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...Polar Year expense account has been cut to $30,000. Of the U. S. observers. Dr. Ralph Belknap, University of Michigan scientist, will be farthest north at the Kraulshafen, Greenland, station. The others will be at Point Barrow and Fairbanks, Alaska. Abandoned are plans for a station in Grant Land where the Northern Lights are thought to originate...
Before getting down to work. Dr. Belknap last week was jaunting in the Arctic. With Marie Peary Stafford, Arctic-born daughter of the discoverer of the North Pole, and her two sons, he went to build a tower of rocks on snow-covered Cape York in northwest Greenland, in Admiral Peary's memory...
Under Captain Robert ("Bob") Bartlett the motored schooner Morrissey bore them through Davis Strait, past Kraulshafen, Greenland, where Dr. Belknap sent two assistants ashore; across Baffin Bay, across Melville Bay. Atop Cape York the jaunters found plenty of rocks but little labor to haul cement and scaffolding up the heights from the Morrissey. Seeking Eskimo helpers, the party went down the hill and over to Thule. a nearby village where lives Hans Nielsen, Danish Governor of the region...
Outfielders: B. H. Bassett '31, L. B. Belknap '31, F. B. Campana '33, A. J. Lupien '32, F. P. Locke '33, K. A. McCaffrey...
...0ther U. S. composers whose works have been produced at the Metropolitan: Frederick Shepherd Converse, the late Professor Horatio William Parker, of Yale (his Mono, was awarded a $10,000 prize), Walter Damrosch (to whom Peter Ibbetson is dedicated), Victor Herbert Reginald de Koven, Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, Charles Wakefield Cadman, John Adam Hugo, Joseph Carl Breil, Henry Kimball Hadley, John Alden Carpenter. Composer Carpenter's Skyscrapers, a ballet, and Taylor's The King's Henchman survived longer than the dreary ten which preceded them...