Word: french
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...PAbbe Klein, Professor at the Catholic University of Paris, delivered a French lecture in Emerson Hall last evening on the "Relations between Church and State in France." W. G. Wendell '09, president of the Cercle Francais, introduced the speaker...
...last 30 years, no representative of the French government has dared to utter the name of God publicly. In the public schools all religious ceremonies have been abolished, and in the public life, all religious ideas, as far as possible. Quoting many other examples, the Abbe explained that religious toleration and liberty is unknown in France...
...hoped that the coming lecture on "Church and State in France," to be given under the auspices of the Cercle Francais by the Abbe Klein, will not be overlooked by any students of French, nor, in fact, by any Harvard men who desire further light on one of the most difficult and important political problems of the hour. In his course at the Lowell Institute the Abbe Klein is showing how clearly and interestingly, and how judicially, this burning question can be handled. The lecture will be given in Emerson Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. C. H. GRANDGENT...
Every year Harvard graduates a body of men who at once go into some office or begin on the lowest rung of the ladder. Some of these men during their residence in Cambridge may have received only an impractical smattering of French or German, a hazy familiarity with the habits and private life of the Ancient Romans, and perhaps a more or less thorough understanding of the Indian tribes of the southwest and the varieties of the daisy in Middlesex county. Few men confine themselves to these subjects, but even such information, however trivial it may seem at first thought...
Professor Moore, in addition, visited such other monuments in England as Shoreham, Chichester, Worcester, Gloucester, and Winchester. Furthermore, he gave considerable attention to the great choir of Westminster Abbey. This last, though it is a conscious imitation of the great French cathedral of Reims, bears traces of English influence: it may be characterized as French in conception, but English in execution...