SATURDAY, HOVE11B R, 13, 192", THE MICHIGAN DAILY TII. MC-I1NFATYSTRANVME 3 94 - ____,___5_____ate_-^-r-'-.- -_-,--_____--" ,. _, ~ L . DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received by the Assistant to the President until 3:30 p. mn. (11:30 a. mn. Saturdays). Volume VII SATURDAY, NOVE3IBER 13, 192 Number 41 Phillips Scholarships :t Examinations for the Phillips Scholarships in Latin and Greek will be held as follows: creek: at two o'clock Friday afteinoon, November 19, in Room 121, 1 Angell Hall, Iatin: at nine o'clock Saturday morning, November 20, in Room 2016 Angell Hall. Candidates are requested to read the regulations and conditions under which the scholarships are awarded, as described on pages 171-2 of the last General Catalogue of the University. C. C. Little J. I. Effinger, F. W. Kelsey, Campbell Bonner, Committee in Charge Faculty and Students: Owing to the fact that the Buildings and Grounds Department must make certain high tension electrical cha:ges in the electrical system on Sunday, November 14, the current will be shut off from the following buildings: Forenoon: Chemistry . Afternoon: Alumni Memorial Hall, Museum, Tappan Hall. All day: Angell Hall, Law Building, University Hall. Herbert G. Watkins, Assistant Secretary. Faculty, College of Literature, Science and the Arts: The November meeting of the Literary Faculty will be held on Monday, November 15th, at 4:10 p.m. in Room2225 Angell Hall. Dean Day will pre- sent the Report of the Committeb on Curriculum of Junior and Senior Years, of which he is chairman. John R. Effinger. Faculty, Colleges of Engineering and Architecture: The mid-semester reports on students in your classes whose work is below passing should be made on cards which may be obtained in the office{ of the Secretary, 263 West Engineering Building, or from the messengerI boxes. These reports are to be filed in the Secretary's office not later than Saturday, November 20.- Louis A. Hopkins, Secretary. All Foreign Students on Campus: Foreign students who have not received an invitation to the Interna- tional Thanksgiving Dinner to be held at the Michigan Union on Wednesday,1 evening. November 24th, please give their ,names, address and nationalityf to the man at the office at Lane Hall so that the invitations may be sent to them at once.1 Margaret E. Lord, Committee Chairman. t Cotedy Club Tryouts: 1 Tryouts will not be held this morning, as was previously announced, but will be held on Friday, Nov. 19th, from three until five in Newberryt H"all. Those who were asked to appear a second time will please report att that time.e Valentine L. Davies, Pres. Scientific Calculations To Form Basisj For Further Research On Trip In 1927f ( Continued from Page One) purpose. Studies of the upper air by levels. The path of these balloons means of the simpler pilot balloons was followed with the theodolite to have never before been made over or average heights of 7,000 meters, one close to the vast ice-caps of Greenland reaching 14,000 meters or about eight or the Antarctic. A party consisting miles. of.Gould, Church, Belknap, and Hobbs,' "A sundng f te amosher towith four Greenlanders (half-caste "A sounding of the atmophere to eskimos) set out on a twenty-two dayf determine its pressure, temperature, hundred ,mile journey, made by native and humidity has hitherto never been sknd boats coue, ad on ft th possible except in thickly populated skn boats, canoes, and on foot with i possies, xceptri thickly opuled nheavy packs, into the inland ice-fields. communts, where the expensive in There pilot baloons were sent up andt struments are likely to be found and followed with the theodolite to heights returned after their descent to the oi ,0 eesfo h ltsrae ground. A balloon deflating device in- of the me ter or bas t the vented by Dr. C. G. Rosby, a Norweg-eof the ice cap wasrnaeat ian meteorologist, enabled us to ad- da just the valves which let the gas out Mortimer E. Cooley. "Ononeof he ayswhe wewerej of the balloon at any desired height. "On one of the days when we The first two ascents were made to on the ice-cap," Professor Hobbs con-t heights of 400 and 1,700 meters respec- tined, "a pulse or stroph of the anti- tively, the records being recovered in- cyclone was blowing down the slope tact although one of the balloons fell and made it almost impossible for ust into the fjord. The next flight, set to keep our footing. More than once for 3,000 meters resulted in the bal- we were bowled over with our heavy loon sailing away over the mountains packs into the deep gutters on the with $150 worth of equipment. For surface. On this inland journey to two weeks it was given up for lost, but the ice-cap, equipment was carried luckily we found it near the top of and deposited at Camp Cooley for the a mountain six miles distant, beyond use of the 1927 expedition. Our the fjord, with its flight recorded per- Greenlanders had been engaged with fectly after having attained the ex- the understanding that they were to treme altitude of 8,000 meters." bring with them their own food, but Mountains Were Scaled this supply proved to be wholly inad- f Various mountain tops visited were equate. scaled with reference to their occu- 0ame Is Scarce pation later as" weather stations for They were expecting to secure na- the study of the strophs of the glacial tive game with their rifles, but the anticyclone, and to the possibility of int-erior region proved to be almost forecasting storms on ,the North At- devoid of any game, only one fresh lantic and in Europe. Further study track of caribou being seen. Hardly of the balloon observations will have had we reached the ice-cap when our to be made before deciding which of head Greenlander reported that his these positions is best suited for the supply of food was exhausted. We bad off which we had anelflored was in MIORRISSEY, WHICH CA~RPIEDT I4OFESSOR HOBBS " e"""""" " " Mpart washed away by the wves, and, we would have dragged anchr aiid EXPEDITION TO GREENLAND BASE LAST SUMMER been driven ashore. had we failed to get away. "On the fifth day within the Straits pp; tx~ 6:the wind shifted to the northeast and blew a full gale, before whichwran, and we made the harbor of NoryL Sydney, Nova Soctia, on the cevening of September 23, just as the wind died away and the moon came out in all its glory. We learned later that the storms were the worst in years." College Display of FLORSHEIM Amart eShoe $IO Campus Bootery 304 S. State. Ask for DEVOE I, The Morrissey, the ship used in the Greenland expedition, is shown above, with Professor Hobbs facing f'orward on the main deck. The Morrissey is a 100 foot ship of 83 tons, and carried 26 men. The picture was taken by S. P. Ferfgusson, flheteoroligist, as the party was leaving North Sydney harbor for Greenland, and shows the gasoline drums, dories, and other equipjment of the expedition. 