Word: greenland
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...summer resort for scientists, tourists and sportsmen. As far as colleges are concerned, it began in 1894, when the Cook expedition took parties from Harvard, Yale and Oberlin colleges, and which came to such an unfortunate ending. Again last year Technology and Cornell sent small parties to Greenland, and the coming summer Dartmouth, Harvard, and possibly Yale, will be represented in the field...
Lieutenant Peary, the Arctic explorer, delivered a popular rather than a scientific lecture on "Greenland, the Arctic Island Continent," in the Fogg Lecture Room last evening. The lecture was illustrated throughout by stereopticon views of photographs which Lieutenant Peary took on his last Arctic trip. The personal tone given by the lecturer added much to the interest of the subject...
Lieutenant Peary began his lecture by describing the position of Greenland, the earliest known Arctic land, which was first supposed to from a great Arctic continent, but is now known to be an island. It is by passing from the northernmost point of this island through the open sea that Lieutenant Peary thinks the North Pole will be reached. The old supposition that a volcano or deep hole would be found at the Pole is now discarded, and explorers expect to find there either land or an open ocean. The pole is now only 260 miles from the farthest northern...
...attention of members of the University is called to the special meeting of the Geological Conference this evening in Fogg Lecture Room at 7.45, when Civil Engineer R. E. Peary, U. S. Navy, will lecture on "Greenland, the Arctic Island Continent," (with stereopticon illustrations). The lecture is open to members of the University and friends. Seats will be reserved for members of the Geological Department...
...Tuesday.Geological Conference. Paper: Greenland, the Arctic Island Continent. (IIlustrated with stereopticon.) Civil Engineer R. E. Peary, U. S. Navy. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...