St Genevieves Academy - Le Flambeau Yearbook (Asheville, NC)

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wxfr ----'ff' FV' 4 '-ff-PN-Lkwfxxzf X , Fr i i A dividual attention which endeared her to the hearts of so many people. Those of us who heard her paper on Love are not likely ever to forget it: and in her lecture on Margaret Fuller, she, a for- eigner, portrayed to us the ideals of American womanhood in such a way as to make us firmly resolve to live up to her mighty conception of us! During the first two years, the meet- ings took rather a social form, for al- though there is no royal road to learn- ing, Mother Deplanck knew how to di- rect the tottering young feet and more- over, the students were always ready to swallow down any amount of intellec- tual food when its digestion was further promoted by ice-cream and cake and the whole concluded by an enjoyable dance! But as the Society increased in wisdom and members, this refreshing element had to be eliminated. At each meeting a member of the Faculty and one or more students read papers. The open- ing paper of each year is given by the Reverend Mother and has always been extremely interesting. Particularly so was the beautiful account given by Rev- erend Mother Lorin of the foundation and development in France, Belgium. England and America of the Order of Christian Education. Mother Lorin has played an active part in many of the scenes which she described. According to the traditions of our club, no other paper is read at this meet- ing, but recitations and choruses com- plete the programme. Several of the nuns have generously contributed most enjoyable papers, but the press of their numerous duties in other directions makes it impossible for them to read quite as frequently as we should like to listen, in fact experience has taught us that our sister societies insist on their share of our dear nuns' attention. The lay-members of the Faculty, too, have been always courteous and obliging, and have helped us by their cheerful adapta- tion to our programme. A very pleasing feature in this club is the dramatic element. Most members of the Literary Society being also mem- bers of the Dramatic Club, we combine the two, at festive times, in order to give the spice of variety to our literary efforts, thus in addition to the usual deep papers we enliven our meetings with interpretations of famous plays and masterpieces. From time to time in the past two years, the students of the Lycee have joined us and given readings and selections in connection with their particular work, treating, when possible, subjects in French literature similar to those demanded by our programme. At intervals we have had lectures and readings from non-members. Among those who graciously consented to accord us these pleasures were: Rev. Albert Goetz, O.S.B., our chaplain, who gave a beautiful and instructive lecture on The Passion Play at Oberammer- gau. Sister Mary Leo, of St. Clara College, Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, charm- ingly interpreted Tennyson's Lady of Shalott, and Mrs. Edward Dean, of Aldershot, England, gave a very inter- esting paper on General Gordon. During the early years of our So- ciety, the subjects under discussion greatly varied. We did not confine our- selves.to any special vein of literature, and very often the papers were complete

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