' jrei.i.v-'uj.^c**- ***cBfCQifucrsftii offroVOL. XXI NUMBER 8JUNE, 1929CHICAGO IMPRESSIONSRESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIESPRESIDENT HUTCHINS AS OTHERSSEE HIMSOJOURN ON A SUMMITSPACE AND STARSBLACKFRIARS¦»Books Alumni News AthleticsBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI COUNCILBooks about theUniversity of ChicagoWILLIAM RAINEY HARPERFirst President of the University of ChicagoBy Thomas W. GoodspeedAn inspiring story of a great educator — friend of presidents, bishops,kings, and capitalists, and of every freshman in the Universitywhich he made. $3.00, postpaid $3.15The University ofChicago ChapelA GuideBy Edgar J. GoodspeedThis sympathetic interpretation andguide to one of the great Gothic buildingsof this country will be as interesting tothose who have not seen the Chapel asto those who have. 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Her frown dooms a product or anindustry.To marketing plans involving women, Harry EdwardFreund brings a wealth of knowledge of woman psychologyaccumulated through years of study.His counsel may give to your advertising the factors thatmean woman's approvai and consequent success.A copy of Mr. Freund' s booklet "Today — the Day of Woman" an ex-haustive study of the world wide progress of ¦women, zvill be mailed uponreauest. Send ten cents to cover postale and handlinn.Member: American Association of Advertising Agencies & National Outdoor Advertising Buri**I A4 T IThe University made a deep impression0n one of her recent visitors. "Nothing Ihave seen during the whole of my visit inthe New World has impressed me sodeeply, giving the supreme vision of a crea-tion of sheer genius," writes Mr. C. F.Andrews, in referring to the UniversityChapel. This is praise, indeed, from a dis-criminating critic, an Englishman by birth,a Cambridge man by education, and longthe associate and co-worker of Tagore inIndia. He oflers us an interesting pictureof the University as seen through thesympathetic eye of an outlander, and makessome pertinent suggestions regarding thephysical development of the campus.John Dollard has made an intensivestudy of the research work that is beingcarried on in the Humanities at Chicago.He has epitomized the results of this workin a series of articles that will appear in theMagazine, discussing such subjects as TheOrientai Institute, *A History of Ideas, AStudy in Platonism, The Arthurian Leg-ends and Balzac and the Sociological Novel.This series will continue through the com-ing year.Press comment upon the election ofRobert Maynard Hutchins to the presi-dency of the University gives evidence notonly of the important position that Chi-THE Magazine is published at 1009 Sloan St.,Crawfordsville, Ind., monthly from Novemberto July* inclusive, for The Alumni Council ofthe University of Chicago, s8th St. and Ellis Ave.,Chicago, 111. 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Whenever I gopast it, in different directions, whether inthe early morning light, or in the middle ofthe day, or at the time of evening sunset, oreven late at night in the darkness, it has im-pressed me more and more with its ownmajesty. Nothing I have seen during thewhole of my visit in the New World hasimpressed me so deeply giving the supremevision of a creation of sheer genius. Notonly has the prospect from the outsidegrown upon me, but whenever I have en-tered the building, either for silent medita-tion or for congregational worship, I havefound an atmosphere already existing whichcalms the human spirit and makes forpeace. This is remarkable to me in a building which is stili so new; for there can beno question that the sense of peace growsin any building that is used for religiouspurposes as the generations go by and isin many respects a slow growth of time.Here, however, that very atmosphere seemsalready to be present in spite of the new-ness of the building. I can only feel* that the devotion of the architect has alreadygiven something of his own life and spiritto this unique creation of his genius.Another sight in the University of Chicago has impressed me, and I would like towrite about it. It is the beauty of the frontof University buildings, beginning with theChapel and going on to the Hospital, asit is seen from the Midway. There is avery pleasing reminiscence of the ChristChurch Meadows at Oxford, and something also of a certain view of Cambridge,which I cannot quite recali in detail. Inspring-time, or in the late autumn, whenthe trees are not so bare as they are at thiswinter season, there must be a furtherbeauty not visible at present. It is not dif-ficult to picture the added pleasure thatwould come at such seasons from the ampiefoliage that lines the meadows.There is one open space beyond the Hospital, leading up to the cross road wherethe trolleys run, which is stili unoccupiedby buildings. It would appear to me thatthe filling up of this final corner may bethe crowning achievement in the University of Chicago. The present Hospital, as421422 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEit lies back, is in its own way striking, andits form will mellow with age and grow inbeauty as the ground is filled with care-fully ordered foliage. I have never seenanything else like it for a Hospital; and itis suited to the place where it stands, setback on the Midway but yet an integraipart of it. It forms one parallel (if I mayso cali it) to the University Chapel at theother end. But what building can ad-equately fili in that corner beyond the Hospital so as to complete harmoniously thisarchitectural front? That to me is a verypuzzling problem. It should not be ofany great height, for perpendicular heightis already given by the Hospital and theChapel. It should rather give the frontage,that is even now so beautiful, some furtherhorizontal line to carry the eye forward.Let me, if I may venture to do so, throwout one or two suggestions that may ormay not be of value to those who have sotruly sought to represent what is noble inthe University architectural designs.I wonder whether it would be possible,for instance, to adopt anywhere, within theline of the present architecture, thosepeculiar forms of beauty that arise fromlines of trees, like the cypress and the pop-lar, as contrasted with the maple and theelm. It is quite possible that neither ofthe trees I have mentioned may be able tostand the severity of the winter climateof Chicago. In that case, something of thefir or pine variety might give the uprightsoaring line in foliage, which lends suchdignity when it is mingled with the beautyof the perpendicular architecture itself.I can well remember the amazing dif-ference that was made even to the TajMahal, at Agra, when Lord Curzon intro-duced a doublé row of cypress trees to carryoff the bare effect of the Taj standing alonewith its cold marble. In other places, also,the cypress has done wonders in giving newbeauty to the ancient monuments of Northern India. Is it not possible to get someof these effects in the spacious grounds thatstili fortunately are open around the University of Chicago? One thing is clearto me, namely, that the University Chapel itself might have its own design renderedstili more perfect if great care is taken withevery sapling or plant set near it, that shallgrow into a tree in the future. They mayeither help the beauty or spoil it. Thegreatest care is needed in the selection, be-cause we are working, as the architecthimself has worked, for the centuries tocome.Another thing that has been pressing onmy mind continually as I have wandered upand down these avenues during the earlyhours of the day in solitude and have takenin the glory of the morning. There is already a tender green in the grass whichgrows so well in this part of Chicago.These lawns along the Midway give softshades of color that soothe the eye andsatisfy the inner needs of the soul. I haveseen this beauty, for instance, this morningunder a cloudless sky; the blue and thegreen, along with the gray of the stone,form together a mingling of hues that inevery way is pleasing.But I have wondered whether, in thedifferent seasons of the year, the wealth ofcolor of flowers has yet been made tomingle with the green and the blue andthe gray. I can imagine a glorious pag-eantry of flowers, for instance, in someof these vacant plots, which would give tothe other beauties of the scene a richnessali its own. We are in danger, in ourmodem life, of leaving out these rarebeauties distilled from the sunshine, whichnature herself has lavished in profusion onmankind. And I am a lover of nature tosuch an extent that I could wish, evenwithin the precincts of the University ofChicago, to have her brightest hues rep-resented as well as her tenderer tones.Possibly already this has been arranged forby those who clearly love the Universitywith ali their hearts. It may be that already in summer-time and spring-time, thisprofuse wealth of flowers has not been un-heeded as an adjunct to the glory of otherthings. But if the suggestion has not yetbeen taken up, it would be a great Joy tome when I come back to Chicago, at someother time, to see some of these avenuesCHICAGO IMPRESSIONS 423bright with red and gold, with purple andcrimson, thus adding a new radiance to thegreen of the grass and the ultra-marine ofthe sky.In Cambridge, for instance, which hadbeen my home during ali my earlier life,the scattered masses of flowers in the"Backs," covering the meadows at onetime with gold and at another time withwhite and crimson, had always given acharm that remained vivid before me; andwhen I returned to Cambridge last yearand found these flowers stili flourishing ingreat masses along the banks of the slow-moving Cam, in the meadows, it gave medelight. My heart went up with Joy insome such experience as Wordsworth feltwhen he carne across the nodding daffodils,of which he sings.Let me return once more, in conclusion,to those harmonies which I have already mentioned. While I have wandered upand down the avenues where the University buildings are clustered, I have comeback again and again to what appears to meto be the greatest glory of ali, namely, thatsingular frontage of architecture, facingthe Midway, with its closing glory of theUniversity Chapel — by far the mostbeautiful thing that I have seen in America.If only that one line of grey stone buildings can be kept unspoilt, and its dignityenhanced from year to year, by those whohave to complete it, then I can picture inmy mind's vision how, centuries hence, theUniversity of Chicago will offer somethingof the mysterious and haunting attractionwhich Oxford, with its dreaming spirespossesses, and Cambridge gives not lessuniquely, owing to the glory of King'sChapel, and its clustering buildings, seenacross the most perfect green lawns in theworld.meBond Chapel Cloister424 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEResearch in the HumanitiesBy John DollardAssistant to the PresidentIN ONE sense the modem researchscholar in the Humanities is a histo-rian with a highly specialized equip-ment and technique. His special equipmentis usually a command of another language;his technique is a method of finding andweighing historical facts. He digs out andoffers to us a perfect picture of a literarywork of the past, or of a vanished civiliza-tion, or of the development of languageitself. He shows us the mind of man inaction through historic time. He is a his-torian with special objectives.In the sixteenth century "Humanist"was a word designating a man who devotedhimself to the then recently recoveredclassical learning — to understanding, ap-preciating, translating, that exciting bodyof human experience which was locked up inthe books of the older civilization. Thattask of the sixteenth century has been doneby the Humanist. The culture of the Hel-lenistic world has been in a large partfamiliar to us for some four centuries, andhas become a part of the modem culturalsynthesis.The Humanities departments of modemuniversities are stili devoted to the taskof setting before their students the culturesof the world ; they give to the student contact with the languages and habits ofthought of other civilizations as well astheir own; they offer their students a vision, through the window of language, ofmen in other lands and other times, and ofhow these men saw life. This is teach-ing, that is, the passing on of the past as wenow know it.But research in the Humanities has another and equally significant objective.Research means the finding of new factsabout the past of man, and of fitting thesenew facts into new and more accurate pic-tures of his past. This activity is differentfrom passing on knowledge; it involvesgetting new knowledge, making a new syn thesis, which in its turn will become thematerial for better teaching in the future.We may say then that modem human-istic scholars are writing history, thatBreasted, Shorey, Manly, Nitze, Buck arecontributing each his paragraph or page orchapter to a history of the mind of man.This new history of man, which is yet un-written, will be no mere surface history ofthe boundaries of states, the imbecilities ofkings, the quarrels of parties and parlia-ments, or the clashes of armies. It willbe, rather, ali of these things, and besidesan account of ali of the slow changes,artistic, scientific, economical, social, reli-gious, and biological, by which you and Ihave come to be what we are today. Itwill be an account of men, living, creating,trading, worshiping, fighting, loving,changing, and, perhaps, progressing.Most of us will agree that this new history ought to be written; that every manought to get such a picture "of his. worldearly in his life; that if he could get sucha concept of his world he would live a moreuseful, rational, and happy life. Each ofus would then begin with a strong senseof our participation in an evolutionary ex-periment; we would know at the startsomething of naturai and social law andlearn to adapt ourselves to it; we mighteven achieve a strong sense, a deep religioussense, of responsibility for doing our partin the great experiment of human evolu-tion.But facts are needed to write history.We cannot write history out of our hopesor imaginings. If we expect the past toindicate what will happen in the future, wemust know what actually happened in thepast. This is the job of our humanists andhistorians — to give us facts, which willfree us from prejudice, make us at homein the world, enable us to adjust ourselvesto our environment.This study of man, his world, his mind,RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES 425is the absorbing intellectual adventure ofthe time. To its devotees it is thrilling asmere danger can hever be. It requiresstrength, skill, honesty, endurance of ahigh order. Truth about anything is baf-fling, elusive, and in its final form, alwaysbeyond reach. When it is achieved evenincompletely and in fragments it bringsenduring satisfaction. In this search fortruth ali of the sciences and humanities areworking in a co-operative army, which isa unit in its objectives and its standards.The naturai sciences are attempting to discover the nature of matter and energy;the biological sciences are gathering dataand formulating laws about man as a biological machine; the social sciences describewhat man has been and is now in his rela-tions with other men; and the Humanitiesare completing the social-historical pictureby showing man as an emotional, intellectual, artistic being. The net result of aliof these studies will be a new concept ofman which will become a factor in thecreation of individuai personality and inthe direction of the race.These studies, which will in the end produce a new historical concept of the humanrace, are in a fine human sense "practical."They are usable possessions of the race.They are practical in the sense that aliadditions to our knowledge are practical, asFaraday's induced electrical currents arenow practical, and as Michelson's measure-ment of the velocity of light will be.Whether it be the more accurate measure-ment of a physical Constant, or a new visionof the rise of civilized society in the valleyof the Nile, every new fact achieved is anew asset of the race which will later befìrmly set in the minds and personalitiesof new members of the race. We mustnot expect results too quickly, or that alinew facts will be of equal significance.Each new acquisition will find its own placein our racial heritage and will be useful inits own way.The scholar works because he wants toknow, because he is driven by curiosity, and his satisfaction lies in getting the answersto his questions. We encourage him towork and support him (however meagerly)while he works because he is, for the restof us, a useful man, delivering to the community results far in excess of whateverlittle the community gives him. We musturge him on, support him and use hisresults.Scholars both in America and abroad areworking on this great co-operative task ofwriting a new history of the mind of man.Each is contributing, asking and answeringquestions, checking the results of his fel-lows. It is a matter of pride to the MiddleWest that a fine and unusually representa-tive group of humanistic scholars are working at the University of Chicago — Manly,Breasted, Buck, Nitze, Shorey, Dargan,Beeson, Craigie, Baskervill, Ullman, Cross,and others — each driving his questionshome, each making his answers availableto a world curious about itself. These menare not doing ali of the humanistic researchat the University — they are its chief rep-resentatives. Among them they study anamazing range of human life and effort,their projects covering man from the timehis first raw cries were elaborated intospeech, through Egypt, Greece, the MiddleAges, down to the history of language inthe United States today. Each will comeout of his investigation of a particular pe-riod with new facts for the new history ofman.The essential thing about a human beingis the sum total of his aliveness, the extentto which he