* JUL 141937\rv4iI I'•ZIT"THE UNIVERSITYOFCHICAGO MAGAZINEFEBRUARYAs Much As $75,000,000Worth 0! RadiumTHIS single x-ray tube produces as muchradiation energy as would radium worth$75,000,000. This tube— one of several developed and built by G-E scientists — is helping medical science to make further and morerapid gains in the battle against disease.For more than 25 years, General Electricresearch scientists have led the steady improvement in x-ray development. From theirwork— with thousands of volts from gianttransformers, with tanks of purified oil —have come better and ever better x-ray tubes.Physicians and surgeons have gained morecompact and more powerful tools for diag nosis and therapy — better tools with whichto safeguard your health.Other developments in the Research Laboratory, in Schenectady, also work for betterhealth. There is the inductothermy whichpermits medical science to produce, at will,curative fevers in the patient's body. Thereare sources of ultraviolet radiation for thetreatment of rickets in children.^And in allthese aids to medicine, the results of years ofscientific investigation are being applied tothe relief of suffering, to the treatment ofdisease, to the improvement of the healthand well-being of millions of people.G-E research has saved the public jrom ten to one hundred dollarsfor every dollar it has earned for General Electric96-329DHGENERAL m ELECTRIC¦THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MAGAZINEALUMNI COUNCILHoward W. MortAssociate EditorPUBLISHED BY THECharlton T\ Beck, '04Editor and Business ManagerFred B. Millett, PhD '31; John P. Howe, '27; William V. Morgenstern, '20, JD '22Contributing EditorsMilton E. Robinson, Jr., 11, JD '13; Louise Norton Swain, '09, AM '16; John J. McDonough, '28Council Committee on PublicationsTHE cover: Looking (throughthe "world") at the HarperQuadrangle from the second floor ofRosenwald Hall.•The University as seen throughthe eyes of, and penciled by ClayKelly has received much favorablecomment. The popularity of hisdoorway studies has extended intoIndiana where he has been invited todo a similar series at the Universityof Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame,and De Pauw. On the followingpage the third of the artist's drawing's appears, the medieval, massivedoors of the Chapel.• .Shorter articles, and more of them,take the place of the usual longercontributions this month. They areintended to produce a more comprehensive view of what's happening onthe Midway, besides broadening thescope of appeal for our readers."Quad Rambles" offers a brief candid news picture of life hereabouts."The Eight O'Clock Mail" passes onto you opinions and comments mostof which came in as trailers to therecent Pontiac program. Graduatestudent Sam Hair transcribes thestudent atmosphere once again, andSam, despite his advanced academicleanings, is right on the inside ofundergraduate life. In addition,there is a number of other "shorts"which bear rather closely to the samevein.Behind Mirror there is quite astory, a story of University womanhood seeking a mode of expressionin its own right. At the same timethe story of Mirror is the story ofthe historical trend of musical comedy during the last ten years. It's IN THIS ISSUEMirror time again, March 5 and 6,so it is altogether fitting that anarticle by Maxine Creviston Thompson '33 should find a place in this issue. Maxine Creviston was a memberof the Board of Mirror in her senioryear in college as well as women'seditor of the Daily Maroon. Following graduation she married WarrenThompson who was editor of theMaroon at the same time. "Off StageVoices" starts with 1925 and proceeds through the jazz era, world'sfair ultra moderne, to the 1937 ideawhich yet remains to be announced.•The Chicago Daily News recently published two sports featurearticles woven about the careers ofcoaches Ned Merriam (track) andNels Norgren (basketball). By permission of the News, we are reprint ing the Norgren article, caricatureand all,•When Coach Clark D. Shaughnessy once told us that he felt like abrother (in the academic bond) toFrank H. O'Hara (Dramatics) weweren't sure we knew what he meantuntil "Play, Skits, and Lyrics" fellinto our box the other day. Now weunderstand— Mr. Shaughnessy is anactivity coach. Mr. O'Hara is anactivity coach. They ar-e both attempting to provide and develop outlets for student interest. Neither istrying to develop professionals. Anyway, you can find out all about it foryourself by reading the result of afootball professor "gone literary" tothe extent of commenting on Mr.O'Hara's latest, Plays, Skits, andLyrics. (U. of C. Press).^ A copy of a letter written not7 . so long ago by Ogden L. Mills, for-TABLE OF CONTENTS mer secretary of the treasury, wassent to us an(* we are iorwBxding itFEBRUARY, 1937^^ Qn tQ yQU Tq whom he wrQte jt an(jQuad Rambles &3 the occasion matter little. It's theOff Stage Voices', Marine C. Thonip- content. When he says, "A universityson 6 exists for the pursuit and dissemina-"Nels" • • • 7 tion of learning. When it is not aThe Skating Flag 8 lace where men M seek the truthSca^ h w*h open minds, it betrays its truePlays, Skits and Lyrics, Clark character and purpose we feel likeShaughnessy 12 adding a devout amen !A Harvard Man on Academic Free- ^ jt . •- ^ . . , T ,D0M j3 From the lure of the British IslesJulius Stieglitz 15 where he has taken us for the pastClarence Herschberger, A. A. Stagg. 16? few months, Fred B. Millett turnsGeorge T. McDermott -17 his column to the South Seas, theIn My Opinion.... 18 orient and finally speaks of con-The Magic Plant, A Book Review, temporary exotic history. JamesJames W. Lmn. 20 WT / . . ~ \ n Ju ,News of the Quadrangles 21 Weber. Lmn ^eviews^ Carl Grabo sMyra Reynolps 23 book on Shelley. Wells Burnette,Athletics 24 undergraduate, pinch hits for JohnNews of the Classes 26 Howe in "Athletics."Published by the Alumni Council of the University of Chicago, monthly, from November to July. Office of Publication, 403 Cobb Hall, 58th St. atEllis Avenue, Chicago. Annual subscription orice $2.00. Single copies 25 cents. Entered as second class matter December 1, 1934* at the Post OfficeaJ Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879. The Graduate Group, Inc., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, is the official advertising agency»* the University of Chicago Magazine.Draiving by Clay KellyTHE PORTALS TORELIGIOUS FREEDOMOne of the Finest Examples of Gothic Architecture in America — The University ChapelVOLUME XXIX THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MAGAZINE NUMBER 4FEBRUARY, 1937QUAD RAMBLESLike the Flood Crest of the Ohio,the "Red Hunt" finallyreached New Orleans after its rise and fall at Chicago.]n the maelstrom of the swirling charges of the Louisiana Coalition of Patriotic Societies were caught threemembers of our Chicago family: Mack Swearingen,AM '23, PhD '32, of the Tulane history department;H. C. Nixon, '14, PhD '25, of the same school anddepartment; and Mary Allen '18, PhD '27, of Newcomb College.The crest has apparently passed without seriousthreat to the "levees" since the committee investigatingDr. Swearingen's activities unanimously reported thatthe evidence presented did not sustain the charge. Theinvestigation involved a speech delivered by Dr. Swearingen some five or six years back (we weren't awarethat speeches are ever remembered beyond a fortnight!) The prosecution wasn't helped greatly by theintroduction of Mrs. Albert Dilling's Red Network listing Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Law School at Harvard,who was guest of honor at Tulane' s recent centennialand Dr. Alice Hamilton the distinguished scientist uponwhom Tulane conferred an honorary doctorate recently."The Campus News Reel"is the March of Time title ofa new student experiment being conducted on the quadrangles. The purpose is to provide a news reel of campus activities which will furnish a forty minute post-view of the most interesting happenings on the quadrangles for an admission price of ten cents.We missed the premiere edition which was shownlate in the fall quarter and included, we are told, aheavy proportion of football shots — which is only natural for that season. We paid our dime for the secondedition showing at Breasted Hall and left — an enthusiastic convert to the idea and to the almost-professionalresults attained by Paul Wagner in both the shootingof the pictures and putting them together for the show.Although the pictures are not "talkies," Paul made anexcellent commentator, sitting in the front row andreading his script (which was neither too wordy nortoo "humorous") into a loud speaker. The plan is to have at least one new edition a quarter and, at the end of the year, to assemble the bestand most representative shots into a master reel or reelswhich could be used for alumni meetings, homecomings,etc. We are enthusiastic about the plan and wish Mr.Wagner and his co-workers every success.Fellow Brothers!Your fraternities on the quadrangles, atthe close of Rush Week announced the following number of men pledged:Alpha Delta Phi .... 16Alpha Tau Omega. . . 3Beta Theta Pi 13Chi Psi .... 9Delta Kappa Epsilon. 14Delta UpsiloW 5Kappa Sigma 6Phi Beta Delta 3Phi Delta Theta 14 Phi Gamma Delta ... 5Phi Kappa Psi 11Phi Kappa Sigma... 5Phi Sigma Delta.... 10Psi Upsilon 17Pi Lambda Phi 7Sigma Chi 7Zeta Beta Tau 9"Be On the Right Sidewith Whiteside" read the streaming banners around the quadrangles the other day whenthe Seniors set out to elect themselves a president. Tooffset this DKE propaganda, Psi U's rallied to theircandidate with "You can't go wrong with Wright" and"Vote Right for Wright." Either the Alpha Delts hadtrouble finding a rhyming slogan for Bob Bethke or wewere in the wrong places at the "Wright" time but Bobwas "Wright" in there to the last vote, (now they'vegot us doing it!) and pulled up to the president's chairwith 14 more votes than Wright, who was second in theballot race. Peggy Thompson, Sigma, proved to beon the right side and is now Senior class secretary.You Saw By the Papers,of course, that Roswell Magill,JD'20, has been appointed by President Roosevelt to thepost of undersecretary of the treasury. Following hisgraduation at the University in 1920 he was a memberof the Law School faculty until 1923. For the pasteight years Mr. Magill has been on the law faculty of4 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEColumbia University. Late in 1933-34 he was a special advisor to Secretary Morgenthau on tax problemsand is credited with having devised the revenue act of1934. His wife, Mrs. Katherine Biggins, received herPh.B. from Chicago in 1915, continued her studies inthe law school for a JD in 1920 after which she wasadmitted to the Illinois bar.•This Cold Chicago Weather,which freezes the earth tothe roots of trees so they can be moved more safely, in-spired theBuildings andGrounds department to take thefirst steps inSquaring theCircle (Magazine — June,1936) . They hadjust completeddigging aroundtwo sleepingtrees when thefickle Chicagoweather went to55 degrees inthe shade with awarm rain falling. B. and G.men rushed tarpaper blanketsto the scene to keep the water from washing all the dirtoff the roots and were contemplating resorting to icepacks to keep the earth frozen around these unsuspecting, roots when the weather, with a dirty, gusty laugh,dropped to 2° above. The irony of it all is, the weatherfor the Chicago area is made in Rosenwald Tower (U.S. Weather Bureau) which looked directly down on thehelpless scene. Our congressman will hear about this!•"Warning!Watch for fifteen gorgeous girls . . . will appear in this vicinity on or about February 3 . . . carrying hatchets and tickets for the Washington Prom"read, in part, a notice illegitimately posted on a tree(flash to Buildings and Grounds!) near the flag pole.Thus was fired the opening gun announcing the 1937edition of the Washington Prom which was held inthe Gold Room of the Congress Hotel on Friday evening, February 19th. Dick Jergens' orchestra — nowplaying at the Drake Hotel — provided the music; eachfraternity had a table where refreshments were servedto the brothers and their lady guests; the balcony wasalso provided with tables and chairs for refreshmentservice.•If You Are Wild About "Swing Music"(and, personally, we get wild every time we have to be "about" it)you would have enthused with the thousand students,Moving day on the quadrangles who jammed Mandel Hall Friday afternoon, January 29over the music of Red Norvo and his orchestra who gavea "Swing Concert" at forty cents per for the relief offlood victims. (Now we are looking for someone tostage a benefit for the relief of swing victims!) Weare quite optimistic about this "swing" cycle of popular music. We are convinced that it is like the Ohioflood spasms: we will be delivered from it eventually-even though it may be into some worse, albeit unknownat present, pestilence. For comforting proof we turnback the Washington Prom history pages to 1911 whenRag Time was the rage. Depew's orchestra, if youremember, played such numbers as: Powder Rag, Spaghetti Rag, Pussy Rag, Beautiful Rag, and The Passingof Ragtime.Later (in 1921) we had our "blues" cycle and, thatyear at the Prom we heard: Singing the Blues, WangWang Blues, Home Again Blues, and Crazy Blues. Thatwas the year the Prom was held at the South ShoreCountry Club and busses were used for transportationfrom the quadrangles, the taxi savings being used toswell the Hoover Fund "for fellow students who needhelp on the other side."Nineteen-twenty-four, on the other hand, appeared tobe one of the transition periods when the Benson orchestras were playing such numbers as: Dream Daddy,The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else, Remember in' , Sun-uv-a-gun, and, what was considered a college favorite according to the reports, Last Night onthe Back Porch. And your guess is as good as ours asto what the future holds in the popular dance musicworld.Speaking of the Washington Prom,were you on thequadrangles February 22, 1897, when the birthday of"our Father" was "fittingly" observed in Kent Theatreat 10:30 A. M.? The orator for the occasion was Robert M. LaFollette, who spoke on the subject "The Machine in Politics!"You'll Have to Take Our Word For Itbut each month acopy of the Magazine leaves this office for Vses. Komi-tetu Po Delam, Vysshej Shkoly, Okhotnyj Tjad, DomSovnarkoma Moskva USSR! Another leaves on thesame boat for Zentr. N autschno-M etod. Biblioteka GuusNktp., N. Basmannaja D. 20 2-/ Et Kamn 40-41, Moscow, USSR. A third waits for the boat to India whereit eventually arrives at The Nagpada NeighborhoodHouse, Bellasis Road near Parsee Statue, Byculla, Bombay, (the home of Clifford G. Manshardt, PhB'18,AM'21, PhD'24).The University Symphony Orchestrais honoring JeanSibelius in its winter quarter concert which will beplayed in Mandel Hall on the evening of March 12th(8:30). According to the radio poll of last year con-THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEAt work on tli9winter quarterconcertducted in England and theUnited States, Sibelius wasvoted the most popular living composer. The numbersby Sibelius to be played atthis concert will be his Symphony No. 4 in A Minorand Finlandia. Tickets range in price from $1.50 to 50c—in the event you are close enough to attend.P. S. Dr. Bay: We suppose you saw the review ofyour article The First Hundred Years Are the Hardest(November Magazine) in the February issue of TheJournal of Higher Education.None of Our BusinessWith some trepidation we continue this section ofQuad Rambles! The following letter from ProfessorJay F. Christ — the man who we casually mentioned,in January, put salt in (to) his water — explains ourjitters:Dear Mr. Editor:It is not uninteresting to lie made notoriousbecause of a couple of sticks of wood and a fewgrains of salt ; but I rise to remark that if yousimply cannot refrain from exposing the intimacies of our private lives to a gasping public,you should take some pains to get the factsstraight., Your statement about me contains a vile andmalicious calumny. I do not always put salt"in" my drinking water, as you so carelesslystate. I put salt into my drinking water, onlywhen I feel like it; and this is no mere legalquibble, either, because I never feel like it unless there is ice in the water.A number of persons (not, however, since thepublication of your scurrilous libel) have expressed a desire to know why I do this (to them)curious thing ; and even though you have confessed that it is none of your business, I begleave to offer some remarks in extenuation, inorder that my (and your) public may "sleep o'nights," like the "fat . . . sleek-headed men," alleged to have been referred to by the immortalJulius.I am not trying to kill the chlorine taste, as a prominent editor and writer has suggested (notin writing) ; I am not trying to gain weight byencouraging a deposit of salt and water in thetissues, as guessed by another savant of theround table; I am not subsidizing the salt industry, as suspected (perhaps facetiously) by awell-known geologist ; I am not aware of anyinordinate "salt-craving," mentioned by a greatanatomist ; I do not know of the existence of any-suprarenal deficiency, as a well known physiological chemist has surmised ; I am not attempting to advance my age of retirement by inducing arterio-sclerosis, though I have been warnedagainst such a result by a renowned physiologist(one of your other objects of attack, same column) ; I am not trying to raise the temperatureof the water, as an eminent physicist (in an off-moment) suggested.The procedure in question was suggested tome (inadvertently, no doubt), by a no-less celebrated authority in the field of dietetics, thanthe Fred Harvey System. The simple fact is,as suspected by a famed astronomer (now retired), that I merely like salt in my ice-water;and as long as I continue to like it and as longas it continues to ;be none of your business, Ishall continue in the practice, your thinly veiledsneers to the contrary notwithstanding.With the wish (but not the hope) that thisexplanation will put an end to all explanations,and wishing that your nose may grow evenlonger (but pointed in some other direction) (forother persons' business), I am, etc., etc., etc.,Jay F. Christ.Februarv 1, 1937.Reminiscent of the early days ofcrystal sets, any two-above-zeromorning at the windy northeast corner of Cobb can be seen youthsplowing to class bundled in coonskin coats, fur lined gloves, wool mufflers, heavy galoshes and ear muffs— period ! Where is the man whoclaims we are only a graduate schoolwhere the dignified adult researchstudent never feels completelydressed for the winter elements until a hat has beenplaced at the top of his going-out ensemble as the mostpractical precaution against quick pneumonia?The mother of Dr. Judson C. Herrick (ProfessorEmeritus of Neurology) celebrated her 103d birthdayat the Herrick home on January 16. Although Dr.James B. Herrick (Professor Emeritus of Medicine,Rush) is not related to Judson C. Herrick, his motherwas also considerably past the three score years andten when she died last March, within three years ofthe century mark.OFF STAGE VOICES• By Maxine Creviston Thompson '3JOne dozen Mirrors. It would beunfair to burden that thought withthe heavy hand of history. I'm quitesure the six senior women who, in1925, decided feminine talent should have .a chance of its own on campus, gave littlethought to the historical implications oftheir petition. I'm positive they obtained125 signatures begging for a women's dramatic group, not to make history, but simplybecause they wanted their own Mirror. And all 500of our Mirror alumnae ghosts would walk in protest ifcalled "history makers."Fully aware of this, it is still impossible to think ofthe 1937 Mirror revue without, at the same time, realizing its startling evolution from the first production,"Where Are We Going?" which posed a question in1926. "To reflect the college girl as she is, with music,dance, satire and a bit of beauty" was the ideal towardwhich that Mirror and many succeeding shows werestriving. In purpose it seemed as modest as the revuesand women themselves — for actresses carrying men'sroles wore tailcoats over evening gowns, in those days,and the dancing costumes were (shall we say) quitelong."Here We Are" announced Mirror had definitely arrived. Its lyrics, music, and skits had something to say— not tritely, but cleverly, and with an air. And by curtain time for the next show, the campus actresses wereclicking their "High Heels" around the loop, to theamused applause of an audience well pleased with this"third annual, humorous interpretation of the collegegirl."Still "peppy but polite," "Slip-Slaps- 1929" showed theadvantage of experience, and smartness so characterizedthe entire 1930 production of "Yours to Date" (fromthe derby-hatted, trousered entry of the tappers to therousing finale chorus) that Vice-president FredericWoodward said of it, "Precisely what a student revueshould be.""What Ho" challenged a startled campus one February morning when The Daily Maroon screamed in conservative 24 point type: "Select Twelve Men as GuestArtists for Mirror Show — Male Element Emerges fromBackstage Obscurity." Evolution? Indeed.Guest artists were to prove a happy solution for thewomen who knew they couldn't look or act like men andfor the men who preferred women should act likewomen. It was still keeping the entire affair withinthe Dramatic Association family and that was all thatmattered. Of course, opinion was torn into verballywell-armed camps. Everyone had an opinion ; everyoneexpressed it. A boycott threat, failing to disturb Martha Yaeger and her fellow board members, disintegrated intime for Mirror to score its biggest box-office succeain six years ! The almost fatal step really was a smattidea, and still is.A Century of Progress, in embryo, inspired the skitwriters a year later to exclaim "All's Fair!" Here, atlast, the feeling, the atmosphere were completely modern but not moderne. Fair architecture marched acrossthe stage long before Joseph Urban's color schemestained the fair grounds, and "Fish, Fish, Fish" wriggled on Mandel's stage steps. The show had pace; anew rhythm in the "sea ballet"; it had Dorothy Dunaway blues and "The Gypsy in Us."To present a seventh Mirror, aware but not repetitious of the "Fair," was a dare to any group — a darewell met when the board commanded "Take a Look!"And the audiences looked, finding it easy to forget thebank moratorium momentarily. The eighth production took a "Step Ahead," with the steppers introducinga new and lively note in dance routines.In exactly a decade Mirror had become an almost"professionally" amateur group. It had gained prestige,the wisdom of hours on the stage, and a notion of whatit could do best. "The time" had "come," as a walrussurmised, to consider the women's dramatic group fullgrown and well able to command attention because ofits ability. The need for catch phrases naming eachMirror was over and the habit of titles was promptlydropped. Two annual revues have crossed the Mandelboards under their own power, so to speak. The acidtest of public reaction has been favorable.Chronologically, this history