Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...debate for the Pasteur Medal offered annually by Baron Pierre de Coubertin for the best speech in English upon some subject of contemporary French politics will be held in the Music Building tonight at 8 o'clock. Six men will each be given 12 minutes to speak on either side of the question: "Resolved, that the French Government should take by taxation all excess profits made by French manufacturers and tradesmen because of the war." The contest is held under the joint auspices of the French Department and the University Debating Council...
...Charles Cestre, exchange professor from the University of Bordeaux, will preside at the meeting, and Professor C. N. Greenough '98, of the English Department; Professor E. E. Day '09, of the Economics Department, and R. L. Hawkins '03, of the French Department, will act as judges. The six men who were selected at the preliminary trials on November 13 to compete tonight are: L. S. Bing '19, L. Brentano '18, R. T. Bushnell '19, J. Davis '19, W. Hettleman '19 and W. L. Prosser...
...MILITARY FRENCH.--Section lists are now posted at Headquarters. Students unassigned or those having conflicts should consult Professor Whittem, who may be found daily at 11.15 in University 19, or usually in the afternoon in Widener 172. Section meetings begin today...
...generals by professional attainment rather than because of birth, we remember hardly as many as half a dozen. There was von Kluck, for instance, who lost at the Marne, and there are von Buelow in Italy and Mackensen. Do you readily think of any more? Among the French such names as Foch and de Castelnau occur, but when recently the command of the French forces in Italy was assigned, presumably to an officer of merit, the name was entirely...
...MILITARY FRENCH.--Section lists will be posted at Headquarters on Monday, November 26. Students unassigned or those having conflicts should consult Professor Whittem, who may be found daily at 11.15 in University 19, or usually in the afternoon in Widener 172. Section meetings begin Monday, November 26th...