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Fifty times as big as Denmark is Denmark's only colony, Greenland. (Iceland is an independent kingdom that merely happens to have the same King as Den-mark.) In recent warm summers parties of Norwegian hunters have made frequent trips to East Greenland, built little shack settlements there. The Danish-Norwegian problem first boiled over more than a month ago when a semi-official Norwegian body known as the Arctic Council suddenly announced that Denmark was about to send an expedition to explore East Greenland, sounded an alarm that the time had come for Norway to stake and beflag...
...selection of Sigurthur Nordal of the University of Iceland as the fifth lecturer to hold the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry will attract general attention to a field of literature which at present is little known except to scholars. It is perhaps especially fortunate that Professor Nordal should come to Harvard following the addition of the Schofield collection of books in Widener, since they might be more fully appreciated in the light of his lectures...
Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik, scholar and poet, will come to Harvard for the academic year 1931-32 as the fifth incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry. He will succeed the Norton Professor for the current academic year, Arthur Mayger Hind, of the British Museum, formerly Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford...
...collection which bears Professor Schofield's name was the largest private library in Iceland, and was purchased directly from its former owner, Kristjan Kristjansson, a merchant of Reykjavik, who had spent many years gathering it. It contains works both of mediaeval and of modern literature but is particularly rich in the modern field...
...Polar Year, observations to which official expeditions from all the northern nations will contribute. Artist Rockwell Kent will be at southern Greenland, more for solitude than for science. David Binney Putnam, 18, as soon as school term ends will go on the Johalla to Labrador and Iceland in order to write another "David Goes" book. Commander Donald Baxter