Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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John Witherspoon, Edinburgh University 1742, D.D., St. Andrews, 1764; L.L.D., Yale, 1784, from 1768 to 1794. He introduced political science, international law, metaphysics, Hebrew and French, and was a member of the first Continental Congress...
...great currents of civilization and the problems affecting the individual and corporate life of the peoples, while his colleagues have been devoting themselves to the splendid advance of the Institute's technical training. His course for the Commission on Extension will sketch the growth of European nations since the French Revolution, tracing not only the conflicts of the nations themselves but also of the varying doctrines of nationalism which they have maintained. No more timely or importantly related discussion could be proposed at this hour. --Boston Transcript...
...Cercle Francais will give a reception for Madame Sarah Bernhardt at the Colonial Club, Quincy street, Tuesday afternoon. Madame Bernhardt will speak informally on the drama at 4 o'clock. Members of the French department, the Dramatic Club and English 47 are cordially invited...
...Cercle will give a reception for M. Jules Bois, who is lecturing under the auspices of the French department, in Grays 17 on Monday evening at 9 o'clock...
...Mark Howe '87 has rendered a great service to the University through the publication of "The Harvard Volunteers in Europe." This volume is composed of letters written by Harvard men from the French and British lines, scrawled off for the most part at the front with no thought of future publication; and consequently conveying the freshest kind of pictures. The book carries with it, from Europe, boom of guns, the whirring of aeroplane motors and the signs of dying men-the whole set down in the vivid and picturesque words of young men who have seen great things...