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...trouble accepting the Kensington stone. Allegedly found near Kensington, Minn, by Farmer Olof Ohman in 1898, the stone, inscribed in runic characters, tells of a band of Norsemen who wandered to Minnesota in 1362 and presumably died there of Indian-trouble.* Last week Professor (of Germanic languages) Erik Wahlgren of U.C.L.A. pooh-poohed the petrophiles. He had positive proof, he said, that the stone was faked by the late Farmer Ohman...
...runic inscription, and he had no books to help him. Skeptical scholars have pointed to many oddities in the stone's language, but this pale, negative tactic has not laid the ghosts of the Minnesota Vikings. Both popular and learned belief in it is still strong. Professor Wahlgren felt that positive action was needed...
Gumshoe Scholar. Proceeding like a scholarly private eye, Wahlgren got in touch with J. A. Holvik, professor emeritus of Norse at Concordia College. Moorhead, Minn. Holvik went to the Ohman farm; which now belongs to Olof's sons, and made a copy of the old man's scrapbook. He also learned that Ohman had owned a Swedish encyclopedia...
...Alfred B. Hallowell '34, Wyndham L. Hasler '34, John J. Hayes '34, Richard C. Hayes '36, John J. Healey, Jr. '34, Howard W. Huntington '34, Chester K. Litman '35, Thomas F. Locke '35, Robert S. Playfair '36, Luther Scheffy '35, John P. Scheu '35, Francis Schumann '35, Allen E. Wahlgren '34, John B. White '34, Charles F. Woodard '35, and John B. Woodberry...
...yard run, N. P. Dodge '33; 2-mile run, Arthur Foote II, '33; half-mile, J. B. White '34; 220-yard hurdles, E. G. Carey, (B.C.); 220-yard dash, E. E. Calvin '35; Pole vault, Francis Schumann '35; High jump, H. E. Pray, (N.E.); Javelin throw, A. E. Wahlgren '35; Discus throw, J. H. Dean '34; Hammer throw, Alfred Kidder II, '33; Broad jump, E. E. Calvin '35; Shot put, J. H. Dean...