Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Otto Jespersen of the University of Copenhagen, who is now visiting professor from Denmark at Columbia University, will give a lecture on "Logic and Grammar" in Emerson D this evening at 8 o'clock. Professor Jespersen is an eminent authority in English and in general linguistic science. He has already published a number of treatises on English case form and construction...
...academic solidarity is appropriate not only to the members of a single college or a single university, but to the common brotherhood of universities and colleges. I am on that account bold enough to speak in behalf of delegates from universities and colleges in Great Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Bohemia, Switzerland, Holland, Norway, Cuba, Cape of Good Hope, and New Zealand. Sir, I convey to you on behalf of all these a message of heart-felt congratulation and good wishes on the occasion of your inauguration in the words of the cable message which I have just received from Emmanuel...
...Riis is an authority on this phase of the social question in America. He was born in Denmark, but came to this country when a young man and became police reporter for the New York Sun. Since then he has been active in the movement for establishing small parks and playgrounds within city limits, and has been instrumental in many movements toward tenement house and school reforms. During the years 1896 and 1897, Mr. Riis was one of the executive officers of the Good Government Clubs, and in 1897 was secretary of the New York Small Parks Commission...
...Riis who has written the article to be published tomorrow is known as journalist and author. He was born in Denmark in 1849, and came to this country while still a boy. He was well known for years as police reporter of the New York Sun, and he has always been most active in the small parks and play grounds movement, and in securing reforms in tenement house and school administrations. Among his books are, "How the Other Half Lives," "The Children of the Poor," "Nibsy's Christmas," "Out of Mulberry Street," "The Battle with the Slum," "Theodore Roosevelt...
...Germanic Museum Association, which was formed last spring, has issued a pamphlet declaring the object and plans of the association. The museum will illustrate, through objects of art and industry, the history of civilization among the Germanic peoples, primarily in Germany, but also in Scandinavia, Denmark, the Low Countries, German Austria, the German Cantons of Switzerland, and the England of the Anglo-Saxon period...