Mundf Bill EditorialPage 1MAROON holds elec¬tion Page 1 Attend the oil campusmeeting on civil rights.Todoy: So^ol Sciences107 ot 4:30 P. M.University of Chicago, May 14, 1948Hutchins hails 55 anniversaryof Maroon service, leadershipThe Qhicago MAROON celebrates its fifty-fifth anniversary this week.From Harper to Hutchins, the University has maintained its standing as one of thereally great schools in American education.The MAROON has been on hand to record its development for over half a century—a half century that saw the University give the world the atomic bomb, the great books,and, more recently, a World Constitution.Some of the people who have recorded that development have contributed to thisissue of the MAROON. Some ofthem are taking part in the moreAVC asks cash,Food for strikersSherwood Miller, ctvairman offhe campus chapter of the AVC,today announced that *hls organ-Uation will sponsor a food-collec¬tion drive for families of strikingpackinghouse workers on Satur¬day. setting up booths in front of55th St. Super Markets from 10t.m. to 5 p.m.The revitalized campus commit¬tee to aid the packinghouse strik¬ers. headed by Sam Sutton, hasscheduled regular meetings forSaturdays at 3:30 p.m. in the AVCoffice.Sutton was elected president ofthe committee by acclamation withTom Fuller .serving as vice-presi¬dent and Hans Freistadt, treas¬urer.An air of urgency was given tothe first meeting last Saturday bya union announcement that $50.-“)00 is needed if the strike Is tocontinue. As stop gap aid to thestrikers, a pledge campaign hasbeen started, but the committeeiias expressed the hope that soonU. of C. students will be able tomix pleasure with their charityby such projects as a Jazz con¬cert, a play, dances, and outings. AVC endorsesHagonoh roilyThe Area Council of theAmerican Veterans’ Committeehas endorsed the rally beinggiven by Americans for Hag-anah and other national Jew¬ish organizations Sunday eve¬ning at S p.m. in the ChicagoStadium.The rally is entitled “Saluteto the New Jewish Republic.”Tickets are available on cam¬pus at 50 cents each with allseats unre.served.Schroth conductor atRockefeller concertThe gala concert of the com¬bined choir and orchestra of theUniversity takes place Sunday andMonday night at 8:30 in theRockefeller Chapel.Gerhard Schroth, director of thechoir, conducts Bach’s Magnificaton both occasions, and Brahms’Alto Rhapsody on Sunday. Dr.Siegmund Levarie, conductor ofthe orchestra, leads the Brahmsopus on Monday, and the Fi^eliofinale on botti occasion^. " *1.Eleanor Limbach is the altosoloist in the Brahms work.Admission will be withoutcharge. Elect editorfor next yearThe MAROON will hold its an-MAROON work for personal rea¬sons.Dave Broder, Mi*naging Editorwill tonight entertain the Quad- ^, , one-sentence letters, Congratula-rangle Club with a record dance, tions ”FRATS have busy weekTo be held in the Phi KappaPsi house, at 5555 Woodlawn ave¬nue on Monday night, the firstI.P. smoker will start a new seriesof functions designed to furthercement interfraternity relation¬ships.Chuck Whitmore and FrankKoucky of Student Union and PhiGamma Delta are in charge of the.smoker, in cooperation with thePhi Psis. The Fijis’ Nasal Nine¬teen, along with groups from otherMidway chapters, will provide theinitial entertainment. A brouchure describing all theMidway chapters, a combined fra¬ternity song book and a fall mixerdance were among the specificitems planned by the group forthe fall quarter.Phi Gamma Delta’s traditionalFiji Island grass-skirt party willbe held tomorrow night in theFiji’s chapter house.Hand-made raffia grass skirts,made by Bob Laues’ weaving com¬mittee along with whatever elsethe girls deem necessary, will dec¬orate the Fiji’s maidens at thefestivities.The entire house will be decor¬ated with all the usual and unusualcannibal-isle details. Scoring another “first”,' .PhiGamma Delta’s “Nasal Nineteen”appeared across the city’s tele¬vision screens Sunday night onWBKB’s Knickerbocker Show.Led by Solon Cousins, the Fijisingers opened with “Swing Low,Sweet Chariot” and continued with“Now the Day Is Over.” For theirfeature number, the chorus intro¬duced their newest song “HailBrothers.”Alpha Delta Phi had also en¬tered their barbershop quartet inthe preliminaries of the contest,but will not participate until laterin the Spring.Tlie “Nasal Nineteen” will singnext Sunday at the Interclub sing. Five lucky pledges serious business of reporting world*^ events—some are taking part inJoin Sigma Chi shaping of these events..Hutchins congratulates MAROONSunday the Sigma Chis initiated one likes to take himself too , ^five more men. Lars Arentz-Han- seriously however least of all the Spi mg Quai ter editorial elec-aciiuu&iy. However, leasi oi an rne t^ons this afternoon at 4:30 in thesen, Frank Brennan, Maurice MAROON. Letters of sincere con- University Theater.Crawford, Tom Benedek and Ro- gratulations came from many Preceding the election, Ed Eng-bert Skalkop. Botany Pond played sources, high and low — but the berg, present editor, announcedan 'important part in the cere- ones we prize the most are those would not seek to be re-monies. from Chancellor Hutchins and ^ *In other social functions last campus leaders.week, the Sigs threw a blanket “I was amazed to learn that thispartyfor the Alpha Epsilons and is the fifty-fifth year of the MA- for fbe past two quarters, hasthe ChlHho Sigmas on Friday, and ROON s existence.” wrote the hircandidlcy'^Although'^hris ex*Chancellor in one of his famous . aacy. Although he is ex¬pected to opposed, no definitestatements have been made byother prospective candidates.This was followed by a letter ^Barbara Kenyon and Marsh, Bill Birenbaum, director of during seventh week of every^ . , Student Forum, who wrote: I aitWilely of the Quadranglers are in astonished to loam that this Quaitei. Few MAROONrharap nf nmna rations* Nan Karr * ^ m editors have Served their term Ofchaige of piepa.ations. Nan Kerr ,s the fifty-fifth year of the MA- however, three editors hav-and Jane Simons will handle the ROON s existence. Felicitations,decorations. Another publication on campusAt their weekly meeting on May ^ from Editor01..K Whituey assortmg: “I do not that awards for the editorial staff3, the Quadrangler club pledged believe this is thev fifty-fifth an- will be presented at a party to beMary Ellen Callopy. niversary of the MAROON’s exist- held exclusively for staff membersence. I will alter this belief when and their guests Saturday night at... 11 *-> i send me copies of the MA- the Sigma Chi fraternity house.Iron Mask honors Z4 ROON for the last nny-five years. The awards will go to Engberg,^^brications.” Milt Moskowitz, and Dave Brdder,in initiation ceremony ^'^'^‘'“‘"“.1,”!, pavid canter, technical;! Sherwood Miller, Chairman of Gerald Scherba, rewrite; EileenIron Mask, male campus honor AVC, wrote: For 55 years I have Stone, copy; John Stone, features;society for students in the college, been amazed at the MAROONs Bob Adams, political: Haroldexistence. What I am really Harding, sixirts; and George Si-amazed at is why! Fornications!” deris, reporting.Any way you look at it it’s here.What sort of record is involvedis not known. Birenbaum fallaws suiting served during the course ofthe last year.Engberg announced ye.sterdayheld initiation ceremonies lastnight for 24 new members at theDelta Upsilon fraternity house. ,,y g; ■ i 4.- v. *^4. . -We, frankly, are busting buttons Srirla«» trkumpv roculfcInitiated were: Bill Alton, Dick nvor it Bridge tourney resultsAtkinson, Frank Koucky, Tom * Beta Theta Pi won the Inter-Curran, John Davies, Ed Engberg, u . , , , , j* • fraternity Council Bridge Tourna-Merril Freed, Erni Gayden Gor- “uth Leads Lutheran discussion ment held last week at Ida Noyesdon Giles, Dick Golden, Yale Dean Huth, Professor of His- Hall. Jane Simmons, Quadrangler,Kramer, Ted Leviton, Charles Lin- tory and Dean of* the Summer acted as director of the team-of-dell, Salmon Marzulo, Ken Mul- School, will lead a discussion on four, match point duplicate tour-cahy, Lou Silverman, George “The Historical Setting of the nament. Beta’s team was made upSteiner, John Stone, George Tal- Early Christian Movement” at to- of Jim Bresee, Paul Jackson. Stan-bot. Bill Vrettos, Carl West berg, night’s meeting of Gamma Delta ley Zawadzki, and Jim Radcliffe.Ted Wiley, Dick Williams, and Lutheran Club at 7:30, Chapel Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Chi tiedDave Wylie. House. for second place.Mundt bill—face of Fascism in AmericaThroughout most of this country’s history the United States ofAmerica has been connected with freedom from oppression and equalityof opportunity in the minds of persecuted Europeans. Millions of immi¬grants have come to America believing that here they would see theirdreams realized.Those people in the Old World who are still living under oppressionmust find themselves a bit bewildered these days. If they noted theSupreme Court’s decision on restrictive covenants last week, then theirdreams about America as the land of liberty would have appeared to bejustified. The highest court in the land finally shut the legal door in thefaces of those who held it their private right to keep their neighborhoodspopulated only with people who hold the same religion or who have thesame color as themselves.However, if the oppressed peoples of the world glanced at H. R. 5852,the Un-American Subversive Activities bill now being considered in theHouse of Representatives, their attitudes might undergo radical change.Restricting persons for their political beliefs is not consistent with theSupreme Court’s ruling, nor with these dreams about freedom andliberty. This is exactly what the Mundt-Nixon bill would do. If enacted, itwould require the Communist Party and Communist “front” organiza¬tions (as determined by the Attorney General) to register with the gov¬ernment. The bill says that one of the ways a “front” organization canbe determined is “by the position it takes.” If your organization happensto take a stand similar to the Communists’ stand on a certain issue, thenyou’re it, brother.Despite the obvious fascist nature of the legislation, the wonderful“free press” of America has—with a few notable exceptions like PM andthe New York Posb^maintained a respectful silence or given an approv¬ing nod. The news stories about the bill indicate passage of the bill byat least a 2-to-l majority.What we can do to help block passage of the bill is to write to ourCongressmen, work with Student Government’s Civil Liberties commit-mittee, and acquaint as many people as possible with the nature ofS.R. 5852. We further urge that you write to the Un-American ActivitiesCommittee in Congress and obtain a copy of. the bill. It’s worth preserv¬ing as the face of fascism in America. Who'^iays it can’t happen here-If we don’t wake up in a hurry, one day we’ll find that it has happenedwhile we were asleep.Pose 2A THE CHICAGO MAKUUH Fri<lay. Moy 14, I94Calendar of. EventsNext Week onQuadranglesBy JOAN GANSBERGTODAY, MAY* 14PUBLIC LECTURE: “Revolutions of the Seventeenth Century: Economic andSocial Background of the Revolution in Seventeenth Century England,"R. H. Tawney, Mandel Hall, 4 p.m.MATHEMATCIAL BIOLOGY MEETING: "The Genetics of Populations," SewellWright, 5822 Drexel Ave., 4:30 p.m.PUBLIC LECTURE: (Graduate Library School) "The University LibrarySurvey—Problems and Results,” Louis Round Wilson, Soc. Sci. 122, 4:30 p.m.PUBLIC LECTURE: (University College) "Lundberg’s Can Science Save Us?",Sunder Joshi, 19 S. LaSalle St., 6:30 p.m., 75c.PUBLIC LECTURE: (University College) "The Great Ideas: The Individualand the State,” Mortimer J. Adler, 19 S, LaSalle St., 7:30 p.m., $1.50.PUBLIC LECTURE: (University College) "Trends in 1947-48 Wage Agreements,”Joel Seidman, 19 S. LaSalle St., 7:30 p.m., $1.20.BASEBALL GAME: Chicago vs. Milliken, Stagg Field, 3:30 p.m.RECORD CONCERT: Reynolds Club, 2:30-4 p.m. liPEDIATRIC CLINICAL CONFERENCE: Billings M-137, 3 p.m.CLINICAL PATHOLOGICAL CONFERENCE: Pathology 117, 4:30 p.m.INTERNATIONAL HOUSE: "It Happened at the Inn,” 8 p.m., 35c.IN'TERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: Luncheon meeting, Speaker,Pastor Gordon Swartz, third floor Ida Noyes, 12:30 p.m.LUTHERAN* Gamma Delta Meeting, Chapel House, 7 p.m.HILLEL FOUNDATION: Sabbath Service, 7:30 p.m.. Fireside, 8:30 p.m.N, A. A. C, P,: Meeting, "The Relation of the American Negro to the Con¬temporary Political Scene,” Bloom 2, 3:30 p.m.MAROON ELECTION: 4:30 p.m. Reynolds Club theatre.SATURDAY, MAY 15BASEBALL GAME: Chicago vs. Illinois Normal, Stagg Field, 2:30 p.m.GOLF MATCH: Chicago vs. Northern Dlinois Teachers, Cog Hill Country Club,9 a.m.TENNIS MATCH: Chicago vs. Marquette, Varsity Courts, 2 p.m.BIKE TRIP: St. Charles and vicinity, two-day trip, Ida Noyes Hall, 8:30 am.CHAPEL HOUSE: Open House for Antioch Students, 3 p.m.DELTA UPSILON: Bose Dance, 5714 Woodlawn, 9-1.COMMUNIST CLUB: Reception and Party, Ida Noyes East Lounge, 8 p.m.TAU SIGMA UPSILON: May Mood, Ida Noyes. 9:-l.MAROON PARTY: Staff and escorts invited, 8 p.m., Sigma Xi House.SUNDAY, MAY 16EPISCOPAL: Holy Commxmion Service, Bond Chapel, 8:30-9:15 a.m,ROCKEFELLER CHAPEL; Rev. J. La veil Smith, 11 am.BAPTIST: Meeting, Hyde Park Baptist Church, 7 p.m.LUTHERAN: Supper, Chapel House. -UNITARIAN CHANNING CLUB: Supper meeting, Dr. Adrian VanderVeer,57th at Woodlawn, 6 p.m.BIRDWALK: Northwestern Station, 8 a.m,NOYES BOX: Ida Noyes Hall, 7-11 p.m.SONG FEST: Ida Noyes Library, 8-10:45 p.m.SPRING CONCERT; University Choir and Orchestra, Rockefeller Chapel.8:30 p.m.INTER-CLUB SING: Ida Noyes Gym, 3:30-5 p.m. All campus invited. «RADIO BROADCAST: University Round Table. "What Have the ReciprocalTrade Agreements Accomplished?” W. L. Clayton, Calvin Hoover, T. W.Schultz, WMAQ and NBC, 12:30 p.m.CARILLON RECITAL: Rockefeller Chapel, Frederick Marriott, 4:15 p.m.VESPER SERVICE: Rockefeller Chapel. 5 p.m.MONDAY, MAY 17LECTTURE: ‘‘Building Harmony in Marriage,” Lester A. Kirkendall, Judd HallAuditorium, 7:30 p.m., 30c.PUBLIC LECTURE: (University College) "The Democratic Party of Bryan andWilson,” Walter Johnson, 19 S. LaSalle St., 7:30 p.m., 75c.SPRING CONCERT: University Choir and Orchestra, Rockefeller Chapel,8:30 p.m.PUBLIC LECTURE: "Aspects of Anglo-Soviet Relations: The SettitLg of theProblem.” Max Beloff, Soc. Sci. 122, 4:30 p.m.BOTANY CLUB: “Recent Work in Neurospora,” D. L. Harris, Botany 106,4:30 p.m.TUESDAY, MAY 18CONGREGATIONAL; Supper Meeting, Chapel House, 6 p.m.CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Thorndike Hilton Chapel. 7:30 p.m.CAMPUS COMMITTEE AGAINST CONSCRIPTION; Open Meeting. Classics 16,4 p.m,BASEBALL GAME: Chicago vs. Illinois Tech, Staff Field. 3:30 p.m.DOCUMENTARY FILM: "The Ox-bow Incident,” Soc. Sci. 122, 7:15 and 9:15p.m., 35c.PUBLIC LECTURE: (University College) "The Catacombs of the Self,” CharlesMorris, 19 S. LaSalle St., 8 p.m., 75c.PUBLIC LECTURE: "Experience and Philosophy,” Father Sabioa De Medeiros,Law North, 8 p.m.CREATIVE WRITING CLUB; Chester Himes will speak, Mandel Hall, 8 p.m.,75c.SEMINAR IN PHYSIOLOGY. BIOCHEMISTRY. AND PHARMACOLOGY: "TheProblems of Tissue Portlen Synthesis,” Dr. P, R. Cannon, Abbott 133,4:30 p.m.PUBLIC LECTURE: "Some Bosses on My List,” Charles Merriam, Law South,4:30 p.m.WEDNESDAY, MAY 19BIRD WALK: Jackson Park, Ida Noyes Hall, 7:30 a.m.PRESBYTERIAN: Tea, Chapel House, 3:30-5 p.m.EPISCOPALIAN: Party, Chapel House, 8 p.m.PUBLIC LECTTURE: (University College) "A Way of Life—Korzybski andOthers,” Bess Sondel, 19 S. LaSalle St., 6:30 p.m., 75c.PUBLIC LECTURE: "Forster, Lawrence Huxley, Woolf: Man, Intelligent orPossessed,” M D. Zabel, Soc. Sci. 122, 7:30 p.m., 82c.PUBLIC LECTURE: "Development of Natural Resources,” Mon. C. Wallgren,Breasted Lecture Hall, 4:30 p.m.PUBLIC LECTURE: "Experience and Philosophy,” Father Sabola De Medeiros,Law North, 8 p.m.DEBATE: Communist Club vs. Students for Stassen, "Should the CommunistParty Be Outlawed,” Ida Noyes, 7 ;30.CARILLON RECITAL; Rockefeleir Chapel. Frederick Marriott, 4:30 p.m.FINAL COMPETITION: Florence James Adams Contest in Artistic Reading,Swift 106, 4:30 p.m.STATISTICS CLUB: “Statistical Quality Control,” A Motion Picture, Room 2,4:30 p.m.PUBLIC LECTURE: (Physical Sciences in the College) "The Mass of theUniverse: An Illustrative Problem in Astr.ophyslcs,” Thornton L. Page,Eckhart 133, 8 p.m.THURSDAY, MAY 20PUBLIC LECTURE: "Experience and Philosophy,” Father Sabioa De Medeiros,Law North, 8 p.m.METHODIST: Dinner Meeting, Chapel House, Dr. Francis MePeek, 6 p.m.RECORD CONCERT: Reynolds Club, 2:30-4 p.m.COURSE CRITIQUE: Languages, Reynolds Club, 3:30-5 p.m.AVC MEETING. "The Fair Employment Practices Committee.” WilloughblyAbner, of the CIO Industrial Council, 7:30 p.m., Roeenwald 2.TENNIS MATCH: Chicago "B” Team vs. George Williams College, VarsityCourts, 3 p.m.PUBLIC LECTURE; “Aspects of Anglo-Soviet Relations: Some CurrentIssues,” Max Beloff, Soc. 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The study of the pasthas provided an altogether new perspective for viewing the present.The history of The MAROON falls into three periods. For thefirst 10 years it stumbled along weakly. By 1902 the new Universityand its student community had coalesced sufficiently to make a dailypaper possible. For the next forty years there was a daily MAROON.During World War II the publication of a daily paper becamean impossibility. As all other campus activities shrank or disappeared.The MAROON was turned into a weekly.With the end of the war campus life began to revive. A biggerstudent body than ever before got itself involved in more activitiesthan ever before. The MAROON, however, remained something ofan invalid, struggling along on a weekly basis. During the fall of1947 the paper came out semi-weekly. Now we are down to once aweek again and the future looks very unclear. This brings us to anobvious question: Why should the future look unclear? Or morefundamentally. What is the place of The MAROON in Universitylife? The answer to this latter question should logically determineour plans for the future.* * «The look into the past history of The MAROON helps isanswer this question, for it shows us another atmosphere whichis useful for contrast. The University that The MAROON of thepast reported was a fairly homogeneous community, which hungtogether for a number of reasons. There was a larger range of*common interest, making for solidarity. Among these interestsone of the more prominent was—^perish the thought—^football.In building up the feeling of community The MAROONundoubtedly made a distinct contribution. In itself it providedan area of common experience. More than that, it pulled all theother strings of campus life together. This is in my opinion anewspaper’s major reason for being. This is the service it performsto its community. It is as true now as it was in the past. Whetherthe big news is one of Mr. Stagg’s champion teams or the GreatBooks of Mortimer Adler makes little difference.* * *Granted the basic value of the community—and Mr. Hutchins*•‘community of scholars” is as much or even more of a communitythan the country club college—the task of the paper becomes clear.With the diversity of interests of present-day campus life, the jobof coalescing the parts into a whole is difficult. The responsibilityinvolved is greater than ever before.Some people may argue that there is no community at Chicagoto serve as the paper’s reason for being. That msrth can easily bedisproved. The proof of a community’s existence is the presence ofa feeling of solidarity. The term to be used in this case is school spirit.(The super-sophisticates will wrinkle their noses at this; we do notbegrudge them the exercise.) The school spirt of the present day isnot of the tangible, i. e., earsplitting nature that existed in the past.Yet anyone who has heard of a U. of C. man react to a student from FIFTY-FIVE DOWN — Anniversary issue Editor Frit* F. Heimonn ondMAROON Business Monoger Jim Barnett ore in high glee os fifty-fivefull yeors of MAROON publicotion neors end, calling for onniversory edi¬tion.Northwestern will bear witness to the existence of a “Chicago spirit.”The inevitable argument is, however, likely to be joined on morefundamental grounds than the relative merits of rival quarterbacks.The MAROON must work within the framework of the senseof community as it now exists. It is the duty of the men who runThe MAROON to be acquainted with the life of the campus com¬munity and to promote this community. The MAROON’S respon¬sibility and influence rest in the way it handles campus matters.This does not mean turning the paper into a bulletin board. Ifthe range of activities on the Unviersity of Chicago campus doesnot seem broad enough to make the paper “vital and significant,”the fault rests solely with the observer. The preoccupation withnational politics of recent MAROONS can only be interpretedas a failure to comprehend the scope of University life or as adereliction of The MAROON’S responsibility to its audience forthe sake of the barricade-storming proclivities of misguidedadolescence.The MAROON must concentrate its attention on the campuscommunity, for it is the only paper that serves that community.By serving it will it will develop into a positive force in its leader¬ship. By fulfilling this function The MAROON will not only givemeaning to its own existence but will lend additional meaningto the experience that all of us are undergoing in attending theUniversity. ’Once The MAROON begins to fulfill that function. It willagain have earned a place as a service to the University and willno longer be just another extra-curricular activity. It may thenexpect the administration to treat it accordingly.Fritz Heimonn Thanks!The staff of the anniversaryissue wants to take this oppor¬tunity to show its appreciationfor the assistance it has re¬ceived; without it the issuewould never have been possible.The historical review of thecampus and the MAROON, byour ex-Editors, would not havebeen compiled had it not beenfor the constant interest andassistance of Mr. Howard Mortof the Alumni Association.For the planning and execu¬tion of the symposium on high¬er learning. Professor DonaldMeiklejohn of the social sci¬ence staff should receive alarge share of the credit.We must also thank MissDean in the Archives for herkindness and cooperation.Without the constant help ofDean Strozier we would neverhave been able to cover somany facets of campus life.We are also grateful to Mil-ton Moskowitz and Ed Engberg,editors of the regular MAROONedition, who gave the staff ofthe anniversary issue a com¬pletely free hand.The Chicago MaroonThe Staff for the Fifty-fifthAnniversary EditionMANAGING EDITOR;- Fritz H.Heiman.MAKEUP AND COPY EDITOR:Larry Berlin.ASSISTANT EDITORS: HarryK i 1 b , Thomas Parrish, andGeorge Sideris.STAFF: Michael Cann, Ed Cams.Solly Dahl, Howard S. 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The catastrophes of our age are the product of un¬intelligent choice.CAMERAEQUIPMENTHAVE YOU SEEN THEKODAK TOURIST CAMERA• Kodak Anaston F4.5• Luminized Lens• Flash Kodomatic Shutter• 7 Speeds up to 1 /200 seconds• Exposure Guide on CameraTHE NEWEST FOLDING CAMERAON THE MARKETCOME IN AND LOOK AT IT! GIFTSUNIVERSITY of CHICASO★ PLATES ^HEAVY BOOK-ENDSWITHV. of C. SEALW GLASSES ifWITH COAT OF ARMS IN COLORPENNAIVTS ATHLETICSUPPLIESTENNISRACKETS from $6.00 to $16.50SHIRTS — SHORTS — VISORSSUN CLASSES — BALLS — SOXGOLFCHAMPIONSHIP CLUBSGOLF BAGS AND BALLSZELON JACKETS — GLOVESlimRSITV of OHIOilliO BOOK5802 ELLIS AYE.ffridoy' THE CHICAGO MAROON f og« )I Ex-editors recall campus daysIn 1892 ^University Weekly^began as private enterpriseBY CHARLES SUMNER PIKEfCharles Sumner Pike was editor of the MAROON'S predecessor,tiu* “University of Chicago Weekly,** in 1892. He was in the class of189G. and is now retired, living in Detroit.)The University of Chicago Weekly—a title that wasoften spelt with an by its editors and readers—first'ap[)eared on the Chicago campus as a struggling, unan¬nounced publication of doubtful value in the fall of 1892,if the writer's fast-failing memory may be trusted.The Weekly, in magazine form and printed on coatedpapi'r. was similar In form and employ of the “New Yorksize to though somewhat larger American" (of which he becamethan the present Un versityMaga- ^.^naging editor in later years),zinc. Its contents filled the space j editorial job and,of about sixteen to twenty-four capable, in-pages a^nd in^clud^ articles about fulgent Durno, personally wrotethe old University, the faculty produced several complete is-menibers, future plans, athletics, sues of the Weekly. (How I man-various student activities, so-called required studying■ verse, campus stones and the usual attend classes during that hec-depai tment of exchanges that period is still a mystery. Inci-weie culled from the other college Mentally, those “personally pro¬papers of the East and West. duced" Issues must have beenThe influx of prominent educa- something awful. I’d hate to betors from well-known educational compelled to read them today.)Institutions of America and of (Emory Foster died before theEurope to Chicago was given edi- first World War. After his suddentorial consideration, and many romantic departure from Chicago,biographical sketches of these j jqst touch wit'h him, and nevervaluable additions to the Univer- saw him again. His mother wassity’s fast-growing staff of the one of the founders of the YWCA,world’s leading teachers were pub- as I recall, and was nationallylished in the Weekly’s early issues, famous as a Temperance Organ-Pnvote Enterprise ization advocate and orator. ThatThe Weekly was started by two fact, however, did not interferegraduate students with newspaper with his own love of “good cheer"publishing experience who came and he went after the “stuff”to Chicago in the summer of 1892 strong while with the Hearst out-from Iowa. It was the personal fit ana he died far too young,property of Emory Foster, editor, perhaps—who knows?)and ' Jack" Dumo, business man- Durno LeGv.eT, Pike Stoysagn. These two men, who were old Some time after Foster’s suddencollege pals, expected to make the departure from the Chicago scene,publication pay them a profit and Durno sold his interest in Thegive them a fair living while in Weekly to a group of students whorcMdence at Chicago. had a little money, and then wentThis writer, who had some slight bo work on the Chicago Dailyamateur experience as the man- News. (Incidentally, his nephewaging editor of the long-since de- is a well-known Washington news-cea.sed “High School Journal" of man and for years has been as-the old South Division High School signed to the White House beat.)ot Chicago, (the old building is “Your Uncle Dudley" continuednow part of the Public Health sys- on the editorial board until histen\* .submitted an article on “Col- graduation in 1896, an event thatlege Verse" to Editor Foster and was a great relief to Dr. Harper,when this was accepted and pub- him.self and others. But becominglished, were were invited to meet more interested in editing the firstFoster and Durno at their rooms, edition of “Cap and Gown,” base-The result of this friendly con- ball, football, the dramatic clubference was that we, a poor pleased and an attractive co-ed or two, I“fro.sh" were made an associate- did little editorial work for theeditor of Foster’s. A few weeks Weekly but contributed proselater, when this brilliant, hand- sketches, special articles and lightsome young man was suddenly verse from time to time whentaken seriously ill, married his there was space to be filled andvrry attractive nurse, and as sud- my other “interests" permitted medenly left the University to enter to do so.'Lay-a-cornerstone" theory givesanswer to old expansion q'ueryBY DONALD R. RICHBERG(Donald *R. Richberg graduated from the University of Chicagoin 1901. He practiced law in Chicago until 1933, when he went to Wash¬ington to become general counsel for the NRA. He has been a promi¬nent “braintruster" ever since. Both the Taft-Hartley Act and theMundt-Nixon Bill received his attention.)Since I was managing editor of ^'The UniversityWeekly” in the spring of 1901, when I graduated, and alsowas on the staff of the then recently born DAILY MAROON,I might be regarded as a small link between the studentpublications of the infant and adolescent University ofChicago.In the comparatively brief lifeof the Weekly, it was transformed events at Chicago in 1901. Thatirom the private enterprise of .. • v,- v,commercial printers into a stu-dent-owned publication through cornerstones were laid during thethe practical college spirit mani- spring convocation, includingfested by Leon P. Lewis, who Hutchinson, Mitchell, Reynoldsworked his way through the Uni- Mandel, that Professor Vin-versity and used his savings to famous remark thatpurchase the Weekly from the convocation program had beencommercial printers. , arranged on the theory to “WhenLewis served President Harper doubt, lay a cornerstone.”as a private secretary and, after The University in my time wasgraduating, became a distinguished a very small institution in build-leader of the Kentucky Bar, serv- ings and attendance, comparedIng as Speaker of the Kentucky with the University of today. But,House of Representatives and as as an ancient graduate, I am priv-Dean of the School of Law of The ileged to assert that in the abilityUniversity of Louisville for some and ambitions of faculty, trustees,time prior to his death in 1932. and student body, levels were setThe development of a daily stu- which it will be hard to surpass indent paper, instead of a Weekly, the indefinite future life of thewas in accord with the trend of University. Ickes, editing MAROON in '96,was curmudgeon even at that timeBy HAROLD L. ICKES(Harold Ickes, editor of the MAROON in 1896, is back in journal¬ism, having been a successful columnist for the past several years.Ickes’ political career started when, in his senior year at the LawSchool, he campaigned for John Harlan, an