COLONIAL PERIOD---2

**CONFLICT:** A major subject for words---and poetry.

WARS---GROUP AGAINST GROUP

INDIVIDUALS: GIANTS
KNIGHTS

JOHN HENRY & STEAM DRILL

MAN AND WOMAN: THURBER'S CARTOONS

GOOD AGAINST EVIL: INNER CONFLICTS

FREEDOM AGAINST SLAVERY

**FREEDOM:** A MAJOR THEME IN ALL POETRY

BUT OFTEN A SELFISH FREEDOM: INDIVIDUAL
NATIONALISTIC: Kipling

EXTENDED BY THE GREAT POETS TO ALL HUMAN KIND:
Burns, WHITMAN---

"A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT....."

"NOT TILL THE SUN DENIES YOU, WILL I DENY YOU..."

"I SEE YOU AWAY OFF YONDER GRADUALLY MOVING
UP TO WHERE I AM....."

**CONFLICT, STRUGGLE, FREEDOM:** MAJOR THEMES IN AMERICAN

NEGRO POETRY:

FIRST RECORDED POEM IS OF A TYPICALLY AMERICAN

CONFLICT---COLONISTS AND INDIANS:

LUCY TERRY---1746---"BARS FIGHT"---P.O.N.---P.3

**IDEAS OF FREEDOM IN AIR:**

FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND, HOLLAND, FRANCE

STRUGGLE AGAINST ENGLISH

PHILLIS WHEATLEY "LO, FREEDOM COMES......" (Manuscript)

COLONIAL PERIOD---3

FOLK VERSES: "PROMISES OF FREEDOM"........Manuscript

BUT NOT ALL ARE SERIOUS OR PERSONAL:

"THE FROG"

"SHEEP AND GOAT"

BUT MOST BEAUTIFUL AND TRULY POETIC OF NEGRO

FOLK VERSES ARE THE SPIRITUALS:

"SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT"....N.C. Page 434

"STEAL AWAY" "

"GO DOWN, MOSES" " 440

FRANCES E. W. HARPER: (1825-1911)

"THE SLAVE AUCTION"........P.O.N. Page 10

BUT NOT ONLY NEGROES, SLAVES, IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES
WITH THE NEED FOR FREEDOM------

WALT WHITMAN:

"THE RUNAWAY SLAVE"........P.O.N. Page 213

"THE WOUNDED PERSON"........ " " 

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL'S FAMOUS VERSES:

"STANZAS ON FREEDOM"........P.O.N. Page 238

GREAT LESSONS OF THE ABOLITIONISTS:

GARRISON
LOVEJOY
SHAW
JOHN BROWN

EDMUND CLARENCE STEEDMAN: (1863-1908)

"HOW OLD JOHN BROWN TOOK HARPERS FERRY"

.....D.O.N. Page 239

THEN IT WAS THAT THE CIVIL WAR CAME, ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
THE UNION ARMY'S, "THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE

REPUBLIC": "#INE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY
OF THE COMING OF THE LORD......"

AND FREEDOM. (1863). ANOTHER MILESTONE.

NEGRO IN AMERICAN POETRY--II

Lab School---April 11-15

Chicago, 1949

CIVIL WAR---1865

THRU---1919

WORLD WAR I:

WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOMED,

AND THE GREAT STAR EARLY DROOPED IN THE WESTERN SKY IN THE NIGHT,
I MOURNED, AND YET SHALL MOURN WITH EVER-RETURNING SPRING.

........

O POWERFUL WESTERN FALLEN STAR!

O SHADES OF NIGHT---O MOODY, TEARFUL NIGHT!

O GREAT STAR DISAPPEARED---O THE BLACK MURK THAT HIDES THE STAR!

O CRUEL HANDS THAT HOLD ME POWERLESS---O HELPLESS SOUL OF ME!

O HARSH SURROUNDING CLOUD THAT WILL NOT FREE MY SOUL!

