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Write Box 819, ServiceBureau, Bedford, Indiana.INDIANA LIMESTONE COMPANYQeneral Ofjìcès: Bedford, Indiana Executive Offices: Tribune Tower, ChicagoTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 289pr SPEAKERS^^v^ ViaAios* Tnaadtblc ^<*+>+*> In Actjoitttttg lloouu?**(ALLERTO» HOUStf70MORZH MICHIGAN AVHNUS-CHICAGO*S CLUB RZSIDZNCB—{TOR MENAW WOM£K~~10QOROOMSliOmcjALemCAGP HZAVQUM&£U$jfor 102 CotUt^anA. utuvet&itieS'k ' oxiAlID 'HaJàaìxaX. $oròritia& * ' ~~$1Z5? pct» week- -u*>~-Intercollegiate HeadguartersInChicago29° THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINETo Europe...in a College Atmosphere!You'll fina! it hereUNITED STATES LINESWhen the greot cabin liner AMERICA sails June 4, Julyjand July 30... she is going in a collegiate setting ...t(,eofficiai flagship of the Inter-collegiate Alumni organa,tions representing 103 colleges and universifies . . .WiHa passenger list drawn from prominent alumni of the mosirepresentative colleges throughout the country ... a col.lege band furnishing the tunes in the most scintillating manner . . . these are going to be gala saiings...The same spirit will extend throughout the entire fleet of the United States Lines and theAmerican Merchant Lines . . . your officiai fleet . . . it is your inning! . . . Why not join your friends oia trip to Europe? Relive campus days . . . play ali the football games over again . . . sing your rolliciing college songs. And as just another phase of the complete plans made for you ...in the London,Paris and Berlin offìces of the United States Lines ... a card index of ali alumni residing in Europe willbe found. You, too, should register. Think of the oldtime friendships that may be renewed. Write yourAlumni Secretary today or send the coupon below to the United States Lines office nearest you,UNITED STATES LINESOFFICIAL ALUMNI FLEETLEVIATHAN, World's Largest ShipGEORGE WASHINGTON AMERICAREPUBLIC P.RESIDENT HARDINGPRESIDENT ROOSEVELT*S» «N. «N.And direct New York-London serviceweekly onAMERICAN BANKER AMERICAN SH1PPERAMERICAN FARMER AMERICAN TRADERAMERICAN MERCHANT MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY TOTHE NEAREST OFFICE LISTED BELOWUNITED STATES LINES, 45 Broadwoy, New York61-63 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago 691 Market Si., San FranciscoI ani interested in'making a trip to Europe this summeron the officiai alumni fleet. Please give me informatimi,w itilo ni obligation on my part, on sailings, accommoda-tions and rates.Name - -Address _ , -.- - -City - - Alumni Associalion — .I Al T II c/VOn our cover: The entrance to AlbertMerritt Billings Hospital, centrai buildingof the University of Chicago Clinics, front-ing on the Midway. This hospital is namedfor a famous physician, the grandfather ofa physician of even greater renown, Dr.Frank Billings, for many years Dean of theFaculty at Rush Medicai College.» » «Two decades ago Buck Baukhage wasone of the outstanding actor-dramatists ofthe University. Even then he had high as-pirations, as is shown by his heart throb-bing Calypsian lyricOhj Td like to be a college poster manHe presided over the Dramatic Club, hewrote a Blackfriar show in which he daredtake a classical part. He wrote for theMaroofij for the Gap and Gown.Since 191 1 Buck has done many interest-ing and important things. He draws backthe curtain and offers our readers a singleact — in three scenes. In this presentationhe does not appear in the cast, but he isevery inch the director — the stage manager— the publicity artist.Only last summer the University decidedthat it needed an Associate Dean of Facul-ties to assist Vice-President Woodward inthe tactful handling of relations with thelocai forces of instruction and research.David H. Stevens, Ph.D. '14, was appointedTHE Magazine is published at 1009 SloanSt., Crawfordsville, Ind., raonthly from No-vember to July, inclusive, for The AlumniCouncil of the University of Chicago, 58th St.and Ellis Ave., Chicago, 111. The subscriptionprice is $2.00 per year; the price of single copiesis 25 cents.Remittances should be made payable to theAlumni Council and should be in the Chicagoor New York exchange, postai or express moneyorder. If locai check is used, 10 cents must beadded for collection.Claims for missing numbers should be madewithin the month following the regular month of u cto the position, to the satisfaction of aliparties concerned. After functioning inthat capacity for a single quarter the University proved its generosi ty by lending himto the General Education Board for a sixmonths study of college education and thework in schools of education throughout thecountry. He took a brief recess from theseduties to speak before the Chicago alumniat Atlantic City. His address is worthy alarger audience.When Frederic James Gurney, D.B. '83,resigned his position as Assistant Recorderin 1928 he had completed thirty-five yearsof service for the University. In the eyes ofhis thousands of friends he had earned a lifeof ease and retirement. But did he retire?He did not. After reviewing his languagesfor a year with the undergraduates he setout for far Persia where his son Taylor isteaching. And there father has joined sonin the dissemination of western culture inTeheran, with the accent on the ultima.The Magazine offers contributions fromtwo undergraduates, Edward Levin as managing editor of the Daily Maroon is wellqualified to write of Individuality on theQuadrangles, and Edward Hirsch Levi,though only a sophomore, is already knownto a wide "unseen audience" through hisbook reviews broadcast three nights a weekin the Chicago district.publication. The Publishers expect to supplymissing numbers free only when they have beenlost in transit.Communications pertaining to advertising maybe sent to the Publication Office, 1009 Sloan St.,Crawfordsville, Ind., or to the Editorial Office,Box 9, Faculty Exchange, The University ofChicago.Communications for publication should be sentto the Chicago Office.Entered as second class matter December 10,1924, at the Post Office at Crawfordsville, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879.Member of Alumni Magazines Associated.291Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd"To H. R. Baukhage with -very much gratitude for the invaluable things he hasdone for our expedition and for his tolerance with our unavoidable mistakes."Vol. xxn No. 6^mbetóttp of CiricagojWaga^me—APRIL, 1930Historic HeadlinesBy Hilmer R. Baukhage, 'iiBusiness Manager the Consolidated PressREAR ADMIRAL RICHARDEVELYN BYRD, dauntless antip-odal vaulter, Mabel Walker Wille-brandt, anathema of ali but a very smallgroup of the more serious drinkers, and oneLeon Trotsky (himself )— deal yourself anyother two in the whole deck of currentcelebrities and try to fili your hand withthe assortment. It can't be done, for theyare alike only in their differences. Why,then, the bracket? An assignment fromyour editor.Since the writer, in his capacity as mov-ing spirit in a newspaper syndicate chap-eroned into print these outstanding three,among others less notable, he has been askedto teli the tale of his adventures along theway.Admiral Byrd (the jauntier title of Com-mander seems to fit him much better), hm>self the most adventurous, provided onlyvicarious thrills it is true and mostly onlythose which every other reader of those dis-patches, with their exotic dateline, "Antartica," shared. But it is almost adventureenough to khow him. Especially in thesedays when Romance with the last flirt of its mantle so frequently reveals in the labelthe trade-mark of some well-known adver-tised product. But here, prosaically dis-guised as a young naval officer, stands acavalier stili sweeping his plumes and carry-jng every habiliment of d'Artagnan exceptvisible cloak and rapier. To watch himas he planned his expedition in a NewYork hotel, to talk with him of pemmicanand wind-proof underwear was a moment.Because right over his shoulder you couldglimpse his avatar— the spirit of a Virginiathat he doesn't even guess is dead. Thereand then was clearly forecast the shadowof the drama to come, the shadow of a pianeon the antarctic plateau and ali that madeitfly.For me there was more of a thrill in connection with Byrd's North Pole Flight, anadventure dimmed perhaps today in thelight of his newer triumphs. It was a quietWashington Sunday (do you rememberwhen?) and I was alone "on watch" in myoffice. A messenger boy entered, dropped astill-damp radio message on my desk. Itbore one code word. The message told thenewspapers who had paid for the right to293294 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEknow it first (but not until it had told me)that the first man to look at the North Polefrom the top had looked, seen and returnedalive. In a syndicate's day perhaps not suchan exciting event, for syndicates sell newsand newspapers buy it. But between thelines of legai phraseology of the syndicate'scpntract for that flight lies another storywhose sequel meant new laurels for American exploration and new jobs for thecartographers. Here it is as reported "tothe trade" in Editor and Publisher:"Washington, D. C. — Woyen intothe gripping story of CommanderByrd's remarkable achievements isanother interesting yarn of real news-paper enterprise and foresightednesson the part of David Lawrence in hiscapacity as president of Current NewsFeatures, Inc. . . . Although Commander Byrd, at the time (of hisNorth Pole flight) never seriously en-tertained the thought of flying over theSouth Pole, for the reason as he toldMr. Lawrence, that the task seemedwell nigh impossible from the stand-point of expénses, preliminary arrange-ments and the size of the job of actu-ally flying to the bottom of the world,the editor then and there sewed up thestory rights of the famous journey tothe South Pole. Commander Byrdagreed that if he ever made a SouthPole trip Current News Features hadan option on the rights, and it is alto-gether possible that Mr. Lawrence'ssuggestion had something to do withthe ultimate decision to make theflight."Trotsky was banished. He was reported in Constantinople and then droppedfrom human ken. A telegram went to ourParis office : "Get the inside story of Trot-sky's banishment by himself" — or dots anddashes to that effect. There was action.But action in the dark. Wires were pulled,strange garrets in European cities searchedfor Trotskyists supposed to be in the know, newspapermen in odd corners reputed tohave underground connections that double-checked the Cheka were sought out. Othersmust be on the same search. But the min-nutes ticked on and no Trotsky. As a lastfutile and final gesture a cable addressedto Trotsky at an obvious address was sent.It was delivered, received and answered.And then my troubles started.Oh, the story carne through ali right,skillfully translated via Paris. It was writ-ten, as nominated in the bond, objectively,simply told, sometimes sparkling. In shortinteresting enough to sell even though morethan one "great" (his obit will read) editorbecame profane in his rejection. Morematerial was asked for and promised andthen international misunderstandings arose.For, alas, this man who has made historydoesn't seem to make carbon copies. Atonce innocent and suspicious, he was soonsurrounded by "friends," quick to warnhim against their bourgeois fellow country-men. They discovered to him the wickedmachinations of the capitalists, including(thank you, Leon) this "capitalist," toolVenal we were as a Tsar or a banker. Sic,from along about page 4 of Trotsky's singlespaced "aide memoire" :". . . Comme resultat j'ai regu lacopie de la lettre de M. Baukhage, quiavec son ton affirmative et avec sesinsinuations quasi psychologiques, setrouve en contradiction . . . etc . . .en morale de cette histoire, les hono-raires perdu pour moi, je les conscriraisur mon carnet comme faux frais demes études des procèdes et des moeursdes agences (Je press d'Américaines."Let me say that M. Trotsky had somereason to feel something had gone amiss, butif he had waited and listened to the wholestory of the real representatives of "thepress of the Americans" and not so much tounrepresentatives who saw so red that theycouldn't see right, he might not have writ-ten as he did. I do not dispute that my dis-cussion was more quasi than psychologicalbut I resent the "affirmative tone." Aninsinuation that I am a yes maq?HISTORIC HEADLINES 29 5Trotsky, his wife and eldest son, Leon, in exile at Alma-Ata,September, 1928He cannot recommend me and, alas, the picture accompanying this aritele is unautographedFor my part I found his life story (thesecond manuscript which caused thetrouble) highly interesting. I recommendit when it appears in book form. But hecannot recommend me and, alas, the picture accompanying this article is unautographed.Mabel Walker Willebrandt has left theatmosphere clouded with alcohol and poli-tics. She now moves more happily in ahigher piane as attorney for an aviationcompany. She has other legai business buther heart is in flying and she holds a pilot'slicense, or will if she hasn't it already.Whether she feels that her late adventure inthe Fourth Estate when her dieta as Ex-High Priestess of Prohibition were syndi-cated, was more or less pleasant than pre-vious brushes I am not sure. "The Insideof Prohibition" was a good feature. It soldwell. True there were, as for Trotsky, some profane rejections and some pitifullyfearful ones. True, there followed a mil-lion dollar libel threat aimed jointly againstus and Mrs. Willebrandt. But what is amillion dollar libel suit after ali, amongfriends? Friends we parted and so I hopewe shall remain. This, of course, is thenub of the tale.I have never been what might be calleda fanatical dry. In fact, when not barredfrom the polis by duty on foreign soil orresidence in the District of Columbia I haveinclined toward the moist end of the ballot.I have been intolerantly in favor of toler-ance on religious matters. And so I ap-proached Mrs. Willebrandt with ali thebitter prejudice that her public condemna-tion had willed me. I found her charming.I found her no fanatic at ali. Fervent inher cause, yes. But what cause? Prohibition? No. The law. Contraband liquorwas just another case to her. I think whenshe looks at the Constitution she sees eye296 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEto eye with Justice Holmes. If that betreason. . . .In the campaign she was too good a poli-tician to squeal when she was made thegoat. Later she was too poor a politicianto stick to the job of trying to prosecutecases when politicians didn't want themprosecuted. Anti-Smith she was, as muchas any rooting Hooverite. Anti-Catholic.No, sir. Believe it or not.Now aviation is her avocation which sheloves as she loves the law. Some day I'mbetting she'll make some aviation history.And I'm hoping that by that time thewhiskey war will be over, mother darling, and she will be news in her own name.So, speaking of history, let me conclude.Syndicates have their faults, they may helpto spread the blight of standardization overthe great white spaces, but once in a whilethey help make daily history real. Thesethree "features," as we cali them, may notbe typical but they are types. Nowheredown their columns did the ghost-writerwalk and, like 'em or not, these three per-sons were (of course, not equally) "big" inthe news. Thanks to the syndicatethey gave to millions of readers their ownautographed footnotes on history in themaking."Nicholas Muray, New York"Mabel Walker Willebrandt"For H. R. Baukhage with appreciation for consideration andpatience in our recent venture and kind regards."Recent Trends in Higher Education"By David H. StevensAssociate Dean of FacultiesMY QUALIFICATIONS as aspokesman of the University aremuch less than our toastmastersays. They are in fact only those given in1660 by Charles Hoole as his excuse forwriting his educational treatise "A NewDiscovery of the Old Art of TeachingSchool." Ali of us qualify under his firstsentence, "Now I have by God's blessingobtained by thrice seven years' experiencein this despicable, but comfortable, em-ployment of teaching school."Among the few advantages of middle-age is the right to become reminiscent.Under this recognized privilege, whichyearly grows greater, I wish for a momentto recali my experiences with our Schoolof Education. These have been of the"laboratory" sort and have extended overten years— from the time my son enteredthe kindergarten of the Elementary Schooluntil the present day. After a month'sabsence from home I expect this week tohave vivid orai reports from three sources,the special/ emphasis in each being put uponthe work done in the sophomore and sub-freshman years of High School and in thefirst grade of the Elementary School. Mytwo daughters give more valuable statement^ of their progress, but are no moreemphatic than my son in some of their con-clusions. For example, there was the day,after a few weeks in the kindergarten, whenhe withdrew himself irrevocably from itsactivities as being beneath his concern.With some difficulty his parents reinjectedhim into the system the next autumn, sincewhich time he has been continuously busyand happy. That one experience demon-strated to my satisf action that our "laboratory" schools are precisely that for facultymembers who use them in studying educational methods and likewise for parentsmaking social experiments with their firstchild. Our School of Education demonstratesdaily through its experimental teaching thevalues of individuai initiative and curiosityin ali the learning processes. Its pupilsstart from home as early as possible in themorning and return late. They discovernew fields of knowledge with an enthusiasmthat would be creditable to a member ofthe Graduate Schools. I admit that I amwaiting with some impatience for the daywhen one of my children will see the innerharmonies of Latin grammar and anotherthe orderly disorders of English spelling;I don't understand why the youngest, atseven years, has not the slightest curiosityover the passing of time except as registeredon her mind by the sun. Yet I have nodoubt that the methods used in the schoolswill stir them at the proper time to head-long chase after these essentials. In themeantime I am too deeply interested intheir weekly transformations to interferewith the plans of specialists in child training.The business of a University cannot bedone unless every member has some suchisolation in his own bailiwick as I gladlygrant to the teachers of my children. Alieducation is an experimental science, andevery stage has something that can be under-stood only vaguely by parents or specialistsin other stages. Under a program of inter-ference any university would be only adebating society.The real unity of the University ofChicago resides in this agreement that eachstaff member is to have the utmost freedomfor intense study of his chosen subject.While expanding rapidly in material equip-ment, we have not increased in equal meas-ure either the size of our faculty or of thestudent body. Instead of adding newdivisions of subject matter, we have quiteconsistently improved the quality of teaching and research in those we now operate.*Address delwered at the University of Chicago dinner, Atlantic City, February 26, 1030.297298 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEIt is clear that many departments stili needfewer courses and better ones. New sub-jects may be required in the curriculum, butfirst of ali must come the full possession ofour existing fields. Only recently the University has made proper provision for themedicai sciences. It is beginning to dealmore adequately with the School of Education and the Colleges. The GraduateSchools of Arts, Literature and Sciencehave behind them a remarkable record, butmuch must be done in order to maintainand to increase their usefulness. In alidepartments and schools there* must continue to be this one likeness, that the University shall attain greater momentumrather than more mass; that it concern it-self very little with the amount produced incomparison with the quality of its product ;and that the needs of every part be con-sidered on an equality.The faculties have a very clear under-standing of these needs. A few years agorepresentatives of ali departments andschools met informally to discuss the waysin which ^he University might developmost advantàgeously. Three such meet-ings were held. They gave an opportunityfor those" who week after week talk oversuch questions at the lunch hour withintimate friends, to give their views to alarger audience. These declarations ofaims and needs in various fields gave everylistener a coherent summary of what wasthe work of the University, and also agreater appreciation of his colleagues. Asin much research the result was not whatwas expected at the outset. The discussionsended without a recommendation that anycurrent form of teaching or research begiven less emphasis. Ali those attendingrecognized the essential value of what wasgoing forward in every part of the Quad-rangles. They carried this understandingback to their own departments. It is bysuch intercommunication that the facultiesof the University have increased steadilytheir cooperative undertakings and theirinterest in the work of ali divisions. I amtold that a few days ago some of our menin the humanities invited President Hutch-ins to dinner at the Quadrangle Club and then loaded him with orai reports of whatthey are doing — almost as formidable asthe induction that he endured last Novem-ber, and probably more instructive. Theiridea of welcoming the President to thefield of humanistic research in such urgentfashion, was economical in time and moreforceful in presentation than a series ofseparate dialogues. Again, as in the discussions that I referred to a moment ago,the faculty merged their knowledge andinterests in a way that improved theircommon understanding.The best "mergers" so far exist in ourmedicai and social sciences. Many men inboth of these divisions, if asked suddenlyto what department they belong, would befor the moment uncertain. For this comingsummer, the men interested in linguisticshave harmonized their course programs intoone framework to make the most completecurriculum ever offered at the Universityin the languages of Asia, Europe, andAmerica. Next summer, I hope, this sameunity may be achieved in literatures; alsothat for at least the first two years of under-graduate work we may have taught atypical college curriculum,, including oneor more sùrvey courses, and may have suchcourses open to teachers of these subjectsfor observation and criticism.Any development into new ways of workrequires that plans begin at least a fullcalendar year ahead of the demonstration.From past experience it appears that ourlogicai trend in ali general subjects, bothcollege and graduate, is to be through de-partmental lines toward a closer organiza-tion in the divisions of humanities, social,biological, and physical sciences.