Word: americans
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...Workshop will produce as its second set of performances of the present season an Icelandic drama in four acts called "Eyvind of the Hills," by Johann Sigurjonsson. This play is one of two published in a single volume this fall by the American Scandinavian Foundation of New York. The play was originally written in Danish and the American translation has been made by Henninge K. Schanche. There will be two performances of the production in Agassiz House Theatre on Friday, January 26, and Saturday, January...
Professor Baker has chosen to produce this drama for a number of reasons. The American-Scandinavian Foundation is very anxious to have it staged in America and the Workshop will be the first to present on this continent a masterpiece which has been seen in Denmark, Norway, Germany and England. This more than any other of Sigurjonsson's writings has made him famous as one of the younger Icelandic and, indeed, Euopean dramatists. Moreover, Professor Baker sees in this stern and relentless tragedy of the North an unusual opportunity for testing the powers of the Workshop's company of actors...
...There would appear to be only two means of stopping war, either a league of the nations of the earth for that purpose or the domination of the whole world by one government. The latter does not come within American philosophy, for we would not be that nation if we could, and if we did, we should lose in the process all in the way of politics principles that we have stood for, and we certainly cannot contemplate a domination of the world by any other nation...
...appointment of Professor Taussig to the new Tariff Board marks a noteworthy advance in American governmental administration of which every American should be proud. Professor Taussig has earned his place at the head of this country's economists largely through his brilliant and thorough investigations of tariff problems, and will now be enabled to use his knowledge in the most direct and practical manner. The value of his services cannot be easily appreciated by anyone who has not read one of his keen and impartial works dealing with the tariff...
...Wolff '79, curator of the Museum of Mineralogy, who said that this group would supplement the famous Albert F. Holden collection which came into the possession of the University three years ago. The original collection of minerals which the University started some time in 1874 is the oldest among American colleges...