'The others on the deck are members of the Putnam expedition. The men were favored by exceptionally good weather during the trip, and throughout the nine weeks spent in Greenland. Camp Little, located 50 miles east of Holstenberg, served as a base of operations and experiments. made preparations ror an eight or ten near Cape York, Northwest Greenland, she was still leaking, and as she had day trip in over the surface of the and it was only after the most ardu- lost her keel she was unable to come ice-cap, and further we planned to ous exertions and by rare good luck up into the wind and was compelled to set up and fix accurately the position that she was got off. Her wireless jibe in beating to windward. We trust- of poles on the ice-cap, which by re- call of distress was picked up at Suk- ed, however, to her engines, but, un- location in 1927 would supply the rate kertoppen by Captain MacMillan on fortunately, only twenty-four hours of movement of the ice-cap near its the Bowdoin, who notified the com- from Holstenborg the propeller drop- margin. We were now compelled to mander of the Islands'falk, the Danish ped to the bottom, leaving us very limit our stay near the ice-cap to three gunboat which was then at Sukkertop- much at the mercy of the wind. With 1 days, as we now had the problem be- pen. The captain of the Islandsfalk fair winds we made the Straits of fore us of feeding eight men instead steamed at once to Holstenborg where Belle Isle in nine days, but we were of four, and I found it necessary to lhe waited while the governor sent his hardly inside this narrow passage put the entire party on reduced ra- ; schooner fifty miles up the fjord to when we encountered a succession of tions and to make forced marches un- our camp to see if we had later news storms dead ahead from the south- til our nearest provision depot had from the wreck. Fortunately our west which kept us close-hauled and been reached, with only six pounds wireless station had picked up a mes- i compelled us to jibe even though it of food remaining in our packs. sage from the Morrissey sent the threatened to tear out the masts. On "It is in the Holstenborg district of night before, reporting that she was the third day, having made little pro- Greenland that the land ribbon outside off the reef and heading for Upernivik gress, we ran for shelter into the Lab- the ice-cap is widest, and this appar- with the pumps controlling the leaks. i rador roadstead of L'Anse aux Loups, ently unfavorable position for attack- As soon as the Islandsfalk hfad receiv- which was safe from the southwester- ing the inland ice has been chosen 'Ied the message she steamed to Uper- ly storms then blowing. In the after- mainly for two reasons. It offered i nivik and her diver calked the holes noon the wind suddenly veered and the opportunities to study the former in the botton of the Morrissey so that blew on shore, and we just succeed- history of the Greenland glacier and I pumping thereafter was necessary ed in getting anchor up and squared I believed that the ascent to the inter- only twice in each watch. away before darkness had settled ior of the ice dome would there be on Morrissey Is Damnaged down. After reaching port reports easier grades. These hopes were both "When, on September 7, the Michi- came in that within twenty-four hours realized. I was able to show that gan party embarked on the Morrissey of our departure the little settlement though the "Great Ice", of Greenland was once much larger than at present and had covered the entire continent, - it had first retired its front and had later readvanced, but in doing so it had not attained its earlier dimen- Don't forget that we start serving a business noon sions. It was also found that the ice-ru front, where we encountered it,{risesi luncheon, 35c, with our regular noon luncheon of on relatively easy grades, and an en- tirely practicable route to the inter- 55c and our special supper, and only the best that for was mapped out for the expedi- tion of 1927." your money can buy. Assisted by other members of the expedition, Mr. Belknap completed a triangular network for an area of one thousand square miles of rugged ter- ritory, occupying a score of mountain peak experimental stations. In addi- tion, plane table maps were made of A nn A rbor Restaurant the vicinity of Camp Little and of the Maligiak fjord. 215 South Main St. "The Morrissey, on which we were to return in early September, had on July 26 run upon an uncharted reef / ARTISTS' OIL COLORS Canvas Boards Artists' Brushes Academy Boards Artists' Canvas Drawing Inks Enamelit ARTISTS' OILS and VARNISHES Academic Water Colors School Water Color Boxes Show Card Colors Pastel Boards -+ I WENZEL'S 207 East Liberty yi ANN ARBOR YPSILANTI if., Special-Fried Cakes 18c per Dozen Honey Cream Cup Cakes 20c per Dozen Place Orders in Early for Thanksgiving- PURI-TEST BAKERY 516 EAST LIBERTY "' 't JUST READY- 1927 The More Beautiful and Interesiing Than Ever. Limited Edition. 75c Each. . II f 'C i I h I S { I 1* I' 4anwtcb :bo3 p Noon Luncheon 11:30-1:30 i ,*I '1 11 " I WAHR lDNVESITY rI ..r..mwm..W.. .mm .. Ono ON .... !{i .J. 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