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...foot ball season by the Yale graduates who are this year in the different departments of the University. It is a pleasure to recognize in their action the friendly and generous spirit which is coming to govern intercollegiate athletics, and which promises so much for the speedy and satisfactory settlement of all existing difficulties...
Iceland's Heroic Age exrends from the settlement of the island to 1067. Ari, Iceland's greatest scholar and historian, possessed in a marked degree abilities for historical writing. He was a priest-chief, and was a devout Christian, but he cherished none the less the traditions of his country. He was more than a mere chronicler, he was an historian, possessing an appreciation of the true relations of events one to the other. He was the father of Icelandic letters...
Harvard Hall was crowded even to standing room last Wednesday evening when Mr. Charles S. Smith gave the first lecture in his course on Icelandic Saga. Mr. Smith treated of Iceland from Ingolf's Settlement to its subjection to Norway...
...first settlement was made by Ingolf, who carried with him the pillars of his sect and threw them into the water, declaring that there he should settle his colony. For the next sixty years many colonies were sent out. Certain numbers of the colonists came from Norway, but a good part were from Ireland and Scotland. The first settlers had no boundaries to their lands, but later a man could have as much land as he could carry a fire about in a day, and a woman as much as she could lead a calf about. With a stronger tide...
Icelandic Saga. Iceland, from Ingolf's settlement to its subjection to Norway. Illustrated Lecture. Professor Charles Sprague Smith of New York. Harvard...