Word: gambetta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whenever a great Frenchman dies, the first thing that seems to be done is to cut out his brain, weigh it and forever after discuss it. They did it to Gambetta. They have done it to Anatole France, the distinguished novelist who died last year (TIME, Oct. 20, BOOKS). The weight of his brain was 1,017 grams, whereas the average weight of the human brain is 1,390 grams. Some scientist declared that it is now established that the profundity of intellectual power is not dependent on physical size. Others contended that, in M. France's case...
...French, the most sacred relics of their great are the hearts of those great. For 42 years, the little house of Les Jardies has drawn a steady stream of pilgrims to view the heart of the patriot Gambetta. It bears the coat of arms of every town of Alsace-Lorraine. Now Montigny-le-Rio, in the Haute-Marne, birthplace of Flammarion, is by his will to have his heart to put in an urn in the City Hall, and 10,000 francs and the astronomer's bust and portrait as well...
...September advice is cheap and is only too likely to be valued accordingly. "You must not be too frequent patrons of the Cambridge-Boston subway" explains one advisor, inspired by a sudden revolation of truth, while a second echoes Gambetta's saying "Du travail, toujours travail, et encore du travail," and a third urges you to "accomplish something" if you would be a true son of Harvard. As for the advisors, official and otherwise, who visit you in the privacy of your room; no one can guess what they will tell you and what mysteries they will reveal...
...Observation, Introspection and Biography; 2) School and College Records; 3) Psychological Laboratory. In Part I are recorded the habits of prominent men of the past, tending to the conclusion that great achievements have been made perhaps as frequently by smokers as nonsmokers. For instance, among the former: Washington, Gambetta, Bismarck, Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier...
...ophile Delcassé started life as writer on foreign politics for Gambetta's "La Republique Française." He became a Deputy in 1889 Following his ejection from the Foreign office by the Kaiser, he was Minister of Marine until 1913; from 1913-1914 he was Ambassador to Russia; then, returned to the conduct of the Foreign Office for one brief year. He received the Legion of Honor in 1887 and Order of St. Andrew, Russia...