- Whenthe undergraduate reaches intellectualmajority, he can formulate a pian withinone of these three areas. He will be muchmore capable of meeting a general examina-tion than is the master's candidate of today.And often he will see the reason for enter-ing graduate studies in preparation for anacademic career.In the Senior Colleges today are leftunattached those young men and youngwomen without professional routines, mostof them in need of a more compelling pur--RECENT TRENDS IN H1GHER EDUCATION 299pose in study. In the graduate schools ofArts, Literature and Science, those outsidestrictly professional routines are not fitlyprepared. The blame rests upon the University for failing to make its objectivesclearer, and this in advance of admission.When we can regulate our stream throughmarked channels, we shall relieve immenselythe insistent pressure upon the faculty;also we shall make our programs of studyeasier to master and more valuable as well,because they will be more purposeful.The fear that changes will bring loweredstandards arises from a cairn acceptance oftraditional practices. The man who wasasked what So-and-so was before he was abishop, and who answered, "Why, wasn'the always a bishop?" had this cairn acceptance of what was in his experience. I be-lieve ali of us have in mind for theuniversity the opposite determination. Nomere innovation, but exploration intomatters of procedure is the way of growth.From one end of the Midway to the otherwe shall make our subjects fruitful by con-stantly examining the relation of subjectmatter and methods of teaching. The research problem growing out of a novel orabstract thesis may be a test of ingenuityand determination, but it should also haveBack to the its known subject matter. For that begin-ning the student needs both knowledge andenthusiasm born in him during the earlystages of his work.These needs are as real in the most ad-vanced work as in the simplest and earliestprocesses of the elementary schools. Togive a graduate student an independentmind it is required to arouse or at least torelease his curiosity. He may not respondto any summons ; then he should be droppedfrom the routine if he himself does notrealize his failure. On the other hand,many have this innate urge that can beillustrated in an incident of my last summervacation. A native son had returned tohis village after twelve years of successfulwork in the Chinese civil service. Whenasked how he happened to go to China, hegave the credit for his initial urge to Professor Reinsch of the University of Wisconsin. His sister interposed anothercause, saying, "I think it was because whena little boy you were always asking mother,'What is over beyond the hill?'" Both,in my judgment, were right; and in bothanswers we have a guide toward the usesto be made of our opportunities "in thisdespicable, but comfortable, employment ofteaching school."on June 7A Letter to AlumniFrederic J. Gurney Writes from Far-Away Persia about Contrasts,CustomSj and Purple MountainsTeheran, November 29, 1929Now don't say Te-hé-ran, as I did inthe days of my ignorance. Say Teheràn,two syllables, accent on the ultima, a as infather, the h an audible consonant, the ein the middle with only enough sound tocarry your voice to the r.Thistns a land of contrasts, shown mostconspicuously in this the capital city. Earlyin the morning, perhaps befofe daylight,one may hear the music of carnei bells as acaravan lurches into the city, each animaitied by a long halter to the saddle of theone before it. The next moment the whirrpf an aeroplane may be heard as it startspn one of the various regular trips to dis-tant cities. A person can fly to Moscowand make connections westward, or toBaghdad and connect with the Britishservice to India or to Cairo and thence onto London. In the bazaars a person canbuy any of the odd things — and some notso odd — which people use here, but manywestern products are to be had, fromQuaker Oats to a Singer sewing machineor a high-class automobile. Street sprink-ling is commonly done by men who use avessel something like a coal hod, dip waterfrom the running stream at the side of theStreet, and, with a strong, skilful throw,spread it across the road. On the otherhand, on some of the new, wide avenuesthere are huge auto sprinklers as big as anyyou would see in Chicago. An interestingcontrast is a Zoroàstrian place of worship(with a school connect ed with it), wherethe ancient faith, antedating Mohamme-danism by much more than a thousandyears, is cherished by a small minority ofPersians; while next door is a large Rus-sian school, which of course is bolshevikand antireligious.The Persians are the only Aryan peoplewho are Mohammedans. That religionwas forced on them by the sword of theArabs early in the advance of Islam aboutthe middle of the seventh century a.d. The language, therefore, has received aconsiderable admixture of Arabie, par-ticularly in connection with religion andscience; and it has additions also fromTurkish and Turkoman. In WesternPersia Turkish is the vernacular. In re-ligious usage the word for God, of course,is Allah; but in Khodaw, the word for theDeity in common conversation, we canrecognize our word, God. So also we seein pedar, mader, brader, doktar, ourfamily words "father," "mother,""brother," "daughter." I have not learnedmore than a few words and phrases; butit is easy to see, from what my son hastold me, that it is not difficult to get aconversational knowledge of the languagefor ordinary purposes. The structure issimple, and there is almost no grammar.It is a question of vocabulary and idiom.But to read and write it is quite anothermatter. The Arabie alphabet is used, andthere are many peculiarities, variations,and exceptions that are baffling to aferangee ("foreigner"). For instance,there are thirty-two letters, besides thevowel points, which are not really letters.Each of these has diflerent forms forinitial, mediai, final, and unconnecteduse. Ferangee comes from Frank, for theFrench were the people most in evidencein early contact with Western peoples.One evening I went to the hospital ofthe American Mission where there wasto be a certain meeting. I hailèd adroshky — they cali it deroàshky — thevehicle imported from Russia and theordinary public conveyance. I did notsay, "Take me to the American hospital,"but "Mareez khaneh Amreekaee kuj'astfthat is, "Sick house American where is?"He said, "Bally" ("Yes")', and I climbedinto his carriage. The older of my twograndsons usually speaks English to mebut often uses Persian idiom, for example,"You to the college are going?" But hissister, a year and a half younger, speaks300A LETTER TO ALUMNI 301Persian most of the time, and she calls meAwbaba, literally, "Mr. Grandfather."The word for "Mr." is Awgaw, and for"grandfather" is babà; but in usage the twoare used together and contracted as above.The children of foreigners growing up herenaturally speak both languages.This city is more metropolitan than Ihad expected to find it. There are manyRussians here and the other Europeansare fairly well represented. Also there arenative agents of western firms.I carne from Beirut, Syria, with myMissionary friends, the Paynes, who weredriving their own car. In the long tripacross the Syrian Desert and up into Persia we were , attached to a convoy of twelvenew trucks and eight new touring carswhich Mr. K. was bringing to Teheran. Ihave noticed a sign on a large building,"Zoroastrian Commercial Co., Goodyeartires, Chrysler cars."Besides the ferangees there are two non-Persian native groups, Armenians and As-syrians. Both these groups are looked uponas Christians by the Moslems. Anothergroup is the Jews. I was surprised to learnfrom a Christian-Jewish lady that there aresome 18,000 persons of this race in thiscity. In the Majléss, the Persian parlia-ment, there is, by special regulation, onerepresentative each from the Armenians,Zoroastrians, and Jews; and I think onefor the Assyrians also.The college here is one branch of thework of the mission of the Presbyterianchurch in the U.S.A. Teheran is the head-quarters of this work, and there are sta-tions in a number of strategie places. InIspahan the Church Missionary Societyof England has its headquarters, and thetwo organizations divide the field betweenthem and co-operate in their work. Myson, F. Taylor Gurney, S.B. 1921, who isknown to some of you, carne here in 1922to teach in the high school, which has sincegrown into a college. He has charge of thechemistry department. The educationalwork of the missions has stimulated nativeeffort, and there are now governmentschools for boys and for girls under aminister of education, with regular exami- nations conducted by the ministry. Physicaleducation too has received an impulse.There is a regular department in the college and the schools of the mission, andnow there is similar work in the government institutions. Also there are independ-ent athletic organizations. The foreignershave an interest in this development, espe-cially the Britishers, who are fairly numer-ous here and who by home training lovesports. It should be said, however, that theyouth of Persia are not naturally inclinedto strenuous exertion and have some distanceyet to gol before they are really good sports-men. Just now there is in progress here aseries of football games with a Russian teamfrom Baku. Our team is made up fromseveral sources. The Russians have beaterius thus far, 11 to o and 4 to o. They areheavier than our fellows and faster andshow more vigorous training. The gameplayed is soccer.Soldiers are much in evidence here. Youcan see them marching in the streets anyday. The present Shah was a soldier; in-deed, he rose from the ranks, becomingsuccessively commander in chief, ministerof war, and prime minister, until in Aprii,1926, the power which he had actually ex-ercised for several years was given formairecognition and he was crowned as Shah.He took the name Pahlevi for his dynasty.He displaced the Kajar dynasty, whose un-worthy representative was living a life ofdissipation in Europe. I have heard thathe now has a perfumery shop in Paris.There is universal military training re-quired, and the army has a large drillground in the city, and a military trainingschool just outside. Young men of military age who are in approved schools areexempt, but aside from this the rule isvigorously enforced. Mr. Howland, of thecollege faculty — a son of our ProfessorHowland of the University of Chicago —tells me that these soldiers march betterthan any he saw in Southern Europe.The country in this region resemblesArizona and New Mexico more than anyother lands I have seen. The land is bareand hard, except where it is irrigated, thereis no growth save sparse thorny plants.302 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEAbout ten miles to the north is the Elburzrange of mountains. Between the Elburzrange and the Caspian Sea, which is sevenand a half times as large as Lake Michigan,is a narrow strip largely of forest land.The Caspian is 85 feet below ocean level.The clouds from it drift to the mountainsand are precipitated in this narrow region,giving it an annual rainfall of 60 or moreinches a year. Only a little direct fallcomes tq^us south of thè mountains, butfrom the snows deposi ted there we get ir-rigating streams. These streams save thisotherwise arid plateau, 3,000 feet and up-ward above ocean level. It is as the prophetEzekiel said, "Everythirìg shall live whither-soever the river cometh." Along by thewatercourses, within the city or without,there are fine growths of trees, flowers,fruit, vegetables, and grain. This is thecondition over a large part of Persia, forthe country is mostly one vast plateau withmountains on the north, east, and south-west, sloping down gradually to theArabian Sea. The whole country is largerthan Texas, California, Montana, and Arkansas together, but the population is notmore than 10,000,000.The beauty of the purple mountains isalways with us. They are only about iomiles to the north, and they seem so doseand familiar. Their slopes of varyingshades, treeless save in the clefts near thebase, are nearly always seen through apurple haze, generally bluish but sometimesverging toward red, and of ten in the eveningthey are in a glow of pink. Their topsare sharply outlined against the blue above,which ali summer was cloudless. Then 40miles or more east-northeast is "glorioussaintly" Demavend, an almost per feet conelifting its snowy cap up, up, to a heightestimated at from 18,600 to 20,000 feettoward the heavens.Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day, andI gave thanks as soon as I awoke for therain, which I could hear pattering outside my Windows. For six months there hadnot been enough to lay the dust, even if alithe little sprinkles had come at once. Nowthe dust was laid, the leaves were washed,and — what a scene on the mountains!What had come ali day on our level as rainhad fallen there as snow. This morningthe unclouded sun shone on a splendid rangeof white, showing peak after peak andsummits beyond summits and Demavendgleaming not only on top but down ali hisslope. It was one of the most beautifulmountain scenes I have ever beheld.Let me add a personal word which mayinterest some intimate friends. Since theUniversity in June, 1928, said that I neednot work there any more, and a large groupof friends said in a very convincing way thatI might take a trip to Persia and see myyoung people, I carne to this ancient land tostay with them a while. But something wasneeded, it seems, to keep me from rustingout. Before I reached this city the president and the dean of the college wisheda job on me. That is to say, I was put incharge of a course in the "History of Western Europe." It is a small class, only three,but they are interesting young men and Iam enjoying the work. It will not detractfrom your interest to know their names.They are Salman Bawstónn, AbdollahNajawt, and Hassan Ali Sabaw. Bawstónnis a Kurd who was brought here from anorphanage in Kermanshah some years ago,who has an earnest desire for education.He is a Christian, a member of the nativechurch, and is working outside for his ex-penses. Sabaw, apparently in the thirties,carne to school only a few years ago. He isa telegraph operator and works every evening in the government office. Now isn'tthis quite an experience after thirty-fiveyears in the Recorder's Office of the University of Chicago?Sincerely yours,Frederic J. GurneySojourn on a SummitBy Henry Justin Smith, '98XIV1.HOW do you stand the high alti-tudes?" queries the grey oldsociologist.This patriarch is about through. Hecan only walk forty paces at a time; thenhe must stop and wait for strength. Buthe insists on plodding through the snow,looking up at the familiar towers, lovingthe lights which begin to pierce the twilight.What makes him pour upon this placethe thin remaining stream of his aff ection ?It is his nature to love things, to lovepeople, not only as individuai, but as amass. That was why he became a sociologist. He is known as very great one. Hiswritings are difficult to understand. Heinvented some terms which demand aglossary. It was part of his way of tryingto do something for muddled humanity;get it organized, ticket ed, straightened out.Some folks have their sly jokes about theold man. But they can't deny what sethim at ali this. People were his passion.To understand them was his life-work.As for this group of quadrangles, thisenclosure wherein so many eager personsare seeking truth, it is the sociologist Js home,of course, just as it is that of The GreatMan and others. Our patriarch has ab-sorbed the special value of every tower,every shadow, every cornice. Who leavessuch a home without loving it? Yet theold professor is not too busy' about his fare-wells to give thought to a mere Lowlander.Here he is, asking, questions.2.The Lowlander attempts an answer.Perhaps, professor, the easiest way is tothink of what The Summit is not. Thinkof Down There, and what that is.How long, professor, since you walkedthrough the heart of the city at this hour;the hour when the1 office buildings are turn-ing loose their legions, and floods of elec- tricity are awash, in Street lights, in ranksof golden window-panes, in words hoistedhigh above the darkness? That is a journeywhich leaves you many things to thinkabout . . . you get an impression of anenormous effort; of a herd-like instinct, justto escape. Thousands are trying to get outof this place; hundreds are trying to getthem out. Machines such as street-carsare edging along through the narrow streets,or cautiously turning corners, with groansfrom the wheels and blue flashes from thewires. Other machines, on a trestle over-head, are moving in a slow procession, pick-ing up passengers from long platforms.The burble and shriek and clack-clack ofit ali surpasses any orchestrai cacophonyever invented by the insane. There is athud-thud of feet, a jarring roar, an over-tone of eerie whistlings and outcries.The general effect is of alleys meant tobe dark, but now flooded by many lights;they are delicately blurred by a universalelement of smoke, or lake-fog. Shop-windows ooze light. Cigar shops, hat shops,jewelry shops, food shops, folly shops. Abank window, full of appeals to buy bonds,hurls a light into the Street; and so doesthe window of a steamship office, with aglittering model of a steamer to taunt thesehome-staying throngs. . . And the theaters !So thick are their porte-cochere signs, thrustout over the walk, that, looking down the/Street, ytou read the words ali mixed:"Grace G Pop Melodr Broad-way Sue Ten-Twen — Orch — ontaine."Right-angle signs, and up-and-down signs.Ladders of letters, from rez-de-chausse tocornice, and with borders of red balls, whichamazingly run up and around the edges ofthe signs, in silently moving chains. Andunder the signs are the broad doorways ofthe theaters, with white enamelled foyersand gilt ticket-offices and gaudy placards,with wells of broken light whose fragmentsdazzle the passing crowds.303304 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEYou come into a broad Street, with fourlines of car tracks, and a white blaze.Along both sides globes bum with the pallorof ice, but the radiance of suns. Motorsslide along, with lamps dimmed. The mobsof people are here exposed as in a movingpicture studio, with ali the curves andharshnesses of their faces visible under thefalse giare. And they gulp in the light;they are blinded by the complex assault ofrays from the level, from the shelves ofWindows steadily afire, from the competitivemixup of advertising devices which, white,red or yellow, wriggle, lean or fioat over-head, now there, now gone, blatting outwords which nobody stops to read.It is just a sort of* general madness here,professor; but very easily you can escapeinto an extension of this Street, beyond theedge of its illumination. A little way onthat course — but be careful not to stumbleover a board laid for running barrels intowagons — and you arrive at a great mysticopen space. The sky suddenly appears.The crowd dwindles to nothing. A para-pet. . . . The river.A thin little stream, dwarfed like arivulet flowing in the mighty gash of acanon. The water resembles black oil, withits furrows edged with gold. A tug, justlumbering