Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hersey '99, a total of 182 being enrolled in this class. A course in English literature on "The Life, Works, and Time of Sir Walter Scott," given by Professor Charles T. Copeland '82, has an enrollment of 158. Other courses given by members of the Faculty include one on French History and Civilization, given by Dean Charles H. Haskins, which has 64 members; Professor T. N. Carver has 76 men and women in his course on Programs of Social Reconstruction," and H. W. Holmes '03 has 50 students in his course on "Teaching in the Public Schools...
...MacFadden '21, G. R. Young Occ., F. S. Jewell 2 G. B., A. French '21, E. S. Hardell '21, F. S. Malott '22, R. A. Lyon '22, S. R. Lesher '21, K. Campbell '21, B. S. Cogan '23, J. G. Swift '22, V. G. Thomson uC., J. R. Bell '21, J. C. Sandison uC., F. K. Bullard '20, R. E. Stevens '23, H. H. Holliday Occ., S. Wadsworth '21, C. H. McVey...
...Over 16,000 attended the different branches of the American University in France," he said. "At Beaune, where the instruction was given by American college men in the army, there were seven thousand men; in the French universities, where higher education was afforded, there were also seven thousand; finally in the English universities two thousand more were provided...
...Paris, where eighteen hundred enlisted men and officers attended either the University of Paris or vocational schools in the city, they were not quartered in army barracks, although the men lived under military discipline. They lived in hotels, in boarding houses and in French homes. An interesting outcome of this boarding of men in private families was that before the school closed in July, twenty student-soldiers had applied for permission to marry...
Holberg was the founder of Danish literature and is considered the first writer of his time with the exception of Voltaire. He came into Danish literature at a time when it was said, "a man wrote Latin to his friends, talked French to the ladies, and called his dogs in German, and only used Danish to swear at his servants." Before his death he had established a theatre, supplied it with comedies, and contributed masterpieces of poetry, and essays. His plays are of universal interest due to his extensive travels. It was while he was a student at Oxford that...