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...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...
Professor Koht is the visiting lecturer from Norway. He is giving a number of courses on Scandinavian history during the first half year. "Russia," he continued, "has been forced to sell her produce, and because they have offered to sell wood, wool, and wheat, at prices lower than standard they have found a ready market, especially in the United States...
Today Professor Koht will give the second of a series of lectures in the Lowell Institute. They will all be on Norse folklore, a subject on which Koht is an authority. He remarked, "Tales of Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, even though they may be a thousand years old are still very popular in Scandinavia. They have a peculiarity in that they need no translation to make them modern. They can be read in their original form, provided the reader has a knowledge of the language, and be easily understood, English translations have been made of them, but I am afraid...
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...