out intoi the f airway, leaves sucha track. Its funnel is etched against a washof distant radiance, smoothly reflected fromthe searchlights farther on.For there are searchlights there, andhalos, and stabs of illuminated lettering, asin the noisy labyrinth just threaded; only,in the majestic clearance of this "river andharbor development" the effects are moreremote, grander, softer. On the wide stonepromenade, leaning against the wall, one isenough removed from the skyscrapers thathave lately risen at this point so that onecan slant one's vision up the whole of theirstupendous trunks, and then discern, in theactual cloud-realm, eyes in the puny headsof the monsters. In the cupola of this giantburns a sort of purplish lantern ; on the peakof yonder tower a white light, a diamond-beacon, sometimes retiring behind the mist.In the predominant darkness, the shouldersof these huge, swart, stupid riverside sen- tinels are mere tracery, a little darker thantheir background.Farther on, a very ambitious building-owner causes the mouths of two searchlights to emit clouds of light against thefiat porcelain-colored surface of his sky-scraper; and it is from this that so muchluster is reflected over the river, the boule-vards, the bridges. His generosity withcurrent makes clearly visible the impatientprocessions of scampering, dodging, halt-ing motors going over the bridge, and thefoot-passengers, and the eddies of peoplecaught in corners.It is here, where the elbow of the riveris caught in a passion of display, before itescapes into the mystic fog beyond, thatDown There does its best in lavishness, insplendor, in expressing some power fui butfutile instinct.Yes, futile, professor. Isn't it so?What are those buildings? Why, theyare like childrens' blocks. And what is inthem? Why, people piling up treasure.They will tear down the block-houses someday; and as for the treasure, it will vanish,or it will pile up somewhere else. . . .3-The professor stops. He has done hisforty paces."Yet you love it ali."The Lowlander, discovered, laughs."You would go back to it," says the oldman, in his soft, careful voice._Now there lies the problem, professor.Whether, having by some scrambling gaineda height, to scramble down again. Whetherto confess that having emerged into thepurity of the Summit one must, for somevague reason, renounce it.It was not ali beautiful Down There;who says it is ? Not even the motives whicherect "great civic improvements" are, aliof them, beautiful. And as for the darkerbyways of Down There, what of those?Professor, just where the boulevard runsits most brilliant course, it is built abovea region which, as you look down into it,seems to symbolize the terrific depths* of thehuman valley. By cohtrast with the upperlevel, which has sleekness, brightness, andSOJOURN ON A SUMMIT 305ali the adornments of success, that nethercity suggests only darkness, mud, grief, andvice. The boulevard has sought to raiseitself above the old, shabby and sinistervale, and to forget it; but the vale remains,and it is sinking ever lower.Like human aflairs, eh? Oh, too ob-vious to mention to a man like yourself,professor.And you know well enough how it isDown There. Sometimes it must haveoccurred, even to you, to think that therecan be nothing but an inglorious and ag-onized ending for it ali. In that valley ofskyscrapers and of smoke stacks, do you seeanything really effective being done to raisemen above themselves? Have you heardof any association of wealthy men subscrib-ing a billion dollars to replace, once forali, the rotten shacks of the poor with clean,comfortable dwellings? Do you observethe real leaders of a city, that is, those whoown its treasures and control its officials,combining to put in jail the rascals whorob the public while they are in office ? Arepeople, with any unity and commonsense,working, actually working, to establishgenerosity, liberalism, peace?The worst of it, professor, is that toomany folks are befng urged to ignore thedark foundations of the boulevard- — return-ing to that figure, if you please— and tofind forgetfulness in pleasure. DownThere, while one class preys upon the other,while power prevails, while disease fillshospitals, and the over-speeded machineryof the time crushes its thousands of victims,the crowds are appealed to by emotionallures, by advertisements, by those veryelectric signs, you know, to sweep on in agluttonous hunt for continually more sensa-tion.Over-fevered, selfish, fed until theyburst, dazzled until they go blind, — so gothe monster throngs of Down There. Theyare a brawling, maddened, and maybedoomed multitude.And yet, in that scramble, that conflict,in ali that wicked and seemingly insanespectacle, there is something — there is something that is like liquor, like electricity —something that The Summit has not. The aged professor resumes his cautiouspacing in the snow."You are stili young," says he.4.Professor, it may be that a university isan anachronism, one way or the other. Itis either too early or too late for this age.When you look at its buildings, modeledafter ancient architecture, the Gothic orthat of the Renaissance! you see that theyexpress an age which is gone. It has noharmony with this era of meaningless be-quest, this age when a piati tude is just aspopular as a new discovery, this century ofspenders, and triflers, and demagogues, andadvertising agents, and lures piled one uponanother, and emotional shocks projectedthrough pictures and newspapers, and speed,speed, speed. Nothing about a universityencourages any of that, or is derived fromit. No, the university stands apart; itgets some of its impulses from a beautiful,vanished heritage of culture, with whichDown There will have nothing to do. Andit has other motives which have been borntoo soon for what is called society to graspthem now.Therefore, Professor, how can you ex-pect — or, even more to the point, how canthe administrators of the university expect— that within even a hundred years theutterly irreconcilable Down There andSummit shall understand each other ?You of the Summit not only are doingthings which are utter nonsense in the eyesof most Lowlanders, but you are, comparedwith them, over-civilized. If the air is toorarified, in their altitude, it is because youknow too much. Your intellects have con-quered your emotions. You take disap-pointments with too great a cairn ; you makeepigrams on failure, you conceal your re-volts and your quarrels under polite ac-ademic phrases. You are Greeks, perhapsyou would say. Therefore, you sometimesmake a Lowlander, whose passions stilibreak through, uneasy and homesick. Ashe revisits the valley, and perhaps sees twotaxi-drivers arguing the right of way, or abeggar flaunting his wounds, or, on theother hand, a crowd shrieking delight, he3°6 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEwishes sometimes that the Summit wouldlay aside its urbanity, its poise and be more"of the world."And then again, he is pleased because itdoes not.But the point is, professor, when DownThere and Summit are so far assunder, canthe university look to the masses for itssupport ?The old man pauses again. He is gettingtired."Not now," says he, "but some time "5-"Some time," he goes on, very slowlyand with many a pause for breath, "theuniversity, speaking generally, will itselfovercome those very evils you have men-tioned, those results of ignorance. Thecontrast is as you say; the abyss is there —now. But intelligence will win. It alwaysAKNOWLEDGE of the Greeklanguage," says Professor Shorey"is the first of luxuries." Not so,he believes, is an understanding of the spiritof Greece as it was expressed some twenty-three centuries ago by Plato -and Aristotle.No understanding of modem man andhis activity or of the history of human culture is complete without a clear picture ofthese centuries in Greece. Professor Shoreyis enabling us to see at first hand two ofthe greatest teachers and thinkers of thepast; to comprehend a thousand years ofthe most vivid living of men in the worldso far; to see in the past the roots of ourown time; to comprehend an abundance ofromances, relationships, and survivals.In the time of Plato and Aristotle, thePhilosophic spirit was abroad. Men talkedwith men passionately about the centraiissues of life, and out of this passionatetalking arose the logie, rhetoric, and does. Why, my dear friend, even thisbeggarly money we are seeking will cometo us ; if not now, some years hence. . . .If it could only come during the life-timeof the President, my old friend — but nevermind that. . . . Science, learning, willrule this world. They can't fail. Theworld will grow up to the university."You are seeing the Summit before thecrowd has discovered it. You are fortunate, my friend."6.Ali at once he stops speaking. Thechimes, which have just begun to ring,come with a sudden crescendo.The wornout teacher lifts his head."I declare," says he, "the wind haschanged. It is the first breath of spring."But alas! patriarch, will you live to seeit?philosophy of Western Europe. TheseGreeks established the categories and dis-tinctions by which modem men think; andthey stili loom tali on the horizons of themodem intellectual world.Plato established a School of the Acad-emy, the first university, which lasted overnine hundred years. He was trained inthe School of Socrates, that shaggy, market-place philosopher, that asker of pungentquestions, who so confounded the pompouslittle men of his time that they killed him.Plato helped to disengage the spirit ofGreece from the locai accidents, and to makeit fruitful for the whole Greek world, laterthe Roman world, and finally for us.Plato was facing and thinking about theissues of his time, the old questions of values,the soul, immortality, the good life, testsfor truth. These are the issues of our time,of ali time, and we listen with respect tothis greatest of early thinkers about them.Research in the HumanitiesA Study in Fiatoni smBy John Dollaro, A.M. '30RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES 307Professor Shorey points this out in hiscomment on Plato's Republic: "These arethe chief problems, again, of our own ageof transition; and the Republic, in whichthey find their ripest and most artistic treatment, might seem a book of yesterday — ortomorrow. The division of labor, speciali-zation, the formation of a trained standingarmy, the limitation of the right of privateproperty, the industriai and politicai equalityof women, the impr.ovement of the humanbreed by artificial selection, the omnipotenceof public opinion, the reform of the letter ofthe creeds to save their spirit, the pro-scription of unwholesome art and literature,the reorganization of education, the kindergarten method, the distinction betweenhigher and secondary education, the endow-ment of research, the application of thehigher mathematics to astronomy andphysics — such' are some of the divinations,the modernisms of that wonderful work."And Plato himself says of the "rest ofthe citizens" in his ideal Republic, afterindicating the functions of the philosophers,"The rest of the citizens — of whom, if theyhave education, something noble may bemade, and who are capable of social science— the kingly art blends and weaves to-gether; taking on the one hand those whosenatures tend rather to courage, which isthe stronger element and may be regardedas the warp, and on the other hand thosewhich incline to order and gentleness, andwhich are represented in the figure as spunthick and soft after the manner of the woof— these, which are naturally opposed, sheseeks to bind and weave together This, then, according to our view, is theperfection of the web of politicai action.There is a direct intertexture of the braveand temperate natures, when the kinglyscience has drawn the two sorts of livesinto communion by unanimity and kindness ;and having completed the noblest and bestof ali webs of which a common life admits,and enveloping therein ali other inhabitantsof cities, whether slaves or freemen, bindsthem in one fabric and governs and pre-sides over them, omitting no element of acity's happiness."Many wise and beautiful things Plato thought, but many of us will feel closest tohim and love him most as a great literaryartist.The following comment on the Sophistsis both a warning against cheap intellectualgoods, and a trenchant indictment of thewhole philosophy of the market place:"Surely, I said, knowledge is the food ofthe soul and we must take care, my friend,that the Sophist does not deceive us whenhe praises what he sells, like the dealerswholesale or retail who sell the food of thebody; for they praise indiscriminately alitheir goods, without knowing what arereally beneficiai or hurtf ul ; neither do theircustomers know, with the exception of anytrainer or physician who may happen to buyof them."And ali, perhaps, are familiar with thenobility, the superb calmness, and the highcourage of the death of Socrates, as Platodescribes it. Crito asks Socrates how hewants to be buried after the poison has doneits work, and, in Plato's account of it,Socrates says, tenderly, almost playfully," 'In any way that you like; only you mustget hold of me, and take care that I do notwalk away from you.' Then he turned tous, and added with a smile : 'I cannot makeCrito believe that I am the same Socrateswho has been talking and conducting theargument : he f ancies that I am the otherSocrates whom he will soon see — a deadbody — and he asks, How shall he buryme?'"And again, Socrates, dealings with hisjailer, who must administer. the poison, giveus a memorable human picture, "Soon thejailer, who was the servant of the eleven,entered and stood by him, saying: 'To you,Socrates, whom I know to be the noblest andgentlest and best of ali who ever carne tothis place, I will not impute the angry feel-ings of other men, who rage and swear atme, when in obedience to the authorities, Ibid them drink the poison: indeed I amsure that you will not be angry with me;for others, as you are aware, and not I, arethe guilty cause. And so fare you well, andtry to bear lightly what must needs be;you know my errando Then bursting intotears he turned and went out.3o8 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE"Socrates looked at him and said: 'I return your good wishes, and will do as youbid.' Then turning to us, he said, 'Howcharming the man is!— since I have beenin prison he has always been coming to seeme, and at times he would talk to me. Butwe must do as he says, Crito; let the cupbe brought, if the poison is prepared ; if not,let the attendant prepare some.' "And see what Socrates, this divine man,expects of death! "Above ali, I shall beable to continue my search into true andfalse knowlèdge ; as in this world, so also inthat, I shall find out who is wise,.and whopretends to be wise and is not. What wouldnot a man give, O judges, to be able toexamine the leader of the great Trojan expedition; or Odysseus or Sisyphus, or num-berless others, men and wornen too! Whatinfinite delight would there be in conversingwith them and asking them questions! Forin that world they do not put a man todeath for this; certainly not."Socrates before the court of his peers,gentlè, yet defiant, has a favor to ask of hisjudges, "Stili I have a favor to ask of them.When my sons Vre grown up, I would askyou, O my friends, to punish them; and Iwould have you trouble them, as I havetroubled you, if they seem to care aboutriches, or anything, more than about virtue ;or if they pretend to be something whenthey are really nothing — then reprove them,as I have reproved you, for not caring aboutthat for which they ought to care, and think-ing that they are something when they arereally nothing. And if you do this, I andmy sons will have received justice at yourhands."And he states to the same judges hiscentrai belief, "Wherefore, O judges, beof good cheer about death, and know thisof a truth — that no evil can happen to agood man, either in life or after death. Heand his are not neglected by the gods; norhas my own approaching end happened bymere chance."Ali who are puzzled about life will lovehim for his last words to his disciples, "Thehour of departure has arrived; and we goour ways — I to die and you to live. Whichis better, God only knows." The study of this man Plato, of histeacher Socrates, and of his pupil Aristotle,is at once delightful and productive foreach of us. And it is a strange thing, too, ashas been said, that Plato should have, inProfessor Shorey, one of his greatest in-terpreters, in a city on a continent of whichPlato never dreamed.Professor Shorey has devoted forty yearsof his life to the study and interpretation ofPlato. The ripe fruit of that life has nowtaken form in Mr. Shorey's mind and isready for publication. He is actively working at this time on two books on Plato, theone of which will be partly new and partlya collection of his work now buried inarticles and notes in scholarly journals,while the other will be entirely new. Thefirst book he proposes to cali "The Unity ofPlato's Thought." This book will be anexhaùstive study of the entire content ofPlatonic thought from the point of viewthat Plato is not a primitive thinker but isto be compared at every point with thebest modem thinkers. The second bookwill be a study of Plato's literary art andstyle.This will be wholly new. Plato, Professor Shorey says, has been much misunder-stood because his readers do not allow forhis literary intentions and devices, such asirony and humor.Professor Shorey plans substantially thesame analysis of the work of Aristotle.His study of the évolution of Aristotle willbe a consideration of his entire writings andphilosophy, not from the medieval point ofview as a fixed and final system of philosophy, but as a naturai outgrowth of fourth-century Greek culture.It is worthy of recollection that ProfessorShorey has been for thirty years the editorand one of the , chief contributors to theJournal of Classical Philology which ispublished by the University of ChicagoPress.This project of examining the literaryworks and thought of two of the mostsignificant members of our race is anotherof those strands in that history of humanculture which is being woven by the com-bined efforts of modem scholars.Woman of AndrosBy Thornton Wilder, Boni & Liveright, New York, $2.50.THE Woman of Andros has the vaguequality of the great classics that makesthe sympathetic interpreter of them feelpersonally responsible for their treatment.In the sense that an author assumes respon-sibility for his book, he is its parent, and inthat same sense, real literature adopts fosterparents. The ability to make the sympathetic reader a foster parent is perhaps partof the mystic appeal which The Woman ofAndros has for most readers. It is ex-tremely difficult to be criticai when one hasbecome partisan. Yet, because of the tran-sience of so many literary haloes, exuberantpraise is difficult and the reviewer is forcedto conservatism. Even conservatively speaking, The Woman of Andros seems to be arare achievement as a technical completion,as a sympathetic treatment of character, andas the statement of a philosophy through themedium of fiction.The Woman of Andros is founded inpart on the Andria, a comedy,* the earliestplay of Terence, but the differences betweenthis modem novel and that ancient comedyare greater than the similarities. Certainof the differences are important for theinterpretation of the novel. The Andriais a comedy which achieves its happy endingthrough the numerous machinations of theservant characters; The Woman of Andros,physically speaking, is a tragedy, which hasits unhappy ending despite the machinations of the important figures. In theAndria the woman is Glycerium and theplot depends upon the important point thatshe is not the sister of Chrysis'but is, inreality, the daughter of Chremes; in TheWoman of Andros Chrysis is the leadingcharacter and Glycerium is her sister. TheAndria is pervaded by a businesslike atmos-phere of hurried intent to make everythingcome out happily; The Woman of Androsis fìlled with a mystic and beautiful stoiccairn which death does not defeat.This spirit of calmness pervades the book,and the story, because it deals with hiurianbeings who are searching for happiness, has an eternai aspect. Moreover, the bookdeals with the matter of life and death andthat is also universal and eternai. But it isnot so simple as ali that. Thornton Wilderhad to create this feeling of calmness; hehad, not only to present the problems con-fronting the characters, but by indirectmeans to make evident the eternai aspectof his story. He achieves both the cairnatmosphere and the eternai aspect in awonderful passage on the very first pageof the book :"The earth sighed as it turned in itscourse ; the shadow of night crept graduallyalong the Mediterranean, and Asia wasleft in darkness. The great clifr that wasone day to be called Gibraltar held for along time a gleam of red and orange, whileacross from it the mountains of Atlasshowed deep blue pockets in their shiningsides. The caves that surround the Nea-politan gulf fell into a profounder shade,each giving forth from the darkness