Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Living in the capital of the British Empire, within a few hours of the main battlefield, the members of this club are profoundly moved by the sight of the wastage and wreck of war, and feel it their duty to carry out the traditions of wide and intelligent humane help so long taught in the University...
...cultivate his intelligence as widely or as specially as he pleases, with the assurance that it will count, all of it, in the general measure of his worth. The purely technical training, the proper way to spread the facts of a fire, of an election, of a wreck, he may obtain in any school of journalism, or under the eye of the editor who takes him on. A good many editors, perhaps all editors, have an ingrained prejudice for training their own men in the style which they prefer. It is certainly not a bad thing for the beginner...
...SIXTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, 1913, THIS CORNERSTONE OF THE HARRY ELKINS WIDENER MEMORIAL LIBRARY WAS LAID BY MRS. GEORGE DUNTON WIDENER WHO GIVES THE BUILDING AS A MEMORIAL TO HER SON HARRY ELKINS WIDENER BORN JANUARY 3, 1885 GRADUATED FROM HARVARD COLLEGE IN 1907 LOST IN THE WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP TITANIC...
According to a dispatch from Nome, Alaska, the vessel which John E. Thayer '85, of Lancaster and Boston, sent into the Arctic three years ago to secure specimens for the University and for Mr. Thayer's museum, has been lost, and is a total wreck on the shores of Siberia. Captain John Koren, however, who is leading the expedition, gave the further information that the material which the expedition had secured, has been preserved in Siberia, and that the only loss sustained was that of the vessel...
...were later reinforced by two Eskimos. The expedition was for the purpose of gathering zoological, botanical, and natural history specimens in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. It visited the islands off the coast of Alaska, the Behring Sea, and the Arctic Ocean. No lives were lost in the wreck...