VTHE UNIVERSITYOFCHICAGO MAGAZINEAPRIL 19 4 6EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEsEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBS3S3ESH FIFTIETH REUNION, CLASS OF '96The first full fledged (four-year) senior class to be graduated from the University willcelebrate Its fiftieth anniversary on the quadrangles Alumni Day, June 8. From asfar west as Washington and as far east as Virginia, members of the class have indicated that they plan to be present. The following roster of the class is taken from theclass records on file in the Alumni office. Any corrections made by our readers will beappreciated.Mrs. Samuel W. Ellsworth, Quincy, Mass.(Kate S. Anderson)Dr. Mary B. Baird, Eureka, Kansas"Mrs. C. T. Wyckoff (deceased)(Georgia C. Baker)Harrison B. Barnard, Chicago, 111.Maria Beatty, Chicago, 111."Caroline M. Breyfogle (deceased)Howard S. Brode, Santa Monica, Calif."Edwin P. Brown (deceased)Percy P. Carroll, North Salem, N. Y.Henry T. Chace, Jr., Chicago, 111."Wilbur T. Chollar (deceased)Lisi C. Cipriani — no good addressHenry L. Clarke, Baltimore, Md.Mrs. Henry G. Gale, Chicago, 111.(Agnes S. Cook)"Edwin G. Cooley (deceased)"Elizabeth T. Coolidge (deceased)Mary I. Dana — no good address"Charles D. Dibell (deceased)Horace R. Dougherty, Seattle, Wash."Raymond C. Dudley (deceased)"Arthur D. Dunn (deceased)Edith Earle — no good address"Mabel Earle (deceased)Charles A. Finch, Fairfax, Mo."Joseph M. Flint (deceased)"Andrew N. Fox (deceased)Grace Freeman, Aurora, 111.Joseph C. Friedman — no gcod addressMrs. Henry D. Hubbard, Washington, D. C.(Mary Furness)"Henry G. Gale (deceased)Howard S. Gait, Claremont, Calif.Cora M. Gettys, Chicago, 111.Rose A. Gilpatrick, Hallowell, Maine"Hyman E. Golberg (deceased)Delia M. Haft, Rapid City, So. Dak."John C. Hessler (deceased)William A. Higgins — no good addressRalph H. Hobart, Chicago, 111."Mrs. A. R. E. Wyant (deceased)(Louise Hulbert)"Mrs. Arthur W. Bush (deceased)(Mary L. Hubbard)Mrs. Joseph R. Downey, St. Paul, Minn.(Frances I. Hopkins)John Hulshart, Manasquan, N. J.Mrs. Eugene B. Woodruff, Kalamazoo, Mich.(Lila C. Hurlbut)Franklin Johnson, Jr. — no good addressRalph H. Johnson, Richmond, Va. Eleanor L. Jones, Los Angeles, Calif.Edith S. Kellogg, Los Angeles, Calif.Mrs. David M. Myers, Larchmont, N. Y.(Jeannette Kennedy)"Luella M. Kerr (deceased)Van R. Lansingh, New York, N. Y.Harry A. Lipsky, Chicago, 111."Mrs. Preston Rice (deceased)(Katherine A. Livingston)"Ludwig M. Loeb (deceased)Alfred E. Logie, Chicago, 111.Gustave H. Loewenstein — no good addressEstelle Lutrell, Tucson, Ariz.Anna J. MacClintock, Millersburg, Ky.Samuel MacClintock, Chicago, 111."Albert E. McKinley (deceased)Mrs. Eugene Patterson, Santa Barbara, Calif.(Mary W. McWilliams)Philip F. Matzinger, Las Vegas, Nev."Mrs. William E. Chalmers (deceased)(Mary D. Maynard)Frederick H. Minard, Los Angeles, Calif.Wesley C. Mitchell, New York, N. Y.William E. Moffatt, Toledo, OhioD'avid W. Mynrrnan — no good address"Walter A. Payne (deceased)Earl W. Peabody, St. Louis, Mo."Charles S. Pike (deceased)Cora M. Porterfield, Glendale, Calif.Joseph E. Raycroft, Princeton, N. J.Martha L. Root — no good address"Marshall E. Sampsell (deceased)"Kenneth G. Smith (deceased)Mary D. Spaulding, St. Louis, Mo.Mrs. Amos Alonzo Stagg, Stockton, Cal.(Stella Robertson)"Raymond W. Stevens (deceased)Charles W. Stewart, Burbank, Calif.Harriet Stone, Miami, Fla.Harry W. Stone, Winter Park, Fla.Elmer E. Todd, Seattle, Wash."Cyrus F. Tolman (deceased)Alice Van Vliet, Fruitvale, Calif.John F. Voigt, Chicago, 111.Henry W. Wales, Jr., Louisville, Ky."James P. Whyte (deceased)Gwendolen B. Willis, Racine, Wis.Mrs. Jesse D. Burks, Washington, D. C.(Frances G. Williston)^Charles S. Winston (deceased)"Paul G. Woolley (deceased)Emery R. Yundt, Los Angeles, Calif. EIEEEIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEmniwmumummnuuu^^THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOMAGAZINEVolume 38 April, 1946 Number 6PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONHOWARD W.. MORT EMILY D. BROOKEEditor Associate EditorWILLIAM V.^MQRGENSTERN JEANETTE LOWREYContributing EditorsIN THIS ISSUE pagePrelude to Vast Violence,, Don Ebright - - - 3{<I Was There" .---_--_- 5More Woodnotes Wild, Frederick S. Breed -------- 9Chicago's Big Ten Record -------------10News of the Quadrangles ------ 11June Reunion ------------ 14The New New Testament, W. E. Garrison ------- 15Reunion in '21 - - - -. - - - 17Robert J. Bonner - - - -----18News of the Classes 20COVER: Hutchinson Court Fountain where alumni will gather theevening of June 8 for the thirty-sixth annual Sing.Published by the Alumni Association of the University of Chicago monthly, from Octoberto June. Office of Publication, 5738 University Avenue, Chicago 37, Illinois. Annual subscription price $2.00. Single copies 25 cents. Entered as second class matter December 1, 1934, atthe Post Office -at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879. The American AlumniCouncil, B. A. Ross, advertising director, 22 Washington Square, New York, N. Y., is theofficial advertising agency of the Magazine.WITH OUR ALUMNI CLUBSNew York CityAlumni in the New York area metfor dinner at the Beekman TowerHotel on March 4. Guest speaker wasHarold C. Urey, Professor on the staffof the Institute of Nuclear Studiesat the University, and Nobel-prizewinner, who was closely associatedwith the development of the atomicbomb. Mr. Urey spoke to the clubon "The Social and Political Aspectsof the Atomic Bomb."Washington, D. C.The University of Chicago AlumniClub of Washington held its monthlydinner meeting on March 20. Mr.H. R. Baukhage, alumnus of the classof Ee-o-leven, and well known journalist and radio commentator, wasguest of honor. Mr. Baukhage discussed the question: "Are We Americans Making a Mess of Our Occupation of Germany?"Island of Kauai, T.H.An informal get-together was recently held in Hawaii when five former students and graduates of theUniversity met for luncheon at theHanamaulu Cafe. Those present wereMorris G. Fox, AM '41; Ruth Hubbard, '36; Seido Ogawa, '41; FrancisOkita, AM '39; and the Hon. PhilipL. Rice, '16. Further informal meetings are planned^ and any alumniliving on the Island of Kauai whowould like to participate are asked tocall Judge Rice or Mr. Okita ofLihue, Kauai, T.H.Seattle, WashingtonThe Seattle Alumni Club met fordinner on January 31 at the GowmanHotel. Speaker for the evening wasDr. Ivar Spector, PhD '28, author,lecturer and Professor of RussianLanguage and Literature at the University of Washington who spoke on"Russia In The New Pacific."The club plans its next meeting forThursday, April 25. Alumni in Seattle who are interested in attendingmeetings are urged to write Mrs.Zillah Wilson, 139 N. 75th Street,Seattle 3.Detroit, MichiganDetroit area alumni will meet April23, at the Ingleside Club for dinner.Guest of honor will be Mr. HowardMort, Editor of the University of Chicago Magazine and ExecutiveSecretary of the Alumni Association,who will speak on "What Goes OnHere", meaning the University, andwill hold an informal discussion session with the alumni regarding developments on campus. The club hopesto have as its guests high school students from the Detroit area who areinterested in the University.Wichita, KansasWalter Johnson, of the University'sDepartment of History will meet withthe Wichita alumni at a dinner onSunday evening, May 26, at theDroll's English Grill, at 7:00 P.M.All alumni in the Wichita area are cordially invited to come and bringa guest. The price will be $1.25, andreservations are to be made not laterthan May 22 with Mr. Robert M.Moore, 4601 Meadow Lane, Wichita18.BELATED ACKNOWLEDGMENTCredit for the frontispiece in ourJanuary issue — the University Avenuelamp post in the snow — should havebeen given to Dr. Howard GordonReiser, MD '45, Lieutenant (j.g.)United States Naval Reserve, whotook the picture which appearedoriginally in the 1945 Senior ClassYearbook of the Medical School ofthe University.1Ht^H ' L ^W\^B ,c- • '. Vtdtjii w^ w •-:$SBk Mf ,Ruth Duskin, eigth grade pupil at the University Laboratory School and one of the "Quiz Kids",with the first of the book treasure chests to be sent to the children of foreign lands. This donation from the Laboratory School is a part of the Treasure Chest campaign launched in New York.2PRELUDE TO VAST VIOLENCE® By DON EBRIGHT, Ph.D. '44The blow-uphas startedREVOLUTION, famine, mutiny, and death arefuriously brewing in the hate stirred cauldron ofmodern India. When it will boil over is any commentators guess. Pt. Srikrishtnadatta Paliwal, President ofthe United Province Congress, said that the final strugglewould be in 1947. Some of us feel that 1946 will be theyear of terrible violence. From the muckiest bazar to thepolished marble of Government House the rumoursspread like flies with sticky legs. It is a new and startlingexperience to be greeted by dirty-faced urchins lookingfor cigarette-butts, and sophisticated college students seeking a B.A., with the exasperatingly simple slogan, "QuitIndia." A rough looking Moslem said very passionately,"The first thing is to get all of you Europeans out ofIndia. Then we will fight it out with the Hindus. This isour fight. Keep out. We are ready. By night we whet ourknives."Congress and PowerWhether you cheer or jeer the fact is that the CongressParty candidates are winning sweeping victories and byApril's end will hold a majority of seats in the 1 1 provincial legislative assemblies. What will they do with theirnew found power? I was also in India, 1936-1942, whenthe Congress Party obtained a majority and had a firsthand opportunity to study the character and policy of theCongress. Will this largest political party with its steamroller success repeat its mistakes of 1937-1939? Congressthen had the chance of a lifetime to cooperate withminority groups and weld a solid front against an aliengovernment. What happened? Its one-party, totalitarian,democracy-by-arithmetic administration infuriated theMoslems and aroused lesser communities.Regarding flags the Congress leaders said, "Hoist thetricolor or else." This may have been a repudiation of theUnion Jack but it was also a challenge to minority groups.Communists shouted, "We want freedom too but notHindu freedom." They hoisted their flag. The Congressleaders said, "India's national anthem shall be our national anthem — Bande Mataram." Since some of theverses exalt Hinduism this poem was considered an insultto the monotheistic Moslems who walked-out of anypolitical rally in which this song was used. Non-Hindupatriots request a truly Indian national anthem; but tothe Hindu dominated Congress it is Bande Mataram ornothing.Congress tyranny has been scrutinized, reported, andpublished with care. The Pirpur Report, the ShareefReport, and Muslim Sufferings Under Congress Rule,by Fuzul-ul-Huq are objective studies. A more recentdocument is from the pen of Columbia Universitie's "out-caste," or India's Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Roa Ambedkar, who spares no punches in his 350 page book, What Congress and Gandhi have done to the Untouchables. LouisFischer may not have had time to read this, in his weekwith Gandhi, but it is significant none the less. These 60million Depressed Classes and 90 million Moslems may beall wrong, but they cannot be kicked out the politicalwindow by mere Hindu gestures.It is well to have this on the record that victory forthe largest political party may not necessarily mean freedom for India's 400 million. This is not sensed by theStanley Jones' and their policy of imperialism by appeasement. This makes the question, "What will happen inIndia in 1946" a million dollar proposition in an era ofsizzling headline ink.If Famine ComesIndia's political confusion is aggravated by the impending national calamity which threatens millions of lives.The food shortage is so acute that conditions worse than1943 confront India's millions. No people calmly facehunger, famine, and death. The sobering' fact is that therains have failed and the crops are perilously lean. Rice,millet, and wheat are withering in the fields. Indians areso absorbed in their drama of independence that theycannot understand the absence of a vast convoy of food-bearing ships hastening toward this promised land.Last week Pandid Nehru said, "India will revolt iffamine comes." Revolt from whom or what? At the present election progress Congress will be in power whenfamine comes. Will he then revolt against himself? orGod? Lack of rain and inadequate birth control methodshave conspired to play a wicked trick upon MotherIndia's millions. Don't forget that India gained 55 millionin population the last ten years. You cannot add thatmany bellies to be fed and not invite famine. You cannotlaunch a Grow More Food Compaign because divisionof labor prompts millions to say, "But we don't work withour hands." Let America feed the world.It is to be regretted that the Congress has exploitedhunger for political ends. Congress refused to join theGovernment Food Delegation to London and Washington. It is easier to blame the government in power thanto produce rain out of a brazen sky. It is more exhilarating to shout slogans than spade a garden. But such irresponsibility will not help India today or tomorrow. Possibly a major value of the mass exodus of EuropeansWe had just allocated our space for the April issue whenthe manuscript of Prelude to Vast Violence arrived fromone of our Ph.D. alumni in India. We immediately revisedour schedule so that it could appear in this issue. TheReverend Donald F. Ebright is Superintendent of theMoradabad District in the North India Conference of theMethodist Church in Southern Asia. The faculty of theDivinity School, where Ebright did his work for the doctorate in Church History, speak highly of his ability andwe think he has done an explosively good review of theIndian crisis as seen through the eyes of a resident.34 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEwould be the removal of a tolerant governing class willing to take the blame and the subsequent necessity ofIndia's leaders assuming responsibility and facing reality.The Time Has ComeBut if anyone thinks this is not the right time to changegovernments he may put the idea aside. It is now too lateto wait for the right time or the ideal solution. The war isover and the British know that the time has come for apolitical show-down. Lord Wavell, who has consistentlyaccepted British responsibility, has enabled liberals tohold a virtual political field-day, with the result thatIndia is nearer complete self-government than at anyother time in her checkered history.At least three times India has come close to becominga united nation and failure in each case was due toreligious communalism. That same communalism standsin the way of a united India today. It is interesting toremember that Lord Wavell is an ardent admirer of LordAllenby, who in similar circumstances, after World War I,achieved virtual independence for Egypt. Lord Allenbywon freedom for Egypt after six hours of persuasive argument from Lloyd George. Lord Wavell has been havinghours of conversations in London. What will he achieve?He admits that the Cripps proposal is dead and that theDominion status concept will no longer satisfy India. Thissoldier-statesman retains respect of hostile forces becausehe faces reality and seeks a fresh approach to a ticklishproblem. He knows the basic problem reads, "Is anyIndi-British union possible?"Palmer House RajasThis India problem is exasperating because it is bothsimple and complex. It is simple because most thoughtfulIndians believe that British rule should now give way toa new relationship. It is very simple: "Quit India. Go."It is complex because no generally acceptable solution hasthus far emerged. Indians cannot agree as to whom shallassume power when the British leave. Strong native stateshave their confidential plans. We hear of Hyderabaddemanding a corridor to the sea. The Sikhs had plans toresist the Japanese and rule the Punjab if the British fellin 1942. The 90 million Moslems will not admit that theHindu majority speak for India. Fiery Jinnah recentlysaid, "Moslems can never agree to one constitution-making body being set up for Indian rule. It will be perfectly futile and a waste of time." So there we are.The naive plans of certain roving pundits and PalmerHouse rajas ignore the basic fact that nationalism is atwo-way current. It sweeps over India giving everyonethe tingles and an urge to sing, "We want to be independent." It also electrifies social groups and accentuatesgroup differences. The same nationalism that evoked amighty Jai Hind provoked the recent bloody Bombayriots. Although it creates ugly counter tensions you cannot stop the drive of nationalism. It rolls along.To Quit or Not to QuitIndia's future is gloomy either way — to quit or not toquit. My advice to the tourist is, "Come and watch the explosion." The British have succeeded in holding thissub-continent together but once this cohesive force isremoved India's centrifugal forces will split into bits.This blow-up has started. Parades, protests, demonstrations, riots, civil disobedience, derailment of trains, lootingfood stores, burning government buildings, revolt, andcomplete civil war. It is either revolution or civil war.If the British resist the sweeping nationalist movementthere will be revolution. When the British leave there willbe frightful internal slaughter. The discontent, grindingpoverty, famine, peasant awakening, and rising tide ofhate add to the grimness of the impending conflict.But I do not look for revolution. The British have saidthat they were getting out and they will. They are following a movement they started last century. It is truethey are being hustled a bit but it is in the direction ofmajor British planning. What will bring chaos is civilwar. Sardar Vallabhbhar Patel, distinguished member ofthe Congress Working Committee recently said, "If Pakistan is to be achieved Hindus and Moslems will have tofight. There will be civil war." Note that this is Patelspeaking. 