independent Republicancandidate for Mayor. He changed parties several times, attending,within twenty years, the Republican, Democratic, and Progressivenational conventions. Meanwhile he took on civil liberties cases with¬out charge in his law office in the Loop, taught Americanizationclasses at Hull House, and fought bitterly against “Big Bill" Thomp¬son. He was in general known as a reformer. In 1933, after he hadattended a conference, Roosevelt gave him the post of Secretary ofthe Intel ior.During the war he was federal oil administrator. He is now liv¬ing on a farm estate in Olney, Maryland, and writing columns andbooks on the freedom of the press.)As the oldest graduates of theUniversity of Chicago may remem- MAROON in whatever capacity Iber, the MAROON was started as served and it may be of interest toa weekly publication. As a matter recite that my first job in the big,of fact, there was no thought of outside world was that of an anx-convertlng it into a daily until ieus, and sometimes hungry, re-some tlmfe-after ! had been gradu- Porter on some of the Chicagoated in June of 1897. Moreover, it newspapers. Originally, I went towas started as a private enterprise work for the old “Chicago Record"at first,' as I remember it, under ^.t space rates. My first weeklydual, and then'under single, own- check was for seventy-five cents,ership. However, after the Board Subsequently, I became Assistantof Editors was set up originally, it Sporting Editor and then Assist-became self-perpetuating and, so ^nt Political Editor of that paperfar as I ever knew, was given before retiring from newspaperabsolutely a free hand. work, although, in a sense, I amThe object in starting the pub- back at it again, after many years.iication was to help the two menconcerned through college. Itproved to be somewhat profitablebut C. H. Gallion, who was theprincipal mover in setting up theMAROON, did not finish his col¬lege course, although I believe thatRichard Kelso did, as I recall. Theeditors neither shared in the prof¬its‘nor received compensation. Thehonor and the glory was theirs!My first assignment on the MA¬ROON was to pick up local items.As I measured my endeavorsagainst those of my predecessorsin the same line, I felt that I didpretty well, although some of myitems were not always pleasing tothe persons to whom they related.I am afraid that, even in thosedays, I was not much of a re¬specter of persons. Then I becameAssistant Managing Editor undermy classmate, roommate and fra¬ternity mate, William O. Wilson,later Attorney-General of Wyom¬ing. During my last quarter I wasManaging Editor.Henning was coifeogueI recall with interest that ArthurSears Henning, the able and per¬sonally decent Washingtort repre¬sentative of the “Chicago Tribune”was on the staff of the MAROONwhen I was Managing Editor.Upon him we chiefly depended fora short item of fiction every week.More than once I had to go toHenning’s room and shake himout of a sound morning nap tourge him, for Heaven’s sake, to getbusy and get his story in beforethe deadline.It is difficult to remember backso long a time with any degree ofprecision. I do know that I thor¬oughly enjoyed my work on the Financial worriesin '96 didn't dimesprit de corpsBY ARTHUR SEARS HENNING(Arthur Sears Henning, editorin 1898, has been in the employ ofthe “Chicago Tribune” since 1899.He has been chief of its Washing¬ton bureau since 1914.)It must have been sometime in 1896 that I joined thestaff of the MAROON as acampus reporter. There werehalf a dozen of us reportersworking under the directionof Philip Rand, the manag¬ing editor, who was a pioneerin the establishment of thepaper, then a daily. PhilRand was not only an ableeditor but he had the capacityfor inspiring enthusiasm to whichwas attributable the high degreeof esprit de corps that pre¬vailed in the staff during the earlyand trying period of the publica¬tion.Mrs. Inghoms Shanty Yields* NewsIn those days the campus hadthat unfinished look of a Gothicpile in course of construction.There was a long hiatus betweenCobb hall and the undergraduateliving quarters in Snell hall in thebasement of which were held thedances at which the freshmen metthe co-eds. Across the street fromSnell was the athletic field in acorner of which nestled Mrs. Ing¬ham’s famous Shanty where stu¬dents rubbed elbows with instruc¬tors over sandwiches and coffee.The Shanty was one of the prin¬cipal news centers. From it camehundreds of items of campus in¬terest duly recorded in the Ma¬roon’s pages each week. From itcame many a Maroon scoop, some¬times big enough to attract theattention of the metropolitanpress. One of these scoops, if I re¬call correctly, announced a recordbreaking gift to the Universitygarnered by the resourcefulnessand indefatigable energy of Presi¬dent Harper. The MAROON car¬ried many an interview with Dr.Harper, including, I think, the onein which he denied that hewheedled money for the universityout of millionaires, asserting that(Continued on Poge 6)McNair cites '02 days of Stagg,Ickes in fanciful reminiscenceBY FRANK McNAIR(Frank McNair is vice-president and director of the Harris Trustand Savings Bank, and a member of the board of trustees of the Uni¬versity of Chicago. He was a member of the staff of the first DAILYMAROON, and graduated in 1903.)The turn of the century was the twilight of the Horse-and-Buggy days. The type of transportation reflected thetempo of the times. Life seemed pleasant and promising—maybe it was merely the eyes of youth. The MAROON wasa struggling ^nd modest sheet, concerned greatly with foot¬ball and college trivia, and not greatly with the social andpolitical philosophies that agitate us now. It was a youth¬ful paper in a young institution.We did not set the world afire; Washington Parks. All seemed wellneither did we try to turn it up- with the world,side down. Mrs. Ingram's “Shanty" — theWere they “the gold old days"? quick lunch shack of the day—At least they*were different. “Un- was an institution. The gym dif-sophisticated" possibly. The girls fered only in that it was longer,did not smoke—at least publicly— larger, and served no food,and drinking was an ostracizable ‘ Professor Goodspeed was a jov-offense. Even among the men ial, round-faced “sparker" of thedrinking was bad form in mixed football rallies held in Kent. Pro¬company. Clothes now seemed fessor Henderson was the hand-then to be a little “hick." Foot- some, inspiring spiritual leader atball, fraternities and sororities compulsory Chapel exercises, Staggloomed large; no wars threatened: was Stagg, Vincent a machine-guna dollar had some purchasing orator, Teddy Linn a gadfly to thepower. There were no movies, and laggard student, Westphal a de-on summer evenings one sat on manding and efficient teacher ofthe front “stoop" and watched the Medieval History. Merriam waspedestrians and the carriages teaching the young minds to shootgo by. straight in politics. Richberg wasThe Midway was a parade the human prototype of the Ten-ground for spanking horses and nessee Walking Horse and noclanking chains. At night it was mean spellbinder. Ickes wasthe playground of firefly lamps around, as were Gale. Raycroft,as the bikes and tandems quietly Angell, Small, and many othersslipped along to Jackson and since known to fame.THE CHICAGO MAROON FrMay. May 14, I94«Oldster lauds past patriotismDaily MAROON•u^os vivid, daringI By WALTER GREGORY(Walter Gregory, former director of Palmer House and a mem¬ber of the board of directors of Washington Park Race Track, waseditor in ’04.)To review the activities of the Daily MAROON back in the daysWhen Harry Ford was the Publisher, Herb Markum the business mana¬ger and I was the editor, is really a project for dusting off the oldmemory.Our offices were in the building where the University Press nowoperates. We did turn out a paper every day and Herb Markum some¬how or other produced enough advertising to keep the printer andthe paper merchants happy. Their hot breath was often blowing downour collars but we did manage to Using. Roy Keehn, Babe Meigs,Jimmy Henry, the immortal Eck-ersoll, Marc Gatlin, Fred Speik,Amos Alonzo Stagg held the stage.Why, way back then Frank Adamsand I concocted the Blackfriars,and the Glee Club was a goingconcern. Allen, 1904, now editsHawaiian daily paperoutrun them and come up eachday with an edition. Bill Mc¬Cracken and Bill McDermid werereporters. The news stories werevivid and stimulating although thefaculty and the administrative of¬ficers of the University kept theirfingers crossed wondering whatwas to be the feature story eachday.The Daily MAROON was an ex¬cellent workshop and all of us hadvisions of going far in the news¬paper field. I regret that my filesare in Chicago, as I have a boundvolume of the editions covering theperiod when I shaped the policyof this very interesting campuspaper.It never was in our minds inthose days that there was anyother nation one half so good asthe old U.S.A. and we all had thegeneral idea that the only way toget along was to work like the deviland fight for every toehold on theold success ladder. The footballteam was reasonably non-profes¬ sional and we did win some inter¬esting games. Dr. Starr and Her¬rick, Teddy Linn and Dr. Good-speed—boy, did the youth on thecampus enjoy their courses! Spe¬cialization was not such-a-mustthen and most of the small frywere drawing a bead on a job withthe Tribune or the Hearst papers,selling bonds for the Harris Trust,or finding an office boy’s job inthe then dramatic field of adver- Nobody was studying the tech¬nique of infiltration, or the scienceof rabble rousing. Folks were p.i*ettymuch folks and we meant it whenwe took off our hats and sangthe Star Sp)angled Banner and.Alma Mater. The headlines of theMAROON didn’t decry decent ef¬fort to help one another and triedto boost the prestige of our Uni¬versity and our fellow meh. Oureditorials were perhaps ramblingand not soul stirring but they wereexpressions of lofty thought bysome young folks who were tryingto be journalists.We were all short of dough butwe had what we thought was theright idea, that somehow or otherwe were going to get into themoney without the paternal hand¬out and we had no thought of liv¬ing off the tax payers. BY RILEY H. ALLEN(Riley Allen, editor in ’04, received his Ph.B. in literature from theUniversity of Chicago in 1904. He has been editor of the Honolulu StarBulletin since 1912. Mr. Allen received the Alumnae Citation in 1942for valuable service to his community outside of his vocation.)In the early summer of 1903 I _enrolled at the University of Chi-“51,“ Of fact rrne'ver"kernel tohours—and as atra^ferring from the University work but a sort of delightfulof Washington, I had almost but - - ^^kiiuuiand stimulating relaxation. And itnot quite enough credits to insure sometimesthat I could graduate m the next small hours of the mom!two years.I started as a cub reporter on ing, in our rather musty offices(a huge number of long-storedHenning ...(ConHnued from Poge 3)he merely “offered them oppor¬tunities.”MAROON Covered Stogg's ChompionsThe MAROON’S coverage ofsports was outstanding and con¬tinuously a source of informationfor the Chicago newspapers. Thosewere the days in which AmosAlonzo Stagg was developingchampionship teams — the dayswhen the great coach was not somany years older than the stu¬dents he was training, when hewould seize the ball and run downthe football field to show themhow it should be done.Those were the days when tally-ho coaches drawn by four horsesand packed to the guards withMaroon-flag-waving boys and co¬eds, rah-rahing for Chicago, madethe trip to Evanston for the foot¬ball games with Northwestern,sometimes returning in the highexultation of victory, sometimes inthe gloom of defeat. All of whichwas duly recorded in the MA¬ROON. .For YourCorsageMITZIE’S FLOWERSHOP1300 E. 55th ST.Midway 4020GREGG COLLEGEA School of Sutinets—Preferrod byCollege Men and Women4 MONTHINTENSIVE COURSESECRETARIAL TRAINING FOR COLLEGESTUDENTS AND GRADUATESA thorough, intensive course—startioxJune, October, February. Bul¬letin A on rcciuestSPEOAl COUNSELOR for 6.1. TRAININGRegular Day and Evening SchoolsTliroughout the Year. CatalogSiJirector. Paul M. Pair, M.A.THE GREGG COLLEGE>7 S. Wabash Ava., Chicago S, llllwala Big news of yesteryearPERFECT FOR GOLF,TENNIS, OR...BASQUINGIN THE SUNMerely wearing Arrow basque shirts will not makeyou a Snead or a Budge, but Arrow’s large selectionof sport knits in solid colors and stripes will dowonders for torsos tame as well as terrific.See your Arrow dealer today for a long-wearing,handsome and comfortable Arrow Basque shirt.ARROW SHIRTS, and TIESUNDERWEAR • HANDKERCHIEFS • SPORTS SHIRTS the DAILY MAROON, and a very books, many of them bound in an-green one. But thanks to the kind- cient vellum and some in parch-ly and extremely competent coach- ment occupied a part of the oneing and supervision from such men st<)ry building we were in, over onas Robert L. Henry Jr., the late Cottage Grove Avenue, as I re-Harry. W. Ford, Walter L. Greg- call), chatting,ory. Herb (Herbert E.) Fleming, a few days ago I had a letterand Oliver (Mumm) Wyman, I from Bill McDermid who said thatgot so I could turn out at least according to his re.search, the cir-an acceptable news story or afeature in a few weeks.At that time the brilliant Frank culation of the DAILY MAROONran about 400.I wrote Bill that I am rea.'ton-R. Adams (associated with Joe ably sure there is a mistake inHoward and Will Hough in their these figures. I don’t recall thatremarkable careers as writers of I ever saw the figures of the pressmusical comedies—‘‘The Time, the run, though after a few weeks IPlace, and the Girl,” and many was permitted to make the paperothers) got me interested in the up in a commercial printing shop,monthly MAROON and presently But from the number of copiesI was working on both publica- that I know were delivered aroundtions. helping to put myself the campus and in shops andthrough college by after - hours stores on the fringes, it would .seemwork in the oHice of Dean 'Tufts, to me that the circulation musttrying to make the cross-countryteam and a few other things. have been nearer two thousand.I never got to be the editor ofWe took immense pride in our the DAILY MAROON. I graduatedpaper and inordinate pains. One while others .senior to me andof the first things drilled into me more competent were still direct-by the fine young college jour- ing general policies, but that ex-nalists I have mentioned was that perience convinced me that whatthe MAR(X)N had little space (we I wanted to do in life was to worknormally ran four pages) and we for a daily paper and ultimatelyhad to compress a lot of stuff to be its editor, and that suretyinto it. of goal is responsible for the factOne of our burning ambitions that I am now editing, and havewas to scoop the big downtown been since July 1, 1912, a dailynewspapers on news which might newspaper in Honolulu, and thatmake front page stories for them, each day’s work gives me the sameWe did it repeatedly and it was thrill that I u.sed to get back innot always on campus news either, the “old days” of the DAILYWe knew nothing about limita- MAROON.ARROW PRESENTS . . .SPORTKNITSFORSUMMERArrow lias come up thisspring with the handsomestcrop of sporty pulloversthat we have ever seen.For sheer comfort, form-fitting lines and brand newpatterns, come in and see our new summer sportknits by Arrow. $1.25 and up.Liyttoxi^sm ARROW SHIRTSM»y» THE CHICAGO MAROON Page 5 , '7‘Store Hours» 9:15 to 5:45n great BigHappyBirthday»ta theChiiagaBlardanthe paper that’sheen a campus traditionsince 1892...from thestore that’s been a campustradition since 1852p««« « THE CHICAGO MAROON Fri4ay,'M«y 14, 19^MAROON became slugger in '05Ex-editor McDermid tells of paper^s risefrom yellow sheet to fighting respectabilityBy WILLIAM McDERMID(William McDermid, editor of The MAROON in is famous as an industrial managementcounsel and is on the executive committee of the American Society of Sales Executives. McDermid isversatile—president and director of Famous Books and Plays, Inc., as well as an active member ofthe Association of National Advertisers. He is the author of several books and articles on the economicaspects of merchandising and sales engineering.) fact that at any time at least oneof the editors was under the lashof a great city editor downtown—men like Beck of the Tribune,Bicket of the American, or insports, Pete Vroom of the Inter-Ocean, or others. For its periodit was probably the closest pro¬fessional journalism made by acollege newspaper.The University of Chicago has passed through a series of eras or cycles, or whateveryou wish to term them. The MAROON has sat on the sidelines, growing with the Uni¬versity, but seldom, I think, going overboard, and not dealing primarily with such editori¬als as “Why don’t the campus clocks keep time?”In those days, The MAROONwas an afternoon paper, five orsix columns, four pages. On theright hand wall in the, office, hungon hooks, were our “exchanges”and we came to envy the CornellSun, with its pony AP service,and even our rivals, the MichiganDaily and the tllini, both fine col¬lege papers. During this time. TheMAROON had an anemic circu¬lation of about 400 copies, includ¬ing file and exchange copies.SOME TIME about 1905, it tooka new lease on life. It became aseven column morning paper—sometimes six pages. It not onlyoperated on the sound basis that“names are news”—it also becameso more or less rough-and-tumblethat its circulation rose to some¬thing in the thousands—all paid,except exchange copies.It had, in spite of a certainatmosphere of yellow journal¬ism, a reasonable degree of sta¬bility. Professors Boynont, Lov¬ett, Linn, and Herrick (nameswhich made the English facultyincomparable in the collegeworld), accepted news storiesand editorials from The MA¬ ROON as substitutes for dailyor weekly themes. Their crit¬icisms, favorable or otherwise,added much to the quality ofthe subsequent products.The fact that in those dayspractically no one could type andthat most copy was in longhandand galley proofs were read aftermidnight led to some fantastictypographical errors—one or twoof them unprintable even in thismore tolerant age. Dean GeorgeEdgar Vincent saved the editorsfrom expulsion on at least onenotable occasion and probablyothers.AS THE MAROON grew in sizeit faced a problem. It could be¬come a nice little campus versionof the “Ladies’ Home Journal” orit could tangle occasionally on aprofessional basis with the down¬town papers. In general, it wasdecided to slug it out, but withdiscretion, because a number ofus depended on our checks fromthose downtown papers just asmuch as we did on our academicgrades—more, I suspect. Probably there never was a college paperso closely watched by a metropol¬itan press. We played ball—up toa point—because it representedeating money. Once in a while wewould pull a scoop, to keep ourreputation on the campus.I can recall a few men thatserved their apprenticeship un¬der Riley Allen, Walt Gregory,and their successors during thatbrief college generation of fouryears. One, now a professor atColumbia, edited the NorthChina News for years. Two oft h e m ^ founded distinguishedsmall town newspapers. One isa feature writer syndicatedacross the nation; another aradio commentator from Wash¬ington, D. C. Last week, a letterfrom a man just retiring as ageneral manager of a great pub¬lic service organization refers tothe “help” he get from TheMAROON and quite appropri¬ately says, “What a hell of agood time we had!”THE MAROON was a toughschool. It had a tradition of per¬formance that stemmed from the THE YEARS 1903-1907 seem tome to have been particjlarly dra¬matic years. To give any sense oftheir flavor would require notonly much more space than isavailable but a combination of theliterary skill of John Gunther,Vincent Sheehan, and Hal Wright—although none of them livedthrough that college generation.It is just as impossible to appraiseit as it is for many of our alumnito grasp the atmosphere of thecurrent years, in spite of all wecan read or hear.Within those years, Dr. Har¬per died, and the "tempo andcharacter of the Universitychanged. Many of us had theinestimable good fortune to seesomething of him personally,because he was enormously in¬terested in all “student activi¬ ties” classed under the generalheading of “public appear-ances.” (For The MAROON, thismeant that If your grades weresatisfactory, your name ap-peared on the masthead; if youwere momentarily a defaulter,the Linotype slug was lifted, butyou continued to work for thepaper.)Chicago beat Michigan 2-0 in1905 in a game that tracedto 1903 and of which the reper-cussions lasted for more than adecade. “That is another story’’^probably grist to the mill of (hostwho deplored the overemphasis ojathletics, but a great yarn, never,theless.In politics, Charles E. Merriamwas taking the academic a.spectiof the political science departmentdown to the Loop and lockinghorns with Hinky-Dink and Bath¬house John, whose names and his,tory are worth some current re¬search. Francis Wayland Shepard-son was knee deep in a campaijoifor Governor Lowden. (The MA-ROON commented on this in apiece of verse that was picked upby S. E, KLser, columnist of thethen Rccord-Herald.TRAVELOIVLUGGAGETrusiksPursesLeatherNoveltiesExpert RepairingOur Speciality1002 E. 63rd St.Chicago 37, III. HOLIDAYAn Adventure inGood Smokingthe P»'A'® . <HOLIDAY olso comesin 16-oz. Yocuum tinsLarus Si Brother CompanyRichmoncf, Virginia LEARK HOWCHRISTIAN SCIENCECAN HELP YOUAttendChristian ScienceOrganization at theUniversity of ChicagoTHORNDIKE HILTONCHAPELTuesday, May7:30 P. M. 18At which you will heortestimonies of healingin Christion Science. Wherever there'i life, there's sure to beHer wit and her ehurm daim attention;any adventure this missy can copt —'ule for success rates a mention:FULL-FASHIONEDIt’s olways0 love rootclifor the girlRT SOLDSee them at Marshall Field • Carson-Plrle-Scott • Wieboldt’sfni bDikiet: “WARDROBE TlieRS”. Write lid| Bond, Im., Bipt. C, 137S BreidNay. WiwTerk II at last our exports are coming inwitness:Monnheim: Ideology and Utopia%Adler: Individual PsychologyYoung: Personality ond Problems of AdjustmentLittle: Negroes in BritainKlein: The Feminine CharacterMannheim: Diagnosis of Our TimeDopsch: Economic and Social Foundotions of Euro¬pean Civilization.ondThe Vision Press Edition of Hamletwith Q note by Dr. Earnest Jonesmore to followThe Red Door Book Shop1328 E. 57TH STREETPLAZA 6445 11 to IIklay. May 14, 1948 THE CHICAGO MAROON Paga 7lostalgia hitslull's enemyif athletesBy NATHANIEL PEFFER(Nathaniel Peffer, editor of the[AROON in 1911, is now an ex-^rl on the Far East. He is Pro¬cessor of International Relationsit Columbia.To write about the yearsirhen I was editor of the Daily[aroon is like writing aboutthe Peloponnesian wars. Canreally have been the same^orld? How nice life wasthen, how simple, how un¬troubled, how easy! Who couldlave dreamed then that our gen-pration would Survive into a timesuch as the one in which you cele-irate your anniversary, would be¬fore its close be subject to theioubts and torments that now be-Idevil us all? How pleasant it[would be now to find our emo-jtional outlets in “pep"- sessionsat the C bench, and get our heart¬breaks because Illinois got onemore touchdown!I Sot nostalgicI know that at my age I should[long for the good old days andwish them back. But except thatI should like for just a little whileagain to luxuriate in the reliefof the trivial, I really do not wantthem back. I know that I shouldfeel and say that I wish the DailyMaroon were as good now as whenI was editor, but I don’t. I don’tever look at the Maroon of mytime and I don’t see the Ma¬roon of today, and it Is just aswell. One need not be Freudianto know that if I don’t ever lookat the bound copies of the paperof my day it is because I knowthat doing so would make me feela little sick. I have no doubt that[the Maroon is better now. WhenI think of the gawky, empty little(Continued in Column 5)CLASSICALRECORDS!HERMANS’ 935-7 East 55th St.I MIDway 6700BRITTEN—Matinees MnsicaleDM 1204CHAUSSON—Symphony in Bflat Mojor DM-950CRUENBERG — Concerto forViolin and Orch.. DM-1079SONGS AND OPERA ARIAS(Groce Moore) . . . .M-918SCHUMANN — Quintet in Eflat Major DM-736TSCHAIKOVSKY — Aurora'sWedding DM-326WiLLiAMS — London Sym¬phony DM-916 cr^ ^ fUctoXioU\AJVllOu^U/ZtS CL^ CaJl^ ^We.pnictEOUA- LokjCUcm/vc^SC^4r‘iM.S ^ ^“Tlie I'?//37 oAtM/ t9/f. 1 VLTRS O. (f/USMJO* TZt YVUrSi O^yUS urVLL ;&rWj cQaSS'^<xSI9f/SmoheMCHESTERFIELDSShe soys:Any good journolist knows Chester¬fields hove o copy wright on flavor.Chesterfield — year after year —first choice of college men andwomen. JOURNALISTEileen StoneCANOE TRIPSinMlnnesota-Canadian Border Wilder¬ness Lakes Region. We furnish every¬thing for your canoe trip. Completeoutfit with Gruman Aluminumcanoe for $3.50 a day each when twowill cost about $1.25 a day each,or more in party. Your choice foodMaps, information Si reservationsWILDERNESSOUTFITTERSELY, MINN.Operofors of tiie American PionBASSWOOD LODGE.Vfain lodge and 22 sleeping cabinsall log construction, back in thewilderness, accessible by motorboat,only. Electric lights, central showersand toilets. Sand beaches, hiking,canoeing, motorboating. Walleyed &urthem Pike, Lake Trout A Bas«. Hitchcock hall—sans gargoylesOne of the many Universitydorms which have broken withtradition is Hitchcock Hall. Orig¬inally donated by Mrs. AnnieHitchcock as a men’s dorm, itwas turned over to the Womenstudents on campus at the endof the war.When it was erected in 1901,a slight break in the Universitybuilding tradition was made. In¬stead of the usual frieze of gar¬goyles (“gargle-oils" as Don Mar¬quis cals them), Illinois plantforms were used.WHY NOT SEEJ. H. WATSONHyde Park’s Leading Jeweler1200 E. 55th St.cTn PT> <n>0^ 0^For the Latest and FinestGraduation and Father's DayGIFTSTERMS AVAILABLEBaldridge was1911 art editorCyrus Leroy Baldridge tookhis PhB. in 1911, when he wasart editor of The MAROON.He was a newspaper corre¬spondent during the FirstWorld War and later joinedthe French Army. A prominentartist and author, he has illifs-trated, among others, “Rick¬shaw Boy," “Santa Claus Comesto America," and many chil¬dren’s boiAs. His books include“Americanism, What Is It?"and “Time and Chance," hisautobiography. Swift felt 1907University wasmellowinstitutionBy HAROLD H. SWIFTMy college class at the Uni¬versity of Chicago was 1907.I entered the University inthe fall of 1903, when theUniversity had been openonly eleven years, and havinglived in the neighborhood offifty-six years ago, I have seenthe University since it was openedevery building built.As I look back, the fact whichnow impresses me most is that theUniversity was so young and yetI have no recollection of realizingit at the time and that I was apart of a very important experi¬ment. which the project was, espe¬cially because of the disastrousconclusion of the old University.When I was there I had theimpression of attending an insti¬tution which had • been going onfor a very long time. It is truethat occasionally the youth of theinstitution was called to our at-(Confinued on Page 8)Peffer...things with which we were soheatedly preoccupied, I don’t wantto recall the time and the doings.But I do take one comfort to my¬self, it was in the last two quar¬ters of my editorship that I beganan editorial campaign advocatingthe abolition of intercollegiateathletics. For that I was almostread out, bell, book and candle,but I did it, and I take sinful pridein the fact. Had I advocated in¬cest or matricide it would havecaused less shock, especially amongthe alumni. How little alumni,too, had to think of then! Sothen: as now in my fading yearsI contemplate my college days doI deplore that Chicago is no longerwhat it was? No, I do not.Yet I do enjoy some nice senti¬mental memories, more particu¬larly those that recall personalassociations. To the men withwhom I worked I still feel a cer¬tain attachment. I have a warmmemory, too, of the trying but inretrospect comical environment inwhich we got the paper out.Good old Babcock!Good old Babcock, Rest his Soul,who w^as our printer on 55thStreet! In the memory of manthat shop had never been swept,or dusted or aired or cleaned, andnothing laid down had ever beenfound. Nor, very often, could Bab¬cock be found. Two things markedhis life. First, he had an inordi¬nate passion for wrestling, thoughhe was lanky, thin, almost ema¬ciated, and therefore alwaysbruised and sore, and he woulddisappear for bouts of disastrousconsequence. Second, he had astrong-minded, truculent andsometimes bellicose wife, who ex¬pressed her temperament in directaction. And sometimes, towardmidnight, when Preston Gass andI turned up at the shop (God resthis soul, too, for he died beforehis time) there was no Babcockin sight, and nothing else was insight, not even a prospect that thepaper would come out the nextmorning. And Preston and Iwould stand outside the door notknowing what to do, not knowingwhere to go, wondering whetherBabcock was at the momentsprawled out on a canvas in some63rd Street gymnasium, the thighsof some mastodonic Bulgariantwined around his scrawny neck,or at home, his wife beating thedevil out of him. In either case,Preston and I had little room formaneuver. So we just stood aroundand waited, and some time orother Babcock turned up, andsomehow or other the paper cameout. But Preston and I got oldbefore our time.All that is pleasant to thinkback on. The rest was silly. I am?lad you are doing your editing ini sadder, more difficult but more.nature time. I am sure you areiiiuuli better. And I wisii you luck.r«fl* 6 THE CHICAGO MAROON Friday, May H, t94SMAROON became slugger in '05Expeditor McDermid tells of paperrisefrom yellow sheet to fighting respectabilityBy WILLIAM McDERMID(William McDermid, editor of The MAROON in 1907, is famous as an industrial managementcounsel and is on the executive committee of the American Society of Sales Executives. McDermid isversatile—president and director of Famous Books and Plays, Inc., as well as an active member ofthe Association of National Advertisers. He is the author of several books and articles on the economicaspects of merchandising and sales engineering.)The University of Chicago has passed through a series of eras or cycles, or whateveryou wish to term them. The MAROON has sat on the sidelines, growing with the Uni¬versity, but seldom, I think, going overboard, and not dealing primarily with such editori¬als as “Why don’t the campus clocks keep time?”In those days, The MAROONwas an afternoon paper, five orsix columns, four pages. On theright hand wall in the, office, hungon hooks, were our “exchanges”and we came to envy the CornellSun, with its pony AP service,and even our rivals, the MichiganDaily and the tllini, both fine col¬lege papers. During this time. TheMAROON had an anemic circu¬lation of about 400 copies, includ¬ing file and exchange copies.