continuously exercises ali ofhis powers — mental, spiritual, and physical.These powers we lump under the word"personality." Perhaps we might say thatthe goal of research in the humanities isan enrichment of human personality, agreater awareness of the naturai and socialand spiritual world, a greater aliveness toexperiences of beauty — a greater conscious-ness and more intelligent participation inthe f ascinatirig human adventure of living.President Hutchins as Others See Him'|~pDUCATION," says the Baiti-Il more Sun in a recent editorial fol-"' " lowing the appointment of RobertMaynard Hutchins to the presidency ofthe University of Chicago, "is approachingthe condition of the publishing business, inwhich no one dares refuse a book by awriter under 25."I^rtunately, however, Mr. Hutchins'career indicates that his youth, thoughdoubtless in his favor, is by no means hissole qualification for his new job . . . theUniversity of Chicago seems to have a greatfuture before it."This view is held by the New YorkTimes, which believes that, "after ali, withhis exceptionally favorable family antecedente, his brilliant mind, and his variedadministrative experiences, added to histraining, his youth becomes almost an addedqualification." The Minneapolis Tribune,while admitting the existence of ClarenceCook Little of Michigan, Charles W. Eliotof Harvard and William Rainey Harperof Chicago, ali college presidents at theage of thirty-five, hastens to say, "the ageof a man has little to do with his mentalattainments. If a man is in any way re-markable, the earlier talents are given thewidest possible play the better, and thelonger they are given the widest possibleplay the better."The New York World, after reviewinggreat men of the past who reached successin their early thirties, concludes that "thenotion we are kinder to youth now thanour forefathers were is somewhat illusory.The answer, when such a man as Hutchinsis elevated to high position is the same nowas it always has been: his talents have puthim there, and the predilections of the agehave little to do with it. Wheref ore itseems to us that the young President-electof the University of Chicago is ali the moreto be congratulated." The New YorkHerald-Tribune thinks that "his appointment does not mean that the matured judg- ment requisite to posts of leadership cannowadays be found in any man of thirtyit means that for a man of thirty Dr.Hutchins is unusual. A man's age is neverof much importance compared with hismind and spirit, and though most men learnby long experience, there are always somewho miraculously can pass over such ap-prenticeship."On the other hand, the Hartford Timesemphasizes the chances for the young president to make mistakes: "A fierce light willbeat upon Dr. Hutchins as president, merelybecause of the fact of his youth. It is in-evitable that he will make mistakes, perhapsserious ones. Yet his whole experience, themanner in which he has borne responsi-bili ty and justified confidence reposed, indicates that the Chicago trustees have chosenwith perspicaci ty.""The very fact that Robert M. Hutchinsis willing to undertake the great responsi-bility of this university presidency is prob-ably a token of his fitness for the task,"thinks the Boston Herald, and further saysthat he may himself become not only thepresident of a great university, but one ofour greatest university presidents.James Weber Linn of the English de-partment, writing in the Herald Examinerunder his column entitled "Round AboutChicago," says, "Like Little of Michiganthis young man was chosen for his personality as well as for his ability. UnlikeLittle, any assertion of his personality hewill find welcomed instead of f rowned upon.That is the great advantage of an institu-tion which does not have to depend on'legislatore' to qualify its freedom.""Does not youth lean to youth?" is aquestion mooted by some. The DetroitNews feels that "a man like Dean Hutchinshas not lived long enough to forget the vividimpressions of his own student days." Thiswill act in his favor, the Chicago DailyJournal believes: "Whatever the almamater, ali student bodies are essentially the426PRESIDENT HUTCHINS AS OTHERS SEE HIM 427same. Ali are prone to chafe at restric-tion, to complain of being 'misunderstood.'This complaint Dr. Hutchins' incumbencywill invalidate, for Chicago's student bodywill soon realize that he was too recentlyan undergraduate himself to have lost touchwith the manifold phases of undergraduatelife." -Another view is taken by the MilwaukeeJournal: "A young man at the head of auniversity will not necessarily appeal moreto youth, as experience shows. Maturitytends to be broader in its sympathies, andif not less sure of itself andthe verities of life, at leastless sure of its omniscience indirecting other lives."Dr. Hutchins' part in theestablishment of a new in-stitute of human relations, amove which the ChicagoDaily News considers "haschallenged attention ali overthe educational world," isconsidered to be indicative ofthe new presidente enthusi-asm for the social sciences. Says the ChicagoTribune:"The pre-eminence of the University ofChicago since its founding has been in thenaturai sciences. The university has haddistinguished and even great men in thesocial sciences and humanities, but it is doingthem no discredit to say they have beenovershadowed by the accomplishments ofthe Michelsons and the Chamberlins. Thenaturai sciences can now pretty well takecare of themselves. Dr. Hutchins may becounted upon to give the other departmentsof the university the benefits of his en-thusiastic leadership."The Chicago Evening Post likewise considers the establishment of the institute of human relations ari "effort to meet a needwhich has been felt widely in scientific andeducational circles, — the bridging of the in-creasing gap between science and human-ism."How does Yale feel about the loss of heryoung dean?One New Haven newspaper, the TimesUnion, feels that Yale is to lose one of itsablest and most progressive leaders and in-structors, and concluding says, "He hasrare qualities of heart and mind. He willbe greatly missed at Yale and the stronghope on the part of Yale menis that he will not be longa way. He is a Yale manand ought to stay at Yale."Says the Yale AlumniWeekly :"It is a great honor anda great opportunity that hascome to this young Yale man,and those who know hisworth at Yale will watchhis work at Chicago withkeen interest . . . One fun-damental question to be solved will bewhether we are to proceed further intomass education with its superficial results, orinto a more intensive and certainly a morethorough education of selected material.Yale's Law School leader has shown hisappreciation of this problem at Yale. Hemay be depended upon to impress hisleadership in its solution in his far largerfield of usefulness to the country that hewill now take up.""And it may be noted" muses the Louis-ville Times, "in case a certain old ghostabout preachers' sons has not yet been laid,that the president-elect of one of the coun-try's greatest institutions of higher learningenjoys an additional distinction in that hewas born in a manse."It's about time to changethe college yell toHUTCHICAGOthinks AlbertJudson Fisher, '76428 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEMitchell TowerSojourn on a SummitBy Henry Justin Smith, '98VIIi.THE more one saw of Professor X —and the university, the clearer itwas that in no lesser place couldsuch a man find happiness.Here was "consideration." If a personof genius chose to keep entirely out of theacademic routine, "they" let him. If hehad originai, even revolutionary, ideas basedupon a sound knowledge, he could expressthem without fear. If he conceived a project, some daring trip or other into theunexplored, he could nearly always getleave of absence, and not infrequently havehis expenses paid. These were great daysfor explorers, whether they tackled junglesor did their pioneering in laboratories. Asin the days of searching for the NewWorld, when subsidies for ships and menwere lavishly spent, so now there was get-ting to be enthusiasm for equipping intellec-tual voyages. To finance them wasbecoming almost fashionable.The Lowlander noted, at first, with sur-prise, the activities of faculty men. Herewas one who photographed stars, thereanother who spent his time analyzing theatomic strutture of crystals; yonder, onewho was just back from a sojourn in Indianvillages, and was about to visit pigmytribes. In one loft worked a zealot whohad passed the summer in a desert diggingùp skeletons. In another workshop, be-hold a scholar who, from rolls of papyruspicked up in an Egyptian slum, was saidto be recohstructing an epoch. At TheClub, one might encounter one day a manwho had just discovered a chain of unknownmountains ; the next, he might meet abotanist back from a wild South Americanswamp, where he had settled a border dispute by a study of tree-trunks.Tremendous travelers, these professors ;daring bargainers ; intrepid marksmen withcamera and even with rifle, toughened cit- izens who knew how to curse a crew ofnegro bearers; hard-headed, blunt-spokenfellows, who were at the same time, thoughthey tried to conceal it — idealists.The Lowlander had never seen so manyidealists in his life.Not that these men rolled up their eyesor were sugary optimists. They did notafHict one with "God's in his heaven." Onthe other hand, they did not feel that Goddwelt in the land of Get-what-you-can-out-of-it. One never heard at The Club suchremarks as "I put it ali over him;" "I de-cided to go in for what there is in it;" or"It stands to make me a nice little profit."One was not likely to find a scientistcooking up publicity or peddling his por-trait. One never found him using politicaipulì to get into a prize fight for nothing.If one of these men ever based his en-deavor on the hope of being rich, he keptquiet about it. If he ever urged a claimfor more salary on the ground that he haddamn-well earned it, and if the universitydidn't come through he would quit, he atleast presented his case in different language.It was truly hard, at first, to believe insuch unselfish principles as seemed to governthe world of the intellect. These peoplemust have in their veins some of the poisonwhich the serpent injected in pristine times.But instead of hunting lapses from stand-ards, or trifling jealousies lurking in by-ways of the Summit, the Lowlander choseto seek for the opposite. In fact, he be-came ambitious to locate the top-notch,hundred per cent instance of scientific self-sacrifice.2.The search took some time.One friend recommended a study of alady who had spent years investigating can-cer. The description of the lady soùndedpromising.42943 o THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE"She lives," said the informant, " in whatused to be a two-flat building just west ofthe quadrangles. By the way, have youever seen the mournful assemblage ofstreets in that region, where no house isabove third-rate, where muddy steps leadto littered sidewalks, and where the elec-tric bells under mail boxes bear teli-talecards saying 'Ring once for Mr. Z — ;''Ring twice for Mr. Y— ?' Those buildings are crammed full of young researchmen, Japanese students, even missionaries.I mean, missionaries home on leave. Theylike the cheap rent, and the nearness to theuniversity. They — ""But about the cancer lady — ""Oh, to be sure . . . Well, her placeis a near relation to those decadent fiatbuildings, but isolated from them by a va-cant lot and a yard full of shrubs. Nothingon it to show it's a laboratory as well as adomicile. It is both — or was. A sadbuilding to look at; not very decrepit,though ... I went there once. I knocked.The first sign of life was the rush of a pairof bull-dogs within the hall. They leapedup, like greyhounds, almost to the top ofthe glass half of the door."Presently there carne up behind them alady with grey hair and determined face,who peered out at the visitor, decided hewas harmless, and thereupon, with a stronggrip, seized each of those bull-dogs aroundthe midriff, hurled one of them back, andwith the hand thus free for action unlockedthe door. I entered, with many apologies,and gooseflesh on my ankles."The lady was extremely hospitable. Hermanner was hurried, and doubtless the in-terruption set back her work; but she waskind enough to banish the dogs perma-nently, and attend to my little errand.Without saying anything, she made asthough inviting me to look about the roomsof that lower floor. Strange tenancy, I teliyou : Cage upon cage of mice ; whole tiers ofcages; thousands of mice. They werelaboratory subjects. They were numberedafter a most complicated system. Theplace reeked of them . . . The only otherhuman being in sight was a Japanese assistant, melancholy to his very toes.""But the lady must have other company.""No doubt; though it is quite possibleshe lives alone, on the upper floor, whichnaturally, I did not visit. We went intoa tiny office, with only a plain table, achair, some papers and magazines, and afew nondescript objects. And there thelady told me something about why sheraised those countless families of mice, andobserved how, in what ratio, etc, thecreatures contracted cancer, or remainedimmune; how the disease descended fromMouse Z 48 to its nephew, while verylikely L 59 did not get cancer at ali.""Indeed!""She has proved it. Stili those disclo-sures did not impress me nearly so much asthe thought of how this woman, having longsince discarded ali except the pursuit of analmost endless research, had immured her-self in a building like that, with such un-speakably sad companions . . . Extremelyintelligent woman, too, as one need hardlysay. A great scientist, my boy; and a dem-onstration of the absolute singleness of pur-pose cali it fanatical if you will — whichmoves such a person . . . You see a manin that role, and you consider him singular,perhaps, something of a hermit. You seea woman spending her life that way, andyou can't help thinking about the contrastwith the general run of women, moved bytheir emotions, mad about domesticity—most of them — childish in mind, satisfiedwith love, children, and ali that . . . Thiswoman scientist, I thought, had, years be-fore, turned her back on the whole so-called naturai business of being femmine. . . And yet she was a lady withal. Noneof the arrant masculine about her. Awayfrom her laboratory she could pass for anice librarian sort of person, never knownto soil her hands ..."But the things she showed me . . •One was the manuscript of a tremendousarticle, full of charts, and so on, about togo to a magazine which published nothingbut the conclusions of the greatest researchpeople in the world. And it carne out thatSOJOURN ON A SUMMIT 43ithe Europeans knew her better than peoplehere do. Hypotheses offered by famousmen, working in foreign universities onfoundations with fancy names, had beenjolted by this woman and her mouse cages. . . Amazing!""Was there nothing she seemed towant?""Yes ; a bigger appropriation."It nearly always carne back to that.Here was the "cancer woman," workingalone, having little contact with adminis-tration, and no spectacular setting at aliwherewith to excite the "great indifferentpublic," yet dreaming of some day beingendowed with a fortune. But for what?Not to live in ease, to travel, to wear fineraiment; just to get more "results."3.The Lowlander continued his quest.He was interested also in the gentlemanwho reconstructed the prehistoric ancestorsof the carnei. The development of thisartist — a title he had fully earned — hadbeen curious. European-born, and wellborn, he had somehow drifted into Amer-ica's far west, where, according to report,he had became a camp cook. One day theoutfit crossed the trail of a party of archeol-ogists. They exchanged yarns. A newambition seized the cook. He became acamp follower of that group of sunburnedand sharp-eyed students, searching thedesert for the incredibly aged bones ofanimals. He learned to discern in a limycliff-side the valuable vertebrae and shin-bones of extinct creatures, half-buried andcamouflaged by dust.Soon, to the ability to "spot" those thingshe added a talent for reconstructing theremains. He got so he could teli just howji bone was related to another bone; and hebecame skilful in splicing, in tying, inarrangement of a skeleton — a task moredelicate than making a ship-model.The Lowlander found him, a spare, si-lent figure in a blouse, working on the topstory of a museum full of plaster-of-parismastodons, skeletons of three-toed horses,\ and gigantic, yawning skulls. He was picking bones out of a mass ofrubble, and fitting them into a half-corn-pleted quadruped of unknown antiquity.He was a little embarrassed by having avisitor; for no one ever sought him out.Ali summer he had prowled the wastelands, in the burning sun, and now, in thedays of early twilight, he was satisfied toapply his long, delicate fingers to the artwhich, somewhat related to that of thesculptor, demanded even more complex ana-tomical knowledge.A shy man, he wore a shadowy smile,and he would only say:"I found these vertebrae in westernNebraska. It is a very good specimen ofthe Eohippus.""How old?""One can't be sure; possibly 100,000,-000 years."He looked slantwise, like a painter, athis work. The beast's head was on, turnedin a naturai posture, like that of a woodcreature surprised. The paleontologistquite beamed at it."And you work here ali day long?""And evenings, too, sometimes."From his cell-like window could be seenthe scurryings of students, far below; thegroups of professors, with armsfull ofbooks, and talking with heads down, prob-ably about budgets; even the rush of auto-mobiles along the boulevard.Ali that meant nothing to him.Nor did he say a word about a larger appropriation.4.Well, there was also the man who duginto the earth for plant fossils. An athleticsort of person, a great walker and climber,and able to digest even restaurant food ina coal mining town. His feat was to havehimself lowered into an abandoned shaft,at the bottom of which, amid the darkrefuse of industry, he would often discover, here and there, a mass of limestonein which had been preserved, since untoldages, the lovely lineamenti of a flower orfern. Heaving the stone upon his muscularback, he would climb back to sunlight; or432 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEhe might attach the boulder to a rope, andhave it hauled to the surface. In his laboratory the stone would be sawed intosections. And the photographs showing theplants, organisms older than the coal-bedsthemselves, were of surpassing beauty. Theprofessor would pore over them like a con-noisseur before a Raphael; and he wouldlaugh loudly when asked about his "thrilling experiences."Then, too, there was "the ghost of thecard-room" — a monosyllabic genius who,after lunch, would sit in a corner watchinga bridge game and never playing. Hescarcely ever said anything, either; onecould not easily "place" his subject (thoughhe must have fitted into the curriculumsomewhere). But, once drawn out, whatastonishing lore he had about the flights ofbirds over the uneasy city, the systemic workof bees, the intelligence of lizards, thepedigrees of katydids! . . .His delightit was to lie "fiat on his belly in the pit'smuch mire," and feel "about his spine smalleft-things course, run in and out each arm,and make him laugh," the while he learnedtheir way of life. Apparently this more hispastime than his vocation.There was a sun-tanned fellow, hard toget anything out of, too, who it was said,could talk ali the Indian dialects, and someday would prove — or maybe it was, dis-prove — the theory that Mongolians werethe cousins of redskins.There was a mouse-like little man, always either going into the library or comingout of it. He had a hole there, somebodysaid, in which he was nibbling out thetruth about certain strange dialects.In a room off the museum where re-posed relics of Egyptian dynasties, wherethe statues of Pharoahs loomed spectrallybefore the janitors at night, there was anaffable gentleman with a white moustache,who organized vast expeditions to the Nile,and was glad to talk about them. Andhe would show hieroglyphics with a quainthistory, and teli the marvelous implicationsof these things — but a Lowlander wouldfail to follow it ali. What a fine fellowthis was, though, and he would smile at a hint that he was an epoch-maker.And, then, there was an Arabist. Whatdid a University, in this strident and care-less age, want with an Arabist?. 