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Every year a new Maid of Orleans is elected from les damoiselles de la rive gauche, and she is the figurehead of the Saint Germain Fair. About her gather the multitudes of Paris, and in the Quartier latin hoary professors vie with cherub-faced students to do the " lily-white damsel" honor. Then the procession begins and Jeanne d'Arc is followed by her army, garbed in the costumes of their ancestors, who march with firm intent " to boot the English out of France...
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, November 17.--The University Debating Society, which contains quite three quarters of the undergraduates, has been deeply divided over the question as to whether the Society's Reading Rooms should take in "La Vie Parisienne" or not. Highly moral arguments were produced on one side. It would be bad for Cambridge morals, it would ruin the friendly feeling which one ought to feel for France if so improper a French paper were taken in. People would get from it quite a wrong impression of French character. The supporters of "La Vie" maintained that the paper was quite harmless...
...University, is giving a lecture at the Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock today. This lecture is one of a series which is being delivered by the professor, in French, on Wednesday afternoons. His subject this afternoon will be "Le costume, les menus usages sociaux, et la vie quotidienne on Orient...
Professor Cavalier will also give three illustrated lectures on "Les Universites la Renaissance de la Vie Provinciale on France" at 8 o'clock in the evening on successive Wednesdays as follows...
March 29, "Le Mouvement Regionaliste. Lee University du Nord at du Gentre"; April 5, "Lee University du Sud-Ouest La Vie des Etudiants"; April 12, "Lee Universites du Sud-Est. L'Evolution et le Developpement des Universites Francais." These lectures will be open to the public...