11: jThe world has been shocked by the magnitude of therecent Bombay riots. This is but a prelude to the bloodbath to come. The world may well be terrified by theinternal disorder which will convulse 400 million peoplecommunally loyal and stirred to hate. There will be theHindu-Moslem score to settle.The 60 million outcastes smart under the Hindu orderthat they may do three things in life, sweep the roads,skin dead pigs, and clean latrines. They will form a pivotfor terrorism. Hill tribes will . loot the plains. India'smillions of Criminal Tribes will be enabled to followtheir dharma unhampered.The vast vacuum created by the British withdrawalwill be filled by the ever-increasing pressure of Russia tothe North. From the Suez Canal to the Great Wall ofChina the Russian influence is steadily increasing. Indiawill be the center of great activity for the unhampered"bear." The platitude that the world will hover on India'sfrontiers and breathlessly watch the rise of a great worldpower with the tools of industrial might in a youthfulnations hands — when" the British leave — does not take.Complete self-government will shake India into aninternational position far below the inflated position shenow occupies. She must begin at the beginning and workher way up in agony. This time there will be no Britishto blame when the cow goes dry. It is unlikely that greatworld powers adjoining India will passively permit suchwidespread violence but will "occupy" India to restore"order."What Do the British Say?What is the attitude of the average Britisher in India?The change in mood and action since 1942 is significant.Englishmen who have spent half of their lives in Indiacalmly talk of quitting because their day is done. Civiliansare quietly selling their possessions and moving to the{Concluded on Page 19)// WAS THERE /./Edited from the script of the Friday evening, February1 5, broadcast of The Human Adventure presented bythe Mutual Broadcasting System with the Universityof Chicago. (7:00-7:30 P.M. C.S.T.)A story of European observers of American manners,customs and characteristics; from travelers' notebooks.The amazing and amusing reports of tourist to America.G.I. 1 : You can't tell me anything about the Chinese,Mac. I wouldn't trust 'em as far as I could throwthe Rocky Mountains. I was in that country. Andthe things I saw in China! Why, you wouldn't believe ...G.I. 2 : I was stationed in China. And the Chinese people— say, there are no more cheerful, hardworking,helpful, honest people in the world. You mightnot realize it until you've been there for a while,of course. But that's what I found when I wasthere. ...G.I. 3: You want to know something about the French?O.K. Here's the straight dope on the French.They got no morals, they got no conscience, theygot nothin'. There ain't a Frog in France thatain't a so and so, and that's the .truth. I knowbecause I been in France. There's one place Iseen with my own eyes. . . .G.I. 4: I'm here to tell you that if I had to choose between another country and the U.S.A. — why,there's no two ways about it; France is the place.There's a real country and real people. I wasthere. . . .G.I. 5: England! What a country! They have the worstclimate, and the worst food, and the worst dispositions in the world. First place, they won'ttalk to an American. Or if they do the dopessay something like, "Rathah a decent sort of day,eh?" Then you can be sure the day is terrible.England, huh! I been in England. . . . Man, youcouldn't get me back there with. . . .G.I. 6 : A lot of people used to tell me the English wereformal and cold. But you've got to be there tofind out differently. The only decent time I hadin the Army I had in England. I married anEnglish girl. Say, England's a great place. . . Iknow. . . . I was there.G.I. 1 : The Russians, wild and mean . . . the, Czechs,lazy and dumb . . . the Dutch, leave 'em alone... they're terrible ... I seen 'em. . . .G.I. 2 : The Russians are warm and friendly . . . theCzechs, industrious and intelligent . . . the Dutch,finest people in Europe. . . . That's where Iwas. ...G.I. 3: The Australians. ... You can have 'em. Iknow. . . .G.I. 4: The Australians. . . Just like Americans. ... Iwas there. . . . G.I: 5 : But I tell you, I know. . . .G.I. 6 : I was there. . . .AAAThese are reports by recent travelers to foreign lands.They are impressions gathered by GI's who have comeback to say, "I know. I was there." They were there, certainly. There is no doubt whatever of their seeing and believing. Yet as we hear them we forget that America hasundergone scrutiny by many travelers. We, too, have beenvisited by tourists. Of America and Americans Europeanshave many times had their say. So it is in a spirit of goodhumor and fair play that we turn to European reports onAmerica and Americans. Our preface shall be the plainScotch honesty and good nature of Robert Burns whorhymed it appealingly:Oh wad some Power the giftie gie usto see ourselves as others see usIt would from mony a blunder free usan' foolish notion!WALTER JOHNSON, of the Department of Historyand host on the program:America, to European visitors, has always been asource of interest and curiosity. For over one hundred years foreign tourists have viewed with mingledenthusiasm and distaste the unwieldy, yet vigorous,democracy of the New World as it grew out of theheritage of the Old World. To some, this nation wasthe hope for a new race of- men; to others, it was onlya nation scornful of European ways and traditions.Although the impressions of many of these travellers are often hasty and superficial, still their observations and criticisms did capture certain insights andunderstandings of America. They found the story ofAmerica largely the story of the impact of a rich andundeveloped continent on a European people. Creve-coeur, one of our distinguished 18th Century tourists, catching this spirit, wrote back to France:What then is the American, this new man? He iseither European, or the- descendent of a European,hence that strange mixture of blood, which you willfind in no other country. . . . Here individuals of allnations are melted into a new race of men, whoselabors and posterity will one day cause great changesin the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,who are carrying along with them that great mass ofarts, sciences, vigor, and industry which began longsince in the east; they will finish the great circle. . . .The American is a new man, who acts upon newprinciples; he must therefore entertain new ideas,and form new opinions, — This is an American. . . .56 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEThis then is the simple story of America as viewed byits tourists — this then is the Human Adventure.The new, the strange, the astonishing America is acentury and a half wonder to foreign travellers from theRevolution to the present time. American spirits, customs, characteristics — American manners, opinions, language and diet are seen and appraised through Europeaneyes. -And some of the most peculiar things impressed ourvisitors. Of the American diet, William MakepeaceThackery records:Oysters are a favorite food in America so I thoughtI should like to taste an oyster: I did so. And uponmy life I felt as if I had swallowed a live baby!Of the American breakfast George Clemenceau, Premier of France, sets down:Especially do I hail the American breakfast table.My greatest American discovery: the grapefruit.And a grieved Teutonic note from an attendant ofPrince Henry of Prussia:At the American dinner table I have found nothingto drink. Even to quench the thirst is nothing. Nothingbut ice water . . . ice water . . . and again, ice water.AchlThose were tourists on American foods. But of American habits of dining, of American conversation and camaraderie at the dinner table, one of the most celebratedof a long, long line of British novelists and lecturers,Charles Dickens, takes a dim view:At the American dinner table nobody says anythingto anybody. All the people are very dismal and seemto have tremendous secrets weighing on their minds.There is no conversation, no laughter, no cheerfulness,no sociality. Every man bolts has fare as if breakfasts,dinner, and suppers were necessities of nature never tobe coupled with recreation or enjoyment. All are seemingly in a hurry . . . in a dreadful hurry.The British painter, Burne- Jones, wrote after his trip:That dreadful phrase "quick lunch33! The verythought of it gives me indigestion.Americans, to visitors eyes, dine rapidly to the neglectof the amenities of life. The prevailing impression ofAmerca is one of haste, rush', hurry. . . . This, to Europeans, is a typical characteristic. Listen to the Frenchman, De Toqueville, in 1835:One of the most impressive characteristics of theAmerican people is their strange unrest.The Englishman, James Bryce, in 1880:Life is very tense in America . . . a tension which appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.H. G. Wells in 1906:My first impression was one of headlong hurry. Yes, we seem to have been in a hurry for a long while.That hurry is one of the things that caused certain travellers to become extremely unfond of us. Take an Englishlady whose name was Mrs. Trollope. In 1832 she wrotea book about America and what she said was a little hardon the land of the free and the brave:. / do not like the American's appearance. I do notlike his manners. I do not like his opinions. I neversaw an American man stand erect or walk well. Theyare nearly all hollow -chested and round-shouldered.The boorishness of the American is well illustrated bythis incident, which I witnessed.I was travelling down the Ohio River on a steamboatand one of the distinguished passengers was the President of the nation, General Andrew Jackson. GeneralJackson was filled with grief over the recent loss of hiswife, who had died only a few days before. As I wasstanding at the rail with the President he was approached by a rough, greasy looking fellow. This manstared at the President a moment and then said:You're Gen. Jackson, I guess.33"Yes, I am.33"Hm. Why, they told me you was dead.33No, providence has spared my life,33"Well . . . Hmmmm . . . your wife alive too, General?33"No. She was recently taken by the Lord,33"Aha! I thought it was one t3 other of ye,33Yes, our manners were abrupt. They grew out of afrontier directness and were displayed with a dreadfullack of polish. American manners grieved Charles Dickenswhen he was visiting St. Louis. Our curiosity and in-quisitiveness descended upon him in a St. Louis hotellobby. Dickens, on tour, was minding his own business,which was lecturing us, when a native of the town approached him, bade him:"Good morning. Say, it must be fine, being a famouswriter like you are, Mr. Dickens.33"It is sometimes rather inconvenient.33"I wouldn't think it3s so bad, judging by that furcoat you're wearin3.33"This sort of great-coat is commonly worn in England, sir.33"You don3t say . . . and where, might I ask, did youbuy it?33"Why , . , I purchased it in London.33"So? Would you be averse to sayin3 how much youpaid?33"Why, sir, I should think that would be a matter ofno interest to you.33"Looks like a sort of muskrat to me. Just what kindof fur is it?33"Really, Fm not entirely certain.33"Fd say muskrat. . . . Er . . . might I trouble you forthe time, Mr. Dickens?33THE. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 7"Why, yes . . . of course . . .it3s . . .ah . . . it's five pastten.33"Say now, that3s a right smart lookin3 watch you havethere. Where might you have picked that up?33"I 'picked that up3 as you say, in France.33"France! Well that must have cost you a prettypenny.33"I am sorry to hear you think so.33"Hmm. Well, did it?33"Did it what?33"Did it cost you quite a sum?33"It is a satisfactory watch, sir, if that's what you wantto know.33"Keeps good time, does it? You wind it in the morning or at night, Mr. Dickens?33"I don3t believe, sir, I have ever had the the honor of. an introduction to you.33"Oh, that's all right. My name3s Jones. Bill Jones.33"Indeed. Well . . . good morning, Mr, Jones.33"Ah . . . Mr. Dickens, supposin3 you forgot to windthat watch . . . about how long would it go on runnin3?""Really, Mr. Jones, I3 ma very busy man these days.33"I've heard tell. Seems to me I read a piece in thepaper about how you went to see the President in Washington. That-, so?33 »"It is so, yes.33"Well, now . . . that's right interesting. What did yousay to him?33"'I said ¦' good day' to him, as I fear I must now sayto you.""And then what did the President say to you?""Mr. Jones, if you don't mind I must retire to myroom.""Suit yourself. What's your room number, Mr. Dickens?""I shall have to chance being considered rude, Mr.Jones . . . but. that is one question I most certainly donot feel I can risk answering. Good day, sir!"Provincialism looked dangerous to foreign travellers. Itwas, and it is, dangerous. But it also gave a laugh tomany a visitor as it did to James Muirhead, a gentlemanfrom Scotland, who in 1898 visited a school house in Richmond, Virginia, and heard the school master. . . ."Jimmy Clark, stand up""Yes, suh.""I have a little problem in arithmetic for you, James.""Yes, suh.""Now listen here. If one Confederate soldier canwhip seven Yankees, now many Confederate soldierswill it take to whip 49 Yankees?""Why anything under 50 — I wouldn't say more'ntwo or three, suh.""Jimmy, your arithmetic may be wrong but yourprinciples are on the right track. Very good, James;very good." European travellers to America count as one of the outstanding American characteristics the pursuit of trade,wealth, profits, money ... a pursuit symbolized by thesound of a typical American invention, a sound everyAmerican instantly recognizes- — a cash register. To someEuropean observers the pursuit of money was the meansand end of American life, a national obsession accounting for every deficiency from jangled nerves to boorishmanners. Thus, more than a century ago an Englishvisitor .../ was long a resident in America and I declare thatin the street, on the road or in the field, at the theatre,the coffee house, or the home, I have never heardAmericans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of purpose,such sympathy of feeling can, I believe, be found nowhere else except, perhaps, in an ant3 s nest.The cash register sound so perverted the judgment ofthe Irish diplomat, Thomas Grattan, that just before theCivil War he talked about Americans this way:They have no breadth either of shoulders, information or ambition. All is confined to trade, finance, law,and small, local, provincial information. Art, scienceand literature are nearly dead letters to them.That was still a dominant impression in 1896. TheBritish newspaper man, G. W. Steevens . . .In snatches of conversation caught on the streets, therestaurants, and the cars, the continual cry is alwaysdollars, dollars, dollars!And in the 1920's in the opinion of the witty Englishjournalist, G. K. Chesterton, after his travels here . . .Whereas an Englishman will say that philanthropistshave given the town a park, the American will say thatthey have given it a park of 300 acres worth $500,000.Hard cash . . . cash value . . . dollars and cents . . .money talks . . . these are by-words in the American language. In the opinion of a noted German painter, cashvalue became confused with artistic merit. As the artisttells it, he talked one day with an American businessman, a prospective purchaser of one of his paintings . . ."Not bad, Mr. Franz. Not bad at all. I don't mindtelling you that picture appeals to me. Yes sir, it does""I am happy to hear you say so""Tell me, how much do you want for it?3'"I should like to have $100 for this painting.""One hundred! Well now , , . let me see . . . justhow long did it take you to paint it?""How long? Why, I really can't exactly say. I think,perhaps, in actual painting I have worked . , .. oh,about ten days on this canvas,""Now you don't say. Only ten days. Well, hm, . . .By my figuring that means you want ten dollars a dayfor your work . ... is that right?"8 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE"I will tell you, sir, I have never priced my art insuch a manner!""And let me tell you, Mr. Franz, thatfs the way wedo business here. How else do you think you'll eversell a painting?""I believe, sir, there is only one way to sell a paintingin America""So? And how is that?""Raffle it, sir . . . raffle it off!"Americans, it would seem, were and are fond of makingmoney. They're fond of listening to radio programs called"Break the Bank," "Double or Nothing," "Queen for aDay," "Detect and Collect." They holler, "You'll besorry" but they try for the sixty-four dollar question. Thislavishness, optimism, expansiveness is reflected in still another American characteristic, much noted by foreigners.Here's an example. Sound American to you?From the rock bound coast of Maine to the sun-kissedshores of California . . . rich in virgin cotton, blessedwith wheat, strong in mighty factories, pre-eminent insplendid character and profound morality, Americastands at the pinnacle of human hopes and divineachievement. . . ,Pretty obvious, isn't it? We Americans set him downas another politico making a spread eagle oration. It isout and out bragging, of course. The speaker knows it;his hearers understand it; but the European visitor findsmuch of this spirit a characteristic of America and Americans. These are perfectly straight-faced literal, unquestioning estimates of Americans taken from travellers whoheard actual Americans say and mean . . ."Mr. Hall, can you deny that the Capitol in Washington is superior to any building in all of Europe?""The Erie Canal, sir, is a work as remarkable as thegreat pyramids or the Chinese wall.""Mr. Arnold, American democracy proceeds in itsascent as uniformly and majestically as the laws ofbeing, and is as certain as the decrees of eternity.""I guess there's really only one nation, stranger;we're goin3 to annex that island of yourn one of themfine days. Don3t know how your little Queen Victoriawill like that, but we got it to do and no mistake aboutit.""By George, we are a great people . . . greatest inthe world!""Now lookee here, mister, I can show you for a factthat the whole o3 Europe don't hardly equal in size theLone Star State or Texas. Go ahead . . . take a look. . . and while you3re larnin3 I think FU take anotherchew. Join me? Wal . . . you go ahead 9n look. You'llagree