Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . Ole Bull was induced byMr. Anderson to increase the library fund by givinga concert in the assembly chamber, and the sum thusobtained was very advantageously expended in Nor-way by the professor, who made a voyage thither in1872 for the purpose, and procured at the same timevaluable contributions from some of the ablest pro-fessors and most distinguished Norwegian books obtained by the several means indicatedrender the Scandinavian library one of the best in th
Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . Ole Bull was induced byMr. Anderson to increase the library fund by givinga concert in the assembly chamber, and the sum thusobtained was very advantageously expended in Nor-way by the professor, who made a voyage thither in1872 for the purpose, and procured at the same timevaluable contributions from some of the ablest pro-fessors and most distinguished Norwegian books obtained by the several means indicatedrender the Scandinavian library one of the best in theUnited States. The Johnson students aid fund was in part due to the same agency. The sum givenby the Hon. John A. Johnson, some time senator forthis district, is $5,000, the interest of which is to beapplied from the time of the donation, 1876, until theend of the present century, to assist indigent Scandi-navian students, with sums not to exceed $50 per an-num in any individual case, nor to aggregate morethan $200 in the aid afforded to one person; with thisfurther proviso, that in every case the student assisted. HISTORY OF MADISON. 77 shall understand that the advance is a loan, and not agift, and that whenever it may be in his power, heshall be expected to repay the sum to the fund, to in-crease its efficiency for future operations. On andafter the end of this century the fund will be availablefor all students, irrespective of nationality, on pre-cisely similar terms. Clearly, the object of the donoris to break down whatever barriers may at present ex-ist, to the complete unification of the Norse elementin our population with the great body of the people,made up of all the nations of the world. It would bedifficult to imagine a form in which enlightened mu-nificence can more elegantly express itself, than bysuch contributions to the improvement of the StateUniversity, and it is gratifying to observe that otherpersons are preparing to follow in the path thus noblyindicated.
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