THE UNIVERSITYOFCHICAGO MAGAZINED E C E M B E R • • 19 3 7THE ALUMNI COUNCILOFTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOSecretary and Editor, CHARLTON T. BECK, '04The Council for 1937-38 is composed of the following delegates:From the College Association: Josephine T. Ailing '99; Arthur C. Cody, '24; Davie HendricksEssington, '08; Charles C. Greene, '19, JD'21; Olive Greensfelder, '16; Charles G. Higgins,'20; Francis Henderson Higgins, '20; J. Kenneth Laird, '25; Herbert I. Markham, '05;Robert T. McKinlay, '29, JD'32; Frank McNair, '03; Helen Norris, '07; John Nuveen, Jr.,'19; Milton E. Robinson, Jr., '11, JD'13; Paul S. Russell, '16; Elizabeth Sayler, '35; CliftonUtley, '26; Helen Wells, '24.From the Doctors of Philosophy Association: Herbert Blumer, PhD'28; Robert V. Merrill,PhD'23; Harold A. Swenson, PhD'31.From the Divinity Association: William S. Heckman, AM'24; Orvis F. Jordan, DB'13; Morgan Williams, AM'23.From the Law School Association: Dwight H. Green, '20, JD'22; Charles F. McElroy,AM'06, JD'15; Charles P. Schwartz, '08, JD'09.From the Education Association: Harold A. Anderson, '24, AM'26; Paul M. Cook, AM'27;Robert C. Woellner, AM'24.From the School of Business Association: George W. Benjamin, '35; Louise Forsyth, '30;Neil F. Sammons, '17.From the Rush Medical College Association: E. J. Stieglitz, '18, SM'19, MD'21; William A.Thomas, '12, MD'16; Richard W. Watkins, MD'25.From the School of Social Service Administration Association: Ruth Strine Bellstrom, '31,AM'33; Margaret Cochran Bristol, AM'33; Anna Sexton Mitchell, AM'30.From the Association of the School of Medicine in the Division of the BiologicalSciences: Sylvia H. Bensley, MD'30; Egbert H. Fell, MD'32; Harold Huston, '28, MD'33.From the Chicago Alumnae Club: Ruth Stagg Lauren, '25; Barbara Miller Simpson, T8 ;Louise Norton Swain, '09, AM'16.From the Chicago Alumni Club: Dan H. Brown, '16; John W. Chapman, '15, JD'17; John J.Schommer, '09.From the University: John F. Moulds, '07.Alumni Associations Represented in the Alumni CouncilThe College Alumni Association: President, Arthur C. Cody, '24; Secretary, Charlton T.Beck, '04, University of Chicago.Doctors of Philosophy Association: President, A. Eustace Haydon, PhD'18; Secretary, Herbert Blumer, PhD'28, University of Chicago.Divinity School Association: President, Philip G. Van Zandt, '07, DB'10; Secretary, CharlesT. Holman, DB'16, University of Chicago.Law School Association: President, Dwight H. Green, '20, JD'22; Secretary, Charles F.McElroy, AM'06, JD'15, 29 South LaSalle Street, Chicago.School of Education Association: President, Aaron J. Brumbaugh, PhD'29; Secretary, Le-nore John, AM'27, 6009 Kimbark Avenue, Chicago.School of Business Association: President, George Benjamin, '35; Secretary, Shirley Davidson, '35, 8232 South Sangamon Street, Chicago.Rush Medical College Association: President, Robert Herbst, MD'00; Secretary, Carl O.Rinder, '11, MD'13, 122 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago.School of Social Service Administration Association: President, Georgia Ball, AM'31 ; Secretary, Kathryn Lain, AM'35, Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society, 203 North WabashAvenue, Chicago.Association of the Medical School of the Division of Biological Sciences: President, JohnVan Prohaska, '28, MD'34; Secretary, Gail M. Dack, PhD'27, MD'33, University of Chicago.All communications should be sent to the Secretary of the proper Association or to the Alumni Council,Faculty Exchange, University of Chicago. The dues for membership in any one of the Associations namedalbove, including subscription to The University of Chicago Magazine, are $2.00 per year. A holderof more Degrees from the University of Chicago may be a member of more than one Association; in suchinstances the dues are divided and shared equally by the Associations involved.THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MAGAZINEPUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI COUNCILCharlton T. Beck, '04 Howard P. Hudson, '35Editor and Business Manager Associate EditorFred B. Millett, PhD '31; William V. Morgenstern, '20, JD '22; Paul MacleanContributing EditorsMilton E. Robinson, Jr., 11, JD '13; Dan H. Brown, '16; Ruth Stagg Lauren, '25Council Committee on PublicationsN THIS ISSUETHE COVER : A study of theSocial Sciences Research building photographed by W. L.Simpson of the Department of Anatomy.With the football season just overwe are pleased to bring you a reviewof the different brands of football asplayed in the various sections of thecountry. Ralph Cannon, '20, is theauthor and he should know what he'ssaying, for as feature sports writerfor the Chicago Daily News for anumber of years, he's watched thebest of them.So many alumni who heard TeddyLinn's speech at the Alumni Schoollast year have asked for copies thatwe are printing it for you in theMagazine. It is useless to describeor ballyhoo a Linn speech so we simply refer you to Page 11 where youwill find How Children Can BestServe the Schools and Their Parents.Lending the seasonal touch to theMagazine this month is a story onChristmas Carols contributed by Donald F. Bond, '22, of the English department. Mr. Bond is a collector ofcarols and does a fine job of debunking many sentimental notions of thecarols, and of showing how recent ourpresent day type of Christmas celebration really is.Amos Alonzo Stagg has been coaching in California for the pastfour years. How well they like andrespect him on the Coast is explainedby Braven Dyer, staff writer of theLos Angeles Times.Small college or large one? Thatis a question confronting many parents and students today. John R.Tunis, author of Was College WorthWhile? picks the large schools formany reasons you may not have considered. We reprint his half of a debate on the subject staged in a recentissue of The Rotarian. Mr. Tunis iswell-acquainted with the University,DECEMBER, 1937TABLE OF CONTENTSPageLetters 2Football Goes Round and Around,Ralph Cannon 5The Campus Dissenter, Herbert(Bud) Larson 7Christmas Carols, Donald F. Bond. . 0How Children Can Best Serve theSchools and Their Parents, famesWeber Linn 11Quad Rambles, Hozmrd W. Mort... 14Amos Alonzo Stagg : What the WestCoast Thinks of Him, Braven Dyer 15Large Schools Offer More Opportunities, fohn R. Tunis 17Books 18In My Opinion, Fred B. Millett 20Athletics, Paul Maclean 22News of the Quadrangles, WilliamV. Morgenstern 23News of the Classes 27 and believes that it is the most progressive of all the institutions, butyou better read the article for details.•Our book reviewers this month areE. W. Puttkammer and David Grene.Mr. Puttkammer is Professor of Lawat the University and a widely knowncriminologist. He reviews The Professional Thief compiled by onetimeUniversity sociologist Edwin Sutherland. Mr. Grene is a newcomer to thefaculty, a graduate of Trinity College,Dublin, who is teaching in the Greekdepartment. He reviews Understanding the English by InternationalHouse activities director James Weiland. We solicit your opinions andsuggestions on our Books department.William V. Morgenstern tells aboutDr. Clinton Davisson, '08, the firstalumnus to win a Nobel prize, in hisNews of the Quadrangles. HowardMort features an alumnus who's stillplaying with toy trains and, incidentally, running one of the largest industries in the country. ProfessorMillett discusses the appreciation ofliterature in his column this month,while Paul Maclean and Herbert(Bud) Larson review athletics andstudent events of the past month.There are two schools of thoughtabout the content of the MagazineSome like lots of class notes ; othersprefer the articles. We think we havea happy medium this month, but we'dlike to hear your opinions.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 price $2.00. Single copies 25 cents. Entered as second class matter December 1, 1934, at the Post Officeat Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879. The Graduate Group, Inc., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, is the official advertising agencyof the University of Chicago Magazine.2 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINESWAMFORMALSETS• ••give that assurance of correctness which is an essential of everyformal occasion. SWANK dresssets ... attractive and reasonablypriced aids to good grooming for"tux" or "tails" in a wide varietyof styles at Jewelers, DepartmentStores and Men's Stores— $2.50.and higher./" LettersSWANK PRODUCT^INCATTUEBORQ^ASS,. PHIL ALLEN(Dear Sir: I dast you to print this inyour mag.A Friend.)Dear Carl :You will remember that our respective great - great - grandfathers werepartners in the firm of Beck & Call, thepatriotic merchants who offered Gen.Washington 5,000 pair of shoes at$10.00 a pair at Valley Forge and wereforced to carry the shoes back to Boston, where, we subsequently sold themat $1.95 a pair, because Gen. Washington claimed he could not pay what weregarded as a fair price for the lot. Iam presuming on this family connection, as you might call it, to ask you afavor.It has to do with the late Phil Allen,and I am not writing in a sepulchralvein because Phil despised that veinand would have hooted at the notionthat the dead are any worthier of reverence than the living.When I attended the University ofChicago, it was even harder to get aneducation there than it is now. Andfrom the published remarks of your Mr.Hutchins I gather that it is not easynow. I belonged to the prosperityclass of 1929 (before Dean Bouchersent me to Coventry on the unfoundedsuspicion that I, or somebody, had beenthrowing beer bottles out of Al Widdi-field's room in Hitchcock), and theprosperity class of 1929 was, I think, asuseless a lot of human raccoons as everdozed in the academic shades. Most ofus have since been run over by streetcars, and nobody has missed us.In those days Chicago had not yetpassed Harvard as the greatest institution of higher learning in America, butit was a close and panting second. Evenso, there were great areas around theplace where a boy or girl could avoidan education without being caught atit. In my early years as a college"man," I enrolled in courses given byLinn, Boynton and Smith, but I soonsaw that they were not for the likes ofme and I spent the rest of my unconscious years enrolled in courses in art,history and comparative literature"given" by certain equally unconsciousgentlemen whom I shall not mentionhere as some of them are still at largeand would not be able to get white-collar WPA rating if they lost theirjobs.One of the "pipes" that was recommended to me early in my sojourn wasPhil Allen's course — any course of PhilAllen's. (They all had different names,but they were all always the same.) Itwas not until my junior year, however, that I squeezed in among the footballplayers studying Heine and Schiller, because my first two years were spent entirely in the art department, where theprofessor lowered the shades, turnedout the lights, and displayed a slide ofLaocoon and His Sons on a screen inthe front of the room.Now that I, like the rest of '29, amtrying to keep my pants in patches andthe gas company from the meter, Iregret my folly, and my regret is notunmixed with irritation at the educational system that let me get away withit. There was, however, one star thatshone, and shines on, in the dark skyof my college career, and that is P. SAllen.True, Phil's courses were pipes. Hedidn't know if you were there, or if youwere there, if you were listening; andhe didn't care. He was not givingcourses because he wanted to but, as Iunderstand it, because the bookkeepersin the administration and in his owndepartment insisted on it. His lectures,like his face and his posture, werelyrics. He could not talk without talking unforgettably. How it happened, Tdon't know, but I realized, one winterday, that down there in the bull-pitstood a great man.From that time until I left the University I sat at Phil Allen's feet, alongwith a couple of other fellows whotroubled to seek him out. His officewas always open to us, and we kepthim from completing the greatest workson the medieval lyric ever unwritten.Those long late afternoons my friendsand I spent in his office constituted theonly college education we were toknow.After we left the university, myfriends and I, we seldom saw Phil. Iunderstand, though, that our preceptwas followed in succeeding years by ahandful of strays in each class — youngpeople who were not getting an education in college and knew they weren'tgetting one and were drawn to PhilAllen because the bookkeepers hadplaced him where they heard him talkonce and, having heard him, neverwanted him to stop.Like most of the poor devils whocomprise the race, Phil had a hard life.His financial difficulties were alwaysintense; and he once wrote three grammars — German, French, and Spanish —in six weeks. The days and nights ofhis younger and storied years left himwith a liver which old Bill Thomasfound had turned to leather. And thepygmies who rise to high places, in theacademic world as everywhere, regarded him with what they thoughtwas contempt, because P. S. Allen wasof an aristocracy that can neither beborn to nor counterfeited. Phil wasleft over, along with a few such asRobert Lovett and John Manley. fromTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEwhat must have been an amazing generation of scholars. Maybe they weren'tamazing at all, but the Aliens, the Lov-etts, and the Manleys make them seemso. I am trying not to begin tellingPhil Allen stories, but there comes tomind, at this point, the occasion, when,for the twentieth time, Harper calledAllen into his office and said, "Phil,I've got to fire you." Phil said, "Mr.Harper, you can't fire me. You knowyou can't." Harper groaned and said,"Phil, if you'd quit drinking you couldbe the president of any university inAmerica." And Phil said, "Mr. Harper, I don't want to be the president ofany university in America."To listen to Phil Allen talk was tomurmur, "If only this could be written."Before his death, Phil had finished 800pages of his autobiography — the storyof a life loaded with the stuff, large andsmall, that makes legend. The manuscript is unevenly written — Phil wasn'talways happy the last few years — butsome of it is classic, most of it is delightful, and all of it is the first truestory of the University to be written. Idon't know what is going to be donewith it, but an irreverent publisherought to see it.Phil died late last spring and therewas a miserable memorial service forhim. The University went on aboutits business, as of course it must. P. S.Allen wasn't the first of its few greatfigures to be forgotten. Phil wouldn'tcare, but I do. And I suspect that P. S.Allen means something to more University of Chicago people than have insisted on making a speech about it.That Carl, brings me, by way of Duluth, to the business at hand. OurAlma Mater has memorials to oil magnates, meat packers, and drygoods merchants. Very fine fellows, all of them,and make no mistake. Couldn't wespare a memorial to a man who wasthe spirit, rather than the stone, of theplace ?I don't suggest the form of the memorial, other than to ask that it be associated with the perennial spirit of theschool and not with impermanent stone.A Philip Schuyler Allen Fellowship,perhaps — but how could it be safeguarded against a succession of CharlieMcCarthys who would be selling neckties if there were any way of keepingthem out of a university? Maybe aPhilip Schuyler Allen Memorial Corner could be established at Hanley's.I'd like to hear suggestions from yourreaders. The University might agreeto match alumni contributions. I knowa fellow who has several enemies onthe Board of Trustees, and I will beglad to have him ask them. Althougham poor as a snake myself, I willkick in with $5 cash as soon as you blowthe whistle. And while Mr. John Howe(Continued on Page 26) 1 3,UU0 (^4iu€4 of cyttmnubMeasure off the sea-distance of the Southern Route to Europe. . .and youhave 3000 miles of Summer, at any time of year. Summer smiles from thegleaming Lido pool. . .from bright clear skies. . .from the Lido Deck, warmand washed with sunshine. An emancipated voyage!. . .with 1000 milesof cruising East of Gibraltar at no extra cost. If you're pressed for time,take the great Rex, the gyro-stabilized Conte di Savoia, or the popularRoma. Or, if you have the leisure to enjoy a fascinating nine or ten-portitinerary, choose the Vulcania or Saturnia.I . MMmMWmApply local TRAVEL AGENT or 624 Fifth Ave^ N. Y.ITALIAN LINCareer Menselect occupations which combine present financial rewardswith future opportunities. Theyfind that life insurance selling,better than most businesses,offers this combination to menof real ability today.COLLEGIATETHE PENN MUTUALIndependence Square College Menselected by The Penn MutualLife Insurance Company canstart life insurance selling on afixed compensation basis, instead of a commission basis, ifthey wish. The plan is described in a booklet, "Insurance Careers for CollegeGraduates." Send for a copy.PERSONNEL BUREAULIFE INSURANCE COMPANYPhiladelphiaClinton Joseph Davisson, '08 Photo John Mills, Jr., '32Sharing the 1937 Nobel prize in physics with the Englishman Dr. G. P. Thomson, he is the first alumnus of theUniversity to attain the distinction in any field. (See page23.)VOLUME XXX THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MAGAZINE NUMBER IIDECEMBER, 1937FOOTBALL GOES ROUND ANDAroundFOOTBALL, goes round and around, and whereit'll stop nobody knows. Since the early '90's whenthe game began to become a dynamic and colorfulfeature of college life in the older eastern universities,the hysteria has spread in widening rivulets all overthe country.The East retained its lead in the sport up until aboutthe time of the World war. Then