This new organization aims to assist students of the French language
to overcome the idiomatic and other difficulties of interpretation, as
well as to acquire general facility in reading and writing French.
To this end it is intended to organize a French circle for regular and
systematic home study, to be directed through the mail by Prof. A.
Lalande.
Every member of the French circle will receive certain exercises,
comprising a definite amount of reading, translating, and idiomatic and
grammatic expounding, to be performed by the members and mailed to the
Professor.
These exercises will be corrected by Prof. Lalande and returned to the
student with notes and suggestions adapted to his individual needs.
This series of graduated exercises will carry the student over all
important difficulties in the language, and the required readings,
etc., will insure to the faithful student such attainments in the
French language as will fit him to profit fully thereafter by the most
advanced instruction in class, or under a living teacher.