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...Sprengisandr Desert, on its way to Akureyri, on the north coast. The route taken is considered the hardest way of crossing the island, as many fords have to be made, the deepest that across the Thojorsa River, the largest of the rivers of Iceland. On this part of the trip the party passed near Mt. Heckle, the famous volcano, and for two days rode close to the Arnafells Jokull and the Vatna Jokull, the latter the largest glacier in Europe. In six days the expedition reached Akureyri, after a ride of over 500 miles. Here the party separated, Dr. Farabee...
...addition to the main party, conducted in person by Dr. Farabee, several independent trips were, made by other members of the expedition. V. Stefansson, assistant in anthropology, and J. W. Hastings 2G, made for the Peabody Museum a valuable collection of Skeletons from an early Icelandic cemetery. Hastings also made several anthropometric measurements of the natives. A. E. Hutchinson '06, E. M. Howland '06 and C. S. Waldo, Jr., '06, with B. Pallson '08, visited Thingvellir, Geysir and Hekla in a separate party, and H. G. Ferguson '05, in company with the director of the Geological Survey of Iceland, made...
...University basketball team will be called out November 27, and the class series will begin as soon after that as possible. Cups will be given to the team winning this series. Soon after this class series is finished the University squad will be picked. There will be no Christmas trip this year and the scrub series for men who do not make the University squad will be held after the mid-year period instead of before. In this series also prizes will be given to the members of the winning team...
...clock H. B. Webster 1M will give an account of his trip and experiences in Labrador last summer. Webster spent several weeks in assisting Dr. Grenfell, who spoke in the Union last year, in his medical work on the hospital ship "Strathcona," and in the hospitals for fishermen on the Labrado coast. A quartette from the Glee Club will sing several selections. Books from the House libraries and magazines will be available for use during the afternoon...
Edward Leighton Fanshawe '07 of New York, died of erysipelas last Friday at Santa Barbara, Cal., while on a trip around the world with three friends. He received a slight injury at sea which later caused his death...