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Small wonder that the Ministry of Agriculture is alarmed. Here is a peasant aristocrat, overturing at one blow all pretensions of such upstart houses as Bourbons, Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, and Plantagenets to antiquity. Renan's famous remark that if the rights of ownership were religiously observed, Alsace-Lorraine would belong to the aboriginal apes, is nearly true to a lesser degree in this French farmer with his nine hundred year old ancestry. As far as, claims to aristocracy are concerned the line of this peasant proprietor going back over three hundred years before the rhyme...
...avail themselves of this privilege will secure the tickets. Professor Henri Lichtenberger, exchange professor from the Sorbonne, will be the guest of honor at the first of these meetings to be held Saturday afternoon at the Copley-Plaza at 3 o'clock. He will speak on "Ernest Renan et la pensee contemporaine." The lecture will be followed by a talk on "Rousard: Chanson et Sonnet," by Miss Madeleine 'Doby, of Wellesley College...
...wider field of study than is possible in a small college. Of these advantages, none are more important than the courses given by the various exchange professors from foreign universities. The exchange professor this year from the Sorbonne is Professor Lichtenberger. He gives two courses in French; one on "Renan and Contemporary Intellectual Nihilism," another on "Nietzsche." Despite the interest of two such subjects, the enrollment has been pitifully small. The only excuse for this can be lack of information about these courses. It is to be hoped that when more men realize the value of these courses, the enrollments...
...Brittany. Commencing with a description of Brittary and the bretons the course will discuss the relation of the breton genius to that of other Celtic peoples the breton literature Brittany's part in French history; and the influence which Brittany has exerted over such famous writers as Chateaubriand, Renan, Michelet, Flaubert, Taine, and Loti, concluding with an estimate of the Celtic Renaissance on French literature...
...Pilgrims, Purchas, Vol. 5-8. Weihe, Chamiso, 2, vols. Annual Register, 1904. Life of Reason, Santayana, vols. 3 and 4. Essentials in American History, Hart. Actual Government, Hart. Renan, Barry. Mount Desert, a history, Street. The Philippine Islands, Atkinson. A Southern Girl in '61, Wright. The Ancient Grudge, Pier. Knock at a Venture, Phillpotts. Autobiography, Andrew White. Russia and its Crisis, Milyoukov McAllister and his Double, Train. The Garden of Allah, Hichens. The Irrational Knot, Shaw. The House of Mirth, Wharton. My Friend the Chauffeur, Williamson. The Divine Fire, Sinclair, Iole, Chambers. The Appreciation of Pictures, Sturgis. The Ways...