itschiming or its booming sound. Triumphhad passed from Greece and wisdom fromEgypt, but with the coming on of nightthey seemed to regain their lost honors, andthe land that was to be called Holy pre-pared for the dark its wonderful burden.The sea was large enough to hold a variedweather; a storm played about Sicily andits smoking mountains but at the mouth ofthe Nile the water lay like a wet pave-ment. A fair tripping breeze rufHed theiEgean and ali the islands of Greece felta new freshness at the dose of day."This passage illustrates many featuresof Wilder's technique. The sentences arepaired, and the alliteration is well inter-woven. A more striking, perhaps slightlytoo obvious, use of alliteration occurs whenthe author describes Glycerium's eyes as"bright wet eyes strayed over the streakedsea and the blown birds." The effect ofcalmness is achieved by the opening sen-tence, "The earth sighed as it turned in itscourse." After indirectly dating his story,Wilder sets the day at just between the time3093io THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEthat the sun has set and black night comes.Ali but two scenes of The Woman ofAndros take place in the dim light, andusually just at the time when it is neitherblack night nor bright day» The Womanof Andros contains many wonderful pic-tures of night: "As the first lights ap-peared, the wornen retired as the air wasfilled with the clanger of the shop frontsbeing put into place, the boys' voicesceased, and finally only the murmur of themen in the wineshops, playing at gameswith ivory counters, mingled with thesound from the sea. A confused starlight,already apprehensive of the stili unrisenmoon, fell upon the tiers of small housesthat covered the slope and upon the windingflight of stairs that served as streets between them." There are other technicaldevices worth noting: the recurring men-tion of the olive trees, the descriptions ofthe sea, the staging of the scenes, particu-larly the one where the Woman of Androsfirst appears, the remarkable way in whichthe essential details of the story are givenby means of the conversation between Simoand Chremes, and the use of generalizingepigrams to give the picture of a classicworld»It is not true that The Woman ofAndros is ali style. The efxectiveness ofthe remarkable style at once indicates theauthor's basic sympathy for his characters.The result of the style is a beautiful patternin which, as in Plato's republic (thereforewe can be philosophic about it), every thingdoes what it is supposed to do. But the character delineation is remarkable. Wilderdescribes with great sympathy the deafand dumb Ethiopian girl who "couldscarcely be restrained from running for-ward to walk beside her sleeping friend,Chrysis, whose rebuke had been so terriblewhen she had done wrong and whose smilehad been suflìcient compensation for herimDrisonment in silence."The message of The Woman of Andros with its concise pattern and its cairn spiritis rather foreign to most past Americanliterature, which has contained much borri-bast and pictures the American spirit aswild, dashing, and competitive. Wilder'sbook preaches the acceptance of life anddeath and the quiet cultivation of the innerlife and the generous impulses, and lookswith pity on those who are always planningand conniving, as Chrysis does when, see-ing the ardent men about her, she thinks"What drives them in the next fifteen yearsto become so graceless ... so pom-pous, or envious, or so busily cheerful?"The first paragraph of the book ends onan optimistic note, "a new freshness at thedose of day." The Woman of Andros,despite the fact that its main characterdies, and that Glycerium dies, and thatPamphillus is left to go on alone, ends ona similar note. Simo, who knew there wasa way of living which he could not acquire,his wife always fretting, and Chremes,these characters as Chrysis said, "merelyendured the slow mystery of existence, hid-ing as best they could the consternationthat life had no wonderful surprises afterali and that its most difficult burden wasthe incommunicability of love," and thatthe loneliest associations are those that pre-tend to intimacy. The quotation fromSocrates and the pointed phrases throughout the story are Wilder's reiterated denialof that happiness which comes from anystriving or ambitious competition. ButChrysis achieved great peace. She was ableto say "I praise ali living, the bright andthe dark." She was able to discover thepattern of life which Simo knew was beautiful if only you could get far enough awayfrom it. Glycerium achieved the samestate, and Pamphillus, who had much ofthe priest in him, and the old sailor —these knew the secret of right living, asecret that miraculously, like dusk, joinslife with death and that age with ours.Edward Hirsch Leviin mr opinionBy Fred B. Millett,Assistant Professor of English.THE death of D. H. Lawrence is thegreatest loss to English literaturesince the death of Conrad. In asense, it is a more tragic event, since Conradat sixty-seven had achieved practically complete expression of his peculiar powers, andLawrence at forty-five was at the height ofa process of development and creation.But despite the sudden cessation of hiswork in mid-career, he was the most originaiand fecund English novelist of his generation.In the most tentative consideration of hiswork, it is impossible to disregard thephysical and psychological nature of theman himself. It is impossible to neglectthe awful fact that since the age of eighteenLawrence has been a sufferer from tuber-culosis, that his life has been a long desperate flight, to Switzerland, to Australia,to the American Southwest, from theterrible enemy. No doubt the febrility ofhis physical temperament accounts for muchthat is hectic and overwrought in his feelingand style, and the consciousness that hehad only a little time in which to do a greatwork explains in a measure his rough andimperfect medium and his frequent lapsesinto bad taste. More significantly, his ownslender and diminishing store of energymotivates his lifelong worship of exhaust-less and indomitable vitality, and explainshis making a fetish of primitive instinct.But the nature of his work is likewise deeplyconditioned by his psychological disposition.Lawrence seems to have been a deeply in-troverted personality, genuinely mystical infaculty, and never really freed emotionallyfrom the psychological domination of hisremarkable mother. The introversion ap-pears chiefly in his fantastic notions con-cerning masculine integrity, exhibited most consciously in Aaron s Rod, and in theoverpowering fascination and the basic fearwith which he regarded women. Law-rence's mysticism has been inadequatelyrecognized, because it operated in an un-usual direction, the sphere of emotional re-lationships, but so definitely mystical is hisrelationship to ali forms of life that hismore esoteric writings will always fall beyond the comprehension of his extravertedreaders. Moreover, since his capacity forsystematic and abstract thinking was almostnegligible, his body of doctrine will alwaysseem preposterous and slightly ridiculous.Lawrence should never have wasted himself on the task of straight thinking; hiswas a greater and a rarer talent.As Lawrence himself pointed out, hisbrief career had already embraced threefairly distinct periods : the realistic, of whichSons and Lovers was the finest product, theinfrarealistic or mystical, best illustratedby Women in Love, and a final stage, ini-tiated and unhappily concluded by LadyChatterly s Lover, in which the two domi-nant strains in his talent blended into afresh and satisfying unity. Of these periods,the second, though somewhat aestheticallyimperfect, is the most important for itsdaring experimentation and its transcendentoriginality.But whatever mode of writing Lawrencechose to cultivate, he was actually con-cerned with a single subject, the not unim-portant fìeld of human emotions. It is onhis profound insight into this subject, onhis genius for objectifying this insight infresh literary forms that his reputation asan innovating and energizing figure mustrest. It is the honor and the glory ofLawrence that, in the wake of hundreds ofnovelists, he should have been able to make3n312 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEthe most originai contribution to the psychological novel in our generation. Be-side the work of Lawrence, the immensetalent and endless industry of a HenryJames, or the inexhaustible analysis andmicroscopie scrutiny of a Marcel Proust,seems conventional and commonplace.Such men are the logicai culmination of aliterary tradition that extends from Chre-tien de Troyes through Richardson toGeorge Eliot; Lawrence is the initiator ofa new trsulition. For Lawrence's subjectis not the* infini tely subtle matter oi con-scious emotion ; his is the field of^ the un-conscious emotions, the subconscious lifeof the feelings and the senses.Lawrence's major problem was, inevita-bly, the devising of a language for the ex-pression of the uriconscious aspeets of hischaracters and their experience, since language is an instrument, developed to anexalted degree, for the rendition of con-scious experience. To express the unconscious in words is actually, then, to expressthe irìexpressible, a procedure which to thetough-minded must always seem slightlyabsurd. Lawrence's solution was the adap-tation of the existing language to a quitepersonal use. His work is intelligible onlywhen one realizes that he gives a largebody of words distinctly new meanings,when the reader is willing to build up theright Lawrentian connotations aroundhitherto familiar and inoffensive words.It would be unsound to contend thatLawrence's success in the creation of alanguage of the unconscious was unequiv-ocal. There are moments when anyreader rebels strenuously against the hun-dredth use or misuse of dark, electric, orserpent-like, at a perpetually metaphoricaland ultimately unintelligible representationof sub-cutaneous experience. But, for-tunately for the unadventurous or literalminded reader, Lawrence was also amaster of hard, firm prose, a prose, sensitive, poetic, smouldering with vitalitywhen it does not actually burst into flame.No reader could object to the passage —"as grey twilight was falling, he wentacross the orchard to gather the daffodils. The wind was roaring in the appiè trees,the yellow flowers swayed violently up anddown, he heard even the fine whisper oftheir spears as he stooped to break theflattened, brittle stems of the flowers. . . .He went up the hill and on toward thevicarage, the wind roaring through thehedges, whilst he tried to shelter the bunchof daffodils by his side. He did not thinkof anything, only knew that the wind wasblowing. Night was falling, the bare treesdrummed and whistled." Nor need a moreintense subjective passage offer any realobstacle to the sensitive reader — "he saw,with something like terror, the great newstacks of corn glistening and gleamingtransfigured, silvery and present under thenight-blue sky, throwing dark, substantialshadows, but themselves majestic and dimlypresent. She, like glimmering gossamer,seemed to bum among them, as they roselike cold fires to the silver-bluish air. Aliwas intangible, a burning of cold, glimmering, whitish-steely fires. He was afraidof the great moon-conflagration rising abovehim. His heart grew smaller; it began tofuse like a bead. He knew he would die."It is a paradox of Lawrence's creativeachievement that the simpler of his characters, the most approachable effeets ofstyle should seem the more true, the morevital. Such solid and tangible figures asMr. and Mrs. Morel, William and AnnaBrangwen, Alvina Houghton and Ciccio,the Italian acrobat, are new instances ofthe miracle of creative spirit in a frail andunstable nature. Likewise, some of themost memorable of Lawrence's scenes —the wooing of Lydia Lensky in The Rain-bow, the mountain village in The Lost Girl,and the Switzerland of Women in Love —are the most conventional in artistry. .Butthese passages in the work of Lawrence arenot the most significant. To the readersand novelists of the future, Lawrence willassume the aspect and the signifÌGance ofthe brilliant initiator of a new tradition,the first venturer and successful explorerinto the hidden life of the senses, a seer inthe mysteries of the unconscious.NEWS OF THEQUADRANGLESBy John P. Howe, '27The Department of PublicityOF THE over-three-thousand manu-scripts submitted in the ChicagoTribune 's contest for the best 500-word history of the United States ProfessorWilliam Warren Sweet's manuscript hasbeen adjudged the winner — and ProfessorSweet ("Church History" in the DivinitySchool) is richer by $1,000. The competi-tion grew out of Mr. Coolidge's acceptanceof a commission to compose a similar piecefor carving on the face of a mountain ineither North or South Dakota, I forget justwhere. By combining the best features ofDr. Sweet's able history with those of say,Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Mr. Cool-idge could easily concoct the copy for acommendable bit of carving. Mrs. FrankJ. G. Heiner of the Home Economicsfaculty was awarded one of the Tribune 'sten $250 honoraria.Father Berard Haile, Franciscan monkat the order's missionary quarters in St.Michael, Arizona, has become the firstCatholic priest to have academic status inthe University, with his appointment as Research Associate in the, .Department ofAnthropology. Father Berard is regardedas the ranking scholar of Navajo ethnologyand linguistics — the result of long intimacywith the Indians of the Southwest plus aninstinct for research. He has written anethnological dictionary of the Navajos anda vocabulary and grammar of the language,the first of each to be compiled. Last yearhe enrolled in the Linguistic Division of theLaboratory of Anthropology which wasworking at Crystal, New Mexico under thedirection of our Professor Edward Sapir,in order to perfect his technique for re-cording language, song and ritual. Dr.Sapir induced him to continue his researches under the direction of the University, andhis work is now being supported by grantsfrom our Locai Community Research Fundand from Elsie Clews Parsons of NewYork. "He is much beloved of the Navajos," says Dr. Sapir, "and his life amongthem has been nothing less than romantic."» w wRecent appointments to the faculty include :Dr. Frederick W. Schlutz of the University of Minnesota, to be Professor andChairman of the Department of Pedi-atrics in the South Side Medicai School.The Bobs Roberts Memorial Hospital, nowcomplete, adjoining the University Clinicson the west, will be opened May ist tohouse the clinical work in that department.Edwin E. Sutherland, University of Minnesota, as Professor of Sociology.Harold Shepherd, Stanford University,as Professor of Law.Donald Slesinger, Yale University, asProfessor of Law. Professor Slesingeraided President Hutchins in the establishment of the Yale Institute of Human Relations and he will become executivesecretary of our Locai Community ResearchCommittee, relieving Professor LéonardD. White, the present incumbent, for research work.Henry D. Gideonse, Rutgers, as Associate Professor of Economics.William C. Casey, Illinois, as AssociateProfessor of Politicai Science.« w wFurther studies by Professor ArthurDempster of the Physics Department, whosediscovery of the wave-motion of hydrogennuclei won him a $1,000 science prize inJanuary, now show that the phenomenonis not limited to the protons of hydrogen313314 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEatoms but obtains also for elements heavierthan hydrogen and for molecules as well asatoms. In the latest experiments Dr.Dempster used a large uncut diamond forhis crystal, and after reflecting a stream ofpositively charged particles from the diamond, divided the stream into its com-ponents by subjecting it to a strong electricalfield. Photographs showing the diffractionpatterns of the stream gave the above-mentioned result.If this column seems to digress too farin Dr. Dempster's direction it is partly because his work is described by physicists as"a completion of the most importantachievement of 20th century physics," partlybecause he is one of the most modest menin the University. The discovery of 20thcentury physicists is that everything in thecosmos is at once matter and vibration. Because it seems to apply only to particleswhich are charged — and not to neutral,balanced particles — Professor Dempster'smost recent research suggests that the vibration is not a function of the particle itselfbut rather of the electrical charge which itcarries.Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Stanford University and Secretary of the Interior, was invested with the hood of honor-ary LL.D. at the University's I59thConvocation, March 18. Three hundredand twenty-five students preceded Dr.Wilbur to the Presidente Chair in theUniversity Chapel, nearly two-thirds ofthem to receive advanced degrees. Amongthat two-thirds were candidates holdinglesser degrees from no colleges other thanour own.Selecting names at random among thosewho recieved degrees : Harry Harkins, sonof Professor William D. Harkins, formerconference breast-stroke champion, recipientof the S.B. in '25 at the age of 19, of theM.S. at 20, of the Ph.D. at 23 and the four-year medicai certificate at this year's 24;Maxwell Mason,, son of former presidentMax Mason, the S.B. with honors in mathe-matics, and Phi Beta Kappa ; Charles Mal-colm Moss, the J.D., in absentia becauseof his required presence on Catalina Island as a rookie southpaw for the Cubs; SaulWeislow, football captain in '28, the Ph.B;and Vedide Beha, honor student from Con-stantinople, former secretary of the Turkish Embassy at Washington, translator ofthe "Pollyanna" stories into Turkish, theA.M.America may expect a renascence of thefine arts — or at least a genuine nascence— -Dr. Henry Suzzallo, chairman of the boardof the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad-vancement of Teaching, director of theNational Advisory Committee on Education, elector of the Hall of Fame, formerpresident of the University of Washington,etc, told the graduates, as ConvocationOrator on the "Cultural Function of theFine Arts."Men students carried off most of thehonors in the quarterly elections to PhiBeta Kappa. Of the 24 elected (12 juniors,12 seniors) 19 were men. Ali 24 are resi-dents of the Chicago area.wwwManning the giant 40-inch refractor atYerkes Observatory Professor George VanBiesbrock was the first astronomer to catchthe "new" ninth planet in his photographiclens following the announcement of its discovery by Harvard University.There is no relation between neurotic per-sonality and either intelligence or scholar-ship, personality tests of nearly 700 fresh-men at the University indicate. Thosefreshmen classified as neurotic on the basisof their answers to a questionnaire, haveproved to be, on the average, better studentsthan their well-adjusted mates. An ex-planation advanced for this superiority isthat the neurotic student has fewer socialdistractions, and therefore concentrates onscholastic achievement. The study, madelast fall under the direction of ProfessorL. L. Thurstone, suggests that the funda-mental characteristics of neurotic personality is an imagination which fails to expressitself effectively as external social reality.Professors Paul Douglas and FrankKnight, both of the Department of Eco-NEWS OF THE QUADRANGLES 3i5nomics, have been granted Guggenheimfellowships to do research work abroad.The National Research Council hasawarded a Euorpean fellowship to Dr.Wliton M. Krogman of the AnthropologyDepartment.Approximately 300 members of the regular faculty and 75 distinguished visitingeducators will comprise the University'sacademic staff during the impending Summer Quarter. Five college presidents willbe among the visiting group — RaymondM. Hughes of Iowa State; Frank L. Mc-Vey of the University of Kentucky ; GeorgeF. Zook of the University of Akron ; Herman L. Donovan of the Eastern KentuckyState Teachers College; and Karl T.Compton, brother of our Physics Compton,newly chosen head of the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology.Dr. Herman A. Spoehr, who receivedthe Ph.D. in chemistry here in 1909, andthe Sc.D. 20 years later, has been appointedDirector of Science of the RockefellerFoundation, succeeding Max Mason, whois*now president of the Foundation. LauderW. Jones, Chicago Ph.D. of 1897, wasrecently made scientific representative of theFoundation in Europe; Trevor Arnett,former business manager of the Universityis a high officiai of the Foundation. DavidH. Stevens, associate dean of the faculties,is now making a survey of American colleges for the Foundation, and ProfessorCharles E. Merriam, whose brother is President of the Carnegie Foundation, will goto Europe on a special mission for the Rockefeller group this summer. Beardsley Rumi,Ph.D. of 191 1, is president of the LauraSpelman Rockefeller Foundation, which isinterested primarily in the development ofthe social sciences.Wives do not spend as much money forclothes as their husbands, at least in familiesof