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...College, Brooklyn. He is still shy, scholarly and a Dickens enthusiast but he does not take himself so seriously as he did at 13. The Tale of Two Cities, he decided not long ago, might make a good operetta if the plot were juggled around a bit. Charles Darnay might become a conventional villain, Sidney Carton could escape and go back to Lucy, sedate Miss Pross could become a comedienne called Prossie. . . . He proceeded haltingly to pick out tunes on the piano...
Adrien Jacquinot, assistant professor of French in the university, died of pneumonia in Cambridge on Friday night between 9 and 10 o'clock after a three days' illness. Mr. Jacquinot was born at Darnay in the province of Vosges, France. His family belonged to what is known as the magistrate class, and had been officially connected with the government for generations. He was sent to Paris to educate himself for the law, where he studied with Genin, the celebrated philologist who was a personal friend of his family. While with him, he assisted in writing several articles in the "Nouvelle...