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Denmark's only colony, Greenland, is three times as big as Denmark. Just back from an inspection trip of Greenland is nature-loving Danish Prime Minister Theodor A. M. Stauning. In Copenhagen last week he waxed enthusiastic: "Great changes are taking place in Greenland, not only economically but also in the mode of life of the inhabitants...
...steamship Bergensfjord landed in Manhattan last week with a cargo of 34 musk oxen for the U. S. Government. The animals had come all the way from East Greenland via Norway; had even farther to travel after they reached Manhattan. The U. S. Government had bought them to release in the vicinity of Fairbanks, Alaska. The U. S. plans to spend $40,000 to re-establish the herds of musk oxen which disappeared from Alaska before men can remember...
...tall at the shoulder, has a broad heavy head, large curved horns, can live on Arctic vegetation which would starve a reindeer. Because of their hardy qualities, attempts were made two years ago to domesticate them for use as Arctic cows. Capt. Robert Abram Bartlett, leader of the Northeast Greenland Expedition, has two tame musk ox mascots which he captured in Greenland. Under its shaggy coat, the musk ox has a close covering of woolly fleece which experiments (at the University of Leeds, England) have shown to be excellent for cloth. It dyes and bleaches well, is as soft...
...Greenland and the last rose of summer seemed far away from all this unsettled space beneath him where the constant passing and repassing of a new generation spun the unconscious tale of a Harvard that is swiftly changing. The poet Lowell beneath him facing the fresh quadrangle seemed to him a brother dreamer. Those two, alone, experienced bewilderment in the contemplation of these marks of modern education--the dadoes, the stippled floors of battleship linoleum, the Revolutionary tapestry, the purple paint and high table. Even the Georgian windows appeared unfamiliar in their rows six high and forty long. He took...
...Vagabond's cool and rather quiet summer spent in the fastness of a Greenland valley has come to an abrupt close. Cambridge with its heat, dust and Tercentenary-isms, he must admit, is rather an abrupt change from the invigorating freshness of the Arctic summer. But it seems that the season for vagabonding has begun once again, so the pleasures of a past summer will have to join the shows of yesteryear and the present situation dispatched as efficiently as possible...