low or moderate salaried workers, ac-cording to an analysis of 12,000 familybudgets completed at the University. In astudy of expendi tur es for families whose income levels ranged from averages of $813to $2,790 a year, Miss May Louise Cowles,Ph.D. of the Home Economics Department,finds that the husband's apparel costs 10%more than that of his wife. The percent-age of the family income spent on ali cloth-ing increases f aster than the income increasesfrom level to level, she finds, but becauseof the concomitant increase of the numberof children in each family, the proportionalexpenditure for each individuai drops.Interesting in the recent report of theRecorder on the attendance for the year1928-29 is the fact that the University regu-larly grants more Bachelor's degrees annu-ally than the number of freshmen it matric-ulates. Of the 930 baccalaureate degreesawarded that year 452 were given studentswho entered the University with two ormore years of advanced standing. Of the740 freshmen entering during the academicyear, 109 were from Hyde Park HighSchool, 51 from University High, 35 fromEnglewood, with Marshall, Senn, OakPark, Harrison, Lindblom, Lake View andParker following in that order. The nettotal of alumni as of July, 1929, was24,251, of whom 3,286 received more thanone degree. Of the 14,433 different students who attended classes on the quad-rangles or in the University College duringone quarter or another of the academicyear, 8,667 were from Illinois; 337 carnefrom foreign countries, 150 of that numberfrom Canada, 65 from China, 21 fromJapan.Professor Michelson, thoroughly con-valesced, has returned from Bermuda toRyerson Laboratory and to the bridge tablesof the Quadrangle Club. Fred Pearson,his laboratory technician these many years,left Aprii ist for Santa Ana, California tocomplete the lay-out for Dr. Michelson'snewest light-measuring effort.John Provinse, graduate student in anthropology, has returned from an ethno-logical survey in the heart of Borneo; andProfessor Robert Redfield, of the same department, has returned from a similar mission in Mexico.3i6 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEProbably the largest order for photo-graphic work ever placed is that of Professor Archer Taylor of the Germanics Department for photostat copies of 160,000German folk-songs. The entire archives ofthe League for German Folk-Lore, at Freiburg, representing a collection unique in thisworld, will be reproduced to form the material for an extensive series of studies.Funds to defray the expenses of the two-year project, which will cost $20,000, havebeen provided by Mrs. William Wieboldt,THE undergraduate body of the University of Chicago feels keenly acleavage of interests which while con-fusing the individuai creates competingstimuli to accomplishment. Oddly enoughit comprises the two extreme "queer-bird"types: the fanatic for "education" who isfaithful to class attendance and pedantic re-quirements, hardly knowing at times the import of his copious notes ; and the contemp-tuous "culture" seeker who is concernedwith scholastic demands only in the attain-ment of a minimum of objective accomplishment. He is occupied more with the off-campus cultural pursuits, concerts, theatres,literary cliques that a city such as Chicagoaffords. In between falls the welter ofhang-ons who apparently are satisfied merelywith taking advantage of a strategie periodof incubation.It is fortunate that these various channelsare available for developing these extremelyindividuai interests. They alleviate conflietbetween the graduate and undergraduateschools, between the departments of theschool, between the various types within asingle fraternity or club. They could notexist in a small town where such demarca-tion would turn the inevitable confliet ac-tively back to student life. This might, ofcourse, be a remedy for the apathetic con- wife of the donor of Wieboldt hall, andthe Julius Rosenwald Fund.Dramatic — or near dramatic: Jack Pin-cus, of the Law School, has written thisyear's Blackfriar's show. It's called "SmartAlee" and it's about a ridi old guy, who,hoping to provide a decent college educationfor his son, the same Alee, buys himself acollege and tries to remold it closer to his(the rich old guy's) 1893 ideals.dition in undergraduate life, it might bolsterup waning activities, it might provide thatessential esprit-de-corps which is noticeablylacking.The fact remains that there is no suchunity of feeling in the undergraduate body.But, again, there is little of the artificiality,little of the naiveté attendant upon under-graduate-consciousness. There is no confliet, but out of the diversity of interestwhich finds outlet elsewhere than within thelimitations of the Quadrangles, arises thatessential .individuality which has, markedthe "typical" University of Chicago undergraduate. In this sense, and this senseonly, is there a "typical" University of Chicago undergraduate.There is no question that undergraduatelife is shifting its locus of activity away fromcampus. The great percentage of daystudents leaves a small number to keep alivethe various activities. The organizationswhich were initiated on the wave of enthu-siasm and kept going through the interestof an adequate group are largely decadentand functionless. Such organizations as TheDaily Maroon and the Cap and Gown areconfronted with the problem of thinningranks of participants, and the questionarises why even freshmen lose interest inmajor extra-curricular activities. The an-Through Undergraduate EyesIndividuality on the QuadranglesBy Edwin Levin '30Managing Editor, The Daily MaroonTHROUGH UNDERGRADUATE EYES 3i7swer is that they see little objective rewardfor the future, little to repay the effort ofworking for a spiritless activity which hasbarely enough students to keep it alive. Sothey drop off. The freshmen have toomany outlets; they are in demand. Con-sequently they will turn out for those activities which are livest. Such remedy as pro-posing a compulsory student tax to supportthese waning activities would be fruitless.It would make inevitable administrativeparticipation and censorship, heretófore un-known at the University; and it seems en-tirely irrational to attempt to keep alive, byartificial means, organizations that cannotkeep going themselves. And, then, the newdormitories on the other side of the Mid-way, which should bring more students intoresidence, are held out as a panacea.But, if leaders of student life would butopen their eyes to the truth, they wouldsee that such stereotyped activities as theWashington Prom, class councils and thelike are outworn at the University. Withthe exception, possibly, of the DramaticAssociation, there is little intrinsic valueheld out to students; the Iure of practicalnewspaper training on The Daily Maroonhas been replaced by the hope of materialrewards. And the slim chance of attainingthis goal deters many.The shift in interest is indicated by theorganization of new groups interested inopera, in Shakespeare, in the study of music.Even intercollegiate activities induce butslight spirit and seem doomed to be dis-carded with the other decadent groups. Itis a definite shift and grown more certainas the two "queer-bird" groups draw fartherapart and seek their own interests: theone in more intense application to researchand the other to development of aesthetictaste. The great span between, since thereis no active confliet, leaves but few to carryon the hang-over activities ; they are doomed.And no amount of investigation and re-organization can revive them. Perhaps thenew dormitories will help ; but it seemslogicai that the new basis of extra-curricularactivity must be on a more intrinsic and lessconventional basis.There has been little faculty effort to stimulate unity. It has always been thedictum of the administration to let studentsiron out their own difficulties. To someextent this is due to the ardent well-wishingof a few who foresee the fatality of inter-vention; and again it is due to disdain of agreat number who have lost the perspectiveof the undergraduate and belittle thesefragmentary attempts of the student toorient himself.But out of ali this arises that distinctindividuality. The lack of wholehearted-ness entails a coldness that is often fatai tofreshmen. Herein clubs and fraternitiesserve a purpose that outweighs whateverevils might be inveighed against them. Andthey are the institutions at school that canaccomplish tactfully the task of orientationwhere no amount of administrative socialcontrol can.They foster that individuality, thatgrowth of personality, that freedom ofadaptation that to the undergraduate is thegreatest and most valuable factor in education. He can through four years of livingwithin and on the fringe of the variousworlds, complete in themselves, feel his wayabout and vitiate his inhibitions, and attainthe most unadulterated individuality ofcharacter. It is the freedom from enforcedstimuli, from artificial groups, from over-lapping activity — yet allowed to tap thevarious sources of university life — that contributi to the most stable sort of personality. This is the "apathy" of student life;not at ali in fact cynicism but the result ofa great educational venture in freedom ofenterprise which will lead soon to the insti-tution of the honors study pian. And theculture fanatic and the pedant are allowedto develop side by side uninterrupted byeach, yet contributing to each where theymay.The humanization of the University is reflected in a concentrated drive for a musicdepartment, one that will embody, notpractical instruction, but courses in history,theory, and appreciation. A project of thissort catches the fancy of the undergraduate,who has little to cling to by way of f ulfilledpromises of the administration, more thanany number of new buildings or rejuvenated3i8 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEactivities. New channels for appreciationshall replace interest in class offices or intensive curricular programs. It is the oneside of his life that the variegated Quadrangles does not fili, the one side that drawshim away to the concert halls and tea-salons, the lack of which threatens to makeover the undergraduate into a dilletanterather than a completed individuai, an aes-thete rather than an artist.CHICAGO* alumni will be interestedin the following telegrams thatwere read at a dinner given by theBloomington, Illinois, Consistory Club inhonor of the basketball teams of Bloomington High School, Trinity High School,Normal Community High School, NormalUniversity and Wesleyan University onMarch n, at which time Amos AlonzoStagg was the guest speaker.From Dr. James Naismith, Inventor of thegame of Basketball, now Director of Physical Education at University of Kansas,Lawrence, Kansas"Dear Lon, Heartiest congratulations.Your life is an international inspiration.Time strengthens my respect and affection."From David Kinley, President of University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois"The University of Illinois joins withyour many friends in greetings and in expressing appreciation of your great workand uplifting influence to college athletics."From George Huff, Director of Athletics,University of Illinois"I regret it is not possible for me toattend your dinner and do honor to my oldand dear friend, A. A. Stagg. No manwho has ever been connected with athleticsin America has done more to maintain thehigh standards in sportsmanship, cleanliving, amateurism, and general good of the With the advent of such a music department, with the institution of a radio broadcasting station, with the revival of interestin the instruction of the undergraduateschool, the University will truly become akey institution and more than just a retreatinto an unreal life. The University of Chicago holds out much for its undergraduate ;it is already far ahead of other schools. Itwill become active adaptation while othersare just training schools.game. My profound respect and esteemto him."From J. Craig Ruby, Basketball Coach,University of Illinois"Greetings and best wishes to you. Theentire intercollegiate and interscholasticathletic world owes you a great debt" foryour past and present leadership."From Robert C. Zuppke, Football Coach,University of Illinois"I regret that I cannot accept your kindinvitation to attend the Alumni Associationdinner March n. I should especially beglad to be present when I hear that youare to have Coach Stagg as a speaker andthat you intend to recognize his greatservices to intercollegiate athletics. Everyone at Illinois has a high respect and ad-miration for Mr. Stagg and we prize mosthighly the traditional athletic relations between Illinois and Chicago. Mr. Staggcan look back upon a long record of achievement in football but to my mind what hedid last fall was just as noteworthy. Iconsidered his forward pass attack the mostbafBing I had ever seen in my experience."From William Lowe Bryan, PresidentIndiana University, Bloomington, Indiana"On behalf of Indiana University I amdelighted to pay homage to Alonzo Stagg,unexcelled in our history as an athlete andleader of athletes, who knows how to winwithout violating the integrity of a gentleman."The "Old Man" is EulogizedTHE "OLD MAN" IS EULOGIZED 3i9From Pat Page, Football Coach, IndianaUniversity"Very sorry I cannot be with you inperson. Extend my best wishes to yourcommunity boosters and sterling athletes.Give my personal regards to the 'Old Man'of Chicago who rates the greatest footballcoach and athletic teacher of the century."From R. E. Hanley, Football Coach, andA. C. Lonborg, Basketball Coach, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois."Would consider it a favor if you wouldextend our most cordial greetings to CoachA. A. Stagg, Dean of American FootballCoaches and one of the finest charactersthat the game has ever produced. It is ourfirm belief that every one attending theBloomington banquet will get a great manyworth while ideas and ideals from Mr.Stagg's speech tonight."From Edward C. Elliott, President, Pur-due University, Lafayette, Indiana."It is a great personal satisfaction to bepermitted to join with the Alumni Associa-tion of the Bloomington High School insaluting Mr. A. A. Stagg. His influencefor the better building of athletic idealsand practice has extended over the entirecountry and will continue to be extended."From Alexander G. Ruthven, PresidentUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor,Michigan"In honoring Coach Stagg you paytribute to one of the finest influences inathletics in the Middle West. Our sin-cerest felicitations."From George W. Rightmire, PresidentOhio State University, Columbus, Ohio"Ohio State University extends greetingsand good wishes to Professor A. A. Staggand bespeaks for him a long continuationof the outstanding service in Physical Education which he has for over one-third ofa century been rendering at Chicago University. College athletics through his intensive efforts and program have been keptmoving to a higher piane and PhysicalEducation throughout the country has beengreatly aided by his large contribution." From George F. Veenker, BasketballCoach, and Harry Kipe, Football Coach,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,Michigan"Best wishes to the Bloomington HighSchool Alumni Association and banquetguests. Michigan coaches, athletes, andalumni also wish to send their greetingsto Coach A. A. Stagg whom they havelearned to admire and respect along withChicago men."From Glenn F. Thistlethwaite, FootballCoach, and Dr. W. E. Meanwell, Basket-ball Coach, University of Wisconsin,Madison, Wisconsin"Congratulations to the Grand Old Manof the Midway for a splendid and whole-some influence in helping to build andguide college athletics to the high pianewhich it occupies today."From James R. Angeli, President YaleUniversity, New Haven Conn."I am happy to join with you in extend-ing greetings to A. Alonzo Stagg of theUniversity of Chicago. Mr. Stagg's serv-ices in the development of the finest kindof athletics cannot be exaggerated and aliwho are interested in the promotion of highstandard of sportsmanship and the idealsof sound clean manhood are under en-during obligations to him."From Knute Rockne, Director of Athleticsand Football Coach, Notre DameUniversity, Ind."Congratulations to High School andNormal Basketball T'eams not only ontheir splendid season but on the privilegeof being able to listen tonight to the finestfigure in collegiate athletics, 'Old Man'Stagg. I extend felicitations and greetingsto him also tonight and trust that he willbe with us for at least twenty more yearsto come."From Robert M. Hutchins, President,University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois"A. Alonzo Stagg has won the admirationof the athletic world and the affection ofthe University for the fine influence he hasexerted in the lives of American youth.We send our greetings to the Grand 'OldMan.' "By William V. Morgenstern, '20, J.D., '22RESULTS OF THE MONTHTrackConference meet : 7 pointsChicago, 45 Yz'y Michigan State, 39^Chicago, 46; Texas, 63BasketballPurdue, 32; Chicago, 20SwimmingChicago, 39; Indiana, 36Conference meet: 2 pointsWater PoloChicago, 14; Indiana, IChicago, 1242;GymnasticsIllinois, 1199.50FencingMichigan, io;Chicago, 7; Chicago, 7Michigan State, 5WrestlingNorthwestern, 16; Chicago, 12TWO championships were won byMaroon teams in the indoor seasonjust closed, but neither the title inwater polo nor that in gymnastics is of suchpopular interest as to cause worry aboutoveremphasis of sport on the part of thestudent body. The gymnastic champion-ship was the tenth in the last fourteen yearsproduced by that consistent fellow, CoachDan Hoffer. The water polo team, forthat matter, has never been worse thansecond since the rude game of water basket-ball was done away with and drove footballmen to inactivity or the wrestling team during the winter months.The track team has been something of a and a tie for eighth place in a conferencemeet that was wide open and it did notrepeat its victories of 1929 in the IllinoisRelays. In the conference, East was fourthin the dash; Weaver, three feet short ofwhat he can do, was third in the shot;Kelly took fourth in the two-mile run, andLetts a second in the 880. The relay teamwas one-tenth of a second too slow to get aplace. There is hope for individuai im-provement outdoors, for Harold Haydon,who last year set a conference record in thehigh hurdles, twice broke the world'srecord in the Illinois Relays while finishinginches behind Sentman of the Illini in pre-liminaries. Weaver, unable to do betterthan 45 feet, io inches, in the shot competi-tion pushed the weight out over 48 feet inan experimental effort after the places hadbeen decided. So far as the outdoor relayseason is concerned, it appears that the besthope for Chicago is in the sprint relays, in-cluding the mile, for the graduation of Gist,as fine a middle distance man as there wasin college last year, has wrecked the longerdistance combinations. Outdoors, how-ever, the team probably will lose strengthrelatively because there are few men avail-able for the added field events, such as thejavelin, hammer, and broad jump. Boesel,the basketball player, can throw the hammer around 125 feet, and Root can broadjump about 22 feet, but there seems to beno one proficient in the now artificial artof throwing the javelin. Van Nice, hassome possibilities, but his attention will bedevoted to the football team.The basketball team wound up the season with a total of two victories, which, con-sidering the handicaps under which the teamstruggled, represent ali that could be ex-pected. The season, however, was far fromdistressing, regarded . as an exhibition oftenacity and courage by a group that wasdisappointment. It collected but 7 points hopelessly outclassed but wouldn't admit320ATHLETICS 321the fact. Marshall Fish, who was the mostuseful member of the squad this year, willlead the team next season. Fish, who wastenth in individuai scoring in the Big Ten,played guard and forward, according to thenecessities of the evening. Returning nextyear will be Sidney Yates, a fine shot;Tempie, Ashley, and Fraider, guards. Thebig improvement in the team will be fromthe freshmen. Alvin Jackson, a 6 foot,4 1/2* inch center from Gary, is as good acenter as any coach could ask; Keith Parsons is another big man, 6 foot 4 inches;Marshall Dziubaniuk is a dangerous forward; James Porter is a first-class guard,and various others have varsity possibilities.If there are no aGcidents scholastically,Norgren should have a team rugged and bigenough to go somewhere.The one place taken in the conferenceswimming meet was third won by Capt.Stephenson in the backstroke. If CoachMacGillivray lacked the men able to compete in individuai events, he could never-theless form a water polo team that wasundefeated, and counted up points in over-whelming fashion.The gymnasts, undefeated during theseason, performed ably in their champion-ship meet, with Capt. Jack Menzies win-ning two individuai events and the aliaround championship ; Everett Olson, thesophomore successor to Menzies, takinganother first, and Bromund