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...possibility of a tunnel under the Bering Strait has been brought up again. In speaking before a branch of the American Asiatic Association, Julian Arnold, Commercial Attache of the United States to Peking, advocated the construction of this connecting link between America and Asia,--a step which would make possible a railroad from Chicago to Peking, and eventually from New York to Paris and Berlin, via Nome and Omsk. Should this plan ever be put into effect, the globe-trotter would no longer be forced to endure the hardships of any voyage save that across the Atlantic. The Peterkin family...
Subways, of course, are always open to attack by doubters because of the danger of collapse and the difficulties of construction; but, as in the case of the Hudson River, Bering Strait, and the English Channel even, they would furnish the only possible way of bringing about land communication. Tunnels fifty miles in length are not built in a day, but it seems more and more probable that they will sometime be as familiar as the Brooklyn Bridge is now. Although man may never realize Jules Verne's imaginative story of a "Journey to the Center of the Earth...
...events, whether the Sick Man returns to Europe or not, the situation indicates for the future that more care must be used in any attempt to adjust a strait-jacket to the Terrible Turk...
...Groener '22, C. C. Macomber '22, G. V. Smith '22, R. B. Smith '22, G. C. A. Fetzer '23, L. W. Rathbun '23, S. Fisher uC., F. C. Breckenridge 3G., O. B. Gerig 1G., J. E. Harley 3G., C. A. Patterson 2G., P. S. Smith 1G.; A. G. Strait 1Dv., C. C. Fitchner, 1G.B...
...Harvard Zoological Club. "The Carnegie Expedition to Torres Strait," by Dr. H. L. Clark, in the Zoological Laboratory, Room...