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...Malgre Lui" is one or Moliere's most characteristic satires of his cherished laughing-stock, the doctors. Squarelle is a drunken woodcutter, who ill-treats his wife, Martine. She seizes an opportunity for revenge, when Valere and Lucas, servants of Geronte, come in search of a doctor for their master's daughter, Lucinda, who, to avoid an unwelcome marriage, feigns dumbness. Martine tells the servants that her husband is a learned physician, but afflicted with an eccentric disinclination to practice his profession unless coerced by a sound thrashing. They seek out the unsuspecting woodcutter, and finding him at his work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plots of Cercle Francais Plays | 10/19/1906 | See Source »

...Chapeau d'un Orloger" is a humorous play, filled with ridiculous situations in which the butler, the chief actor, places himself. He has broken a very old and valuable clock and, fearing the irritable temper of his master. has bribed the chambermaid to say nothing about it, and also to secure a clockmaker to fix it. The clockmaker comes and examines the clock, but on his departure leaves his hat. The butler hides the hat, but it is found by another servant and brought, to the master, to whom the butler tells many lies to clear himself. He again hides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plots of Cercle Francais Plays | 10/19/1906 | See Source »

...Dole took his master's degree in 1870, and graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1872. He was then for one year professor of Greek in the University of Vermont. In 1874 he accepted a position as minister in Portland, Maine. Since 1876 he has been minister of the First Congregational Church of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Among Mr. Dole's writings are: "The Citizen and the Neighbor," "Jesus and the Men About Him," "The American Citizen," "The Golden Rule in Business," "Luxury and Sacrifice," "The Theology of Civilization," "The Problem of Duty," and "The Spirit of Democracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rev. C. F. Dole Ingersoll Lecturer | 10/16/1906 | See Source »

...Graduate School of Applied Science has been established as a permanent department of the University. For the present the following degrees will be granted in this school: Bachelor in Civil Engineering, in Mechanical Engineering, and in Electrical Engineering, Mining Engineer, Metallurgical Engineer, Bachelor in Architecture, Bachelor in Landscape Architecture, Master of Science in Forestry, Master of Science in Physics, Master of Science in Chemistry, Master of Science in Zoology, and Master of Science in Geology. A bachelor's degree in arts or science, or its equivalent, is required for admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientific Degrees | 9/27/1906 | See Source »

George Herbert Palmer '64, "For 36 years a Harvard teacher of ethics, whose example has illustrated his teaching; a master of accurate and elegant style in both prose and verse, enobled by intimate companionship with finest spirits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honorary Degrees Conferred | 9/26/1906 | See Source »

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