The American-Scandinavian Foundation 
For better intellectual relations between the American and Scandinavian peoples, bp 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. M oiler; 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; 
Vortc'a^/^-Norge-Amerika Fondet, L. Strandgade 1, Christiania, K. J. Hougen, Chairman. 
Activities of Fellows 
A touring party across the continent by a 
group of men and women Fellows of the Foun¬ 
dation lias for some time been on the tapis. 
Like other great plans, it dwindled little by 
little, until only two intrepid explorers re¬ 
mained to start out from New York in the 
middle of August with San Francisco as the 
journey’s end. They are Johan Larsen, Fel¬ 
low’ from Denmark, wdio is studying the or¬ 
ganization of college athletics at Columbia 
University, and Nils W. Horstadius, Fellow 
from Sweden, who is studying business effi¬ 
ciency at Dartmouth College. They intend to 
go directly to Chicago an$ then deflect first 
to the south and later to the north so as to 
include the great natural beauties of the 
country, Yellowstone park, the Grand Can¬ 
yon, and the Yosemite. In addition to this 
they mean to visit the Scandinavian settle¬ 
ments in the Middle West. Their automo¬ 
bile carries a large quantity of the literature 
put out by the Foundation, and they mean to 
go from one settlement to another preaching 
the gospel of the Review 7 and the other pub¬ 
lications of the Foundation. We bespeak for 
them a friendly reception and ask those who 
are already readers of the Review 7 to point 
the way to neighbors w 7 ho have not yet en¬ 
tered the circle. 
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Dr. Martin L. Revmert, Fellow of the 
Foundation from Norway, 1916-17, is the ed¬ 
itor of a new 7 scientific quarterly to be pub¬ 
lished in Norway but in the English language 
and to contain original contributions by re¬ 
search w T orkers of the Scandinavian coun¬ 
tries in the fields of philosophy, psychology, 
and pedagogy. The magazine will be han¬ 
dled by Macmillan for America. 
* 
The Jamestown Chapter gave a dinner, on 
the evening of July 18, to one of our return¬ 
ing Fellows, Rev. Gustave Carlsen, w 7 ho has 
been studying divinity at Uppsala during the 
last academic year. Mr. Carlson’s old home 
is in Jamestown, and his friends took this op¬ 
portunity of honoring him at the same time as 
they kept alive the local interest in the work 
of the Foundation. After a talk on Sweden 
by the guest of honor, a lively discussion fol¬ 
lowed, and it was suggested that the Founda¬ 
tion might help to arrange for lecturers on 
Scandinavian topics at the Chautauqua Insti¬ 
tute which is the pride of Jamestowm—an ex¬ 
cellent idea! 
* 
Baron Sten de Geer, Fellow of the Founda¬ 
tion from Sweden, was the guest of honor at 
a luncheon given at the Chicago Athletic Club 
by Mr. C. S. Peterson in the name of the 
Foundation. Baron de Geer is the son of the 
famous geologist, Professor Gerhard de Geer, 
and is himself instructor in economic geog¬ 
raphy. He is here to study industrial settle¬ 
ments and the relation of population to indus¬ 
trial zones. At present he is lecturing at 
the summer school of the University of Chi¬ 
cago. Among the guests at the luncheon w T ere 
representatives of the Scandinavian groups 
in the city, besides Dean Harlan K. Barrow’S 
of Chicago University. 
The Review 7 
The Spring Literary Number of the Re¬ 
view 7 contained an article on “Strindbergs 
Personalitv” bv our Swedish literarv corre- 
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