Word: offing
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M. Gaston Deschamps has been engaged by the Cercle Francais to give the fourth annual series of lectures at Harvard this coming year. M. Deschamps is a well-known literary critic, and is at present on the staff of the Paris "Temps." He is a graduate of the Ecole Normale...
M. Deschamps has written a number of books. Two are upon his eastern explorations--"Sur les routes d' Asie" (Colin et cie., 1894), and "La Grece d' aujourd' hui" (Colin et cie., 1892). "Marivaux" (Hachette et cie., 1897) is a critical literary essay, while "Le malaise de la democratie" (Colin...
In is interesting to note, in connection with M. Deschamps, that he is a member of the Dreyfus party, while all the preceding lecturers of the Cercle Francais have been anti Dreyfusites. M. Deschamps will sail for America early in February, and on the twentieth of that month will commence...
Yesterday afternoon the University football squad engaged in the first actual play of the season.
The preliminary work was considerably shorter than heretofore. The men were first lined up in three divisions, according to positions, and given practice in starting with the snap of the ball. Then four squads under Hallowell, Lawrence, Sawin and Gierasch practiced falling on the fall. The backs and ends then...