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...There is a special reason," said Professor Halvdan Koht at the Nobel Institute in Oslo last week, "why peace prizes so often have gone to America. ... It is true that the United States sometimes has pursued an imperialistic policy, a natural consequence of industrial capitalism, but they have also fostered the most vigorous idealism in the world. The American people have an instinctive faith in the perfectibility of man. An ideal is to an American not a distant mirage but a practical reality which it is one's duty to put into life...
Professor Halvdan Koht, visiting lecturer at Harvard from the University of Oslo, Norway, is the author of a two volume "Life of Ibsen" to be published by W. W. Norton and the American-Scandinavian Foundation late in March. Coming from Ibsen's birth-place, Skien, the author is intimately aware of the Ibsen traditions. And as editor of Ibsen's letters published during his life had exceptional opportunities for conferring with the dramatist...
...Reports stating that the dumping of Russian produce on Scandinavian markets is creating havoe are greatly magnified," stated Halvdan Koht, Professor of History at the University of Oslo, in a recent discussion...
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...
Roswell Magill, professor of Law at Columbia, will be visiting professor of Law at the Harvard Law School for the first half of 1930-31. Phillip de Vargas, professor of History in Yenching University, Peking, will be lecturer on Chinese. Halvdan Koht, professor in the University of Oslo, Norway, has been appointed lecturer in History. He will give two courses in the first half year, one on the social and political history of Scandinavia, the other on "Evolutionary Forces in History...