5-It was a troupe of mystery men,carrying a torch each .in his own dim cor-ridor of research, tapping at walls ofignorance.They were borers under the surface ofthings, impelled by no special hope of arriv-ing anywhere, but moved by curiosity aboutwhat lay just beyond.They would go on, almost unheard ofyears, and then suddenly burst out withsome revelation — cloth-bound and fineprint — which would echo from summitto summit, but remain unheard of in thevalley for months.Most of them had had a very hard timeof it.6.Gradually, the Lowlander gained knowledge of the curious histories, the struggles,the present satisfactions or plaints thatcheckered the progress of men bent notmerely on learning but on adding to whatcould be learned. He perceived howsimple, by comparison, it was to dole outa certain yard or two of established factsto a group of students so many hours aweek. He first suspected, then confirmed,the facts that the chore of conductingclasses, maybe for dumb undergraduates,of calling the roll, of reporting absences,of "jacking up" lazy kids, was a halteraround the necks of some of these ardentexplorers. And there was ever evidentthe anomaly of a "big research man" loadedwith routine because he had a departmentto manage. Having arrived hither, onseparate minor peaks, after no telling whatgruelling climbs, could they not breatheva bit? . . .A problem for the President.The Lowlander moved from discoveryto discovery, with growing sympathy. Butstili the "typical case" eluded him. Then,one day, in the sun-room of The Club, adiscursive gentleman told the story ofAlbert Z— .Space and Stars*By William BolithoTHE Society of Arts and Sciencesbanquet to Dr. Robert AndrewsMillikan and Prof. Albert Abraham]Vlichelson, two Americans who have fame,distinguished from notoriety, in the entireworld, was the first I have seen in NewYork in which there was no broadcastingapparatus.The top table was twice as long as daVinci's "Last Supper;" a sanhedrin ofknowledge. At each end were the twqpalms which are the symbols of feasting inour day rustling their long, slim fingers asthey detected the minute draft caused bythe ventilation. This endless row of theprinces of the brain contained nothing fantasticai nor picturesque even. But ali thesame it had much interest for amateurs ofhuman landscape.The mustache, which seven or eight ofthem wore, must hold many valuable cluesto the secret nature of its wearer, because itis always deliberately worn with a purpose.Clean shaving, or even a beard (if notricks are played with it), is quite negative;there is nothing to be deduced with a surehearing on the vanity, the hopes and fearsof those who keep these fashions. But oneof these great ones, for instance, had a long,circumflex mustache going down to thecorners of his mouth like a mandarin. Sucha thing must be an essentially important andpermanent part of its wearer, ideal of him-self as he wishes the world to see him.But Michelson's mustache, because it issimpler and more conventional, is less com-promising. It is small, short and gray,probably merely a relic like a football lette rof his youth in the American Navy, whichalone in the world has escaped the mora!pressure of the English and allows itsofficers to grow them ; compels them for aliI know. If this is a vanity, it is verydiscreet and the only one, I swear, he has.I have hardly ever, even among the digni-taries of the church, seen such complete* Publication ri ghts through the release from egotism as this man has; hisgestures and his voice, both while I spoketo him and when he made his speech, arethe outward and visible signs of a perfectphilosophic grace.*****He must have been a handsome youngman. He has risen to that inaccessible am-bition of knowing that his name will comeup as long as men care to know about thehistory of knowledge. Yet he evidently hascompletely succeeded in reducing his self,the ugly clamant ego, to the obscurely visible part of the back consciousness whereit belongs. Statesmen and artists who arehaving difficulties with an unruly ego shouldgo and look at Michelson, . or the EinsteinI saw pushing a shabby perambulator onthe promenade along Lake Leman, andlearn how a great man looks.Three plates from him on his right, onthe other side of the President and toast-master, sat Millikan. As they go throughthe courses and gentle conversation on eachside, I notice the dominant attitude of bothMichelson and Millikan is waiting. Michelson waits to defend. Millikan to attack*They are both in the same scale, that isto say, but pure opposites. In the youngerman's clean shaven face, his pointed nosethat tries to follow the main direction andkeep up with the speed, as it were, of hiseyes, in the Constant exhilaration of hissmile, there is a quality which I tried toname ali evening and finally agreed withmyself to cali daredevil. The man whoisolated the electron, the man who measuredlight.*****Michelson's speech was short and ex-temporaneous. He made it in a small,dulcet voice, almost soporific, as the voiceof a tried old friend that one has no effortor worry about tends to sound on the ear.At its end he received the applause, whichis the only material enjoyment of fame suchcourte sy of the New York World.433434 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEmen ever receive. Not the applause of amultitude, not even the thing a secondiate actor hears every night of the performance, not quite loud enough to bring himback before thecurtain. A ragged,timid, quite un-skilled and genuinehand-clapping. Butmust not the specifìcenjoyment of a bil-lion dollars also bea little thin?Millikan r i s e s.He has a surprise,a Christmas familysurprise, whichevery one in theplace knew aboutbut the recipient,Michelson, before itwas sprung. A special speech. Tomake it Millikanput down the cigarethe had been rollingnervously along thelength of his mouthand crumpled it up.He began to read.At the beginningwas a long, laboredjoke such as collegeprofessors make at farewell dinners, aquaint metaphor pursued, embroideredupon, harried, like a fugue. The egg,Millikan ; the hen, Michelson, who was hisprofessor; the nest, Chicago University.It means nothing to us outsiders, makingbread pills, this common-room humor, likethe murmur of monks at their beads to aparty of tourists. Michelson, with an ex-pression of the most affezionate delight,laughed at it a great deal, levering his blackcigar rakishly up under his mustache likea Bret Harte gambler-gentleman.And so Millikan went on. At first hekept both hands in his trousers pockets andswayed forward and backward gently fromthe waist. The fun was poked through.A. A. Michelson — a self-portraitHe carne to other matters more seriousI think I remember that he proceededthrough a technical, ever-gradually hotterpanegyric of Michelson's work, the valmof this lifelong me.nastic hunt for moredecimals to add onthe value of thevelocity of light.There was only onecopy of the speech atour table, and I didnot get it. But atlast Millikan wasled to stili broaderor higher ground.The energy of theatom, cosmic rays.Astronomy has ti»same vocabulary aithe highest lyriepoetry. Orbits, gal-axies, the extra gal-actic spirai nebulae»the depths of snow-f e d lakes, wherealone can be meas-ured the bombard-ment of stellar lightWe others, too,could understandwhere he was cono»ing to, the death ofone more paradisaical hope for humanity.As he carne on to this he drew his handsout and placed them on his watch chain,wide open, rigidly pivoted on the littlefinger. Cigars went out. The hall waidead silent. He was talking of the destinyof our race, these clots of blood on a dodiI teli you that was a magnificent speech IEven we, who knew nothing, set our teetband stared at him. The petty luxury ofthe hotel room, the walls themselves, re-ceded with a noiseless rush. We listenedto him like troops behind a Captain blow»ing a trumpet for us ali through the eternaisilences of infinite space. Michelson bini-self flicked off his cigar ash with his littlefinger, with a gesture that had plainly tWQmeanings.Blackfriars ThiOUR University Settlement in 1898foiind itself in need of funds. Fromthis the founding of the order ofBlackfriars can be indirectly traced. Prof.C. H. Vincent, inspired by the success ofthe Haresfoot Club productions at Wisconsin, called together a group composed ofProfessors Linn, Barrett, and Miller, andMiss Elizabeth Wallace with a suggestionthat the students and the faculty produce asimilar effort for the Settlement. Thematter was broached to about twenty of theleading campus men, who, impressed withthe project, immediately set to work tobuild up an organization. At this point,six years before the real Blackfriars is estab-lished, we find a rule providing that onlymen students could appear in the cast andehorus, or take part in planning for theproduction.On the evening of March io, 1898, thefirst performance of "The Deceitful Dean"was presented in the University gymnasium.A. A. Stagg, director of athletics, was inthe cast as "Charlie Chauter," while HenryGordon Gale, of scientific fame, cavortedin the ehorus. The Settlement fund wasincreased $1,600 as a result of the successof the production.Some few years later, in 1902 the facultyand students combined once more in theinterests of charity to produce "The Aca-demic Alchemist." It, too, was successful,and more money was added to the Settlement fund. A new field of activity wasbeing opened for the students of the University.The success of these pioneer productionsimpressed the students with the desirability' of an organization for the regular production of campus plays. During the earlywinter of 1904 Frank R. Adams, the firstAbbot of the Order, organized the menstudents under the name of the old mo-nastic order, "Blackfriars." Membership in-cluded one man from each fraternity andany other actors "fitted for amusing them- ough the Yearsselves and others." As an interesting re-flection of the "good old days" we have thefacts that the first petition of Blackfriarsfor a University charter was denied by theFaculty because, at the time, only three ofthe charter members were scholasticallyeligible. However, the difficulties werecleared up, and in 1904 "The Passing ofPalili Khan" was presented as the initialBlackfriar performance. The costuming,it might be noted, was managed by themothers, sisters, and "best girls," who combined to provide the necessary feminineapparel and to explain the technicalities in-volved.The presentation and scenery of theseearly shows were crude, but this servedto make them popular. The spirit of art-lessness characteristic of Blackfriar showscontrasted to the cold finish of professionalplays had a great appeal for the Universitystudents and friends who made up theaudiences. According to Frank O'Hara,'15, the present director of student activi-ties, this first period of Blackfriar historyextending from 1904 to 19 14 specializedin presentations of campus burlesques. TheUniversity and college life in generalwere featured in such plays as "The Rush-ing of Raxes," "Sure Enough Segrega-tion," "The Sign of the Doublé Eagle.""The Lyrical Liar," and "The Pursuit ofPortia."With the growth of the order differentefreets were attempted. From 19 14 to1921 we find what Mr. O'Hara terms theClassica! period. The productions had abroader, more universal aspect. The playswere better written, the music stately, andthe staging was more artistic. HamiltonColeman probably is the reason for thechange. In 19 14 he took up his duties asBlackfriars' coach in the production of"The Student Superior." This play wasmore than a musical show, for it aroused in-telligent criticism and marked a new era inBlackfriars' shows. Following with the43543« THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEyears carne "A Night of Knights," "A Rlie-nish Romance," "The Myth in Mandel,""The Naughty Nineties," "Barbara, Be-have," and "The Machinations of Max."The present period from 1921 on canwell be termed the "Syncopation Period."The music is becoming jazzier, the stagesfeatured are each year more sensational, the choruses larger and better trained. "ilLong, Susan," "Kaiti From Haiti,"Wallie, Watch Out," "Plastered faParis," and "The House That Jack Buih>#were aptly representative of the new Blackfriar idea. "Mr. Cinderella," with Donali!MacDonald III, as the new director, bidsfair to uphold a new order of things.Blackfriars of 1929By Charles A. WarnerThe AbbotI have been looking for an opportunityto thank those who have aided in the production of this year's Blackfriars show,"Mr. Cinderella," for some time. Muchpraise has been given to the director, theauthors, and the cast, and it was earned.However I havethe feeling thatin the rush ofevents the organization has sentout announce-ments, receivedthem back (ac-companied withorders for tickets) ,ali with the out-ward spirit of"draining" thealumni. Withoutyour support wecould have donenothing.This year's showwas written by twoof your body. William V. Morgen-stern and GeorgeD. Mills. Both of Charles A. Warnerthe boys attended the Undergraduate schoolbefore the present Board of Superiors hadheard of Blackfriars. They were probablymore serious in those days when everythingwas centered around the World War thanthey have been the past three months. Millswas a member ofthe water poloteam and Phi BetaKappa ; Morgen-stern was one ofthe Daily Maroonboys. Both wentto the law schooland graduated in1921; Morgen-stern made theOrder of Coif, thelegai honorary fra-ternity. At present Bill is the headof the Departmentof Public Relations at the University and Georgeis a practising at-torney.The organization had a difficultBLACKFRIARS OF 1929 437time this year in gettinga director. No one morethan we appreciate theservices that HamiltonColeman gave to Blackfriars in his fìfteen yearsof service to the order.When he told the boysjn 1927 that "Plasteredin Paris" was his lastshow, I doubt if manyrealized what it meant.But we were fortunatein getting the services ofDonald MacDonaldwho lives in Washington, D. C, and is wellknown over the countryas a producer of JuniorLeague shows. Mr. James Parker as John MìlbertMacDonald entered into the spirit of Blackfriars in such a way as to win the con-fìdence of the entire cast. He is a man whoknows the show business and who knowshow to handle men."Mr. Cinderella" was a far cry from"The Passing of Palili Khan." In 1903 themen who started the order with FrankAdams as Abbot had a much greater jobon their hands. Back of them were notraditions. Thev had no director to whom they could turn for ad-vice; they knew littleabout the ungratefullywide apron or the intricate curtains on Man-dei Hall stage. So it isto them that we in 1929toss roses. To carry onthe tradition has beencomparatively easy. Alithat we found necessaryto do was to hire a director, turn over to hima good manuscript andsit back. (I admit thatit was ali done with con-siderable finger Crossing.)The plot of the showwas not laid aroundpumpkins and fairy god-mothers as the titlemight suggest. It had to do with themovies, not in Egypt, but on the Universityof Chicago campus. The hero, John Mil-bert, accompanied by his press agent andbody guard come to the campus to gain atmosphere for a picture that is ali ready to be"shot" in Hollywood. Wishing to beaccepted for himself rather than for hisname alone, Mr. Milbert goes under anassumed name. Of course Milbert and hisWilliam V. Morgenstern George D. Mills438 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINERobert Tankersley andArchie Winning asSmack O'Reagen and Molly iValshpress agent fall for the campus queen, butshe snaps up the press agent because hesports a big car. And ali the time thedemure room mate of the campus queenplays for Milbert even though she thinkshe is poor and, of course, she gets him.The production was versatile. Every-tliing on campus — Cobb Hall, a bedroomin Foster, and a scene in the Beta house —were included. (It was impossible to workin the new Chapel or the Medicai group.)The costumes were better than ever before,the dancing was professional in execution,the lighting was the best, according to Mr.Coleman, that has ever appeared in a Blackfriars show. The lyrics and music weregood — the score sale was above that of anyyear during my sojourn here.If there is one thing that Mr. MacDonald is gcod at it is selecting men tofit certain parts. Parker as John Milbertwas excellent and Rubinson, Smith, Jor-genson, Tankersley, Winning and the restwere cast just right. The ehorus lookedsomething like women — as dose as possible.Of course the last week-end when thebristles on the boys' legs began to appear once more everyone did not get the ini.pression that Beatrice Lillie had grantedus permission to use her ehorus as fill-insHowever the Pony Ballet, the director's;pride and Joy, was darned good and I saw*them miss only one step in the six periformances.But the relative standing of this producation with others is not a consideration forme. I have seen only four shows. Some sayit was the best show since but, if I re-. member rightly, those people got in on com-plimentary tickets. From the standpointof the box office, and the Trust Fund, itwas a successful show. We are going tobe able to give some money to the University Settlement and even more to theBlackfriars sinking fund. To many peopleour Trust Fund creates a feeling of sus-picion. To put ali minds at ease, we aregoing to use part of it to start a fund for theenlargement of Mandel Hall. We hopesome day to have an orchestra pit, to re-arrange the boxes, to cut off the apron, andto have suitable room for work shops be-hind the scenes. In the past the Order hasseen fìt to give the University a portion ofAdolph RubinsonasConsuelo PattersonBLACKFRIARS OF 1929 439the Fund for the carrying on of studentactivities. I think that it will in ali probabilità follow the same practice in thefuture.Three of our four evening performancesvvere complete sell-outs. We had to turnpeople away from the doors the last night.Because of the seeming popularity of theshow we considered quite seriously a tripaway from Mandel Hall. The Superiorsthought that the logicai place to go becauseof the short notice was either to Peoria orMilwaukee. But the plans failed becausewe did not have enough time. This business of going on the road is a problem.Naturally the Blackfriars feel that it wouldbe a splendid reward for their efforts andthat the University of Chicago ' MusicalComedy should go on the road if ali of theschools which have old organizations similarto ours do. However, we cannot handlethe job by ourselves. We need the supportof the alumni. If you are desirous of seeingthe show go on the road we would like toknow about it. If there is enough demandLawrence SmithasPolly Parker Norman JorgensonasHamilton Courtneyfor the show the Order would like nothingbetter than to consider the possibilities. Wewould have to develop a student orchestra,and rearrange the time of production inMandel Hall so that it would not conflicttoo greatly with studies.And so "Mr. Cinderella" steps on tostand beside "The Passing of Palili Khan,""The Student Superior," "The NaughtyNineties" and "The House That JackBuilt" and the others. Next year there willbe a better show; the men who handle it willdo a better job than we have done thisyear ; the amount turned over to the Settlement or to the Day Nursery will be larger.But no matter what the show, no matterwho the director, the spirit of Blackfriarswill continue as it started. And, as I tipmy hat to the large red seal, dose the lastnote book, and sit here waiting impatientlyfor the day when the class of 1929 is to beinitiated into the alumni body, I cannot butfeel that Frank Adams, Walter Gregory,and the rest of the boys back in 1903 werefar wiser than they knew.BOOK.^/3The Old and the NewDark Hester, by Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., New York, $2.ZqBENEATH a weight of bright hairthat even Helen of Troy would haveenvied, Monica Wilmott's delicate featuresheld a tone of something gracefully obsoletein this modem age. Rooted in the halcyonsecurity of tradition, her life had been laidaway in Elizabethan lavender until her sonmarried Hester — Hester, whose close-clipped hair was brushed back from a faintlylined forehead, whose eyes were reminiscentof a Byzantine madonna. Anne DouglasSedgwick's Dark Hester finds these twowomen, so totally unlike in their whole outlook of life, lashed together by a crescendoof hate.Their disagreements might forever havebeen glazed over by forced tolerance, hadIngpen not broken in upon their stifledexistence. Out of the forgotten jungle-land he carne, his face overcast by sullenmystery, his philosophies savoring of theOrientai. Monica's Hellenic hair charmedhim from casual acquaintanceship to a nearlove that was fraught with disaster. For,to her, out of the war-ridden past, carneconfidential echoes of his love affair withthe youthful Hester in the cathedral townof Chartres; a love affair that had longsince burned to ashes before the glory ofher love for Monica's son. Steeped inVictorianism, Monica waged her fìercestand last battle with Hester, who armedherself with love. And love, purifying evenhate and wronged tradition, brought outof discord a perfect harmony. In ali the characters throughout thebook, Anne Douglas Sedgwick has main-tained a consistent yearning for happì-ness that serves to heighten the powerfulclimax. On one side is Hester, born withinthe pale of modem freedom, ever-fìndingber independent spirit misunderstood, seeking admission to Monica's love. On theother side is Monica, repelled by Hester'sstolid reserve, thwarted in every attemptat reconciliation, finally wilting under herincreasing strain of self-pity. Monica's son,torn between his anxiety over the unhap-piness of his mother who worships him andthe wife he adores, stands between them.A weary, restless spirit stalking around theoutside is Ingpen, haunted by unpleasantpast loves that have flamed and faded, seeking a new Arcadia which he never finds.Out of these twisted loves and discordantspirits rises a novel that proceeds from re-pressed emotions to great climactic mo-ments, fiercely dramatic. Pages that 'possess an electric swiftness bring DarkHester to a dose — a dose that sweeps outof the frenzied maelstrom of hatred intothe tidal sweetness of understanding.So, in Anne Douglas Sedgwick's DarkHester, two women, commanding an equalsympathy and admiration, present withforce and uncompromised candor the clashbetween the old and the new, clarified:through love and suffering.Eloise TasherCrescat scientia; vita excolatur — "Let knowledge grow from moreto more; and so be human life enriched.JJ440in my opinionBy Fred B. Millett,Assistant Professor of English.AS A thoroughgoing exposition of con-temporary pessimism, I recommendJoseph Wood Krutch's The ModemTemper (Harcourt, Brace, 1929, $2.50),a series of essays analyzing the disastrouseffects upon the Christian view of life ofthe facts accumulated with incredible rapid-ity by science during the last three genera-tions. The undermining by science of thisview of life has brought to light, Krutchbelieves, a fundamental opposition betweenthe wants of Man and the offerings of anindifferent if not hostile Nature. Thissense of maladjustment has been deepenedby an increasing disappointment with theresults in terms of human happiness whichthe Victorians expected, but which havefailed to follow, from steadfast devotionto' the scientific method. Science, besides,has cast a veil of disillusionment overromantic love and the classico-rpmantic¦ conception of man as the hero of a cosmicdrama. From this despair, Krutch findslittle or no comfort in various counter-scientific movements, the view of life as anart, or. the revival of metaphysics and non-materialism among contemporary physicists.For him, the future of a civilization ofwhich the modem temper is a devitalizingproduct, is indeed gloomy.Krutch's pessimism is eloquent and persuasive but a trifle unrelieved; the totaleffect of it is of a spoiled child crying because he loves to cry. Obviously, hismodem temper, as he at first admits andthen conveniently forgets, is the temper,not of the modem world, but of a verysmall section of it. The views he enter-tains, I encounter most f requently in theunmarried between thirty and forty-five, in other words, in the somewhat lifeless por-tion of the generation hardest hit by theGreat War. Though this small but vocalcircle may be the saving remnant of American civilization, over against it should beset those millions who flourish under amediaeval W eltanschauung , and those othermillions who retain a vestige of faith inthat interpretation of man's lot which wasone product of the Reformation. Perhaps,highly individualized intelligences arelikely to be most deeply persuaded of thetragic sense' of life, but, as Krutch him-self admits, the future of civilization isnot with them nor their enfeebled progeny.The future of our civilization is with the in-stinctive, the vegetative, with those "tooabsorbed in living to feel the need ofthought."In addition to the egocentric fallacy thathis temper is the modem temper, Krutchdoes something less than justice to the viewof life as an art and to the idea of tragedyin our time. His discussion of the formertheory seems to have been written withoutadequate attention to the elaborate exposition of it by Havelock Ellis. Krutch admits that the artist in life is "whoever isdistinctly human enough to have a pianfor his life which he sets up in oppositionto the simple pian of Nature," but con-tends that "he cannot make life the material of an art because he lacks that complete control over outward events and theirinner reverberations which would be neces-sary to enable him to do so." Further-more, "the peace of art is dependent uponorder, but the theory that life is an artleads in practice to anarchy." The first ofthese objections overlooks a fact which, as441442 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEa critic of literature, Krutch should nothave forgotten, namely, that no artist ofany sort has complete control over his medium or the significance of his expression.There is ampie evidence of the Constantdissatisfaction of the artist with the discrep-ancy between his vision and his achieve-ment. Moreover, if one interprete art inits structural and not its sensory aspect,life as an art need not lead to anarchy.The qualities of art which Ellis discovers insuch varied human activities as dancing andmetaphysics are pattern, purpose, crafts-manship, grace, and symmetry, and it isdifEcult to see how a life that embodiesthese qualities could be anarchie.With regard to tragedy, Krutch is un-doubtedly sound in his contention that someof the alleviating elements in classical andromantic tragedy, — its elevation, highseriousness, beauty, and power of aesthetickatharsis, are undiscoverable in modemtragedy. But this consideration should, itwould seem, encourage our perverse authorin his deepening despair, not lead him todeny the possibility of tragedy in modemtimes. By the very absence of assuage-ments, modem tragedy becomes moretragic; The Weavers, An AmericanTragedy, The Dynasts, and Desire Underthe Elms, are in a sense vastly more tragicthan the pagan tragedies of Sophocles orthe vaguely Christianized tragedy of Shake-spere.Of the dilemma of the hyperconsciousmodem, Krutch takes too merely contem-porary a view. Though we grant thestaggering effeets of repeated blows offacts upon faiths, we may stili remember the tireless ingenuity of the human mind inadapting itself to changes in its physicaland intellectual environment. - The basisof our contemporary difficulty is theenormous discrepancy between our factsand our affeets, and the solution lies ob-viously in an adjustment of affeets to facts.To deny the possibility of such an adjustment is to afHrm the permanent emotionalimmaturity of the intéllectually elect. Forthe unelect, there is the easy way of oneof the innumerable forms of anti-rational-ism: Christian science, theosophy, newthought, astrology, or numerology. But*such a burying of one's brain in the sand isnot for the emotionally or intéllectuallymature.The problem of the mature contemporary mind is to face ali the facts relevantto the human situation, and to adjustthought and emotion to them. The problem is stupendous but not unsolvable. Toexpect to get just what one wants fromunconscious immensity is childish or neu-rotic; to train oneself to get what one canand enjoy what one can get is neither amean nor a selfish task. It is fruitless to in-sist on an unalterable opposition betweenMan and the rest of Nature. If Man is nolonger the cynosure of creation, he is, deador alive, a part of it; if he no longer playsthe tragic or romantic hero in a cosmicstruggle, he may be a not ignoble superin the Universal Show. To contemplatethe flower and the mire, the devouring cancer and the faithful heart, bestiality andmartyrdom, is to discover a universe, notperhaps nearer to the heart's desire butthrilling and luminous, even inspiriting."The University of Chicago, — there are those who love her — loveher largeness and liberality, her sanity and common sense, her equali-zation of opportunity, her humane hospitality to men and ideas, herpractical idealism, her flexible yet indomitable spirit — love her forher breadth of charity, her faith in truth, and her faith that truthwill make men free"Paul ShoreyJ ®fje ®ntoer*ttp of Cfucago JfHaga?meEditor 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, 'ìi, 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 & commsu^tBRANDING as false rumors that theundergraduate college is to be cur-tailed, Frederic Woodward, Acting-Presi-dent of the University of Chicago, hasstated the policy of the University for acollege of increased attractiveness andeffectiveness. The statement of the Acting-President was made in a letter to be sentto 35,ooo alumni."Rumors that the undergraduate collegeis to be abolished or seriously curtailed areutterly without foundation," Dr. Woodward says. "Furthermore, any statementto the effect that we are not interested inundergraduates is equally false. And ingiving you this assurance, I know that Ispeak not only for the academic ofEcers ofthe University but for the Board ofTrustees. The truth is that we are makinga strong eff ort to increase both the effectiveness and the attractiveness of the College."We have set up sixteen new JuniorCollege scholarships ; we are trying to provide better teaching and better guidance forundergraduates. We have given them a' splendid health service ; we are stimulatingintramural sports ; and we are planning toerect two large groups of dormitories,primarily for undergraduates, with club-rooms, dining halls, and ad j acent play-fields. "The University of Chicago is known aliover the world as a great center of graduatewórk and research. The alumni of theCollege, as well as the graduate and professional schools, are justly proud of itsleadership in these fields. We must exertourselves to the utmost to maintain thatleadership. , It constitutes our chief gloryand affords us our greatest opportunity forthe service of humanity. But it also givesus an advantage in undergraduate education which we must not neglect."The belief that the scholastic entrancerequirements at the University of Chicagoare unreasonably high and are likely to beraised, is entirely mistaken, the Acting-President informed the alumni."Our present requirements are the resultof experience and careful study," the statement says. "They are based upon thesound assumption that students who arepractically certain to fail in their collegework should not be admitted. In some col-leges and universities which admit anyonewho is a high-school graduate, 25 to 30 percent of the Freshmen fail during the firstyear. This is a costly waste, which ourselective admission system almost entirelyavoids. Our Freshman failures have beenreduced from 14 per cent to 4 per cent."443444 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS,. president-elect of the University ofChicago, was the orator of the I55th Con-vocation of the University on Tuesday,June n. The president-elect, who is Deanof the Yale Law School, was welcomedby more than 2,000 people at a receptionrecently when he and his wife visited Chicago. He is to assume the presidency onJuly 1. Incidentally, the task of Con-vocation Orator held no difHculties for thenew president, for as an undergraduate atYale he won the famous DeForest Prizecontest.Acting President Frederic Woodwardpresided at the Convocation and conferredthe degrees. The tentative list indicatedthat 899 degrees and certificates would beconferred.In the Colleges of Arts, Literature, andScience 423 students received the Bache-lor's degree; in the School of Commerceand Administration, 47; in the School ofSocial Service Administration, 7; in theCollege of Education, 31, a total of 508.In Arts, Literature, and Science 121 students received the Master's degree; inCommerce and Administration, 3 ; and inSocial Service Administration, 7, a total ofI3i.The Divinity School had 5 candidatesfor the D.B. degree, 9 for the Master's,and 3 for the Doctor's, a total of 17.In the Law School there were 3 candidates for the degree Bachelor of Laws(LL.B), and 71 for that of Doctor of Law(J.D.), a total of 74.Rush Medicai College had 56 candidatesfor the degree of Doctors of Medicine and47 for the four-year certificate in medicine,a total of 103.In the Graduate Schools