Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...instructive to note the air with which the lecture room greets the remarks of the French officers. If the orals are a test of the average college man's ability as a linguist, French should be as intelligible to him as Hottentot to an Eskimo. Yet we hear the voluminous applause of six hundred men at the proper dramatic pause, and the right ripple or broad guffaw of as many at the humorous interlude. It may be that a few, habituated to the Gallic tongue, lead the applause, and the rest follow to show that they also...
More probably the explanation of this ready appreciation of an unfamiliar tongue is in the nature of the subject and the lecturer. Bravery speaks in every language with but one speech. French of Paris may be to us unknown, but the French of the battlefield, of Verdun and Vimy Ridge, is a tongue we may all talk, and understand...
Following up the practical instruction in trench construction which has been given at Fresh Pond by the French officers during the week, Major Azan, assisted by Professor Merriman, lectured to the Corps last night on "Practical Application of the Principles of Trench Construction." The general theory of support and communication trenches was taken up, and certain problems of construction were dealt with in detail...
...must come as a satisfaction to all Americans to know that the French Commission has arrived safely on its native soil. It was only a bare twelve days ago that we welcomed the Commission, and notably Marshal Joffre, to Harvard with all the honor and all the friendship that we might show...
...here will remember lastingly the brave and simple French soldier. It is to be expected that Joffre will remember Harvard. Perhaps through him France will gain an increased respect for the learning of America, and the two nations be bound yet more firmly by the ties of free thinking as by the ties of free action...