Word: ferrand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Bernard Faÿ, 36, unmarried, was born in Paris, has taken all possible French professorial degrees, is Professor in the Faculty of Letters in the University of Clermont-Ferrand. During the War he served as captain, won the Croix de Guerre, Médaille de Léopold II. Since 1921 he has spent alternate years in France and the U. S. lecturing at Columbia, Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State universities. Other Fa books: A Panorama of Contemporary French Literature, The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America at the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Since Victor Hugo: French Literature...
Naturally, under these conditions, a simple announcement of President Ferrand of Connell, that lack of sleep is one of the growing evils of the American undergraduate, met with but a cold reception. Yet there is evidence in plenty to support his statement. Anyone who has ever had a nine o'clock class is familiar with the sleeping six and the half dozen late. The well lighted windows of the Business School, and even of the Freshman Halls, tell to any late traveller by the Charles a story sufficiently convincing. Perhaps Dr. Ferrand did not refer to this sort of undergraduate...
...Ferrand H. W. Keyes
...following educational centres will offer special summer courses and organize special summer courses and organize special tutorial classes for Americans: Universities of Besancon, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Nancy, Paris, Strasbourg, and Toulouse (summer courses at Bagneres de Bigorre), and the Institut d'Etudes francaises de Touraine et Tours...
...guidance. The fact that American university presidents have always been men of surpassing worth is not the least important factor in the country's progress. Cornell will be more than living up to this tradition when she inaugurates Dr. Livingston Farrand as her fourth president tomorrow. We congratulate Dr. Ferrand and congratulate Cornell...