Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-05-06
COLLEGE HOST OF
LANGUAGE ASSN'S
Students in French and Spanish
Courses Entertain With Plays

About twenty delegates from the
several colleges and certain prepare
tory schools of the state attended the
joint meeting of the Vermont sections
of the Classical and the Modern Lam
guage associations of New England in
joint session here Friday and Saturday.
The convention opened at two o'clock
Friday afternoon in Old Chapel, with
Principal John E. Colburn OF Burling-
ton High School, presiding Acting
President Edward Day Collins welcom-
ed the delegates to Middlebury follow
ing which Professor Duane L. Robin
son, President of the Modern Language
section, delivered an address, Ian
guage, a Lost Art" Miss Alice c..
Waldo of Bishop Hopkins Hall, Bur
lington, spoke on Some Aspects of
the College Entrance Examinations"
A general discussion followed
Saturdays session began at nine
o'clock with a talk by Principal Archie
S. Hartman of Middlebury High
School, on "The Adoption to the Pu-
pills Aims of the Teachers Methods in
the Teaching of Latin. Professor R.
H White spoke on Some Problems in
the Teaching of a Classical Language
This was followed by an address in the
Old Chapel Room by Professor Fred
D. Carpenter of the University Of Yer
mont. on "The Relation of Aim to
Method in the Teaching of Modern
Languages.
A joint session, President Robinson
presiding, was held at 1913 in the
same room. Professor Samuel E Bias
sett OF the University Of Vermont,
spoke on Reading Homer. The meet
ing closed with an address by Profess
sor E c. Skillings on "Intellectual Con-
ditons in Germany
At six o'clock on Friday evening 4
dinner was served the visiting teachers
in Hepburn Hall. In Mccullough
Gymnasium. at eight o'clock, the
French and Spanish plays, LAnglais
Tel Quon lie Parle' and Los Pan
talones" were presented by students OF
the two languages Both were well re-
ceived by a good sized audience Of
visiting teachers and college people.
Plays Well Received
The scene of the first play 81 'Anglais
Tel Quon lie Parle", which was di-
rected by Mile. de la Souchere, was
laid in Paris and conferred around
runaway couple, played by Alice
Ladd and Merton LaFountain, who
were seeking rooms in the Hotel de
Cologne. The difficulties of the inter
prefer furnished most of the humor OF
the play and the part was well taken
by De Vaux de Lancey. The arrival
of Hogson, Ridley Norton, in search
of his runaway daughter caused ex-
element for Engine, the interpreter.
After difficulties with the police Hog
son became reconciled to his daugh- !
ters choice
The action of the Spanish play "Los
Pantalones", under the direction of |
Senoritas Carload Rodriguez and
Maria de Onate, revolved around Juan,
Leroy Bigelow. continually henpecked
tv his wife, mother-in-law and sister
in-law, these parts being taken by
Lila Winchester, Ona Ladd and Reba
Maxfield respectively. The family are
invited to a party whereupon Juan in
treats them to shorten the trousers OF
his dress suit, which they all in turn
refuse to do Later, however, they re-
pent, and each one without the knowl-
edge of the others having done so,
cuts a generous slice from the trousers,
much to the chagrin of poor Juan. The
part of Felipe, sweetheart of the sis
ter-in-law was humorously taken by
Charles Haugh, as was that of Pepa,
the maid by Sadie Posner.