Thus Walt Whitman mourned the death of Lincoln. And in a shorter poem:

THIS DUST WAS ONCE THE MAN,

GENTLE, PLAIN, JUST AND RESOLUTE, UNDER WHOSE CAUTIOUS HAND,
AGAINST THE FOULEST CRIME IN HISTORY KNOWN IN ANY LAND OR AGE,
WAS SAVED THE UNION OF THESE STATES.

1865 LINCOLN DIED..................1866 THE KU KLUX KLAN FIRST MARCHED.

13th, 14th, 15th AMENDMENTS---FREEDOM, RIGHTS, THE BALLOT........

TERROR AND THE MARCH BACKWARD.........."STORY OF NEGRO": Page 169:

KLAN.....LYNCHINGS....JIM CROW

VIOLENCE KNOWS NO RACE---WHITE TEACHERS

HAMPTON.....TUSKEGEE.....FISK.....LINCOLN.....HOWARD.....ALLEN

-2-

CIVIL WAR to WORLD WAR I:

SONGS

"COTTON NEEDS A PICKIN' SO BAD"................CHAIN GANG SONGS

TOLD MY CAP'N MY HANDS WAS COLD.

SAID, "DAMN YOUR HANDS, BOY,

LET DE WHEELIN' ROLL."

ASK MY CAP'N TO GIMME MY TIME.

MEAN OLE CAP'N WOULDN'T PAY ME NO MIND.

RAISED MY HAND, WIPED DE SWEAT OFF MY HEAD.

CAP'N GOT MAD, LORD, SHOT MY BUDDY DEAD.

CAP'N WALKIN' UP AND DOWN,

BUDDY LAYIN' THERE DEAD, LORD,
ON DE BURNIN' GROUND.

IF I'D A-HAD MY WEIGHT IN LIDDE

I'D A-WHUP THAT CAP'N TILL HE WENT STONE BLIND.

IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE MY BUDDY IS DEAD,

JUST LOOK AT THAT HOLE IN MY BUDDY'S HEAD.

BUZZARD CIRCLIN' ROUND DE SKY,

KNOWS THAT CAP'N IS BOUND TO DIE.

BUT THESE WERE FOR COLLECTORS TO RECORD LATER. AMERICA WAS SINGING:

MINISTREL SONGS
and

STEPHEN FOSTER: SWANEE RIVER
OLD KENTUCKY HOME
CAMPTOWN RACES

JAMES BLAND: CARRY ME BACK
TO OLD VIRGINY

IN DE EVENING BY
DE MOONLIGHT

FISK JUBILEE SINGERS

W. C. HANDY AND THE BLUES

DUNBAR (1872-1906)

A NEGRO LOVE SONG-----34................LITTLE BROWN BABY-----37

JOHNSON: "THE CREATION"-----28

SPENCER---G.D. JOHNSON---GENTON JOHNSON

LINDSAY: "THE CONGO"-----250

Something of the missionary
and something of the mineral

## POETRY

Week April 25

Lab School

LANGSTON HUGHES

### TUESDAY (I) HOW I WRITE A POEM:

<table><tr><td>NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS</td><td>D.K</td><td>71</td></tr><tr><td>MOTHER TO SON</td><td>D.K</td><td>73</td></tr><tr><td>I, TOO, SING AMERICA</td><td>D.K</td><td>76</td></tr></table>

" (VI) CHICAGO:

<table><tr><td>SUMMER EVENING</td><td>S.I.H</td><td>123</td></tr><tr><td>MIGRANT</td><td>S.I.H</td><td>125</td></tr><tr><td>GRADUATION</td><td>S.I.H</td><td>127</td></tr></table>

### WEDNESDAY (II) LYRICS:

<table><tr><td>HEAVEN</td><td>F.O.W</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>SNAIL</td><td>"</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>BIRTH</td><td>"</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>IN TIME OF SILVER RAIN</td><td>"</td><td>41</td></tr><tr><td>CAROLINA CABIN</td><td>"</td><td>48</td></tr><tr><td>TRUMPET PLAYER: 52nd STREET</td><td>"</td><td>91</td></tr><tr><td>REFUGEE IN AMERICA</td><td>"</td><td>105</td></tr></table>

