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While the United States is about fifteen years behind the Scandinavian countries in the javelin throw, I firmly believe that the athletes from the different continents will be on even terms within three or four years. Some misguided persons thought that American boys should throw the javelin extremely well because they are such wonderful baseball players. That is all wrong. They are on the wrong road. Javelin throwing is altogether different. Baseball requires fewer muscles than the javelin. The surprising thing is that American athletes improve so fast at the javelin...
...other nation has made such progress and America has accomplished in half a dozen years what the Scandinavian countries required 20 years to accomplish. Look back at the 1920 Olympic games. The United States won no place in the javelin throw although the event had been included on the A.A.U. program since 1909. The event gained little popularity until it was added to the I.C.A.A.A.A. program in 1922. The increased interest is reflected in the fact that Oberst won third place for the United States and another American competitor took fifth. By 1928, it is logical to assume that...
...history and development of civilization and world culture and has appointed the University Press to do all of its publishing in America. The work of the Institute which is endowed by the Norweigian Government marks the beginning of one of the most important intellectual movements in the Scandinavian countries in recent years. Several volumes have already been printed and three more are now in preparation...
Group Two will visit the Scandinavian and Baltic states in addition to Poland, Prague, Geneva, and Paris. The detailed itinerary will be announced later. In almost every case the national student unions have arranged receptions and dinners at the more important cities visited by both Harvard groups, where there will be opportunity to meet and talk with student leaders and prominent statesmen and public...
...general literature course be organized to meet the requirements of distribution; and that courses now given be reserved for those students who are foolish enough to take them. The new course should be a general survey, presenting without outside reading, all the important aspects of American, English, Scandinavian, Italian, German, Spanish, Slovakian, Greek, Latin, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Jewish, Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, Irish literature. Mostly respectfully yours. H. B. Elkins...