St Mary of the Woods College - Les Bois Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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ff A T LES Bo1s ' - - , , ww 1 0 . ,,..l . Le Cercle De La Motte Marion Seng. Martha Decker, Gladys Keller, Helen Harper, Lora Miller. Eleanor Fink, Ethel McDonald, Maria Handley, Marie Walta, Mildred Heyl Marion Welch, Kathryn Davis, Patia Breedlove, Anna Wiseman, Mildred Smith, Eulnlie Geofl'rion, Mary McEvoy, Ethel Dohany, Regina Pessemier, Doris Glover, Maxine Davis, Mary Sheahan. Edith Phalen. Esther Pomeroy, Fe Dora Garrity, Evelyn Carriz, Evangeline Walsh, Lena Kuper. May Smith, President, Gertrude O'Connox-, Bertha Hughes, Margaret O'Brien, Margaret Isham. S . T1 V f.. One hundred and two

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,IX bk T ..,,.i:z': , ' Xxx I :5-- , . '- ' ' -...Jw--I AEP' F Tw 'P -4 HELEN L. HOGAN The Socieiy 0 Leffers HELEN L. HOGAN, Chairman PATIA BREEDLOVE, Secretary The Society of Letters was established in order to cultivate a keener apprecia- tion of the best in literature, and also to encourage the members to write good, clear, and eiective English. The Society confines its studies chiefly to current poetry. At the semi-formal meetings of the year the Society discussed among other poetry that of Louise Imogen Guiney, John Oxenham, Shane Leslie, Joyce Kilmer, Father Charles O'Donnell, John Maseiield, Robert Service, Ralph Hodg- son, Charles Warren Stoddard, Amy Lowell, Harriet Monroe, Dennis McCarthy, Robert Bridges, and Thomas Walsh. After the discussion of poetry the members read and reviewed their exchange papers, critical and otherwise. It was due to the energy of the Society that the college newspaper, Fagots,,' was founded. The program of February eighteenth illustrates the work of the Society: Program Appreciations Criticisms The Poems of Robert Hugh Benson ..... Miss Phalen The Cinch and Mother . . .. . .Miss Geoffrion The Dead Musician and Other Poems, A Turn in the Road ..... .... M iss Harper Father Charles O'Donnell ............ Miss Keller American Ideals ...... ..... M iss Hayes Vers Libre ................ . ....... Miss Geoifrion Diplomatic Days . .. ...... Miss Keller The Daffodil Fields, Masefield .... .. . .Miss Decker Meditation ....................... Miss Graham Joyce Kilmer's Poems ................ Miss Hogan To Mother ............. . ........ Miss Breedlove A Soldier and His Mail from Home .... .Miss Davis Charity .............. . ............ Miss Phalen S 'Aa ' One hundred and one

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1 1 , - ' NN, is ...- - f .a f - , LES Bois '2 1-5- ,i.,,m- , ,, ,,- , ,,....,..............,- 4 - 5 MAY SM1TH Le Cercle de Ia Moiie MAY SMITH, President PATIA BREEDLOVE, Secretary The renewal and strengthening of the national sympathy which has existed between the United States and France since the time of Washington and Franklin, and the intercommunication en- tailed by going over there, have not only given new impetus to the study of French but have made it a necessity for many Ameri- cans. This enthusiasm for French reached the Cercle de la Motte, and gave fresh incentive to the study of the classics. The members of the Cercle were awakened to a livelier appreciation of the sweetness, the beauty, and the elegance of the French literature, -prose and poetry. Especially were the writers of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries followed with interest. Corneille, Racine, Mo- liere, Bossuet, Fenelon, Massillon, took on a new grace, and the books that hitherto had seemed text-booksi' were vivified by a real sympathy. The 18th century works of Mme. de Stael, Bern- ardin de Saint-Pierre's charming Paul et Virginiej' Beaumar- chais' Le Barbier de Seville and Figaro appealed with a fresh charm to the students, and the contemporary authors like Bourget, even excited ambition for translation. May the humble begin- nings of collaborated translation of L'Indiana widen into the waiting fields of Claudel and his like. fl, I N M One hundred and th' c