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...Rene Viviani, vice-president of the Council of Ministers of France, and, with Marshal Joffre, head of the French Commission to this country, paid a hasty visit to the University yesterday afternoon. He arrived in Cambridge at 4 o'clock and went immediately to the residence of President Lowell, where he paid his compliments to the president and expressed his regret at not having been able to be present at the exercises on Saturday, and his consequent inability to receive the degree of doctor of laws which had been voted him. Because M. Viviani was not here personally, the vote...
...Viviani was escorted by President Lowell to the Widener Library, where a reception committee consisting of Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, W. C. Lane '81, the librarian; Professor A. C. Coolidge '87, Professor W. E. Hocking '01, and E. J. Wendell, member of the Board of Overseers, were waiting to greet him. He was taken first into the Memorial Room, where the rare books and medals of Harry Elkins Widener '07 are kept; then to the reading room, and finally into the stacks. He expressed his admiration at the size and beauty of the structure. After this, M. Viviani left...
Columbia University honored Lord Cunliffe, Arthur James Balfour, Marshal Joffre, and M. Viviani late yesterday afternoon, when five thousand students stood upon the steps before the library to pay respects to the English and French war missions while President Nicholas Murray Butler conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws...
Preparations for the University's reception of General Joffre, M. Viviani, and the other members of the French mission tomorrow afternoon are nearing completion, and every effort is being made to make their short visit to Cambridge a memorable one. In addition to exercises in Sanders Theatre and Memorial Hall, the French envoys will review the R. O. T. C. of the University in the Stadium, where an impressive ceremony will be held. The two first battalions, augmented by a hundred men from the four provisional companies, will participate in the parade...
...cruel and unusual punishment has been meted out to the student mind at Bowdoin, New York University, and a Middle Western state university. . . . Elementary questions about the war, such as the location of Gallipoli and Saloniki, the identity of Venizelos, Viviani, Poincare, . . . were presented to certain college classes, with the result that Venizelos appeared as anything from a French general to a Mexican rebel. . . . The Dean of Bowdoin questions whether students of New England colleges are very steady newspaper readers. . . . The trouble is that if the proper names mean nothing, the reading is of limited good. The fault...