<<*Qniratii of CfiicajojmpintVOL. XXI NUMBER 4FEBRUARY, 1929PAGgTue Temple of the Two Lintels— Paul S. Martin i6gOur Federal Constitution — Harry F. Atwood 175Sojourn on a Summit II-III — Henry Justin Smith 181The Alumni Honor Scholars — Walter A. Payne 191John Merle Coulter, An Appreciation — Charles J. Chamberlain. . . 193The New Trustees The Coulter Research FellowshipA Medicai Center for Children The University BandEugene O'Neili.'s, Strange Interlude — Fred B. Milieu 201Athletics — News of the University and the Quadrangles — Books— Alumni Affairs —Personal NotesKBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI COUNCIDomestic DiscordBy Ernest R. MowrerMr. Mowrer proposes a new adhesive for the broken home — anintelligent application of what he calls "social therapy." He dealsfrankly and scientifically with domestic discord — cne of the majorsocial problems of American life. $3.00The Ghetto o The StrikeBy Louis WirthThe modem Jevv is emerging from the his-toric isolation of the ghetto to hold ananomalous position. In his fair but sym-pathetic interpretation of the long history ofthe ghetto Mr. Wirth explains why the Jew-ish character could not be otherwise — whythe Jew, as is so often said, is what his history has made him. $3.00The Gold Coastand the SlumBy Harvey W. ZorbaughMr. Zorbaugh has painted a vivid, realisticpicture of the Babel within the shadow of theskyscraper, within sound of the rumble of theloop — Chicago's Near North Side. He de-scribés and interprets the conglomerate massthat is the modem city and adds a new chap-ter to its literature. $3.00 By E. T. Hillertf Human nature as it appears in industriaiconflicts is the theme of this nitural histeryof the strike — a form of coercion peculiar tomodem industriai organization. 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Martin has spent thepast two sumera in archeo-logical researchwork, in the land0f the chewinggum, with re-markable results.The detailed account of his dls-coveries is aboutto be published bythe Carnegie In-stitution, but hehas found time toprovide the read-ers of the Maga-line with an intimate story of hisWork that will Harry T.prove an appe-tizer for the more complete and scientificreport soon to appear in book form.Fifteen years ago Harry F. Atwood, aChicago lawyer and an alumnus of theUniversity, gave up his active practice todevote his time to a study of the Consti-tution and to the espousal of representativegovernment. Today he is widely recog-nized as an outstanding authority on theFederai Constitution and as a specialist in thescience of government. 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Martin '23Curator, Colorado State MuseumYUCATAN— for me, that word con-notates a land far away, of greatruins, of mystery, even more so thanIndia; for India is easily reached, isswamped with English Officials and ismuch written about. Yucatan is the land ofthe chewing gum, that is true, but is difficultto visit and has been little described exceptin a few monographs.For two seasons, I have had the goodfortune to be an archaeologist attached tothe field staff of the Chichen-Itzà project,sponsored by Carnegie Institution of Washington. Chichen-Itzà is one of the largestruined cities of Yucatan and is a veritablegold mine for archaeological information;for in this city the student is able to tracewith no difficulty the intermingling of twocultures or civilizations. Here for the pastrive years Carnegie Institution, under theable direction of Dr. S. G. Morley, hastransformed mere heaps and mounds of dirtand stone into white glistening temples.To reach Yucatan, a thumb like penin-sula projecting into the Gulf of Mexico,one must take steamer from New Orleans or New York. The one port is Progresso,altho "progress" in that place is unknown.Upon arrivai, if the port officials are in agood humor, and if it is not a holiday, ofwhich there are many, one is able to land,to board a train, pulled by a wood-burninglocomotive of the 1860 type, and to arrive,one hour later, in Merida, the capital.Merida is a lovely city, clean, quiet, orderly,well laid out and very interesting to explore.The journey to the ruins is accomplishedafter fìve hours of riding in uncomfortablecoaches and then a forty minute drive in anauto.When one is yet a quarter of a milefrom Chichen-Itza one turns a sharp corner and sees quite unexpectedly the Castillo,a beautiful building on top of a pyramidninety feet high. (See picture) The Mex-ican Government is gradually restoring thismassive structure, a Herculean task, indeed,for most of the well-cut, faced stones, whichhad composed the outside of the pyramid,have been carried away to be incorporatedin fences, churches, houses, stock pens,water troughs, and what not.169170 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEJust beyond one sees from the road theTempie of the Warriors, just completedlast year under the direction of Mr. EarlH. Morris. It stands out white and mag-nifìcent, with its pyramid of three terracesand its many sculptur^d columns.Arrived at the casa principal, we quicklypile out of the old Dodge truck and receivemany embraces and warm greetings fromour Mayan and Spanish friends.Staff quarters are comfortable indeed, forwe bachelors have in our house electriclights, showers and excellent beds. Every-one eats at the same time in a long room,which has been converted into a diningroom. Almost ali of our food has to beshipped in from New Orleans. Fresh meatswe do without, for native pork is apt to bevery unclean and cattle are so scarce andso poorly fed, that no one wants to eatbeef, if one could. Therefore, for meats, we are obliged to eat wild turkey, whichabound, deer, chicken, wild pig and tifaiquintli, a rat-like rodent, which attains th»size of a dog and is quite delectable. WhenI say that I craved beefsteaks, chops, an<fice cream, most people laugh at me, anistate that they wish they might have hai'turkey and deer so often. However thffact is that we ali tired of game and werfrvery happy to return to the States and eafgood food. Of course, wines are lackitjé(?) in this country, but stili .Yucatan is a peculiar spot. It is of arecent limestone formation and possessettvery little soil, and that is very sterile!Paradoxical as it may seem, during thtrrainy season, the vegetation is dense andluxurious and grows very fast. During thfcdry season at which time we worked, theleaves fall and the brush presents a sorryiappearance.On Our Way To The RuinsTraveling in style in the land of the chevnng gumTHE TEMPLE OF THE TWO LINTELS 17"Rivers there are none, with one or twoexceptions. The limestorie is so porousthat water seeps thru very quickly. Thereexist, however, curious, unique undergroundlakes, called "cenotes," which have no sur-face outlets. These lakes are generallyeighty feet below the surface of the groundand measure sometimes two hundred feetin diameter and are very deep. They forma naturai water table under the entire pen-insula, and are weird places, especially ifone swims in one at night. Chichen hadtwo of these cenotes; indeed it was fromthem that it takes its name, for Chi-Chen-Itzà means, "mouths of the wells of theItzà family." One was sacred and the otherused for the city water supply. Into thesacred cenote, maidens were thrown as sac-rifìces, as well as gold ornaments, jade fìg-urines and beautiful knives.It was great fun to go walking andhunting with the natives. I remember oneday, ambling along a narrow jungle path,thinking about nothing in particular ex-cept the heat, when, suddenly my nativeboy who was accompanying me, stoppedme. He motioned to be quiet but to lookoverhead and there, lo and behold, was ahuge, grass-green boa constrictor slitheringalong, now pausing to dart its wicked head,here, there and yon, seeking for what everit might devour. I was at first paralyzed,to see this huge twelve foot reptile, glidingso quietly, right over my head, bridgingsometimes, a gap of eight or ten feet be-tween trees, with great ease. Later,"Marty" my boy, and I threw stones andThe Gateway Of Our HaciendaStaff headquarters are comfortable indeed sticks at it, in an effort to make it fall, butno luck. It soon disappeared, but left meshaking. There are many legends aboutthis kind of snake. The natives cali it,"chai eel," green threads, because it seemsto sew its way thru the tree tops.Another day, I was exploring the brushfor new temples, in company with the sameassistant. He, as usuai, was ahead of me,breaking a path in the dense, impenetrablebush. I followed, slowly, now and thenpicking off the much dreaded "garrapata"or tropical tick, when I just chanced to lookdown and directly in front of me saw coileda huge rattle snake. At the same moment,Marty happened to see this danger andyelled at me. I think that I fell over back-wards; I don't clearly remember. Thenext thing that I knew, however, was thatMarty was slowly and painstakingly sharp-ening a stick. When it seemed pointedenough, he strode towards the still-coiledsnake, and with one deft, true blow plungedit thru its head and pinned it to the ground.When stretched out, this reptile measureda f raction over thirteen feet !My work was confìned to the excavationand restoration of a small tempie of classicMaya architecture. To reach the sceneof my work, I traversed, twice a day, awinding path, both sides of which werehemmed in by the omnipresent jungle.There were, however, fragrant flowers ofali varieties, using the taller trees as step-ladders to the sun, and filling the air withheavy perfumes. Orchids of ali colorsabounded.The CastilloDown these steps the victims of sacrifice werekicked172 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE"My" tempie (named the "Tempie ofthe Two Lintels" because when we firsthad to go to press on it, only two had turnedup) was an oblong structure, fifty feet byfìfteen, having three separate, unconnectedrooms, with doorways ali to the north.When I first saw the building it was averitable ruin, for ali the roof had fallen,and the entire front, as well. In the rear,very happily, stood one small bit of thefacade, intact, and large enough to give onea complete vertical section. It was thisbit, which had resisted the decay of cen-turies, that gave me the key for fitting to-gether the fallen parts of the facades.My first winter was spent in excavatingthe débris, which had accumulated in andaround the tempie for over one thousandyears. This may sound like nothing at ali,but when I explain that the roof of thetempie had been a corbelled vault and hadbeen constructed out of tons of material,then it may not sound like such an easytask; for a corbelled vault, unlike a truearch, carries with it the seeds of its owndestruction ; and when roots and rains begintheir uninterrupted work of decay the wholemass falls in with a bang. Therefore therooms were choked to the height of eightfeet with débris.One of the greatest surprises to everyone was the finding of two hieroglyphiclintels, for no one dreamed that this building would yield such treasures. It mightbe well to explain that hieroglyphs are notvery common, and whenever they occurthere is much rejoicing. I remember soThe CaracolThe astronomical observatory of the ancientMayas well the day those lintels carne to light.For several days I had been fighting offmalaria, the dreaded disease of the tropics,and on this particular day, I was burningup with fever and felt worse than I everhad before. I lay curled up in a wheel-barrow, wishing I were anywhere but inthe tropics. We were short handed then,because most of my men had been detailedby their village to track down a murderer.Suddenly, one of my men carne running tome bursting with excitement. He told mepartly in Maya and partly in Spanish thatthey had found a stone with many draw-ings on it. I roused myself and stumbledover to where they were working and,surely enough, there was a lintel, with tworows of perfectly outlined and preservedglyphs. I felt better immediately. I senta runner at once to teli Dr. Morley,who returned in post-haste and immediatelycopied the glyphs to see if any could be de-ciphered. Meanwhile, I turned my atten-tion to the matter of finding the otherlintels.Due to the peculiarities of the Mayasystem of notation and to the absence of an"introductory" glyph, it was not possibleto place an absolute date on this tempie.It is just as if we were to find an old building in Europe with '27 on the cornerstone.We could not be sure whether it were 1927,1727, or 1527; but by using other evidenceat hand we might be able to guess, fairlyclosely, the century in which it was erected.That is precisely what we did. We madecomparative studies in architecture of build-The Red HouseA remarkable example of Mayan architectureTHE TEMPLE OF THE TWO LINTELS i73ings of known dates. This research,coupled with the known facts of Chichen-Itza History enabled us to put two possibledates on this tempie ; namely A. D. 762 orA. D. 1014-Two lintels were ali that we found thatseason, for the one belonging to the middleroom did not put in an appearance. It waswith dissatisfaction that I was compelledto give up the hunt for it, for without moresearch I should never be sure whether thelintel had been of wood and thereforerotted away, or of stone and had been stolenin later times. It seemed utterly impossibleto find it, but I resolved to institute a thorosearch for it at the commencement of thesucceeding season.This I did, with the following results.A great deal of bush had sprung up aliaround the tempie during the rainy season.I proposed to have ali the new growth cutdown as well as a good deal of virgin bushin order to make a really thoro hunt forthe missing lintel. Bushing had proceededfor five days and stili nothing had turnedup. I could not afford to have this kind ofwork carried on indefinitely, since my re-sources were limited. I determined, therefore, that if nothing turned up by Saturday noon, the bushing would have to be dis-continued and the lintel would have to godown on the "never found" list of thearchasologist.Saturday morning, while I was drawingsome plans, it began to rain and my work-men retreated into the bush eight or ten feet,in order to gain the dryer places. Whilestanding there, Marty quite by chance hap-pened to look down and to espy, thru theleaves and moss, a piece of stone with"drawings" upon it. He called to me say-ing what he had found. I rushed out atonce, but was disappointed for in the poorlight I could make out no glyphs. ButMarty insisted that he was right, and whenhe carried the stone out into the light of theclearing, I saw at once that he was right.We tore back again to the same spot, andliterally left no stone unturned in orderto find the missing "links." We wereduly rewarded, for the other pieces turnedup. To make a long, tho romantic storyshort, this lintel, hearing glyphs hadevidently been stolen from the tempie insubsequent times and had been convertedinto metates or corn-grinding stones. Therewas just one chance in a thousand of everfinding this lintel, and had not my work-The Temple as the Author Found ItCovered with the débris of more than a thousand years174 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEman had keen eyes and an understanding ofwhat I wished to find, the mystery of themissing lintel would yet be unsolved. Imight say that few of us archaeologistsoften have such good luck.It was with mixed emotions that I tookleave of the friendly Maya Indians, myworkmen, Yucatan with its soft climateand "my" tempie, on which I spent so muchtime and for which I have so much affec- tion. The Tempie of the Two Lintels unow restored to much of its former beavateand dignity, without so much as using jsingle stone, other than the originals, whichwe excavated, and stands as a unique monu-ment to the greatest, autochtonous cultureand most intellectual Indian race that tbjAmericas have ever seen. The MexicanGovernment will keep the building bushelso that the tropical jungle may not agaàidevour it.The Iglesia, or ChurchA Beautiful Restoration Los MangosA Mayan Nunnery*'J» i**T™ \ 1 ^JL^"«Mte, ¦"-¦1l#£ |•!fllMJ! * -* 1 ':'¦ Il «ilBBMa^. Hi^H^HI^^HHHMHH ¦tfflHH^^^^HCourt on a Winter's NightOur Federai ConstitutionBy Harry F. Atwood, '98Presidentj Constitution Educational AssociationOUR Constitution is generally regardedas the most valuable contribution thathas been made to politicai science in theannals of government. Under its benef-icent influence we have made orderly progress unparalleled in history until we havebecome the leading nation of the world.September 17, 1929, will mark the I42ndanniversary of the completion and signing ofthe Constitution. It is now the oldestwritten constitution stili functioning in theworld.Notwithstanding the tremendous increasein population and territory and the epochalchanges which our country has undergone— including the shock of the Civil War— this historic document, marvelous in itsbrevity and simplicity, lives on flt for itstasks today.In his Farewell Address, Washington ex*pressed the hope:"That the Constitution may be sacredly main-tained — that the happiness of the people of thesestates may be made complete by so careful apreservation, and so prudent a use of this bless-ing, as will acquire to them the glory of rec-oramending it to the applause, the affection andadoption of every nation."Washington delivered that historic ad-dress on September 17, 1796, nearly sixmonths before the expiration of his secondterm as President, in order that he mightmake it in observance of the ninth anniversary of the signing of the Constitution.In his First Inaugurai Address, Lincolnsaid :"Continue to execute ali the express provisionsof our national Constitution, and the Union willendure forever, it being impossible to destroy|t except by some action not provided for in theinstrument itself."Need for Better UnderstandingNothwithstanding the virai importance ofthe Constitution to our well being as a natoti, comparatively few know much aboutrts wise provisions. h: ^! Our public schools were established dec-ades ago for the primary purpose of devel-oping an intelligent citizenship; and, yet,in a public address delivered at Washington, D. C, in October, 1924, Dr. John J.Tigert, then United States Commissioner ofEducation, and now President of the University of Florida, said:"I do not believe there are more than a verylimited number of persons, perhaps a hundred,who really know what is in the Constitution ofthe United States."We naturally look to lawyers for a soundunderstanding of the Constitution ; and yet,the report of the Committee on AmericanCitizenship, presented at the annual meetingof the American Bar Association, Denver,Colorado, July 14-16, 1926, contained thefollowing remarkable confessioni"Lawyers are being graduated from our lawschools by the thousands who have little knowl-edge of the Constitution. When organizationsseek a lawyer to instruct them on the Constitution they find it nearly impossible to secure onecompetent."These are but two of many similar statement^ which have been made in recent years,revealing not only our neglect of this price-less heritage, so essential to the welfare andperpetuity of American Institutions, butemphasizing forcefully our duty towarda better understanding.Chaotic Conditions Preceding theConstitutionIn order to appreciate the transforminginfluence of the Constitution, it is impor-tant to have clearly in mind the conditionsthat prevailed at the time of its adoption.The earnest people who lived here priorto the writing of the Constitution triedfruitless experiment after fruitless experi-ment and met with continuous failure untilthey were about as much at sea as Russiais today,During the several years immediately pre-175176 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEceding the Constitution, the mobs drove ourCongress from Philadelphia into New Jersey and assaulted the court houses in Massachusetts. Trade was paralyzed, credit waslacking, and discipline was at a low ebb.The situation was so desperate and theproblems were so perplexing that during1785 and 1786 Washington's letters to hisfriends were filled with pathetic expressionsof despair.On October 7, 1785, one year and elevenmonths before the Constitution was adopted,Washington wrote to James Warren :"We are descending into the vale of con-fusion and darkness."On November 5, 1786, about ten monthsbefore the Constitution was adopted, hewrote to James Madison :"No day was ever more clouded than the pres-ent .... We are fast verging to anarchy andconfusion . . . ."He wrote numerous letters in a veinsimilar to the ones from which these briefexcerpts are quoted, describing the condi-tion of confusion, anarchy, and chaos pre-vailing at that time.Such was the situation when the delegatesmet at Philadelphia to frame the Constitution. It took slightly more than four monthsto write it, almost a year to have it ratifledby the states, and another year to set upthe government.The Marvelous TransformationConditions improved so rapidly throughthe beneficent efrect of the Constitutionthat Washington recovered from his de-pression and began writing letters of cheerand hope to his friends.On Jury 19, 1791, less