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10-8-1941 The aB tes Student - volume 69 number 09 - October 8, 1941 Bates College

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This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ■il Letry Fun Tp Write, fcjost Tells Kemp \t By Lysander Kemp '42 nbtnt , job is very interesting. I ent_ tresh point of v,eWi and wIth a iter <8 interesting if you like| VOL. LXIX. NO. 9. .specially keen sense of numor BATE3 COLLEGE, LEW1STON, MAINE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1941. PRICE: 10 CENT8 I"15."" . «nsodd are waiting °n Uble8 atl For myself the high point of the ^"boaf School of English in summer there was a conversation ¥"* I.oai. Vermont, the summer R b t Frost at the poefs cabin, NEW MEMBERS OF FACULTY FAMILY with 0 er 151 Attain Dean's V*^.- school of Middlebury Col- arranged by Mr. Gazier. We arrived College Confers <""tf" i swunier there were about after supper, and found Mr. Frost list Ratinq; 22 '■ |fEe people waiting on there, out in a field crocking hay. He is a Honorary Degree I* liiree from Bates—David large man, rather stoutish now, with t*0?, Mr. Lyle Glazier of our white hair and a weathered Yankee Achieve Straight Jl's Upon De Kauffman ^ "ov'u0 has an M.A. from face. After one look at him you know *^\oit). a1"1 your writer- Tb-ese his country poems are Honor High Ranking Dr. Gray Conducts --'■"««» from Mon- and waitresses genuine. He took us up to his cabin, Students With Special Connec ticut, , Mis- conimenting unhappily on what the Short Service In and many other states, ODiO: wet weather had done to his hay. Af- Chapel Service Chapel Oct. 14 the school on working ter sitting us down and asking various The 151 men and women who suc- At tlie third special convocation to s made some sort of a questions, he began to talk about ceeded in making the Dean's List bestow au honorary degree in the his- ,jde group. We were known as farms and farmhouses. It was rural second semester of the academic year tory of Uie college, President Clifiou * - oi-polloi,"0 but we scorned the small-talk, interesting and not at all HHoi-po" ''" 1940-41 were honored during chapel D. Gray next Tuesday night, October literary, nothing you might expect '? tegular students we had to feed. exercises this morning. Of the sev- 14, will confer an honorary degree of ..ii<>r called them "joog haids" from a man of letters. After awhile, .alter enty-eight men and sevehty-Uiree Doctor ot Laws upon Ilenrik deKauff- 0* Southern drawl you ,^ richest though, he began to talk about poetry women, twenty-two achieved a qual- niau, whbin the United States official- *rhop€ to hear. The Hoi-polloie and poets. His favorite point was that ity point ratio of 4.00, or all A'8. ly recognized as Denmark. Mr. de !*L d attended classes like ev- poetry should be fun to write. He rid- M These were, in the class of 1941: Kauffman, one of the most prominent eUe of course but lt als0 iculed mildly some of the more so- I Tjody ' ' Dorothy Dole, Peterborough, N. H.; diplomats representing a nation over- I \ its o«n informal social events, phisticated moderns who take them- Nancy Field, Tiffin, Ohio; Joanne run by the Nazis, was originally sche- I ^-sessions, etc. selves so gravely and write so that Lowther, Norwich, Conn.; Paul duled to receive the degree last June you can't understand what they mean Wright, Nashua, N. H.; Class of Arthur F. Stocker Robert A. Winters Denham W. Sutcllffe at the Commencement exercises, but gut it must be admitted that the half the time. "But then, being a 1942: Frank Dietz, Bridgeport, Conn.; was unable to be present owing to the lui-polloi was only a small part of stuffed shirt and callin' everybody John Donovan, Naugatuck, Conn.; tense diplomatic situation at the time. 1 Loaf. Uobert Frost spends his else a stuffed shirt—that's fun too, I Malcolm Jewell, Wellesley, Mass.; Since there is a college law which juBDiers there, for instance. He guess." Finally he consented to talk Director Announces instructors in Three Registration Equals Eleanora Keene, Framingham, Mass.; prohibits the 6 ranting of such a cita- lnieD't teach, but he is the most im- about his own poetry. He told us he Robert Langerman, New Haven, Departments Join Staff tion when the party in question cannot |«ttant figure. In fact, the school is writes only when he's in the mood Conn.; John Lloyd, Worcester, Mass.; Cast For First Play Three new instructors have been Ten Year Average bu present, 1'iesident Gray has uiuUe L proud of having our foremost poet for writing. "My mind sort of slews Dorothy Mathews, Camp Hill, Pa.: added to the faculty this Kail, in the Although the college registration plans suitable to the minister to bring L its distinguished symbol that one 'round looking for things—something A tentative line-up of the cast for him here at this lime to receive