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THE american-scandin avian review 
A Fine Greek Simplicity Characterizes the Old Buildings of Christiania University 
economic resources, and that the State, at least in certain periods, could 
not afford to keep the University on a level with its requirements. 
Whatever was then neglected—of necessity neglected—could not 
always be amended afterwards. Even in prosperous times, the Stor¬ 
ting has had to meet so many and urgent demands that it has not always 
been able to give the University its due. The hundreds of thousands of 
fishermen and small farmers have difficulty in understanding why, for 
instance, the salaries at the University should be fairly liberal. No 
doubt the immediate future will not be a brilliant season for the Uni¬ 
versity in an economic way. A time of depression is coming; the 
demands upon the resources of the State will multiply, and the Uni¬ 
versity will have to submit to the fact that its wishes will not be the 
first to receive consideration. With so many industrial enterprises to 
be supported, the institutions will have to be content with status quo. 
This does not mean that the University is something apart from 
the vital interests of the nation. Quite the contrary. Its work is at the 
basis of the increasing comprehensiveness and efficiency of our schools. 
It has been instrumental in the training of a well-informed professional 
class, in the development of industrial life in our country, in the 
humanizing of our legislation and jurisprudence, in promoting a grow¬ 
ing comprehension of our history and thereby also of our national char¬ 
acter. Large sections of our people are grateful for the benefits they 
have received through the popularizing of scholarship. 
In recent years the masses of people have acquired a more per- 