than four yearsafter the Constitution was signed, Washington wrote to Catherine Macaulay Graham:"The United States enjoys a scene of prosper-ity and tranquillity under the new government,that could hardly have been hoped for."On the following day, he wrote to DavidHumphreys :"Our public credit stands on that high groundwhich three years ago it would have been con-sidered as a species of madness to have fore-told." Ali historical evidence of that period con-fìrms the description of conditions as setforth in Washington's letters.That abrupt and wholesome transformation which took place within a period ofsix years through the adoption of the Constitution is the most remarkable occurrence inthe history of government.The Men Who Wrote ItWhen the Convention gathered at Philadelphia in the late spring of 1787, there wasassembled a group of notably superior menfrom the standpoint of mental acumenpoliticai understanding, and moral courage.Their lives had been devoted largely tostudy and thought concerning governmentand to rendering public service. They werepolitically minded in the sense that Edisonand Marconi are electrically minded; thatLindbergh and Chamberlin are aviationminded ; that Socrates and Emerson werephilosophically minded ; that Mozart andMendelssohn were musically minded; thatNewton and Kepler were scientifìcallyminded.Fully aware of the great opportunitywhich confronted them and conscious oftheir mighty responsibility, they undertookthe difEcult task of working out a pian ofgovernment in the same cairn, deliberativeand analytical manner that characterizesthe physician in making a diagnosis, theengineer in making a design, or the scientistin unfolding a law of Nature; and theyworked with consummate skill and crown-ing achievement.Prior to the writing of our Constitution, it had been the custom of mankind toapproach the problems of government interms of protest against existing conditionsand to indulge in superlative assertions asto what they might conceive should be, with-out working out a definite pian.Most of the contents of such documentsas Magna Charta, Bill of Rights, Declar-ation of Independence, età, could be classi-fìed under the two headings — Protest andAssertion; but ali lacked a specifk pian.The men who wrote the Constitution,for the first time in history, approached theOUR FEDERAL CONSTITUTION 177problem of government in terms of pian,purposes, powers, restraints, believing thatif they could devise a pian, dedicate it toright purposes, . vest it with proper powersand curb those powers with well balancedrestraints that the result would be blessingsof liberty and opportunity for a people liv-ing under a government so conceived andso administered.The Constitution of the United Statesis a statement of purpose, f ollowed by a pianfor setting Up and administering a Federairepresentative government in harmony withthe purposes set forth in the Preamble.The supreme test of the Constitution,then, is: Are the purposes to which it isdedicated beneficent, comprehensive, cor-rect, and practical? Is the pian for settingup and administering a Federai representative government in harmony with the purposes set forth in the Preamble well conceived and clearly stated?The test of the advisability of placingan amendment in the Constitution shouldbe: Is it necessary in order to improve thestatement of purposes or to improve thepian?Its PurposeLiterature records no finer statement ofa clear concept of the aims sought and ofthe results desired from an undertakingthan this remarkable pronouncement of thepurposes set forth in the Preamble." We the people of the United States, in orderto form a more perfect Union, establish justice,insure domestic tranquillity, provide for thecommon defense, promote the general welfare,and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselvesand our posterity, do ordain and establish thisConstitution for the United States of America."For some unaccountable reason there hasbeen a disposition not to attach to the Preamble the significance which it possesses.This is unfortunate, because public officialsin administering the government shouldcontinuously ask themselves: Is this lawbeing made or interpreted or enforced inaccordance with one or more of the six purposes set forth in the Preamble? Such atest adhered to would greatly improve thefunctioning of our government.Prior to the writing of this Preamble, there cannot be found a good, brief,, clear,comprehensive statement of the purposes ofgovernment, though one may have access toali that was said by Socrates, Plato, Aris-totle, Confucius, and Montesquieu or alithat had been said by any individuai orgroup of individuate in any country, includ-ing our own, before 1787.This fact is a striking illustration ofwhat a vague science government had beenbefore the Constitution was written. Noteven a good statement of the purposes ofgovernment had been made, to say nothingof providing a good pian for setting up andadministering a government.The PlanAn analysis of the component parts ofthe Constitution is briefly as f ollows :Preamble 1. A statement setting forth the sixpurposes to which the Constitution was dedicated and forwhich it was established.Artide I 2. Provision for setting up aLegislative Department andvesting it with functioningpowers and restraints.3. Restraints upon the nationalgovernment.4. Restraints upon the States.Artide II 5. Provision for setting up an Executive Department and vesting it with functioning powersand restraints.Artide III 6. Provision for setting up a Ju-dicial Department and vestingit with functioning powers andrestraints.7. Definition of treason and provision for punishment therefor.Artide IV 8. Relation of the States to eachother.9. Relation of the Federai Government to States and Ter-ritories.Artide V io. Provision for amending theConstitution zvhene<uer necessary.Artide VI 11. Provision for national debts.12. Provision for the suprem-acy of the Federai Constitution,national laws, and treaties.i3. Provision to pledge ali national and State officers to up-hold the Constitution of theUnited States.14. Ban on religióus test as quali-flcation to public office.Artide VII 15. Method for ratification.i78 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEThe right mental attitude for a clearunderstanding and just appreciation of theConstitution is to regard each one of thefifteen elements set forth in the above out-line as a part of an excellent pian for solvinggovernmental problems; just as each letterof the alphabet is a part of an excellent pianfor solving the problems of language; aseach of the ten digits is a part of an excellent pian for solving the problems ofarithmetic; and as each note in the scaleof music is a part of an excellent pian forsolving the problems of music.The Constitution embodies some re-markably unusual features, which at thetime of its adoption were new to government.Former governments had provided forexecutive, legislative, and judicial depart-ments, but never before had those depart-ments been set up in such a way that eachdepartment would have a large measure ofindependence with means for very efrectiveco-operation between the departments andfurther provision for each department toautomatically serve as a restraint upon theabuse of power by other departments.The balancing restraints, such as the con-currence of both Houses in legislation, theveto power of the President, the judicialreview of legislation, and the concurrenceof the Senate in treaties and appointments,are essential parts of the Constitution andfurnish one of the important reasons whyit has functioned so successfully.The Constitution provides for a per-manent Union of States under a Federaigovernment with provision for additionalStates to enter from time to time but withno provision for States to withdraw fromthe Union, which accounts in large measure for its being the first successful Federaigovernment.Another unique feature of the Constitution was that it set up a dual form ofgovernment, well balanced between the nation and the States, operating directly uponthe people as individuata as well as upon theStates; and this dual form of governmentresulted in a dual citizenship, national andstate. One of the most meritorious features ofthe originai Constitution was that it in-cluded only proper constitutional provisionsand excluded what should be properlystatutory enactments.The Constitution does not specifiy thenumber of members that should constitutethe Legislative Department, nor does itstipulate how many justices should sit onthe Supreme bench, nor how many Federai Courts there should be; nor does itprovide how many officers should be ap-pointed by the President, nor does it fixthe salaries of such officers. Ali such ques-tions were wisely left to be governed bystatute.There has been a good deal of changeand growth and progress in the developmentof our postai department. Yet, the briefclause, "Congress shall have power to establish post-offices and post-roads," has beensufficient to take care of that great field ofactivity. Those few words are ampie asa constitutional provision for the postaisystem.The questions of where post-offices shallbe located, how much they shall cost, whoshall be employed in the postai service, howmuch pay they shall receive, what shall becharged for handling mail, whether mailmatter shall be carried on dirt roads, rail-roads, waterways, or air routes, are ali sub-jects to be governed by statute.The Constitution contains many provisions indicating fine discrimination in theinsertion of what are properly constitutionalprovisions and the omission of what shouldbe properly statutory enactments. An essential characteristic is that a constitutionalprovision should be permanent in its nature,while a statutory provision may be tempo-rary and changeable.In our State constitutions there is toolittle discrimination between what areproperly constitutional provisions and whatare properly statutory enactments, and thisis also true of the constitutions of othercountries.For example, our Federai Constitutionwas written in seven articles of abouttwenty-six sections. The State constitutionOUR FEDERAL CONSTITUTION 1790f Oklahoma contains twenty-four articles,and there are sixty sections in one article —more sections in one article of the Oklahoma State constitution than in the entireFederai Constitution.Many well meaning people are constantlyproposing ill-advised amendments to theConstitution, when the questions which theyhave in mind could be dealt with moresatisfactorily by statute.A RepublicOne of the outstanding features and chiefmerits of the Federai Constitution is thatit provides for a strictly representative formof national government, and in Article IV,Section 4, guarantees a representative formof government to each of the States.The authors of the Constitution under-stood clearly the meaning and importance ofthe law of the golden mean and applied iteffectively to the science of government.They sought to avoid the extreme of au-tocracy (hereditary government) and theopposite extreme of democracy (governmentby direct action) and to set up a distinctiverepresentative government, which theycalled a Republic.For more than a century not only thenation at large but the states also adheredclosely to the convention pian of namingcandidates for office and entrusted the making, interpreting, and enforcing of the lawsto chosen representatives. Under the representative method of procedure, we madeorderly progress unequalled in the historyof government.Toward the latter part of the last century, agitation became insistent for lawsproviding for direct primaries, the initiative,the referendum, and the recali, and manyof the states have enacted legislation estab-lishing such methods of direct action.As a result of these unwise departuresfrom the pian of the Constitution, the cost of government has risen to staggering pro-portions, reflected in increasing taxes; andmany feel that there has been a steady decline in the ability and character of ourpublic officials, a graduai substitution ofdemagogues for statesmen.The Closing SceneWhen the Convention had finished itslabors and the Constitution was ready forsignatures, some of the delegates were hes-itant about signing.Franklin, who at eighty-one years of agehad been a regular attendant at the sessions,was anxious, because of the objections thatwere being made and because he felt sostrongly that the Constitution should begiven a trial ; and, when a sufficient numberhad signed to make possible its submissionfor ratification, his old, worried, wrinkledface broke into a smile, and he said :"Often and often, in the course of the sessionsof this convention, and the vicissitudes of myhopes and fears as to its issue, I have lookedat that painted sun back of Washington andwondered what it meant. They teli me that an.artist has great difficulty in making a distinctionbetween a rising and a setting sun, but now atlength I have the happiness to know that it isa rising and not a setting sun."Truly it was a rising sun, destined tobecome the brightest and grandest sun inthe galaxy of nations. It has radiated therays of light and hope and progress over alithe world. It has been a boon in the pastand will be a blessing in the future if webut preserve it and pass it on unimpaired.Edmund Burke once said:"Civilization is a contract between thegreat dead, the living, and the unborn."The great dead kept their contract faith-fully with us and bequeathed tó us a mightyheritage. It is for this generation to answerthe question: Are we keeping our contractwith the unborn as faithfully as the greatdead kept theirs with us?Sojourn on a SummitBy Henry Justin Smith, '98IIIN a short time, as short as could beexpected, the castle-like shapes beganto seem less tremendous, the passage-ways more intimate, the mental labyrinthsless puzzling. Personalities, vague andsomber at first, grew distinct, friendly.Many an oaken door, seeming closed foralways, opened itself, and proved to behiding, not a magician nor an ogre, but a"good fellow." The fancy that these weresupermen, not only immuréd to the "highaltitudes," but disdainful of the lower, lostground. With the fading went the notionthat professors, no matter how ancient, weremostly a captious, repressive, and gloomylot. The Lowlander met even men who had"flunked" him when a student, whomhe had remembered as Holy Terrors ; theyeither welcomed him with a smile, or remembered him not at ali. The smile wasgenuine. It was almost universal. It wasthe real sunlight of the Summit.While learning this, the Lowlander ac-quired other f ragments of information.He learned that a university was not thesame as a college ; that the undergraduates,of whose accomplishments or whose gaudyactivities the public knew so much, stoodlow in the scale of importance. At thetop of it stood a thing called Research.He learned, on the other hand, that manyof the finest houses in the neighborhood be-longed, not to professors, but to frater-nities. Also he was assured that it wasrare to find a faculty member driving ahandsome car. It was more common tofind a student driving one.He heard testimony, reliable too, thatthe wives of many of the professors visitedevery morning, armed with baskets, thefish stalls or chain stores in the shabbyshopping Street" near the quadrangles.He discovered that no standard of fashionruled "university circles.,, Individuality,even eccentricity, was the note. Rank and income could not be inferred from hatsor greatcoats. And yet, the wearing ofdinner coats to small social functions seemedto be expected.The Lowlander was solemnly warnedthat, in this assemblage of learned men,each assumed to have won at least a Ph.D.,the address, "Doctor," must be avoided.And since so many faculty men hated to becalled "professor," there was nothing leftbut to cali them "Mister." This wasenough, even in the case of the President.The man from a lower world, the worldof publicity and braggadocio, found it wasuseless to mention what he had written,because everyone else had written so muchmore. He learned that it was inept toopen upon a famous man with "Fve beenreading about your great work;" but it wasequally awkward not to know anythingabout what that man had done.It became clear that, among the mostdistinguished summiteers, the assumptionthat each was as great as the other was socomplete that the simplest forms of address, the use of first names and even nick-names, the use of playful insults and subtlechallenges, were etiquette But it was alsoetiquette for the Lowlander not to attemptthem.It was revealed that, very often, mindsfor days at a time chained to problemsbecame' wearied; and that then, in commonwith everyman, those profound thinkersor mighty mechanicians would yearn forplay. They would play madly, desperately,and often without skill. Nor could theybe safely interrupted or crossed duringtheir recreation. It was just as dangerousto rob a great philologist of a nice volleyat the net, just as criminal to trump theace of a Nobel prize winner, as to do thesethings to a member of the CommercialClub.Many matters, trivial yet important, the182 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINELowlander learned while lunching at whatwas called "the round table" in The Club.2.Now The Club was the rendezvous ofthe faculty, the retreat from students' ques-tions, the forum of chance debate, the realcenter of everything.It was a simple structure of reddish stonewhich stood across the Street from thechapel, just off the quadrangles, and atthe feet of the bell-tower. Hither the professors would be seen flocking for lunch atthe same moment when the students gath-ered for their religious nooning. No ironyabout this! Probably the professors wouldhave been glad to go to chapel; but ithappened to be their time for lunch. Andsome of them, doubtless those who hadgot up for eight o'clock lectures, wereusually waiting eagerly before the doublédoors of the dining-room ere ever the chimessignalled twelve o'clock.As the doors swung open, there wouldbe competition for places at "the roundtable," which stood in a sunny bay; therewould be eight fortunate professors for theeight chairs — and eight tongues would beginto work.Let us suppose that the "round tablers"are a geologist, a theologian, a botanist,a physiologist, an orientalist, an astrono-mer, an economist, and the Lowlander.They have sunk into their seats with sighsof comfort. Ali morning these seven menhave been driving heavy spikes of knowledgeinto stubborn skulls, and they are tired.They have had other worries, such as ob-taining new laboratory specimens from thepurchasing agent, or demanding better provision for their departments in the generalbudget.Most of these lunchers are, in othersettings, formidable, conscious of their dis-tinction. They can wear more letters aftertheir names than a British admiral. Butat this hour they are relaxed; they are,so to speak, in mental shirt-sleeves. Itmay be remarked also that their costumesare of informai, even slightly damaged, ap-pearance. Ali except that of the geologist, who is arrayed as though for afternoontea. This excites comment.The botanist (eyeing the geologist).—,"Ahem . . . Speech, I suppose."The theologian. — "Woman's club speechjudging by . . . ."The astronomer. — "He's going to giVehis stock lecture ; the one weVe ali heard."(At this point cups of soup are laidbefore each man. In this deliberate academ-ic world there is one thing that is promptand also Constant — the club soup.)The geologist. — "I understand that anassociate professor is being added to theastronomy department, so that there'll bemore than one speech in its repertoire."The botanist.