values seemed tochange in the older universities, while the boom spreadto the West and South. Yale was the bell wether ofthe sport for a couple of decades, their string apparentlyrunning out with the great fullback, Ted Coy in 1908and 1909.A little before that the Middle West had opened itsbarrage with Fielding Yost's "point-a-minute" teams ledby Willie Heston at Michigan. The East came backonce more with Percy Haughton's precision Harvardteams with Eddie Mahan in 1913-15. The next yearthe Mid- West struck with a bang again in Harry Williams' great team at Minnesota, which, although upset12 to 9 by Illinois, was rated by Walter Camp thegreatest team he had ever seen.But roughly, since the war the football boom has beenaway from the East — first in the Mid-West with KnuteRockne and Red Grange, then on the West Coast; nextin the South, and within the last year or two in thebroad plains of the Southwest.The construction of the Yale Bowl marked the inauguration of a definite movement in the game's popularity. The thought of 90,000 crowds seemed to overwhelm the sporting imagination, and presently all overthe country great magnificent horseshoes and bowls andcrescent cliffs of brick and steel, stone and cement, werepopping up out of the earth like toadstools. So significant of social trends was this building boom that thelate Stuart Pratt Sherman, professor of English at theUniversity of Illinois and book critic of the New YorkHerald-Tribune, predicted that in the far future ourwhole era would be known as the "age of the stadium-builders," comparable to the cathedral building of theMiddle Ages.Like too many stock traders, promoters and othergamblers, a good many of the schools over-estimatedtheir prospects. Some over-built; others built too late,getting caught in the 1929 crash. Out of the stadium-building grew the evils of proselyting and subsidizing, * By RALPH CANNON, '20to discover the cause and results of which the CarnegieFoundation for the Advancement of Teaching spent over$100,000 to collect more or less promiscuous data onthe subject into a pamphlet.Some of the big stadia, as at Pittsburgh, were takenover by the bond-holding banks and in time were operated like professional show places for profits. Smallerschools complained that their stadia were 'millstonesaround their necks," as indeed they were. So all in allfootball paid a heavy price for the old American ebulliency of bigger and better.When the big business of importing ringers to formwinning teams to pack the unpaid-for stands went toextremes, the various conferences instituted rules andregulations on that sort of eleven-building. There followed evasions and scandals, one great Mid- Westernschool suffering incalculable harm and loss from beingtemporarily ousted from its conference over a technicalviolation. An example of the extremes reached underthe artificial stimulation of the teams was the recentby-law passed by the Southeastern College conferenceeffecting virtual outright pay for its players.Wherever the crest of the wave of hysteria has passed,it has brought these evils. Fundamentally the drawingpower of football lies in the natural and traditional rivalry of the schools drawing from their own "families"and followers, rather than in the exhibitionism of theteams. But when one rival started a little side-slipping,its rival was put to it to follow suit or else lose outentirely in the intake from the game.During the days of the big boom in football, schoolswould build up extensive intramural programs, as amoral gesture of justification for the emphasis of football. Then when gate receipts fell off, these programsbecame a burden upon the athletic department, encouraging many to go in for artificial stimulation of theirteams.But while these phases of the game were passing overthe country, interesting varieties of technical development were also going round and around in football.The old-style original game of football was simply atrial by ordeal of strength and fortitude whereby therival colleges attempted to establish their physical superiority over their neighbor, at least for the time being.The old bone-crushing football centered around the center rush. There was practically no deception, the idea56 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEbeing to win by simply pushing the other fellows offthe field.Yale ruled supreme in this type of football, and theso-called "execution" game was the game of "Tad"Jones when the Bulldog became one of America's bigsporting monuments in the days of Coy. Haughton'sHarvard precision game still relied on superior "execution" for its effectiveness.The East, long imbued in this idea of football, neverquite kept up with the new fangled ideas of footballthat came in after Teddy Roosevelt's reforms of 1906brought out the forward pass. It was a Midwesternpair, Knute Rockne and Gus Dorais, who took the forward pass down East in 1913 to slaughter the Armyand attract nation-wide attention to this new methodof gridiron warfare. Army took up the pass immediatelyand whipped Navy with it. But all along since thenthe majority of the new ideas in football have come outof the Middle West.The large state schools of 10,000 students or moredrawn from the factories and rich farm lands from timeto time have produced exceptional individuals who weregroomed by shrewd and expert coaches into remarkablestars. The Western list of these men is almost endless —Heston, Eckersall, Steffen, Harley, Gipp, Grange, Friedman, Schwartz, Berwanger. As a result of the fact thatMidwestern football has been featured by teams builtaround one outstanding man, the most notable featureof the style of play in that section of the country is thespecial and unusual defenses developed in the effort tosnare these remarkable individuals. Grange at Illinois;Newman and Friedman at Michigan; Baker and Rent-ner at Northwestern; Harley and Stinchcomb at OhioState ; Schwartz, Savoldi, Flannagan and Gipp at NotreDame; Locke, Devine and Simmons at Iowa; Thomas,McCarty and Berwanger at Chicago; Minnesota withits attack built around its halfbacks to put pressure onthe flanks, have caused Middlewestern football to bedominated by special defenses, devised by the creativegenius of such immortal stalwarts of the game as Yost,Stagg and Zuppke.When Andy Smith led the wave of hysteria to thePacific Coast with his Golden Bears at California, againrugged individuals were available from the over-agedboys developed in the sun and outdoors of the Westernparadise, and out there powerhouse football, of the oldYale vintage, has found a vogue, led by Howard Jonesof Southern California, brother of the colorful "Tad"Jones of Yale annals. On the West Coast Howard Joneshas established the mode with his theory that three timesthree and one-half equals a first down, and enough firstdowns in a row mean a score. Jones also used the "execution" system at Iowa with the great offensive fullback, Gordon Locke, and the brilliant little runner andgeneral, Aubrey Devine. Jones lets you know in advancewhere he is going to strike, intending to go throughthere regardless on simply superior execution andstrength.Out of that genesis has come the West Coast stylewhich in recent years has gone to seed on power insidethe tackles. "Pop" Warner at Stanford also emphasizedpower on the tackles, and as a result the defenses were concentrated on supporting the tackles. Halfbacksplayed close up and came in fast. If the teams hadelected to throw the ball back there, they would havefound nobody there. Alabama showed up this in theirRose Bowl game with Stanford two years ago. Stanfordcovered up this weakness in the 1935 Rose Bowl gamewith Southern Methodist by rushing with ends andtackles, and as a result of the consequent wild throwinggot six interceptions. Princeton in the East similarlyrushed Roscoe of Yale and grabbed five interceptions.If the man you are facing is a good passer, the bestdefense is to rush; if he is a poor passer drop back.The West Coast has had less than its quota of greatpassers, and as a result has not been forced to catchup on pass defense.Accompanying the hysteria wave when it curvedaround from the West Coast to the South came a typeof spectacular and emotional football that was not entirely backed up by complete thinking in the technicalphase of the game. Getting the cue from Michiganthrough the late Dan McGugin at Vanderbilt, the South,under the brilliancy of Ray Morrison at Southern Methodist, went in for the rugby or basketball game, theironly idea being to get ahold of the ball and throw itall the time. The warm weather down there, makingsustained driving difficult, encouraged continuous chance-taking on the flipping game.Like Michigan they fell behind in their running game,at a cost. Their teams showed a notable inability toscore from close to the goal. In the Sugar Bowl gamebetween Texas Christian and Louisiana State last year,the latter had a first down on the 2-yard line, but couldnot carry the ball over. Texas Christian similarly wasstopped on the goal line, but managed to kick a field goalto win the game, 3 to 2. On the same day in the Toura-ment of Roses, Southern Methodist was unable to advance on Stanford, and found its pass attack ruined bythe rushing of the Stanford ends, Moscrip and Topping.The typical Southern attack is to pass to five receivers,and on defense everything is the six-man line with nobody rushing, the defensive tackles holding the defensiveends up, the guards dropping, the defensive ends dropping to cover, and nobody rushing but the late tacklesafter holding the ends. They like the flea-flicker gamedown there, but they don't go so much for the hitting.And so with Columbia winning a spectacular RoseBowl upset three years ago and Princeton untouched thelast two years, the cycle of football seems to be returningat last after twenty-five years of peregrination to theold home pastures in the East. There is still less overemphasis on the game along the seaboard, less radicalhysteria, less cheating, but out of years of observationand inoculation of the new ideas developed in the redhot camps of the hinterland is emerging apparently abetter balanced all-around type of technical game thanis played in any other locality.After some of Princeton's victories last year FritzCrisler was asked by newspaper men, whose job is toilluminate and magnify individual stars, to cite outstanding men in the game, and he was unable to point outoutstanding men on the rival teams, as there were noTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 7obviously glaring weaknesses. If a team had bad gaps,they patched them over and protected them.Offense in the East generally is not over-balanced inany direction; defenses are sound but not special ortricky. The 6-2-2-1 is the standard defense in the East,with some variations in the spacing, and much variationin the manner and direction of the different charges.This brings a continual jockeying between offence anddefense, and every team has to be equipped to meet everyvariation of defense. If the defense packs 'em in, theygo to the flanks. If the halfbacks play wide, they hitinside.The defensive system is not to vary so much the formation, which would tip-off the offense, but to vary thecharge. For instance, in the 6-2-2-1 formation, Princeton would have the center shift into the line for thetackle, the tackle drive outside, and the end drop back.Or the center would drift and the tackle charge inside.By using different charges they were able to screw upthe timing of the offensive play. Consequently, thereis more defensive mixing along the seaboard, and awider variety of offensive play to cope with it than anywhere else in the country at present.In skill, technique and team play the East already hascome back. They lack perhaps still the viciousness ofthe football in the more excited areas. Eastern collegeIT has been charged that student life and traditionalstudent activities are rapidly dying out at the University of Chicago. The charge is attributed tocauses such as the fact that the campus is located in abig city where it is practically impossible to establish areal University community, that studies and requirements are becoming so stiff that students now have timefor nothing but curricular work, that now a large percentage of our students are self-supporting and cannotafford to spend valuable working hours in non-payingstudent enterprises, or simply that the general trendtowards the establishment of a truly intellectual institution under the Hutchins regime is crushing traditionalcampus life by the very nature of the plan. Your correspondent agrees in part with the charge and some ofthe reasons. But evidence has been given out recentlywhich seems to refute the arguments.Student organizations wishing to be recognized by theUniversity must register their rosters with the Officeof the Dean of Students. This year, again, over sixtygroups registered and were recognized. These beginwith the remaining thirteen women's clubs and seventeenfraternities, run through the traditional activities such asdramatics, publications, honor societies, and politicalorganizations, and on down to religious groups and evensuch unions as the Committee for Medical Aid to Spain.So perhaps the color and trend of activities and stu- boys come up mostly through the prep schools wherethey are groomed and smoothed out. Their backs, forinstance, are nearly all clever ball carriers, nifty on theirfeet, good passers, but not so vigorous in blocking asthe rugged country boys of the Western and Southernuniversities. Even so, perhaps the East is back ahead ofthe parade in that phase of the game. Football is roughand vigorous enough to establish manhood and virilitywithout any of the extra hysteria that detracts quitefrequently from the sportsmanship of the game in thehinterland.The East still believes in football as a builder of physique and physical courage, but no great Eastern university with its great family of distinguished alumniwould tolerate the type of football taught in some ofthe more remote centers of culture — as for instance atone school whose coach taught his linemen to get their"heels into action" to kick out the teeth of their proneopponents and employed a "survival of the fittest" practice technique by having the linemen dash into each otherhead-to-head until all were stunned and dizzy.There are all kinds of football going around andaround, and it is testimony to the game and the menwTho control it that year by year, amid prosperity orneed, it continues to grow better and better.• By HERBERT (BUD) LARSON "38dent life is shifting, but let's not accuse them of dyingout.Some of the organizations, naturally, are more activeand prominent than others. Those are the ones that are"important" in student eyes. Those are the ones whoseactivities for the last month are recorded here.HomecomingSaturday afternoons during this football season haveseen merely another beating for the team, a chance forextra hours of studying by our (in my opinion) too manybookworms, or, for others, just another afternoon to kill.But one afternoon — yes, one week-end — arouses unexpected spirits of rivalry and loyalty. Homecoming bringsthe Autumn Quarter to focus. Starting off with aFreshman-Sophomore Tug o' war in the circle Fridaynoon after which winners, losers, and bystanders foundthemselves floundering in the Botany Pond, the celebration continued with the Skull and Crescent sponsored"Victory Vanities," a series of skits in Mandel Hall inwhich eight fraternities and two clubs competed asfinalists for the cups offered for the best ten minutes ofentertainment presented. The self-styled "biggest afternoon of free entertainment" was won by Alpha Delta Phiwith a Blackfriars' type satire of Maroon Editor BillMcNeill running the campus according to his paper'splatform and being assisted in his dictatorship by Presi-THE CAMPUS DISSENTER8 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEdent Hutchins. Chi Rho Sigma carried home the cup forthe clubs.Iron Mask's Homecoming Dance Friday night broughtthe day's activities to a close. The usual "Queen" wasunveiled and presented with her "Court" and everyonewas happy, with perhaps enough enthusiasm over theevent being generated to fill a thimble. Biggest interestin the dance seemed to center about a "Big Apple"noisily conducted in a dark corner of the floor.Fraternity house decorations for the week-end celebrating Homecoming were as usual clever and attractive,if tragically poor in prophecy. All, of course, toldin words and displays just how badly Chicago wouldtrample over Ohio State. The poor Buckeyes shouldnever have come to Chicago. They were due to be tornto bits. Poor fellows ! But what fools we mortals be !Delta Upsilon, one of the poorest of the prophets/ wasawarded the prize for the best decorations.Maroon PollThe Daily Maroon, having provoked more discussionthan this writer has yet seen in four years on campus,went one step further in its campaign for the abolitionof intercollegiate athletics by conducting a poll on thatplank in their platform to discover campus opinion onthe subject. (In all fairness to the Maroon, it must benoted that the Daily's bigwigs really aren't dense enoughto believe many students agreed with them. One reasonfor the poll was to prove conclusively to the campus,Maroon readers, and, above all, the metropolitan dailieswho have repeatedly reported the problem as studentbacked, that Maroon opinion is not campus opinion.)The ballots were so planned as to allow quite completeexpression of feeling. A total of 758 votes were cast.Fifty-two or 6.8% voted with the Maroon, i. e., for theabolition of intercollegiate athletics. Forty, or 5.2% werefor withdrawal from the Big Ten; and 181, or 23.8%voted