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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1949)
regon Student Recalls Year f Enjoyable Study in France By CORAUE NELSON ! On the ship which sailed from pew York City for Paris at mid flight, August 28, 1948, was Eliza beth Kratt, senior in French, who was to spend a year studying in one of the richest cultural centers of the world. “The French have to study too hard in many ways. Their program is very difficult,” commented Hiss Kratt, comparing French and American educational systems. “They are ready to major at 18 with a good liberal arts background. Competition is more difficult, and they've just got to be good.” Miss Kratt spent her junior year in France under the program spon sored by Sweet Briar College in Virginia. Courses at the Sorbonne [began on Nov. 2 and at that time, she enrolled in classes in Renais sance literature, seventeenth and twentieth century literature, and Middle Ages. At the Ecole de Louvre, she studied history of French sculpture and history of nineteenth and1 twentieth century ’=' en-*.n painting. Adjustment takes time \ Members of the Sweet Briar group were placed in French fam ilies all through Paris. “In spend ing a year there, you learn to know the place and the people a little— much more than just traveling through. It took at least half the time to get adjusted. What I liked about the city and what was dif ferent about it was easier to ob serve, once I was settled some what,” Miss Kratt said. She enjoyed her visit to the Louvre, with its incomparable col lection of paintings, and going to concerts, the theater, opera, and the Comedie Francaise. A course in contemporary French literature, given especially for the Sweet Briar group, enabled them to see a play a week, which they discussed in class. Picnics were held from time -to time at Fontainebleu, Versailles, Chartres, and Chantilly Castle, which has a big park and race track. CASTLES IMPRESSIVE “The castles along the Loire are very impressive, said" Miss Kratt, listing the carved wood plaques, tapestries, paintings, and painted tile floors to be found in many of them. “All of the castles are fur nished by one, and people are living in some of them. And the guides— oh, what characters,” she said. "The weather is a lot like Oregon in many ways,” she claimed. “Spring is lovely and it gets warm early. The people blossom too— fishing along the rivers, sitting in the parks. There are cats on the windmills sunning themselves.” She observed that French men never fail to have neck scarves tucked inside their suit jackets, no matter what the weather. OTHER COUNTRIES SEEN Miss Kratt found an entirely dif ferent atmosphere in Switzerland and Italy, where she spent one week and! two weeks, respectively. A $500 foreign study scholarship was awarded her from her sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma, which has a program of supporting exchange students. “For a French major, it is an in comparable chance to study the language,” she said. “The most im portant thing to me was the oppor tunity to be in what is perhaps the richest cultural center of the world. The city is very picturesque, excit ing and thought-provoking.” She described the colorful gardens of Luxembourg and Tuileries, and small parks with perhaps no more than three trees which dot the city. RECORDED GIFT SUGGESTIONS Long Play—33 'A RPM Miss Liberty—Org. Cast Carnival Tropicana—Andre Kostelanetz South Pacific—Orig. Cast Carousel—Orig. Cast Littlest Angle—Loretta Young Lullaby of Christmas—Gregory Peck Student Prince—Marek Weber King Cole Trio Vol. 4 Merry Christmas—Bing Crosby Dorothy Shay Sings 45 RPM Singles: Mule Train—Vaughn Monroe Lucky Old Sun—Vaughn Monroe I Wanna' Go Home—-Perry Como ALBUMS: King Cole at the Piano Cocktail Capers—Art Van Damme Rendezvous With Peggy Lee Piano Rhythms—Count Basie That Midnight Kiss—Mario Lanza Jeanette MacDonald Operetta Favorites Piano Music of Mendelssohn Little Black Sambo—Paul Wing Pinoccho—Cliff Edwards Peter and the Wolf—Sterling Holloway 78 RPM A1 Jolson Album Ethel Smith Album Rudolph Friml Melodies Star Dust—Bing Crosby At the Piano—Frankie Carle Music of Morton Gould Invitation to the Waltz—Andre Kostelanetz Moonlight Sonata—Beethoven Bolero—Ravel Treasury of Grand Opera Symphony Espagnole—Lalo Chopin—List Album Symphony No. 5—Dvorak French Art Songs—Maggie Teyte 00^ CENTER ■>O WEST TENTH-PHONE 5266 Messiah Set For Sunday Presentation By MARGARET EDWARDS Handel’s oratorio, “The Messiah," will be presented by the University