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Norway is represented by Professor Halvdan Koht of the University of Oslo, who will give one course open to both undergraduates and graduates, in the social and political history of Scandinavia, and a course primarily for graduates on "Evolutionary Forces in History". Koht has served in the Norwegian parliament. From France will come Andre Leconte as professor of Architecture and Edmond Joachim Vermell, professor of German Literature at the University of Strasbourg, both to serve during the second half year. Jan Arnoldus Schouten, professor in the Technische Hooge school of Delft, who will lecture on Mathematics during the first half...
...northernmost Norway, in Barents Sea between Scandinavia and Spitsbergen, in Stockholm and in Oslo last week there was confusion?the confusion that results when the Press sets its pack upon the trail of a remote and elusive news story. The discovery on White Island. Spitsbergen, of the bodies of the Swedish explorer Salomon August Andree and his companions, lost on their poleward balloon flight of 1897, was the Story (TIME, Sept. 1). Its remoteness was heightened to a degree maddening to the Press by the fact that the bodies, relics and Andree's diary were aboard the little sealer Brattvaag...
Again last week the ready sympathy of highly placed Norwegians for wronged women was proved at Oslo. By special act of the Storting (Parliament) a sum of money "sufficient to assist Fru Amanda Anderson in her present difficulties" was placed at her disposal by the Statskassen (Treasury...
...Norwegian Treasury will also defray the expenses of Fru Anderson's return (triumphal it is hoped) to Oslo. Public sentiment there holds that too long have scalawag husbands found it comparatively easy to leave their faithful wives stranded in Norway while they revel in what one Oslo editor called last week "the easy prosperity and dissolute high life of the States...
News of this deed flashed to the capital of Norway, "Beautiful Oslo." fired members of the Royal Automobile Club with a great resolve. In a manifesto soon signed by aristocratic clubbers they proposed "that in every city of the Kingdom of Norway the use of the horn shall be done away with, so that the attention it involves on the part of the automobilist may be redirected to skilful driving...