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ollowing book-titles: Institutes of Constitutional History, English and American, 1884; Institutes of General History, 1885, 1895; Institutes of Economics, 1889, 1900; History, Prophecy, and Gospel, 1891; Droysen's Outlines of the Principles of History (translated), 1893; Wealth and Moral Law, 1894; An Honest Dollar, 1894; History of the Last Quarter-Century in the United States, 1896, 1903; Problems of Cosmology (adapted), 1903; The Call of the Land, 1913.
E. L. HINMAN.
AUGUST HJALMAR EDGREN
PROFESSOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES 1885-91; ROMANCE
LANGUAGES 1893-1900.
During the half century of her existence the University of Nebraska has had a goodly share of eminent teachers and scholars in her service. From the first, good, able men were attracted by the opportunities the new state university offered. And still more was this the case when the pioneer days were passed, say in the '80's. It was in '85 that Professor Edgren came to us from the University of Lund, Sweden, to fill the chair of modern languages.
Dr. Edgren was a man of large caliber, both mentally and physically. A markedly strong yet fine-featured, intellectual face, expressive of the scholar's keen interest in the field of inquiry and research; keen, kindly eyes set under an ample, broad brow; broad-shouldered, erect, soldierly, dignified, commanding attention and respect,—thus Dr. Edgren rises before those who knew him.
Dr. Edgren had lived in America before he came to Nebraska. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he, a lover of freedom and of freedom's cause, had asked for and obtained leave of absence from his regiment in Sweden, and had offered his services to the Union. He enlisted in the
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