 (literally, "I have already all things seen").As late as 2007, one former Fick student reported that next to his bedside table was "Gösta Berling's Saga" by Selma Lagerlöf, who in 1909 became the first woman and the first Swede to win the Nobel Prize for literature.At the Josephinum Schools, Fick could see that the institution's future was tied to its stature academically both within Catholic as well as public educational accreditation institutions.