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Tap Day – students’ holiday when they celebrate either entering the university or college, or joining some students’ organization

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Elihu – here: the students’ organization of Yale University

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Jung – Carl Jung (1875–1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist, the founder of analytical psychology

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Achilles’ heel – the only (or the most) vulnerable part (or side) of smb. (idiom)

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Bar-sur-Aube – a town in Aube department in France

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Grant – Ulysses Grant (1822–1885), US general, commander of the army in 1864–1865 during the American Civil War, the 18^th president of the United States; in 1854 Grant had to retire and went to live and work to Galena, a small town in Illinois.

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the Albishorn – one of the bays on Lake Zurich

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Vaudois – now, the name applied to the members of one of the Protestant Churches; historically, members of a Christian movement that originated in the 12^th century in France, later its members formed the movement of the Swiss Protestant Re-formation.

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Cagliostro – Count di Cagliostro (1743–1795, original name Giuseppe Balsamo), an extremely popular in the 18th century Europe adventurer, traveler, alchemist and magician

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Krapaelin – Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), German psychiatrist, one of the most influential psychiatrists of his time

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‘Cedars’ – the name of one of the buildings of the clinic

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transference – in psychology, the method of finding the basic cause of mental trouble

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châlets – country houses typical for the Swiss Alps

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plant – here: clinic

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claret-colored = red

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‘Daddy-Long-Legs’ – a best-seller by Jean Webster (1876–1916), American writer and playwright

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‘Molly-Make-Believe’ – a popular book of its time

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Mon Capitaine = my captain (French); official form of address.

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Je m’en fiche = I don’t care (French)

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Cherio = good luck, all the best (parting phrases)

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plus petite et moins entendue = even smaller and less experienced (French)

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Joan of Arc (1412–1431) – a peasant girl, French national heroine, canonized in May, 1920

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Tout à vous, = Yours… (French)

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caesuras = pauses, intervals

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Lausanne – a city in Western Switzerland, on the north shore of Lake Geneva

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un homme très chic = quite a magnificent man (French)

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Göttingen – the University of Göttingen in Germany, one of the most famous in Europe, founded in 1737 by George II of England

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Lake Forest – a city on Lake Michigan in northeastern Illinois

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une folie = folly (French)

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the Tuileries Guard – the royal guard of the Tuileries Palace, French royal residence in Paris, destroyed in 1871; the soldiers of the guard were mainly of Swiss origin.

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pince-nez – eyeglasses held only with a nose clip (without earpieces)

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Gross-Münster – the cathedral in Zurich built in the 8^th century, a fine example of the Romanesque architecture

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Lavater – Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801), Swiss writer and Protestant pastor, the founder of physiognomy (the study of the relation between a person’s character and the features of the face or body structure)