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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marie Antoinette to Necker, and, finally, a document signed by Marie de Medici compose one of the finest collections of signatures in the country. In addition to these the seeker for historical backgrounds may find a book belonging at one time to Madame de Pompadour containing statistics concerning the French army, as well as books characteristically bound and bearing the arms of Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte, taken from the collection of Charles Sumner...
Andre Siegfried, member of the French foreign office, will be the guest of the Harvard Liberal Club at dinner next Tuesday evening, and will speak afterwards on "America and Europe." He has gained great fame as one of Europe's foremost Socialists, and in the position as member of the French foreign office, he has had a great opportunity to observe both the subjects of his speech...
...number of Foreign Affairs on the subject of increased tariff schedules. In the same magazine the Harvard economist is vigorously supported in his contention that the new high rates will react unfavorably to the United States. This support comes from the author of "America Comes of Age," the celebrated French economist, Andre Siegfried, who points out meaningly that Europe has become strong enough to retaliate against unduly high tariff measures. The analysis of Professor Taussig together with the intimations from France suggest that the present Congress has been busy sowing seeds which another generation will reap...
Announcement was made yesterday at the first meeting of a French course that one of the basic books of the course, a French text of Rabelais, could not be imported into this country according to a recent interpretation of the law by the customs authorities. To gather sufficient volumes for the students enrolled in this course, the Harvard Co-operative Society was forced to scour book marts of the country for copies that had already been imported...
That the literal English translation of these very same adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel which are barred in the original French version can be and are freely sold throughout the country apparently makes no difference to our hyper-paternalistic fatherland. The same inconsistency appeared in the recent barring of certain editions of Voltaire's Candide in Boston...