Word: french
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...statue of Lewis Cass, Harvard '36, has been placed in the Hall of Statuary at Washington. The sculptor is Daniel C. French of Boston, who also made the statue of John Harvard...
...Harvard Club of New York held their annual dinner at Delmonico's on Thursday evening. About two hundred and fifty graduates were present, besides two dozen annex girls, who occupied the gallery. Francis O. French presided at the dinner. The speakers were Rev. H. J. Van Dyke, of Princeton, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, of Yale, Messrs. J. O. Sargent, C. C. Beaman, F. T. Greenhalge, D, C. French, J. C. Centre, Professors N. S. Shaler, and Joseph Lovering, and Rev. A. Brooks. Mr. VanDyke condemned college athletics as gladiatorial, and as consisting of a large proportion of contest, with...
Several members of the Historical Society, under the direction of Mr. Tillinghast, are to catalog the English, Italian, French and German historical periodicals in the university library. The general plan of the card catalogue will be followed...
...fall before the German troops had closed in about Paris, the French troops were for the most part employed outside the line of forts which surrounded the city, and were protected only by a slight barricade. These barricades were formed of masonry and were intended to have been surmounted by bags of earth to break the force of the shells, but as time failed for the completion of the works, bags of potatoes taken from the peasants who were hurrying into Paris, were used instead of bags of earth, and so great was the lack of provisions among the soldiers...
Professor Cohn will lecture to the French department on "Thinking in a Foreign Language," next Friday...