with me, Fm sure o3 that" You might get the idea from what you've heard tonightthat few European travellers to America thought much ofthe country. If you think that, you should listen to Herbert Spencer, English philosopher, who visited Americain 1882 and told a reporter, as he was about to sail:/ think that whatever difficulties they may have tosurmount, and whatever tribulations they may have topass through, the Americans may reasonably look forward to a time when they will have produced a civilization grander than any the world has known.If you like your praise a little more specific, listen to theEnglish lawyer, Alexander Mackay:Americans are the cleanest people with whom I haveever come in contact. They are far and away the mostprosperous. They are better governed than Englishmen. They have an excellent understanding of the purposes and means of education. Those who meet theAmericans frankly and openly are treated with the utmost kindness.And from a contemporary English observer, fromD. W. Brogan in 1944, this preface to a distinguishedstudy of America and Americans:Nothing could be further from my intentions or attitude than to treat any serious American topic frivolously. My object has been to make what I think isthe most interesting country in the world interestingand intelligible to others.AAA"Mister . . . say, mister, do you mind if I break in?""No, not at all.""I'm a GI . . . just got back. I'd like to say something.""That's quite all right. What's on your mind?""These fellows you've been talking about . . . the foreigners ...""Call them travellers.""O. K., these travellers. What I want to know is, what'sthe matter with them? One says yes, the other, no; onesays fine, another, awful; to one we look good, to another,terrible. Now for my money it's got to be one way or theother.""In other words, you're in favor of more definite opinions.""Yea . . . and I got 'em. I've just been to Europe. Ican give you the real low down.""The real thing, eh? And just how do you know, soldier?""How do I know? Why, gosh almighty, mister ... Ijust told you how. I know ... I was there!"MORE WOODNOTES WILD• By FREDERICK S. BREEDFELINE FELICITYStowed safely away in a distant retreat, a timid manmay be emboldened to make a mild and modest suggestion. Nothing really audacious, you know, for, in theaffairs of the eternal feminine, nothing deserving thename of temerity could ever come from one who is tightly tethered, one whose favorite interpreter of masculinityis Victor Moore, one who surmises, before reading TheEgg and 7,.that the egg must be an endearing referenceby Betty MacDonald to her noble husband. The suggestion, of all things for a timorous male, concerns the annual University function known as the Faculty Wives'Party. The occasion for this blessed event is the absenceof husbands at the annual Trustees' Dinner. It is custo-ary for the ladies to celebrate their emancipation frommonotonous monogamy, or, if you will, from monogamousmonotony, with dramatic high jinks of a superior sort.At next year's frivolous frolicsome fray, do give us, ladies,give, I pray, a luminous version of your day, a drayma,yclept, — When The Mice Are Away.LIFE WITH SUSANAct. I. Acceptation.Life before Susan. Quiet of an old folks' home. Comesher mother's letter. After reading it, I try to pull myselftogether. I had been pulled apart following Susan here,the gas man there, then a dab at the jam on Susan's ears.Bang! The dog's after the beefsteak — Jirniny, Susan'safter the chocolates — Ah, back to the desk and that 'incompleted' paragraph — Where in Sam Hill was I? —Where in Sam Hill is she? — Gosh, there's a knock at thedoor!But I made out that they were coming, mother andtoddling Susan, for a visit.Act II. Disintegration.Life begins with Susan. Magazines and books areturned into skyscrapers. Gibbon declines and falls to thefloor like a cement block. Dolls in fantastic and indelicate postures are scattered over every living-room thing.Ash trays become dinner dishes. And drifting down likesnowflakes, the cracker crumbs are falling, falling, exceptwhen the cocker appropriates the crackers.Act III. Incarceration.Life begins without Susan. She's in the bathroom.Nothing unusual about that, but she's locked in. Unprecedented gathering of the clan outside the bathroom door.Hasty strategy conferences. Hparsely whispered directions. Louder shouted directions. Nothing works. Eyesbegin to swim in tears. Then a ladder thrust up the sideof the house to the second-floor bathroom window. Crashgoes a hammer through a pane of glass, and the windowcatch is released. I go over the top of the ladder and through the opening, head and leg leading, like a highhurdler. The young lady looks up and understands meperfectly. Many a lady has given me a cooler reception."Santa Claus!" she exclaims.Act IV. Recuperation.Life after Susan. The house licks its wounds. Quiet ofthe old folks' home.LET FREEDOM RINGFrom a window we can watch the native birds feedingat the boxes placed for them among the trees. Theyeagerly come for the bits of cracked #corn, the grains ofwheat and millet, the sunflower seeds, the occasionallumps of suet left at their feeding stations. Few peopleknow how many birds remain with us the year around, ordrop down from Canada and winter here. Throughoutthe winter season juncos and blue jays, titmice^ and nuthatches, chickadees and cardinals and downy woodpeckers, and, of course, the inevitable English sparrows,come to feed. There are crows and ducks and gulls about,but they ignore our offerings.Today the lovers of birds are being charged with pauperizing them. We are said to be misguided philanthropists who, with our bounty, are weakening the muscles ofindependence and self-reliance in our feathered friends.Instead of helping to fit them to their environment, we are"do-gooders" contributing to their delinquency. Butwhen the ground is covered with ice and snow, the seedsand insects which the birds normally find by scratchingin the good earth are mostly sealed away from them. Andby the time winter sets in, the edible fruits of shrubs andtrees and vines have all but disappeared. Under theseconditions a University of Chicago Settlement back of thecabin yard seems justified. Its aim is not to pay the way ofthese struggling little neighbors. It is rather to be a friendin need. Game wardens report that thousands of birdssuccumb to starvation during winter months, and, wherethe wild-life service is sufficiently enlightened, tons ofgrain are made available, in times of need, for the wintersustenance of game birds.Indeed, the lovers of birds need not confine their friendly gestures to the winter months. Why not provide foodas a treat occasionally, throughout the year? My humanneighbors do not decline to gather round when I offersuitable refreshment, even though they betray few signsof undernourishment. A party thrown in their behalf contributes to their delinquency? On the contrary, it seems tocontribute feelings of well-being, and even kindles an expansive glow of personal exaltation. So let it be with thebirds. It's a pleasure to see a junco now and then fed tothe brim, watch him sitting contentedly on the edge of afood box at peace with the universe; at peace, that is,until another member of the tribe flies in to get a meal910 THE UNIVERSI T Y O FLet us glance for a moment at those curious individualswho believe that freedom from want and other freedomsare perilous for everybody but themselves, because perilous to themselves. Ih historic perspective they can be seenresisting the spread of the fundamental freedoms oneafter another. They have blocked the impartial extensionof intellectual freedom. They have blocked political freedom. They have blocked economic freedom. They areresisting the extension of all these freedoms in the Congress of the United States today. Freedom from want isa phase of economic freedom, but it carries the essentialproblem of all the freedoms, for all are negatively de-scribable as problems of denial. Theie is strength throughdenial? Mostly for whom? For some, earth blossoms asthe rose; for others, heaven alone holds all for which theysigh.Herr Hitler's formula for meeting freedom's claims wasimpotence through starvation. Before all the worldAmerican practice follows the formula, impotencethrough deprivation. The principle is the same; the difference, only in .degree.As the University of Chicago bids adieu to the BigTen — withdrawal was announced on the Midway campus several weeks ago — it is proper to reflect a bit on therole played by this charter member of the IntercollegiateConference of Faculty Representatives, the official titleof the so-called Western Conference. That role is anhonored one, dimmed somewhat so far as actual athleticachievements are concerned during recent years, butrepresenting a participation in the affairs of the groupwhich reflects great credit on Chicago and the Chicagomen who were among the dominating leaders in the earlydays.The trials and tribulations of those early days are reflected in an old journal, now carefully safeguarded inthe vault at the Michigan Athletic Association offices.That journal, setting forth the minutes of the first meetings of the Board in Control of Athletics at Michigan inthe early nineties, describes at first hand the many problems which beset intercollegiate athletic leaders in thedays when Varsity sports in the Midwest were in asomewhat chaotic state. It was to assist in the solvingof these problems and to put intercollegiate sports on asound basis, that Michigan and Chicago and Illinois andothers sent faculty representatives to a meeting on January 11, 1895, to devise a machinery for mutual understanding and healthy competition.This old minute book covers the period from 1893until long after the formation of the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives and relates in pursua-sive fashion the manner in which Chicago and Michigan CHICAGO MAGAZINESTYLEWe close as we began — with the faculty wives. The dramatic theme of their recent party, "The Old Album,"stirred up recollections of the long ago, lingering memories of the departed autograph album. In that boyhoodpast I handed my small bescribbled album with its softupholstered sides to a lad in a country store. He pickedup a pen from the counter and thoughtfully began : "Oneday you will rake this old album from some remote corner,and, turning over its ancient leaves. ..." He had noanthology at his elbow, no book of handy quotations. Ofgreeting-card poetrv he had never even heard. He wrotein the midst of cracker barrels and sawdust-filled tobaccoboxes serving as spittoons. If he drew from a convenientmemory, that memory was stored with something morethan the dreary stereotypes, the juiceless phrases, so frequent on those album leaves — "Compliments of" and"Truly yours." In some inscrutable way he had lifted histhought from the common rut and clothed it in attirefresh and new.took leading roles in achieving the goals set. And itshould be related here that after Michigan withdrewfrom the Conference in 1908, to return in 1917, it wasChicago which assumed the role of leader, both on theathletic field and in the council room.Annoying disputes on eligibility and on schedules consumed the most of the time of the Board of Controlmeetings. The minutes do not relate in detail the storyof the formation of the "Big Ten" but they do indicatehow avidly the Michigan Board in Control seized uponthe rules established by the Conference to solve its problems. They disclose also how close was the relationshipof Michigan and Chicago and how these two membersused all the persuasive powers within their control toassure the success of the new organization.Chicago then was a factor to be reckoned with in allsports. The Maroons won their share of the championships in the two sports which featured early Big Tencompetition, football and baseball. Over the years Chicago won the gridiron title in the Western Conferenceseven times. In all the Maroons have won 69 WesternConference championships, putting them in third position behind only Michigan and Illinois. Indeed an honored place in competitive terms! They have completelydominated Big Ten tennis, winning almost as manychampionships as all the rest of the members combined.In gymnastics they again top the entire field; and infencing Illinois alone ranks alongside Chicago.Truly, Chicago is bowing out with a proud record.CHICAGO'S BIG TEN RECORDFrom the editorial column "Conning the Campus" in the March 30 issue of the Michigan Alumnus, official alumni organ of the University of MichiganNEWS OF THE QUADRANGLES• By JEANNETTE LOWREYWhat's in a Name?Shakespeare's question as far as the properties of elements 95 and 96 are concerned is still a military secret,but the "given" names of the recent discoveries madeNEWS this month.Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, the co-discoverer of the newelements, who has been on loan to the University ofChicago since 1942, has christened 95 americium, and96, curium. He formally introduced them by name ata meeting of the American Chemical Society at AtlanticCity."Americium," the University of California professorand discoverer of plutonium, one of the bases of theatomic bomb, said, "was named after the America's orthe New World. Curium is in honor of Pierre and MarieCurie, the historical leading investigators in the field ofradioactivity."Discovery of americium by Dr. Seaborg, Ralph A.James and Leon O. Morgan, and curium, by Seaborg,James, and Albert Ghiorose, was announced last November. They were found as a result of bombardmentof uranium 238 and plutonium 239 with high energyhelium ions in the cyclotron at Berkeley,' California. Thechemical identification studies, leading to the announcement of the discoveries, were made at the University ofChicago.Salutes to ScientistsLauded for their central roles in the production ofthe atomic bomb, five of the University's distinguishedscientists have been cited by President Harry S. Truman and decorated with Medal of Merit awards bythe chief of the Army's Manhattan Project, Major General Leslie R. Groves.An honor bestowed on only 20 of the 10,000 scientistsworking on the Manhattan Project, the awards werepresented in an Army ceremony at the Oriental Institute on the Midway. The recipients were:1. Samuel K. Allison, director of the Institute ofNuclear Studies, who was cited for his work as directorof the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University andfor his chemical, physical and engineering research whichled to the construction of the Manhattan Project plantat Hanford Engineer Works. At Los Alamos, he participated in the coordination of the whole program leadingto the successful production of the bomb.2. Enrico Fermi, Nobel-prize physicist and CharlesH. Swift Distinguished Professor of Physics, who was thefirst to achieve nuclear chain reaction and who was anassociate director of the Los Alamos Laboratory.3. Cyril Smith, director of the ^Institute for the Studyof Metals; who as co-chief of the division of chemistryand metallurgy of the Los Alamos Laboratory had chargeof preparation of fissionable materials for bomb construction and research. A. Dr. Robert S. Stone, visiting Professor of Roentgenology on leave from the University of California, whoserved as chief of the health division of the MED project,and was in charge of essential research and investigations of the radiation hazards involved in the operationof the whole project.5. Harold C. Urey, Nobel-prize chemist and Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry, who as directorof the laboratories at Columbia University had chargeof the development of the diffusion method of separatinguranium.MEDAL PRESENTATION: (Left to right) Gen. Groves,Harold Urey, Enrico Fermi, Samuel K. Allison, Cyril Smith,Robert S. StoneGoing Up!Registration at the University of Chicago has reachedan all-time high for spring.With veterans totaling 2,470 and enrollment soaring95.9 percent over the spring period last year, total paidregistration at the end of the first week of the quarterreached 8,179. The previous all-time high for springwas in 1936 when 7,073 students registered.At the end of the first week, predictions were alsorunning high that when the final fee was paid, the University's top enrollment figure for any single quarterwould be surpassed.Greatest percentage increases were in the school ofbusiness and law, where enrollment soared 371 and 277percent respectively. Other large increases were the University College with 241 percent, the division of physicalsciences, 157, the division of social sciences, 129 and thedivision of biological sciences, 112.The veterans, who represent forty percent of the quadrangle population, also reestablished on the Midway thepre-war ratio of three men to two women.1112 THE- UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINECrowds of students filed across Mandel stage on their wayto an education.Peace or Suicide?It's one world or none.We have just five years to build for peace.These were the warning words of Chancellor RobertM. Hutchins in his recent address before the ModernForum group in Los Angeles.Delivering a stinging attack on the nation's leaders,he declared: "We are blundering into a war with Russiabecause of our statesmen's prejudices or their ineptnessor their inability to cope with the problems of theatomic age."We are handing over our foreign policy to the military— something that this nation has abhorred for 150 years.Our rattling of the atomic bomb can hardly be calleda method of inspiring trust in America's peaceful intentions."Talk of maintaining peace by force is senile disregardof the fact that force means war. It is no longer possibleto win a war. The alternatives before us are peace orsuicide."The whole concept of keeping atomic energy a secretand maintaining it under the military is designed tohold it as a weapon against Russia," the Chancellordeclared."The philosophy of the pre-atomic age, that a singlecountry as isolated and impregnable as the U. S. couldbusily set about improving itself and offering an exampleof democracy at work to a world in flames, cannot survivethe great bomb. Now, thanks to the scientists, many ofthem from the University of Chicago, the United Statesis vulnerable from