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Discussed by M. Hazar

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At this time his—lfe becomes inter-~4
“woven with “that of “Arthur Rimbaud,

who was the Son of a ne’er-do-well officer
and a mother With a firm sense of duty.
Rimbaud was a précocious child with an
innaté desire to deny everything he
learned; M. Hazard called him a Pro-
.metheus: His first verses, like those of
Verlaine, were Parnassian in form; some
were even like thosé of the romantic
Victor Hugo, othersglike those of Theo-
dore de Banville. His first manner, con-
sequently, was one of violence; his poetry
was a cry of blasphemy against every-
thing and especially against banality; he
is happy only when he is creating a
scandal and flinging mud. In 1870 he
fled from the provinces to Paris where
he was imprisoned. After this unfortu-
nate experience he left for Belgium as a
beggar. Sometime later he returned to
his home in Charleville. _In 1871 he pro-
pounded an entirely new theory in a let-
ter to Dumesnil. Since Grecian times,
he said, there had’ always been rimers
but no poets. The poet should be a seer
who should not reflect the. world about
him but who should create something else
by exaggerating his capacity for sensa-
tion, The poet can only make himself
a seer by a long, continued, reasoned-out
disorder of the senses. He indulges his
imagination in frenzies which lead to the
creation of a second world, of an infinite
beyond. Baudelaire is to him the first
seer so far as ideals are concerned, but
his form is trivial and’ petty. Rimbaud
now proposes a new form in order tc
translate his’ visions. :

This is the stage at which Rimbaud
“enters the life of Verlaine. At this time
the menage Verlaine was going. very
badly, for husband. and wife were ill-
suited to each other. Into the strangely
assorted household Verlaine invited the
young Rimbaud, a strange, awkward,
ragged figure.. Because of the displeasure
of his wife, Verldine was forced to .leave
his home with Rimbaud, from whom he
refused to be separated, and to depart
with him for Brussels, In 1872. they
were deported by the Belgians and sailed.
for I.ondon where’ they touched the very
depths of misery.- So great was their
distress that Rimbaud became tired ot
it atti abandoned Verlaine, ill at the mo-
men s ‘soon as he had recovered,
Verlaine followed him to “Brussels and
in his madness shot him, but not fatally.
Verlaine, immediately imprisoned, had
‘time for reflection and sent out during
his captivity some of his most lasting
work, the Romances sans Paroles (1874)
Sagesse (1881): which described his re-
morse, his humble faith, his desire for
repose. In 1884 came Jadis et Naguere
containing, in M. Hazard’s opinion, the
most beautiful of his poems... In all of
his poetry there is a renunciation of ,the
oratorical, the’ intelligent, the reasonable,

in favor of intuition, sentiment, and emo-

tion. In Verlaine’s poetry we ‘find echoes
rather than sounds, ‘music rather ‘than
fanfares.

On- October 28th, M. Hazard con-
tinued his description of the literary rela-
‘tions between Verlaine and Rimbaud.
Until 1873 Rimbaud’s works had not been
collected. into a single volume. Now
Verlaine published them under the title of
Les Illuminations. ©His poetry was
strange, extraordinary, and bizarre. With
Verlaine there was a voluntary absence
of all logic; with Rimbaud there was
the same thing plus a dynamic power.
Words in Rimbaud possessed not only

* their own individual force bit an addi-
tional force gained by juxtaposition. To
Verlaine words create a hallucination of
the eye and ear; each word is valuable
for its sound and its place. What is for
others slavery is for the poet fantastic
creation. The less the poet -is understood,
the greater value does his poetry -con-
tain. ot

In 1871. Rimbaud published his Bateau
Ivre which may be characterized as her-
metic poetry, incapable of being inter-
preted Without great effort. To com-
plete a discussion of his work one must
include his Saison en Enfer, likewise dif-
ficult to interpret. First of all it is a
sincere, lyrical confession of the psycho-
logical distress that went on in his soul

" |imagery and an emphasis on sound.

