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...Exciting Episode occurred soon after the eventful flight. A bit of the ice barrier, to which the Byrd ships were moored, cracked off. The ships lurched violently. Benjamin Roth, aviation mechanic, was thrown into the water. He drifted away from the ship among cakes of ice. Commander Byrd himself jumped overboard to rescue him. After ten minutes, during which Byrd failed to reach Roth, three other men in a boat fished first Roth, then Byrd, out of the water...
...some mountain peaks no one had seen before and decided to name them for John D. Rockefeller Jr.,* one of the heavy contributors to the expedition's fund. They named one peak for the expedition's cook, George Tennant, and seeing a bay in the ice barrier, "said Commander Byrd, "to name it Hal Flood Bay, after my mother's brother...
Signs are not wanting to indicate that the barrier is on the verge of yielding to the assaults of Western penetration. Yale-in-China is a well established organization, and with the founding last year of the Harvard Yenching Institute, Harvard made an official entry into the field. It is symbolic of the present lack of knowledge of things Oriental that probably few Harvard students are aware of the fact that four of the most distinguished Sinologists in the world are now working in the University under the auspices of this organization. The gift of Baron von Stael-Holstein will...
...Harvard's problem this year will be to find a barrier for this phase of the game, since every team that will invade the Stadium this fall is one which is relying on the proficiency on its passing attack...
...Tuesday morning at nine o'clock, agreeable to arrangements made, and with military punctuality, the Cadets were at the southern barrier of the town, on the Neck. Here they were met by the Board of selectmen, who had descended from their carriages, and were attended by the Police Officer, and his assistants. Major worth, also having dismounted, was addressed by Mr. williams, chairman of the board, and his corps welcomed to the town in the most cordial manner...