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This is the twenty-seventh annual debate for the medal established in 1898 by Baron Pierre De Coubertin who had been sent by the French government to study American educational institutions. He established contests under the names of Frenchmen of importance in Harvard, Yale, Princeton and a few other colleges, naming the one here after Pasteur. The purpose of the debate is to acquaint American students with French life and institutions...
...connection with this is the Jewish question. I made its acquaintance during the war. For me it is a question of race. Little as the Englishmen or Frenchmen can be permitted to obtain dominion over us, so little can the Jew be permitted. Freedom of the nation cannot be expected from him. Therefore I was against...
...Intransigeant, Paris evening journal: "There is much to be done. . . For instance, why does the Government tolerate the action of the defeatist Frenchmen, having no purchases to make abroad, speculating on the dollar against the franc? Why tolerate that in France, notably Alsace-Lorraine, important contracts are signed between French industrials payable in dollars, as if the franc had ceased to be the only currency having official circulation in France? Whatever way we turn, we find the need for a strong Premier to steer the country through its difficult task. M. Poincaré as Minister of Foreign Affairs has been admirably...
...Habanera is one of those Spanish operas written by Frenchmen, of which Carmen is the grand type. It represents those characteristic Spanish dance rhythms accompanying a bitter tragedy...
...published in book form.* For the personal side of history, Farington's diary is undoubtedly the most absorbing work that has appeared on the latter Georgian period in generations. No one who is interested in art, artists, politicians, politics, kings, queens, lords and commons, Englishmen and Frenchmen, history and literature, soldiers and sailors, will be able to read through these two large books wirthout asking for more. As a chronicler, Farington has been compared to the great Samuel Pepys. The comparison favors Farington if viewed from an informative standpoint; but as literature, using the word with meticulous precision...