### THURSDAY (IV) SEVEN MOMENTS OF LOVE:

<table><tr><td>5 of the Sequence</td><td>S.I.H</td><td>3--10</td></tr></table>

" (VII) MADAM TO YOU:

<table><tr><td>5 of the Sequence</td><td>O.W.T</td><td>3--26</td></tr></table>

### FRIDAY (IV) SPIRITUALS & BLUES:

<table><tr><td>Various from DREAM KEEPER & ONE WAY TICKET or One of above sequences</td></tr></table>

NEGRO IN AMERICAN POETRY

Last Lecture
Lab School
9th & 10th Grades
April 29, 1949

200 YEARS OF AMERICAN POETRY ON NEGRO THEMES OR BY NEGRO AUTHORS:

LUCY TERRY, 1746, to RUSSELL ATKINS, 1949

ANNONYMOUS FOLK POETRY TO FENTON JOHNSON, STERLING BROWN, MYSELF:

**SPIRITUALS LIKE:**
LITTLE DAVID, PLAY ON YO' HARP,
HALLELU, HALLELU!
LITTLE DAVID, PLAY ON YO' HARP,
HALLELU!
LITTLE DAVID WAS A SHEPHERD BOY,
HE KILLED GOLIAETH AND HE BUILT FOR JOY!
LITTLE DAVID, PLAY ON YO' HARP,
HALLELU!

TO: MINE; JUDGEMENT DAY. D.K. 54

OR: FENTON JOHNSON...WHO THAT WALKING IN THE CORN...P.O.N...64

FROM THE FOLK BLUES NOBODY KNOWS WHO MADE UP LIKE:

TWO-NINETEEN DONE TAKEN MY BABY AWAY.

TWO-NINETEEN'S DONE TAKEN MY BABY AWAY.

TWO-FOURTEEN'S GONNA BRING HER BACK SOMEDAY.

TO MY OWN CREATED BLUES SUCH AS:

HOMESICK BLUES. D.K. #..36

OR: TOO BLUE. O.W.T. 102

FAR CRY FROM THE FOLK STYLES TO RUSSELL ATKINS INFLUENCED BY GERTRUDE STEIN, e.e. cummings, AND PERHAPS PICASSO AND DALI:

RUSSELL ATKINS. POEM. P.O.N. 208

MARGARET WALKER. CHILDHOOD. F.M.P. 53

GWENDOLYN BROOKS. SONG IN THE FRONT YARD. S.I.B. 10

KITCHENETTE BUILDING. S.I.B. 2

(over)

<table><tr><td>ALFRED DUCKETT</td><td>PORTrait PHILIPPINES</td><td>202</td></tr><tr><td>MOSES CARL HOLMAN</td><td>NOTES FOR A MOVIE SCRIPT</td><td>203</td></tr><tr><td>WILLIAM ROSE BENET</td><td>THE STRONG SWIMMER</td><td>295</td></tr><tr><td>WITTER BYNNER</td><td>DEFEAT</td><td>295</td></tr><tr><td>KENNETH PORTER</td><td>STREET SCENE: 1946</td><td>299</td></tr></table>

FROM SLAVERY TO THE PICKET LINES

FROM COLONIAL DAYS TO PRESIDENT TRUMAN

FROM THE QUILL PEN TO THESE BOOKS---

AND THE LAB SCHOOL

FROM LUCY TERRY TO WALT WHITMAN

TO PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR TO WILLIAM ROSE BENET

TO ME---TO YOU.

WALT WHITMAN WROTE:

THE WORDS OF TRUE POEMS GIVE YOU MORE THAN POEMS---

THEY GIVE YOU TO FORM FOR YOURSELF POEMS...

TO BEHOLD THE BIRTH OF STARS,

TO LEARN ONE OF THE MEANINGS...

IN THE POEMS WE HAVE LISTENED TO AND READ, THERE ARE MANY MEANINGS.

PERHAPS WE HAVE EACH FOUND ONE.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
The Laboratory School

8th Grade -- Special Arts Project

April 25, 1949

BODY MOVEMENT

(1) **Dance forms** -- Can tell almost any story desired.
Can portray abstract ideas.

