Word: frenchli
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...French Government has invited the Glee Club to visit France next summer and give concerts in Paris and other French cities, and the Glee Club has provisionally accepted the invitation. If the expenses can be met, the trip will be made...
...French invitation came from the Department of Public Instruction as a result of the distinction attained by the Glee Club as a choral organization under the leadership of Dr. Archibald T. Davison '06. The Department has offered to contribute 30,000 francs toward the trip and to secure certain reductions in transportation rates. Whether its offer can be finally accepted depends on whether the Club can meet the remainder of the cost, which will be approximately fifty thousand dollars...
...expectation of the coming of the Glee Club, two of the leading French composers, Maurice Ravel and Eric Satie, are now writing special to be sung by it during the French tour...
...invitation extended to it by the French Government is believed to the without precedent in the history of American college musical organizations...
...papers, written in French or English, not exceeding 10,000 words (but not necessarily of so great a length), should be addressed to the American Chamber of Commerce in France, 82 rue Talbout, Parls, not later than March 1st, 1921, for this year's prize, and not later than December 31st, 1921, for next year's. The packages should be marked "Toleration Prize Essay and each paper should bear the name and address of the author...