What is the Foundation? 
By Henry Goddard Leach 
The question has been answered many times and in many ways. 
Even constant readers of the Review sometimes surprise me by 
asking for a definition of the Foundation’s work and objects. We of 
the staff have been so busy during these ten years trying to keep up 
with public demand, providing letters of introduction, selecting stu¬ 
dents, arranging exhibitions, meeting the daily flood of other prob¬ 
lems, that we have not always had time to answer all who have asked 
this one question, or fully to explain ourselves to the public. And 
yet in every Number of the Review is a brief statement of the aims 
of the Foundation, and there are published monthly columns of Foun¬ 
dation news items which I think are written in a happy vein. 
THE ANSWER 
In 1911 a patriotic Danish-American, Niel3 
Poulson, gave the fortune that he had amassed 
patiently by the sweat of his brow during a 
long lifetime, to work after him as long as prin¬ 
cipal bears interest for a richer intellectual 
sy mpathy between the home lands of Denmark, 
Norway, and Sweden arid his adopted country. 
The Foundation provides travelling stipends 
for an exchange of more than fifty students 
annually between America and the Scandi¬ 
navian countries. 
The Foundation publishes its beautifully 
illustrated American-ScandinavianReview sent 
monthly to all Associates. Twenty volumes 
have been published of translations and books 
about the Scandinavian countries. 
The Foundation, through its Bureau in New 
York, arranges the circuits of art exhibitions 
and lectures and advises students throughout 
the world. 
The Foundation is directed as to its central 
organization and funds by an American board 
of trustees who serve for life without compen¬ 
sation. Co-operating with them are similar 
boards in each of the Scandinavian countries, 
and 8,000 associates scattered through the 
United States. 
The Foundation has grown through its friends 
and associates until its budget is five times 
the income from the Poulson estate. 
THE NEW YORK CHAPTER 
is the largest and most vigorous of the nine 
Chapters of Associates of the central organiza¬ 
tion residing in chief cities of the United States. 
The Chapter (then called "the society”) or¬ 
ganized the great Scandinavian Art Exhibition 
which toured the United States in 1912-13. 
The Chapter instituted three annual all- 
Scandinavian orchestral concerts in Carnegie 
Hall which have been succeeded by numerous 
musical events every season. 
The Chapter ha.?, entertained at large dinners 
the Scandinavian ministers and consul gen¬ 
erals and visiting delegations. 
The Chapter announces this year a monthly 
program of recitals, exhibitions, lectures, 
entertainment for students, dances, and social 
functions. 
The Chapter urges you strongly to become 
a member and take part in all its activities. 
The Membership Committee of the New York Chapter are now 
working hard oh a vigorous campaign of education. They are sending 
out students to speak of the Foundation before clubs and societies. 
The Committee commend their credo for study to every Associate of 
the Foundation whether living in the New York district or not. They 
urge him or her to speak a good word for the organization, to persuade 
others to join with us, and to spread knowledge and good will. 