A. Interpretative

B. Social

Examples: Ballet, Social, Square, Modern, Tap, Character, Acrobatic,

(2) **Sports** -- Swimming as an example of rhythm.

Baseball ... rhythm, timing,

Basketball

(related to ballet)

(See recent LIFE. Ruth will bring one.)

Sound, also Tennis
Ping pong

Cathie will try to look up TIME.)

Many of the ideas
in ping pong and tennis
can be conveyed by sound.

Rowing

Sailing

Paddling

Jacks

Bicycling

(3) **Pantomime** -- What ideas

(4) **Games** -- "Example: "Concentration" -- rhythmic patterns (a few words)

Present on Monday: Miss Merrick

Ping pong

Allison -- ballet

Gordon -- swimming

Knight -- swimming and baseball; music

Kreines -- sports

Lee -- baseball

Koff -- swimming and social dancing

Marcus -- music and baseball

Mitchell -- swimming and modern dancing

Tolman --

Zener -- music and sports (baseball)

-- flute, piano,

harmonica

-- trombone

-- piano

Questions:

What balls could be managed on 3/4 stage?

What part of the final day or "production" belongs to these 10 kids?
(Some guess as to time allotment)

When are we going to get to work?

NEGRO IN AMERICAN POETRY

Last Lecture

Lab School

9th & 10th Grades

April 29, 1949

ANNONYMOUS FOLK POETRY TO PENTON JOHNSON, STERLING BROWN, MYSELF:

SPIRITUALS LIKE: ... LITTLE DAVID, PLAY ON YO' HARP,

HALLELU, HALLELU!

HALLELU!

HE KILLED GOLIAET AND HE BUILT FOR JOY!

HALLELU!

TO: MINE: ... JUDGEMENT DAY ... D.K. 54

OR: PENTON JOHNSON ... WHO THAT WALKING IN THE CORN ... P.O.N ... 64

HOMESICK BLUES ... D.K. ... # ... 36

OR: TOO BLUE ... O.W.T ... 102

RUSSELL ATKINS ... POEM ... P.O.N ... 208

MARGARET WALKER ... CHILDHOOD ... F.M.P ... 53

GWENDOLYN BROOKS ... SONG IN THE FRONT YARD ... S.I.B ... 10

KITCHENETTE BUILDING ... S.I.B ... 2

(over)

AND THE LAB SCHOOL

TO ME---TO YOU.

WALT WHITMAN WROTE:

TO BEHOLD THE BIRTH OF STARS,

COLONIAL PERIOD---2

WARS---GROUP AGAINST GROUP

INDIVIDUALS: GIANTS

KNIGHTS

JOHN HENRY & STEAM DRILL

FREEDOM AGAINST SLAVERY

NATIONALISTIC: Kipling

Burns, WHITMAN---

"I SEE YOU AWAY OFF YONDER, GRADUALLY MOVING
UP TO WHERE I AM....."

NEGRO POETRY:

**IDEAS OF FREEDOM IN AIR:**

STRUGGLE AGAINST ENGLISH

COLONIAL PERIOD---3

"THE FROG"

"SHEEP AND GOAT"

"SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT"......N.C. Page 434

"STEAL AWAY" "

"GO DOWN, MOSES" " 440

WALT WHITMAN:

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN: (1883-1908)

.....D.O.N. Page 239

THEN IT WAS THAT THE CIVIL WAR CAME,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
THE UNION ARMY'S, "THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE
REPUBLIC": "MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY
OF THE COMING OF THE LORD......"
AND FREEDOM. (1863). ANOTHER MILESTONE.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

THE LABORATORY SCHOOL

Memorandum to

19

PULSE AS A METRONOME FOR POETRY:

"I FLED HIM DOWN THE NIGHTS AND
DOWN THE DAYS

I FELD HIM DOWN THE LABRARYTHINE WAYS
OF MY OWN SOUL......"

"I MOURNE AND YET SHALL MOURN EVER
RETURNING SPRING......"