every quarter of the globe."Describing isolationism as a national way of life asan anachronism in the atomic age, he declared that ifwe are finally to survive, we must now, as never beforein our history, act our age."I admit," he said, "that the Russians are hard to geton with. I do not like their form of government, theirphilosophy, or their religion, which is the gospel according to Marx. I do not know that if we changed, theRussians would change. But it is worth trying. "We need, not conscription," Hutchins concluded, "buta national education foundation which would equalizeeducational opportunity among the states and assist everyAmerican to go as far in the educational system as hisabilities entitle him to go. The length of education nowopen to the citizen of this country varies in direct proportion to the income of his parent. . . . And there is norelation between the intelligence of a child and the income of his parents."A national system of competitive examinations, opento all American youth and qualifying them for scholarship aid, is a democratic way of raising the national levelof intelligence. We must educate the peoples of the earthto be citizens of one world."Let It RainApril showers bring May flowers — and thunderstormsadds Horace R. Byers, Professor of Meteorology who hasbeen granted a leave from the University to direct thenation's thunderstorm project.With general headquarters of the three-year study located on the Midway campus, the project will conductits first experiments to solve the problems of all-weatherflyability at Orlando, Florida — scene of the greatestthunderstorm frequency in the United States.Authorized by Congress, the thunderstorm project isbeing conducted under the auspices of the United StatesArmy, Navy, Weather Bureau and National AdvisoryCommittee for Aeronautics. Aircraft, including the pilot-less "drones" scheduled for "Crossroads," balloons andradar, all tied together in relation to a micro-networkof surf ace. stations, will be used to make measurementsin the thunderstorms at Orlando.Special balloon-borne radio transmitting instrumentswhich have reached a satisfactory stage of developmentin the University's laboratories will be used to measurethe sustained vertical currents in the atmosphere duringthe testing, Prof. Byers reported before he left April 1for the tests.One for AllThe hope of the world lies in making universal thespirit of sharing, of creating that flourished in universitieswhen they are at their best, Reuben G. Gustavson, Vice-president and Dean of Faculties, told the 220 graduateswho received degrees in the University's 224th Convocation.Speaking before the group, which included 18-year oldVan Dyke Tiers, first ex-Quiz Kid to receive a bachelor'sdegree and a Phi Beta Kappa key, Vice-president Gustavson restated the University's philosophy to share.He said, "The University is so anxious that we shouldshare the results of our work with the rest of the worldthat it is a requirement for every advanced degree thatevery member of this family who makes a discovery shallreport it to the world at large."It is this urge to share that characterizes the life ina great university."Pointing out the sharp contrast of society's urge toTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 13possess, Gustavson declared, "The only solution to thegreat international problems — the problems which seemto be developing forces in pushing us toward the abyssof another war — is to set up machinery on ah international scale which will enable us to share."Vice-president GustavsonArno Poebel RetiresThe foremost livmg authority on the ancient Sumerianlanguage, Arno Poebel, Professor of Assyriology and Su-merology and editor of the Assyrian Dictionary, was retired with emeritus status this month.Prof. Poebel, who came to the University in 1928,published a grammar of Sumerian in 1923 which wasepoch making in the field and which opened the way toreal understanding of a whole ancient literature. Hismost recent research is the chronology of Assyrian kings.The author of ten books and numerous other publications published in France, Germany, Sweden and Finland, Prof. Poebel has worked at the University in thefield of cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian grammar, andcomparative grammar of Semitic languages.Since 1933, he has been editor of the Assyrian Dictionary, which will fill six volumes when completed andwill incorporate for the first time all the Semitic cuneiform documents available. The "Dictionary was startedmore than 25 years ago, and already more than onemillion cards covering occurences over a period of 2,500years have been compiled for it.Prof. Poebel, a Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania, was associated with the University of Breslau, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Rostock beforecoming to the Midway. Among his books are: Studiesin Akkadian Grammar, The Assyrian King List, Chronology of Darius' First Year of Reign, and Grundzuege derSumerischen Grammatik.Re-instating RationingWith the nation facing an 18-month period of foodshortages, and the situation getting worse instead ofbetter, Theodore W. Schultz, the University's noted agricultural economist, raised the question of rationing meats,fats and oils with the House Food Committee.He declared before the legislative body, "The UnitedStates is ruining its reputation among nations. We simplycannot gorge ourselves while the rest of the world goeshungry."His recommendations to help prevent starvation inother parts of the world were: 1. Divert grain fromevery possible non-human use in order that it may beused as human food, and guarantee farmers stable grainprices for at least 18 months, 2. Increase 'productionof grain and of edible fats and oils, 3. Restore rationing for essential foods, and 4. Adopt a positive programto allocate food supplies among countries in accordancewith need.But No Rationing HereFood shortages have even invaded the realm of thecampus. A University of Chicago student who recentlyoffered his car for sale in the Maroon want-ads was deluged with offers. The most interesting bidder, though,was a fellow who wrote that he'd "throw in 25 poundsof butter and 30 dozen eggs" as a bonus. Just a caseof knowing what side the ad was buttered on.Cogent CommentsUniversity professors and administrators, like spring,have been "bursting out" all over the national presses.Their picturesque speech includes:Anton J. Carlson, Professor Emeritus of Physiology,before the AAAS: "The worst dangers to the humanrace are not atomic bombs, but slavery, parasitism, andchicks that chirp but do not scratch."Samuel K. Allison, Director of the Institute of NuclearStudies, -at Rollins College atomic conference: "Suppressing scientific discoveries is strangling the geese thatlay the plutonium eggs."Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins in an article, "Learning to Live," in Ladies Home Journal (April) : "Liberaleducation is education for freedom and the educationthat a free man has to have. As it was the only educationthat made intelligible the age of the slingshot, so it isthe only education that will make intelligible the age ofthe atom."Anton J. Carlson, before Congress on Medical Education and Licensure, "If man is not worth more thanthe dog, then all efforts to improve man have been inerror."14 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEEtc.The world premier of the ballet, "The Bells," and thefirst Chicago performance of "Les Malheurs D'Orphee,"by Darius Milhaud was presented at the University inthe last Composers Concert. "The Bells," based onEdgar Allan Poe's poem, was performed by the RuthPage Ballet, Nicolai Malko conducting. Hans Lange conducted the . opera, "Les Malheurs D'Orphee," in concert version. . . .With 12 new members appointed to the Institute ofNuclear Studies, this month, the Institute Staff now numbers 29. New appointees include Professor Willard F.Libby, one of the principal leaders responsible for thesuccessful operation of the carbide and carbon plant ofthe Clinton division, and eleven assistant professors.The assistant professors and the division of the Manhattan District at which they worked are: Herbert L.Anderson, Nicholas C. Metropolis, Nathan Sugarman,Anthony L. Turkevich, Metallurgical Laboratory at theUniversity of Chicago and Los Alamos, New Mexico;James S. J^Wen, Stanley P. Frankel, Eldred C. Nelson,Los Alamos; Harrison S. Brown, Norman S. Elliott, T.Harrison Davies, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and Clyde A.Hutchison, Columbia University. . . .Three other appointments were announced by theBoard of Trustees. Professor Earl A. Long, former assistant director of the Los Alamos atomic bomb laboratory, has joined the"9 staff of the Institute for the Study ofMetals. Previous to his atomic wort, he was associatedwith the chemistry departments of the University of Missouri and the University of California at Berkeley.William A. Spurr, who has just been released from hisduties as a lieutenant commander in the United StatesNavy, has been appointed an Associate Professor ofStatistics in the school of business. W. Albert Hiltner,Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Yerkes Observatory,has been appointed Assistant Director of the Observatory.The 5000-volume personal library of G. G. Coulter,well-known mediaeval historian and professor at Cambridge University, has been added to the Universitylibraries. A large number of mediaeval histories andtheological treatises printed in the 16 and 17th centuriesare included in the collection. . . .A $36,000 Rockefeller Foundation grant to write thehistory of Sears, Roebuck and Company has been awardedDr. Boris Emmet, recently retired vice-president of thecatalogue and retail merchandising house. The study,which will be conducted at the University in the Business Problems Bureau, will add well-documented materialto the University's research data for use by students ofbusiness principles . . .Varsity men and other students who frequented BartlettGymnasium in the thirties and early forties will remember Miss Minnie Geisinger, a member of the office staff.A year ago this May Miss Geisinger left the quadranglesto join Leo DeTray's ('08) staff at the offices of theWoodlawn Property Owners on 63rd Street. But Minnie Geisinger had always had a secret ambition to do writingand reporting. Therefore, when she was offered a position on the staff of Collyer3s Eye and Baseball World inAugust of last year, she accepted. Now she is doing feature writing for this national sports weekly with officesat 188 West Randolph Street.June ReunionThe program for the annual spring Alumni Reunionhas not been completed. But, realizing that many alumniat distant points from the Midway will want to makeplans and reservations early, we are listing some themajor events as they appear on the penciled pad atheadquarters. "Penciled," of course, means tentative, subject to erasures, adding between the lines, and clippingon supplements. However, we are reasonably surex thefollowing will not be scratched:Thursday, June 6Order of the C Dinner. Bartlett GymnasiumFriday, June 7Special Evening Alumni Program Mandel HallSaturday, June 8Alumnae Breakfast Noon Ida Noyes HallAnnual Alumni Assembly 4 P.M. Mandel HallAwarding of Alumni Citations; Presentation ofAlumni Gift; Report on The State of the University by Chancellor Robert M. HutchinsAnnual Dinner Meeting AlumniAssociation College Senate Quadrangle ClubThirty-Sixth Annual Sing Hutchinson CourtOther events scheduled forFriday or SaturdayFiftieth Anniversary celebration, Class of 1896Class of 1911 reunionClass of 1918 reunionClass of 1921 reunionMedical Association reunion eventsOf major importance: If you will need hotel reservationsyou should write direct to the hotel as early as possible.We deeply and sincerely regret that things are so jammedon the quadrangles that there isn't even a vacant benchnear the flag pole. We have called the managementsof the following south side hotels who have assured usthey will do their best to accommodate you if you writefor reservations at least a month in advance and mention the University of Chicago.Hotel Sherry, 1725 East 53rd Street, Chicago, 15Shoreland Hotel, 5454 South Shore Drive, Chicago, 15Windermere Hotel, 1642 E. 56th Street, Chicago, 37Mayflower Hotel, 6125 South Kenwood, Chicago, 37THE NEW NEW TESTAMENT• By W. E. GARRISON, D.B. '97, Ph.D. '97It came to passis omittedYOU can always start an argument — whether at aclub luncheon table, in the lounge car on a train,or at a preachers' meeting — by tossing out a remark about a new translation of the Bible. There arelikely to be some present who know that the Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament inGreek, and that the most commonly used English versionbears about the same relation to it as Chapman's Homerbears to its original. These may admit that there is noprima facie reason why Chapman and the Jacobeantranslators of the Bible, who did their work at almostexactly the same time more than three hundred years ago,should be considered as having the last word in rendering into the changing English tongue those imperishableancient classics to which they gave their attention Butthere will be others who feel that it is a sacrilege to altera word of the 1611 "authorized" version of the Bible.The anti-revisionists are of two strangely disparatetypes. First, there are those who have read the KingJames Version all their lives and have their most hallowed memories and holy thoughts keyed to its phrases.Many of them feel, though they would scarcely say, thatits solemn style is the language of the Holy Ghost. Second, there are those who seldom read the Bible in anyversion, though probably they remember that theirmothers did, but they make a secular genuflection towardit by asserting that the King James Version is the noblestmonument of English prose.In the preachers' meeting, some voice will be raised inprotest against (I quote precisely) "bringing the languageof the street into the sanctuary." At the club, the emphasis will be on the unique stylistic merits of the seventeenth-century translation. These merits are certainlyvery great. If they were not, this version would not havehad its enduring appeal. But for people who take seriously their reading or study of the Bible, it is not enoughthat a translation be so beautiful as to produce aestheticgratification and a solemn and soothing religious feeling.It must also be as accurate as scholarship can make itin rendering the meaning of the original writers, and itmust express this meaning in words that can be understood today.The Revised Standard VersionThe title of this article refers to a new version of theNew Testament which was published in February of thisyear. It is called the Revised Standard Version, and willperhaps hereafter be referred to by the letters RSV, asthe King James or Authorized Version is by AV. Thecorresponding Old Testament will appear in 1950. But the headline exaggerates the novelty, though not the importance, of the enterprise. It is not a new translationas, for example, Goodspeed's was. RSV is a new revision of AV. The intention was to keep as much aspossible of the phraseology and the familiar feel of theold version while eliminating its archaisms, obscuritiesand downright errors and bringing the English translation into harmony with the best Greek text now availableThe discovery of previously unknown manuscripts andthe critical study of all known manuscripts have, withinthese three hundred years and especially within the lastfifty, produced a great advance in knowledge of whatthe original text was and the 1611 translators did notuse the best texts that were available even then Evenmore important than the finding of manuscripts was thediscovery that "New Testament Greek" was not a specialkind of language peculiar to the sacred books but was thecommon or koine Greek that was generally used throughout the eastern part of the Roman Empire in conversation, correspondence and business documents.All these discoveries about manuscripts and languagehave been important but they have made no spectacularchanges either in the New Testament Greek text or inthe interpretation of it. Similarly, the new RSV is notsensationally different from AV. It is not as excitinglydifferent as any one of such well known versions as theTwentieth Century, Weymouth's, Moffatt's and Good-speed's. These were the work of individual scholars acting on their own responsibility and going as far as theyliked in modernness of tone and freshness of phrase. Invaluable as they have been, and still are, to individualreaders and students, they never had the slightest chanceof displacing the old version. They were regarded assupplementary to it, "sidelights," "Bible helps," while AVcontinued to be "the English Bible." RSV is designedto be the Bible itself to this generation and the next.After that, perhaps another revision will improve uponit, as the King James translators expected and hopedthat others would improve upon theirs. They had nodelusions of grandeur about the finality of their work.The Revised Standard Version was produced by acommittee of eminent American scholars under the auspices of the International Council of Religious Education, which acquired the copyright of the American Revised Version eighteen years ago. Seven major denominations were represented on the committee, which included two men — James Moffatt and Edgar Goodspeed— who are the authors of the best and most populartranslations of the New Testament that have been madeby individuals.The work of this committee was checked and approvedby representatives of the forty denominations which cooperated with the International Council. It thereforecomes as near to being an "authorized" version as any-1516 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEthing could under present conditions. Moreover, it isin the direct line of descent from the oldest and mosthonored versions.The Family TreeThere is such a thing as a lineage — not to say anapostolic succession— of translations of the Bible. Wyclifis the patriarch of this family. Tyndale (1523) drewupon Wyclif. The Bishops' Bible (1568) drew uponTyndale. (Some are omitted for brevity.) The KingJames translators preserved so much of the phraseologyand tone of the Bishops' Bible that their work was reallya revision rather than a new translation. That was precisely their understanding of the task the king had committed to them. Before beginning, they drew up fifteenrules to guide their labors. Among them were these: "1.The ordinary Bible read in the Church, commonly calledthe Bishops Bible, to be followed, and as little alteredas the Truth of the original will permit. ... 