Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...nearly 4,000 members) adopted a series of resolutions to this effect: That every university ought to establish a committee of reception (Comite de Patronage) composed of friends of the university, with some representatives from the students themselves, similar to the committees already existing at Paris, Montpellier, in Sweden, and in Scotland. That when a student comes to any university with recommendations from a general association of students, as for example from a University Club, he ought at once to be admitted to the General Association of Students. The association will at once put him in communication with the Comite...
...Reynolds writes back from London that the Scandinavian Students' Conference will be held August 7-12 in the neighborhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. "About one hundred students are expected from the Universities of Christiana in Norway, Upsala and Lund in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark." Mr. Reynolds will represent the American students' movement at that conference. To Northfield it is probable that there will be delegates from France and Germany and Sweden, and from seven of the universities of Great Britain. Harvard University raised through a committee of twenty about $600 to assist in defraying the cost of the entertainment...
...begins Saturday, June 29, and closes Wednesday, July 9. The total expenses, with the exception of car fare, will be $15. Students will assemble here from all colleges in the United States, and active measures have also been taken to have delegations from the great universities in Great Britain, Sweden, Germany and France. Last year the English universities were represented, so that it was possible to compare their methods of Christian work with those in our own country. The singing, which is to be an important feature of the school, will be under the direction of Professor D. B. Towner...
...outlook for a large attendance at the summer conferences of the College Young Men's Christian Association is encouraging, and preparations are being made on a larger scale than for any previous year. The University of Upsala, Sweden, has appointed a delegate to Northfield, and A. A. Stagg, of Yale, will take charge of the athletics at Northfield and at Lake Geneva, and also in connection with the student gathering at Chautauqua. It is confidently expected that the railroads will grant the reduced rate, on the certificate plan, of one-third fare in returning all who pay full fare...