"I GOT THE SAINT LOUIS BLUES, JUST AS

NEGRO IN AMERICAN POETRY--II

Lab School---April 11-15

Chicago, 1949

CIVIL WAR---1865

THRU---1919

WORLD WAR I:

1865 LINCOLN DIED............1866 THE KU KLUX KLAN FIRST MARCHED.

TERROR AND THE MARCH BACKWARD........"STORY OF NEGRO": Page 169:

-2-

CIVIL WAR to WORLD WAR I:

SONGS

SAID, "DAMN YOUR HANDS, BOY,

LET DE WHEELIN' ROLL."

CAP'N WALKIN' UP AND DOWN,

IF I'D A-HAD MY WEIGHT IN LIME

MINISTREL SONGS
and

IN DE EVENING BY
DE MOONLIGHT

FISK JUBILEE SINGERS

W. C. HANDY AND THE BLUES

DUNBAR (1872-1906)

JOHNSON: "THE CREATION"-----28--
SPENCER---G.D. JOHNSON, FENTON JOHNSON

LINDSAY: "THE CONGO"-----250
and something of the missionary

3rd Week:

<table><tbody><tr><td>SONG OF THE SON......</td><td>Toomer......</td><td>Page 63</td></tr><tr><td>transformation......</td><td>alexander...</td><td>85</td></tr><tr><td>AFTER WINTER......</td><td>Brown......</td><td>86</td></tr><tr><td>WEARY BLUES......</td><td>Hughes......</td><td>98</td></tr><tr><td>I TOO SING AMERICA...</td><td>"</td><td>97</td></tr><tr><td>FOR A LADY I KNOW....</td><td>Cullen......</td><td>128</td></tr><tr><td>INCIDENT...........</td><td>"</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>FROM THE DARK TOWER..</td><td>"</td><td>132</td></tr><tr><td>TROPICS IN NEW YORK..</td><td>McKay</td><td>327</td></tr><tr><td>IF WE MUCT DIE......</td><td>"</td><td>333</td></tr><tr><td>NICE DAY FOR LYNCHING,,</td><td>Patchen..</td><td>272</td></tr><tr><td>FORGY, MARIA, BESS......</td><td>Heyward..</td><td>236</td></tr><tr><td>MAMMY HUMS...........</td><td>Sandburg.</td><td>287</td></tr><tr><td>JAZZ FANSASIA........</td><td>"</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>SOULS OF BLACK AND WHITE....</td><td>A. L...</td><td>385</td></tr></tbody></table>

Russian Cathedral
Flame Heart

334

NEGRO IN AMERICAN POETRY

Lab School, April 25-29

MYSELF: From Various Books

GWENDOLYN BROOKS:
SONG IN FRONT YARD...................S.I.B........10
KITCHENETTE BUILDING.................." 2
LIGHT & DIPLOMATIC BIRD...........Poetry......320

MARGARET WALKER:
MARY McCLEOD BETHUNE...........P. of N....188

ROBERT E. HAYDEN:
FREDERICK DOUGLASS..................171
HOMAGE TO EMPRESS OF THE BLUES........164

POEMS OF THE WAR

ALFRED DUCKETT:
PORTRAIT PHILIPPINES................202

MOSES CARL HOLMAN:
NOTES FOR A MOVIE SCRIPT...........203

WILLIAM ROSE BENET:
THE STRONG SWIMMER..................295

WITTER BYNNER:
DEFEAT................................295

SELDEN RODMAN:
NORRIS DAM..........................294

KENNETH PORTER:
STREET SCENE: 1946..................299

RUSSELL ATKINS:
POEM..................................208

POETRY ALOUD

POEMS ABOUT:

1 ANIMALS

2 NATURE

3 PLACES

4 PEOPLE

5 HISTORICAL EVENTS

6 HUMOROUS SUBJECTS

7 DRAMATIC STORIES

8 RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS

9 THOUGHTS ON LIFE

10 DEATH

Voted Routine!

1 - Animals

2 - Nature

3 - People

4 - Love, Death, Philosophy

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

DATE

May 12, 1949

To

DEPARTMENT

FROM

DEPARTMENT

IN RE:

The following students have not returned to Mr. Hughes their revised drafts of interesting creative writing pieces:

RINNY TEMPLETON---a very good poem about her street.

