| Show COOK 15 16 discredited DANISH scientists FAIL TO SUSTAIN CLAIMS OF THE AMERICAN EXPLORER university of copenhagen makes report which completely shatters confidence of public and places cook in light of imposter copenhagen the report of the special committee of scientists which the university of copenhagen appointed to investigate dr F rederick frederick A cooks claim that lie he had discovered the north pole was submitted to the consistory con of the tha university tuesday morning indorsed endorsed Indor sed by that body and given to the public tho the report shatters completely almost contemptuously the american explorers ex title to such discovery Ms covery and fills the people of denmark with chagrin at the position he la is made to assume in the eyes ot of the scientific world the public was prepared for fora a vet alco dl co not provene prove nM but alj ald knotx n poet it tn 6 licati 6 a V tr b aa an imposter many still cling to the belief that cook acted in good faith faltha but harbored a delusion the explorers and scientists almost unanimously have lost faith in ia cooks honesty while one of his warmest supporters knud helped to frame the report the evening papers attack and severely reproach him for hiding which they regard as aa a sign of a guilty conscience the rector of the university dr when questioned as to tho the possibility of tho the university cancelling cell ing the degree which it conferred on dr cook said that no decision had been reached but h he e thought that the degree would be withdrawn in the same way as a government could deprive a person of an order obtained under false pretenses |
