Word: shackleton
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...Williams College, spoke on "Education"; W. B. Parsons spoke on "Engineering"; Dr. R. C. Cabot '89 on "Medicine"; Rev. Endicott Peabody h.'04 on "The Ministry"; and W. M. E. Perkins '07 on "Journalism." Among the other men of national reputation who drew large audiences were Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shackleton, F. Hopkinson Smith, Hon. E. Sumner Mansfield, Hon. Henry Clews, and Horace Fletcher...
...Ernest Shackleton, the English Antarctic explorer, spoke before an enthusiastic audience in the Living Room of the Union yesterday afternoon and described one of the arduous experiences of his expedition. He said that on the party's return north, their provisions became exhausted and for two months they were compelled to subsist on a diet of dead pony. On the march they suffered terribly from dysentery and each man lost in weight an average of from 30 to 40 pounds...
...Nimrod" was to sail north on March 1, it was necessary for them to make long forced marches. The next day they made 24 miles, but in the evening Marshall, one of the party, became so exhausted that they left him behind with a companion, while Shackleton and another man pushed on alone. They marched almost all night and early the next afternoon felt the ice heaving under their feet. A little while later they reached open water, but as it was foggy they could not discover the ship. So they cached most of their goods and proceeded along...
That same afternoon Shackleton accompanied by three men from the "Nimrod" set out to return for Marshall, and the night passed on the journey was the first in which he had slept since he had begun the forced march. Early the next morning they set out again and on the following night were back at the coast with Marshall and his companion. During the last afternoon a blizzard had been raging and the "Nimrod" had moved to shelter when they arrived. However, they managed by means of calcium torches to attract her attention and at 10 o'clock...
...these three days Shackleton had marched 123 miles and had had only eight hours sleep...