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Professor Henderson will lecture at the Sorbonne during the second half of the present academic year, while Dean Henri Guy of the University of Toulouse is at the University giving a course on the history of the Sonnet in France and a series of public lectures on Corneille. Dean Guy arrived in Cambridge last Wednesday...
...Professor Henderson is already at Grenoble, France, on leave of absence from the University and engaged in research, he will be able to assume his duties in Paris without loss of time. Meanwhile Professor Hart, the historian, who was to have been sent to France in exchange for Dean Guy, will be on sabbatical leave of absence from the University...
Professor Guy emphasized how delighted the citizens of Toulouse had been to receive the students. "With 1200 of them quartered in private homes," he said, "we had not a single complaint, and there was real sorrow at their departure. One thing which touched me deeply was their gift to the library of the University of Toulouse of some 15,000 francs, the profits from a newspaper founded and managed by themselves...
...have come here to Harvard," said Professor Guy, "to return the visit made by the Americans to us at Toulouse, and to teach French literature. Many of the misunderstandings between nations are due to ignorance, and literature is the only communication between the souls of nations. I dislike the idea of prapaganda, but I am giving lectures on the work of Corneille because he is a typical representative of French spirit and traditions...
Professor Guy is Dean of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Toulouse, and in this capacity came into close contact with the American soldiers who studied there after the Armistice. He is widely known as a specialist in the French literature of the 16th century. Professor Guy was recently made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in recognition of his services to the Americans at Toulouse