Word: fors
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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In view of these things, it has been deemed advisable by some to form a project by which these wants could be supplied, and they have now the pleasure to present, for the consideration of all interested, a scheme for the foundation of a French society.
It is proposed to form a society, to which the membership shall be limited, and for admission to which shall be required, besides election, a fair knowledge of conversational and classical French.
In this our loss is double, for not only do we lose ground in our knowledge of the language, but we lose, also, the pleasure of social converse in the tongue pre-eminently fitted to convey the niceties of conversation.
The German society have kindly offered a share in a new room they are about to engage for their use during the year, and it is thought that an arrangement of this kind will be for the advantage of both societies. It may be here added that the success attending...
It must not be inferred that the two societies are to be in any way identical, for such is not the case.