Word: doumic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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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...