Word: clermont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Bernard Faÿ, 36, unmarried, was born in Paris, has taken all possible French professorial degrees, is Professor in the Faculty of Letters in the University of Clermont-Ferrand. During the War he served as captain, won the Croix de Guerre, Médaille de Léopold II. Since 1921 he has spent alternate years in France and the U. S. lecturing at Columbia, Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State universities. Other Fa books: A Panorama of Contemporary French Literature, The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America at the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Since Victor Hugo: French Literature...
Captain Hartley eased the Leviathan out into the stream. The little Clermont, a replica of Fulton's invention (the first steamship), appeared and led the way down the bay. Six aeroplanes above formed a guard of honor, and stayed by till the Leviathan passed Sandy Hook. Then out on the open sea, taking a steady pace of 23 knots, the monster laid her course for Cherbourg and Southampton...
...following educational centres will offer special summer courses and organize special summer courses and organize special tutorial classes for Americans: Universities of Besancon, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Nancy, Paris, Strasbourg, and Toulouse (summer courses at Bagneres de Bigorre), and the Institut d'Etudes francaises de Touraine et Tours...
...only member of the University delegation to the Unit with any previous experience in reconstruction work is R. J. Giddings 2S.L.A., the chairman of the University section. Giddings accompanied last summer's Unit and worked at Clermont-en-Argonne. Here he assisted in the making of a survey and large scale plan of the town showing the condition of each building and ruin...
...fields, embracing practically all the arts and sciences. The candidate may choose his field, but it must usually be one in which he has already shown proficiency. The fellowships are offered in the universities, faculties and other institutions of higher learning in Paris, Aix-Marseille, Alger, Besancon, Bordeaux, Caen, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Nancy, Poitiers, Rennes, Strasbourg or Toulouse. The candidate may designate his choice, but the Advisory Board strongly recommends the desirability of a period of residence in a provincial university as being the best place to acquire the language...