chile, between Valdivia and Valparaiso, in an investigation of shore-line changes...
...case of clothing has been sent to each of the following charities: South End Industrial School, Boston; Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.; Seamans' Friends' Society, Boston, A donation was made to the Cambridge missionary and to needy students throughout the University...
...Masai tribes of negroes, in the vicinity of Lake Victoria, British Uganda Protectorate, and British East Africa. These tribes are from three separate African stocks and speak three different languages. There are also some specimens from the Somali negroes, of Northeast Africa, and from the Mombasa region of South British Africa. The collection consists of spears, clubs, shields, war-knives, clothing, musical instruments, dishes, gourd vessels, spoons, corn-mills and other household utensils, pipes, adzes, and necklaces made of iron, seeds, and from the shells of ostrich eggs. All of the objects are interesting as illustrating the customs...
...Baldwin has already made several attempts to reach the North Pole. He served as meteorologist in the North Greenland expedition of Commodore Peary in 1893-94, and in the Wellmann polar expedition five years later. He established four depots of supplies from the south to the north coast of Franz-Josef Land as basis for a proposed dash for the Pole and three safety stations on the northeast coast for use on the return march. He was the first leader selected to head the Ziegler polar expedition...
...conditions and requirements for competing for the Bowdoin prizes for dissertations in English, have been posted in the south entry of University Hall and will be posted in various of the other college buildings Monday. The prizes were founded by Governor Bowdoin in the eighteenth century and have been taken by many famous men, among whom is Ralph Waido Emerson. The fund for these prizes has been increased in recent years by a descendant of Governor Bowdoin so that now the first prize for undergraduates is $250. There are also two second prizes of $100 each...