Choral Union of 700 voices and the 70-piece symphony orchestra at 8 p.m. Sunday in McArthur Court. The oratorio was given last year by the group. Solo parts will be taken by stu dents from the School of Music. Theodore Kratt, dean of the school, will direct the event, for wmcn no admission will be charged. Station KUGN will broadcast the program. “The many requests for a repeat performance of ‘Tire Messiah’ ex plains its presentation again this year,’’ Kratt pointed out. “Last year 7000 people jammed McAr thur Court and 1500 had to be turned away for lack of room.” SOLOISTS FEATURED - Soloists for the event will include sopranos Dorothy Gangnath, soph omore; Dolores Kletzing, sopho more, and Louise Leding, junior. Lucille Olson, sophomore, and Bar bara Detrick, sophomore, will sing the alto parts with James Kays, senior, and Evan Skersies, senior, singing the tenor solos. The basses will be Robert Roberts, senior, Phillip Green, junior, and Walter Martin, sophomore. This will be the third presenta tion of “The Messiah” since Kratt organised the choral union in 1939. It was presented in spring, 1941, as well as last year in December. Ore gon had previously had no musical programs on such a large scale, the dean declared. The choral unidn practices twice weekly during fall term for the two hour event. WORK WRITTEN IN 21 DAYS The oratorio which tells the story of the birth of Christ was written by George Frederick Handel in 1742. It was sketched and scored within 21 days. The oratorio is a form of religious music with chorus, solo voices, and orchestra, whose themes and text are usually derived from the Bible. Handel, who had earlier become famous for his operas, turned to the oratorio because in this form he was able to give scope to his gen ius for choral writing and to revive that art of chorus singing which is the normal outlet for English musi cal talent. KING STARTS TRADITION The tradition of the audience's standing during the singing of the “Hallelujah Chorus” was started by King George III and his court in 1744 when the oratorio was present ed before the court. The king and his attendants rose during the mov ing chorus. “The Messiah” was first sung in the United States in 1818 when it was presented in Boston Christmas Eve. The choral union included only 300 in its first year when it present ed “Elijah.” The following year it presented “The Messiah” for the first time. Later presentations by the group were “King Arthur” by Purcell, “The New Earth” by Had ley, and “Drum Taps” by Howard Hanson. During the war years the choral union was discontinued for lack of male voices but last year saw the revival of the choral union and “The Messiah.” Entry Blanks Due All intramural team managers have been asked to turn in their “A” and “B” basketball entries to the intramural office before the j Christmas holidays. Qualified of-' ficials are also asked to contact; the IM office. Constitution> Name Adopted By Junior Interfraternity Council Oregon’s Junior Interfraternity Council is now organized under its new constitution and ready to take its place in campus activities, Presi dent Bill Carey stated after the group’s meeting Tuesday night. Formerly called the Freshman Interfraternity Council, the JIFC is an organization composed of fraternity pledge class presidents. The new name was adopted as part of the revamped constitution. One of the group's bigger tasks this term has been the organiza tion of the Frosh Bonfire for Homecoming. JIFC members, in cooperation with dormitory fresh men, worked out the program for guarding the fuel pile from marau ders. Fred Van Horn, president of In terfraternity Council, “big broth er” to the JIFC, commended the junior organization for its active interest. “This interest in campus affairs will prepare them for future re sponsibilities at the University of Oregon,” Van Horn asserted. It is said that more people get hurt in golf than in any other sport Yet caddies keep right on whistling FOR A CAREER ABROAD ... The American Institute for Foreign Trade otters intensive professional education for International business. ★ Principles and Practices of Foreign Trade. Export-import procedures, finance, accounting, marketing, ad vertising, international economics, industrial relations. dr Area Studies Latin America and the Far East fr Modern Languages Spanish, Portuguese, French Applications now being accepted for February 1950 semester AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN TRADE' William L. 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