Word: uppsala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he spends his time helping to manage the world's currencies, Jacobsson is still at heart an oldfashioned, classical economist who believes in free rather than planned economies. Born in 1894 in the village of Tanumon Sweden's west coast, he studied at the University of Uppsala. Says he: "I got my training in economics before 1914-before economics was turned upside down." He also got a lot of it from doing. From 1920 to 1928 he was a League of Nations economics consultant, trying to make the economies of eastern Europe work. After two years...
...Wastberg '55, presently at the Royal University of Uppsala in Sweden, was a third Harvard recipient. Rotary International this year granted fellowships to 121 students in 33 countries...
...where were they? Instead of a throng of putative priestesses, there seemed to be hardly any women who wanted the job; 75% of the 152 female theology students at Uppsala University were against having women in the pulpit. At week's end one candidate came forward-pretty, blonde Britta Olen, 30, daughter of a vicar and already fully qualified for ordination. Scheduled to be married by year's end and to do mission work in South Africa with her missionary husband, she hopes she will find a bishop to ordain her before she leaves...
...Even before the international students' chess tournament at Uppsala, Sweden was officially finished, Russia's players had all their competition checkmated. With a score of 21 games won, six lost and one adjourned, they were safely ahead of second-place Hungary (16 won, 11 lost...
...studied at Uppsala for 20 years-at Aunt Hildur's private school, where he learned the three Rs and collected bugs in a bottle; at the sternly classical high school, where one of his classmates was Jarl Hjalmarson, now the leader of the Swedish Conservative Party. At Uppsala University Dag took a B.A., majoring in philosophy and French literature. He is also a bachelor of laws and a doctor of economics. Dag was a brilliant scholar; he had little time for social life. In his 205, he wrote a paper called Konjunktur-spridningen (The Spread of the Business Cycle...