— "It has only one suit ofclothes per man, right now."Laughter ; then a pause. The theologiannow remarks: "Well, I saw a great warplay last night. Full of trench fever andtrench language."The bacteriologist. — "And were youshocked?"The physiologist. — "Nonsense! Theword 'Danni' is a regular class-room wordin the divinity school."The geologist. — "I've seen that play. Isaw it in the east, when I attended the Con-ference for Ascertaining Fundamental Con-cepts of Education."Smiles One of the younger men. — "The newDoug Fairbanks film is pretty good."The botanist, the bacteriologist, and thetheologian. — "Great !"The physiologist. — "I can't figure outhow he manages those flying leaps."The Lowlander. — "Faked, probably."The theologian. — "Oh, they can't be. Ishould say that ..." There is livelyargument, during which various orders arebrought; eggs, ham sandwiches, lamb stew,and other things. The conversation some-how is diverted to a new university regula-tion about credits, but, stili more mysteri-ously, is switched to the remote subject ofprohibition.The Lowlander (to the physiologist)"What do you think of it, doctor?"Ali wince at the word, "doctor."SOJOURN ON A SUMMIT 183The physiologist (recovering) : "Thereis no solution for the liquor question exceptin experiment."The theologian (glancing toward theorientalist) : "The ancients had no trouble."The orientalist. — "No; they got drunk— and I mean drunk — early and often.The gods did it too."The botanist (slyly indicating the physiologist) : "Same with his gods."The physiologist fumbles for a retort,but finds none.The Lowlander. — "Might I ask, doct I mean — might I ask, would you say thatbooze is an aid to genius, or a detriment?"The physiologist is saved speculation bythe arrivai of a Dean. One of the circle isjust leaving, and into the empty chair theDean eases his broad body with a groan.He nods to the circle and takes a menucard in his brown hand. A waitress pausesat his elbow, with a trace (but only atrace) of added respect."Oh, bring me anything," grumbles theDean. The other professors sip their coffeein silence. There is a great deal they wouldlike to discuss with him ; there are proposi-tions (largely financial) they would like toset before him. But this is not the time.This is his recess from tangled affairs, fromform sheets and questionnaires, from questsfor truth. Let him rest !In fact, what the harried Dean desiresmost of ali is to hear a good story. Whowill volunteer to amuse the Dean? Alas,no one. The Lowlander, meantime, expect-ing in his innocence to hear some dictumor ukase issue from so high a personage,is surprised to hear the Dean remark:"I must say, the Edelweiss course ispretty good. Played there yesterday."The theologian. — "Without much lossof self-esteem, let us hope?"The Dean, complacently. — "I brokeioo."No comment. The coffee-drinkers arenow making a great deal of smoke. TheDean devours his lamb stew with gusto.From under his heavy brows he gazes,absently.The botanist. — "What do you think ofthe new laboratory?" The Dean.— "Not bad . . Only, I don'tunderstand these architects, and their sculp-tors; especially the sculptors. They 've gota fish chasing an appiè up there. A Northern spy, I think . . . Now, when dofish eat apples?"The bacteriologist. — "Here comes a chapwho can explain it." And, to the slender,keen-looking professor approaching thetable: "Look here; an anatomical question.Can fish. . ."The newcomer — "Don't ask me anything, for heaven's sake. I've just beencheated out of the best cadaver I ever bidon."Murmurs of mock sympathy.The anatomist. — "I teli you, it's serious,when our budget is so infernally meager."This is a shot at the Dean, who doesnot even look up. The physiologist seizesthe opening: "You haven't the only thinbudget." And the theologian: "The naturai sciences really get everything." Andthe bacteriologist: "Pshaw! There arealways millions for mere religion."The voices die out, for ali are now seek-ing to catch the eye of a grey man, a manof modest garb and a naturally Jove-likebut subdued demeanor, who is just passingthe table. The day would be poorer forthe "round tablers" if they could not ex-change nods with him; for this is theirgrand old friend ; and besides, he is a greatman — The Great Man, some people calihim. He throws them a friendly look, andseeks an isolated corner, where no onewould dream of disturbing him ....They say he sometimes thinks out solutionsover his bread and milk.At the "round table" the skillful and oblique efforts to "bring matters to the Dean'sattention" goes on. Badinage is laid aside.The professors now speak (to each other)of such things as the possibility of acquiringa certain rare library, such as the establishment of a new department of plant re-search, or the endowment of a professorshipin medicine. The talk of these projectscannot be repressed, even to save the Dean.AH these important faculty men are yearn-ing for — well, to be candid, for money.184 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINENot to assure larger incomes for themselves ;not to get fur coats for the family, nor evenmahogany desks for their offices. No;what they most desire is to keep brightyoung men from being lured away to otheruniversities. They are ambitious also tobuild up their departments ; yea, to makethem greater than any similar departmentsin the land. And, in hardly less degree, theyare anxious for new equipment; and theycrave more space; more laboratory andoffice space. How they do crave it! And"secretarial help — ""I'm a month behind in my correspond-ence," complains the physiologist."Humph ! I have to send my letters outto be typed," growls the botanist."If," cries the bacteriologist, "I don'tget another desk there'll be war in my department."The geologist has gone to his meeting.The botanist follows the orientalist to thebilliard room. There remain only two orthree of the originai group, who have nowdrawn their chairs closer to the Dean's andtalk in confidential tones, while he smokeshis long thin cigar. With these cronies hehas given up his pretense of relaxation, andis now immersed again in university snarls,stressing one particular anxiety which, itseems, is foremost at this juncture. Evena Lowlander can feel the presence of amighty ambition, its success predicated notonly upon the use of certain methods butthe amount of power to be exerted by anaugust figure of the Summit.The Lowlander overhears (and nobodyminds) :"I haven't seen him in this club forweeks.""No; he hardly ever comes here.""He needs more fun . . . But whencould he find the time? He lunches withcommittees — always committees. It's awonder the talk alone doesn't — ""But his general health, I'm told— ""Oh, I saw him yesterday. We had asmuch as ten minutes talk ; I needed an hour.He v'jls as alert and attentive as a manof iiiirty . . . It's really remarkable.""Yes, he's wonderful " "Wonderful.""I think sometimes the system ought tobe changed. There ought to be at leastthree deputies for a president : One tomake speeches, one to raise money — ""And a third to preside over committees •yes.""Yes; I know what it is myself," fromthe Dean. He now rises and glances athis watch.Should the Lowlander follow him down-stairs he would no doubt find him glancingwistfully for a moment into the billiardroom where happy twos and fours — professors at play — are ambling around thetables, and making wild shots, or expertones. It is not the Dean's day to play. Hehas to work, he says, pretty soon.But think of that other chief, who neverplays at ali!Ilii.YOU mustn't suppose," said the Dean,crossing the quadrangle another day,"that the 'round table' conversationis ali that happens at the club. There's alot of comparing notes, there, too . . . .Those fellows earn their little hour ofsecond-rate jokes. The rest of the time,they work harder than almost anyone elsein the world."The Lowlander, who was accompany-ing the Dean, did not dispute this. Atthe same time, he was not ready to be-lieve it."People outside," the Dean continued,"think that a professor does two lecturesa day, corrects a few papers, and has therest of the twenty-four hours to himself.Not so ; not in universities like this. Itisn't a case, any more, of a man gettingby with merely transferring the contents ofa few text-books into the heads of a lotof students. A professor has to do some-thing nowadays: Dig out some new facts,write books about them, originate methods,know everything that's going on, belongto a lot of organizations — see what I mean?If, in addition he has administrative work,say as head of a department, he has to be asort of Atlas, no less."SOJOURN ON A SUMMIT 185"If ali that is true of professors, whatabout deans?" returned the Lowlander.That one merely grinned.2.It was not a day of committee meetingsfor him. He had, indeed, a little while tospare, and he seemed inclined to devote itto the further education of the Lowlander.The latter was grateful, especially shouldthe lesson throw light upon the Dean him-self. As acquaintance improved, it had be-come clear that this officiai, who was by nomeans the only dean on the universityrosters, but rather the major of a battalionof deanlets, was a remarkable being. Hewas an honored scholar, yet he accomplishedexecutive actions with ease and with pa-tience. He was one of those who upheld thevaulted arches of the university structureand protected its delicate f abrics ; he was thetarget of ali sorts of impossible ideas, thedisentangler of conflicting enterprise; hewas a main reliance of the president. Asmediator, his vexations must have beencountless, his public triumphs few. Andbesides, there must have been — at least, theLowlander wondered if there were not —hours when he yearned for undisturbednights in his study, with the shaded lightsshining upon his "sources" and upon thetype-written pages of his always unfinishedbook.In short, there was a sort of frustrationabout the Dean; and, having come from aregion of frustration, the Lowlander under-stood him better than, at first, he under-stood some of the others.The Dean, however, not only was un-aware that the Lowlander saw throughhim, but perhaps he had not himself realizedhis plight. He appeared to rejoice in theactivities of his office; he buried his handsamong the masses of papers on his desk witha sort of zest. His only grudge was thathis office was too small. This was verytrue. In the ante-room the clerks sat el-bow to elbow, and chair-back to chair-back.As for the private sanctum, it was a mere"coop," in which the Dean looked somewhatlike a hippoesque human exhibit occupying asmall packing case. "The university has grown too fast," heremarked, as he squeezed himself into hisswivel chair (pattern of circ. 1918).He touched a buzzer."Bring me one of the department cir-culars; any one will do," he commanded.3.His idea, it developed, was to prove thecomplexities of the professore task, particu-larly that of a head professor whose mostdire duty is that of establishing the quali-fications of candidates for the doctorate:So many theses to organize, to correct, toapprove; so many lines of investigation tosupervise; so many problems of individuaicapacity, of character, and even of breadand butter, to solve.But before the Dean got very far withthis, the Lowlander led him astray by men-tioning a certain book. He would not haveknown its title had he not seen a copy ly-ing limply on a shelf. The stratagem washonorable, let us hope."Oh, that," said the Dean. "Oh yes, Iwrote that back in 19 —.. Afraid the oldthing's out of date now. The subjectchanges like a chameleon."He sighed almost imperceptibly.For a moment it seemed as though hemight become reminiscent. The ecstasiesof that feverish pursuit, Research, the de-lights of a phase in his life when he was f reeto "settle hotis business" and not settleeverybody else's worries, pressed for utter-ance through the Dean. But he wrenchedhimself out of the mood."I'm anxious that you should understandthings here," he said.Thereupon he put his thumbs togetherand sought to sketch for his auditor thebarest blue-print of the academic edifice.In a lecture which ran a bit over his sparetime — and so brought reminders from a pairof secretaries — he told how the universitywas divided into undergraduate collegesand graduate schools ; how there were a halfdozen of these last, covenng virtually alithe "learned professions ;" how the departments in the schools functioned, each moreor less a law unto itself, yet controlied bycentrai administrative bodies. He enumer-i86 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEated these boards, legislative assemblies, andwhat not, until he was out of breath. Hementioned casually that he himself "sat"upon practically every one of them.With an amiable glibness, the Deantouched upon this or that fundamentalpoint: The fact that the undergraduatesoutnumbered the graduate students in thewinter, but the proportion was reversed inthe summer; the fact that several scorePh.D. degrees were granted every threemonths ("and you bet they have to work forthem, too") ; the fact that so many goodteachers were created each year that everystate in the union beneflted by their training ; the fact that publications by the facultymade a bibliography volumes long ; the factthat the library collections were too bigfor the buildings ("just oozing out ofthem") ; the fact that the annual budget, ofseveral millions, was scarcely more thanhalfway met by tuitions ; the fact that,whereas there were several hundred teachers in the place, there were three times asmany people employed "just on the businessside" of this gigantic corporation — not forprofit.Such matters, and many more, did theDean pour into the surprised ear of theLowlander. But more than ali, the Deanemphasized his chief thesis, which was that,great as an institution may be, it must growgreater, or wither. Its visions must be interms of ever-widening horizons; the reali-zation of each dream must be attended bythe birth of a new. The Dean spoke ofwhat the pioneer President had planned anddone; of what his successors had accom-plished ; of how the departed spirits of manymen, gifted with great purpose and greataffection, stili played a ròle in determininghigh standards; and how the traditionshaped by those departed stili set examplesof modesty, of serenity, of temperateness insuccess and courage in failure.But beside ali that, he said activities setso high above and apart from the ideals ofDown There had, in these times, to bemoved closer to that world of the practical."Although," remarked the Dean in an aside,"the notion of a great abyss between the Ideal — that is, us — and the Practical,namely everybody else, is mostly fudge."However, if sequestered, frozen into intel-lectual hauteur, a university must crumbleand fall. It had to receive the nourishmentof contact with cruder things; and thepeople Down There must be induced to re-gard it, not with timidity or awe, but withthe feeling of a warm relationship."It's when a question of that relationship — a question of getting support, of let-ting the average man know about us andyet not know too much about us, comesup — that's when we have to scratch ourheads," said the Dean."Not know too much about you; I don'tunderotand," put in the Lowlander."There's the rub. I don't know whetherI understand it myself."An elderly lady secretary thrust in herserious face. The Dean arose, movedtoward the door, and on its threshold meta tali, slender, youngish man behind whoseeye-glasses lurked trouble.7 bey conferred in low tones. After thefiist two sentences spoken by the youngman, who was probably a junior dean, theother pulled a long lip."You don't mean it! Run away!" heexclaimed in an undertone.Who could have run away? A student, the deanlet's dog, or the Dean'sd augii ter?"I've taken every — " mumbled the Caller,.in a diminuendo.They looked at each other, and joinedin a rueful grin."Let me know — z-z-z-z-z-z" whisperedthe Dean. He returned to his desk, onlya little ruffled. Just a typical interruption..He resumed the expository ròle; but de-spite his cairn, between sentences he lookedthoughtful."There are times," said he, "when ourattitude toward the public — that is, thegreat, careless outer periphery — keeps usawake nights. There, I'm repeating myself.But when you consider how the facultydivides on the question . . . You see, someSOJOURN ON A SUMMIT 187of the more conservative argue, more orless, that our results (what some of ourorators cali our 'treasures of knowledge')are no special business of the layman.They think fundamental research can neverget popular attention and shouldn't if itcould. The only people they want to haveknow about a discovery are those who knowabout it already. Others of us, — well,think otherwise."His attention wandered for a momentto that interruption."Yet," picking up his thread, "I don'tquite hold with those extremists who imag-ine that you can put everything into theterms of the common man (if there issuch a being) and keep bombarding anindifferent society with bread pellets. Butstili, I incline toward the element whothink a university should get out of itsshell. Service, say those fellows. Well,why not?""Why not, indeed?" echoed the Lowlander.The Dean looked quizzical."A much abused word, though, Service.Sounds hollow when some people use it.Yet, when the President delivers his phrase,'the discoveries of •science must be, and are,given freely to the world,' it has the rightring . . . He has a way of saying things . . .Well, we ali unite on that platform. Indeed," with rather a twinkle, "we find itnecessary — and profitable. We must letthe world in, to look us over. We — we'dlose a lot of gifts if we didn't. We 'castdown our eyes toward the skyscraper,whence cometh our help.' vThe humorous blue eyes reinforced thejest. Then, picking up his dignity, the goodDean went on with his most majestic air:"I wish it could be understood in justwhat spirit we try to increase our resources.Not like beggars, to begin with. We don'tparade the fact that many of our professorslive in second-rate apartments and weartheir clothes a year too long. We don'tput out emotional 'appeals,' nor go aboutwith placards on our backs, like sandwichmen . . . Neither do we make what arecalled 'business-like propositions,' as when big corporations put out alluring bond is-sues. We seek no profit, nor do we offerany. We simply let it be known that, inorder to develop as we must, we mustfortify; this mighty but selfless institutionwith greater income. It either follows,then, that enough people approve of us togive this support, or — or they don't. Wepresent our case, and hope mightily . . .But the President — he prays.""The Dean spoke like one who, believingin prayer (but seldom resorting to it)revered one who chose that course. Everyallusion to the President he invested witha special tone. It seemed clear that herewas a relatively earthly soul which soughtto rise to the level of that more spiritualone. . . Yes, the Lowlander thought, therewere several Summits; and one highest ofali.6.Another interruption.A slim card was laid on the Dean's desk."Teli him, in just a moment."He sought his thread, but lost it."This chap," said he, indicating the card,"is a — well, it's really rather interesting.He's a fellow from New Zealand, with alizard's brain. I mean — ha, ha! — hebrought in a lizard's brain with him fromNew Zealand; to study it. We have aneurologist here, about the best in theworld. And in New Zealand they have aspecial type of lizard which — well, any-way, the only place the New Zealanderthought he could find out the actual factsabout that brain was right here. So I've gotto get him started as a research fellow.Er— ""I'il go, if you like," suggested the Lowlander."There's no hurry ... I wanted to sayjust a word about the students; the under-graduates, especially. Do you come herewith the preconception that they're a lotof little fools, who put in their time drink-ing and making love. If so — ""Seems to me they are busy answeringbells," replied Lowlander.The Dean ignored this. The point hewanted to make was:i88 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE"Over one half of our students earntheir way through; a lot of the others areplanning to be teachers, or at least to takeadvanced work. I should like to teli youali about that some time. But — browsearound, and form your own impression. Idon't need to make a speech about it. I — "The refined, faded face of the secretaryagain appeared. It was even more solemnthis time."Dean Grant, word has just come of thedeath of Professor McDowell Edwards."The Dean started, so that his chaircreaked.To be co "Edwards!" he exclaimed. "Is that sofDoes the presidente office — of course, theflag must be half-masted at once."He sat looking at his blotting-pad."A record of twenty-seven years," hemurmured ; then, to the Lowlander, "Well,my boy — "But the Lowlander already was movinetoward the door."Look into that business of the students,"recommended the Dean, though with onlyhalf his attention upon the remark. Thebur-r-r of the telephone enveloped the otherhalf, and an avalanche of waiting businessseemed about to descend upon him as theLowlander withdrew.ntinued.Three New TrusteesELECTION of Laird Bell, prominentChicago lawyer, George Otis Smith,director of the United States GeologicalSurvey, and Ernest E. Quantrell, investment banker of New York City, as membersof the Board of Trustees of the Universityof Chicago was announced January IO.Both Mr. Bell and Mr. Quantrell areformer students at the University, theformer having received his J. D. Degreefrom the Law School in 1907, and the latterhaving been a student for nearly four years,withdrawing before graduation to enterbusiness."The members of the Board of Trusteesare greatly pleased to have the assistanceof these three new members whose training and experience in important fìelds willprove of large value," Mr. Harold Swift,President of the Board, said in making theannouncement. "The addition to th: boardof two more men who have been studentsat the University should be a source ofsatisfaction to our alumni group."Mr. Bell is a member of the law firm ofFisher, Boyden, Kales, and Bell, and a director of the Chicago Trust Company. Hereceived his undergraduate training atHarvard University. Mr. Bell was born atWinona, Minnesota, Aprii, 6, 1883. He married Miss Natalie Fairbank in 1909.They have four daughters. His home is at1352 Tower Road, Winnetka. He is amember of the University, Harvard-Yale-Princeton, City, and Indian Hill Gol!clubs, and is a director of the Chicago Ly-ing-In Hospital and Dispensary.Mr. Quantrell was born in Indiana,Laird BellTHREE NEW TRUSTEES 189]Vlay 8, 1881. After graduation from theformer Northwest Division High School0f Chicago, now the Murray F. TulleyHigh School, he entered the University ofChicago in 1901. At the University heWas prominent in student affairs, winninghis "C" on the track team, and was a member of Owl and Serpent, a senior honorarysociety, and the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.He became eastern manager of Halsey,Stuart & Company in 191 9, and later Vice-President and director of the company, inwhich position he continued until early in1928 when he established his own fìrmwith offices at 15 Broad Street, New YorkCity. His home is in Bronxville, NewYork.In 1908 Mr. Quantrell married MissLulu Morton, University of Chicago, ex-'06. They have two daughters and oneson. During the University's DevelopmentCampaign of 1924 to 1926, he took a lead-ing part as member of the executive com-mittee of the alumni campaign and as dis-trict chairman for New York.Ernest E. Quantrell Mr. Smith was born at Hodgdon, Maine,February 22, 1871, received his A. B. de-gree from Colby College in i8g3, an A.M.from Colby and a Ph.D. degreé from JohnsHopkins in 1896. He has received honorary degrees from Colby and the CaseSchool of Applied Science. Except for1922-23, when he was a member of theUnited States Coal Commission, he has beendirector of the Geological Survey since1907. He married Grace M. Coburn ofSkowhegan, Me., in 1896. They have threechildren.During the past few years the alumnihave been given increasing representationon the Board of Trustees until, at the pres-ent time, ten members of the Board areformer students of the University. Thefollowing are the alumni members of thisgoverning body: Eli B. Felsenthal, '78,Harrison B. Barnard, '95, William ScottBond, '97, Dr. Wilber E. Post, '01, M.D.'03, Frank McNair, '03, Albert W. Sherer,'05, Ernest E. Quantrell, '05, Charles F.Axelson, '06, Harold H. Swift, '07, andLaird Bell, J. D. '07.George Otis Smith> E .2 o8 „ufa S-3 r- S -S -ej*Iti UO OÌ«B O« -1ih-w "5| .a 3 m o•- _, a _c/3^ 5 <u 5 Zni 'e Z o >, ««.ah;? isQ hh .1-1 <Q•~ o*> h, £-, oOo i— , o* 1^c53so fa B? 25 55 'W O •-S4 E- .2O >J O« <sin ffi -OÌ Q l-iOS 2 3•-?Sfa.affioa .