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Speaking on "French Architecture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries", Professor J. J. Haffner addressed in French the members of the Cercle Francais in 9 Grays Hall last night...
Professor Haffner pointed out the harmony that existed between the dress of the period and the architectural design of the panelling and furnishings. In concluding his talk, Professor Haffner stated that toward the latter part of the eighteenth century, French architecture was copied to a great extent by other foreign countries, but without much success because of the misinterpretation that resulted...
...boasted in his report that "The donations and importations since 1834 have been such as to enable the student to verify every citation which is made in Blackstone's Commentaries, and nearly complete the collection of European law, both British and Continental, from the earliest times down to the eighteenth century" the library was far from being complete. A writer in the "American Jurist" in 1841 said that though the departments of English and American law were nearly complete, "there is a great deal to be desired in some departments of general jurisprudence". There were almost no books on Roman...
...Bahamas, and there is nothing about the Bahamas as treated in the play to excite the thirst of the most bitter-ender of those who have paid their dollar and become members of the Association for Inneffectual but Vocal Protest against the (now it comes back to us) Eighteenth Amendment...
...Arthur Whiting's last exposition will be given next Monday evening at the Paine Concert Hall in the Music Building. Mr. Whiting will accompany on the piano Mr. John Barclay, baritone. The selections will be taken from Italian, French, German, and Irish composers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...