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Infinite in value. . . low in cost . . . your telephone.In the next moment it may ringwith a message that will changeyour destiny.AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY242Wift ®mbersttp of Cfncago fWagajmeEditor and Business Manager, Charlton T. Beck '04Cobb Hall, University of ChicagoEDITORIAL 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 Medical Association —Morris Fishbein, 'ii, M.D., '12; College — Roland F. Holloway, '20; Allen Healu,'26; Wm. V. Morcenstern '20, J.D., '22; Faculty — Fred B. Millett, Department ofEnglish.Donald P. Bean, '17, ChairmanI Al T H I1 c/y1 a ~aOn this page we submit the likeness ofthe 1932 Reunion Chairman. To all appearances no older than he was in 1926,when he first served so successfully in likecapacity, he brings to his task as leader ofthe current reunion added years of executiveexperience plus the same enthusiasm andenergy that made him a successful chairmansix years ago.* * * *The Magazine ismost fortunate in presenting Miss Wallace'sAdventures of an Emerita, and doubly fortunate in having HaroldSwift tell the unknowing among the Alumnijust who the author isand what importantplace she holds in thehistory of the University.As an undergraduateMalcolm Proudfootmajored in geographyand won his "C" in football. In 1930 he obtained his Master's degree and an Alexander Marshall M.von Humboldt Fellowship at the Universityof Berlin. Of his year in Europe, threemonths were spent in Russia, where hetraveled 10,000 miles and saw 10,000 sights,some of which he tells our readers in TheFifth Day.Knappen, educated atWooster, Princeton andOxford, is one of theyounger faculty members who are makingtheir homes with the undergraduates in the newMen's Residence Halls.* * # *Frank Hutchinsonadmits and glories in hisguilt as co-perpetratorof the first Blackfriars'show. Since that time,and despite that handicap, he has attained distinction in both thejournalistic and advertising fields.Harry R. Swanson, '171932 Reunion Chairman John B. Holt is goingto be business managerfor Sherwood Eddy thissummer.The Magazine is published at 1009 Sloan St., Crawfordsville, Ind., monthly from Novemberto July, inclusive, for The Alumni Council of the University of Chicago, 58th St. and Ellis Ave.,Chicago, 111. The subscription price is $2.00 per year; the price of single copies is 25 cents.Entered as second class matter December 10, 1924, at the Post Office at Crawfordsville, Indiana,under the Act of March 3, 1879.243244 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE1932 Alumni ReunionThursday, June 93:30 p.m. — Alumni-Varsity Baseball Game,, Greenwood Field6:30 p.m. — "C" Banquet, Hutchinson CafeWomen's Athletic Association Annual Dinner,Social Service Administration Banquet, Judson Court Dining RoomRush Clinics*Friday, June 109:00 a.m. — Alumni Conference, Judson Court Lounge2:00 p.m. — Campus Tours6:30 p.m. — University Aides Dinner, Ida Noyes Hall, Sun-Parlor8:00 p.m. — Alumni Educational Assembly, Mandel Hall10:00 p.m. — President's Reception to Alumni (Informal)Rush Clinics*Saturday, June ii9:00 a.m. — Alumni Conference, Judson Court Lounge11:30 a.m. — Alumnae Breakfast, Ida Noyes Hall12:30 p.m. — Class Luncheons and Reunions, Campus, as arranged1:30 p.m. — 4:00 p.m.Registration, CircleOfficially conducted campus tours, starting from he CircleOriental Institute Graduate Educatior BuildingInternational House Men's Residence H isBelfield Hall Field House1916-1917 Baseball Game, Dudley FieldNational Collegiate Track and Field Meet (Olympic Tryouts) atStagg Field.4:00 p.m. — Reunion Revue, Mandel Hall6:00 p.m. — Alumni Dinner and Assembly, Hutchinson Commons. Special tablesreserved for Five Year Classes8:00 p.m. — University Sing, Hutchinson CourtInduction of Aides and MarshalsPresentation of "C" BlanketsAlma MaterRush Clinics *Sunday, June 1211:00 p.m. — University Religious Service, University Chapel reunion programcontinued4:30 p.m. — Musical Vesper Service, University ChapelMonday, June 137:00 p.m. — Phi Beta Kappa Banquet and Initiation, Judson CourtRush Clinics *Tuesday, June 146:30 p.m. — Law School Association Dinner, as arrangedRush Medical College Alumni and Faculty Dinner, at the CongressHotelRush Clinics *Wednesday, June 15Rush Clinics ** Program in detail to be announced.Class of 1897 — 35tn Reunion Class of 1917 — 15th ReunionClass of 1902 — 30th Reunion Class of 1922 — 10th ReunionClass of 1907 — 25th Reunion Class of 1927 — 5th ReunionClass of 1912 — 20th Reunion Class of 1931 — 1st ReunionDetails by Class OfficersVol. xxiv No. 6Unfoersitp of CiricagoJfflaga^neAPRIL, 1932Adventures of an EmeritaBy Elizabeth WallaceONE day, ten years or more ago, Imet in the Quadrangles an elderlycolleague. He had a depressed air."How do you do this lovely spring day?"said I greetingly and gaily, too gaily forhis mood as it proved."I don't do at all. I am a sick man.""But you'll soon have a chance to getwell. Aren't you retiring this year?" saidI, with friendly intent, but with abysmallack of tact."That's just the trouble," he replied, ina tragic tone. A haunted look came intohis face. "What am I going to do whenI no longer have my job? I don't playgolf, I don't play the violin, I don't paintnor play billiards or bridge. All I can dois to read and write, and they have theirlimits."His words, his attitude, gave me a shock.Here was a brilliant scholar, who had giventhe first twenty years of his life to preparation for an academic career. For forty yearshe had been a gradually growing power inhis particular line of work. He had gaineda world-wide reputation. Now he hadreached another epoch before which he stoodin dismay, apparently unprepared for thetwenty years, more or less, that stretched between him and the inevitable end. Itgave me pause. By Jove! I thought, I'mnever going to get caught this way. Whynot prepare for the third period of life aswell as for the second ? By rights it shouldbe the richest, fullest and most useful. Norestraining job, a pension, a long experiencebehind and the whole world before one!As the silver age of retirement from theUniversity began to loom above my horizon,it occurred to me to run to meet it insteadof lingering reluctantly for it to reach myzenith. In this way I gained three years.These years were to be devoted to a fullerpreparation for the last for which the firstwas made.Forty-one years of teaching, deaning, andhouse-heading had prevented the realizationof many secret longings ; certain experienceswhich give more completeness to life hadbeen necessarily neglected; certain experiments which beckon tantalizingly had beenreluctantly ignored; certain journeyingsaway from the beaten track of improvingtravel had been renounced. These undonethings had left yearning gaps which nowmight be filled. The first gap was thatleft by the absence of personal domesticlife. Most of the years spent in academic245246 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEpursuits had demanded institutional residence, which, however enlightened and free,lacks the intimate flavor and peculiar problems of what may be still known as homelife. Kind fate had provided the constituent elements of what, by skill and patience,might be built up into a home, namely twobachelor brothers. The triangle thusformed was practically equilateral, for thecelibate peculiarities lacking in any one ofthe three were generously supplemented inanother.In order to have as few complications aspossible, in this newexperience, it was decided to reduce livingto as simple terms aspossible. There wasto be no large housethat might prove aburden when springcleaning was imminent ;there were to be noextensive grounds concerning the landscaping of which controversies might arise.A simple apartmentwas to be ours, on ahill, open on all sides,surrounded by talltrees. In its interiorworkings so mechanized that but one maidwould suffice to keep it in running order.Although academic life had kept me ignorant of the secret complexities of household management, it had drilled into methe spirit of research and a sense of system,so that the six months spent in equippingthe new home and mastering the rudimentsof housekeeping, furnished one delightfulthrill after another. To trace the fundamental differences between a Hoover and aEureka vacuum cleaner had all the zest ofdifferentiating between Manuscript A andManuscript X, while the composition of amenu had the same fearsome fascination ashad once the planning of a freshman'sschedule.And when the technique was once mastered, there came the artist's joy of creation;prandial occasions where guests and foodElizabeth WallaceEmeritaand play of mind and spirit were all fusedinto a masterpiece, — or what you thoughtwas one. Yes, it was a grand six months.When the first exuberance had died down,the solid result remained to make lifesmoother and more harmonious ever after.Then when the new experience had becomea habit, the mind was free to try an experiment.For several years there had been a lurking desire, which had sometimes almostwrecked an academic routine, to expressfugitive ideas in concrete artistic form. Ifit was true that formsof art sprang from andperpetuated hours inthe lives of exceptionalpeople when their control and command ofexperience were at thehighest, why might notordinary people, bypatient effort, have alsotheir moments whenthey, too, might command experience andrecord their valuationof life? Anyway, itwas worth trying.The experiment wasbegun by engaging asympathetic youngartist to come each week through the winter to criticize my efforts at drawing. Thenwhen spring came, I went to an artists'colony among the Hudson River Hills.Every hour of the weeks spent there broughtan added revelation of the beauty and meaning of life and art. The early morning walkto the cabin studio in the woods, when theworld was chill and serene and the sun'srays had not yet power enough to melt thesparkling frost on branch and dead leaf;the fagots to be gathered for the little stove;the fierce hot blaze that changed the rustyiron drum from brown to red ; the consciousness that hours were mine in which to modelthe clay, uninterrupted by any calls butthose of adventurous birds or saucy squirrels. All these humble happenings werea harmonious accompaniment to the throbbing consciousness that this was the momentProfessorADVENTURES OF AN EMERITA 247when you could yield yourself with a glad abandon tothe quest of beauty If, when the happy weekswere over, I had the realizing sense that the techniquenecessary to an artist's suecess requires at least a lifetime, and that mine wasmore than two thirds over,I nevertheless felt enrichedbeyond measure by theglimpse I had gained of thisparticular realm of beauty.* * * *My brothers and I nowfelt the stirrings of wander-yearning within us. It wasnot for nothing that wehad been born under theSouthern Cross, and had spent our childhood near the Equator. Always we hadplanned to make a pilgrimage to that landof long ago, and always our plans had beenfrustrated. Now, past middle age, but stilleager, we embarked and in a little less thanfour months we almost encircled our neighboring continent.The boat left New York on a coldJanuary morning, touched at Havana fortwo warm sunshiny days and then steamedits way over calm southern seas for endlessdays of delight. We wound our slow waythrough the canal, we skirted arid rockycoasts, we visited sun-lit Lima, we landedperilously at Mollendo, climbed zigzag-gingly to Arequipa, where we stopped fourdays to catch our breath before ascendingto heights of 15,000 feet. Arequipa of themusical name, a Spanish corruption of theIndian welcome given to the conquerorswho, when they asked what the city wascalled, received from the uncomprehendingnatives the answer "Arrequepay," whichmeans, "It is well, stay." They stayed.We too, would have stayed, for the charmof the place stole our hearts; the encirclingsnow-capped mountains, standing clear inthe early morning, then veiling themselvesin light fugitive clouds, and, when eveningcame, shrouding themselves in violet andgray; the green valley, the swiftly rushingA Perilous Landing at Mollendo river, the low adobe houses,tinted pink and blue, clinging to the reddish earth;the dark-eyed gentle folkthat pass you with a courteous salutation; the gravefaced Indian women withmultitudinous skirts ofgreen and orange and purple; the droves of patientdonkeys, the inquiring long-necked llamas; all thesesaid to us, "It is well,stay." ....* # * #For a long day weclimbed ever higher, sometimes skirting a breathtaking precipice, sometimescreeping between highrock walls and emerging to look down ona sudden green valley; crossing bleak plainswith their shifting crescent dunes, scarcelyanywhere a sign of life, save for a lostdonkey, a lonely cactus plant, or a starkwater station, with corrugated iron roof.High, bleak, rain-swept Juliaca shelters usfor the night, and then on we go wherethe mountains begin to close around us andnarrow us into an ever deepening valley,where a rushing yellow torrent cuts intoclay and rock. Down this valley the railroad plunges. The Inca had answered thechallenge of these mountains by terracingthem up to the top, and today the Indianplants his grain and vegetables on thesesame precipitous heights, so that as youlook up, you see a geometric pattern ofgreen and yellow and brown, that changeswith the changing shadows, from the tenderArequipa, of the Musical Name248 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEAn Indian Worntones of morning to themysterious, purple, shadesof night. At every station,fruits and flowers. Eventhe Indians have the outlineof huge exotic blossoms.Round platter shaped hatsperch high on smooth blackheads like a brilliant hibiscus. Loose full skirtssweep past like brilliantcorollas; bare, brown feetsink into the mud.And so we came to Cuz-co, once the proudeststronghold of the IncasMasses of red tiled roofspacked closely in the valley,clinging to the sides of thehills. Here and there aplaza with tall palm trees.Out on the fringe of thetown a monastery with its church towermarking a pause in the blue sky. Perchedhigh on the cyclopean ruins of Tacsahua-man, we looked down. The air is still,clouds flit silently by and ghosts of the pastpeople the place. Ghosts whose voicelessgrief mourns lost glories as they see withwhat tawdry substitutes a Christian nationhas replaced the austerity and massive dignity of Inca architecture. Square hewntemples destroyed to build crude cathedralswhere strive architectural reminiscences, un-harmonized. It is here in Cuzco that onesees the past still preserved in a present thatcorrodes it slowly, a present that seems tohave no future, a present that is content tosit in the sun and dream its life away.Some day I shall go back to Cuzco andtake a house with a patio, and I shall find aQuechua house maid and a mozo. And Ishall buy me a sure-footed mule and rideout to the great ruins of Ollantay, or to thefastnesses of Machu-Pichu. Perhaps moreghosts will come and whisper the meaningsof the mysteries that make Cuzco so alluring, so elequent, so appealingly beautiful.A few days later, we were crossing LakeTiticaca, a limpid body of water, onequarter as large as Lake Erie and lying almost as high as Pike's Peak, among the Andes, where the sun's raysbeat relentlessly throughthe rarefied atmosphere,and where the keen windsblow cold from the encircling snowy peaks.The long day spent inthe little steamer was madeunforgettable by thepresence and converse ofDr. Eduardo Pineda Arce,a tall full-blooded AymaraIndian. He was aboutforty years of age, withdark expressive eyes, bronzeskin, high cheek bones andextraordinarily red lips. Hehad taken his degree fromthe oldest American University, San Marcos, ofan from Cuzco T . , , , .Lima, and he was versed inhistory and archaeology. Hetalked with vigor and enthusiasm. Therewas no fine shading in his emphasis. Hisgestures were as muscular and far-flingingwhen he talked of the ancient feud betweenInca and Aymara as when he told of an oldmanuscript now reposing in the library atSantiago. He was impervious to wind, andhe bared his head to the sun.He reached out his hand for my note bookand wrote therein in clear, angular characters,Ama llullaAma suaAma penka."What language is it? What does itmean?" I asked."It is very difficult to express it all inLake TiticacaADVENTURES OF AN EMERITA 249one phrase, for the Quechuan language iss0 full of symbols, so intensely vivid thatit often takes a whole sentence to translatea single word. It says, 'Lie not, steal not,never be shame-faced, hold up your head,never do anything that would make youdroop your eyes.' They are the words thatwere written over the doorway of Aymarahouses. We of the Aymara nation werebrought up on them, and that is why wehave never been conquered."As we approached our landing place atsundown, our group had grown larger, forDon Eduardo had drawn into it DonIgnacio of Cuzco, and the Captain of thePort, who also wrote poetry. We felt,as we bade them good-by, that we knewbetter what was in themind of the SouthAmerican Indian andthat we had had aglimpse of the aspirations of his soul.