The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-10-06

| NEW YORk.-MlSS Louise A.
Boyd, wandering far from sun
ny San Rafael in California, pushes
farther up the East Greenland coast
u than any Arneri-
can ever went be-
Louise Boyd fore. She was a
Modest SouJ 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 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
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 it has been
ascertained, however, that she
takes 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 a living statement
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
political formula-which is Thomas
Mann's imprisoned 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 electorate, he taught
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He has been a stanch defender
of science and the humanities
against big0try 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-
Prof. Birkhof ~ - -
Warns of Influx superintendent
or TnfeIIecfuoJs al refuge
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 relatively grounders this
way, Doctor Birkhoff was one of
the few men in America who
could field them. He is pro-
life writer in the overlapping
zone of mathematics and phil
osophy, one of the most heavily
garlanded men in the scholastic
world, distinguished Catholic
layman holding high papal hon.
ors for scholarship. He is a
native of Michigan, educated at
the University of Chicago and
Harvard.
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