in favor of subsidizing athletics. The bulk, 485, or63.9% favored maintenance of the status quo. Resultswere about as expected, both by the Maroon Board andthe Campus generally.A point of interest arises out of comments written onballots. Some were, in part, "Subsidize athletes to theextent of paying on an hourly basis for time spent practicing and in games"; "Abolish the editorial staff instead" ; "Subsidize the Maroon and get a real paper" ;"Wake up and live" ; "I like to see football games" ; andjust plain "Fbo" and "Nuts."So what did the Maroon do about it? On the frontpage, beside a story headlined "Campus Votes AgainstMaroon Policy towards Sports; Majority for StatusQuo" ran an editorial headed "The Poll." In part, theeditorial stated, "The Poll proves two things. First, thatthere is more intense 'college spirit' here than one wouldguess from performance at pep sessions and footballgames. Second, that college students, like the rest ofmankind, put their reason to one side when traditionalattitudes are called into question. . . ." Then, after charging the pro-athletics faction of strenuous electionerring,the editorial goes on with "as for the second thing thatthe poll proves — student irrationality — the arguments advanced by the Maroon are absolutely compelling if intel lectual factors alone entered in." In other words, "Thepoll means nothing. You're irrational. We don't givea damn what you think. And we're narrow minded, butwe won't admit it."So William McNeill and the Daily Maroon are goingmerrily on their way, each day becoming more unpopular on campus, yet followed with intense interest to seewhat they'll tear into next.First crystallization of the anti-Maroon feeling cameabout with an attempt to organize the campus to boycottthe Daily. Eleven fraternities, seven clubs, and severalindependents fell in line, but it was a mere case of blindleading the blind, and was completely ineffective. Agreat many students thought the idea good, few caredto put themselves out to do anything about it, and manymore thought it mere petty jealousy on the part of thoseon whose toes the paper had tread. The movement hasall but petered out.Second definite action is still in embryonic stages. Itis an attempt to publish a second paper on campus, acampus where the financing of one paper is a precariousventure. The promoters announce a policy opposite tothat of the Maroon, namely, in part, of promoting athletics. Yet the group is armed with little more than goodintentions, and will probably die a natural death withnothing more accomplished than unimportant talk.Perhaps the same general feeling on campus has beenpartly responsible for the revival of the defunct dormitory paper. Its first edition has appeared, but, bynecessity, being a mimeographed weekly of small sizeand little funds, its importance is slight except in theeyes of its publishers.BlackfriarsThe Order of Blackfriars, having come in for censurewith charges of fraternity politics in its elections, hasquietly gone about trying to correct its asserted evilsto once again secure all-inclusive campus backing. Firststep was the appointment of Deke Bob Anderson to fillthe position of Scribe, left vacant when other membersof the Board of Superiors of the organization each movedup a step upon the failure of Abbot Francis Callahan toreturn to school. The Board now consists of Psi UFrank Carrey, Abbot; Sigma Chi Charles Burnett,Prior; Deke Bob Anderson, Scribe; and Phi Psi LeoO'Neill, Hospitaller. Further corrections have been attempted in changes in the constitution, making votingon the Board more equal and so making politics moredifficult, democratizing the Order by giving the cast avoice in the election of Board members, and prohibitingthe Abbot from acting as treasurer. Should the reforms go through, it is expected that Blackfriars, afterundergoing a period of skeptical questionings by campus,will again be back in its good graces.Meanwhile, The Order has carried on its usual Autumn Quarter business such as instructing authors andmaking necessary plans for the 1938 production.Other ActivitiesWhile the usual leading activities have gone about intheir predominating way, other well established studentinterests have carried on industriously. The University(Continued on Page 25)CHRISTMAS CAROLSBy DONALD F. BOND, '22; PhD'34, Instructor in EnglishYE OLDE English Christmasse, like so many otheronce genuine articles, has been sadly overdone bythe poets, the tinsel-artists, and the sentimentalists generally. To get at the real spirit of the EnglishChristmas, one would have to pierce through a coatingof Victorian sentimentality and seek to discover whatChristmas really meant to our forbears. For this festivalhas undergone many changes : celebrated in one periodwith feasting and mummers' plays, it was banned as thework of the devil in another ; forgotten except among thepoor in one generation, it has been commercialized outof all reality in the present.Perhaps no aspect of Christmas reflects these changesso much as the carols and Christmas songs. Some ofthese go back to unrecorded tradition ; others have beencomposed in quite recent times. No one can say justhow many Christmas carols we have, because the definition of a carol is too uncertain. We are constantly addingto the stock, through borrowing from other countries(e.g., "Silent Night, Holy Night") and through newcompositions. In the eighties and nineties of the lastcentury, for example, vast quantities of new carols werebeing written, mainly by clergymen, as one can see byglancing through R. R. Chope's collection (1894). Mostof these are unheard of today, although a few, such asthe Rev. John Henry Hopkins's "We Three Kings ofOrient Are," have made a place for themselves. Someeffort at a standard corpus was made with the publication of the excellent Oxford Book oj Carols, edited in1928 by the late Percy Dearmer, Mr. Geoffrey Shaw,and Dr. R. Vaughan Williams. The greatest contribution to the recovery of the English folk-carols has beenthe work of the English Folk-Song Society. The Journalof this society, which began publication in 1899, haspreserved a large number of fine carols which, but forthe industry and enthusiasm of workers like Cecil Sharpand Annie Gilchrest, might still be unknown to us.Unlike some hobbies, the collecting of carols does notrequire the expenditure of much money. Most of thecollections were published in the nineteenth century andcan be acquired cheaply. There are exceptions, ofcourse, and every collector — no matter of what — knowsthe joy of picking up a rarity at a bargain price. So farI have not made any effort at systematic collecting, andyet the range of material which I have acquired throwsa great deal of light on the changing conceptions ofChristmas.Two eighteenth-century items in my collection, for instance, reveal amusingly how little the "age of reason"relished what we think of as traditional Yule-tide celebration. The first is a quarto pamphlet, A ChristmasCarol, dedicated to the Ancient Britons . . . by a CountryParson (London: J. Roberts, 1715), a long piece ofdoggerel in unrhymed quatrains :Royal Cradle there was none, no rich Bed or Canopy,Christ was in a Manger laydSwadled, on a Wisp of Straw.The other item is a sprightly "Essay on the MusicalWaits at Christmas," by John Cleland, printed (pp.94-107) in his The Way to Things by Words . . .(London: L. Davis, 1766). As for the old-time Yule,he says, "the dreariness of the weather, the length of thenight, would require something extraordinary, to wakeand rousemen fromtheir naturalinclinationto rest, andto a warmbed, at thathour." Buthe is decidedly unsympathetic t othe street-singers ofhis own day :"Where isthere anypropriety insuch a solemn piece ofbanter asthat of musicgoing therounds, anddisturbingpeople invain ? For \ roLmcM.CHRISTMAS CAROL,rii nt ontf rrn >»< *(-m;TOUCH GUQtrr Till: I'M TED KINGDOM AND THE1HJM1MOXS ISEYOSD THE -SEASTilEKEI \ro ¦INl't.flAU.Y MUVEiXr,* t*~\A TITLE PAGEFrom a rare pamphletsurely any meditation to be thereby excited on the holiness of the ensuing clay, could hardly be of great avail,in a bed, between sleeping and waking. But such is thepower of custom to perpetuate absurdities."In the early nineteenth century, however, interest incarols was revived by the work of two antiquarians,Davies Gilbert, who published Some Ancient ChristmasCarols in 1822 (eight in number) and William Sandys,with Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern, in 1833.Sandys printed the texts of thirty-four "ancient carolsand Christmas songs," forty carols "still used in theWest of England," and six French provincial noels — atotal of eighty. Sandys followed this pioneer work withhis Christmastide , its History, Festivities and Carols in1852, a work which remains to this day one of thefullest and best accounts of the subject. My copy ofthis has interesting associations, for it is from the libraryof Sir John Stainer — who did much, for good and ill,in popularizing certain carols — and contains his bookplate and signature. Sandys' work is deserving of910 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINETHE CHRISTMAS TREEIllustration, Sandy's "Christmastide" (1852)highest praise, for he first printed the words and musicof such carols as "The First Nowell," "I Saw ThreeShips," and "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day."The early popularity of "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" is amusingly illustrated by a rare pamphlet published in 1820, with woodcuts by Cruikshank, entitledA Political Christinas Carol. It is a satire on the policyof Castlereagh, and the first of the eight stanzas runs :God rest you, merry Gentlemen,1Let nothing you dismay,Remember we were left aliveUpon last Christmas day,With both our lips at libertyTo praise Lord C hWith his 'practical' comfort and joy!The most popular •'of all nineteenth-century collectionswas the Christmas Carols New and Old of Bramley andStainer, first published in 1870. This, with its mixtureof genuine carols like "A Virgin Unspotted" and hymnslike "See amid the winter's snow," set the pace for themany collections that appeared in the last three decadesof the nineteenth century.'This erroneous punctuation persists in most nineteenth-centuryversions of the carol.OCTOBER 24 : District of Columbia Alumni, A.A.U.W.Bldg., Washington, D. C. Program: "The TVAFrom Inside." Speakers, Marie White, William C.Bowen, Kenneth A. Rouse, Ralph Hogan.NOVEMBER 4 : Wisconsin Alumni, Hotel Pfister, Milwaukee. Speaker, Emery T. Filbey, Vice President.NOVEMBER 5: Detroit Alumni, Wardell ApartmentHotel, Detroit. Speaker, Professor James WeberLinn.NOVEMBER 12: New York Alumni, New York City.Speaker, Gordon J. Laing, Professor Emeritus andGeneral Editor of the University Press. One of the carols which Bramley and Stainer popularized was "Good King Wenceslas," written in 1853by the Rev. John Mason Neale, and incongruously setto a medieval spring song tune. In spite of the contemptwhich critics have heaped upon Neale's poem (Bullencalls it "commonplace doggerel"), it was so successfulin imitating a kind of medieval Christmas atmospherethat it caught on wonderfully, and many people todayregard it as a genuine old carol. When the NationalBroadcasting Company on December 19th, 1936, presented a program of the ten "most popular Christmascarols," this was included, and the announcer gravelyspoke of "Good King Wenceslas" as having been sungin England for generations! This carol, incidentally,has been a favorite of illustrators ; I have a beautifullyprinted edition published at Birmingham in 1895, withillustrations by Arthur J. Gaskin, and an introductionby William Morris.It would be interesting indeed to study the ways ofthe illustrator with the carol, as a record of changingattitudes. To the work of Cruikshank, for instance,many of us are indebted for our conception of the oldEnglish Christmas feast. The pre-Raphaelites also triedtheir hand at carol illustration, with somewhat incongruous results. I have A Book of Pictured Carols, designed by members of the Birmingham Art School(London, 1893), which is full of "blessed damozels"under the guise of angels.It would be undesirable, even if space permitted, tocatalogue here the various items I have collected. Theexamples cited may give some idea of the interest whichsuch a collection may have for the amateur both of musicand of "time past." The nineteenth-century carols mirror the whole history of the ritualistic movement in theAnglican Church; the illustrations reflect interestingchanges in taste; the records of carol singing and otherfestivities display a panorama of English village life, ofboth "high and low degree." Subsidiary matters suchas the wassail cup, Christmas charades, mumming plays,amateur revels, the printed broadsides — all come withinthe scope of this subject. Finally, an interest in Christmas and its carols is perennially renewed, as eachChristmas season comes around, with fresh collections ofcarols and new interpretations of the age-old story.NOVEMBER 12: Cleveland Alumni, University Club,Cleveland. Speakers, Vice President Frederic Woodward and Eliot Ness, Director of Public Safety inCleveland.DECEMBER 12: District of Columbia Alumni, Washington, D. C. Program : "The Problems Facing theSpecial Session of Congress." Speakers, Senator Popeof Idaho, Congressman Kvale of Minnesota, and Congressman Eicher of Iowa.DECEMBER 12: DeKalb County Alumni, DeKalb,Illinois. Speaker, James Weber Linn.ALUMNI CLUB MEETINGSHOW CHILDREN CAN BEST SERVEThe Schools and Their ParentsBy JAMES WEBER LINN, '97, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISHA FEW of you know, andnone of you could be in theleast surprised to learn, thatonly three other present members ofthe faculty have been here as long,uninterruptedly, as I have. Thosethree are Professors Lovett, Blissand Gale. I became a member ofthe faculty a few months beforePresident Hutchins was born. Therewas no connection between the twoevents ; but had I known that secondevent was to take place, and the results of it, I should have joined thefaculty even more enthusiasticallythan I did. Since 1898 I have become personally and in some casesmore or less intimately acquaintedwith 16,000 undergraduates in theclassroom. Some of them I haveloved, many I have admired, manyhave bored me to tears; and manyof the latter group have shared myfeelings. But at my age, and afterthis long experience with young people, it is perhaps inevitable that I should feel there is too much talk nowadays about youth and the education of youth, and notenough about us elders and the education of parents.We are, it seems to me, too much concerned withgiving our children the best possible opportunity, and notenough concerned with making the most of our own lives.It is not true that life begins at forty, but it is true formost people that it goes on from forty. Our children donot think so, and from my own experience as a memberof the faculty of the University of Chicago during thelast seven years I conclude that President Hutchins doesnot think so either ; but fond as I am of my own children,and almost equally fond as I am of President Hutchins,I see no reason for accepting the judgment either of themor of him. Youth is its own opportunity. In the magnificence of my own energy and self-conceit at twenty,I saw no reason, if I remember rightly, for demandingthat the road up should be paved and sign-directed forme by my elders. I felt within me the strength to climband the intelligence to find my own handholds and footholds. Why should the young people of today assert,as so many do, a right to be carried to the skies onflowery beds of ease ? That is a phrase from a hymn. Ihad a Presbyterian bringing-up, and therefore tend tothink in terms of phrases from hymns ; but I am inclinedto resent the adaptation of a hymn made by youth todayin its cry to the world, "Hold the forties ! I am coming !"All right, I call back, come if you can, but don't imagineI am going to step aside out of your way. JAMES WEBER LINNBlasts youth-worship Of book-education in this country,we give too many of our childrentoo much. A very large proportion, quite possibly half, of the boysand girls in our high schools, as weconduct our high schools, have nobusiness there, because they have nocapacity to understand abstractideas, and no power to assimilateliterary culture. We permit suchyoung people to enter the highschools and to remain in them andeven to graduate from them, partlyfor political reasons, because we areafraid of the political power of thevote of their parents if we establishsensible standards of accomplishment for continuance in highschools ; and partly, of course, foreconomic reasons, because there arenot enough jobs to make it pay toput sixteen-year olds to work, except on the farms. To be sure, ifthe curricula and conduct of ourhigh schools were reasonably fitted to the mentalities andinterests of our boys and girls, the statement that fiftypercent of our high school pupils ought not to be inhigh school would be false.Many of you will have seen in the Reader's Digestan account of the Ellerbe school in North Carolina. Thepupils, mostly farm boys and girls, have established aschool plant nursery, landscaped the school grounds, thelittle Ellerbe churches, and even the town itself. Theyhave complete charge of the cleanliness of the groundsand the classrooms ; they have calcimined the classroomwalls, built bookcases, put in drinking fountains, established a school store and a printing shop which does allthe job printing for the town as well as the school. Theschool press prints money, with which the arithmeticclasses establish a bank and study figuring in a practicalfashion. The pupils — about a