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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1943-1944 Student Newspapers 3-15-1944 Connecticut College News Vol. 29 No. 18 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1943_1944 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "Connecticut College News Vol. 29 No. 18" (1944). 1943-1944. 22. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1943_1944/22 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1943-1944 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. ONNECTICUT Z8G EWS Vol.29-No. 18 ew London, Connecticut, \l'edn day" Marth 15, 1944 5<: p"r ropy Metropolitan Opera Quartet French Group Will Red Cross Asks Help inal Program f Pass Summer in CC In Work on Kit Bags The War Service commit- oncert n to tee needs girls desperately to 'French Quarter' wind thread for the Red un. larch 19 Cross kit bags. The Red Cross B has found it impossible to Special Festivities, send the materials for mak- ~1 .ropolitan Quartel Five Related Courses ing the kit bags on campus, To Pre nt lection but the thread to be wound Planned for Students for these bags has arrived. or n rt las i This work is under the dl- The director of the summer ses- rection of Mrs. Garabed Thls year's Connecticut colleec sion has announced that five re- Daghlian and will be done in series will be brought to a close lated courses dealing with the Iit- the astronomy room on the by the M ,ropoll'an Opera Quar· erature, history, philosophy, art third floor of Bill hall on tel, which Is presenting a pro- and language of modern France Monday, Tuesday, Wednes- gram Sunday all moon, 'Iarch will be offered at Connecticut col- day, and Friday afternoons 19, at 3:30 tn Palmer audilorlum. lege during the summer. from 2 :00 to 5:00 p.m. The lour ing rs tn th Quane, These courses constitute a It is essential that this fnclud Ino fanlnl,' nor; Igor Gorin, barnon ,Josephin Turn- French group, which has as its thread winding be done im- in la, soprano, and Helen Olhetm, center a 12 weeks study of French mediately. A notice about this literature and thought since the work was sent to approxi- contralto. mately 300 students, and as fn this tnrernauonat quartet. Revolution. This six point course, .yet only ten have signed up harmony, achieved In the eon- to be given in French, is open to trast ot colors, tones, and values, students who have had at least on the War Service bulletin board in Fanning hall. Is a result not only ot dlrrer~n !J three years of high school French Any students who feel that In vocal pitch but In nationality, and one year of college French. they cannot sign up for a reg- training, and e xp r tcnce. and Springing from this theme will ular time, but who are able to even 01 olT·ltme hobbies. Helen be three courses, each of six give some time for this work lnetm. rcr inslance, wa born In weeks duration and three points during one of the times when ew York state. Ihe d scendem credit: Modern French History, the room in Bill hall is open, Left 00 right ure Igor Gorin, JOSCI)hlne 'I'umlnia, H len OJh lin of Viking forebears who arne to The Mind of Present Day France, are asked to drop in. unci Nino Martini America 300 years ago, J phtne and French Art. Tumlnla. was also born tn the French History Offered United Sta". but her singing parents cam to the "land oC op- Modern French history will be portunity" from Silly shor,ly be- offered during the first half of Early Planning Is a Necessity Flower Show Will (ore h r birth, and she gr w ul'Jin the summer session and will be an ltaltan- Am rl un envlronm nt. taught by Miss Reynolds. This For Graduation With Honors Feature Idea For Ino Martini, on th other hand. study begins with the Revolution was born and reared In Italy. of 1789 and extends into the pres- by Shirley Armstrong '45 honors work with the approval 01 Victory Gardener while Igor Cortn. born In Rus- ent time. Major emphasis will be her major department. She shall sia's kraln I grew up In Au· Only a few students undertake placed upon the twentieth cen- write a thesis during the year and tria. tury. honors work each year at Connec- The Connecticut college Annu- her mark on her honors work will All Aehl ve Radio Fa1l1 First The Mind of Present Day ticut. This is partially due to the be determined by this paper. A al Flower Show, a completely