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Although the University will suffer a distinct loss in the temporary absence of Professor Hart, who is to lecture at the Sorbonne, it is especially fortunate in securing in exchange such an eminent scholar as Dean Henri Guy of the University at Toulouse. An author, lecturer, savant, of the highest rank, the name of Henri Guy has long been known to American students. He is a worthy successor to Professors Cestre and LevyBruhl and will be welcome not only to the University but to lovers of French literature among the general public...
...undergraduate microcosm. Life in the larger world is more serious than it was before August, 1914. "The cigarette," wrote George Frederick Watts, "is the handmaid of idleness," and the diminishing consumption of cigarettes may mean that Harvard less faithfully answers the often quoted definition of the visiting Chinese savant who wrote, "They have a large athletic club here named Harvard. On days when it rains the students read books"; or the famous description of Artemus Ward that Harvard College was "pleasantly located in the bar-room of Parker's." Life in time may become as rigorous as it was when...
...first lecture by Jules Bois, the noted French savant, will be held on November 13 at 8 o'clock in Emerson D. The subject is as follows: "La Politique National Republicain." The second lecture of the series will be on Wednesday evening, when Mr. Bois will speak on "Les Philosophes et les Savants...
...flea, in outline and detail, was first brought clearly before the public eye. Aside from the great advantage accruing to mankind from a just appreciation of the flea, the learned men of the time declared that, with this wonderful machine, they had discovered many new monsters; and one savant affirmed that he had seen the devil himself...
There was early an idea that the action of many supernatural forces would be discovered by the powerful eye of the microscope; and the microscopist of the last century was regarded, by his servants and others, as somehow in league with that devil, whose discovery was due to the savant and the humble "flea glass" of the century before...