Word: medecine
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...Diafoirus, medecin...
Professor Cohn of Harvard gave the first of a series of four readings from Moliere at Miss Hersey's school on Chestnut street yesterday afternoon. The play was "Le Medecin malgre lui," one of the most celebrated of French farces. In spite of the fact that the name Spanarelle is derived from the Italian, the play is French in every respect. The motive of a son trying to get money out of his father is embodied in "Le Medecin malgre lui," along with other elements of interest that become almost as conventional with Moliere as the plots of Latin comedy...
...entertaining meetings. It has been deemed advisable, however, to render the meetings more interesting and beneficial by more regular literary exercises. In future the members will read at each meeting a comedy, the parts being assigned a week in advance. The committee has selected for the next meeting "Le Medecin malgre lui," and will continue to choose, in the broad field of French comedy, the most attractive pieces for reading. In order to have a larger number to choose from, the limit of membership will probably be extended to forty members...