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academies and learned societies.
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In the higher secondary schools, athletics and sport have begun to be embraced
with ardour, and now have their place side by side with the obligatory gymnastic
exercises, and the summer and winter athletic school-competitions that are held
every year in Stockholm are attended by a steadily increasing number of young
competitors from every part of the country.
At the universities, too, athletics and sport are now practised with steadily
increasing interest, and university competitions are held every year which have
a tendency to become Scandinavian in their scope.
8. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR
SCIENCE AND ART. THE PERIODICAL PRESS.
Academies and Learned Societies.
The Swedish Academy was founded by Gustavus III, on March 20,
1786, on the model of the French Academy. Its purpose is "to work for
the purity, strength, and ennoblement of the Swedish language". The
King is the patron and nominates its members after their election by the
Academy itself. The number of the members is eighteen, among whom
are three officials, the director (chairman) and the chancellor
(vice-chairman), elected every half year, and the secretary, who is permanent
and should be resident in Stockholm. The great day of celebration of the
Academy is on Dec. 20 (the birthday of Gustavus Adolphus). Its main
source of income is the monopoly of the publication of Post- och Inrikes
Tidningar. Out of the public funds the Academy annually receives 8 250
kronor, of which 6 000 are intended to go to the support of literary authors.
— The Academy annually awards one of the five Nobel prizes (cf.
below) and has for this purpose a special Nobel Institute with a library
connected.
The Royal Academy of Sciences was founded in 1739 by a private
society, among whose members was Karl von Linné (Linnaeus). Its
present statutes were sanctioned by the Government April 15, 1904 and
were amended Dec. 8, 1905. Its object is the promotion first and foremost
of mathematics and the natural sciences. The Academy publishes the
almanac and the State Calendar, of which it has a monopoly, which constitutes
its principal source of income (146 000 kronor in 1912). Out of the public
funds, the Academy has an annual subsidy of 14 460 kronor; its own
funds (not including those merely administered by the Academy) amount
to a capital sum of 1 442 811 kronor. The Academy consits of at most
100 Swedish members distributed among 11 classes, whose respective
numbers are given below, and an equal number of foreign members,
similarly subdivided, who are all elected by the Academy itself.
The eleven classes as follows for pure mathematics, 6 members; for applied
mathematics and astronomy, 6 members; for physical science and meteorology,
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