Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three of the Due's ancestors were Marshals of France. Victor Claude. Prince de Broglie, his great-great-grandfather, served with Lafayette and Rochambeau in the American Revolution, was a Jacobin in the French Revolution. Opposing Robespierre, the "sea-green incorruptible," he died under the guillotine during The Terror...
...these sessions will undoubtedly be in the nature of signal drills, blackboard talks and developing a defense for Yale plays. No little time will be spent on ironing out the flaws in the lateral passing attack. To this end Coach Horween has enlisted the services of A. E. French '29, this year's Freshman coach and member of the famous Guarnaccia-French lateral passing combination. This means of attack has been none too reliable this season, but that the Yale game may find the Crimson employing it in some more highly-developed form is more than likely. In the Michigan...
...French '29, Freshman football coach and captain of last year's Crimson eleven, and Henry Chauncey '28, assistant dean in charge of Freshmen, will be the speakers. Ellery Brook nick '32 and W. E. Waenae, Jr. '32, undergraduate magicians whose skill has won them considerable reputation, will take part in the entertainment features of the program, which include meets pleasure and entertainment...
While not of startling importance it is nevertheless pleasant to realize that the Harvard Architectural School has been singled out from the rest of American schools of its kind as the recipient of the medal awarded by the French Government for the best record of progress and accomplishment during the past year...
...fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs. Macy* (nee Anne Mansfield Sullivan), the prodigious Keller has been a U. S. phenomenon since the age of seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor, grieving. Over radio-station WEAF she now "hears" music by lightfingering a wooden sounding-board. Professor Pierre Villey, blind himself, called her a "dupe of words," characterized her esthetic "seeing-hearing" (by touch-vibration) as "a matter of autosuggestion...