*****If we had a vision ofthe Aymara soul on thechaste cold surface ofLake Titicaca, it wasin colorful, bewilderingLa Paz that we wereto see his unbridledemotions let loose inCarnival week. Thatweek the white population fled the city andleft the ninety percent Indian populationto celebrate as theypleased. From neigh- A Guileless and¦ . .1 American, aboring towns theyswarmed in, from Guaqui, Viacla, Huan-curano, Chucubaya, and even from as faras Cochabamba. They filled the streetswith their donkeys, their wares and theirown brilliantly attired persons, weaving inand out in a pattern of scarlet, green, purple, orange, yellow, blue and magenta spots.From our high balcony we look downupon them. Two gamboling clowns comedown the street, followed by a swirlingcloud of bright colored petticoats. TheseIndian women must dance fast to keep the ten to fifteen bright colored skirts that eachone wears revolving high to show the colors.They must swing fast so that long blackbraids may prove their claim to beauty.And they swing so rapidly that brightstriped shawls fall from shoulders revealingthe embroidered velvet jackets; pricelessgold filagree earrings sway beneath thebrim of the dark felt hat, and the strongfeatured faces grow relaxed by the doubleeffect of potent chicha and social enthus-But we had to leave the mountains andtheir secrets and go back to the sea, for wemust visit the fringe of cities that outlinecosmopolitan civilization. Valparaiso andits adorably pretty girls,Santiago and its epidemicof new buildings, Men-doza, just over theAndes, and its indescribably luscious grapes ;Buenos Aires, flat andprosperous. Montevideo with its invitingbeaches, Santos with itseternal rains and pervading smell of coffee,and so on to Rio, themagnificent, where weembarked for the longhomeward voyage. Andit was during theseseventeen days that wehad time to look back onwhat we had seen, andto analyze our impres-Engaging South sions.Baby Vicuna ¦«» , • . .1 ,' My most persistentlyrecurring thought was that above all onemust approach South America with a flexible mind; a mind that can leap lightlyfrom one apparent contradiction to anotherand yet see understandingly what lies between, for it is a land of striking contrasts.It is a land of gigantic mountains withsnow-clad peaks, piercing a rainless sky,and of sudden valleys deeply clad in tropicverdure. It is a land of high, bleak, windswept plateaus, where condors swoop upontheir prey, and of vast grassy pampas,250 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEwhere scarlet flamingos wing their heavyflight from hidden pools. It is a landwhere universities scatter doctors' degreesgenerously from an inexhaustible store, andwhere the percentage of illiteracy is alarmingly high. Cities name their streets aftergreat liberators but suffer dictators torule them. Colossal Christs and majesticVirgin Mothers brood over cities wherechurches are closed and cathedrals remainunbuilt; and the proud, long-necked llamarefuses utterly to carry more than seventypounds while the patient Indian trots up themountain trail with a hundred poundburden.Our philosophic reflections, however, areinterrupted from time to time, by frequentstops of the boat. At Pernambuco of thelain-swept streets; at Trinidad the volcanic, with its rich, luxuriant vegetation,winding roads bordered with huge bamboos,spreading mangoes; the thatched huts, thenaked brown babies, the quick petulantrains; a parchment faced East Indian fakir;a graceful group of veiled, draped figures;heavy-lipped, flat-nosed Ethiopians. Atlow-lying, coral-built Barbados, with itsundulating surface and its angular, uncompromising little houses ; at Martinique on aSunday morning, when life is concentrated in the cathedral, which is packed with tur-baned and duck-suited humanity.Then a long afternoon, threading ourway through beautiful islands until twilightfalls on Guadaloupe and her mountainsmelt into sky and sea. Eight days later,— New York.One incident of our return trip I mustmention. Early in the voyage and earlyone morning I went to the swimming poolfor my plunge. Its usual matutinal quietwas invaded by a happy family of father,mother and four children. Father, withinfinite tact and patience, was teachingchild number three to be unafraid, when,suddenly, something in the persuasive tonesof his voice struck in me a reminiscentchord. I swam up to him. "Is this GeorgeSchobinger, one time of the University ofChicago?" I asked. It was. He had beenliving in South America for several yearsand was bringing his family to find a homein friendly Swarthmore, Pa. Thus in mytravels I have contantly met former students of the University, but GeorgeSchobinger is the only one I ever foundin rather deep water. Of the rest Ishall speak if I am permitted to continue the story of the Adventures of anEmerita.Rio, the MagnificentElizabeth WallaceAn AppreciationBy Harold H. Swift, '07TO THOSE of us who have been inintimate contact with the Universityfor the last thirty or forty years, anintroduction of Elizabeth Wallace to otheralumni seems incongruous and almost ridiculous. She has been so closely identifiedwith the University from the first, and hasdevoted so many years of her life to itscause and the interests of those who havecome within its walls that her name standsin the knowledge of alumni with Harper,Judson, Burton, and others of our Hall ofFame. But those of us who are becomingold and grey in the service must rememberthat new people enter the University and become alumni in greater numbers than in ourtime. It has even been said that there isan improvement in quality, but some ofus, familiar with the French saying, knowthat while some things may be true, thosesame things may be impossible. It is tothe newcomers, particularly the 18,992who have matriculated at the Universitysince 1927, the year of Miss Wallace's retirement, that I address myself.In the simplest form of introduction,Elizabeth Wallace is one of those lovablepersons who has made the University ofChicago loved, and is one of those greatsouls who has made the University ofChicago great. She was born in SouthAmerica, but emigrated to the NorthernHemisphere at the age of ten, and afterthe usual preparatory three R's and relatedsubjects entered Wellesley College, fromwhich she graduated. When the University opened in 1892, it counted her amongits Fellows. After three years, she left usto become Dean of Women at Knox College, where she stayed a year, and wentfrom there to France to enter the University of Paris, but neither she nor we couldstand the long separation, so she came backto us in 1897 as an Associate in RomanceLanguages and to assume resident headshipof Beecher Hall. The women who lived in Beecher from 1897 to 1909 were exceedingly fortunate to have had her friendship, guidance, and cultural stimulus. She"made Beecher a place to look back upon asradiant with charm."Those for whom she acted as Dean for20 years were also very fortunate, as werethe rest of us who came under her influencein the classroom, in the halls, or in extramural activities of the University. Hersubjects were French, Spanish, students,faculty, people, and the University of Chicago in its relationship to the city. Sheentered the University halls as a Fellowand advanced steadily in rank until shereached full professorship. She is now Professor Emeritus of French Literature.Miss Wallace has traveled extensively inRomance countries. In 1910-1911, she helda traveling Fellowship, given her by theUniversity, at Madrid. She has writtensuch books as South American Republics(1894), La Perfecta Casada (1902), AGarden of Paris (1911), Mark Twain andthe Happy Island (1912). During theWorld War she was active on various committees of University women in connectionwith war aid, and spent several months ofnotable service in France with the American Red Cross and the InternationalHealth Commission of the RockefellerFoundation, assisting in special work withtubercular children. These activities indicate the breadth of her interests and thecatholicity of her taste.The reason she gave for retirement fromthe University was to keep house for herbrothers. I wonder if her brothers livein Mexico, South America, and Europe,where since her retirement she has spentmuch of her time in travel, when not lecturing on French Literature and Latin American Relations.Such are some of the highlights of Elizabeth Wallace's career. Her life has been fullof kindness, service, and accomplishment.251Life in the Residence HallsBy Marshall M. Knappen, Assistant Professor of HistoryPROBABLY few persons of matureyears whose memories are at all retentive can honestly become enthusiastic about life in a college fraternity houseor dormitory. It takes a deal of weavingof the "crimson hue around those dear oldcollege days" to obliterate the recollectionsof the cramped quarters, the lack of privacy,the shouting, the fighting, the slammingof doors, early and late, and the prevailingstate of dirt and disorder. Too oftenthe dormitory provides only a means ofexistence while one is securing an education,is simply one of the succession of cheaprooming houses along the route from theparental domicile to the home of one's own.However there are degrees of evil, as wellas of good. There was an early Christianheresy named Sabellianism which wasknown to the orthodox as "the least damnable of all heresies." In that light, I think,we may discuss life in the new residencehalls, for, along with similar structures ina few of the great eastern institutions, theyoccupy a position analogous to that of Sabel-lius among the heretics. They are the leastto be condemned of all dormitories.The credit for this belongs not only tothe late Mr. Rosenwald whose munificentgift made the buildings possible, but to thearchitect, Mr. Jackson, and his associateswho worked hard to construct a student-proof dormitory. The result was a structure of four or five stories built in the formof two quadrangles. Each unit containsfour sections, and has its fourth side devotedto a fine dining hall, lounge and library.No section may be entered from any othersection without going out doors, (always excepting of course, those devious means, suchas fire escapes, which students so naturallydiscover or create). The floors are madeof terrazza, well-nigh indestructible, andeasy to clean. There are built-in telephonebooths and ample bathing facilities on eachfloor. But the great architectural triumphis the arrangement of the staircase, whichis put at the end of each section, instead of in the middle as in the older dormitories.This makes it possible to shut off each corridor from the stair-well by a heavy fire-door which eliminates much of the echoeffect of which alumni who are veterans ofthe buildings north of the Midway doubtless have all too keen recollections. Thefurnishings are sturdy and attractive, and inthe public rooms approach the luxurious, sothat so far as physical surroundings areconcerned no efforts have been spared tomake this a "home from home."Such surroundings might be calculatedto induce a sober, righteous, and a quiet life,but if anyone thinks that effeminacy hasbeen the result he is invited to stay a fewdays with us. He will find that none ofthe tradition which he strove so nobly tohand down has been suffered to decay. Tomention only minor matters, gum as surelyplugs keyholes, snow as certainly finds itsway into beds, and water as mysteriouslydescends on unwary victims, as was ever thecase in pre-war days. What few thingsthere were about the building which weredetachable, portable, pliable, or fragile havebeen discovered and treated accordingly.However splendid a building we have, it isstill, in other words, a dormitory.In fact there is a general feeling, thoughI do not know what the figures show, thatthe new residence halls have attracted alarger number of Freshmen from outsideChicago than was formerly the case, andthat class and college spirit has correspondingly increased. In the fall a decided tendency was noted on the part of the Freshmen, to work off surplus spirit by means ofhostilities with the Sophomores. Allthrough the winter a motley assortmentof ancient, medieval, and modern automobiles has adorned Sixtieth Street in front ofthe buildings, and with the coming of spring,earnest teams of youths can be seen coaxingcoughs from reluctant engines, and struggling with tire irons. Of course the usualintramural teams have been organized inthe various entries, and touch-ball and252LIFE IN THE RESIDENCE HALLS 253basket-ball honors won and lost, besidesthose in such individual sports as tennis.During the winter a game room in the basement, which is equipped with billiard andping pong tables, has also provided amusement and some exercise.However, there is a great deal of seriouswork done in the residence halls. Whenthey were constructed the possibility wasenvisaged of formal tutorial instruction being given in them in connection with thenew general survey courses. This has notyet been instituted, but three of the FacultyHeads, Messrs. Millett, Shields, and Shaw,have conducted informal discussion groupson topics more or less closely related tothe work of the courses in the Humanities,Social Sciences, and Physical Sciencesrespectively. In addition the BurtonCourt library has been stocked with thereference books for all four general courses,so that much of the Freshman's work canbe done on the south side of the Midway.Besides these essential works there is a considerable collection of books of general interest including fiction and even detectivestories. This is such an attractive and carefully chosen group of works, and the chairsin the library are so soft that it promptsthe suspicion that it is all part of a deep-laid plot on the part of the administrationto re-educate the Faculty Heads beyond thelimits of their specialties.Finally no description of the intellectuallife in the dormitories would be completewithout at least a mention of the variouscults which have sprung up around certainvigorous personalities. One or two of thesepossess a somewhat more permanent organization than the average "bull-session," andhave semi-regular meetings where life andliterature are discussed, or faculty guestscross-examined.Of course everyone knows that the activities thus far mentioned are conducted inthe students' spare time. The main occupation of any group of several hundred men is,obviously, to complain about the food, or ifthey are cheated of this privilege to do thenext best thing, — eat. Through the gallantefforts of Professor Sawin, who has put herprofessional knowledge of institutional cookery at our disposal, our denizens, withthe exception of a few "die-hards," havebeen forced to fall back upon the secondalternative. It is the general impressionthat never was there such dormitory cooking. Of this there could be no better evidence than the experience of one plump anddisconsolate graduate student who gainedten pounds the first quarter and moved out,as he put it, "to preserve his figure."Though the dining rooms are constructedon the model of the English college halls,there is none of the formality about theevening meal which distinguishes an Oxfordor Cambridge college, and which certainAmerican dormitory units have tried to imitate. There is no high table, and noacademic costume. However, there havebeen weekly guest nights at which ladiesand faculty members are commonly present.Besides having their own dining facilitiesthe residence halls have introduced anothernew feature into men's dormitory life atChicago. Not only is there a woman housekeeper, but the rooms are cared for bywomen, after the manner of the easterncollege "goodies." Instead of living fromone year's end to the next where the dustcollected in the corners and the beds weremade with a casualness sometimes approaching the extreme, the inhabitants nowreceive not only clean and orderly rooms buteven, on occasion, a certain amount ofmothering of the fond landlady type. Theworld do move.Something should be added concerningthe part which our institution is playing inthe general life of the campus. Since twoof the eight entries are not filled this year,previous to the introduction of deferredrushing, it has been possible to allow outsideorganizations to use the Judson Courtlounge and library, and occasionally thedining hall. This court has subsequentlyproved to be a favorite place for danceslarge and small, departmental or schooldinners, and even conventions. Such groupsas the men in attendance at the HarrisFoundation Lectures, the Baptist StudentPastors, and, last but not least, the Association of Alumni Secretaries have been enter-{Continued on Page 288)The Fifth DayBy Malcolm Proudfoot, '28, S.M. '30MOSCOW is an over-crowded city.Of all the forms taken by thiscrowding, the bazars are by farthe most interesting. Vividly they indicatethe hopelessness of Russian existence. Forthe foreigner these bazars have severalnames. They are called "thieves markets,"and "beggars markets," but practically nostranger takes the trouble to see what isgoing on there.Centered around the Sadovaya Sukharev-skaya, in the northern part of the city,are these singular Russian mass gatherings.What makes them singular are the transactions carried on ; the goods exchanged andsold. Tourists instinctively avoid Russiancrowds, and government tourist agents aidthis impulse. Still to gain a correct viewof life as the Russians lead it in their greatUnion of Socialistic Soviet Republics, it iswrong to pass too hurriedly over this unvarnished manifestation of their life.On a hot May morning of 1931 Iboarded a crowded car, found a niche in therear where pushing "comrades" would crushme the least, paid my ten kopeks, and wasunder way for the Sadovaya Sukharevskaya.After about fifteen minutes of being drivenfarther and farther into my corner by ashawled woman with a string market bag,who in turn was being pushed by a massof fellow "workers" hanging and strugglingfar out the rear door, I knew I was near mydestination for the crowds that mottled thestreet sides began tothicken. FranticallyI heaved, pushed,elbowed and heavedagain till I reachedthe door. There Iwas scolded in Russian that I did notunderstand, probably for not leaving by the frontdoor, but by persistence I got out justas the car slowed down for the next crowded landing. Ibrushed my trousers, surveyed the remainsof my barked shoes, and started walkingtowards the east.The street was wide. The pavement wastorn. The round paving stones, naturalboulders, were piled where the workmenhad left them. What was left of the oldpavement was certainly in need of repair,being either rolling or filled with jaggedholes. Dust filled what had once beengutters, and dust covered every crevice between the paving stones.A small knot of people at the gutter'sedge drew my attention. I stopped andnoted a man lying face down with his cheekin the dust. His mouth was partly open.His lips