has been briefly sketched.There is revealed an energetic, not-to-be-restrained organization with a sense of humor which permitted aflexible, and unprejudiced evolution. What is woefullylacking in the account is the human spark that makesthe whole idea of Mirror come alive. There is a humaninterest story about costumes well worth compiling, asort of "from skirts to shorts to tights" panorama, aswell as a statistical story on the total stitches on costumes which would reach from here to there. Nor is itpossible to dissociate the "seamstresses," the costumedirectors, and Mrs. Mina Schmidt's generous assistancefor many years. A history of ballet, tap, and stepping,from Marian Venable and Frank Parker to Berta Ochs-ner and Murriel Abbott, would reflect the changing patterns of period and dance director.A delightful Alger story awaits the historian who cantrace the Frances Dees or Fritz Leibers from Mirrorto Hollywood, or the Letitia Ides who danced gloriouslyfrom Mandel to Broadway, and the Eleanor Metzelswho, later through professional glasses, "realized thatthese three Mirrors were better than I thought then—6THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 7and I thought they were grand shows!" Again, thepersonal pleasures each member took in contributing toan annual revue ; hours of exhausting work ; birth painsof authorship, or creative activity; flurried dress rehearsals; fun on opening nights, in the house and backstage, too — those, too, would make good copy.Another tale could sketch the changes of internal organization from the days when Mirror had "starringroles" to the present, or trace variations in election ofboard members, from the officers of 1926 (when HelenLiggett, Louise Wietzer, Zoe May Sutherland, andCatherine Campbell were president, secretary, generalmanager and business manager respectively) to the 1937board (of which Betty Ellis is president, Jayne Paul-man, vice-president, and Jean Russell, Peggy Thompson, and Genevieve Fish are members at large).Even the sociologist would find interest in the evolution of university students' ideas of themselves, theuniversity, and the world at large, as revealed in theMirror skits, lyrics, and music* And this brings meat long last to the one personality ultimately responsiblefor the success Mirror has enjoyed — Frank HurburtO'Hara, Director of Dramatic Productions and discerning sponsor of Mirror in particular. That he has madeMirror, as Hollywood might say, is unquestioned. Butit is more than that. It is the nice distinction of smartness and good taste which he has enabled Mirror to~*See UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PLAYS, SKITS, LYRICS, editedby Frank Hurburt O'Hara. and recently published by The University ofChicago Press ($3.00).From the Chicago Daily News, February 4, 1937.AS ONE of the last bonds between the old order ofstalwart Maroons and the New Deal on the Midway stands Nels Norgren.A world war aviator, a great all-around athlete incollege when he led the Maroons to the Big Ten footballchampionship in 1913, Norgren has since become one ofthe nation's respected basketball coaches., He was the type of halfback that, as Zuppke said,"always could be counted on for four yards. That isa great back."Of such fellows you want to say : "These are the kindof men who keep up athletics," rather than that "theyare supported by sports."Nels, like so many of those old-time Maroons . . .John Schommer, Wally Steffen, Pat Page, Fred Walker,Babe Meigs, Ned Merriam, Ira Davenport, Fritz Crisler,Hugo Bezdek ... is first a gentleman and then a sportsman. When he had material he did as well with it technically as any of the coaches with higher percentages.He is credited with breaking up Meanwell's man-to-mandefense with the fast-dribbling of Harrison Barnes whenthe Maroons came out on top in '24. And he has takenthe long string of defeats since then with more gracethan possible to predict for any other coach in the conference. The Mirror Board discusses the 1937 productionGenevieve Fish, Peggy Thompson, Betty Ellis (president),Jayne Paulman, Jean Russellachieve. Or the knack of inspiring discouraged writers,actors, and stage "prop" men to "try it again." Or hisunerring instinct for the right pointing of dialogue orgesture or setting. And his way of transforming usfrom awed puppets to stimulated, animate human beings.These are the important personal things not only in theMirror show which taps smartly on stage, but also inthe years that follow.And so, true to a tradition of evolution — what will thetwelfth annual Mirror reflect? I suspect that, at thiswriting, only Mr. O'Hara really knows.Amid all the crackup of the old order on the Midway,Norgren has stood out trim and reliable, admired andrelied on by the old group and equally satisfactory to thenew. With Ned Merriam of the track team he is aboutthe last vestige of the old days. At Maroon meetingsthere nearly always goes up the cry : "We want Norgy !"Yet he has always kept in the background, calmly tending to his own assignments and asking no favors.Nels is not the winningest coach in the Big Ten, buthis is probably the winningest personality of them all.For sixteen years now, since 1921, he has been carryingon in this toughest of all leagues.Despite the fact that the current trend on the Midwayhas made his job a tough one, Norgren is heartily inagreement with it. "After all," he says, "the purposeof the game is to help the boys who play it, to give themconfidence in themselves, give them the enjoyment thatcomes in competition."The annals of the university are filled with the namesof basketball greats whom Norgren has developed, starssuch as Campbell Dickson, Joe Duggan, Chuck Hoerger,John McDonough, Sid Yates, Marshall Fish, PaulStephenson, Bill Haarlow and Harry Barnes. To all theboys, whether greats or not, Norgren has always(Continued on Page 14)THE SKATING FLAGSignals Perfect Ice Under North StandsLASTw o r winterr d wentabroad along theMidway that fascism of the deepestdye had invaded thecampus. Lettersfilled the Daily Maroon editor's box,the administrationoffices were swamped with calls, andthe campus pinkosprepared for a massprotest demonstration. A hasty investigation exposed the cause for all the sudden uproar.Someone had noticed a new addition to the flag pole,located in the heart of the main quadrangles, a whiteflag with a red center — which at a distance might resemble anything from a swastika to a rising sun. T.Nelson Metcalf, director of athletics came to the rescuewith a statement that the flag was nothing more than anew-fangled idea to notify the university communitythat winter had come and that the old patriarch himselfhad cooperated to the fullest extent in providing iceunder the west stands of the athletic field for actual andwould-be skaters. Confidentially, we are told, it's thebest skating ice in the city outside of the downtownarena.At the close of the first season of operation of thenew all- University skating rink last spring a total ofsome 900 students, faculty members, and employees ofthe University had taken advantage of the facilities. Tocoach Dan Hoffer, whose name is almost synonymouswith Big Ten gymnastic titles, goes a lot of credit forthe project. With the aid of a thousand dollars lastyear the stands which otherwise would have stood dormant were put to use and year-round athletic activity inStagg field was provided to the students.If you had liad occasion to saunter over to the rinkthe other day you might have found mingling with thestudents in the locker room adjacent, Mrs. W. T. Hutchinson and daughter (family of Associate ProfessorHutchinson, History), Professor and Mrs. Walter Palmer and their two children, and John Compton, son ofthe noted physicist. Too, over by the stove might havebeen seen Harmon Meigs, son of former athlete andnow journalist-alumnus, and quite an athlete in his ownright. The groups were either donning their skates orpreparing to leave after trying out the ice. If you hadgone out the door and on to the well-nurtured ice sheet(carefully frozen and graded each day), you probablywould have seeii more faculty members and studentsskating along under Coach Hoffer's tutelage to a martial air provided by a phonograph and an amplifier. Hoffer admits readily that he does not "rate" amongthe better middle west skaters, but he manages to keepthe newcomers on their feet — at least most of the time,and to prevent those who pride themselves on "knowing," from unduly cutting the ice. Along in the sameclass of excellence are numbered Director Metcalf andDudley Reed, professor of Hygiene and Bacteriology,who last December wrote and produced "A Minor inManners" for benefit of the University Settlement.Rating among the best in skating families are Professorand Mrs. Carl Moore (Zoology) and Professor and Mrs.Arthur II. Compton who find time for frequent outings.A glance at the roll of registrations add more namesto the list of notable visitors, Rollin T. Chamberlain,.Coach Shaughnessy, Professor and Mrs. Ted Frost (Library School), Dean Carl Huth and family, John H.Cover (Business), Lester Dragstedt and family (Surgery), Professor and Mrs. Harvey Carr (Psychology),and so on, including more than two hundred facultynames and their children.At night the rink is lighted, the music plays on, theinstructors are usually on hand, and clubs or mixedgroups have a comparatively inexpensive "date," exceptfor the occasional, inevitable cup of coffee or hot chocolate to nip the arctic breath that drifts upwards from afrozen floor.The total registrations this season have reached 1,275with a doubling of last year's total expected. EvenJames W.L i n n whohas neverbeen seenthereaboutsbeforedropped i nthe otherday to register. Whenthe weather's fine andthe ice isnot too thin,t h e skatingflag is hoisted up theflag poleand the faculty and students makeuse of theUni vers ity'snewest e x -periment.Coach Hofferwould ratherskate than eat -¦--¦. ¦"?. g* *" \v\ jjgjbhhc« J^l jWBBBW1 IiiA^ltWWmwlwBmMi9JJmt^^m i ^m"—^*mfl^fl ^fls^lie •""*.. -«-r».i r_«C r,,?jHH8EIGHT O'CLOCK MAILHere's Old Rush spirit : ". . . I have noted with agreat deal of interest the arrangements which are beingmade for the coming centennial of the old Rush schoolin June, next. I will make every effort to be at thegathering and to perpetuate the old Rush spirit." Dr.John Ritter, MD'80, Miami, Florida.You will note, doctor, the change in date to thefall quarter announced elsewhere in the Magazine.We hope this necessary change in plans will notprevent you from being here at that time.This is typical of many enthusiastic letters receivedeach month about the same contributing editor: "I particularly enjoy In My Opinion by Dr. Millett. May hewrite long and never develop a cramp."Vying ivith Mr. Millett for popularity — we mightadd — is News of the Quadrangles by ContributingEditor William Morgenstern.Here's one interested in figures! "I should like to seean article occasionally by one of the members of theMathematics Department. Of course that is a technicalsubject but I see no reason why some member of theDepartment should not be able to write a 'non-technical'article on mathematics if you can get someone at it."And that, sir, is all that stands between you andthe article: getting someone at it! In the meantime we can here and now furnish you a mathematical problem propounded at lunch the other day atthe round table in the Quadrangle Club. It seemsthat a man had 12 maroon sox and 12 blue sox inthe dresser drawer of his room. A guest was occupying the room for the night and had long sinceretired before the aforementioned gentleman discovered he needed a clean pair for morning. Slippingquietly into the room he determined not to turn onthe light and azvaken his guest. Groping in theMack Evans awaits the signal for "Climbin' up the Mountain" on theVarsity Show draiver he withdrew the least number of sox thatwould assure him a matched pair. How many soxdid he take out of the dark room? Three, althoughyou'd be surprised if we told you that some of ourmost brilliant faculty men guessed 13.' They werenot mathematicians, however.In response to a renewal of membership letter whichenclosed a small pup, ears up and head cocked to oneside and saying, "Well, how about it ! Do we get ourcheck?" came this: "Yes, doggone it, you do! . . .Maybe it's time now to say I just cannot live withoutmy U. of C. Magazine! but I can! I do have interesting and even pleasant U. of C. memories, but I havebeen somewhat disappointed that the Romance Department doesn't get enough space to give me much newsabout it." M. R., San Angelo, Texas.We are making a note on our desk pad to seewhat's happening in "Romance" around the quadrangles and wilt call you back later.•What they thought of the Varsity Show broadcast :". . . one of the most delightful and enjoyable programsthat I have heard." Benjamin Prescott, '30, JohnsHopkins.•"We all listened in and thoroughly enjoyed it, eventhough it made us a bit homesick. Personally, becausethe University Choir is the source of many happy memories, I was glad to find that it was included in the program." Beulah Temple Wild, '27,AM'29, Houston,Texas.•"Rest assured, that anything that comes from MandelHall is enthusiastically welcomed, and touches a responsive chord in our hearts." J. van de Erve, '10,MDT1,Medical College of the State of South Carolina.Director Bachman provides the "background" with the UniversityBand910 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE"I enjoyed every minute of the program, picturing itin familiar Mandel Hall, and although I was all alonein my room, I joined heartily in singing the Chicagosongs. To feel that thousands of alumni between theAtlantic and Pacific, Alaska and the Gulf were thusBob Fitigerald plays and sings his own Blackfriar composition:"Can this be Love?"connected for a few moments . . . strengthened no doubtthe bond to our Alma Mater." Abigail Lazelle, TO,AM'31, Boston, Mass.•"It was a versatile and attractive program throughout. The . . . Magazine is also an excellent avenue ofpublicity which I always enjoy seeing. (Pardon us, wedidn't mean for you to see that sentence! — Ed.) All inall the University of Chicago is about as going a concern as can be found in the education field." Dean PaulE. Johnson, AM'21, Morning Side College, SiouxCity, Iowa.•". . . Clustering friends, perhaps because of the milddepravity one reaches here on Friday nights, reportedthat their favorite act was the one of the two culturedyoung men in the railroad tower." Bruce L. Smith,'33, New York City.•"The chief asset of the show was the great amount oforiginal material presented." Jesse A. Reed, Jr., '38,Chicago.•". . . The music was excellent . . ." Agatha L. Tos-ney, ex'36, Dixon, 111.•There may have been many who felt as follows butthis is the only response in the negative that has cometo our attention to date: "I am renewing my subscription notwithstanding the radio program put on by the student body some few evenings ago under the sponsorship of some oil company (and we were afraid the sponsor talked too long about Pontiac!) I think it wasmighty poor advertising for the old U. of C. However,it will take more than this, bad as it was, to lessen myinterest." O. J. Arnold, '97, Minneapolis, Minn.". . . It surely made me feel proud that I am an alumnus of good old Chicago. ... By the way, I drive aPontiac 1936 and am planning on trading it in for a1937 when the strike is over. (We're sending a copyof the Magazine to Pontiac, of course! — Ed.) I said Idrive a Pontiac, sorry I don't own one but the financecompany holds that privilege." (That's a familiar notethat also makes most of us one.) Dale D. Dorgeloh, '31,Pella, Iowa.•"I certainly wish that we could have more like it."(Can someone spare $15,000?) Robert J. Lindahl,ex'35, Chicago.•"The recording and broadcasting of the brain waveswas excellent — real food for thought. The performance reminded us of the General Electric House ofMagic at the World's Fair. We should have liked moreof such novel educational work." Nell Sawin Johnson,(until recently, supervisor of Judson & Burton Courts),Yankton, South Dakota."It's Lousy but it's Commercial" chant Marv. Jacobs (piano) andRoy Soderlind on the Varsity Show•And if we were permitted an expression we wouldadd that, for us, one of the thrills of the evening wasthe salute to father and son Luckhardt following theplaying of Hilmar's symphonic "master's thesis." Also,although you may not have been conscious of it, the veryfact that you weren't speaks well for the incidental background and "buildup" music by the University band !THE CAMPUS DISSENTER• By SAM HAIR '35IT ALL happened on the last Friday in January.The afternoon of that fateful day, there had been a"Swing Session" in Mandel Hall, when entertain-ers from the loop's Blackhawk restaurant had come outto give vent to a couple of hours of swing music (initiates called it" a "jam session".) This indulgence insyncopated lambastation went off happily enough, butthat night at the University's Pontiac Varsity Radio:Show in Mandel, members of the American StudentUnion, cairipus left wing organization, picketed the hall,and distributed pamphlets eairrymg the names of radicalorganizations outside the university. The pamphletsadmonished the audience not to be scabs, which theywould be if they listened approvingly to a program ofstudent entertainment sponsored by a subsidiary of General Motors. The picketers also asked all attending togreet the show, not with applause, but with ominoussilence, thereby indicating disapproval of Pontiac andthe economic royalists of General Motors. Whateverthe plan, the leaders got cold feet; the show was asuccess.Four days later, the Daily Maroon viewed the incident with editorial alarm, charging that the campusleftists were playing stooge for outside radical groups,that individuals in the ASU were using that body as afront for activities not really sponsored by it. Whereupon, the ASU bristled in letters to the editor, denyingall the charges, and charging ignorance and prejudiceon the part of the Maroon. The ASU stands in fairrepute on campus, willingly adheres fo university ordinances, and would think twice before flouting them.That the incident was ill-timed and ineffective, all admitted. Future generations of ASUers and Marooneditors will refer back to this as the "Pontiac case," andprobably continue to misunderstand each other.Dramatic AssociationOn this Friday, too, was the Dramatic Association'sthird performance of "The Country Wife." WilliamWycherly wrote it in 1673, when men were usuallymen, and women were far from subtle. The productionwas hailed as a masterpiece of wit and bawdry. LillianSchoen, Henry Reese, and Harrison Hughes performedexpertly to raise it above the level of previous productions this year, unloading many hitherto neglected bitsof the Restoration vocabulary. When the DA puts ona good show, campus theatre-goers attend en masse, andeach night is a sell-out. "The Country Wife," steepedin comic sin, was one of these.Fraternity PledgesOn the same day had appeared the list of 154 menpledged by seventeen fraternities. Psi Upsilon garnereda class of seventeen men; Alpha Delta Phi, sixteen; PhiDelta Theta and Delta Kappa Epsilon, fourteen each. The Interfraternity committee deplored the prevalenceof violations of the rushing rules during the period ofintensive rushing, but suggested no recourse. Reportsof departures from the rules are few, for a fraternityman hesitates to play the part of informer, reporting aviolation by another group, lest he draw retaliation tohis own — it is hardly cricket for the pot to call the kettleblack. The total list of pledges established a new lowfor the last four years." Printer's Ink on the QuadranglesNow, the smoke clears over one more minor publications skirmish, induced by our newspaper's panningof our magazine. The Phoenix, originally intended andconceived of as a magazine of collegiate and otherhumor, effected a merger last spring with Comment,a literary magazine. A year ago, the Phoenix was adrab little failure, its staff inept and calloused to criticism. Comment, hardly literary and hardly a magazine,was little better. When, with a new staff, a new outlook, a new objective, and a theoretical merger with aliterary magazine, the Phoenix resumed publication thisyear, the undergrads were more willing to call it theirown, for it was an ample and respectable vehicle forstudent literary and artistic talent. With succeeding issues, however, its standards fell, its size dwindled,and members of its business staff were not above suspicion. Whereat, the Daily Maroon proceeded to wadein, as of old, crying incompetency in the Phoenix, aswell as shame, and demanding reform. This being insufficient, a new magazine was proposed by one of theMaroon staff, which would not ostensibly compete withPhoenix, but which eventually would bring a showdown between the two, for two cannot survive financially.