Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...insisted on finishing what he had to say. Premier Clemenceau, barely escaping from death's door has announced to Secretary Lansing that he will attend the Council of the Great Powers on Tuesday. Not even a bullet could stop the tremendous energy of the great American and the great Frenchman...
...some places the Boche dead were literally piled one on the other. None of them have been buried, and the ground is just scalded by shell fire. I saw one Boche holding on to the trigger of a machine gun, while three yards ahead of him was a dead Frenchman who had fallen flat on his face. He, no doubt, had been killed by this machine gun, and a little later someone had killed this Boche. I hope that they will leave these Boches lying there for a year. It is terrible for the people who have to look...
...Jean Petit," by Phillip C. Lewis '17, is an anecdote of ambulance work and of a brave young Frenchman. "War in the Home" satirizes, all too gently, a frivolous American family; and "The Road to Victory," by James Gore King '20, goes back to France, and makes a vision of Napoleon inspire Gen. Petain. It is far from sure that Napoleon deserves so much credit...
Thus the advent of a Frenchman distinguished in the study of English can only be hailed with great satisfaction. Curiously enough Professor Cestre is to give in English a course on the romantic poets. It was the same subject which in English 24 Professor Neilson made such a pleasure for all those who entered his class. The entire University extends a hearty welcome to Professor Cestre, but the English students are of fering prayers of thanksgiving to the muses and fates in so conniving that such a man should come to Harvard at exactly the right time...
...guide the human machine intelligently, we must study the various parts of the machine and then its activities as expressed in feeling, thinking acting. At present the best opportunities for this line of investigation exist in the medical schools. Over a century ago a great Frenchman declared that medicine should be the basis for all public instruction. It is possible for the medical schools to give modified courses to students of social phenomena...