14. Thesetranslations to be used when they agree better with theText than the Bishops Bible — TindolPs, Matthews,Coverdale's, Whitchurch's [the Great Bible], Geneva."Later, in a report and defense of their work to the Synodof Dort, they wrote :First, we were given notice that a completely newversion was not to be furnished, but that the old one,long received by the Church, was to be purged of allblemishes and faults; and to this end the ancient translation was not to be departed from, unless the truth ofthe original text or the emphasis so required.Original or not, it was a wonderful job. But in spiteof the merits of the version and the authorization of theproject by King James I, to whom as "the principalMover and Author of the work" it was flatteringly dedicated — though there is no record that the king or trieprivy council ever formally "authorized" it after it wascompleted — it did not at once win universal acceptance.There were many then, as now, to whom a version ofthe Bible could not sound really religious unless its language was that of an earlier generation. Others simplyhad sentimental attachments to the older wordings, including the "blemishes and faults." Even to this day AVhas not displaced the earlier translation of the Psalter(1541, gradually modified until 1578) in the English andAmerican Episcopal Books of Common Prayer. But asidefrom that, it soon won its place with all readers andchurches as the English Bible, and it has held that placefor more than three centuries.A Revised Version was prepared (New Testament1881, Old Testament 1885) by a company of Britishscholars under the authority of the Anglican Churchand with the approval of others. A collaborating butsubordinate American committee offered recommendations, which were generally not accepted but were printedin an appendix.The publication of this revision was regarded as a greatevent. James Gordon Bennett had the complete text ofthe New Testament cabled from London to New Yorkand printed it in his New York Herald. But this Revised Version never seriously threatened the prestige of theKing James Version. Its style was considered stiff andawkward. It had a literal, word-for-word accuracywhich would have made it excellent as an interlinear tobe used as a crutch by limping or lazy students of theGreek, but it did not lend itself happily to the normaluses of a Bible either for public worship or for privatereading. Nobody liked it.The American committee brought out its version in1901. This American Revised Version was better, andit had a better reception. It found much wider acceptance in America than the English revision ever had inEngland. But in view of the progress of scholarship inthe forty-five years since its publication, the time hadcome for a more thorough and modern revision whichwould still continue the tradition of the Wyclif -Tyndale-Bishops'-King James translation. RSV is the answer.Clarity, Beauty, DignityModern textual research has given the authors of thislatest revision a better knowledge of what the New Testament writers actually wrote than was ever before available. The findings of linguistic and historical scholarship have enabled them to know more exactly what theoriginal writers meant by what they wrote. Proofs andillustrations of these two points could be given, but perhaps this would (to quote from Miles Smith's 1611 preface) "weary the unlearned, who need not know so much,and trouble the learned, who know it already."For most of us, the new version will stand or fall byits English style. Does it have clarity, beauty and dignity? Does it sound and feel as we think the Bible inEnglish should? My own answer to both questions wouldbe Yes, without qualification. But personal tastes andindividual attitudes toward the Bible and its contentsenter into the decision.The archaic "solemn style" has been eliminated byusing the forms of verbs and pronouns that are currentin modern English. "Didst" and "goeth" and all suchforms have disappeared. "Thou," "thee" and "ye" arereplaced by "you," except when God is addressed. Wordsare used in the sense they have today. "Prevent" is nolonger used where the meaning is "precede." "Hungry"takes the place of "an hungered," with no loss to the earand a distinct gain to the mind. "Answered and said"and "spoke, saying" are simplified to "answered" and"said." "It came to pass that" is omitted. These andsimilar changes do not seem to me to rob the style ofbeauty; they do, to a degree, alter its tone and color.They give a direct and contemporaneous quality. Paul'sepistles sound more like actual letters. The narrativeparts of the Gospels seem to relate real events. The conversations between Jesus and his disciples have a morecolloquial flavor. This mild degree of modernization istrue to the orignal Common Greek text and also to thespirit of the King James Version, for neither of themrelied upon antiquated forms and phrases to give thematerial an air of solemnity.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 17Aside from such changes as have been mentioned, therevisers have been careful to preserve as much as possible of the familiar flavor and phraseology of AV. Fora sample, taken at random, here is Luke 18:35-43 inRSV:As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting bythe roadside begging; and hearing the multitude goingby, he inquired what this meant. They told him, "Jesusof Nazareth is passing by." And he cried, "Jesus, Sonof David, have mercy on me!" And those who were infront rebuked him, telling him to be silent; but he criedout all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"And Jesus stopped, and commanded him to be broughtto him; and when he came near, he asked him, "Whatdo you want me to do for you?" He said, "Lord, let mereceive my sight." And Jesus said to him, "Receive yoursight; your faith has made you well." And immediatelyhe received his- sight and followed him, glorifying God ;and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.It need scarcely be said that there is no radical noveltyin this paragraph. I have read it aloud, then read theKing James rendering — which begins, "And it came topass that as he was come nigh unto Jericho"- — then readthe RSV again; and I cannot see that it is less beautiful,or that it is worse English prose, or that it belittles thehigh seriousness of the material. But it does give amore vivid picture of the incident, and it corrects one positive error by saying, "your faith has made you well':where AV says, "thy faith hath saved thee."It would take the spaceof this New Testamentreview to tell "briefly"the interesting story ofthe life of Winfred E.Garrison. Who's Whodoes it in four crowdedinches. He has beenpresident of three or-our colleges; hebunded the ClaremontCalifornia) School forJoys where he wasleadmaster for years;le is a professionalsculptor, his bronzeswill be found fromChicago to Ireland; his scholarly books and articles, particularly on religious subjects, are too numerous to list here;and since 1 923 he has been literary editor of The ChristianCentury. From 1921 until his retirement in 1943, Dr. Garrison was a member of our Church History staff and speakswith authority in reviewing this New New Testament. ' Thepicture is reproduced from a painting by Oskar Gross.REUNION IN '21When the members of the Class of '21 were trying ontheir mortar boards for size, Adolph Pierrot, '07, [stillin Chicago] Alumni Secretary, was rushing around withThomas Hair, '03, Chairman [still in Chicago] gettingthe stage set for the June Reunion along with FrancisZimmerman, '22, [now in Beverly Hills, Cal.] who wasin charge of the All-University Circus plans. HowardBeale, '21, [now on Harvard faculty] had won theSenior Mustache Race and Fred Merrifield, '98, DB '01[deceased] who doubled in New Testament, was coaching the baseball team for the Waseda (Japan) game onAlumni Day.The Order of the C banquet was held as usual onThursday night in Hutchinson Commons. The '96 baseball team was present and President Judson spoke. Incidentally, a member of the '96 team, H. M. Atkinson,recited "Casey at the Bat" the following night at theSing when the C trophies were awarded.The Sing was followed by a street dance on UniversityAvenue opposite the Reynolds Club, illuminated bycolored and flood lights. There was the Alumnae breakfast on Saturday and then the big parade on the Midway at 1:30 with classes appearing in costumes andcarrying huge class umbrellas. It all ended at the stadiumfor the Chicago-Waseda game which Chicago won inthe eighth inning 7 to 5. This was followed by a three inning game betweenthe Varsity and the '96 team — it being the 25th anniversary of the '96 class. F. D. Nichols, '96, [deceased]hit the first ball pitched for a home run! During thegame Gordon Clark, '96, scored from second by ignoringthird and crossing the pitcher's box to home plate; Staggran for 200-pound Atkinson and stole second by grabbingthe ball on the peg; and Umpire Kennedy tempted popbottles by decisions that helped the '96ers win 7 to 2while Jimmy Touhig mingled with the crowd exclaiming, "Byes, byes, 'twas a gr-r-reat game!"At the Shanty ceremonies Henry Gale, '96, presidedintroducing President Judson, Herbert Zimmerman, '01,[now President of R. R. Donnelley and Sons] representing the class celebrating its twentieth anniversary, andJohn F. Voight, '96 [now a Chicago attorney] who represented his reunioning class. Tom Hair, '03, then welcomed the new class of '21 into alumni circles after whichpresident of the class and University cheer leaderChalmer McWilliams [now Los Angeles] responded. Thewhole affair ended with a picnic on Stagg Field andeveryone ended the day at the Circus with three bandsand a closing fireworks display.ROBERT J. BONNER1868- 1946ROBERT J. BONNER was born in Oxford County,Ontario, on October 24, 1868. The course inClassics at the University of Toronto was frequently chosen by Canadians who intended to make lawtheir profession. Mr. Bonner was graduated there withfirst class honors in Classics in 1890 and three years laterwas graduated from the Ontario law school and becamea member of the Ontario Bar. Soon, however, he lefthis legal practice for the more contemplative life of teaching and became classical master in Collingwood, Ontario,where he remained until coming to the University ofChicago to take his doctorate in Greek under PaulShorey.For three years, 1900-1903, in the course of his doctoralwork, he served as Professor of Latin at John B. StetsonUniversity in DeLand, Florida, where he also taught inthe law school. During this period he wrote his GreekComposition which was published in 1903. He wasawarded the doctorate in 1904, immediately thereafterbecoming a member of the faculty of the Department ofGreek, where he continued until his retirement.When Mr. Shorey relinquished the administrative workof the department in 1927, Mr. Bonner became chairman.He retired nominally in 1934 at the age of sixty-five. InJune of that year he was chosen as the Phi Beta Kappaorator and was awarded an honorary Phi Beta Kappawhich he always prized very highly, having had no opportunity as a Toronto graduate to achieve that honor.After his nominal retirement Mr. Bonner continued toteach a seminar and to pursue his writing. Thereafterhe made his home in Chicago until 1942 and workeddaily in his old office at the University. In the fall ofthat year he suffered a stroke while on a visit to his daughter in Maryland, but by the following spring he hadrecovered sufficiently to return to Chicago and to takeup again the research which he loved so well. Subsequently he returned for three more quarters and was afamiliar figure in the Classics Building and at the Quadrangle Club. Another stroke occurred on January 23,1946, and he died that same day in Aberdeen, Maryland.Mr. Bonner was married in 1894 to Miss Annie Will-son who had been his classmate at Toronto. Their threechildren, Gordon Willson, Brant, and Patricia, are allgraduates of the University of Chicago.Mr. Bonner was both a great teacher and a great scholar. Many University students will remember particularlyhis course in Elementary Greek. It was long a traditionhere that even in the freshman year students should havean opportunity to come in contact with some of the finestminds in the University with the result that elementarycourses were frequently taught by outstanding personalities.Mr. Bonner's elementary course became famous. Theplan was to give the essential forms and syntax of Greek in one quarter and then to introduce the students immediately to some of the finest specimens of Greek literature. For this purpose an elementary text was publishedin 1907 by Mr. Bonner and Theodore C. BurgessPhD '98.Mr. Bonner continued to teach this course until nearlythe end of his teaching career. He believed that themastery of a language necessitated hard work, but thatthis work could be made attractive. He made his students work, but he had the knack of presenting the material so interestingly that students found the elementarycourse highly exciting. Many of these students electedGreek as their major, and a considerable number tookadvanced degrees in Classics. Mr. Bonner always enjoyed working with young students, and he was alwaysvitally interested in undergraduate problems. He wasever an enthusiast for the Toronto plan of undergraduatepass and honors courses and under Ernest Hatch Wilkins'tenure of the deanship of the Colleges he was asked tohead a committee to develop a system of honors coursesfor graduating with honors those who passed special examinations with distinction, a plan which remained inoperation until the reorganization of the College.Mr. Bonner's interest in law never waned. His doctoral dissertation, Evidence in Athenian Courts, whichhas remained an authoritative work on the subject, wasthe first of a long series of publications in the field ofGreek legal antiquities. Many of his articles appearedin the pages of Classical Philology and shortly disserta-Robert J. Bonner18THE UNIVERSITY OFtions in the field, written under his direction, began toappear.Several students had followed him to Chicago fromStetson, especially to work with him. One of these,George M. Calhoun, PhD '11, was the first to write histhesis under his guidance, a monograph entitled AthenianClubs in Politics and Litigation. This was followed byJohn Oscar Lofberg's Sycophancy in Ancient Athens,PhD '14 and by various other significant studies in thefield. These works met with universal approbation andthe group working under Mr. Bonner soon became recognized both at home and abroad as the Bonner School ofGreek Law. Mr. Bonner's prominence as a scholarwon him wide recognition. In 1927 he was awarded anhonorary Litt. D. by the University of Toronto and in1937 the same honorary degree at Trinity College,Dublin.In 1932 he was invited to deliver the Sather classicallectures at the University of California. He was electeda fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciencesand a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens.He was honored with the presidency of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in 1928-29.In 1927 Mr. Bonner published his Lawyers and Litigants in Ancient Athens which was widely acclaimed byboth classicists and jurists. In it he made available tonon-classicists the technical material with which he hadbeen working. The tangible result of his Sather professorship in California was his Aspects of Athenian Democracy. It had been my privilege to become a memberof the Bonner School, and he and I determined to putin definitive form a study of the Athenian judiciary andpractice and procedure. Under the title The Administration of Justice from Homer to Aristotle, the firstvolume of this work was published by the University ofChicago Press in 1930 and the second volume in 1938.A third volume on which we had worked until within amonth of Mr. Bonner's death deals with the Greek legalsystems outside of Athens. It is nearing completion andshould be published in the not too distant future.PRELUDE (Continued from Page 4)many parts of the British Commonwealth of Nations. IfIndia must have a blood-bath why should European livesbe needlessly sacrificed.In the past there was the feeling that the discomfortsof India, the heat and smells, could be overlooked becausethere was a job to do. There was always a contributionto make to a people rising progressively toward responsible self-government. Why start a new program todaywhen you will be "quitting" tomorrow and the expenditure for today's reform will be branded by the unthinkingsilk-panty "liberals" as draining India's resources? So youdo the routine work and make no suggestion. Yes, theeagerness with which the British talk of leaving India israther sobering. Such deep political ties cannot be brokenwithout acute emotional reactions.We are marking time until the elections. Everything CHICAGO MAGAZINE 19Mr. Bonner's classroom, both undergraduate andgraduate, was a delightfully informal place. To hisgraduate classes he frequently came with an armload ofbooks, several of which he would open, in the meantimepropounding a problem about which various scholarshad expressed opinions. Soon the students were concentrating on the problem with exhilaration and intenseinterest.He had tremendous intellectual curiosity himself andenjoyed finding it in others.He had the ability to put himself on the same levelwith his students so that, although they never forgotthat they were in the presence of a great scholar, yetthey realized that he was also always a colleague and afriend seeking knowledge in common with them. Theyadmired him as a teacher and loved him as a friend. Heliked to see his students at home as well as in the classroom and the frequent gatherings in the Bonner homeare a delightful memory to them. He