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Show FRENCH PROFESSOR PLEASED j WITH AMERICAN COLLEGES I Paris. June 7. Abel Le Franc, of ! the College of France, the professor I who lately lectured at Harvard unl-Iveisity, unl-Iveisity, has returned with an enthus-I enthus-I ia-tic impression of America and par-I par-I ticularly American university life. . He said tho many books he had , studied on the subject did not convey i an adequate idea of tho intensity of American activity. He was deeply Impressed by tho evidences of idealism and Intellectual I progress among tho people, wh havo j been represented by European writers j as rough and uncultured, while It was ! i plain that he had been surprised at the courtesy and politeness he encountered. en-countered. The language used might be brusque, but Americans, ho said, do not make useless compliments. Another surprise had been Amor!- ' can architecture. He said: "I saw no ugly houses. Optimism seems 'to be the basis of American ! I character, both national and individual. individ-ual. ' j |