- This new venture, however, was buried beforeit was born — three days later, those who had proposedit proposed to defer it until next year, when there is apossibility that it will undergo resurrection, be calledPulse, print news and features, and make life miserablefor Phoenix.Meanwhile, the editorship and business managershipof the Phoenix had been changed, Henry Reese supplanting Sidney Hyman as editor, and the magazinehad improved again, somewhat. News of Pulse arousedwhite-hot editorial temperatures on the last page ofthe Phoenix, where, among other things, sarcastic planswere laid for a new Coffee Shop to compete with thatwhich exists, as well as a rival University of Chicagoin the basement of the Beta house. That last wordbeing duly displayed, the battle is now over.One more publication was added to the campus familyin the form of an International House Quarterly, published by the three international houses of Berkeley, NewYork, and Chicago, and aiming at the promotion of{Continued on Page 17)11PLAYS, SKITS, AND LYRICSA LOT of alumni are going to be surprised whenthey discover that the football coach is writingabout something outside of athletics. A lot more,those who still believe in "tackles-back" are going to beshocked when they find him writing dramatic criticism.As a matter of fact, I was a little startled myself whenCharlton Beck asked me to write a review of the University Press' new book, Plays, Skits and Lyrics,edited by Frank O'Hara.When you look at the matter broadly, however, Mr.O'Hara and I are trying to accomplish about the sameresults in the field of Public Appearance. Pie takesgreen, untrained material, works with it, dresses it up,and sends* it out before an audience to speak its piece.I do almost the same thing. Sometimes our boys do agood job, sometimes they find the situation a little toodifficult for them, but in either case they try to do theirbest. We work on the same material, O'Hara and I,sometimes even with identical students. (For instance,I notice that Omar Fareed is making his first appearanceunder the O'Hara banner this month.) Both of us beginscrimmage every year with much new stuff; we feelour way ; we cast our hunches ; we begin to sense whatwe actually can count on. Both of us know "the play'sthe thing" and yet we are not professional trainers orpromoters. We try to be educators, if I understand theword, and an integral part of this institution on theMidway. I wish that Mr. Whitford Kane might interpret the athletics of this university with the same insight he has brought to bear upon the dramatic activitiesin his introduction to the plays, or that someone couldbe as clever and constructive about sports as BeatriceLillie is about burlesques in her introduction to theskits and lyrics.One point that Frank O'Hara and I have in commonis that we are both Irish. It seems to be a trait of ourpeople that unless you can get some fun out of what youare doing, why thejob isn't worth theeffort. I know weboth feel this waybecause we have discussed this pointmore than once. Wetry to teach thatdramatics or football is not worthmuch unless you getsome fun out ofdoing it.I know it won'tsurprise anyonewhen I come out inthe open and admitthat I am no dram-Frank O'Hara atic critic. I can't Clark Shaughnessy• By CLARK SHAUGHNESSYtell what are thetechnical faults ofthese plays — if theyhave any. If thesubject was theWarner doublewing-back formationI could get down torockbottom fundamentals, but plays,and songs, and skitsare not in my line.Right at the start,however, I can saythis about the book :It makes me feelproud to be connected with a schoolwhere a group ofstudents will put so much time and effort on any singleproject that enough material will be accumulated to filla book. The football coach knows better than anyoneelse about the necessity of practice. It takes weeks toget ready for that short hour on Saturday afternoon.Actors and football players are alike in that they neverhave enough rehearsing. I know that Plays, Skits andLyrics is like an iceberg — only about one-ninth of thework is between the covers of the book.I think it is a real book. For me it had a tremendousamount of drive and originality. As a conscientiouscritic I read the book through from cover to cover. Ienjoyed everything, those that I had seen before on thestage of Mandel Hall, and those that I was reading forthe first time. I can't even pick out any particular playor song that I liked better than the rest because I likedthem all. And if the football coach enjoyed this book,then the intelligent alumni, and I understand you mustbe intelligent or you wouldn't be alumni, will be crazyabout it. Between these covers is the feel of the workshop, where a lot of loyal students co-operate whetheror not they win a letter or a place in the limelight andthe creative anticipation of the audience (Stagg Fieldunderstands Mandel Hall).In fact, I think that this is as important a book as hascome off the University Press. Perhaps I think thisbecause Frank O'Hara and I are in the same field ofteaching. Neither of us is trying to produce professionals. We both hope our boys will carry away someof the fundamentals of cooperation, self-assurance andindividual thinking. Plays, Skits and Lyrics is a concrete example of how well O'Hara has succeeded.Critics, I am told by those who should know, are supposed never to say the same thing twice in the sameway. I am going to break that rule right. now. Onecoach to another (the artist in him will allow the term),I say this is a real book to keep on one's shelves.12A HARVARD MANOn Academic FreedomOgden L. Mills15 Broad StreetNew YorkDecember 3, 1936Meredith Blagden, Esq.,Harvard University Office,28 West 44th Street,New York City.Dear Meredith:I have been thinking over our conversation withreference to the reluctance of some Harvard men tocontribute to the Tercentenary Endowment Fund because of alleged radicalism in the University, and ofthe outside activities of certain members of the faculty.The more I think of it, the more I am satisfied thatsuch an attitude is unjustified.As I understand it, the outside activities complainedof consist of unofficial participation in the formulation ofthose policies of government which have come to beknown as the "New Deal," and more particularly of theadvocacy of certain measures that in the opinion ofmany run counter to the form and spirit of our institutions.No one has opposed these measures more stronglythan I have, or been more critical of much of the NewDeal. But, if a member of the Harvard faculty is calledupon to advise his Government, I cannot for the life ofme see what else he can do save respond. And surely, ifhe does advise, he must speak according to his ownconscience and convictions. Certainly he should notendeavor to present what he conceives to be the viewsof the Corporation or the alumni. He has no right tospeak for them. He is not in any sense their representative. He is acting outside the scope of his professional duties, and in his own time, as a private citizenwhose opinion is valued by those in authority.A teacher has as much right to engage in outside activities, and to express his views on public questions, asany other professional man. That his views may notcoincide with those of a governing board, or do violenceto the convictions of the great body of graduates, maybe unfortunate, but to ask him to remain silent unlesshis opinions conform to theirs, would be to limit hisright as a citizen, to deprive him of part of his liberty,and to impose humiliating restrictions unacceptable toindependent and high-minded men. -Any University attempting to enforce such a censorship would soon cease to attract preeminent men whocombine independence of mind with sound scholarship,the very men who bring it strength and vitality. Itwould thus pay a penalty so heavy as to make anytemporary embarrassment or irritation occasioned bythe words or activities of an individual, however imprudent, seem comparatively trivial.I recognize, of course, that by saying things which may shock public sentiment, a professor can do greatharm to the institution with which he is connected.However, good taste, a sense of the proprieties and theinfluence of his colleagues can be relied upon to exercise a restraining influence. Should these fail, even so,I am sure that as compared with unfair and humiliatingrestrictions, and their inevitable consequences, the temporary embarrassment is the lesser of two evils.There is a point, however, at which exception can betaken to the outside activities of a member of the faculty,that is when they interfere with his work, or it becomesapparent that they constitute a primary rather than anincidental interest, and that the teacher is using the prestige of his university position to build up an outsidecareer or to promote outside causes. Even then, soimportant do I consider individual rights that I wouldprefer to rely on such pressure as would unquestionablybe exerted by his colleagues, rather than the disciplinaryaction of a governing board.The objection to radical teaching raises a very different problem. It is not a question here of the individualrights of the teacher, but of the performance of his professional duties. Since he is acting in his official capacity, it is clear that, if the University so desires, itcan hold him accountable not only for the quality andcharacter but for the what of his teaching. This doubtless is what those temporarily irritated by some incidentwould have the governing board do.But, upon second consideration, they must realize thefolly of any such action. A University exists for thepursuit and dissemination of learning. If it is not aplace where men may seek the truth with open minds,it betrays its true character and purpose. Search for thetruth means a constant endeavor to widen the boundaries of knowledge, and there is here a fatal contradiction if men are compelled to accept as final any particular social, political or other philosophy, or if restrictionsare placed on their critical faculties, or if they are forbidden to state the truth as they honestly find it.In the life of the University, as in the life of theworld at large, there is no source of creative activityother than the individual human spirit. Confine thatspirit within rigid limits, and it soon becomes sterile.That is the unanswerable reason for unswerving fidelityto the principle of academic freedom. Upon its maintenance depends the continued vitality of Harvard andevery other University. rIt may be argued, nevertheless, that however important academic freedom may be, since young men andwomen are compelled to attend classes, the Universityis under an obligation to see that they are not compelled to listen to and to absorb unsound doctrine. Thereis an obligation. But what is unsound doctrine? Andwhat can afford greater protection against it than freeinquiry conducted by men whose intellectual processes1314 T H E U N I Y E R S I T Y C) F C HICAGO M A G A Z I N Econform with the highest requirements of true scholarship? How better can the University meet its obligation to its members than by appointing such men andgiving them a free hand?For my part, I would have little faith in my own beliefs and principles if I felt that they needed the shelterof authority and could not withstand the searching analysis of those who honestly hold otherwise. And Iassume, of course, that in any well-conducted institution both sides of controverted questions will be adequately presented. Doesn't it all come down to pickinga group of clear-thinking scholars, who are primarilyscholars, balancing the inevitable tendencies to right andleft, and then letting discussion rage?As in the case of outside activities, there is a pointbeyond which I would not go. I would never permitthe Universities to be subjected, in the name of academic freedom, to an organized effort to use them aspropaganda mediums.To state an extreme case for purposes of illustration.if a group of industrialists, who believe in high tariffprotection, should undertake, directly or indirectly, topromote the teaching of such a doctrine in the University, and if any member or members of the facultyshould lend themselves to such an' organized undertaking, the University should take suitable measures toprotect itself. And this would be equally true in anyother case of an organized effort from the outside to influence teaching. To hold otherwise would be not todefend academic freedom but to justify its perversion.The line might conceivably on occasions be hard todraw, but the principle is clear and definite. If a truescholar honestly seeks the truth he should be permittet]to expound it as he finds it, without restrictions of anykind, no matter how radical his views may be. If, however, he deems it his duty to serve some other causethen his place is in the outside world, and not in aUniversity. It is not a question of freedom. It is aquestion of loyalty. If a man's loyalty is to the highmission of the University, well and good. If his realloyalties lie elsewhere, he should not endeavor to servetwo piasters.However, it is so vital that academic freedom shouldnever be brought into question that disciplinary actionshould not be taken by a governing board unless it isclear either that outside interference exists or that theyare confronted with an organized movement.I apologize for having written at such length. Having started, I wanted to think this business throughfor my own satisfaction. But do tell our friends whoare troubled that there is no cause for anxiety, and thatas Harvard begins her fourth century of service, she isentitled without reservation to the whole-hearted support of all Harvard men.Sincerely yours,Ogden L. Mills.// NELS //(Continued from Page 7)remained "Norg," the bald-pated, good-natured gent whocan always be relied upon to give a little timely encouragement as well as some expert advice. Norgren hasthe habit of mixing well with the boys, and makes ahabit of taking the squadout" after a well-playedgame and treating themto a meal. Or, after someparticularly close contestwhich they may havelost, he usually managesto grin them back intospirits again with a typical Norgrenism : "Well.boys, we can't win themall!"Some shakes as anathlete himself in his undergraduate days, from1910 to 1914, Norgrenwas one of the two menin University of Chicagohistory to win twelve letters. The other was Paul"Shorty" Desjardiens, who played at the same time asNorgren, but who fudged a little in collecting his dozen,since he was in school slightly more than four years.Norgren was a backfield star on the football team,captaining the 1913 conference champions. He playedat forward in basketball, was a shot-putter and discus-thrower during the track season, and scooted aroundNels as "seen" through the pen ofDaily News artist Roy Nelson first base for the baseball team which likewise captureda conference title in 1913.When asked how he managed to do all this Norgrenonly laughs, shakes his head and says : "I guess I was alittle too ambitious. In the spring especially I used tohave to hustle quite a bit in jumping back and forth between the track and baseball teams."As a football player Norgren's punting has probablynever been excelled, and old-timers will keep on for.hours with tales of his sleight-of-foot.After graduation, Norgren coached at Utah from 1914to 1917, and saw his team win the National A. A. U.cage championship in 1916. He joined the army airservice in 1917, and served as a pursuit pilot, with arank of first lieutenant, until the end of the war, a warwhich took the lives of several of his former teammates—Harold Goettler, "Spike" Shull, and Walter Goddard.He came back to Chicago in 1921. In 1924 he turnedout a team which tied for the conference championship.Three seasons ago Bill Haarlow ran amuck at Pattongym, and by scoring 21 points blasted Northwestern intothe defeat column and out of the championship running.Some skillful psychology by Norgren helped pull thisone out for Chicago, for Haarlow, conference scoringchampion the following year, had been injured, kept outof several games previously, and was not expected totake the floor against the Wildcats. His last-minute injection not only aided the Maroons but also demoralizedthe Northwestern cagers, who fouled out two men inattempting to stop the Chicago star.JULIUS STIEGLITZ1867—1937THE death of Professor Julius Stieglitz on January 10, 1937, takes from the campus one of thefew remaining figures who were present whenthe University opened its doors. For over forty years,Professor Stieglitz had been actively engaged in teachingon the Midway, and the corps of those who have listenedto his lectures must constitute a considerable proportionof the alumni of the university.Born in Hoboken, in 1867, Professor Stieglitz receivedmost of his higher education in Germany. He attendedfirst the Gymnasium at Karlsruhe and later the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin. From the latter institution he received his Ph. D. degree in 1889, and thereas a student he heard the lectures of A. W. von Hofmann which so deeply impressed him.Returning to this country, Professor Stieglitz wasemployed for two years by the Parke, Davis Company.Then, at the invitation of President Harper, he gave upcommercial chemistry and came to Chicago as instructoror (to use his own term) docent without salary in thenew chemistry department just setting out under theguidance of John Ulric Nef. But his extraordinaryabilities were soon recognized. He rose steadily throughthe ranks of the department, and on the death of Professor Nef in 1915 was made its chairman. In thiscapacity he served the university until his retirement asprofessor emeritus in 1933. He continued, however, tolecture and to conduct research until within a few weeksof his death.On the campus, Professor Stieglitz will probably beremembered longest for his lectures. Organic chemistrywas his field, and his skill in expounding the intricaciesof that subject was phenomenal. There was little of thespontaneous in his discourses, but they were models ofcareful construction, lucid thinking and just emphasis.Very few of those who heard him in Chemistry 321-3(his principal course during his later years) will everforget the experience. It was a frequent occurrence tofind in his audience an old graduate or a younger member of the department who had dropped in, not with theintention of learning something new, but merely for thepleasure of listening to a brilliant scientific exposition.As a director of research, Professor Stieglitz acquireda national reputation. The founders of his departmentquickly raised it to a position of eminence. While theylived, he measured up to the high mark they set ; aftertheir death, he maintained their standards. To workwith him was a privilege, for the Ph. D. candidate underhis direction received far more than a mere training inmanipulative technique. The chemical problems whichoccupied his mind were large, and every student in hislaboratory was given the opportunity to contribute withboth band and brain to their solution. Julius StieglitzAmong Professor Stieglitz'sresearch subjects were molecular rearrange-in e n t s v thestereo - chemistry of nitrogencompounds, theelectron theoryof valence, andthe theory ofthe origin ofcolor in organicsubstances. Toeach of these hemade importantc o n t r i b u-tions. His enthusiasm for theapplication ofphysical chemistry to other chemical fields led him to write a text bookon qualitative analysis which revolutionized the teachingof that subject in the United States. As a recognitionof his achievements, there came to him many honors —lectureships and memberships in various scientific academies, the presidencies of the American ChemicalSociety and of the Society of the Sigma Xi, honorarydegrees from Clark University and the University ofPittsburgh, and the Willard Gibbs Medal.Yet his activities were not confined within the limits ofthe chemical profession. Cautious in temperament,sound in judgment and tireless in effort, his abilities asan educator and as an executive were recognized by successive university administrations. Many faculty committees dealing with educational problems benefited byhis patient application and clear-headed advice. Outsideof the university, his chief interest lay in medicine. Histwin brother became a doctor ; both of his children graduated from the medical school, and most of the timewhich he took from his university duties was spent inaiding the advance of medicine, particularly on itschemical side. He was long a member of the Councilon Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American MedicalAssociation ; the Chicago Institute of Medicine made himits president. For the Chemical Foundation he editedthe volume entitled Chemistry and Medicine, a subjecton which he was regarded as one of the authorities inthis country.In the few moments which could be spared from somany occupations, Professor Stieglitz was an enthusiastic photographer and golfer. Indeed photography may1516 T It E LJ N I V IC R S I T Y O F CHICAGO M A G A Z I N Esaid to have run in his family, for he was the youngerother of Alfred Steiglitz, the noted leader in that field.His own photographic productions were of high artisticquality, as anyone who has visited his office or his homecan testify. In golf, he may not have attained distinction, but there can be no two opinions about his zest forthe game.It is to the fidelity, the scholarship, and the intellectualThe death of Clarence B. Herschberger, December 14, 1936, brought back early memoriesto Amos Alonzo Stagg:CLARENCE HERSCHBERGER /^^Xentered the University of Chi- / ^P ^k\cago in the fall term of 1894. He was / \then about 18 years of age. He came / \out for football and at once exhibitedsuperior talent for the game. At that ^^F Itime, football was beginning to spread \m Jthroughout the middlewest. The new ^B /University of Chicago had just com- /pleted two years of her existence. At the university, football players "Herschie"with experience were few in number."Herschie" was one of these few. While not large then,about 150 pounds, and later 158 pounds, he was giftedathletically. He had excellent physical co-ordinationand athletic sense. In addition to football, he was abaseball player of class and a good all-around track manfor that period. He won his varsity letter in all threesports.His athletic reputation was greatest in football, being-selected on Walter Camp's All-American team, if mymemory is right, in 1898. He was the first player westof the Allegheny mountains to receive that honor.He was an excellent all around player. Although nota fast runner, he was a good ball carrier, a superiordodger, a fine punt catcher and a strong defensiveplayer.He was an exceptional punter for those days and veryaccurate. He kicked a spiral ball from a straight aheadposition rather than from the side which was the accepted method in punting in that period. I alwaysthought that his consistency in kicking a spiral wasaided by the anatomical construction of his foot as hetoed in slightly in his walking. He punted with thegreatest consistency for a total distance of between 50and 55 yards and his ball was inclined to fade away atthe end, which bothered the opponents in catching."Herschie" was a good drop kicker as well as punter.He won the Chicago-Michigan game, played on Thanksgiving day, 1896, in the old Coliseum on 63rd streetwhere the Tower theater now is, by a 40-yard drop kick.Chicago had previously gotten a safety, so the final scorewas 7 to 6. integrity of such men as Julius Stieglitz that the University of Chicago owes its position in the community andin the world of science. He and his colleagues duringthe first quarter century of the university's life set upstandards of achievement the maintenance of which maywell tax the efforts of their successors. It is a privilegeto have known these men, and an honor to be chosento continue the tradition they founded.