Middlebury College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Middlebury, VT)

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i BME 3 fi wig -. .mllllllllim lllilllllllll lw wfliiillllll lllllllllllllllllllfliul llui......Fi y 'A PI ,ful 5 --Ei' T .. . , i - . H' UUE? pg 3 H H pg 5 5 ... , Q. W nh km ag n ' 'WWW 'X x. .XX .1 I'N . k, Q 00 TTU-IIE ' IKAILIEUIDUSCOIPIE S-S Colonel joseph Battell, upon his death in 1915, be- queathed to Middlebury College 50,000 acres of forest land including Bread Loaf Inn. As Dr. Edward Collins of Middlebury says: There is no other region like Bread Loaf in all the stretches of Vermont's hills and valleys. And nowhere else had a great heart like Colonel Battell's gathered up beloved mead and hillside slope, forest and mountain, silent lake and noisy brook, cascade and preci- pice, and given them to a corporation as a trust to insure that so long as wood grows and water runs it should be held inviolate against wanton destruction by men. The School of English took its real shape when Dr. Collins, Director of the Summer Session, President Thomas, Dean de Visme of the French School, and one other per- son met on the sunny slope of the Widow's Clearing in - 1 ' front of Bread Loaf Inn during the summer of 1919. Dur- Wffffffi Dflfffffmf DMU ing this informal conference, it was decided that there was no place for the proposed English School on the Middlebury campus and that the Bread Loaf Inn in front of them was the ideal s ot for such a project. Consequently, the college catalogue of 1919-20 Following announcement of the new English School: This School is contained the organized for teachers and students of the English Language and Literature, and offers instruction in the following divisions of work: technique of teaching, composition, lit- erary criticism, and expression. Professor Charles Baker Wright of the English Department at Middlebury was se- cured to act as Dean of the first session in 1920, with Professor Wilfred Davison also of the English Department at Middlebury as Assistant Dean for 1920 and as Dean in 1921 and until his death in the fall of 1929. A very able group of four college pro- fessors was secured to assist these two men the first year, and in the years to come, more professors of national reputation were added until, in 1929, there were seventeen in- structors and five visiting lecturers. The School opened in 1920 with 49 students and grew steadily until in 1929 there were 116 students representing 18 states and 50 colleges. As Dean Davison said, the purpose of the Bread Loaf School is, To have a school for teachers of English in which nothing but English should be taught, to have as instruc- tors the best teachers who could be secured, and to have a school limited in numbers and so organized that students and teachers should have the advantage of intimate associa- tion, the genuine contact of mind with mind .... We believe in creative work because we believe that only so can the great literature of the past and the present truly come alive in the minds and hearts of teachers and students everywhere. And to have literature come alive, to have writing come alive, to have speaking come alive-that is our aim. The Bread Loaf Writers Conference was an outgrowth of the School of English and was founded by john Farrar, formerly editor of THE BOOKMAN, in 1926. The purpose of the Conference has been to furnish opportunity for those learning to write pro essionally to receive honest criticism in an atmosphere of friendliness from a group of experienced writers, critics, and editors. The two weeks' program has consisted of background lectures on the writing of short stories, novels, and poems, with informal dis- cussions on both the artistic and the practical problems of professional writing, and with particular attention to individual conferences on manuscripts brought by the students. The Writers Conference is a smaller group thanthe School of English, having a group of six experienced writers, critics, and editors as professors and a group of five visiting lecturers of national reputation in the literary field. The student group is made up of members interested in writing as a profession or as a means to personal development. 27 'X '-L '- 'Ni' 'Qc' -Q in ,O j,.u '. 1, '. -1 .9 9. 1 . Q -eg: -Q: -Q - 9 5 - ,I xl' S. rl!

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