stu- France, taught by Miss Ernst, grade of A or B will be consld- dent exhibition with a galaxy 01 Despite the fact thai every fact that many of us are not ac- member oC the quartet had earu- will also be offered during the ered "passed satisfactorily for quainted with just what honors attractions, will take place In first six weeks. The opposing honors." She shall have had regu- er established himself as an opera New London hall and the green- and concert singer In Europe and schools of thought in metropoli- work means, what the require- lar advisory conferences but will houses on March 25 and 26_ The Sou Ih A rnertca, real recogni lion tan France and its North African ments are, and how to go about it. have planned the work hers~U territories will be studied. The It is also due to the fact that far hours at the exhibit on Saturday in this field in the United Stales and carried it out on her own m- came only after he had achieved class will be conducted in English. from all of us are qualified to wiU be 2:QO.5:oo p.m. and 7:00· itiative. radio fame here. Igor Corln at- Reading and papers are to be satisfy the specified conditions. When Ginny begins her work 9:00 p.m.: on Sunday the doors tributes his cordial American re- done in English and French ac- Let's suppose that Ginny Jones for departmental honors, she will will be open from 2:(x)'6:00 p.m. ception to hIs twe years as Iea- cording to the advancement of thinks she would like to graduate start to work on a thesis, mean- Many virtues of the botanical tured soloist on radio'S weekly with academic or departmental the student. while having conferences with world will be revealed. Both art· "Hollywood Hotel" and various honors. The first thing she does is See "French Group"-Page 5 her advisor, but doing her work istry and practicality In plant guest appearances on such pro- to keep up her grades as best .she entirely on her own initiative. growth and practice will prevaU. grams as Kraft Music HaJl and can. When she has become a Jun- When completed, Ginny's paper In this year of war, a major key· Ford Sunday Evening Hour, Het- Rev. F. Lorentzen ior, she has decided upon the fi~ld will be graded by a committee in- note will be suggestions lor the en Olheim appeared on the Coca· in which she hopes to receIve cluding her advisor. victory gardener. Long before ·'Concer1'~-P.5"e 6 honors. After a comerence wi.th Will Be Leader of Must Write Paper their time, flowering branches her major advisor, she sUbmI~s wUl be In proluse bloom and stu- Ginny may, on the other h3;nd, Annual Conference her petition to undertake thiS dent gardens in the greenhouse have done 45 hours extracurrlCU' work, if she has either a 3.00 avo will display their finery. Mini· L on H nd r on to The Reverend Frederic L. C. lar work with supervision from erage for her last thre~ years, ature floral arrangements will Lorentzen, rector of the Church or an A in at least 12 pomts ~d the department. She would show p ak on Po t- ar of the Holy Trinity of Westport, portray the "feeling" of Ihe Four no grades below B in her major the results in a paper judged and Powers and a welJ-illustr8.ted map Conn., will be on campus as lead- department in her junior. or sen· graded by the department. wiU give significance to geograph. Ent rpri in er of the annual religious confer· Simply because Ginny has com- ior year. If Ginny is takmg less ical nora, Leon Henderson, fonner head ence to be held under the auspices pleted the work does not mean than 12 points in that depart· o admission to the 1944 sho\,- 01 Office of Price Admini traUon. of Religious council from March she will graduate with depart· ment she must have A in all her will be charged, bu t a sale 01 ",W be the convocation speaker mental honors, lor she must have 19 to 21 inclusive. He will speak work'in the major field_ potted plants wlU be incJud~, the on Tuesday, March 21, at 4:15 at the vesper service at 7 o:c1ock passed it satisfactorily. Option B Conditions proceeds 01 which will ~ gwen to p.m. .Mr. Henderson ,....as former- on Sunday evening and preSIde ~t Ginny, however, may graduate the \Var Services committee_ Ginny may also elect to do hon· ly connected "ith th Ru II the discussion held afterwards ill at the same time with hon0r:t' Among those students working Sage Research 10undation in ~f'ew ors work under option B.