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...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...
...realm of history and literature, the Amy Lowell collection of autographs is outstanding: letters from the correspondence of Madame de Stael, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Goethe, Rousseau, Voltaire, Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Marie Antoinette to Necker, and, finally, a document signed by Marie de Medici compose one of the finest collections of signatures in the country. In addition to these the seeker for historical backgrounds may find a book belonging at one time to Madame de Pompadour containing statistics concerning the French army, as well as books characteristically bound and bearing the arms of Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte...
Baron Alexander von Stael-Holstein, this year Visiting Lecturer from the National University of Pekin to Harvard, has been elected Professor of Central Asian Philology at Harvard...