• * *SOME TIME about 1905, it tooka new lease on life. It became aseven column morning paper—sometimes six pages. It not onlyoperated on the sound basis that“names are news”—it also becameso more or less rough-and-tumblethat its circulation rose to some¬thing in the thousands—all paid,except exchange copies.It had, in spite of a certainatmosphere of yellow journal¬ism, a reasonable degree of sta¬bility. Professors Boynont, Lov¬ett, Linn, and Herrick (nameswhich made the English facultyIncomparable in the collegeworld), accepted news storiesand editorials from The MA-TRAVELO]\LUGGAGETrunksPursesLeatherNoveltiesExpert RepairingOur Speciality1002 E. 63rd St.Chicogo B7, III. ROON as substitutes for dailyor weekly themes. Their crit¬icisms, favorable or otherwise,added much to the quality ofthe subsequent products.The fact that in those dayspractically no one could type andthat most copy was in longhandand galley proofs were read aftermidnight led to some fantastictypographical errors—one or twoof them unprintable even in thismore tolerant age. Dean GeorgeEdgar Vincent saved the editorsfrom expulsion on at least onenotable occasion ana probablyothers.a * «AS THE MAROON grew in sizeit faced a problem. It could be¬come a nice little campus versionof the “Ladies’ Home Journal” orit could tangle occasionally on aprofessional basis with the down¬town papers. In general, it wasdecided to slug it out, but withdiscretion, because a number ofus depended on our checks fromthose downtown papers just asmuch as we did on our academicgrades—more, I suspect. Probably there never was a college paperso closely watched by a metropol¬itan press. We played ball—up toa point—because it representedeating money. Once in a while wewould pull a scoop, to keep ourreputation on the campus.I can recall a few men thatserved their apprenticeship un¬der Riley Allen, Walt Gregory,and their successors during thatbrief college generation of fouryears. One, now a professor atColumbia, edited the NorthChina News for years. Two oft h e m ^ founded distinguishedsmall town newspapers. One isa feature writer syndicatedacross the nation; another aradio commentator from Wash¬ington, D. C. Last week, a letterfrom a man just retiring as ageneral manager of a great pub¬lic service organization refers tothe “help” he got from TheMAROON and quite appropri¬ately says, “What a hell of agood time we had!”THE MAROON was a toughschool. It had a tradition of per¬formance that stemmed from theNOUDAYAn Adventure inGood SmokinHOLIDAY also comesin 16-oz. vacuum tinsLarus & Brother CompanyRichmoncf, Virginia LEARN HOWCHRISTIAN SCIENCECAN HELP YOUAttendChristian ScienceOrganization ot theUniversity of ChicogoInTHORNDIKE HILTONCHAPELTuesday, May 187:30 P. M.At which you will heortestimonies of healingin Christion Science. fact that at any time at least oneof the editors was under the lashof a great city editor downtown—men like Beck of the Tribune,Bicket of the American, or insports, Pete Vroom of the Inter-Ocean, or others. For its periodit was probably the closest pro¬fessional journalism made by acollege newspaper.« « «THE YEARS 1903-1907 seem tome to have been particularly dra¬matic years. To give any sense oftheir flavor would require notonly much more space than isavailable but a combination of theliterary skill of John Gunther,Vincent Sheehan, and Hal Wright—although none of them livedthrough that college generation.It is just as impossible to appraiseit as it is for many of our alumnito grasp the atmosphere of thecurrent years, in spite of all wecan read or hear.Within those years, Dr. Har¬per died, and the "tempo andcharacter of the Universitychanged. Many of us had theinestimable good fortune to seesomething of him personally,because he was enormously in¬terested in all “student activi¬ ties” classed under the generalheading of “public appear,ances.” (For The MAROON, thismeant that If your grades weresatisfactory, your name ap¬peared on the masthead; if youwere momentarily a defaulter,the Linotype slug was lifted, butyou continued to work for thepaper.)Chicago beat Michigan 2-0 m1905 in a game that traced b^ckto 1903 and of which the reper¬cussions lasted for more than adecade. “That Is another story”-^probably grist to the mill of thosewho deplored the overemphasis ofathletics, but a great yarn, never¬theless.• • *In politics, Charles E. Men iamwas taking the academic aspectsof the political science departmentdown to the Loop and lockinghorns with Hinky-Dink and Bath¬house John, whose names and his¬tory are worth some current re¬search. Pi ancis Wayland Shepnrd-son was knee deep in a campaijTifor Governor Lowden. (The MA¬ROON commented on this in apiece of verse that was picked upby S. E. Kiser, columnist of thethen Record-Herald.Wherever there*i life^ there i sure to be Hope.Her wit and her charm claim attention;With any adventure this missy can cope-—ule for success rates a mention:FULL-FASHIONED¥See them at Marshall Field • Carson-Plrle-Scott • Wleboldt’sIfii kRtklit: “WAIDROBE TUCKS”. Writi lidf Bond. lie.. Bept. C, 137S Broadway, Now York IB at last our exports are coming inwitness:Monnheim: Ideology ond UtopiaqAdler: Individual PsychologyYoung: Personality and Problems of AdjustmentLittle: Negroes in BritainKlein: The Feminine Character• Mannheim: Diagnosis of Our TimeDopsch: Economic and Social Foundotions of Euro¬pean Civilization.ondThe Vision Press Edition of Hamletwith Q note by Dr. Earnest Jonesmore to followThe Red Door Book Shop1328 E. 57TH STREETPLAZA 6445 11 to 11THE CHICAGO MAROON Page 7Friday, May 14, 1948Q Nostalgia hitsi9irs enemyof athletesBy NATHANIEL PEFFER(Nathaniel Peffer, editor of theWAROON in 1911, is now an ex¬pert on the Far East. He is Pro-fev«isor of International RelationsColumbia.To write about the yearsvhen I was editor of the Daily. viaroon is like writing aboutthe Peleponnesian wars. Canit really have been the sameworld? How nice life wasthen, how simple, how un¬troubled, how esisy! Who could• have dreamed then that our gen¬eration would Survive into a timesuch as the one in which you cele¬brate your anniversary, would be¬fore its close be subject to thedoubts and torments that now be¬devil us all? How pleasant itwould be now to find our emo¬tional outlets in “pep” sessionsat the C bench, and get our heart¬breaks because Illinois got onemore touchdown!Mot noshilgicI know that at my age I shouldlong for the good old days andwish them back. But except thatI should like for just a little whileagain to luxuriate in the reliefof the trivial, I really do not wantthem back. I know that I shouldfeel and say that I wish the DailyMaroon were as good now as whenI was editor, but I don’t. I don’tever look at the Maroon of mytime and I don’t see the Ma¬roon of today, and it is just aswell. One need not be Freudianto know that if I don’t ever lookat the bound copies of the paperof my day it is because I knowthat doing so would make me feela little sick. I have no doubt thatthe Maroon is better now. WhenI think of the gawky, empty little(Continued in Column 5)newClASSWAlRECORDS!BRITTEN—Matinees MusicaleDM-1204CHAUSSON—Symphony in Bflat Major DM-950CRUENBERG — Concerto forViolin and Orch..DM-1079SONGS AND OPERA ARIAS(Grace Moore) . .. .M-918SCHUMANN — Quintet in Eflat Major DM-736TSCHAIKOVSKY — Aurora'sWedding DM-326WILLIAMS — London Sym¬phony DM-916HERMANS935-7 East 55Hi St.MlOwoy 6700 cr^ S^yyiC fUctc/UOLI/H 1^//OUA, •- Lowj \A/oyy\S^ sAjtrtiOuASurztS O-rpt/ii.(rcLV/t.^UKci. cuCruTLCrtrecLa^SITie 1*7//37t CLS wiju.- _ -r- ^ • vuvt£yj-i t 'i I irx* f' ^I * T. "■19//JOURNALISTEileen StoneSmoleesCHESTERFIELDSShe soys:Any good journalist knows Chester¬fields hove a copy wright on flavor.Chesterfield — year after year —first choice of college men andwomen. Baldridge was1911 art editorCyrus Leroy Baldridge tookhis PhB. in 1911, when he wasart editor of The MAROON.He was a newspaper corre¬spondent during the FirstWorld War and later joinedthe French Army. A prominentartist and author, he has illifs-trated, among others, “Rick¬shaw Boy,” “Santa Claus Comesto America.” and many chil¬dren’s books. His books include“Americanism. What Is It?”and “Time and Chance,” hisautobiography. Hitchcock hall—sans gargoylesOne of the many Universitydorms which have broken withtradition is Hitchcock Hall. Orig¬inally donated by Mrs. AnnieHitchcock as a men’s dorm, itwas turned over to the Womenstudents on campus at the endof the war.^ When it was erected in 1901,^ slight break in the Universitybuilding tradition was made. In¬stead of the usual frieze of gar¬goyles (“gargle-oils” as Don Mar¬quis cals them), Illinois plantforms were used.CANOE TRIPSinMinnesota-Canadian Border Wilder¬ness Lakes Region. We furnish every¬thing for your canoe trip. 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SWIFTMy college class at the Uni¬versity of Chicago was 1907.I entered the University inthe fall of 1903, when theUniversity had been openonly eleven years, and havinglived in "the neighborhood offifty-six years ago, I have seenthe University since it was openedevery building built.As I look back, the fact whichnow impresses me most is that theUniversity was so young and yetI have no recollection of realizingit at the time and that I was apart of a very important experi¬ment, which the project was, espe¬cially because of the disastrousconclusion of the old University.When I was there I had theimpression of attending an insti¬tution which had • been going onfor a very long time. It is truethat occasionally the youth of theinstitution was called to our at-(Confinued on Page 8)Peffer...things with which we were soheatedly preoccupied, I don’t wantto recall the time and the doings.But I do take one comfort to my¬self, it was in the last two quar¬ters of my editorship that I beganan editorial campaign advocatingthe abolition of intercollegiateathletics. For that I was almostread out, bell, book and candle,but I did it, and I take sinful pridein tiie fact. Had I advocated in¬cest or matricide it would havecaused less shock, especially amongthe alumni. How little alumni,too, had to think of then! Sothen: as now in my fading yearsI contemplate my college days doI deplore that Chicago is no longerwhat it was? No, I do not.Yet I do enjoy some nice senti¬mental memories, more particu¬larly those that recall personalassociations. To the men withwhom I worked I still feel a cer¬tain attachment. I have a warmmemory, too, of the trying but inretrospect comical environment inwhich we got the paper out.Good old Babcock!Good old Babcock, Rest his Soul,who was our printer on 55thStreet! In the memory of manthat shop had never been swept,or dusted or aired or cleaned, andnothing laid down had ever beenfound. Nor, very often, could Bab¬cock be found. Two things markedhis life. First, he had an inordi¬nate passion for wrestling, thoughhe was lanky, thin, almost ema¬ciated, and therefore alwaysbruised and sore, and he woulddisappear for bouts of disastrousconsequence. Second, he had astrong-minded, truculent andsometimes bellicose wife, who ex¬pressed her temperament in directaction. And sometimes, towardmidnight, when Preston Gass andI turned up at the shop (God resthis soul, too, for he died beforehis time) there was no Babcockin sight, and nothing else was insight, not even a prospect that thepaper would come out the nextmorning. And Preston and Iwould stand outside the door notknowing what to do, not knowingwhere to go, wondering whetherBabcock was at the momentsprawled out on a canvas in some63rd Street gymnasium, the thighsof some mastodonic Bulgariantwined around his scrawny neck,or at home, his wife beating thedevil out of him. In either case,Preston and I had little room formaneuver. So we just stood aroundand waited, and some time orother Babcock turned up, andsomehow or other the paper cameout. But Preston and I got oldbefore our time.All that is pleasant to thinkback on. The rest was silly. I am;lad you are doing your editing ini sadder, more difficult but moremature time. I am sure you aremuch better. And I wi,sh you luckPage S THE CHICAGO MAROON FH*y. May 14, I94S1Swift...(Continued from page 9)tention. Dean George E. Vincent,later president of the Universityof Minnesota and of the Rocke¬feller Foundation, I rememberspoke in those days of a concertedeffort to refer to tradition.Cornerstone theory laid boreHe said in one speech that thestudents were referring to “oldHaskell door” by the time the var¬nish was dry on the door whichhad just been put in place. Atanother time he said that when¬ever the administration wanted anoccasion to bring important peopleto the campus and were in doubt•what to do, they laid another cor¬nerstone. This presumably wouldhappen in a very new institution.But even with these references,the fact of the newness and theexperiment seems not to have im¬pressed me.In looking back at the Univer¬sity since its establishment in1892, I have been impressed bythe University’s observance of tra¬ditions which have developed, andat the same time, its insistencethat it wanted no shackling tradi¬tion of dead hands tying up itswork. I think this attitude on thepart of the successive administra¬tions and the Board of Trusteeshas accounted largely for the Uni¬versity’s success. Presidential polka—Burton-Judson1912 alum lauds crowdedcampus activity scheduleKnew Harper and JudsonI was fortunate to have knownPresident Harper when I was astudent. He died in my Senioryear. I knew Dr. Judson bothwhen I was a student and laterwhen I became a Trustee. So .1consider myself fortunate to haveknown rather well and to haveworked with all of 'the Presidentsand the Chancellor of the Uni¬versity.My summary of the Universityto date is that it has been a fine,virile, important institution, hav¬ing made some mistakes but moresuccesses, and that it has per¬formed so amply as to justify thecooperation and hard work of theAlumni, which it has had in largemeasure, and that the present stu¬dents are justified in feeling thattheir continuing loyalty will bewell rewarded in the future. By RUDY D. MATTHEWS(Rudy Dole Matthews, of the class of 1912, is retired from theinsurance business and is now residing in Florida.)I consider the years of 1911-14 the “Golden Age” ofChicago athletics! We never lost a football game on ourhome field and we won a clear-cut conference title in ourjunior year. Furthermore, I think we won a basketballchampionship and a baseball championship. We were alsohigh up in track. Boy, it was really something to stand onthe sidelines and know the old Maroons in all likelihoodwould march off the field the win¬ner!tinglish their purpose on the entirefront page of The Daily MAR(X)NWe had it signed by every living class before the outbreak of World“O&S” man. That happened at War I) as a period of strong class Kuh recalls '16's strikeand shopworn prexyBy FREDERICK KUH(Frederick Kuh, editor of The MAROON in 1916, Is still in thefield of journalism. He started as a reported for the Chicago Heraldand Chicago Evening Post. Later, Kuh was central European cor¬respondent for the London Daily Herald and a United Press correlspondent in London. During the war, he covered Moscow, Berlin, andManchuria in special missions. Kuh is now London correspondentfor the Chicago Sun-Times.)You asked for some reminiscences of the days, 32 yearsago, when I edited The Daily MAROON. So whose fault isit if you turn me into an old campus bore?1915-16? Well, even then crinolines had gone out, andthat’s something. Charlie Chaplain was still a policemanor a fireman and a dropper-of-ice-cream down the backs ofladies’ decollete gowns. My father, a Chicago doctor, drovehis own horse and buggy on thewas much more democratic, our, . . . attendance at weekly meetings wasOur class is responsible for get- excellent, and over 20 men wereOut and Surprise” to pub- members.I would characterize my fouryears (remember, it was the last rounds of his patients. An aca- American politicians romped mtodemic man, Woodrow Wilson, was office just by slobbering over ba-making speeches. bies instead of having to go toA professor of sociology on the work when they sought the lus-Midway—didn’t he spell his name cious prize of high office andHoxie?—was.making the trustees shout “Russia? Grrr!” That wasof the University shudder by in- before the times when spectatorsviting a red revolutionary called at Stagg Field, looking at theSamuel Gompers to speak to his scoreboard, would rush to an ocu-students. .list if they saw that Chicago wasSome undergraduates were ar- winning a football game,rested for picketing during a Chi- While on the campus I was alsocago garment workers’ strike and a reporter for a paper called theI published an editorial in The Chicago Herald, and when I wasn'tMAROON, taking sides with the pinching photos of eloped servantjailed students. For my pains I girls I was covering gangland,was summoned into the presence That was the retail business. Soonof the president of the Univer- afterward I went to Europe as asity, Mr. Harry Pratt Judson, a correspondent watching the dip.rather shopworn old museum lomats, and that w^s the whole,piece. He warned me to be good, .sale business.I remember w'ondering, as he arose Having worked abroad now foifrom behind his de.sk and irritably 29 years, I’ve had only rare oppor-paced the floor, why the moth- tunities to revisit the campus. Theballs didn’t tumble out of his trou- ivy has spread far over the gra3ser legs. walls. In case you’ve never noticecFootball (team was losing it, it is a very lovely spot. It make!In those days the Germans were you think, if you are the thinkingfighting the Russians around a kind.place called Tannenberg in East The ivy has grown, but it haPrussia. The British and French enshrined the memories of somiarmies were taking a terrible shel- of the fine men and women wh(lacking on the western front, taught there. Robert Lovett. William 'Thomas, James Linn, Editlthe end of our junior year, other- organization and good will amongwise none of us would have ac- the undergraduates. We foughtcepted an invitation to join. Need- lustily in campus elections? butless to say, our senior year “O&S” with no aftermath'of- bitterness.* Prexy Judson was in his third Flint, Ferdinand Schevill , .year. He gave us our head, if we those and other names may meaiacted decently. We all loved and little to you but, living or deadrespected him and our whole world they are all alive and they arwas the campus. Our faculty was treasured parts of the lives of somable and popular. My son, who of us oldsters. You have yougi-aduated there in ’42, never had splendid crop and the Univeisit;as much fun. has gained in stature.arc the choiceof experienceGeatlunc-GfBat REDORC^lt*s Bob Eberly’s waxing of ^^You Can’t RunAway From Love/^—Decca Record ReleaseBob EBERLY, the romantic ballad singer,gives some old but good advice to cuddlesome-twosomes on this click-disc.And Bob has another good word forsmokers. As Bob sings it, “I’ve tried a lotof different brands of cigarettes—butCamels suit me best.”Try Camels on your “T-Zone”—T for Taste...T for Throat. See for yourself why, with Bob Eberlyand countless other smokers who have tried andcompared, Camels are the“choiceB. S. Reynoldh Votwreo QWlnston-Sa'.m. N. C.dre before !ftiday, May M, 1948 THE CHICAGO MAROON Page 9Idr»e*u1ntirsisndinofveI toS’*toIS-idasrslej-as Baer, 1918 chief, tells beginner^s troubleswith reforming editors and sloppy printersBy ARTHUR BAER(Arthur Baer, editor in 1918, is the president of Beverly StateBank and owner of Baer’s Dept. Store in Beverly Hills. He is the newlyelected president of the Alumni Association.)The young man wore a dark oxford suit of smoothbroadcloth, peculiarly piped with inconspicuous but unes-capable black braid, and he wore grey spats. He carried avolume of Georgian Poetry (1913) in his hand. His rathersad brown eyes flash now with a gleam, partly of secretpride, partly of stirring ambition. He had just been acceptedas a cub reporter on the Daily MAROON, and had beengoven an assignment. His namevras Arthur Baer. Scoop causes shokeupThe MAROON offices in Ellis The News Editor was a sharp-Hall were barren but glorious, witted young man with thick spec-There was a battery of rented tacles, who also wrote paid copytyijewriters, and scads of yellow for the “Examiner.” On one occa-copy paper scattered over the oak sion the “Examiner” scooped thetables and on the floor. Next to MAROON (could it have beenthe much-used nickle telephone Football Hero Seized in Divorcee’swas the bulletin board, thumb- Flat?) and there was a big bust-tacked with the posting of daily up, and Fritz Kuh became theassignments and yesterday’s paper. News Editor. He was the worstferociously blue-penciled by the disciplinarian of all, and made lifeEditor-in-chief. miserable for cub reporters. He"0, brove new world" raised particular Cain once overThe air was thick with smoke, the publication of a beautifullyand there was much talk of early sentimental editorial written byeditions, banner heads, the down- the cub on the subject Alma Matertown sheets, unspeakable proof- —White Mother. He said Whitereaders, and even more unspeak- Mother would be Alba Mater, andable linotype operators. It was a he was right,lovely new world, and the cub re- Cottingham wrote in the Capporter pecked away at his Under- and Gown later in the year: “Thewood. , , , Daily Maroon started the yearGeorge Cottingham, Managing auspiciously as regards the or-Editor, kept hopping in and out ganization of its staff, but withof his cubby-hole office in high the old-time trouble of having adudgeon, and was a .stickler for poor printer. A week of late edi-high standards of journalese. He tions, frightful typographical er-was a Reformer, as were most of rors, and loss of some eight hoursthe MAROON editors of those of sleep per night for each of theearly days; they were always being executives, forced the paper intocalled into the President’s Office throwing financial caution to theand asked please not to write any wind, and going to a printer whomore scathing editorials suggest- would turn out a papier thating the abolition of compulsory would not be a disgrace to the Uni¬chapel. versity.”An embryo journalistand way of the worldIn 1917 a- sixteen-year-old boy with a b(X)kish back¬ground and an excellent knowledge of French entered theUniversity of Chicago, pledged a fraternity, and began atwo-year excursion through the various “snap” courses ofthe departments of English literature and Romancelanguages.His choice of fraternities was governed solely by thefact that the editor of the MA-ROON, “a godlike creature who tenants of a village ... in In¬dwelt “in a kind of hazy splendour diana.”like that which crowns a high At the same time, he so im¬pressed that “godlike creature,”mountain in the sun,” belonged tothe one which first extended an a. B., as to be appointed night edi-Invitation to pledge. Even ^ay MAROON. But.he neverthe boy now a man of « refers* *A a i-arrvnver eame and he donned a uniform.ROON only as A. B-. a carryowr ,.e,„ained a student on thefrom the days when the very name however, and when thewas ^ Armistice arrived he felt a slightA few months afteamav. disappointment at being deprivedIng, the boy discove ' of the opportunity to go to Franceing fact about his brotherhood:• ♦ ♦•“It’s that damned fraternity(she said). You can’t possiblybelong to it and make anythingat all out of your college life.. .*“ ‘But what arc you talkingabout, anyway (he asked) ? Whyon earth should anybody thinkI was Jewish?*** ‘Because you belong to aJewish fraternity/ she said.”0 * «Thus did the boy become awareof “(a) the social system of theUniversity of Chicago; (b) theJewish problem; (c) the way ofthe world; (d) (his) own colossalignorance.”A change tronspiresWithin two years the boy hadchanged from the departments ofEnglish literature and Romancelanguages to those of histoiy andphilosophy, for it had become clearthat “literature involved some¬thing at once more complex andmore ordinary, more closely re¬ted to the whole of mankind,;han the science of stringingords together in desirable se-<iuences . . /'He also acquired a distaste fore institution of capitalism, theult of a three-month job dur-wlilch lie waa forced “to col-t rents from the impoverished as an officer and thus “grow up ina hurry.”Apparently he never graduated,for some time later he wrote inretrospect:* * *“Christmas of 1920 was my lastin the University. My mother wasvery ill; early in January, 1921,she died. ... I returned to Chicagolonely and helpless. There was ajob for me (thanks to a friend) as Business-mnooger swings o dealThrowing financial caution tothe wind indeed! The businessmanager was Carl Birdsall, whowas, even then, cautious and wise.Birdsall cooked up a fancy dealwith Horlick’s Malted Milk, givingthem ad space in the paper ondays when the regular pay adver¬tisers would not come through, inexchange for samples of Malted.The walls of the office were linedwith Malted, and one stumbledover cases of it on the floor, andstaff members were ordered totake quantities of it home,’ and thecub reporter lost his taste foreverfor Horlick’s Malted Milk.Herman Deutsch, with greatlong legs and a high-pitched voice,was proofreader. He came in occa¬sionally, after a bad night at theprint shop, sprawled on a table,and argued violently with Kuh andCottingham about Heine andSchopenhauer what had beenwritten for yesirday’s MAROON.Generosity softens cynicismThrough all the ^ fun of it ranthe glory of it. The swift excite¬ment, the high tempo of the news¬paper world were reflected in thoseshabby rooms in Ellis Hall. Thecynicism of journalism, the crueldetermined search for the under¬lying facts, these were a part ofthe lives of these young men andwomen, but softened and madewarm by their ardor, their gen¬erosity, and their high hopes.Just the other day the news¬papers ran notices of the death ofGeorge Cottingham, managingeditor of the Houston Chronicle.a reporter on the “Chicago DailyNews,” but I must have beenphenomenally stupid at it, for Ilasted only two or three weeks...“I walked out of the “DailyNews” office, down to the oldDearborn Street station, and ontoa train for.New 'York. . . Forhour after hour I sat at a trainwindow and stared out throughtears and dirt. It was a fairlytypical departure.^ to be workedout during the next ten years intoa system of going away. . . .What were the goins?“I was not to see Chicago againexcept on two short visits yearslater, in a world altogether dif¬ferent from that of the Univer¬sity. . . .“What did I take away from thepseudo-Gothic sanctuary of mypseudo-education? Not much. Ihad some vague idea of historyand philosophy, a bowing ac¬quaintance with English andFrench literature. I had learned agood deal about snobbery, cruelty,prejudice, injustice and stupidity.I had acquired half p. dozen friends—perhaps. I had learned how todance the fox trot. . . .“As I sat in that filthy daycoach on the train to New York. . . I was the least respectable ofpassengers: my ticket went oneway only, and I had no baggageof any kind.”* * *(The disillusioned boy grewup to be Vincent Sheean, andthe quotes are from his “Per¬sonal History,” published in 1935by Doubleday, Doran and Com¬pany, Inc., New York.)ISBELL'SChicago's MostCELEBRATEDRESTAURANTS14^5 E. 51st Street940 Rush Street590 Diversey Pkwy.1063 Bryn Mowr Ave. Gunther^ Ashenhurst^Sheean,. slept hereBy WILLIAM V. MORGANSTERN(William Morganstem, editor of The MAROON in 1920, isdirector of the Public Relations Office of the University of Chicago.Mr. Morganstem was at one time a sports writer for Hearst papersand traveled with the Chicago Cubs.)The Daily Maroon (Tuesday through Friday) of 1916-20was a considerably different paper than today’s ChicagoMaroon, as inspection of the files, if they still exist, wouldindicate. The University was different, too. It went alongcalmly and unchanging, despite World War I and the soar¬ing enrollment that began to spurt after Armistice Day.Administratively, the attitude was that students had aplace in the University, and Ijad —better know it, on penalty of comparatively small staff andabrupt dismissal. There were no ..student delegations received in turnover. InHarper then and the temerity of particular ero of which thesesuch a suggestion would have been memoirs are concerned, the Uni-met summarily. versity was in the process of pro-The University was indifferent ducing a large number of writersto publicity, as long as nothing of considerable distinction. Thewas printed; it had expelled a long MAROON attracted relatively fewline of campus correspondents, of these. James Vincent Sheehanwhose papers were honor bound was tolerated for a while, butto give them employment. Once a “Jimmy” preferred to be soulfulweek the secretary to the pres- with the women on the staffident held a conference to disclose rather than write a news story,discreet and dignified information John Gunther was about the of¬fer publication. This news con- fice, but his connection was slight,sisted of such items as the regis- as was that of Alan LeMay, whotration figures for the previous later became a successful maga-year or faculty appointments, zine and scenario writer.culled from the most recent issueof the quarterly University Record. Of the editors, Arthur Baer,1916-17, had most the apparentThe MAR(X)N ran University skill and perception for writing,news, when it could get it, in a but chose merchandising andpolitely circumspect tone. It ran banking instead of writing as aa lot more stories about parties, cau’eer. John Joseph went to workfraternities, sports. It had a hu- lor the Herald-Examiner andmor column, “The Whistle,” of thence, via Balaban & Katz, towhich one Harry Swanson was the Holl3rwood,. where he is Univer-best known producer. “The Whis- sal’s advertising and publicity di-tle” sometimes put one over on rector. John Ashenhurst movedthe administration, which required rapidly into the city editorship ofseveral years to catch up with the the American before trouble with“Whistle's” bulletins on an elab- his eyes ended that work. Bartlettorate practical joke, the “Brake- Cormack, who dallied with Theman’s Wife,” strenuously practiced MAROON as a drama critic, al.soeach spring. The paper was en- became a Hearst writer and latertirely of and for the University a movie director. 