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promisingly before him on his return from the North, trained in mind and 

 body to seize and make the best use of every opportunity, George Borup 

 is snatched away at the early age of twenty-seven. Great hopes are buried 

 with him. Clean and courageous, modest, earnest and lovable, captivat- 

 ing in personality, loyal to his ideals and his friends, his brief career has been 

 a blessing and his untimely death leaves a wound that will long remain 

 fresh in the hearts of his friends. The loss to science furthermore, is as 

 great as that to his friends. 



Edmund Otis Hovey 

 Curator of Geology, American Museum of Natural History 



TO DO A MAN S WORK, TO PROVE HIMSELF WORTHY OF HIS OPPORTUNITIES 

 WAS THE RULING MOTIVE OF HIS LIFE 



Twenty-seven years is a short span of life; a period required for the 

 unfolding of latent power and necessarily devoted to preparation for work 

 of maturer days. Yet during this period, George Borup had done a man's 

 work while retaining a joyous boy's spirit. His accomplishments in Arctic 

 work were those of the seasoned explorer; his enthusiastic devotion to 

 Peary, his unrestrained praise and affection for Marvin and for his other 

 companions in the struggle with frigid nature, showed the simple-minded, 

 generous boy. 



The future held important and serious work for Borup — work which in 

 a very direct way was destined to widen the bounds of human knowledge, 

 and for which he was amply prepared. During the past two years, in 

 which the tasks before him were constantly in mind, no detail of his mental 

 or physical equipment was too small to engage his earnest attention. Such 

 a supplement of adequate training, with character and personality and an 

 eagerness to do more than one's share of drudgery and routine work, makes 

 an ideal equipment for a scientific explorer, and the grouping of these 

 qualities in Borup justified the confidence placed in him by his critical 

 scientific instructors, as well as by his closer friends and college companions. 

 There was not a selfish or unkind streak in his whole magnificent body, 

 and it was most natural to view him not only with respect and admiration, 

 but also with genuine affection. To make a name for himself seemed no 

 part of his interests; to do a man's work, to prove himself worthy of his 

 opportunities, was the ruling motive of his life. Borup maintained the 

 most cherished Yale traditions, and I find myself comparing him with 

 Nathan Hale — a glad-hearted boy overflowing with love for life, yet not 

 in the least afraid to die. 



Herbert E. Gregory 

 Silliman Professor of Geology, Yale University 