- zO OM «cs a.a sfa fa -53 «j «2 W ut-,5 >> S Ji •-fa -o£3^H ... Oe' o?C/3w bu J~* ^* P^¦" 5 .52 « "5-So gfe gC -„-3^faS bfl ti M"SS 5M-qJOÌ <!The Alumni Honor ScholarsSomething about the Sixteen Winners of theJunior College ScholarshipsBy Walter A. Payne, '95University Recorder and ExaminerWHILE the University has from thebeginning provided from its generalfunds a limited number of scholarships forstudents graduating with honors from co-operating high schools, it was not until ayear ago that it was enabled to announcethat a generous gift from an alumnus provided for sixteen scholarships each cover-ing full tuition for two years, to young mengraduating from accredited high schools inthe year 1928 selection to be made on thebasis of scholarship, leadership and per-sonality. Following this announcement,school officers and alumni were invited tomake nominations to the University. Sixty-one such nominations were made, and fromthese the fourteen whose pictures appearon the opposite page, and Carter Johnston,San Antonio, Texas, and Harold Laufman,Englewood, Chicago, who were unable tobe present when the group picture was-taken, were awarded the scholarships.The following is illustrative of the procedure adopted in collecting information con-cerning the nominees: An alumnus of theUniversity, teaching in a high school,learned of the provision for these two-yearscholarships. Having been greatly im-pressed with the outstanding merits of aboy who was receiving his diploma in June,the attention of other alumni was called tothis young man. Six different alumni con-ferred with the candidate and sent to theUniversity in writing their individuai im-pressions. This particular candidate, whilestanding high in scholarship, was Presidentof the Senior Class. He had also beenPresident of the Sophomore Class, had beenactive in intramurals and in the studentgovernment society. He had won the senior honor medal, had been elected to thenational high school honor society, was amember of the baseball, basketball and golf teams, and member of the staff of theSenior Class publication.In some instances it was not possible toget information based upon personal knowl-edge of so many alumni, but in each case inwhich the nomination was made by schoolauthorities, representative alumni werewritten to and no action taken until afterreports were received. Boys living in andnear Chicago were invited to come to theUniversity and were met by alumni, members of the faculties and administrativeofficers of the University.In the group there are three who werePresidents of their respective classes andnot one who was not a leader in what theschool authorities designate as the "besttype of activities." The principal of oneschool, in reporting on one of the candidates,said : "He was outstanding in service to hisschool, in character, and in leadership. Heis outstanding mentally, is capable and veryiikeable. During his senior year he earnedhis tuition by working in the physics labora-tory." Two alumni of the University, inwriting concerning the same candidate,said: "If he does not obtain a scholarshiphe will have to spend ali of his spare timeoutside of class hours earning his tuition andliving expenses. His rare genius for or-ganization and extra-curricular activitieswill then be entirely lost, and might atrophyfor lack of a chance to develop it." Thoseconcerning whom quotations have beenmade are typical of the group.Five in the number are wholly self-sup-porting; five must pay their own expensesin part. One of these boys during his firstquarter of residence has cared for a furnaceto pay for his room, waited on table to payfor his board, and has worked nine hourseach Saturday in a neighborhood grocery.Four of the number were members of the191192 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEFreshman Football squad. Others are par-ticipating in such activities as are open tofreshmen. The purposefulness of thesehonor scholars is shown in their indicationof future vocations: — medicine 4, law 3,business 2, art 2, chemistry 2, industriaichemistry or geology 1, journalism 1, aero-nautical engineering 1. It is too early yetto make any confìdent predictions concerning these men. They have made favorableimpressions upon instructors and adminis-trative officers. Not one has failed to makea good scholastic record. Their careers willbe watched with interest, and reports madefrom time to time through the UniversityMagazine.This is but the beginning of a most prcm-ising relationship between alumni and theUniversity. Already the Chicago Alumnae Club has established one such scholarshipfor a young woman graduate of a Chicagohigh school. It is hoped that other alumniand alumni clubs will follow this examplenot only in providing funds for such scholarships, but in nominating to the Universityboys and girls whose personalities andscholastic and extra-curricular careers givepromise of future leadership. The Yal(Alumni Weekly announces that there areeighty-four students in Yale this yearon scholarships provided by thirty-twoYale clubs. There are throughout thecountry fifty-four Harvard clubs, each ofwhich is supporting from one to severalscholarships.There is no better channel through whichalumni or alumni clubs may express interestin their alma mater.s*P ¦ ¦« 1-John Merle CoulterJohn Merle CoulterBy Charles J. Chamberlain, Ph.D. '97Professor of Plani Morphology and CytologyFEW men have made such an impres-sion upon their chosen subject as Professor John M. Coulter, who died onDecember 23, 1928. Having been born inNingpo, China, on November 20, 1851, hehad begun his seventy-eighth year.As a student, he took far more interestin science than was usuai at a time when thecurriculum was dominated by Latin andGreek. However he was an excellentclassical scholar and his splendid literarystyle, probably the best that American bot-any has ever produced, shows the influenceof Latin and Greek.Professor Coulter founded the BotanicalGazette in 1875 and for fifty years was itseditor. Even after retiring, he continuedto contribute and to help with the editing.The Gazette, which he not only edited butalso managed and often financed, becamethe leading botanical journal of Americaand has long been recognized in every country where there is any botanical investiga-tion.In editing the Botanical Gazette Professor Coulter would take a paper, good incontent but poor in literary style, and soonrhould it into a readable contribution. Thewriter once asked him what would becomeof the style of the Botanical Gazette whenhe was no longer in the editorial chair andpapers carne in from the rising generationwho have had no Latin or Greek or othercultural studies which they could avoid.He replied that there need be no concern,for those whose sensibilities would be painedby a crude literary style would have passed,away.His botanical work really began in 1872,while he was an assistant Geologist on theHayden Survey. When that expedition wasat its western base, waiting for Hayden, therest of the party whiled away their time. playing cards ; but since young Coulter didnot know how to play cards he collectedplants. When Hayden arrived he was so impressed with Coulter's collections that heimmediately made him the botanist of theSurvey. While studying his collections atWashington, he carne into contact with AsaGray, the first man to hold a professorshipof botany in the United States, and thatmeeting was the beginning of a lifelongf riendship. Coulter became Gray's mostdistinguished pupil and continued Gray'swork by writing the sixth edition of thefamous Gray's Manual.Professor Coulter received the A.B. de-gree from Hanover College in 1870 and theA.M. in 1873; from Indiana State University he received the Ph.D. degree in 1882and the LL.D. in 1920. He was a memberof the National Academy of Science andreceived practically every honor whichAmerican men of Science could bestow.Besides he was received into the membershipof many foreign societies.Professor Coulter was Professor of Naturai Sciences at Hanover College from1874 to 1879; Professor of Biology inWabash College 1879 to 1891; Presidentand Professor of Botany in Indiana StateUniversity 1891 to 1893 ; President of LakeForest University 1893 to 1896; Professorof Botany in the University of Chicago 1896to 1925. He lectured at the University ofChicago and conducted research a year before he left Lake Forest and so was in botanical work at the University of Chicagofor thirty years.His greatest influence was not through hisbooks and papers, although the books andpapers were numerous and good, butthrough the large number of students whocarne to his classes. No other botanist inAmerica ever had so many students whowon their way to the highest botanical posi-tions. After retiring from the Universityof Chicago, he became advisor to the BoyceThompson Institute for Plant Research atYonkers, for the foundation of which hewas largely responsible. There he continued193i94 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEto write and had just completed a collectionof biographical sketches when death over-took him.What would have been his most impor-tant publication will probably never be completed. For years he had been gatheringmaterial for a history of botany, and occa-sionally in his lectures had given glimpsesof what the finished work might be ; but theorganization and the actual writing was justready to begin. His broad knowledge of thewhole field of botany; his interest in phasesother than taxonomy and morphology, inwhich his own contributions were made;his intimate personal acquaintance withmost of the men, both at home and abroad,who have made the modem subjects of botany; and his wonderful power of organization, together with an unusual literary style,would have given the botanical world a history which must ever have remained aclassic.FUNERAL services for Albert HarrisTolman, professor emeritus of EnglishLiterature at the University of Chicago,were held December 28 in Joseph BondChapel on the University quadrangles.Rev. Willis Laiten Goldsmith of the HydePark Congregational Church read theservice.After serving on the University facultyfor 33 years as Shakespearean scholar Professor Tolman retired from active teachingin 1925, and died Christmas Day at the ageof 72. He was one of the pioneer facultymembers, having resigned a professorship atRipon College to join the University ofChicago in 1893. Interment was at Oak-woods Cemetery, with former colleagues ofthe English Department serving as pall-bearers.The decease of Professor Tolman bringsthe total of active and retired University ofChicago educators who have died duringthe year up to ten, nine of them men ofnational reputation who carne to the Uni- Professor Coulter was profoundly reli-gious. If he had written a book on the evolu-tion of his religious views, it would havebeen helpful to thousands of students whofind that the interpretation which they haveregarded as the real substance of religion cannot be reconciled with facts. ProfessorCoulter, son of missionary parents, met theissue squarely and, recognizing that theologyand religion are not synonymous, kept hisreligion and revised his theology to fit thefacts.His students, during the past few years,have contributed to a fund for a CoulterFellowship in Botany, which will enablemany a student to do research work underthe most favorable conditions.An extended account of Professor Coulter and his work, together with a bibli-ography, will appear in an early number ofthe Botanical Gazette.versity during its formative years and helpedto establish its standards of scholarship andresearch. The combined service to theUniversity of these ten mounts to 251 years.In addition to Professors Tolman andCoulter, they are Professors ThomasChrowder Chamberlin, William GardnerHale, James Parker Hall, Karl KonradKoessler, Solomon Clark and FloydMechem. Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed,who was instrumentai in interesting President Harper and John D. Rockefeller inthe proposed University, and who servedas registrar and trustee for many years, andwho was the University's only historian,died last spring. Professor Alexander Max-imow, who died December 3rd, had beenon the faculty only since 1922.While the University has seriously feltthe loss of these men its faculty has increasedto nearly 800 during the year with the addition of over forty men and women andboth teaching and research have gone for*ward with unremitted vigor.Professor Tolman DiesThe Coulter Research FellowshipAn Endu?~ing Memoria!By George D. Fuller, Ph.D. '13Associate Professor of Plani EcologyIN 1921 at the Toronto meeting of theBotanical Society of America the Chicago Botany Alumni inaugurated theirseries of annual meetings. These gatheringsincreased in size and interest until in 1926at the sixth meeting held at Philadelphia onDecember 27, 75 past students of the Department assembled at a dinner at whichProfessor. John M. Coulter was the guestof honor.During the evening a movement, led byDr. Arthur T. Evans, to establish a fellowship in honor of Professor Coulter tookdefinite form. To carry out the scheme acommittee consisting of Professors ArthurT. Evans, Chairman, State College, Brook-ings, South Dakota; Otis W. Caldwell,Columbia University, New York; Bur-ton E. Livingston, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland ; J. B. Overton,University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; and R. B. Wylie, University of Iowa,Iowa City, Iowa, was appointed. This committee associated with themselves Dr.George D. Fuller to act as their secretaryand decided to solicit from our alumni andfriends contributions towards a John M.Coulter Research Fellowship Fund. Thesum of $25,000 was set as the minimum goalfor the campaign.At the eighth annual meeting of the Chicago Botany Alumni held at New York onthe evening of December 27, 1928, thesecretary of the Committee was able to an-nounce the successful completion of thecampaign and the pledging of contributionsin excess of $25,000 made by 130 doctorsand 75 alumni and past students of the Department of Botany.Professor H. C. Cowles, Chairman of theDepartment, in presiding at the dinner,spoke briefly of the progress of the Department, which now numbers 178 living doctors among its alumni. He expressed the deep grief of ali at the recent death ofProfessor Coulter, a grief somewhat alle-viated by the thought that his work wouldcontinue through the agency of the John M.Coulter Research Fellowships.Dr. R. B. Wylie, of Iowa State University, spoke in appreciative terms of Professor Coulter's great service to Botany as ateacher, writer and investigator. On be-half of the Committee he presented theJohn M. Coulter Research FellowshipFund to the University of Chicago, theinterest only to be used for one or morepre-doctorate fellowships, tenable in theDepartment of Botany by students in anybranch of plant science. He also expressedthe wish and expectation that from time totime in the future the Fund would be aug-mented by further contributions fromalumni and friends. Former President Dr.Max Mason, of the Rockefeller Foundation, accepted the Fund on behalf of theUniversity of Chicago, expressing high ap-preciation of the action of the alumni in thushonoring the memory of Professor Coulter,assisting their alma mater, encouragingworthy students in Botany and advancingthe interests of plant science.Letters of regret at not being able to at-tend the Botany alumni dinner and of con-gratulation at the successful founding of theJohn M. Coulter Research Fellowship wereread from Acting President Frederic Wood-ward and from Mr. Harold H. Swift,President of the Board of Trustees.Our alumni and ali friends of ProfessorCoulter will be gratified to know that hewas aware of the successful establishment:of the fellowship fund which is to bear his.name and that just before his last illness he-wrote the secretary of the committee expressing his high appreciation of this actiomon the part of his former students.i95AtLast! Something to Blow About!By Howard W. Mort(The "prerequisite" to this story is the attendance of at least one football game at StaggField before ig2J. Without this you are only eligible to " audit" this article.)Prologue(For the specific benefit of alumni.)OF COURSE you have not for-gotten, in your campus memories,the old University of ChicagoBand. How could you? You have tried,only to be rewarded with haunting night-mares — nightmares of gangs and mobs ofmen crossing and re-crossing a white linedfield, wandering hither and yon betweentali goal posts, blowing foul blasts of harshsounds through ali manner of grotesqueinstruments, beating upon hided tubs andcrashing brass upon brass.It was in those days that we always en-vied "Old Man" Stagg's position that tookhim from the field between halves — whenour band and someone's else vied for honorson the sodded "grid." We always had asneaking hunch that "The Old Man" ap-preciated his deliverance more than hiscourtesy dared betray.Remember the University of ChicagoBand? Huh! If we could only forgetit! But frankness is seldom a virtue tobe encouraged in the printed page. Nordo we wish to be unkind. Is there any-thing to be gained by dragging forth theghost we have tried to forget? Perhapsnot. We shall respect your wishes andspeak no further ili of the dead. Dead? Certainly, hadn't you heard?It is not so surprising that you hadn't.The remains were laid quietly away. Noone seems to know just when the end carnenor how. The old U. of C. Band wasthere one day. When we next had occasionto expect it — it was gone.No tears seem to have been shed. Noone was interested enough to ask whereor how. The Daily Maroon sent no cubto cover the case. The Phoenix, wizardat extracting humor from the most blaséevents, attempted no feeble joke concerning the passing. The deceased had fadedinto history without even a collection raisedfor a head stone.IT WAS a crisp fall week-end in 1928.The "Maroon Special" stood on Track7 at the Northwestern Depot, Chicago.The hour was early. Too early for manybrilliant remarks from the jolly university"gang" that trooped through the stationto be assigned coveted seats on the specialthat was to help carry hundreds of University of Chicago enthusiasts to the annualChicago- Wisconsin football game.On the platform assembled a group of jolly men — one hundred of them— wear-ing neat uniforms from the tips óf theirblue and white caps to the shining blackoxfords. Orders had been obeyed to a man.Every member present or accounted for,ready and prepared to serve his alma materin a creditable manner as guest, for a day,of a rivai university.Three hours later the Maroon Special,with its doublé engines, had finished itsrecord run to Madison. The new Uni-196AT LAST! SOMETHING TO BLOW ABOUT! 