Word: ancien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the Sorbonne, Paris, France Monsieur Leon Robin, Professor of Ancien Philosophie, comes to Harvard to lecture during the first half year on Plato's Symposium and the philosophy of Plato. Wolfgang Liepe will come from the University of Kiel to lecture on the life and work of Hebbel and to give a graduate course in the poetry of the 18th century in Germany...
Thursday finds yet another innovation, when Harvard and Yale send their glee clubs to Symphony Hall, for a joint concert. The ancien regime of banality in college music has suffered much of late; there have been signs of insurrection among many of those once satisfied with it. The concert Thursday appears, Janus-like, at a time when the past shows no little success, and the future augurs well. The colleges, and through them much of America are growing up to good music. Inevitably they must strike false notes as they move, but still they progress, and their pace has been...
...Academy perished, like the other academies of the ancien régime, in the Revolution. In 1795, the Convention stated that "there is, for all the Republic, but one National Institute, designed to gather discoveries and to perfect the Arts and the Sciences." From 1796 on, the Academy became a part of the Institut de France-the most important part. It was still confined to 40 members, called Immortals, and continued to be the guardian of the French language designed to encourage Literature and foster genius. In every other respect, it was changed...