Word: ets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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GENTLEMEN:- Among the papers left by the late Professor Lowell,- clarum et venerabile nomen not only here at Harvard, but wherever good learning is cherished and great public services are honored,- were some scraps of the lectures to which his classes had the exceptional privilege of listening. Brief and fragmentary as they are, they yet exhibit in their small compass the breadth of mind and the wise reflection which were among the most marked traits of his nature, traits in which genius and character were united in rare combination...
FRENCH 6.- Marivaux' "Le Jeu de I' Amour et du Hasard" will be read on Friday next...
Maupassant was the pupil of Flaubert, but while his teacher was forever striving after fine phrases, Maupassant endeavored throughout his works to acquire the simplest style he could. He was incomparably powerful in his short stories. In his longer works, his masterpiece is undoubtedly "Pierre et Jean," which is done with an artistic conscience. It is one of the few masterpieces of modern French literature...
...Intermezzo et valse leute...
Hereafter in French 5 there will be no written exercises. Members of the course should provide themselves with "Contes et Nouvelles...