Word: provinciale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The following interview was procured at the suggestion of several prominent members of the faculty, who asserted that Americans who desire to study a year or two in Europe so rarely give consideration to any of the Universities of France, but proceed immediately to either Cambridge or Oxford, where the...
"French provincial universities unquestionably are unique," said Professor Edmond Esteve, French Exchange-Professor from the University of Nancy, when interviewed yesterday as to the relative merits of French and English universities as they concern Americans.
Both these phenomena--for such they truly are at Cambridge--seem almost too trivial to mention. But they are significant in that they indicate a willingness on the part of students at Harvard University to model their manners and customs after preparatory schools and small-town colleges. Harvard's much...
Who is she? Sister Therese Martin, one of the nine children of a jeweler of Alencon, a provincial town to the south of Lisieux. At the age of 16 -that was in 1889 -she decided to join the Carmelite Order, but was rejected because of her extreme youth. Taken on...
Nor is his objection to a close relationship with the League valid. It is an advisory relationship solely. Furthermore, the League is not the horrible militaristic monster Senator Borah has pictured it to be. It has accomplished far more for the good of the world in refinancing central Europe for...