197versity of Chicago Band had alighted withniilitary orderliness, "fallen in" with snapand precision and was marching up themain thoroughfare playing Chicago songs.For the moment Madison belonged to theChicago Band.At the game the band was forgotten forthe time in the excitement of touchdowns,penalties or what have you. Then carnethe half. The Chicago Band was on thefield, the white caps swinging down thegrid to the strains of "On Wisconsin."Turning sharply before the Chicagostands the band halted in a huge blockformation, now playing "C Stands." Youremember the song. Here are the words ifyou have forgotten them :C stands for cherished courage,H for her honor high,I for her iron-bound interest,C for her college crv,CHI-CA-GO "A for her aims so ardent,G fcr her gallantry,O stands for "Old Man,"The best coach in this landThe big "C" for victory.As the Chicago Band, one hundredstrong, sang the song after playing itthrough, caps were snapped off to make each letter in white as it was sung. It was anew and different thrill for the Chicagostands.After the game (the end finally carne —never mind the score) the band took themiddle of the Street and marched the milesback to the depot, now playing a Chicagosong, then singing it; playing "On Wisconsin" and then singing it ; back to anotherChicago song played and sung on and onthe full length of the march. It was per-haps that day that the Chicago Band wasfirst known as the "Big Ten Singing Band."No matter what our past band emotionsmay have been, the University of Chicagonow has a band. We make this statementwithout crossing our fingers.Of course Mr. Palmer Clark, the newdirector, has been a large share of the in-spiration for this startling and welcomereformation. But this chapter in bandhistory should also recognize the successfulefforts of Mr. Arthur Peterson, a studentofficer in the Military Department, fordeveloping a well drilled and disciplinedorganization. Credit is also due drummajor Edward Nelson who not only throwsthe baton over the goal post (catching itnine out of ten) but exhibits the band to thebest advantage.That is not quite ali of this story. Weare eating our frosting last. Wait untilyou have seen and heard the winter Concert Band! Reduced to 35 selected men,the winter and spring musical organizationwill be a real college band of which anyschool might be proud.198 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEMr. Palmer Clark is not only a mostsuccessful bandsman and director but alsoa composer and arranger of considerablenote. This will explain the varied, cleverand originai programs which many old"Grads" as well as thousands of friendswill have an opportunity to hear thisseason.Concert programs will include clean,snappy college stunts, popular numbers withfour part singing choruses and classical se-lections of the highest quality. Many ofthe musical arrangements are being donepersonally by Mr. Clark exclusively for theUniversity of Chicago Concert Band.For the benefit of friends and alumni inand around Chicago, plans are being madefor an ali-Chicago Concert. A number ofweek-end concerts will be played in citiesBUILDING permits issued to the University of Chicago in January author-izing construction of two new units for itsgreat medicai center on the midway, re-vealed for the first time the full extent ofthe University's projected children's medicaicenter for bringing youngsters safelythrough the difHcult period of childhood.With facilities unexcelled in the UnitedStates, and comparable to the famous children's medicai center in Vienna, the projectfor Chicago's South Side is backed by thepower of seven million dollars, it waslearned.The latest buildings authorized, theNancy Adele McElwee Memorial and theGertrude Dunn Hicks Memorial ortho-pedic hospital, will be surgical units, east ofand adjoining the present main hospitalbuildings. Ground will be broken withinsix months. Made possible through thegenerosity of two Chicagoans, Mrs. Gertrude Dunn Hicks of the Del Prado Hoteland Mrs. Elizabeth McElwee of 1010Deerpath Av., Lake Forest, each of whomcontributed $300,000, the new structures within a' day's run of Chicago and a springtour of ten days the first part of Apriiwill bring the season to its climax, althoughthere will be other concert engagement^during the spring quarter.The fact that Balaban and Katz, man-agers of one of Chicago's finest chain offirst run theaters, have voluntarily ap-proached the band management for a sevenweeks' engagement at their finest theatersis an indication that the band is alreadyreceiving recognition from those valuing ahigh grade of entertainment.Many are saying "The University ofChicago Band has arrived." At least weventure to assure the many friends of theUniversity that the U. of C. Band is ar-riving, preparing to surpass the greatest andhighest hopes of its most loyal friends.will house the Home for Destitute CrippledChildren.The Home, with an endowment of $1,-000,000, has operated heretofore at PaulinaSt. and Maypole Av., under the guidanceof a group of civic-minded people headedby Robert F. Carr. Under the new pian itwill move to the Midway quarters, the oldbuilding serving as an emergency hospitaland free dispensary.Of the other projected hospitals, the$500,000 Bobs Roberts Memorial Hospital,given by Col. and Mrs. John Roberts ofChicago with a $500,000 endowment fund,in memory of their son, is already under construction west of and adjoining the present buildings, at Drexel Av. and the Midway. The Charles Gilman Smith Con-tagious Disease Hospital, provided forunder the will of the late Harriet G. Smith,also to be erected west of and adjoiningthe present group, will add a unit to theUniversity's attack on children's diseasesfor which there is inadequate provision inmost cities.The greatest single unit of the children'sA Medicai Center for ChildrenDevelopments in the University 's War on the Diseases of ChildhoodA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN 199center, which will begin the care of children at birth, will be the Chicago Lying-InHospital, which now has assets exceeding$2,400,000. A new building will be erected()n the Midway between Maryland Av. andDrexel Av., with 140 beds for obstetricalcases, including an isolation pavilion with20 beds for septic cases. There will be aseparate laboratory for research and teaching, with one of the best libraries in theworld on obstetrics and gynecology. Mrs.Kellogg Fairbank, for 18 years president ofthe Hospital board, together with othersocially prominent Chicagoans, led the drivefor funds.The Country Home for ConvalescentChildren, which was afEliated with theUniversity last year, forms the final unitof the project. With ninety acres of landat Prince's Crossing, near West Chicago,with buildings worth over $450,000 and anendowment of $1,200,000 this institutioncomes under the medicai direction of theUniversity and forms an important linkin connection with the Bobs Roberts Hospital and the orthopedic and pediatrie department. Mrs. W. J. Chalmers isfounder and chairman of the board of theHome, and thirty-seven prominent Chicagoans are its sponsors.The major part of this program, ali ofwhich is assured and most of which is nowin process of organization should be complete and working within a year and a half.The University's war on the diseases ofchildren will then be directed not only ina frontal attack by direct treatment of ail-ing children but also in an extensive flank-ing attack through analysis on the nature, cure and prevention of children's diseasesby organized research.Three features of the new unit are espe-cially interesting:1. Research in the nature, preventionand cure of children's diseases, and thetraining of specialists, is to be emphasized.2. The children's units with 450 beds,will have the benefit of the resources ofthe general medicai and surgical units of theUniversity Clinics and of the University'sbasic science departments.3. Practically ali of the seven milliondollars contributed has been given to theUniversity and its afEliated hospitals bypublic spirited citizens of Chicago, many ofthem south-siders.« » «At the same time that permits weregranted for the new University hospitals apermit was granted for the erection of anew Botany laboratory. With the erectionof the McElwee and Hicks medicai units,the present botany greenhouses will have tobe torn down.A half block of new botany greenhousesis now almost complete, along Ingleside Av.at 57th St., the glass houses being builtalong the most modem lines. The permitis for the erection of a two-story stone struc-ture, 50 x 100 ft., to be started Aprii ist,which will serve as centrai laboratory forthe work going on in the greenhouses. Another half block of greenhouses will beerected in the near future, and the newbuilding will be in the center, on InglesideAv. between 57th and 5Óth Sts. The wholeproject will cost nearly $400,000.They Were SevenThe Children, by Edith Wharton. D. Appleton & Co. $2. SOshe saw it not as a man's love, but as a fa-ther's. She, too, left him alone with theghosts of two loves, with the empty happi-ness of memories.The other Wheaters, though less dyna-mic, are nevertheless realities. There isTerry, too f rail to realize his greatest desire,that of being a student. And Bianca, histwin sister, coldly beautiful, languishing hercharms before the world. Strangely originaiis Zinnie, a step-sister. Crowned with aflame of orange hair, she danced naked downa steamer deck in a reckless desire to be dif-ferent. Through Bun and Beechy's veinsflows a tinge of highly emotionalized Italianblood. And finally there is Chipstone, acomplacent baby. There is no fringing ofone character over another. Edith Wharton had created seven consistent personsand personalities in The Children.Behind the children is a jagged web ofparental strife. However, it is separatedfrom them by a veil of childhood faith andillusion. Edith Wharton has handled theparents masterfully. Not once does sheallow them to obstruct the view of thechildren, for it is through these children thatshe poses the insistent question of the wholebook, "What of the children in this worldof nonchalant divorce?"Mrs. Wharton has concentrated ali ofher powers of subtlety and technique in herlatest book. Flashes of childish gaiety, ofsympathetic understanding, of satire andkeen humor combine to make The Childrena novel often read and long remembered.Eloise Tasher.THEY were seven unforgetable leftovers from the checkered matrimoniai ventures of Cliffe and JoyceWheater. Seven children bound desper-ately together by an older sister. Fromone end of Europe to the other they trailedtheir will o' the wisp parents, sought afterwhen a new marriage promised a moment'sequilibrium, discarded when divorce cul-minated the project. These seven, so sym-pathetically drawn, make The Children oneof Edith Wharton's strongest books.Obviously the characters and not the plotare featured. Judy, the eldest of theWheaters, dominates the seven. She is atonce their referee, sister, and mother. Agedby her too frequent contact with jangledmarriage and divorce, she is at sixteen acharming composite of sophistication andnaiveté. It was this fascinating personalitythat first attracted Martin Boyce, a bachelorwhose forty years had never known a realadventure. He had decided to go back toa certain Rose Sellars and consummate achildhood romance.Then — he met Judy and the Wheatertroupe. Slowly Judy's innocent charm en-gulfed him until he had become foster fa-ther and champion of ali of them. Moreslowly did his friendship for her grow intoa genuine love, a pulsing reality that stirredhis innermost being. Rose Sellars watchedthis, her greatest love, bum down to ashes,saw that fragile communion of spirits thathad been theirs shatter into irretrievablepieces. So she folded her sorrow about herand left Martin forever — to Judy.But when he laid his love at Judy's feet,BOOKS 201A Collection of Short BiographiesGreat Short Biographies of the World, By Barrett H. Clark. McBride, $$.BARRETT H. CLARK, ex-'i2, has be-come well known to many Chicagoansthrough his translation and editing of nu-merous plays from the French and his originai work in such studies and criticisms asEugene O'Neill, Oedipus or Pollyanna, andA Study of the Modem Drama. His mostrecent contribution to the reading world isa pretentious anthology of biography, whichis published at a peculiarly appropriate timewhen biography is pressing hard on fictionin the race for popularity. Mr. Clark hasbrought together in one volume a mass ofmaterial that should be of great interest tomany readers, and it is presented in a manner that is altogether f ascinating. In choos-ing the fifty biographies that are included inthis 1400 page volume, Mr. Clark hasshown rare discrimination, and one is im-pressed with the quality and the variety ofhis selection. The first short biography is"Socrates," by Diogenes Laertius, and thelast is "Hector Berlioz," by Romain Rollarla. In between these two we find sub-jects ranging from Jesus of Nazareth toFrancois Villon. Here are lives of Au-HALF the pother about EugeneO'Neill's Strange Interlude is causedby the fact that its current performances inNew York and on the road begin at Rvt-thirty in the afternoon. Such a circumstance,to be sure, in Germany, at least in thecase of opera, would hardly occasion a gustus Caesar and Charlemagne, Columbusand Leonardo da Vinci, Milton and Pope,Newton and Kant, Peter the Great and Na-poleon written by biographers from the timeof Plutarch to the days of Oscar Wilde.What is a short biography? It has not,as the editor remarks, "been so arbitrarilydefined nor so closely analysed as the shortstory, let us say, or the drama. You may,if you like, subdivide ali the biographies inthis volume into as many types and speci-mens as you like, and cali each by a separate name. There is no objection to classi-fying them as prefaces, essays, memoirs,reminiscences, sketches, poems, psycho-graphs, portraits, or criticai analyses. I havetaken the word biography to mean some-thing written about a person, and in select-ing short biographies I have necessarilyomitted books like Boswell's Johnson, Cai-lyle's Cromwell, and Lockhart's Scott."Great Short Biographies of the World,is a rich collection of material and Mr.Clark has performed an outstanding service in compiling these notable biographiesin one volume.single comment. But so rigid are the habitsof metropolitan American theatre-goers,so insistent are we that a serious dramabegin not earlier than eight-thirty and endnot later than eleven, that any play re-quiring attendance at seven, much lessfive-thirty, is bound to cause reverberationsIn my opinionBy Fred B. Millett,Assistant Professor of English202 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEof interest. One need go no farther thanthe John Golden Theatre and watch anaudience hurrying in conscientiously duringthe late afternoon, and storing away theirstubs for their return at nine o'clock, if oneis hunting for evidence of the TheatreGuild's adroit methods of publicity.The effect of getting to the theatre atsuch an unaccustomed hour certainly en-hances the solemnity of one's long antici-pated visit to Strange Interlude. One feelsquite as devout as a German hearing theRing for the first time. One feels, andthe rest of the audience apparently sharesone's feeling, that here is no place for any-thing but subdued laughter and mufHedapplause. Surely Shakespeare has never hadmore reverential treatment in any age, leastof ali, his own. The diverting aspect of thissomewhat calculated atmosphere is thatthere is no particular excuse for it. Thereis no reason why the play should not begiven in a single evening without a pro-longed break. As it is, the actual playingtime plus ali the intermissions save the dinner hour is only four hours. With a littlemore alacrity on the part of the scene-shifters' union, the play might easily startat eight and end at twelve. Operas even inChicago have been known to last as longand stili hold their audiences. And any-one who knows the audiences at the TheatreFrancis will remember how resentful theyare if they fail to get a full four-hours'entertainment. Nor is the plea that con-tinuous playing would be too fatiguing forthe actors a legitimate one. Compared tothe emotional maelstrom raised by Bern-hardt in league with Sardou, Strange Interlude is a Quaker meeting. So the widedissemination of the notion that anyonewho plays Nina must have the nerves of aBrunhilde, seems a subtle kind of propaganda. What after ali is this play thatinterrupts one's tea, forces one to dine in oneof Alice Foote MacDougall's antique shops,and drives the leading lady to the verge ofa nervous breakdown?For, after ali, once the Guild's advertising has enticed one into the theatre (andhow O'Neill must enjoy the irony of the fact that the John Golden Theatre is hous-ing his subversive play), the play has thetask of keeping one there and luring oneback at the unfamiliar hour of nine o'clock.Its efEcacy is shown by the fact that peoplereturn not only at nine o'clock, but foranother and another visit.The fame of the play has been increasedby the widely bruited fact that O'Neill re-quires nine acts in which to say his say,and that he makes f requent and bold use ofthe aside which ali the textbooks assure usIbsen disposed of once and for ali. Neitherof these facts quite represents the true stateof affairs. It would be much more exactto say that the play is divided into ninescenes, but such accuracy would hardly beexciting. In point of fact, some of O'NeiU'sacts are acts, and some are merely scenes.If O'Neill were stili suffering from thepseudo-classical obsession, he could easilydivide his play into Rve acts by allotting twoscenes to an occasionai act.Unquestionably, O'Neill's revival andadaptation of the aside is the most strikingtechnical feature of this play. It is almostcertain that he hit upon this device as ameans of using the immense quantities ofsubconscious material made available to themodem playwright by psychoanalysis. Atthe risk of seeming hide-bound, one may sug-gest that this innovation is only partiallyjustified by its effect in performance. I feelsure that it would be possible to produce aswifter, more efEcient play by a free blue-penciling of trivial or silly asides. On theother hand, there is no question that themost powerful effects in the play are securedby the use of asides in cruciai scenes, nota-bly when Marsden attempts to separateNina and Darrell, and where in the trance-like climax of the play Nina sits surroundedby her "three men."It will be objected that the play is lesssignificant than it might be because itscharacters are abnormal. This objectionmay be met in various ways. One mightsuggest that most of the great characters indrama have not been completely andthoroughly conventional. Some critics havethought that even Hamlet was not quiteIN MY OPINION 203rjght in his mind. Or, one might suggestthat normality, like time and space, is ahighly relative term, and that if one wereto remove the lids from the minds of one'scompanions on the I. C, or at the luncheon-table, he might get a distinct shock. But:the fact remains that persons enamoured ofwhat has been called "normalcy" will have.a very uncomfortable evening among Nina'semotional aberrations.For O'Neill's reading of life in this amaz-ing P^y is unmistakably conditioned by thedoctrines of Herr Freud. (It would cer-tainly be interesting, if rather cruel, tobring a mind uncontaminated by Freudinto contact with this exhibition.) For theconsolation of the anti-Freudian it may besaid at once that the Freudianism of thisplay is intrinsic and not blatant. It is basic,because ali the characters' lives are rep-resented as shaped by the particular solution they find for what is to them the centrai, the sexual problem. Marsden shutshis eyes to it and becomes increasingly trivialand absurd. Darrell, the clearest-eyed,compromises with its demands, and in re-tribution loses his grasp on life and on himself. The end is emasculation. Sam, theunwitting husband, builds his life upon alie, and the towering edifice turns out tobe merely a facade. Nina's almost frantic reaching out for a satisfying love defeatsitself because she never exorcises the demonof covetousness. Her frenzy ends only withthe end of desire, and the peace she findswith Charley is the quietude of living death.To this spectator, Strange Interlude isnot so "good" a play as Desire Under theElms, but it is a greater one, even as Hamlet is not so good a play as Ot hello butmuch greater. In Desire Under the Elms,O'Neill seems to have achieved his finestunion of matter and form; there is no pas-sage which one wishes had been betterwritten, but though Strange Interlude isnot so fine a piece of work, it is probably thisdramatist's deepest and most comprehensiveinterpretation of life. We see into thedepths of the souls of four characters. Wewatch with fascination and with horrortheir entire lives unfold before us. Butwhat we chiefly get is a particular statement of life's values: its complexities, itsdifficulties, the shadowy forces that encom-pass it, the enemies within and without thatwar against one's happiness, and the essen-tial pessimism of a situation wherein man'sillimitable desire faces certain defeat in itsstruggle with stubborn refractory matter.Strange