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    "title": "Records relating to Polar Exploration",
    "description": "This file includes poems, articles, and letters relating to Admiral Robert Peary, the ship Roosevelt, and North and South Pole expeditions.",
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    "ocrText": "6\nTHE PENN CHARTER MAGAZINE.\nversity of Pennsylvania sent to Man-\nchester, Mass., to compete in the Inter-\n'10\nNORMAN L. BARR, O. P. C.\nIO, is putting up a splendid\nIn Old Ireland\ncollegiate Golf Championship Tourna-\ngame on the Penn Freshman football\nment.\nteam, whereof he has been elected cap-\nOne of the mainstays of the Haver-\ntain.\nford College football team is OLIVER\nOne of the candidates for the Rut-\nBy HENRY N. FALLON, Secunda.\nM. PORTER, O. P. C. '09, who is play-\ngers College football team is J. LAW-\ning fullback.\nSON BAILEY, O. P. C. IO.\nW\nHILE visiting friends in Ireland\nbuilding, we discussed what places of\nRICHARD M. MARSHALL, O. P. C.\nthis summer, the events of one\ninterest we should most like to see. We\nRONALD O. SHRIGLEY, O. P. C. '09,\nday in County Louth proved espe-\nwere all unanimous in our selection of\nwas chairman of the Sophomore Poster\nIO, is playing end on the Freshman\nCommittee at Penn.\nfootball team at the U. of P.\ncially interesting. This county is one\nMonasterboice and New Grange. It\nof the most historic counties of Ire-\nwas decided that after luncheon we\nland, and in it were fought the battle\nshould motor to Monasterboice, where\nof the Boyne and several Danish battles.\nwere some celebrated Irish crosses, and\nAfter we had witnessed the last flight\nthen to New Grange, an artificial\nCONQUEROR OF THE FROZEN NORTH\nof DREXEL in his monoplane, as he\nmound built by the Firbolgs about\ngracefully circled around the beautiful\nthree thousand years before Christ as\nConqueror of the frozen North! To thee\nSome there may be who ask what thou\nLeopardstown race course outside of\na burial place for one of their kings.\nBe honor, glory, praise, and last, our\nhast done-\nDublin, now swerving downwards, now\nIt did not take us long to reach\nascending higher and higher until al-\nMonasterboice, passing through a few\nsong,\nWhat purpose serves the winning of\nmost lost in the clouds, and now grad-\ncountry graveyards, quite neglected,\nually descending again in circles, the\nand estates and thrifty farms. Mon-\nSmall tribute to thy struggle, cruel\nthy goal-\ntrain began to move. We had spent\nasterboice seemed to me just like a little\nand long,\nan anxious half hour, as we had been\ncountry graveyard, long disused and\nWho always scorned thy valiant faring\nAcross the barriers of an icy sea.\ntold by the guard that the first train\novergrown with grass, with no paths\nforth.\nout would not start before five o'clock,\nto walk on. At one end stood a round\nLong years of toil, long years of con-\nwhich meant that we should not be able\ntower, beside which were two Irish\nTo those our answer is that thou hast\nto take the train from Dublin to County\ncrosses. One of these is the finest of\nstancy\nwon-\nLouth, where we had been invited to\nits kind in the world. It consists of\nThy mind its purpose held, and ever\nstay a few days. As usual, however,\nthree parts, the base, the body and the\nAchieved that which thy ever daunt-\nluck was in our favor, as the train\ntop. The shaft, arms and circle of the\nstrong\nstarted at twenty minutes to five, giv-\ncross are all one piece. On one side\nless soul\nAnd faithful to thy self-set task,\ning us time to make the train to Louth.\nare carved scenes from the Scriptures,\nHad prayed to gain. Hail! Con-\nWe were SO late, however, that the\nsuch as EVE handing ADAM an apple\nthrough wrong\nonly seats we could find were in the\nand CAIN killing ABEL, while on the\nThou comest thy laurels earned -\nqueror of the North!\ndining car. They say that it is sad to\nother side were sculptured the Cruci-\nsee happiness through another man's\nfixion and heads of cherubim. Under\ntriumphantly.\nW. I.-O.P.C.'07.\neyes, but it is sadder still to sit by and\nthe right arm is a hand, supposed to\nwatch others enjoy their dinner when\nbe the hand of God blessing the world,\nyou have not time to eat and know you\nand under the other are three heads\nmust ride six or seven Irish miles be-\nof monks, judging from their draperies,\nfore sitting down to a square meal.\nentwined with serpents devouring their\nHowever, Castle B- was reached,\ntails.\nand we were whirled away in the dusk\nThe other cross was about eight feet\nin our friend's motor, only catching\nhigher (the former being fifteen feet\nfleeting glimpses of the surrounding\nhigh), but it was not SO impressive or\ncountry and of a long avenue of trees\nwell preserved, nor was the carving on\nleading up to Wm- House.\nit SO good. The secret of the preserva-\nThe morning after our arrival at\ntion of the crosses lies in the nature\nHouse, a large but homelike\nof the stone. which is a hard sandstone.\n7"
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