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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...clock. Lieutenant Shackleton last year penetrated almost to the south pole, being stopped after he had surmounted practically all difficulties and had only an open plateau between himself and the pole, by the exhaustion of his provisions. As it was he reached a point farther south than had ever before been attained. Lieutenant Shackleton's stay in America will be brief as he intends to return to England shortly to prepare for another Antarctic expedition...
...dash for the South Pole made by Lieutenant Shackleton, leader of the last British Antarctic Expedition, is one of the most remarkable feats in polar exploration ever accomplished. The earliest report of his achievement reached England on March 23, 1909, where it produced great excitement. He had been a member of an earlier Antarctic expedition under Scott in 1902-03; but it was not until 1907 that he set out in command of his own. He succeeded in reaching a point 111 miles from the pole, on January 9, 1909, and undoubtedly would have reached the pole itself...
...immediate interest in this connection and in pleasing contrast to the ever present athletic report, is the series of articles on Harvard men prominent in music, arts, and letters published in the Harvard Graduates Magazine. In these five articles on Harvard artists, poets, editors, composers, and dramatists appear the names of many of the foremost men in each of these branches of intellectual activity. The series is a quiet refutation of the current charges of backwardness in these fields. Does it not seem that the fault lies rather with the public and the press, than with the University itself...
Such a happy attitude would be far less prevalent if there existed more generally a truer and fuller conception of the real significance of a habit formed. "Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever so small scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for each fresh dereliction by saying, "I wont count this time." Well, he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it, but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-cells and fibres, the molecules are counting it, registering and storing...
...friend and colleague he was sincere and devoted, always ready to assume his share or even more than his share of the work, sympathetic to the last degree, and, though at times in manner somewhat brusque, at heart ever the kindest and gentlest of companions. His death is a serious loss to the University