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They have a good, ripe-tohacco tasteand they*re mild,**Nobody pays a higher price to get good-smokingtobacco than Chesterfield, They buy sweet, ripe tobacco.Looks like a gold dollar in the barn,**FARMER, PARIS, KY.^LWAYS MiLDEiC ^Better tasting C^ooler.smoking Bennett sextalk drawsUC throngBy ROBERT POLLAKRobert Poliak, editor in 192drama critic for the Chicago I>aiTimes, graduated from the l^nversity of Chicago in 1924.As a freshman reporter cthe MAROON I remembthat I was sent to intervieUpton Sinclair who was ti aeling from one college to aiother preparing the mamscript of “The Goose-Stepan indictment of all institutionshigher learning. I wrote the rsuits of that interview with a cetain worldly cynicism that Sind?must have found trying. For wh(his book came out he recalled btthat he had been denied a deepplace to speak, that the captaof the Varsity tennis team hbeaten him by a close margisplitting his pants in the proeeand that he had been interviewby a cub from the Daily Maroc“a young man obviously a toolthe Standard Oil interests”.I have been brooding about t)ever since. Sinclair may have beirefused a hall but he got a mubigger crowd by speaking in topen air in front of Harper. Ttennis captain had beat him, afiall, and any man can rip lpants.By the time I was a news editone of the students majoringchemistry was writing our boreviews. They would arrive eactly on schedule, neatly typwritten and carefully marked 1the printer. They usually maexcellent sense. For a long timididn’t meet the rather anonymeyoung man who wrote them Ione day he wandered in, a chubfellow with lank blonde hair aenormous tortoise shell glas.-^After a few moments of converstion he remarked placidly, ashe were discussing the weaththat he was through with choistry. “I am going to be the mfamous and successful corresporent in the country,” he said.That was .my first view InsGunther.The spring of 1923 was idylIt was easy to go to a Universin those days and easier to stthere. Bob Lovett, that fighterfreedom, was lecturing on tcosmos of John Milton, project)the finest kind of literary cricism while the bees hummed sletily outside the classroom wincl(On the MAROON I had star!to promote lectures by visit)theatrical celebrities. One dajbrought out Richard BennettHarper. He arrived in an opvictoria chaperoned by two paiied hussies from the playhouse aproceeded to lecture a sold-(house of eager young studentssex as he knew it. The facuimmediately invited me to callthe series, but this particumeeting was a wild success.On the side Lennox Grey aI were running the Circle, asas I know the only literary maizine in the history of the Univsity that made any money,had a cartoonist, a very good onamed Gonzalez who has disjpeared from my ken. Grey foian old (and very bad) unpublislmanuscript of Dumas whichran with loud fanfares. IHecht, Carl’Sandburg and Miwell Bodenheim provided us wfree manuscripts.In my senior year the Ciicontinued to thrive. There wanasty rumor about that, sincebooks were combined with thof the MAROON, it prosperedcause the business manager ofMAROO had ben installed byOwl and Serpent political dealvolving a quiet promise thatCircle would operate in the blaThis wicked rumor was quite tiand the editor of the circle,author of these reminiscen(went to Europe for a six monride as a result.It was one night in Paris tI kept Vincent Sheean from fiing out of a stage box atFemina into the bfWM drum- 1that is another stQiy.*.* • •. • •'frMoy, May 14, 1948 THE CHICAGO MAROONRogers got the nominationbut Hutchins only the mumps versity recognition, a battalion ofthe “Crusaders,” a group oppos¬ing Prohibition, was formed onthe campus. The most impressivething that this outfit did was tosponsor a public debate betweena Mr. Smit of New York, whoheaded the Crusaders, and the lateDr. Clarence True Wilson, thenthe head of the Methodist BoardBy LOUIS RIDENOUR(One of the seven leading physicists in the United States, aslisted by “Men of Science,” Louis Ridenour, was editor of Themaroon in 1931. Formerly a professor at MIT, he is now deanof the Graduate School of the University of Illinois.)Sixteen years last fall, The Daily MAROON (we were Temperance, Prohibition, andpretty careful about that capital T) started out its year ^as no deci-by paying editoml attention to the fact that the first class sue of -Juneto enter under the fuU “new plan’» was the class of 1935, fact that a. a. stagg had spon-then on campus for Freshman Week. My first editorial, God sored the formation of an organ-help us, was titled “Life’s Greatest Adventure.” I have ization known.as the “Saracens”learned since that there are greater adventures than enroll- the crusaders.ing in college, even under a NewPlan.Chicogo tiran blocks punt with head On’ May 25, we published anedition of 35,000 copies (we had Hutchins—with mumpsApril 8. The first came out 3 to 1in favor of making physical edu- to go to the rotary presses of theChicago used to play football in cation optional, with a total of Evanston News-Index to do it),413 voting; the second recorded which was principally a roundup955 votes against compulsory gym ot facts and opinions concerningand 472 in favor. Remember that the first year of operation of thethere were only about 3,000 under¬graduates in all In those days.Damned if the faculty didn’t abol¬ish compulsory gym, as we an-what was then called the Big Ten,and the 1931 season was memor¬able for the fact that the teamwon one of the two conferencevictories of my four years in col¬lege. This happened at Illinois,13-6 (I didn’t go down for thegame), and Involved Sam Horwitzblocking a punt with his head andStan Hamberg intercepting a pass.The rest of the season was prettysad, though not as sad as it gotin later years.My year on The MAROON wasmarked by a lot of polls and alot of causes. We took up the issueof compulsory gym early in theyear—in an editorial published onDecember 1—and didn’t let go ofit until we went over the top. Ourthesis was that the New Planmade the training of the brainoptional, and why should we domore for the muscles? Polls wereheld by The MAROON on January26, 1932, and in the week ending New Plan.The ads were great. LuckyStrike cigarettes were lavishly us¬ing pictures of and testimonialsnounced with a three column head by Jean Harlow (remember?), andon May 19. had embarked on their daring “doIn the spring, with official Uni- (Cont’inued on Page 12)New college plan announced;Depression felt on campusBy EDGAR GRUNWALDFor the class of 1931, Robert Maynard Hutchins hada graduation message entitled “The New Atlantis.”The New Atlantis—through no fault of Dr. Hutchins,of course—that we got into, was marked by Insull bank¬ruptcy, John Steinbeck’s Okies, Hitler, Mussolini, a secondworld war.Even in 1930-31 much of this disorder was already uponus. The Babbitt prosperity of a 'You’re Twice As SureWITHHAMPTONPARKWORSTEDS$50EXTRA TROUSERS, $15Each suit flawlessly tailored tostandards of perfection... forthe successful man, and the manwho wants to succeed. Finestworsted woolens for year 'roundcomfort —for years to come.Choose from sharkskins, twists,flannels, smooth worsteds in allthe new favorite shades. Asalways —your satisfaction istwice guaranteed.You’re Twice'.As Sure At Eriei i Z tErie gives you 1 the style andquality guaranted by America'snationally famous names • • • <\ 2; the value and satisfac*• tion guaranteec byErie's famous nai e.648 N. CLARK ST.(at Erie)S37 E. 63RD ST.(ot Marylond)Opm Monday mid Thunttayiv9t»tngtr-T—, -vr* open o Chargeor BudgetAccount year or two ago was getting thinand ragged. Yet 1930-31 was no¬table for both the University andThe MAROON.This was the year in which the“New Plan” was announced. Neverin any major American universityhad there been the like of it. Itwas a tantalizing prospect—thisidea of graduating when you wereready for it (not when a time¬table said so). The MAROON hada - gold mine of good; live newshere. . . r'’,New plan for Moroon 4'The paper itself got a New Planin 1930. The ^traditional editor-advertising mans^ger combinationwas abolished. In its place a five-man board wass decreed. The ob¬ject was to get a stronger per¬sonnel topside, and—perish thethought—prevent graft by a sys¬tem of checks and balances.The first board-of-five included:Abe Blinder, business manager; Johnny Hardin, managing editor;Marion White, woman’s editor; A1Arkules, news and special featureseditor; and myself as editor-in-chief.One of ‘Blinder’s first strokes ofgenius was to hire Lou Cowan toput on a circulation drive. Cowan(now an immensely successful ra¬dio producer—Quiz Kids, etc.), gotto work with fire and imagination.Not a student escaped his networkof salesmen. Finally, he outdidhimself by giving away tickets toa special Paul Whiteman concertwith subscriptions. Whiteman thenwas riding a crest with “Rhapsodyin Blue,” Mildred Bailey, and theRhythm Boys (one of whom wasBing Crosby). He was about toopen in a South Side cafe andthought a tieup with The MA¬ROON would be a good adver¬tisement.Petrillo objectsCirculation soared with theticket give-away. But pretty soonJimmy Petrillo, the musicians’ un¬ion boss, was on our necks forfailing to get his approval of theconcert. It looked as though wewere sunk. But by some magic—I know not what—Cowan pacifiedPetrillo. The concert was stagedin Mandel Hall and was a smashsuccess.Editorially, The MAROON thatyear concentrated on (1) cleanermakeup, (2) more reporters andwider coverage, (3) a stronger ed¬itorial stand on campus matters,and (4) more features. In the fea¬ture line, we accepted (for $300, I, think) the services of a gay, tow-headed Alpha Delt who couldn’tspell his own name without mak¬ing a mistake. The name: ArtHoward. There wasn’t a soul thatArt didn’t know, and Ms gossipcolumn was a hit from the start.At would type his masterpiecessans punctuation. Johnny Hardinor I would pretty them up whileArt was combing the campus formore material. We called the col¬umn “The Traveling Bazaar.”^They’ll strutand prance• T. AA. REG.The firstnew idea sincethe invention of men’s shortsNo longer must men’s shorts be drab and uninteresting! Bigred (or blue or brown) ants scurry over these shorts, made offine quality mercerized Sanforized cotton broadcloth in All-American (boxer style). Sizes 28 to 42. Come in today andget several pairs for your friends with a sense >2 50 pr.WINTER’SCORNER 55TH ST. AND KENWOODHP 5IS0of humor! By MILTON H. KREINES(Milton H. Kreines was BusinessManager of the ’26-’27 DAILYMAROON. At present he is in theadvertising publishing business.“As good as anything else, if youwant to go crazy.”)1926-27 was a happy yearon the campus. Athletics, so¬cial life, fraternities andwomen’s clubs were in theirhey-day. Sports were the Uni-versity’s extracurricularpride; that year we won theconference championship in foot¬ball.The students even started an“Undergraduate Extension Board”with the avowed puri>ose of get¬ting desirable athletes to come toChicago under the sponsorship ofinterested alumni. The organiza¬tion functioned for three years,then the University appointed apaid secretary to manage footballaffairs until sports were dropped.We had thirty-one frats oncampus at that time. Practicallyeveryone who wanted to could joina frat; of an entering class of 390that year, 320 were pledged. Isuppose that the depression andthe lack of big-time sports hasabout killed them off by now.The University was in the throesof a building boom. Billings wasgoing up, new buildings weresprouting all over the campus.Plans were even made to erect ahuge double-decker stadium atStagg Field.There weren’t really many of uson campus that glowed red con¬stantly, but we liked to kick overthe traces now and again andprohibition never bothered us. Theneighborhood swarmed with “beerflats” where one could get blottoon spiked beer and “dago red”.There were speak-easies, but forcollege drinking there was nothinglike the beer flat.Most of the night life was morelegitimate, though. There weresome excellent night clubs in thearea. We had our frat dances, anddances and parties given by thewomen’s clubs and other organi¬zations. The Wash Prom was thebig social event of the year, andwe really did it up in grand style.For the event we took over theSouth Shore Country Club—andthe MAROON printed $2.00 souve¬nir programs. A great deal of theactivities were centered aroundsports: homecoming dances, pep-rallies and the like.National politics were not theburning issue then that they arenow. We had a “Communist Club”but our political interests weremostly campus. The students werepractically run by the senior men’shonorary sopiety, the “Owl andWSerpent,” the women had their“Sign of the Sickle”; even thefreshmen had their “Green CapClub.”It was a good year for theDAILY MAROON too. We put outa 64 page Christmas issue thatwas hailed by the press as thegreatest college newspaper everprinted." That was followed up bya slick-paper “Celebrities Number”which included articles contribu¬ted by such famous people as EllisParker Butler, Clarence Darrow,Bebe Daniels and twenty-six oth¬ers. We even got a letter of refu¬sal from the King of England.'nrmTip• Be a “double-threat”in business. Add Gibbs secre¬tarial training to your collegeeducation and go to the top.Write College Course Dean.KATllARINE GIBBS’NE;W YORK 17.- 230 Park Ave.BOSTON 16. . . . 90 Marlborough StCHICAGO 11 . . 51 East Superior St.PROVIDENCE 6 155 Angell StPoge 12 THE CHICAGO MAROON Friday, Moy 14, 1941Barden, young upstart, rivalledHutchins for lack of educationBy JOHN BARDENBack in 1933-34, an opportunist named Barden gotcontrol of the MAROON. He was only a junior at the timeand that alone was a scandal. You’ll have to ask RubeFrodin in the President’s office about it. Frodin had Bar¬den’s number. Barden was an upstart.Worse, Barden was a very bad editor. Other peoplenamed Betty Hansen, Jane Biesanthal, William Goodstein,and Vincent Newman, all seniors,really edited the paper, got ads added flippant remarks. The vic-for it, put it to bed four nights time had tame graduate studentsa week. The fact is that it was reply learnedly to the flippant re-technical ly a very good paper, marks, but Barden always had theOnly Barden’s waywardness ruined last facetious word, like an artic-an otherwise splendid enterprise, ulate, querulous woman. Even theBarden’s trouble was that he graduate students bepn bu^ng. , . . TT«iT7ovcifir the paper. Money rolled in. Thehad two years of the Univeisity became rich —barelvbehind him, yet was uneducated. ° ^Malevolently, he looked around for fs 'difhcuhto assay'the 1933-b'^^e193^ WoON. Some thought itClub. With characteristic brash-ness he went to Hutchins, the top ^iicco a c ^bat if this were thinking, theywere thankful to the University“Here I am, 20 years old and ^^at they had never learned how.totally uneducated after two years certainly the MAROON that yearof your New Plan,” said Barden, colorful and melancholy*“That’s nothing,” retorted spectacle. Barden was a man whoHutchins, “I’m 34 years old, to- could pursue a callow, even ruin-tally uneducated, and president. doctrine to the last illogical-“What are you doing about your ity, stupidly maintain it againsteducation?” asked Barden. all brilliant comers, return foul“Reading the great books,” said blows for fair, and never cryHutchins. quarter.“If you think the great books It is almost unnecessary to addare so educative, w'hy don’t you that Barden eventually became aput them into the curriculum?” professor and. dean. He is still“I don’t run the place.” uneducated. ^“Who does?” (Barden, as a matter of fact, is“The faculty,” said Hutchins now professor of Political Scienceglumly. dean of the -School of Gen-After thinking it over, Barden ^ral Studies at Cleveland Collegeconceived and conducted a year- of Western Reserve University inlong, excessively ignorant attack Cleveland, Ohio.)upon the distinguished faculty ofthe University. ■% • ■He became a master of the K106110111*sophomoric question. Why, he • • •asked, does the faculty insist upon you inhale?” series of ads. Henryteaching us the latest facts? Don’t C. Lytton advertised white broad-they know that today’s facts are cloth shirts for $1.35 and pigskintomorrow’s errors and irrelevan- gloves at $1.90. All sorts of peoplecies? were begging you to take theirIs the faculty addicted to the apartments and furnished rooms,notion that things are getting bet- Baskin had suits from Hart,ter and better? Is the latest learn- Schaffner, and Marx at $22.50ing really the most worthwhile? and $32.50 (none higher).Does the faculty seriously pretend The Graduate School of Educa-that its next books and those of tion building was dedicated onlearned colleagues at even worse March 8 and on March 9 an-universities are better than such nounced that International Housebooks as Plato’s Republic and St. would be opened in the comingThomas’ Summa Theologica?Isn’t surveying all modernknowledge in the physical, bio¬logical and social sciences and thehumanities within only two years fall.And atomic disintegrationWe found space on May 3 toreport the first atomic disintegra-if produced in the laboratory—an idle pretense? Wouldn t it be , ^ ^wf«. f^ by Cockcroft and Walton, at Cam-better to explore the works ofthose minds who invented thesefields of knowledge and the sub¬jects within them? Isn’t it betterto wind up with a philosophy thana lot of unrelated facts? bridge, England—without knowingthat this was the first step towardan atomic bomb.It seems that there used to bea student riot every May 13. Does '35 class usedField Housefor FandangoBy HOWARD HUDSONOn the surface, 1934-1935student life on the quad¬rangles seemed to be a renais-,sance of the “normalcy” ofthe twenties. The depressionwas playing out ’... there wasa revivified football teamwhich won some games . . . thefraternities appeared to have set¬tled their real estate problems ...there was an R.O.T.C. . . . the Se¬nior Class fostered a Cecil B. DeMille type of carnival in the Field-house known as the FandangoControversies continued on “factsvs. ideas”, the Great Books, andthe “New Plan”, for which experi¬ment in the higher learning wewere the guinea pig class.But the undercurrents of thegreat political and social forcessweeping the world were to domi¬nate in our Maroon year. Like theseismograph in Rosenwald base¬ment, the University reflectedeach tremor and reverberation.Not all students, of course, tookProfessor Schuman’s political sci¬ence course in which that gloomyprophet smacked his lips as hepredicted for us our inevitable endin soldier’s graves by. 1940. Onlya handful ever knew the staffmember of the Oriental Institutewho regaled us with glories of thecomradeship of battle and who waslater shot down by the Britishover Norway where he had joinedhis Nazi pals. There were lessthan fifty of us present at thefieldhouse the night a zealous, ifmisguided. Legion drum and buglecorps recklessly began to splitopen the heads of a dozen stu¬dents.Everyone knew that somethingwas going on when a druggistnamed Walgreen withdrew hisniece from the University, thusprecipitating an investigation ofthe Midway “hotbed of radical¬ism” by the legislature of theState of Illinois. There was somemagnificent .testimony by Messrs.Hutchins, Merriam, Swift, Lovett,et al to which we devoted wholeissues of the Maroon, much comicopera clowning by the lunaticfringe which seized this oppor¬tunity to kick the University inthe ribs, and an encouraging vin¬dication of all that the Universitystands for.Communism was an issue then,peace our preoccupation. We con¬ducted a Peace Poll in collabora¬tion with the late unlamented Aquinas, Marx, Confusionruled on campus in 1938By WILLIAM McNEILLTen years ago, before the war, a — —.time when the Great Depression gwift hall was the quiet preserv*still hung heavily in memory; of * theological students, and un-when the “New Plan” at the Uni- dergraduates seldom desecratedversity was still new, when Marx quiet hush of the Library andand Aquinas competed for disciples halls. Nearly all the College classesamong the students, when the 4- in Cobb, Mandel, Eckhartyear College was only another of and Kent; and the four “neweys”President Hutchins’ radical ideas; which constituted the backbone ofaway back when we were all ten ^^he first two years were lectureyears younger, the University was courses, with only one discassionmuch the same stimulating, bus- p^j. week.tling place that it is today. It IS hard to compare extra-To someone returning to the curricular student life. The MA-familiar grey buildings, as I have roON was then still the Dailydone, the first .impression is Tal- MAROON, though its peculiar in-leyrand’s: “Plus ca change, plus terpretation of the word dailyc’est la meme chose.” The College meant only four issues per weekhasn’t settled down; new ideas, on the other hand, there was nonew courses, new faces are every- student Union; and the bodywhere. Yet for all the change, the known as the Social Committeespirit is the same adventurous, was the preserve of fraternity menactive and serious spirit which we and club women. There were moreknew ten years ago. fraternities ten years back, butIf one tries to compare the stu- many of them were in financialdent body of 1938 with that of difficulty, and “school spirit” of1948, there are, of course, some the more adolescent variety was asimportant differences. Ten years hard to find as it is today,ago things were not so crowded. Ten years ago, students fell into—— three main intellectual groups;Literary Digest; held Peace .sym- Tl^o^ists, Marxists and, the greatposia at which there were usually n^^Jority, confused liberals. Thefourten shades of the political depression provided the back-spectrum reading from left to for our thought; and ev-right; bristled vigorously in the eiTone wondered whether therename of Freedom of the Press, a would be jobs when we graduated,dictum we felt ourselves appointed whether another depression wasto uphold; and wholeheartedly offing,supported the Washington Prom. War and fascism stood in theThe readers, our fellow students, foreground of our minds. I remem-knew better than to take all of ber how the May Dance peace ral-these fulminations too seriously, lies developed; increasing in sizeWe had a more respectful audi- to 1936, then fading as the hope ofence outside the University. Mr. avoiding war by student demon-Hearst, for example, underwrote strations and Oxford oaths be-the expenses of a gathering in came ridiculous. Those were theWashington of all of the editors days of the Nazi annexation ofof the thirty-seven college dailies Austria and the Munich agree-where were were welcomed by ment; when a lecturer in SocialPresident Roosevelt and enter- Science solemnly declared thattained by Walter Winchell. And half the men listening to himwhen the MAROON, in coopera¬tion with the Big Ten editors, pro- w'ould die in war; when the ex¬travagant hopes pinned to theclaimed to the world as far away League of Nations flickered out.as 55th Street that Huey Long Ten years ago our minds ran towas a demagogue, the Kingfish finding a salvation for the worldsent the MAROON a 900 word through institutional changes: atelegram in which, like a tolerant better League, the “Revolution,”p.arent, he chided us for not un- or reform on the lines of the Newderstanding him. Deal. Today, it co«ns to me. stu-That wdS-* the MAROON of dents are less sure that what the1935—thirteen years and one war world requires is simply a changeago—when Hanley’s was the cam¬pus hangout, Phoenix, the humor in its institutions.The changed emphasis is per-magazine. Cap and Gown, the haps a more mature, more reason-yearbook, Blackfriars, a major ac- able one. Certainly in retrospecttivity, and only a few knew there the ideas and hopes of 1934-38were even squash courts in the seem outrageously sanguine andWest Stands of Stagg Field. superficial.Aren’t lectures and textbooks a occur?bad second or third-hand com- June 1 we reported a stu-munication of learning? Aren’t ^ent mock nominating convention,they the very mortmains, the dead office of President of thehands, of honest learning? Must United States, Will Rogers, Gar-we take professors and textbooks Roosevelt were men-on faith? Why are textbooks al- in that order, in the headways being revised? Why not abol- story,ish lecturing? Why not have more thing that I want my edi-reading, discussing, and doing? torship to be remembered by isThese were the ignorant, exas- everybody on every-perating questions which Barden, appeared in the Trav-with tenacity and impertinence, Bazaar—our so-called hu-asked the faculty. morous column—of January 26.The faculty rose as one man- P. S.—It was in the spring ofand bought the MAROON every year that the then youthfulday to keep track of who was on President Hutchins got thethe pan. They wrote letters to the ^^mps, according to the butler,editor which Barden printed and Oldsters will remember. R.Attention! BURTON-JUDSONMAX BROOKCleaners - TailorsLaunderersCOMPLETE INSURED STORAGE FACILITIESPrompt Call & Delivery Service1013 fir 15 East 61st Street MIDwoy - 7447SERVIiVG THE CAMPUS FOR 30 YEARS 29 E. OHIO STREETEnedorseed by Riccordo437 N. RUSH STREETEndorsed by PizzeriaFriday, May 14, \949 THE CHICAGO MAROON Page 13Fermi brings new fame to Stagg fieldPeace brings vets back to university1945. By ABE KRASHThe nation mourned Franklin Roosevelt. The Germans capitulated. And the atomicbomb floated gently out of the skies onto Hiroshima. Was it the end of the beginning, orthe beginning of the end?In many ways it was the end of an era at Chicago. Fraternities, dazed by the depres¬sion, floored by the war, were finally kayoed by an administration which found that theywere inconsistent with the purposes of the College. And the thin ties left with the Bie TenAthletic conference after the col- —lapse of football in 1940 were fi- —highest in the institution his- thinking about the fundamentalnally completely severed. The col- tory. “Housing Crisis Grips Uni- issues confronting the University,lege had come of age. versity” a MAROON headline pro- Successor to campus student po-Robert Maynard Hutchins once claimed. Pre-fab housing mush- litical supremacy was an organ-sympathetic to America First and the University bought ization of veterans—the Americanbranded an isolationist, pleaded ^ Cross headquarters build- Veterans’ Committee. And a tinyfor mercy and justice toward the stacked it with GI bunks, band they had had launched an-defeated enemy and sounded the eight to the room, and proudly other new organization which theycall for a world government announced the opening of a new called the World Federalists. TheChicago Tribune noted that theUniversity officially recognized adormitory—Woodlawii Hall.Tuition jumped from $106 toThe three-year veil of secrecywhich had shoruded half of the — j — — r'omrv.nK.iofUniversity laboratorites was $130, the first hike since 1926, a ^ ®pierced with the pronouncement move prompted so the un^ students whichthat the atom had been shat- said, after only the most extensive formal Universitvattempts to raise revenue by other complied witn lormai universitytered. An Italian genius, En¬rico Fermi, who didn’t know the rneans.difference between a touchdowm ^ theologian. Earnest Cadmanand a home run, had given new Colwell, was elevated to the pres-and unexpected fame to Stagg idency in an administrative re-^^cld. organization. Robert MaynardThe GI’s came trooping back Hutchins had become the chan-and University registration soared cellor, so he would have time, heto 6,000 and then .spurted to 8,000 said, to do candid and intrepid regulations could institute an or¬ganization.VE Day and VJ Day. Bring theboys home. Back to normalcy. Winken, Blinken, and Nod (Allison, Urey, and Fermi)TVEED SRich and colourful all wool tweeds incorrect Finchley tans and greys Doneinto suits in the best Finchley mannerto withstand long and pleasant usageFlFTY.FiVE DOLLARS AND MOREChicago, 19 E. Jackson B1 vd.