Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Certainly the attempt to make students out of soldiers was more successful than the attempt to make soldiers out of students as exemplified by the S. A. T. C.", he said. Professor Coolidge served in France as liasion officer attached to the France as liasion officer attached to the French headquarters, from the summer of 1917 until his recent return to this country. In addition to these duties he was appointed to act as military commandant of the American University in France, which was organized last February by the Educational Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces...
Your letter of August 18th has come, complaining that your books, instruments and other private scientific property have been retained by the French Government at Strassburg, and asking me to use my Influence to procure their return...
...itself; "If you can prove to me that you protested against the burning of the Library at Louvain, and that you endeavored to secure protection and that you endeavored to secure protection and such treatment as you now request for the professors of the universities in the Belgian and French territory occupied by the Germans, then I will exert any influence that I may possess to procure the return of your personal property...
President Lowell has received a letter from Professor Franz Keibel of the University of Koenigsberg, Germany, asserting that the French Government retained certain private scientific property of his at Strassburg, including books and instruments, and requesting President Lowell to help him procure their return...
...prove to me that you protested against the burning of the Library at Louvain, and that you endeavored to secure protection and such treatment as you now request for the professors of the universities in the Belgian and French territory occupied by the Germans, then I will exert any influence that I may possess to procure the return of your personal scientific property...