Cumnock School - Chronicle Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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A FACULTY MEMBER'S ACHIEVEMENT Anatole France and the Development of His Ideas Concerning Science was first published in the Modern Language Forum by H. S. Craig of Cum- nock Faculty in December, l937, and later reprinted by the University of Cal- ifornia at Los Angeles, to be sent to various Anatole France scholars in the U. S. and abroad. Critical and flattering comments have resulted in all cases. The further development of the subject into a doctor's thesis has been urged by many. The illustrious Professor of French Literature, Daniel Mamet, of the Sarbonne, the only other scholar who has written on this subject ll9l2 La Revue du Mais l was most cordial in his reception of the essay and has gallantly ceded the field to the present author-with offer of help and guidance from his own voluminous notes on the subject up to l9l2. The import of the study as developed thus far is to reveal Anatole France, not as the contradictory and peevish devotee of Science in its limited physi- cal sense, but the descended genius of the Montaigne-Pascal-Voltaire thought-coupling science with the Roman scientia and sapientia, or general wisdom. This genius, who always asked too much of philosophy and of mankind, expected too much of the self-sufficient, abysmally ignorant and over-con- fident scientists of his day. just as Descartes' realization of imperfection gave him a notion of perfection-Cod, so Anatole France sees the deficiencies of the science of men like Berthelot and imagines the science to come, be- yond the work of men like Louis Pasteur, comparable, perhaps, to Victor Cousin's Science of Sciences. ln his apparent, surface waverings concerning the value of science, Ana- tole France reveals in his obscure depths a profound, unwavering belief in the future of mankind, led by Science and Idealism. WW. if?31V? li 9, I7

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W WILLARD L. LINVILLE ANNE MacPHAlL Mathematics Art High School FAYE CONNER TRIGG ELIZABETH TRETHAWAY French C7 Latin Piano High School ANNE VINTON COSETTE WHITACRE History junior High School Principal High School RENNAY SHRY-OCK Music MAX VAUCHER French High School LILLIAN H. WOODY English College Dean of Women

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Wigs and fans, hoopskirts and bustles have been put away in the attics of memory, but the modern pulse responds as quickly to the stimulus of The Blue Danube whether played by Strauss, or Wayne King, whether in waltz or swing time. C L A S S E S l8