Fridtiof Nansen, 1861-1893 . ^ in all hisvirulence. He must find out what kind of animal this he took it all to pieces, and when his mother came backfrom town, the machine was the most disjointed -puzzle. NANSEN AS A YOUTH imaginable. If tradition is to be trusted, however, he didnot give in until he had put it all together again. As a schoolboy, Fridtiof Nansen was industrious, andpassed out of the intermediate school in 1877 with dis-tinction. In the upper school, it is possible that sport anda thousand and one private preoccupations absorbed toomuch of his time. In an}^ case, we find
Fridtiof Nansen, 1861-1893 . ^ in all hisvirulence. He must find out what kind of animal this he took it all to pieces, and when his mother came backfrom town, the machine was the most disjointed -puzzle. NANSEN AS A YOUTH imaginable. If tradition is to be trusted, however, he didnot give in until he had put it all together again. As a schoolboy, Fridtiof Nansen was industrious, andpassed out of the intermediate school in 1877 with dis-tinction. In the upper school, it is possible that sport anda thousand and one private preoccupations absorbed toomuch of his time. In an}^ case, we find a heartfelt sigh going o2 LIFE OF FRIDTIOF NAXSEN up from the half-yearly report of his masters, Aars and Yoss,in 1879 : He is unstable, and in several subjects his progressis not nearly so satisfactory as might have been is true that their expectations were probably rather highin the case of a boy who astonished his teacher of mathe-matics by giving a geometrical solution of a problem inarithmetic. The fact was that Fridtiof Nansen had many other pro-blems to solve besides those set him at school. The ques-tioning spirit of early childhood grew apace in this period ofactive development, and
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