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Thus it happened that the Nobel "Peace Prize" for 1927 was awarded, last week, to two elderly and little-known "fraternizers among nations": Professor Doktor Ludwig Quidde of the University of Munich, 69; and Professor Ferdinand Buisson, 86, retired, onetime preceptor at the Sorbonne. When the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), which is charged with making the award, announced its decision, last week, a teapot-tempest of press indignation seethed...
...Third President," M. Ferdinand Buisson; won his election last week by the clean cut vote of 284 to 186. He represents the "Locarnoist" policy of Foreign Minister Briand, and defeated for his new post the onetime "Ruhrist" War Minister of Premier Poincaré, M. André Maginot. Frenchmen were pleased by the elevation of M Buisson last week, for he has held the thankless Vice-Presidency of the Chamber for the past two years with tact, polish, souplesse...
...call attention to a recent article in a French educational journal on "Universities and Colleges of higher education in the United States," in which much attention and praise is bestowed upon our glorious institution. In the issue of October 15th of the Revue Internationale de L'Enseignment, Mon. B. Buisson, a well known educational writer in France, and a commissioner from the French government to the exposition at New Orleans in 1884, writes one of a series of articles on our educational institutions ten pages, of which are devoted to a flattering description and very high praise of Harvard...