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...Pelham, N. Y. last week a tired-looking, mild-mannered oldster of 74 sat at lunch with an explorer whom he had never before met-Sir Hubert Wilkins, who has dreamed for years of traveling under the ice to the North Pole in a submarine. The two talked of the trials & tribulations of men fighting the Arctic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Sullivan County, N. Y., to a German immigrant named Koch, Frederick Albert Cook wa's born in 1865. He worked his way through medical school, hung out his shingle in Brooklyn. Interested by the plans for Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891, he volunteered, was accepted. Later Cook went on a Belgian Antarctic expedition and won the admiration of Roald Amundsen. Cook's other expeditions were to Greenland, Alaska, Mount Everest, Borneo. He was rated a popular and able explorer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...full team showed up), they practiced about an hour and a half a day. Because of lack of time, Coaches McElroy & Hub-bard showed their pupils how to score a touchdown but not how to kick a goal afterwards. Reed's team proceeded to whip Multnomah College (a Y. M. C. A. school) and Pacific College of Newberg, Ore. (a Quaker school once attended by Herbert Hoover), each by the margin of a point after touchdown (knowing nothing better to do, they passed). Then they licked a CCC team at Camp Goldendale. Wash. Last fortnight, having topped off their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Husky Reed | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Klaw, who lives in Adams House and Carmel, N. Y., prepared at Loomis, where he edited the Loomis Log. He was appointed to the Student Council last spring and is now serving on the Council's standing committee on Teaching. Previously he was active on the Council's Committee on Housing. On the CRIMSON he has held the positions of Secretary and House Editor. He is a member of the Signet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Klaw 1941 Crimson Head; Gilbert Named as Next Managing Editor | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

Richard B. Wolf '41, New York, N. Y...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honorary Scholarships Are Awarded To 101 High Ranking Undergraduates | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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