thousand of them, fromthe smallest to the biggest — give a total of 100,000 hoursa year to work-study for the school; and the work-study is so intelligent that in the last ten years the schoollibrary has been built up from 650 books to 13,000, outof the proceeds earned by the school store, the schoolprinting press, and the school landscaping labors. Ifour high schools fitted our young people's concrete minds— and you can translate concrete as you like— if theywere more like C. C. C. camps, we should be far betteroff both educationally and financially ; but the proposition would damn to infamy any statesman who suggestedit, and it will never be made.But even among the children of our very best people,1112 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEyour children and my children, young people who go tocollege after high school, there are many and many whohave too much book education forced upon them. I donot say in the University of Chicago, but I do say thatin our state universities which must admit any youngperson whom any state high school has permitted to passthrough — in such institutions a large proportion of theundergraduates are being educated beyond their capacities. We are so concerned to give these young peopleopportunity, that we force upon them opportunities theyhaven't the mental power to take advantage of. Suchundergraduates are taught "literature," when they areincapable of understanding the simplest ideas of the onlysort of writers who have produced literature. They aretaught economics and political science, when any but thevery simplest elements of economic or political thinkingare far beyond their comprehension; they are taughtphysics and chemistry, when all they can possibly comprehend is that such and such a thing works, and suchand such a thing does not work. And what is the resultof trying to teach them what they can't understand andrefuse to be interested in? Increasing laziness; an increasing interest in amusements ; an increasing dislikefor manual labor of any sort ; an increasing demand thatyouth shall be sen. ed at any cost * an increasing appetitefor the apples of Hesperides. And we, the "educators,"and you, the parents, are the serpents who have deceivedthese young Adams and these young Eves. "Eat of thetree of knowledge," we say; and they nibble, and lie inthe shade, and refuse to dig in the garden and raise thecorn and the carrots the country needs. About the onlyideas a considerable proportion of the male graduatesof our state universities have is that it is agreeable andlucrative to smash in the face of an opponent in football,or neatly execute a forward pass, but beneath them tosmash clods in a field or neatly repair a carburetor.God knows, I may say in passing, I am no believer inwhat people call "social classes." Thomas Carlyle'sfather was a stone mason who could barely read andwrite; his mother could not write until after she wasforty, when she learned so as to be able to answer theletters of her distinguished sons; yet Carlyle was oneof the most intelligent men of the nineteenth century. Iknow and delight in the company of a man who worksmany hours a day at the most menial tasks within afew hundred yards of this spot, who never heard ofCarlvle, who would not recognize an abstract idea if hesaw it on the street, who thinks Thomas Aquinas is aprecinct captain on the West Side, who can hardlywrite his own name, yet whose three oldest childrenhave all earned scholarships in various universities bythe unremitting exercise of almost brilliant mentalities.And the other day I went to a golf club when I wastoo feeble to play golf or do anything but sit in the sun,and so I sat in the sun and watched half a dozen ladies,so well off they had probably not done a stroke of workof any kind for ten years, and listened to their conversation, and thought to myself, "My country, right orwrong, but Oh God ! are these my country women?" Theablest young chemist the University graduated last year,I think — not that I know a sulphide from a bromide — •was one of the poorest of our many poor boys, and the only football players we ever have who are ineligible arethose wrho drive to practice in their fathers' Lincolns.Ability has little or nothing to do with social classes;and I am for the education of the able to whatever extent they are willing to take education. The trouble withthe able is that they all want to get out and start educating themselves and others — like Mr. Hutchins. And the,trouble with us is that we insist on continuing to educate the un-able, or in permitting them to clutter up oureducational institutions. Perhaps I may anticipate theremarks of Prof. Reavis by suggesting that parents canoften best serve the schools by keeping such of theirchildren as merely clutter up the schools, out of theschools.But no parent would dream of co-operating in thatfashion, because we have all been trained nowadays intothe conviction that the responsibilities are on our side,and on the side of the schools, not on the side of theyoung people. We Americans have been accused of dollar-worship. It is not dollars but daughters we worship— daughters and sons. Hutchins defines a university asa community of scholars, serving truth, but it seems tome more like a community of oldsters serving youth.Is this youth-worship of ours sensible? In parentsit is certainly endearing, a lovely trait. Mother's Davcomes once a year, and at other institutions I hear evenof Dad's Day, but all of us celebrate Children's Day365 times annually. Mother, I'm going out to swim.Yes, my darling daughter! hang your clothes on thismahogany limb, and buy yourself a nice new bathingsuit for nine dollars and a quarter. So goes the currentverse.We glow with generosity; we bask in the, sunlightof our own goodness of heart. And our children, ofcourse, take us for granted, just as they take the schoolsand the university for granted. Many of them are notonly loving in return, but even grateful; but there werea good many hundred thousand parents who drew along breath of relief when the law pensioning the agedwas passed. Government charity is cold, but it is niceto be able to count on it, at that. And sometimes I wonder whether parents who allow themselves to be takenfor granted, universities which allow themselves to betaken for granted, have any right to expect gratitude.Bread cast upon the waters will return, they say, aftermany days; but about mush cast upon the waters I amnot so sure.You may by now be in some doubt whether I amspeaking of parents and children, or of universities andtheir alumni. I am in some doubt myself. After all,your university is Alma Mater; schools and colleges aresaid to stand in loco parentis. What Chicago is to you,is at least analogous to what you are to your children.I am reiterating the assertion that many parents, perhaps even some of you, do too much for youth ; and thatsome institutions, perhaps even the University of Chicago, try to do too much for their students. Correction ;for those who are registered.Let us first consider the University of Chicago. It isto be hoped that this week, during the Alumni Schoolperiod, there may be presented to you an analysis of thetheories of higher learning in America, set forth by Presi-THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 13dent Hutchins. I do not discuss them, here. I am merelyconcerned to report that they seem to me the veryfascinating and alluringly musical clucking of a worriedhen with one chick. I don't insist on the one; if youprefer, a hen with 792,000 chicks — I believe that isabout the number in attendance at our institutions ofhigher learning in America. I have not been so impressed since the time, many years ago, when the famousDr. Jacques Loeb refused his children any pets excepta turtle, because you could sterilize a turtle. I have thefeeling that President Hutchins is suggesting that anyexcept a sterilized education may have dangerous germsabout it. But my point is that Dr. Loeb took too muchresponsibility, and that Dr. Hutchins is taking too muchresponsibility.Daniel Webster went to Dartmouth, and one day hedidn't get his lesson in Virgil. The instructor frownedand said, "Tomorrow you will be prepared with one hundred lines in advance, or you will be flogged." Thenext day Daniel turned up with the hundred lines. Theinstructor said, "Very well." "I can go on further, sir,"said Daniel. The instructor said, "Go on, then." Danielwent on — a hundred lines more, and another hundred."How far, sir," said the instructor, "can you g*o?" "Tothe end of the sixth book," said Daniel triumphantly."Very good," said the instructor. "Take down yourpants. I flog* you, sir, not for what you have done, butfor your failure to inform me of your capacity sooner."In other words, he put the responsibility where it belonged, on Daniel. Dr. Hutchins wishes to put it onthe Universities. I do not think what an undergraduatestudies is of first importance. The first importance is, Ithink, what he puts in, what he has to put in, what hecan be forced to put in, to the study. But whether President Hutchins is right altogether, or I am right altogether, or each of us is half-right, is not the only point.One point is whether we are doing the best thing by ouryoung people by giving them the impression that it is ourresponsibility to educate them instead of making themfeel that it is their responsibility whether they educatethemselves. Just as a point is whether we as parents aredoing the best thing by our children by giving them theimpression that it is our responsibility to bring them up,after they cease to be mere infants, instead of makingthem feel that it is their responsibility to bring themselvesup. Having read and re-read The Higher Learning inAmerica, I am convinced that President Hutchins thinksif our undergraduates are not properly educated, it isthe fault of the curricula and the teachers; whereas Ifeel that if our young people are not properly educated,it is their own fault.Half a century ago there was a famous evangelistcalled the Rev. Sam/ Jones. Asked to explain his popularity, he said, "I put my fodder on the ground, whereanything from a jackass to an elephant can get at it."But the effort of the Rev. Sam Jones was to make followers, not leaders. Sometimes I think the real responsibility of a university is to put the fodder on a highshelf where the jackasses can't trample it, and even theelephants have to stretch their trunks to reach it.Those of you know now something of the ChicagoPlan, once called the New Plan, will say, "Isn't this just what the University of Chicago is doing? Is not responsibility laid upon the undergraduates to get their owneducation?" In a way, yes. But here lies the contradiction between the practice of Chicago and the theoriesset forth in The Higher Learning in America. Mr.Hutchins implies, nay he says, that the universitiesshould devise a curriculum in accordance with whichundergraduates will be educated in spite of themselves ;taught by educational devices, taught by an emphasis onmetaphysical analysis, to think. I say this is anothereffort to coddle our young people, another form ofyouth-worship. The substitution of metaphysical material for factual material, of skills in logic for skills inorganization, might be helpful to undergraduates. Idon't know ; nobody knows. If we lived in a vacuum,or in a monastery, it surely might; but then we don'tlive, either in a vacuum or in a monastery. My pointis that so much assertion of a university's responsibilityin teaching a young man or a young woman to thinkmerely encourages their egotism. There is a very oldstory of a member of a graduating class who went to ajeweler to get a class pin designed. "What we want,"he said, "is a design of a student contemplating^ the universe.""What proportions had you in mind?" the jewelerasked."We thought," the young man said, "the universeshould take up about a quarter of the design, and thestudent the other three-quarters." That was long ago.We have now led our young people to suppose that theuniverse should take up about one-tenth of the design,and the student the other nine-tenths.When I entered the University forty-three years ago,at seventeen, I was hick, silly, and intelligent. Withina week I had been publicly denounced by Prof. Robert F.Harper, brother of the president, as a "mucker" — it wasthe first time I had heard the word ; I could only guessthat he did not mean it as a compliment. Within threemonths I had had two fights, one with Charley Pike, andbeen thrown bodily out of the Beta Theta Pi house because I insisted on going there to lunch; for that ejection, by the way, I have sometimes been grateful. ButI do not remember that from that day to this anybodyever told me that the University was responsible formy education, and would fail in its duty to me if it didnot educate me. I did not go to it to be educated; Iwent to educate myself. When President Knudsen ofGeneral Motors went into the automobile business, Ido not believe the head of the firm went about makingspeeches on the responsibility of General Motors to youthin general and Knudsen in particular. I think the foreman said, "You are lucky to get a job here; see youlearn it, damn you." That was, in effect, what the University said to me ; perhaps that is why I love and admirethe University beyond any other organization, why theUniversity is my country, why when in four years Ishall oe forced to leave it I shall feel myself for the restof my life an exile. The University has done a hundredand a hundred times more for me than I have done forthe University, but how? By being itself, and by puttingsquarely on me the responsibility for appreciation of(Continued on Page 19)QUAD RAMBLESTEN MILLION LOCOMOTIVESWHILE William Ogden Coleman, Jr., '14, wasbaritoning in the University of Chicago GleeClub trip to Los Angeles for the Santa Fe(1913); high stepping in the ballet of "CapturingCalypso" (Blackfriars, 1912) ; acting the part of "theother man" in Dramatic Club's one act play "A Woman'sPrivilege" (written by Barrett H. Clark -'12) ; and managing the destinies of the Literary Monthly; his fatherwas building the foundations of a unique "railroad!'corporation.Dad Coleman hadn't planned to manufacture 'toytrains when, in 1907, he acquired a block of stock in aChicago hard-ware firm. But,three years later,when this firmwas stranglingin red ink, hebought out theother stockholders, assumed theliabilities, hireda toy designerwho was out ofwork, and reorganized the company under itspresent n a m e :"The AmericanFlyer Manufac-t u r i n g Company." Realizingthat the averagenew toy noveltyusually wanes inpopularity within a year or so,Mr. Colemanhad decided to concentrate on toy trains which, likewomen's hats, may constantly change in style but arealways in demand.When Ogden was graduated from the University in1914, his father's "railroad" business was on the threshold of a prosperous expansion due to the curtailment oftoy importations from cheap-labor European countries.A new war was just getting under way on the Continent. Ogden, therefore, immediately found a nicheamong the toy trains in his dad's factory on south Halsted Street, to prepare himself eventually to relieve hisfather of the heavy manufacturing responsibilities.From one large room in 1910 to nearly five acres offloor space today, the American Flyer family of 800 employees occupies the seven floors and basement of an entire building. During this period more than ten milliontrains and sixteen thousand miles of trackage have beenW. OGDEN COLEMAN, JR. '14Still playing with trains * By HOWARD W. MORT, Editor, Tower Topicsmanufactured, which is considerably more than the entire trackage of all China (12,335 miles). In fact Mr.Coleman was recently introduced to a train signal manufacturing official as "the man who manufactures morelocomotives than Baldwin and American combined, morecars than the Pullman and Standard Companies, morerails than the U. S. Steel Corporation, and a whale of alot more signals than you do, Mr !" Whichmade quite a momentary impression upon this railroadmanufacturer, as you might imagine. The present capacity of the Flyer factory is 600 trains per hour, including the careful testing of all motors, transformers, moving parts, and every section of track (110 volts).In 1910 most all toy trains were spring-motor operated and an engine lasted only until dad, in a spurt ofover-ambition, wound the locomotive too tight. By 1918American Flyer was manufacturing electric trains untilnow the powering of toy trains is the reverse of 1910: almost all trains are operated electrically by remote control, including whistles, bells — everything but the smoke(although the firebox actually glows with a red light).Styles in toy trains follow the fashions in grown-uptrains ; steam, electric, streamlined. Streamlined trainsare fast losing their popularity with the youngsters, wholike to see the wheels go 'round and the pistons churn.Even dad will admit that there is much more personalityin a great steam locomotive than in a long arrow-likesheet of stainless metal curved to fit the wind.Typical of successful railroad operation, the AmericanFlyer has four freights in circulation to every passengertrain. Each car (Sinclair Oil, Borden's Milk, northwestlumber, wrecking crane, etc.) stimulates a new imaginative romance in playing at railroading. American railroad managements have come to realize the importanceof having their trade names designed on these toy trains :future business men operating miniature "BurlingtonZephyrs," toy window displays featuring the "Milwaukee Hiawatha," familiarity with the names : "New YorkCentral," "Union Pacific," "Pennsylvania," means newgenerations of friends for these roads. Railway