Interlude is as absorbing and il-luminating an experience as the Americantheatre has offered.The Mirror Presents Its Fourth Annual ProductionSlip-Slaps, a RevueSLIP-SLAPS" is the name of the revueto be presented as the fourth annualproduction of The Mirror on Friday andSaturday nights, March 1 and 2 in MandelHall.It will be of interest to the alumni thatin addition to ten students three alumnihave contributed to the manuscript. Theauthors are: Florence Herzman, MarjorieMiller, George Morgenstern, SterlingNorth, Barratt O'Hara, Junior, Jack Pin-cus, Russell Huber, Catherine Scott, CarolSimons, Martha Yaeger, Bertha JamesRich, Daniel Catton Rich, and John Howe.Bertha James Rich and Daniel Catton Rich have created several originai andsophisticated skits and lyrics. Mrs. Richwill be remembered as Bertha Ten EyckJames and is nationally known as a poet.John Howe y27 in collaboration withGeorge Morgenstern has written severalskits.The choruses have been under the training of Mrs. Clarke Venable, formerlyMarianne Durbrow, whose work will beremembered for the dancing in the 1928production. The production will be underthe direction of Frank Hurburt O'Hara.Tickets will be on sale beginning Feb-ruary 18 in the box ofEce of Mandel Hall.Wfje ©ntòersittì» of Chicago JWaga?tneEditor and Business Manager, Charlton T. Beck '04Advertising Manager, Brockway D. Roberts '25EDITORIAL BOARD: Commerce and Administration Association — Rollin D. He-mens, '21 ; Divinity Association— C. T. Holman, D.B., '16 ; Doctors' Association— D. J.Fisher, '17, Ph.D., '22; Law Association— Charles F. McElroy, A.M., '06, J. D., '15;School of Education Association — Lillian Stevenson, '21 ; Rush Medicai Association—Morris Fishbein, 'ii, M.D., '12; College — Roland F. Holloway, '20; Allen Heaid,'26; Wm. V. Morganstern '20, J.D., '22 ; Faculty— Fred B. Millett, Department ofEnglish. Donald P. Bean, '17, Chairmanere^crs &> comms^ctTHE Editor of this magazine recognizeshis obligation to give university news ina pithy, concise way and to represent alumniopinion and aspirations with vigor. Wewant this magazine to be talked about, andwe intend to give it character and person-ality. Even criticism is better than apathy,a publication that is not talked about isdead."Ali that glitters is not gold." A flashycover often means a colorless interior. Itis our ambition to present a scholarly,thoughtful discussion of our University'saffairs as an educational institution. WewTill illustrate it just as much as our limitedfunds allow.Of course in so very large and varied abody of alumni, there will be many diff erentopinions and tastes. We would like to havethem ali. No doubt there are constructiveideas among the older alumni who are sosolid in their support of the University, theyounger alumni who are so enthusiastic andlately familiar with its conditions, the out-of-town group who are so full of freshpoints of view and new contacts, and thevery large body of locai alumni whose locainewspapers are filled daily with Universitynews and who therefore form the mostcriticai group of an alumni publication.We urge the thoughtful attention of ali who read this to our plea for assistance. Letus have the benefit of your opinion. Wecannot imagine it, so we ask you to writeto the editor and teli him. Of course therewill be many circumstances and situationsunknown to individuate which the editoris familiar with and which must often control the policy of the publication. It is hisduty to know these and regard them. Oneof course is the scarcity of adequate funds.The duties of the Alumni Association haveconstantly increased while the dues havenot. We ali wish to represent Chicago ina dignified and attractive way. Let us takecounsel together to this end.THOUGH tuition is only one of severalitems a student must meet when heenters college, it is a charge that varies invarious institutions from almost nothing instate universities up to $450 at Princeton.Chicago, Northwestern and Amherst charge$300; Yale, Cornell, and Brown, $350 5and the following, $400: Harvard, Dart-mouth, Williams, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, Lehigh, Bryn Mawr,Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, Swarthmore,and others. State universities ordinarilyhave no tuition fees at ali or else make onlynominai charges.204ALUMNI AFFAI R SMr. Stagg Travels and TalksA Letter from FloridaIT IS now "the morning after," and myfirst move is to thank you for inducingAmos Alonzo to include this part of Floridain his itinerary. His visit has been a greatdelight to his many worshippers here, andof untold value to the different groupswhich he has met.When we heard there was a prospect ofhis coming to us, we changed the plans forour meeting for the 8th of January, with-held our invitation to the honor students tomeet with us, and for a time consideredinviting the football teams and coaches ofthe two High Schools. But long before thetime of our meeting he was pressed intoservice by invitation to speak before the twoTampa Schools, and our own St. Peters-burg Senior High. He was also presentat a banquet for the championship Hills-borough (Tampa) High School footballteam, besides attending their New Year'sDay game. Consequently, we felt just-ified in keeping him ali to ourselves lastevening, and this pian met with his entireapprovai.There were only twenty-seven presentat the dinner last evening, — Uve having tocancel their reservations at the last momenton account of the "flu," and Rve othersfailing to appear after making their reservations. But though the number present wassmaller than we had expected, we had anardent, splendid time together, and thegreatness of the heart and soul of "the OldMan" was more apparent than ever. Imight write a page or two of the incidentalthings that made the meeting a hearteningoccasion for every one who was present.Again thanking you for the great pleasure that you made possible for us in arrangingMr. Stagg's visit to Tampa, I remainVery truly yours,Roy B. NelsonOmaha Nebraska.University of Chicago MagazineDear Friends:It is the custom of Central High Schoolto give a big annual dinner to which alithe fathers and sons of the high school areinvited.Last night it was a great occasion forwe had Coach A. A. Stagg of the Universityof Chicago for our speaker. I have neverheard a better appeal in the field of goodsportsmanship, high ideals, and excellentstandards than was given last night byCoach Stagg. Over and over after theaddress I heard the expression from fathers,"That was the finest address I ever heard."It is certain that our boys will be happyto remember this address for years andyears to come. a.bincerely yours,J. G. MastersTHE University of Chicago AlumniClub of Ames, Iowa, held its firstmeeting of the year on December 4 in theMemorial Union Building following aluncheon.Professor Dora G. Tompkins presidedas President of the Club, and John E. Smithwas elected Secretary to succeed Miss RuthBozell who has left the city.Twenty-three members of the Club werepresent and the address of the day wasgiven by Dr. C. Gouwens who recountedthe pleasures of a few weeks residence onthe quadrangles during the summer of 1928.205Introducing The Five CarltonsThe First Family of Florida206ALUMNI AFFAIRS 207WE offer you herewith the Doyle Carl-ton family as they are about to trekfrom Tampa to Tallahassee to be presentat the inauguration of the twenty-sixth gov-ernor of the state of Florida on January 8.And why the keen interest of the Carltonfamily in the most recent Florida inauguration? It is safe to say that their interestis whetted, not to say excited, by the factthat the father of the family is the man to beinaugurated. And why the keen interestof the Magazine in reproducing this familygroup? Not alone because of its admirablequalities as a photograph but largely due tothe fact that Doyle Carlton is one of ourown — a Chicago bachelor of the '09 vin-tage.And what sort of a fellow is this DoyleElam Carlton — that he has grown so great?We hasten to reply. Doyle is a Democrat,and — or, but — an enigma. In the opinionof Mrs. Carlton he is, by nature, modestand retiring, devoted to his home and hisgreatest happiness is found in the familycircle.To thousands of Floridians — not soclosely related to him — he is considered themost vigorous and indefatigable campaignerthat the state has yet produced, with an aggressive courage and an indomitable will.To ali appearances the sovereign voters ofthe state agree with the president of Stetson University that he is the best equipped man,mentally, for Florida's gubernatorial chair.His personal habits are above reproach.He toys not with tobacco, nor does he indulge in intoxicants, whether in Tampaor Havana. His only bad habit is that ofbuttermilk drinking which, admittedly, hecarries to excess both at home and abroad.Rather slight in stature, the governor hasa powerful voice and a vigorous constitution. Many of his campaign speeches havebeen heard for blocks, without the aid ofthe radio. He claims to have developedhis voice as a boy by calling the cows onhis father's range, and cultivated it someyears later as a member of the Chicago de-bating team that won the Central LeagueChampionship in 19 io. And speaking ofthat debating championship it may be ofinterest to know that Doyle won his laurelsby championing the negative side of thequestion, "Resolved, That the ProtectiveTariff should continue as the policy of theUnited States."Shades of Al Smith and John J. Raskob !O tempora, O mores !But at any rate Doyle Elam Carlton isthe first Democratic governor to be inaugurated since Florida became a Repub-lican stronghold and our felicitations are ex-tended to both the Governor and the State.THE University of Chicago Club, ofDetroit, held the first meeting of theseason at a noon luncheon on Jan. 12.After preliminary remarks by the President,B. J. Rivett, as to the Scholarship Fundcreated by the club, future plans, etc, someinteresting statistics were given by the secretary, Miss Claudia Crumpton. The members, it was found, represent a number ofprofessions as follows: 3 prominent socialworkers, 9 ministers of the Gospel, 23 phy-sicians and surgeons, 5 lawyers, 83 teachers,and so on.The first speaker, Miss Harriet Abbot, gave an illuminating description of her workas Probation Officer in the Recorder'sCourt. She was followed by Dr. I. M.Alien, Superintendent of Schools in High-land Park, who unfolded for us the achieve-ments of the School of Education at theUniversity of Chicago. His talk made thehearts of ali those present swell with pride,especially those who had attended the particular school in question.Two more meetings are contemplated bythe club; if they are as inspirational as thelast one, they will certainly prove worthwhile.CONTINUED growth for the University of Chicago is indicated in statis-tics to be presented in the forthcomingPresidente Report on the past academicyear. The number of different students whoattended classes increased to H>474 and thenumber of degrees granted to 1,713- TheUniversity continued to lead in the awardof the highest academic degree to be earned,the Doctorate of Philosophy.Assets of the University for the fiscalyear totaled $77,812,221.26, an increase of$7,284,870.79 over those of the previousyear. Gifts recorded total $6,858,042.00.The annual budget expenditure was $5,-591,034.47, expenditures mounting to $2,-297,151.00 over those of five years ago.Student fees for the year comprised 34. 1 8per cent of the expenditures. For theschool year 1928-29 the budget has been setat $6,120,000.Bound volumes added to the Universitylibraries during the year numbered 32,000,increasing the total number of volumes andpamphlets now catalogued in the librariesto 1,150,000.University of Chicago Faculty memberspublished 70 books during the school year.Articles published in leading scientific, schol-arly, and literary periodicals numbered over800. University men contributed 47 chap-ters to scholarly compilations and edited 1 1such compilations and manuscripts. Booksreviewed for publication numbered 310.The University Clinics, opened in Oc-tober, 1927, treated 34,666 patients duringthe period from the opening to November,1928, an average of 123 a day. In theStudent Health Service 5,363 different students received treatment. In the CentralFree Dispensary, maintained by the RushMedicai College of the University, 107,187applicants received attention, including20,000 new patients.Buildings started during the calendar year 1928 include the $1,500,000 PowerPlant; the $575,000 Social Sciences Building; the $500,000 Bobs Roberts MemorialHospital ; the $400,000 Sunny Gymnasium;the $665,000 George Herbert Jones Chemistry Building; and a series of botanygreenhouses which will cost over $250,000.TWO distinguished professors from for-eign universities have been added to theFaculty of the University of Chicago, ac-cording to announcement by the Presidenteoffice. Thomas GrifEth Taylor, foremostauthority on Australian and antarctic geog-raphy and geology, who has been associateprofessor of geography at the University ofSydney, has been appointed professor ofgeography at Chicago as a permanent member of the Faculty. Professor RomanDyboski, professor of English literature inthe University of Cracow, Poland, willteach at Chicago during the WinterQuarter.Professor Taylor was senior geologist onScott's last expedition, and led parties tothe antarctic in 191 1 and 19 12. At the University of Chicago he will conduct coursesin the geography of Australia, meteorology,and environment and race. Professor Dyboski, who was brought to Chicago largelythrough the efforts of the Polish NationalAlliance^ and the Kosciusko Foundation,will give courses on comparative literatureand on the social and literary history ofnineteenth-century Poland. He will alsogive a series of downtown public lectures onPoland.PROFESSOR William A. Nitze, Chairman of the Department of RomanceLanguages at the University of Chicago, hasbeen elected president of the Modem Lan-guage Association, composed of several thousand teachers of English, Germanie, and Ro-208UNIVERSITY NOTES 209mance languages. Professor Nitze was amember of the special committee on reor-ganization of the Association, and it is expected that he will direct efforts to changesome of its policies. The organization isactive in fostering research in the problemsin its field, and sponsors a large list ofpublications. Professor Nitze, who hasbeen a member of the Chicago Faculty fortwenty years, is a noted authority on theArthurian romances and the legends of theGrail. He is editor of Modem Philology.Professor Hugo Schilling of the Universityof California is the retiring president.PROFESSOR Edward Sapir of the Anthropology department was elected amember of the Social Science ResearchCouncil at the winter meeting of the American Anthropology Association which washeld in New York. This council is composedof three representatives of each of theseven social sciences.Professor Sapir and Professor Fay-Cooper Cole, also of the Anthropology department, are two of the members whorepresent Anthropology. Professor William Fielding Ogburn of the Sociology department is a representative for the scienceof sociology.The Research Council takes the lead inAmerica in directing new work in the fieldof the social sciences.AS a pioneer move toward exact and un-opinionated work in the causes andtransmissibility of cancer, a committee oftwelve outstanding scientists, including MissMaud Slye and Dr. Ludvig Hektoen of theUniversity Pathology department, has beenchosen by the American College of Sur-geons. The appointment was made in re-sponse to Miss Slye's persistent advocacyof organized research in human cancer.PROFESSOR Fay-Cooper Cole, head ofthe Anthropology department, and Professor Harvey Brace Lemon of the Physicsdepartment of the University have been a chosen by the American Institute of NewYork to collaborate in producing a play on- the subject of the "Corning of Man."e In order to familiarize man with science,s the American Institute is sponsoring thes dramatization of the various sciences. The1 story of the "Corning of Man" will be thes first production of the Institute and the suc-r cess of the entire undertaking is said to de-s pend largely on the outcome of this intro-e ductory drama.According to their present plans Pro-^ fessors Cole and Lemon will show the story'' of the passing of the ages and will revealthe struggles of man from his beginning asa semi-human being to the coming of themodem races. Through film and sceniceffects, they pian to show the glacial periodin which man first appears. Here the stone*age man is revealed. In the portrayal ofthe covering of Europe by glaciers, the caveman stage will be introduced. Next thecoming of modem man will be reproduced.After the necessary facts have been as-certained by Professors Lemon and Cole,the material will be given to a playwrightto dramatize. It is possible that one of theleading musical composers will be securedto prepare a suitable accompaniment ofprimitive music and primitive dancing mayalso be presented between the acts of theplay.THE position of Carus lecturer for1929, the highest honor to be receivedby an American philosopher during the cur-rent year, has been given to ProfessorGeorge H. Mead of the University Phi-losophy department. At present ProfessorMead is teaching at the University of California in the capacity of lecturer for a specialfoundation.Professor Mead, in fulfilling the dutiesof his appointment, is scheduled to lecturein New York City in the near future. Heis expected to return shortly to the University, from which he has been absent sinceOctober.NEWS OF THEQUADRANGLESBy Louis H. Engel, '30,Managing Editor The Daily MaroonFIVE o'clock. The last wan light of awinter's sun filters through great clere-story bays. The Chapel inside is hung withthe hoary gloom of Europe's age-old cathe-drals. Far down the nave two minarets oflight bum before the reredos and send longfragile lines of light among the vaultedarches of the ceiling. A hushed silence isdisturbed by the footfalls of someone walk-ing down the stone-flagged aisles. Thefigure vanishes into the deep oblivion of apew. The first notes of the organ sound,silver and serene. At last the organistswings into the plaintive measures of thelargo movement from Dvorak's "NewWorld Symphony." The rhythm swells,rises to a last mighty forte, and dies. Therest is silence.Slowly they file out, two or three dozenmen and women, who pulì their coat collarsup around their throats and bury their handsdeep in pockets as they buck a stiff windsweeping down the Midway. In theirhurry to dormitories and fraternity houses,few notice that an early moon washes thefacade in a clear, cold shower of light.And so the Chapel finds its place.« « «IT WAS just that morning that CharlieCutter and Russ Whitney were lordingit over the rest of us because they were bothexcused from the Autumn Quarter finalexams. (You see anyone who is a memberof both the Chapel Council and the University Aides and Marshals is automatically excused from finals, and both these chappieshave won appointments to these honoredboards because of their exceeding virtueand scholarly merit.) Well, about three inthe afternoon it was our turn to laugh, andmaybe we didn't give them the merry guf- faw. With the assistance of the President,"Doc" Reed, and other honorable gentle-men, the lowly worm had turned. Nobodyhad to take the finals.You see, the school was gripped by anepidemie of influenza, and an epidemie ofinfluenza is dangerous — oh, very dangerousand not to be trifled with. The doctorsand nurses over in Albert Merritt Billingswere playing to a capacity crowd, and addi-tional calls for medicai assistance pouredin from fraternity row over on WoodlawnAvenue. "Doc" Reed was right; the University was in dire straits. There was butone course open, viz., closing down theworks, and with characteristic determina-tion ali desires to the contrary, the board orthe faculty or whoever the responsibleparties were, issued the decree for the cessa-tion of ali curricular and extracurricular activities.After ali, no one ever really liked tograde examination papers.« « «THE Undergraduate council has as-tounded the student body by actuallyaccomplishing something — at least, by actually planning to accomplish something.which after ali may be a different matter. Itseems as though during the discussion of therelative values of a Freshman-Sophomoreballoon blowing contest and a Junior-Seniorpeanut pushing event as means for stirringup class spirit, someone spoke out of turn,and suggested that the exalted body make afew bucks for itself. "A noble thought," sec-onded Representative Fisher of The DailyMaroon Extortion Department. "Indeed,"chortled Mr. Hagey of the Intramural Ath-letics Office. And the rest of the Boardwere asleep.NEWS OF THE QUADRANGLES 211Well, the outcome of it ali is that onFebruary 20 the famous Kedroff MaleQuartet is scheduled to spread its stuff inthe new Chapel under the auspices and strictfinancial supervision of the UndergraduateCouncil. The idea is originally credited toRay Murphy, president of the Council andgentleman of sorts, but those of us whoknow Ray are stili a little dubious. Any-way, if you want tickets write Ray and en-close a little of the filthy lucre. Seats areone iron man per each.