Word: french
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...SWAIN.--A. G. Fuller, Pierce, C. Q. Adams, Bissell, Stickney, A. N. Rice, Howard, Bigelow, Warren, K. McG. Martin, Ledyard, G. Harris, Trainer, Lewis, Chase, Farrington, Ward, Wadleigh, H. L. French, Spalding...
College plays are very popular and always have been, for colleges were the early homes of plays. This performance, however, brings a new era of French plays into Harvard, as Cyrano de Bergerac is the first writer of his kind who has been reproduced on the college stage. The selection of this play is an excellent one for two reasons; because it was written by Cyrano de Bergerac and because it deals with one of the leading French colleges. The introduction of the book is probably the better part, as it gives a clear idea of Cyrano himself...
...estimation of Cyrano de Bergerac's place in the development of French literature, is given a careful, well balanced summary of the pre-classic period in France. Excellent reasons are advanced to prove that this staging of the play by the Cercle Francais will be its first presentation at any theatre. On the whole the author has shown pains-taking study of the authorities and excellent taste...
...great American explorers who have worked among the ruins of Babylon, will speak at 11 o'clock this morning in the Fogg Lecture Room on his recent work near Nippur, south east of Babylon. The discoveries made by Dr. Peters since 1889 have far eclipsed the efforts of the French archaeologists, Botta, Place and de Sarzec, and the Englishmen, Layard, Rassam and Smith...
...late James Russell Lowell, during his term of service in the Smith Professorship, made a large collection of books in the Romance Languages, mainly in Old French and Spanish. In his will be gave from this collection such books as were not already to be found on the shelves of the Harvard College Library, but the greater part of the collection remained in the hands of his heirs. This part consists of over seven hundred volumes, many of them of great interest to the student of Romance Languages, not only of course by reason of their intrinsic value, but also...