of Arts, Literature, and Science there were 66 candidatesfor the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.» w »AMONG the numerous additions to theDivinity Faculty for the SummerQuarter at the University of Chicago, be-ginning June 17 and closing August 30,are Daniel Evans, of Harvard University;Richard H. Edwards, Cornell University; W. H. Greaves, Victoria College, Toronto; James Moffatt, Union TheologicalSeminary, New York; Arno Poebel, University of Rostock; and Theodore H. Robinson, University College, Cardiff, WalesThe Summer Law Faculty will haverepresentatives from four other universitylaw schools — John Edward Hallen, University of Texas ; Victor Henry Kulp, University of Oklahoma; Douglas BlountMaggs, University of Southern California-and Philip Mechem, University of Kansasson of the late Professor Floyd RussellMechem of the University of Chicago LawSchool.In the Graduate School of Medicine ofthe Ogden Graduate School of Sciencesummer courses will be given by StanhopeBayne- Jones, University of Rochester;Reuben Gilbert Gustavson, University ofDenver; Emery Roy Hayhurst, Ohio StateUniversity; William Barnard Sharp, University of Texas ; and Abel Wolman, JohnsHopkins University.» w »ONE hundred University public lectureswill be offered by the University ofChicago during the Summer Quarter begin-ning June 17 and ending August 30. Thelecturers represent a distinguished group ofmen, both regular and visiting membersof the University, who make this contri-bution of time and experience to the workof the Summer Quarter. Many of thelectures are of professional as well asgeneral interest. There is no admissionfee.Among the sixty-eight lecturers will benumerous representatives of foreign uni-versities, including Professor Corrado Gini,Royal Statistical Institute of Rome, andProfessor Shiroshi Nasu, Faculty of Agri-culture, Tokyo Imperiai University, Japan,both of whom will lecture during the firstterm of the Summer Quarter under the'auspices of the Harris Foundation on popu-lation and migration. Barker Fairley, professor of German in University College,University of Toronto, ali lecture inJune on "The Personality of FriedrichNietzsche."EVENTS AND COMMENT 445Professors from other American univer-sities who will give public lectures at Chicago during the Summer Quarter includeCharles J. Martin, associate professor offine arts, Teachers College, Columbia University ; Edwin D. Starbuck, director, In-stitute of Character Research, University0f Iowa ; John A. Scott, head of the de-partment of classical languages, Northwestern University; Stanhope Bayne-Jones,professor of bacteriology, University ofRochester; Jane Snow Hinkley, associateprofessor of vocational education, University of Nebraska; Arthur L. Beeley, chair-man of the department of sociology andsocial technology, University of Utah; andLeverett S. Lyon, professor of economics,Brookings Graduate School of Economicsand Government, Washington, D.C.wwwAPPOINTMENTS to the University^of Chicago Faculties made public bythe Board of Trustees include teachers fromevery section of the country!Karl S. Lashley, now of the Instituteof Juvenile Research, Chicago, who wasrecently elected president of the AmericanPsychological Association, has been ap-pointed Professor in the Department ofPsychology. Floyd W. Reeves, of thè University of Kentucky, has been made Professor of Education; Harold Shepherd, ofStanford University, Visiting Professor inthe Law School; John Mann Beai, headof the Department oii Botany at Mississippi State College, Associate Professor of'Botany; and Dr. Russell M. Wilder, ofthe Mayo Clinic, Professor and Chairmanof the Department of Medicine.Reuben G. Gustafson, of the Universityof Denver, has been appointed Visiting Associate Professor in the Department ofPhysiological Ghemistry; and Francis W.Jacob, of the University of Idaho, andSheldon Teflt, of the University of Nebraska, Visiting Associate Professors in theLaw School. Arthur E. Murphy, ofCornell University, has been made AssociateProfessor of Philosophy; and Clarence E.Ridley, of the National Institute of Public Administration, Associate Professor ofPoliticai Science. Harrison A. Dobbs hasbeen made Associate Professor of SocialÉconomy in the Graduate School of SocialService Administration. Dr. Franklin G.McLean has been appointed Director ofthe University Clinics.» w *rTHREE important projects in the program of the University of Chicago tomake its resources and trained personnel,especially in the social sciences, availablefor the widest possible use of the countryin the solution of governmental problems,will be under way shortly.A center for the scientific study of policeproblems, with the whole nation as its fieldof action, has been established at the University, under the direction of AugustVollmer, chief of police of Berkeley, California, who has been appointed Professor ofPolice Administration. Chief Vollmer hasan international reputation as a pioneer inthe use of scientific methods of preventingand combating crime.The International City Managers' Association, composed of city managers in402 cities in the United States, Canada,and New Zealand, has afHliated with theUniversity. The afEliation represents another phase of the University's eflort toapply the research facilities of its socialscientists to the study of practical problems of politicai administration.Another phase of the University's program is represented in the afEliation of theBureau of Public Personnel Administration, a national organization representingali civil service commissioners of theUnited States and Canada. The Bureau isconsidered the most effective force in thecountry in improving efficiency of governmental employees.The Bureau has taken the lead in deter-mining scientific methods of establishingpersonnel standards, making classificationsof positions and compensation, formulatingstandard examinations, and in other waysproviding a technique for efHcient conductof administrative personnel work.446 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEThe program will be largely under thedirection of the Locai Community ResearchCommittee, which has made many impor-tant studies of politicai and social condi-tions, not only in Chicago but throughoutthe country. Ali scientific resources of theUniversity, not only in the social but inthe naturai sciences as well, will be avail-able for the furtherance of the broad program.GIFTS totaling over $95,000 have justbeen announced by the University ofChicago Board of Trustees; and pledgestotaling $600,000, previously announced byActing-President Woodward, were for-mally recorded.Edward F. Swift has given $25,000 tothe University for a purpose to be desig-nated by the President of the Board ofTrustees; Robert L. Scott, a trustee, hasgiven $10,000; James M. Hopkins, $5,000;and Charles S. Hayes, $3,000. Martin A.Ryerson has given $3,000 to be expended byProfessor John M. Manly in the purchaseof books and manuscripts for the UniversityLibraries; and Mr. Henry J. Patten hascontributed $700 toward the expense ofbuying additional automobiles for the Hit-tite Expedition of the Orientai Institute.Under the will of the late Alice Bradford Wiles the University has been namedto receive one-half of a trust fund of $75,-000 upon the termination of certain trustsnamed in the will. The Quaker Oats Company has made two grants: one of $4,500for investigations under the direction ofProfessor F. C. Koch of the effect of ultra-violet light on proteins; the other of $3,6oofor a study under the direction of Dr.Katherine Blunt, chairman of the Department of Home Economics, of certain prop-erties of cereals treated with ultra-violetlight. A pledge of $3>500 has been received from the American Association forAdult Education for the support of researchin reading-habits of adults, under the direction of Mr. Douglas Waples, Professor inthe Graduate Library School.The Stonewall Jackson Chapter No.1038 of the United Daughters of the Con- federacy has established a scholarship f0ra young woman who is descended from aConfederate veteran and who is now astudent in the undergraduate colleges. Mrs.Frank R. Lillie has given a bronze by AlfeoFaggi, known as "the Door of St. Francis."And the will of the late Delia Austrianprovides that the University shall receiveher reference library in the field of dramaand short-story writing, together with herpaintings, etchings, prints and other collec-tions. The will provides for the upkeep andreplenishment of the various collections,which will be known as the "Celia andDelia Austrian Study."Pledges which were acknowledged by theTrustees were those of $125,000 each frcmMax Epstein and Albert Lasker, of $250,-000 from the Julius Rosenwald Fund con-ditional upon matching by a similar sum,and of $75,000 from John Hertz, ali thepledges being for medicai research. Ac-knowledgment was also made of $25,000 inpledges from former students and friendsof the late Professor John M. Coulter toestablish a botany graduate fellowship inbis memory.THE University of Chicago leads aliother universities and colleges in thecountry in producing great teachers, ac-cording to a study made by Robert L.Kelly, executive-secretary of the Association of American Colleges. Of 133 insti-tutions named as the source of best teachers,the University of Chicago led with a totalof 93, followed by Columbia with 70, Harvard with 44, and Johns Hopkins with29-Executive and administrative ofEcers ofcolleges afflliated with nineteen churchboards of education co-operated with theAssociation of American Colleges in theinvestigation, 187 colleges making reports.The largest number of great teacherswas reported in the field of English andEnglish literature, in which 68 instructorswere so designated. Mathematics rankednext, with 57; philosophy was third, andGreek fourth. Forty-five difEerent subjectsEVENTS AND COMMENT 447were given as fields in which teachers hadachieved distinction.Chicago was named more than any otherinsti tution as turning out the best teachersin the departments of History, English,Social Sciences, Ancient Languages, Modem Languages, Mathematics, and certainsciences. Columbia was named first ineducation, with Chicago second. Johns Hopkins, Illinois, and Wisconsin tied for firstin chemistry."Among the teachers under considerationin these colleges it was found that 142 hadthe Doctor's degree," the report says. "Asto the universities from which these degreeswere secured, Chicago is named more thanany other one institution, followed veryclosely by Columbia, and after that, inorder, by Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and others to the total of forty-onediflerent institutions."w w wPROFESSOR WERNER HEISENBERG, theoretical physicist nowteaching at the University of Chicago, hasbeen awarded the medal of the ResearchCorporation of New York, which isgranted annually for outstanding scientificachievements during the year. The Corporation, which includes faculty membersof New York universities, will presentthe medal to the brilliant young Germanscientist in New York, May 10, at a dinnerin his honor.Professor Heisenberg, who at twenty-eight years of age has advanced theories inatomic mathematics which are held by Professor Arthur H. Compton to be as impor-tant as those of Einstein in the field ofgravi tation, carne to Chicago from theUniversity of Leipzig. Though he hasnever done extensive research work in thelaboratory, his formulation of the "prin-ciple of uncertainty" and of the "matrixmechanics" has won him wide attentionamong physicists.According to Professor Heisenberg, thereis an element of indeterminism enteringinto our attempts to measure atoms and to discover the laws governing their motionswhich will preclude the possibility of abso-lute prediction. "Put in its simplest termsthe principle of uncertainty means that wecannot measure both the position and theveloci ty of an atom with absolute accuracy,"he explained. "We can measure one ofthese factors but in so doing we introducean undetermined element into the other.This seems to put the law of causality in anew light."He will teach at the University of Chicago during the Summer Quarter as wellas the current quarter.wwwIN HIS American-English Dictionary,Professor Sir William Craigie is notattempting to justify American English inopposition to British, as he explained in arecent interview, but he is attempting totrace the origin of many standard Englishexpressions and show that their origins werepurely American. Many expressions nowregarded as good English in ali parts of theglobe orìginated in America and can betraced as far back as the seventeenth oreighteenth centuries.Some phrases, starting as locai expressions, were later employed in books, maga-zines, and articles of ali kinds which wereread ali over the world. English readershave become familiar with these expressions and desire to know their meaning.The dictionary is the only way by whichthis can be done. Today English writersdo not hesitate to use these expressions, al-though they of ten use them when they wishto be slangy.Chance plays a large part in the discoveryof ancient uses of these Americanisms. Theycrop out in old novels, diaries, and reports.According to Professor Craigie, the reportsof the Illinois Agricultural society are ofmore value to him than the reports ofthe Michigan Agricultural society, for thereports of the former are written in morecolloquiai terms, while the writers of thelatter were obsessed with the desire to usemore formai English.448 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEGEORGE ALAN WORKS, Dean ofthe School of Library Science at theUniversity of Chicago, has been namedpresident of the Connecticut AgriculturalCollege, and will assume office on July i.Dean Works has been at the Universityof Chicago for two years, having organizedand directed the Graduate Library Schoolthere. He received his Ph.B. degree fromWisconsin in 1904, an S.M. degree fromthat university in 19 12, and a degree ofEd.D. from Harvard in 1924. DeanWorks has directed many important studiesof education, including a rural-school sur-vey of New York in 1921-22 and an educational survey of Texas in 1923 and 1924.He taught at the University of Wisconsinand the University of Minnesota, and forthirteen years prior to coming to Chicagowas professor and head of the departmentof rural education at Cornell University.In 1927 he published College and University Library Problems.ANNOUNCEMENT of the appoint-ment of Harold Haydon as headmarshal, . Marcella Koerber as headaide, and a new system of doublé convoca-tion was made on May 20 by Acting-president Frederic C. Woodward. Thenew scheme of distribution of degrees willbe the first change to be made in the systemsince the founding of the University.The aides and marshals, by virtue of theirappointment, are the presidente officiairepresentatives at ali University functionsduring the coming year. High scholarship,popularity and leadership in activities formthe basis for the selection.^ The head marshal is conference cham-pion in the low hurdles and a member ofthe Honor Commission. He is a member of Psi Upsilon. The marshals, besidesHaydon, are Daniel Autry, Phi Kappa Psi;Norman Eaton, Alpha Delta Phi; LouisEngel, Alpha Tau Omega; Elmer Fried-man, Pi Lambda Phi; Glen Heywood,Delta Upsilon; Edward Lawler, Chi Psi;Maxwell Mason, Psi Upsilon; DexterMasters, Delta Kappa Epsilon; and JohnMenzies, Chi Psi.Marcella Koerber is chairman of theBoard of Women's Organizations and amember of the Undergraduate council. Sheis a member of Wyvern. The other aidesare Frances Carr, Pi Delta Phi; DorothyCanili, Geraldine Hacker, Deltho ; HarrietHathaway, Chi Rho Sigma; KatherineMadison, Sigma; Manota Marohn, Sigma;Helen McDougall, Quadrangler; MurielParker, Wyvern; and Catherine Scott,Esoteric.The new marshals and aides were in-ducted into office at the annual Interfrater-ity Sing on June 8. They were recom-mended to President Woodward by thegraduating aides and marshals.wwwTHE Graduate School of Social Service Administration is organizing itsspecial Alumni Association this spring andplans to hold its first dinner meeting duringAlumni Week.At a meeting in the Medicai Arts Building on May fourteenth, plans for organization were launched and Helen Beckley wasmade temporary chairman. She has appointed the following Committee Chairmenwho are at work on organization. On Con-stitution and By-Laws, Louis Evans; onNominations, Evelyn Randall; on AlumniDinner, Marion Schaffner; on Publicity,LeRoy Clements.ALUMNI AFFAI R SCharles CollinsBy William C. Boyden, Jr.YOU can always spot TheChicag oan' sdramatic critic at apremière. Other cri-tics may lose them-selves back among thetittering throng, butin the middle of thefront row sits ourProfe$sor — adjectivese h a s e themselvesaround the mind — im-perturbed, austere,a g e 1 e s s, gibraltar-esque, immutable.There he is, flankedon one side by a slen-der man with irongray hair ; keen boyishface ; eager, searchingeyes, and on the otherby a charming girlwith a saucy nose anda warm wealth ofchestnut hair. Theremay be another manin the party. Werethe group pictured inVanity Fair or Sketch,the caption would read "Mr. and Mrs. Ash-ton Stevens, Mr. Charles Collins andfriend."The curtain is up. While his colleagueis busily taking notes with high nervousenergy, Mr. Collins, hands on chin, broodslike Nemesis, his face a frozen carneo of aPublished through the courtesy of The Chicagoan.Charles Collins, Chicago '03 faun. The ectoplasmof the drama oozesinto his consciousness.His mind, withoutvisible effort, is con-cocting a mot to introduce, sum up anddismiss the play andthe actors, — somemordant and spicyturn of phase. Iquote one of hislatest, "Richard Ben-nett is the male MaeWest."Charlie knows histheatre. No one ismore steeped in itslore. And he knowshis history. Suchcaches of knowledgeare indispensable in aday when numerousmoss-covered playsare being disinterredand no historicalcharacter is immunefrom being turnedinto a tenor. Heinwardly revels