wtere coated with dirt. Fliesbuzzed about his head, settled in his upturned ear, and in his dirty hair. "What'sthe matter?" I asked someone."Much vodka," was the short answer.I passed on towards my destination. Thehigh board fence of the market was directlyahead. The crowd thickened and now occupied most of the street so that the streetcars could only proceed by clanking furiously and moving at a snail's pace. Thehum of the crowd became a buzz thatswelled, reached a high note, dropped to agrumble, and then rose again. Thereseemed to be a beat of excitement in the air,My heart jumped as I pushed my waythrough the crowded side entrance.The crowd insidethe high board fencewas terrific. Menwere standing inclose knots ; thespaces between alternately filling andopening by the movement of others. Twomen of a group justahead were tradingovercoats. A tallrawboned farmer, ayoungster with theBoarding a Crowded Car254THE FIFTH DAY 255fuzzy first growth of hair on his face, wasoffering the other man his long sheepskinlined coat. He was holding it by the collar.He showed its large pockets, and demonstrated its thickness by folding it. Theother man ignored what was beingpointed out to him and examined thecoat's patches at the elbow, the absenceof two front buttons, the frayed sleeves,as well as the grease and grime marks onthe front and the dirt caused by sitting in smaller man, who was round shoulderedand obviously a trader. He asked for hiscoat back; waving his arms to show hisdisgust.Just as he started to pull it off the youth'sbig bulk, the boy said, "Twenty rubles."The transaction was made; the coat andmoney changed hands. Twenty dirtybrown ruble notes were carefully countedout.I went farther into the crowd and wasThis is the photograph Mr. Proudfoot took from the high board fencethe rear. After finding all the fault possible and grunting his disapproval, the otherman, a smaller fellow, held up his garment.This was made of black material andobviously newer. The young chap eyed itapprovingly, and after objecting that thepockets were too small, he asked to try it on.This he did and his big hands and wristsprotruded noticeably; the buttons buttonedwith difficulty over his broad chest. Hewas not dismayed, however, and he lookedfor admiration from a friend at his side."Good," he said as he beamed, andoffered the man his coat and ten rubles.The bargain was not satisfactory to the quite conscious of the grime on the clothesof those I brushed.A few threaded paces brought me to asmall opening among the people. Herestood a man at a dirty table on which hehad brown punch in two enormous glassbottles. The flies buzzed in black cloudsover his wares. The narrow necks of thebottles kept them from drowning in theliquid. Three glasses standing on a dirtyoil cloth were not immune, and even thoughtheir owner rinsed them in a pail of discolored water, the flies settled in tens andtwenties on their edges."Cold kwas," he shouted, and customers256 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEeagerly paid fifteen kopeks per glass for adrink. The sun was hot, and the warmthof these crowding "fifth dayers" added tothe incentive for refreshment.Seeing a tough looking man with a shavedhead, holding a pair of brown knee bootsunder his arm, I asked him how much hewanted for them."190 rubles," he said calmly, but whenI started to leave he got excited, held theboots under my nose, turned them over, toldme to feel of them, and kept repeating,"Very good! Very good!"I nodded and thought sadly. You wanteighty-five dollars for these shoes. At homeI could get at least six pairs for that price.A few steps farther and a man wanted toknow the price of the camera I had undermy arm. To the left a woman was sellingsome new manufactured cotton and linenblouses. Under the new system of controlled distribution, where did she get them ?Near her there stood a half-caste mongolianwith several dozen imitation pearl beadshung about his neck. He fingered thesein the sunlight, and their cheap lustrecaught the eye of a passing girl.Off to the right by the fence, three boysand an old man were sorting over scraps ofleather. Among the other treasures possessed by these business men was a tray full of small round rubber heels, some shoepolish, and an assortment of shoe laces.Soon two customers were waited on. Onestood on a rag in his stocking feet whilehis boots were patched, and the other stoodfirst on one foot and then the other whilerubber heels were fastened in place byscrews through their centers. The old manstopped occasionally from his labors toscratch himself.Farther along this same fence sat anotherman on a carpet of gunny sacks. On this,partly protected from the dirt of the yard,were large assortments of miscellaneousarticles. Here were parts of old watchesand clocks; a demolished radio set; a glassjar battery; needles and coarse spools ofthread; pieces of rubber cut in cubes; awooden lunch box, old and battered ; a telescope with the large lens broken; operaglasses with a pearl handle, but with thefocus screw lost (probably the proud possession of some former bourgeoise lady) ;bits of candle; an old battered ikon; twopackages of cigarettes; some worn toothbrushes; and much more besides. Obviously this man traded in any and everything. A cluster of about ten people tookturns pawing his goods over and repeatedlyasking the price of this and that article.This man was proud of his wares. Hesold some needles and a spool of thread, andsatisfaction glowed through his beardedface as he changed his customer's ten rublenote by peeling off ones from a flat roll thathe took from his inside coat pocket.Wishing to take a picture of the crowd Iclimbed a head high fence that partly dividedthe enclosure. On both sides the bargainingwent on as usual. No one paid any attention to me. The scene was peaceful, butbusy. I took my picture feeling happy, forhere surely was a view of drab Russiansspending their Fifth Day, busily occupiedin a time honored activity.Suddenly a distant voice shouted"robber." A shrill cry followed; a cry ofpain and anger. All heads turned to therear, and in a split second fear was on everyface. People began to run. Crowds ofthem in two directions. Towards the sideexit, and seemingly for no reason at allTHE FIFTH DAY 257towards my fence inclosed corner. In another moment panic gripped every heart.The impulse was to get out for the crowdwas too dense. Run ! Run somewhere, andlike an angry wind whipping up leaves, themass surged toward me. Pushing and driving, all feet moving with the utmost speed.My fence creaked, but held. Fear reacheda wild pitch. The crowd surged, fell back,and surged again. There were groans andhoarse screams from those under foot.Now the running was entirely for the sideentrance. The fear maddened crowdpushed away.The multitude thinned rapidly, and thoseremaining gained heart. But all was notwell for a number had been hurt. Severallay prone at my feet, and a number werepicking themselves up. Not all had beenstrong enough, or lucky enough to stay erectduring the blind onrush. Various men withtheir piles of junk had had no time to pickup their belongings. The shoe repairman'sleather was scattered in the dust. The refreshment man's bottles had been broken,and his table was tipped. Several of thesehad stayed to salvage their wreckage, butthe pitiable expression on their faces toldhow they felt about their losses. Feet hadtrodden everything under. Men's accumulations and treasures were ruined.I changed my position to the frontfence where I couldget out at a moment's notice. I hadthe impulse to getdown and leave; Ifelt nauseated.Another momentand the police arrived. Six on horseback cleaved thecrowd at the gate.Spreading fanwiseand with a fast trot they covered the distanceto the rear of the lot. Their sharp whistlesfilled the air. They wheeled and returned.Waiting at a Government StoreZig-zagging they forced the people back.The running became frantic. The policeused no violence. Coolheaded and persistentthey advanced. The crowd melted beforethem.An open truck arrived. It bristled withpolicemen. They sprang to the ground.Arrests were made among the crowd on thestreet. Dozens were detained and giventickets. Here there was to be no "fixing."To avoid trial meant loss of citizenship.The faces of those pleading with the policeshowed what they imagined their penaltywould be.A small grey ambulance arrived. Twocrudely painted red crosses were visible onthe rear doors. Clanging, it cleared a pathfor itself and rode into the lot. The unconscious or dead, I could not tell, werepiled one on top of the other into the rearof the vehicle, police assisting the two attendants. In less than ten minutes theambulance roared out leaving a cloud ofdust behind it.Inside the bazar lot the last fewstragglers were being rounded up and shownthe door. Even one poor chap who wantedto be left alone to nurse his bruised armand mashed, blood-dripping finger, was ledout. A policeman on horseback cametowards me. He motioned that I shouldget down. This Idid, but on the streetside, nor did I askfor more explicitdirections either. Iturned the corner tothe side entranceand was just intime to see the biggates closed andpadlocked. The market was over for theday. This toleratedillegal trading hadgotten too dangerous for that day. Thosewho argued with the police at the gate werewasting their time. The official no was final.Whence Came These Blackfriars?By Frank B. (Duke) Hutchinson, Jr.s '05DURING the recent meetings of theAmerican Oriental Society andthe formal opening of the OrientalInstitute many antiquities have been unearthed. While the leading archeoldgists ofthe world have been busy chatting informally about Egyptology, Assyriology,and the geographical-genetic relationship ofthe Eve Coptic dialects, the question ofwhence came the Blackfriars and why haspersistently thrust itself to the fore.So the editor — dat ole debbil Carl Beck— has commissioned the writer to dig deepinto the archives of the University andanswer that question of great moment.And the funny part of it is that Carl knowsjust as well as I do, as he played the partof Captain Rouski Kopovich, of the St.Petersburg police in the first Blackfriarsshow on May 27 and 28, 1904. Sometimes editors don't retain.So here goes for the harrowing details:It was a dark and stormy night in November, 1903. Walter Eckersall's firstfootball season had ended. The Chicagoteam had beaten Monmouth by the score of108 to o, but Michigan had beaten us onThanksgiving Day by 28 to o — so an atmosphere of gloom still hung over the campus.Yes, my children, we took football seriouslyin those days.On this same dark and stormy night thirteen conspirators had gathered. Man andboy, they were resolved to lift the pall ofgloom which had settled over the campusbecause the football team had lost a gameor two.The idea of calling this group togetherhad generated in the fertile brain of FrankR. Adams. Frank had thought of a joke.He knew that a joke properly groomed andinvested should yield a musical comedy.Why not organize a musical comedy society ?One joke and thirteen incorrigible optimists— what better combination could a collegecomic opera organization desire?These optimists were: Abbot, Frank R.Adams; Prior, Halbert Blakey; Scribe, Walter T. Gregory; Hospitaler, OvidSellers; Friars, Melvin Coleman, RayDevers, Howard Stone, Huntington Henry,Melbourne Clements, Victor Rice; StrongVincent Norton, Harry W. Ford, andFrank B. Hutchinson, Jr. Dean GeorgeEdgar Vincent was admitted as a lay-brother in order to add dignity and respectability.Thus was a great organization founded.Then the next question was building theshow around the joke. And a musicalcomedy requires a book, some lyrics, and afew bars of music.By a secret process of elimination, it wasdecided that the book and lyrics should bewritten by Walter Gregory and FrankHutchinson, and the music by Hal Blakey.Frank Adams, Riley Adams, and SammySamelow contributed some stray lyrics.Allen Benedict, Melbourne Clements, andOvid Sellers slipped in a few extra bars ofmusic. It wasn't hard to slip in a bar inthose good old days.The plot was lost early in the rehearsals,but a title really was necessary. Otherwisethe show couldn't be talked about. So theshow was called "The Passing of PahliKhan." It was called a lot of other namesby the faculty and students before it wasover, but that was the official title. PahliKhan stood for "pol econ" — short for"political economy."All right, eager readers, if you insist, wewill quote from the program: "It is alwaysa good thing to know what is going tohappen — it saves thinking and allowsmental freedom, which is the sina (sic) quanon for the enjoyment of comic opera.Hence the following synopsis:"Dean Grinder, of the University ofChicago, has been sent to Russia to arrangefor the affiliation of the University of St.Petersburg. The existence of that University is in a precarious state as the Nihilists —without whom no Russian drama would becomplete — are plotting to destroy it. Inorder to carry out that plot the Nihilists258WHENCE CAME THESE BLACKFRIARS 259Gregory, Blakey and Hutchinson,Co-Conspirators and Co-Authorsarrange to kidnap the dean from Chicagoand to substitute one of their own agentsin his place. This plot is discovered by thepolice who arrange to arrest the bogus deanon his first appearance. There is a hitch inthe Nihilist plot and the real dean arrives.He is immediately arrested by the police asa Nihilist."The dean escapes from prison andblunders into a meeting of the Nihilists.The Nihilists think he has betrayed theircause and are about to take vengeance onhim when the police again arrive and capture the entire aggregation. The difficultyis set right by the examination of the dean'spapers which prove that he is the realemissary of the University of Chicago. Heis received with open arms by the presidentof the University of St. Petersburg, and thework of affiliation goes merrily on."Such, in skeleton, is the plot. Side byside with this main plot run the stories ofKatheryn Fluter, the president's daughter,who loves Lieutenant Alexieff against herfather's wishes; of Professor Afull Moon,of the University of Chicago AnthropologyDepartment, who is walking back acrossRussia after a trip to Ainos in Japan, whereall his travelling funds were expended ; andof Beatrice Beeswax, the enterprising bookagent and authority on matters of the heart, who woos (sic) and finally wins the deanfor her very own. If following the plotworries you — don't do it."There's merit to that plot. Many timesin recent years, you have paid as high as$5.50 and $6.60 to sit through musicalcomedies which weren't even as good as thefirst efforts of the Blackfriars.Chester Laing, '32, the present abbot,tells me that this year's show is a peach.It is called "Whoa, Henry" and it will begiven in Mandel on May 6-7, I3-I4-When pressed for an interview, AbbotLaing said : "You can assure the readers ofThe University of Chicago Magazinethat this year's Blackfriars' show will be amighty good one. The book is well written,the lyrics are bright and snappy, and themusic sparkles with merry tunes. We areall mighty proud of 'Whoa, Henry.' Weneed the support of every alumnus who livesin or near Chicago. Buying tickets to aBlackfriar show is always a good investment — and this year it is better than ever."And my son, Frank B. Hutchinson, III,'34, box office manager, tells me that, inkeeping with the times, the ticket priceshave been reduced.Let's all go. Make your reservationsearly. Up with the curtain, boys !More power to the Blackfriars of 1932!The Kaiser's Kitchens and Some RemarksAbout German FraternitiesJohn B. Holt '31THE ovens and the great rectangular ranges in the middle of the kitchens have been turned into tables. Thetable edge does not protrude far enoughout over my knees, and in an effort to getcloser, I bang myself against the littleporcelain doors through which the Kaiser'sroast chicken, his bread, or his biscuits oncecame steaming out.Eating my ten cent meal with its two bighelpings of vegetables in the tiled andvaulted kitchens of the old imperial palaceis not like eating with the "boys" at thefraternity house back on the campus. I eathere for the same reason {ivt hundred otherstudents from the University eat here, because the meal costs ten cents and this isthe only public meal service I have yet discovered where one may have two helpings.Perhaps I get a "kick," too, out of passingunder the great dome over the main palacegate, through three cobblestone courts, tothe once imperial kitchens, where I sit andthink of the "Norwegian ship" desk upstairs on which the Kaiser signed the declaration of war in 19 14 or of the librarywith the Kaiser's collection of English authors and the great table of Californiaredwood. I must get about two centsworth of satisfaction out of this every day,so my meal could be said to cost only eightcents.You see, I am a student, and althoughI am an American student (all Americanstudents are supposed to have plenty ofmoney), I have contracted the German andespecially the German student love of economy. With most Germans it is a necessity,and what the majority does becomes thestyle. This accounts for "Dutch" dates,the style even for American students whogo to the opera, to the concert, or who goon country excursions together. A youngAmerican lady of my acquaintance insistsshe will pay me for her share in a party we all went on together a short while ago.Otherwise, she says, she would not feel as ifshe were in Germany.The students have all the advantages intheir effort to maintain the economy style.A student's card will obtain for him a fiftyper cent reduction on the city electric railway, which means that I may ride as manytimes as I wish in a month for a dollar.A student's card will obtain two and a halfdollar seats at the opera for seventy-fivecents now and then, providing the househas not been sold out before the second bell.The University has its own bookbinding,doctor's thesis printer, and shoe repairservices. In fact the only academic requirement I have not found catered to is hair-cutting, which happens to be the only re-duced-fare-for-students service back on myown home campus. I am quite satisfied,however, with the haircut I get around thecorner from Unter den Linden for thirteencents. I would not bother to sign a petition for a University barber shop.There are those, of course, who can afford to buck the economy style, but mostof these students do not come to the University of Berlin. The men join the traditional fraternities in Bonn, on the Rhine,or in Jena, or at Freiburg, on the edge ofthe Black Forest. And these are the leastdemocratic in consequence. "Snootiestbunch of snobs I ever met . . ." says a postcard on my desk written by a friend at theinstitution on the Rhine. So, by describingBerlin academic styles, I am not necessarilyquoting rates all over Germany. Yet itis safe to say that fraternal beer bouts arefar less frequent and that milk has superceded many a beer because economy nowdictates that food and drink should be combined as far as possible. There are morefathers now who spend their evenings athome, and in Berlin this implies the fathersof "good families" who formerly sat with260THE KAISER'S KITCHENS 261their neighborhood cronies over their glassesof beer. Economy reigns among all classes,even to some extent at Bonn and Freiburg.