Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Bourget is well known in this country as he was one of the most truthful portrayers of American life...
...societies it was shown that pharmacists made fabulous profits on medicinal articles. The societies proceeded to engage the services of a large number of pharmacists, who sell their goods at cost price to members of mutual aid societies. The greatest benefit, however, which the societies afford is the system known as the "credit populaire," by which money is lent without interest to needy workmen, thus giving them necessary encouragement and a proper start in their occupations...
Flaubert, in what is perhaps his best known novel, "Madame Bovary" studies the problems arising in the second half of the nineteenth century from this mingling of classes. His conclusion is that the effects of too rapid culture on the middle class French woman are pernicious. In this M. Le Roux agrees with him; for, with an ancient race, every-day education must always precede instruction in less tangible matters. Flaubert treats the subject firmly but reverently; his host of imitators, however, have cheapened his art, lost the depth and retained only the sentimental and superficial...
...have chiefly described only the exterior cosmopolitan life of a band of pleasure-seeking people, who, though styling themselves Parisians, are not true Frenchmen. What M. LeRoux purposes to study in his lectures, is not the caricaturists, but the painters of the French home life, which is so little known abroad. Many of these writers are known personally to M. Le Roux, and it is through them that the various aspects of true French can be seen...
...assay laboratory to be known as the "Simpkins Assay Laboratory" has been fitted up in a large room in the new addition on the east side of the building. It is equipped with nine double muffle soft coal furnaces and all apparatus necessary for assaying. It will accommodate a class of fifty men, while the former assay laboratory would not accommodate more than a quarter of that number...