The American-Scandinavian Foundation 
For better intellectual relations between the American and Scandinavian 'peoples, by means 
of an exchange of students, publications, and a Bureau of Information — 
Officers: President, Hamilton Holt; Vice Presidents, John G. Bergquist, John A. Gade and 
C. S. Peterson; Treasurer, H. Esk. Moller; Secretary, James Creese, Literary Secretary, 
Hanna Astrup Larsen; Counsel, Henry E. Almberg; Auditors, David Elder & Co. 
Government Advisory Committees: Danish —A. P. Weis, Chief of the Department of the 
Ministry of Education, Chairman; Norwegian—K. J. Hougen, Chief of the Department 
of Church and Education, Chairman. The Swedish Government is represented in the 
Swedish American Foundation (below). 
Co-operating Bodies: Sweden —Sverige-Amerika Stiftelsen, Malmtorgsgatan 5, Stockholm, 
Svante Arrhenius, President; E. E. Ekstrand, Secretary; Denmark— Danmarks Amerikan- 
ske Selskab, 18 Vestre Boulevard, H. P. Prior, President; N. L. Feilberg, Secretary; 
Norway— Norge-Amerika Fondet, L. Strandgade 1, Christiania, K. J. Hougen, Chairman. 
Dr. Lynch in Sweden 
Dr. Frederick Lynch, former President of 
the Board of Trustees, has been writing for 
his own paper, The Christian Work, a series 
of letters from Sweden. Dr. Lynch went to 
Sweden upon three invitations, one from the 
Foundation as exchange lecturer; one from 
the University of Uppsala to give the lectures 
on the Olaus Petri Foundation; one from 
Archbishop Soderblom to visit some of the 
Swedish churches and preach in them. His 
letter published June 3 , “A Swedish Univer¬ 
sity Town” was dated at Uppsala; and that 
of June 10, “A Great Northern City,” was 
from Stockholm. 
“Out of my window,” wrote Dr. Lynch 
from Uppsala, “I look upon the great Gothic 
Cathedral; just across the close and to my 
left, I see the main building of the University. 
The Cathedral is the largest church in Scan¬ 
dinavia, and dates back to the thirteenth cen¬ 
tury. It has one of the most beautiful pul¬ 
pits in Europe, in the baroque style. Here 
are the crowns of Gustavus Vasa and his 
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queens, wonderful and famous old chasubles, 
copes, and mitres. Here is the archiepiscopal 
crozier M 7 hich has been carried by all the arch¬ 
bishops since 1164. Here are the remains of 
King Erik, the patron saint of Sweden, in 
a silver coffin, while upon the coffin rests his 
crown. Here are buried Swedenborg, Linne, 
Gustavus Vasa, and many other great Swedes. 
Out of the windows in the Archbishop’s li¬ 
brary I can see the great mounds under which 
the old Vikings are buried and the old cathe¬ 
dral built on the site of the temple where these 
pagan kings worshipped. By my window 
flows an unceasing stream of students in 
white caps.” 
In Stockholm a dinner was given for Dr. 
Lynch, and he spoke upon American and In¬ 
ternational Good Will. The directors of 
Sverige Amerika Stiftelsen entertained him at 
luncheon, he called upon Premier Branting, 
and had a half-hour’s talk with the Crown 
Prince. 
Dr. Lynch’s next letters will be from 
Christiania and Copenhagen. 
Scandinavian Studies in California 
Mr. Hans C. Vedsted of Copenhagen, a 
special scholar of the Foundation now in 
residence at the University of California, and 
reading for the doctorate, has, in wishing to 
get first hand knowledge of his countrymen 
in America, achieved the remarkable record 
of having visited one hundred and seventeen 
Danish communities during the past winter. 
Mr. Vedsted was in America in 1911, when 
as a Fellow of the Foundation, he studied at 
Cambridge and Rock Island. 
The University of California has conferred 
on Miss Anne Louise Beck, the degree of 
Master of Arts, her thesis being entitled “An 
Application of the Bjerknes Theories of 
Dynamic Meteorology to a study of the 
Synoptic Charts of the United States Weather 
Bureau.” Miss Beck studied with Professor 
Bjerknes at the Bergen Geo-Physical Insti¬ 
tute in 1920-1921 when she held the 
Mowinckel Fellowship under the Foundation. 
Visitors to the North 
The Student Tour began on July 1 when 
the Saxonia sailed from New York. In the 
group were the Secretary of the Foundation, 
Miss Reque of the Foundation Staff, and Pro¬ 
fessor A. B. Benson of Yale. The itinerary 
arranged by the International Student Tour 
leads from Hamburg to Copenhagen, to 