the Ralph Tuller, Westfield, Mass.; Bar- departments ot Economics, English this year is considerably below that |n£ said Bread Loaf is Frost-bitten. I saw once in New Hampshire, some- the Robinson Players' first present* degree of LL. D. bara White. Collingswood, N. J.; and Greek. However, Mr. Arthur F. of last year (which set an all time Iiell. It is. but it can be proud of Its thing somebody told me once, some- tion of the year, "Laburnum Grove", Claire Wilson, West Newton, Mass.; Stocker who has been appointed to high of 749), the total of 675 for The hist occasion for a special con- llrtle. It can also be proud of its fac- thing I discovered once when I was a was announced last night by Direc- Jane Woodbury, Madison, N. H.; till in the vacancy caused by the res- 1941 is still higher than that of any vocation to bestow au honorary de- [rty, which includes several critics kid. These things sort of get them- tor Lavinia Schaeffer. Elbert Smith Class of 1943: Edith Dahlgren, Wash- ignation of Joseph M. Conant in the year from 1933 through 1937, and is gree was on October 20, 1930, when tsd professors who are very well selves together, and I write the poem. '43 will play the leading role of burn; Catherine Glazier, Westboro, Greek department, has been ill for just about the average total for the the college conferred a degree of LL. |no .n Greek m and ProfeMor lot of fun writing. As we left his McKusick, Guilford; Lewis Tetlow, year's banner crop. The other classes September 31, 1936 marked the sec- jiissss at Bread Loaf were particu- cabin, he said very cordially, "Come thews '42, include Crete Woodard '«jA lo Bei.loccl lhose in Classical Holyoke, Mass.; and Shirley Whiting, respectively count seniors, 165, jun- ond such convocation when the same lar interesting and popular, since back again for another chat." I'm as Elsie Radfern, Dorothy Frost '42 Civilization (235) and Greek Drama Merrimac, Mass. iors, 137, sophomores, 189. Four spe- degree was bestowed upou the late l:-r opinions on various subjects— looking forward to that ehat some- as Mrs. Baxley, William Barr '42 as \ ^,4- In this list there are ten from Mas- cial students complete the enrollment, Lord Lothian, former ambassador to litr movies and cities as well as our time. I'm Frost-bitten, just like Bernard Baxley, David Nickerson '42; sachusetts, four from New Hamp- - „. Mr. DLiiham \\. Sutcliffe, who is which includes ten transfers. As us- the United States from England. literature were given from a differ- Bread Loaf. as Harold Russ, Mervm Alembik 44 shire, three from Connecticut, two now tilling the vacancy in the Eng- ual the highest percentage of the The program for this third occasion as Joe Fletten. Eleanor Davis « M^ ,, from Maine, one from New Jersey, depanincIU causeU by the yea s freshmen come from Massachusetts, will probably be very much like that Mrs. Radfern, Robert IkfcFarlane '44 Pennsylvania and Ohio each. The leave of absence of R. Earle McGee, is 77 having traveled north from the followed at the time Lord Lothian re- as Inspector Stack, and Benjamin class of 1941 placed four on the line- certainly no newcomer to Bates. In Bay State. Maine, Connecticut, and ceived his degree. The convocation \Student Psychiatrist Sees Hunter '42 as Sergeant Morris. up; the class of 1942, eleven; 1943, 1931 he came down from Richmond, come next with 44, 19, 12, opens with the academic procession of three; and 1944, four. Maiue, to enroll as a member of the in that order. New Jersey has sent the faculty, followed in order by the in- \Tragedy In Mental Cases freshman class, but he was forced to vocation and response, singing of the It is interesting to note that in the nine. New Hampshire, eight, and By William j. Crean '44 list of those who secured the 3.200 leave at the end of the second Rhode Island, five. Georgia, Iowa, anthem by the college choir, introduc- Ayers Fills Vacancy semester. He worked for two and a Those ot you who are concerned j reasonably clear picture of the necessary to Qualify for the Deans Washington, D. C, California, Wis- tion of the guest of honor by the Pres- half years in a shoe factory in Auburn, consin, and Pennsylvania each sent ident, and the conferring of the de- ora friends who^Ko about with an stitution as a whole. List that sixty come from Massachu- On Mirror Staff when he again returned to the campus. one representative. gree, followed by the address of the iidilfrent shuffling gait, who mum- Begins In setts, forty-four from Maine, seven- The choice of J. Eugene Ayers Taking extra courses each year, he The names of the class of 1945 recipient. Singing, benediction, and Hi to themselves, or who do not Infirmary Ward teen from Connecticut, eleven from '42 as business manager of the was able to graduate in 1937 with an follow: the recessional conclude the ceremo- I tlitk they are crazy, wo't: J