The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Campus Archives University of Maine Publications Spring 4-18-1940 Maine Campus April 18 1940 Maine Campus Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus Repository Citation Staff, Maine Campus, "Maine Campus April 18 1940" (1940). Maine Campus Archives. 2580. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus/2580 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Campus Archives by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Campus Broadcast Arts Club Dance WLBZ-7:30 P.M. Memorial Gym Monday anwu0 Saturday 7 Published Weekly by the Students of the University of Maine Vol. XLI ORONO, MAINE, APRIL 18, 1940 No. 23 Coffin Robert Crowquets! Harvard Glee Club Climax Open House Open House Program Contributors' Roast stuffed crow was the Program main course Tuesday noon for Of Maine Musical Season Expands to Include Club Speaker two members of Phi Kappa Sig- College of Arts and Sciences ma, Dick Cranch and George Presenting a virtual survey of glee Economics and Sociology Sciences Pulitzer Prize Poet Chase. They claimed that it club music from the sixteenth century 28, 32, 38 South Stevens Arts and Psychology Describes Poetry as tasted like liver, but later ad- to the present, the Harvard Glee Club, mitted that the bird was still under the direction of G. Wallace 27, 29, 35, 37, 41 N. Stevens New Exhibits Essence of Living wild enough to fly away. Woodworth, will give a concert Fri- Romance Languages Mrs. Hubbard day evening at 8 p.m. its the Memorial 7, 19 North Stevens Demonstrate Robert I'. Tristram Coffin will Cranch had shot the crow ear- Gymnasium. Speech 275 Stevens Hall speak on poelr, as the essence of ly that morning. At breakfast Guest Speaker Research Work M.C.A. com- Zoology Coburn Hall living and read poetry tonight at he agreed to pluck and clean the The and the assembly Expansion of the Open House pro- bird if Chase mittee are sponsoring the appearance, Physics Pan-Hel Party 8:30 p.m. iii the Little Theatre Ile would help him gram next Saturday to include partici- eat it. So Doc Weymouth, cook the climax of the musical season at South Section, Aubert Hall is being presented by the Contribu- College of Technology Lizott's Band pation by departments in the College at Phi Kappa Sigma, sent up the Maine. Lennie tors' Club, which has brought to Electrical Engineering of Arts and Sciences was announced bird that noon, garnished with Opening with two eighteenth centu- To Play for Inter- Maine such poets and writers as Lord Hall here today by Prof. Benjamin C. Kent, bacon and flanked with boxes ry fraternal songs, the program in- Robert Frost, Carl Samlburg. and, Engineering Drafting Dance program chairman. of bicarbonate of soda. The cludes selections from English, Ger- Sorority this year Louis Unterme.ser. 30 Wingate Hall Exhibits will be offered by the de- pair sent back to the kitchen man, and Russian choral music. Fea- It has been three years since Mr. Civil Engineering One hundred ninety-six members partments of economics and sociology, only the bare bones and the tured on the program are selections ban- Coffin last spoke at Maine during the Wingate Hall were present at the Panhellenic psychology, Romance languages, soda. from Gilbert and Sullivan, and Casey regular school year. He spoke at Chemical Engineering quet held Monday at Balentine Hall. speech, and zoology. The participa- Jones, a true American folk song. Commencement in 1937, when he was Aubert Hall The guest speaker, Mrs. Joseph Hub- tion of the College of Arts and Sci- awarded an honorary degree. American folk song has been said Pulp and Paper bard, of Massachusetts, spoke on the ences is expected to be enlarged for National Panhellenic society. "This is my country," the opening not to exist at all. The Old Maid's Basement, Aubert Hall future Open Houses. line of Mr. Coffin's poem by the same U. of Maine Song, from the Kentucky Mountains, Mechanical Engineering Guests were: Dean Edith Wilson, The department of economics and name, is closely analytic of his quali- is like most of the songs of the Appa- Crosby Hall Mrs. Arthur A. Hauck, Dr. Marion sociology, which use Rooms 28, G. WALLACE WOODWORTH will fications to address a Maine audience. Co-operates in lachians, probably English folk song College of Agriculture Sweetman, Miss Pearl 0. Baxter, 32, and 38, South Stevens, will exhibit Robert Coffin is thoroughly Maine. surviving through generations of sing- "heavy big eight-wheeler" have be- Home Economics Mrs. Edna Sheraton, and Miss Addie material used in its various courses, He was born and brought up in Cum- Hour Broadcast ers in the more remote valleys and come the real hero of a song, and Merrill Hall Weed. research work by its faculty, and ser- berland County and began his higher mountains of the East. But Casey nowhere else could the tune itself have Military Science and Tactics The Panhellenic dance will be held vice available to people throughout the education at Bowdoin College, where Faculty Committee !ones is pure and unadulterated Amer- originated. Armory and Field House April 26 at Memorial Gymnasium. state. ican. In no other country could the he is now professor of English. 