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...high school in Kevlavík tried the same experiment in 2002 and '03, separating 16-to-20-year-olds by gender for two years. That time the boys slipped even further behind. "The boys said the girls were better anyway," says Kristjan Asmundsson, who taught the 25 boys. "They didn't even try." --By Vivienne Walt

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iceland Exception: A Land Where Girls Rule in Math | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

...Minnesota Republican Kristjan Valdimar ("Val") Bjornson, an ex-reporter who can and does orate in Icelandic, Finnish, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, was nominated to run against Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Who Won | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...collection, consisting of magazines, newspapers, and publications, was purchased by Mrs. Henry Schofield from Kristjan Kristjanssen, book collector of Reykjavik, and presented to the Library in memory of her husband, who was chairman of Comparative Literature at Harvard from 1906 until his death in 1920. Kristjanssen has consented to act as the agent of the Library in the matter of the forth-coming subscriptions

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBRARY ACQUIRES BOOKS, PERIODICALS | 2/2/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NORDAL SUCCEEDS HIND NEXT YEAR AS NORTON PROFESSOR | 5/26/1931 | See Source »

...collection, which is to bear 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 medieval and of modern literature but is particularly rich in the modern field. Most of the older books are in the original bindings; there are a large number of rarities and some unique items. Together with the Maurer Collection, given to the University in 1904 by the late Professor A. C. Coolidge, it gives Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ICELANDIC VOLUMES GIVEN TO WIDENER | 4/7/1931 | See Source »

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