«);: New York, Fifth A ve. at 46th St. (19» Maroon rises to action asnation faces Pearl HarborBy RICHARD HIMMEL(Richard Ifimmel, Maroon editor in 1941, left his desk to enterthe U. S. Army as a member of General Patton’s HeadquartersStaff. After the war he decided not to return to the University fora degree; instead, he went into the furniture business in Chicago.)The Sunday of the war beganthe way other Sundays had been war extra?’’beginning then, beginning some- Grateful for the chance of sometime after noon with a coke for activity, we plunged into a frenz-breakfast, cent-a-point gin rummyplayed on the floor of the apart¬ment MAROON staffers MarshPattulo, Stuart Schulberg andStud Ruml shared. The Sunday ofthe war was like that, four of usplaying cards and listening to theChicago Bears and the Green BayPackers play football.The excited sports announcer’svoice was cut suddenly and there led burst of rounding up staffmembers, assigning stories and ar¬ranging for the printer to get aspecial Sunday crew to knock outthe war extra.Until one-thirty in the morn¬ing, the entire staff some alumnias well, were covering the campusand the city, phoning near andfar to get professorial opinionsencouraging the academicians towas an ending to what we had be theoretical generals.known as peace and the beginningof the war. The gin rummy gamecontinued but the players playedrobot-like and through the after¬noon we spoke little of what warmeant or what meaning it wouldhave to us. Yet inside each manwere his own thoughts, his ownalarm and his own amazement atthe blow which had fallen.The four college-boy newspapermen were not newspaper men thatday and it wasn’t until the daywas moving into night that Rumllooked at me and said, “Whatthe hell kind of hot-shot journal¬ist are you? Don’t you think thatthe Daily MAROON ought to dosomething about putting out a Legal expert Quincy Wright, whohad for some time been pleadingfor intervention, said that hehoped that the opening of hos¬tilities in the Pacific would notstop our policy of sending help toEngland for the defeat of Ger¬many. “. . . the war has be¬come world-wide,’’ Wright said,“and two problems face us: first,that of defeating the Axis powersunited in aggression; and second,that of organizing the world fora democratic peace after aggres¬sion has been suppressed.’’Paul Douglas, a great manshaken deeply by the suddenessof the Pearl Harbor attack, madea simple statement. “It is up to us to give everything we’ve got , ..”and he did.Mortimer Adler also stressed theimportance of keeping the steadystream of aid to Britain, inter¬preting the attack by the Japaneseas an effort to side-track UnitedStates materials from the crucialEuropean battle fronts.The war extra of the DailyMAROON dated Monday, Decem¬ber 8, 1941, was a thin sheet ofpaper, rereading it now it hadlittle to say. There was little foranyone to say that first night ofthe war excepting for each manto constantly repeat his own be¬wilderment. Yet as thin as thenewspaper was, and as little asthere was to say, it was a bigthing for the staff of the Maroon,it was the beginning burst of ac¬tivity in working for the war.At one-thirty in the morningwe went down to the print shop on62nd Street and watched ourwords taking the hard form oftype and the type becoming pat-terened into the pages of a news¬paper. At five a.m., the last proofscorrected and approved, Ruml,Pattulo, Schulberg and I wentback to the apa,rtment to sleepuntil seven-thirty when the paperwould be off thb presses.The cards were still on thefloor where we had abandonedthem, four coke bottles hah-i-iii-ished, the radio still blasting away.We flopped where we could to tryto get some sleep. Ruml picked upthe scrap of paper which hadbeen our score pad. “Hey, Him-mel,’’ he said, “you owe me abuck eighty.’’LIIVCOLIV MERCURYIN HYDE PARKSpecializing In Ford ProductsWE SERVICE AND REPAIRALL MAKES OF ALTOSSmONIZERODY AND FENDER WORKFactory Trained mechanicsLAKE PARK MOTORS, in<5601 HARPER AVE.S. TAUBER, President E. KAPLAN, TreasurerPage 14 THI CHICAGO MAKOON PrtJiy, May 14, 1944Students blast House SystemProf, Sharp stresses place ofextra-curricular programBy MALCOLM SHARP“ ‘I protest to you, Gentlemen, that if I had to choosebetween a socalled university which dispensed with resi¬dence and tutorial superintendence, and gave ite degrees to House System is inadequate;urge revaluation, revampingBy HOWARD FRAZIER . EMERSON E. LYNN JR.Half a century ago William Rainey Harper, first president of the University, describedany person who passed an examination in a wide range of University of Chicago as a community of scholars. Since that tune four more presi-subiects and a university which had no professors or dents have come to the Midway to build that community. But in the course of recentexaminations at all, but merely brought a number of young years, the emphasis has been continually on “scholars” and the “community” has gradu-men together for three or four years, and then sent them ally become less and l^s important. , , xi. j jI have no hesitation in Situated in the middle of a large, crowded city, our scattered student body cannotaway. ... * _ . _.g>ing the preference to that uni- than the teaching function of the easily be welded into a genuine community. The problems which must be faced by thoseversity which did nothing. . . ” Residence staff. One gets “teach- would plan an extra-curricu- —-—-After quoting these and some ing credit” for work in a classroom lar program for the entire campusother wise words of Cardinal New- but not for work in a dormitory, are many and complex. These dif-man, Mr. Meiklejohn in his re- Graduate and professional stu- ficulties were foreseen by the Uni¬port on the Experimental College rtents may serve, in what time versity, and the Residence Hallat Wisconsin went on to his ob- 1-bey can spare, to perform the im- program was established to pro-servations on the importance for portant teaching functions of the vide a definite community life foreducation of the surrounding con- bead or assistant head of a house college students living on campus,ditions of life. Among other things Combined with a health corrective This community was to be basedhe said: “One takes a hundred or to American overemphasis on so- upon a common educational ex-two hundred lusty, vigorous, young cial activities and sports which perience, and was to: tion for themselves in the groupoften find their House staff un¬approachable for advice ontheir personal problems. Manymembers of the staff are unableor unwilling to spend the neces¬sary time and effort to becomeacquainted with the students intheir House, or simply don’thave* the personality to do so.1. Provide a suitable atmos¬phere and facilities for study.2, Help the students to gain anunderstanding of the aims andmethods of the College.3. Provide students with coun¬sel on individual problems, eitherfrom staff members, or from theproper University services. The feeling of being part of anew educational experiment, which couragement of student and‘staffdid so much to unify the student initiated projects. There seems tobody in the early days of the be no consistent principle involvedResidence Program, can no long- in the shelving of proposed activ-er be relied upon as a potent op- ities: those which seem perfectlyerating factor. But its place has in accord with the principles ofnot been taken by a bond of com- the program, such as a Studentmon participation in an educa- Forum lecture series, or a student-The University House System program whose veiy essence proposed lecture series on the Col-is the continuous exchange of lege, are rejected along with proj-ects which are obviously unsatis-At this point, one can do no bet- factory,ter than to ask Rousseau’s famousquestion: “Why is this so?”The staff is the most criticalmen, lodges them in a dormitory, has taken place here, the under¬assigns them books to read and emphasis on student life outsidepapers to write—and then what .the classroom now seems to needdoes one expect? One may, of correction in the interests of thecourse, ignore everything in the values spoken of by Cardinal New-situation except the lessons. But tnan and Mr. Meiklejohn.to do that is not to t...ach in any Fraternities and football areproper sense of the term. One certainly not indispensable ele-might as well try, by means of ments in student life. Correspond-precept and formula, to teach a ing experiences, however, withoutmountain brook to flow uphill, the disadvantages of fraternitiesThe- plain fact is that in the life and football, are indispensable, was set up on this basis in 1943.of a young man of eighteen or Certainly anyone who knows the and has continued with essentiallytw^enty there are tremendous Chancellor must recognize that the same stated objectives sinceforces at work; his mind, his he was not speaking seriously that time.spirit, is a battleground of con- when he added fun to the trilogy At present, there are in the Col-flicting influences; he is driven which he was attacking. It is hard lege Residence Halls the intellec- achieving the objectiveshere and there by impulses within to see how he could get on without tual, physical, and serial potenti- the program has set for it-and forces without. His primary his own incomparable capacity for alities for the kind of community With the staff rests the re-task, on its subjective side, is to fun: and it is certainly an indis- which would m^uch to the ^ponsSy for catalyafng Ihe silearn what those impulses and pensabfe feature m the life of a and e^oyment of the processes which result in anforces are, so that out of them he happy and effective student. students College experience. Nomay make the pattern of his life. All these things the University such community has been estab-And the chief task of the teacher authorities and particularly the lished or ap^ars imndnent ^ consciousness of the nature andis to help him in the making of Dean of Students and his staff. This lack of community in spirit ..jthat pattern.” know well. At other great univer- and in action in manifested in aThe College, which its leaders sities the tension between those variety of ways. Perhaps the mostsometimes call “experimental,” at interested in classroom education disturbing of these is the absencethe University of Chicago, has a and those interested in the use of of conviction and esprit amongrecord of great accomplishments, residence arrangements for pur- the College students. Group con-It has organized the main bodies poses of education is resulting ap- sciousness is missing in the Sys-of knowledge into a coherent pat- parently in a health process of tern as a whole, and is seldom evi-tern, and made them available for adjustment. As one who worked in dent within the individual Houses,students in the transition period Mr. Meiklejohn’s experiment in The unit of activity is the clique,betw’een high school and profes- W’isconsin and who has sympa- and there are few group projectssional study or between high thetically watched the experiment above this level. Those projectsschool and active life. It has done here. I can only join these two which are promoted have been re-this in a short period of time, and students in drawing attention to ceived with little enthusiasm. Thisthe staff of the College, like their Dean Strozier. He and his associ- is not to be blamed so much uponcolleagues in other departments ates should be supported in every the students as upon the failureof‘the University, are not inclined possible way and encouraged' to of the staff to encourage a feelingto rest satisfied with present ac- keep a sense of their own import- group identity as College students,complishments. ance in the face of all those other «- dent Orientation Board would, ina substantial proportion of theHouses, be more capable of ex¬plaining and interpreting the phil¬osophy of the College than theHouse staff would.)A puzzling lack of direction hasshown itself in the staff and ad¬ministration indifference towardsexisting activities like the Burton-Judson Council, and in open dis-exchange of ideas, outlets for in¬dividual and group interests, andIn this issue of the MAROON, deans who are inevitably, and aft-two students point the way to er all quite properly, committed towhat they consider the next step promoting the ascendancy ofmost needed in the development books and laboratories,of College education here. Each of ” This **atomization” of dormi¬tory life is accompanied by anevil almost as grave. Those stu¬dents who have not been ableto establish a satisfactory posi-them urges the importance of thevalues to which Cardinal Newmanand Mr. Meiklejohn give attention.These are values to which ofcourse the administration of theCollege and of the University isnot by any means indifferent. Stu¬dents themselves must doubtlesscontribute largely to the develop¬ment of what is called student life. Cites student activities since 1920;calls for cohesive, varied programBy MICHAEL WEINBERGPresident of Student UnionTwenty years ago on the campus of the Univeri^ity ofThe Dean of Students and his as- Chicago the freshmen wore green caps, the sophomoressociates, burdened with a consid- ten-inch red feathers, and the seniors carried canes,erabie variety of responsibilities. Students at the University have always been vocal inand handicapped until less than indicating their interests, and have often been quite origi-three years ago by war time con- , ambitious and hard-working. Sometimes the great . .ditions, are hard at work improv- rtViQVno’PQ nnii ranp'ps in their extra-curricular interests have ®^®cutives in an organization to present, many staff membersing the conditions and auspices changes and, ranggs m tneir extra cunn-uiar inierescs nave p^j are so burdened with teaching du-caused them to go to sucampus life, philosophy of that organization, ties, research work, and other aca-The last five years of the 30’s °f Residence Pro- activities that they are un¬saw another switch in campus sram, no clear interpretation has spend sufficient time withmeaning of the student’s educa¬tional experience.At the present time the Resi¬dence staff is not doing its jobadequately. It is not doing so forthe following reasons:1. Too few of Its membershave a working understandingof the College, let alone a work¬ing conviction that it is one ofthe best schools at which to geta liberal arts education.2. Their time is limited byteaching duties and researchwork to such an extent thattheir dormitory job gets but lit¬tle attention.3. Too many show lack of in¬terest in the students, their lifeon campus and their problems,academic or personal.4. The communication amongstaff members is infrequent andirregular, hence no commonstore of ideas and methods re¬garding dormitory problems hasbeen developed.5. There is very little consen¬sus among staff members as tothe nature and responsibilitiesof the position, consequently lit¬tle conviction or inspiration isevident in the staff as a whole.The situation has resulted in aseparate program for eachHouse, ranging from good topoor. This seeming indifference onthe part of the administrationof the House System to pro¬grams which it has itself initiat¬ed, and to those proposed bystudents or staff members is notcompensated for by a delegationof responsibility and authorityto those interested in carryingout activities. The inevitable re¬sult is an attitude of discour¬agement and dLsenchantment onthe part of staff and studentswhich further inhibits attemptsto build a group consciousness,or a community.nThe way to a solution of theseproblems is not a long and diffi¬cult one. It involves a two-foldprogram: first a statement, clearand definitive, on the part of theadministrators of the House Sys¬tem concerning the purposes ofthe Residence Program, andenumerating, within limits, themeans by which this program isto be carried out; and, second, theestablishment of a set of criteriawhich would insure, as much ascan be assured, the employmentof a staff capable and anxious tocarry out the program.There are two qualities whichevery staff member should pos¬sess. He should be thoroughly ac¬quainted with the College phil¬osophy and its methods. Ideally,he should have graduated from itor be teaching in it He should alsobe anxious to work with studentsand should have personality traitswhich would make intimate ac¬quaintance with students possibleand likely.But even with ideal staff mem¬bers, it is necessary to make itpossible for them to devote theIt is the responsibility of the which it requires.for vital, active and spontaneous • ^ 1.1,student community life. The prob- tremes as wearing feathers,lem of student life is complicated holding inter-collegiate Unitedhere by the conditions of the met- Nations conventions, or battling . . particularly in been made. Staff members are giv- the students to help them under-ropolitan environment in which m the mud of Botany Pond, or ^ ^ Walgreen investi vaguest of instructions stand the College and its objec-TTnizrovoifTr oovvioe ife Riinoortinfir upivorsities lu Europe. Teierence lo me waigreen mvesu- — tivps nr nrtnnnracro onv pxtra-the University carries on its work, supporting universities in Europe. Prpsidpntial pled to go ahead. This re- tives, or to encourage any extraAttention to student activities onthe part of the University is sub¬ject to budget limitations.When all qualifications aremade, however, the two studentsevidently have a point. Care hasbeen used in the selection of thestaff for the Residence Program,and it contains capable members.I am not myself in a position todetermine how far the criticismsof its activities advanced in thesetwo articles are supported by thefacts. Nevertheless, as one sees in tions Of 1936, came to the for; i"fairs and athletics were consid¬ered by Presidents Harper, Judsonand Burton as essential elementsof a unified campus life. Withthe brief presidency of Max Mason of Rtiidpnt artivifiPR ^re inconsistent, lead- J^at staff members who are Col-w«ri!i War H ^0 confusion and indignation instructors be given teachingWith world war II virtually all of the students. credit for theh work in the domi-activities stooped either nerman- administrators of the House tones, just as other instructorsactivit es ^topped either perman gygj. responsible for the se- given teaching credit for be-ently or for the duration. Afterfrom 1925-28, social activities were ^^e war a record number of stu- of qualified staff personnel,and for the elimination of thoseencouraged more than ever before; (jgnts returned to a research- v,the MAROON rarely exhibited dominated campus with perhapsanything but references to past the fewest number of extra-curri- AAinrt.or future parties and dances. cular activities in its histnrv rviiP ijmst conclude that they areu , .. j activities in its history. I^e thereby responsible for the in-" O^'NovelSer""!?, 1929, Robert L^o^rand the prllwor^the case of a man'who is at once Maynard Hutchins ^came the efforts’ of the Office of the Dean ^ Program now suf-a teacher in the College and a President of the University. He of Students, a number of organ- (One is forced to question seri-member of the staff of the Resi- mmdeiiately took an active part izations were given birth and en- ously the personnel policies of the, dence Program, the teaching func- in f-orienting University life so couragement. program when an administrator of. tion of the College staff is con- that thought and intelligence pre- j^rther all-campus social, cul- the House System can admit to aaidered more Important dominated over ai^ other Mpeets (jCoafinuNtd.eii .Pege.TS) ,, 8tu(jent that members of the. Stu- other compensations be giventhose who are overly burdenedwith outside work.Of course, no set of require¬ments applied to indivdual ap¬plicants for staff positions caninsure adequate performanceonce hired. It is sometimes nec¬essary to replace unsatisfactorychoices. This is not done at thepresent time. As a result, staffpositions jhavo.teadl^ to become(CoaffiHied 09/Fridoy« May 14, 1948House system...a ^^soft touch/* a sinecure whichoffers much and requires little.Failure on the part of a staffmember is sometimes traceable tothe lack of instructions as to whathis duties actually are. His areaof responsibility should be definedmore clearly and frequent regularmeetings of the staff should beheld to allow discussion of theproblems 'which daily presentthemselves and to encourage co¬operation between staff membersof the various Houses in joint ac¬tivities.To promote student interest andactivity outside the classroom, wesuggest that the Burton-JudsonCouncil—a now powerless and in¬effective organ—be charged withthe origination of the majority ofthe extra-curricular program ofthe Courts. If this is to be done, Itis necessary for the administratorsof the program to support and en¬courage the students. Authorityand responsibility must be dele¬gated to them if they are to workeffectively and with any degree ofsatisfaction.To summarize, It is our opinionthat the objectives of the HouseSystem, as outlined in the Bulle¬tin, and as proclaimed by the Uni¬versity officials responsible for It.are not being achieved in the Hallstoday.This failure has manifesteditself in the indifferent attitudeof its residents, the paucity ofits activities, and the inade¬quacy of its staff.To our mind, the situation canbe remedied only through a re¬dedication by its administrativeofficers to the principles whichthey proclaim. If the ResidenceHalls are to fulfill their functionas an educational Instrument ef¬fectively, this rededication Is nec¬essary and should be undertaken.tural, and recreational Interestsof the University were increasing¬ly provided by Student Union,founded on December 9, 1946. TheStudent Union program, later in-corporatting the Student SocialCommittee, the Outing Club andthe Orientation Board, had throuthe Orientation Board, hadthrough its wide range of activi¬ties including dances, wintersports, exhibits, tournaments,trips, discussions, concerts, car¬nivals, etc., already involved theparticipation of over 65,000 stu¬dents by May, 1948.The condition of octivitietIn effect, the Chancellor formspolicy in regard to student activi¬ties. The policy is one of minimi¬zation, implying that most or per¬haps all student activities aredeterments to education whichshould be minimized if they can¬not be eliminated.Although many faculty adminis¬trators of student activities willswear that (such) activities are“supported,” such support is oftenonly token, being strictly limitedi nthe nature of activities per¬missible (in direct conflict withthe great liberty of political ac¬tivity permitted students and fac¬ulty members) and in financialsupport affwded. The lack of fi¬nancial support is reflected in theUniversity’s buliding plans: otherthan dormitories, no physical ex¬pansion of student activity facili¬ties is proi/ided for in the masterplans.There is no positive program ortheory of the place of studentactivities or recreation or leisuretime programs. There are somecomparatively ineffective pro¬grams in the housing system, andCollege students are edvised thatrecreational activities aid intel¬lectual grpwth.With administration doubts(not hared by many others) ofthe value of purposeful studentactivities, and insufficient moraland linancial support of those thatexist, student programs on theChicago campus have in the lastfifteen years largely been left todrift as circumstances and indiv-ual students permit, regardless ofth^if potehtial contributions to the^(CewHiiiMd ON Pofo 19) THE CHICAGO MAROON Poge 15Page 16 THE CHICAGO MAROON Prid^r. May 14. 194SOutline growth of U of C fameMen without equipment were foundationof internationally famous research centerBy ANTON J. CARLSON(Anton J. Carlson, ProfessorEmeritus of Physiology, has longbeen recognized as one of theworld's outstanding authorities inthe field of the biological sciences.Born in Bohuslan, Sweden, hecame to America when he was 16and by 1902 had earned a Ph.D.at Stanford. He first entered theUniversity of Chicago in 1904.In 1892 the start of the Life Sci¬ences on the Midway Campus wasmade as one Department of Bi¬ology, without a building, or build¬ings, but with such outstandingmen as C. O. Whitman, JacquesLoch, H. H. Donaldson, F. P. Mall,W. M. Wheeler, and E. O. Jordan.Prank Lillie, the great biologicalinvestigator and one time Deanof the Division of the BiologicalSciences, was a fellow in the newDepartment of Biology in 1892.During 1892 the department washoused in a flat building on thecorner of 55th Street and Lex¬ington Avenue. But buildings aresecondary to men with brains, in¬dustry and integrity. After the firstyear biology found a temporarydomicile in the newly erected KentChemical Laboratory until theerection of Hull Biological Labor¬atories on the Hull Court in 1897.Before the end of the first yearthe Department of Biology wasdivided into five departments; Zo¬ology, Physiology, Anatomy andHistology, Neurology, and Paleon¬tology.The burdens of the Departmentof Anatomy and Neurology thenfell on the durable shoulders ofDr. R. R. Bensley, now three scoreand twenty in years, and stillworking the laboratory. The De¬partment of Botany was not or¬ganized until 1896, when the greatleader in that field, John M. Coul¬ter, came to our Campus. Whenthe Rush Medical College becameaffiliated with the University andthe University assumed the re¬sponsibility for the first two yearsof under-graduate medical teach¬ing in 1898, a separate Departmentof Pathology and Bacteriologycame into being under such greatleaders as L. Hektoen, H. O. Wells,and E. O. Jordan.Research and teaching facilitiescontinually increasing‘‘Nuclear fission” of departmentsand significant evolution in bi¬ology on our campus has gone for¬ward through the years, in thesense of greater research andteaching facilities, more facultymembers (now over 200), andgreater public responsibilities. Weneed only point to the story ofthe establishment and record ofthe Medical School on the Univer¬sity Campus, a unit, in yearsThe High-Scoring Fashion Anton J. Carlsonscarcely past its adolescence, butalready in the front rank in re¬search, in teaching, as well as inpublic service. Our Institute ofRadiobiology and Biophysics is atwork. A Foundation for researchfor research and service in thebroad field of cancer is 'assured.We are on the way to establisha Food Research Institute. Tlie re¬search laboratory of the AmericanMeat Institute Foundation on 57thStreet and Ingleside is nearly com¬pleted. The world needs, and ourcampus may one day have, aVirus Institute. We are todayabout as ignorant and helpless inthe matter of virus diseases inman and beasts as we were 80years ago in the matter of diseasesof bacterial causation. Dr. RubenGustafson, one of our alumni, anda one time Vice President on theMidway, labored assidously for avirus institute on our campus.Ruben left us too soon.For nearly fifty years the fac¬ulties of the Biological Divisionhave led the Nation in public edu¬cation on the necessity, the valueand the humane character of theuse of living animals for the ad¬vance of biology and medicine.Chicago has led them in legisla¬tion assuring freedom of the uni¬versities in this line of teachingand research.1 think that, all in all, the Biological Division has kept inpace with the other divisions ofour University. Separations of auniversity faculty into depart¬ments and divisions is useful forhousing research and teaching fa¬cilities, and for administration.But such subjects as psychology,paleontology, . home economics,medicine, genetics, virology, an¬thropology, etc. cannot be limitedty existing departmental or divi¬sional boundaries, either in realteaching or in fundamental re¬search. I can point to no betterillustration of the unity of allscience than the growing depend¬ence of biology and medicine onthe advances in chemistry andphysics, and the increasing de¬pendence of our nutritional healthand the chemistry of the soil. Iwish to add, as an item of impor¬tance, that Drs. C. O. Whitman,Frank Lillie, and the Universitywere the leading in the foundingand growth of the Marine Biolog¬ical Laboratory at Woods Hole,Massachusetts.The rise of Cobb Hall on theWoodlawn prairies in 1891-92made less an impression on me(age 16) than did the Woodlawnrace track. Even in 1893, when Ipent the summer in Chicago try¬ing to earn the cash needed forthe next year in the AugustanaAcademy, the World’s Fair, withits Side Show trappings on theMidway, put the new University inthe background, at least for thecommon man. In 1895 or 96 I hadheard of the University of Chi¬cago. On passing through Chicagoone day I sauntered into CobbHall and listened for twenty min-ntes to a lecture on psychology byJohn Dewey. I am now one of theoldest “fossils” on the Midway.But coming here to the facultyas late as 1904, I am not one ofthe aborigines. However, it wasmy great privilege to work with, towalk with, and to know all thegreat leaders of the original uni¬versity faculty, including Presi¬dent Harper. Their services arestill potent in our current progress.They are total strangers to the1948 generation of students. Butthe memory of their labors, I hope,are still verdant among our olderalumni. Phy Sci Diyision leads inresearch and inyestigationBy ARTHUR J. DEMPSTER(Dr. Arthur Jeffrey Dempster is perhaps best known for hisdiscovery in 1935 of U-335, the uranium isotope which is the basicmaterial of the atomic bomb. Professor of physiq^ at the Universityof Chicago, he came here from his native Canada in 1914 as a Ph.D.candidate. Since 1942 he has been with the University’s Institutefor Nuclear Studies. He is a member of the National Academy ofScience and the American Philosophical Society.)The great achievement of the spectro-heltograph lor stud^Division of the Physical Sciences ^ ^the sun’s surface. In geography J.^ ^ Goode perfected a newto have played a eadmg part m projection in carto-at the University of Chicago ispreparing the colleges and uni¬versities of the Middle West to graphy._ . ... , , Graduate students were at-“ ‘racted from all parts of the coun-try to work with these men. Notto be outdone, the state universi-investigation in these fields ofknowledge. Fifty years ago thespirit of research was largely ab- ties developed graduate instruc-sent, with men seeking graduate established a uni-training going to a few umversi- scientific tradition in theties in the East or to Europeanft AO • AAllAnrAo vSforA ^State latures would, in all probability,^ " have been slow to initiate of theirown free will.The division has continueduniversities; colleges andUniversities did not value advanced training in prospectivefaculty members.The Division of Physical Sci- down to the present time to imences was fortunate in obtaining elude many distinguished scient-many outstanding men in its early ists among its members. To men-days. In mathematics there were tion only a few of these. A. H.several outstanding scholars. Bolza Compton carried out fundamentalin the calculus of variations, experiments on the nature ofMoore in analysis, and Dickson in x-rays while a member of thethe theory of numbers. In physics Physics Department. In chemistryMichelson, who had just deter- h. D. Harkins first showed thatmined the velocity of light and chlorine atoms were not all alike,shown the absence of “aether and was a pioneer in the field ofdrift.” discovered the unsuspected nuclear transformations, while M.