* * *Speaking about German fraternities, andaside from the cheek slicing that goes onto an extent I had never been willing tobelieve, there is scarcely a university riotin which they do not have the leading role.German fraternity boys are no worse andno better than any other boys. It so happens that such tradition bound groups lendthemselves well to the cherishing of nationalpride and glory.So far, I have not had the' luck to bein on a riot, having appeared ten minutestoo late, or having read in the newspaperto my surprise the next day that the University was closed for three days becauseof a student riot the preceding afternoon.I have not seen a riot, but the procedureis generally the same, with minor variations.It is the custom for the fraternities tomeet at ten and eleven o'clock betweenlectures in their traditional corners of thebig foyer, by a pillar or in a window recess,or by their wooden shields which hangacross one wall. The various groups congregate in political regions. The nationalists settle in the east half of the hall, thedemocrats more in the center, and theJewish, socialist, and communist groupsrange over the west section.Technique in starting the riots variesslightly from time to time. One day theNazis will lure an unsuspecting Jew intoa "blind alley" from which he will beroughly tossed out through a "hot oven."Jews and communists do not stand for that,and the riot is on. Or the socialist studentswho happen to be standing nearest thenationalists make sour faces at them, whereupon a nationalists tells a socialist he doesnot like his face, and the riot is on. Acommunist may be distributing electionliterature a Nazi does not like, or a Nazimay have draped a Nazi flag from the balcony and turned it into a rostrum. It allmeans the same thing. One has only tosee a thousand or two students assembledin the hall or to hear a Nazi or nationalist hymn being chanted to know that a riot willfollow shortly.The end so far has always been the same.In romp the "schupos," the policemen, withtheir rubber clubs, lay lustily to the rightand left with no partiality, carry the affrayup the staircases to the second floor if necessary, but eventually clear the building.Damages have been limited to a few brokenwindow panes, to smashed fraternity shields,and bruised heads.A brief survey of the situation has ledme to the conclusion that the best riot insurance the University could possibly putthrough would be an unemployment insurance for unoccupied students, not a cashsubsidy but a subsidy in the form of work.In the heads of all German studentshovers the depressing thought that whenthey get out of school the chances are frightfully slim that they will get jobs. Thisthey relate not to the world depression ingeneral as we do at home, but to Germany'simpotence at the hands of the Allies eversince the War. They relate it to everythingnew since the War. The Nazis relate it tothe democracy, to the Marxists socialists, tothe Jews. The socialists relate it to corruption in capitalistic politics. The communistsrelate it to nationalism. And when the various groups are huddled near each other withnothing to do for fifteen or twenty minutesevery day but to stand and talk of Germany's plight, and when they have rightbehind them flesh and blood incarnations ofthe very devils to whom they ascribe Germany's unhappy circumstances, it is awonder no more heads are broken.The day following the last riot, I satdown at eleven in one of the window seats.As the lectures broke up and the studentspoured out into the main lobby, a smallgroup assembled near me to which I did notpay much attention. Suddenly, however, 1realized I was the object of curious scrutiny.Convinced it was not my tie or suspendersI had forgot to put over my sholders theywere gazing at, I felt uncomfortable andgot ready for a mass attack. But they consulted about the matter and decided to sendover a representative."Excuse me, Kommilitone," he said, ad-262 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO xMAGAZINEdressing me as German students address one "We thought you were a member of an-another, "but what group do you belong to, other fraternity sent over to spy on us. Youif I may ask?" When I informed him I are sitting in the communist corner, youwas a foreigner he laughed and explained, know."The Orthogenic SchoolBy Jeannette M. BreedMOST Alumni will no doubt remember the Ryder Divinity House,located on the south side of theMidway at Dorchester Avenue, where Dr.and Mrs. Brigham graciously welcomedmany earnest and harrassed students, seeking the mental and spiritual repose offeredby these two in this charming old colonialresidence. Since November 1931 the building has served a different purpose but nonethe less worthy or spiritually profitable.About thirty boys and girls ranging in agefrom Rve to seventeen years, who, becauseof mental or physical handicaps, have beenunable to adjust themselves in normalhomes, now attend school and reside in thisbuilding. These pupils and their teachersand attendants constitute The OrthogenicSchool of Chicago.The organization is not new. It beganabout fifteen years ago as a day school onthe west side in connection with the Orthogenic Institute of Rush Medical Collegeand was directed by Dr. Thor Rothsteinand Dr. Josephine E. Young. In 1924 itwas moved to the south side and becamea boarding school with the support of several persons of wealth who desired for theirchildren the advantages of a full time program. During this time the success of theproject was largely due to the untiring interest and devotion of Dr. Young. Shegave much of her time, as well as materialgifts, to the development of the school, providing well trained teachers and nurses whowere fired with her enthusiasm for the intelligent and sympathetic treatment ofproblem children. As the school grew anda change of location became necessary, thedirectors were able to convince the Univer sity authorities of the value of acquiring a"ready made" laboratory for the study ofmental defectives. Accordingly, an affiliation was made which is of mutual benefit.With the future of the school assured bythis connection, Dr. Rothstein and Dr.Young resigned from active directorship infavor of Dr. Frank N. Freeman of theDepartment of Education.The new organization retains the sameboard of trustees, consisting of Mr. SamuelDauchy, President, Mr. E. B. Hall, Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. Rothstein, Dr. Young,Mr. W. H. Mitchell and Mrs. SamuelDauchy, each of whom has generously contributed at various times to the generalmaintenance of the school. The University's contribution is in the services of Dr.Freeman as Director and Dr. Mandel Sherman, recently of the Children's Bureau atWashington, as Psychiatrist. They haveappointed Miss Helen L. Mansfield, formerly Director of Special Education atMiami University, as resident Superintendent and two other full time teachers. TheMedical Schools cooperate in sending aneurologist for an initial examination anda pediatrician for regular examinations andmedical advice at frequent intervals.Boys and girls up to the age of sixteenyears who have mental or behavior difficulties are accepted, if, upon examination, it isthought that they are educable or capable ofresponding to training for social adjustment.These pupils are divided into three groups,the personnel of which is determined by theabilities of each member. Each is directedby a highly trained, experienced teacher.Much individual instruction as well asgroup work is carried on. There are specialTHE ORTHOGENIC SCHOOL 263teachers for speech and occupationaltherapy.The first aim of the school is to diagnosethe child's physical abnormalities or diseasesand to make an effort to supply training ormedical treatment for their correction.Second, it is the aim to appraise the child'smental abilities and disabilities in order thathis education may be suited to his specialneeds. Furthermore, the school endeavorsto develop self-reliant, self-controlledand well balanced boys and girls whomay become responsible members ofsociety.As a laboratory for the serious student ofEducation, the school is invaluable. It hasbeen said that the study of the feeble-mindedhas contributed much to the psychology ofthe normal child. Certain processes ofgrowth and learning which are difficult toanalyse in the normal child are more easilyobserved in the slowly developing subnormal. But the so-called subnormal issometimes found to, be suffering from somephysical or emotional irregularity whichproduces only temporary retardation. Whenthis is the case he may, with proper understanding and intelligent remedial treatment, be restored to a normal conditionand returned to ordinary surroundings. Aparticularly interesting case on which thestaff is working at present is that of a boysuffering from alexia. As a result of aserious motor accident a normal boy of sixteen has been robbed of his ability to read.He is still normal in practically every otherrespect, except for the disturbing emotionaleffect of this experience. Dr. William S.Gray is directing the work of his reeducation in reading. Such cases are rareand afford such an opportunity for studyas seldom comes to an institution. Nordoes the victim of such a misfortune oftenfind himself surrounded by such an array ofprofessional advisers whose sole interest is inservice and rehabilitation of the individualrather than in personal advantage. Thesciences of education, psychology, neurologyand medicines are all at hand and working together for the complete development ofthe individual. Thus the school serves notonly as a laboratory for the scientist butalso as a well organized and ably directedhome for the educational, physical and socialdevelopment of problem children.The school offers facilities which canscarcely be obtained elsewhere in the city.A few of the public schools maintain specialrooms, but the classes are so large that individual instruction is practically impossibleand only a few of the teachers of theserooms are specially trained for the work.Then there still remains the problem of theproper disposition of those out-of-schoolhours when the child suffers at the handsof his playmates who regard him (withbrutal frankness) as "queer," "goofy," "adumb-bell." He withdraws to himself andbecomes still more queer. In the home withnormal children, odious contrasts are constantly being made or else the opposite istrue and he is given special favor, is pampered and spoiled and becomes the tyrant.In either case he is a social misfit and knowsit, and few parents can handle such a situation objectively.But in the effort the school is making toserve the community only the surface hasbeen scratched. Under the present arrangement the selection of pupils has been partially based, unfortunately, upon the abilityof the parents to pay the fee, which is setto cover actual maintenance costs. In agreat city such as this there are many peoplewho need and long for the services for theirchildren which such a school affords, butfind it financially out of their reach. Afew charitable organizations provide alimited number of scholarships, but thegreat middle class is left with the problemof providing the unusual child with propereducational facilities without the means todo it, — people who do not ordinarily need orwant charity. It is hoped that the way maybe found to extend the services of the schoolto the large numbers of children who needthem but who are not now able to securethem.in my opinionBy Fred B. MillettAssistant Professor of EnglishTHE appearance of a masterpiece inthe theatre is an acid test for the professional "dramatic critic," for thecondition of his lot, the nightly contemplation of tawdriness, superficiality, andvulgarity, is perfectly calculated to blindhim to any qualities save these. It is nowonder then, that Chicago's newspapercritics, despite the endless opportunity to"get up" O'Neill's play in advance, showedup badly in their morning-after estimationsof Mourning Becomes Electra. Unfortunately for the play and for Chicago, its mostinfluential critic, Charles Collins, scoredlowest on this test. The historian ofAmerican drama will surely treasure thisgem of critical discrimination from Mr.Collins: "It stands in my view as asmothering, sickening deluge of morbidsexology, written by a gifted man of letterswhose genius leads him infallibly to themesof the most flagrant sensationalism." Wehave had nothing like this in "dramaticcriticism" since the early English press notices of Ibsen's Ghosts. C. J. Bulliet tookrefuge from the tragic significance of theplay in labored epigrams: "O'Neill has triedto weld Zola and Proust, but his acid isn'tstrong enough, or his furnace is under-heated. . . . The whole play is a highlyartificial view of Yankee life seen throughthe eyes of Euripides [sic] — akin toPicasso looking at Paris girl models throughthe eyes of a Congo sculptor." FritzBlocki was forced to fall back on the happyvaguenesses of "an inexorable climax bytragic fate" and "the conscious yet unobtrusive foreboding of the doom which soundsits knell at the conclusion" in order toavoid the task of intellectual and aestheticconfrontation of the actual play. AshtonStevens recognized it as "indubitably, thebiggest drama written by an American,"but was unable to suggest the reasons forthis judgment. Robert Andrews was movedby the performance to lyrical and apprecia tive but essentially uncritical utterance. Ofall the town's arbiters of taste, Gail Bordenscored highest. For the play stirred him towrite: "Rest assured that this O'Neillmasterpiece will weather the storms ofchange as its ancestors have because by itstappings at the hollowness and decay ofmortals, it achieves, without the charlatanryof sentimentality and pleasantness a properpurgation of emotions — in short, the goalof tragedy."I am not of course prepared to maintainthat O'Neill's trilogy is a flawless performance. Its "comic relief" is undoubtedlynot very comic, but it is certainly a relief.The bibulous gardener and the gossipy villagers bring the play, respectively, some ofthe patient wisdom and the fussy pettinessof the Greek choruses of which they are ingenious analogues. The characters are notso much characters as personified Freudianmechanisms. There is a prolific mortalityand a violence of action distinctly reminiscent of classical drama, Renaissance tragedy,and contemporary Chicago. There is aniteration of themes and phrases and attitudesthat becomes a weariness to the fastidiousfor whom nothing in art must be obviousand every meaning must be unattainable orat least debatable.But I do insist that in attempting to arrive at a critical estimate of O'Neill's performance one has to turn for comparisonto Shakspere and iEschylus, to Racineand Ibsen, for in the modern theatre there isnothing comparable to it in intellectualmagnitude, emotional penetration, architectural grandeur. In the light of it, the bestof Shaw, the best of Galsworthy becomestrivial and transitory, petty and peevish.And if one turns to one's experience inthe continental drama, to the meticulousnaturalism, the social surges of Haupt-mann's The Weavers, the poetic elevationand intellectual confusion of his SunkenBell, the unearthly loveliness of Maeter-264IN MY OPINION 265linck's Pelleas and Melisande, the turbidsqualor and hopelessness of Gorki's LowerDepths, the neurasthenic poignance andnerveless sentiment of Tchekoff's CherryOrchard and Uncle Fanya, he will hardlyfind an experience as intellectually andemotionally stirring, as aesthetically tremendous as Mourning Becomes Electra.O'Neill's play forces a comparison withthe greatest of tragedies. O'Neill's playinsists on being brought to the tests of themost discriminating and profound of commentators on tragedy, Aristotle. Tragedyis catastrophe motivated and illuminated.Tragedy is, and always has been, an interpretation of life in terms of the deepestthought and insight of its time, and it is aspreposterous to object that O'Neill's conception of the causes of tragedy is not ^Eschy-lian or Shakesperean as it is to object toO'Neill's use, with certain inevitablemodifications, of an ancient story. Thestory of the Mannons is at once as ancientand as contemporary as the story of Hamletwas to the Elizabethans or the story ofPhaedra was to the court of Louis XIV.The basic greatness of O'Neill's play isthe fact that it is a compelling interpretationof tragedy in essentially contemporaryterms. Mourning Becomes Electra is atragedy of scientific determinism and, withthe exception of Hardy's Dynasts, probablythe first great exemplar of its kind. Here isno catastrophe precipitated, as with theGreeks, by collaboration between the weaknesses of mortal princes and the