CAPT. JOHN A. COOK TO GIVE LECTURE ON "WHALING" TODAY

Captain John A. Cook of Provincetown will give an illustrated lecture on "Whaling" before history 33 in Sever 11 today at 12 o'clock. All members of the university are invited to attend.

Captain Cook was born among the folk at the tip of Cape Cod. It was natural for him to take to the sea. He was a sailor boy t eleven, before the mast at fourteen, and captain of a fisherman at twenty, mate of a whaling ship at twenty-six, and master at thirty. For twenty years this rugged "toiler of the sea" chased the whale south to the Falkland in the Antarctic Ocean and north to the Banks Land in the Arctic following a course traced out upon no chart, avoiding shoals marked by no buoys, and all the time surrounded by countless dangers.

He successively commandered the whaling steamers, Jessie H. Freeman, Belvidere, Navarch, and Bowhead. It was on the latter that he was frozen in for thirty months close to the north pole. He and his crew were saved form starvation only by the superhuman efforts of the Eskimos. On this voyage as on many others, Captain Cook was accompanied by his wife.