and the ordinary, no one’s influence on
French poetry was greater than Rim-
baud’s. In short he was the forerunner
of sudrealisme, the tenets of which were
‘a hatred of the academic, a renewal of

M. Hazard then returned to Vérlaine,
whom hé déscribed- as having, -in- 1885,
established himself in Paris with his
nother. One year later, after her death,
he began to frequent and become a mem-
ber of the lowest class of society; he died
in frightful misery in 1896. One must
not, howéver, remember Verlaine as this
debased man; rather should one regard
him as one who has merely a corporeal
relation with the true Verlaine. The
ending of Rimbaud was no less igho-
minious. After adventures of rather a
dubious character in Holland, Java and
Africa with the sole purpose of accumu-
lating money, he died with terrific suf-
fering at the age of thirty-seven.

Both of .the extraordinary creatures
effected a great change in the national
literary traditions of France. The logic
and’ oratorical -value previously ~~mani-
fested ,in French lyricism were, because
of their revolt, no longer to dominate
poetic creation.



The Red ions in Athletics

Evidence that university faculties are
giving thought to the need of a sports
program which- will attract general par-
ticipation on the part of the students
in their ‘institutions is seen by Red
Cross representatives having extensive
cantacts with the educational centers
of the country.

‘The discussion of too much special-
ized athletic activity, in which only
super athletes are wanted, or devel-
oped, leaving the majority of the stu-
dents on the sidelines, has drawn atten-
tion not. alone of the public, but has
aroused interest among the students
themselves, even though the charge is
not necessarily applicable in all cases.

In some instances, as one observer
commented, , too specialized athietirs.|
has resulted! in what might. be termed
a course in “sports appreciation,” but
has added no extra Credits to the in-
dividual student’s record. What
needed, apparently, is a program which
is valuable to all students primarily as

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sides, a certain practical aspect.

For. years the Red Cross has been
welcomed in .universitics and colleges,
with its program of swimming instruc-
tion, life-saving and first aid. These
coursés have been adopted as. official
fequirements in certain institutions
where physcal education is stressed.
In the U. S. Military Academy at West
Point; among others, and most State
colleges the Red Cross certificate is
the highest award for swimming and
life-saving. In technical institutions,
such as. schools of mining and en-
gineering, in normal schools stressing
physical education the first aid course
is recognized for its practical value
after graduation.

The Red Cross, it is explained, has
no part in a discussion of too special-
ized sports; nevertheless, as the prob-
lem has arisen, it has suddenly been
realized that in: the Red Cross _ pro-
gram, which is a part of the work at
so many institutions of higher learn-
ing, there is an answer ready to hand.

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higher academic qualifications than one
who is not college trained—why should
he not be better equipped for practical
sport? He very likely will be a golf
enthusiast, a tennis devotee, and, in
summer¥ at least, will spend part of his
time on the water. He may be a good
hand at the former games; and through
Red Cross instruction he can be sure
of his qualifications as a swimmer.” —

The degree of interest in these Red
Cross college sports is indicated by the
fact that a considerable part sof the
instruction is. by qualified students who
give volunteer service. This service
‘has its reward in a certificate from the
Red-Cross in recognition of a certain
number of hours of such service, a
higher award in a medal, and of course,
the distinctive emblem of the life saver.
Should the graduate elect physical edu-
cation as his field, he has a valuable
asset in this official recognition of his
effort. :





in an attempt to still the most noble fac-
ulties of his being. Such an attempt left
him bruised in spirit and in the midst of
a frightful moral solitude. One also finds
in this poem an ars poetica in which dis-
order plays the leading part. Everything
which is ordinarily conceived as beautiful

ig to him horrible. Because he excited an

among college leaders, consequently
each’ year sees.a-closer degree of. co-
operation between the Red Cross and
the country’s educational institutions.
Educators are found among the impor-
tant groups of Red Cross leaders in the
country, while the contact of students
with the practical values of Red Cross

physical recreation, and which has, be-}

one Red Cross instructor put] °
it, “‘the college man is supposed to have;



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drawn into local leadership of Red’
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