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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...
...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
...regard to the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Professor Nordal said that it has an enrollment of about 150. The majority of these students are inhabitants of Iceland, but there are a considerable number of foreigners who come to the island to study the language and the literature, and quite a number of the Icelandic students who make their homes in other parts of the island. As yet the University has no dormitories, but it intends to build some in the near future. Students who wish to study foreign languages have to go to Europe to study them, because...
...first permanent settlement of Iceland was made in 870 when a band of hardy Vikings, unwilling to bear the despotism of Harold of Norway, crossed over and established the settlement of Reykjavik. They were of the first Viking stock, and set up a remarkable commonwealth with a written constitution which suited the people by its liberality. It provided for no king or executive, and was administrated by a supreme court...
...Exchange Professor from France for the second semester. Friedrich von der Leyen, from the University of Cologne, is Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard for one year from September 1, 1931. Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik, has come for the academic year as the fifth incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry...