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...hundred graduates of the University met at a dinner held in Paris on Saturday evening. Robert Woods Bliss '00, Secretary of the American Embassy acted as chairman. Dean LeBaron R. Briggs '75, now Exchange Professor at the University of Paris, spoke on America's role in the war, and Dean Charles H. Haskins made an address on the development of Franco-American friendship. Colonel J. P. Azan, former instructor in Military Science and Tactics at the University also spoke on the later subject...
...LeBaron R. Briggs, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who is to be the Harvard exchange professor to the Sorbonne, will sail from New York Feb. 8. He will not decide upon the subject of his lectures until he reaches Paris, but his work will begin immediately on arrival and continue until June. No announcement has yet been made as to who will be the successor of Prof. Lucien Levy-Bruhi, the French exchange professor at Harvard, who recently resigned...
...Baptist Sewing Circle may not elect to attend "The Very Idea" for its mid-winter theatre party, but that's not saying it's an improper show. Vicarious parentage is ordinarily not an appropriate topic among the very best people, but William LeBaron, to whom this very idea was born, has spun three acts of good fun and humorous complication. Having resolved to poke fun at eugenics and its converts, he has only to introduce the child in the final act to hoist the humor to its climax. Which he does, and very deftly...
...Athletic Committee will meet this evening to discuss in detail the plans for athletics during the coming spring. According to a statement by Dean LeBaron R. Briggs '75 to a CRIMSON reporter last night, the chief question to be decided this evening is not that of the formality or informality of sport in the University, but rather of the advisability of resuming intercollegiate games in place of the present policy of meeting only cantonment and school teams. The question of intercollegiate games has not, until recently, received the support of the authorities of Yale, Princeton and the University...
...Society was founded at William and Mary College in 1776, and is the oldest Greek letter society in America. The University chapter, Alpha of Massachusetts, was established in 1779; its list of members comprises such names as Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, James Russell Lowell '38, Charles W. Eliot '53, LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, Frederick Jesup Stimson '76, Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, Theodore Roosevelt '80, Curtis Guild '81, and Gardiner Lane '81. The society endeavors to gather the leaders in scholastic attainments from each class, and also to raise the intellectual tone of the entire undergraduate body...