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an immense amount of patient work, but it resulted in materially overhauling, correcting and simplifying data which, up to that time, had been regarded as definitively established. The American Oriental Society published Edgren work in 1878. This publication was followed up in the succeeding years by a Sanskrit grammar (1885) and many valuable contributions in the fields of Indo-European philology, as well as in the Germanic and Romance languages.
When Edgren came to Nebraska in '85, the modern languages soon became a favorite study with our student body. His classes were crowded. Graduate work was gradually being encouraged and developed. The opportunities to lay broad and deep foundations for linguistic and humanistic studies were taken full advantage of.
Nevertheless, when, in 1891, the newly opened University of Gothenburg recalled Professor Edgren to his homeland he accepted the call. He served as its first Rector Magnificus.
But some way the lure of the far West, the opportunities in new lands, were too strong for him. The spell of America's future, her comparative freedom from social conventionalities, and her young but vigorous institutions, could not be thrown off. So, once more, he turned his face towards Nebraska. This time he became head of the Romance department and, a little later, the first dean of the Graduate School (1893). No doubt Dr. Edgren would have labored and ended his days in our midst, if Sweden had not for the third time given him an urgent invitation to give her his strength and ripe scholarship.
As it was, the Nobel Institute, a Foundation created by Baron Alfred Nobel in 1900 for the purpose of giving due recognition and appropriate awards to certain lines of investigation and scholarship or other signal humanitarian service,—elected Edgren as one of its directors. There were, according to the terms of the Foundation, awards to be made in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, international peace and understanding, and, final-
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