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...Norway and Denmark are among the world's least warlike nations. Their statesmen talked last week not of war but of civilized appeals to the World Court. Premier Stauning of Denmark, running his fingers through his patriarchal whiskers, announced that he had asked the Danish Minister at Oslo to ask the Norwegian Government "for a more definite elucidation of their position...
...alarmed in Oslo was Norwegian Premier Ludvig Kolstad by this outrage that he despatched to Porsgrund two destroyers, two minelayers, a company of the Royal Guard, a machine gun battery and police bomb squads. Not content with even these precautions, Premier Kolstad called conscripts in and around Porsgrund, thereby compelling a majority of the 1,000 strikers into the Norwegian Army. Should they resist further, they could be shot as deserters...
...Oslo 500 Communists, enraged by the Premier's stern action, mobbed and seriously injured four policemen...
...visiting athletes have been invited to engage in the international games at Cologne, Berlin, Oslo, Stockholm, and Copenhagen during July and August, with expenses pro-rated among the several clubs conducting the meets. It is expected that a total of only six or seven men will be chosen, and these have been designated by the A. A. U. to represent the United States; no other American team will be picked. Control by Harvard and Yale athletic authorities will end with the London meet...
Sixty-one years ago yesterday, on April 6, 1870, Professor Schofield was born in Brockville, Ontario. He received his A.B. from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1889, his A.M. from Harvard in 1893, and his Ph.D. in 1925. From 1895 to 1897 he studied abroad at Paris, Oslo, and Copenhagen, then served at Harvard as Instructor in English from 1897 to 1902 and as Assistant Professor of English from 1902 to 1906, when he was elected to the chair of Comparative Literature...