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...station in The Bronx had done something else. It had taken in Negro recruits, put them side by side with whites without ruffling any tempers. Miss Reynard had colored officers on her staff. Navy officials had held their breaths but, as one Southern-born white WAVE officer said: "We took it as a challenge and just made up our minds we would meet...
Every month 850 new boots excitedly arrived in The Bronx to have the symbol of their new responsibility-a Mainbocher-designed hat-clapped on their heads and to buckle down to learning their duty. After six weeks' schooling under the piercing blue eyes of Lieut. Commander Elizabeth Reynard, who once taught English literature at Barnard, they were ready for duty...
...which a woman was unaware of limitations on her freedom or individuality, and has thrust me into the big world where women are women and men are men." She had emerged into what she called "this bifurcated society" like a discoverer and without even the seafaring background of Miss Reynard, whose grandfather had been the captain of a whaling ship...
Elizabeth Reynard, Dean Gildersleeve and the advisory council spearheaded a campus blitzkrieg. For their key officers they were frankly looking for the best products of the colleges. "We had to," Miss Reynard explains. "We had to have the best to set the tone." That selectivity, they are convinced, was another factor in the success of the WAVES...
Rudyard Kipling acknowledged Seton's influence on his Jungle Books. Seton's Wild Animals I Have Known became a lucrative best-seller in 1898, the model for scores of animal stories. Seton claimed that his stories, unlike such tales as Reynard the Fox, gave "in fiction form the actual facts of an animal's life and modes of thought." Many doubted this, and a great controversy over "the Nature Fakers" began in 1904 when John Burroughs, in The Atlantic Monthly, abused Seton and his disciples as frauds and phony naturalists. Ornithologist Chapman, Novelist Hamlin Garland, Sportsman Teddy...