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Personal recollections of Harvard by Rene Doumic, the first Hyde lecturer in 1897, by Andre Tardiou, lecturer in 1908, and by General Panl Azan, the head of the French military mission in 1917, open the volume. The succeeding pages are devoted to scholary essays on different phases of the cultural exchanges between Harvard and France, both in the past and in the present. No attempt is made to treat the subject exhaustively or systematically. For example, the line of descent from the Mediseval University of Parls to seventeenth century Harvard is not described, nor is there any discussion...
Five years ago a fund was established by J. H. Hyde '98, for the purpose of bringing to Harvard each year a distinguished man of letters to lecture on French art, literature or history. M. Rene Doumic, a critic, was the first to come to Cambridge, in 1898, lecturing on "Histoire du Romantisme en France." In 1899, followed M. Edouard Rod, a critic and novelist, who spoke on "La Poesie Dramatique en France." The third lecture was M. Henri de Regnier, a poet, whose subject was "Poesie Contemporaine Francaise." Last year M. Gaston Deschamps, the literary critic of the "Temps...
...close of the evening a medal was presented to him similar to those which were given to M. Doumic...
Before returning to France M. Doumic will deliver several lectures in this country and in Canada. In addition to the lectures at Columbia and Brooklyn he will deliver three lectures on contemporary French critics, on March 21, 22 and 23 before the Peabody Institute at Baltimore. These are to be on "Brunetiere," "Anatole France," and "Jules Lemaitre," respectively. Next he will lecture at the Washington Catholic University of America, and after that before the Catholic Universities of Quebec, Ottawa, and Montreal. On April 23 M. Doumic will said for France...
...feel it necessary to voice the general appreciation of the course of lectures M. Doumic has now completed under the auspices of the Cercle. M. Doumic has justified at Harvard the reputation as a keen and sympathetic critic which preceded him to this country, and his contribution is among the more important of the year. To him who rendered it possible for the Cercle to thus benefit the University thanks are due, and the success of this year augurs well for that of the lectureship in years to come...