Word: french
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...incumbent this year of the scholarship offered by the French Ministry of Public Instruction, with a stipend of $600, is W. B. Blake S.'06, formerly instructor in English in the University. The appointment to this fellowship is made by the French Minister of Public Instruction on the recommendation of the President of Harvard University...
...account of the large attendance at the first lecture, the remaining lectures of the series on "The French Revolution" by Dr. E. F. Henderson '83 will be given in the New Lecture Hall, instead of in the Fogg Museum as heretofore announced. The next lecture is tomorrow at 5 o'clock on the special subject "The 5th and 6th of October in Versailles...
...Henderson '83 delivered the first of a series of eight lectures on "The French Revolution" in the Fogg Museum yesterday afternoon on "The Storming of the Bastille." The lecture was illustrated by numerous interesting stereopticon slides, giving the portraits of prominent men of the time, engravings of important events and places, and caricatures of the political aspect of the period...
...opening, Dr. Henderson denied the assertion of many modern historians that the French Revolution is not an epoch-making event, and while acknowledging its retarding effects upon the progress of civilization, he emphasized the far-reaching result of such an important and hitherto unknown political experiment. The French Revolution in history is what the "Republic" of Plato is in the world of thought...
...mass of allegories and caricatures, which formed the political education of an ignorant people, who had just acquired the suffrage. He then spoke of the unbounded popularity of Rousseau and of his writings, and the popularity, second only to that of Rousseau, of Benjamin Franklin, the idol of the French people. The misery of the lower classes, while undoubtedly great, has been grossly exaggerated by Carlyle and others; and far from being a cause was only a condition of the Revolution, which was in reality started by the rich people and thinkers of the nation, and then taken...