Word: savants
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...