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Polar exploration is popular this summer. Captain Roald Amundsen, the Norseman who reached the South Pole first, will hop off from Wainwright, Alaska, June 21, in an attempt to fly over the North Pole to Spitzbergen...
Amundsen's pilot, Lieut. Oskar Omdahl, has been reported dead from Nome, but a mail carrier who left Wainwright, April 28, where Omdahl, spent the winter, said all there were well. Amundsen is taking with him moving picture apparatus for filming the polar region...
...latest chapter in polar exploration may be written when Ronald Amundsen, the Norse explorer, hops off from Wainwright, on the north coast of Alaska, June 20 or shortly after for an airplane flight across the North Pole to Spitzbergen. In order to notify watchers and emergency rescue parties in Spitzbergen the news of his departure will be flashed thither by radio from Noorvik, on the west coast, the nearest transmitting station to Wainwright. Word will be carried over the intervening 400 miles by a chain of giant bonfires every fifteen miles, each tended by a team of Eskimos who will...
...Allen Wainwright Pinger, S.B. (Geology...
...from which Harvard men have come are included. Such school records are "Middlesex School in War" and the book of St. Mark's School. The collection also contains the diary of Alan Seegar '10, and the letters of Victor Emmanuel Chapman '13, Hamilton Coolidge '19, A. S. Hyde '96, Wainwright Merrill '19, W. H. Meeker '17, Norman Prince '08, Quentin Roosevelt '19, Walter Trumbull '14, and John Wright...