• By A. A. STAGGHowever, when I conceived the idea of a place kickfrom scrimmage, I decided to substitute place kickingfor drop kicking. We sprang this play successfullythree times on Michigan in the Thanksgiving day gamein 1897, played in the Coliseum, winning 21 to 12. Fifteen of these points came from Herschberger's placekicks from scrimmage with Cordon Clarke holding theball.That was the year when Herschberger and WalterKennedy, close friends, unbeknown to me, staged a contest to see who could put on the most weight in onesitting. "Herschie" gained seven pounds and Kennedyseven and a quarter pounds.Just before the Wisconsin game of that year,"Herschie" ate thirteen eggs at one sitting and, as aresult, he had gastric fever and could not play. I alwaysfelt that "Herschie's" indiscretion lost the Wisconsingame and with it the championship because he was anindispensable part of our team.Herschberger played football on the University ofChicago teams of 1894, 1896, 1897 and 1898. He didnot play in 1895 because of his family's, objection. Herefused to go to college that fall if he could not playbut returned in the spring. That fall, while hunting, hehad the misfortune of wounding himself in the hand. Asa result of that accident, he thereafter had consent toplay football.Two or three of Herschberger's other feats are worthrecalling. He was so clever that I had him practice topping the ball as he kicked off, causing it to roll forwardthe required ten yards. We sprang the play on Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1898 and "Herschie" recovered his own kick-off with a gain of twelve yards.He was so accurate in his punting that I urged uponhim the developing of a special skill. At that time itwas possible for the punter to recover his own kickand, in scrimmage, I had "Herschie" practice recoveringhis own punt after kicking the ball high for 15 to 20yards down the field. He became so clever with it thatagainst Northwestern, he recovered his own punt threetimes, a feat which, to my knowledge, is unexcelled inthe history of football.With all the fame which came to him for his accomplishments, he was modest and unassuming and vefjmuch liked by everybody.CLARENCE B. HERSCHBERGERGEORGE T. McDERMOTT|n MemoriamTHE Alumni Society of the University of Chicagosuffered a great loss in the death of Judge GeorgeT. McDermott of the Tenth Circuit Court ofAppeals of the United States, who passed away at Winfield, Kansas, Tuesday, January 19, 1937. Just ten daysprior thereto he had taken his wife from their home inTopeka to a hospital at Winfield, Kansas, for an appendicitis operation andthe clay before her operation he wastaken to the same hospital with an attack of influenza. Four days later hegot up and went to Oklahoma City to !hold court, where he suffered a relapseand was returned to the hospital andsuccumbed five days later to lobarpneumonia.He left surviving him, besides hiswife, two daughters, Jane, a student atLeland-Stanford, and Mary, a studentat Swarthmore, and one son, James, asenior in the Topeka High School.George McDermott was born inWinfield, Kansas, October 21, 1886,the son of James McDermott, a member of the Winfield Bar. He receivedhis Bachelor's degree at Southwestern College in thatcity in June, 1906, and entered the Law School of theUniversity of Chicago that fall.Almost from the beginning George McDermottwas recognized by his classmates as the most brilliantman in the class. He received the degree of Juris Doctor, cum laude, in September, 1909. In addition to hisschool work he did a large part of the research workfor Professor Floyd R. Mechem in the preparation ofthe second edition of Mechem on Agency, which hassince stood out as the most complete and dependabletext book ever produced on the subject.Not only was George McDermott a brilliant student, but his happy disposition and companionable spiritmade him one of the most popular men in the LawSchool.These characteristics were indicative of his entirelife and were attested to by the gathering of manyprominent lawyers, judges, statesmen, business men andothers from all sections of the country to pay tributeat his funeral in Topeka on January 23rd.After leaving school he entered the practice of lawat Topeka and soon thereafter formed a partnership withthe Honorable Robert Stone, one of the prominentmembers of the Kansas Bar.When the United States entered the World WarMcDermott went to an officers' training school andthereafter was commissioned a First Lieutenant in the339th Field Artillery, which saw service overseas untilthe signing of the Armistice. When the war was over he • By R. C. FULBRIGHT, JD'09resumed his practice at Topeka and soon after waselected President of the Chamber of Commerce and laterbecame a member of the Topeka Board of Educationand took great interest in all public affairs of his State.In 1927 he was appointed United States District Judgeby President Coolidge. Less than two years from thatdate, when the new United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit was created by act of Congress in1929, he was named as one of the original judges of that court, where he servedwith great distinction until his death.Judge McDermott possessed a rarecombination of legal acumen, scintillating wit, genial companionship, drivingenergy and common sense. Many ofhis judicial opinions stand out asclassics in legal literature. On theBench he displayed the dignity andpoise which properly went with the highoffice he occupied, and he inspired therespect and confidence of all who appeared before him. Off the Bench hewas just plain George McDermott toall who knew him and was always delighted to meet and mingle with his old friends, bothhigh and low.He was always loyal to the University of Chicagoand nothing gave him greater pleasure than to meetsome of his old school friends. He took an active interest in the American Bar Association, the American LawInstitute and his state and local bar associations, andat the same time he took a broad public interest in allaffairs of his State. He was not only the leading judgeof Kansas, but one of its leading citizens. He was agreat judge and a wonderful man.Campus Dissenter(Continued from Page 11)that elusive and new-fangled notion called internationalgood-will.The latest issue of Soapbox, a Socialist Club product,included contributions from James T. Farrell (StudsLonigan), and Newman Thomas, as well as turgidpoetry, with a Point, by Winston Ashley.The winter quarter, so far, seems to be a little moreforceful in conversation and in print, for the shynessesand reticences of the early months of orientation aregone, Aristotle is still supposed to have written enoughto warrant our consideration, and we now are fairlycertain that he was a philosopher, but not an ignorantman.17IN MY OPINION• By FRED B.THE contemporary American novelist has not restricted his quest for exotic materials to eventhe remoter cultures of Western Europe.1 TheNear East, to be sure, seems to have tempted few American authors of our generation to its imaginative exploitation, although H. G. Dwight's Stamboul Nights(1916) indicated the potentialities of that milieu, andby its delicacy of touch and its skilful evocation ofatmosphere won the position of a minor contemporaryclassic. The Far East has proved a far more energizing stimulus to the imaginations of American writersof the last forty years or more.The modern cult of the primitive, for example, foundits perfect setting in the South Seas. More than ageneration ago, Robert Louis Stevenson in glowingwords and Paul Gauguin in even more glowing colorspublicized the physical and sensory allurements of thefar-flung islands of the Pacific, and in the early decadesof our century Joseph Conrad made himself the brooding sovereign of many a dank jungle and sun-smittenpromontory. No artists of similar stature have utilizedthis material with equal effectiveness, but to a broodof lesser talents, the South Seas have become as reliablea waterway to romance as any that has been navigated.Thus, primitive man and nature struggle through theActive chromolithographs of that naive romantic, JackLondon. Such highly colored travel books as FrederickO'Brien's White Shadows of the South Seas (1919) andAtolls of the Sun (1922) furnished settings and motifsthat became the stock in trade of the romance-mongersof the stage and screen. Two young American veteransof the World War, James Norman Hall and CharlesNordhoff, moved by a common revulsion from the complexities and frustrations of Western civilization, wentinto voluntary exile on an island in the South Seas.At first reluctant to draw the public's attention to theirearthly paradise, they ultimately joined the chorus ofpraise in Faery Lands of the South Seas (1922), and inrecent years have not only exploited the history of theBounty in a semi-fictitious trilogy, Mutiny on the Bounty(1932), Men Against the Sea (1934), and PitcairnsIsland (1934), but have turned their remote and fascinating life to melodramatic account in their popularnovel, Hurricane (1936).The rather tawdry uses to which the South Sea settings have been put on stage and screen are inmarked contrast to the more discriminating uses of thecultures of Japan and China in the American novel.The Oriental has long been a favorite object of thoseambivalent emotions which anything alien is likely toarouse in us. Uncertain of the actuality of the alien,aroused imaginatively by its untold potentialities, weare now victimized by our terror at its unknownPreliminary remarks concerning the exotic element in contemporaryAmerican fiction may be found under this heading in the January issueof the Magazine. MILLETT, PhD'31, Associate Professor of Englishpowers and again protected by our amused superiorityto its absurdities. Thus the Oriental, like other racialaliens, has been regarded as a kind of human gargoyle,an object of the incongruous emotions of terror andhumor, the victim of an unresolved conflict. He hasbeen treated not only as the most cruelly sinister ofbeings, but as the quaintest and most comical of racialoddities. The Chinatown of a great American city isthe last impregnable stronghold of exoticism, and themelodrama of opium, white slaves, and tong wars stillsatisfies the crudest of conceptions of the Oriental. Thedisquieting ambivalence of our attitude can be resolvedonly by an experience of Oriental actuality and animaginatively sympathetic identification with it.The treatment of Oriental material in American literature reveals clearly the successive stages in this emotional process; the terrifyingly sinister and the humorously quaint give way to sympathetic comprehension.Illustrations of the earlier modes are conveniently athand in such effective pastiches as David Belasco andJohn Luther Long's Madame Butterfly (1900) and TheDarling of the Gods (1902). The quaintly humorousaspects of Oriental life were shrewdly exploited in sucha forgotten sentimental favorite as Frances Little's TheLady of the Decoration (1906) and the perenially revived drama, The Yellow Jacket (1913) by GeorgeHazleton and J. H. Benrimo. The immature attitudesimplicit in such works survive, as we should expect themto do, in art-forms directed to relatively uncritical publics. As sophisticated a writer as Clifford Odets utilizesthe sinister-cruel conception of the Oriental in his scriptfor the moving-picture, The General Dies at Dawn(1936).2 The way for a more serious treatment ofOriental material was prepared for American writersand readers by the activities of that talented internationalwaif, Lafcadio Hearn. The offspring of an Hiberno-Grecian marriage, Hearn seems to have been destined tobe the high priest of exoticism. Thus, during his American period, he was drawn magnetically to the ultra-exotic racial and cultural elements in the far South andin Central America. But a more extravagant exoticismlured him to Japan, and he acknowledged its sway bymarrying a Japanese wife and becoming a Japanesecitizen. For Hearn, the glamor of the Orient slowlyfaded, but, despite the disillusionment of his later years,he succeeded in a remarkable complete identificationwith this fantastically alien culture. Twenty or moreyears ago, Lafcadio Hearn was the center of an enthusiastic though acrimonious cult. His vogue has passedrapidly, but he pointed out the way for later, if lessgifted writers, who were to exploit Oriental material onSimilarly, the Soviet propaganda film, Son of Mongolia,^ represents 1Japanese as consistently venal and cruel, and the self-conscious cutenessThe Yellow Jacket has recently been multiplied a hundred fold in LaPrecious Stream, a deliberate pandering by its Oriental author to jOccidental audience's desire to see the Chinese drama as something cniishly absurd instead of something complexly beautiful.18THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEmore and more popular levels.Of these, the most strikingly successful has been PearlS. Buck. Mrs. Buck's birth and upbringing in China,her devoted study of the Chinese classics, and her incomparably intimate knowledge of Chinese life and character have proved inestimable advantages in her successive attempts to make this ancient civilization comprehensible and significant to Western readers. Thepublication oi East Wind, West Wind (1930) attractedlittle attention, but the appearance of The Good Earth(1931) was a major event in the history of exoticAmerican fiction, the most successful endeavor yet madeto utilize effectively the strange and highly stylized livesof Chinese peasants. The successors to this book —Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935) — did notsuffer the usual fate of sequels, although their style,with the rhythms but without the imaginative vitalityof Biblical prose, became increasingly inappropriate andartificial in its application to Chinese life of our ownday. Mrs. Buck presented the clash between Orientaland Occidental ways in modern China with extraordinary sympathy, but she gave the primitive tradition-bound characters of the slave-wife O-lan and the farmerWang Lung in The Good Earth a stability and vitalitydenied the characters of some of their descendants. Ona considerably lower plane of insight and achievementare the Oriental fictions of Alice Tisdale Hobart. Mrs.Hobart's use of this material began with her Man-churian travel-book Pioneering Where the World IsOld (1917), but her first important fictive enterprisewas River Supreme, first published as Pidgin Cargo in1929. Here she studied the changes wrought by thecoming of the machine in China. In her first popularsuccess, Oil for the Lamps of China (1933), she dramatized the operations of a great Western industrial organization in this exotic setting, and in Yang and Yin(1936), she has shown the conflicts, disasters, andtriumphs that follow the intrusion of Western medicalscience into an unscientific culture. A far different intention animates Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics(1935), where the young author utilizes Oriental themesas the basis for a brilliant poetic fantasia.The combination of the historical with the exotic addsanother value to the appeal of the remote. The lure ofthe temporarily remote when superimposed on the geographically distant creates a kind of fourth dimension inexotic fiction. It is not surprising that contemporarywriters should have shown a recurrent interest in therevival of the exotic-historical novel. Such a recurrence, with inevitable variations, American literature ofthe last fifty years exhibits clearly, despite the fact thatthroughout most of this period the flood-tide of fictionhas swept most suggestible novelists into the domains ofthe realistic and the social novel. The end of the nineteenth century saw an attempt on the part of both English and American novelists to re-capture some of theromantic aura of the spacious historical canvases of SirWalter Scott and his innumerable imitators. Perhapsno writer of the period save Stevenson was endowedwith a talent and temperament quite equal to the demands of this revival, but such lesser lights as Sir RiderHaggard in King Solomon's Mines (1885) and She (1887) and Sir Anthony Hope in The Prisoner ofZenda (1894), just announced as a screen vehicle forRonald Column, and Rupert of Hentzau (1898) servedas less discouraging objects of imitation. Such popularimitations as Charles Major's When Knighthood Was inFlower (1898) and George Barr McCutcheon's Grau-stark (1901) precipitated what seemed likely to be aromantic revival in American fiction. Of the lighterfiction in this genre, Booth Tarkington's MonsieurBeaucaire (1900) is still readable and has had a longafter-life on stage and screen. More talented novelistsjoined, at least for a moment, the swelling chorus. ThusHenry Harland produced an elegant and witty historicaldiversion in The Cardinal's Snuff1 Box (1900), and theyouthful Edith Wharton in The Valley of Decision(1902) showed what a serious novelist could do towardthe re-creation of eighteenth-century Italy in fiction.But the increasing seriousness with which Americannovelists in the decade before the War were facing thetasks imposed by the creed of realism and by America'sre-discovery of its social conscience produced a temperunfavorable to the trivial or the serious utilization ofexotic historical material, and although McCutcheon inCastle Craneycrow (1902) and Beverly of Graustark(1904) and their successors was furnishing his uncritical public a long series of imitations of his ownGraustark, the exotic historical novel sank rapidly tothe level of the sub-literate. Nor were the war-yearsfavorable to any attempt to revive this exotic genre.The concentration of thought and emotion on the world-crisis was too intense to permit an indulgence of theimpulse to escape into the unexacting past. An interestin the official history of our allies and enemies supplanted an enthusiasm for unofficial historical romances.But the boom years of the post-war period, the yearsin which the expatriates were indulging in their mostsevere strictures on our native culture, saw here andthere, among writers of a considerable sophistication,an interest in the manipulation of exotic historical material. If no popular successes like those enjoyed by theGraustark romances were produced, the reason is discoverable in the fact that these post-war romancers weretoo fastidious to play with the easy counters of thesword and buckler melodrama or to dally with the gallant vicissitudes of princes of imaginary countries.Poetic novelists mixed fantasy with history, and theresults were individual and incomparable. Thus ElinorWylie, in Jennifer Lorn (1923) and The Venetian GlassNephew (1925) re-created in exquisitely decoratedprose her vision of a fragile rococo world, and HildaDoolittle, the imagist poet, in such recondite fictions asPalimpsest (1926) and Hedylus (1928) attempted toapply to narrative the inorganic technique of imagisticpoetry; the results were curious and beautiful ratherthan satisfying as fiction. It was in the twenties, too,that Thornton Wilder conducted his first excursioninto the field of the exotic historical. If The Bridge ofSan Luis Rey (1927) was the only book of this kindand period to reach the great public, the reasons werenot so much the originality of the design and the refinement of the style as the variety of its themes and itssincere though conventional "message." As The20 THE UNIVERSITY OFWoman of Andros (1930) showed, Wilder is a writerof moral apologues rather than a novelist. He is primarily intent on communicating his own sense of life'svalues through the comely disguise of fiction; to him,the allurements of plot and character are decidedly secondary. To undertake to estimate him as a novelist,much less as a social novelist, is to approach him alongthe most unprofitable of critical avenues. Wilder'svalues are to be sought in the sincerity of his Christianconvictions, his uncanny feeling for ancient scenes andliteratures, and his impeccable, if very closely studiedstyle.The depression-years would, at first thought, seemthe least favorable of climates for the production andconsumption of exotic historical fiction, and yet the mostsensationally successful of these novels, Hervey Allen'sAnthony Adverse (1933), flourished in this hostile air.For thousands of depression-weary readers, this mastodon of historical fiction, this cento of all the historicalnovels ever written, furnished the perfect mechanism ofescape. The reading public, unable to endure the pressure of contemporary reality, was easily and completelybewitched by Anthony Adversers multitude of charac-CARL GRABO, '03, associate professor of Englishin the University of Chicago, has recently published his fourth volume of analyses of the thought ofthe poet Shelley. The first three were studies of separate poems, Prometheus Unbound and The Witch ofAtlas, emphasizing and demonstrating the solidity of theyoung poet's scientific attainments, and the developmentof his philosophical speculations, as aids to and not asinterference with the creative power of his imagination.All three volumes, though comprehensible by any intelligent reader, are meant primarily for serious students ofShelley.But the recent fourth volume, The Magic Plant, is as"readable" as any biography of a thinker I have everread. It is the whole history of the growth of Shelley'smind. At times almost wistfully, at times almost indignantly, but always with the firmest specification, itnot only disposes of the well-known characterization byMatthew Arnold of Shelley as "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating his wings in the luminous void invain," of Maurois' characterization of the poet as"Ariel," but reveals the real Shelley, a hard-headedthough often mistaken young gentleman passionatelyconcerned with the practical questions of politics andsocial abuses, as well as with the great basic problemof all humanity, "What is good? What is evil?"Disposal of Arnold's cliche is easy enough, and fewpeople take Ariel more seriously than Moby Dick as abiography. But it is in the positive revelation of Shelleythat Professor Grabo achieves a triumph. Studentswhom I can get to read John Henry Newman's Apologia CPIICAGO MAGAZINEters, amplitude and complexity of plot, and variety ofpicturesque settings. The lack of stylistic or intellectualdistinction passed generally unnoticed. It is interestingto observe that Margaret Mitchell's Gone With theWind (1936), an excellent example of native historicalromance, is running happily down the psychologicalgrooves dug by its predecessor, and for reasons curiously similar.It seems clear, despite such phenomena, that if theexotic historical novel is to be created on a seriousaesthetic plane, it must be modernized. That modernization is possible, such novels as Robert Grave's Iy"Claudius (1934) and Vincent Sheean's Sanfelice (1936)have shown. But such a process demands, not only aclose study of historical material but the creation of historical character in terms of contemporary psychologyor an interpretation of social forces in the light of ourbest knowledge of their complexity and operation. Suchan equipment is bound to be rare ; in the meantime, thestage properties of the costume drama and the sawdustpuppets of historical romances are available for use byall save the most modestly endowed.By JAMES WEBER LINN, '97, Professor of Englishreturn to it again and again as the most convincingstudy of the workings of a great mind they know. Butit is not exactly "readable"; it is almost wholly abstract. The Magic Plant is as convincing as the Apologia,and in almost every paragraph specific; equally specific in its presentation of Shelley's accomplishments andin its presentation of his limitations. I have no spaceto quote. But I venture to call your attention to half aparagraph on page 416 which explains why Mary Shelleyfailed her husband emotionally, at the time he neededher most. "That failure may have been due, to a degree Shelley could not understand, to the deaths ofher children and too constant a state of pregnancy. . . .It strikes the modern reader as odd that so imaginativea man as Shelley should have had, seemingly, so littlenotion of what it was like to be doomed to endlesschildbearing. . . . What he attributed to coldness in hiswife may have been no more than her revulsion againstthe almost continuous illness of pregnancy. A hundredyears ago childbearing was not thought, as it is now, tobe pathological."Professor Grabo's admiration for Shelley never degenerates into sentiment ; his detachment never permitshim to< be dogmatic. The events of Shelley's life Professor Grabo stresses only as they affect Shelley'sthought. Yet when I finished the book I was awareof a clearer understanding of Shelley as a man — unhappy, valiant warrior! — than 1 had ever had before.Exquisite lyricist as he was, Shelley was not content to"make the songs of a