winning theclubs. These, with various place perform-ances, were sufficient for an easy victory.In wrestling, William Dyer won the individuai championship in the 145 pound division.Spring football practice starts Aprii 1,and the chief task facing Director Stagg isto rebuild his line. Such men as Kelly andJersild, ends ; Bunge and Sonderby, tackles ;Cassie, guard, and Weaver, center, aregone. They were the line last year. In thebackfield, the amazing Wattenberg is gone,and Stagg must develop a forward passer for his "flanker" attack, and replace Bluhmand Burgess. The Spring practice willdemonstrate conclusively what capacity thefreshmen have. The backfield material onthe first year squad was considerably betterthan that of the line, but there is alwayshope that the one or two men who can makesuch a decided difference in outlook will befound.Coach Nelson Norgren is about ready totry out the baseball team, which is to go toJapan this summer. There are but threelettermen back; Capt. Holohan, secondbaseman ; Will Urban, pitcher, and HaydenWingate, catcher. There is a decided lackof good infielders, and hitting strength ap-pears lacking. By the time the team goesto Japan, however, it should be considerablyimproved because of its four months ofsteady play."Fritz" Crisler, having successfully or-ganized the twelfth — and probably last —national basketball interscholastic, leftMarch 26 for Minneapolis to start his newwork as athletic director and football coachat the University of Minnesota. He goeswith the best wishes of everyone at Chicago ;that he will be a success is taken for granted.Already, in a few brief visits, "Fritz's" per-sonality has won over the disgruntled groupwho were against him because they had notbeen consulted in his appointment.The famous basketball tournament, inthe development of which Crisler hasplayed so large a part, seems to be doomedby the action of the North Central Associa-tion of Colleges and Secondary Schools,which has adopted a resolution forbiddingali members — under threat of blacklist —from holding interscholastic events unlessrequested so to do by the state high schoolathletic association. Those who favor thetournament believe that the resolution wasrailroaded through as a piece of politics,but the potency of the Association's weapon— removal of a university from the ac-credited list — is not to be denied.322 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEWalter Eckersall DiesFamous Chicago Athlete Succumbs to Heart AttackWALTER HERBERT ECKERSALL, famed Chicago alumnus,captain of the 1906 football team,three times given all-American honors andfor more than twenty years nationallyknown athletic authority of the ChicagoTribune, died suddenly March 24, 1930,in his room at the Chicago Athletic Asso-ciation. Death was dueto a heart attack.Eckersall was. themost colorful figure inthe history of Americanfootball. He waspicked three times onWalter Camp's aliAmerican eleven, thefirst westerner ever.so honored. He hasbeen named on practi-cally every ali time aliAmerican eleven selec-tion.Born in Chicagoforty-six years ago of apioneer family, Eckersall attended Wads-worth (then Wood-lawn) grammar school,where a sister is now a teacher. He firstattracted attention at Hyde Park HighSchool, whose football teams of the period1899-1902 were nationally known. Weigh-ing 135 pounds he was the mainspring of arunning attack to which his great puntingand drop kicking gave added threat.As the most promising prep school athleteof the time, Eckersall was sought by manycolleges. His residence near the Universitygave the final choice to Chicago.In college, Eckersall played at 145pounds in the days of massed interferenceand 200 pound lines. His escape from injury was miraculous. He had a knack ofcurling himself almost in a ball as he wentdown. Rules against piling on were less stringent then, and Eckersall never washandled more gently than the rules allowed.During his collegiate career of 1903 to1906 — freshmen were eligible then — Eckersall held nearly every punting and drop-kicking record. In 1903 at Madison hedrop-kicked three field goals for Chicago'sonly points and Milwaukee papers head-lined the result "Eckersall, 15; Wisconsin,6."The following yearhe caught a Badgerkickoff in the shadowsof his own goal postsand ran for 106 yards(the field was noyards then) for atouchdown. That runwas the determiningfactor in an 18 to 11victory.In 1905, he again de-feated the Badgers bya dropkick.It was in 1905 alsothat Eckersall per-formed the f e a t ofdropkicking five fieldgoals in two different games, againstIllinois and against Nebraska.As a track man, Eckersall several timesequaled 109 4-5 in the century dash. Hewas an excellent shortstop in baseball andalso a speed skater and consistent bowler.After leaving college he became a sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune, which position he held to the time of his death.In expressing his deep sorrow at the un-timely death of Walter Eckersall, DirectorStagg paid his tribute to "Eckie" — a finesportsman, a scintillating star on the grid-iron, whose outstanding quality was an un-assuming modesty in his own exploits. Hismemory will live long among Chicago men.Walter H. EckersallGHje ©mtoersritp of Cfncago JflagajmeEditor and Business Manager, Charlton T. Beck '04EDITORIAL BOARD: Commerce and Administration Association — Rollin D. He-mens, '21; Divinity Association — C. T. Holman, D.B., '16; Doctors' Association — D. J.Fisher, '17, Ph.D., '22; Law Association — Charles F. McElroy, A.M., '06, J. D., '15;School of Education Association — Lillian Stevenson, '21 ; Rush Medicai Association —Morris Fishbein, 'ii, M.D., '12; College — Roland F. Holloway, '20; Allen Heald,'26; Wm. V. Morgenstern '20, J.D., '22; Faculty — Fred B. Millett, Department ofEnglish.John P. Mentzer, '98, ChairmanNew York Clubs to EntertainPresident HutchinsTHE New York Alumni and AlumnaeClubs will join in giving a dinner inhonor of Robert M. Hutchins in New YorkCity the evening of Aprii 21. Ali inter-ested alumni should get in touch with Mrs.Helene Pollak Gans, secretary New YorkAlumnae Club, 135 Central Park West, orLeroy Campbell, president New YorkAlumni Club, c/o Legai Aid Society, 32Franklin Street, New York City.New York AlumniIN ACCORDANCE with their policy ofgiving a dinner each year in honor olsome alumnus of the University who has at-tained unusual recognition in his field, theNew York alumni had William P. Mac-Cracken, Jr., Ph.B. '09, J.D. '12, as theirguest of honor at dinner, March 6, at theMetropolitan Club, New York City.Lawrence MacGregor proved himself amighty good toastmaster.Mr. MacCracken's talk was on aviation,a subject which he is more than qualifledto discuss, as up to a few months ago hewas Assistant Secretary of Commerce forAeronautics, and is now chairman of theboard of directors of the New York^RioJaneiro-Buenos Aires Air Line and specialcounsel for the Western Air Express andthe Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation.Attending the dinner were the follow-ing: E. H. Ahrens, '06, president Ahrens Publishing Company; L. J. Bevan, '03, Consulting Engineer; LeRoy Campbell, '15, theLegai Aid Society; Thomas Campbell, ex'22, of Noble, Morgan and Scammell ; OtisW. Caldwell, '98, Columbia University;Henry R. Caraway, '95 ; Robert E. Con-nolley, '20; Benjamin B. Cox, '21; CharlesV. Drew, '99, vice-president Cerro de PascoCopper Corporation; L. D. Fernald, '08,assistant general manager Conde NastPublications ; Emil Goetsch, M.D. '03,Surgeon; Harry S. Gorgas, '15, of C. D.Robbins & Co. ; Frederick W. Griffiths, ofK. F. GrifEths & Company; LivingstonHall, '23, of Root, Clark, Buckner, Howland & Ballantine ; John S. Hammond, ex'03, vice-president Madison Square GardenCorporation; Harry A. Hansen, '09, literary editor of the New York World; RalphD. Kellogg, '15; Harry O. Latham, 'io, investment banker; Lawrence J. Macgregor,'16, of the New York Trust Company;L. W. Maxwell, '05, president CrowellPublishing Company; E. L. McBride, '09,of A. B. Leach & Company; William R.Morris, '11; James M. Nicely, '20, vice-president Guaranty Trust Company;Frederick D. Nichols, '97, publisher; LewisM. Norton, '14, public accountant; FrankE. Pershing, '18, of Wright, Slade & Company; Dr. Max Rohde, '08; Ernest E.Quantrell, '05, investment securities;Charles M. Steele, '04, partner Auerbach,Pollak & Richardson; W. W. Taylor, ex'io; Francis T. Ward, '15, investmentbanking.The New York Alumni Club recently323324 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEelected the following officers: President,LeRoy Campbell, '15; Vice-President,George S. Leisure, '14; Secretary and Treas-urer, Livingston Hall, '23.Chicago Alumnae ClubREMINISCENT of the days when thephrase "the Presidente House" wassynonomous with hospitality was the teawhich Dr. and Mrs. Robert MaynardHutchins gave at their home at 1*146 East59th ^Street the afternoon of Saturday,March first, in honor of the ChicagoAlumnae Club.Inside the door which led from the greathall into the colorful living room, the newpresident and his popular wife received in-formally the more than 225 alumnae whomade a trek back to the campus for theoccasion. Miss Grace Coulter was theofficiai introducer.Tea was served in the living room.Coffee and chocolate, in the dining room. Punch, in the library where a wood firecrackled cheerily in the great fireplace.Presiding over the various pots and urnsand punch bowls were former students ofthe University, ali active members of theclub. They included Mrs. Charles W.Gilkey, Mrs. Henry Gordon Gale, Mrs.Robert E. Merrill, Mrs. George E. Sham-baugh, Mrs. Edith Foster Flint, Mrs.E. V. L. Brown, Mrs. Thomas Hair, Mrs.Marcus Hirschl, Mrs. Theodore Tieken,Miss Shirley Farr, Miss Helen Norris, andMiss Katharine Paltzer.Mrs. Henry D. Sulcer, president of theclub, assisted by Mrs. Benjamin Badenochand Miss Josephine Allin, helped the President and Mrs. Hutchins welcome the re-turning grads.To quote one of the guests as she wasleaving the Presidente House after the teais to put into words the emotions of ali whoattended: "It's been one of the best partiesI ever have attended on the campus."The 1930 Alumni ReunionAlumni Day! Saturday, June 7th — by you, for youand of you! This announcement will bring back somehappy memories if you attended the last Reunion because,if you did, you had a good time. Another enjoyable dayis being planned for you, — a day filled with entertainment suited to the most exacting tastes. The programwill carry you along smoothly and without haste. Severalinnovations are on the fire. Never before have there beenso many splendid developments awaiting your inspection.You will be astonished at the changes on the campus.We are not going to divulge any plans just now. How-ever, it is most important that ali organizations planningluncheons, dinners or get-togethers arrange their plansearly and send the information to the Alumni Office assoon as possible so that their announcements may be included in the general publicity.Put the date on your calendar now. Make your plansto come back to the Midway on June 7.1930 Reunion CommitteeArthur C. Cody, ChairmanNEWS OFTHE CLASSESAND ASSOCIATIONSCollege Alumni AssociationAnnual ElectionTHE annual election of officers in theCollege Alumni Association is heldthe first week in June. Post cardballots will be sent out during the latterpart of May. Each member of the Association is urged to vote. If, by chance, amember fails to receive an officiai ballotby May 20, the Alumni Office will provide a duplicate ballot upon request. AHballots must be returned before Thursday,June 5. The results of the election will beannounced on Alumni Day, June 7, and inthe July issue of the Magazine.The 1930 Nominating Commi ttee con-sisted of the following members of the Association: Herbert P. Zimmermann, '01;Chairman, Clarence McNeille, '07 ; JessieHeckman Hirschl, 'io; Howell Murray,'14; Marguerite Hewitt McDaniel, '17;John Nuveen, '19; Damaris Ames, '22;Alien Miller, '26. This Committee hasselected candidates for ali offices and thenominees are given herewith, presented inthe order of class seniority. This year aPresident, a Second Vice-President, twomembers of the Executive Committee andsix delegates to the Alumni Council are tobe elected. The constitution of the CollegeAssociation specifies that additional nomina-tions may be made by petition signed bytwenty-hve or more members in good standing. Such petitions may be filed with thesecretary of the Association at the AlumniOffice and must be in his hands on or before May 5, in order to have the names ofsuch candidates appear upon the officiaiballot.The candidates submitted by the Nominating Committee have been active in college, class and general alumni affairs. Inview of the developing University-Alumni relations and of the growth of the CollegeAssociation these elections are most important. Review the list of candidates —ponder their qualiflcations — and then castyour ballot on May 20.CandidatesPresident (2 years)Henry D. Sulcer, '03, president Vander-hoof & Company, Advertising Agents, Chicago. For ten years previous to joiningVanderhoof and Company in the Advertising Department of the Chicago Tribune,specializing in markets and merchandising.He spent several years in advertising inNew York, and for a time was connectedwith the Sales Department of Bobbs Merrill& Company, publishers. Is widely knownwithin and without his own field.Residence : 5627 Kenwood Avenue ; wife :Charlotte Thearle Sulcer, '11; children:three, one son a freshman at the University,a daughter at University High School.As an undergraduate active in music anddramatics: Blackfriars, Choir, Glee Club,Mandolin Club, president Combined Musical Clubs, president Dramatic Club, winnerPeck prize in Public Speaking, associateeditor Cap and Gown. He is a memberof Psi Upsilon, Iron Mask, Owl andSerpent.Since graduation has been closely identi-fied with University affairs, serving on-theAlumni Council, as Reunion Chairman andas a member of the General Committeeduring the Development Campaign. Atpresent a member of the Council and Chairman of the Clubs Committee.Mr. Sulcer is active in civic affairs,secretary of the North Central Association325326 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEand on the executive board of the Advertising Council of the Chicago Associationof Commerce. Clubs: University, Quad-rangle, Executives, South Shore, Beach-view.« w »John A. Logan, '21, Sales Manager,Ames, Emerich & Company, InvestmentSecurities, Chicago. Previous to his connection with Ames, Emerich & Company,Mr. Logan had been active in the investment field as sales manager for Blair andCompany and as a member of the SalesDepartment of H. M. Byllesby and Company.Residence : 5345 Hyde Park Boulevard ;wife: Dorothea Halstead Logan, '21; children : two sons, who may be in the University in 1945.As an undergraduate he was presidentof the Commerce Club, business managerthe Senior Vaudeville, a member of theAssociated University players, the Squareand Compass, Gun and Biade and BetaTheta Pi.Mr. Logan entered the First OfficersTraining Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison,Indiana. He was commissioned a lieuten-ant in Field Artillery, served as first lieu-tenant, Air Service, A. E. F., and spenteight months in military hospitals abroadand in the United States.He has been active in alumni affairs asa member of the Council and as a directorof the Chicago Alumni Club. He wasChairman of the Alumni Committee ap-pointed by the Council in 1928-29 to studythe work in the Undergraduate Colleges.Mr. Logan is a member of the LostCommander Chapter, American Legion,and Sons of the American Revolution.Clubs: University, Midland, Beachview,South Shore.Second Vice-President (2 years)Frederick A. Speik, '05, M.D. '07, 800Tempie Auditorium, Los Angeles. Residence, South Pasadena, California. Prac-ticing physician, Professor of Medicine,University of Southern California. As anundergraduate: University Marshal, "C"man in football and track, captain football team, chairman Senior College CouncilOwl and Serpent, Phi Delta Theta, Nu.Sigma Nu.Lawrence J. MacGregor, '16, SecuritiesDepartment, New York Trust Company,100 Broadway, New York City. Residence, Indian Rock, Chatham, New Jersey.Banker. As an undergraduate: HeadMarshal, managing editor Chicago LiteraryMonthly, Owl and Serpent, Beta ThetaPi, Phi Beta Kappa.Executive Committee (2 years)Mary E. Courtenay, '09, Dean of Girls,Lindblom High School, Chicago. University Aide, Selz Scholarship, Senior CollegeCouncil, Phi Beta Kappa.w » wEthel Kawin, '11, Psychologist, Institutefor Juvenile Research, 721 South WoodStreet, Chicago. University Aide, secretary Junior College Council, Sock andBuskin, Nu Pi Sigma. Committee on Listsand Quotas, Development Fund.Alfred W. Brickman, '22, 6939 Chap-pell Avenue, Secretary Illinois Meat Company, Chicago. University marshal, "C"man in track, Honor Commission, Owl andSerpent, Delta Upsilon.« w wLennox B. Gray, '23, instructor in English, University of Chicago. Head Marshal, Daily Maroon, Cap and Gown,Honor Commission, editor The Circle,president Dramatic Club, Owl and Serpent, Phi Gamma Delta.Delegates to Alumni Council(3 years)Frank McNair, '03, 1430 Lake ShoreDrive, Chicago, Vice-President and Director Harris Trust and Savings Bank andthe N. W. Harris Company, trustee University of Chicago, Country Home forConvalescent Children, Rush Medicai College, Home for Destitute Crippled Children. University Marshal, Senior CollegeCouncil, Weekly Maroon, Daily Maroon,NEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONS 327Cap and Gown, Owl and Serpent, DeltaKappa Epsilon. Clubs: Chicago, University, Quadrangle, Attic, Commonwealth,Chikaming. Vice-Chairman Special GiftsCommittee, Development Fund, formerchairman Alumni Council. (For Re-election)Herbert I. Markham, '06, 5605 Wood-lawn Avenue, partner in Paul H." Davis& Company, Investment Securities, Chicago, director in numerous fìnancial and industriai concerns. As an undergraduatepublished the athletic programs, "Sports onthe Midway," member Fencibles, businessmanager Daily Maroon, Delta Upsilon.Clubs: University, Chicago Athletic, SouthShore, Quadrangle. Former memberAlumni Council, Class Secretary, PublicityCommittee, Development Fund.Renslow P. Sherer, '09, 349 Lake Avenue, Highland Park, Vice-President andDirector Sherer-Gillett Company, storeequipment, Chicago. For many years withthe Advertising Department of the CurtisPublishing Company, Philadelphia. GleeClub, president Dramatic Club, Blackfriars,Gap and Gown, chairman Senior CollegeCouncil, University Marshal, Owl and Serpent, Delta Kappa Epsilon, District Chairman Development Fund Campaign.Mrs. George D. Richards (MargaretHaass) '11, housewife. Residence, 11 30East 50th Street, Chicago. Kalailu, Signof the Sickle, Mortar Board. Formersecretary Chicago Alumnae Club, Woman'sCity Club, Settlement League, memberAlumni Council. (For Reelection)WWWHarvey L. Harris, '14, 5000 Ellis Avenue, Sales Manager, Building MaterialsDepartment, Sears Roebuck and Company,Chicago. Class treasurer, "C" in football,Honor Commission, Owl and Serpent.War service with French tanks at SanMehiel, American tanks in Argonne.Clubs: Standard and Ravisloe. MemberGeneral Alumni Committee, DevelopmentCampaign. Earle A. Shilton, '14, 58 11 DorchesterAvenue, Real Estate Operator and Broker,605 North Michigan Avenue. HeadMarshal, Undergraduate Council, HenryStrong Scholar, Owl and Serpent, SigmaAlpha Epsilon. War service for two years,seven months in France as LieutenantField Artillery. Clubs : Lake Shore, SouthShore, Quadrangle.Joseph J. Levin, '17, 5525 BlackstoneAvenue, Advertising Manager A. G.Becker & Company, Investment Bankers,Chicago. Blackfriars, Iron Mask, Owland Serpent, Phi Beta Kappa. ChairmanInvestment Research Committee, FinancialAdvertisers Association. Clubs: Standard,City, Press.John A. Logan, '21. (See above)Damaris Ames, '22, 5722 KimbarkAvenue, Secretary, Ida Noyes Clubhouse.Sign of the Sickle, Y.W.C.A. Cabinet,Nu Pi Sigma, Mortar Board. Has servedon Alumnae Club Board, 1927-31, asScholarship Chairman and Social Chairman.wwwArthur C. Cody, '24, 6729 Merrill Avenue, Mortgage Banker, Executive SecretaryChicago Mortgage Bankers Association,Secretary Cody Trust Company. HonorCommission, chairman Settlement Night,Cheer Leader, Senior Class president, Owland Serpent, Psi Upsilon. President, Chicago Alumni Club, 1930 Reunion Chairman, member of Council. Club: UnionLeague. (For Reelection)wwwLucy E. Lamon, '26, 5331 Harper Avenue, Assistant Secretary, Faulkner Schoolfor Girls. University Aide, Nu Pi Sigma,Undergraduate Council, Honor Commission, Y.W.C.A. Cabinet, Quadrangler.John P. Howe, '27, 7124 InglesideAvenue. Publicity Office, University ofChicago. University Marshal, PresidentJunior Class, Chairman Intra Murai ath-328 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEletics, Order of the C, chairman EditorialBoard Daily Maroon, Henry StrongScholar, Owl and Serpent, Delta Chi. Author Pive Years of Building and regularcontributor to The University of Chicago Magazine. Clubs: Quadrangle.College1889Elizabeth F. Avery is now living at 75Heathdale Road, Toronto, Canada.1896Caroline S. Moore is Associate Professorof Biology in the University of Redlands,Redlands, California.1897Mrs. Charlotte Comstock Gray, D.B.'98, A.M. '00, is living in Cambridge,New York. *** Victor W. Sincere has leftCleveland where he had been for yearspresident of the Bailey Company, and isnow permanently located in New YorkCity where he is connected with NationalDepartment Stores, Inc., 112 West 38thStreet. *** Marilla W. Freeman, librarianof the Main Library of Cleveland's PublicLibrary system, with a half-million booksin her charge, an annual circulation of amillion volumes, and a staff of 250, findstime to hold active membership in thePoetry Society of America by virtue ofmany talks and readings on poets and poetryof today before audiences in Cleveland andthe Middle West.Reuben G. Stowell, Consulting Engi-neer, has moved from Rockville Center toVerbank, New York.1899Mrs. James B. Beardslee (Ethel Pardee)after a year of travel and the circling ofthe globe is now teaching in Senn HighSchool, Chicago.I90OEdwin D. Solenberger, who is generalsecretary of the Children's Aid Society ofPennsylvania, with headquarters in Phila-delphia, was recently elected president ofthe Pennsylvania State Conference onSocial Welfare. I90IJohn Mills of New York, Director ofPublication, Bell Telephone Laboratories,gave an address in Chicago on St. Patrick'sDay. While definite information is lackingwe judge that he appeared before somescientific organization rather than theAncient Order of Hibernians. *** Mrs.Donald Vincent (Anne Roby), FortDodge, Iowa, is the mother of twodaughters, one a graduate of the School ofJournalism, Columbia University, and theother a sophomore at Radcliffe College. ***Frederick Sass, president of the DenverUniversity of Chicago Club, has moved toa new office in the Equitable Building,where he practices law when he is not play-ing golf. The Sass home is at 624 SteeleStreet, and is presided over by Edith ShafrerSass, '03.1902Mrs. Edwin H. Eardley (BeatriceDavies) is sailing for Russia this spring tospend a year in Moscow where Mr. Eardleyis a supervising architect upon a great industriai building program. *** Emery B.Jackson is located at 122 South MichiganAvenue, Chicago, where he is consultingarchitect for the University of Chicago.1903Livonia S. Hunter teaches in the Mon-mouth, Illinois, High School. *** CharlesW. Collins has become dramatic critic forthe Chicago Tribune, succeeding FrederickDonaghey. Charlie has contributed to theChicagoan, was formerly with the ChicagoEvening Post and in collaboration withGene Markey wrote Dark Island.I904Shirley Farr has received an appointmentas instructor in History at the University ofChicago.NEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONS 329I90SB. O. Skinner holds the presidency ofWilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio.