Word: oslo
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...visiting athletes have been invited to engage in the international games at Cologne, Berlin, Oslo, Stockholm, and Copenhagen during July and August, with expenses pro-rated among the several clubs conducting the meets. It is expected that a total of only six or seven men will be chosen, and these have been designated by the A. A. U. to represent the United States; no other American team will be picked. Control by Harvard and Yale athletic authorities will end with the London meet...
Sixty-one years ago yesterday, on April 6, 1870, Professor Schofield was born in Brockville, Ontario. He received his A.B. from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1889, his A.M. from Harvard in 1893, and his Ph.D. in 1925. From 1895 to 1897 he studied abroad at Paris, Oslo, and Copenhagen, then served at Harvard as Instructor in English from 1897 to 1902 and as Assistant Professor of English from 1902 to 1906, when he was elected to the chair of Comparative Literature...
Professor Halvdan Koht, visiting lecturer at Harvard from the University of Oslo, Norway, is the author of a two volume "Life of Ibsen" to be published by W. W. Norton and the American-Scandinavian Foundation late in March. Coming from Ibsen's birth-place, Skien, the author is intimately aware of the Ibsen traditions. And as editor of Ibsen's letters published during his life had exceptional opportunities for conferring with the dramatist...
...Norwegian Pioneer Whaling Co. of Oslo received a large order last week. Authorities of Luna Park, Paris amusement grounds, instructed the whalers to catch 25 of the largest whales they could find, 100 of the fattest penguins. The 25 whales, embalmed, the 100 penguins, alive, will be placed with Luna Park's rollercoasters, merry-go-rounds, hot-dog stands as this season's prize exhibit. Cost per penguin: $125. Cost per whale...
Died. Captain Otto Sverdrup, 76, Arctic explorer; in Oslo, Norway. He commanded the Fram, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's ship, on polar voyages in 1893; he and Dr. Nansen were the first white men to cross Greenland; in 1928 he served as expert adviser to rescuers of General Umberto Nobile's Italia expedition and searchers for his friend Roald Amundsen, lost off Tromso while attempting to rescue General Nobile...