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...youth of the nation as a whole" (TIME, Feb. 17). But Old Harrovians are still able to take such heterodoxy-from Winston Churchill. He is, after all, an Old Harrovian himself, a present day "Glory on the Hill." Harrow's Headmaster A. Paul Boissier writes that he has been told that often "on occasions when affairs looked overblack, Mr. Churchill . . . would sing an appropriate verse or two from one of the [Harrow] songs and then get back to business." Recently the Harrovians have given Old Harrovian Churchill a new stanza to the old Stet Fortuna Domus to sing...
...French Academy this year awarded to him the Prix Vitet, and M. Gaston Boissier, secretary of the Academy, said in his official report: "M. de Regnier is one of the leaders of that new school which pretends to do no less a thing than modify the form and the spirit of French poetry. Everybody recognizes that M. de Regnier has very rare poetical gifts; abundance and richness in images; amplitude and harmony of the period, a grace both provoking and natural that makes him admired even by those whom his boldness displeases." M. de Regnier was made a chevalier...
Assistant Professor de Sumichrast has received the following letter and communication for the Cercle Francais from M. Gaston Boissier the permanent secretary of the French Academy...
...BOISSIER, Permanent Secretary of the French Academy...
Assistant Professor de Sumichrast has received a letter from M. Gaston Boissier, Permanent Secretary of the Academie Francaise, conveying him the thanks of the academy for his services to the study of French, and referring also to his translation of Athalie...
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