New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-27

Jeanne Dire Demonstrations
entifc athletics.
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Especial TO The New-York Tribune by French Cablel
Copyright; 1904: By The Tribune Associat,on1
Paris. Nov 26-The conflict between church
and state in France is assuming a highly pict1-
rescue aspect by the manifestations in Paris Of
schoolboys, who. some thousands In number.
promenade the streets and bouIevards In joyful
noisy bands shouting Long live Jeanne d'Arcy'
and Death to Thalamas!' The latter is the pro-
fessor OF history at the Cendorcet College whose
lectures recently cast grave imputations on the
personal character and virtue of the Maid of Or
leans and aroused the Indignation of Partisan
Catholics The students. headed by delegates
from the Cordorcet College. wavine, garlands of
white lilies symbolic Of Jeanne dArc's purity
and white silk banners with the virgin heroine's
name inscribed in letters of gold, have had sew
eral conflicts with the police and some sixty
students have been arrested. The equestrian
statues Of Jeanne dare, that by Fremiet, In
the Place Rtven. and the other by Dubois in
front of ST. Augustne's Church are covered
with wreaths placed there by the ladies of
Paris, headed by the Countess Feuche de Care,l
Meanwhile. Professor ThaIamas to escape the
Indignation Of the collegians. has taken refuge
with friends at Versailles. The students Of the
Catholic seminaries have Joined their comrades
of the Condorcet College, and shouting in chorus
to air OF Lanpions Down with Thalarnas'
Down with Thalamas" assembled before the
Chamber Of Deputies in the E1ysee Palace The
Senate. the Nationalist Deputies, the members
Of the reactionary bodies and municipal council
lors also take part in the street deInonstra-
tons and profit by the opportunity to begin
fresh attacks the anti-cIercal policy Of the
Combes Cabinet
AS a remarkable instance of the tact and
sound concfatery judgment always evinced by
president Loubet, II is noted that during the
anti-Catholic demonstrations in Paris Nine
Louoet took occasion to be present as the chief
guest at the religious wedding ceremony of
her young friend Mile. d'Avricourt with Count
Guy de Puyfontaine, a lieutenant of the 4th
Regiment of Hussars. which took place in the
Church Of Saint Honore d'EyIau. Nine Loubet,
accompanied by her daughter, Nine Saint Prtx,
observed the wedding high mass, and had for
neighbors the prince heritier Of Monaco and his
royal highness the Comte d'Eu
Thanksgiving Day was celebrated on Thurs
day with unprecedented fervor. Turkeys, cram
berry sauce clam chowders, mince and pump
kin pies and Carolina potatoes were served in
nearly all the hotels and restaurants There
were Thanksgiving dinners at the embassy and
at all the private tables Of Americans through
out the city and 600 American students met
In the Latin Quarter. The banquet of two
hundred members Of the American Club Of Paris
at the Paiva Palace. in the Champs EIysees.
"here capital speeches were made by General
Porter, Baron dEsteurnellaa de Constant Ma
Jor Huntington, Professor Barrett Wendell OF
Harvard University, and NJ Croiset dean OF
letters Of the University of Paris was highly
successful. Admiral Watson, who was among
the guests. eagerly applauded General Porter's
eloquent appeal IN behalf OF the American Ma
val League. in which ne emphasized President
Roesevelts dictum that a powerful navy is
not an instrument Of war. but the surest guar
antee Of peace dictum which to-day is re-
peated in all the leading newspapers Of Paris
with eulegies and editorial comments on Presi-
dent Roosevelt for having breathed life into
the Hague Tribunal
At the Sorbenne, IN the large Richeeu Hall
Professor Barrett WendelPs lectures are twice
each week attended by several hundred stu
dents OF the University of Paris and are bear
Ing good fruit toward a better understanding
OF the college men Of the United States in
France Professor Wendell is totally different
from the type of a French university profess
SCR. He talks In familiar collodual wav to
his hearers without pretension to academic elo-
quence. upon which the Sorbonne lecturers usu-
ally pride themselves. He speaks English with
the accent of Old rather than OF New England
OUT succeeds in imparting to the French stu
dents & truthful and graphic notion of Ameri-
can life. thought and observation-disclosures ALL the
earnest nervous energy and strenuousness of
the national character
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, acknowledged the
highest authority in Europe on scientific atb
letics as adapted to universities and colleges.
publishes to-day his book entitled La Gymnas-
tique Utiftaire," which he dedicates 10 Presi
dent Roosevelt. in which he explains the physio-
logical mechanism Of the muscles and the brain
enabling a youth by brief course of instruc-
ton and training to master at once all popular
sports, such as fencing, boxing, wrestling. rid
Ing rowing tennis, motor cycling and swim
ming Baron de COubertin is starting some
thing entirely new. The faculty Of the Uni
versity Of Paris. convoked by the Minister Of
Public instruction and the rector Of the uni
versity. was SO much impressed by his original
methods that a course of practical instruction
the lines prescribed by Baron Coubertin was
adopted to-day at meeting Of the faculty. At
the Sorbonne for sill the universities Of France
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