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FRANCE GIVES UNIVERSITY FUND FOR SCHOLARSHIP USE

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The French Government, through its Embassy at Washington, has presented Harvard University with the sum of 50,000 francs, to be used "in Strengthening the friendship between this country and France by spreading the knowledge of the French language." The interest will be used, every two years as a scholarship to some student of the French Department who is working for a doctorate, and who could not complete his thesis without several week's study in French libraries or archives.

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