nation" ; he sought also a hand(Continued on Page 23)THE MAGIC PLANT: A Book ReviewNEWS OF THE QUADRANGLES• By WILLIAM V. MORGENSTERN, '20, JD '22LAST month the gift of $3,000,000 by the GeneralEducation Board for the support of the medicalschool on the south side and for the strengthening of the University generally, was the big news. Thismonth there is another gift, from the Rosenwald FamilyAssociation, which has granted $275,000, on conditionthat the University raise not less than twice that amountfrom other sources. Except for this condition, which theUniversity has every reasonable expectation of meeting,the pledge is without restriction as to use of the money.The sum is to be paid over a period of three years, shouldthe University require that length of time to meet theconditions. Otherwise it will be paid in the ratio of onedollar for every two raised as rapidly as the matchingfunds are secured. Because it is unrestricted, PresidentHutchins pointed out in announcing the gift, the moneyis particularly useful. The Rosenwald Family Association was established by Mr. Julius Rosenwald, trustee,whose personal gifts during his lifetime amounted to approximately $4,665,000, an amount exceeded only in individual gifts by those of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Sr., andMr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The trustees of the Association, the children of Mr. Rosenwald, are Lessing J.Rosenwald, William Rosenwald, Mrs. David M. Levy,Mrs. Alfred K. Stern, and Mrs. Edgar Stern. The Association has made several gifts to the University, thelatest being the largest, but in 1935 before the bequest ofJulius Rosenwald had been paid to the foundation, thetrustees gave theLlniversity $10,000to demonstrate theirapproval of the Chicago stand on behalfof. academic freedom.Two Vice PresidentsAppointedAppointment oftwo additional VicePresidents, E m e r yT. Filbey, Dean ofFaculties, and William B. Benton, ofNew York, bringsthe number of thoseofficers to three,Frederic Woodward having heldthat office since 1926. Emery T. FilbeyThe appointment of Mr. Filbeywas effective immediately ; and that of Mr. Benton is tobe effective October 1, when he returns from a tour ofthe Orient, to which he is now en route.Mr. Filbey, at the University since 1909, has been active in administrative work for the past thirteen years.He has been successively instructor in the laboratoryschools, and instructor, associate professor, and professor in the department of education. Made Dean of University College in 1923, he retained that position until hewas appointed professor in the School of Business in1927. Assistant to the President from 1930 to 1933, Mr.Filbey was appointed Dean of Faculties in the latter year.This position has been discontinued because of Mr. Filbey's new status. At various times he has been givenleave of absence to assume outside duties, and from 1927to 1930 was Director of the Institute of Meat Packers,affiliated with the University. Since his appointment asAssistant to the President, Mr. Filbey's activities havebeen entirely in academic administration, particularly asofficer in charge of the budget for education and research.Fifty-eight years old, Mr. Filbey was educated at Indiana State Normal School and the University of Chicago,receiving the Ph. B. and M. A. degrees from Chicago.I le married Lena L. Chance in 1909.Until recently chairman of the board of directors ofBenton and Bowles, Inc., New York, Mr. Benton wasthe only member of an academic family to enter business. Flis father, Charles W. Benton, was for thirty-threeyears a member of the faculty of the University of Minnesota, and his mother, Elma Hixson Benton, was alsoprominent in education. Founder of a school in St. Louis,she retired from the staff of Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity, four years ago.Mr. Benton, born in Minneapolis in 1900, attendedCarleton College before enrolling at Yale University,from which he received the A. B. degree in 1921. At Yalehe was a member ofthe same class asPresident Hutchins.Among the other activities, Mr. Bentonwas editor of theYale Record. In 1928he married HelenHemingway of NewYork City, and has achild, Charles William Benton. TheBenton's home is inSouthport, Connecticut.In association withChester B. Bowles,Mr. Benton in 1929founded Benton & Bowles, Inc., an advertising agencywhich became one of the largest in the country within thespace of seven years. Before organizing that firm, Mr.Benton had been associated with the National City Bank ;had been head of the trade and industrial division ofGeorge Batten, and an executive in the office of Lordand Thomas, advertising agencies.As an historical note, it might be interesting to say that21 William B. Benton22 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEthe first Vice-President was James Rowland Angell, nowthe retiring President of Yale University, who was appointed to the office in 1918 to act during the absence ofPresident Judson in Russia. In December of 1923,Trevor Arnett, who later became President of the General Education Board, was elected Vice-President andBusiness Manager ; the next month James H. Tufts waselected Vice-President and Dean of Faculties. Again in1926, there were two Vice-Presidents, Mr. Woodward,and Lloyd R. Steere, whose title later became that ofBusiness Manager and Treasurer.Barrows Contributes to Washington ReportLast month, Professor Charles E. Merriam and LouisL. Brownlow, his co-worker in the adjacent Public Administration Clearing House, figured in the national -newsas two of the three authors of the administrative reorganization submitted to Congress by President Roosevelt. This month the President submitted two more reports to Congress, in which Professor Harlan H. Barrows, chairman of the geography department, had an important part. Professor Barrows, one of the country'sminorities on conservation, is a member of the WaterResources Committee of the National Resources Committee, and Part Two of the larger group's report wasa summary of the Water Resources Committee's recommendations on "Drainage Basin Problems and Programs." Professor Barrows also is a member of theGreat Plains Committee, concerned with a long term program for the effective use of the Great Plains region, theten states immediately east of the Rockies. The reporton this effort was sent to Congress a week after that ofthe National Resources Committee. Professor Barrowslast December was elected Vice-President of the American Forestry Association, despite the fact that he doesn'tagree with all the claims made for flood prevention byreforestation.Cosmic Ray Station in MexicoStudy of the cosmic ray has carried Professor ArthurH. Compton nearly around the world. The middle ofthe month, he came back from a jaunt of six thousandmiles by automobile to Mexico, where he established another permanent cosmic ray recording station, the fifthof the series which he is using to trace the origin of therays. The recorder was installed in a special building onthe grounds of the Mexican National Magnetic Observatory, at Teolyucan, thirty miles north of Mexico City.Cooperating with Dr. Compton are Dr. Joaquin Gallo,director of the Observatory, and Dr. Mongez Lopez, director of the study of physical sciences of the NationalLTniversity of Mexico, of which the Observatory is apart.On the basis of recordings already made in both thenorthern and southern hemispheres, Dr. Compton hasfound evidence that the galaxy of the earth — the MilkyWay — is rotating, and that this rotation causes a greaterincidence of rays in the northern hemisphere. The datafrom which these deductions were made were cosmicray recordings of W. Illing, Austrian physicist, and B.J. F. Schonland, Capetown, South Africa, scientists cooperating with Dr. Compton. More data are needed, how ever, both for corroboration of the galactic effect, and todetermine the source of the rays.On the basis of present evidence, Dr. Compton is reasonably certain that the rays come from outside the galaxy. On this phase, more complete information isneeded as to variation of the incidence of the rays withsidereal time ; that is, the rotation of the earth relative toa fixed place in the heavens. The question of variationwith solar time also must be investigated. The rays comein at maximum rate when the sun is directly overheadand there is some uncertainty as to whether this factmeans that the sun may be a source, or whether the effect is a secondary one, such as might be produced bychange in temperature.Cosmic ray meters have been installed in Chicago,Washington, D. C, Huan Cayo, Panama, and ChristChurch, New Zealand. Another meter has been installedon the S. S. Orangi, steamship which plys the route fromVancouver to Australia. On each voyage, the meterreadings give the difference in incidence of rays betweenthe northern and southern hemisphere. The Chicagostation later is to be placed on Mt. Evans, Colorado, andanother temporarily located at Massachusetts Instituteof Technology, will be shifted to Greenland. There areonly two other stations in the world, those of Hess ofAustria, and Schonland, both of these having been madeby E. Steinke, German physicist.Deaths in the University FamilyEugene M. Stevens, member of the Board of Trusteessince early 1927, died suddenly on February 23. Mr.Stevens, one of Chicago's leading bankers, was an activeand valuable member of the Board's committee onfinance and investment. "Mr. Stevens brought to theaffairs of the University the wide experience and abilitywhich made him so prominent in the financial world. Weshall miss his counsel and unfailing interest," said HaroldH. Swift, President of the Board of Trustees. Born inPreston, Minn., in 1871, Mr. Stevens started his businesscareer in Minneapolis. In 1917 he came to Chicago as aVice-President of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank,and following mergers of that bank with several others,he became President in 1927 of the consolidated institution, the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company.He resigned in 1930 to become Chairman of the FederalReserve Bank of Chicago, a position from which he resigned in 1935 to become Vice-Chairman of Blyth & Co.,in charge of the Chicago office.Edward F. Rothschild, Assistant Professor of the History of Art, died on February 12 in Billings hospital.He was born in New York City in 1903, took his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Columbia University,and joined the Chicago faculty in 1929. His special fieldof interest was the art of the Gothic period, but he alsohad achieved recognition as a teacher of modern painting. He received the Ph. D. from Harvard in 1934, hisdoctoral thesis being written on The Man of Sorrows,which was a study of the representations of Christ inmedieval art. Surviving are his widow, the former NutaDinces, and a nine year old son, Walter, by a formermarriage.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 23Rush Centennial Celebration ChangedDue to a conflict in the date of the American Medical Association Meeting in Atlantic City and the SpringConvocation of the University of Chicago it has been decided to postpone the Centennial Celebration of thegranting of the Rush Medical College charter until the Fall Convocation.Myra ReynoldsAn Appreciation and CorrectionFebruary 9, 1937.Mr. Charlton T. Beck,The University of Chicago Magazine,Faculty Exchange.My dear Mr. Beck :I want to express my appreciation of the article inthe January number of the alumni magazine in whichDr. Lily Bess Campbell pays tribute to Miss Reynolds.It must be a satisfaction to every member of the faculty and to all graduates of the University to feel thatMiss Reynolds' memory is kept alive and her place inthe University life is recalled to the members of theAlumni Association.No one can ever adequately reveal the contributionthat Miss Reynolds made to the University life. No onecan revive the effect of that exquisite sense of humorwhich made her companionship so delightful. No onewho ever heard her stories can lose the memory of thecharacters, the personae of her various delightful anecdotes. The stout student who leaning heavily on herdesk while she explained that she came to the University "not for credit but for bfoad'nin'," the mpuntainfriend who after an extensive examination with reference to the arts acquired in a college course expressedthe result of his investigation in the words, "You havebeen so busy larnin' to larn that you haven't had timeto larn to do" are permanent sources of amusement inmemory.These and many other contributions, all who hadcontact with Miss Reynolds will hold in memory — hersense of workmanship, her great interest in arts andcrafts, her demand that her surroundings should bebeautiful— all of these features of her life are enrichingfactors of the life of the University. \There are, however, in the statement by Dr. Campbella few errors in fact which Miss Reynolds would want tohave corrected. In the second paragraph in the secondcolumn on page nineteen, for example, Dr. Campbellsays :" She it was who planned a wray of life for womenstudents there, and the first dormitory for women atChicago was Nancy Foster Hall with Miss Reynolds atJts head, quietly going about making it a beautiful andpleasant place for women to live. . . ."It is very strange that Dr. Campbell is unaware of thepart that was played in those earlier months by Alice Freeman Palmer and Marion Talbot, an account ofwhich is to be found in Professor Palmer's Life ofAlice Freeman Palmer, and, to an extent, in Miss Talbot's More Than Lore. In fact, it was they who planned"the way of life" and the three halls, Beecher, Foster,and Kelly all were opened at the same time after experiments had, in fact, been made in the Beatrice onFifty-seventh street and in Snell Hall. Not only Mrs.Palmer and Miss Talbot but Miss Wallace who alsocame as a fellow the first year of the University contributed richly to the solution of these problems andMiss Reynolds would be the last to want to have theirwork ignored.With reference to the first professorship given towomen it is not important; but, for purposes of accuracy, it might be recalled that Miss Talbot was madeprofessor in 1905 while Miss Reynolds was promotedto this title only in 1911. These facts are easily verifiedby reference to any one of the annual Registers of theUniversity which contain statements regarding the academic history of members of the faculty.A contribution, too, of Miss Reynolds to which Ishould like to refer which Dr. Campbell ignores entirelyis the one that she made in the furnishing of Ida NoyesHall, for to her and Miss Langley is largely due thecollection of beautiful rugs, rare articles in brass andcopper and the resulting impression of permanent, abiding, and indescribable dignity, and charm, and gracious-ness, and beauty.These words of mine are very halting words of appreciation, but I should be glad if they could in someway both correct and supplement the statement in the}c<. nuary number of the magazine.Very truly yours,Sophonisba P. Breckinridge.The Magic Plant: A Book Review(Continued from Page 20)"in the writing of its laws." There was a great American named Thomas Jefferson who though denied thelyric gift in verse yet wrote the Declaration of Independence, and later was responsible for the unconstitutional Louisiana Purchase. A generation of years andthe unplumbed, salt, estrangling seas separated Shelleyand Jefferson. A pity. If Shelley had been born inVirginia at the right moment, he too like Jeffersonmight have become President of the United States; fortheir minds and spirits were alike, and alike winged.ATHLETICSScores of the MonthBasketballChicago, 21, Northwestern, Chicago.44 Chicago,Chicago, 29; Michigan, 35Chicago, 22; Illinois, 28 Chicago,Chicago, 19; Michigan, 33Chicago, 16; Ohio State, 19 Chicago,Chicago, 23; De Paul, 35Chicago, 41; Loyola, 28 Chicago,Chicago, 36; Indiana, 47Wrestling Chicago,Chicago, 12; Northwestern,14 Chicago,Chicago, 11; Case School(Cleveland) 17Chicago, 11; Penn State, 19 Chicago,Chicago, 6; Penn State, 23Chicago, 26; Morton Junior Chicago,College, 10FencingChicago, 13; Michigan Chicago.State, 4 Chicago ,sy2; Ohio State, %Y*10; Northwestern,713; Wisconsin, 4Track33; Marquette, 62Gymnastics .740.75; Morton Jr.College 544.25709.5; George Williams 411.25, 920; Minnesota,970Swimming37; Northwestern,4729; Northwestern,55Water Polo, 4; Northwestern, 75; Northwestern, 4WITH the winter quarter about half over Chicago's place in the major and minor after-football season sports can be seen at a glance. Aspredicted, basketball has hummed along at low ebbuntil a few days ago when to the general surprise ofdopesters and audience, Loyola took a fair defeat viaCoach Nels Norgren's new aggressive attack which consisted on the whole of a new forward combination of BobCassels and Jack Mullins, sophomores, who started thefast moving attack, something which the Chicago fanshad not witnessed this year on the field house floor. Twodays later the effectiveness of the same spirited assaultwas shown against Indiana. Although the score speaks/in different tone, the Midway five gave the Hoosiers andtheir All-American, Vernon Huffman, an unexpectedstubborn front which held the score to a tie deadlock atthe half. Cassels stood out in these two games to placehim up along-side John Eggemeyer, who has been topping Maroon scorers during the season, and center PaulAmundsen who is a fairly consistent player, but not excelling particularly in his team position, however.Sensation was spelt out for the first time this seasonin Chicago's first tilt with Michigan in which aftereleven minutes the score stood with Norgren's team onworst; the score evened out to 20-11 at the half and witha tightened offense in the last half the Wolverines wereovertaken with only a minute to go. A quick comeback saved the game for the visitors by a margin of 6.Little more can be expected from the major wintersport in the remaining games. Rather, the students arereconciling themselves to believing that the team isdoing its best to provide entertainment by spunky playing, and they are attending the games in bodies of from2,500 to 3,000 for the "sport of the game." And, afterall, that seems to be the present Chicago athletic hope —to play good amateur athletics, first, for the sheer funof playing on the part of the team and then for thepleasure of an athletic-minded student group. • By WELLS D. BURNETlSpeaking of the University's athletic attitude whichhas caused considerable concern in the Daily Maroendowntown papers, and in the Big Ten, Coach Shaughnessy, starting his fifth year under a full athletic professorship, is credited with a statement that he is entir^jopposed to the University dropping from the WesternConference. Instead, he recommends (what has been already arranged for next year) a lighter schedule. In abelief that the Midway is leading other schools awayfrom professional tendencies, he has been quoted as saying, "I see nothing wrong with coaching pro teams, butI do think it's bad to coach a pro team disguised as anamateur bunch." Incidentally, the coach has alreadystarted on practice for next year ; the boys are workingout daily in gym suits under cover of the field house andthe first practice was met with 35 aspirants for nextyear's squad.In the lesser (actually, not so "lesser" for the year'shope of a Big Ten championship (if at all), rests in thisgroup) sports, the wrestlers are still plugging away inpreparation for league contests. The trip into Ohio andPennsylvania met with little success, but their fateagainst Penn State may be partially explained underguise that the Eastern school is highly touted inmat circles. Captain Bob Finwall still holds out as asure winner for the team. Outside of Ed Valorz in thelight-heavyweight, the matches in the future will holdno degree of certainty.Corbett and Polocheck in a "pointed" argumentIn the usual, in fact expected, position the fencers areon top, tied for first with Ohio State after what provedto be a somewhat moral defeat at the latter's hand whena contest between the two schools ended in a tie. Co-Captain Henry Lemon has greatly improved since hebested the dual meet epee record in the conference lastyear.24T II E U N I V E R SITY O F C II 1 CAGO MAGAZINE 25Indoor track doesn't look so well at this time; howler outdoor prospects, seem much improved with several first rate cn'scus throwers and broad jumpers com-•_. up. Coach Merriam recently praised his freshmentrack team as the best in four years, in fact it "can beatthe varsity right now !" This is probably an overstatement but it bodes well for next season.The swimmers and water-polo groups have shownlittle startling progress to date; the polo team has themost likely future for good returns with local sportswriters hinting a possibility of a water-polo crown forthe Maroon tankmen. Northwestern's swimming meetpointed to Floyd Stauffer and Co-captain Charles Wilson as the principal point leaders in diving and free style.To the rescue of what looked to be the weakest gymsquad in years came Erwin Beyer, sophomore, who isaccredited with being a "muscle man" from virtuallythe cradle. Early in life, he and his father and brothersmade up an exhibition hand balancing team in Chicago.While in high school he won both the city- wide YMCAand AAU championships on the parallel bars and in theflying ring events. Beyer stole the show from Minnesota, by defeating the conference champion. The team'sloss was chalked up to injuries rather than to low calibreof performance.In the past little has been said of the rifle squad whichhas been organized within the last couple of years intowhat is now the largest rifle and pistol club in Illinois(76 members). In recent matches the team lost to several older organizations including Indiana, Pittsburgh,Cincinnati, and Wheaton. The meets were fired in threepositions, prone, kneeling and standing. Hugh Bennetand Scott Harvey boast of top scorings.Work has begun in two of the spring sports divisions.The first baseball practice (last year won 6, lost 4, endedin fifth position) has just been held with Joe Mastrofskyand Paul Amundsen vying for the mound. Coach KyleAnderson rates the pitching staff and outfield aboveaverage with a good double-play combination the objectof search at the moment. Rumor has gone around concerning a possible trip to Japan next year (The Asiaticteam played two games at the quadrangles last season,showing the local boys some fast action in no meanoriental accent) and fifteen freshmen are out in hopesto land a berth on the westward steamer (if and when)next summer. The catching position seems fairly sureto go to letterman Bob Shipway with Arthur Dean abattery asset. Twelve games instead of ten have beenscheduled this year.Coach Walter , Hebert has A-l hopes toward capturing the conference tennis meet to be held in MichiganMay 21, 22, 23. Adding further interest, the UnitedStates Lawn Tennis Association, in order to develop outstanding tennis players for possible future positions onthe Davis Cup teams, has selected a group of tennis starsthroughout the country to the Junior Davis Cup squad.Six out of the ten from this district were from the University, Norbert Burgess, Norman Bickel, Chester andJohn Murphy, John and Charles Shostrum. Charlesis the only freshman in the group.In rapid summary this about covers the University'sathletics up to Lincoln's birthday — as far as the men are concerned. In the past, men's athletics have beenconsidered solely by most sports commentators in andabout the University. This month there are a few in-The start of the sixty-yard free-style at the Northwestern-Chicagomeetteresting sidelights worth passing on to you concerningUniversity women in the athletic scene. It is a generally accepted fact that there are class sports in archery,swimming, bowling, tennis, basketball, hockey, not tomention badminton and squash-ball. It is not generallyknown however that there is a girl's intramural set-upsimilar to the men's with girl's dormitories and clubscompeting for basketball trophies, etc. This much mustbe said for it, however ; it is no stronger than the men'swhich, incidentally is not too strong, or should it be said,not as strong as at other schools of Chicago's size.Nevertheless there are a few intercollegiate phases ofwomen's athletics which are worth noticing. Each yearthere is a national women's telegraphic swimming meetin which the University participates. Ten swimmers willcompete this March from the Midway, including undoubtedly the intercollegiate star, Margie Smith wholast year established three national intercollegiate records for women in the 100 yard back-crawl, 40 yardback-crawl, and 40 yard breast stroke. Later in theseason, Miss Smith went well up into the competitionfor the Olympics. The Maroon lassies captured thirdplace among 38 colleges in 1936.Although not directly concerned with collegiate athletics, there is this year on campus one of the outstanding women bowlers in the country, Marguerite Bradford, 4 foot 11 inches tall, 95 pounds of energy, whorecently was pictured in the National Collegiate Digest.Rather modest and not at all talkative about how wellshe can turn the pins, Miss Bradford hints that shetook up the sport as a reducing medium .... Imagine !