was a keen judgeof students, especially in sensing potentialities for scholarship, and many of his students became distinguishedscholars.Many young scholars also who were not working primarily with him owed the publication of their first articlesto him. He was ever generous of time and interest andhe was in no sense a narrow scholar, but had the rareability to become interested in, and sympathetic with,any real piece of investigation in any field. He was, infact, an all around person, and especially a keen loverof the out of doors. His summer home on the GeorgianBay where he returned summer after summer to the companionship of University of Toronto friends was a sourceof great pleasure to him. He was an expert swimmerand canoeist and woodsman.His students, his colleagues, and his friends will longremember his generosity, his kindliness, his sympathy, thestimulus of his companionship, his unfailing sense ofhumor, and his warm humanity.Gertrude Smith, '16, AM '17, PhD '21Chairman Department of Greekis timed to the elections. The visit of the British Parliamentary Delegation, British Royal Commissions, suggestions of new offers, Congress demands, the latest Jinnahoratory, and the rising violence, are all tuned to the clickof the voting machine. The fate of India's 400 millionlies in the ballot.Congress will win and the British will continue on theirway out. But having accepted the belief that they are afirst-class world power without achieving it through workand creativity, and nurtured on the cushioning idea thatyou can escape unpleasant facts by refusing to assumeresponsibility, a huge chunk of humanity is in for a terrific jolt when they face reality. The rains will fail againand the cows will still give a pint of milk — but "ain't"freedom wonderful. En Avant. We hear the prelude toa blood-bath. Bring on the furies and the drums, theknives and guns, and watch the symphony of violence.NEWS OF THE CLASSESHAPPY BIRTHDAYProfessor Sophonisba P.Breckinridge, PhM '97, PhD'01, JD '04, reached theage of eighty years on April1. She was born in Lexington, Kentucky. By happy Icoincidence it was also Easter Sunday, a foreboding ofthe useful and importantservices she was to renderin the field of social serviceand public administration.While in the GraduateSchool she served as dean ofundergraduate women inthe Junior College of Arts.Later she became assistantdean of women in the University. Miss Breckinridgewas head of Green House,following the retirement ofDean Talbot, and she contributed without stint tothe advancement of the enjoyable standards of rich Lsocial life which characterized the life in the women's halls, quite unsurpassed in any collegefor women in the United States. A graduate of Wellesley, Class of'88, she has received honorary degrees from Oberlin, 1919; University of Kentucky, 1925; Tulane University, 1939; and the Universityof Louisville, 1940.It is with real sincerity that her many friends join in wishing hermany more years of happiness and effective service.T.laphon. Haymarket 3120E. A. AARON & BROS. Inc.Fresh Fruits and VegetablesDistributors ofCEDEROREEN FROZEN FRESH FRUITS ANDVEGETABLES46-48 South Water Market Phones Saginaw 3202FRANK CURRANRoofing & InsulationLeaks RepairedFree Estimate*FRANK CURRAN ROOFING CO.8019 Bennett St.JOSEPH H. BIGGSFine Catering in all its branches50 East Huron StreetTel. 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He is now serving in theBethany Baptist Church in Pontiac,Michigan, where he will be until October 1.1905Paul Van Cleef, SM '06, recentlywas elected president of the GreaterChicago Safety Council. He is apartner in the firm of Van CleefBrothers, rubber and chemical products.1909John Bradford Pengelly, AM, DB'10, is living in Chicago where he isEditor of Standard American Encyclopedia and Art Editor of University of Knowledge. He is the author of two books "A New ChristmasLegend" and "History of Musical Instruments."CQTQLOGUe ENGRAVING COhalftones(Polor "PlatesSoftllhoJ Posters. Sen Day 'Plates'.Z/™/,«^. WABASH 21967-8 '14 W POIK ST.IVooyOitscJriWortiLEIGH'SGROCERY and MARKET1327 East 57th StreetPhoneti Hyde Park 9100-1-2DAWN FRESH FROSTED FOODSCENTRELLAFRUITS AND VEGETABLESWE DELIVER20HOUSING remains the No. I problem on college campuses across Ihe country. The above cartoon reproduced fromthe pages of^the University of Kansas "Graduate Magazine" depicts the state of affairs on the Mount Oread campus,while from the University of North Carolina "Alumni Review" we learn that no ground hog appeared to look for shadows on that campus this year. The little fellow was taking no chances on a fox-hole conscious G.I. slipping in whilegroundy was sunning himself.1910William H. Olds, SM '11, MDRush '12, is chief 6f staff of the California Hospital at Los Angeles, andalso chief of surgical service.1911Colonel E. R. Long, PhD '18, MDRush '25, is Chief Consultant in Tuberculosis, Office of the Surgeon General, and has been awarded the Legion of Merit for his work in the"initiation and development of standards and measures for the detection oftuberculosis." Prior to entering thearmy, he was Director of the HenryPhipps Institute and Professor ofPathology at the University of Pennsylvania.1913Thomas E. Scofield, second baseman on the Varsity team in his student days, has been practicing law inKansas City since 1923. He specializes in patent law. Mrs. Scofield, who was Irene Marsh when he met her ata fraternity dance, has her PhB. fromChicago. They have two children,Georgia, 22; and Tom, in his thirdyear at Kansas University.John B. Canning, PhD '29, is inBerlin, Germany, serving as Economist with the Food and Agricultural Branch of the Office of Military Government.1914Olive N. Barton is head librarian ..at Dakota Wesleyan University inMitchell, South Dakota.Mrs. James W. Pearce (Lydia M.Lee) writes us that at long last shecan dub herself a housewife, havingresigned from teaching. She spent ayear in Richland, Washington, whereher husband worked on the HanfordDivision of the atomic bomb project.They have now moved to Seattle,Washington. Jessie Potter has retired after 29years as biology teacher at ParkerHigh School in Chicago.1916Samuel Everton, AM, retired April1 after 20 years5 service and activeleadership of the congregation of theCentral Baptist Church in Olympia,Washington.1917Charles A. Robins, MD, physicianand surgeon at St. Maries, Idaho, hasbeen elected state Senator four times,and is candidate for Governor of theState in the Republican primariesthis year.1918The Big Ten Club of San Francisco recently had as its speaker atluncheon Fred Firestone, MD '20,who spoke on "Analysis of PresidentTruman's National Health Program."2122 THE UNIVERSITY OF CIT I CAGO MAGAZINESince 1878HANNIBAL, INC.UpholstersFurniture Repairing1919 N. Sheffield AvenuePhone: Lincoln 7180Phones Oakland 0690—0691—0692The Old ReliableHyde Park Awning Co.INC.Awnings and Canopies for All Purposes4508 Cottage Grove AvenueAMERICANPHOTO ENGRAVING CO.Photo EngraversArtists — ElectrotypersMakers of Printing Plates429 TelephoneS. Ashland Blvd. * Monroe 7515EASTMAN COAL CO.Established 1902YARDS ALL OVER TOWNGENERAL OFFICES342 N. Oakley Blvd.Telephone Seeley 4488ECONOMY SHEET METAL WORKS•Galvanized iron and Copper CornicesSkylights, Gutters, Down SpoutsTile, Slate and Asbestos Roofing1927 MELROSE STREETBuckingham 1893Albert K. Epstein, '12B. R. Harris, *2IEpstein, Reynolds and HarrisConsulting Chemists and Engineers5 S. Wabash Ave. ChicagoTel. Cent. 4285-6A. T. STEWART LUMBER COMPANYEVERYTHING inLUMBER AND M1LLWORK7855 Greenwood Ave. Vin 9000410 West I llth St. Pul 0034 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS RETIRESRobert R. Williams, '07, SM '08, whose distinguished career hasincluded pioneer research work on Vitamin B-l, together with morethan 20 years as Chemical Director of Bell Laboratories, retired asof February 28.It was Dr. Williams who in 1933 first produced a few crystals ofthe pure Vitamin B-l, now called thiamin. A few years later he andhis associates determined the chemical structure of the vitamin andthen succeeded in synthesizing it for the first time.Although he is best known to the public for his vitamin research,Dr. Williams has also made important contributions to industrialchemistry during his association with Bell Telephone Laboratories.In 1942-43, he organized a nation-wide research program in syntheticrubber at the request of the government.Dr. Williams began his work on vitamins in 1910 when he was associated with the Philippine Civil Service at Manila. At that time itwas known that an extract of rice polishings contained somethingthat would combat beri-beri. Dr. Williams undertook the search formeans of extracting this factor and learning its identity.This search lasted for 23 years, during which time much effortwas expended in developing methods of testing various extracts tomeasure the concentration of the factor. Often the study was interrupted and during much of the time it was carried on as a leisure-timepursuit entirely at Dr. Williams' own expense.The synthetic thiamin which he tracked down is now in large-scaleproduction and is an important basis of the national program forenrichment of white bread and flour. As Chairman of the Committeeon Cereals of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National ResearchCouncil, Dr. Williams played a leading part in the introduction ofthis project.Dr. Williams served as director of the chemical laboratories of BellTelephone Laboratories from 1924 to 1945. Last spring, to enablehim to" devote more time to matters of national interest in the fieldof nutrition, he was appointed chemical consultant, reporting to thedirector of research.Born in India, the son of a missionary, Dr. Williams was educatedin this country, first at Ottawa University (Kansas) and then atthe University of Chicago.Among honors which have come to Dr. Williams have been thehonorary Doctor of Science from Ottawa University, 1935; OhioWesleyan University, 1938; University of Chicago, 1941; ColumbiaUniversity and Yale University, 1942. He also received the WillardGibbs medal in 1938, the Elliott Cresson Medal in 1940, the CharlesFrederick Chandler Medal, the John Scott Medal and the Medal ofHonored Merit of the Republic of China in 1942. He is a member ofthe National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society,the American Chemical Society, and various other scientific organizations.UniversityNational Bankfy CHECK PLAN PAY-AS-YOU-GOoffers a low cost checking plan, which is easilyunderstood. Its only cost to depositors is fivecents for each check written and five cents foreach deposit. For your convenience deposits canbe made by mail. Stop in or write our Pay-As-You-Go Department and open your accountUNIVERSITY NATIONAL BANK1345 EAST 55TH STREETA Clearing House Bank— Member Federal Deposit Insurance CorporationThere's plenty here you can't seeYour train ride of the future may be a more delightful experience because of something you can'tsee in this picture.The thing you can't see is the customary gapbetween the ends of the rails. You can't see it becauseit isn't there. For the rails, instead of being boltedtogether, are welded together into lengths of solidmetal sometimes a mile long.This is done by pressure-welding ... by forcingthe rails together at their ends in the heat of oxy-acetylene flames until they become a single, continuous piece, uniform in appearance, structure,and strength.Pressure-welded track is being used increasinglyby railroads because it cuts maintenance costs andprovides a smoother, quieter ride for passengers.Pressure-welding also is used by many other industries. Some use pressure-welding for the construction of overland pipe lines . . . some for the fabrication ofmachinery parts . . . some for making oil-well tools. . . and some are using pressure -welding to makeairplane and automobile parts.Pressure-welding is a research development ofThe Linde Air Products Company and The OxweldRailroad Service Company, Units of UCC.If you are a bit technically minded or just want toknow more about this subject, write for booklet P-4on Oxy-Acetylene Pressure-Welding.UNION CARBIDE AND CARBON CORPORATION30 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y.BH3-Products of Divisions and Units include —ALLOYS A>D METALS • CHEMICALS • PLASTICSELECTRODES, CARBONS, AND BATTERIESINDUSTRIAL GASES AND CARBIDE24 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEENGLEWOODELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO.Distributors, Manufacturers and Jobbers ofELECTRICAL MATERIALS ANDFIXTURE SUPPLIESS80I EnglewoodS. Halsted Street 7500 NEW SEARS PRESIDENTBOYDSTON BROS.All phones OAK. 0492operatingAuthorized Ambulance Servicefor Billings HospitalUniversity Clinics, etc.CADILLAC EQUIPMENT EXCLUSIVELYThe Best Place to Eat on the South Side1/anM'nisMnd JIB ^Jhki*sm>i<mCOLONIAL RESTAURANT6324 Woodlawn Ave.Phone Hyde Parle 6324RICHARD H. WEST CO.COMMERCIALPAINTING & DECORATING1331W. Jackson Blvd. TelephoneMonroe 3192PETERSONFIREPROOFWAREHOUSEeSTORAGEMOVINGeForeign — DomesticShipments55th & ELLIS AVENUEPHONEMIDway 9700 Fowler B. McConnell, '16, whostepped off first base, which he helddown for the Varsity nine, to accept a position with the nation'slargest mail order house — after aninterlude with the First IllinoisCavalry on the Mexican Border —was recently elected president ofSears, Roebuck and Company.In the thirty years Fowler McConnell has been with the company,he has held important executiveposts in both the mail order andretail branches. After serving asgeneral manager of the Philadelphiaplant and as territorial officer for thecompany's retail operations in theSouth, he returned to Chicago in1932 to become assistant to the vice-president in charge of retail administration. In 1935 he was made assistant to the president and secretaryof the company and in 1939 he became vice-president in charge of retail administration.Of particular interest to the University family is the fact that he wasin charge of the Encyclopedia Britannica when it was owned by theSears organization and before it wasturned over to the University.La Touraine Coffee Co.IMPORTERS AND ROASTERS OFLA TOURAINECOFFEE AND TEA209-13 MILWAUKEE AVE.. CHICAGOat Lake and Canal Sts.Phone State 1350¦MtM— N«v Vert— PhluuMeMa— Syntust 1919Elmer Kennedy is teaching SocialScience at Woodrow Wilson JuniorCollege in Chicago, and is collaborating on the writing of a two volumecollege text: "Introduction to SocialScience."Virgil Francis Binford is living inLafayette, Indiana, where he is operating partner on Shoreland Farmsand manager of Watson Farms, witha combined total of 10,000 acres.Katharine Brant Frost is EditorialClerk in the Office of Indian Affairsin Chicago.1920Henry W. Kennedy was recentlyelected vice president of the firm ofMcKey and Poague, Inc., Chicagorealtors.Mrs. H. H. Miller (Mary McFar-land, AM) is teaching at MemorialHigh School in San Diego, California.Her daughter, Enid, is' a sophomoreat the University of Colorado.1921Melville W. Borders, JD, is president of the Wilson Jones Company inChicago, and is living in River Forest,Illinois.F. Taylor Gurney, PhD '35, is with .the State Department, and has recently been made Chief Public Relations Officer assigned to the American Embassy at Teheran, Iran.Joseph B. Hall was recently electedpresident of the Kroger Company.Hall was made manager of Kroger'sreal estate department in 1931 andafter service in nierchandising andsales, he was made manager of thecompany's St. Louis branch in 1935.Two years later he was appointeddivision manager in charge of a groupof branches, maintaining headquarters in Cleveland. In 1941 he waselected a vice president and director,with responsibility of all Kroger manufacturing operations. He was elected treasurer in 1943, and became executive vice president in 1945.Mrs. John F. Healy (RamonaHayes, '21, AM '32) has been admitted to the bar in Illinois. Sheintends to specialize in law cases involving transportation and travel.Rollin D. Hemens, Assistant Director of the University of Chicago Press,is on a business trip to London wherehe is working out a satisfactory arrangement for the distribution ofpublications from American university presses. Mr. Hemens is presidentof the American Association of University Presses.Mrs. Arthur G. Leonard, Jr.,(Doris G. Martin) is owner and manager of Stonebridge Farms, a regis-THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 25tered Guernsey dairy farm at Wilmington, Illinois. She is also President of the Chicago Lighthouse forthe Blind, and active in its work.1922Mary M. Wyman, AM '31, is chairman of the Elementary Section,School and College Division andChairman, Supervisors Section of theNational Safety Council; also recording secretary of the Kentucky Congress of Parents and Teachers, andis supervisor of Safety and Special Education of the Louisville, Kentucky,Public Schools.1923Lt. Col. Stanley E. Lawton, MD'26, has returned to private practiceafter 24 months in Australia, NewGuinea, the Philippines and Japan aschief of surgery with the 13th General (Presbyterian Hospital) Unit.Howard E. Wilson, AM '27, leftHarvard last fall to become assistantdirector of the Division of Educationat the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Mrs. Wilson(Florence L. Heden, '23) also an educator, collaborates with her husbandin many of his books.Russell F. Robinson is living in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he is Educational Director for the State Department of Veterans' Affairs.1924Irwin Fischer is organist with theChicago Symphony Orchestra. He isalso conductor of the orchestra ofthe American Conservatory, andteacher of piano, theory and composition there.Ray M. Lawless, AM, PhD '40, isChairman of the English Departmentin the Junior College in Kansas City,Missouri.Mrs. Sherman Coddington (MabelE. Noel, AM '26) is an instructor atthe Dixie School in Caldwell, Idaho.1925Herman E. Hayward, SM, PhD'28, was appointed director of theU. S. Regional Salinity Laboratory,Riverside, California, in December,1945. He was Professor of Botany atthe University for several years, andmore recently the senior plant anatomist of the research laboratory henow directs.Rose J. Hague, AM, is head of theHome Economics Department at Central Michigan College of Education.Elisabeth Nichols is Emeritus Professor of English at MacMurray College, after an active full-time teachingcareer of 43 years.1926Ralph S. Boggs, PhD '30, of theDepartment of Romance Languages of the University of North Carolina,has recently returned from Mexico,where he has been traveling andstudying for a year as a representative of the Department of State tohelp that country establish folklorestudies on a scientific basis.Berthold C. Friedl, AM, has beenappointed Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Russian Language, Literature and Civilization atthe University of Oregon, Eugene,Oregon.Paul E. Green is a sales engineerwith the Kropp Forge Company, andis living in South Bend, Indiana.Appointment of Frances AnnJohnston, SM, PhD '41, as researchassistant professor in the Departmentof Food and Nutrition of the Collegeof Home Economics at Cornell University was recently announced.Allen Miller, program manager ofstation KOAC, Corvallis, Oregon, hasbeen appointed director of the RockyMountain Radio Council, effectiveFebruary 1. Mr. Miller was radiodirector at the University of Chicago from his graduation until 1935.Captain H. Lester Seidner has beenrelieved from active duty in the Armyand has rejoined the firm of Seidnerand Seidner, Chicago, in the practiceof law.1927Marian Barnes is pathologist withthe Archbold Memorial Hospital inThomasville, Georgia.Mrs. Russell Bauer (Ruth A. Hal-lam, AM) is instructor in Mathematics at the University of South Dakota.Alfred Ingle, SM, is an instructorin Chemistry at the University ofArkansas, at Fayetteville.John R. Russell is librarian at theUniversity of Rochester, and is thepresident of the New York LibraryAssociation this year.Joseph H. White recently returnedfrom war service with the War Production Board and the U. S. Army,and has formed Joseph White andAssociates, merchandising and management counsel with offices in Chicago.Ella S. Hathaway, AM, is teachingHome Economics, in the high schoolat Vancouver, British Columbia.1928Dr. H. Leigh Baker, AM, has beenappointed head of the Departmentof Education and Psychology at Kansas State College, effective July 1.Vincent Cohenour was relievedfrom active duty as an Army Warrant Officer in January. His wife,Esther, and nine month old RosaAlma arrived in the States from England in February. AMERICAN COLLEGE BUREAU28 E. JACKSON BOULEVARDCHICAGOA Bureau of Placement which limits itswork to the university and college field.It is affiliated with the Fisk TeachersAgency of Chicago, whose work covers allthe educational fields. 