« « »TWO little boys in indigo are sitting ontheir pants and wondering where in thedeuce the money for the customary Euro-pean tour is going to come from. Andit's a big problem to Messrs. George Morgenstern and John Rackow, editor and business manager respectivély of the Phoenix,formerly the campus humor magazine. Ofcourse, it is ali well and good for school tobe dismissed just prior to examinations, butwhen one's monthly magazine is expectedto make its appearance simultaneously withsaid examinations it is, to say the least, alittle disconcerting.Down at Atwell's they were rushing theChristmas issue through the presses whenschool was closed. Now if anybody canSEVENTY graduates, undergraduates,and faculty members of the Universityof Chicago, at a meeting in Hutchinson com-mons January 16, approved the formationof a men's commission on social service andreligion to develop a religious program cen-tering around the university's new chapel.Acting President Frederic Woodward andthe Rev. Charles W. Gilkey, dean of the advise the managers of the locai publicationhow they may appease advertisers, pay printer 's bills, settle with the engraver, and dispense with two thousand half-printed copiesof the Phoenix and stili make a profit, heis requested to send in his solution.« « »THE traditional Washington Prom,major event of the University social cal-endar, is scheduled for the unusual dateFebruary 15. Mr. Charles Cutter, formerpresident of the Junior class, and Mr. Robert Fisher, business manager of The DailyMaroon, are billed to appear in swallow-tails and white gloves. "And if anybodylaughs . . . ," threatened Bob Fisher re-cently.Annette Alien and Ellen Hartman, bothEsoterics, are the supporting members ofthe ali-star cast.The boys haven't decided just what orchestra will play or what will be served oreven just where the dance will be held, butthose are really minor details. Bids arequoted at approximately $7.75 (Sevendollar war tax)."And on my honor as a boy scout," com-mented Cutter, "the best managed ball inhistory may be anticipated." We've nodoubt of it, Charlie, none whatsoever.chapel, stressed the need of a program ap-pealing to students.The pian presented proposes a commission of twenty, consisting of ten undergraduates, five graduate students, and fivefaculty and administrative members. Ex-cept for the salary of a paid executive ofEcer,ali financial responsibility for whateverprogram is adopted will devolve upon thiscommission.U. of C. Group Plans Religious Programfor the New ChapelBy Victor Roterus, '29WITH one-third of their conferenceschedule completed with nary a win,Coach Nels Norgren's basketball team, itseems safe to presage, is fated for something less than the conference championship this season. In four games the boyshave tried with ali their might and mainto wrench a victory, but so far their lothas been no happier than that of last fall'sfootball team. It seems that Maroon ath-letic fans will have to look for seasons otherthan those of '28-'29 if they are to feel thoseinward throbs of pride and jubilation thatgo with a championship.The preliminary season, though it didnot indicate a team of epic dimensions, cer-tainly seemed to justify hopes for at leastan average season. When the flu epidemiewas at its height on the campus North Dakota was played behind barred doors, andthe newspapermen told us that. Althoughthe game was more in the nature of a good-natured scrimmage, Chicago emerged withthe honors. During the vacation weeksNorgren and his boys took a trip to Green-castle, Ind., where DePauw University isharbored. DePauw shook off some of itsobscurity by toppling our troupers 24-19.Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, senta team to Bartlett gymnasium but the Ma-roons were bothered only momentarily andbreezed through to a 24-18 victory.Then occurred the one bright spot in theMaroons' season thus far. Butler collegeof Indianapolis had a team coached by PatHinkle, himself an athlete of no mean fameyears ago on the Midway teams, whichhad not only been undefeated thus far, buthad taken the measure of such sterling out-fits as Pittsburgh and Purdue. On January5, they invaded Bartlett but the Maroons,playing basketball as well as they could andbetter than they have since, repulsed them 24-21. Trailing 17 to 15 at half time, t$JjMaroons were given only a whisperìiiichance to win, but they did. The combination of Kaplan and Changnon, forwardj»Gist, center; Crawford and Fish, guardi,looked good enough during this game to 4<j'some startling things during the confer-enee season.Although they lost their conferenefcopener to Purdue, Jan. 8, the showing ofthe Maroons was not disappointing. Witha chap six feet six inches tali, and name^,'furthermore, Murphy, as a center, Purdtìfseemed invincible if ever a basketball teaìft*did. The Maroons jumped and dove i$-Murphy, they hung on to him, but Murpli^and his 78 inches of height were not tè'be denied and together they accounted for25 of Purdue's 38 points. The Maroonàywith Gist leading with 12 points, were ableto collect 26 points.Virgil Gist, '29Basketball Captain212ATHLETICS 213Dr. Meanwell's Wisconsin teams haveheretofore been marked by abruptness instature, but the reverse is true of this year'squintet. Ali Uve of his boys tower abovethe six foot mark, and the shrewd Mean-well has taught them how to employ thisheight very effectively. Scoring half oftheir points by means of follow-up-under-basket shots the Badgers defeated the Maroons 32-20. The Maroons again foughthard, but again in vain.On Jan. 14 at Lafayette, Ind., the Maroons played Purdue for a second time.Our knowledge of this game is very scanty ;we never were affected with a desire tolearn its intimate details. We were toldover the telephone that Purdue had won64-16 and that Murphy had made 26 points.Our knowledge of that game ends rightthere.Illinois, though its football teams arequite perfect, has not been of late years atleast in the habit of turning out first ratebasketball teams. So it was with someoptimism that Coach Norgren guided hisboys to the environs of the Great State University on the night of Jan. 18. And it waswith some optimism that his boys took thefloor on the night of Jan. 19. But on Jan.20 the papers told the middle west thatChicago had again slipped 22-19.But eight games stili remain to be played ;and we are told that Minnesota is not sovery good either.« « «THAT the year will not be entirely de-void of Chicago championships seems tobe assured by the manner in which CoachDan Hoffer's gymnasts won their first meetover the Milwaukee "Y." Hoffer and histeams have monopolized the conferencegymnastic championships so long that theother coaches now only hope to place theirteams second. Although he lost almost theentire personnel of last year's title-winningteam, he has whipped together a f ormidableteam around Capt. Menzies. COACH Merrill's fencing team seemsdestined for goods things too. With anumber of veterans, including Capt. Fried-man, the fencers expect to retain the titlethey won last season. So far they have hadonly one meet, with the Milwaukee "Y,"and this they won.» « «COACH Vooree's wrestlers, handi-capped by the loss of Krogh, lastyear's conference heavyweight champion,were downed by Michigan, Jan. 11. Thenext night, however, they strangled Michigan State, 21-9.« « «DURING the Christmas holidays it wasannounced that the "Old Man" haddecided to leave the coaching of the Varsitytrack team entirely in the capable handsof Coach Merriam. Everything seems toindicate a strong indoor and outdoor trackteam.In the dashes Merriam has Root, whoplaced in the Conference and National collegiate meets, Brand, East and Cotton towork with. Schultz is running the 440 inunusually good time. Captain Williamsand Teitleman take care of the half mile;and when the basketball season is over Gist,another fast man, will also be available forthe event. Holt and Berndston, bothformer cross country captains, run the mile ;while Brainard and Jackson have the windand leg power necessary for the two mileevent. Hayden, Kramer, Schultz andValentine, ali veterans, are the hurdles men.Whether or not the team is really asstrong as it looks on paper will be decidedwhen it meets Minnesota in its first dualmeet.» « «GEORGE M. LOTT, JR., an under-graduate of the University of Chicago, again is the ranking tennis player inthe Western Lawn Tennis Association. Ac-cording to the 1928 ranking lists releasedJanuary 15, the youthful star of the UnitedStates Davis cup team is placed at the topin singles, and together with Johnny Hen-nessey. of Indianapolis leads the pack indoubles.NEWS OFTHE CLASSESAND ASSOCIATIONSCollege'97 — Scott Brown was elected President of the Illinois Chamber of Commerceat the annual meeting in Chicago, October19.'99 — Willouby Walling was electedPresident of the Chicago chapter of theIzaak Walton League at their recent annualmeeting and dinner at the Hotel Sherman.'99 — Charles F. Yoder D.B. '03, is super-intendent of the missionary work of theBrethren Church in Argentina and professor of science in the National College ofRio Cuarto.'00 — Benjamin Samuels is general at-torney for the Yellow Cab Company, 180West Washington Street, Chicago.'03 — Lynne J. Bevan after twenty yearsconnection with Viele, Blackwell and Buck,has opened his own office as consulting en-gineer at 57 William Street, New YorkCity.'03 — William A. Goodman is in the in-surance business at 175 West Jackson Blvd.He lives at 323 North Ridgeland Avenue,Oak Park, Illinois.'06 — Louise Stanley, chief of the Bureauof Home Economics of the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture and interna-tionally known for her scientific investiga-tions in nutrition, has just been appointedan officiai representative of the Departmentof Agriculture on the American StandardsAssociation.'07 — Helen Hendricks is living at theWoman's University Club, New York.She has a fellowship at Columbia Universitythis year.'io — Mary C. Tinney A.M. general in-spector Department of Public CharitiesNew York City, is a candidate for the officeof State Parole Commissioner which would bring her in contact with the toughest malecriminals in the country. She is said atOssining to be the first woman to seek sucha post, and stands third on the Civil ServiceList.'11 — Thurman R. Kern is with the Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, andlives at 934 Ridgewood Drive, HighlandPark, Illinois.'12 — Albert K. Epstein is consulting;chemist with the firm of Epstein, Reynolds,and Harris, 5 South Wabash Avenue, spe-cializing in food and other allied chemicalindustries. He is also vice-president ofThe Emulsol Corporation.'14 — Howell W. Murray, a vice-president of A. G. Becker and Company, hasbeen elected a director of the Parker PenCompany.'14 — Ole J. Kvale, a member of Congressfrom Minnesota, was re-elected in Novem-ber on the Farmer-Labor Ticket.'16 — David Gustafson A.M. '26, is headof a course in printing which is being givenat the Carnegie Institute of Technology inPittsburgh. This is the only college department in the United States training execu-tives for the printing industry.'Ex-' 16 — Harwood P. Saunders is Com-mandant of the New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell, New Mexico.'16 — Miles D. Sutton, head of the Commercial Department of Deerfield HighSchool, Duluth, Minnesota, was given a lifemembership in the National Education Association by the Duluth Teacher's Association as a reward for service as treasurer,vice-president, and president of that organization.'17 — Earl A. Trager is chief geologistfor the Skelly Oil Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma.214NEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONS 215>jy — Wilmer T. Graham is now living at1122 Twentieth Avenue, East Moline,Illinois.'18 — J. Oliver Johnson is located at 300East Morgan Avenue, Chester, Indiana.>j3 — Ruth Elizabeth Johnson, who isassistant professor in Smith College, Nor-thampton, Massachusetts, spent the summer0f 1928 in Spain and Italy.'18 — Ruth Falkenau is writing FashionAdvertising for the Basement Store of theJ. C Hudson Company, Detroit, Michigan.Her address is 72 Peterborough Street.'18 — Ruth Michaels is dean of the Schoolof Home Economics of Stout Institute,Menomonie, Wisconsin.>IO/ — Sterling S. Bushnell is now incharge of the Chicago office of StewartHartshorn Company, 29 East MadisonStreet, having just returned to Chicagoafter several years with the same concernin their New York Office.'20 — Mary E. Owen, 405 CanterburyRoad, Rochester, New York, is one of theeditors of "Normal Instructor and PrimaryClass."J2i — Josephine Jelinek is a member ofthe staff of the English Department ofFriend's University, Wichita, Kansas.'21 — Ruth C. Mosser is assistant professor of English at the South Dakota StateCollege of Agriculture and Mechanic Artsat Brookings, South Dakota.'21 — Mrs. C. Hayden A. Streamer(Lena G. Leitzel) 125 Webster Street,Riverside, New Jersey, is keeping a homeand acting as substitute in Riverside, Burlington, and Audubon Schools. She ad-dressed the women in Edgewater Park, N.J., recently on Third Degree Methods inCriminal Law.'22 — Mary K. Bowen resigned her posi-tion as adjunct professor of mathematics atRandolph - Macon Woman's College,Lynchburg, Virginia, and is teaching atLindbloom High School, Chicago. She isliving at the East View Hotel.'23 — Earl Emendorfer recently returnedto Columbia, South America, to resumé hiswork as geologist for the InternationalPetroleum Limited. '23 — Morgan L. Combs was elected December 7 president of the FredericksburgState Teachers' College, Fredericksburg,Virginia.'23 — Lydia C. Hoeppner, 822 HamlinStreet, Evanston, is attending the GarretBiblical Institute this winter.'23— Franklin V. Scott, A.M. '24, isdoing graduate work in History at HarvardUniversity.'23— Howard E. Wilson, A.M. '27, issecretary of the graduate school of educationof Harvard University. He is living at117 Holden Green, Cambridge.'23 — Victor J. Smith, is now director ofvocational education at El Paso, Texas.'24 — Marian Hillemeyer, who teaches inthe Hamlin School, has moved recently to2343 East 72nd Street.'25 — William K. Keir, credit manager ofKleimek and Company, wholesale f urnitureand floor coverings, 12 18 South MichiganAvenue, Chicago. He lives at 3 no WestMarquette Road.Ex-'25 — Helen L. Lewis is kindergartendirector of the Friends' School, Baltimore,Maryland.'25 — Mrs. David F. Jordan (FrancisReinken) has moved from New York Cityto 36-40 Bowne Street, Flushing, Long Is-land, New York.'25 — Meredith Gilpatrick of Los Angeles, California, returned in October froma five-months trip through Europe withFrederick L. Shuman, instructor in politicai science at the University of Chicago.They made a bicycle tour of Normandy andTouraine, took in the Niebelungen Ringat Bayreuth, a climbing tour in the Tyroland Switzerland, and ended the trip at theLeague Assembly in Geneva.'25 — Jay J. Deal, 8347 Cregier Ave.,Chicago, is business manager of the ChicagoMedicai School, 3832 Rhodes Avenue.'25 — Horace S. Strong, 723 DownerAvenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is assistantproduction manager of the Milwaukee Division of the Nash Motors Company. No-vember first he was elected to the JuniorMember Grade in the Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc.216 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE'25— Mrs. Charles E. Waterman (Marion E. Muncaster) 451 Winneconna Park-way, Chicago, is assisting her husband inthe administration and management of thenew Auburn Park Hospital where herhusband is resident superintendent.'25 — William E. Kuebler directs theBoys' Work for the Y. M. C. A. at Louis-ville, Kentucky. His address is 1223 EastBreckenridge Street, Louisville.'25— Esther McCoy, 113 18 Mark TwainAvenue, Detroit, Michigan, teaches Secre-tarial Studies at the High School of Commerce, Detroit.'26 — Mrs. May C. Alien is AssistantPrincipal of Hirsch Junior High School,Chicago.'26 — Isidore Cohen, structural engineer,has moved to Room 305, 8 South DearbornStreet, Chicago.'26 — Caroline H. Garbe is teaching English in the University High School, University of Chicago.'26 — Eleanor Peterson is head dietitian atthe Epworth Hospital, South Bend, Indiana. She attended Mayo Brother's Clinicfor her dietetic training.'26 — Neil Galvin is teaching at the Har-per Junior High School, and living at 4901Drexel Blvd., Chicago.'27 — Zenobia L. Lawes, 1008 NorthFranklin Street, is clearing-house teller atthe Douglass National Bank, Chicago.'27 — Irving Goodman is living at 1400South Albany Avenue, Chicago.'28 — John R. Russell, 801 East HuronStreet, Ann Arbor/ Michigan, is refer-ence librarian at the University of MichiganGeneral Library.'27 — William F. Rasche, professor ofvocational education at the University ofPittsburgh, has accepted the position of per-sonnel director of the General MotorsTruck Corporation, Pontiac, Michigan.'27 — Wilhemina Warner, of the IndianaSocial Service Department of Indianapolis,is doing medicai social service with theIndiana University Hospitals, which con- sist of the Robert Long Hospital, ColemanHospital for Women, and the James Whit-comb Riley Hospital for Children. Shehas charge of the state work done in theforty-six northern counties.'27 — Joseph Tamborra is an Instructorof Romance Languages at the Universityof North Dakota, Grand Forks, NorthDakota.'27 — Emil H. Koch is teaching Germanat the Shorewood High School, MilwaukeeWisconsin.'28 — Eleanor J. Keen of Mount Carmel,Illinois is at present in New York Citystudying journalism at the Pulitzer Schoolof Columbia University.'28 — Marvel E. Steven, of Chicago, is inBoston studying applied art and interiordecoration. She is living at 72 St. StephenStreet, Boston.'28 — Clarice McDougall of Chicago isdoing graduate work at Simmons Collegein Boston.'28 — David Dressler is doing socialwork with the Jewish Social Service Bureau, 1800 Selden Street, Chicago.'28 — Maturin B. Bay, 6824 NormanBlvd., Chicago, is registered in the University of Chicago Medicai School as a fresh-man.'28 — Mabel M. Vansteel is teaching andsupervising art in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, Public Schools. Frieda Wordelmanand Lucia Mysch are in the same schoolsystem, ali three are living at 62 UnionAvenue, N. E., Grand Rapids, Michigan.'28 — Henry Paulman, Jr., 4845 Kenwood Avenue, is now attending Columbia^University writing a master's thesis on RealEstate Financing.'28 — Florence A. Stewart is achievingconsiderable success on the New York legit-imate stage.'28 — Daniel D. Heninger is a geologistwith the Mid-Kansas Oil and Gas Company in West Texas. His temporary address is Box 265, Ballinger, Texas.NEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONS 217>20 — William B. Serbin is practicingmedicine at 122 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago.>20 — Ciney Rich, '18, is practicing sur-gery at 537 Standard Life Bldg., Decatur,Illinois'20 — Arthur G. Asher '19, has moved toMachais, Catt County, New York.