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...personalities in German literature of the nineteenth century have evoked more interest and more divergent views than Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Swiss poet and writer of Novellen; stylistic craftsman of genius, narrator of great events, delineator of great characters; and at the same time a paradoxical nature that has been the despair of biographers and critics who have tried to bring order out of the conflicting chaos of his life and work, to find reasons for the distance between this unhealthy, corpulent, shy man and the colossal figures of Renaissance, Reformation, and medieval history, who are the subjects...
...publication of three new books, two by men now connected with Harvard, was announced yesterday by the University Press. For every student of German literature, the new book by Arthur Burkhard assistant professor of German entitled: "Conrad Ferdinand Meyer" is particularly important...
McGill University at Montreal last week received another grant ($1,232,652) from the Rockefeller Foundation. The new funds will pay for a neurological institute under direction of Professor Wilder Graves Penfield, will attract more able men to Dean Charles Ferdinand Martin's notable company of medical authorities. The medical faculty already includes...
...works of Rembrandt's pupils Ferdinand Bol, and Nicholas Mass, do not suffer by comparison with...
...death was no surprise to his few real friends. Death, to Aristide Briand, meant the end. Like Fighter Clemenceau, Pacifier Briand had a minimum of belief in God and a future life, if he could be said to have any. Of the French Wartime "Big Three" only Marshal Ferdinand Foch went devout and confident to a Catholic's eternal life beyond the grave...