‘“fine structure” of, optical spec- s. Kharash demonstrated thetra. Millikan devised the oil drop fundamental role of free organicmethod for measuring the charge radicals in solutions. O\to Struveof the electron and established the carried out extensive measure-fundamental laws for the photo- ments of stellar spectra and playedelectric emission of electrons. the principal role in the organi-In chemistry Nef carried on zation of the MacDonald Observa-studies in sugar chemistry, Stie- tory. Aat this observatory Dr.glitz in the theory of "color, and Kuiper recently applied new in-McCoy in the chemistry of the frared techniques to the study ofradioactive elements. In geology the surfaces of the planets. SinceT. C. Chamberlin studied the re- the war the formation, of threesuits of glaciation and with R. D. new Institutes has brought addi-Salisbury developed a school of tional outstanding scientists suchthoroughly trained geologists. In as H. C. Urey and Enrico Fermiastronomy E. Hale invented the into the division.iwvvvvvvmvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvsmart collars“ TTV XNYLOlWITH PATENTED HEaFor sheer, sheer lovelinesshere are the goal-getters:seam-free nylons identi¬fied by the Seal of the DANCINfyTwins. They’ve an exclusive,patented heel* for ankle-huggingfit; a Gussetoe for ^^\i{comfort... no seamsto twist out of line! lxK>kfor them under leadingbrand names at yourfavorite college shopor store.•0. 8. Pot. No. 23MM8 We have oxfords byVaa HensenSmarltRegular Button-DownNew! ^Wide-spread Britt 95eachIt’s a great day when we can offer a big selection of fineoxford shirtsl It’s even greater when the label on the collarsays Van Heusen. 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Katz, Dean of theLaw School, received his LL.B. atHarvard in 1926, after which hepracticed law for several years.He returned to Harvard in 1930for his S.J.D., and entered theUniversity of Chicago that sameyear as an assistant professor oflaw. He became Dean of the LawSchool in 1939. A member of theChicago, Illinois State, and Amer¬ican Bar Associations, Dean Katzhas written and edited severallegal works.)The Law School is an organicpart of the University. It reflectsthe spirit and purpose of the Uni¬versity and it seeks to contributeto that .spirit and purpose.The School dates from 1902.Actually the establishment of aschool of law was part of the ori¬ginal plans that were drafted atthe time that the University wasfounded. It was not until 1902,however, that the creation of theSchool was approved. In Octoberof that year, sixty-one studentsassembled in what is now thePress Building for their • firstclasses in law at the Universityof Chicago. They met their firstfaculty, examined their first cases,and prepared their first assign¬ments on long, paper-coveredboards stretched across saw horsesIn the new temporary quarters.The following spring, plans werecompleted for the Law SchoolBuilding and construction beganwith brief ceremonies on April 2,1903, when President TheodoreRoosevelt laid the cornerstonewith a silver trowel that remainsas a keepsake in the School’sarchives.Since the establishment of theLaw School, four Deans haveser\'ed as its administrative heads.The first Dean, Joseph Henry Beale, was granted leave of ab¬sence from the Harvard LawSchool to direct the activities ofthe new institution. In 1904, Mr.Beale was succeeded by JamesParker Hall, who continued to ful¬fill that responsibility until hisdeath in 1928. In 1929, Harry A.Bigelow, a member of the Fac¬ulty since 1904, was appointedDean and served until his retire¬ment in 1939.When the Law School was es¬tablished, two views were ex¬pressed with regard to its curricu¬lar requirements. Some membersof the Faculty urged that theSchool’s emphasis should be onlegal practice. They declared thatthe proper curriculum was the onethat furnished the best possibleprofessional training for suchpractice. Others maintained thatthe Law should offer more thantechnical training. They affirmedthat besides giving training to lawstudents as future advocates andcounselors it should contribute tothe solution of legal and socialproblems and earn its right to becalled one of the learned profes¬sions. The first curriculum of theLaw School largely reflected theviews of the former members ofthe Faculty. The present curricu¬lum, adopted in 1937, reflected theview of the latter.An important part of the newcurriculum is the intensive train¬ing in individual research andexposition which Is given to thestudent under a tutorial programthroughout his first year. Byworking on a series of individualprojects under the supervision ofProfessor Kalven and teachingfellows, the student has the op¬portunity to understand, in termsof concrete problems, the properAttention!U. of C.StudentsDo You Knowthat you have one of Chicogo's best known neigh¬borhood stores right at your own front door?The Star Deportment Store is headquartersfor over 250 well-known stondard bronds of mer¬chandise and hos served its community well, foralmost half a century.Open Thursday and Saturday NitesDEPARTMENT store:1,227J. 63id St., Corner KENWOOD ,irr Wilber G. Katzrelationship of law and the socialdisciplines.The organization of the LawSchool reflects the recognitionthat if the school is to fulfill itsresponsibility to the professionand to society, it is under an obli¬gation to engage in independentresearch and to take an activepart in the correction of legal andsocial abuses. To this end a partof the faculty devotes full time toresearch. To the same end theSchool emphasizes co-operationwith the bench, the bar, and othersocial agencies in drafting legis¬lation, publishing reports, prepar¬ing briefs, and making construc¬tive suggestions for the improve¬ment of legal practice.The present Faculty has madenoteworthy contributions to legaleducation and to legal research.Dean Emeritus Harry A. Bigelowis widely known for his work inthe field of Property. ProfessorBigelow has served as an Adviseron Conflict of Laws and Propertyfor the American Law Instituteand was recently appointed amember of the President’s FederalLoyalty Review Board. ProfessorGeorge C. Bogert, former Dean rfthe Law School at Cornell Uni¬versity, is a recognized authorityin the field of Trusts and Sales.He has also served as Commis¬sioner on Uniform State Laws forIllinois since 1927. Charles O.Gregory, Solicitor of the Depart¬ment of Labor during 1936-1937and foi? some time Acting Secre¬tary of Labor, is recognized as oneof the leaders in matters relatingto Labor Law. William W. Cross¬key has brought his scholarshipto bear on American Constitu¬tional History. Edward Levi servedas first Assistant in the Anti-trustDivision of the Department ofJustice and is an acknowledgedauthority on matters relating toTrade Regulations. Humanities emphasizeresearch says ThomasBy RUSSELL B. THOMAS(Russell B. Thomas, chairman of the Humanities staff of thecollege, attained his present position in 1945. After completing hisundergraduate work at Eureka College in Illinois, he entered theEnglish Department of the University in 1923. Two years later hebegan his teaching career and in 1936 he became a professor in thecollege. An author of various articles and reviews, Professor Thomashas also written textbooks of English literature and drama.)The Division of Humanities wascreated in the general administra¬tive reorganization of the Univer¬ity in 1930. Gordon J. Laing be¬came the first dean of the divi- ^j-’s and doctor’s degrees. The cri-sion. He was succeeded by Richa,rd teria for the selection of graduateT. McKeon, who held the office students have improved and thefrom 1935 to 1947. Thorkild Jac- requirements for advanced degreesobsen became the third dean on several departments includevelop long range programs, begin¬ning with the first year of divi¬sional work, leading to the mas-May 1 of this yearThe facilities of the several de better balanced programs of studyand better distribution 'of exam-partments of the Humanities were inations. Among the most impor-from the beginning devoted to tant of developments has been the ‘President Harper’s ideal of a uni- organization of interdepartmentalversity engaged in the training of and interdivisional committees un-research scholars and teachers. As der whose direction students maya consequence there have been no work for advanced degrees. Thedepartments devoted to profes- programs offered by these oom-sional training in such’ fields as mittees encourage well integratedjournalism and the theatre-arts, study and research in the area of'Though the training of poets the humanities. The four commit-and journalists has never been a tees now • offering programs ofmajor academic function of the graduate study deserve special no-English Department, a history of tice. They are: The Committee Onthe department would give high Studies in Languages and Com-place to the work of such mem- munication, the Committee Onbers of its faculty as Professors Comparative Studies in LiteratureHerrick, Lovett, Flint, and Wilder and the Arts, the Committee Onfor their successes in encouraging the History of Culture, the Corn-talented young writers. The list of mittee On the Analysis of Ideasdistinguished contemporary writ- and Study of Methods,ers who were their students is no The results of scholarship aremean list. It was, I think, partly wholly for scholars alone. Ifthe result of their influence in values of scholarly study arestimulating a remarkable group of_ to influence public thought andyoung poets in the student body action, scholars have a responsi-during the decade following the piiity to communicate the resultsfirst World War that led Harriet qj their efforts to the layman. TheMonroe, founder of Poetry Mag- division has recognized and ac-azine, to give her library to the cepted this responsibility throughUniversity to form the nucleus of jf- Public Courses and such pro-the modern Poetry Library and grams as that offered by the In-Reading Room. stitute for the Study of the His-It is, however, in scholarship tory of Culture. The Public Lec-and in the training of research ture Courses have become one ofscholars that the faculties of the the most important contributionsseveral departments have fulfilled of the division to the cultural andtheir primary aim and function, intellectual life of the University.It is impossible to give a full ac- nq gj^g g^n review the historycount of the men and women, past of the division and fail to be im-and present, who have, through pressed by its record of producingtheir own researches and the good teachers. The evidence oftraining of their students, made ^j^g capacities of the several fac-important contributions to their ulties in teaching matches the evi-special fields. dence of their scholarship. Per-With this brief glance at* the haps it is for this reason that sohumane studies in earlier years, many of the men in the divisionwe may turn to the present activ- have been interested in the prob¬ities of the division. Administra- lems of undergraduate instruction,tive and curricular reorganizations They have recognized that thein recent years have permitted foundations of successful graduateeach of the departments to de- study were laid in the early yearsof the college and they haveshared not only in the teachingof college courses but in the plan¬ning of the college curriculum.The contribution which the divi¬sional faculties have made to hu¬manistic studies in the college isnot the least of their achieve¬ments. Professors Schevill, Scott,Keniston, and Morris accepted in1931-32 the responsibility of or¬ganizing the first general intro¬ductory course in the Humanitiesoffered in the college.J. Paal Switched to Wildroot Cream-OilBecause He Flunked The Finger Nail TestALL panda-monium just broke loose for this little guy withthe hairy ears and two black eyes. Somebody snitched hisWil<h-oot Cream-Oil! You may not be a panda — but whynot see what Wildroot Cream-Oil canda? Just a little bitgrooms your hair neatly and naturally without that plastered-down look. Relieves annoying dryness and removes loose,ugly dandruff. And Wildroot Cream-Oil helps you pass theFingernail Test! It’s non-alcoholic . . . contains soothingLanolin. Get a tube or bottle of Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonicat any drug or toilet goods counter today. And always askyour barber for a professional application. In case there’s apanda in your house — keep some Wildroot Cream-Oilhanda for him!5|c of 327 Burroughs Drive, Snyder, N. Y,Wildroot Company, Inc., Buffalo 11, N. Y. American LadyBeauty SalonPresents«SpecialA Shampoo, A SetAnd o Manicure^ all forOpen EveningsBy Appoitilmeni6007 S. Blackstone Ave.Phone Plaza 8922rage 18 THE CHICAGO MAROON FrMay. May 14, 1448Soc Division workingto aid social harmonyBy LOUIS WIRTH(Professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, Dr. Louis'iVirth was born in Gemuenden, Germany, but has been in theUnited States since he was 14. His bachelor's, master's, and doctor'sdegrees were all earned at Chicago, where he has taught since 1926.He is the author of several books on sociology and is associate editorof the American Journal of Sociology.)The Division of the Social Sci¬ences was established during theyear 130-31 under the generalreorganization of the University.The Division includes the Depart¬ments of Anthropology, Economics,Education, Political Science, andSociology, those members of theDepartment of History whose in¬terests are mainly in the socialscience aspects of history, and theDepartment of Geography whichis also a member of the Divisionof Physical Sciences, as well as theDepartment of Psychology which isalso represented in the Division ofthe Biological Sciences.The Social Sciences are con¬cerned with the study of man inhis relations to his fellow men, in¬cluding the human habitat andthe culture that was accumulatedthrough the ages. The discoveryof what is true of man by virtueof the fact that everywhere heleads a group life constitutes a suf¬ficiently coherent body of special¬ized knowledge to call for the or¬ganization of a correspondingacademic division.As judged by their collegues inin other Universities and researchcenters throughout the countryand throughout the world, the Di¬vision of the Social Sciences at theUniversity of Chicago holds anenviable rank. This reputationrests upon both the teaching andresearch for which the Divisionhas become known. Despite boththe youthfulness of the Universityand the fact that it is by no meansamong the largest of the institu¬tions in the country, its SocialScience Division has producedmost of the outstanding teachersand research scholars in the fieldsthat comprise the social sciences.Aside from its pioneering recordin research and teaching, the Di¬vision of the Social Sciences isknown .for its contribution to thepractical affairs of life in thelocal community, in the nationand throughout the world.A long history of intellectualcollaboration among the socialscience departments of the Uni¬versity made the organization ofthe Division a natural one. Since1923 the Social Science ResearchCommittee and its predecessor, themittee, have been effective in stim-mittee, have been effective i stim¬ulating and interrelating the re¬search activities of the individualscholars and departments and have developed a basis of cooper¬ation which is not equalled in anyuniversity of the country.The organization of research inthe social sciences preceded andlaid the foundation for the organ¬ization of the curriculum. Fromthe very beginning of the generaleducation program in.the college,the Social Science Division wasactive in developing the generalcourse in the social sciences, whichsubsequently developed into a sec¬ond year and a third year socialscience program in the college.On the Divisional level there husbeen continuing interest in th<»perfection of a teaching programwhich would lay a broad founda¬tion of general social science edu¬cation for all students majoringin any one of the departments ofthe Division.- This effort at integration of acommon foundational course ofstudy in the social science priorto specialization in any one depart¬ment has recently culminated inthe adoption by the Division of thegeneral divisional courses in thesocial sciences (Social Science 200)which promises not only to give asuperior background in the gen¬eral field of the social sciences toall specialized students but whichalso is having wholesome influ¬ences upon more advanced gradu¬ate education.Tn additi'^n to the depart Tientalwork botn in ediicatio.a end re¬search the Division is iioied ior itsexperimental 1 in with a new pro-experimentation with a new pro¬grams of study leading to newtypes of careers requiring socialscience training and new com¬binations of techniques for re¬search on important problems ofsocial life. The recent developmentof a program of research and edu¬cation in Planning, the work ofthe • Committee on Human De¬velopment, the Industrial Rela¬tions Center, the Committee onCommunications, and the CowlesCommission in Econometrics, theprogram in agriculture and rurallife, the work of the Harris Foun¬dation and the corresponding pro¬gram in international relationsone of the oldest in the Divisionas well as the most recent de¬velopment consisting of the pro¬gram of the Committee on Edu¬ Gorfield V.» Cokcation, Training and Research inRace Relations—all these are seek¬ing to find new combinations ofideas and techniques, new curri¬cular devices and to perfect a newmethods of inquiry to deal moreeffectively with the emerging prob¬lems of our time.Aj5 the physical sciences throughtheir contributions are forging newweapons which men may use todestroy themselves and civiliza¬tion; if they are not controlled bycorresponding social inventions,and as the biological sciences areproducing new discoveries throughwhich human life may be pro¬longed, and improved, if only menlearn how to profit by these newgifts of science, so the socialsciences at the University of Chi¬cago are responding to the newproblems presented and the newchallenges and opportunities cre¬ated by the progress of knowledgegenerally not merely to avert dis¬aster but also to help mankindalong on the road to a better life.The need and the opportunity foran adequate social science hasnever been greater.The Division of the Social Sci¬ences at the University which hasmade great theoretical and prac¬tical contributions in the past,during depression and wars, will,given the resources and the free¬dom, not fail the country and theworld in the days ahead. Business school goal isto aid top managementBy GARFIELD V. COXThe School of Business of the University of Chicago Isthe second oldest institution of higher education for busi¬ness. It was founded in 1898 as the School of Commerceand Politics. It is, therefore, celebrating its Fiftieth Anni¬versary as the Chicago Maroon celebrates its Fifty-fifth.Under Leon Carroll Marshall, dean from 1909 to 1924,an integrated, four-year undergraduate curriculum wasdeveloped which exerted great In- — —fluence upon the programs of uni- Results of research by theversity schools of business through- school’s faculty appear in theout the country. The School also thirty-five volume series of “Ma-pioneered in graduate work. The ^^rials for the Study of Business-degree of Doctor of Philosophy in begun in 1916, in a series of “Busi-business was conferred as early as j^ess and Economic Publications"- started in 1938, in many mono-Under the deanship of William graphic “Studies in Business Ad-Homer Spencer, from 1924 to 1945, ministration,” and in the Journalthe School of Business became a of Business of the University ofsenior college and graduate insti- Chicago, now in its twenty-seventhtution. It shares with Harvard year.and Stanford the distinction of of- Most of the faculty’s currentfering only advanced degrees. Its research is directed toward evalu-programs of study lead directly to ation of existing methods of or-the degree of Master of Business ganizing and administering eco-Administration. Work for the de- nomic activity, and discovery ofgree of Doctor of Philosophy in ways of improving these methods,business is open to students of ex- The object of other projects is toceptional promise for college and increase understanding of environ-university teaching and for re- mental factors requisite to a highsearch. degree of economic initiative andThe primary objective of the ‘he vitality of enterprise.School’s program of investigation As the School enters the secondand teaching is improvement in half of its first century the facultythe quality of top management rededicates itself to its part in theand of the expert counsels avail- University program of eductionable to top management. It seeks and research,to prepare men and women formore enlightened, effective andsatisfying participation in the con¬duct of economic affairs. It con¬tributes substantially to the de¬velopment of professional special¬ists such as business statisticiansand market and financial analysts,and to that of professional ac¬countants. Special attention haslong been given to the preparationof teachers.The School has contributed tothe development of many personsnow responsible executives inbusiness. Numerous alumni areconducting significant research inbusiness and in government. Manyare teaching or serving as admin¬istrators, in schools, colleges, anduniversities throughout the UnitedStates and abroad.SPALDINGl/RCf AMERICAN 1XNNS'&mXSCALL£D POR. EIGHTOMPtRE?.. TODAY THEREAISElSCVFIClALS FOB.A8INSL£.MATCK.>'TW?^r5^ OP THE COURTSBOTH THE FIBER-SEALEDWRlGHTtDlTSON DAVIS CUPAND THE FIBER* WELDEDSPALDINO KRO-BAT TENNIJrackets haveBEEN PLAYEDFOR YEARSBY THEBEST/BOTHMABE BYSPALDING- ImportantNew BooksThe Protestant Eroby Paul TillickDoes ProteHtantl^m need a re¬formation? “Paul Tillich's ap¬proach to the religious, theologi¬cal, and social problems of ourage, la original and profound.*’—Relnhold Niebuhr.$4.00Ideas Have Consequencesby Richard M. Weaver“Richard Weaver’s book Is Im¬portant; his explanation of thebreakdown of modern man Is thebest In years.’’ — John CroweRanson.Dreadful FreedomA Critique of Existentiolismby Marjorie Grene“The best summary and appraUsalwith which I am acquainted ’’—Ralph Barton Perry.$2.75Matthew ArnoldA Study in Conflictby E. K. Brown“. . . Dr. Brown’s analysis reallyshows up the curious Inconsis¬tencies of Arnold’s method as athinker, critic, and logician . . .a valuable book in the study bothof Arnold’s work and of the Vlc-•torlan world to which his poetryand essays were addressed.” —Howard Mumford Jones.$3.00Edmund Spenser andThe Faerie Queeneby Leicester Brodner‘‘After an excellent short biog¬raphy, which shows the Renais¬sance humanist as poet and manof action. Professor Bradner givesthe reader the Information andideas that are needed for Intelli¬gent enjoyment of the FaerieQueene."—Douglas Bush.$2.75The Creative Criticby Carl H. GroboCan the critic solve the dilemmaqf the artist-maker and slave oflow public taste? $3.00Notional Self-Determinationby Alfred CobboMAn analysis of the principle ofnational self-determination andof Its current successes andfailures. $3.00At All BookstoresTHE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO PRESSFridoy. May 14, W8 THE CHICAGO MAROON Poge\The new Bashkin Store is some¬thing to see! Outside, it's o bit of Cali¬fornia transplanted to State Street. In¬side, it's everything that handsome de¬cor and courtesy can make it! You'll likeshopping at Baskin's!The Baskin Varsity Shop wasespecially designed with collegians inmind. The hand-picked personnel knowswhot's what on your campus and canhelp you with all your clothing prob¬lems. In the comfortable surroundings—and friendly atmosphere—you canoctually relax while you shop!And you'll find nationally famous brandnames here . . . names that your Dadond Grandfather knew—Hart Schaffner&,Marx and Arrow, to mention just two. Library school aimsat research: BerelsonBy BERNARD BERELSON•(Bernard Berelson l^came dean of the Graduate Library Schoolin 1947. A graduate of Whitman College (Spokane) and the Univer¬sity of Washington, he received his Ph.D. degree from Chicago in1941, and became an analyst in the Foreign, Broadcast IntelligenceService of the Federal Communications Commission. In 1944 he wenito Columbia University as researchResearch, which post he held untilassistant professor.)The Graduate Library School isthe youngest professional schoolin the University family. It is thisyear completing the first twentyyears of instruction in the prob¬lems and procedures of libraryservice.During the whole period of itshistory the Graduate LibrarySchool has been literally a uniqueinstitution in American librarian-ship. It was established as an ex¬perimental school for advancedtraining in the field and rapidlywon for itself a distinguished repu¬tation in the profession. It hasbeen the only school of librarian-ship to award the Ph.D. degree,the only school to maintain alarge-scale research program in li¬brary science, and the only schoolto maintain a publishing program.It currently sponsors the LibraryQuarterly, the major scholarlypublication in general librarian-ship, as well as the series “Uni¬versity of Chicago Studies in Li¬brary Science,” which now con¬tains some thirty-five volumes.From the beginning of its pro¬gram, the Graduate LibrarySchool has attracted to itself alarge group of able students oflibrarianship who have gone outinto responsible jobs throughoutthe country. The younger genera¬tion of university librarians isheavily composed of doctors fromthe Graduate Library School. TheUniversities of Minnesota, Iowa,Indiana, Chicago, Cornell, South¬ern California, Oregon, Nebraska,Vermont, Wayne, and Washington director of the Bureau of Appliedhe came to Chicago in 1946 as anState College all have GLS gradu¬ates in charge of their librarysystems.Some indication of the generalnature of the educational programof the school may be secured froma brief description of the curricu¬lum and from the topics of re¬cent theses and dissertations. Inthe so-called core curriculum,which all beginning students musttake, are contained a sequence ofcourses dealing with the inter¬pretation, evaluation, and use oflibrary materials, in which thestudent secures a general over¬view of the literature of varioussubject fields—the Humanities,the Social Sciences, and the Nat¬ural Sciences—as well as of theprocesses by which librarians han¬dle such materials. In additionthere are courses on the role ofthe library in society, on the placeof the library as one agency ofcommunication among others, anda third course on the historicalaspects of books and libraries. Thestudent then specializes in his se¬lected field of librarianship, suchas the public library, the academiclibrary, library work with childrenand young people, and technicalprocesses—for example, catalog¬ing and classification, general bib¬liography, or the field of readingand communication generally(which, incidentally, the GraduateLibrary School pioneered on thiscampus). .jfXSSA School trains socialworkers for welfare serviceBy HELEN RUSSELL WRIGHT(Dr. Helen Russell Wright has been Dean of the School of SocialService Administration since 1942. She is a graduate of Smith Col¬lege and the University of Chicago and joined the faculty of SSAin 1928.)The School of Social ServiceAdministration, which has beenone of the professional schools ofthe University since 1920> is con¬cerned with preparation of work¬ers for the social welfare service.These services today are manyand varied, including the greatnation-wide public programs ofincome maintenance and childwelfare established as a result ofthe Social Seci^ity Act, state andlocal public services for the de¬linquent, the mentally ill and thehandicapped, public and privateservices organized to give help toindividuals with social and emo¬tional problems.The School offers both a pro¬fessional and a pre-professionalprogram. Students are admittedto the pre-professional programon graduation from our college orafter they have the eciuivalent ofthis work elsewhere. It takes suchstudents four years to get the A.M.degree; in the first two years stu¬dents take courses selected fromthe Social Science Division as es¬pecially important for the field ofsocial service, with a small num¬ber of courses designeii for stu¬dents in that field. The last twoyears are spent in the professionalprogram.The professional program is de¬signed to give students a basic un¬derstanding of human behaviourand “common human needs”, ofthe structure, history and func¬tioning of the organizationsthrough which welfare servicesare carried on, of their place incurrent society, of their goals andtheir present limitations. It is alsodesigned to develop students’ abil¬ity to render service to the indi¬viduals who need help. According¬ly the students* program consistsof both classroom courses and“field work” or actual work in an agency under the guidance of aninstructor. Throughout the pro¬gram emphasis is put not on pre¬paring people for a particularposition or for doing the work asij; is done today but on equippingthem to carry forward the socialwelfare program and to make acontribution from their experiencetoward the attainment of a bettersocial order.strengthening of the University’sleadership in education.3. A conscious correlation andcomplementation of classroom andextra-curricular programs, to theimproved educational success ofboth.4. Adequate financial support togive student activities the neces¬sary professional advice, physicalfacilities, and programming capi¬tal required to carry out high cal¬iber schedules. Under the presentfinancial status of the University,this would entail a small studentactivities fee, up to now refusedby the Administration.An otherwise crusading Univer¬sity must take the responsibilityof helping its (willing) studentsto live a better life—and surelythis better life must be construedto be more than purely intellec¬tual one, a financially successfulone, or a physically healthy andstronsr one—or even a combina¬tion of these.Life will always be somethingmore than lore; it should be aduty of the University to encour¬age student activities in such aconscious and positive way thatthe education for freedom we hearof can be a freedom to enjoy andcontribute to a happier and richerlife for all.THE CHICAGO MAROON Friday, Moy 14, 194University College planned asaid to student in grad education Downtown College, Home Studyreaffirm faith in adult educationBy CLARENCE FAUSTIn the reorganization of the University proposed by Mr. Hutchins and approved bythe University Senate in 1930, provision was made for the separate administration of thework of the freshman and sophomore years under a “College Division” of the University.The College thus established was charged with the responsibility of doing “the work ofthe University in general higher education.” In the almost twenty years since its estab¬lishment the Faculty of the College has devoted a great deal of thought and energy tothe development of a program for fulfilling its special function in the University.College By CYRIL O. HOULE(Dr. Cyril O. Houle became dean of University College in 194Holder of the A.