publicrelations departments not only gladly furnish blueprintsand models of their latest locomotives and trains but, inmany instances, willingly pay for the tools and dies tomanufacture these model trains carrying the emblems oftheir lines.There is no age limit for American Flyer addicts.Thousands never outgrow this boyhood interest. Manycontract the disease in adulthood. After the age of sixteen they usually dignify this interest with the term:"hobby." There are three forms of this contagion: (1)the "scenery-builders" who fill the basement or atticspace "back of the tracks" with mountains, trees,streams, billboards, and people and build elaborate stations, crossings, tunnels and fences along the tracks ; (20the "locomotive constructors" who purchase the un-(Continued on Page 16)14AMOS ALONZO STAGG:What the West Coast Thinks of Him*IT IS a refreshing inspiration, like a warm gust ofspring air, to have Amos Alonzo Stagg with usagain. You seldom think of spring as you contemplate a gentleman who has lived three-quarters of acentury. But Mr. Stagg is synonymous with youth,enthusiasm and ambition. Mr. Stagg's influence is goodfor football, good for the growing generation and goodfor the old folks. His vision is best exemplified by hisdecision, at threescore and ten, to go West and grow upwith the country. Forty-one years at the University ofChicago, Mr. Stagg decided the place no longer affordedan opportunity to a man who still wished to go forward,so he followed the trail blazed by pioneers who sacrificedeverything to open the Golden West. Your ordinarycitizen half the age of Mr. Stagg has a bad case of jitterswhen he contemplates a change in scenery or occupation.Even those who have the desire to get out of a rut oftenlack the courage and ambition to make the shift. Not soMr. Stagg. He moved into Stockton and in the shortspace of four years elevated the College of Pacific to aposition of respect in the athletic world. Scorning theprivileges generally offered a man of his age, Mr. Staggasked no favors and invited competition from the best inthe West. It is a matter of record that his Tigers,imbued with his courage, ambition and enthusiasm, havefought some of the leading Coast teams on even terms.In many instances nothing but an overwhelming superiority in man power enabled the big shots to emergevictorious over Mr. Stagg's pupils.Today's game with SouthernCalifornia marks Mr. Stagg's thirdbattle against the Trojans. Facingthe mighty men of Troy would bean ordeal for the average coach.But after you have lived seventy-five years, coached forty-sevenyears and sent your players on thefield for close to 600 games youbegin to become accustomed tomeeting difficult assignments. Yourenthusiasm becomes tempered witha calmness of purpose derived onlythrough clean living and rightthinking. No matter what happensit cannot possibly be as thrilling ortragic to Mr. Stagg as it may beto those of us who watch and thosewho play the game. After all, hiscup of life is already filled to overflowing.Purely aside from his characterand inspirational leadership, Mr.Stagg is entitled to widespreadrecognition for his countless con- AMOS ALONZO STAGGForty-seven coaching years • By BRAVEN DYERtributions to the game of football. To enumerate themwould take more space than is available. Today he isready to spring a new version of his famous flanker formation, invented in 1907 and used with such effectiveness last season by Buck Shaw at Santa Clara. Everybody talks about the Notre Dame shift. Mr. Staggthought of it and used it long before the Fighting Irishbecame a front-rank power in football. More than tenyears ago he came out with one of his latest inventions,the man in motion. All these and many more from aman who himself was named Ail-American end while atYale in 1889, picked on the same team with immortalEdgar Allan Poe and the great Pudge Heffelinger.Mr. Stagg believes that condition, experience and thewill to win are the most important factors in the make-upof a good football player. For himself he follows atraining schedule as rigid as that prescribed for his players. Always up before seven each morning, he runs andwalks a full mile to the tennis court, where he plays foran hour. He then walks home to breakfast. Askedwhy he does this, he says : "I'm keeping myself in shapejust like the football players." Celebrating his seventy-fifth birthday on August 16, he followed the sameschedule.Nobody appreciates the companionship and loyalty ofa wife more than we crazy newspapermen, and I havean idea Mr. Stagg owes much of his never-flaggingenthusiasm to Mrs. Stagg. She is the historian, statistician and stenographer of thefamily. She takes care of all hismail, typing the answers as he dictates. She has all the recordspertaining to his forty-seven yearsof coaching. These are filed alphabetically and constitute a recordthe like of which is unknown toanybody else in football. No practice session at Pacific would becomplete without Mrs. Stagg. Sheis always there with her pad ofpaper, jotting down notes on eachformation. Mrs. Stagg has followed her husband's gridiron tactics for so many years that sheknows his every move. If someplayer makes a mistake that Mr.Stagg does not catch, he is sure tobe told about it the next day, forMrs. Stagg misses nothing. She ispresent at every game in the pressbox, charting complete play inaddition to compiling statistics.Last year Mrs. Stagg was presented with a beautiful trophy,1516 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEemblematic of her position as honorary coach of thePacific varsity.It is unlikely that Mr. Stagg's Tigers can whip theTrojans today. But there will be a terrific battle beforethe final reckoning is made. And win or lose, Mr. Staggdeserves nothing less than an ovation from local fans.Because he's Class Double A all the way through, A. A.Stagg.*An article printed in the Los Angeles Times when Coach Stagg broughthis College of the Pacific team to play the University of Southern California last fall.Quadrambles(Continued from Page 14)assembled parts and spend months putting the train together on the work bench; and (3) the "tinplaters,"who take the train as is and work into the wee hourstearing off a piece of sheet metal here, adding a gadgetthere, installing extra equipment and remodeling the entire locomotive in the interests of a more elaborate andexact replica of the real thing.The hobbyists may work individually, spending hundreds of dollars (a well known automobile executive inMichigan has invested more than $5,000 in his American Flyer hobby), or they may form an organizationwhich works under a community roof. Mr. Colemanreceives scores of letters annually from these fans andclubs asking for advice, ordering extra parts, or reporting progress.Selecting one of these letters from his files we findthe letter head reads: "Centinela Valley Model Railroaders Club" and in smaller type: "Two hundredsixty-six feet of main line in operation." This is followedby other letterhead data including the names of the officers. The secretary is addressing the President ofAmerican Flyer : "... Now, Mr. Coleman, as sect, ofthis Club please let me give you a little advice. Don'tput that Hudson Loco on the market with that type offront truck. My 'God' man, save your face and build a4-6-4 this year." There follows a technical descriptionof how his club accomplished this transformation ; then :"... As a Club of American Flyer 'tinplaters' we arebehind you 100% and we will buy and recommend yourrolling stock, but don't let us down on this trifling matter."Mr. Coleman always personally answers these letters,explains the manufacturing problems involved or assures them these improvements are already contemplatedfor the new models. Hence, it is understandable howthe correspondence soon arrives at the place where thecorresponded are closing with such personal invitationsas : "Mr says you might be out this summer.If you do, don't pass us up."And W. Ogden Coleman thoroughly enjoys the hobbyhe has made out of a business, or is it the business hehas developed out of a hobby?HISTORY FROM ROCKSTo paleontologists— whose insatiable curiosities keepthem digging deeper into the earth's strata — goes the A FAMOUS PARTNERSHIPStella Robertson Stagg '96 and husbandcredit for much historical data from those early eonswhich were never recorded except by enigmatic designsin age-old rocks.Paul C. Miller (Curator of Walker Museum) is oneof the world's noted collectors and preparators. Whilehe was still a boy in his native Denmark and during hisperiod of service as a cadet in the Danish navy, Paulharbored an ambition to visit America. By the close ofhis teens he had accumulated enough money to make theventure. Securing a map of the United States, he selected a city which looked to be near the center of thishuge country, went to the ticket office, and purchasedtransportation to Laramie, Wyoming.Wyoming's great mountains and vast plateaus appealed to Paul Miller and he remained to become a cattleranger. Mr. Miller had never interested himself in geology until the summer of 1901 when an expedition fromthe American Museum of Natural History arrived inWyoming and sent out a call for a number of nativemen who were acquainted with the country. Paul wasamong those to qualify and soon was showing such talent that the expedition officials took him back with themto New York in the fall where he remained for six years.In 1907 Mr. Miller resigned from the American Museum of Natural History to accept a laboratory assistant-ship in paleontology at the University.On November 18th, Paul C. Miller, sailed for Tampa,Florida, with one of his assistants, Paul O. McGrew forthe meagerly mapped and little known interior of Honduras. Here he will be joined in December by the organizer of the expedition, Dr. Everett Olson, and thenext four months will be spent accumulating specimensof fossils which may help to date the migration periodwhen South American animals were crossing CentralAmerica into the northern hemisphere and vice versa.This may also help to establish more accurately the timewhen there was less variation between temperate and torrid zone climate, which difference today prevents temperate zone animals from living through attempted migrations across the Torrid Zone.There are few maps of the Honduras area and no twoagree as to names or exact locations of rivers, mountains, and other geographical locations. Walker Museum's party will go as far as possible by ship, boat, andairplane from which point they will pack into the poorlycharted interior.LARGE SCHOOLSOpportunitiesEVERY BOY ought to be allowed to choose thecollege he wishes to attend. That's merely com-monsense, isn't it? Yes, well, to heck with com-monsense. I told my boy he could go to any college heliked, but if he didn't pick Harvard I'd cut him out ofmy will. You bet that worked.Why Harvard? Because my father went there? Because I went there ? No, I also went into the Army, butI'd hardly advise that for my boy. Because he'll havea good time at Harvard? No, I didn't and I doubtwhether he will, either. Because he may make somegood friends who will be useful afterward in business?No, eight thousand and sixty-two times no. Of all reasons for choosing an institution of learning, this "utility"reason is, in my opinion, the most shallow.If a boy is after friends and the main chance, he'dmake better and far more useful ones if he came toManhattan, attended the proper dances, met just theright people, and joined a club on upper Park Avenue.He could certainly do this in half the time and one-thirdthe money it would take to get through Harvard.Why Harvard, then? Because he'll turn out to be agood athlete? No, he'll never make the football team,and if he had inclinations that way, I'd insist he go tosome more football-minded school and become a professional player to support his parent in the latter's oldage. If he wishes to teach skiing for a living, I'd sendhim to, say, Dartmouth. . . .Why, then, Harvard?First, and most important, because Harvard is a largeuniversity.A great institution like Harvard or Chicago (and,incidentally and parenthetically, it is the unofficial andlay opinion of your observer that this last-named university is leaving all the rest of America's universitiesin the rear) offers something which no small collegecan. Harvard was — and is — a small world of its own;harsh, impersonal, unsympathetic. No one handshakesyou or pays any attention to you or cares the least bitabout you. An undergraduate at Cambridge will tell youthis is true.A big university is the world in miniature. It contains a cross-section of the natives of this world of ours ;the rich, the poor, the good, the bad, the great unwashedand the sons of the millionaires, the lazy, the students,the social climbers, the sons of the business tycoons,and the sons of rabbies.In a year or two, that boy of mine will be .obliged toget out in the world and mix with all sorts and conditions of men. In a big university he will find them fromall sections of the country. That's vital. That's important. Not being an educator, I can hint that maybe it'spart of an education.*Reprinted with the kind permission of John R. Tunis and The Rotarian. OFFER MORE• By JOHN R. TUNISFor, other things being equal, a great university islikely to be less provincial, geographically speaking, thana small college. Its graduates circulate the world over.They send their sons back to their alma mater. Thegreat university has a world-wide reputation. It hasdepartments which attract students from everywherewishing to specialize.Now, I appreciate that there are many exceptions tothis general statement. Harvard and Chicago, for instance, are not good universities to take as an exampleof wide student distribution. Yale, the least provincialin this respect of any American university, would bebetter. But I should imagine that Harvard, for instance,is less geographically ingrowing than a certain Midwestern fresh-water college, even though I am creditablyinformed that this latter institution of learning has recently taken to importing tennis stars from Texas andOklahoma.That a big university is more likely to contain a cross-section of the nation, a number of individuals from allclasses, than a small college, has been my experience.One of the surprising things to me about some of thesmaller colleges in the East which are hotbeds of country-club culture where the American upper middle classreigns in complacency, is the way they speak of snobberyand point the finger of scorn at larger institutions. President Tyler Dennett, of Williams College, speaking toalumni of the college, mentioned this point recently, andregretted that the majority of boys at Williamstown toooften come from one section of the community.It is true that some boys can get just as good "a bookand laboratory education" in a small college as elsewhere, but the fact remains, and we might just as wellface it, that in education, as in other walks of life, moneycounts. This isn't to say there aren't men in nearly everysmall college who are equal if not the superior of theircolleagues in big universities, who stay in a small college because it suits them better. But by and large, thefirst-class teachers do drift to the large institutions. Andfirst-class teachers count in inspiration. To get yourphysiology from a Carlson, your archeology from aBreasted, your history from a Salvemini, is important.That brings up another point.Ah, yes, say the small colleges, but those great menare lecturing to several hundred students. They haven'ttime to waste on your boy. They are deep in research, inmaking books. Their teaching, too, is impersonal. Thereis no contact between teacher and pupil, such as youget in the small classes in a small college.Of course you do, and fvery often it's well worth thegetting. Sometimes, frequently nowadays, you get it alsoin a big university. The tutorial system at Harvard,and especially at Yale, means probably more contactbetween student and teacher than at many small col-18 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEleges. After the first year at these institutions, classesare, on the whole, small. "Besides, what does it matterhow small the class is if the professor is a mumblebug?The most inspiring 60 minutes of the year 1936 forme was sitting under Professor William Albert Nitze,the head of the department of romance languages at theUniversity of Chicago, in a class attended by about 40pupils. Contact there, all right, and plenty!For my boy, I most desire challenging men, leaders,men of inspiration. Most of this kind in the teachingprofession are, I think, to be found not only in the bigger universities, but also in or near big cities. Is it wiseto segregate a healthy and acquisitive mind for the fourmost important years of his life in the facilities of asmall provincial town with its proms and Winter carnivals and the other tawdry excrescences which havegrown up around the life of a small college far froma big center of population?I prefer my boy to have contact with stimulating men,stimulating society, in a place where he will be in touchwith the best to be obtained in music, the drama, art,and other things of this kind, and in a metropolis wheremen like Harold Laski and prominent Europeans arecertain to visit when they cross the Atlantic.This leads to another factor in my choice. In a largeuniversity I believe that the clash and conflict of mindsand personalities in both the faculty and the undergraduate body will tend to make him less of a conformist.Young people, contrary to the flaming-youth theory, areborn conformists. And educators will tell you this is so.Conformity is one of the curses of the country.In a big university such as Harvard there is