* * *AsideCoach Norgren foresees the abolition of the centerjump in all intercollegiate basketball within the nexttwo years .... Back in 1929 he advocated it on thegrounds of the time wasted in the game and the disadvantage to a well organized team of having a tall chapon the opposing team who is in a position to control aclosely fought game.NEWS OF THE CLASSESCOLLEGE1897George Sutherland, 74, DB'77,writes from Grand Island, Nebraska, asfollows : "For nearly ten years I havebeen the one surviving graduate memberof the Class of 1874 and the one surviving member of the Class of 1877 of theDivinity School." He is presidentemeritus of Sioux Falls College and avice president of the American BaptistHistorical Society.1876Albert Judson Fisher, 7206 Princeton Avenue, Chicago, who retired frombusiness some ten years ago, is busypursuing his hobbies — genealogy andwriting fiction and verse.1904Secretary of Kiwanis International,Fred C. W. Parker also serves as editor of The Kiwanis Magazine, a 64-page monthly. Long interested in industrial relations and labor problems,he helped to organize in June, 1915,what is now named the Industrial Relations Association of Chicago and hasserved many times since then as secretary in a purely voluntary manner. Thisis one of the earliest organizations ofits kind. He also had a part in forminga national organization for industrialrelations executives which has nowevolved into the American ManagementAssociation, with a much broader field.1908Lux Radio Theater on January 18produced the Criminal Code by Martin Flavin with E. G. Robinson. Thisis one of the many plays for which Martin Flavin is responsible.Earle S. Smith was recently electedpresident of the Rotary Club of Toledo,Ohio.1910Francesco Ventresca, PhM' 11, hascompleted the story of his colorful life,which is being published in book formunder the title Personal Reminiscencesof a Naturalized Citizen. Ending hisformal education in Rome at the ageof twelve, Francesco Ventresca had nofurther opportunity to continue hisschooling until he arrived in WesternSprings, just before his twenty-firstbirthday, where he reentered school in1893.From that day forward FrancescoVentresca has been directly associatedwith the educational world unless oneexcepts the years from 1914 to 1920,when he was at Washington, D. C, asresearch translator and foreign statistician for the national government. Thiswas the result of a government competitive examination in German, French,Italian and Spanish which Mr. Ventresca took while he was an assistant professor of modern languages atWashington State College. In thesefour subjects he made the highest average in the United States. He completedhis fortieth year of teaching last year,and writes that he has thoroughly enjoyed it.1911Matilda Fenberg, 11 South LaSalleStreet, Chicago, has-been practicing lawfor the past fourteen years. For thefirst five years her practice was mostlycriminal law, which had been her special interest from the age of nine, whenshe interpreted in a court case for apoor foreigner. A nervous breakdownDrought on by the nerve wracking strainand tension of criminal cases forced herto give up this work. So as an assistant corporation counsel from 1929-31 for the City of Chicago she defendedthe city in personal injury suits, andthen drifted into practicing in the Chancery Courts. After about four years offoreclosure and receivership cases MissFenberg turned to tax matters, whichhave been her specialty for the past twoyears.Under her avocations, Mary R.Parkman lists "writing, travel, andgreat nieces— or is it grand? At anyrate, these are both grand and great !"Miss Parkman is at the Wilson Teachers College, Washington, D. C.Myra Zacharias Siedenfuss (Mrs.John C.) writes from 12825 S. ElmStreet, Blue Island, Illinois: "I am amother and I find that means you area best friend, teacher, preacher, nurse,policeman, cook, pal or companion, advisor, and overseer of housekeeping. Itis not a part time job, but the greatestone in the world, if well done."1912Mrs. Henry F. Plasm an, AM'31,has been publishing juvenile stories inChild Life Magazine for the last fouryears under the pen name of Lois Kennedy. Two of them appeared in theJuly and October issues. Mrs. Plas-man teaches English and Geography insixth, seventh and eighth grades in Congress Park Building, District 102, CookCounty.At the Autumn Convocation the master's degree was awarded to FrederickT. Wilhelms, teacher at Bowen HighSchool, Chicago, and former presidentof the Chicago High School Teacher'sAssociation. His work in educationalfields has extended to serving as legislative chairman of the Chicago Divisionof Illinois Education Association andstate director of the Illinois section under the National Secondary Departmentof the National Educational Association.1913Louise C. Robb, principal of theGlendale, Ohio, High School, tells us26 that her hobbies are antiques and theexperimental magazines.Edith B. Wells, AM'33, and herfour daughters recently returned toPalos Park after spending fourteenmonths on a world tour. Their longeststops were in Geneva, Switzerlandwhere they all studied for six months'and in Kyoto, Japan. At present she iswriting up notes about their travels1915Avis Smith of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, took a "Field Course in ChildhoodEducation" offered by Columbia University this summer under which thestudents spent their time in FranceBelgium, Holland and England.1916Advertisers interested in the FawcettPublications of New York City shouldget in touch with Gifford W. Plume,advertising representative for the concern.From St. Francisville, Louisiana,Mrs. Elric Robinson (Margaret Wood)is doing publicity and non-credit attendance in the state-wide curriculumstudy that has been started in Louisiana.1917Franklyn K. Chandler, who forthe last ten years has been with theThomson and McKinnon Stock andBond Company in Milwaukee, is manager of the new branch of the companyrecently opened in the MerchandiseMart, Chicago. Chandler has directedthe activities of the Milwaukee alumnigroup in the last few years.1918Leila Venable, AM'26, has returnedto her position at Florida State Collegefor Women.1919Mary L. Patrick, AM'20, principalof Wadsworth School of Chicago, hada delightful trip of nine thousand milesthrough France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Hungary,Switzerland, Italy and England in herown car last summer."Once successfully bagged, meteorsare worth about $1 per pound, but 'onthe hoof/ as they flash through the Oregon skies, they are of little earthly value— other than to J. Hugh Pruett, University of Oregon astronomer, whobelieves that meteor charting is one ofthe greatest of all outdoor sports. . ."So reads the opening paragraph of apopular article in the Portland Orego-nian recently as the result of an interview with Professor Pruett. In the interims between such interviews, astronomy classes and labs, Mr. Pruett writesfor several papers in as many states.Holland D. Roberts, AM'25, assistant professor of Leland Stanford University and Director of the Departmentof English at Menlo School and JuniorTHE UNIVERSITY OF CIIICAGO M A GAZINE 27o^sa...AND TWO G0I9 FACTST'ODAY, in thousands ofhomes, refrigerators formerlyconsidered as highly satisfactory,are being replaced with plus-powered Kelvinators.For the new Kelvinator is aluxurious refrigerator. Luxuriousin appearance — in convenience— and luxurious in service. It doesmore. It saves more. Its purchaseis a genuine economy. Judge ityourself by these two facts:FACT 1— The new 1937 Kelvinator is plus-powered. It hasas much as double the coolingPLUS-POWERED capacity of other well-known refrigerators of equal size.FACT 2— The new Kelvinatorruns only half as many minutesper day — during the rest of thetime it maintains low temperatures using no current at all.The new Kelvinator costsmore to build, but it costs nomore to buy than a less powerful, less economical refrigerator.It can be bought on your dealer'sspecial time payment plan — orfor as little as 90ff a week on theKelvinator ReDisCo Plan. .j*"f*-WHERE A NEW WAY OF UVING BEGINS . . .equipped with Kelvinator electric refrigeration, airconditioning, automatic heating, electric or gas range,washing machine, ironer, and automatic water heater— can be built for less than $7,500. The Kelvin HomeBook, with exterior views, floor plans and descriptionof equipment, is now available without cost whereverKelvinator products are sold.Nash- Kelvinator Corp., Kelvinator Div., Detroit, Mich.Factories also in London* Ontario, and London, Eng.CUTS THE COST OF BETTER LIVINGERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE28 THE UN IVCollege, has two books to be publishedduring 1937.1920Professor Joseph Demmery, AM'24,of the University of Washington, spentthe latter part of the summer in England studying the extensive buildingprogram and also took a trip to Berlinto see their crew win the 8-oar eventfor the United^ States.1921Dorothy Estabrook Kindred (Mrs.George), Underhill Road, Scarsdale,New York, is president of the WaysidePlayers.Now ranked as "emeritus," Jessie R.Mann teaches when called on to do so.The recent book of Horace F. Mitchell of Tulsa, Oklahoma, entitled "AFormular Interpretation of the Calendar," is in mimeograph form and he intends to offer it for publication sometime the first part of this year.1923Taking the name of its president,George H. Hartman, the J. L. SugdenAdvertising Company of Chicagochanged the name of the firm "to theGeorge H. Hartman Company the firstof this year. This company was established some eighteen years ago by thelate John L. Sugden who continued hisleadership until his health failed whenhe passed on the presidential duties toMr. Hartman.Helen Laurie, 810 Dexter Avenue,Seattle, Washington, is general supervisor of elementary education in the local public school for grades above third.Josephine A. Mansfield is chairmanof the Foreign Language Departmentof the Williams Memorial Institute, agirls' high school, in New London, Connecticut.During the past year Mrs. Urban J.Mullen (Frances Andrews) adopted atwo-year-old boy, to be a brother to herown son, so she now has a very livelyfamily of two, which she says "makeme realize that teaching 160 is a meretrifle compared to the job of being-mother to two." She teaches math atFenger High, Chicago.Mabel I. Miller, mathematicsteacher at Morton High School, Cicero,received her master's degree at theAugust Convocation from the University of Chicago.While Dean Leon P. Smith, Jr., andKeith Parsons, Assistant to the Secretary of the University, were covering achoice assortment of the boys' preparatory schools of the East they were delightfully entertained by Mr. and Mrs.Ezra Pike Rounds of Phillips ExeterAcademy, Exeter, New Hampshire.Mrs. Rounds is Melvina Scoville ofthe Class of 1923, who is well remembered for her active work in undergraduate days in the YWCA and the settlement and especially for the rare administrative ability which she showed aspresident of the dramatic association.She is the mother of two attractive children, Jean, 9, and Stephen, 8. After spending a year in California,Kathryn Healey Stidham, AM'29,returned to Chicago to accept the position as Assistant to Director of the Chicago Collegiate Bureau doing personnelwork.Cilena G. Walker, AM, spent thesummer in the Hawaiian Islands, studying their industries. She is principalof the Dewey Elementary School ofChicago.1924Charles W. Brittan, AM'26, isprincipal of the Henderson School, Chicago, s.In the late spring, 1935, Meta Givenestablished her owii laboratory at 155East Superior Street, Chicago, for consultant work in home economics. Recently she has enlarged it and addednew equipment.While traveling abroad this summeron the continent of Europe, Mabel A.Rossman spent a month in England,during which time she attended the NewEducation Fellowship at Cheltenhamfrom August 1-16..Gladys Winegar, who was textilespecialist with the Illinois EmergencyRelief Commission, is now with theByron G. Moon Company, New YorkCity, in educational promotional workfor Sanforized fabrics.1925Robert E. Curley, famous — in part,for the goal he kicked when playingquarterback against Northwestern,cinching the 1924 championship forChicago — broke into print in New Yorkon January 29th via the Nezv YorkHerald Tribune (in the column "Downin Front"). It seems that an old friendof Bob's who was on the Notre Damesquad during the years paralleling Bob'sgrid career developed a tenor voice.When Bob, now in the advertising business, signed the account of Guido'sSapphire Room in New York he wasable to place his friend in the musicalcast. The story from football to "hometown boys make good" is dramatized inthe above mentioned column.At present Meredith P. Gilpatrickis a candidate for the doctor's degree inthe department of International Relations at the University of Chicago.J. Kenneth Laird, Jr., vice president and director of advertising for theWeco Products Company, Chicago, anda member of the Alumni Council^ wasinstalled as president of the ChicagoFederated Advertising Club in January.In addition to his administrative dutiesas dean of Knoxville College, HardyListon, AM, gives one-third of his timeto teaching educational subjects.1926Margaret Brew, SM'35, has accepted a position in the textile and clothing division of the Department of HomeEconomics at the University of Minnesota.Allen Miller, director of the University Broadcasting Council, who willbe remembered as president of the Class of '26, has been offered a fellowshipfor the study of methods and techniquesof commercial radio by the General Education Board.Although The English TreasureChest, edited by Kezia Ethel Munson,AM'34, of Bangalore, India, is publishedmainly for educated Indians, it is usedas a text in rapid reading in many English high schools, and is widely read byprofessional men and women. She alsodoes all the editorial work in theWoman's Friend. The material in bothof these publications is translated intoseven and nine languages, respectively.1927Virginia Gartside has recently accepted the position as assistant chemistat Mars, Inc., Oak Park, Illinois. Inthis position her duty is to test materials which come into the factory to determine whether they are up to specifications. There is also some experimental work involved.Puttering in the garden in the summer and tending the plants in the smallgreenhouse connected with the StateTeachers College at Slippery Rock,Pennsylvania, are the special delightsof Alma G. Rice. Her occupation isto supervise geography and history inthe teacher training school and to teachgeography in the college.1928Ida N. Chambers, SM'35, is teaching art in the University of Arkansas."I anfa mother," writes Olga Peterson (Mrs. Albert J.) of 5800 Blackstone Aveune, Chicago. "I have washeddiapers and strained vegetables for twoyears. Then I have — but what is theuse ?" Just to prove how useful she is,the Parents' Association of the University Elementary School has appointedher a member.In addition to acting as Superintendent of Schools in the town of EastWindsor, Conn., Gerhardt E. Rasthas also been superintendent in SouthWindsor since September.Carol Hess Saphir (Mcs. William),SM'31, has given up her position ashead dietitian in Bobs Roberts and hassince acquired a fine baby girl.Ben A. Sylla, superintendent ofChicago Heights schools, likes golf,bowling and traveling.1929Callie Mae Coons has joined theBureau of Home Economics, Washington, D. C, to do some work with Dr.Hazel Stiebling on the study of foodconsumption which the Bureau is carrying on.James T. Farrell, ex, was overtaken by literary fame and $2,500 whenthe Book-of-the-Month Club selectedhim as one of the four authors of 1936of outstanding merit whose works wereconsidered to have been read insufficiently by the general public. Mr. Far*rell's Studs Lonigan was the book thatbrought him this recognition. ^Nicholas Matsoukas visited the/"quadrangles the last week in January en *THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 29"B&ttc StyJ& Je&cteb*./Different from each other . . . .different from any other motor car9mw iiIL9 w IITHE EIGHTSIX OR EIGHT, your 1937 Olds-mobile gives you the satisfactionof driving a car that is truly individual . . . distinctive in styling . . .thrilling in performance . . . andcomplete with every fine-car featurefor comfort and safety. From Knee-Action Wheels and Dual RideStabilizers to Unisteel Turret TopBodies by Fisher and Triple SealedSuper-Hydraulic Brakes, Oldsmobilegives you everything you really wantm a modern, up-to-the-minute car . . .at prices that set the pace in value!^S**^ s,x & EIGHT DELIVERED PRICES AT LANSING, MICH.: Sixes, $765 andup; Eights, $880 and up; subject to change withoutnotice. Cars illustrated: at top, Eight 4-Door TouringSedan, #1015; lower right, Six 4-Door Sedan, $885.These prices include safety glass, bumpers, bumperguards, spare tire and tube, rear spring covers. Transportation, state and local taxes, optional accessories andequipment -extra. General Motors Instalment Plan30 THE UNIVERSITY Oh ihlCAGO MAGAZINEroute back to his headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after a visit withhis old classmate, James T. Farrell, inNew York. Nick, in gratitude for hisown recovery, is now devoting much ofhis time to his establishment of a freetuberculosis sanitarium for Ahepa. Inhis off moments he is free-lancing andputting the finishing touches on hisnovel.The opening of the fall semester atthe Gray School, Chicago, saw EthelM. Murray, AM'36, installed in hernew position as principal.Mrs. Donald D. Parker_'s husbandreceived his PhD degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School inAugust. Their address is Lake ForestCollege, Lake Forest, Illinois.1930Margaret Burns is back on thequadrangles working for her master's.She is on leave from Jefferson College,1931La Verne Larson Carlson, SM'36,and her husband have just returnedfrom a long journey over various foreign countries. Mr. Carlson wasawarded a scholarship to the Universityof Grenoble in France, which was thefirst stop of their trip. Their travelsincluded the following interesting countries : Andorra, Luxemburg, Belgium,Germany, Iceland, Norway, Denmark,England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.Mrs. Carlson has this year resumed herduties at the School of Domestic Artsand Sciences.Ruth Earnshaw of the AmericanCouncil, Institute of Pacific Relations,reports that her chief job at present isarranging for a Chinese Language Summer School, to be given by the Instituteat the University of Michigan, June 28-August 21. It will be an intensive introductory- course in reading modernChinese, of especial interest and valueto such people as economists, politicalscientists and historians who work inthe Far Eastern field. On the side sheis working on moving pictures, chieflyresearch for school movies on Orientalmaterial, and studying the Chinese language in any spare minutes left over.John B. Holt, who was a student inGermany during the period 1931 to 1934,has written an authoritative work on thesubject of National Socialism entitledUnder the Swastika, published by theUniversity of North Carolina Press.In addition to teaching in eveningschool, John N. Link, AM'36, 210 EastPearson, Chicago, is supplementing hismajor and teaching subjects with "dramatic" experience at the GoodmanSchool of Theatre.Florence L. Mark directs play activities at Mandel Brothers, Chicago.George O. Meierdierks and his wifeRuth Dick, took their master's degreesat the August Convocation here at theUniversity of Chicago. He continuesat Lane Technical High School as aGerman instructor, and counselor, whileshe carries on her teaching in Englishand Latin at Amundsen High School,Chicago.Florence Petzel, AM'34, has beenappointed to the staff of Judson College in Marion, Alabama. For the past twoyears Miss Petzel has assisted in theDepartment of Home Economics at theUniversity of Minnesota.Louise Sidonie Schoenberg, AM'36,is teaching second grade at the Hawthorne School, Oak Park, 111.1932Ruth Abells, SM'35, is associateconsulting psychologist in the GlencoePublic Schools, as well as in the Morgan Park Military Academy.Alice Carlson was recently marriedto Jack Hough, '32, SM'34, and hasgone with her husbancLto Pasadena. Mr.Hough is on the staff of the CaliforniaInstitute of Technology.Dorothy R. Mohr, AM'33, Chicagohigh school teacher, spent the past summer in graduate study at the Universityof California at Los Angeles.Until July, 1936, Mrs. Ward Pigman(Alice E. Wolfe), 2418 Upton Street,Arlington, Virginia, worked as case supervisor and social worker in PublicAssistance Division of Washington,D. C. She reports that she is now staying home with a new baby.Carl A. Scheid is assistant supervising liquidator for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington. 