Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations. The Northfield Conference has been a potent factor of recent years in the promotion of Christian life and work among college men, and from it have sprung similar gatherings, at the West, at the South, in England, Germany, Scandinavia, India and Japan...
...subject of his lecture, "The Vikings," he was able to discuss from original researches which he has recently been making in Scandinavia. By means of manuscripts and the investigation of almost innumerable graves, he has been able to settle many doubtful points and overthrow false theories...
...religion of Iceland was of all kinds, though most of the people worshiped at the old Germanic shrine. Spirits, evil and good, were supposed to walk the earth. Slowly, as Scandinavia yielded to the influence of Christianity, Iceland followed. While Denmark and Sweden owed their conversion to German missionaries, Norway and Iceland owed it to their own people. Olaf sent the first missionaries to Iceland, and Christianity began its real work there in the year 1000. The erection of churches was left to individuals and not to the State. The priests stood outside of the political life and formed...
...small fine, or he may turn and run. In this case the assistants play their part. If they catch him his fine is doubled for running away. The general life of students in continental universities is almost entirely free from regulations by the faculty, notably so in Holland and Scandinavia. In Germany the civil authorities, in case they arrest a student, hand him over to the university authorities, who deal with his offense themselves...
...Reynolds, of Yale '84, will speak in Sever 11 next Wednesday evening on "Life in British and Continental Universities." Mr. Reynolds has spent the past year visiting the large universities of Great Britain, Scandinavia, Holland, Germany, and France, and will present the results of personal investigation...