Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Records office show that 287 citations and decorations have been awarded to Princeton men during the war; 22 decorations were won by men who graduates before 1900, while the class of 1919 had eleven who were either decorated or cited. Of these decorations and citations, 79 were American, 180 French, 18 British, 16 Belgian, 17 Italian, four Greek and one Montenegrin...
...becomes the educational preparation for a diplomatic career. The young applicant who enlists for a period of years, under the proposed changes, would be required to pass a severe examination in the essentials of international law, history, economics, and politics. He would have to have a command of English, French, and at least one other language. In determining his qualications, his health, energy, personality, and character would all be considered...
...Text Book Loan Library was started in 1906, primarily to reduce the expenses of students working their way through college. There are at present 3500 books on the shelves, of which 2000 are French and German readers and grammars. The average number of books withdrawn yearly reaches 700. The number of volumes is being increased every year by regular collections and by the gifts of numerous friends. The depository fee is ten or fifteen cents, depending on the book to be loaned; all but five cents is given back when the book is returned by the borrower...
Still, according to the same testimony, the French college teacher, however ill-favored, is fortunate above his American colleague. During the war, we are told, professors in French secondary and upper schools were granted an increase of salary amounting to 105 per cent...
This may should like Eldorado to the American instructor; but the gratitude of the French universitaire is impaired by his knowledge that a factory inspector serving under the government has obtained an advance of 130 per cent, and a supervisor of weights and measures, another minor official, one of 180 per cent...