1933Reub Frodin has located in NewYork, where he is on the staff of Time,business section. He is living withEllmore Patterson, '35, 112 East 61stStreet.Until this year Helen L. Graves hadbeen teaching in Gilbert, Minnesota, butis now teaching at the Junior High ofClarendon Hills, Illinois. She publishedan article in the December GradeTeacher.Belle Hurwich, SM'34, is doingstatistical work with the Illinois StateEmployment Service.G. Elwood Johnson is research assistant in history at the University ofChicago. Under the direction of Professor Bessie Pierce, he is engaged inwriting a history of the Swedes in Chicago, and has recently passed with distinction the written examination for thedoctorate.Richard O. Niehoff, AM'34, reports that his work as assistant supervisor of the training section, TennesseeValley Authority, with an excellentgroup of professional staff members inseveral fields of specialty is very interesting.Patricia O'Hara, who took her master's degree at Cornell University lastspring, is spending the winter in California.Catherine E. Stevens is a kindergarten teacher in the Roosevelt School,St. Louis, Missouri, and is taking anextension course now at WashingtonUniversity in Visual Education.Francis Tresise has accepted a position in the Riverside Junior College,Riverside, California, teaching dress design.Erik Wahlgren, an assistant in theDepartment of Germanics at the University of Chicago, is now a correspondent of the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia. 1934Lorna Alfred is now head dietitianin Bobs Roberts Hospital, Chicago.William H. Bessey is a teaching fellow at Carnegie Tech, where he received the MS in physics in 1935.Jane Brady, SM'36, is now taking acourse in clinical psychology and serving as apprentice at the Institute ofJuvenile Research, Chicago.Jane Cavanagh travels extensivelyfor the Hot Point Electric Companyand teaches local salesmen how to demonstrate this equipment.Ruth Camp Moore, SM'35, is employed by the Deavitt Laboratories, aconsulting chemical firm of Chicago.Her husband, Dudley T. Moore, ischief chemist there.Leonard J. Eslick and his wife,Florence Weber, are now living at3 Garden Court Apartments, RugbyRoad, Charlottsville, Virginia. For thisacademic year, as well as 1937-38, heis under appointment as a DuPont Fel-low in Philosophy at the University ofVirginia.Robert Howe is now with PittsburghPlate Glass Company, 3849 South Hamilton Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.At/ the Summer Convocation EmmaM. LaPorte was awarded her master'sdegree at the University of Chicago.She is teaching English in the York-ville (III.) High School.Marion Pederson has accepted a position in the School of Domestic Artsand Science, on the staff of the Institution Economics Division of theirwork.Shirley Witkowsky has this yearreturned to her position as assistantdietitian in the Beth Israel Hospital inNewark, New Jersey.1935Halcie M. Boyer is an administrativeassistant in the School of Nursing, NewYork Hospital, New York City, whereshe is in charge of the night nursingservice. Her favorite diversions includedrama, poetry, good fiction and professional baseball.Dorothy L. Garman writes: "I ama primary grade teacher in the FortWayne Public Schools. During thelast eight years I've had experience infour grades, but am now where I'm thehappiest — the first grade. I'm interested in the theory and practice ofstenotypy and typing. I'm hoping thatsoon I shall be qualified to do convention and court reporting during thesummers."Catherine Hoffer is working in thetea room of Carson, Pirie, Scott andCompany.Marguerite Huggins now has a p°'sition with Miss Meta Given in hernew kitchen in Chicago. Amy Jack-. son is also working there.Howard P. Hudson is assistant pro*motion manager of the Chicago £WNews.Lillian Nash has for the past yearbeen acting as governess and instructorfor the two young children of Mr. anaMrs. James H. Douglas, Jr. Part otthe year was spent in California, afterTHE UNIV ERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEwhich time they have been at theirhome in Lake Forest.Goldena Payne, SM'36, has a position in the editorial offices of ChemicalAbstracts at Ohio State University.Lillian M. Richards of Aurora, Illinois, greatly enjoys her work as anEnglish teacher in East High School.Her hobbies are many and varied, extending from playing golf to piecing aquilt.Suzanne Richardson is registeredfor graduate work on the quadranglesthis year.1936Adelaide Andresen is also in Chicago, having accepted a position withthe Harvey-Hall Advertising Agency.She is working with Miss EleanorHowe and writing home economics advertising. She has been made assistanteditor of their little publication.Lloyd Merritt Bush, one-time distinguished on varsity squad, more recently with the Illinois Bell TelephoneCompany, is now with the AxelsonManufacturing Company, ah oil wellpump and sucker (no wise cracks,please ! ) rod factory, with headquartersat Long Beach, California.Four of last year's students in homeeconomics have dietetic internships inChicago hospitals this year. MaryBornstein and Sara Baumgardnerare at Cook County, Stella Engle-brecht is at Billings, and SophiaHeend is at Michael Reese.Ruth Daum is teaching clothing andfoods in the Brookfield High School inRiverside, Illinois.Helen Hackel is now managing thebakery for the University of ChicagoCommons.Mary Finnegan taught photographyin a Girl Scout camp during the summer and has recently taken a positionwith the Junket folks.Ethel Kendrick is continuing herstudy at Chicago as a graduate studentin home economics.Shirley Meyerovitz, after graduation, took a commercial course in theLoop and now has a good position inthis line of work.Paul W. Netterstrom has a position as junior geologist with the ShellPetroleum Corporation in Tulsa, Okla.Margaret Stolzenback is teachinghome economics in the high school inCanton, Ohio.LAW1909Charles P. Schwartz, '08, JD, whorecently moved his offices to the FieldBuilding, 135 South LaSalle Street, isnow associated as of counsel for thefirm of Bank and Pollard of New York,Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles,specializing in federal tax matters.1913The law offices of Roy M. Harmon,'11, JD, and Calvin M. George, JD,have been moved to Suite 701, the Harris Trust Building, 111 West MonroeStreet, Chicago.1914We quote from the Washington Star :'7- Warren Madden's (JD) decision ^X Qw&yf^aHCz"The morning comes — I don't know apleasanter feeling than that of wakingwith the sun shining on objects quitenew, and (although you have made thevoyage a dozen times), quite strange... all seems as gay and as comfortableas may be — the sun shines brighter thanyou have seen it for a year, the sky is athousand times bluer, and what a cheeryclatter of shrill quick French voices comesup from the court-yard under thewindows !"— William Makepeace Thackeray \** A country beloved by men like Sterneand Thackeray, Charles Dickens andHenry James . . . Stevenson went throughits inland waterways in a canoe and overits mountain passes on foot, to producetwo little masterpieces, "An Inland Voyage" and "Travels with a Donkey.** A country whose written history runsback to Julius Caesar and his imperiallegions . . . whose first literature waswritten in the suave Latin of the SilverAge . . . whose territory is alive withdeep-rooted memories of the past . . .Gothic cathedrals, medieval walled towns, Renaissance chateaux, the orderedelegance of 18th-century architecture.** A country of many countries • . .level Picardy, bathed in pearly light . . .opulent Normandy . . . wild and woodedAuvergne • • • tranquil, sunlit Provence. . . the austere Pyrenees . . . each withits special gifts of hospitality . . . thewines of Bordeaux, of Burgundy, ofChampagne ... a hundred cheeses . . .a hundred sauces ... an epicure's Eden.** A country whose coastline spacessmart bathing beaches and ancient fishing ports • . . Deauville and Harfleur... La Baule and St.-Nazaire . . . Biarritz and Bordeaux . . . Toulon and Cannes. . . whose deep-water mariners havesailed the seven seas for centuries . . .whose maritime tradition finds its culmination in the magnificent streamlinedNormandle, world's greatest ship, andher companions in the French Line fleet.• • •PARIS— 1937EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALEOnce again the nations of the worldsend the finest products of their artistsand engineers to a dazzling world's fairin Paris. Special reductions on railroads,air-lines, steamships, for exposition visitors. Ask your Travel Agent.Ifrerveh J&ne610 FIFTH AVENUE (ROCKEFELLER CENTER), N. Y.NORMANDIE, Mar. 3 • ILE DE FRANCE, Feb. 20 • PARIS, Feb. 27Scheduled flights available via Air-France to every capital in Europe32 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEto defend the constitutionality of thenational labor relations act personallybefore the Supreme Court did not surprise NLRB employes who had long-ago learned to appreciate the quietforcefulness of the board chairman. . . .Madden had scarcely gotten the Pittsburgh soot out of his hair after his appointment when he braved the lion inthe lion's den by firmly upholding labor's right to organize in an addressbefore the National Manufacturers Association, arch-opponents of the Wagner labor relations act. . . ."Madden's labor experience was asa mediator in the street railway strikein Pittsburgh and as a member of Gov.Pinchot's committee investigating theprivate police guards employed by steelplant and coal mine operators. . . . Alsoof undoubted assistance in his mediationwork has been a long study of domesticrelations. . . . He has written two booksun the subject. . . . Himself a strongfamily man, he has two girls and threeboys. . . . When they get together, thechildren form a family band — piano,violin, cello, oboe and clarinet. . . .Madden doesn't play, but he is a goodlistener. . . ."1917Rov Massena, JD, was appointed amaster in chancery of the Circuit Courtof Cook County at a meeting of thejudges of that court held on November27. Formerly associated with the firmof Chytraus, Healy and Frost, he hasbeen a member of the firm of Deneen,Healy and Lee since May 1, 1936. Hisoffice is located at Suite 1304, 111 WestMonroe Street. For approximatelysixteen years he served as city attorney of Blue Island and has also actedas an attorney for the Board of Reviewof Cook County from 1918 until thisboard was abolished.1918From Dayton, Ohio, comes the announcement that Murray Smith, LLB,has joined with Francis Dean Schnackeand Boyd M. Compton to form thepartnership of Smith, Schnacke &Compton for the general practice of lawTheir present offices are on ihe twelfthfloor of the Callahan Building1919To Norris C. Bakke, LLB, who waselected to the Supreme Court of Colorado last November, goes the distinction of receiving the highest vote of anycandidate on the ticket for the office,as well as being the youngest man everelected Supreme Court Justice.Bakke has had an outstanding recordof public service in Colorado for thepast twenty-seven years. After taking-special work at Harvard Law Schoolin 1920, he returned to Sterling, Colorado, and was elected County Judge bya large majority. He rapidly acquireda state-wide reputation and frequentlyassisted in the Denver courts. He tookan active part in the work of the Colorado Conference of Social Work and in1932 was chosen vice-president of theAssociation. In 1925 he was chosenCity Attorney of Sterling, serving fortwo vears. From 1926 to 1932, while Bakke wasengaged in the general practice of law,he handled a large amount of litigationin numerous courts of the state, including the Federal courts. His legal ability was recognized to the extent thatwhen the late Paul P. Prosser waselected Attorney General he madeBakke his deputy, in which capacity heserved with distinction to himself andcredit to the state. During this timehe was admitted to the Bar of the UnitedStates Supreme Court. As a member ofthe Interstate Crime Commission, hewas chiefly responsible for effecting theInterstate Crime Compact recently entered into by the four states of Kansas,New Mexico, Wyoming and Colorado.1921Sidney J." Wolf, '19, JD'21, andArthur Wolf, '20, JD'22, formerly amember of the firm of Wilhartz andHirsch, have formed a partnership forthe general practice of law under thefirm name of Sidney J. and ArthurWolf, with offices located at Suite 2012,134 North LaSalle Street, Chicago.1923Albert Durham Morris, JD, hashis law offices in Bank Building, CedarCitv, Utah.1930December 21, 1936, was an importantday for 'Robert G. Reed, LLB. On thatdate he severed his employment withthe United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Investigation and wassworn in as Associate Attorney of theU. S. Securities and Exchange Commission, New York Regional Office, 120Broadway, New York City.1931Gilbert R. Crain, JD, is city secretary of San Benito, Texas.Raymond Otis Mitchell, JD, attorney at law, may be found at 38South Dearborn Street, Chicago.1932For his work as No. 1 Big Brotherto Chicago boys, Robert Tieken, '27,JD, well known Chicago attorney received the distinguished service awardof the Junior Association of Commercefor 1936. The award is given annuallyto the man between 21 and 35 years ofage who is judged to have made thegreatest contribution to civic welfareduring the year. In making the award.the Association pointed to Mr. Tieken' sexcellent leadership as chairman of theexecutive committee of the BigBrothers' Association, organized bybusiness men to help under-privilegedbovs.1933T. H. Slusser, Jr., '32, JD, is sellingreal estate for H. A. Hoover and Company, at 10 West Street, Charles Road,Lombard, Illinois, and is also practicinglaw.1936Robert E. Coulson, JD, announcesthe opening of law offices with FrankM. Daly at 7 North County Street,Waukegan, Illinois. RUSH1880Retired from the active practice ofmedicine for some years, John RitterMD, 2370 S. W. 23rd Terrace, Miami;Florida, occasionally writes a paper onsome topic of tuberculosis for publication. At the present time he is compiling a lengthy paper entitled, "TheHuman Body in Health and Disease."1896Herbert R. Sugg, MD, is a memberof the Iowa State Department oiHealth. He is a past president ofthe same board. His address is 546Fifth Avenue, South, Clinton, Iowa.1902For twenty-five years, John Morrison Sokol, MD, has been the coronerfor Spencer, Iowa. One of his two sonsis a senior this year Rush. Dr. Sokol'shobby is gardening.1905"Bridge" serves as both hobby andfavorite sport to Sidney HerbertWetzler, MD, who is living in Milwaukee. Last March an article ofwhich he was co-author, "TraumaticAppendicitis." appeared in the American Journal of Surgery.1913Ralph H. Kuhns, '11, MD, has beenappointed a delegate to the International Chess Federation meeting to beheld in Stockholm next July; he willalso attend the Congress of MentalHygiene which will convene in Paris.The son of Arthur L. Smith, MD,of Lincoln, Nebraska, is a member ofthe class of '40 at the University — preparing for eventual work at Rush. Arthur writes that he enjoys out-of-doorssports and whenever possible takes outthe rod and tackle.1916Clarence W. Adams, '14, MD, ispracticing- surgery and obstetrics at 450Sutter Avenue, San Francisco, according to a recent letter from him. Hespeaks of his two children, Natalie andDonald, who are coming along verywell.1919Fishing is Jay J. Crane's ('17,MD,) favorite sport. Jay is a urologistin Los Angeles, California and is amember of the executive committee ofthe Western Urological Society.William R. Meeker. MD, is president of the Gulf Coast Clinical Societywith his residence in Mobile, Alabama.He has two children, William R., Jr.,and Arthur Cowan. Like so many ofhis brothers in the medical bond, heenjoys hunting and fishing.1921"Medical director of research at theChicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium" is the title held by HenryClaris Sweany, MD. He has heldmany important offices in both localTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 33an(] national tubercular and medicalassociations.Cleveland J. White, MD, is practicing dermatology in Chicago with hisoffice located at 122 South MichiganAvenue. He has written some 68papers on diseases of the skin and appendages. He has two young daughters Harriet Jane and Patricia Ann.E. Bertrand Woolfan, '18, MD,who is practicing in Hollywood, California, built a small professional building last year at 1724 North HighlandAvenue, and sends word that he has afine group of men in it, including Albert G. Bower, MD.Orns Ray Yoder, MD, is connectedwith the staffs of the University ofMichigan Post Graduate School andWestern State College (Michigan),lecturing in mental hygiene and psychiatry." His address is, State Hospital.Ypsilanti, Michigan.1923Clarence F. G. Brown, MD, Chicagophysician, is being kept busy these daysserving as a member of various committees which include the committee tostudy medical care in the penal institutions of State of Illinois, appointed byInstitute of Medicine, the mayor's committee to eradicate venereal disease, andacting as secretary-treasurer of the Chicago Society of Internal Medicine. Heis an associate in medicine at Northwestern University Medical School aswell as on the St. Luke's HospitalBoard.1924A surgeon and obstetrician in Richland Center, Wisconsin, Wilmer C.Edwards, MD, is also an officer in anumber of neighboring organizations.He is president of the Kiwanis cluband treasurer of the Richland CenterBoard of Education. For recreationhe does a bit of woodworking andhunting.Since taking his degree twelve yearsago, Philip H. Henderson, '22, MD,has made considerable progress ingynecology and obstetrics in Longview,Washington. He is chief of staff ofCowlitz general hospital and is nowin a similar position in the LongviewMemorial hospital. His two childrenare now 12 and 3 years old.From Chengtu, Szechuan, China,Marian E. Manly. MD, sends the following- note: "In the past five yearsI've got one definite project welllaunched. Trained midwives are theonly solution of the obstetrical problemin China ; doctors will certainly be insufficient for some generations. In1931, with a small grant from theWomen's Foreign Missionary Societyof the Methodist Episcopal Mission, Iopened a school of midwifery inChengtu. In the five years we havehandled twelve hundred deliveries (theequivalent in pathology of five to tenthousand in the U. S.), graduated 34trained midwives, and conducted a prenatal and post-natal clinic. 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Dorchester 3299Elementary Grades — High SchoolPreparation — KindergartenFrench, Music and ArtBUS SERVICEA School with Individual Instruction andCultural AdvantagesDRAMATIC SCHOOLAMERICAN ACADEMYOF DRAMATIC ARTSFounded in 1884 by Franklin H. Sargent. Thefirst and foremost institution for DramaticTraining in Acting, Directing, and Teaching.Spring Term Begins April 1stFor Catalog address Secretary, Room 180,CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YOKKLIBRARY SCHOOLLIBRARY SCHOOL209 S. State St., Chicago, III.Preparatory course for public Librarian.Practical book courses for positions inRental Libraries and book stores.Register Mon. to Fri. II a. m. to 4 p. m. eral Chinese trained midwives. but noother foreigner."1925In Camden, Arkansas, Rufus B.Robins, S3VT23, MD, is program chair-man of the Arkansas State MedicalSociety. He is practicing general surgery.Along with an active surgical practicein Oak Park, Illinois, Sol M. Wolff-son, '22, MD, is assistant professor ofsurgery in the Chicago Medical School.He goes in for political economy andeconomics, and when the opportunitypresents itself he is an enthusiastic traveller.1926Katherine Howe Chapman, '22,MD. is an opthalmologist in Chicago.Her home is at 5407 Greenwood Avenue."The most active and progressivemedical society of its size in the UnitedStates." That is what James WallaceShaw, SM'25, MD, thinks of theSedgwick County Medical Society(Kansas). James is concerned withobstetrics and gynecology in hisWichita office. Incidentally, he is president of the Sedgwick County MedicalSociety.1927Jessie Marguerite Bierman, MD,is Director of the Child Hygiene Division of the Montana State Board ofHealth in Helena. Previously she practiced pediatrics in San Francisco from1927 to April, 1936, and had been aninstructor of pediatrics at the Universityof California Medical School.1930The general practice of EvelynGruhkle McLane, MD, wife of William O. McLane, MD'28, is quite typical of a "country doctor" — even to obstetrics — according to her recent message.1931A bit of chess plus swimming andtennis, not to mention the problems entailed in playing "daddy" to young Barbara Jane, all go to offer variety to thegeneral practice of Anthony Bagnu-ola, '27, MD, who writes us from hisChicago home, 1561 N. La Salle.1933Noah Barysh, MD, has opened hisoffice for the practice of medicine andsurgery at 9214 Ridge Boulevard,Brooklyn, New York.1934After completing three years in internal medicine at Henry Ford Hospital, Ernest B. Miller, MD, took overthe practice of a former physician atManistee, Michigan.1931Dr. Matthew McKirdie, '29, MD.physician and surgeon, is a member oithe Department of Surgery at the University Hospital of Iowa City, Iowa.Frederick A. Musacchio, MD, }sin the Herman Kiefer Hospital i*1Detroit.