no stresslaid on conformity. No one has to conform, no one hasto be a joiner. Sink or swim, live or die, nobody cares.Nobody cares out in the big cold world, either. And,as hinted above, the large university is the world inmicrocosm. You can think your own thoughts there,lead your own life, as unwatched and unnoticed as anapartment dweller in Manhattan.Speaking of conformity leads obviously to the fraternity problem. At most large universities and certainlyat Harvard, fraternities mean nothing. The great indoorintercollegiate sport in the United States is calling Harvard — or any other institution — snobbish. Well, Harvardis snobbish, although my guess would be that there isa greater degree of tolerance, less bigotry, less race and class prejudice there than at most colleges. Anyhowthere are no fraternities. I know something about fraternities. I once joined a fraternity in a small college andI am talking by the book.If there is any snobbery comparable to fraternity snobbery, I wish you would kindly wire me collect — care ofthe editor of this magazine.There is a range and variety of interests in a big college that is obviously impossible to duplicate in a smallinstitution. There are opportunities to do things, meetmen attached to the same interests, chances to grow, todevelop, to broaden.Naturally, I prefer some aspects of the small college.Obviously, I dislike some things about the larger universities and especially about the Harvard of today. ButI do believe that a boy who goes there and isn't inspiredto his intellectual best is a poor specimen indeed. Therehe will get an education.What is an education? I'll turn the microphone overto a fellow alumnus of Harvard who has given one ofthe best definitions of education that I have ever seen:"What is education? To create in a boy the spiritof tolerance, to make him alive to beauty, to developwhat might be called a sanctuary of the mind. Havingtolerance, he may face the puzzle of things not understood and withhold judgment, through the perception ofbeauty he may grow in refinement, and within the sanctuary of the mind, because of the tolerance and thebeauty, he may begin to understand himself."In brief, what I'm trying to say is that I prefer thelarge college for my boy because I think it offers greateropportunities for growth and development, because it isapt to have a better teaching staff and better facilitiesfor work, because it is possibly less provincial both geographically and socially, because it is often near a largecity with all the advantages therein, and because, in aword, the large university is the world in miniature.We live in a tough age. It's going to be tougher. Thesooner my boy knows this and understands it, the better.Thanks very much, but I do not want him sheltered andprotected in a small college in a small town. I wanthim toughened and battered in the cruelties of a greatuniversity like Harvard. After Harvard nothing is tough,not even a World War. I ought to know. I was exposed to both.THE PROFESSIONAL THIEF.BY A PROFESSIONAL THIEF. Annotated and Interpreted by Edwin H.Sutherland, PhDT3. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937. Pp.XIIX+257.IT is easier to say what this unusualbook is not, than what it is. It isnot an adventure story — there isscarcely an incident r-ecounted in it,even for purposes of illustration. It is not a biography — the author is as impersonal as Marco Polo in his traveldescriptions. It, therefore, is not an attempt to throw light on the central subject, by means of detailing the experiences of a single person engaged init. Instead it is an impersonal description and analysis of a particular business, just as we might have a similaranalysis of any other business, as realestate, banking, or any other. Whatskills does it require, what approachdoes it use toward those with whom itdeals, what methods are used to meetbusiness reverses ? , etc., etc. In this approach it blazing a new trail, and no onewould be more fit to guide it than Pro fessor Sutherland. This guidance, however, should be understood as takingonly the form of coordinating the material received from professional sourcesand developing it in a unified manner,and not as supplying any such matterhimself in the form of conjecture orsurmise, either avowed or hidden.The book should prove of great valueto those in the field of crime study andprevention. While it is difficult to select typical chapters as examples of suchusefulness one or two stand out, such asthat on the mechanism of "fixing"cases. It is to be hoped that Mr.Sutherland will have a chance to makea similar study of the professionalTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 19fence, who by furnishing the demand tobe supplied by the professional thiefalone make the latter possible.— E. W. Puttkammer.UNDERSTANDING THE ENGLISH. By James Howard Wellard,PhD.'35. New York: WhittelseyHouse, 1937. Pp. 229.SELDOM the Englishman, turnedAmerican, becomes articulateabout his reactions to the Then andthe Now of his divided life and divided loyalties. Still more seldomdoes an Englishman who has becomean American analyze himself and hislate fellow-countrymen when memory is a fresh and dynamic force, setting the present in the light of thepast and dragging the past into thelight of the present, unobscured bythe sentimental haze with which longabsence envelopes the Old Country.Like M. Renier, author of TheEnglish: Are They Human (1936), Mr. WTellard has adopted a safe ifuninspired classification of Englishactivities and in the light of thesemakes his generalizations on the English. M. Renier was very witty andmoderately truthful ; his work wascharming and uneven. Parts of itshowed real insight, parts might havebeen written by a tourist after threemonths' stay. Mr. Wellard has ahigher standard in veracity and certainly a greater degree of personalsincerity.Yet this book too strikes a discordant note. For Mr. Wellard withhis incurable English self-consciousness will not remain content with thehumor implicit in his subject. He isinvariably trying to batter the readerover the head with scintillating epigrams and overpointed antitheses. Heseems convinced that a book calledUnderstanding the English must becontinuously funny, and so funny itis, at a desperate rate, up hill and down dale, with little valleys of pathos in between. Perhaps a compendium of generalizations about any nation must be glib. Perhaps to makethe glibness palatable every paragraph in the early part of this bookmust rise coruscating to a humorouscrescendo. But I doubt it. Mr. Wellard has a pretty wit, when he allowshimself to be "natural," to borrow hisown English terminology. His vignettes of evenings spent at "TheYacht" at Greenwich are masterly intheir accuracy, as the reviewerknows, and touching in their sympathetic tenderness.The best thing in Understandingthe English, apart from the alwaysilluminating glimpses of the Englishworkman, whom Mr. Wellard loveswith understanding, is the chapter oneducation. The truth about Englisheducation dwells at the bottom of adeep well. Mr. Wellard has done(Continued on Page 26)How Children Can Best Serve the Schools (Continued from Page 13)what it is. When I was an undergraduate, it did nottell me what to study, it said, "Here are Angell andSmall and Vincent and Salisbury and Tufts and Lovettand Tarbell and Starr and Stagg and Moulton and ahundred others, a community of scholars and personalities. Get what you can from your association withthem. They are paid to endure your company, and theywill endure it if you have the sense to force it on them."Thank God I had that sense ; thank God they were long-suffering — though how they suffered! I remember oncewhen in the company of Professor Tarbell who, thougha Deke, was a guest at the Alpha Delt House, I joinedin singing an Alpha Delt song, Prof. Tarbell whisperedto me, "Mr. Linn, what you were singing — was thatGreek?" l '"Yes, sir," I said. He shook his grand old Spartanhead. "I feared so," he said. "I feared so !"But now, in our youth-worship, we say "our universities are failing in their duty to our young people. Wemust do something quickly. We must study youth moreintensively in order to satisfy exactly what it has a rightto demand. We must provide not only highly specializedcourses for the most competent, but also highly generalcourses for one and all. We must shift the emphasis ofour curricula. Youth is the god in the holy temple ofeducation. The future of the country, the future of civilization, is in the hands of our youth.'5The other day I went to a meeting of Hyde Park property owners, and I happened to mention the fact that thepresence across the street from my house of the HydePark neighborhood club knocked a couple of thousanddollars off the value of my property. And Prof. AndrewMcLaughlin, the apple of whose eye is the Neighborhood Club, remarked indignantly, "I'll trade you any one ofthe fraternity houses near me for the Neighborhood Club.and pay you $1,000 for the bargain." So whatever weare teaching youth, we don't seem to be teaching themcommunity co-operation; whatever opportunities we areoffering them, we don't seem to be forcing on them theideal of neighborly behavior. Is our future civilizationto be in the hands of people who won't keep their garbage-cans covered? Do any of you folks come here forthis Alumni School period with the idea that the University is responsible for what you learn from it?Hardly 1 You come here grateful for the chance of learning something for yourselves. Do any of your childrencome to the University with the feeling of gratitude forthe chance of learning something for themselves?Hardly ! They come here with the idea that he University is responsible not only for their opportunities butfor seeing that they make the most of them.I think otherwise. I think the responsibility for education in the university is on the undergraduates, andthe graduate students. And just so I think the responsibility is on your children, after adolescence, for bringing themselves up ; not on you. I know it was on me, noton my parents. My parents brought me into the world,and therefore it was their responsibility to give me thebest chance they could to make something of myself.That was their duty and their privilege. But to make meinto something themselves — to worship me, to idealizeme, even to get out of my way — that was not even theirright. I say we should take time off from bringing upthe children, and put it on the continuing job of bringing up father and mother.IN MY OPINION•By FRED B. MILLETT, PhD'31, Visiting Professor of English, Wesleyan UniversityIT is almost as much of a shock to realize that I havebeen engaged in the teaching of literature for twenty-five years as it was for M. Jourdain to discoverthat he had been speaking prose all his life withoutknowing it. But what is more shocking than the duration of my devotion to literary pedagogy is the realization that one can go on teaching yearin and year out without pausing to consider the rationale of such activity, itsjustification in terms of either itsactual accomplishment or its ideal ends.But tlie incidence of even a major professional anniversary would hardlyhave sufficed to turn my thoughts toa defense of literary studies, a modern apology for poetry. It was clearlyimpossible, however, to neglect thepathetic plight of a student who writes,"I am a science major. My appreciation of English and American literature is limited by atoms, electrons,genes, chromosomes, phyla, and assorted scientific aromas. Could yousuggest the right way to approach literary masterpieces?" Such a plea is occasion enoughto make one pause in full career from class to class, fromlecture to lecture, to search the intellectual horizon forsome light along the dark way.In perhaps no other field (except the theological) isthe habitual so easily identified with the sacrosanct asin that of literary studies. Our unconscious assumptions with regard to the functions of literature are hoarywith antiquity. Our subject-matter and our methodsare usually accepted as unthinkingly as the rising ofthe moon or the falling of rain. Moreover, our failureto investigate the rationale of the study and teachingof literature is encouraged, not merely by the inertia ofthe habitual, but by the overpowering multiplicity of literary productions. Centuries ago, an infinitely boredmonarch observed wearily, "Of the making of booksthere is no end." Still, thousands of books and magazines pour from the presses every year and overflow theshelves of public and private libraries. Newspapers andjournals devote columns of precious space to the privateand public woes of poets and poetasters. In a democracy, at any rate, everybody reads at least one book,and many read a great many. Surely, the omnipresenceof the literary and the sub-literary would seem to argueits unquestioned importance. Since there are so manytrees, why worry about the forest or a way through it?But, once the questioning begins, even professors havebeen known to disagree as to the nature and functionof literature, as to why and how it should (if it should)be taught. Our scientific neophyte is not alone in hisbewilderment.An attempt to survey the most prevalent methods ofFRED B. MILLETTliterary study leads me to the conclusion that all themethods may be classified as scientific or aesthetic. Sincethe scientific study of literature is the easier to pursueand since it is the one that fits most comfortably intothe ideology of a predominantly scientific period, it isno wonder that the study of literature by scholars isscientific in its ends, and as scientificas possible in its methods. If the nineteenth century taught us nothing else,it taught us that all varieties of humanexperience are legitimate objects ofscientific investigation.The objective of the scientific studyof literature is the goal of all scientificstudy — the discovery of truth. Thetruth of science is not necessarily thetruth of philosophy or the truth of art ;the truth of science is the truth ofobjectively demonstrable facts and factual relations. With this very important limitation (a limitation that isvery regularly overlooked by scholars),the scientific study of literature can beseen to be both legitimate and significant. Despite the tendency of literary and non-literaryscientists to regard one fact as quite as important asany other fact, the serious tasks of the literary scientistare numerous. For the literary scientist, a poem in manuscript or in print is an historical event, and can bestudied like any other historical event. If the poem isan historical event, it is pertinent to attempt to discoverwho caused the event. Thus we come face to face withthe problem of authorship, a problem that in the caseof such works as Piers Plowman and the old Hamletmay be exceedingly complex. And, once we have caughtor think we have caught our author, we are forced byhuman curiosity to attempt the solution of the historicalproblems of biography. When was Geoffrey Chaucerborn? When and whom did Edmond Spenser marry?Why did Shakespeare bequeath his second-best bed tohis wife ? Did John Milton begin the divorce pamphletsbefore the honeymoon was over?But these are only the first of the strictly historicalproblems that a single poem can suggest. The poem(unless it is deliberately shapeless) has a more or lessclearly defined form. Why did the author use this particular form — the sonnet, the sestina, or the triolet?Did he invent the form or did he borrow it ? If he borrowed it, did he use it without modification? Thusarises the historical study of techniques and forms. Furthermore, unless the poem is an example of what hasbeen called pure poetry, the poem has content. If thepoem is lyrical in nature, is the emotion precipitated inthe poem personal with the poet or merely a temporaryassumption by him of another — a dramatic — personality?If the poem is narrative in nature, did the poet invent the20THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 21story, or did be beg, borrow, or steal it ? Here the endless vista of myths and legends opens up before thescholar, and he becomes awesomely aware of the eternalpotency of the creations of the primitive human imagination, those creations that are preserved for us in theguise of Oedipus and Hamlet, Brunhilde and Deirdreand Helen. The presence in a work of art of ideas, asdistinct from characters, actions, and emotions, encourages yet another kind of literary study, the investigationof the history of ideas. In this type of study, the scientist's interest parallels his interest in the history of thesources of plots and characters. For he is concerned,not merely with the meanings a particular artist attachesto such dicta as,Love reason then; and let whate'er you writeBorrow from her its beauty, force, and light.orFirst follow Nature, and your judgment frameBy her just standard, which is still the same.but also with the ways by which these meanings enteredthe artist's mind, their ultimate sources, and their popularity or unpopularity.A poem or drama or novel may be regarded as a moreor less direct representation of the world in which theartist lived and worked, a product not merely of theintellectual climate but of the social and economic atmosphere of the period. The literary historian may thenfind himself asking with what accuracy and vividnessthe social and intellectual environment of the period isreflected in literature. Here, he is a close ally of the socialhistorian whose business it is to inquire with whataccuracy and vividness literature reflects the social andintellectual environment. The distinction between themmay seem slight, but it is, nevertheless, fundamental.For the literary scientist moves from the environment tothe work of