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Before the senior year most of men complete a major part of their concentration. They complete it without the benefit of the rich groundwork which the College considers necessary. The result is plain. Study of Bible, Shakespeare, and Authors degenerates to jumping over a barrier which stands before the degree. As such they are an example of a splendid theory abused by unwise practice...
...shall visit Admiral Byrd's old headquarters on the barrier, see Mount Erebus, the steaming volcano, and watch the great whaling fleets in action. . . . The attractions of the Ross Sea are a pure germless atmosphere, 24 hours of sunshine every day at the season in which we shall visit it and a cold, dry, invigorating climate with the temperature around 31° Fahrenheit (one degree below freezing). . . . Our good ship will be especially strengthened to resist ice pressure...
...Willard Van der Veer, did some epic work. They show you clearly what an exploration party is like: men dealing minutely with a great isolation, making laborious preparations against hypothetical crises, living every day so as to come a step nearer an illusory goal. Pushing past the Ross Barrier (wall of ice guarding Antarctica) to and over the Queen Maude Mountains, Byrd and his men moved to the Pole step by step, laying out emergency bases, foreseeing, taking precautions. Byrd might have taken a chance and made a dash for the Pole by plane the day he got to Little...
...that final exams are on the waning half a bored student body is exercising its ingenuity to the fullest extent in finding many forms of recreation to relieve its mind from the tediousness of the long struggle of preparation for the final barrier...
SEVEN DAYS LEAVE?Gary Cooper in a Barrier...