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO M AGAZINE 351935Now a pharmacologist with Hoffman-La Roche, Inc. (offices: New Jerseyand Switzerland) is Robert Henry£INg Foster, PhD'32, MD, after practicing in South Charleston, Ohio, fora short while until this year. He hascontributed papers on digitalis, codeine,and blood coagulation. In the open airit's tennis and by the fireside it's photo0 raphy or stamps with him.William Edward Loohy, Jr., MD,left the Presbyterian Hospital, to accept an appointment as house doctor inthe Firestone Hospital at Monrovia,Liberia.Fred Monroe Sandifer, Jr., MD,is at present the senior fellow in surgery at the Louisiana State MedicalSchool. In 1934 he held a rotatinginternship at Charity Hospital, NewOrleans. La. Last year he was juniorfellow with the department of surgeryoi L. S. U. Medical Center. He waspromoted to senior fellow last July.His home is still in Greenwood, Mississippi.1936Charles Philip Catalano, MD, isat present interning at St. Vincent'sHospital in New York City.William Louden McEwen, MD,has set up his practice in Taft, California.Merle J. Moore, MD, is the residentphysician of the Community Hospital,Geneva, 111.A. W. Pearson, MD, has accepted aposition as resident physician at MercedCounty Hospital, Merced, California.Robert Oliver Pletcher, MD,physician, gives Jane Lew, West Virginia, as his business address.Citation of Miss Marion Talbot forHonorary Membership in the Illinois Association of Deans ofWomenThere is with us this evening awoman to whom the very existence ofthis organization is largely due. Shehasi played a large part in the educational program, of Illinois. A native ofNew England, by her position andachievements a citizen of the world, yetin a peculiar, vital, and dear sense sheis a woman of Illinois, peer to the noblest the state has produced.Called by President Harper, she cameto the University of Chicago with AliceFreeman Palmer to organize the University's work for its women. She became the Dean of Women of that greatUniversity.. In that position, and in her later position as President of the Woman's College of Constantinople, in her contribution to the organization and program°f the A. A. U. W., in her participation in the State and National Association of Deans of Women, she has everbeen a pioneer and leader, setting stand-aros, holding the group she led to clearer ideas and ideals. One is honored inbestowing honor on such a woman. It is my high privilege, Madam President, to cite for honorary membershipin the Illinois Association of Deans ofWomen, Miss Marion Talbot.By O. Lillian Barton, AM'30,Illinois State Normal University,November 6, 1936DOCTORS OFPHILOSOPHY1900George Norlin, president of the University of Colorado, has been elected amember of the board of trustees of theFoundation for the Advancement of theSocial Sciences of the University ofDenver.1904David M. Robinson, '98, professorof archeology and epigraphy at JohnsHopkins University, recently publisheda volume on "Pendor, a Poet of EternalIdeas," Hopkins Press. Robinson hasbeen excavating the Olynthus in Greecein three campaigns and has a leave ofabsence for the year 1937-38 when hewill continue his work there.1905Introduction to Geology is the title ofa popular new textbook (McGraw-HillCompany) written by E. B. Branson,PhD'06, of the University of Missouriin collaboration with W. A. Tarr, PhD'16. In addition, his Conodont Studies(with M. G. Mehl) appeared in 1933.A successful field season in the Stateof Washington was spent by A. C. Noe,'00, of the University of Chicago faculty, in cooperation with the Department of Conservation and Development, Division of Geology, of the Stateof Washington. Excellent specimens ofTertiary plants comprised the main collected items.1906Two new and interesting collectionsof books have been added to the Graduate Education Library. ProfessorMarcus W. Jernegan of the University of Chicago's Department of History, who at one time gave courses inthe history of education, has spent allof his academic career making a collection of early textbooks. The valuablecollection which he has brought togetherhas now been transferred to the Library.It includes a number of rare first editions of educational books, notablyLocke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) and Brinsloy's TheGrammar Schoole (1612). It also includes readers that were used duringthe early Colonial period and textbooksin other fields. The second collection isa series of children's books in a number of different languages that wasbrought together by the World's Fairin Chicago three years ago. Throughthe generosity of the Library of International Relations this collection ofbooks has been deposited with theLibrary of the Department of Education. IMSSMIIN THE BAHAMASWinter haven of two continents — somuch, so near, and for so litde! 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Wacker Drive Ran. 6951AWNINGSPhones Oakland 0690—0691—0692The Old ReliableHyde Park Awning Co.,INC.Awnings and Canopies for All Purposes4508 Cottage Grove Avenue 1907Professor Chester N. Gould hasbeen granted a leave of absence fromthe University faculty and, togetherwith his family, is spending the winterin Florida.1908/ Change Worlds: The Remaking ofan American and This Soviet Worldare the titles of two recent books (HenryHolt and Company) written by AnnaLouise Strong, AM, '07.1916William S. Gray, '1-3, professor inthe Department of Education at the University of Chicago, spent the month ofMarch in Porto Rico, on the invitationof the school authorities, investigatingconditions with regard to bilingualism.He found that a large number of thepupils in the elementary schools of PortoRico are seriously handicapped in theirstudies by virtue of the fact that theyhave no opportunity to hear or speakthe English language in their homes.Since many of these pupils doi not attend school beyond the third grade, Professor Gray recommended that instruction in the early grades be carried onin Spanish and the effort to teach English be postponed until the later grades.Laura Hatch Martin (Mrs. Lawrence) of 3215 R. Street N. W, Washington, D. C, reports that in additionto her duties as housewife, she deliversoccasional talks before various organizations.M. M. Leighton, Chief, Illinois StateGeological Survey, reports as followsconcerning the work of that organization : "The program of group researchby the Survey, undertaken five yearsago, is meeting with marked success.The information being obtained is ofthe kind needed in these days of rapidly changing industrial technology andengineering activity. This work is described in a recent issue of the IllinoisBlue Book, reprints of which are available." Dr. Leighton is the author of apreliminary report on the "GeologicalAspects of the Findings of PrimitiveMan, Near Abilene, Texas."During the year Raymond C. Moore,chairman of the Department of Geologyat the University of Kansas, continuedhis research on Pennsylvanian stratig-laphy of the Mid-Continent region.William A. Tarr reports the completion of a paper on the origin of thelead ores of southeastern Missouri,which is appearing in Economic Geology. He is also joint author with E. B.Branson, PhD'05, of the textbook, Introduction to Geology. Tarr is at theUniversity of Missouri.C. W. Tomlinson says that his chiefjob is keeping his five children in fivedifferent schools. The eldest is at Stanford University studying engineering.1917Conrad Lund Kjerstad, AM'16, isnow at the University of North Dakotaas associate professor of education. Pre viously, he was president of the StateTeachers College at Dickinson, NorthDakota.During the past year William QReavis, '09 AM' 12, has organized anumber of committees including members of the Department of Educationand members of the faculties of theLaboratory Schools to make surveys ofthe teaching of reading and literatureof the social studies, and of physicaleducation. The reports of these committees have been made subjects of special consideration by the faculties of theLaboratory Schools and will be thebasis of experimental modifications inthe curriculum of these schools.1919In addition to directing the AmericanCollege Bureau of Chicago. LewisWilbur Smith, AM'13, is giving acourse in Industrial Education in University College, University of Chicago.Ralph W. Chaney, '12, and Mrs.Chaney stopped at the University for abrief visit this fall. Dr. Chaney is theauthor of numerous papers on Cenozoicpaleontology of western North Americaand northeastern Asia. He heads theDepartment of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley.Mervin J. Kelly has been appointedDirector of Research of Bell TelephoneLaboratories succeeding Oliver E.Buckley, who has been elected Executive Vice President. Last May, hehonorary degree of Doctor of Engineering was conferred on Dr. Kelly bythe School of Mines and Metallurgy ofthe University of Missouri in recognition of his contributions to communication engineering, particularly in theelectronic field.1921Mayme I. Logsdon, '13, AM'15, associate professor of Mathematics andhead of Kelly Hall at the Universityof Chicago, attended the InternationalCongress of Mathematicians at OsloJuly 13-18 as the representative of theUniversity and spent the summer inScandinavia, Scotland, and Ireland. Herbook, A Mathematician Explains, whichwas published by the University ofChicago in October, 1935, has been remarkably successful.From Pocatello, Idaho, Roy A. Wilson reports that he is engaged in consulting work in southern Idaho andadjacent areas, mainly mining properties, and especially gold.1922Professor Harold D. Lasswell, '22,PhD'26, of the University of Chicagois associate editor of the new PublicOpinion Quarterly, the first issue ofwhich has just appeared, while Professor Harold F. Gosnell, PhD'22, alsoof Chicago contributes an analysis ofthe 1936 straw polls to the current issue. Professor Lasswell conducts a survey department on public opinion trendsand developments in the field of government.VERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 37PRINTSOf the University Chapel Doorway FrontispieceA Drawing by Clay KellyMay be obtained in Black andWhite Lithograph, 10x12 inchesat $1.00 or with Gray WaxedFinish Frame, 1 5 ^x: 18 1/2 inchesat $3.00.On Sale At TheUniversity of Chicago Book Store— Or —The Studio of the Artist,Clay Kelly, 1542 E. 57th St.BLACKSTONEHALLanExclusive Women's Hotelin theUniversity of Chicago DistrictOffering Graceful Living to University and Business Women atModerate TariffBLACKSTONE HALL5748 TelephoneBlackstone Ave. Pla2a 3313Verna P. Werner, DirectorCLOISTER GARAGECHICAGO PETERSENMOTOR LIVERYA PERSONAL SERVICEof Refinement, Catering to theUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO•5650 LAKE PARK AVE.Phone MIDWAY 0949 The quarterly, which is the pioneerjournal of its kind in the country, ispublished under the auspices of Princeton's School of Public and Internationalaffairs.It is designed to bring together thelatest public opinion studies from thefields of scholarship, government, business, advertising, public relations, press,radio and motion pictures.Bruce Lannes Smith, '33, formerlyresearch assistant in political science atChicago, is editor of the bibliographysection, while Professor Harwood L.Childs of Princeton, PhD'29, is managing editor of the publication.1923T. H. Bissonnette is engaged in research on the modification of sexualcycles in birds (starlings, pheasants,quails) and mammals (ferrets, raccoons,rabbits) by alterations of daily periodand intensity of illumination undergrants from the National ResearchCouncil Committee for Research inProblems of Sex. Professor of biologyat Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, since 1925, he had charge of thecourse on marine invertebrates at theMarine Biological Laboratory, WoodsHole, Mass., this summer. His twosons, Julien Hume and Donald King areten and three years of age.N. Paul Hudson, chairman of theDepartment of Bacteriology at OhioState University, is the newly namedsecretary-treasurer of the AmericanSociety of Tropical Medicine, and vicechairman of the medical section of theSociety of American Bacteriologists.Stories of Chicagoland, On the RoadTo Happytown, and In Happytown, aretitles of readers by William H. Johnson,, superintendent of the ChicagoPublic Schools, to be published shortlyby Newson and Company.1925A four seasons' field study of theglacial phenomena of eastern Washington was completed last summer byRichard F. Flint, '25, of Yale University.Abstracts of Graduate Theses in Education, University of Cincinnati, 1931-36, published by that University in1936 was edited by Carter V. Good,who also collaborated with Barr andScates in getting out Methodology ofEducational Research (Appleton Century Company). Good holds a professorship in Education at the Universityof Cincinnati.Harvey C. Lehman of Ohio University at Athens, taught during this pastsummer at the University of Kansas, adeparture from his practice of the pasteight years of putting in time teachingat Ohio University during the summersessions.S. R. Warner, head of the department of Biology at Sam Houston StateTeachers College, lists plant ecologyand taxonomy as his avocations. 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Bell is carrying onstudies of geology and oil possibilitiesin Illinois, and of improved recoverymethods in producing fields, for theIllinois State Geological Survey. Heis the author of a number of reports onoil and gas possibilities and development.William H. Sheldon, MD'34, isnow professor of psychology at the Chicago Theological Seminary.Mary Minerva Steagall, '06, SM'23, head of the Zoology Department ofSouthern Illinois Teachers College atCarbondale, has played ^a very importanthand in building up4he department. Inaddition to serving as senior adviser forthe College and president of EgyptianScience Club, she finds time to collectand identify Southern Illinois mosses.1927As head of the Investment AnalysisBureau, St. Louis, Missouri, James R.Jackson, '23, AM'24, devotes most ofhis time to investment counsel. Inaddition, he also advises bank andindividual clients and heads the Department of Finance of the School of Commerce and Finance of St. Louis University.1928Fred H. Barber, professor, givesundergraduate courses in Emory andHenry College, Emory, Virginia, inEducation and Latin.Marguerite G. Mallon, AM'16,formerly at Purdue University, is nowan assistant professor of Home Economics at the University of Californiaat Los Angeles. Her hobby and favorite sports go hand in hand, for sheusually has her camera ready for goodphotographic shots when she is hikingor traveling.Dorothy Nightingale has been aninstructor in organic chemistry at theUniversity of Missouri since 1923. Sheis treasurer of the local chapter ofSigma Xi and vice-president of the location section of the American ChemicalSociety. For her hobby she choosesmusic.As associate geologist of the U. S.Geological Survey, A. N. Sayre iscarrying on work on ground-waterresources in Texas. He is at presentin charge of an investigation to determine the total ground-water supplyavailable for the city of El Paso.Last summer Margaret K. Strongaccepted an appointment as director ofthe Graduate School of Social Administration at the University of Louisville,Kentucky.1929After twelve years at Crozer Seminary Stewart G. Cole resigned to accept the presidency of Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan. His inauguration on October 17 was an interesting occasion. The chairman of theinaugural exercises was Dk. C. T.Goodsell, AM'24, acting presidentsince April 29, 1935. Howard K. McClusky recently accepted an appointment to a part-timeresearch and service fellowship with theW. K. Kellogg Foundation of BattleCreek, Michigan, conducting a CountyGuidance Project for Youth under jointauspices of the Foundation and University of Michigan. With R. Schorlinghe has written Education and SocialTrends published by the World BookCompany.1932Paul H. Dunn is working on Silurian material collected by Drs. Bretzand Fisher from the Chicago andJoliet regions. He has ready for publication a paper on the Silurian For-aminifera. Dunn is at State College,Mississippi.Bruce C. Freeman of Ohio StateUniversity spent the summer in theWaswanipi area of northwestern Quebec for the Canadian Geological Survey. He reports that his children,Edward, 3, and Jane, 1, are thriving.Leed Garber, a member of thefaculty of the State Teachers Collegeat Mankato, Minn., has written a halfdozen magazine articles in the last year.Milicent Louise Hathaway isteaching and carrying on her researchin chemistry at the University ofIllinois.Hakon Wadell spent most of thepast two years in Sweden. During thesummer of 1936 he worked in Icelandunder the direction of Lauge Koch,examining the sedimentary depositsand Pleistocene geology. Recently Dr.Wadell returned to Chicago, where heplans to work on the samples he collected in Iceland. In the meantime hehas continued his publication of furtherpapers on the shapes of sedimentaryparticles, and settling velocities.1933Charles D. Flory, AM'28, assistantprofessor of Education at LawrenceCollege, taught last summer at theNorth Texas State Teachers College.Assistant in Geology of the University of British Columbia is Roy C.Graham, engaged in a revision of certain genera of fossil plants. He spentthe summer with a field party of theGeological Survey of Canada nearAvonlea, Saskatchewan.A staff member of the Institute ofPathology of the Western PennsylvaniaHospital at Pittsburgh, Ruth AldenMcKinney is continuing her researchstarted at the University on segregatingthe germ of influenza.After working in the field for sometime for the National Park Service,Franklin C. Potter has been transferred to the head office in Washington,D. C. He and his family are makingtheir home in Arlington, Virginia.Wilfred Tansley, SM'31, has beenprospecting for gold in Brazil. 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Chalifoux '22PHOTOPRESS, INC.Planograph — -Offset- — Printing731 Plymouth CourtWabash 8182 with a launch near Trinidad. Tansleyswam ashore.1934Antonio Isidro recently received theappointment as acting director of theElementary school of the Universityof the Philippines. He holds the titleof assistant professor of Education.Claude M. Langton has left theUnited Gas System and is now chietgeologist for the Killam Oil Company,Laredo, Texas.In addition to supervising prospectingactivities and development of miningproperties in the Northwest Territories,Christopher Riley has established anassaying business in Edmonton, Canada.S. P. Ryder is with the Panama Canaland Panama Railroad Company as acting chief in the Service Bureau in theDivision of Personnel Administration.Cecilia Schuck left her position atLubbock, Texas, as assistant professorIn the Department of Home Economics,to take charge of nutrition work atPurdue University.1935Formerly an adviser in the Collegeand an instructor in English at theLTniversity of Chicago, Lennox B.Grey, '23, has been at Teachers College, Columbia University since thebeginning of the fall term under anappointment as assistant professor ofEnglish.Early in October John Paul Griesaccepted a position as instructor at theSouth Dakota School of Mines. He isteaching paleontology and mineralogy.Robert I. Martens has the title ofthe U. S. Food Inspector. He holdsforth in the U. S. Customs House inNew Orleans, La.Everett C. Olson spent ten weeksof the summer collecting vertebratematerial for Walker Museum. A largepart of the time was spent in thePermian of Texas near Wichita Falls.He has published several papers dealingwith vertebrate paleontology during thepast year, the most significant, perhaps,being "Notes on the Skull of YounginaCapensis."George W. Rust, '31, has left hisposition with the Independent Exploration Company and has hung out hisshingle as consulting geologist. Hisnew offices are located in Santa Fe.Harold W. Scott, teaching at theMontana School of Mines, has writtenan interesting report on the "MontanaEarthquakes of 1935." He is alsostudying the micro-paleontology of theCarboniferous in Montana.Another of our alumni to join an oilcompany is Homer J. Smith, '24,SM'31, now employed by the MagnoliaPetroleum Corporation in Ada, Oklahoma.Alice Ryder, SM'29, is a member ofthe Francis Shimer Junior College faculty.Lucile Reynolds, AM'27, is with theResettlement and Farm Credit Administrations in Washington, D. C. 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JACKSON BLVD.Telephone Harrison 7793Chicago, III.Member National Associationof Teachers AgenciesWe Enjoy a Very Fine High School, NormalSchool, College and University PatronagePaul Yatesfates-Fisher Teachers' Agenc jTEstablished 1906616 South Michigan Ave., ChicagoVENTILATINGThe Haines CompanyVentilating and Air ConditioningContractors1929-1937 West Lake St.Phones Seeley 2765-2766-2767X-RAY SUPPLIESX-RAY SUPPLIES& Accessories"At Your Service"Tel. Seeley 2550-51Geo. W. Brady & Co.809 So. Western Ave. 1936Director of teacher training and associate professor of education at Mississippi College, Clinton, Miss., E. E.Bratcher is now engaged in making aquantitative study of work done in theMississippi College by teachers holdingbachelor's, master's, and doctor's degree.Essie White Cohn is teaching inthe Department of Chemistry at DenverUniversity, Denver.Martha Davis has gone to the University of California at Los Angelesto teach in the nutrition department.Assistant to the Chancellor at theUniversity of Buffalo, Earl J. Mc-Grath was on leave until February,1937, to take part in the Regents Inquiryinto Character and Cost of Education inNew York State, and is also director ofSurvey of Adult Education in Buffalo,New York.MARRIEDJ. Milton Coulter, '18, to Helen E.Evenson, December 31, 1936. They areresiding at 10 West Elm Street in Chicago.Margaret Hollister White, '25, toRansom Childress Orange, July 29,1936, Chicago; at home, 1931 SouthGrove Avenue, Berwyn, 111.Frances M. Allison, AM'32, toRichard A. Lease, August 12, 1936 ; address, Sycamore, 111.Ruth Camp, '34, SM'35, to DudleyT. Moore, GS, December 28; at home,1133 East 44th Street, Chicago.Dorothea J. Smith, '34, and PaulM. Johnson, '34, are to be marriedFebruary 27. They plan to live at 5535Kimbark Avenue, Chicago.Margaretta Strid, '34, to Paul L.Karstrom, September 5, 1936; address,7740 Evans Avenue, Chicago.Ruth Mary Works, '34, to William MacLean Kincheloe, '31. November 25, 1936, Chicago; at home,Vail Davis Apts., Arlington Heights,111.Bettyann Nelson, '35, to Lee Gray,medical student, December 21, Chicago;at home, 5464 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago.Marion L. World, '35, to Peter Pos-ler; address, 411 North Lombard Avenue, Oak Park, 111.Janet Lewy, '36, and William H.Bergman, '35, January 24, 1937; athome, 6955 Merrill Avenue, Chicago.Edith McCarthy, '36, to Allen R.Maltman, September 30, 1936 ; at home,835 Castlewood Terrace, Chicago.Eleanor M. Williamson, '36 toJohn Coburn Whittier, '36, address,6025 University Avenue, Chicago.BORNTo Adolph J. Radosta, Jr., '23,JD'25, and Mrs. Radosta, of 459 Lindbergh Road, Riverside, Illinois, Saturday, December 26, 1936, a baby boy.To Meredith P. Gilpatrick, '25,and Mrs. Gilpatrick, a son, ArnauldPerry, January 13, 1937, Chicago, 111.To Edward C. Ames, '26, and Mi- Ames, a second son, Geoffrey CornwallJuly 7, 1936, Toledo, Ohio.To Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Lehmann (Marcella River, '29) of 7439Bennett Ave., Chicago, identical twinboys, Gerald Bryan and FrederickLouis, on December 26, 1936.To William JIarlen Gilbert, AM'30, PhD'34, and Mrs. Gilbert (Mar-garet Christensen, '34), a son, GlennGordon, September 17, 1936, at Montgomery, Alabama.To Carl Anthony Scheid, '32, andMrs. Scheid (Mary L. Devine, '32), ason, Carl Patrick, October 19, 1936, Arlington, Virginia.DIEDDistrict Judge W. G. Hastings, 76,of Omaha, Nebraska, died January 9after several months illness. A residentof Nebraska since 1876, he was fortwelve years dean of the University ofNebraska Law School and had servedfor a time as acting president of theUniversity. In 1924 he was elected district judge, serving continuously thereafter.Philip Sattler, MD'81, long timeIllinois physician, died on the twenty-eighth of November, in Evanston, Illinois, aged 88.Edward Luehr, MD'92, 73 yearsold, a practicing physician in SouthChicago for forty-five years, died January 31. He was a member of the boardof trustees of the South Chicago Community Hospital.Mrs. Charlotte Comstock FowlerGray, '97, DB'98, AM'OO, February 2,at Cambridge, New York, at the age of95. Mrs. Gray, who received her bachelor's degree when she was 55 yearsold, came to University shortly afterher husband's death to acquire collegeeducation for which she had alwayslonged.Robert Hardie, MD'01, for thirty-five years a physician on the west sideof Chicago, died suddenly January 23 atSt. Anthony's Hospital, where he was amember of the staff.Henry L. Chatroop, '20, JD'21, diedsuddenly on January 18, 1937, Chicago.He was a member of the Chicago lawfirm of Dittus and Chatroop and was active in the work of the local and statebar associations as well as in the Chicago Law Institute.Virginia Sanner, '33, 24 years old,December 8, 1936, Chicago. She hadbeen employed as a statistician.Kathryn I. Tankersley '35, (Mrs.Walter Phillips), December 29, 1936,Coral Gables, Florida. Formerly ateacher in the Chicago schools.An item of interest to many alumni isthe naming after Rollin D. Salisburyof a mountain peak near Glacier Bay,Alaska. This peak is 12,080 feet high.The naming was done by W. 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