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Crown Prince Olaf of Norway...
Writing in the current Harpers magazine, Olaf Axelgaard (a convenient pseudonym) examines the "scholastic tourist trade" and finds it sadly wanting. He tells amusing stories of incompetent loafers who wander around the continent, and return to the welcoming arms of an alma mater hypnotized by the "music of the Sorbonne." There has been a and decadence; fifty years ago, the writer claims, the American group studying in Europe were a driving force in education. Now the "hrummagen scholarship" has caused the "goddess Alma Mater to resemble the bitch goddess of William James." According to this authority, the average student goes...
...Workers of America, called to give Mr. Hoover some advice on stabilizing the bituminous coal industry. Harvey Firestone, tiremaker, popped in to pay his respects, as did General John Joseph Pershing. James Cash Penney shepherded a delegation of wives of the managers of his stores. The choir of St. Olaf Lutheran Church of Minnesota had its picture taken with President Hoover...
King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olaf, members of the Cabinet and Oslo's diplomatic corps politely clapped their white kid gloves. The occasion was the sist annual meeting of the Nobel committee, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1931 to two U. S. citizens: President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University and Social Worker Jane Addams of Chicago's Hull House. The award this year is $31,369; each will receive half...
...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...