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Professor George Pierce Baker '87, will introduce M. Brieux with an informal talk on his work, which will be given in English. A letter from Assistant Professor Allard, who is now serving as military interpreter in a hospital at Rouen, will be read. The treasurer's receipts from the Cercle play and the amount of the surplus which is to be given to the French and Belgian Red Cross will also be announced...
...Museum today. Velazquez is recognized as almost the greatest master of painting, and this work, only recently discovered in a private collection in England, is an exceptionally fine example of his earlier style. It is a variation of the well-known painting of the "Geographer" in the museum at Rouen...
Professor Louis Allard, who rendered general service early in the war as an interpreter, is now stationed at Rouen in the English Hospital No. 8, as an interpreter between French and English soldiers...
...Avenel stated that the expenditures of agricultural and commercial workmen did not increase in proportion to their salaries, but that they were governed by independent laws. In the fifteenth century, transport from Rouen to Amiens (80 miles) cost as much as the transport today from the west of the United States to Havre would cost; but the wages of labor in the sixteenth century represented 10 hectolitres of wheat, while nowadays they represent 37 1-2 hectolitres...
Johnston Forbes-Robertson was born in London in 1853, the eldest son of John Forbes-Robertson, the art historian and critic. He was educated as a painter, and after receiving his elementary training at the Charterhouse School he studied at Rouen in France, and was admitted a student at the Royal Academy...