art, and the social historian moves fromthe work of art to the environment. The first askshimself, "What light can the social environment throwon the work of art?" The second inquires, "What lightcan the work of art throw on the environment?'All these historical studies, however, tend to assumethe finality of the form the poem or drama or noveltakes in manuscript or print. But very little experiencewith manuscripts or printed texts is needed to revealthe need for the closest possible study of the history ofthe text itself. Such a study, systematically pursued,becomes bibliography, a scholarly tool of incredible delicacy and import.Such historical studies as I have outlined — biographical, technical, mythological, ideational, sociological, andbibliographical — have been the almost exclusive concernof the graduate schools of our American universities.And such studies are easily justified, not merely interms of their value as technical training and and aspreparation for literary-historical research, but in termsof their immediate results. In every one of these fields,and in connection with every major author — Chaucer,Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and Pope — and many avery minor author, American scholars of the last twogenerations have made sensational forays against theforces of ignorance and indolence, against the destruction wrought by time and man upon the monumentscf literature. But it may seriously be questioned whether a scientificapproach of whatever sort is the most appropriate approach to a work of art. As Santayana has said, "If weapproach a work of art or nature scientifically, for thesake of his historical connexions or proper classification,we do not approach it aesthetically. The discovery ofits date or of its author may be otherwise interesting;it only remotely affects our aesthetic appreciation byadding to the direct effect certain associations. If thedirect effect were absent, and the object in itself uninteresting, the circumstances would be immaterial." Inother words, we do not value a work of art in proportion to the number of facts we know about it, althoughmany scholars with little or no aesthetic or critical capacity tend to do so. We value a work of art because itstimulates sensations, feelings, and emotions, or containsideas, or possesses technical expertnesses which seem tous to be valuable.Philosophers and aestheticians, educators and critics,have made valiant attempts to explain why we regardor should regard some works of art as valuable andothers as relatively valueless or worthless. But, howeverelaborate their systems of aesthetics or criticism, theirpurpose remains clear and simple — the clarification ofthe problem of value in the field of the arts.Even the moralist has striven to contribute a solutionto this difficult problem, but with the best intentions inthe world he has only succeeded in darkening counsel.For the moralist is concerned primarily, not with thebeautiful and the ugly, but with good and evil, and hisaesthetic principles all too frequently achieve the reduc-tio ad absurdum of judging a work as good if it containsgood doctrine, and evil if it contains no doctrine at allor bad doctrine. Such a confusion of the issue results inthe critical absurdities fathered by Tolstoy and Ruskin,the Methodists and the Marxians, the Society for theSuppression of Vice and the Society for the Propapaga-tion of the Faith. The ethical measuring-rod, of no matter what length and degree of rigidity, is the least appropriate weapon for the evaluation of art, although it servesnicely for its destruction.The difficulty with most systems of aesthetics is thatthey are the productions of philosophers or psychologists, writers notoriously incapable of expressing themselves so that the untrained or the impatient can understand them. But, despite the seas of verbiage in whichthe critic in quest of a creed sinks or swims, it ought tobe possible to state the essential conclusions of centuriesof repetitious speculation in terms comprehensible tothe lay reader.The essential conclusions of the aestheticians and investigators of critical principles seem to me to be three.(1) A work of art is valuable because it is an accuraterepresentation of life. (2) A work of art is valuablebecause it arouses in the beholder sensations, emotions,or ideas that it is pleasurable to entertain. (3) A workof art is valuable because it possesses high formal andtechnical qualities.Of these three assertions, the first seems to me to bethe least tenable, although it is one that suffices for manyelementary and some fairly subtle minds. It is a principle that is dear to the realist and the radical, a principle(Continued on Page 25)ATHLETICSScores :Chicago, 12; Michigan, 13.Chicago, 26 ; Beloit, 9.WHILE the University of Chicago football teamhas lost three conference and two non-conference games, winning only from Beloit, 26 to 9,critics agree that this year's Maroon eleven is superiorto the 1936 team. One game remains on the schedule,that against Illinois at Champaign.Against Michigan, Coach Clark Shaughnessy'-s players exhibited their best game of the season. After outplaying the Wolverines for fifty-six minutes and leadingby a 12 to 0 score, Chicago's defense crumbled in thelast four minutes and Michigan scored two touchdownsin rapid order, winning the game, 13 to 12.After Ritchie, fleet Wolverine back, had raced aroundleft end for forty-five yards and a touchdown, CoachShaughnessy sent in Davenport to replace Valorz. Thestrategy of this move was to give Davenport, an exceptionally fast back, the ball in an effort to make a firstdown. Coach Shaughnessy was fighting against time,his players were tiring, and if a first down had beenobtained the remaining two or three minutes would havebeen consumed by Chicago, giving it a 12 to 7 win.Unfortunately, Davenport fumbled and the ball wasrecovered by Michigan. Even then, Michigan took fourdowns, aided by a five-yard penalty against Chicago foran illegal substitution, to smash the ball over the goalline for the winning touchdown, Ritchie again carryingthe ball."It. was a gamble and we lost," Coach Shaughnessysaid after the game.The Maroon team excelled in all departments of thegame with the exception of kicking. Although CaptainRobert Fitzgerald's punts averaged better than 33 yards,his poor kicks occurred when Chicago was far back inits own territory. This placed the Maroon team on thedefensive more than it should have been, resulting in aweakening of the forward wall.Sollie Sherman, Chicago tailback, played an outstanding game for Chicago. He made consistent gains off-tackle, played a strong defensive game, and tossed thetwo touchdown passes, the first to Capt. Fitzgerald, whocut through Michigan's secondary after receiving theaerial, and the second to Bob Wasem, sophomore end,who made a brilliant side-line dash for Chicago's secondtally.Chicago attempted 10 passes in the Michigan game,completing six of them for a total gain of 90 yards.Michigan attempted the same number of passes but connected only twice for a gain of 17 yards.What will happen when Chicago meets Illinois in thelast game of the season is conjecture, but if the Maroonteam blocks and tackles as it did against Michigan, Coach • By PAUL MAC LEANZuppke's eleven is due for a disagreeable afternoon. Onfive occasions against Michigan, the tackling was so hardthe Wolverine carriers were unable to hold the ball andfumbled. The alert Chicago team recovered in eachinstance.Several Maroon players stood out. Earl Peirce, sophomore lineman from Utah, played the entire game atcenter after only five days of practice in that position.While his passing from center was not perfect, he didnot make a single bad toss and his work on defense wasimpressive. Two other sophomore linemen, GeorgeKelley, guard, and Wasem, end, performed with veteranskill. For that matter, the entire Maroon forward wallwas strong, aggressive and greatly improved.Morton Goodstein, fullback; Lewis Hamity, quarterback, and Ed Valorz, half back, not only were strong ondefense, charging in quickly to make tackles at the lineof scrimmage, but blocked well for Sherman, Chicago'sstellar tailback. *Comments of the game made by Michigan's coach,Harry Kipke, and his line coach, "Hunk" Anderson, arerevealing. These comments were made to Coach Shaughnessy in the Maroon dressing room following the game :Coach Kipke — "I wouldn't have given a nickel for ourchances at the beginning of the fourth quarter."Line Coach Anderson — "You had everything but thescore."When Chicago travels to Champaign to end its seasonin its traditional annual battle with the Illini, it onlywill have the advantage of having played a weak teamthe Saturday before. While Illinois was going downto a 19 to 0 defeat at the hands of Ohio State, Chicagowas enjoying an afternoon at the expense of Beloit, winning 26 to 9, after the Goldmen rushed through theMaroon reserves, who started the game, for a touchdown.Beloit put up a game battle against Chicago and helda 9 to 7 advantage at the half. The Maroon offensivemachine commenced to click in the second half, and withSherman, Hamity and Davenport alternating in the tailback post, was able to send over three additional touchdowns before Coach Shaughnessy again resorted to hisreserves.The Beloit game was a field day for Chicago's schoolchildren and approximately 20,000 of them were admitted free, the guests of the University. These includedthe School Boy Patrol, high school boys and girls,Y. M. C. A. groups, and various smaller boys' and girls'clubs.While there remains one football game on the schedule, the basketball season is approaching and alreadyplayers are practicing on a court in the field house.Basketball Coach Nelson Norgren believes this year'ssquad to be the best on the Midway for several years.(Continued on Page 26)22NEWS OF THE QUADRANGLESTHREE members of the University's notable department of physics have won the Nobel Prize inthe past but not until Dr. Clinton Joseph Davis-son, B. S. '08, shared the 1937 prize with the Englishphysicist, G. P. Thomson, has a graduate of the University attained that distinction in any field. Dr. Davisson,now with the Bell Telephone Laboratory, New York, received his degree after majoring in physics. He then didgraduate work at Princeton, studying under ProfessorO. W. Richardson, teacher also of Arthur H. Compton,one of the University's three faculty members to receivethe prize. The news of the award, incidentally, was welcomed by Dr. Compton, as well as by such veterans asDean Henry G. Gale.Dr. Davisson's experiments are of the greatest importance in the field of electron physics. He was the firstto show that electrons, known to be particles, have theproperties of waves. That discovery was then extendedboth by himself and Dr. Thomson. With "electronmicroscopes," which are pseudo-lenses, they have beenable to do much the same with electrons as can be donewith light by a lens. Dr. Davisson's work is complementary to that of Professor Compton, who showed thatlight, thought to have only the properties of waves, alsohad characteristics of particles. As a historical note, itmight be added that in addition to Dr. Compton, Chicagophysicists who received the prize were the late A. A.Michelson, and Robert A. Millikan, now Chairman ofthe Executive Council of California Institute of Technology.AWAY FROM HOMEThe 82-inch mirror which is to be installed in the telescope of the McDonald Observatory, built and maintained by the University of Texas, and staffed by theUniversity, is undergoing final polishing and will be installed early in the year. The mirror is now almosttrue to specifications, but the .0002 of an inch that is being removed by polishing the surface with a tool of aluminum covered with a trace of beeswax, must come off tosatisfy the exacting requirements for the instrument.The McDonald Observatory, in the Davis Mountainsof southwestern Texas, has been in use for more than ayear, smaller equipment having already been installed.In a different field of scientific research, Paul C. Miller, Curator of Walker Museum, and Paul O. McGrew,research fellow in the department of vertebrate paleontology, have left for Honduras to attempt to fix the timeon the geologic calendar at which the North and SouthAmerican continents were linked by land. They willbe joined early in January by Instructor Everett C. Olson. For further details, the reader is referred to thecontribution of Mr. Mort in this issue.Another expedition, this one from the Oriental Institute, is on the way to Megiddo, the Biblical Armageddon, to continue excavating the many layers of civilization found in the mound overlooking the pass for • By WILLIAM V. MORGENSTERN, '20, JD g22which ancient and modern nations have battled. Lastyear the expedition made spectacular discoveries of goldjewelry and ivories, which are now on exhibition in theInstitute's museum. Heading the group is Gordon Loud,field director. He is accompanied by Charles B. Alt-man, architectural advisor; Mrs. Altman, assistant recorder; Geoffrey M. Shipton, recorder, and PrestonFrazer, architectural assistant. The party returns latein May; by that time it hopes the mound will haveyielded more discoveries ranking with last season's.SUPREME COURT TRENDSWilliam F. Ogburn, Sewell L. Avery DistinguishedService Professor of Sociology, and much in the publiceye because of the important surveys he has directed forthe federal government, both under Presidents Hooverand Roosevelt, can't get excited about the recent effortto "pack" the Supreme Court. Professor Ogburn thinksthat the effect of inventions, both mechanical and social,will produce a more profound influence on the Court'sdecisions than will any direct changes. Modern inventions are precipitating an inevitable centralization ofgovernment ; the trend toward nationalism and the growing importance of economic rather than political boundaries will notably influence our laws. The "G" mancampaign against crime typifies what is happening inthe shift of function from local to national government ;the development of communication devices is producinggreat social effects. Not breaking down of moral fibrebut a sequence of events caused by invention is responsible for the disappearing power of local government.FOR ALUMNAEAlumnae of the University may be interested in theremarks of Acting Dean of the College Aaron J. Brumbaugh before the meeting of the Illinois Association ofDeans of Women the middle of November.He began by observing that women still are handicapped by a place of social inferiority in modern society."In Germany, for example, woman's place is still defined in the terms 'kochin,' 'kirche' and 'kinder,' withthe emphasis light on the 'kirche' and heavy on the 'kinder.' In our own democracy, we theoretically concedethe equality of the sexes, but in reality it's still a man'sworld. Many a girl is brought up to believe that sheneeds the strong sustaining arm of a man to support her,and we men in our own vanity and conceit gratify ourego by pampering her."Those of us in the college field are often guilty ofintensifying this feeling by the inequalities in our treatment of men and women. By and large, college womenare handicapped by a sense of inferiority that grows outof their home life and is perpetuated both in our socialand college traditions. The remedy does not lie in avain protest against her sex, but in the recognition ofher own potential possibilities."The girl who has been a high school valedictorian2324 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEis often depressed because she has difficulty in maintaining even a 'C average in college. Her diligence in performing assigned lessons, combined with impressive personal qualities, frequently plays a larger part in givingher the distinction she has achieved in high school thandoes her real mental ability."It then becomes necessary for some one, on the basisof objective information derived from psychological andachievement tests, to help her to re-evaluate her capacities and lead her to a recognition of the fact that average performance in college is not to be regarded as areason for disappointment. Not only should we helpthe girl to recognize that she possesses abilities far beyond those reflected in her achievement, but we alsoshould help her to acquire habits of work which will enable her to use her abilities."Women students, on the whole, are better lesson learners than men, but are less competent in situations calling for the organization of their materials, Dean Brumbaugh said.Every college should have intelligent counselling forwomen students on the problems arising out of conflict ofstandards and values they bring to college and those prevailing on the campus; in the readjustment of family relationships involved in the independence of the girl whogoes to college, and in the social relationships. He alsostressed the responsibility of the college guidance service in helping women choose vocational careers by assisting them to get objective appraisals of their abilities.But even the best guidance in college, he conceded,does not have the answer to the question of marriageor a career for women."What we commonly call personality plays a largepart in all human relationships, but it is particularly important as it pertains to college women," he said in discussing the role of the college advisor. "It is strikingto observe how few college women really learn how todevelop and use intelligently the personal qualities theypossess. I am not at all interested in converting colleges into 'charm schools.' But I believe that much canbe done to help young women discover the limitations intheir personal traits that may be handicaps. Most ofthese can easily be corrected, and