Middlebury College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Middlebury, VT)

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Q,i.,.....IIauIn':esuulul llllllllll llllflllllllllllllllllll nw.,muun..... ff' A I Wv - ' - U ' f' '-' 5- . ' '- -' ' l1vIMi.!'.z. 1 X P' 'll' It .. ,f - f n nr In H MI E E5 HU U El HE E- F, . x. 9r B IIA ,, ,Ml ll 'Iyar E! X4, j.fy1l.A. '70 'TTIHIE ' lKAll.lElllD0541Z0iPlE SW -,k Front Row: Le Co.r.fec, Hall, Litlleheld, Fczvard, Mme Morize, M. Morize, Mme Carre, Mme Cazenx, Mme Chardon, M. Chardon Second Raw: Con,flan.r, Perrol, Bozurzu, De Vimze. Study, Vigneran, Bernal, M. Carre, Buchler, Arnaud, Domhrouuki, Binand, Schufeinitz Third Row: Ford, 0'Brien, Brugere, Renalmrd, Ehrhard, Freeman, Chambon, Folcrel, Grant, Malecot Fozcrzh Row: Mme Ranly, Chapurd, Brugere, Schumann, M. Ranly, Denhinger, Thema: The French Summer Schoo1,1929 PAUL DWIGHT Moonv, D.D., Direczor of zhe Summer Serrion ANDRIE MORIZE, Director of the French Summer School Agrege de l'Universit6, Litt.D. Middlebury, 19253 Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneurg johns Hop- kins Univ., 1913-145 called to Harvard University, 1918, appointed full professor, 1924g Director of the Middlebury French Summer Session since 1926. STEPHEN A. FREEMAN, Ph.D., A117 Direclor of the Summer Serrion and Dean of the French School. IN STRUCTING STAFF JEAN-MARIE CARRIE, Visiting Professor from France. Agrege dc l'Universit6g Docteur-es-lcttresg Professor of Comp. Lit. nt the Univ. of Lyon. RAYMOND BRUGIERE Agrege des Lettres. LoUIs CHAPARIJ, D.E.S. fd.pr.j ANTONY CONSTANS, Licencie-es-lettres, Ph.D. MARC DENKINGER, Licencie-es-lettres, Ph.D. HENRI DOMBROWSKI, Agrege des Lettres. JEAN EHRHARD, Agrege des Lettres. MLLE LEA BINAND, Brevet Superieur. MLLE ELISABETH BoUssUs, Licenciee en droit. MLLE MARIE BUCHLER, Brevet Superieur, M.A. MLLE JEANNE CHAMBON, Diplomee de l'Ecole de Preparation. MLLE BERTHE DEs COMBES FAVARD. MISS ANITA FORD, Ph.D. MLLE GERMAINE LE CossEc, Diplome d'Etudes ELLIOTT M. GRANT, Ph.D. GASTON LOUIS MALIECOT, Ph.D. ALBERT RANTY, M.A. ROBERT G. B. SCHUMANN, Docteur en droir. PIERRE THOMAS, Ingenieur de l'Ecole Centrale. MARCEL HENRI VIGNERON, M.A., Docteur de l'Universit6 de Paris. . MLLE OCTAVIE ARNAUD, Brevet Superieur. MLLE LUCIE BERNOT, Brevet Superieur. Mtss E. DOROTHY LITTLEFIELD, M.A. MME RUTH CONNISTON MORIZE, Mus.B. MISS KATHRYN L. O'BRIEN, M.Ed. MLLE RENFE PERROT, Brevet Elementaire. MLLE YvoNNE RENOUARD, B.S. MLLE MARGARET DE SCHWEINITZ, M.A., Doc- teur de l'Universit6 de Paris. MME GEORGETTE STUDY, Brevet Superieur. Superieures. MME ALICE WILLIAMSON DE VISME. 5., . ' xl ' Q '- is ' O O 0 Q o 5 O 3 A 3 'r1:' 6 'L in 3 'os 0' 1 ' si gi Q I, MH Q, Q Q. S. 'Q 5' 40 sl, Qt -2

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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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nt, ,...n l,llllllIlill! lllHllllllllllll i lggE'iliIHU lllllllllll lHllllllEllQl!ll,lin-,r fbf g: an ei 'W rw fa a in H is at n y ,lf L , E! In sl ,all B mi., '-,' . 'la . JJ' TIIHE lKAll.lElllD05C0il3lES-W Since the appointment in 1926 of Professor Andre Morize as Director of the French Summer School, the School has enjoyed un- usual success. Increasing the student enrollment from 160 to 525 in three years, the Session of 1929 reached the maximum capacity in numbers, and new heights in quality of instruction. The French Summer School fills all the dormitories on the campus, except Hep- burn Hall, with a considerable overflow into the Middlebury Inn, and private rooms in the village. Battell, Hillcrest, le Chateau, and Music Home dining rooms are crowded and extra tables are added. Andr6Mmqe Dhiedor Classes are held even in the Playhouse, the basement of Pearsons, N ' and the Chateau salons. The Middlebury undergraduate returning for a visit to the campus during the summer, has difficulty in recognizing his Alma Mater. The fundamental rule of the summer organization is the rule of No-English. The students pledge themselves to use only French during the entire seven weeks of the session, not only in classes and in the dormitories, but even during their walks about the village, picnics, and all conversations with other students. This rule, rigidly en- forced and scrupulously observed, has brought it about that students speak more French during a summer here, than during a summer at a French university, according to the testimony of many. For seven weeks, the French campus becomes indeed une petite France, with the American and French flags waving from the mast and upper window of Pearsons Hall. No elementary courses in French are offered during the summer. No student is ac- cepted who is not already able to make himself understood in French, and to follow ad- vanced courses in the language and literature. Nearly 90 per cent of the students held the baccalaureate degree, and 95 per cent were teachers of French, students preparing to teach French, or otherwise professionally interested in the language. For this reason, the courses offered are primarily professional in their nature, intended either to improve the teacher's professional training, or to furnish him with more complete equipment for his class work. Nowhere in this country or in France can the teacher of French find intensive, concentrated, and purposeful training comparable to that offered at Middlebury. The ratio of instructors to students is kept high, 32 to 525 for the summer of 1929, or practically 1 to 10. The close contact of faculty and students thus insured is evident not only in the classrooms and dining rooms, but in the excursions and general social life as well. The curriculum offered is divided into five groups-Language: Phonetics: Methods and, Professional Training: Literature and Civilization: Conversation and Oral Practice. In each group a gradation and coordination of courses permits a profitable arrangement of work for each individual, under the personal advice of those in charge. Twenty- three Masters Degrees were awarded at the end of the session. Eighteen students were definitely working toward the Doctorate in Modern Languages, authorized by the trustees two years ago. The evening program of the School included two popular lectures a week by the Visiting Professor from France, and two evenings a week of literary, dramatic or mu- sical entertainment. A violinist and a cellist from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a New York pianist of note, and a professional soloist, were members of the permanent staff of the school, giving auditions of chamber music of the highest quality. Every Sunday morning religious exercises in French were held in the Mead Chapel. Students coming from as far away as California, Texas, Saskatchewan and Florida, return to their homes after a summer here among the Green Mountains, enthusiastically spreading the fame of Middlebury College and of the contribution which its French School is making to the profession of Modern Language Teaching. 29 .3 .si ai sxgl go ing in 1,0 Q, s ff ff of 0 0 Q Q in To lgsl