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of Floridhe received his Ph.D. from Chicago In 1940. He has been a membiof the University faculty since 1939, and was active in organizirthe Great Books Foundation.)When the College opened its satisfactory completion corresponding increase in thedoors to students in the autumn qj College requirements for the number of discussion meetings.1931, its curriculum included four Bachelor’s degree. In 1944 the This change reflected a growinggeneral courses each extending College Faculty decided, therefore, concern of the Faculty for thethrough three quarters of the aca- ‘f determine each student’s post- development of the ^“dent’s com-tion in the College program by petence to reason about those im-demic year—a general course in placement examinations, the num- portant problems with which allthe Humanities, one in the Social ber of comprehensive examina- men are confronted, not as spe-Sciences, one in the Physical Sci- tions required for the Bachelor’s cialists in some profession or occu-ences and one in the Biological degree to be determined in each pation, but as men and as mem-' case by the student’s performance bers of a democratic society. Overon entrance examinations. Stu- the years the College Faculty hasdents were not to be required to been increasingly interested in theposition and one-year elective repeat work they had already development of the student’s corn-courses in most of the depart- mastered nor to be excused on the petence to understand and appre-T-o onm basis of transfer grades from work ciate the arts, to understand thements of the university, lo com education in natural world, and to deal withplete the work of the College and their performance on the social problems, and rather less into achieve eligibility for Upper placement examinations showed the communication of the presentDivisional work toward the Bache- them to be deficient.By 1946 a majority of the Col Five years after the MAROON was born, the Universitof Chicago re-affirmed its faith in adult education by deveoping a permanent instructional center in the heart of thcity In his work with mature people at Cautauqua Institition and elsewhere, William Rainey Harper had becomconvinced that higher education in the United States needeto be revitalized by the development of programs of adu]learning. From its earliest days.Sciences. It contained in additiona one-year course in English com- therefore, the University had of- other institutions. Faculty meirfered extension courses of various University College becairsorts. In 1898, it was ready to open and presidents of oth<a permanent center for the pro- i^^fhuhons where they develope• vision of adult education to theneoDle of chicaao tribute that UniversitIn the fifty years which have ^ave.is that todayelapsed since then, the entire mod- f counterparts,ern university extension move- 4,000 studei^ registered iment has grown up. A very large ^me-Study I>partment anpart of that development wasstimulated by the work done at courses which are parallel to regular work offered on the QuadUniversity College. The University , . , ,of Chicago provided a continuing jangles. A number of new coursedemonstration of adult education designed espwially for adults arin prospect, however.lor’s degree, students were required conclusions of scholars in the va¬rious fields which might be in- by graduates of other colleges ap- The staff of University Collegplying for admission to Eastern believes that the objective of adu]to pass comprehensive examina- lege Faculty was convinced of the eluded general education. graduate schools. education is to provide the opportion in each of the four general undesirability of permitting thecourses, in English composition, substitution of departmental elec- Quently placed increasing empha-and in two elective courses. Class tives for some parts of the system upon rigorous class discussionattendance and the performance of general courses which had been writing of great scientists,of class assignments were not re- worked out to fulfill the function Philosophers, historians, and lit-demanded of the College in general educa-the tion. After considerable debate itI>ossession of the knowledge it re- was determined, in effect, to elim- able encouragement in its endeav-garded as essential to a general inate the departmental electives in ors a year or two ago when stu-education; but anxious to break the College program while provid- dents in the last year of the Col-“the lock step” in education, it ing variant forms of some of the lege were given the College En-refused to insist that all students general courses to meet the*pre- trance Board Examinations. Onacquire this knowledge by spend- requisites set up for certain uppej» the general education section ofThe College program has conse- The experimental nature of the tunity for continuous intellectuaCollege requires that a report ofits history conclude with a for¬ward rather than a backward aesthetic, and moral growth oithe part of the mature individuaIt is hoped that, as a result of hiquired. The Collegethat students demonstrate erary artists.The College received consider- look; and the nergy and ability of educational experiences, he wilthe College Faculty and of Its exert a more effective Influencleadership are full assurances that for good In the constant readjustits most interesting and useful ments which are necessary indays lie ahead. dynamis society.ing the same number of hours inthe classroom and doing the sameclass assignments.In the early years of the newprogram the conviction of the divisional courses of study. these tests, which were not madeby the College Faculty nor by theUniversity’s Board of Examina-. tions and which were designed forThese changes in the structure graduates of traditional four-yearStudents' competence to reasonstressedCollege Faculty that a basic know- of College program over the colleges who had received twoyears more of formal educationledge of the nature language, and oiore than fifteen years of itscompetence in a foreign language existence W’ere accompanied by than Chicago College graduates,were essential parts of general equally important developments in the median grade of students ofeducation led to the addition of fke content and method of Col- the College fell in the upper tencomprehensive examination re- ^®8e courses. The nature of these per cent of the range establishedquirements in mathematics and in suggested by the decrease overthe years in the number of lec¬tures given per week in the gen¬eral courses of the College and aforeign languages, together withappropriate courses of study inpreparation for these examina¬tions.The College was troubled duringthese years by its inconsistence incounting units <5f high school orcollege credit in admitting a stu¬dent to the College while rejectingcourse credits in favor of compre¬hensive examinations in determin- TrrrnStorage SpaceAvailableFor YourRADIOSRECORDSBOOKSAnd Other ValuablesReasonable RatesPeterson FireproofWarehouse1011 E. 55th St.Telephone BUTterfield 6711 EUROPEROIJIVD TRIP $280Steomship Passoge AvoilableFor StudentsSummer 1948UNIVERSITYTRAVEL CO.Harvard SquareCambridge, Mass. for .A job? Get on the ”pre-ferred list” with Gibbs secretariattraining. Last year 9,611 dis¬criminating employers asked forGibbs secretaries. 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Loomer, Dean of creasingly be the school of Ameri-By MORTIMER ADLERThe greatness of a university is measured not only by the level of its scholarship, theexcellence of its teaching, and the soundness of its educational vision, but by the influ¬ence it exerts upon the community beyond its walls. If it did nothing beyond its walls,it might still be the symbol of knowledge and wisdom and the love of truth; and it mightstill affect the larger community through its graduates. But it can be more than a sym- the Divinity school, entered the ca and, perhaps- the world,bol sp^ading ^ knowledge and wisdom abroad. It can exert'a greater influence than University of Chicago compara- specialization enabled the Divin-can be achieved through its best graduates, by performing the role of teacher to the tiveiy recently, in 1940, as a part-whole community.The University of Chicago has acquired and developed extraordinary facilities forserving the whole community educationally.It, has pioneered in radio and, though other universities now engage in this activity,the Round Table is probably the most popular and effective discussion program underuniversity direction and sponsorship. The radio office of the University is guided by a con¬ception of the educational func- wasintion of broadcasting which prom¬ises to find ways of makinggreater and more varied use ofthis medium in the future.The University of Chicago hasItself done experimental work inthe production of class room films.The present as.sociation of theUniversity with the EncyclopaediaBritannica extends to BritannicaFilms, the largest producer ofclass room' films in this country.The film company has recentlyundertaken to produce films forhome use and to serve as instru¬ments of adult education. Here,then, is another avenue throughwhich the University can indirect¬ly exert a tremendous influenceupon the country at large.The University Piess is, ofcourse, a fundamental outletthrough which the scholars and.scientists of the University cancommunicate their special discov¬eries or technical contributions tothe specialists and technicians inother universities. In performingthis publishing function, the Uni¬versity of Chicago Press does not differ from other universitypresses of equal excellence. OurUniversity Press, however, con¬ceives itself as having a missionbeyond that of making additionsto learning available to the learn¬ed. It solicits or encourages thewriting of books by members ofthe University community, whichpopularizes knowledge without lossof accuracy or dignity, and whichstimulate as well as give direc¬tion to the discussion of funda¬mental issues.But in the field of publishingwhat uniquely distinguishes theUniversity of Chicago is the con¬tribution it makes to the editingof the Encyclopaedia Britannica.An encyclopedia aims to makegenerally available, to laymen andspecialist alike, the whole rangeof human knowledge and leam- is fitting for a university to en¬gage. As Britannica represents asurvey of th> arts and sciences,of history and literature, viewed interms of the best information thatis currently available, so GreatBooks comprises the basic originalcontributions in all fields of liter¬ature and learning; and-thus pre¬sents the absolutely primarysource material for understand¬ing the whole intellectual traditionon which our civilization is based.The two-volume index to the setof great books. The Great Ideas,will enable the set of great booksto be used as a reference book isused.The University is not only co¬operating with Britannica in thepublication of Great Books, butthrough its association with theing. Not only is Britannica the Great Books Foundation, it is help-^HIIRFDT Every Night Inr. Sun.on W Vb n I Matinee Saturd.-iy OnlyLIMITED ENGAGEMENTROCX3ERS ond HAMMERSTEINpresentSwBiiatPRICES: (Inc, t»*) Every Eve. Inc.Sunday except Sat.: S4.33, 3.71, 3.10,2.50, 1.8.V 1.25; Sat. night: $4.94. 4.33,3.71, 3.10, 2.50, 1.85; Sat. 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DeanLoomer is a member of the Ameri¬can Theological Society and atrustee of the Hyde Park BaptistChurch in Chicago.)The Divinity School is a per¬petuation of the Baptist UnionTheological Seminary which v^asfounded in 1866 and was locatedin Morgan Park. William RaineyHarper was Professor of Hebrewin the Seminary from 1879 to 1886,and his abilities as an educatorhad attracted widespread atten¬tion. One condition of Mr. Rocke-As a Graduate School of theUniversity the Divinity Schoolfrom the beginning has been con¬ditioned by its setting. Its stu¬dents are admitted through theregular channels of the Universityas graduate students. Among otherthings, this mean that the Schoolearly became thoroughly interde¬nominational. Meanwhile, its pro¬fessors began the process of adopt¬ing the specialization in scholar¬ship that characterized the gradu¬ate and research work of the Uni¬versity as a whole. This device ofworld constitution. In addition, ity professors to exemplify thehigh standards of scholarship thatmany of them have achieved inour history. But, on the otherhand, specialization has meantthat the Divinity School has notreally fulfilled the obligations thatreligion, of necessity, has in re¬gard to the rest of the University.It has contributed its share to thedivisiveness which resulted fromthe conception of a University asa group of individualistic special¬ists.FocMlties of the four schoolsmerged info oneOne of the major challenges forthe present Federated TheologicalFaculty is to define and instru¬ment these obligations. In 1943,the Divinity School, the ChicagoTheological Seminary (Congrega¬tional), the Disciples DivinityHouse and the Meadville Theo¬logical School (Unitarian), underMr. Colwell’s leadership, formedthe Federated Theological Facultyof the University of Chicago, Un¬der this arrangement, the facultiesof the four schools were organic¬ally merged into one faculty whileat the same time, the variousschools maintain their financialindependence. 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As itreaches an ever larger audience. the Dean of the Federated Theo¬logical Faculty.In spite of different back¬grounds, denominational connec¬tions, and educational theoriesand purposes, the Federated Theo-crease general public enlighten¬ment about matters so urgentlycritical to the public welfare ofAmerica and of mankind, but asa university publication it willbring the detachment of scholar¬ship to the debate of these issues.SURFTheatreArtIUnO pfOIMItl lA# Ht$t swa-war mwumtmrnahal Mm ht coler for Ht Amalssm enmiasDie fledermausiJokcMitiiStaouMI WHh m dtUvhHiil cast •# iffonaM* operoffa hr'orHmCommon Cause will not only in- ^logical Faculty since 1943 has toa large extent harmonized its de¬gree requirements and educationalpolicies and objectives. 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Hutchins(Robert M. Hutchins received hisA.B. and LL.B. from Yale and anLL.D. from W. Virginia U., Lafay¬ette College, Oberlin College, Wil¬liams College, Berea College, Har¬vard, Tulane, U. of Illinois, andU. of Copenhagen. He taught lawat Yale from 1925-29. In 1929 heaccepted a position—the presiden¬cy—at the U. of Chicago. TheUniversity probably didn’t knowwhat it was doing, but it hasshown no signs of regretting it.It even promoted him in 1945.) But it is conducive to it, for itclarifies the function of each part.And with .the elimination of twoyears of wasted time, the pressureon the schools to do everythingelse but provide an educationmight be relieved.It will be no novelty to readersof the MAROON, or to students inAs the MAR(X)N knows verywell, my ideas on college educa¬tion are few and simple.There are two fundamental as¬pects of college, or any other, edu¬cation. One is its organization.The other is its content. The rightorganization is necessary to makethe proper content possible, andthe proper content is determinedby the end sought. In the Collegeof the University of Chicago, wehave achieved the organizationwhich gives us the opportunity toget the right content, and we havea clear purpose.It is necessary to start with rec¬ognition of education because theAmerican system is archaic.. Wehave an 8-year elementary systembecause we copied the wrong Ger¬man SChCK)l.On top of the elementary schoolwe have a high school in which,as all educators admit, the lasttwo years overlap the first twoyears of college, with further lossand confusion. Even the Presi¬dent’s Commission on Higher Edu¬cation, though anxious not tooffend the vested interests, rec¬ognizes this fact.Educators also have proved con¬clusively, and then have been con¬tent to ignore the demonstration,that many high school studentsof about fourteen are able andwilling to move on to more ad¬vanced work than they now arepermitted to attempt.Above a high school whichcomes at the wrong time, and doesthe wrong things, we have eitherthe four-year college, or the ju¬nior college. The four-year col¬lege tries in its first two yearsto remedy the deficiencies of thehigh school and in its last two toadminister specialized education.The junior college, which is tooshort to have an effective pro¬gram, confounds the confusion itwas intended to eliminate.What we need in organization,then, to clear away the incohe¬rence with which we are nowafflicted, is a 6-year elementaryschool, a four-year high school,and a four-year college. No validargument can be made againstsuch an organization, but the tra¬dition and inertia of educationyield slowly to logic. Hence theUniversity of Chicago is one ofthe few places in the UnitedStates which has this obviouslydesirable plan in operation.A sound organization does notin itself insure sound education. Robert M. Hutchinsthe University, to have me saythat the purpose of education isintellectual, and that what everycitizen of a democracy must haveis a liberal education. The ele¬mentary school should contributethe foundation for a liberal edu¬cation by providing training andsolid grounding in the liberal arts,which are reading, writing, andarithmetic. The high school shouldreenforce this training at a higherlevel. The colleges should devotethemselves without distraction toliberal education, leaving special¬ized training to the universities.Educational literature today isengrossed with the idea of liberaleducation. Everyone is for it;everyone is changing the curricu¬lum to provide it. The millenniumseems to be here, until the pro¬posals are examined. The meansto make liberal education univer¬sal is to include variously onecourse in English composition, 8Great Books, or an honors coursein “The World and Its Problems.”As the members of the Collegestaff knows, a liberal arts curricu¬lum is not achieved so simply. Ithas taken eighteen years of un¬remitting and laborious effort t\fashion the curriculum of TheCollege, and the work is not yetdone. The device of stringing to¬ gether Chemistry 101, 102, and103, or any other series of special¬ized subject matter courses, andgiving them an attractive title,does not produce a means of lib¬eral education. The labor of TheCollege faculty was necessary, be¬cause such a curriculum existednowhere in the country. Nor doesit now exist anywhere else thanat Chicago.Yet its importance is urgent.No one in this age is prepared tomake intelligent and rationaljudgments affecting his own lifeor his country without it. A lib¬eral education is essential if thecitizen, after he has finished withformal instruction and has thebenefits of experience and matu¬rity, is to give meaning and orderto his Intellectual effort. *Though The College remainsunique, and its heresy of relo¬cating the Bachelor’s degree is notforgiven, its existence has causedan educational unrest that issomething more than vague. Theenthusiasm which exists for lib¬eral education, however deficientsome of the expressions of it maybe, can be attributed in pa,rt tothe example of The College. 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OF CHICAGO, INC.O 1948, inu Coca-Cola Conpo"y_V May 14, 194S THE CHICACO MAROON Page 23America — a MAROON ForumHutchins' theology Education as experiment•/ ll« UAD/M n TAVIADBy REV. LEO R. WARDAfter pursuing studies at NotreDame, Holy Cross College, Wash¬ington, D. C., and Oxford, LeoLouis Ward was ordained a priestin the Catholic Church in 1927,He became a member of tlie Eng¬lish faculty at Notre Dame andsince 1935 has been head of thedepartment. He is fond of writingshort stories and poems, and hascontributed to numerous maga¬zines. He is well equipped to giveus a new slant on the orthodoxRoman Catholic view of education,having been in the education gamefor quite some time and a Catho¬lic for even longer.American education is likeDreiser, a man massive, bulgingdynamic, who ^id what all couldsee, that he was without rudderor much aim. He was a greatamorphous bulk and felt person¬ally hurt—and I hold he really washurt—by being shapeless. He saidhe prayed — “my God, on myknees”— for light and direction,and got none.Is Hutchins angel, or devil com¬ing into American education?Most critics say he is the deviland in little disguise or make-up.I hold that he offers a limitedlight and, mostly in spite of our¬selves, has shown us some direc¬tion. He has the merit of causinga stir in the educational world.He is the chief challenge, the manmost talked of for a dozen years,the fellow who made educationistsexplore assumptions, and say inhorror. He’s a challenge to liberalthought! His look is in old di¬rections, but in new directions, too,as the Harvard Report, too nig¬gardly or scared to say so, shows.He brought discussion of ends backinto respectability, and claims,justifiably or not, that some thingsare known and that it would begood for students to know what isknown. He has said that Catholicshave the greatest intellectual tra¬dition, but that American Catho¬lic universities, uninspired by thatfact, suffer as much as othersfrom major distractions.It Is easy to scold him. Peoplesay he is anti-science. When hehad completed his Yale lectures of1936 he evidently had said hissay. He went on and spoke withcharm, but had no new develop¬ing idea. He said learning is con¬fused because it lacks an order¬ing principle, and the responseson this point, from Gideonse andP. H. Robinson, showed that Hut¬chins was right. But here he hadconfusion of his own. He saidthat for the Greeks the orderingprinciple was metaphysics and forthe mediaevals it was theology,which is like saying that a pile ofgricks is the blueprint for a house.In spite of Hutchins things ap¬pear as chaotic as they did in1936. We have more students incollege, but we and they don’tknow better what they.4ire In col¬lege for. It is as if we said thatwe don’t know what we’re doing,^but if we did more of it thingswould clear up.In order to villify any church-related university, we may saythat the mediaeval type of lifehad an effective way to kill learn¬ing as well as to create it. Givena declining civilization twenty-to-one that learning can save neitherthe civilization nor Itself. Still,it is conceivable that learning tCK'day, In the University of Chicago,and, Newman would say. In mostof the church-related schools, suf¬fers from under-nutrition in the-'ology. Problems wished on ,thehigher learning by present andlong-standing events may be putin these questions:1. Humanistic learning — is Itstill relevant?2. Scientific learning — Is It topreempt the field?The^ofical kaminr—is Htabooedt REV. LEO R WARD. C. A OIt is hard, as the Harvard Re¬port among others makes evident,to bring these into one cosmos oflearning, an^ however much, oncongenital or other grounds, wereprobate Maritaln’s teaching, hisEducation at the Crossroads is thebest attempt to Integrate theterms, though he wrote for a re¬ligiously pluralistic society. Har¬vard Report’s weakness Is that itsauthors tried to proceed withouta philosophy. Willy nilly, saysCharles Clark of Yale law school,we will have a philosophy, and wehad better not have it by default.But no philosophy, no theologyleaves learning somewhat up inthe air.My own assumption Is that cos-mically rootless people — earth-bound, possessed of and by sci¬ence, insecurity, riches in poverty,but without a sense of holy pov¬erty—are only more or less wise,more or less educated, and havechosen an unnecessarily tragicposition. Such people are fairlyhelpless and all the time on thebrink of final surrender. Thesepeople are ourselves, for whom itseems to me we need a new Chris¬tian order, and as part of this thenew Christian university. No timenow to argue that Christian uni¬versities and persons of Christianlearning in or out of them, havea great individual-personal aridsocial-personal work to do. Thetimes demand it. And because na¬ture abhors a vacuum, the hiatusleft by secularism, in or out ofthe so-called Christian schools,also demands it. In spite of thelesson taught, once and for a longtime, that an over-theologizedlearning is on the road to ruin,we have to have the courage andintelligence to find the place oftheology, the place of science, ofsocial studies and of arts and let¬ters in a great modern Chris¬tian university. Neither muddlingthrough nor dodging the problemis the answer.Happily, science as our greatmodern light has shown us thingswe-had not till now seen. It bothinflates and deflates man. But itcannot, as science, know its ownlimitations or on what ground itfinally stands. It knows nature inmore and more areas, and knowshow to. make machines, techno¬logical gadgets of Interest andpower. It knows how to controlall these. But modern man asphysicist—let’s say, roughly, thatmodern man is a physicist—Isyouthful and is like the boy whohas just learned how to set offa firecracker and does not yetknow for what reasons, except forfun and the know-how, it is setoff. With a marvelously expand¬ing science and a suffering andfrightened society, we shall haveto begin again to look for the basesof the universe. Nash’s The Uni¬versity in the Modem World isone of the few attempts knownto me to find these bases withinthe oontext of Christian learning.Dcmham’s Edveation lor Re«pon- By HAROLD TAYLOR(Harold Taylor was educated at Toronto and London and taught philosophy at Wisconsin from1939 to 1945. During the war he was a research associate in psychology on a war project of the Officeof Scientific Research and Development and in 1945 became president of Sarah Lawrence College,Bronxville, N. Y. Sarah Lawrence hasn’t been the same since.The purpose of liberal education is to develop moral character and to make peopleserious but not dull, wise but not dogmatic, and humane but not soft. Moral character ofthe kind I have in mind includes intellectual, social, and personal virtues. Most of higherlearning in this country has identified virtue with intellectual agibility, and has assumedthat if one could play the curious intellectual games of the academy, the other talents andvirtues would normally follow.I have never found this to be true either of my teachers or my students. What actu-“ ally happens is that young men *sible Mrtng coasts up to the prob- American colleges he carries on with the aidlem, but merely looks over the , , , j ^ ^ i. others, by means of the organ-fence in an innocent and simple develop ingenious methods to beat experiences to be found inway—as we would expect the busi- the academic game, become Intel- ^he materials of the liberal artsness man and engineer to do. lectually muscle - bound through and sciences. The student actuallyHow much farther does H.utch- endless competition, and carry must become an artist in the me¬ins get. Shall we have to go oif AHnrafinn withniif dium of his own education,the deep end, after all, and try their moial education withoutto create full-length and man- benefit of professional help, in thesize colleges and universities? I astonishing world of the extra-feel that Hutchins has, more thananyone else, gone in that direction ^ . 