Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...weakest Advocate that I have been teaching here at Harvard. Not only has it an unusual number of technical errors and of lapses in artistic taste, but its substance is thin. Of the 15 pieces in this number--an editorial article, a literary criticism, a narrative of the French front, five pieces of prose fiction and seven "poems"--only one poem, "Ode to the East Wind," by Mr. C. La Farge, shows at once sincerity and artistic feeling; and even this is marred by several bad lines. Perhaps there is another exception, but I am not going to name...
Word has been received from Paris by the American Field Service that the French Army of the Orient has awarded war crosses to three former members of the University who were in the section that recently returned from the Balkans. Those who have been decorated are William Emersen '95, H. B. Palmer '10, both of New York, N. Y., and J. M. Walker '09, of Newburyport. According to dispatches, the medals were awarded for courageous action in removing wounded men in the region of Monastir, between December, 1916, and October, 1917. The work of these men was particularly noteworthy during...
...resolved to discontinue the teaching of German in public schools. Although there has been a tendency to bring this about in some Eastern cities, yet no such widespread decision was made. Now we hear from the West that a whole state has determined to substitute the study of French and Spanish for that of German. For no other reason than our present state of war, the school board of North Dakota has decided to keep people from learning the language of our enemy...
Instructor L. R. Ford '13, who is to enter military service; Assistant Professor J. L. Coolidge '95, who has been commissioned as major in the Ordnance Department, Washington; Professor Albert Sauveur, who is to continue in his technical research for the French Government; Associate Professor W. R. Spalding '87, who is to assist in the organization of bands at the Government cantonments; Professor R. A. Daly '95, who is to do Y. M. C. A. work; Dr. S. W. Ellsworth '93, of the Medical School, who has been commissioned as captain in the Medical Reserve Corps...
...Russian Situation," the fourth, scheduled for November 21 by Professor Wallace C. Sabine on "Aviation and the War," being unavoidably canceled. The next lecture was given by Professor Arthur D. Hill '94 on "What I Saw in France," the fifth by Dr. Albert Parker Fitch '00 on "The French Front and the Red Cross," and the last, one by Dean Gay of the Graduate School of Business Administration on "War Prices...