Previously, explorers had been rated by the slow process of historic digestion and assimilation of the facts offered, but it was thought that an academic examination would meet the demands.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
E. B. Baldwin and other Arctic explorers who say-"Putting aside the academic and idle argument of pin-point accuracy, the North Pole has been honestly reached by Dr. Cook, three hundred and fifty days before any one else claimed to have been there."
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
My friends have criticised me for not sending the data given below and similar observations to Copenhagen to prove my claim, but I did not deem it worth while to present more, taking the ground that if in this there was not sufficient material to explain the movement step by step of the Polar quest, then no academic examination could be of any value.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook