Reception for Sir Ernest Shackleton

The following announcement was made yesterday by the Executive Committee for the Student Council: "The under-signed urge all members of the University, who have no engagements early next Thursday afternoon, to gather in the Living Room of the Union at 2.25 o'clock, to greet Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer, who will be a guest of the Harvard Travellers' Club, for lunch. He will speak briefly in the Living Room at 2.30 o'clock."

Executive Committee for the Council: G. P. GARDNER, JR.   E. C. BACON.   C. C. LITTLE.   S. A. SARGENT.

Lieutenant Shackleton's Polar Work.

The dash for the South Pole made by Lieutenant Shackleton, leader of the last British Antarctic Expedition, is one of the most remarkable feats in polar exploration ever accomplished. The earliest report of his achievement reached England on March 23, 1909, where it produced great excitement. He had been a member of an earlier Antarctic expedition under Scott in 1902-03; but it was not until 1907 that he set out in command of his own. He succeeded in reaching a point 111 miles from the pole, on January 9, 1909, and undoubtedly would have reached the pole itself if his provisions had not become exhausted.