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Several members of the delegation of prominent Freshmen, who have come to this country in connection with the Champlain celebration at Crown Point, N. Y., made a special trip from New York yesterday to visit Harvard. These gentlemen were M. Etienne Lamy, president of the French Academy, statesman and historian, Professor Vidal dela Blache, member of the Institute, representing the Sorbonne, and M. Gaston de Champs, editor of "Le Temps", a former Hyde lecturer at Harvard. They were met by ex-Ambassador Robert Bacen '90, now a member of the Corporation, Mr. William Rotch '65, president of the Alliance Francaise...
Owing to the early arrival and departure of the commission sent by the French Government to present a bas-relief of France for the statue of Champlain at Crown Point, N. Y., the lecture which was to have been given by two members of the commission in New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 5 o'clock has been cancelled. The enjoys will arrive in Boston early this morning and, after visiting the Boston Public Library, will come out to Cambridge in time for M. Etienne Lamy to address the class in History 1, in New Lecture Hall...
...part of the commission sent by the French Government to present a bas relief of France for the statue of Champlain at Crown Point, N. Y., will come to Cambridge tomorrow afternoon, accompanied by Robert Bacon '09, late ambassador to France, and now a member of the Corporation. Two of the members of the commission, M. Etienne Lamy, a member of the French Academy, and M. Vidal de la Blache, professor of Geography at the Sorbonne, Paris, will make addresses in New Lecture Hall, tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock. The meeting will be open to the public...
...Sumichrast of the French Department will deliver the fourth in the series of six Alliance Francaise lectures on "The French in India and in America," in Huntington Hall, Boston, this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The special topic for discussion will be "New France: Cartier and Champlain," and the lecturer will illustrate his talk with stereopticon views. All of these lectures are delivered in French and are open to the public. The last of the series, on "Louisbourg and Quebec: Montcalm," will be given on next Saturday afternoon in Huntington Hall...
February 8.--New France: Cartier and Champlain...