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PrivateSchools in all parts of the country amongour best patrons; good salaries. Well pre*pared High School teachers wanted for cityand suburban High Schools. Special manager handles Grade and Critic work. Sendfor folder today.OBERG'SFLOWER SHOPFlowers wired the world over1461 E. 57th StreetPhones: Fairfax 3670, 3671BEST BOILER REPAIR & WELDING CO.24-HOUR SERVICELICENSED - BONDEDINSUREDQUALIFIED WELDERSHAYmarket 79171404-08 S. Western Ave., ChicagoMacCormac School ofCommerceBusiness AdministrationShorthand and TypingSPECIAL SUMMER CLASSESStarting July 8thDAY AND EVENING CLASSESRegister Now1170 East 63rd StreetTelephone: Butterfield 6363Serving the Medical ProfessionSince 1895V. MUELLER & CO.SURGEONS'INSTRUMENTSHOSPITAL AND OFFICEFURNITUREORTHOPEDICAPPLIANCES•Phone Seeley 2180, all departmentsOgden Ave., Van Buren andHonore StreetsChicago 12 John Halko, AM, formerly fieldresearch director of the Home Mission Board of the Northern BaptistConvention, recently became director of the department of research andplanning of the Washington Federation of Churches, Washington, DC.John L. Lawson is teaching Mathematics at the Beehive School inCleveland, Ohio.Louis B. Howard, PhD '31, hasbeen appointed Chief of the Bureauof Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry with the Department of Agriculture, effective March 31.Grace M. Musch is Professor ofBiological Science at Upper IowaUniversity, Fayette, Iowa.Mary Elizabeth Rountree, AM, ishead of the Spanish and French Department at San Angelo Junior College in San Angelo, Texas.Mary Ray Saxon is living in Columbia, South Carolina, where sheis mathematics instructor and student adviser in the high school.Caroline Shrodes, AM '34, is Professor of Literature and Psychologyat Stockton Junior College, Stockton,California, and co-edited three texts:"Patterns for Living," published byMacmillan, "Psychology through Literature," published by Oxford, and"English at Work," published byMacmillan.1929Harry E. Blaine, AM, is Dean ofJoplin Junior College at Joplin, Missouri.Mrs. John H. Bracey (Helen Harris, AM '30) is instructor in Education at Howard University, Washington, D. C.1930Aleta Marie Brownlee, AM, isoverseas with the United Nations Rehabilitation and Relief Administration, and can be addressed c/o APO777, New York.Harry D. Edgren, AM '35, has leftthe USO after two and a half yearsas Program Coordinator of the National Staff, and has returned toGeorge Williams College in Chicagoas Professor of Health and Recreation.William A. Miller, AM, is Directorof the Syracuse University Press, atSyracuse University, Syracuse, NewYork.John L. Mixon, AM '37, has lefthis position with the Church WelfareBureau in Los Angeles, and is nowwith the McCormick TheologicalSeminary in Chicago.Addison L. Perkins, AM '37, isemployed with the Post Office atChicago, Illinois. Martye Poindexter is Professor andHead of the Department of AppliedArt Division of Home Economics atTexas Technological College at Lubbock, Texas.Julius E. Ratner, AM '32, has beenreleased from active service, and hasaccepted a position as research analyst with the Meredith PublishingCompany in Des Moines, Iowa.Jerome N. Sampson is director ofthe Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls Schoolin Hawthorne, New York.Raymond B. Sawyer, PhD, willjoin the faculty of Lehigh University at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, inJune as Associate Professor of Physics.Daniel D. Swinney, AM '38, is Captain in the U. S. Public Health Service, and is detailed to the NebraskaState Board of Health.Calvin S. Yoran, PhD '33, is Research Director of the Brown RubberCompany, and a member of its Boardof Directors. When not at work developing sponge rubber products, heenjoys bowling, golf, photographyand stamp collecting.1931George R. Bartlett,. PhD '42, hasaccepted a position at Boise JuniorCollege in Boise, Idaho, startingJune 1.Juliette Melanie Eliscu, MD '36, isa practicing physician in Tyler,John H. Hardin, JD '33, has become a member of the law firm withwhich he has been associated, changing the name to Sorling, Catron andHardin, Springfield, Illinois.Jeanne A. Hurd was dischargedfrom the WAVES in December, andis back at her pre-navy job — doinglens design for Bell and Howell inChicago.Robert Ward McEwen, AM, PhD'33, was inaugurated as the seventhpresident of Blackburn College, Car-linville, Illinois, on March 2.John A. Pfanner, Jr., AM, PhD'39, has accepted a position at theUniversity of Southern California atLos Angeles as Assistant Professor inMarketing.Thomas I. Porter, SM, recentlywas appointed instructor in Physicsat the Georgia School of Technologyin Atlanta, Georgia.Hugh S. Richards is with theArmy and Navy Department of theYMCA at 347 Madison Avenue, NewYork City.1932Abraham M. Cherner, MD '37, acaptain in the Medical Corps, wasTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 27released from the Army last September and has rejoined his family(daughter Maria is 9 years old). Hehas returned to his general practicewith offices at 5700 Halsted Street,Chicago.James Douglas Haygood, AM, isemployed as a psychologist with thefirm of Stevenson, Jordan and Harrison, Management Engineers in Cleveland, Ohio. He was married in September to Amelia DeCosta Stone ofWashington, D. C.Donald C. Lowrie, PhD '42, hasrecently been appointed Director ofthe Museum of the Academy of Science in St. Louis.Dorothy R. Mohr, AM '33, is Assistant Professor of Health, PhysicalEducation and Recreation at TexasState College for Women at Denton,Charles H. Sievers, PhD, is Professor of Biology and Chairman ofthe Department at Roosevelt Collegein Chicago.Edward H. Wagenaar, MD '32,was discharged in January, and isnow practicing pediatrics in Muskegon, Michigan.Carl E. Schulz is living in Man-hasset, New York. He is a management engineer with offices at 285Madison Avenue in New York.1933Marc M. Cleworth has joined thestaff of World Book Company, andwill have Michigan as his territory,with headquarters in Chicago. ' Mrs.Cleworth (Maud C. Rasmussen, AM'40) has been educational consultantfor Alton, Illinois for the past fouryears. She has an article appearingcurrently in Childhood Education:"Is Retardation Static in a ChangingWorld?"Mary D. Mawdsley, PhD, is Deanof Women at the University of BritishColumbia, Vancouver, B. C.James D. Powell, AM, PhD '39,joined the faculty of Temple University this month as instructor in Romance Languages.Reginald J. Stephenson, PhD, isChairman of the Department ofPhysics at the College of Wooster,Wooster, Ohio.1934Eva G. Donelson, PhD, has resignedas Associate Professor of Nutrition atthe University of Minnesota to headthe Department of Foods and Nutrition at Ohio State University.Karl C. Hamner SM, PhD '35, forseveral years senior plant physiologistat the U. S. Plant, Soil and NutritionLaboratory, Ithaca, N. Y., was appointed the director of the plant recently. Eleanor McWhinnie is teaching inthe Kelvyn Park High School in Chicago.Alice L. Ralston, AM, is teachingin the public schools in Moline, Illinois. •-1935Stella P. Gavrilavicz, AM '36, isliving in New York City, where sheis working as an artist-designer forthe Norcross Greeting Card Company.Richard V. Henry, Jr., was discharged March 1, and is back practicing law with the firm of Eckert andPeterson in Chicago.Lynn Alan Stiles is with the Illinois Department of Revenue, and isliving in Chicago.1936Edgar C. Cumings, PhD, has movedto Danville, Indiana, where he ispresident-elect of Central IndianaNormal College. He becomes president on June 1. Mrs. Cumings is theformer Eleanor Jane Sharts, 36.James Edward Dorris is in Caracas,Venezuela, where he is working as ageophysicist.Morris H. Goran) SM '39, is Assistant Professor of Chemistry atRoosevelt College in Chicago.Winston W. Jones, PhD, was recently named chairman of the Department of Horticulture, Universityof Arizona, at Tucson.Max' H. Resnick is living in LosAngeles, where he is a real estatebroker.Gilbert C. Hilbrant is divisionmanager of the Truax-Traer CoalCompany in Peoria, Illinois.Robert S. Whitlow is currently onterminal leave after serving as a Captain in the* military intelligence service in the ETO. Bob has returned tothe New York law firm of Barry,Wainwright, Thatcher and Symmers.19*7Robert H. Bethke has been retiredfrom active duty with the Army, andis employed by the Discount Corporation of New York City, at 58 PineStreet.John B. Biesanz is visiting Professorof Sociology at the Inter-AmericanUniversity in Panama City, Panama.Mrs. C. W. Flowers (Doris M.Force), who has been assistant to theDirector of the University of Chicago Press for the past fourteen years,has accepted a position with theHenry Holt Company in New Yorkas assistant to William Brandt, president. Mr. Brandt was formerly Director of the University of ChicagoPress.Arthur L. Funk, AM, PhD '40, wasrecently discharged and is now As- ytefta**rS!£'~~36 -manpipe1-manpipeSTERNCRf"It's hard enough to get 1 manto agree on a pipe style, muchless 36! That's why LHShas always designed a widerange of handsome modelsto suit individual tastes,and pocketbooks. Butone thing all men agreeon — and that's thet/imlity of LHS pipes.A good pipe is <im im>fsl-mfiil m daily pleasure.LHS Pipes IncludeImported BriarLHS Sicrncrest Ultraflnc $10.00LHS Stcrncrcot UK . . 7.50LHS Certified Purex . 3.50LHS Purex Superfine " ii"i 1.50at good dealers .v.rywh.r..Zeus Filter Cigar.tte Holder* are botlcin ALUMINUM with harldy ejector jStandard model $1; 0. Luxe $2rF«Ff. 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Vernon Av«.TREMONTAUTO SALES CORP.z Authorized DealerCHRYSLER and PLYMOUTH6040 Cottage GroveMid. 4200Used Cor DepartmentComplete Automobile RepairsBody Shop — Paint ShopSimoniiing — WashingGreasing sistant Professor in the Departmentof History at Drake University.William W. Haggard, PhD, is president of the Western WashingtonCollege of Education at Bellingham,Washington. He is president of theNational High School Principals' Association, President of the AmericanAssociation of Junior Colleges, andsecretary of the North Central Association of Colleges and SecondarySchools.Aobert L. Kyhl is working in theRadiation Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and isliving in Cambridge.Vera McNair, PhD, is director ofthe King's Daughters Home for Children in Flint, Michigan.During the past two years, NormanM. Pearson, PhD '43, has been withthe Bureau of the Budget in the Executive Office of the President, working on lend-lease, export-importbank, international bank and otherinternational finance problems.Arthur David Pickett, SM, is personnel counselor with the WesternElectric Company in Cicero, Illinois.James C. Shelburne, AM, is personnel director of the ReconstructionFinance Corporation at Atlanta,Georgia.1938H. Virgil Bower, AM, is assistantdirector of enrollment at WilliamJewell College in Liberty, Missouri.Charles F. Burns is working onmilk sanitation with the Paris-LamarCounty Health Unit of the TexasState Department of Health.Georgia Carle, is on the editorialstaff for Science Books with Scott,Foresman and Company in Chicago.Helga Christensen, AM, is an instructor in Art at the Lyons Township High School in La Grange, Illinois.Anne Council, AM, is assistant director of Home Service, North Atlantic Area, with the American RedCross in Atlanta, Georgia.Roy Dubisch, SM '40, PhD '43, willjoin the faculty of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, as Assistant Professor in Mathematics inSeptember.Bernard M. Dulsey, AM '39, is Instructor in the Spanish Department atPurdue University.Byron C. Hayes, AM, has beenplaced on inactive Navy status, andhas resumed his prewar duties withthe Admissions Office at Lehigh University in Bethlethem, Pennsylvania.Louis R. Jacover, AM '39, is assistant manager of the statistical division of the F. W. Dodge Corporation,and is living in Brooklyn, New York. Catherine Mary Molone, AM, isteaching at Nazareth Academy, Nazareth, Michigan.Paul S. Schmidt, AM, has a newposition as instructor in the EnglishDepartment at the University ofMinnesota.1939John P. Britz, AM '40, is an instructor in the 'Department of English atthe University of Minnesota.Richard W. Evans has been released from active duty with theNavy, and is with Stevenson, Jordan,and Harrison, Inc., Management Engineers, in Chicago.Deborah R. Hample, AM, is a social worker with the Veterans ServiceCenter in New York City.John N. Hazard, JD, has been appointed Professor of Public Law atColumbia University, starting July 1,1946.Luther Parman is in the furniturebusiness in Arkansas City, Kansas,and is President of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Director on theBoard of Senior Chamber of Commerce, and Past President of the Retailers Association.John C. Prevost, AM, is out ofservice and has joined the faculty ofWayne University in Detroit, Michigan, as an instructor in French.Lt. Edward Robbins, AM, is officerin charge of screening prisoners ofwar and is serving in the Europeantheater.Audrey D. Van Valzah, AM, isprincipal of the Greene and Longfellow Schools in Chicago. Shewrites that collecting early American-glass is her hobby, and maintaining ahome and marketing for food forthree husky men — her husband andtwo sons — is her avocation!Charles S. Wilson, Jr., is back homeafter three years as an officer in theNavy, and is working for Hummeland Downing Company in Milwaukee.1940Clyde E. Aultz, MBA, is an instructor in business at DePaul UniversityCollege of Commerce.Captain L. W. Freeman, PhD, MD'43, former Chief of Paraplegics Section at Mayo General Hospital, Gales-burg, Illinois, has been assigned toVaughan General Hospital, Hines,Illinois, in the same capacity.Leland E. Hess, AM, is AssistantProfessor of History and PoliticalScience at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky.Willis L. Miller, PhD, is a transmission engineer with American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation inChicago.