'With Students' Help The only other American song on Guests will include President and Mrs. The psychology exhibits, which will A most versatile writer, Mr. Coffin the program is Tarantella, by Randall Arthur A. Hauck, Dean Edith Wil- be in Rooms 27, 29, 35, 37, 41, and the concentrates on stories with a coastal Presents Program Thompson, a setting of Hilaire Bel- son, and Prof. Walter Whitney. Mu- children's school in the basement of Maine atmosphere. In 1935 he was you inn, sic will be furnished by Lennie Lizott's North Stevens, will include auto driv- The University of Maine presented Peace Panel loc's poem "Do remember an named the outstanding poet of Ameri- M iranda ?" Faculty Reach orchestra. ing and other test apparatus, lie detec- ca, and in 1936 won the Pulitzer Prize a special broadcast on the National To Replace The program: Mrs. Hubbard described the work tor, mazes, charts and slides illustrat- for poetry. Mr. Coffin believes that Farm and Home Hour, Wednesday, 83% of Goal of the different Panhellenic commit- ing illusions, sound apparatus, Two FRATF.RNAL SONGS tests poetry is the best medium through over a coast-to-coast NBC Blue Net- tees and their contribution to the for children, and motion Vesper Service Laut verkunde unsre Freude In Campaign pictures. which one can express one's thoughts work. The program originated in the development of the Greek letter socie- The department of Romance lan- on life. "Peace and How To Keep It" will hfozart His expressions are tangible Gymnasium of Alumni Hall. WLSZ Reporting on the results of the Li- ties as a whole. guages, which will exhibit in Rooms delineations be the subject of a panel discussion (Written for the Masonic of Maine and its people, in Bangor served as station outlet in brary Campaign among the faculty and She complimented the Maine Pan- 7 and 19, North Stevens, will include of whom he which will replace the usual Sunday Lodge, N'ienna, 1791) says, "these are my peo- Maine for this national broadcast. hellenic Conniel on its fine spirit, one-act French and Spanish plays, ple, saving of Vespers in the Little Theatre April (Continued on Page Four) administration members who are not emotion." Fourth in the 1940 Series of Land stating that this was the exception short-wave broadcasts picked up from 21 at 4:15. graduates of the University, Prof. Grant College Programs presented in rather than the rule. "The Pan- Paris, French and Spanish newspapers A. M. English Faculty co-operation with the United States Part of a nation-wide Peace Day Turner, committee chairman, hellenic delegate should be the strong- and periodicals, educational apparatus, Department of Agriculture, Maine observance, the discussion will feature French Club has announced this week that three est girl in the chapter," she stated. such as phonograph recordings for Dr. Michaelides, just arrived from the To Visit Bates faculty members and students can well divisions of the University have turned She stressed the need of co-opera- training in pronunciation and in un- Near East; Dr. Andrew J. Banning, be proud of Maine's contribution to Gives Plays in 100% pleage reports already with tion among the national societies and derstanding the spoken language, vo- Fourteen faculty members of the of the Bangor Theological Seminary; the series. The radio program last also explained the dangers of unfavor- cabulary wheels, and devices for quick English department will be at Bates Mr. John Brigham, of Castine; and Three French plays were presented high percentages also in from other Wednesday was consistent with better able publicity to any sorority. and easy acquisition of foreign lan- College Friday for a meeting of the Professor Leslie F. Smith, of the Uni- at the meeting of the French Club divisions. quality work that the Radio Guild has Mrs. Hubbard is a member of Na- guages. English professors of the four Maine versity of Maine. Dean Edward J. Wednesday evening, April 17. The The College of Agriculture, the turned out recently. Considerable tional Panhellenic Congress and in The speech department's exhibits, colleges. They are: Milton Ellis, C. J. Allen will act as chairman.