#** Alida J. Bigelow is with the AmericanNational Red Cross in Washington, D. C.#** Dora A. Atkinson is teaching Englishat Pasadena Junior College, Pasadena,California.I907Bianche E. Riggs, A.M. 'io, gives as hernew address 39 North 5th Avenue, High-land Park, New Brunswick, New Jersey.*** Edgar R. Born is president of M. Bornand Company, Wholesale Tailors, ofChicago.I909Loretta Smith heads the Department ofEnglish in Proviso High School, Maywood,Illinois.I9IOMargaret Tibbetts teaches Mathematicain Harrison Technical High School, Chicago.I9IISarah E. Ausemus is teaching HomeEconomics in the Chicago Public Schools.I912Ruth E. Sherwood received the John C.Shaffer prize of $300 for portraiture forher portrait relief of Dean Shailer Mathewsin the recent Chicago Artists Exhibition atthe Art Institute. *** Isabel F. Jarvis hasbeen for the past three years executivesecretary of the Arts Club of Chicago.1913The Fort Dearborn Plumbing and Hearing Company of which Norman N. Bar-ber is president is installing the plumbingand heating in several of the buildings nowbeing erected on the campus. *** Mrs.William K. Farceli (Elizabeth Jones)writes from East Orange, New Jersey, "Iam just trying to keep one step ahead ofniy 14-yeàr old son who is a sophomore inHigh school." *** Josephine R. Robinsonof 7136 Crandon Avenue, Chicago, isknown professionally to thousands as In-crease Robinson, Artist and Lecturer. *** Mrs. Ralph A. Sawyer (Martha Green)is Recorder and Assistant to the Dean,School of Business Administration, University of Michigan.I9HAmy E. Krueger is with the BrooklynY.W.C.A. as Metropolitan IndustriaiSecretary. *** Bernice E. Clark, A.M. '28,heads the Department of Mathematics inJames Whitcomb Riley High School, SouthBend. *** Charles R. Sammis is WesternAdvertising Manager for Good House-keeping Magazine, with offices in Chicago.*** L. W. Ryan, S.M. '14, holds theposition of Director of Research for theTitanine Pigment Company, Inc., of Brooklyn, New York. *** William S. Marsten,ex, is connected with the General MotorsRadio Corporation at its Chicago office.*** Anna H. Blake, A.M., is teaching atHathaway-Brown School in Cleveland, andis secretary of the Cleveland Alumni Club.1915Mrs. Albert Scholz (Marguerite Hem-inway) is living at 421 Central Avenue,Whiting, Indiana. *** Anna G. Trimbleis now living at 321 East nth Avenue,Denver. *** Leon P. Smith, S.M., head ofthe Department of Physical Sciences,Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia, wasrecently elected president of the GeorgiaAcademy of Science.I916Agnes A. Sharp, Consulting Psychologist,30 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, andAnalytical Psychologist of the PsychiatricClinic of the Central Free Dispensary ofRush Medicai College, had an article inthe February issue of Factory and Industriai Management written with Dr. RalphC. Hamill, '99, M.D. '02, on "Do MenWant Responsibility?" *** A very interesting brochure by David Gustafson, A.M.'27, Professor of Printing at the CarnegieInstitute of Technology, was distributedduring the annual celebration of Father-and-Son Week by the United Typothetaeof America. *** Samuel E. Ragland is arural pastor at Taylorsville, Kentucky,under the Methodist Episcopal Church,330 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINESouth. As a side line he organizes agenciesand sells insurance for the Equitable Life.1917Charles M. Bent may be addressed at2362 Green Street, San Francisco. ***Buell Patterson is with the Chicago branchof the General Motors Radio Corporation.I918Mrs. Edwin F. Chinlund (HelenBrown) gives as her address 1200 FifthAvenue, New York City. *** Francis L.Copper teaches Psychology ia the NorthernState Teachers College, Marquette, Michigan. *** William S. Boal, ex, and Mrs.Boal, of 1423 Fafwell Avenue, Chicago,announce the birth of William S. BoalII, March 3, 1930.I919Earle M. Wagner is head of the EnglishDepartment, Shattuck School, Faribault,Minnesota.I920Mary E. Owen is living in Rochester,New York, where she is editor for the R.A. Owen Publishing Company. *** LauraP. Craig, teacher of Foods and Nutrition,Morgan Park High School, Duluth, ex-pects to return to the University this summer to work on her Master's degree. ***Mrs. Rose Colby Caverley presides overthe eighth grade at the Waters School,Campbell and Wilson Avenues, Chicago.She is a firm believer in adult education."When you cease to learn you begin to beuseless," says Mrs. Caverley, who obtainedher Chicago degree after she was fifty yearsof age, and who has two daughters who areprincipals of Chicago schools, and a third,Mrs. Imogene Chandler, '28, who is anassistant principal. *** Charles L. Brumlyis general secretary of the Oregon StateCollege Y.M.C.A., Corvallis, Oregon. ***Coleman Clark is a salesman with A. C.Allyn & Company, 100 West MonroeStreet, Chicago.I921Eugene Rouse has spent the winter at thePottinger Sanatorium, Monrovia, Cali fornia. *** Kenneth H. Good, S.M. '24,has been appointed Assistant Professor ofChemistry at Colgate University. *** Mrs.J. F. Tilson (Annie Laurie) is teachingin the Los Angeles schools and lives at1233 Elden Avenue. *** Harold E. Nicelyhas recently accepted a cali to CentralBrick Presbyterian Church, East Orange,New Jersey, after a four-year pastorate atWestminster Church, Wilmington, Dela-ware.1922Collier s Weekly has been publishingsome mighty good short stories by AlienLeMay during the past few months. ***E. Elizabeth Vickland is principal of theNormal Training School, Nowgong, Assam,India, and is, by governmental appoint-ment, a member of the examination boardand the text book committee of the province.She will spend the next few months in theU. S. A. on a furlough. Miss Vickland isthe author of Through JudyJs Eyes(travel), With Christ in Assam (missions)and Women of Assam. *** John B. Hurl-burt is living in Napa, California. ***John P. Whittaker lives in Atlanta,Georgia, where he is Dean of AtlantaUniversity. *** Mrs. Herbert O. Crisler(Dorothy Adams) has been enjoying thehouse hunting season in Minneapolis,where her husband is the newly appointedAthletic Director at the University ofMinnesota. *** R. Eugene King, who istreasurer of the King Powder Company ofCincinnati, was married last summer toMiss Marjorie H. Stevenson of Cincinnati.Mr. and Mrs. King are living at 3021Fairfield Ave., Walnut Hills, Cincinnati.*** Mrs. Harry E. Miller (Olive Dobbyn)gives as her new address 405 ParkviewApts., Giles Blvd. West, Windsor, Ontario.1923Dora Kirshbaum Fishbach received herMaster's degree in Pathology at Northwestern University last summer and is nowresearch assistant for her husband, J.Hamilton Fishbach, Professor of Pathologyat Northwestern Medicai School. ***Fred D. Wilson, ex, is in the sales department of Robert Gaylord, Inc., fiber boxNEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONS 33imanufacturers with headquarters in St.Louis. *** Amos A. Hovey, A.M., isAssistant Professor of History and ReligiousDirector of the Y.M.C.A. at Bates College,Lewiston, Maine. *** Martha F. Christis teaching in Crane Junior College, Chicago. *** Emma A. M. Fleer is Dean atthe Chicago Normal College. *** Mrs. R.J. Wood (Marcella Pfeiffer) lives in NewTroy, Michigan, where she busies herselfwith the training of fóur fine children.*** Marie A. Prucha teaches Botany inCrane Technical High School, Chicago.1924Ruth Doggett, S.M. '25 has been a recentcontributor to the Journal of Geology. ***Milnor R. Freeland is resident bio-chemistat the Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago. ***George W. McCoy is news editor of theAsheville Daily Citizen, Asheville, NorthCarolina, and has recently taken unto himself a wife.1925Clara Lyden directs the Junior Kindergarten, Skokie School, Winnetka, Illinois.*** Ruth Straight is teaching in FlowerHigh School, 3545 Fulton Boulevard,Chicago. *** Adah Peirce is VocationalCouncilor at Stephens College, Columbia,Missouri. *** Mrs. Albert Sutphen(Frances Culver) is living in Clevelandwhere she is supervising the care and training of a five months' old daughter. ***Donald M. Locke tt is now with the General Motors Radio Corporation, 35 EastWacker Drive, Chicago. *** FannieMalone, A.M., who is Assistant Professorof Spanish at Drake University, is planning to return to the University for thesummer quarter. *** Ted R. Ray writesfrom Hendersonville, North Carolina, "Iam representing the World Book Company,publishers of text books. Give my greetings to the twenty-fivers."I926Robert A. Carr has moved from OakPark to 181 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago.*** Georgia Robison, A.M. '28, has afellowship in History at Columbia. She gives as her present address Johnson Hall,411 West nóth Street, New York City..*** Luella Overn is Professor of HomeEconomics, Iowa State Teachers College,Cedar Falls. *** Emma H. Simonsen, '26,was married in August, 1929, to WalterB. Franklin of Oakland, California. Mr.Franklin is bacteriologist for the GoldenState Milk Products Company. *** DanDana McCullough is practicing law inLansing, Michigan, where he is AssistantProsecuting Attorney for Ingham County.*** Emily B. Lamey received her Master'sdegree at Columbia University last summer,and is now teaching in the State Collegeat Bowling Green, Ohio. *** Emma H.Lambe is teaching Botany at the CalumetHigh School, Chicago. *** Marian V.Geohegan is now living at 3302 WestEighth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.I927Alva B. Hudson has charge of teachertraining work in the College Department,Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. *** HelenG. Wilmot, A.M., is on the faculty of Lom-bard College, Galesburg, Illinois, whereshe teaches Related Art. *** May E.Williams, A.M., is instructor of Spanishand English in the State Teachers College,Chico, California. *** F. H. Smurali,A.M., is head of the Commerce Department of Grove City College, Pennsylvania.*** Beulah Tempie Wild, A.M., '29, givesas her new address 901 Barkdull Street,Houston, Texas. *** John A. Posus, ex,is now living at 11 44 Washington Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois. *** Adna Wood-ward, A.M., has moved from Chicago to312 South Garfleld Avenue, Burlington,Iowa.I928Evadale Nuttall gives as her new address1447 East 53rd Street, Chicago. *** An-nouncement has been received of themarriage of Devereaux Jarratt, '28, toRufus Alien Walker, at San Antonio,Texas. *** Lillian A. Engelson is study-ing at Teacher's College, Columbia University.332 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE1929 Wagbo gives her address as 830 SouthJoel S. Lowenstein has moved from Michigan Avenue, Chicago. *** E. C.Buffalo to 55 Hammond Street, Cam- Burr gives as his new address 811 Johnbridge, Massachusetts. *** Olga M. Jay Hall, Columbia University, New York.EducationChicago Dinner at Atlantic CityThe University of Chicago Dinner, heldannually in February in connection withthe meeting of the Department of Superin-tendence of the National Education Association, took place on the evening ofWednesday, February 26, 1930, at AtlanticCity, with 133 people present.Dr. Frank N. Freeman of the University of Chicago served as toastmaster, Thefirst speaker was Sherwood D. Shankland,Secretary of the Department of Superin-tendence. He discussed the organization ofeducation as represented in the various professional organizations. Dr. David H.Stevens, Associate Dean of Faculties of theUniversity of Chicago and now on a tem-porary appointment as adviser in highereducation) to the General Education Board,spoke on the newer movements in highereducation. Dr. Judd, the last speaker onthe program, described in detail the plansfor the enlargement of the Department ofEducation in the direction of higher education and showed lantern slides of thenew graduate education building which willbe started sometime during the spring., r, Doctors: Edward F. Potthoff,A.M. '24, is Instructor in Education at the University of Illinois. ***Lawrence S. McLeod, A.M. '17, is Professor of Psychology at the University ofTulsa. *** Ralph S. Newcomb is Dean ofInstruction and Professor of Education atthe State Teachers College, Ada, Oklahoma. *** Harold H. Punke is spendingthe year in study at the University of Hamburg. *** Masters: Mary E. Marye,Ph.B. '14, teaches English in the MortonJunior College, Cicero, Illinois. *** Glad-stone Koffman is principal of the high schoolat Hopkinsville, Kentucky. *** Harry E. Lewallen is County Superintendent ofSchools at Warsaw, Indiana. *** VergilC. Lohr is an instructor in physics at theUniversity of Chicago. *** Francis E. Lordis Rural School Supervisor in the MichiganState Normal College, Ypsilanti. ***Charles L. McCallum teaches chemistry inCrane Technical High School, Chicago.***John C. Mayfield is an instructor inscience at the University High School, Chicago. *** Gertrude Moderow is an assistant in the Bureau of Research, Louisville,Kentucky, Public Schools. *** Evelyn B.Moore teaches science in the Central HighSchool, St. Joseph, Missouri. *** John T.Myers teaches chemistry in the Austin HighSchool, Chicago. *** Hester I. Rogersheads the Art Department in the Murfrees-boro, Tennessee, State Teachers College.*** Guy E. Sawyer is research assistant inthe Milwaukee Public Schools. *** DonaldL. Simon is Superintendent of Schools atGriffith, Indiana. *** Harriet M. Stout isAssistant Music Supervisor in McKinleyIntermediate School, St. Louis. *** Bache-lors : Margaret Knight teaches at Madison,Wisconsin. *** Ruchiel Mirrielees is ateacher in the Parker Practice School, Chicago. *** Margaret N. McCarthy teachesin the Jahn School for Crippled Children,Chicago. *** Gerhardt E. Rast is Principalof Colonel Ledyard School, Groton, Connecticut.*** Alyce J. McWilliams is headof the History Department in the Beau-mont, Texas, Senior High School. ***Vera E. Pickard is Critic Teacher in theWestern State Teachers College, Kala-mazoo. *** Ella R. Stangeland teaches inthe Avondale School, Chicago., Doctors: James M. McCallister,29 A.M. '22, is Director of Professional Training in the Northern StateTeachers College, Aberdeen, South Dakota.NEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONS 333#** Howard Y. McClusky is Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology in theUniversity of Michigan. *** Ralph H. Oje-mann is an associate in the Child WelfareResearch Station of the University of Iowa.*** Clarence Sanson, on leave of absencefrom the Alberta government, is lecturingon Education at the University of California. *** Masters: Bernard W. Noel,S.B. '15, is Teacher Training instructor atHadley Vocational School, St. Louis. *** Edith J. Spray teaches English in CentralSenior High School, South Bend, Indiana.*** Fred G. Stevenson is Superintendentof Schools, Dubuque, Iowa. *** John B.Stout is Supervising Principal of the Shab-bona, Illinois, High School. *** Bache-lors : *** Ethel M. Murray teaches Mathe-matics in the Sullivan Junior High School,Chicago. *** Helen J. McGirr is teaching in the Montefiori School for Boys,Chicago.RushA special program of clinics for Rushalumni is being arranged for Monday andTuesday, June 9 and io, under the direction of Dr. Oliver S. Ormsby, Chairman of the Committee. It is planned toconduct special clinics in each departmentof the College so that ali alumni will findmuch of interest to them.The Annual Banquet of the RushAlumni Association will occur on Tuesdayevening, June 10, at the Congress Hotel.A further announcement of clinics andprogram will be made next month.The College hopes that ali Rush alumniwho can possibly come will pian to spenda few days with us at this time.C. 1863F. Little writes from Manhattan,Kansas, that he is now 94 years of age andhas retired from practice.1876J. A. Sturges has been in medicai practice and the proprietor of a drug store atMurrietta, California, for more than thirtyyears. Asked for news of himself he wrote,"I am doing only the usuai things — eating,drinking, marrying and 'giving in'! I amnow past 80 and have my first day to spendin bed because of sickness, though I havedone some little belly aching in that time."I88lS. J. Guy is located in Winfield, Kansas,where he continues in active practice. William G. Kemper writes from Mani-towoc, Wisconsin, in answer to the queryWhat are you doing f "I am aiming tocure those who are ili. I often succeed."*** W. T. Sarles, after many years ofpractice in Sparta, Wisconsin, has been onthe retired list since 1924 through ili health.1884T. B. Beatty is State Health Commis-sioner for Utah and lives in Salt LakeCity.1885F. L. Atkinson writes from Sacramento,California, "Have been here ever since Igraduated. I went back to the corner ofWood and Harrison Streets not long agoand found the old landmarks gone. Icould have cried but instead I lifted up myvoice and hurrahed for dear old Rush,Uncle Moses Gunn and Daddy Ross andfelt better about it. I don't regard anyname equal to 'old Rush.' I know thatshe has produced medicai men and doctorscapable to meet any emergency and equalto any occasion."1886M. R. Keeley writes from 532 SouthVan Ness Avenue, Los Angeles, "I retiredfrom practice some years ago." *** JamesB. Bradley has been practicing in EatonRapids, Michigan, since March, 1886.Outstandingly successful in his professionhe has been almost as active in other lines.334- THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE •As a side line he owns and operates alarge fami. He is mayor of Eaton Rapids,is president of the State Savings & LoanCompany of Lansing, director of the Com-monwealth-Commercial Bank of Detroit,was for four years Auditor General of thestate and a member of the State Board òfPardons. Dr. Bradley writes, "I havethe same glass sign that Dr. Moses Gunngave me the day I graduated, the onlygraduation present that I received." ***O. B. Wy#nt is practicing medicine inWinfield, Kansas.1888Thomas D. Cantrell is specializing inX-ray and radium therapy and diagnosiswith offices at 310 East Jefferson Street,Bloomington, Illinois. *** Adolph R.Wittman is in general practice at Merrill,Wisconsin.1890George A. Dicus has been in generalpractice as physician and surgeon inStreator, Illinois, since his graduation. ***J. B. Maxwell is physician in chief at theIndiana Farm Cójony for Feeble Minded,Butterville, Indiana. *** W. L. Whitmireis located at Sumner, Iowa, where he ispracticing medicine and surgery.1892Walter A. Palmer is engaged in generalpractice at Castle Rock, Colorado.1896Bert L. Eiker is in active practice, medicine and surgery, at Leon, Iowa.I90OWilliam S. Wilcox is in general practiceat El Monte, California, thirteen mileseast of Los Angeles. "Have a fair practice,"writes Dr. Wilcox, "but with six regulars,one osteopath and two chiropractors, tosay nothing of two science practitioners, wehave our slow days. Will be glad to seeold friends any time." *** George Ayresis half owner of the Shipman Hospital, Ely,Minnesota, and mine surgeon at that placefor the Oliver Iron Mining Company. ***Jerome H. Titus specializes in general surgery in Ontario, California. *** R. T.Smith is located in Pomona, California,specializing on eye, ear, nose and throat.