MICHELLE HERRMANN--manuscript entitled, I believe, "My Street Is An Open Book."

JANICE PORTER---sketch about her neighbors, old lady and jam.

PETER GOURFAIN---a short story

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

DATE May 18, 1949

To Warren Seyfert
FROM Langston Hughes

DEPARTMENT

DEPARTMENT

IN RE: CREATIVE WRITING

Dear Warren,

A complete set of the creative work as assembled and given to you, also went to Mr. Henderson and Miss Merrick; to Miss Shepherd a set of the 10th grade work; to Miss Rusk of the 8th; and to Miss Flickinger and Mr. Phelps a set of the 6th grade poems and play---since these were the persons most interested in the groups as they went along.

Miss Shepherd and Miss Rusk seem to feel it might be wise for all of us to get together with you a few moments in regard to possible use of or publication of the material, now that you have seen it all (and they have, too), and since you were not able to meet with us last time. If you think such a little meeting is in order (15 minutes or so ought to do it), anytime Monday or Tuesday would be OK for me---maybe lunchtime or after school---or any other time.

By Monday I shall have for you my notes on the work and a list of the things I think are creatively the best.

Sincerely,

P.S. And possibly Mr. Swartz who's interested in publishing some of it.

SYLLABIC RHYTHMS

2nd Session

April

RUTH MECHELES----NONSENSE SYLLABLES

ALPHABET LULLABY

WALTER GREENE----LYMERICKS

GIULIO FERMI-----PARODY OF "ULALUME" BY POE

LOUIS ROTHSCHILD----LIMERICKS & NONSENSE

Special 8th Grade Creative Project on Rhythm and Communication

Unified Arts
& Mr. Hughes

Part of the program in Bf. 342, May 4, 1949:

Presented by Mr. Mason's music group and Miss Merrick's body movement group.

1. "Make Believe" -- The Rhythmaires -- Larry Shapiro, clarinet and sax
Judy Friedman, xylophone
Alice Bock, piano; Arthur Hirsch, drums
Virginia Spaeth, bass
Mickey Kauffman, drums and glasses

Charleston Dancers -- Adrian Gordon
Melinda Mitchell

2. "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" -- Mickey Kauffman -- Solo on cocktail glasses

3. Baseball Ballet -- "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" -- Cathy Allison
Phil Marcus
and Rhythmaires

4. Magic -- Bob Alter -- "Skaters Waltz"

5. Fox Trot in the Rough -- "Who?" -- Art Koff, Roger Stone and Rhythmaires

6. Sports Motions:

Musical Accompaniment:

Baseball -- Ira Lee
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
Wrestling -- Alfred Knight, Bob Zener
"Tell Me That You Love Me"
Ping Pong -- John Crewdson, Art Koff
"Funeral March"
Golf -- Joe Kreines

7. Rhythmic Pattern Changes -- original -- Arthur Hirsch
(Can you identify what song the rhythm comes from?)

8. Jitterbug -- Ruth Tolman

9. Concentration -- Game -- Group, assisted by audience

10. "Tico, Tico" -- The Rhythmaires

*(Program subject to change without notice)

Diving film to be shown later in Bf. 15! -- Art Koff and assistants

April 26, 1949

BODY MOVEMENT

Brief record:

Group discussed before starting actual work. We will explore
availability of swimming pool soon. Koff and Knight are divers.

Zener and Knight explored the rhythmic patterns in ping pong.
They found out that a set pattern is impossible and so will use the
rhythm natural to the game. Body movements are chiefly arm, feet, and
shifting weight.

Marcus, Lee, Koff, Kreines, and Crewdson explored the rhythm
patterns in baseball. Throwing, running, batting, and catching, pitching
illustrate some of the varied rhythm patterns. Much body movement.

Problem: How to present it to an audience.

Allison, Mitchell, Tolman, and Gordon explored rhythms in dance
forms. They found that there is lots of body motion in jitterbug and
the Charleston. Leaps, beats, turns, etc. are present in ballet.
They discussed a pantomime play with dancing worked in. It could show
body motion in telling a story. (What story? Possibly relate to baseball.)

