Word: stael
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected from a monograph in the series known as the "Harvard Studies in Romance Languages," it is imbued with the spirit of research. The facts which have been ferreted out of the various archives are often of no great relevancy aside from this special subject. However Mme. de Stael was an interesting and significant enough figure to warrant this rather restricted study...
...little use to those who will and to those who will not continue the study of French to know that a tone of melancholy runs through. Lamartine's poems or that Vigny was an advocate of courage, or to memorize the dates of Madame de Stael's and Chateaubriand's works, when not one of these authors and a dozen others similarly studied figures in the reading of the course. Such facts learned by pure memory work will in most cases be forgotten long before there is an opportunity to use them in more advanced courses. The final examination this...
...will go to England for a year as the first holder of the George Eastman Visiting Fellowship at Balliol College; Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, Edmund Cogswell Convers Professor of Banking and Finance, who will serve the Bank of England as one of the staff; and Alexander von Stael-Holstein, professor of Central Asian Philology, who will continue his present leave of absence...
...Stael and Andre Cheiner," Professor Morize, Harvard...