Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-25

| Brunswick. Me, Jan. 4.--(SpeciaD.-
Before one of the largest crowds that
has assembled in Memorial hail for
some time Donald Baxter MacMillar,
IS gave an address before the college
and townspcorlc this evening on with
Fcary in the Arctic" This is the first
time that Mr.. Macmillan has come
back. to his Alma Mater since the re-
turn of the succcssfur expedition and
owing to the fact that Commander
Peary has been unable to visit Bruins
wick If was the first time that & great
many local people have lad an OD-
portunity to hear the story Of the
great dash to the North Pole. MIR.
Macmillan began his talk with u little
resume of Arctic history into which
he interSp~rscd anecdotes and Il Dor
ton of his fund of interesting expert
cnc"s among the t,squmaliX. This
was followed by the throwing on the
screen of one hundred and thirty col
ored slides illustrating the trip from
New York to the Polar Sea and re-
turn. These slides dealt With every
phasr of life in IL Arctic. They in
Guided the midnight sun, I,s4uimauX
bunting Walrus, deer, musk oxen mar
Whal. bear and seals, pictures of tho
Roosevelt struggling through the ice,
the winter quarters. the rough ice of
the Polar Seas, the dogs dragging the
slcd9es over high pressure ridges,
crossing leads Of water on ice cakes,
ia. 10 n Oh, 10
tine most northern point of land in
the world. tic finding cr large herds
of mus; oxen and the Greeley relics
at C"ngcr and the return to Etah.
Among the interesting stories that
MIR Macmillan told was how he taught
the willing F.sQumlux the college v"n
ending with Peary upon the naming
OF Il cape in honor OF another son o.
Bowdoin. General Thomas II. Hub
bard. His narrative of the leaving of
the Esuuimaux at their Etah homes
of the landing on the Labrador shore
and the Journey to Sidney and thence
to New York completed his brilliant
lecture
Mr. Macmillan was vigorously @p-
'ouGod when he was introduced and
intensely listened to throughout and
req to The echo at the end of his
talk. IS
immediately after the lecture an in
formal reception was held at the
Theta Delta Chi House Of which fra
tcrnity Mr.. Macmillan is n member.
TIE faculty. graduates and under
graduates met therc to become ac-
quainted with the doughty follower Of
the sturdy capturcr of the North Fole.
Among the invited guests were:
President ard Mrs. William Dewitt
Hyde Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Mitchell.
Pref. Henry l.. Chapman, Prof. and
Mrs. Franklin c. Robinson, Prof. and
Mrs. Henry Johnson, Prof and Mrs.
Frank f. Woodruff, Prof. and Mrs.
George +. Little. Prof. and Mrs. VIII
| liam y. Moody. Prof. and Mrs. George
| 7. Files Prof. and Mrs. Wilmot 3.
! Mitchell. Prof and Mrs. Allen Johnson,
Prof. Charles r. Burnett, Prof. and
Mrs. Roscoe J. Ham; Prof. and Mrs.
! Frederick W Brown, Prof. ana Mrs
! II. p. Fairchild, DR.. and Mrs. Frank
! \. Whittier. Prof. Kenneth c. Nj. Sills,
| Mir and Mrs. G. G. Wilder, DR. Man
| ton Copeland, Assistant Prof. Marshall
| i. cram, Prof end Mrs. Hudson Is.
Hastings. ]. F. Scott, r. r. Stone. c.
! W. Snow, James L. McConaughy. L.
r. Booker. Samuel b. Kurdish, Mr..
and Mrs. H. NJ. Lewis. Col. and Mrs.
! George Thompson, '9S; Misses Mary
and Elizabeth Gilman, DR.. and Mrs.
john Fl. Quint, Rev and Mrs. Louis
| Parsons, Miss Emily Felt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hartley c. Baxter. Samuel B.
| Forsaith. Prof. and Mrs. William a.
Ifoughton, Col. and Mrs Henry a.
| Wing Of Lewiston. Rev DIR. and Mrs
/ Temple, Lewiston: Mrs w. C. Fogg of
4 Freeport and party of 10: the men,
bers OF the Ibis ana other undergrad
h yates. NS& RFs :
Professor George T. Files has an
rounced the members of the Deutscher
Nerein for this wear. The Deutscher
Nercin is an honorary German society