atthe Stratford-on-Avon Shakespeareans, theD'Oyley Carte Gilbert-and-Sullivanians,"The Beggars' Opera," "And So to Bed,"and "White Lilacs," but the thrill is onlydetectable by a discreet dilation of the nos-trils. Barring revivals, he never sees a playtwice. He loves 'em and leaves 'em. The44945o THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEobvious success is ratsbane to his soul. Therewas no magic in such shows as "Sally" or"Lightnin'," which ran so long that itsstar, Frank Bacon, died of old age whileplaying it. But he fìghts for the goodthing, especially if obscure. No critic haspredicted more futures for young Americanactresses. At the present writing severalhave fulfilled the prophesies.It was a loss to dramatic criticism inChicago when he left the Chicago EveningPost, where he spent ten good years of hislife, achieving during the period the signalhonor of being barred for a time from thetheatres of the Messrs. Shubert. Theatre-goers are not today as well served as in theera of Stevens, Hammond, Hall andCollins, of whom only Stevens remains toembellish the daily press. It seems a re-flection on the sagacity of Chicago editorsthat Collins is not forcibly put back inharness. But the newspapers' loss has beena gain for this magazine.But not only in play-house carbon diox-ide does our dramatic critic live and havehis being. The bite of autumn oxygen findshim the happy possessor in fee tail of a smallexpanse of wood-covered concrete at StaggField or the Dyche Stadium. With power-ful binoculars he follows football play byplay and can inform the lay mind that Bim-pus, the Maroon left-guard, has beencleverly maneuvered out of the play, orthat Snitch, the Illinois half-back, startedthree and one-half seconds before the ballwas snapped.The fact that the University of Chicagoand the class of 1903 point with pride andnumber him among their illustrious alumnimay give reason to some of his footballprejudices, but cannot wholly account forhis whole-hearted passion for the game. Hehas dragged this biographer to see TildenTech play DePaul for the high-schoolchampionship, and even braves the BlueLaws of his ancestors by profaning the Sab-bath when the Bears are scheduled. It is anopen secret in the inner councils of the BigTen that he is preparing a set of his ownfootball rules to be known as the CollinsCode. If the code becomes not as omnip- otent in the realm of the football as Napoleone was in the realm of France, it willonly be because of jealousy and intrigUeon the part of the coaches.With insistence I am urging my subjectto name me his literary executor. Ob-viously and naturally it would be in orderto offer to an expectant world his numerous essays, short stories and novels, butthere is a further thought behind my im-portunity. The files of the Cliff Dwellersand the Tavern should be searched andtherefrom extracted ali letters written byMr. Collins in his officiai capaeity as secre-tary of those organizations. What a bookthey would make! Carefully arrangedadequately indexed and copiously annotatedthese terse letters — miniature masterpiecesof savoir-faire, aplomb and urbanity would serve as a bible for future club secre-taries. No more would men shun this oner-ous office nor unfortunate incumbentsagonize in vain struggles to suavely ac-knowledge a gift or to expel an offenderwith such grace that the culprit feelshonored by the club's action.There are those who regard C. Collinsas a strong, silent man, difEcult to approachsocially. While it is not unfair to say thathe has his moments of reticence, stili—Several weeks ago a Tavernite, faced withthe weighty problem of entertaining his kidsister and her roommate from Smith College, cast about for suitable male companion-ship pour les jeunes filles. Gigolos were im-ported, lithe, long-limbed Princetonians,framed in the image of Mordkin, pregnantwith the patter of the prom. The eveningwore on. Something was wrong, or per-haps right. The recruits from the H-Y-PClub evanesced into innocuous desuetude.Mr. Collins — rejecting the ròle of distin-guished background — sat enthroned, whileyouth drank avidly at the fountain of hischarm and wit. Disillusioned, the hero ofa thousand débuts, complained the next day:"What could one do? When I left hewas ordering the orchestra to play anotherhour."Only the proof-readers have read moresearchingly into the encyclopedia. To himALUMNI AFFAIRS 45ithe A.B. degree was no front door opening{nto the back yard, but rather a portai tolong corridors wherein every day a newroom may be entered and something ofvvisdom discovered. He is a true scholarand scientist, insatiably inquisitive of facts —never of personalities. It is told that, wearyof the garrulity of Cliff Dwelling chessplayers, he mastered the game by one night'sstudy of the encyclopedia, challenged theclub champion, worsted him, and neverplayed again. It was too easy. Attemptingto research stud-poker, he was less success-ful, quitting with disgust and the unshak-able conviction that it is a game of chance.What a doctor he would have made! Toyou and me a cold in the head is a nasty,irritating snuffle; to Collins it is a preda- tory microbe, to be identified, tracked to itslair, scientifically banished.In public utterance he appears the greatnegator, the no-man, the locai Mencken, thecynical enemy of the commonplace. Forprinciples his passions can flare explosively.Persons, on the contrary, rarely disturb theplacid equipoise of a very kindly nature,unblushingly romantic, unfailingly cour-teous. He turns from a brilliant actressto entertain a school-girl. He is sanctuaryfor bores. His taste instinctively seeks thesweeter things of the world. The sordidmakes little appeal. Happier to view"Skidding" than "Jarnegan," tossing JamesJoyce * aside to reach for Robert LouisStevenson, tolerant where others condemn,Charles Collins finds life good.Dayton Club Entertains WoodwardPROFESSOR FREDERIC WOODWARD, acting president of the University of Chicago, was the guest speakerat the annual banquet of the Universityof Chicago Club Saturday evening, Aprii27, at 6.30 o'clock, at the Dayton Woman'sClub.Bowls of spring flowers in brilliantshades and tali tapers in crystal holdersmade lovely the tables about which some75 members of the University of Chicagoand their invited guests gathered. Dr.Woodward addressed the group on the sub-ject "Our University."Throughout his talk, Mr. Woodwardemphasized the important place the University of Chicago hólds in the field of.higher education. He spoke with greatpride of its brilliant past and predicted abright and hopeful future. In addition hetraced the vast expansion program which isin the process of building.In speaking of the appointment of theyouthful president, Robert M. Hutchins, dean of the Yale University Law School,he commended highly the action of theBoard of Directors in their wise selectionfor this important post.Mr. Woodward closed his address witha plea to the alumni to interest themselvesin recommending the University of Chicago to the type of boy and girl who willbe a credit to their alma mater and so helpto overcome the prevalent idea that thisUniversity is neglecting the undergraduatefor postgraduate work.Preceding Mr. Woodward's address, there-election of the present ofHcers took place,including the following: Mr. Paul C.Stetson, superintendent of the Daytonpublic schools, president ; Miss Maude L.Rupel, vice-president ; and Miss AdaRosenthal, secretary-treasurer.At noon, Mr. Charles L. Sullivan, Jr.,past president of the locai association, washost to a group of fifteen citizens at aluncheon honoring Mr. Woodward at theDayton Country Club.452 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINETHE Springfield, Illinois, Alumni Clubmet at a dinner on Aprii 22, 1929.Mr. John F. Moulds, an alumnus of theUniversity and Secretary of the Boardof Trustees, was present and gave an interesting talk on the University of today.The Club is offering a prize to the studentof the Springfield High School who hasthe highest average for four years' work inLatin. At this meeting officers wereelected for the next year; Mr. G. H. Anderson, '08, is president, and Lucy C. Williams, '17 is secretary-treasurer.« » »THE annual meeting of the ChicagoAlumnae Club was held at one P.M.at the Chicago College Club on Aprii 27,1929. Mrs. B. H. Badenoch, the president, presided. The reports of the chair-men of the various standing committeeswere particularly interesting, as they showedthe work of the Alumnae Club aside fromthe regular social meetings of the Club.Mary Pett reported on the alumnae ath-letic activities in Ida Noyes Hall onThursday afternoons; Barbara MillerSimpson on the work of the membershipcommittee in acquiring new members, particularly from the graduating classes;Helen Norris on the work of the CollegiateBureau of Occupations, to which theAlumnae Club is a regular contributor;and Mary Marye on the work of the University of Chicago Settlement as a factorin city life. She urged a more vital interest in the work of the Settlement.Augusta Swawite spoke of the Sundayafternoons teas for the seniors of the highschools of the city, which the social committee has been sponsoring.The f ollowing officers were elected :President, Mrs. Charlotte Sulcer, 'io;Secretary, Winifred Ver Nooy, '12; Delegate to the Alumnae Council, Mrs.Marian Shilton, '14.The business meeting was followed by afascinating talk by Miss Helen Gunsauluson "Spring Time in Old Japan." Shedescribed her trip with Charlotte Merrillthrough some of the smaller towns of Japan. They visited the home of a formerstudent of the University, where they weregreeted with great ceremony and formal-ity, for they were the first Americanwomen to set foot in the town.Guck '04 Succeeds Meigs '08A NEW name, a new figure, a newpower, arrived last week in Chicago.Ali were bound up in the person of HomerGuck (pronounced "Guke"). Upon theresignation of Merrill Church Meigs aspublisher of the Chicago Herald and Ex-aminer, William Randolph Hearst appointed Mr. Guck to the post.Far and well are Homer Guck's nameand potency known. When Mr. Hearst'sgeneral manager, Col. William FranklinKnox, was running the Sault Ste. Marie(Mich.) News, some 17 years ago, HomerGuck was running two smalltown news-papers nearby, the Houghton Mining Ga-zette, the Calumet News. The youngeditors were friends, news-traders. Whentheir ways parted, Col. Knox went to Mr.Hearst's chainpapers, Publisher Guck toDetroit to learn insurance (Detroit Life)and banking (Union Trust Co.), to makea reputation as a city-booster.One day in 1927 Col. Knox met his former friend in the office of Mr. Hearst'sDetroit Times. Colonel Knox suggestedthat square-jawed Banker Guck come into the Hearst fold. Banker Guck agreed.After six months of learning Hearstmethods on the New York EveningJournal, Newspaperman Guck was sent toSan Francisco to general-manage theHearst Examiner there. Now he is con-sidered ready and able to represent theHearst interests in Chicago, fabulous cityof world's fairs, gang-wars, tallest buildings, youngest university presidents, bla-tant mayors, model department stores,bursting progress. Having made a markon both edges of the continent he nowreturns to the middle, where he was born52. years ago. Chicagoans will find himcheerful (Christian Science), fond ofchecked suits. — Reprinted from Time, TheWeekly Newsmagazine.By William V. Morganstern '20, J. D., '22CHAMPIONSHIP meets for ali theChicago teams but the ball clubs areimpending as this issue of the Magazine goes to press. The tennis team,headed by the great George Lott, is gen-erally conceded to have the singles anddoubles championships already won. Lotthas not worked this Spring with any greateffort, for he has been occupied with theball team, but even though he is not inDavis Cup form, he is far above his com-petition. He and Captain Bill Calohan arepaired in the doubles, which is, if nothingelse a good break for Bill, although thecaptain and Rexinger probably could winthe doubles if they had to. So far this sea-son the team has defeated Northwestern,Illinois, Ohio, Purdue, Michigan State,Wisconsin, and lowa in matches. Follow-ing the conference tournament, which endsMay 25, the Maroon team faces its stiffestteam competition from Michigan. In addi-tion to Lott, Calohan, and Rexinger, Hey-man and Allison and occasionally Kaplan(not the pitcher) have played in thematches. The only real fight carne fromIllinois, the decisive doubles match going12-10 in the third set before Calohan andRexinger won. The Chicago team will bepractically intact next season, Calohan being the one important loss.The track team, after one of the mostsuccessful relay campaigns in Chicago history, has engaged in a triangular meet withIndiana and Purdue, and a quadrangularmeet in which Ohio, Wisconsin, and Northwestern were the other teams. Indianaedged out a victory in the triangular, andOhio, scoring heavily in dashes, and hurdles,and broad jump, took the quadrangular,Ned Merriam's boys coming in second bothtimes. The team has been greatly handi-capped, the fragility of several of the men proving ruinous. Norman Root, a highgrade sprinter who placed in the conferenceand National Collegiate last year, seems tohave crumpled under the strain of a heavyprogram that includes intramural management* three hard C. & A. courses, andvarious other duties that prevented himgetting the sleep and rest he requires.Harold Haydon, who set the conference indoor hurdles record, has been out for fiveweeks with a bad ankle, and is just begin-ning to get into form. He will not be readyuntil the National Collegiate meet on June9. Joe Wexman, who last year ran 4:19 inthe mile, contributed a quart of blood in atransfusion, and was so weakened that heis not within twenty seconds of his timeof last season. Gist, who jumped into trackwork at the dose of the basketball season,has been bothered by bad legs until recently.His judgment in the recent meets has alsobeen poor, for he has insisted on laying backwhen the class of his competitore called fora race every stride of the way. The im-provement of Warren Klein and CharlesWeaver in the shot has been nothing shortof phenomenal; in the triangular meet,Klein broke the old record of Charles Hig-gins with a distance of 47 feet, 1^2 inches,and the next week Weaver carne alongwith an even better effort of 47 feet, 11inches. Dale Letts, the sophomore miler,has been consistently good; next year, witha season of experience behind him, he oughtto be the class of the conference in eitherthe half or mile. Right now he is up therewith such men as Martin and Gist.It is worthy of note that the Chicagotwo mile team was undefeated this season,winning at Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, andKansas the four important carnivals. Theteam set new records at Ohio and Texas,and in winning at Penn in 7 150 made faster453454 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEtime than any previous Chicago team hasachieved. In ali but the Kansas meet, thecombination was Williams, Livingston,Letts and Gist. Teitelman ran in place ofLivingston at Kansas. The mile team wonthree races, starting with the Illinois games,and setting new records at Ohio and Texas.In the latter, the time of 3:18 3/10 wasthe fastest mile ever run by a Maroon team.Haydon, Root, Schulz and Gist ran thisrace. The distance medley team of Gist,Schulz, Williams and Letts won at Illinoisand Southern Methodist. Numerous otherplaces were won in the various meets.Despite valiant effort, the ball teamnow rests in the second division, with 3won and 7 lost. Fritz Crisler's club has split with Indiana and Purdue, lost twogames to Wisconsin, defeated Ohio in onegame, and lost in its one game with Iowa.Ineligibility ruined the team, for of thefew remaining veterans, the four best hittersstruck out on scholastic curves. The chiefweakness has been inability to hit. OnlyCapt. Kaplan, the little lefthanded pitcher,will be lost by graduation, and Crisler hopesfor better things next year.The golf team has had fair success, but itis not a conference contender, althoughCapt. Fred Mudge has been consistentlyin the 70's and may accomplish somethingin the individuai play at Minneapolis May28 and 29.Chicago's Record Breaking Relay TeamCollege Alumni Notes'97 — John F. Voigt has removed his lawoffices to 176 West Adams Street. Mr.Voigt recently drove his family back toChicago from Delray Beach, Florida. Theydrove up the Atlantic ' Coastal Highwaythrough the historic places to Washington,and then over the National Trail to Chicago.'97— Helen T. Woolley, Ph.D. '00, isProfessor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and also Director of the Institute of Child Develop-"ment.'04 — Merle Marine, who teaches English in the DeWitt High School, New YorkCity, is in Europe at the present time onsabbatical leave.ex-'oo — Arthur Stocks, 5 East GarfieldBoulevard, is Editor of The Greater SouthSide Magazine.'03 — Emelyn E. Gardner, teacher ofEnglish at Detroit City College, broughtout last year a book on children's literaturewhich is now considered an authority. Shehas a play in the Spring number of Poet-Lore, entitled "Raising the Devil."ex-'o4 — Robert B. Harper, Engineer,122 South Michigan Avenue, is serving hissecond term as President of the AlumniAssociation of Armour Institute of Technology. He is a Trustee of Armour Mis-sion and also Armour Institute.ex-'oó— George J. Williams, 4608Drexel Boulevard, has just completed anannex school building to the St. GeorgeSchool for Girls, which is charitable to acertain degree.'08 — Mary F. Heap, 630 North ArdenBoulevard, Los Angeles, California, isteaching baseball and dancing principallyat Hollywood High School.'io— James Nieuwdorp, Professor ofMathematics at Calvin College, GrandRapids, Michigan, is influential in sendingstudents to the University of Chicago, whoare interested in the study of medicine.'io — L N. Warner is teaching mathematics in the State Teachers College, Piatte-ville, Wisconsin. '11 — Hilmar R. Baukhage, BusinessManager