Word: scandinavianism
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...automobile, motorists sometimes fastened metal nuts to the tread, producing tires that gave good traction but ripped up highways and brought on many of the early anti-metallic-tire laws. Several years ago, metallic stud tires were developed in Sweden; they have since come into widespread use in Scandinavian countries, where they constitute as much as a quarter of all tire sales...
...expansion is connected with the University's receipt of four four-year National Defense Education Act graduate fellowships to begin in 1965. Haugen explained that provisions of the Act require a university to enlarge its Scandinavian program with receipt of the grants...
Haugen, who is the university's first professor in Scandinavian, will direct the expansion program. He came to Harvard in September after 33 years as chairman of the Department of Scandinavian at the University of Wisconsin...
...Scandinavian collection in Widener will be enlarged to provide for the new course offerings. The collection, begun by Henry W. Longfellow 130 years ago, is one of the most complete in an American university, "but some additions are needed now," Haugen said...
...nine new courses will include Scandinavian Mythology, Scandinavian Folklore, Introduction to Germanic and Norse Literature. The Age of Kierkegaard, and Advanced Danish, for undergraduates. The Department Germanic languages and Literatures will offer graduate courses in runic inscriptions and modern Swedish literature, as well as a seminar on Strindberg, and possibly a course on modern Icelandic...