Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buhler 1G.B. Porteur d'Epee, A. K. Train '23 Dorimene, Miss Helenka Adamowaka "LE PASSANT" Zanetto, Edgar Scott 2G. Sylvia, Miss Berthe Bragglotti "L'ETE DE SAINT MARTIN" Briqueville, W. P. Scott '23 Noel, Y. H. Buhler 1G.B. Un Domestique, A. L. Steinert '22 Adrienne, Miss Francesca Braggiotti Mme. Lebreton, Miss Berthe Braggiotti
...confused and physically exhausted by the continual round of functions that is proffered them. While celebrated visitors are flattered, no doubt, and gratified by the thunder-showers of attention with which they are received, they are liable to postpone their next visit indefinitely, if, as was the case with Mme. Curie, they are forced after a week to cancel all appointments on account of complete exhaustion, and have their hands shaken so much that they must wear them in slings...
...opening the meeting, President Lowell spoke very briefly of great discoveries which have altered the course of the world's history, and classed Mme. Curie's work with that of Sir Isaac Newton's as one of these. He then introduced Professor Richards of the Chemistry Department, who, after extending to Mme. Curie a cordial welcome to Boston and to Harvard, went on to speak of her work, and that of her husband, Professor Pierre Curie. Twenty-five years ago, he said, patient experimentation with uranium which was known to have the property of radio-activity, led to their discovery...
Professor Duane, who has studied with Mme. Curie in her Paris laboratory, described the means by which she correctly interpreted the fact of the activity of uranium, a fact which was known before but unaccounted for, and through studying it was led to the discovery of the elements which may even yet revolutionize science...
Professor Duane then introduced Mme. Curie, who briefly thanked the audience for the welcome accorded her. There followed the presentation of a written address from Polish women and a musical program by a chorus of Polish children and by Miss Edith Bullard...