The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-10-07

Boyd, wandering far from sun
ny San Rafael in California, pushes
farther up the East Greenland coast
Venturesome ca T o,, any ,,,a m,iI ha
Louise Boyd fore. She was a
Modest Soul comely woman of
30, skilled in the
rubric of serving tea and all the
niceties of Victorian etiquette be-
fore she showed into the ice pack
and began pot-shooting polar bears
nine in one day. She might have
felt like the late William James
who, free from long stretch at
Wisconsin chautauqua, asked pass
ersby if they could direct him to
nice Armenian massacre.
For the last IL years she has been
equipping stout little Norwegian
sealers for her Arctic expeditions.
She has trained herself in scientific
observations and her findings are
published under scientific auspices.
She holds decorations from two for
eign governments and the American
Geographical society has published
two of her books. She surveyed a
stretch of the Greenland coast, pre-
viously uncharted, and for this the
Danish government named the area
Miss Boyd Land. She has .ventured
farther north than any other white
woman.
She dislikes publicity and has
little of the histri0nic sense
common to explorers. So far as
the reporters are concerned,
she might just as well make an
expedition to Flatbush. At great
labor and expense it has been
ascertained, however, that she
takes a nice wardrobe north
with her and that she always
powders her nose before going
on deck. She probably was
trapped into these indiscreet adj
missions as she has made it
clear that all this is nObody's
business.
Weaving through ice packs on an
Atlantic voyage gave her her big
idea. One of her chief interests on
her northern voyages is photog-
raphy. She is the daughter of John
Boyd, wealthy Californian. The old
manse at San Rafael, which this
writer has seen on occasion, is a
citadel of decorum, from which, it
would seem, none would ever wan
der, SO far and so dangerously.
THOSE who liked Thomas Mann's
= "The Coming of Democracy,
will find in DR.. Cyrus Adler, who
celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday
Dr.. C. Adler al. a living inc state statement n
Embodiment of of Herr Mann's
Mann's Theme theme. A scholar
and humanist, he
has given his life to an exempli-
fication of democracy as an ethical
and cultural aspiration and not a
political formula-which is Thomas
Mann's impassioned thesis. This
writer thought of that when he read
the book, and spotted up Doctor
Adler's birthday in the future book
for attention here.
He is the only president of
two colleges, Dropsie college of
Philadelphia and the Jewish
Theological Seminary Of New
York. A fellow of Johns Hop
kins university, where he OBJ
tanned his doct0rate, he taught
at the University of Baltimore.
He has been a stanch defender
of science and the humanities
against bigotry and insularity
through the more than half
century of his teaching, writing
and speaking.
At his retreat at Woods Hole,
Mass, he is still creative, alert and
vigorous. He is saluted here as the
proprietor of one of our most i'm
portant birthdays.
nR. GEORGE D. BIRKHOFF,
~ professor of mathematics at
Harvard, seems to be the first to
note the competition in the academ-
n.,.n ic world from
TFo'' 0t'RHo" tn e influx of
Warns of Influx superintellectu-
NJ TnteIIectuoIs al refugees
from Europe.
AS the doctor sees it, mathemati-
clans won't be worth a dime dozen
if these highly gifted men keep on.
coming. However, his observations