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The International College at Elsinore 
A college which is intended to draw students 
from all stations of life and from several 
nations was established at Elsinore a year 
ago under the direction of Mr. Peter Man- 
niche of the University of Copenhagen. At 
the completion of the first year, Mr. Man- 
niche came to America to explain the work of 
the International Peoples College and to en¬ 
list American interest in his application of 
Eolk High School methods to international 
education. Miss Jane Addams of Hull House 
is Chairman of the American Committee for 
the College, and Dr. Henry Goddard Leach is 
Chairman of the Eastern Group. At a recep¬ 
tion given for him on May 18 by Mr. and 
Mrs. Leach, at their home, Mr. Manniche 
briefly characterized the work of the college. 
Folk High Schools in the South 
As a Fellow of the Foundation, Olive Dame 
Campbell will soon depart for Denmark to 
learn what principles of the Danish Folk 
High Schools can be applied to the develop¬ 
ment of the southern mountain peoples, repre¬ 
sentatives of a fine old American stock shut 
up for a century or more in the Kentucky and 
Tennessee mountains. In a recent interview 
which was widely reprinted in the American 
press, Mrs. Campbell said, “The majority 
of our southern mountain people are de¬ 
scended from the best of English stock and 
have deteriorated as a result of being shut 
off from the world. We even find Greek 
testaments and copies of Milton in their 
homes, heirlooms handed down to them by 
educated forebears. Surely such people are 
well worth educating.” Mrs. Campbell is 
Secretary of the Conference of Southern 
Mountain Workers. 
A Scientific Expedition from Bergen 
Natural scientists, especially meteorolo¬ 
gists, are expectantly awaiting the results of 
an expedition launched at Bergen under the 
leadership of Professor Helland-Hansen of 
the Geo-Phvsical Institute, who, in collabora¬ 
tion with Professor Damas of the Zoological 
Institute at Liege, is continuing the meteor¬ 
ological studies carried on for many years by 
Norwegian scientists under the leadership of 
Professor Fridtjof Nansen and Professor 
Bjerknes. Special study will be devoted to 
the relation between the upper water masses 
of the Atlantic ocean and the lower strata of 
the atmosphere and their effects on tempera¬ 
tures and humidity, and examination made of 
the solid bodies found in raindrops In order 
to determine their origin. A fuller knowledge 
of these subjects is important to an under¬ 
standing of general climatic alternations. 
The investigations will be conducted on board 
the motor vessel Armauer Hansen whose 
equipment includes a radio apparatus so that 
meteorological reports may be received and 
charts drawn to test the feasibility of fore¬ 
casting weather from a vessel en route. Col¬ 
lecting zoological specimens is also a payt of 
the expedition’s program. 
Kildal on the Norwegian Press 
Mr. Arne Kildal, press representative of 
the Norwegian Foreign Office at Washington, 
recently addressed the students in the School 
of Journalism at Columbia University. His 
subject was the Norwegian press, and he took 
occasion to emphasize the cleanness and lack 
of sensationalism characteristic of Norwegian 
journalism. He spoke also of the large 
amount of space devoted to literature, art, 
and science in the daily press. The students 
were especially interested in the pension sys¬ 
tem established by Norwegian newspaper 
men—in itself a witness to the greater sta¬ 
bility of the newspaper profession in Nor¬ 
way as compared with the United States. 
The Review is Wanted 
A request has been received from the Royal 
Library in Copenhagen that we send a few 
numbers requisite to complete its files of the 
Review. Among the numbers wanted is that 
for March, 1913, the supply of which is ex¬ 
hausted. As it is, of course, very important 
that this leading library should have all vol¬ 
umes complete, we should be very thankful 
to any one of our Associates who would sup¬ 
ply the missing number. It can be sent 
through the office of the Review. 
A Suspension of Prohibition in Iceland 
Iceland, like Norway, has had great diffi¬ 
culty in carrying out her prohibition law. 
There have been severe economic losses, es¬ 
pecially those incurred by Spain’s retaliatory 
measures in boycotting fish because her wines 
were barred. On April 25 the Althing, with 
only one dissenting voice, voted to modify the 
prohibition law for one year to the extent of 
allowing the importation of wine with an 
alcohol content of tw r enty-one percent. 
