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...older generation has always been busily engaged in telling the younger that it is leading the country to the dogs, and the younger has been as eagerly paying no attention to its elders", said Sigurthur Nordal, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, in a recent interview. "That is not by any means a novel remark as anyone will agree", he continued, "but I have noticed that Americans are even more disturbed about the idea of future degeneration than they ought to be. America, from a European stand-point is decidedly not reverting to the primeval state; perhaps some wish that...
Professor Sigurthur Nordal of the University of Iceland, will start his second series of lectures on February...
With the cooperation of Sigurthur Nordal, Charles Eliot Norton professor of Poetry, and F. S. Cawley, assistant professor of Scandinavian Languages and Literatures, about 140 Icelandic publications, principally from Reykjavik, the capital of that country, and Winnipeg, Canada, will reach the Library regularly. They will continue series in the Schofield Memorial collection, which, with these additions, will probably constitute one of the best collections of its kind in existence...
...clock: Professor C. B. Gulick '90, chairman of the Department of Ancient Languages; Sigurthur Nordal, Charles Eliot Norton professor of Poetry; Professor J. D. M. Ford '94, chairman of the Department of Romance Languages, and Mrs. Ford; Professor Taylor Starck, chairman of the Department of Germanic Languages...
Professor Nordal, who holds the chair of Iceland Literature in the University of Iceland, will touch on the development of the prose legends and chronicles, to which he has devoted years of special research. While studying for his Doctor's Degree in Copenhagon, he published numerous works on the Sagas of St. Olaf and other medieval Norse prose writings...