envious andjealous gods. Here is no catastrophe precipitated, as with the Elizabethans, by rebellious or erring mortals in conflict with auniversal moral law, or, as in the socializedtragedy of Corneille, by conflicting dutiesto the individual, the family, and the state.Here life itself is at once subject and causeof tragedy. For existence itself is an evil,and the continuation of existence can be nomore than a multiplication of evils. In thisfettered but eminently lawful world (forthe law is the law of inexorable scientificdeterminism), there is no loophole of escape, no intervening and assuaging deity, no"reconcilation" with a moral law. Herethere is no freedom of choice for either good or ill, and what seems to be character is butthe byplay of psychological mechanismsover which the innocent victim has no control and of the origins of which he is unaware.And if pity is too trivial a word to suggest the boundless compassion which thespectacle of such a universe induces inO'Neill or the sympathetic spectator, therecan be no question that terror, in a notquite Aristotelian sense, is thoroughlyaroused. There is no mere implication thatthe incautious or impious man may be caughtin a similar dilemma. Instead, he has notthe faintest possibility of escape. All alikeare slaves to the treadmill of causality. Thesupreme terror that the play induces, aterror from which the sentimental, thesuperstitious, and the tender-minded weaklyturn away, is aroused by the repeated demonstration, in character after character,in generation after generation, of the operation of this inexorable law, the law, not ofmorality but of psychological determinism.But terror is only the immediate and irrational reaction to such a spectacle.Tragedy must also purge, although the process of catharsis alters from age to age. AsBertrand Russell suggests in the superbperoration of A Free Mans Worship, theacceptance of the fact of the essential andinevitable tragedy of existence is the firstact in the direction of freedom. The problem is solved, and one's mind and emotionsare no longer at the mercy and service ofthe problematical and questionable. Energyand vitality are released, and one's spiritsoars out of its bonds to intellectual freedom. So, Lavinia in shutting the doors ofthe Mannon house against the world is notshutting the doors upon life. To her, lovewould be a subterfuge, an impossible compromise. In facing the fact of herself, herheritage, and her future, she rises to acourage no other action could have shown.And, if there is any "lesson" to be learnedfrom this superb dramatic experience, it isthat knowledge, self-knowledge, knowledgeof the law of life, means at once the losingof life and, intellectually and spiritually,the finding of it, abundant though enslaved,tragic and free.NEWS OF THEQUADRANGLESBy John P. Howe '27Ww » 1'E HAD twenty years to thinkabout it," Dean Judd replies, smiling, when you comment on the admirable planning of his new GraduateEducation building.There is a new Graduate Educationbuilding on the University campus — for thebenefit of those alumni who still may thinkKimbark Avenue is the eastern boundary ofthe campus — and it is one of the better structures of our good array of masonry. It wasformally opened during a two-day gathering of educators on the Midway March14th and 15th.Rising between the elementary school andthe high school — its twin laboratories — thenew structure completes the third side ofthe Education quadrangle. Just as the newOriental Institute is a tribute to the originaland pioneering scholarship' of Dr. Breasted,so is this new building for Education atribute to Dr. Judd. It is unique in theworld, in that its purpose is to make education a science as well as an art. Andthat approach to education is — or was —unique with the University of Chicago.Perhaps one room in the building willserve to illustrate its reason for existence.It is a laboratory with a single shining instrument in it. The purpose of the instrument is to measure the movements of theeyes during reading. The subject used inexperimentation, usually a child who hashad difficulty in learning to read, sits at oneend and reads from a carefully worded document before him. A motion picture cameramakes a permanent record of every movement of his eyes as they move from wordto word or from phrase to phrase, and fromline to line. In a very real sense, thecamera records what is going on in hishead, as he attempts to follow the meaningof the printed document.Reading is a tremendously important part of school work — and of all modernlife, of course. A student who fails in history, for example, or a person who fails inmany another kind of enterprise, may actually be failing primarily in reading. Thisinstrument, typical of the realistic approachto education which characterizes the newUniversity building, is used to determinewhy people fail to read easily and profitably.Good readers take in whole phrases at aglance. Their eyes move only four or fivetimes to each line in a book, for example.They catch the significant phrases as aunit. Poor readers, awkward readers, fixthe eyes laboriously on almost every word,and they are slowed up and confused. Theinstrument catches all these efforts, recordshow often the reader had to look twice orthree times at a phrase, how many insignificant prepositions and articles and adjectiveshe lingered over. Then the experts candetect what is wrong in each individual case,can recommend methods for correcting thedeficiency, and can work out fundamentalgeneralizations about the whole readingprocess, and improve teaching methodsthroughout the country.As a matter of fact, that is exactly whathas happened in the case of this particularbit of experimentation. The device wasdeveloped at the University of Chicago tenyears ago, and the results which have beenachieved through its use have modified theteaching of reading throughout the entireUnited States. It was discovered early, forexample, that children reading to themselves, silently, learn to read much morerapidly and understandingly than those whobegin by reading aloud. Those who readaloud have a persistent tendency to speakthe words silently to themselves, a tendencywhich is hard to overcome in later years.So the modern practice in elementary schoolhas been to start 1st grade children at silent266NEWS OF THE QUADRANGLES 267reading. Many of them become amazinglyproficient before they reach the fourthgrade, despite the fact that they are nottaught the ABC's until they reach the thirdgrade.The eye-movement machine is just oneexample of the University's attempt to makeeducation scientific. And it has other uses.It is valuable, for example, in determiningwhy advanced students have difficulty inacquiring foreign languages. It can beused to study how students learn to addand subtract. There are other instrumentsin the building which might be mentioned.One of them is a device for measuring emotions in physical terms. Just how much dostudents dread examinations, for example,and what effect does this fear have on theirability to pass the examinations ? Just whatis the emotional effect of music, for example? The use of this device is one wayof finding out. Still another instrument iscalled the tonoscope. Some children — andeven adults — have difficulty in learning todifferentiate between pitches in speakingand singing. They do not use inflectionsproperly. The tonoscope records and visualizes before their eyes the exact pitch theyare striking when they speak or sing intothe instrument — and it also shows themgraphically just what pitch they should bestriking.* * * *The training of teachers for elementaryschools is now done largely in normal colleges. The training of high school teachersis done largely in the state universities.The University of Chicago has trained literally thousands of teachers in the scientificattitude. But Dean Judd does not conceiveof the special function of his department asbeing the training of teachers. He is moreparticularly proud of the fourscore menand women who have attained the degreeof Doctor of Philosophy in his departmentduring the past twenty years. Five of thatgroup are now college presidents. Severaldozen of them are University Professorsor Deans of Education, that is, teachers ofthe teaching of teaching. Still more areengaged as experts conducting school surveys for various states and cities. I have mentioned the psychological laboratories in connection with the building.There are many more phases of the work.One, for example, is the child developmentstudy. The University maintains its twolaboratory schools in conjunction with theDepartment of Education — an elementaryschool and a high school — each with an enrollment of about 500. They serve as theproving ground for new ideas in education.They provide Dean Judd's staff and students with the materials of study. Andwhen a teacher in either of the schools isfaced with a particularly tough problem hebrings it to the attention of the Department of Education for study and research.The child development division of thenew building keeps elaborate and exhaustive records of the entire educational andphysical history of all the students in boththe elementary and the high school. Hereare materials from which graduate studentsmay compile their statistical studies. Astudy, for example, of the frequency andcauses of absence from school.Another division of the work is thespecial methods department, in which research goes on in particular fields of teaching — how best to teach mathematics, orFrench, for example. Another division isdevoted to the analysis of collegiate organization and teaching. Still another to schoolsurveys. Studies, for example, of the comparative costs of operating school systems— why, for example, the city of Chicago isspending a greater percentage of its schoolmoney for buildings and less for instructionthan do most other cities.Behind all these projects is the splendidnew departmental library, with book spacefor 100,000 volumes on educational topics,with study space for 200 students, withspecial quarters for collections of documentsand reports from school systems all over thecountry, and for the analysis of textbooks.Funds for the erection of the buildingand for the maintenance of part of its program were provided by the General Education Board of New York, first becausethe Middle West has in recent years beenmore vigorous in educational experimentation, in the enrichment of school curriculum268 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEand in the reform of methods of teachingand of school administration than any othersection of the United States or any otherpart of the civilized world. Second, becausethe contributions of the Department of Education of the University of Chicago to thescience of education have been so conspicuous as to justify fully the expectation thatincreased contributions to this science wouldbe insured by added equipment.* * * &"Men in this age see the world of thingsdown a long vista of machines," DeanJudd says. "They are absorbed in the kindof thinking which is concerned with socialinstitutions — with devices of communication, with wages, with credit, with government, and with international relations."The necessity for an elaborate systemof education arises directly from the factthat man has devised a complex system ofinstruments to aid him in mastering theworld. It requires very little education tobarter. It requires no extended curriculumto learn how to wield a club. The necessity of an education arises from the invention of double-entry bookkeeping and fromthe construction of the machine gun."As education becomes more complex,teaching becomes increasingly technical incharacter. Teaching in a highly evolvededucational system cannot be directed byamateurs and casual experimenters. It mustseek its guiding principles through systematic scientific studies."Mentioning the eye-movement machineDean Judd went on to say, "There are agreat many different kinds of reading, and,unless a student is trained for the masteryof some of the higher levels of reading, hewill find it difficult to adjust himself tothe demands made upon him during hiscollege career. If there is one conclusionthat can be drawn from the scientific studyof the reading methods employed bystudents it is that instruction in readingmust not stop with the completion of elementary education."Deficiency in reading is not the onlyobscure cause of failure in college. Scientific studies have revealed that there aremany wrong methods of attacking intellec tual problems. Good teaching calls forpenetrating knowledge of human naturequite as much as for adequate knowledgeof the subjects taught."Impressive indications are appearing onevery hand of restlessness and uncertaintywith regard to the nature and organizationof education. If one studies the older civilizations, one finds that the educational practices are undergoing rapid and radicalchanges."Nor does one have to go abroad forevidences of stirring in the field of education. There never were in the United Statesso many educational doctrines advocated byenthusiastic supporters and denounced byhostile enemies as there are to-day."The science of education, like everyother science, is a systematic formulation ofthe best knowledge that we possess aboutthe conditions which surround human life.If we ask children to master the alphabetand the Arabic number system, is it notdesirable that we find out by systematicstudies all we can about what goes on in theindividual's mind when he attempts to usethem as instruments?"If elaborate experiments are required todetermine that some people see straw colorwhen most of us see reds and greens, is itnot the part of wisdom to set up somewherea laboratory for the discovery of the reasonswhy some students succeed and other fail?"Does it not seem reasonable that an institution like our own, which cultivates anddisseminates the most highly maturedknowledge on every subject about whichmen can think, should turn some part of itsenergies to an examination of its own operations for the purpose of developing a bodyof scientific principles which will guideteaching?"The answer to Dean Judd's questions isembodied in the new building.% * * *Of all the scholarly disciplines two of themost remote from everyday affairs, astronomy and archaeology, seem to have the greatest appeal to laymen ; at least they commandunusual space in the newspapers. And ofthese two, at least until Dr. Frost stagesNEWS OF THE QUADRANGLES 269his eclipse of the sun this summer, archaeology leads.Professor Breasted and his Oriental Institute colleagues have done a splendid jobof dramatizing archaeology in the new Institute museum, telling in pointed, dignifiedfashion that good story about how smartthe ancients were. Inspecting the Institutehas become a thing to do, and in the threemonths following the formal opening December 5th, 23,060 visitors did it.Three days in March the Institute wasthe scene of the annual congress of theAmerican Oriental Society. Some sort ofrecord for the number of papers presentedbefore a learned society must have beenbroken — there were eighty-seven (23 byUniversity of Chicago scholars.) Subjectsranged from that good old controversy aboutthe cradle place of physical man to thereasons for the strange rise in the price of abushel of barley from a quarter to a halfshekel in Assyro-Babylonia, 450 B.C.; andto the rite of brushing the teeth in India,1700 B.C.; the blunders of the editors who"read copy" on the Egyptian temple inscriptions, 20th dynasty; the debunking ofHerod, king of Judea at Christ's birth ; andthe purchase of wives on the installmentplan, Nuzi, 700 B.C. Most colorful of thecolorful crew of explorers there assembledwere Dr. Baron Max von Oppenheim, whosank a large personal fortune into one significant dig in Asia Minor, and Sven Hedin,Swedish archaeologist and foremost investigator of Central Asiatic facts and antifacts.Professor A. T. Olmstead of the University of Chicago was elected president of theSociety.Meanwhile, over the Near East, wherelegend has it that Solomon was transportedthrough the air by magic, a motion pictureexpedition of the Oriental Institute wasflying, in a tri-motored equivalent of Solomon's carpet. Charles Breasted, son of thedirector and himself executive secretary of the Institute, Prentice Duell, leader of theSakkara expedition, and Reed Haythorne,cameraman, who helped film "Life on theQuadrangles," planned to cover 3,000 milesby plane and shoot 30,000 feet of film depicting the work of the University's twelvefield expeditions.Six reels of sound film in which Director Breasted explains the significance ofthe Institute's work have already been completed. This, together with the field movies(on which explanatory remarks will bedubbed in sound by Dr. Breasted), constitutes the most ambitious educational pictureever undertaken.