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According to the tentative plans, the interior arrangements will, on the whole, correspond to those of the present building on Holyoke street. Ample training table rooms for all the squads of athletes that are in training, both for the University and the Freshman teams, will be provided. A large living room and bed-rooms for the coaches will also be arranged...
...which St. Gaudens was working on, notably the present two dollar and a half gold piece. Among Mr. Pratt's most famous works are "The Seasons" in the pavilion of the Library of Congress, the medallion of President Eliot, the statue of Phillips Brooks in Brooks House, besides some interior decorating in the Boston Public Library and the Boston Opera House...
...Ernest Shackleton's visit to Harvard this afternoon is an occasion of unusual interest. On October 29, 1908, he and his party of three left the Antarctic coast for the unknown interior, and after an advance which brought them within 111 miles of the pole, they were forced to turn back, having nearly exhausted the food supply and reached the limit of their endurance. When the coast was nearly reached with all of the party more or less incapacitated, one of the men was overcome with sickness. He was left with a companion, while Lieutenant Shackleton and the fourth member...
...take part in the capture of a large whale. When the ice permitted, they crossed to Labrador and made an attempt to penetrate into the country by one of its many rivers. A guide they hired proved untrustworthy in the extreme, and after they were well into the interior, lured them away from the river by a series of gross misstatements, up into the barren country of snow and rock. Here the wind, which had been blowing continually, suddenly died down, and black flies, the terrible scourge of the country, settled on them. The reindeer which they had brought...
...endeavor, accompanied by much hardship and great expense. He has just returned from a six months' trip in Labrador and North Newfoundland, where his work consisted largely of exploration, and where in the course of the summer he covered many hundred miles of seacoast and penetrated far into the interior using reindeer as pack animals. The expedition was mainly in search of young caribou, to be captured alive and brought to a post of the Deep Sea Fishermen's Mission at St. Anthony, Newfoundland, in the hope of introducting them into a large herd of domestic reindeer...