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During the seventeenth and most of the eighteenth centuries the French novel portrayed a society with a common ideal. The Revolution, however, broke the frame of this social life, and after the storm was past, each class withdrew to its own circle. The first half of the nineteenth century is well shown by Balzac, with its ideal of commercial honor. But the "bourgeois" class has not been able to receive the rich foreigner as it would like, and only today are they beginning to study and appreciate the energetic, laborious and commercial society of the New World...
...Older Dutch School, Seventeenth Century...
...seventeenth annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held in Washington, D. C., on Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, December 27, 28, 30, 31. The American Economic Association will also meet in Washington, on the first three days of the Historical Association meeting. Harvard will be represented by two members of the Faculty who will read papers as follows: Prof. Ephraim Emerton, "The Chronology of the Erasmus letters;" Prof. A. Lawrence Lowell, "Party Legislation in Parliament, in Congress and in the State Legislatures...
...scene of "Les Plaideurs" is laid in Normandy in the early part of the seventeenth century. The play holds up to ridicule people who take petty cases to court, as well as the judges who try the cases. The action of the play turns about the old Judge Dandin, who has become weak minded through a too close application to his profession. His son, Leandre, takes care of him, and to keep him from going to court arranges a trial at home, at which the house dog, who has stolen a capon, serves as culprit...
...opening services of the year in Appleton Chapel were held at 7.30 last night. After anthems by the choir and an opening prayer, Dr. Francis G. Peabody read the scripture lesson from the seventeenth chapter of St. Matthew. This was followed by a third anthem, and Professor George F. Moore then delivered the sermon...