Dorothy Hall visited us to get help on her poem.

Wed. -- 4th period only.

Thurs. -- 3rd period only.

Friday and Monday are double periods.

Group was dependable on borrowed equipment.

March 3, 1949

Mr. Hughes
Miss Helmkamp
Miss Letton
Mr. Schwartz
Miss Shepherd

Here are a tentative letter to Mr. Seyfert and a
proposed schedule for Mr. Hughes. Do look at both critically.
There are, I realize, other possible combinations for the April
plans. Be sure to indicate any changes that should be made.
If you can get your suggestions to me by Friday morning, I'll
see that everything reaches Mr. Seyfert that afternoon.

Betty

Dear Mr. Seyfert,

Here are the tentative plans made with Mr. Hughes at
our English Department meeting on Wednesday. We are asking
all upper school English students interested in help with
creative writing to indicate their free periods. This
information will be turned over to Mr. Hughes who hopes to
organize either individual or group projects in creative
writing - possibly with the view of publishing some of the
writing in a printed or mimeographed supplement to the
*Midway*.

Every

BEFORE THE MEETING Friday and for an indefinite time, Mr. Hughes will (from 9-9:30) work with one eighth grade section that has demonstrated an interest in reading poetry aloud.

Sometime next week Mr. Hughes will arrange to
discuss with all the ninth grade sections various suggestions
for writing autobiographical material.

Enclosed is a proposed schedule for a series of four
sessions to be conducted at all upper grade levels by Mr.
Hughes concerning American poetry from the historical point
of view and with emphasis upon poetry of the Negro. We have
tried to work on the basis of the new April schedule. Have
we overlooked any conflicts?

We would appreciate very much your comments and
suggestions concerning the plans.

Sincerely,

THURSDAY

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
The Laboratory School
DAILY BULLETIN

MARCH 31, 1949

8:30 TEACHERS PLEASE ANNOUNCE:

UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS: Mr. Hughes will not meet his Creative Writing Seminars or his poetry lecture groups today and tomorrow. Please continue with your regular schedules on these days. (Mr. Henderson)

UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS: May we remind you gently of some of the *do's* and *don'ts* of the lunch hour? Eating of lunches must be confined to the quadrangle, Scammon Garden, and the lunchroom. Waste containers are available for your sandwich wrappings. Please do not block the steps which lead into Judd Hall. Also, please do not bring baseballs to school for use during lunch period. The ruling against hard-ball playing must be enforced as a safety measure which I am sure you all can understand. Finally, no Stineway tours, please. Confine your gustatory peregrinations to the local scene. (Mr. Henderson)

INTERSCHOLASTIC GOLF - All boys interested in going out for the junior golf team may get application forms from Mr. Beard or Mr. Zarvis. Practice daily at 3:30 at the East end of Stagg Field. (Mr. Zarvis)

INTERSCHOLASTIC BOYS: Please turn in your application forms for interscholastics right away. (Mr. Zarvis)

After school dramatics - 3:30 (Miss Oleson)

After School Play - 3:00 (Weekly Bulletin)

Campfire - 3:00 (Weekly Bulletin)

After School Shop - 3:20 to 4:15 - 141 Belfield (Weekly Bulletin)

After School Art Studio - 3:30 to 4:15 - 153 Belfield (Weekly Bulletin)

Intramurals - 3:30 to 4:30 - Sunny (Weekly Bulletin)

FACULTY:

UPPER SCHOOL FACULTY: Will you please mark *tardy* all students who come into homeroom after 8:30? Unless we are consistent in this practice, it will be impossible to carry on a defensible pupil-accounting program. (Mr. Henderson)

7th Grade Advisers - 2:30 - 158 Belfield (Weekly Bulletin)

8th Grade Advisers - 3:30 - 205 Blaine (Weekly Bulletin)

9th Grade Advisers Meeting - 3:30 - 210 Blaine (Weekly Bulletin)

10th Grade Advisers - 4:00 - 107 Blaine (Weekly Bulletin)