Word: take
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...MacMillan has for over 10 years been taking Arctic travels. In 1908-09 he was Commander Peary's assistant on his successful trip to the North Pole. During the following three years he cruised along the Labrador coast especially for an ethnological study of the Eskimos and Indians living there. He was in command of the Crocker Land expedition to the Polar Regions which took place from 1913-17. In all his travels he has covered 10,000 miles with dog team in company with Polar Eskimos. Mr. MacMillan will also be in command of the Bowdoin-Baffin Land Expedition...
Mexico has apparently come to the conclusion that is is the better part of valor to suppress the kidnappers who have been operating along our border for the past two or three years. Our neighbor to the south burned his fingers in the Jenkins case, and evidently decided to take no chances on further complications arising from the kidnapping of the American named Hugo. What it all goes to show is that Carranza, no matter what he says, is pretty well able to dictate to the bandits what they shall and what they shall not do. Americans find it hard...
...duties. The team has been handicapped by the delay in getting a coach, but there is very promising material on hand, and it is expected to turn out an excellent team to compete in the meets that have been arranged with Yale and other colleges. The Eli meet will take place in the latter part of March and will be the culmination of the season. Men who report for the first time now will be at no disadvantage, as formal practice is just beginning...
This evening at 8.15 o'clock the first of the two Christmas services which are annually given in Appleton Chapel will take place. The Reverend E. C. Moore, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Chairman of the Board of Preachers, conducts the service this evening and the second on tomorrow evening. The University Choir and the Radcliffe Choral Society, under the direction of Professor A. T. Davison '06, organist and choirmaster, will present a program of Christmas music...
...that he denounced the nation's unwillingness to defend the Armenians against the threat of Turkish aggression, he also denounced the plan of those who would put the nation in a condition of readiness to meet such threats. For my part I see no virtue in expecting America to take the field against the forces of violence and disorder unless one is willing that America should be equipped to take the field. Pacifism combined with staying at home and playing safe I can understand; but pacifism combined with looking for trouble, with ideals of heroism and chivalry...