4. • *over the last dozen years, both in The liberally educated person which seems to me to existhis theory of a university and’ in has a generous attitude to other P^dosophy and pracUce ofthe actual nrocedurc of rnllpeps * , the classical curriculum is that inoperating under his innuence. And other countries, other conceiving education as intellec-in the circumstances, with a reli- ideas than his own. He respects tual discipline, administered bygiously and non-religiously hetero- ^*^d defends individual freedom, those who know to those who don’tgenous body it may be that his ^^d believes that the creative know, one must unavoidably settheory and practice go, if not all growth of man in a world which down a conventional body of factthe way, as far as professors makes growth possible is the end and idea, which, in the effort toand students can be easily gone toward which human action should achieve a horizontal breadth ofin the run-of-the-mine American move. He is sensitive to the beauti- knowledge, will miss some of theschool in achieving a complete ful and the ugly, whether in ac- most valuable aids to the develop-Christian learning. Something tions or in objects. He has enough ment of depth of personal charac-more can be done ip the church- knowledge to make his personal ter in the student. What we findrelated school, and something actions informed and he knows in such curricular surveys of themore, too, than this school—Notre how to reach the knowledge which arts and sciences is not a full-Dame—now does. I need not say he does not have. His life follows blooded knowledge, but a series ofto Anyone who has followed the the wisdom of liberal human val- short reports and digests aboutproblem in recent years that the ues tested in the society around events, people, movements, and“something more” I speak of is him. He knows himself, and is ideas. Whenever the teacher un¬in the line of finding out whether himself, and is thus vfery often dertakes to do what is known asour being Christians has anything interesting, independent, socially- covering material or surveyingto do with the inner being of any conscious and civilized. fields, the student is hurried alongThere is no standard means hemust take to become such a per¬son. The field of knowledge canbe entered at any gate. 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PetlertonPresidentAMERICAPLEASE SEND APTITUDE TESTADDRES8-COLLECIATE ANSWERTO CONQUER CANCERMAY 28CHICAGO ARENA To work towards developing this point to point through ankind of moral character in the orderly system of knowledge whichyoung, it is not enough to think supports active ^d inert ideafof the traditional subjects and equal enthusiasm,books which each student should The solution, in my view, Is notbe required to study, or the spe- to create special courses to achievecific knowledge he should have, general education in the collegeKnowledge has a variety of modes, student. To do so simply makessome of it is verbal, some intuitive, another narrow department ofOther parts are factual, descrip- knowledge—of the general. Nortive, scientific, or aesthetic. Some is the solution to guarantee tois trivial, frivolous, tedious, irrele- the general public that eachvant, or useless. The task for the graduating student has covered allcollege is to help the student the chief areas of human knowl-choose, among the variety of val- edge. The important question isues, ideas and actions, those which not what special studies has hoare more significant and fruitful made, but what kind of person isfor the enrichment of con tempo- be as a result of his education?rary life. The University of Chicago has* Accordingly, the student in the made its significant contributionliberal arts college is the central to education by working out thefigure. He comes to college, not ways in which students can movswith a view to providing an an- through general ideas to generalnoying distraction to scholars busy education. The unity of knowl-with their own affairs, but as a edge which we all seek has beenperson who has the responsibility carefully organized in the Chicagofor carrying the moral values and Plan in the subject-matter of theliberal knowledge from his insti- curriculum, and has thus providedtution into the stream of society, a clear way to general edveationIt is for the education of the and an example to other institu-student in these matters that the tions which has been widely fol-college exists. The community of lowed.scholars who surround him are I cannot help believing that thisthose responsible for recreating in ^ wrong-headed conception ofhim and in themselves, the fresh , .. , xi. 4.forms of knowledge which make a ‘^at it emphasizesdifference to the quality of human overmuch the austerity, dignity,life in the society to which each respectability, and humility of thestudent goes. The student whose scholar’s task, at the expense ofpersonal life is not touched by the j^e joys and fruits of higherteachmg of the scholars is be- , .trayed by his college. It is he who However, this is a pri-has the talents and the questions, view, which it would be un-and it is in him that the educa- gracious to develop on this occa,-tion happens if it happens at all. sion. The fact is that at the Uni-Therefore, the student must versity of Chicago, a communityshare actively in the planning of of serious-minded intellectuals hashis own education, since the body been working hard for more thanof knowledge he needs and can one hundred years to improve theuse in the life he will lead depends quality of thinking and behavinga great deal upon who he is, what in America. The results of thehe can do, and the point he has work have been significant in edu-reached in his personal and Intel- cational reform. The continuinglectual growth. I believe that each efforts which the members of thisof us makes his own knowledge. University are making to expandIn the higher learning we trans- and extend the role of the teacher,form and recreate by an act of the scholar, the intellectual iaconsciousness the varieties of ex- American life, constitute a posl-perience we gain from the world tive force working towards th#around us, 'The student’s educa- survival and betterment of con-tion is thus an active process temporary civilization.Vege 24 THE CHICAGO MAROON Friday, May 14, 194aSport is dead — Vive la Sport!Norgren recalls powerof '13^s champion teamBy NELS NORGRENNels Norgren was captain of the great 1913 Chicago team, andwas named on Walter Camp’s post-season all-American eleven. Calledby Big Ten Commissioner Kenneth • (Tug) Wilson, “The greatestathlete this conference has ever produced,” Norgren is a long-timemembers of the University athletic staff and coaches the basketballteam. He is one of the two twelve-letter men in U. of C. history.^The story of the 1913 Conference Football champion¬ship, which the Maroon has asked me to review, is a par¬ticularly agreeable one because it reflects credit on so manymen and is evidence of intelligence and cooperation result¬ing in desired achievement. When the candidates for the1913 football team assembled for the first day of practice,twelve men who had previously won their letter were eligiblefor competition. They were Pierce,Gray, Kennedy, Fitzpatrick andmyself in the backfield and DesJardiens, Harris, Scanlon, Goet-tler, Vruwink and Huntington inthe line. Among the recruits ofpromise were Russell, Boyd,Breathed, Acker and Moulton inthe backfield, and Shull, Baum¬gartner, Hardinger, Whiting, Red-mon, Leach, Sparks and Stege-man for the line. In additionthere were about a dozen who ap¬peared worthy of careful consi¬deration. That the problem wa.snot, as so often at Chicago, oneof conditioning enough players tofill all positions, but rather thatof deciding on the best use ofplentiful material.The Minnesota game was thecrucial one of the season for us.The Gophers had defeated Wis¬consin 21 to 3, and had showngreat skill in defense and con¬siderable power in attack. Thefirst half ended 6 to 0 in our favor.In the fourth quarter Chicagoscored again making the score 13to 0. There were 11 minutes toplay. Des Jardiens had a twistedknee and was playing on his nerve.Shull had started the game witha bruised shoulder which becamemore painful so that in this lastquarter he was using his left arm only, his right arm hanging limp¬ly at his side. Minnesota then puton an offensive drive and in nineplays scored a touchdown. TheMinnesota players exhaustedthemselves in this effort and forthe remaining four minutes'of playthey were powerless. The finalscore was Chicago 13, Minnesota 7.It was feared that Wisconsinwould rise to heights in the at¬tempt to break our hold on thechampionship but they proved lessformidable than had been feared.Chicago scored in the first, secondand third quarters while holdingWisconsin scoreless. In the fourthquarter, however, Wisconsinbrought the ball from mid-fieldto the five yard line three timesbut lost it there, once on downsand twice on fumbles. The finalscore was Chicago 19, Wisconsin 0.The success of the team was at¬tributable to Mr. Stagg’s superbcoaching and the harmonious de¬termination of all members of theteam, each man doing all that wasexpected of him and frequentlymore. A well coordinated and ver¬satile team had been developedand the intelligent and collectiveeffort brought Chicago anotherWestern Conference Champion¬ship.Football IS importantsays NDs Frank LeahyBy FRANK LEAHYWhen speaking of the value offootball and athetics in general—and I am thinking in terms pri¬marily of varsity football and var¬sity athletics—the subject mustbe considered from the standpointof both the participant and thenon-participant.First, let us consider the youngman desirous of playing football.To make the team, the boy musthave a burning desire to excel, notjust the wish to be an ordinaryplayer. This desire is best illus¬trated by the long hours of hardwork in which the boy will prac¬tice to overcome his deficiencies.It is only through doing the rightthing over and over again thatit comes to be an instinct with aplayer. Many of America’s great¬est athletes have had to work longand hard to overcome handicapswhich threaten to stymie their re¬spective careers. They had the de¬sire of which I speak. Now, applythat same attitude to the youngman going out to succeed in life.Let him apply that same burningdesire to excel in any line of en¬deavor and sooner or later youwill have a successful businessman of tomorrow.A second point is that a youngman trying out for the squad mustlearn to be a team player and tosubordinate his own personal in¬terests for the good of the team.The boy who thinks of his ownpersonal gain before that of histeam will not only hinder hissquad but will also hurt himself.In the outside world, what doesa citizen contribute who thinksonly of himself instead of his fam-Uy, his business, his community,his church and his country.Thirdly, a boy must loam to take orders and at the same timebe ready and able to make speedydecisions of his own. As in theArmy and as in life in general, ayoung man trying out for a teammust be prepared to follow in¬structions, to take teaching fromthe more experienced and thenmake use of what he has beentaught. Where is there better op¬portunity for this than exempli¬fied by the young athlete coachedfor many days in preparation fora game. He enters the game andfrom that point on the decisionsai’e his own. The speed and agilitywith which he can adjust himselfto solve certain situations is afactor which wins games. If in thetraining period he has followedhis orders diligently he will usu¬ally succeed in the.game.My fourth point is that any boywho wants to achieve anything inathletics must lead a clean,healthful life. Physical well beingis often the difference betweenfinishing first and second. Now,perhaps, the reader will say thatthe analogy there between busi¬ness and athletics cannot be con¬tinued. The reader can probablypoint to more than a few businessleaders who follow lines not alongthe order of good living. Perhapsthere are such examples to bepointed out, but you know thatthose whom adhere to the stand¬ards of good conduct will be “do¬ing business at the same oldstand” when the others have de¬parted.I’ve enjoyed this opportunity towrite for the University of Chi¬cago MAROON. However, writingis not my field and, therefore, I’dbetter get back to work, as wehave a very important engagementwith Purdue, come September 25. Famed sports writer wasStar end with *13 champsBy STAN BAUMGARTNER(Stan Baumgartner has been in sports since the PhiladelphiaPhillies recruited him from the Chicago Maroons* pitching staff iq1915, when he was a senior. In the twenties he starred for ConnieMack’s Athletics, and on retiring turned to sports writing, for whichhe is currently paid by the Philadelphia INQUIRER. Baseball, how.ever, was not his only sports interest at Chicago, for he was an out.standing end on the great 1913 Maroon football team and was namedon many all-Conference squads.)It was twenty-flve years ago. Since then we have beenthrough two great wars and a tremendous depressionSome of the boys are gone, others have raised families andhave grandchildren, and I have three dear daughters.Yet to me the 1913 unbeaten and untied championshipMaroon football team is as much alive as it was the day webeat Wisconsin 19-0 at Stagg field in the final game of theIntroduction ..For several years now, a keencold wind has been StaggField’s only visitor on Novem¬ber Saturday afternoons, andthe only activity beneath thestands has been the scurryingabout of the atomic sciet \ ts.Even the Big Ten has gone, an,iin it splace is the not-so-BigNine—not so big because in1939 the team that had in itstime run over them all calledit a day.Chicago football, like BabeRuth and Red Grange, is onlya record book and a memoryto sports followers today, andsome students have to be prod¬ded in order to remember thatthe University has a professoremeritus called Amos AlonzoStagg. Once, however, fiftythousand fans crowded intoStagg Field to watch all-Amer¬icans play football and Chi¬cago mow down the nation’stop teams, and to applaud thesports’s greatest coach — thissame Mr. Stagg.Maroon football greatness isonly a bit of history now—a bitreminding us that football oncekept company with fraternitiesand fun. Fascinating in itsown right, it is as much a parto the University past as is anyacademic trailblazing. We feelthat it, too, belongs in an anni¬versary edition.Forty-eight., football seasonsis far too much for us to dojustice to in one-short section.We have instead selected whatmany observers have called thegreatest of all Maroon elevens—the 1913 team—and we presentto you its story, related by twoof it$ players. Maroon basket¬ball coach Nelson Norgren, andStan Baumgartner, noted Phila¬delphia sports writer. Thereare other squads we could haveselected—the 1905 outfit, forexample, or the 1899 teamwhich, playing with a scrublineup, crushed Northwestern,76-0. Even in the twenties wesurprised ’em with a few goodteams.Here is football. We don’task for it back; we only remindyou that it was once here.TOM PARRISH season to clinch the champion¬ship.A few years ago when I visitedShorty Des Jardiens and JohnnyVruink in their magnificent LosAngeles home we played over everygame. We laughed, we sighed.Using Dr. Vrunink’s crumpled hatfor a football, we executed forwardpasses over some of the most ex¬pensive bric-a-brac in BeverlyHills.We re-executed the two passesthat beat Minnesota 13-7: Shortypassed back from his center posi¬tion to Vruink (who “stood in” forPete Russell) for the two drop-kicks that Pete booted to beatIllinois 6-0 . . . And we foughtover again that final gamq againstWisconsin when Des Jardiens suf¬fering tremendous discomfiturefrom a double hernia, refused toleave the game and kept ourmorale at its top pitch.We ran through the play thatDolly Gray scampered to a touch¬down against Iowa and the buckon which Snitz Pierce helped beatPurdue.We shivered all over again whenwe recalled how Walt Pogue ofIllinois raced through the entireteam for a touchdown on the firstkickoff and the Illini held a 7-0lead at the end of the first half.We expected a tongue lashingbetween halves from Stagg. Butall he said was . . . “You’re a bet¬ter team—but show it.” And in the next thirty minutes we made28 points to beat Zuppke and hismen, 28-7.Oliphant was Purdue’s star thatyear — he later became an All-American at the Army. We wonthat game because we were so wellversed in Purdue’s formations thatNels Norgren called every play assoon as the Boilermaker quarter¬back began to shout his signals.They thought we knew their sig¬nals — but we didn’t. Oliphantmade exactly minus two yardsthat afternoon and we whippedPurdue 6-0.Northwestern did not have muchthat season and we thought theywould be a pushover when wewent to Evanston. But we wereback on our heels from the open¬ing whistle and had a rough timeto win 14-0.A lot of the boys have gone . ..Goettler . . . Scull , . . Gray andmaybe a few others . , , Someare very successful business men. . . Russell, a president of a bank. , , Vruink, one of the finestphysicians in Hollywood, marriedto Dolores Costello ! Des Jar¬diens, an important executive inSears, Roebuck ... I am writingsports, doing magazine and radiowork.We’ll all get together againsometime and play over the 1913season . . . and I’ll bet we’ll notmiss a signal, Mr. Stagg. We wantyou there, too!^Qrand old man* reviews UCcareer in foothalVs hey-dayBy AMOS ALONZO STAGG(Amos Alonzo Stagg, football’s“grand old man,” is perhaps themost honored of all coaches. Notlong after graduating from YaleUniversity, where he starred insports, he came to Chicago asfootball coach. That was in 1892,and it was over four decades be¬fore he retired—retired, that is, toa 13-year coaching job at the Col¬lege of. the Pacific. He retiredagain, this time in 1946, to comeeast as coach at Susquehanna Uni¬versity. When we wrote him afew weeks ago, he replied fromPacific University in Forest Grove,Ore., where, he said, “I’m helpingmy son with spring practice.”There’s not much of the countryleft for him to cover.)The University of Chicago op¬ened her doors on October 1, 1892.That afternoon football candi¬dates reported for practice. Therewere not enough to form an elevenbut eventually be got a team. Promthat day until my retirement be¬came effective on June 30, 1933,'the athletic activities were con¬tinuously under my supervision.•From the beginning PresidentHarper enthusiastically supportedand encouraged the developmentof athletic teams. As a result, theUniversity of Chicago pioneered Amos Alonzo Stoggathletically as well as in the fieldof education.The following are some of thepioneering activities of the ath¬letic department:After the football season of 1894,the University football team, inits third season, made a trip toCalifornia during the Christmasholidays to play Stanford Univer¬sity in San Francisco. The gamewas won by Chicago, 24 to 6.Pour years later the Universityfootball team invaded the East,then the football stronghold ofthe country, losing to the Univer¬sity of Pennsylvania at Philadel¬phia,-11 to 23.The following year, 1899, Chi¬ cago’s greatest football team olthe last century defeated Cornelland Brown, each 17 to 6, and tiedwith Pennsylvania, 5 to 5. All thesegames were played in Chicago.In 1898 the University furnishedthe winning one mile relay teamat the Penn Relays.During the summer of 1900, theUniversity sent a five-man trackteam to the Olympic Games inParis. To finance this trip, thedirector borrowed $2,000 from theHyde Park bank and PresidentW. R. Harper and Secretary T. W.Goodspeed went on the note withhim.In 1902, the director started theUniversity of Chicago NationalInterscholas^lic Track and FieldMeet, which continued throughouthis administration, in which, onsome occasions, competitors fromover 30 states were entered.In 1910 the director arrangedfor the trip of the baseball teamto Japan to play Waseda Univer¬sity, with return games with Wa¬seda in Chicago the followingyear. Pitcher “Pat” Page servedas coach. Additional trips werearranged for 1915, 1920, 1925, and1930.In 1917 a National Interscho¬lastic Basketball Tournament wasorganized and conducted by theathletic department. It proved agreat success and enlisted the in¬terest and support of the cham¬pionship teams of many. states.Starting in the other century,the University pioneered with theUniversity of Chicago Interscho¬lastic Tennis Tournament.Thus from the beginning theUnivMrsity was on its toes athlet¬ically and well m educationally*Mfy 14, 1948 THE CHICAGO MAROON Page 3 AFrats and ClubsPresident Ernest Colwell, withpeans John Bergstraesser, Robertgtrozier and Robert Woellner metMonday to hear a report fromInterfraternity Council presidentNicholas Melas on the state ofthe fraternity system on this cam¬pus.Following Melas’ statement thatthe fraternities had shown a suc¬cessful adjustment to the new di¬visional rulings, President Colwellexpressed pleasure that “the fra¬ternities have come through theirfirst year under the new rulingsin good health.”The report from the I-P Coun¬cil was given in conjunction withthe new I-F policy committee, rep¬resented at the meeting by JimRatcliffe, Lucas Clarkston, A1Sachs, Dick Gibbs and Jim Bar¬nett.Melas also reported on the meet¬ing held a week earlier at IdaNoyes, during which representa¬tives of all campus fraternities, aswell as members of the InterclubCouncil met to formulate futurepolicies.Z.B.T. porty“Mountain Moonshines” will bethe theme of Z.B.T.’s final houseparty of the spring quarter, an¬nounced Jerry Reavan and hissocial Committee. The party, to beheld in the chapter house, will befor house members only and theirquests. Tou Sig formdlTau Sigma Upsilon’s annualspring formal, “May Mood,” willbe held in Ida Noyes tomorrowevening to the music of LewBrownie and his orchestra.sales beginon Cancer danceBids for the star-studded Can¬cer Benefit Dance on May 28 willopen on a campus - wide basisMonday, with ticket sales beingconducted in the Student UnionOffice in Ida Noyes, in MandelCorridor, in fraternities, Ida NoyesLobby, and the men’s dormitories.The dance, “The Collegiate An¬swer to Conquer Cancer,” Is beingheld at the Chicago Arena. Bidsare $3.80 a couple, and the affairis informal, A U. of C. ticket hold¬er whose bid bears a lucky num¬ber will be given an expensive goldwristwatch for his date. The draw¬ing will be announced In a fewdays, and the winner will be pub¬lished in the MAROON.Entertainers for the dance arebeing* constantly added. The listnow stands at Irv Kucinet, I^as-ter of Ceremonies; Jane Powell;Jan Sterling, star of “John LovesMary”; Louis Jordan (substitutingfor Herbie Fields; Eddie Condon,and the King Cole Trio. Ray Mc¬Kinley’s orchestra will be featured.A large number of top-notch starsnot yet announced will be report¬ed shortly. So sorry...The MAROON regrets run¬ning of an inaccurate story lastweek concerning the reportedadmission of James Coleman, aNegro, to the University’s med¬ical school.No such person has applied,said Dean Mullin of the Bio¬logical Sciences Division. Thetraditionally “reliable” sourceproved to be a bit misinformed.SU Music Dept,plans new seriesThe Student Union Music De¬partment has taken over the noonhour concerts in Social Science122, Lenny Pearson, chairman ofthe Music Department, has an¬nounced. Students wishing to helpplan and present these programsthis summer should leave theirnames in the Student Union Of¬fice.A two day bike trip is plannedby the Student Outing Depart¬ment this weekend. The group willmeet at Ida Noyes Hall at 8:30a.m. on Saturday morning. Thoseinterested in the trip can gainmore information and sign up inthe Student Union Office.'The Course Critiques and theMusic Concerts for next weekhave been cancelled because of ap¬proaching comps. Trackmen take finale;baseball team losesBy HAROLD R. HARDINGAn overwhelming 85-46 win over DePauw Universityof Greencastle, Indiana, marked the home debut, andfinale, of the U. of C. varsity track team last Saturday.Johnny Adams, Herb Rothenberg, and Marc Goff weredouble winners for the Maroons—Adams in the mile andtwo-mile runs, Rothenberg in the 220 and quarter-mile,and Goff in the high jump and 120-yard high hurdles.Western Reserve proved to berather ungracious hosts as theirbaseball squad trounced our Ma¬roon nine last Saturday, 9-4. TopMaroon hitters were Freeark. with4 for 5, and Donahue, who con-nected twice in four attempts.Gerhardt Schroth, Director of The varsity tennis squad was anChapel Mu.sic, has been offered easy victor in a match with Iowathe position as conductor of the University at Iowa City last Mon-St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra. Only U. of C. loser was theHe will leave the University at the doubles combine of Landwehr andend of the Summer Quarter for Gruhn, as the Maroons wonhis new position. handily, 8-1.Mr. Schroth has been a prom- The “B” tennis team, in theinent figure in music on this cam- meantime, defeated George Wil-pus for the past three and one- b^nis College, 8-0.Divot diggers win firstThe first win of* the varity golfSchroth quits Chapelto conduct St .Louishalf years. He has directed theChapel Choir for the ChristmasPageants and many other special season was chalked up Saturdayservices, as well as the regular morning last, as North CentralSunday morning services. Each fell to the U. of C. golfers, 13-11.year he directs the Kraft Chorus The Maroons reverted to theirin a broadcast on the Kraft Music losing ways in the afternoon, how-Hall over station WMAQ. ever, as Lake Forest beat our divotdiggers for the second time thisKoller represents UC ^ _EBB II c troekiters fight wcoth*rot ERP college rorMm xhe Junior Varsity trackstersSymptomatic of the widespread fought wind, rain, and a decidedlycontroversey that has arrisen over hostile Lady Luck at Kankakee forthe aims and probable outcome of the State District meet last wek.the European Recovery Program Dick Calisch, Alan Gordon, andwas the recent College Forum on Glerin Hesseltine qualified for theERP. state meet as the JV’s placed sixth,Delegates from Universities and ‘hough only nine points from theColleges all over the country met...because it's slow-aged! IV tennis teom undefeotedThe Junior Varsity racqueteerscontinued their well - established, victory streak as they edged by^presenting the Universtiy of Harvard, 3-2, for their fifth win.Con cord io profits by JV errorsThe JV baseball squad fell to awide-awake, well-knit Concordianine by a score of 8-1. The in¬experienced JV’s were plagued by,, errors, which Concordia exploitedThe creative Writing Club, will fullest.Intramural softboll thwartedIntramural softball, majorin New York to consider the issues,under th esponsorship of Made¬moiselle Magazine.Representing th<Chicago was Alice Koller, of theCollege.Creatire writing clubwill present HimesThe creative Writiipresent Chester Himes, novelist,author of “Lonely Crusade” Al¬fred A. Knopf Inc.) and “If He spring pastime in College House,Hollers, Let Him Go,” (Doubeday) Fraternity, and Independent com¬at Mandel Hall Tuesday evening, petition, has been somewhatIn this event this campus organi- thwarted by cancellations due tozation has the co-operation of the the heavy, never - ceasing rainsCreative Writing Forum of Park- which have deluged the ball fieldsway Community House. during the past two weeks. Col-Horace C a y t o n, writer and leader in the rathersociologist, who is director of ^hedule to dato is Mat¬thews House with a 4-0 record.Fraternity play finds Psi U., Alphaas James Gray, teacher of crea-Vu.. TT -t.* for University Avenue leader-Parkway Community House, willappear on this program as welltive writing in the Humanities Di¬ ship, while Phi Psi and D. U. are^sioti and literary editor of the both undefeated to lead the Wood-Chicago Dally News, ^d Kelsey iaw„ Avenue division. The EuhasGuUfwle, assistant editor ot Chi- top the Independents with an un-cago Tribune magazine of Books, marred 3-0 record.Balabanoff talks to SocialistsAngelica Balabanoff, first sec¬retary of the Third International,author of “My Life sis a -Rebel”and participant in the recent Sar-agat-Matteoti split in the ItalianSocialist party, will speak beforethe Socialist Club Thursday, May20, at 3:30 p.m. in Rosenwald 2.The topic of the talk will be the“Italian Scene, or an Answer toTruman and Stalin.”WANT ADSRuppert KnicJterDocKer Beer and Ruppert Ale, Jacob Ruppert, New York City—1948NewYoridi Famous Beer TWO BICYCLES, girl’s and boy’s. Sch¬winn 1947 New World, handbrakes. ^0for botJi, $45 apiece. Call Plaza 4860after 6 p.m.DRIVING LOS ANGELES June 13th de¬sire two sharing passengers. References.S. Power, Tuxedo, N. Y.TYPING—For expert work and rapidservice call Butterfield 6990.WATCH REPAIRING for students.Prompt, honest work, guaranteed, byU, of C. student. Jim Boyack, 5748Klmbark, afternoons.WOMAN DRIVING tO Boston. May 19th,wishes young man to share driving.Ref. Call between 7 and 8 p.m. Superior8200.ROOMS. Converted high garde apart¬ment building for male students only.Near campus, Hyde Park 3060,SEWING, MENDING, reasonable. HydePark 5976.BRAND-NEW LADIES' JODPHURS andriding shoes, size 6'/a* Reasonable SOU, Monsoon stymies intromurol tennisIntramural tennis play in thefraternity bracket has also beensomewhat stymied by the mon¬soon season. Alpha Delta Phi, withtwo victories and no defeats, leadsthe University Avenue inhabitants,while Delta Upsilon and Zeta BetaTau hold the Woodlawn Avenueleadership.Coming events on MidwoyComing events in sports on theMidway:The varsity baseball team meetsMillikin on Friday, Illinois Nor¬mal on Saturday, and Illinois Techon Tuesday in Stagg Field at 2:30.The • varsity tennis squad playsMarquette University on the var¬sity courts at 58th and University.DeKalb will face the varsitygolfers tomorrow afternoon atCoghill Country Club.Junior Varsity competition willsee the JV baseball squad faceLatin on their field, while the JVtennis team will entertain thePrivate School League annualtourney on the courts at 60th andKimbark.UT announces summer plansThe University Theatre will pre¬sent two plays during the summerquarter. The first will be the prizeplay Leaf and Bough. The secondwill be T. S. Elliot’s Murder in theCathedral. Murder will be repeatedin the autumn quarter.Pa9« 4 A THE CHICAQO MAROON Friday, Moy 14,MiV€tf«!fi whatever the time...the place is Field’s for all-time#young-time campus fashions• ••it’s five on yourfavorite eampus eloekTeatime as Cobb Hall clock sounds off wltbfive big bongsJ Time for ladylike finery*that matches the daintiness of a petit-four••.time for tea dances and faculty get-togethers with students. A relaxing timeof the day...with you and spring dressedin bright and breeey fashion!• ••it’s timeon our famous Field’s eloekto slip into silk shantung.•.especiallywhen it*s tucked and tied in such a lady^like manner. Skirt is gently flared...,waist is deliberately nipped to giveyou a reed-slim line. See it in emeraldj,peacock or caraimel^ sizes 10 to i6y$35—Ml'sses* Dresses—Sixth Floor,South, State...natural straw hat, $7.95Moderately Priced Millinery —Fifth Floor, Middle, StateHickoryN ,HickoryDock