Word: academician
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...lesson which the author and Academician, Maurice Donnay, learned during his recent visit to America is that it is necessary for his countrymen to know English. Very few even of the cultured Academicians speak English. But with all their passionate desire to have their own language appreciated, the French must not, says Donnay, "hold any illusions as to its universality." Two-thirds of the civilized world is now speaking English...