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 29BeckyEarlier this year Robert S. Miner,'40, dropped in at Alumni House onone of his brief visits to Chicago.Bob is one of the top flight chemistswith Merck and Company, Rahway,New Jersey. While on the quadrangles one of his major interestswas the band, where he played cornet and doubled as historian. Ourpurpose in writing this paragraph isnot so much to talk about Bob butto make an opportunity to introduceyou to Becky, who looks so muchlike Bob that we can substitute herpicture for his. Actually, Bob looksa few years older. Incidentally, thismeets a number of requests we havehad for more pin up girls in theMAGAZINE.Dolores F. Moore, SM, is nutritionist with the American Red CrossChapter in Chicago.Albert Newhouse, PhD, is on thefaculty of the University of Floridain the Mathematics Department. Hewas married September 3, 1943, toJean Miles Neil of Lincoln, Nebraska.George T. Peck, AM, PhD '42, hasrecently become Assistant Professorin the History Department of LehighUniversity at Bethlehem, Pa.Lt. Chester B. Powell, MD '43, entered the Army October, 1945, aftercompleting residency in Neurosurgeryat die Neuropsychiatric Institute ofthe University of Illinois. He is nowstationed at Bushnell General Hospital in Brigham, Utah, and is enjoying skiing, since his arrival. He reports that Capt. Vaughn Pond, MD'43, is also stationed at Bushnell Gen-eral Hospital, on the Orthopedicservice. Millard Rogers, AM, joined thestaff of the Department of Fine Artsat the University of Southern California in March as Assistant Professor.William C. Rogers, AM '41, PhD'43, is secretary of the Personnel Exchange, Public Administration Clearing House, and is teaching PoliticalScience on the quadrangles thisSpring. Mrs. Rogers, (Mary JaneAnderson, '41) is writing her thesisin Sociology while taking care ofShelley, their daughter, born November 13, 1945, at Lying-in Hospital.1941Hyman Africk, MBA, '42, is an accounting instructor at DePaul University.Dorothy V. Bangert, AM, is teaching at the Washington High School inPortland, Oregon, and enjoying tripsto Mt. Hood and Timberline Lodge.Charles E. Bowerman, AM, joinedthe staff of Ball State Teachers College at Muncie, Indiana, in March asAssistant Professor of Sociology.Harry F. Brubaker, SM, is instructor in Geography and Social Scienceat Florida State College for Womenin Talahassee, Florida.Samuel A. DeBofsky, LLB '42, hasbeen released from active duty in theArmy, and returned to the privatepractice of law in Chicago.John C. Doolittle has joined theQuality Control Department of theEastman Kodak Company, Rochester,N.Y.Bernice Glickson, AM '42, is an instructor in English at Roosevelt College in Chicago.Warren E. Henry, PhD, is a staffmember of the Radiation Laboratoryat Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on leave from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.George W. Johnson, AM, is aninstructor in the English Departmentat Drake University, Des Moines,Iowa.Richard G. Kadesch, PhD, is director of research at Reynolds MetalsCompany in Gary, Indiana.Everett P. Misunas, AM, has beendischarged from service and is nowinstructor in Fine Arts and English atthe Waukegan Township High Schoolin Waukegan, Illinois.Wilbur T. Nelson, AM, is personnel manager of the HardwareMutual Casualty Insurance Companyin Chicago.Personable Gene Ruth Rickey, remembered by many who used to visitthe Bartlett office of the Athletic Department, was released from theAmerican Red Cross on December 17 and has returned to Chicago whereshe is now living at 5738 Kenwood.Miss Rickey's last assignment beforereturning to civilian life was at WelchConvalescent Hospital at DaytonaBeach, Florida.Abram W. VanderMeer, AM, PhD'43, is Assistant Professor of Education at Pennsylvania State College,State College, Pa.Donald P. Veith, AM, is an instructor in English at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.Clara Ritchie Johns, MD, is livingih Brookline, Massachusetts, andworking with the U S. Public HealthService in Boston.Lando Edward Howard, AM, isworking in the office of Public ReliefCommissioner in Chicago.1942Captain Arthur R. Bethke has beenawarded an Oak Leaf Cluster to hisArmy ^ Commendation Ribbon, thelatest award being for "meritoriousservice in development of plans andprocedures for the return of Armypersonnel from the Pacific theaters."Art is presently stationed at Headquarters, San Francisco Port of Embarkation.Frank J. Kobler, PhD, has beenreleased from active service, and hasjoined the faculty of Loyola University in Chicago as Assistant Professor in Psychology.John Van Male, PhD, is librarianat the University of South Carolina,and broadcasts once a week, publicizing the University and the Library.GEO. D. MILLIGANCOMPANYPAINTING CONTRACTORS2101-9 South Kedzie AvenuePhone: Rockwell 806030 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINETuckerDecorating Service1360 East 70th StreetPhone MIDway 4404Arthur MichaudelDesigner and Maker ofDistinctive Stained Glass Windows542 North Paulina Street, ChicagoTelephone Monroe 2423MOFFETT STUDIOCAMERA PORTRAITS OF QUALITY30 So. Michigan Blvd., Chicago State 8750OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHERU. of C. ALUMNIHOWARD F. NOLANPLASTERING, BRICKandCEMENT WORKREPAIRING A SPECIALTY5341 S. Lake Parle Ave.Telephone Dorchester 1579Alice Banner Englewood 3181COLORED HELPFACTORY HELPSTORESSHOPSMILLS FOUNDRIESEnglewood Emp. Agcy., 5534 S. State St.Auto LiveryLarge Limousines - $4 Per Hour5 Passenger Sedans - $3 Per HourSpecial rates for out of townEMERY-DREXEL LIVERY INC.5516 S. HARPER AVE.FAirfax 6400Ask for Dept. B. 1943Mrs. Joseph J. Bonsignore (Made-lyn Kleutsch, AM) is an editorialassistant with Science Research Associates in Chicago.Frances Carter Bush, AM, is takinga pre-medical course at Emory University.William M. Carlton, PhD, has accepted a new position as AssistantPlant Pathologist at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College inStillwater, Oklahoma.Carl Christ is Instructor in Physicsat Princeton University, after twoyears on the Metallurgy Project atthe University.Don Patinkin, AM '45, has recentlyjoined the faculty of Roosevelt College in Chicago as instructor in Economics.Robert E. Roberson received hismaster's degree from George Washington University, Washington, D. C,on February 22.Julita V. Sotejo, SM, is principalof the school of nursing at the Philippine General Hospital in Manila,P.I.Mary Frances Barry, SM, is nurseinstructor at Harborvien Hall inSeattle, Washington.1944Charles R. Feldstein, AM, is working for his doctorate in the Department of American Civilization atHarvard, and is assistant to the Director, B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundationat Harvard and Radcliffe.Sgt. Harmond J. Halvorson, AM,featured in Merriel Abbot's EmpireReviews at the Palmer House in Chicago for five years, has joined theAmerican Forces Network in Bremen,Germany. Here he will help presentthe over 60 hours of specially produced and decommercialized topAmerican radio shows sent overseaseach week.Carol Kousnetz is busy working onelectronics research. After a year anda half with General Electric in Schenectady, she returned to Chicago toaccept a position with Bell andHowell.Walter E. Magney, who came tothis country during the depression atthe age of 35, learned English innight schools, and completed his workfor the bachelor's in December,1943, has been employed since asa statistician with the Chicago ParkDistrict. One of the most interestingphases of his work is the study ofboulevard traffic.Alice B. Peyton is living in Passaic,New Jersey, and is administrativedietitian at St. Mary's Hospital. Mrs. R. M. Stout (Maxine Mar-grove) is a child welfare workerwith the Board of Children's Guardians in St. Louis.1945Flora Bramson recently accepted aposition in the Pennsylvania StateCollege at State College, Pennsylvania, as instructor in English.James R. Brown is Head of theSocial Science Department of theChariton Public Schools in Chariton,Iowa.Mrs. Ruben Thevenet (PatriciaConfrey, AM) is home economistwith the Western Massachusetts Electric Company, Pittsfield, Mass.Stuart D. Loomis is an instructorin Psychology at the University ofNew Hampshire, Durham, NewHampshire.Francis W. McKenzie, AM, is consulting psychologist and director ofthe YMCA counseling service inHartford, Conn. He is doing longrange explorative testing and counseling and doing further doctoralwork at Yale.Shirley Grace Moore has recentlyaccepted a position as Assistant Director of the Zion Nursery School inChicago.Jerome Taylor, AM, will join thefaculty of the University as instructorin English the Fall Quarter, 1946.Frederick Wezeman is out of service and has accepted a position asSenior Assistant Librarian at the Detroit Public Library in Detroit, Michigan.SOCIAL SERVICENathan Berman, AM '33, is the newExecutive Director of the JewishFamily and Children's Agency andthe Jewish Old People's Home in Indianapolis, Indiana.Charles Rogers, AM '39, is nowwith the Tuberculosis Bureau, StateDepartment of Health, Charlestown,West Virginia.Richard Guilford, AM '39, has beenreleased from the Navy and hasjoined the faculty of the Universityof Minnesota as an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Workthere.Mary Russell, AM '40, has recentlybeen made the Executive Secretaryof the Family Society of Pasadena,California.Frank Itzin, AM '40, has recentlybeen released from the service andhas accepted a position with the Veterans Administration in Des Moines,Iowa.Leona Jordan, AM '41, is nowworking as a medical social workerfor the American Red Cross at Fitz-THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 31simons General Hospital in Denver,Colo.Rosebud Savage, AM '41, has takena position with the Veterans Administration at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.Eugene Prybylski, AM '42, has recently been released from service andhas taken a position with the St.Joseph County Public Welfare Department in South Bend, Indiana.Dorothy Emerick, AM '42, hastaken a position with the MultnomahCounty Department of Public Welfare in Portland, Oregon.Mabelle Farr, AM '42, is in training in Washington, D. C, and will begoing to China with UNRRA.'Paul Jacobs, AM '42, has returnedfrom service with UNRRA in Hanover, Germany, and is back with theLutheran Child Welfare Associationin Addison, Illinois, as Director ofSocial Service.Maxine Maree, AM '43, has leftthe Red Cross and has taken a position with the Consultation Bureau inDetroit, Michigan.Maxine Dieterich Leftwich, AM'44, is now a case worker with theChicago Orphan Asylum.Rose Baron, AM '45, has taken aposition with the Aid to DependentChildren's program in the LowerNorth District Office of the CookCounty Bureau of Public Welfare.Beth Sheffel, AM '45, is now employed with the Veterans Center inBoston.Margaret Riley Northcott, AM '45,is living in San Francisco, California,and working as a medical socialworker with the University of California Hospital.Harriet Johnson, AM '45, has recently accepted a position with theIllinois Children's Home and Aid Society and is located in Chicago.ENGAGEMENTSAnnouncement had been made ofthe engagement of Beatrice Diamond,of New York City and Redding, Connecticut, to Jack Philip Donis, '38,MBA '39. Mr. Donis recently received his discharge from the NavalReserve after serving as a Lieutenant(j.g.) in the Pacific.Mr. Louis J. Salmon has announcedthe engagement of his daughter, JoanEllen Salmon, '43, to MidshipmanOliver Sawyer Hallett of Boston,Massachusetss. The wedding willtake place at Annapolis, Maryland,in June after Mr. Hallett is graduated.Mr. and Mrs. Morris B. Sachs ofChicago have announced the engagement of their daughter, Lt. (j.g.) Zenia Louise Sachs, '43, to LawrenceJoseph Goodman.Mr. and Mrs. Frank Torell of Chicago have announced the engagement of their daughter, EleanorElaine Torell, AM '44, to CaptainJohn Logan Scott, AM '42, now onterminal leave from the Army Medical Corps.Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. Cohen recently announced the engagement oftheir daughter, June Betty Cohen,'45, to Navy Lt. Herbert S. Manning,'42. After two years of overseas service, Lt. Manning is stationed in Chicago.Arthur R. Koch, '45, and RuthTheile of Chicago announced theirengagement on December 8, 1945.Ruth is a teacher in the deaf-oral department of the Hanes school, andArthur is studying at the ChicagoTheological Seminary.MARRIAGESNellie M. Convy, '24, was marriedon August 22, 1945, to Mr. C. T.Hubert. They recently bought theBroadway Hotel in Monett, Missouri, which they are operating inconjunction with a farm at SpringValley, Arkansas.Margaret Horn, '33, was marriedon January 3, 1946, to L. D. Jordan.She is campus nurse at the University of Alaska, College, Alaska.Lt. Col. Joseph Nelson, '33, JD '36,and Violet Schaffer were married onFebruary 17 in New York City. Col.Nelson, formerly assistant chief ofstaff of the Army in the Africa-Middle East Theater, recently receivedthe Legion of Merit.Walter Hamburger, Jr., '37, MD'40, who was a captain in the Medical Corps until March 7, 1946, wasmarried to Ruth Kraft, AM '43, onJanuary 7, 1946. They have movedto Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, where Dr. Hamburger is taking special work in psychiatry.Dorothy Moyer, AM '37, was married in June, 1945, in Calcutta, India,to Army Engineer John Ruch. Mrs.Ruch served for two years with theRed Cross Hospital Service in Indiaand Burma.Jack P. Kornfield, '38, was marriedrecently to Doris Johnston of Chicago. - He served four years in thearmy as a meterologist, two of whichwere spent in the south Pacific. Thecouple is living at 8017 MarylandAvenue, Chicago.Dorothy C. Winchester, AM '38,and John D. Bradley, AM '43, weremarried on February 26, 1946, inChicago. Platers, SilversmithsSpecialists . . .GOLD, SILVER, RHODANIZESILVERWARERepaired, Re finished, Re/acqueredSWARTZ & COMPANY10 S. Wabash Ave. CENtral 6089-90 ChicagoCLARK-BREWERTeachers Agency63rd YearNationwide ServiceFive Offices — One Fee64 E. Jackson Blvd., ChicagoMinneapolis — Kansas City, Mo.Spokane — New YorkE. J. 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Nieman,and they are living at 8048 S. Kingston in Chicago.Lt. Joseph Stein, '40, JD '42, andGladys Wool were married February17, in Chicago. Lt. Stein is on terminal leave. After their return froma wedding trip to Colorado Springs,they will live in Chicago.Patricia R. Edgeworth, '43, andRichard P. Letsinger were marriedJanuary 19, 1946. They are living inAnn Arbor, Michigan.Marian Elizabeth Elliott, SM '43,was married on May 25, 1945, toD. E. Kashland, Jr., at Oak Ridge,Tenn.Andrew Canzonetti, MD '44, andRuth Zuroms were married on January 17, 1946, at the chapel of theU. S. Naval Hospital in Brooklyn.Both bride and bridegroom are onactive duty with the Navy MedicalCorps.WAC Corporal Audrey Joyce, '44,and Lt. Guy E. Mallery, Jr., weremarried on February 20, 1946, atFrankfurt-am-Main, Germany, andare honeymooning at St. Moritz,Switzerland. They are both eligiblefor discharge, and expect to returnto the States very shortly.Lt. Erie K. Theimer, Jr., '44, andRae Hatcher, '45, were married onJanuary 5, 1946.Esther B. Pinkstaff, '45, was married on January 12, 1946, to Dr.Richard H. Bethune.Helen E. Wallace, '45, was married to Robert Reister on September8, 1945, at Chicago. They are athome at 1312 E. 49th Street, Chicago.BIRTHSA daughter, Harriet Nelson Harkins, was born February 13, 1946, toHenry N. Harkins, '25, SM '26, PhD'28, MD '31, and Jean Trestor Harkins, '39. Dad is now Associate Professor of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University, and Editor-in-Chiefof the Quarterly Review of Surgery.Lt. John E. Appel, '32, and Mrs.Appel (Maryfrancis Brennan, '32)announce the birth of a daughter,Lynne Fae, on Thanksgiving Day,November 22, 1945. Lt. Appel isnow stationed at Fort Jackson, SouthCarolina.Hertsell Conway, '32, PhD '37,and Mrs. Conway (Anne Sinai, '39)„< announce the birth of Oren Michaelon March 21, 1946, at St. Louis.Nancy Gail Ovson was born January 6, 1946, to Leo D. Ovson, '33,and Mrs. Ovson (Marcia M. Elis-berg, '33).A second son, Dennis Roy Coleman, was born on November 7, 1945to Harold M. Coleman, '34, SM '36,PhD '42, and Mrs. Coleman (Marjorie Wolf, '35).John G. Morris, '37, and Mrs. Morris (Mary Adele Crosby, '39) ofBronxville, New York, announce thebirth of a son on March 15, 1946,at the Fifth Avenue Hospital in NewYork City. The child will be namedChristopher Crosby.John F. Gall, PhD '39, and Mrs.Gall announce the birth of a son,Robert, born July 20, 1945.A son, Charles Graves, was born onhis mother's birthday, March 7, 1946,to Lt. Marguerite Untermeyer USNR(Marguerite A. Graves, '40) andMajor Dewitt E. Untermeyer.Arthur E. Brake, '41, and Mrs.Brake (Betty Louise McKim, '41)announce the birth of a daughter,Elizabeth Anne, on July 9, 1945.Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Philipson(Amy F. Goldstein, '41) announce thebirth of a son, David Joseph, on February 10, 1946, at Los Angeles, California.David Lee Myers was born November 22, 1945, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to Lawrence S. Myers, Jr., '41,and Mrs. Myers (Janet Vander-walker, '41).A baby son, John Andrew, wasborn September 7, 1945, to Lt. JamesH. Billings, MD '42, and Dr. MartaS. Billings, at Los Angeles, California.Raymond C. Wanta, '43, and Mrs.Wanta announce the birth of adaughter, Marcella Louise, born February 22, 1946. According to herfather, young Marcella has "red hairfrom her mother; bad dispositionfrom her father."DEATHSAlbert L. Scott, president of Lock-wood-Greene, engineers, and an active trustee of the University, died athis home at Chappaqua, New York,on March 2, 1946.Dr. Mary Hoyt, who for years presided over the University's teacherplacement office before her retirement, passed away in Chicago onMarch 3.Mrs. A. R. E. Wyant (Louise Hulbert, '96) at Chicago on December31, 1945. Mrs. Wyant, who was thedaughter of Chicago's former Deanthe Divinity School and the wifeof Chicago's famous seven-year football star, had passed her seventy-fifth birthday.Clyde W. Votaw, PhD '96, Professor Emeritus of New TestamentLiterature at the University, onMarch 24, 1946, at Pasadena, California. Mr. Votaw, 82, joined theUniversity faculty in 1894 and retired in 1929, when he moved to California. He was the author of several books on religious education.Mrs. Votaw passed on one weeklater, March 31, following a longillness. fflJesse R. Bryant, MD Rush '96, retired physician, on February 12, 1946,at Wausau, Wisconsin.Arthur Caldwell Gillam, MD Rush'00, on December 27, 1945, at Dayton, Ohio, after an illness of twoyears.Charles F. Read, MD Rush '01,eminent psychiatrist and superintendent of the Elgin State Hospital, Elgin,Illinois, on March 11, 1946, at Elgin.Clifton Durant Howe, PhD '04,Dean Emeritus of Forestry of theUniversity of Toronto, on February22, 1946, at Toronto, Ontario.David A. Horner, '06, MD '08, onNovember 8, 1945, at Chicago.Lillian W. Wiseman, '07, on January 12, 1946, at Los Angeles, California, after an illness of severalmonths.Mrs. James H. Greene (FloraThomson Jones, '08) composer, organist, and a leader in Pittsburghmusic circles, on February 25, atPittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Survivingis her husband, Dr. James H. Greene,'08.Elizabeth Gregory Robertson, '08,on August 16, 1945.Ada Louise Weckel, SM '08, onJuly 10, 1945, at Oak Park, Illinois.George O. Van Noy, '09, on September 7, 1945, at Springfield, Missouri.Richard W. Gentry, '10, on October 16, 1944, at Ontario, California.Randolph E. Scott, '10, on July 10,1945, at Eagle Grove, Iowa, wherehe taught in Central High School.Mrs. Asa B. Caffey (Mildred D.Baskett, '12) on February 8, 1946, atHenderson, Kentucky.Fred M. Smith, '13, MD Rush '14,of the University Hospital, Iowa City,Iowa, on February 23, 1946.Charles Samuel Kibler, MD RushT4, on February 25, 1946, at Tucson,Arizona. 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