*** William Healy, formerly director ofthe Psychopathic Institute, Juvenile Court,Chicago, and since 19 17 director of theJudge Baker Foundation, Boston, has amost interesting contribution titled "TheDeviPs Workshop" in the Winter issue ofthe Century.1902Remus C. Morris reports from FortAtkinson, Wisconsin, "Have been in general practice here for twenty-five years.Trying to find the elixir of life but haven'tlocated it as yet. Have three children ; twohave graduated from Beloit College andthe youngest is taking premedic work atLawrence College." *** George StewartAlien, an M.D. and a D.D.S., is confininghimself to the practice of dentistry inMackinaw, Illinois. *** Otis O. Benson ismine surgeon in charge of the Soudan,Minnesota, Hospital of the Oliver IronMining Company, subsidiary of the U. S.Steel Corporation.I906John R. Harger, S.B. '04, lives in beautiful Oak Park, but maintains offices in theMedicai and Dentai Arts Building, 185North Wabash Avenue, Chicago. *** R.L. Burns and E. P. Christensen are chiefsurgeons for the D. & I. R. Railway, andown and operate the Burns and ChristensenHospital, Two Harbors, Minnesota. ***H. Benjamin Museus was in active practice at Beach, North Dakota, until 1925when a paralytic stroke forced his retire-ment.1909Charles D. Enfield has offices in the,Heyburn Building, Louisville, Kentucky,where he specializes in radiology. ***Darwin Delap practices medicine in KansasCity with offices in the Wirthman Building.He writes that his 17-year old son refusesto be a doctor as there is no money in it,from which we judge that the said son doesnot assist in making out father's incoinetax statement.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 335tt To save time is to lengthen life — ""ACCELERATION, rather than structural change, is the keyto an understanding of our recent economie development."— From the report of President Hoover's Committee on Recent Economic ChangesTHE PLOD of the ox-cart.The jog trot of the horseand buggy. The rush of the high-powered motor car. The zoomof the airplane. Acceleration.Faster speed ali the time.Speed and more speed inproduction, transportation,communication, and as a result,more wealth, more happiness,and yes, more leisure for usali.Scientifìc research has beenthe pacemaker of this faster,yet more leisurely, existence. Conceive how much timemodem electric lighting hassaved the American people —not to mention the billiondollars a year in lighting billssaved by the repeatedly im-proved efficiency of the Mazdalamp. Think of the extra-ordinary democratization ofentertainment and educationmade possible by the radiotube!Both these benefits to thepublic owe much to the steadyflow of discovery and invention from General Electric labora-tories. So do the x-ray andcathode-ray tubes, the caloriz-ing of • steel, atomic-hydrogenwelding, the generation cfpower for home and industryat steadily lower costs.The G-E monogram is asymbol of research. Everyproduct hearing this monogramrepresents to-day and will rep-resent to-morrow the higheststandard of electrical correct-ness and dependability.JOIN US IN THE GENERAL ELECTRIC HOUR, BROADCAST EVERY SATURDAY EVENING ON A NATION-WIDE N.B.C. NETWORK95-719CGENERAL336 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE1912Olaf Haraldson, S.B. '10, is in activepractice as physician and surgeon at Minot,North Dakota. *** Louis D. Smith, 3004East 92nd Street, Chicago, specializes inurologie surgery. He teaches orthopedicsurgery at the University of Illinois Collegeof Medicine. *** W. L. Crouch practicesmedicine and surgery at Fairview, Illinois.*** F. E. Torrance is practicing medicinein Winfield, Kansas.i9i4E. W. Schwartze left the ^Mellon Institute, University of Pittsburgh, last fallto become Professor of Physiology andPharmacology in the "Medicai School of theUniversity of Georgia, Augusta. *** E. J.Berkheiser is in practice in Chicago withoffices at 7 West Madison Street. He isAssistant Clinical Professor of Surgery(orthopedics) at Rush Medicai College.I916.R. O. Porter, former dean of the University of Utah, has moved from SaltLake City to Logan. *** Arthur KirbyBaldwin is in general practice at Carrollton,Illinois. *** Claude W. Mitchell is practicing general surgery in Washington, D. C.I918A. P. Flaten is practicing medicine andsurgery at Yuma, Colorado.I920J. H. Lloyd, practicing general medicineand surgery at Mitchell, South Dakota, ispresident of staff, Methodist State Hos pital, and heads the Sixth District MedicaiSociety.1922Walter H. Maddux has been calledfrom the Mercy-Wheatley Hospital [nKansas City to become head of the Depart-ment of Pediatrics in Provident HospitalChicago, an old institution for Negroesnow entering upon a new era of usefulnessthrough large gifts for buildings and en-dowment. Provident Hospital will beunder the management of the Universityof Chicago. *** Tracy W. Buckinghamis associated with the Quain & RamstadClinic, Bismarck, North Dakota, specializing in ophthalmology and otolaryngology.I924J. C. Stephenson, S.B. '07, sends in hissubscription to the Magazine from 828East 20th Street, Oklahoma City. ***Newton Miller is in general practice atPorterville, California.I927G. Hubert Artis is in practice at CedarRapids, Iowa, with offices in the Mer-chants National Bank Building, adjoiningthose of F. G. Murray, M.D. '00.I929Joseph A. Tuta, S.M. '25, Ph.D. '27,is practicing medicine in Youngstown,Ohio. *** Albert C. Johnson is practicingmedicine in Gorham, New Hampshire. ***Grace Hiller is at Edward Sanitorium,Naperville, Illinois, until Jury 1, afterwhich she will be at Billings Hospital.Law1914Vallee O. Appel, Ph.B. 'n, is presidentof the Fulton Market Cold Storage Company, 1000 Fulton Street, Chicago.1915John P. McGalloway, Ph.B. '15, ispracticing law at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.1916H. Nathan Swaim is a member of thelaw firm of Ogden and Swaim, 911 State Life Building, Indianapolis. *** Robert H.Thompson, Ph.B. '14, is president of theMoffett Studios, Chicago.1922G. W. Adams, Ph.B. '21, is practicinglaw at 640 Rowan Building, Los Angeles,besides lecturing in Politicai Science at theUniversity of California at Los Angeles.*** R. H. Bolyard is head of the Department of Sociology at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Lafayette, Louisiana.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 337THE YATES- FISHERTEACHERS' AGENCYEstablished igoòPaul Yates, Manager6l6-Ó20 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUECHICAGOTHE J. M. HAHNTEACHERS AGENCYA Western Placement BureauElementary, Secondary, CollegeAlways in quest of outstànding educatorefor important positions. Teachers with higher degrees in demand. Doctors of Phi-losophy urgently needed for college anduniversity positions now listed.J. M. Hahn and Bianche TuckerManagers2161 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, California Albert Teachers' Agency25 £. Jackson Blvd., ChicagoLast June a Dean of a large College spent three days in Chicago withnine positions to fili — one Head ofDepartment and eight Instructors.Seven of these, including the Headof the Department, were filled bythis office. He is only one of themany College Heads that cali hereevery year for assistance. Our regular clients from year to year are thebest Colleges, Universities, Teachers'Colleges, City and Suburban HighSchools, Private Schools, — the bestschools from ali parts of the country.The alertness of our Managers andthe efficiency of our service play alarge part in securing and holdingour patronage. 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Griffin is Dean of the College ofLiberal Arts and head of the Departmentof History and Politicai Science, South-western Louisiana Institute, Lafayette,Louisiana.I929Sam Street Hughes who has been practicing law in Lansing, Michigan, certainlyseems to be active both legally and extra-legally^ so to speak. Among other thingshe is president of the Junior Chamber ofCommerce and a director oi the SeniorChamber of Commerce and of the CivicPlayers Guild.* -* *Reflecting the development of the in-creasing interest of the alumni of the LawSchool in the progress and success of theschool and its new administration, JudgeWalter P. Steffen, President of the LawSchool Association, has appointed a committee, hailing from various parts of thecountry, to study the improvement ofalumni organization. The committee appointed are the following:Mr. Arthur L. Adams, J.D. '14, Jones-boro, Arkansas.Mr. Thurlow G. Essington, J.D. '08,Chicago, Illinois.Mr. Jerome N. Frank, J.D. '13, NewYork, New York.Mr. Dwight P. Green, J.D. '12, Chicago, Illinois.Mr. Roswell F. Magill, J.D. '20, NewYork, New York.Mr. George M. Morris, J.D. '15,Washington, D. C.Mr. Albert W. McCullough, J.D. '11,Laramie, Wyoming.Hon. Geo. T. McDermott, J.D. '09,Topeka, Kansas.Hon. Wm. P. MacCracken, Jr., J.D.'n, Washington, D. C.1897Lauder W. Jones is science representative of the Rockefeller Foundation inEurope, with headquarters in Paris. Mr. Henry C. Shull, J.D. '16, SiouxCity, Iowa.This activity has found its genesislargely in the annual luncheons of thegraduates of the Law School held in connection with the meetings of the AmericanBar Association. For some six years theseluncheons have been a fixture of the American Bar Association meetings and have beensteadily increasing in attendance. LastOctober at a luncheon at the Memphismeeting of the Bar Association, a draftpian was presented with respect to increasing the alumni organization and hadthe endorsement of ali those members ofthe alumni body who were present. Thecommittee appointed by Judge Steffen isnow working upon the perfection of thatpian.To date the committee has felt that thecreation of a representative body, function-ing something in the nature of an alumnicouncil, is the best method of securing theassistance and co-operation of the alumni ofthe Law School with its administrationand in furthering the projects undertakenby the School. It has been proposed tohave a body of some 20 to 30 memberselected from geographical areas determinedby the divisions of the United States CircuitCourts of Appeals. These representativeswould meet annually, or oftener, at theUniversity and accomplish the business ofthe organization.It is expected that, as soon as the committee has worked out a satisfactory draft,it will have the same prepared for the con-sideration of the annual meeting of theLaw School Association next June, wherethe pian will be presented. The projectwill either be acted upon at the meeting orat a meeting held in conjunction with thegathering of the American Bar Associationin Chicago next August.1899William C. Gordon is Professor ofPhilosophy at Howard University, Washington, D. C.Doctors of PhilosophyNEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONS 3391900John G. Coulter is Vice-President ofWabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana.1902Edward E. Slosson, who died in October,1929, after an illness of several months,has an article "Chemistry of the Past"appearing in the Winter issue of the Century. This is probably the last thing thatE)r. Slosson wrote for publication and is afine example of his genius and method.I903Mrs. Camillo von Klenze (Henrietta K.Becker) A.B. 'oo, is residing in Germany.Her address is Kufsteiner Platz, Munich,Bavaria, Germany.1905C. J. Lynde is Professor of Physics atTeachers College, Columbia University.*** James W. Lawrie, S.B. '04, is nowDirector of Chemical Research, A. O.Smith Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.I906Daniel A. Tear has retired from hisposition as manager of the Travel Department of the Hyde Park State Bank, Chicago, and is living at 700 MontgomeryAvenue, Silver Springs, Maryland.1907Louis A. Higley is Dean of Men atWheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.I908R. E. Buchanan is Dean of the GraduateSchool and Professor of Bacteriology atIowa State College. *** Alma G. Stokeyis Visiting Professor of Botany at Women'sChristian College, Madras, India.I909Herbert F. Evans has returned to Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California, where he is head of the Departmentof Religious Education, after spending ayear in research in Cambridge and Boston.*** John C. Granbery, A.M. '08, is headof the Departments of History, Philosophyand Sociology at Texas TechnologicalCollege. *** Herman A. Spoehr has beenappointed Director of Science of the Rocke- It's a Long JumpFrom Kansasto BostonONE great advantage thatSwift 85 Company's organization offers to the hungrycitizen of our large cities is anever failing supply of meats.Regardless of whether there isenough live stock raised nearat hand there is always meatfor the hungry.Swift & Company is a nationalorganization, with packingplants dose to producing cen-ters and branch distributingoutlets in ali large consumingcenters.Swift also is a locai organization in that wherever theseplants and branch houses arelocated its employes form active groups in the communitiesand are a force for good citizen-ship.The broad scope of Swift &Company's buying and sellingactivities is of great benefitboth to producer and consumer.Swift &l Company34Q THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEfeller Foundation, succeeding Dr. MaxMason. Dr. Spoehr received the honorarydegree of ScD. from the University inDecember, 1929.1913Clarence W. New, Professor of Historyat McMaster University, Toronto, is theauthor of a new book, "The Alien Prioriesin England during the Hundred YearsWar," recently published by the ClarendonPress of Oxford.I914C. C. McCown, Dean of the PacificSchool of Religion, has been granted twoyears leave of absence and is now directorof the American School of Orientai Research at Jerusalem. *** George T.Coiman, who is assistant to the presidentof Horlick's Malted Milk Corporation,Racine, Wisconsin, reports that the arrivaiof George Tilden Coiman on September9> 1929, gives him a "complete" familyof two boys and two girls.1915Harlan ìp. Stetson, director of PerkinsObservatory, Ohio Wesleyan University,has been lecturing in the East during thewinter. *** Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G.Vestal (Wanda Pfeiffer) S.B. '04, Ph.D.'08, are living in Urbana, where Mr.Vestal is with the Department of Botanyat the University of Illinois. *** ArthurH. Hirsch is teaching at the University ofMichigan this year, while on leave of absence from the Department of History ofOhio Wesleyan University. *** TheodoreH. Jack is Vice-President of the Universityand head of the Department of History atEmory University, Atlanta, Georgia.1916Wilmer Souder writes us that he is en-gaged in Identification Research for theNational Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C. *** Dudley D. Griffith is Professor of English at the University ofWashington, Seattle.1917Conrad J. Kjerstad, A.M. '16, formerlyDean of the Faculty of State Teachers College, Valley City, North Dakota, isnow President of the Dickinson StateNormal at Dickinson, North Dakota. ***Sidney M. Cadwell, S.B. '14, is AssistantDirector of Development of the U. S.Rubber Company, Passaic, New Jersey.I918Stephen Popoff has been promoted fromAssistant to Associate Professor at the University of Iowa at Iowa City. *** PercivalBailey, S.B. '14, is Associate Professor ofSurgery at the University of Chicago.1919Esther M. Greisheimer is Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University ofMinnesota.I920Alice H. Farnsworth is Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Mount HolyokeCollege. *** Amando Clemente, besidesbeing Professor and Acting Head of theDepartment of Chemistry, University ofthe Philippines, is physicist at the PhilippineGeneral Hospital. *** F. A. G. Cowperis Professor of Romance Languages, DukeUniversity, Durham, North Carolina.1921T. Russell Wilkins is head of the Department of Physics and Acting Directorof the new Institute of Applied Optics ofthe University of Rochester. *** HenryL. Cox has resigned from the Mellon Institute for Industriai Research and is nowresearch chemist with the Carbide andCarbon Chemical Corporation, Charleston,West Virginia. *** Gertrude E. Smith,A.B. '16, A.M. '17, is Assistant Professorof Greek at the University of Chicago.1922Sumner A. Ives is head of the BiologyDepartment at Furman University. *** J.E. Shrader continues as head of the Department of Physics at Drexel Institute,Philadelphia. F. L. Nutting, Ph.D. '29,is Assistant Professor in the same department. *** J. K. Stewart is research chemistwith the Anderson Prichard Oil Corporation of Chicago.NEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONS 3411923L. E. Blanch teaches Education at theNorth Carolina College for Women. Heplans to teach at the University of Maryland this summer. *** B. F. Yanney iscompleting his I9th year as Professor of]Vfathematics at the College of Wooster,Wooster, Ohio. *** I. Keyfitz is Professor0f Semitic Languages, History and In-stitutions at the University of Missouri.#** G. W. Willett is principal of LyonsTownship High School, La Grange, Illinois. A junior college has been establishedin connection with the institution this year.1924R. B. Sandin is now Associate Professorof Chemistry at the University of Alberta.*** Earl A. Spessard is Professor andHead of the Department of Biology atOuachita College, Arkadelphia, Arkansas.*** John W. Hershey, head of the Chemistry Department at McPherson College,McPherson, Kansas, is doing extensive research on synthetic diamonds. *** MadamePaul Morand (Ruth S. Phelps) is makingher home in Paris. *** Cornelius Gouwensis Associate Professor of Mathematics atIowa State College.1925Dr. Joseph B. Rhine and Mrs. Rhine(Louisa Weckesser) Ph.D. '23, announcethe birth of a daughter, Sara Louise,January 28, 1930. Dr. Rhine is AssistantProfessor of Philosophy at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. *** LaurensJ. Mills, A.M. '19, is Associate Professorof English at Indiana University. ***Virgil B. Heltzel is Assistant Professor ofEnglish, Northwestern University. ***Edwin R. Hunter is Professor and Head ofthe Department of English at MaryvilleCollege, Maryville, Tennessee. *** FrancesW. Hadley is Assistant Professor of Englishat Milwaukee-Downer College. *** JohnB. 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'22, is teaching Indian,Chinese and Japanese philosophy, religionand history at the Toyo Gaku-In, anOrientai classical institute in Los Angeles.***Nicholas T. Bobrovinkoff is NationalResearch Fellow in Physics at the University of California this year. *** O. O.Morris, A.M. '23, is teaching Psychology,Philosophy and Greek Mythology at Michigan State College. *** William Ramsay isProfessor of Greek at the University ofSaskatchewan. *** Ralph Tyler, who isresearch associate for the Bureau of Educational Research, is working at OhioState University. *** David C. Graham,A.M. '19, who is a missionary at Suifu,Szechnow, China, has been elected a Fellowof the Royal Asiatic Society. *** James R-Jackson, Ph.B. '23, A.M. '24, is AssistantProfessor and Director of Department ofFinance at St. Louis University. *** A. J.NEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONS 343Townsend is an instructor in the Department of History, Chicago Normal College.*** Claudius Ó. 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'29, are living inFayette, Missouri, where Mr. Gaddis ishead of the Department of History andPoliticai Science at Central College.DeathsWarner Hunter Carithers, M.D. '87,February 2, 1930, at Moscow, Idaho.Adelbert H. Peck, M.D. '91, November6, 1929, at his home at Joliet, Illinois. Dr.Peck had practiced in Chicago for manyyears.Cyrus H. Smith, M.D. '95, November29, 1929, at Abingdon, Illinois, after ayear's illness. Dr. Smith had practiced inLa Salle, Illinois, up to the time of hisillness.John E. Tuite, M.D. '00, February 26,1930, at his home in Rockford, Illinois.Dr. Tuite was past president of the IllinoisState Medicai Association and a memberof the American College of Surgeons.Alice Jean Patterson, S.B. '13, June 6,1929, at her home in Normal, Illinois.Thomas A. Blakeslee, Ph.B. '17, Decem-ber 27, 1929, at Lincoln, Nebraska. Mr.Blakeslee was president of the LincolnSchool of Commerce and was active in thecivic, religious and educational life ofNebraska.John J. 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