* * * *Replacing the structure which collapsedof old age 18 months ago, the new gymnasium for boys at the University of Chicago Settlement was dedicated March 3rd.The community "back of the Yards" joinedwith representatives of the University incelebrating the opening of the $40,000 structure, at 46th St. and Gross Av. . . . FreddyStarr visited the quadrangles in March,strongly defending Japan's action in Manchuria. . . . The University SymphonyOrchestra offered its second concert March4th, a difficult program well handled, as abenefit for the Settlement. . . . Degreesand certificates were conferred on 275 candidates at the 167th Convocation, March15th, the honorary LL.D. going to Dr.Samuel Capen, Chancellor of the Universityof Buffalo and the honorary Sc.D. to Edward Thorndike, distinguished educationalpsychologist of Columbia University The one hundredth anniversary of thedeath of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,probably the greatest personality of moderntimes, was fittingly observed at the University March 8th and 9th with a two dayprogram of exercises. Eleven lectures bymidwestern scholars, given as part of theprogram, will be published as a memorialvolume.By William V. Morgenstern, '20; J.D., '22Scores of the MonthTrackConference championships :IndianaMichiganMinnesotaIllinoisWisconsinIowaOhioPurdueChicagoNorthwestern 27 5/61210 2/310743o 1/2 GymnasticsConference championships :Chicago, 58; 111. St. Normal, 46 Chicago 1133.00Illinois 1124.70Minnesota 1126.30Michigan 884.60Ohio 796.70Iowa 540.10Fencin LgConference ChampionshipsIllinois 15Chicago 6Ohio 4-5Purdue 4Northwestern 2Michigan 1.5\ ^THE last lap of the sports schedulewill be under way shortly, but atthe present time the Chicago teamsare merely in the stage of preparation forthe outdoor season. With a good baseballteam as the standard bearer, the prospectsfor the spring competition are respectable,and a somewhat improved track squad anda competent tennis team will contribute toa satisfactory record. During the next sixweeks, also, Director Stagg will be developing players in spring practice for a reallypromising football team next autumn.Since last month's Magazine, the unfinished business of the indoor season hasbeen concluded. The gymnastic team roseto the occasion in the championship meet,to win the title from the stiffest competition it has met in years, and the fencers finishedsecond. The track team placed ninth inthe annual meet. Only a selected few ofthe swimmers and wrestlers competed inthe conference meets, and none of them wonplaces.Capt. Everett Olson of the gymnastswon the all-around title again this year inleading the team to its eleventh victory inthe last fourteen seasons. Olson won theparallel bars, and the rings, and was secondin the horizontal bar event. GeorgeWrighte, the sophomore, who has beenhandicapped by a bad knee all year, tooksecond on the rings and fourth on the sidehorse, and finished third in the all-aroundcompetition. In fencing, Capt. GeorgeVander Hoef was second in the sabre;270ATHLETICS 271 JOHN HANCOCK SERIES Who ever heard of an Alumnuswho did not expect to send his son through college?INSURE IT and SECURE IT, even if you are not hereto see the program throughC^^LiFE Insurance Company^--^of Boston. 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For informationtelephone your John Hancock agent, or write the John Hancock InquiryBureau, 197 Clarendon Street, for copy of pamphlet on "My FinancialProblems.'*John Hancock Inquiry Bureau, 197 Clarendon Street, Boston, MassachusettsPlease send me a copy of "My Financial Problems."Name Address ~ City State — OVER SIXTY-NINE YEARS IN BUSINESS 27^ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEOrmand Julian was second in the foilcompetition, and Donald Gillies tied forfourth in the epee. Chicago's points in thetrack meet were won by Capt. Roy Black,who was third in the high hurdles, and therelay team, which was fourth, largely, itmust be admitted because the group ofteams competing in the second sectionof the race spilled and lost vital seconds oftime. The meet demonstrated that the newfield house has one of the fastest tracks inthe country for all events but the 440, thecurves being slightly too sharp to permitthe best performance in that event. Thesensational work of the meet was contributed by Henry Brocksmith of Indiana,who shattered Dale Letts' mile record of4:21 6/10 by nine and one-tenth seconds,with a 4:12.5 race that was the sixthfastest mile ever run in this country. Brock-smith also trimmed the two-mile recorddown to 9:18 4/10.The few outstanding men on the teamalso made a good record in the ArmourRelays, which brought nearly thirty collegeand university teams to the field house onApril 2. John Brooks won the 70-yardlow hurdles, a somewhat unusual distance,in the remarkably fast time of 0:07 6/10;took the broad jump with 23 feet, 10 3/4inches, and finished third in the 70-yarddash. Capt. Roy Black won the highhurdles, with Ted Haydon second; themile relay team, strengthened by Sam Perlis,who had just become eligible, was third, andJohn Roberts won fourth in the pole vault.Brooks probably will go better in the 100yard dash outdoors than he does in theshorter distances, and it is likely that hewill be a strong 220 low hurdler. Heshould also be able to win the broad jump.Wallace likes the 220 better than the shortdashes, and Tom Goodrich and Ted Haydon are still improving in the hammer andthe discus.Keith Parsons, center, and Jim Porter,guard, the only juniors on the basketballsquad, will be co-captains of the 1933 team.Nine members of the squad were awardedletters : Capt. Harry Ashley, Paul Stephenson, Kenneth Fraider, Scott Rexinger, andParsons, who previously had won basket ball emblems, and Bernard Wien, Porter,Louis Schlifke, and Byron Evans. HaroldWegner received the "Old English" letter.The tennis team, as a result of continuouswork in the field house all winter underCoach A. A. Stagg, Jr., has developed remarkably, and despite the keen competitionit will face, promises to be a fine dual meetsquad. Capt. Paul Stagg is playing No. 1 ;Max Davidson, a former Harrison highschool player, and Herman Ries, sixth manlast season, are debating the No. 2 ranking,while Lawrence Schmidt, another varsityman of last year, is holding No. 4.Capt. Bill Olson, first baseman, did notreturn to the university when the springquarter opened, and the Chicago infield thisseason will have but one veteran, ClarenceJohnson, at shortstop. Coach Page is experimenting with several men at both firstand third, having determined that GeorgeMahoney, an outfielder in 1931, is able tohandle second base. Frank Howard seemsto be satisfactory as the first string catcherand H. O. Page, Jr., who became eligibleat the start of the quarter, is a useful addition to the pitching staff. The ability ofthe team to hit is worrying Page, for thereare at present only two hitters of provenability, John Lynch and Mahoney. Thejunior Page may also add some offensivepunch, working as an outfielder when he isnot pitching. The depression has led tocurtailment of conference schedules, and thechampionship race has been cut from 12games to 10. Making the normal allowance for games that are rained out, it isapparent that the race will be a gamble,with a defeat or two being ruinous.Mr. Stagg was in a rather optimisticframe of mind when he started work withthe squad that next autumn will be hisforty-first Chicago football team. There are43 men registered for spring practice, mostof them being reserves and freshmen whoneed as much training as they can get. Fewof the freshmen who are expected to makeparticularly outstanding contributions wereout during the first week, but the squadlooks promising. The team should be muchbetter fortified with reserves than it waslast year, and Mr. Stagg may even knowATHLETICS 273PICTORIAL WALL MAP in colorOF THEUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO QUADRANGLESFUN Offered by the ALUMNAE CLUBfor its Scholarship Fund1893-1933ONE DOLLAR FACTYou will want one for the office — study — children's room— summer home — or for an hour of hilarious reminiscencesCut off coupon below — attach a dollar (plus exchange and 10c for mailing) — and send todayMiss Gladys FinnBox 66, Faculty Exchange, University of ChicagoPlease send me copies of the ALUMNAE CLUB MAP at $1 .00each. Enclosed find check ?, cash ?.NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE. V The Personality ofAmerica's FinestEngraving PlantISITORS notice it — clients remark about it — all of us herefeel it — a something/ a sortof a driving force that gets thework done and still keeps everybody happy. Something intangible, yet of worth to us andto those whom we serve.* This thing has gone far beyond ourdoors. It has attracted the finest artisans of the business — hasspread the fame of this shop from Oregon to Georgia. Kindof a mechanical "it," we like to think of it as The Personalityof America's Finest Engraving Plant.COLLINS & ALEXANDER, INC.65 E. South Water St. Phone Central 4090 Chicago ii274 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEthe prosperous state of having severalusable players for various of the positions.Everything depends on eligibility, and thepartial returns for the winter quarter areencouraging. There will be no final gradesfor the freshmen, of course, until they taketheir comprehensive examinations in June.The examinations of the autumn and winterquarters were not mandatory, nor do thegrades given on them have any bearing onthe status of the student. These tests are,as you know if you have followed the development of the new plan, a means of enabling student and instructor to measureprogress or lack of it. The grades of thosewho won numerals were appreciably moresatisfactory in the second quarter than theywere in the first and were indicative of theability of most of the men to meet the requirements when they finally face the com-prehensives. The upper classes, still underthe old plan, did well, and the number ofineligibles has been reduced.The standards of eligibility for intercollegiate competition under the new plan havenot yet been adopted, but there is no reasonto believe that they will not be eminentlyfair, both to the athletes and to the conference. A student who fails in one of hisexaminations in June will have another op-Mr. Henry D. Sulcer,Chairman, The Alumni Council:At your request, I am making a reportto you of the work on Vocational Guidanceduring the Winter Quarter just closed, bya committee of alumni appointed by youthree years ago.The original committee has dwindled tothe following members who have beenactively interested since the commencementof this work — Mrs. McDaniels, MissNorris, Messrs. Sherer, Schaeffer, Robinsonand Logan.Before beginning the work of this year, portunity in September, and once eligible, heundoubtedly will be regarded as scholastic-ally acceptable for the ensuing year. If Chicago is to have an athletic renaissance, nextautumn is the psychological time for it tostart while the reorganization is a matterof fresh interest. By most of the generalpublic, and by a lot of high school students,a winning football team would be regardedas conclusively demonstrating that the college reorganization is successful. Admitting that such an attitude is naive, therestill remains the fact that the belief wouldhave a stimulating influence on applicationsfor admission. Chicago's athletic downfallbegan eight years ago when it was widelynoised abroad that an athlete had no chanceon the Midway, and that the Universitywas doing all it could to eliminate intercollegiate competition because of an excessive concern for education. There wereindications then and since that this rumorwas assiduously disseminated, and not inthe spirit of good clean fun, either. Itwould be amusing, indeed, if the reorganization of the undergraduate college, conceived solely as a measure of educationalimprovement, had as a by-product therestoration of Chicago's athletic prestige.many meetings with Dean Spencer and Mr.Woellner were held, late last summer andduring the autumn, to discuss the problemsin connection with the continuation of thiswork. It was finally decided that the response to last year's efforts was such as towarrant our proceeding. Consequently, wedecided to invite the following speakers tocover the subjects assigned to them. Allaccepted the invitation. The speakers andsubjects were as follows —M. E. Sampsell, Public UtilitiesS. A. Rothermel, InsuranceJ. O. McKlNSEY, AccountingVocational Committee ReportsTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 275FFTONTINO SOUTf-fON JACK66h( PARK3«TM STREET AND THE LAKE^AtmosphereWhether you are seeking a distinguished place to live or planninga social function that requires a luxurious setting, you will searchno further once you have made an inspection of]jjbtels ||indermer e56th Street at The Lake WARD B. JAMES, ManagerFairfax 6000Mother's Day — May 8thFLOWERS— always freshPAUL BLOME & CO.1361 North Clark St. Arthur Blome, Pres.Phones: Superior 1401, 1402, 2760 Albert Teachers' Agency25 E. Jackson Blvd., Chicago535 Fifth Ave., New York415 Hyde Bldg., SpokaneA general Placement Bureau for men andwomen in all kinds of teaching positions.Large and alert College, and State Teachers' College departments for Doctors andMasters; Critics and Supervisors for Normals. Also many calls for Special teachersof Music, Art, Home Economics, BusinessAdministration, CorrespondenceTeaching.Fine opportunities in Secondary Schools.A host of best Suburban patrons for gradeand High School teachers. Read ourbooklet. Call.PaulH. Davis, '11Ralph W. Davis, '16 Herbert I. Markham, Ex. '06Walter M. Giblin, '23Paal RDavls &CkxMembersNEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGECHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE37 South LaSalle StreetTelephone Franklin 8622CHICAGO UNIVERSITYCOLLEGEThe downtown department of The University of Chicago, 18 S. Michigan Avenue,wishes the Alumni of the University andtheir friends to know that it offersEvening. Late Afternoon and Saturday ClassesTwo-Hour Sessions Once or Twice a WeekCourses Credited Toward University DegreesAutumn, Winter and Spring QuartersSummer Session, six weeks, from June 27 to Aug.25Registration Period, June 21 to 25For Information, AddressDean C. F. Huth, University College,University of Chicago, Chicago, 111.276 THE UNIVERSITY OFHays MacFarland, Advertising(Agency's standpoint)G. R. Schaeffer, AdvertisingPaul Hoffman, Sales Management(Adv. Mgr.'s standpoint)Miss Helen Norris, Personnel(Women)J. H. Greene, Personnel (Men)Dunlap Clark, Commercial BankingE. H. Powell, Chain StoresOne of the prominent alumni of the University was invited to serve, but being unable to fit his schedule to ours, volunteeredto serve on next season's program; so, wehave one speaker for 1933.Just before the beginning of the program,the speakers and the committee had aluncheon with President Hutchins — as isthe custom.At this meeting the President very definitely expressed his opinion that this workcould properly be taken over officially bythe University instead of being carried onas a voluntary activity by the alumni.The President suggested to Dean Spencerand Mr. Woellner that they consider thisphase of the question.The attendance at the lectures has beenall the way from forty to one hundred andtwenty students. The interest in thoselectures in the early part of the Quarterseemed to be greater than that later on in theprogram. Whether or not this is due to theposition in the schedule or the subject, wehave not yet been able to determine. However, it is the opinion of Dean Spencerand Mr. Woellner and the committee, thatthe attendance this year was better in number and the interest developed showed amarked improvement over that of the firstyear's effort in 1931.This year the lectures were held in theLecture Hall of the School of Commerceand Administration. The idea of holdingthem here was somewhat experimental asit was thought that possibly tying this worktoo closely to that of the School of Commerce and Administration, would cut out acertain amount of interest on the part ofstudents in the other departments at theUniversity. CHICAGO MAGAZINEIt is the feeling of your committee thatthis move was not in any way detrimental,but on the contrary contributed definitely tothe improved attitude of the studentstoward the work.As a result of the rather encouraging interest on the part of the students during thework of the Quarter — a Course, 202, Vocations in Business, has been placed in theSchool of Commerce and Administrationcurriculum for next year. Announcementsfor the sessions of 1932-33 carries the following description —"This course is designed to assist students in the selection of their place inbusiness by giving them an appreciation of (a) standards for evaluatingvocations, (b) methods of analyzingindividual abilities and interests, (c)methods of determining opportunitiesin representative businesses, (d) procedure in seeking employment, (e) theelements of success in business. Supplementing the course, a committee of thealumni will present a series of talkson opportunities in specific businesses.Open to all students of the University.Winter, Woellner."We are all of the opinion that there isstill a great deal to do in this kind of cooperative effort on the part of the alumni,the exact outcome of which is as yet difficultto forecast. However, we do feel thatprogress has been made and the step ofincorporating this into the curriculum isawaited by us with additional interest.There is no doubt of the great need ofthis kind of work, but how to do it both thatthe students may receive and the alumnimay give most beneficially, has been andstill is the question uppermost in the mindsof those who have given this problem agreat deal of thought.Respectfully submitted,Helen NorrisMarguerite Hewitt McDanielRenslow P. ShererG. R. SchaefferMilton Robinson, Jr.John A. LoganB. M. Pettit, ChairmanNEWS OF THE CLASSESAND ASSOCIATIONSNominations for the June Elections of the College AlumniAssociationPresident:WlLLOUGHBY G. WALLING, '99Walter Scott Kennedy, '00Second Vice-President:Carl D. Greenleaf, '99Louise Norton Swain, '09Members — Executive Committee:Alice Greenacre, '08Elmer W. Donahue, '21Annette M. Allen, '29Jeannette F. Searcy, '31Delegates to the Alumni Council:Elizabeth Faulkner, '85wllloughby g. walling, '99Walter Scott Kennedy, '00Nelson S. Buck, '04Henry D. Sulcer, '06Milton E. Robinson, 'iiHarry R. Swanson, '17 Julia Ricketts King,Lennox B. Grey, '23Helen C. Wells, '24Frederick E. Law, '25Ruth Stagg Lauren, 25Esther Cook Pease, '27Official ballots for the 1932 election ofthe College Alumni Association will beprinted in the May issue of the Universityof Chicago Magazine. All members ofthe College Association who desire to votefor officers of their association will be expected to mark the ballot as printed in theMagazine — tear out the sheet and mail itto the Alumni Office.Additional nominations may be made bypetition signed by twenty-five members ofthe Association, filed at the Alumni Officeprior to May 15. A brief outline of theachievements of each of the candidates willbe printed in the May issue.ALUMNI PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORYBIOLOGICAL SUPPLIESPresident, C. Blair Coursen '22General Biological Supply House761-763 East 69th Place, ChicagoDorchester 3700 Ralph W. Stansbury, '14STANSBURY & CO.Investment Securities105 W. Adams St. Franklin 4101CHEMICAL ENGINEERSBROKERSFARNUM, WINTER & CO.120 West Adams St. Randolph 8910New York Stock Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade,Chicago Stock ExchangeJames M. Sheldon '03 Paul E. Gardner '13 Albert K. Epstein, '12EPSTEIN, REYNOLDS and HARRISConsulting Chemists and Chemical Engineers5 S. Wabash Ave. ChicagoTel. Cent. 4286CLEANERS AND DYERSHARRY C. WATTS & CO., Inc.INVESTMENT -:- . SECURITIES39 So". LaSalle St. Rand. 7804Harry C. Watts, *n Pres. BIRCK-FELLINGER COMPANYExclusive Cleaners and Dyers of RecognizedAbility, Service and Responsibility200 East Marquette RoadTelephone Wentworth 5380Edwin H. Fellinger '28277278 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE1903Livonia Starr Hunter is teaching Latin atMonmouth High School, Monmouth, 111.1905Dora A. Atkinson is teaching English at thePasadena Junior College, Pasadena, Calif.1906Eben E. Gridley is president of the MinuteTapioca Company of Orange, Mass., withbranches in Porto Rico and South America. Heis interested in a number of plantations and isconnected with the Orange-Athol airport.1910Ben H. Badenoch has moved to Boston toassume management of the Boston Agency ofthe Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, as General Agent for the Boston Metropolitan Area. *** Elmer McClain, who practiceslaw in Lima, Ohio, writes that he is occasionallypleasantly surprised to learn that an out oftown caller at his office is a fellow alumnus. Healso expresses his pleasure in the prominent activity of the University in radio broadcasting.1911Mary Rose Parkman published "High Adventures" (biographical stories) through Century Company, last year. She is teaching English at Wilson Teachers College, Washington,D. C. *** Hays MacFarland, ex, is president ofHays MacFarland and Co., Advertising Agency.1915W. F. Coolidge, A.M., has been principal ofthe high school at Granite City, Illinois, since1913-1916David Gustafson, A.M. '27, is professor andhead of the department of printing at CarnegieInstitute of Technology. He recently publishedAmerican Printing Industry Bulletin No. I, TheImportance of the Printing Industry: PrintingFirms and Plants. This is the first of a seriesof studies Mr. Gustafson is making, while continuing his work as associate editor of PrintingEducation. *** Rev. Samuel E. Ragland has suffered a nervous breakdown and is no longeractive in the ministry.1917Mrs. K. J. Bishop (Fedora Addicks) is doingsubstitute work in home economics in the NewRochelle Schools.1918Helene Sliffe is assistant State Supervisor ofElementary Schools of Louisiana. *** Mary L.Hahn, S.M. '20, is co-author with Prof. C. E. A.Winslow of Yale, in the revision of elementaryhygiene text books, which will come out some time this year as a set of four volumes. (Chas.E. Merrill Pub. Co.) A set of two books waspublished in 1930. Miss Hahn occupies the"Children's Fund of Michigan Chair of HealthEducation," and is associate professor of healtheducation at Michigan State Normal School. ***Robert William Brooks, A.M., B.D. '19, is pastorof Lincoln Congregational Temple in Washington, D. C, and instructor of Systematic Theologyand Old Testament History at Howard University.1920Sylvia M. Griswold is working at WheatonCollege, Norton, Mass., temporarily. *** MabelSpeer Becker has been for several years headof the Telephone Continuation School, in theLoop in Chicago. Some time ago she publishedjointly with her husband "The Harrison Children," under a Doubleday Doran imprint. Justnow she is preparing another book for publication, "Indian Ann," an historical tale of Chicagowhen Chicago was a swamp, a fort, and a halfdozen log cabins.1921Helen E. Elcock, A.M., teaches at KansasState College, Manhattan, Kas. *** Alice AllenBailey, A.M., is a research worker for the U. S.Department of Agriculture in the Market Pathology Cooperative Laboratory.1922Lucy Dell Henry is bacteriologist in the department of surgery at the University. She isalso attending Medical school on the SouthSide. *** Clark Kessler, who has been studyingmusic in Germany, is now back in the States.He is a member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra.1923Elizabeth D. Powers supervises grades 1-6 atCadillac, Michigan. *** Mrs. Ruth NeuhausenFonoroff, S.M., is an instructor in chemistry atthe University of Louisville. *** Mrs. UcalStevens Lewis, A.M. '25, is spending a year ofvacation in the sunny south at the University ofAlabama. *** Marie A. Prucha is teaching atCrane Technical High School, Chicago. *** Edward B. Logan is secretary of the budget forGov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania.1924Betty D. Gingrich is teaching eighth grade atthe Mayfair School, in Chicago. *** Henry vanZyl, Jr., directs Normal training at Calvin College, Grand Rapids. He is in the best of company there, for no less than six other Chicagoalumni are on the faculty. Ralph Stob, A.M. '27,Ph.D. '30 is professor of Greek language andliterature ; Rev. R. B. Kuiper, A.B., '07, is President of the College; H. J. G. van Andel, '14,A.M. '15, is professor of Dutch language andNEWS OF THE CLASSESDENTISTSDr. Kermit F. Knudtzon, '25DENTISTSuite 1619 Pittsfield Bldg. 55 E. Washington St.Hours by Appointment State 1396EMPLOYMENTFor Your Office and Sales AssistantsBoth Men and WomenDavis Personnel Service, Inc.One LaSalle St. Cen. 4232GERTRUDE G. DAVIS *18ENGINEERSJudson S. Ty ley, '18 Secy.E. H. Ward & Company, Inc.Engineers of Tests60S South Dearborn St.FLOOR COVERINGSEdw. P. Bezazian, '25Oriental RugsDomestic Carpets and RugsThe Tobey Furniture Co.200 N. Michigan Avenue State 4300INSURANCEC. F. AXELSON, '07Chartered Life UnderwriterREPRESENTINGThe Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co.209 So. LaSalle St. Tel. State 0633ELLSWORTH E. HOFFSTADT '24INSURANCEIn All Its BranchesFaixfax 72001180 E. 63rd Street Fairfax 5353LAUNDRIESR. C. WEINBERG '31ECLIPSE LAUNDRY CO."Artists in Washer aft"Triangle 7500949-957 E. 75th St.LITHOGRAPHINGL. C. MEAD 'zi E. J. CHALIFOUX '22PHOTOPRESS, INC.Planograph — Offset — Printing725 So. LaSalle St. Harrison 3624 AND ASSOCIATIONS 279MUSICIANSPhone Fairfax 7310RAYMOND A. SMITH, '185 1 30 Kenwood Ave.PIANIST AND ACCOMPANISTArranger STETSON SINGERSMale QuartetteAvailable for Banquets, Clubs, ConcertsRADIOWMAQOfficial Broadcasting Station ofThe University of ChicagoWilliam S. Hedges, '18 Mgr.REAL ESTATEJ. Alton Lauren, '19J. Alton Lauren and Co.139 N. Clark St. Randolph 2068SCHOOLSTHE FAULKNER SCHOOL FOR GIRLSA Day School for Girls of All AgesPrepares Its Graduates for All Collegesand UniversitiesThe College Board Examinations AreGiven at the School4746 Dorchester Ave. Tel. Oakland 1423SEEDS (Wholesale)OSTBERG SEED CO.Wholesale Seeds7301 Woodlawn Ave. Phone Dorchester 0314SIGNSFEDERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYNeon, All Types Electric SignsW. D. Krupke, '19225 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111.SOUND FILM"LIFE ON THE QUADRANGLES"Produced byThe Vitaglo CorporationMakers of Educational and Commercial Sound Films4942 Sheridan Road Longbeach 6380SPORTING GOODSRAY WHITEAthletic EquipmentComplete Golf and Tennis Supplies28 East Jackson Blvd.Webster 4082 Ray White, '1628o THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEliterature; H. G. Dekker, S.M. '29, is registrarand professor of chemistry; Lambert L. Flokstrais an instructor in the Normal training department; and James Nieuwdorp is instructor ofmathematics and director of the physics department. *** Olga A. Tildes is teaching English atJohn Marshall High School, Chicago and writesthat her spare time is occupied with singing,driving, the theatre, and writing. *** Laura A.Miller, A.M. is assistant professor of homeeconomics at the University of Oklahoma.1925May B. Clark, received her master's degreefrom Columbia University last year, and isagain teaching English in the Lincoln HighSchool, at Manitowoc, Wis.1926Frances E. Kraemer is with the English department of Austin High School, Chicago. ***Georgia Robinson, A.M. '29, is doing historicalresearch in Paris.1927Dan Dana McCulIough is running for prosecuting attorney of Ingham county, Michigan,this fall.1927Arthur H. Hert is the assistant marketingspecialist of the Bureau of Business Researchat the University of Texas. He is also secretarymanager of the Retail Merchants Association ofTexas.1928Mrs. Inez E. Keepers is teaching ancient history at Calumet Senior High School. *** Virginia Archer Exley is teaching in the Cincinnatipublic schools.1929Fanny Smith, S.M., directs the science department at Belhaven College, Jackson, Miss. TheBotanical Gazette of June, 193 1, contained anarticle of hers, "The Ascent of Sap in Plants."***Dorothy B. Smith, S.M., will be an instructorin freshman English at Carroll College, Waukesha, Wis., next year. *** Elsa Grueneberg isback teaching German at Parkville, Mo., aftera semester's stay in Europe. She found conditions in Germany even worse than reports hadlead her to expect.1930Louis E. Raths, A.M., is a research assistantat Ohio State University. *** Harry A. Broadexhibited some of his work in the Twelfth International Exhibition of Water Colors at theChicago Art Institute in March. He has justopened a new studio on the 16th floor of theAuditorium Building, Chicago, where he is teach ing drawing, painting and design. *** W. E.Giffin is an instructor in the Industrial ArtsDepartment at the high school in Waukegan, 111.*** Helen McDougall has had several articlespublished in school journals about her work ashead of the home economics department at VillaPark, in the Ardmore Junior High School. ***Betty Bateson, ex, is writing music under thename of Darby St. John, and selling it. Twoof her songs are being published and "plugged"on the Coast, and she has written the theme songfor Marlene Dietrich's new picture. *** Mrs.Helen K. Dunn is employed at the U. S. CustomsHouse at Denver.1931Leonard A. Vitcha, A.M., is teaching schoolin Cleveland. *** Herbert J. Voelz is assistantforeman of the composing room at the LightnerPublishing Company of Chicago. *** D. S.Mohler, S.M., will be at Huntington College,Huntington, Ind., for the rest of the year. ***Hedwig W. Reichhold is teaching in Berwyn,111. *** Myron Carlson is teaching school andcoaching in the high school at Bellflower, 111.He plans to come back to the University forgraduate work in the summer quarter. Bell-flower, he reports, is some wild town. Thepopulation is 442, but it includes a winningbasket ball team, which seems to be some consolation. *** Elias N. Lane is the author of "The AllYear School," which appeared in the Marchissue of The Nation's Schools. Mr. Lane isteaching in the Brown Street School, Milwaukee.Doctors of Philosophy1903Henry T. Upson is president of the oldest oilcompany in America, the Pease Oil Company,of Buffalo.1907L. A. Higley, '00, is Dean of Men at WheatonCollege.1908Anna Louise Strong, A.M. '07, is editing theMoscow News, the first newspaper in the English language to appear in Moscow.1909Harris F. MacNeish, '02, S.M., '04, has beenappointed head of the department of mathematics at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn.1911Robert K. Nabours, '03, Ed.B. 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Dinners, Card Parties, etc.Telephone Kenwood 0249CEMENT WORKEMIL O. HANSELCEMENT CONTRACTORFloors Our Specialty824 Wrightwood Ave. Phone Bittersweet 2259Hariland Garage57th and Cottage GroveSERVICE ALL CARSBatteries - Tires_ -_ Gas^ - Oil - StorageTires - Gas - OilHYDE PARK 6816UNIVERSITY SERVICE STATION5701 Cottage Grove AvenueTEXACO GAS TEXACO ETHYL GASHigh Pressure Greasing by Experienced MenTire Service, Battery Service and Electric RepairingPhone Hyde Park 0103 Let Us Do Your Cement WorkC. L. GUNGGOLL COMPANYConcrete Contractors for 30 Years6417 So. Park Ave.Normal 0434 Phones Wentworth 1799CHIROPODISTDR. G. L. BIERSMITHFoot Specialist and Chiropodist1133 East Sixty-Third St.PHONE MIDWAY 1828282 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEincluding the excellent magazine, is lower thanthat of any of the considerable number oforganizations in which I have the privilege andpleasure of membership."1915H. S. Adams, superintendent of the UpjohnCompany of Kalamazoo, writes that the Adamsfamily is spending March and April in France.1917Leo J. Lassalle is Dean of the College of Engineering at Louisiana State University, anddirects the Engineering Experiment Stationthere.1918Denton J. Brown is professor of chemistryat the University of Nebraska.1919Esmond Long, 'n, M.D. '26, is now directorof research of the Phipps Institute for the Studyof Tuberculosis, in Philadelphia.1923L. E. Blauch, A.M. '17, is engaged as theExecutive Secretary of the Curriculum SurveyCommittee, American Association of DentalSchools. This is a project whose object is todevise a dental curriculum for training thegeneral dental practitioners. It is supported bya grant from the Carnegie Corporation, and hasits headquarters at Northwestern UniversityDental School.1924Maurice T. Price, 'io, A.M. '15, will teachsociology this summer, at the State TeachersCollege, Milwaukee. *** Elam A. Anderson,recently returned to China as principal of theShanghai American School, has since been calledto the presidency of Linfield College in Oregon.*** F. R. Gay, A.M. '18, is to be guest professorof literature at Concord College, Athens, W. Va.,next summer.1927Ralph Tyler is engaged in research in testsand measurements at Ohio State University. ***Ralph M. Hogan, '16, A.M. '17, is with the Y.M. C. A. at Shanghai, China.1928J. M. Nason, A.M. '25, has been lecturer ineducation at the University of California fortwo years. *** Dorothy Gladstone Downie isliving at the Cowdray Club in Aberdeen, Scotland, and teaching in the Botany Departmentof the University there. *** Ogden E. Sheppardis professor of chemistry and head of his de partment at Montana State College. *** ChingChao Wu, A.M. '27, is professor of the department of sociology at Tsing Hua University,Peiping, China. *** Hilmeyer Cohen, '24, writesfrom Moscow that life in Soviet Russia is hardbut interesting. For three months he had noplace to sleep, but was finally rewarded for hispatience by receiving from the Institute a nicewarm room, the most highly prized possession inMoscow. Dr. Cohen is doing research at theCentral Institute of the Sugar Industry underthe direction of Professor Tischenko.1929Helen B. Burton, A.M. '22, directs the schoolof home economics at the University of Oklahoma. *** Dr. M. L. Cohn, '25,, S.M. '28, is inthe Research Department of the National JewishHospital at Denver. *** William M. Krogman,'26, A.M. '27, will spend the summer studyingthe race mixture in the Seminole Indian tribesin Oklahoma. He has been appointed Field Director in Physical Anthropology for the Laboratory School of Anthropology at the W. R. U.Medical School at Cleveland. *** W. H. Cowley,A.M. '15, is assistant editor of the Journal ofHigher Education. *** Edgar Dale is doingcurriculum research for the Bureau of Educational Research at Ohio State University.1930Clytee R. Evans, A.M. '22, Dean of MississippiState College for Women, reports that sixmembers of the faculty there are Chicagoalumnae. *** Helen Tomm, A.M. '2$, is socialadvisor for the Juniors, and Teaches English.*** Mary Wilson,' A.M. '29, directs teachertraining in home economics. *** Bertha B. Hays,S.M. '23, is director of the nursery school. ***Elise H. Moore, A.M. '21, is assistant professorof English. *** Ella Siddall, A.M. '29, is assistant professor in Foods and Nutrition. *** Elizabeth Roffe, '27, is instructor in Foods. *** MayElizabeth Keirns is at Juniata College, Huntington, Pa.1931Dorothy M. Schullian was awarded the Ryer-son Fellowship last March, and is now studyingin Rome. *** B. Eleanor Johnson is visitingprofessor at Oregon State Agricultural College.