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...interest you to learn that it is said on very good authority that Crown Prince Olaf of Norway is soon to marry Princess Astrid of Sweden, his first cousin. This will be a good marriage in a political sense as, ever since Norway separated from Sweden in 1905, the Swedes have had a grudge against the Norwegians, and this marriage, which will put a Swedish princess on the throne of Norway, will soothe the Swedes' ruffled pride and heal the breach between the two countries. Prince Olaf is the only child of the King and Queen of Norway...
...Stockholm last week was published an official denial of the Olaf-Astrid fiancailles...
...Decorations and medals are humbug", announces Professor Rasmus Bjorn Anderson of the University of Wisconsin as he refuses the Cross of St. Olaf offered him by the King of Norway for his researches in Norwegian literature. Unlike the subject of Browning's verse he sees little glory attached to a "riband to stick in his coat", when voicing the independence of the West and the freedom of the true scholar, he scorns the tinseled tribute of royal appreciation...
...University of Wisconsin, Prof. Rasmus Björn Anderson, linguist, insurance man, rubber manufacturer, onetime (1885-9) U. S. Minister to Denmark, editor of Amerika (weekly), whose resolute chin is now overgrown with the white hairs of nearly 80 years, refused to accept the Cross of St. Olaf from King Haakon of Norway (his native land) just as he had refused in 1889 to accept the Cross of Danneborg from Haakon's father, King Christian, offered for his researches in Norwegian literature. Said Prof. Anderson: "Decorations and medals are humbug...
...last winter I visited what might be called a 'fresh water' college far up in Minnesota-St. Olaf, at Northfield. It has 990 students and 95% of them were born of Norwegian or Swedish parents. Their interest in literature was extraordinary. The whole college turned out to hear me talk of Shakespeare and when I discussed the new poets 150 cut their classes and joined the English class to hear. Would they have done that at Harvard or Yale? Hardly...