of the Consolidated Press Association, Washington, D. C, is Commanderof the National Press Club Post of theAmerican Legion and interested in Community Dramatics (Columbia Players).'11 — Richard Myers, representative ofthe Curtis publications in Paris, was in theStates recently visiting his home office.ex-' 11 — Frederic L. Lothrop, CaptainQ. M. Reserves, has been elected Chaplainof the First Division, Cantigny Post, No.556, American Legion, Department ofIllinois.'12 — Campbell Marvin, Manager of theLansing Realty Company, 180 North Michigan Avenue, was recently elected Vice-president of the Collegiate Club BowlingLeague wherein he has taken a very activepart during the past season.'14 — William H. Lyman became building manager of the McKinlock Building,209 West Jackson Boulevard, Aprii ióth.'15 — Frances Rosenthal Zinkin is ownerand manager of the Meridian Bookshop,Indianapolis, Indiana. She is always gladto welcome Chicagoans.'19 — Earle M. Wagner is head of theEnglish Department in Shattuck School,Faribault, Minnesota.'21 — Marjorie S. Logan is Director ofthe Department of Art, Milwaukee-Downer College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.She had a fellòwship at Harvard last summer from the American Institute of Archi-tects, Education Committee, which has beenrenewed for 1929.'22— Natalia Greensfelder is in the Personnel Department of Syracuse University,Syracuse, New York. Her department isnew, having just been organized this year.'22 — Lucy Dell Henry is Chief Bacteri-ologist for the University Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.'22 — J. Forrest Crawford is carrying onGraduate Research in Plant Physiology atthe University of California in Berkeley.During the past Christmas vacation, hetraveled eighteen thousand miles, going out455456 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEto Egypt to be married to Dorothy Smeedwho attended Simmons College in Bostontwo years ago. They traveled to Beirut,Syria, visiting the American Universitythere where Mr. Crawford taught for fouryears after graduation.'23 — Burton Nathan Lawrence receiveshis Master in Music degree from Northwestern University in June. In September,he will leave for Paris to study organ withLibert for a year.'24 — Agness J. Fletcher is now in LosAngeles, on sabbatical leave of absence fromthe Chicago Public Schools.'28 — Ruth Dorothy White is AssistantDietitian at Ohio Wesleyan University, inDelaware, Ohio.'25 — Edwina A. Meaney is ExecutiveSecretary of the Social Service Exchangeof the Council of Social Agencies, 203 N.Wabash, Chicago. The Exchange is theclearing house for the Social Agencies ofChicago.'26 — Robert E. Kane is employed at theWieboldt Stores, Ogden and MonroeStreets, Chicago, in the credit department.'26 — Julia; H. Duenweg is now Super-visor of Art at Terre Haute, Ind.'26 — Esther Lazarus is Probation OfHcerof the Juvenile Court, Baltimore, Maryland.'27 — Frank L. Mechem is on the Facultyof the School of Law at the University ofWashington, Seattle, Washington.'11 — H. R. Brush, chairman of theFrench department at California-at-LosAngeles, was in Europe last summer.'15 — E. B. Babcock is directeur-adjoint of the Centre Européen of the Dota-tion Carnegie pour la paix internationale,173 Boulevard St. Germain, Paris. Heexpects to publish before the end of theyear the text of L'Advision de Christine dePizan, the subject of his thesis.'16 — Agnes L. Riddell reports increas-ing satisfaction with the new French house '27— Marie M. Meiselis teaching [nthe Richmond Normal School, RichmondVirginia.'27 — A. Hortense Potts has accepted theposition as Dean of Women, OtterbeinCollege, Westerville, Ohio.'27 — Clarence C. Nickle, Principal ofthe Fort Dodge, Iowa, High School has ason, George H. Nickle, graduating from theUniversity of Chicago in June. GeorgeNickle has been elected to teach, and leadthe band in Keokuk, Iowa, High School.'27— Fester P. Summers, A.M., is Professor of History in Morris Harvey College, Barboursville, West Virginia.'27 — Helen Page Summers, A.M., is Director of the Department of Health Education for the Nassau County Committee onTuberculosis and Public Health, 70 MainStreet, Mineola, New York.'27 — A. A. Bass is a Chemist for theCudahy Packing Company in Wichita,Kansas.'28 — Selig Starr is Associate Professorof Talmudical Law at the Hebrew Theo--logicai College, 3448 Douglas Boulevard,Chicago.Frederick M. Blanchard, former member of the Faculty at the University of Chicago, has been with the University ofCalifornia for {ìve years. He has now re-tired from teaching and is making his homeat Carmel Highlands, California, andspends his spare time in music and travel.at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.'17 — R. T. House is at the head of themodem language department at the University of Oklahoma, and editor of "BooksAbroad." He has been contributing re-views and articles to various journals.'i9 — J. T. Lister, head of the Spanishdepartment at the College of Wooster,published in R. R., Aprii- June, 1928, "LaGrans Proiere Nostre Dame." He taughtat Duke University last summer, and expects to return.Doctors of PhilosophyDepartment of Romance Languages and Literatures.COLLEGE ALUMNI NOTES 457'20— Ethel Preston, stili at the Royce-niore School in Evanston, records apleasant and aesthetic summer in Europelast year.'21 — A. R. Nykl is professor of Spanishat Marquette University; he has published"Brevity as a Criterion of Language" inA. F. P., XLIX, i and 3. He met Professors Alien and Castillo in Paris last summer.'22 — W. S. Hendrix is chairman of theRomance department at Ohio State. Hehas published Elementary Spanish (Heath,1928), and collaborated on Hendrix andPorter, Caballeros y escuderos (Universityof Chicago Press, 1928). Fernan Cabal-lero's La Familia de Alvareda (ed. Hendrix and Hespelt) is in press with Ginnand Company.'22 — A. H. Schutz is also at Ohio StateUniversity; he has published "Two Lexi-cographic Notes" in Language, March,1928, and a review of Blondheim's Poésiesjudéo-frangaises in M. P., XXVI (No-vember, 1928). He spent last summer inEurope. He is chairman this year of theModem Language Section of the Ohio Educational Conference.'23 — N. H. Clément is teaching at Dela-ware.'23 — Elizabeth McPike Brown combinawith domestic duties the positions of as-sistant professor of French at San DiegoState College and of extension instructorin the University of California. She ispresident of the locai Alliance Frangaise.'23 — W. D. Trautman is dean of Adel-t>ert College, Western Reserve, as well asassociate professor of German. He mayexpect a descent of friends when the M. L.A. meets in Cleveland next winter.'24 — Ruth S. Phelps has married M.Paul Morand, also late of Minnesota, andis living in France. She has produced TheArthur Upson Room (New Haven), andSongs for Ursula, by Arthur Upson(Paris) (both privately printed, 1928).24 — P. F. Smith, Jr., is vice-president ofthe Reller Chevrolet Company in St. Louis.25 — H. F. Field is stili teaching at Loy-ola University, Chicago. '25 — H. H. Thornton, associate professor of French and Italian at Oberlin, wasabroad last summer.'26 — F. W. Kauffman is teaching atElmhurst College. He and E. W. Baldufhave prepared a German Reader for theUniversity of Chicago Press.'26 — E. R. Sims is at Texas, and haspublished from that university press Lasegunda parte de la vida de Lazarillo deTormes (Austin, 1928). He has beentraveling in Mexico.'26 — Virginia Withers, at the University of Richmond, reports a Chicago reunion at Thanksgiving (is that a Southernholiday?) with Rachel Wilson from Hol-lins, Cherry Nottingham from Norfolk,Louise Withers, and Mary Scott. MissWithers has been re-elected president of theModem Language Section of the VirginiaEducational Association; and Misses Nottingham and Wilson are on its ExecutiveBoard. W. K. Jones is now professor ofRomance languages at Miami. The Rev.Hisp. is soon to publish his thesis on "Estev-anillo Gonzélez."'27— Doris King (Mrs. C. V. Arjona)spent the summer in Spain and Portugalwith her husband, who is in the Romancedepartment at Minnesota. The Rev. Hisp.is publishing her thesis "La Voluntad" and"Abulia" in Contemporary SpanishIdeology.'28 — C. B. Brown is assistant professorof Spanish and Italian at Washington University. He returned last May from avisit to France, Spain, and England.'28 — E. Escher is professor of modemlanguages at Milligan College, Tennessee.'28 — Anna Krause is at California-at-Los Angeles; The University of ChicagoPress has published her Espana y la culturaespanola.'28— Minnie M. Miller is professor ofFrench at Southwestern College.'28— C. H. Mills is teaching in the Cris-pus Attucks High School, Indianapolis.'28 — Elizabeth Nissen is assistant professor at Minnesota.'28 — Margaret Pitkin has returned toSwarthmore as instructor.LawWashington, D.AT THE meeting of the AmericanLaw Institute, the Washington groupof the University of Chicago LawSchool found a number of alumni andtheir former teachers in the Law Schoolin the city and held a dinner at the RacquetClub on Friday, May ioth, 1929, at whichProfessors Harry A. Bigelow and ErnstFreund of the present faculty and WalterWheeler Cook, formerly of the faculty,were the guests.Professor Bigelow reported upon thecondition of the Law School at present,advising us in some detail as to the personnel of the faculty, their background,età, and prophesying so much of the immediate future as was reasonable in viewof the vacancy in the deanship. His re-counting of the historical aspects of theLaw School and the position which it hasheld in the Mississippi Valley and in thecountry as a whole was immensely interesting.Professor Freund followed this ratherfactual statement with some observationson the future methods of teaching in professional law schools. Mr. Freund arrivedamong us at the last minute, greatly incon-veniencing himself for the purpose, and thismade his appearance doubly welcome.Upon the conclusion of Freundian pointof view, Mr. Cook, who was on the facultyat Chicago from 1910 to 1916, and whohas lately been made the head of the LawInstitute at Johns Hopkins, ran througha brief summary of the scope, plans, hopes,possibilities, limitations, età, of that enter-prise. He described himself as a lawteacher without students, and he gave material for interesting speculation concern-ing what is probably the most recentdevelopment in the law research field.After these three gentlemen concluded,Messrs. Bigelow and Freund invited sug-gestions from those present with respectto the curriculum and teaching methods of Z.9 Alumni Meetthe Law School. Many suggestions weremade and the discussion was lively.The topic of a national organization ofthe alumni of the Law School in suchfashion that they might function as anaid to the officers of the School in checkingon potential candidates for the faculty, inputting forward education ideas fromthe aspect of the graduate, in the selectionof outstanding students, and in furtheringthe interest of the University authoritiesin the Law School, was also presented.The meeting broke up before midnightonly because of the necessity of Mr. Bige-low's retirement for a night's sleep to takeup the report on Real Property the nextmorning before the Law Institute.Among those present were:Prof. Ernst Freund.Prof. Harry A. Bigelow.Gustav A. Buhrow, 'io, 1843 S St.,N.W., Washington, D. C;Prof. Walter Wheeler Cook, LawSchool, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.;John Walker Fisher, '16, InvestmentBldg., Washington, D. C;Burton Lee French, ex-'o5, House OfficeBldg., Washington, D. C;Wm. P. MacCracken, Jr., 'n, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C. ;Hon. George T. McDermott, '08, Nat'lReserve Bldg., Topeka, Kansas;Professor Joseph W. Madden, '15, LawSchool, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.George M. Morris, '15, 815 FifteenthSt., N.W., Washington, D. C;Thomas A. Mulroy, '28, Senate Legislative Council, Senate Office, Washington, D. C;Lee I. Park, '21, 906 Southern Bldg.,Washington, D. C. ;Alison Reppy, 22, N. Y. U. Law School,Washington Sq., N. Y. ;THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 459Memoria! Union Building, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. Proudfoot, andRawson-Souers, Architects. A. H. Neumann Company, BuildersYour NewBuilding ProgramYOU may have no active part in yourinstitutions building program, yet youare interested, and when the new buildingis done it will either meet or fail to meetyour approvai. Why not aid those whohave your institutions building in theircare by expressing your opinion before thebuilding is put up? We will send a freebooklet showing fine examples of collegiate architecture in Indiana Limestone. It will enable you to make comparisons.Indiana Limestone is the naturai stone ofwhich much of the best architecture ofthis country is constructed. The use ofnaturai stone insures a permanent beautywhich no other building material can equal.Indiana Limestone becomes more attractiveas its color tones soften with the years.For the booklet just referred to, addressDept.819. Service Bureau, Bedford, Indiana.INDIANA LIMESTONE COMPANYExecutive Ofiices: Tribune Tower, Chicago Qeneral Offices: Bedford» Indiana460 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEForest D. Siefkin, '19, Earle Bldg., John G. Sims, '16, Senate Office Bldg.,Washington, D. C; Washington, D. C;Prof. James W. Simonton, '08, Law Prof. Maurice T. Van Hecke, '17, LawSchool, U. of W. Va., Morgantown, W. School, University of N. C.Va.; George Maurice Morris, '15.Rush'69 — David J. Brooking is living inWoodward, Iowa, where he takes a livelyinterest in medicine and ali other worthwhile things.'02— Ralph C. Hamill, S.B. '99, Lee C.Gatewood, '11, Beveridge H. Moore, '12,and Bert I. Beverly, '24, have removedtheir offices from 30 North Michigan Avenue to Room 1306, 8 South MichiganAvenue.'02 — Frederick C. Schurmeier is now lo-cated in Suite 508 Professional Building,Division Street, Elgin, Illinois.'07 — Delos E. Cornwall is practicingmedicine at St. Maries, Idaho, payingspecial attention to industriai surgery.'09 — Arrie Bamberger is attending sur-geon at the Jackson Park Hospital, andAssistant Professor in surgery at the University of Illinois Medicai School.'17 — Henry A. Keener has moved fromGuam to the Naval Hospital, Mare Island,California.'21 — Susan W. Brown, who recently returned from work as a medicai missionaryin Shanghai, China, is Junior ResidentPhysician at the Hamilton County Tuber-culosis Sanatorium, Cincinnati, Ohio.'21 — Francis L. Lederer, 30 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, has been appointedAssistant Professor of Laryngology, Rhi-nology and Otology at the University ofIllinois School of Medicine at Chicago.'22 — Florence Ames practices Medicineat Monroe, Michigan.Alice Quan Rood, A.M., '24, has beenappointed to the faculty of the Loyola University School of Sociology in charge of theDepartment of Social Research.Vivian Ratcliff, A.M., '27, has resigned t '23 — Ralph L. Harris, who practices In-7 ternal Medicine at 841 East Ó3d Street,1 Chicago, teaches Gastro-enterology at RushMedicai College.'24 — C. L. Dougherty is associated with, D. Edwin McGinnis in the practice of1 Otorhinolaryngology at 104 S. MichiganBoulevard, Chicago.1 '25 — I. Pat Bronstein is practicing Medicine, specializing in Pediatrics, at 9 S. Ked-zie Avenue, Chicago.'25 — Mabel G. Masten, 5 N. SpoonerStreet, Madison, Wisconsin, is an Instruc-i tor in the University of Wisconsin Medicaii School and Attending Physician at the Wisconsin General Hospital.'28 — Paul D. Reinertsen has finishedhis interneship at Lutheran Deaconess Hospital, and is engaged in the generalpractice of medicine at 5540 West Division Street, Chicago.'28— John P. Wood is assistant medicaiofficer on the £7. S. S. Utah, having beentransferred from the Naval Training Station, Hampton Roads, Virginia. He waswith President Hoover's, South Americantour, and met Dr. F. L. Soper, '18, whois with the Rockefeller Foundation in Riode Janeiro.'29 — Lewis C. Benesh has started thepractice of medicine in Freeman, SouthDakota.'29 — Daniel R. Cunningham is practicing medicine and surgery in Rocky River,Ohio.her position in the Bureau of VocationalGuidance in Chicago, and is taking a position as instructor in Mount Holyoke College where she will teach in the Departmentof Economics and Sociology.Social Service AdministrationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 461EQUALS ALLNEW ENGLAND'SPLANTSPOWER installations by Stone 8C WebsterEngineering Corporation now exceed four mil-lion horse power. They equal the instailed capacity ofali the power plants in New England — a territorywhere seven per cent of the country's population isproducing ten per cent of the country's manufac-tured goods.These plants are located in ali partsof the country.They range from small industriai plants to some ofthe largest steam and hydro centrai power stationsin the country. Many of them are making recordsfor economy in operation.STONE de WEBSTERENGINEERING CORPORATION462 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEMereb Mossman, A.M., '28, is takingcharge of the child placing departmentwhich is being started in the ChicagoOrphan Asylum of which Miss Ethel Verryis the head. Miss Verry is giving a newcourse this quarter entitled "Children inInstitutions."Arnold L. Wills, '28, has been made thenew superintendent of the AlleghenyJuvenile Detention Home at Pittsburgh.H. C. Chang, A.M., '29, is working onhis thesis, "Prices, Wages and the Cost ofLiving in Peking, 1862 to 1900," in NewYork this spring under Mr. Sidney F.Gamble.Olga Solberg, '29, has a position in theEvanston Hospital School of Nursing.Jane Girdler has taken a position in theSocial Service Department of MichaelReese Dispensary.Zephyr Lena Holman, who has beenholding one of the scholarships of the LeilaHoughteling Memorial Fund, which wascreated by the social workers of Chicago,has received an appointment as visitingteacher