Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Andre Kossul, exchange professor from the University of Strasbourg will preside. The judges of the declamations will be Professor James Geddes '80, of Boston University, Professor F. R. Wheeler of Tufts College, and F. I. Ratche of Harvard...
Highest reasons of state caused Premier Raymond Nicholas Landry Poincaré to speed, last week, from Paris to Strasbourg. Though the city is chiefly famed for producing pâtés de foie gras and as the place where La Marseillaise was composed, Strasbourg loomed last week exclusively as the political focus of Alsace-Lorraine...
Mayors. Before a banquet audience of 559 Alsace-Lorraine mayors, M. Poincaré rose up to speak, in Strasbourg. He who can be inflexible and glacial was now charming, and soon forensically vivid. Raising his glass in a preliminary toast, he cried: "I drink to the Alsace that is passionately, invincibly French...
...becoming more marked. Points of progress: 1) The entire Germanic judicial system has been transformed to correspond with French law; 2) Education is proceeding bilingually, the student being instructed in both French and German; 3) Commercially Alsace-Lorraine has forged far ahead of pre-War records. The port of Strasbourg on the Rhine has doubled its loadings since 1914. Doubled also is the value of tobacco, oil and iron produced each year. Meanwhile the hop harvest has increased in value from 25,000,000 francs to 150,000,000; 4) Finally the bilingual and bicultural unity of Alsace-Lorraine...
Among the speakers for the course will be Professor Koszul, exchange Professor at the University from Strasbourg, France; Professor Feuillerat, French visiting professor at Yale University, and M. M. Lacroix of the New England Conservatory of Music. Lacroix has announced that the subject of his lecture will be "French Songs". Although the other two men have been definitely secured to speak, the subjects of the lectures and the distribution has not been secured...