*** Joseph J. Jasper is with the chemistry department of the College of the City of Detroit.He reports a Chicago colony of good size andactive membership there. It includes A. L.Nelson, Ph.D. '15, Wilson McTeer, Ph.D. '30,H. B. Fagan, Ph.D. '30, Helen Hunscher, Ph.D.'32, D. C. Morrow, Ph.D. '28, W. C. Krueger,Ph.D. '28, and A. E. Remick, Ph.D. '28.The distinguished company of educators thatmet at the University on March 14 and 15 toNEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONS 283CLEANERS AND DYERS FLOWERSTHE NEW DREXELCleaners and DyersWe Clean Everything from Gloves to Rugs9x12 Rugs Cleaned on Both Sides, Only $2.004720-22 Cottage Grove Ave.Phone Drexel 0909 - 0910 - 0911 - 0912COAL5900 STEWART 3952AUBURN COAL & MATERIAL CO.COAL- COKE- BUILDING MATERIAL7443 So. Racine Ave. ChicagoALL PHONES ENGLEWOOD 2606Our Yards Cover the Entire CityHeritage Coal CompanyMain Office 101-33 East 63rd StreetCorner Michigan Blvd., ChicagoJ. J. HERITAGE, President ^ .itf CHICAGOGXXtMlP ESTABLISHED 1865vjr FLOWERS^^ Phones: Plaza 6444, 6445 1631 East 55th StreetOberg's Flower ShopFLOWERS WIRED THE WORLD OVERTelephones: Fairfax 3670-36711461-63 East 57th St.FLOOR SURFACINGL. C. FAULKNERElectric Floor SurfacerRemoves Paint and Varnish ElectricallyMakes Old Floors Like New1516 E. 69th Street Fairfax 3262CUT STONE HAULINGNELS OLSONCUT STONE HAULING3001 S. Wells Street Victory 0711 HARDWAREHENRY T. HANSEN935 East 55th StreetPaint — Hardware — Cutlery — ToolsHardware Phone Midway 0008Radios and Expert Radio ServiceRadio Service Phone Midway 0009DECORATORSARTHUR E. BOURGEAUPAINTING and INTERIOR DECORATINGHardware and Paints1216-1218-E. 55 ST. PHONE HYDE PARK 1049Est. 1897 INSURANCECHILDS & WOODINSURANCE UNDERWRITERSTelephone Us When You Have AnyQuestions About Special Coverage1 75 W. Jackson Blvd. Phone Wabash 1180DENTISTSDR. J. J. JOHNSTENDENTISTSuite 417 1180 East 63rd Street, Chi cagoPhone Dorchester 9545 LAUNDRIESFidelity Morgan Service, Inc."Better Laundry Work"Branch 1015 East 61st StreetPhone Calumet 1906DR. E. E. MACPHERSONDENTISTGASX-RAY 1133 East 63rd StreetPhone Hyde Park 3939 LEXINGTON LAUNDRY1214 East 61st StreetFAIRFAX 0732" For All Fine Laundering "EMPLOYMENTReliable HELP FurnishedOffice, Technical, Domestic, Factory, Hotel,Restaurant No Charge to EmployerGROVE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE852 E. 63rd St. Phone MID. 3636 LIGHTINGStudio and Display Rooms Tel. Superior 5381- 2Henkel & Best Co.439 North Michigan AvenueDesigners and Manufacturers ofArtistic Lighting Fixtures284 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEcelebrate the formal opening of the GraduateEducation Building included a gratifying percentage of alumni. The program of conferencesand lectures for the two days includes a numberof names that will be well known to the Doctorsof Philosophy.William Claude Reavis, '09, A.M. '12, Ph.D.'25, presided over the opening conference of theDoctors of Philosophy of the Department onpractical applications of the science of educationin various types of institutions. Lloyd E. Blauch,A.M. '17, Ph.D. '23, gave an address on "Curriculum Surveys in Higher Education." Mr.Blauch is Executive Secretary of the Survey ofthe Dental Curriculumof the American Association of DentalSchools.Douglas E. Scates,Ph.D. '26, Director ofthe Bureau of SchoolResearch of Cincinnati,discussed "Trainingfor Research in theLight of Field Requirements" ; "Measuringthe Results of CollegeInstruction" was theinteresting and timelysubject of Ralph W.Tyler's address. Mr.Tyler, Ph.D. '27, isProfessor of Educationat Ohio State University. Further interestin the problems ofhigher education wasstimulated by HomerPrice Rainey, A.M. '23, ANNUAL DINNERThe Annual Dinner of the LawSchool Association will be held on theevening of Convocation Day, Tuesday sJune 14, 1932, in the FlorentineRoom of the Congress Hotel.Professor Joseph H. Beale of theHarvard Law School, who foundedour Law School, will be the speakerand guest of honor.Five-year class reunions will beheld by the classes of:19071912191719221927BE THERE!present law "is destructive of the best interestof the public and productive of no good to thecarriers."1910Walter D. Freyburger, J.D., T. Russell Baker,'23, and Miss Corinne L. Rice, '99, J.D., '08,have formed a partnership for the practice oflaw, under the firm name of Freyburger, Bakerand Rice, with offices at 1 LaSalle Street, Chicago.1913George M. Conner is particularly interestedin business law andlitigations connectedwith the oil industry.He is practicing inFort Worth, Tex.Ph.D. '24, President ofBucknell University, in his talk on "The Application of Scientific Methods to Problems inHigher Education." "A University's Programof Research in Elementary Education" was thetopic of James Bartlett Edmonson, Ph.D. '25,Dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan.William Scott Gray, '13, Ph.D. '16, Director ofTeacher Training and Professor of Education,addressed the group on "The Academic andProfessional Preparation of Teachers." AndGuy Thomas Buswell, A.M. '16, Ph.D. '20,Secretary of the Department of Education andProfessor of Education at the University, discussed "The Laboratory Method in EducationalPsychology."Law1909R. C. Fulbright, J.D., counsel for the NationalIndustrial Traffic League, has been most activein the campaign for the repeal of the recaptureprovisions of the Interstate Commerce Act. Intestifying before the House Committee on interstate and foreign commerce, he said that the 1921Lee I. Park is associated with Hamel,Park and Saunders,attorneys, at the Shore-ham Bldg., in Washington. *** Estelle M.Wells is practicing lawat 160 N. LaSalle St.,Chicago. *** RoscoeLyons Rice is practicing law in Creighton,Nebr., with his father.He married in 1922and has one son,Richard, aged 8 years.1925Dudley F. Jessop,'22, J.D., is associatedwith Kirkland, Fleming, Green and Martin,33 N. LaSalle Street.1926Roland E. Little, '22, J.D., is practicing law at223 W. Jackson Boulevard, Chicago.1927Harry L. Griffin, J.D., is dean of the Collegeof Liberal Arts at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, at LaFayette.1929Sam Street Hughes, J.D., was elected lastNovember to the position of Municipal Judge atLansing, Michigan. He is also national directorof the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. ***Charles Andrew McNabb, J.D., is practicinglaw at 82 West Washington Street, Chicago.i93iArthur M. Frutkin, '29, J.D., is practicing lawat Alliance, Ohio.NEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONS 285LOCKSMITHS RUG CLEANERSOldest - - Largest - - Locksmiths& &S KEY SERVICEKeys Made While U Hesitate6420 Cottage Grove < Mid. 3643-4-5MUSICAL INSTRUMENTSAMERICAN CONSERVATORY o£ MUSICFORTY-FIFTH SEASONAll branches of music and dramatic art. Certificates,Degrees. Nationally accredited. Enter any time.Address: Free catalog.John R. Hattstaedt, Secretary, 500 Kimball HallSouth Side Branch, 1133 E. 63rd St.MONUMENTSPhone Monroe 5058 Established 1889C. CILELLA & SONMONUMENTS AND MAUSOLEUMSRock of Ages and Guardian MemorialsWe Erect Work Anywhere 723-25 W. Taylor StreetPAINTINGEstablished 1851 Incorporated 1891Geo. D. Milligan CompanyPainting and Decorating Contractors2309 South Parkway Tel. Col. 5665PAINTINGS RESTOREDTELEPHONE DIVERSEY 7976UNITED ART & CRAFT STUDIOSPaintings, Etchings, Cornices, Picture Framing,Mirrors, Expert Regilding and Restoring1412 North Clark Street Chicago, 111.PLASTERINGMONAHAN BROS., Inc.CONTRACTING PLASTERERS201 North Wells StreetPhone Central 4584 TEL. TRIANGLE 3640 ESTABLISHED 1910GRAGG — Certified Rug Cleanersm i^Pf. ORIENTAL AND DOMESTICRUGS AND CARPETS EXCLUSIVELY911-13-15-17 East 75th StreetSADDLERYW. J. WYMANManufacturer, Importer and Dealer inHigh Grade Saddles, Polo Goods, Etc.Chicago Riding Club Building, 628 McClurg CourtLake Forest Store—210-212 Westminster Ave., EastTelephone Superior 8801SCALP SPECIALISTSDR. H. C. WEIGERTSCALP SPECIALIST5238 Lake Park AvenueMIDWAY 3836SCHOOLSFREE INFORMATION of PrivateBoarding Schools and Summer Camps.Catalogs on request. Call ;Affiliated Boarding Schools Ass'n.1112 Marshall Field Annex, ChicagoTel. Central 0345 Miss S. H. Shultz, DirectorCOLLEGE GRADE COURSESBusiness Administration, Executive Secretarial14 Other Practical Courses -Train for Assured Success76th Year Write for CatalogBRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE18 South Michigan Avenue Randolph 1575TIMELY ART GUIDANCEExperienced • Progressive • SuccessfulSummer Session Starts July 6Fall Session September 6 — 30th YearCHICAGO ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS1 8 South Michigan Avenue - ChicagoRIDINGMidway Riding Academy6037 Drexel AvenueExpert InstructorsBeautiful Bridle Path and Good HorsesUniversity of Chicago Riding HeadquartersMidway 9571 Phone Dorchester 8041 CHICAGO COLLEGE of MUSICEsther Harris, Pres. and FounderPiano— Vocal— Violin— Dancing — Dramatic — Etc.12th Floor Kimball Bldg.306 S. Wabash Ave. Tel. Wabash 3644ROOFINGGROVE ROOFING CO.(GiUitand)Old Roofs Repaired— New Roofs Put On20 Years at6644 Cottage Grove Ave.Fairfax 3206 THE CHICAGO LATIN SCHOOLFOR BOYSPreparation from Kindergarten to CollegeOur Graduates make excellent University Records1531 N. Dearborn Pkwy. SUPERIOR 5734286 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINERush1904Grace Elliott Papot, M.D., is practicing general medicine, obstetrics, and physio-therapy.Her sister, Dr. Mabel Elliott, M.D. '04, is still inTokyo, at St. Luke's Hospital. *** H. P. Kirtley,'oo, M.D., of Salt Lake City, was elected GrandMaster of the Grand Lodge of Utah, Free andAccepted Masons, at the annual meeting inJanuary. He plans to drive out to Washingtonin May for the Memorial Dedication.1915Leon Unger, '13, M.D., is attending physicianat Cook County and Wesley Memorial Hospitals, and director of the asthma and hay feverclinic at Northwestern University MedicalSchool. He also teaches in the Department ofMedicine there.1917George A. Gray, '15, M.D., is practicing inSan Jose, Calif.1919Vito A. D. Taglia, '18, M.D., received thedecoration of the Royal Crown of Italy,Chevalier, in 193 1. Mrs. Taglia was LenaRiccio, '21.1920Graham Asher, '18, M.D., after spendingtwelve months in graduate study at HarvardMedical School, and three months in the CardiacClinics of Europe, has opened a new office inthe Professional Building in Kansas City, wherehe plans to operate an electrocardiograph laboratory, in connection with his special work indiagnosis. While in Europe, he was delightedto meet with Clark Kessler,, '22. *** RichardHofstra, '18, M.D., is in charge of Hung NingHospital, in Amoy, China.1923William J. Vynalek, '21, M.D., is surgeon atSt. Luke's and Berwyn Hospitals. He is alsoteaching at Rush Medical College.1928R. C. Carrell, '24, M.D., is going to the DutchWest Indies to work in a hospital located atthe oil refinery of the Lago Oil and TransportCo., a subsidiary of the Standard Oil ofIndiana. *** George Guibor is a clinical assistant in ophtholmology at Northwestern University, and has had a fellowship since the first ofthe year. *** John W. Schauer, M.D., is doingindustrial surgery along with his general prac tice in Cleveland. *** Paul Heitmeyer is studying at the University of Pennsylvania.1929T. V. Altman, M.D., is superintendent of theNeerbosch Hospital, at Siokke, Fukien, China.*** Lewis C. Benesh, M.D., is practicing in Freeman, S. Dak.Education1910C. D. Donaldson teaches general and educational psychology at the State Teachers Collegeat Eau Claire, Wis.1921M. E. Herriott, director of secondary schoolcurriculum development in Los Angeles, isteaching graduate courses in education in thesummer sessions of the University of SouthernCalifornia.1922W. W. Martin, '04, A.M„ '22, professor ofpsychology at North Carolina College forWomen is much interested in the reorganizationof the three state colleges of North Carolina,which will merge their programs, without moving any of the institutions from their presentlocation.1925Mildred M. Bateson, '25, A.M., '26, collaborates with the Nation Picture Studios ofHollywood, in teaching costume and stage design at the University of Southern California.Her official title is Assistant Professor in theSchool of Architecture.1927Robert W. Tarbell, A.M., is a member of thedivision of Instruction and Research in theMilwaukee Vocational School.1929Glenn K. Kelly, A.M., is superintendent ofschools at Houghton, Michigan. Mrs. Kelly wasRegina Helm, A.M., '19, of the Divinity School.1930George Green, A.M., is superintendent of theHarris-Elmore Schools, Elmore, Ohio. Duringthe past summer he was a member of the facultyof Wilmington College, Ohio. *** ElizabethOfferman, A.M., is the assistant County Superintendent of Schools of Ottawa County, with headquarters at Fort Clinton, Ohio.NEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONSSCHOOLS — continued STORAGE — continued 287COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOLPrepare for Leading Colleges in Months not YearsHigh School Requirements in Shortest TimeConsistent with Thorough InstructionMorning and Evening Classes23 East Jackson Blvd. Webster 2448MacCormac School of CommerceBusiness Administration and Secretarial TrainingDAY AND EVENING CLASSESEnter Any Monday1170 E. 63rd St. H. P. 2130 Peterson Storage CompanyStorage - Moving - Packing - ShippingBaggage and Freight to All Stations1011-13 East 55th StreetPhones: Midway 9700-Hyde Park 0452TEACHERS AGENCIESTE** % Teachers 28 E. Jackson Blvd.CHICAGOAgencyOur Service is Nation WideTHE MIDWAY SCHOOL6216 Kimbark Ave. Tel. Dorchester 3299Elementary Grades J unior High PreparationKindergarten French, Dancing, Music and ArtBus ServiceA School with Individual Instruction and Cultural AdvantagesOrthogenic School of ChicagoAffiliated with the University of ChicagoBoarding and Day School forRetarded and Problem ChildrenCatalog on Request1365 East 60th Street MID. 7879 THE YATES-FISHER TEACHERSAGENCYEstablished 1906PAUL YATES, Manager616-620 South Michigan Ave. ChicagoUNDERTAKERSBOYDSTON BROS.Undertakers4227-31 Cottage Grove Avenue Cor. 42nd PlaceTelephones Oakland 0492 and Oakland 0493Pestalozzi Froebel Teachers CollegeKindergarten — Primary — Dramatics — SpeechStrong, Practical CoursesCentrally Located in Downtown Chicago. Dormitory.Accredited-37th yr.-2,3f4yr. Courses- Special Courses616 S. Michigan Ave. Write for Free Catalogs Wabash 6762 LUDLOW - SCHNEIDERFUNERAL DIRECTORSFine Chapel with New Pipe OrganSedan Ambulance ServiceTel. Fairfax 2861 6110 Cottage Grove Ave.STARRETT SCHOOL for GIRLSA Boarding and Day School for High School andJunior College StudentsFully AccreditedA Refined and Stimulating School Environment4515 Drexel Blvd. Drexel 0521ST. GEORGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS4545 DREXEL BLVD.DAY and BOARDING SCHOOLCatalog Nursery Through High Enter Any TimeATLANTIC 2746STORAGEAsk Our AdviceMOVING-PACKING-STORAGE-SHIPPINGThe Murray Warehouse &Van Co.6314 University Ave. Chicago, IllinoisHyde Park 8067 Phones Midway 8067 SKEELES - BIDDLEFuneral DirectorsFairfax 0120 Sixty-Third Street and Evans Ave.UPHOLSTERERSHARPER UPHOLSTERINGREFINISHING— REPAIRINGCabinet Work, Antiqueing and LacqueringPhoneRadcliffe6413WINDOW SHADESDE LUXE SHADE & DRAPERY SHOPWindow, Lace and Awning ShadesNew and CleanedSlip Covers Made to Order 2 Piece Set $8.501110 E. 62nd St. FAIRFAX 2400288 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEDivinity1900Julian E. Yates is chief of Chaplains in theU. S. Army. A recent address of his, "TheChurch and the Government" was published inthe April issue of The Army Chaplain.1903W. I. Kelsey has left his post in Uruguay andis en route to the Friends' Mission, Ramallah,Palestine.1905Major Alva J. Breasted is now stationed atFort Snelling, Minn.1916Ivan Seymour Nowlan, A.M., is beginning hiseleventh year as general secretary of the Massachusetts Council of Religious Education. He isalso pastor of a small Union Church at Stow,Mass.EngagementsBenjamin M. Washer, '25, J.D. '27, to RuthFuerth, ex, both of Chicago.MarriagesPaul Van Cleef, '05, S.M. '06, to Jeanne Witt-lin, of Nice, France, March 19, 1932. At homeduring April and May, 5000 East End Avenue,Chicago.Robert William Brooks, '18, B.D. '19, to RuthW. DeMond, December 27, 193 1, at Nashville,Tennessee.Samuel H. Nerlove, '22, A.M. '23, to EvelynAndelman, March, 1932. At home, Chicago.R. C. Carrell, '24, M.D '28, to MargueriteCheney, March 15, 1932, in Bond Chapel. Dr.and Mrs. Carrell will live at San Nicholas,Aruba, Dutch West Indies.BirthsTo William G. Matthews, '06, and Mrs.Matthews, a daughter, Carol Anne, November2, 1931, at Chicago.To John P. McGalloway, '15, J.D. '15, andMrs. McGalloway, a daughter, Mary Donovan,December 3, 1931, at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.To Dr. Francis L. Lederer, '18, M.D. '21, andMrs. Lederer, (Anne Pollak, ex '25) a boy,Francis L., Ill, December 8, 1931, Chicago.To Kenneth A. Mather, '19, and Mrs. Mather,a son, Winton Edward, March 9, 1932, Berkeley,California.To Harold A. Anderson, '24, A.M. '26, andMrs. Anderson, a son, Norman Alan, December11, 193 1, Chicago.To John H. Johnson, A.M. '26, and Mrs. Johnson, (Margaret Elizabeth Siegel, ex) a son,John Edward Allan, December 1, 193 1, at theChicago Lying-in Hospital.To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Einston Holt,(Isabelle Williams, '26) a son, Marsh Hanford,Oskaloosa,, Iowa, February 16, 1932.DeathsSamuel Ross Miller, '78, March 20, 1932, LaFeria, Texas, at the home of his daughter,Grace R. Jones.W. J. Brownrigg, M.D. '82, July 10, 193 1,Guernsey, Wyoming.Arthur MacNeal, M.D. '92, at Berwyn,Illinois, March 13, 1932.Otto Holinger, M.D. '02, February 22, 1932,at Hines Hospital, Chicago.Kate B. Miller, '02, March 19, 1932, at herhome in New York City. Miss Miller servedwith distinction in the Overseas Corps of theY.W.C.A., as a teacher of languages, and haslong been known to the students at ColumbiaUniversity, especially to foreign students, as ateacher of English and American literature.David C. Cook, II, '06, March 16, 1932, atElgin, Illinois.Virginia H. Corbett, '15, February 11, 1932,at Fort Collins, Colorado. Miss Corbett wasDean of Women at Colorado State College, anda leader in all civic affairs.Eldridge D. Phillips, S.M. '24, November 18,1931^ in an automobile accident near NewOrleans, Louisiana.Ruth Beatrice Warner, '27, July 26, 193 1, inan automobile-train collision, at Freeport,Illinois.{Continued from Page 253)tained here. These guests have added a notinconsiderable element to our enjoyment oflife in the dormitories this year.Incidentally the number of rooms available has also made it possible to accommodate a good many faculty members besidesthe official heads. Of these the most notable has been Thornton Wilder, and needless to say he and his fellows have been mostwelcome additions to our company.Lastly, in case any are uninformed aboutthis matter, it should be mentioned that asimilar group of buildings for women students was provided for by Mr. Rosenwald'sgift and will be constructed during thecoming year on a corresponding site twoblocks east of our units. We hope the ladiesfare as well as we have. We do not thinkthey can do much better.MAKE NEW FRIENDSAND ENTERTAIN THE OLDAt the Popular Allerton HotelThe ideal close to the Loop residence for men and women. Hotel service plusthe atmosphere of a club and the hospitality of a home. A well roundedsocial prosram is planned for the entertainment of Allerton suests and theirfriends including dances, bridge parties, horseback, interesting trips, theatreparties, etc.RCA radio speaker in each soundproof room at no extra charge. Large library,music practice rooms, gymnasium, handball courts, ping pong and billiard tables.Four floors for married couples, seven floors for women and ten floors for men.Within easy walking distance of the business, shopping and theatre district.RATESSingle Double (per person)Daily $1 .75 to $4.00 Daily $1 .50 to $2.50Weekly $1 0.50 to $25.00 Weekly $8.50 to $1 2.50Philip E. Cobden, Manager701 N. 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