>20_F. W. Mulsow Ph.D. '19, is patho-logist to St. Luke's and Mercy Hospitals,Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he is practicingphysician and surgeon.'20 — Mary G. Schroeder 3741 W. 66thPlace, Chicago is taking a years' leave ofabsence for study in the east and perhapsabroad.'22 — Arnold G. Isaac moved from SantaBarbara, California, to Goessel, Kansas ayear ago where he is doing general surgeryand medicai practice in a small hospital.'22 — Alfred D. Biggs was recently ap-pointed clinical assistant in Pediatrics atNorthwestern University Medicai School,Chicago.'22 — Floyd E. Keir is physician and surgeon in Englewood, New Jersey, and instructor in physiology at Columbia University, New York City.'23 — Elton R. Clark is in general practice at 400^ N. Main St., Kokomo, Ind.He is secretary and treasurer of the HowardCounty Medicai Society.'23 — Elmer A. Vorisek '21, is clinicalassistant and resident in the departmentof Ophthalmology in Presbyterian Hospital and Rush Medicai College.'23 — Ray M. Bowles '21, is attendingurologist in the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York.'23 — James L. McCartney '21, is aFellow of the National Committee forMental Hygiene and is stationed at the Institute for Child Guidance, 145 E. 57th St.,New York, as a psychiatrist.'24 — Arthur E. Lund '22, is practicingmedicine at 235 Hamm Building, St. Paul,Minnesota. '24 — Adolph Emerson is Resident Pedia-trician, Long Island College Hospital,Brooklyn, New York.'24, — Darrel G. Clark '22 is in generalpractice at Santa Paula, California.'25 — Samuel A. Leader '21, is practicingmedicine at 2001 Montrose Ave., Chicago.'26 — Roy A. Crossman is living in High-land Park, Illinois, where he is practicingmedicine.'26 — Joseph E. Jensen '23, is at the University of Vienna taking special work ingynecology and obstetrics.'26 — Rufus A. Schneiders is in Guamin the U. S. Navy Medicai Department.'26 — Paul M. Ryerson '23, is practicingmedicine and surgery at 7848 S. AshlandAve., Chicago.'26— Fred H. Decker is practicing general medicine at Winterset, Iowa.'26— Ward A. DeYoung is practicingmedicine at 11006 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago.'26 — Walter H. Milbacher, '23, is practicing medicine and surgery at 225 MainSt., Aurora, Illinois.'27 — D. Truett Gandy of 5214^ DrexelBlvd. has a fellowship in Dermatology atRush Medicai College.'27 — Edward L. Compere, S.M. '24, isclinical instructor in surgery at AlbertBillings Memorial Hospital, University ofChicago.'28 — Russell E. Neff is Huston CountyHealth Officer in Dothan, Alabama.'28 — Louis F. Plzak '24, is practicingsurgery at West Suburban Hospital OakPark, Illinois, and lives at 2435 S. 59th St.,Cicero, Illinois.'28 — Russell C. Carrell '24, is interningat Cook County Hospital, Chicago.'28 — John R. Evans '24, is physician andsurgeon at Sunrise, Wyoming.28 — L. Irene Smith '24, is Resident Physician at the Los Angeles County GeneralHospital, Los Angeles, California.Commerce and AdministrationFated for Management; or, From Gym Team to General ManagerWITH a penchant for languages, an un-expressed ambition to achieve theUnited States consular service, a neglectedtalent for music, and seventy-five dollarstotal cash assets, Frank E. Weakly enteredthe School of Commerce and Administration in 19 io.The consular service preparation con-sisted solely of a course in InternationalLaw from former President Judson and anactive interest in the Cosmopolitan Club.The neglected talent for music becamethrough ingenious application the mainsource of income to the self-supportingstudent of commerce. As a member ofthe University band he earned tuition withhis clarinet and later as he became moreprofìcient his 'cello and the E fiat altosaxophone earned him nickles with which topay for learning.What with being self supporting and atthe same time creditably mastering majors— one quarter he mastered only six — he de-Frank E. Weakly, '14 cided that in the field of athletics, gymnas-tics took least time. With characteristicvengeance he worked until he fìnished withone of the first C's awarded in Gymnasticsby the "Old Man." Of this Frank isproudly reminiscent.That "most valuable course in college"proved to be for Frank Weakly a course inScientifìc Management under F. W. Taylor, father of the theory. Among the firstto take cognizance of this new phaze ofeconomics was Montgomery Ward & Co.In 19 15 Frank began his six-year periodwith them in the field of management. Hiswork was interrupted during the warseveral times, and when the war termin-ated he had just received a commission in the Storage Division of the QuarterMaster's Corps and was training officersand certifying them for foreign service.The war over, he was called back to Montgomery Ward's and became Superintendentof personnel and expense. In 1921 heresigned to take a position with HalseyStuart & Co., Chicago, where he performsas "general operating manager."Frank Weakly was fated to the operatingfield in business — and even in his warservice. Management in personnel, inefficiency, in expense, and other operativefields, comprises his business history. Today he holds a position rare in the internaiorganization of large investment securitiescompanies. As general operating managerhis responsibilities go beyond personnel andefficiency management.His earlier experience is embodied in hisbook "Applied Personnel Procedure" (Mc-Graw Hill Book Co.), which the University of Illinois has used in courses in management. Naturally enough the book deals.with the practical application of management, for it was begun under the dure*of the war, and parts of it were writtenunder an are light in Philadelphia whilethe author was working with the ShippingBoard.218THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE9Bé Nation'S Building StoneMulvane Art Museum, Washbum College, Topeka, Kansas. Built ofVariegated Indiana Limestone, Random Ashlar.No Beauty Like Thatof Naturai StorierTyO build of Indiana Limestone means that your building will become-*- a worthy part of the permanent architecture of this country.The modem production methods of the Indiana Limestone Companyhave greatly lowered costs. Rough'sawed strip stone for Random Ashlarbrings the cost of a stone building down very dose to the cost of thesame building if constructed of other less desirable material. Let us sendyou our illustrated booklet giving full information about this beautifulstone. More than 65 % of ali the building stone used in the UnitedStates is Indiana Limestone. For the booklet address Box 8 iq, ServiceBureau, Indiana Limestone Company, Bedford, Indiana.General Oflìces: Bedford, Indiana Executive Offices: Tribune Tower, ChicagoA Study of the Bank of EnglandBy LiONEL D. Edie, Professor of FinanceXS A result of a research appointment by^\ the Guggenheim Foundation, it waspossible to spend the summer of 1928 inEngland and principally in London making an investigation of the policy of theBank of England. This problem has takenon unusual importance in recent years, because of the doctrine that leading centraibanks of the world should co-operate witha view to stabilizing the world level ofprices.One of the first difficulties confrontingthe American investigator in London is thesharp contrast in the attitude of bankers inEngland and the United States with re-spect to secrecy. The American investigator first approaches his fellow-economistsin England with the question : What is thepolicy of the Bank of England? With onevoice they reply that they do not know thepolicy of the Bank and would consider it animpertinence to raise such a question withthe officials of the Bank. Next, one beginsa search for statistical information as a basisfor certain inferences, but the difficulty isimmediately confronted that the financialstatement of the Bank itself is so ambiguousas to be almost meaningless, and the financial reports of joint stock banks are likewisenotorious for brevity and vagueness. Having come face to face with these obstacles,I decided to go direct to London bankersand financial authorities and, at the riskof being considered aggressive, frankly in-quire about the nature of the policy of theBank of England. I soon discovered thesebanking authorities were willing to discussquite frankly the banking policy of the greatLondon institution. I interviewed aboutseventy-five such authorities during the summer and from the information thus obtainedI have been able to set up a rather definitestatement of the fundamental policy of theBank of England.At the end of the summer I returnedto one of my professional colleagues, who at the beginning of the summer had warnedme that officials of the Bank would considerit an impertinence if I were to ask themabout the policy of the Bank of England,and told him of my experiences and chidedhim for his timidity in failing to go directto the banking authorities themselves in asimilar manner. His reply was interesting.He claimed that English bankers expectedAmericans who come over there to be aggressive and would tolerate inquisitivenesson the part of Americans when they wouldnot tolerate it from native Englishmen.In a brief statement of this kind, it isimpossible to attempt to state the results ofmy research more than to say that the results included a considerable amount of statistical information, which has not pre-viously been published and which affordsbasis for calculation of the velocity of bankdeposits of England, and a large mass ofmaterial upon the constitution, powers, andstandards of the policy of the Bank of England. The Bank is in a criticai position fortwo primary reasons. One reason is thatthe Governor of the Bank has urged therest of the world to go back to a goldstandard and the world has not only ac-cepted this advice but has gone so far inaccumulating domestic stocks of gold re-serves that failing prices have dominatedthe economie situation in England. Theother reason is that England has not beenable to escape from the throes of unemploy-ment, and many powerful interests in England hold the Bank responsible for thischronic unemployment. These two problems are far from solution and the Bankspolicy in dealing with them may be thoughtof as in the process of constructive change.Nevertheless, such change promises to berelatively slow as anyone will understandwho appreciates the respect of Britishbankers for 'tradition and conservatism infinancial affairs.220THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 221VIRGINIAELECTRIC and POWER CO.Wins Highest AwardThe Charles A. Coffin Foundation Gold Mèdal,given annually to the company which has donemost for the development of electric railwayservice, has been awarded for 1927 to the VirginiaElectric and Power Company, W. E. Wood,President. This company is under the executivemanagement of Stone & Webster, Inc.Stone & WebsterINCORPORATEDCommerce andMAX B. Sherman, '22, is now auditorfor the Covenant Club of Chicago.Roy G. Fisher, '27, has recently becomeoffice manager for the American Radiatorcompany, of White Plains, New York.J. D. Craig, A.M. '23, recently was ap-pointed manager of the edible products division of Spencer Kellogg Sons, Inc., Buffalo, N. Y.William L. Embree, '25,, is at presentvice-president and production manager ofC. R. Gleason & Co., Chicago.Parker M. Holmes, A.M. '24, was appointed assistant professor of marketing atGeorgia School of Technology at the beginning of the present school year.Sam Salam, '27, is now senior accountantwith the Associate Audit Co., of Chicago.Thomas Arthur Shoop, '27, is now inthe employ of the Omaha Packing Co. inChicago.Hyla M. Snider, A.M., '28, has been ap-pointed instructor in economics, shorthandand typing in the Frances Shimer School,Mount Carroll, 111.Alfred L. McCartney, '21, was appointeddistrict office supervisor of the Proctor &Gamble Distributing Co., Cincinnati, onDee. 1.Dwight L. Palmer, A.M., '26, becamean instructor in economics at Beloit College,Beloit, Wis., at the beginning of the presentschool year.Juell F. Reed, '22, has recently been appointed Trust officer of the Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank, Riverside,Calif.James V. Root, '27, is now assistant station director of radio station WIBO, Chicago.Persis Weaver, A.M., '27, is an investment salesman for A. G. Becker, New AdministrationYork. Miss Weaver is the first woman tobe employed as a salesman by the Beckerorganization.William H. Adler, '24, is now assistantto the advertising manager of Marks Brothers theatres, Chicago.Ruth Plimpton Barker, '21, is teachingin Burbank high school, Burbank, Calif.Joseph Lester Burgess, '25, is now assistant purchasing agent for the Pepsodent Co.Loyal T. Claridge, '23, recently becameassistant treasurer of the Hydraulic PressBrick Co., Chicago.Almena Dawley, A.M., '15, has recentlybecome engaged in social case work at BrynMawr college in addition to her duties aschief social worker at the child guidanceclinic, Philadelphia.W. E. Dickerson, Ph.D., '26, was appointed assistant professor of economics atthe University of Pittsburgh this year.James A. Donovan, '13, is now managerof the bond department of the BoulevardBridge bank, Chicago.Eugene F. Hulaas, A.M., '24, becameprofessor of business administration in Gus-tavus Adolphus College this year.J. H. Hildreth, A.M., '28, is assistantcomptroller for the Roessler & HasslacherChemical Co., Niagara Falls, N. Y.J. Virgil Huffman, '26, is a theatre or-ganist for the National Theatres Corp. atRoanoke, Va.James Roy Jackson, Ph.D., '27, has beenappointed professor of finance at SaintLouis University.F. H. Kaufman, '22, recently was appointed sales manager for Straus Bros. Co.,Inc., Rochester, N. 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Breckinridge have been appointed dele-gates from the National Conference ofSocial Work to the International Conference of Social Work meeting in Paris inJuly.Elizabeth Wisner, Fellow in 1925-26 and1927-28, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Social Work in the Tulane University of Louisiana.Florence Hutsinpillar, Chicago School ofCivics, Fellow in 1926-27, spent last summer in England and returned to accepta position with the United States Children'sBureau, Washington, D. C.Mamie Ruth Davis, MA., 1927, is a social worker with the State Child WelfareDepartment, Montgomery, Alabama.Charlotte A. Crawley, MA., 1927, issuperintendent of Public Welfare for Al-bermarle County, Charlottesville, Virginia.Wilma Walker, A.B., Drake University,1922, MA., State University of Iowa,1924, has been appointed as Lecturer inSocial Economy and Assistant Supervisor offield work, in the School of Social Work.Mr. A. Wayne McMillen, who recentlyhas been appointed to the faculty of theSchool, is also serving as Director of astudy undertaken by the Locai CommunityResearch Committee and the National Association of Community Chests and Coun-cils, on "Registration of Social Statistics,"Announcement is made of the publicationof the following Social Service Monographswhich are published in conjunction with theSocial Service Review :The Bail System in Chicago, by ArthurL. Beeley, Ph.D.The Illinois Adoption Law, by ElinorNims, Ph.D.Medicai Social Case Record, Edited byS. P. Breckinridge.The Young Cripple and His Job, byMarion Hathway, A.M.The National Association of VisitingTeachers has sent the following students on fellowships to study at the School : SusanFaherty, Phoenix, Arizona; Bianche Ferguson, Racine, Wisconsin; Elta PortwoodPortland, Oregon; and Bernice ScroggieSt. Louis, Missouri.Floyd M. Lindeman, Fellow in 1926-27, is now Director of medicai social workat the Public Health Institute of Chicago.William Maynard is acting as his assistant.Emily Barrows, MA., 1927, is nowInstructor in the Department of Economicsand Sociology at Wellesley College.Siao-Mei Djang, MA., 1927, is at present studying at the London School ofEconomics, London, England.Marion Hathway, MA., 1927, has beenappointed Associate in the Department ofSocial Work at the University of Washington.Enid Rosabelle Rich, MA., 1927, isresearch worker for the Chicago Heart Association, City of Chicago Health Department.Harriet C. Cade, MA., 1927, and Se-ville McReynolds, are now with the Voca-tional Guidance Bureau of Chicago, Boardof Education.Mildred Scheirich has accepted a position with the Family Welfare Society ofLouisville, Kentucky, as case worker.Marion B. Smith, is now case worker forthe Chicago Home for the Friendless.Ruth S. Alien, Leila Kinney, GertrudeM. Price, Francelia Stuenkel, Mona H.Volkert, and Bessie Weibel have gone toPhiladelphia for temporary field researchwork positions with the U. S. Children'sBureau.Merle E. Irwin has accepted a positionas family case worker with the FamilyWelfare Society of Oak Park, Illinois.Evelyn Randall, MA., 1927, CatherineRoherty, Ph.B., 1927, Willie Zuber Bat-tey, MA., 1922, Lucie Hay, Pauline Reed,and Mildred Henson, have become familycase workers for the United Charities ofChicago.224SOCIAL SERVICE ADMINISTRATIONSome of the people who were in residenceJuring the last year and have now takenpositions :Five students have taken positions as visit-jng teachers: Bianche Ferguson andDorothy Wallis are with the public schoolsin Denver; Elta Portwood is in Portland,Oregon; Bernice Scroggie has gone toGrand Rapids, Michigan; Susan Faherty isin Phoenix, Arizona.Laura Dester and Elizabeth Grahamhave each taken charge of county social workin a county of Iowa; Lucilie Marsh hastaken a New York county under the NewYork State Charities Aid.Anita Jones, MA., August, 1928, is withthe United States Children's Bureau inNew Mexico working on a project to improve the birth registration statistics there.Rhoda Starr, MA., August 1928, is anassistant social economist with the UnitedStates Children's Bureau.Olga Losa, graduate student in SocialService Administration, 1927-28, is now thesocial worker in the pediatrie clinic in oneof the hospitals in Pittsburgh.John Mitchell, Ph.B., August 1928, iswith the Public Health Institute in Chicago.Martha Andrew and LeRoy Clementshave taken positions with the Juvenile Pro-tective Association of Chicago. Several students have taken positions with the UnitedCharities of Chicago: Lucie Hay, MildredHenson, Virginia Mitchell, Julia Reich-man Scott, Doris Mode, Carol Hurd, VestaMae Bradford and C. Burnham Hill.LawEx-' 11 — Irwin N. Walker is doingCorporation Law. He is general counselfor the Curtiss Candy Company, makersof the famous "Baby Ruth" candy.'14 — Stephan Osusky, J.D. '16, Envoyextraordinary of the Czechoslovak Republic«1 Paris is a delegate to the ReparationsCommission in Paris, Chairman of the Su-pervisory Commission of the League of Na-tions, and Delegate to the Assembly of theLeague of Nations. His address is 15Avenue Charles Flognet, Paris, France. AnotherFor war d StepTHE meat packing indus-try, like others, has keptstep with the times.First was the peddling ofmeat from a wagon.Then the buteher whodressed his own animals.Concentrated populationbrought the packing house,with live animals shippedlong distances.The refrigerated meat car,developed largely by G. 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Jamieson, announces hisassociation with the firm of McDaniel andJamieson for the general practice of law at642 Title Insurance Building, Los AngelesCalifornia. Mr. Jamieson will specializéin Patent litigation.'26— Dan D. McCullough has an-nounced the opening of offices at 500 TheMutual Building, 208 North Capitol Avenue, Lansing, Michigan.'28 — Milton Weiberger is living at 698West End Avenue, New York City.MARRIAGESBIRTHS, ENGAGEMENTSDEATHSMARRIAGESCharles Rademacher '12, to Mabel AnnaBeedle '14, December 24, 1928. At home6203 Kimbark Ave., Chicago.Mary Prince '16, to Amos RichardsonOctober 18, 1928. At home Edinburg, 111.Truman Squire Potter '22, M.D. '27,to Jean Dickinson Ex-'28. At home Win-dermere East, Chicago.Frederic G. Garrison, '22 to Anne FeliceHopper Aprii io, 1928, in London. Mr.and Mrs. Garrison have been living inSpain since their marriage.Fred Purdam, '23, M.D. '26 to CarmelHayes, '24. At home East Brady, Pennsylvania.Doretta Bartholomaus, '24 to WilliamHalme November 19, 1927. At home LaSalle, Illinois.Dorothy Smith, '24 to Mac HarperSeiferth, '24, S.M. '25, M.D. '27. Athome 123 Fairfield Ave., Rockford, Illinois.Hugh C. Graham, '2, M.D. '26 toHelen Marion Waggoner August 7, I92$.At home 1235 South Boulder, Tulsa, Okla.Marjorie A. Van Arsdale '24, to RobertB. Niemeyer Nov. 5, 1927. At home 6120Kimbark Ave., Chicago, 111.Donald M. Jacobsen, '26 to Edna Rod-gers October 17, 1928. At home 1033Ontano Street, Oak Park, Illinois.MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, ENGAGEMENTS, DEATHS 227Stephens CollegeColumbia, MissouriA Junior College forWomenFully Accredited by theUniversity of ChicagoLet Us Teli You About theFour Year Junior CollegeCourse for Your DaughterJAMES M. WOODPresidentAbbot Academy1828-1929For a century one of New England'sleading Schools for Girls»National PatronageAdvanced Courses for High Schoolgraduates. College Preparation. Ex-ceptional opportunities in Art andMusic. Outdoor Sports.Address: Bertha Bailey, PrincipalBox P, Andover, MassachusettsD. Truett Gandy, M.D. '28 to MargaretJordan of New Orleans September 20,^28. At home 521434 Drexel Boulevard.Russell E. Neff, M.D. '28, to CarolineLee Hill May 31, 1927. At home Dothan,Alabama.BlRTHSTo Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hillman (An-geline VanZante) '27, a son September22, 1928, at Chicago. .To Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Loweth (AliceLee) 'n, a daughter Anne, October 3,1928, at Cleveland Heights, Ohio.To John G. Cleary Jr. '14, and Mrs.Cleary (Dorothy Higgs) '16, a son, RobertHiggs, July 26, 1928, at Highland Park,Illinois.To Joseph P. Cary '16, and Mrs. Carya son, J. Paul, March 27, 1928 at MountPleasant, Michigan.To Sidney A. Sheridan '24, and Mrs.Sheridan (Diana Richards) '27, a son,Sidney Dover, September 11, 1928 at Chicago.To Mr. and Mrs. Ezra P. Rounds(Melvina Scoville, '23) a son, Stephen Pike,October 7, 1928, at Exeter, New Hampshire.To Mr. and Mrs. Herbert R. Mund-henke (Mary E. 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Mr. Adams'who was a noted authority on geography,was for eight years editor of the Bulletin 6fof the American Geographical Society.George C. Sikes, Ph.M. '94, July 201928, at Chicago. Mr. Sikes, who was aformer secretary of the Municipal Voters'League and of the Chicago Bureau of PublicEfficiency, was for many years a writer ofeditorials and special articles for the Chicago Daily News.Harry E. Scott, M.D. 'oo, at Argyle^Wisconsin, March 24, 1928.Henry B. Carré, Ph.D. '13, Professor ohBiblical Theology at Vanderbilt University,Nashville, Tennessee, January 30, 1928 atNashville.Abraham A. Klapman, '20, J.D. '22,;June 16, 1928, in an accident at ChicagqWillis Clay, M.D. '8o November 30,1928, at Rochester, Minnesota, followingan operation.Edward T. Stone, '82, December 22,1928, at his home in Minneapolis. At thetime of his death he was purchasing agentfor the Soo Line, having been in theiremploy forty-two years.Robert W. 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