Show COOK IS HL i DANISH scientists FAIL TO SUSTAIN CLAIMS OF THE AMERICAN EXPLORER university of copenhagen Copen hasen makes re ro port which completely shatter shatters confidence of public and place places cook in light of imposter copenhagen the report of the special committee ot of which the university of copenhagen appoint cd ed to investigate dr frederick A cooks claim that be he bud had discovered the north pole wa wat submitted to the consistory ot of the university tuesday morning indorsed b that body and given to the public the report ehat chatters comple tel al at arost contemptuously the american explorer title to such discovery and fills the people of denmark with cha grin at the position he I 1 Is made to u a aume in the eyes of the selen tift world the public waa was prepared for a verdict ot of not proven but did not expect ite its recent hero to be branded aa as an impostor imposter many still cling to the belief that cook acted in good faith but harbored a delusion the explorers and scientists almost unanimously have lost faith in cooke cooks honesty ho neaty while one of hia his warmest supporter supporters knud Il Itam asmussen mussen helped to frame the report the evening paper papers attack and se so verely reproach him for hiding which they regard aa an a sign of a guilty conscience the rector of the university dr when questioned as to the possibility of the university cancelling the degree which it conferred on ir dr cook said that no decision bad had been reached but he thought thou that the degree would be withdrawn in the same way as a government could deprive a person of an order obtained under false pret pre enies teases |