The Coolidge examiner., 1938-10-06

Boyd, wandering far from sun
ny San Rafael in California, pushes
farther up the East Greenland coast
=, than any Ameri-
VentuTeSoH1e can ever went be-
Louise Boyd fore. She was a
M.J. c,J comely woman Of
80, 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 a long stretch at a
Wisconsin chautauqua, asked pass
ersby if they could direct him to a
nice Armenian massacre.
For the last II 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 histrionic 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 IL 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 ad-
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.
HOSE who liked Thomas Mann's
THE Coming of Democracy"
will find in DR.. Cyrus Adler, who
celebrated his 18th birthday the 9TH
er day, liv-
LIT L. AoteT ing statement
Embodiment of of Herr Mann's
Monn'e Thorn. theme. A schol-
ar and human
ist, he has given his life to an ex-
emplification 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 Doc
tor 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 dOctorate, he taught
at the University of Baltimore.
He has been a stanch defender
of science and the humanities
against bigotry and insuIarity
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.
DR. GEORGE D. BIRKHOFF.
~ professor of mathematics at
Harvard, seems to be the first to
note the competition in the academ-
ic world from
TToT. DtTRhoH tn influx of
Warns of Influx superintendent
Of IntellectuaIs al refu gee IS
from Europe.
AS the doctor sees it, mathemati-
clans won't be worth dime dozen
If these highly gifted men keep on
coming. However, his observations
indicate no narrow insularity on his
part. He is all for the enrichment of
our intellectual life, but notes that
somebody may have to ride on the
running board with all this over
crowding.
When Einstein began batting
his hot relativity grOunders this
way, Doctor Birkhoff was one of
the few men in America who
could field them. He is a pro-