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...jealousy for the honor of the Science of History. Your learned contributor, I hear, is a historian, and I am therefore astonished to see that he has neglected to fortify, his statements by declaring his sources. He forces me to claim the distinction of being an original source--"Tutor est fons animatus", lest any of your readers should imagine that all Oxford dons are movie fans. I admit that it is highly desirable that they should be but I fear that such a state of things is ideal and as yet outside the range of practical academies. So I must...
...Tout est bien qui finit bien, remarked Dr. Louis Barthélemy, once Dean of the Law Faculty at the Université de Paris, after quitting a reception by Sénateur Anatole de Monzie, Minister of Education. The Minister had requested the ex-Dean to become once more Dean...
There is a second objection to the ideal--the size of the College. It has been said that one may know all the girls in Boston but as for knowing all the members of one's own class, c'est a rire, the obstacles of numbers is too great. From this numerical incubus arises a difficulty. The personal element tends to disappear from instruction. In any college the quantity of really eminent professors is limited; the more students in a college the less opportunity any student has to receive from these eminent men a stimulation and assistance adapted...
...Orsay, hung about the Ministere des Affairs fitrangeres or French Foreign Office. Up the steps was walking the Marquess of Crewe, British Ambassador to France. "Le voila," cried a voice, choking down a morsel of the yard of bread which he carried under his arm. "C'est le rol George." "Non, non," re- sponded another, "c'est I'ambassadeur britannique." "Je vous dis. ..." The honking of an automobile horn interrupted the incipient altercation. Out of the car stepped a man dressed in the sky-blue uniform of a French officer; on his head was a cap with...
...Gare de l'Est, the Bolshevik Ambassador and his wife, M. and Mme. Leonid Krassin, bade the party bon voyage and bon chance...