in the Chicago public schools.Mary Louise Moninger, who held aLeila Houghteling Fellowship during theAutumn and Winter Quarters, has gone toWaterloo, Iowa, where she is going intocounty social work.The following awards of fellowships inthe School have been made for 1929-30:H. C. Chang, B.A. Yenching University,1925; M.A. University of Chicago, 1929.Elizabeth K. Morrison, B.A., Swarth-more College, 191 7; M.A. Columbia University, 1926.Marion Schaffner, Ph.B,, University ofChicago, 191 1.Albert T. Tollevs, B.A, St. Olaf's College, 1912; M.A, University of Minnesota,1924 (The School of Civics Fellowship).The Leila Houghteling Fellowships willbe announced at the dose of the springquarter.Harrison A. Dobbs has resigned fromhis position as Superintendent of the CookCounty Juvenile Detention Home to accepta position as Associate Professor in theSchool of Social Service Administration, be- ginning in the summer of 1929. Mr.Dobbs was doing graduate work in the University of Chicago, in the Department ofPsychology, when the war broke out. Notlong after he enlisted he was assigned to thepsychology department of the army.After the war he returned to Chicago andbecame the resident psychologist at the St.Charles School for Boys. Later he becamethe representative of the Institute forJuvenile Research in the Juvenile Court.As the result of a civil service examinationthree years ago, Mr. Dobbs became the newhead of the Detention Home where hisservices have been recognized as so valuableas to be considered almost indispensable.At the same time Mr. Dobbs has been giving a most interesting course on the subjecttìf juvenile delinquency. Next year he willrepeat this course and will give a requiredgeneral course in Child Welfare that theSchool has been offering, and another oneon the problems of juvenile court administration.Karl Borders, the assistant head residentof the Chicago Commons, has been appointed a Lecturer in the School beginningOctober 1, 1929, and will give courses inneighborhood organization. Mr. Bordersis especially known for his knowledge ofRussian problems. He has been to Russiathree times, once as a representative of theQuaker relief. He is returning this springin charge of a group of the AmalgamatedClothing Workers. He is the author of"Village Life in Soviet Russia," publishedby the Vanguard Press. *Last February Miss Theodora Land,formerly in the Social Service Departmentof the Worcester State Hospital for theInsane, joined the staff of the MedicaiSocial Department of the UniversityClinics as the psychiatric social worker.This department is maintained by theSchool of Social Service under the directionof Miss Ruth Emerson. Miss Land willbave charge of the students who are doingfield work in the psychiatric field.C. A. Curtis is now assistant professor ofeconomics at Queen 's University, Kingston,Ontario.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 46 3In 1884 it was James Gillespie Blaine,"Plumed Knight" to millions of Republicans,versus indomitable Grover Cleveland, Demo-cratic governor of New York. The campaignhad been one of vilifica tion; there were lowinsinua tions regarding Blaine's honesty;there was base politicai use of undeniable un-conventionalities in the private life of GroverCleveland. Towards November it becameevident that the election would be won orlost by the electoral vote of New York. Lessthan a week before election day, Blaine carneto Manhattan, put up at the Fifth AvenueHotel. As TIME would have told the storyhad TIME been issued November 4, 1884:. . . At ten a. m. the delegation of six hundred grimProtestant clergymen arrived in mass formation before the hostelry. Cigar-chewing politicians made wayfor them as they trooped in, to assemble in the ball-room. A waggish fellow hissed loudly from the bal-cony, was speedily ejected. Viva voce they chose aschairman 72-year-old Rev. Dr. Samuel DickinsonBurchard, square-jawed, militant pastor of the 13thStreet Presbyterian Church. He appointed a commit-tee to seek Mr. Blaine in the lobby. Soon it returned,escorting the candidate and members of his familydown thè ballrroom steps. Dr. Burchard ascended totheir side, amidst clerical applause, and spoke: "You see here a representation of ali denominations of thiscity. . . .We are your friends, Mr. Blaine, and notwith-standing ali the calumnies in the papers that have beenurged against you, we stand by your side. We expectto vote for you next Tuesday. ... We are Republicansand don't propose to . . . identify ourselves with theparty whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanismand Rebellion. . . ."At these words the Plumed Knight started percepti-bly and a look of pained surprise fiashed over hismobile features. The assemblale applauded wildly. Casting about for a fitting rejoiner, Blaine soon seemedto forget. Other preachers preached, fulsomely, withbombast. A superannuated divine fainted and was car-ried out. Finally, with vigorous urbanity, the candidatereplied, neatly sidestepping a pro-Protestant declaration,but letting Bigot Burchard's impertinent alliterationpass unrebuked.That night the partisan press rang with mendaciousassertions that Blaine had insulted Democracy, thatBlaine had deliberately approved Bigot Burchard'sdenunciation, that Blaine would now lose Manhattan'santi-Cleveland Catholic vote previously conceded him.So TIME would have reported the"Burchard business" of 1884. TIME wouldhave noted how the "Rum, Romanism, andRebellion" phrase stuck like pitch, gaveGrover Cleveland New York's electoralvote, and so the Presidency, by a baremargin of 1,149 bàllots.TIMEThe Weekly NewsmagazineNEW YORK CHICAGO205 East 42nd Street, New York City464 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE1928 — Helen Fisher Hohman, who has asocial science research fellowship for 1928-29, is now in England studying populationtheory and revising for publication hermanuscript on "The Trade Boards Actsand the Social Insurance Acts in Relationto a Minimum Standard of Living in GreatBritain: A Study in Attitudes TowardPoverty and Methods in Dealing with It,1880- 1926." This dissertation won FirstPrize in the Hart Schaffner & Marx contest last year.DivinityGeorge Cross, Ph.D., 'oo, D.D., a dis-tinguished alumnus of the Divinity School,died January 19, 1929. For the past six-teen years Dr. Cross was Professor ofSystematic Theology in the RochesterTheological Seminary, which recently became the Colgate-Rochester DivinitySchool. He was the author of severalbooks, many articles in magazines and theencyclopedia, and a teacher of great gifts.The funeral service was conducted in Rochester, New York, and interment was inProspect Cemetery, Toronto.Forest Witcraft, D.B., '20, Ph.D. '27,and Mrs. Witcraft are the proud parentsof Carol Winifred who was born Aprii3, 1929.C. L. Manshardt, A.M., '21, Ph.D., '24,is Director of the Nagoada NeighborhoodHouse, Bombay, India, which has devel-oped from nothing into a great helpfulneighborhood organization under Dr. Man-shardt's leadership. From six to eighthundred people, Hindus, Moslems, Jews,and Christians, daily use the limited facili-ties of the House, and the influence of theinstitution has extended throughout the en-tire section of the city in which it is located.Sterling G. Rothermel, D.B., '24, diedrecently at Mandaul, Ragaul, Indiana,where he was a missionary under the Dis-ciples Board. Mrs. Rothermel will remainin India with their family and carry ontheir work there.Russell F. Judson, A.M., '25, D.B.,'26, for three years Associate Pastor and Minister of Education in the First BaptistChurch, Kansas City, Missouri, has ac-cepted a cali to the First Baptist Church,Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mr. Judson succeedsanother of our graduates, the late ClarkeR. Parker. First Baptist Church, CedarRapids, is located quite near to the campusof Coe College and is one of the strongestchurches of the denomination in the state.Clarke R. Parker, D.D., pastor for eightyears of First Baptist Church, CedarRapids, Iowa, died January 31, 1929. Dr.Parker had an honored career as a Baptistminister in Iowa and Indiana where heserved important churches. He is sur-vived by his widow and three children.Mrs. Luther Wesley Smith (HarrietVaughan) is the happy mother of LutherWesley, Jr., who was born Aprii 14, 1929.. MARRIAGESBIRTHS, ENGAGEMENTSDEATHSMarriagesKatherine Sproehnle, '15, to AlfredRheinstein, August 8, 1926. At home, 885Park Avenue, New York City.Helmer Turner, '23, to Sarah Cart-mell, Aprii 3, 1929. At home Brandsville,Missouri.Harold W. Lewis, '23, to CatherineBrawley, ex-'30, May 8, 1929. At home,Oak Park, Illinois.Walter E. Smith ex '25, to Irene Bern-hardt. At home, 2740 Chicago Boulevard,Detroit, Michigan.Austin P. Lewis, '25', M.D. '28, toDavida M. Boyd, '26, October 16, 1928.At home 6134 Kimbark Avenue, Chicago.J. Forrest Crawford, '22, to DorothySmeed, in Egypt, December 1928. Athome, " 2339 Hilgard Avenue, Berkeley,California.Grace L. Cooper, '23, to Donald R.Murray, Aprii 7, 1928. At home 1242Elmwood Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.Sara L. Boom, '26, to Edwin FranklinMoore, March 28, 1928. At home, 269John Street, Oshkosh, Wisconsin.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 465Permanent Teaching Positions at Better PayWe help you to more lasting tenure, larger opportunities and better pay. The years of experience of our personnel as teachers and executives in public schools and colleges adds to the recognizedefficiency of this organization an understanding of the needs of both teachers and officials. The resultis better qualified teachers in positions of more opportunity — greater efficiency and fewer changes.Our more than forty years of nation wide experience in placing college teachers and executives, superintendents, principals and secondary teachers promotes the satisfaction and progress of bothindividuate and schools. Write for InformationCE. GOODELL, President and General ManagerMF**L M TEACHERS _ 28 éast Jackson dlvd.mÀ*ii ChicagoClark -BrewerTeachers Agency47th YearFor College Vacancies, write toour College Department.Teachers (with A. M. or Ph. D.)wanted. Salaries $2500-^4000Direct calls.64 E. Jackson Blvd.Lyon and Healy Building ChicagoNew YorkPittsburgh .Chicago Write for "TheTeachers andThe Teachers'Agency," full ofkeen suggestionsabout job getting. MinneapolisKansas CitySpokane,Wash.For one registration you join aliofEces permanentiy Albert Teachers' AgencyCollege Division25 E. Jackson Boulevard, Chicago535 Fifth Ave., New York CityFor f orty-four years at the headof College and State Teachers'College placement service. Professors and Instructors sent byus to every State University. Menand women with advanced degreeswill find here what they want.Send for College booklet andCollege blank. Better stili, caliat our office.THE YATES-FISHERTEACHERS' AGENCYEstablished igoóPaul Yates, Manager6l6-6lO SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUECHICAGO THE J. M. HAHNTEACHERS AGENCYA Western Placement BureauElementary, Secondary, CollegeAlways in quest of outstanding educatorsfor important positions. Teachers with high-er degrees in demand. Doctors of Philosophy urgently needed for college anduniversity positions now listed.J. M. Hahn and Bianche TuckerManagers2161 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, California466 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEHave You a SummerJob of Ty ping to Do ?Let us quote you priceson machines and suppliesRen t — Sale — Exchange — Re p airat theU. of C. Bookstore5802 Ellis Ave.Paul H. Davis, 'u Herbert I. Markham, Ex. 'o6Ralph W. Davis, 'i6 Walter M. Giblin, '23PaalHJ)avte&@<xMEMBERSNEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGECHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE37 South LaSalle StreetTelephone Rand. 6280CHICAGOUNIVERSITYCOLLE GÈThe downtown department of The University of Chicago, 116 S. Michigan Avenue,wishes the Alumni of the University andtheir friends to know that it offersEvening, Late Aftemoon and Saturday Class e sTwo-Hour Sessions Once orTwice a WeekCourses Credited Toward University DegreesThe Spring Quarter begins Monday, Aprii I, 1929Registration Period, March 22 to 30, 1929For Information, AddressDean, C. F.Huth University College,University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. Mildred Lillian Hoerr, '26, S.M. '27to Robert H. Lysle, '28, Aprii 26, 1929'At 4253 North Hermitage Avenue, Chicago.Laura V. Cushing, '27, to VergilGriffith, February 9, 1929. At home, 6617Stewart Avenue, Chicago.Elizabeth Ripley Moore, '28, to CharlesO'Connor, Jr., in the autumn of 1928. Athome, 108 East Walton Street, Chicago.EngagementsCharles L. Goldberg, '25, to Julia C.Pereles, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Wilhelmina Ewen, '28, to Thomas Nor-rell, of Boston, Massachusetts.BirthsTo William Bachrach, '12, and Mrs.Bachrach (Valentine J. Denton) '09, adaughter, Jean Helen, March 10, 1929,' atChicago.To Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Rheinstein,(Katherine Sproehnle) '15, a son Frederick, November 5, 1927, at New York City.To Harold C. Walker, '20, and Mrs.Walker (Phyllis Palmer) '20^ a daughter,'Barbara Jane, September 17, 1928, atMilwaukee, Wisconsin.To Franklyn K. Chandler, '20, and Mrs.Chandler (Sylvia Taylor) '21, a son,Franklyn Kent, Jr., July 22, 1928, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.To Mr. Pao Chun I, '21, and Mrs. I,(Kok Tsung Wang) '21 a son, February17, 1929 at Shanghai, China.To Mr. and Mrs. Francis K. McKenna(Helen Palmer) '22, a son, Richard, June26, 1928, at Chicago.To John Robert Evans, '24, M.D. '28,and Mrs. Evans, a son, John Robert, Jr.,October 28, 1928, at Sunrise, Wyoming.To Mr. and Mrs. William AlexanderDouglas (Elsa Allison) '25, a daughter,Frances Estella, Aprii 21, 1929, at Seattle,Washington.To Dr. C. O. Heindal, M.D. '25, andMrs. Heindal, a son, John Oliver Good-fellow, February 27, 1929, at Rochester,Minnesota.DeathsThomas Winston, M.D. '58, May 14,1928, at his home in Lawrence, Kansas.COLLEGE ALUMNI NOTESDr. Winston was the oldest living alumnusof Rush Medicai College at the time of hisdeath.Franklin Miles, M.D. '74, a noted Elk-hart Indiana, resident, Aprii 1, 1929 at hishome in Fort Myers, Florida. Dr. Mileswas eighty-four years of age, at the timeof his death., Jonathan George Lobb, M.D. '97,February 8, 1929, at his home in Portland,Oregon. Dr. Lobb had formerly practicedin Butte, Montana.Mrs. Robert F. Hoxie (Lucy LovejoyBennett) '02, Aprii 20, 1929, at Edmeston,New York.Lillie Ruth Paisley, 'oó, January 8.1929, at Wilmington, Illinois.Albert E. Hetherington, ex-'n, Decem-ber 18, 1928, at Winnipeg, Manitpba,Canada.Mrs. Myron McLaren (Dorothy Er-skine) '22, in November, 1928, at High-land Park, Michigan.Guy V. Richey, A.M., '25, December24, 1928, at Tucson, Arizona.Pauline Dakin, '27, October 28, 1928,at Chicago, Illinois.Ensign Herbert Bassett, Jr., '27, Aprii18, 1929, in an airplane crash near SanDiego, California. Two planes collidedin air at an altitude of 600 feet and carnehurling down locked together. After hisgraduation at the age of nineteen he spentsome time in the flying school at GreatLakes and later at Hampton Roads, Virginia, where he was commissioned. He hadbeen working for the Loenning AircraftCorporation, in New York City, when hereceived an appointment for a year with thePacific fleet. He had been in Panama onthe airplane carrier Lexington, and had returned to San Diego, about a mónth beforehis death. He was expecting to returnto New York to the Loenning Corporation in July. "Bud" Bassett, to his friends,was active in college. He was a memberof Sigma Chi, the University Band, wassecretary of the Choir, a member of Gar-goyles and the Dramatic Association. Hewas a Cadet, First Lieutenant * in theK.O.T.C. Burial was at Arlington National Cemetery, Aprii 26, 1929. - JOHN HANCOCK SERIES -A PROBLEM forHOMEMAKERSIs the management ofThe Family Income.(~)UR HOME BUDGET SHEET is^^ designed to cover one month'srecord of income and outgo.It is an Account Sheet for both theBeginner and the Budget-wise.Sent FREE on request.Inquiry BureauLife Insurance Company^of Boston. 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The college preparatory work is under the direction ofMISS ELIZABETH FAULKNER, PrincipalBoys are admitted to the Kindergarten Department, which is under the direction ofMISS GEORGENE FAULKNERThe Chicago Latin School for GirlsA Unìque Day School59-69 Scott Street Superior 3767The curriculum of this school extends from the elementary grades through the upper forms.Its high educational standards and splendid faculty offer thorough preparation for Eastern Collegesand Western Universities. Special courses in music, art, and science provide more than the generalcultural background traditional to the average day school.Ali Work under the Direction of Miss Elizabeth Singleton, Headmistress1800 conversations at oncethrough a cable less than 3 inches thickAn Advertisement of theAmerican Telephone and Telegraph CompanyThe earth beneath our great citiesis crowded. Steam, gas, sewer andwater-mains, compressed air pipes,pneumatic tube systems, telephoneand telegraph cables, light, power and rapidtransit conduits lie so dose together that anyfurther additions create serious engineeringproblems. Yet the number of telephone callsthat must flash through the undergroundarteries of great cities is steadily increasing.The challenge to the scientific minds ofthe Bell System was to find a way for moreconversations in existing conduits. Fifteenyears ago, the pride of the System was acable containing nine hundred pairs of wires.Then by many improvements a cableof twelve hundred pairs was perfected. It was rightly considered a scientifictriumph.Today, cables containing eighteenhundred pairs of wires are in service,and these cables with every wire insulatedare only two and five-eighths inches in diam-eter, one-half as large as the first nine hun-dred-pair cable. 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