The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-13
f1onored By University
That Once Expelled Him
V. Stefannson Arrived in City Today-Tells of Colleeiate
Experiences Here-Interesting Arctic Explorations
Related-Guest of North Dakota University.

SdAaeu SUCH great IaMe as an Arctic
explorer. arrived in the city last even
ing on No. l and this evening he will
give an illustrated lecture at the uni
versity on Five Years of Arctic Ex-
plorations." Mr.. Stefansson came
here from Iowa City. where he gave a
series OF talks last week on his trip
to the %northland. While here he will
stop at the university commons build
ing and a number Of informal dinners
Will be given in his honor. He will
give two other lectures besides the one
this evening, and when he is through
ne Will return to New York as he ia
out west only to talk at the University
of North Dakota.
Mr. Stefansson was a student at the
university several years g and he
IS here for old times sake more than
for anything else. He left the uni
time he was publicly expelled because
the majority Of the faculty at that
time thought that he had a bad in
1uence upon the other students. The
faculty admitted at hat time that
nothing could be proven against him,
but several members believed that
Stefansson was always the instigator
when any tricks were played.
Graduates From Iowa Next Year. .
sity Of Iowa after leaving here and
graduated from that institution in
the spring Of 1903. receiving a B.. A.
degree. He was expelled from the
University Of North Dakota in the
middle Of the school year and thus
did not receive any credit for his
work. Mr.. S~tefansson says that he
entered the Iowa institution as part
freshman n part sophomore. but by
taking examinations he graduated in
one year. In the fall Of 1908 he en-
manned for three years. During the
two following years he was an in
%structor in a~nthropology at Harvard.
In the summers of 1904 and 1905
Mr.. Stefansson made a scientific ex-
petition to Iceland and Travelled
through northern Europe and he
brought back. with him eighty-six
skulls of people who lived during the
Viking period. With these skulls con-
elusive evidence was brought forth to
show that the people of Iceland and
in that locality did not suffer with
toothache and that there was no decay
of the teeth as there Is in most Of the
civilized country today. The oldest
skulls which have been found in
Egypt and Babylonia show that the
people Of those places did have decay
Of the teeth as at the present time.
The main proposition proved by these
skulls is that climate and diet affects
the teeth in such "a manner that they
decay.
First Trip in 1905.
In the year 1906 Mr.. Stefansson left
Harvard on his first Arctic expedition
which he made alone through Canada
by way of Winnipeg. Edmonton and
the Mckenzie river. He went clear
to the mouth of the stream n lived
there with the Eskimos for n year.
During his stay there he lived in the
Eskimo houses and lived on fish the
try is entirely devoid of game. Mr..
S%tefansson claims that he did not
have ever any tea or salt to eat. In
1907 he crossed Alaska from north to
south and came back to the United
States by way Of Dawson and Seattle.
This first expedition was financed by
the Universities of Harvard and To-
ronto and the collections which were
made on these trips have been placed
petition to the far north was made by
Mr.. Stefansson in the spring Of 1908
and he was accompanied on this trir
by DR.. r. NJ. Anderson. a zoologist
from the University Of Iowa. n tbs
two men were gone for four years and
half and during that time the,
made many wonderful discoveries
For three years Of this time they lived
entirely on the game Of the countr,
and they had to rely on their owr
resources to procure this. On thi'
trip the explorers went from Poin'
Hope. Alaska. east to the Copper Min.
river which is near Coronation gulf
An expedition was made to Victoria
Island which Is located directly nortl
Of the gulf. This island is somewha
larger than the British Isles.
The Blond Eskimo.
The blond Eskimo. who wa
found for the first time by Mr.. Stef
ansson. inhabits Victoria Island AM
the mainland around Coronation Gulf
This tribe was found in territor!
which was marked uninhabited OIL
the Canadian maps which we're pub
llished about eighteen months befor'
the expedition was undertaken. MIR
Stefansson declares that these peopl,
are at the present time living in tn,
stone age or are in the same stage o
civilization as the people of northern
Europe were about ten thousant
years ago. These Eskimos did no