add to the graces thatall of us admire in the well adjusted woman."One of the most important lessons that all collegestudents need to learn is the conservation of physicalenergy. There seems to be a general pride these days ingoing without sleep, in depleting energy to the vergeof physical exhaustion, in neglecting principles of diet, indisregarding the needs for regular exercise, and in ignoring remedial practices essential to the correction ofminor physical handicaps, such as posture."ECONOMIC OUTLOOKUniversity College public lectures downtown andother addresses by faculty members in the past monthhave produced a number of newsworthy remarks. Chiefnews interest, is about the economic outlook, for the recession has brought another upsurge in the demand forexpert opinion. Raleigh W. Stone, Associate Professorof Industrial Relations in the School of Business — whoseCHICAGO ALUMNI CLUB /Hutchinson Commons, prediction late this Spring of the crackup of the CIOattracted nation-wide interest — told a downtown audience that legal control by the federal government ofwages and hours of work and the administration's promotion of disrupting trade unions are large factors inthe present business decline. Both government and labor, he added, are at fault for resisting technologicalchanges, because such resistance results in a lower standard of living. "Perhaps the best way to stop technological progress is to set up a dictatorship; muzzle thescientists as well as the industrialists. Some Europeancountries are ahead of us along that line," observedProfessor Stone. The only way out of the newest slump,he thinks, is to reverse the forces that caused it ; that is,to* effect a reduction in costs and to provide some assurance of the stability of future costs so that enterprisemay be released.Garfield V. Cox, Robert Law Professor of Finance inthe School of Business, whose conclusions are listenedto with care by the financial and business community,thinks that readjustment would be made easier "if therancor of labor, capital, and government could be eased.Particularly if the differences between business leadersand the administration crystalize into a partisan issue,the possibility for the lessening of political hostility tobusiness will be greatly reduced. Professor Cox thinksthat modification of the undistributed profits and capitalgains taxes lessening of pressure upon the utilities, lessactive government encouragement of organized labor ; theblocking of legislation that would further burden therailroads, and the defeat of measures that would shortenhours or raise wages substantially by fiat, are among theprobabilities in the national political field. Congress, hepoints out, is more conservative than the President ineverything but government spending.J. Fred Rippy, Professor of History, discussing theisolation policy of the country, told a social sciencesaudience that President Roosevelt's recent pleas for international peace programs are strikingly similar to thoseused by the group which got the United * States into theWorld War. In the field of education, Professor Newton Edwards recently predicted a further popularizationof secondary education; a broad development of thejunior college, and a revision of the college curriculum.Among the population facts with which he backed up hisprediction is that the absolute number of children of elementary school age has begun to decline ; by 1940, children 6 to 13 years of age will number about what theydid in 1920, and a million and one-half less than in 1930.NOTESThe University's newest Vice President, William B.Benton, dodged a microphone with ease while he washeading a company that produced some of the country'smost famous radio advertising programs, but the educational life got him quickly. He had to appear on a CBSchain on November 15 to talk about "The Education ofa Business Man." His talk, heard by many alumni, wasconcerned with the kind of education a business manreceived when he began exploring university life.NUAL FOOTBALL DINNERlursday, December 9THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 25f) /VW Opinion (Continued from Page 21)that justifies the preferences of the naturalist and thescientist, of the unimaginative and the unaesthetic. Tomeasure excellence in art by the degree of perfection ofits representation is to put a premium on technicalingenuity, and fetters on the imagination. It is to confuse (if I may permit myself a pun) reproduction andcieation.A somewhat more promising but still dangerous principle is that which would measure the value of a workof art by the pleasurable response it arouses. Such aprinciple has proved attractive to types as various as thedecadent and the sentimentalist, the romanticist and thesensualist. The main objections to this standard are itsintense subjectivity and realtivity. Its devotees are satisfied with the dictum that there is no disputing abouttastes, with the moronic indolence of "I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like." One is temptedto the discourteous retort, "Then at least, have the graceto keep your ignorance to yourself." But, despite theunsatisfactory nature of personal and private pleasure asa criterion, there is a kernel of truth in the doctrine.Any appreciation of a work of art must involve, earlyor late in the process, a strong and, if possible, almostecstatic sensory and affective response to it. Error appears when one is tempted to regard this psycho-physicalresponse as criticism, or to erect it into an aesthetic principle. But, surely, without it appreciation is nonexistent and criticism impossible.The most tenable of the three principles is that whichsuggests that the value of a work of art is determinedby its formal and technical excellencies. Such a principleat least encourages its holder to keep his attention fixedon the work of art, and not on his solar-plexus, nor onthe financier or the lapdog that is the subject of thework of art. Moreover, it encourages the student andteacher to study the formal elements of the work of art — ¦its structure and design, its textures and its tones — ¦and to discover what the work of art in all its marvelousdetail really is.But the study of the formal elements in art, thoughpeculiarly attractive to the unfeeling and the unimaginative, the unemotional and the analytical, is clearly onlyFilm Society, for example, begun only last year, has bynow become firmly situated as a favorite campus function. Pictures shown thus far this year include "TheUnholy Three," Valentino's "Four Horsemen of theApocolypse," "Greed," "The Birth of a Nation," andthe "Love Parade." The Society's revivals in the interestof art and amusement draw good houses weekly, are providing pleasant hours for relaxation, and are more thanself-supporting financially.Five students have been nominated as the University'scandidates for the Rhodes Scholarships for 1938. Thenominees are Winston Bostick, active in debating and the second step that it is needed for a complete rationalization of one's instinctive approbation of a work of art.For a work of art is not merely form but content. It isin fact form wedded to content — two elements mysticallymade one — and, without falling into the errors of therealists and the representationalists, one can assert without qualification that no critical analysis is complete untilit has concerned itself, not merely with the values ofform, but with the values associated with content. Inother words, it is not enough to ask, as Goethe andCarlyle suggested, What has the artist tried to express,and how well has he succeeded in expressing it. Onemust go on to ask, Was the subject worth expressing.The answer to this final question is the most difficult,as it is the most urgent, of solution. It is the most difficult, because it forces the critic to draw on his wholeexperience of values in and out of art, and to attemptto estimate a particular work of art in relation to othervaluable works of art of the same kind.The way may be hard, but it is, I am convinced, theone that the honest critic and teacher must tread. Forit is the function of the critic and the teacher of literature, if not of the aesthetician, to* discover and discriminate the values to be found in works of art, and to attempt to reveal to students the values that he has found.In other words, he must train himself, not merely in thediscrimination of excellencies and the abhorrence ofartistic worthlessness, but in the communication of hisappreciation and his values to his young and relativelyuntrained audience. Exactly how this communicationtakes place is one of the mysteries of education. Thecommunication is certainly not primarily rational innature, since the experience itself is only secondarilyrational. All that the teacher can hope for its that, if hisown appreciation is honest and his discrimination fine,and if his own instinctive approbations and revulsionsare sufficiently reasoned, his own vision of beauty andworth may be caught and held, by one or another meansconscious or unconscious, by a few neophytes on thetheshold of the world of art. There will be many whoslumber while the master labors, but his reward and hisfame are in the hands of the few who are vigilant.dramatic activities ; William McNeill, editor of the DailyMaroon and Head Marshal; Harry Schulman, memberof the Law Review Board; and Floyd Stauffer, graduate student in physiological chemistry and winner oflast year's Big Ten Conference medal for his work onthe swimming team and excellence in scholarship.The Campus Newsreel has carried on with its firstshowing, the Dramatic Association has presented "Excursion" to good houses as the first of its five productions throughout the year, and the traditional Interfraternity Ball on Thanksgiving eve promises to live up toits name as a high spot of the social season.The CampUS Dissenter (Continued from Page 8)26 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEBooks(Continued from Page 19)more to haul Truth out than anyonewho has written on this subject inAmerica. For he has realized thevital fact that English education isnot single but double, its two partscomplementary and mutually antagonistic in their ideological approach.At Eton the boy is trained to believein the supreme value of Eton, England and Empire, under the guidanceof ferocious martinets. At Oxfordhis intellectual freedom is unlimited.His adolescent enthusiasm for Liberty and Justice is given full rein.The boyish loyalties to the old schooltie and the White Man's Mission aremercifully forgotten. He may evenbecome a theoretical Marxist without let or hindrance.Says Mr. Wellard: If the foreignobserver were to ask . . . "Why don'tyou people stop the rabidness of theEnglish students?" the conservativewould reply, "Not at all. They arereceiving a very necessary trainingfor suppressing Communism whereit amounts to something, — in India,S. Africa and China. We shall beable to use them for that purposelater on. Behold then the Englishpublic school boy and the Universitystudent. The former with his limited concepts and unquestioning obedience is destined for a small administrative position in the remoter outposts of the Empire. . . . And theUniversity man, scholarly, liberal, polished, — a little disillusioned andcynical when he reaches maturity,still fond of unorthodox ideas butonly in books, — with his mentaladroitness, cultivated manners anddouble scorn of the masses, is the perfect statesman."Mr. Wellard is profoundly right.The great English Universities arethe hucksters of ideas. They do notlive them. The initial training in thepublic school strikes such deep rootsin the students that the^ ideas andideals so deftly handled by the dons,so eagerly absorbed by the studentscome to no practical fruition in theconduct of life or social organization.Thus the extraordinarily high standard of aristocratic education can bemaintained without the unpleasantpractical consequence of losing theEmpire. Ideas, like the Arts, havebeen fitted into their place in the community. They are the property andprivilege of the few and even forthem find their fulfillment the hitherside of action. Thus the English, —meaning by that the governingclasses, — are committed to a permanent dualism, — a belief in the highestvalues of democratic civilisation anda denial of them when they maketheir appearance anywhere in theworld. A study of English foreignpolicy today will convince any impartial observer of the correctness ofMr. Wellard's commentary on English education.— David Grene. Letters(Continued from Page 3)has not told me that he will contribute$25, I know that he will not be satisfiedto do less.I lay the matter in your hands, anddon't tell me that you haven't the timeto take charge of it. It is an opensecret that you spend your time rollingaround the country and setting up thealumni to drinks, which you put downon your expense account as "information" or "football player." Here isyour opportunity to go straight.Yours,M. S. M.(Since the signature "Milton S.Mayer" was modestly scratched out,curious readers will have to be satisfiedwith the initials. — Ed.)CITY MANAGER CONVERTDear Sir:Your article in this month's issue ofthe U. of C. Magazine on "A City Manager for Chicago" raised my curiosityand interest. Though I've known ofthe movement for some time, I've notseen where I might cooperate, save totell what I hear and read while in theSurvey Course of the Social Sciences.It occurred to me that I might first reada bit more of the movement and, second, take a little outside interest. Todo this I wonder if you'll have someinformation forwarded. . .Chuck Dwyer, '35.Chicago, Illinois.(Alumni desiring further informationon the City Manager movement in Chicago may write to the Chicago CityManager Committee, 343 5\ DearbornStreet, Chicago.)Athletics(Continued from Page 22)The Chicago team failed to win a conference game in1936-37 but played fast ball throughout the year. Inaddition to having last year's team back intact, CoachNorgren has some first class sophomore material available.Besides the regulars, Capt. Kendall Peterson, PaulAmundsen, Robert Cassels, John Eggemeyer, RobertFitzgerald, Frederick Mullins and Morris Rossin, theMaroon contingent will be strengthened by RichardLounsbury, Richard Amundsen, Herbert Bigelow, Howard Isaacson, Harry Topping, and several other cleversophomore players.The season's schedule of 18 games includes 11 to beplayed at home, and seven away. Of the home games,five are against non-conference foes and six against BigTen opposition. Following is the year's schedule:Dec. 4 — De IJaul at ChicagoDec. 11— Marquette at Chicago Dec. 18 — Armour at ChicagoDec. 22 — Wheaton at ChicagoDec. 28 — Marquette at MilwaukeeJan. 8 — Purdue at Chicago /Jan. 10 — Wisconsin at MadisonJan. 15 — Illinois at UrbanaJan. 22 — Loyola (Chicago) at ChicagoJan. 29 — Minnesota at MinneapolisFeb. 7 — Ohio State at ChicagoFeb. 12 — 'Iowa at ChicagoFeb. 14 — Wisconsin at ChicagoFeb. 19 — -Iowa at Iowa City.Feb. 21 — Illinois at ChicagoFeb. 26 — -Minnesota at Chicago•Feb. 28— Purdue at LaFayetteMar. 5 — -Ohio State at ColumbusTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 27NEWS OF THECLASSES1897Grace Electa Bird is a member ofthe Rhode Island College of Educationfaculty as professor of educational psychology. She has contributed to thefield of cultural literature with Historical Plays for Children and to scientific works with the Rhode Island Intelligence Test (1929) and articles inpsychology and education magazines.1899Theater-going is the hobby of Cor-inne L. Rice, JD'08, who is engagedin the general practice of law at 1North LaSalle Street, Chicago.1904This summer while touring in thewest and northwest, Rabbi G. GeorgeFox, AM' 15, of Chicago, addressedeight universities and colleges as wellas ten service clubs, in Montana, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, California, Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa.1905Everyday Physics (MacMillan Company) and Science Experiences withHome Equipment (International BookCompany, 1937) are the titles of twopublications by C. J. Lynde, PhD, ofTeachers College, Columbia University.His title is professor of household engineering.From 57 Crescent Drive, Glencoe,Illinois, comes word of Walter A.Rooney, who is practicing general lawin Chicago.1906For the past two summers, Cora E.Gray, SM'09, of the home economicsfaculty of Catawba College, Salisbury,N. C, has made short dietary studiesin the county children's preventoriumcamp.Charles G. Wright is serving theFirst Baptist Church of Fort Dodge,Iowa.1907Edward A. Henry, BD, is director ofthe University of Cincinnati Libraries.Guy L. Hoover, DB, AM, has entered upon his twelfth year of serviceas general secretary of the IndianaChristian Missionary Association andtenth year as president of Bethany Assembly. The present address of hisoffice is 423-4 Occidental Building, Indianapolis.1909Genevieve Apgar, professor of English in the College of Education of OhioUniversity, has the unusual record ofhaving been head of the Harris Teachers College (St. Louis) English department and a high school executive inNew York, New Jersey and Illinois before she had received her bachelors fromthe University. From 1923 to 1929 shelectured in New York University. Sheis a member of the American Association of University Women and of the PROTECTWHAT YOUbebbCOPYRIGHT 1932 byIN& CO. OF NORTH AMERICA M.ATERIAL success depends not only uponacquiring but also upon holding what you gain. Youreconomic welfare is constantly threatened by fire, windstorm, explosion, accident, theft and other hazards thatareunpredictableand,toagreat extent, beyond your control.Modern property insurance is extremely flexible ....with policies available against practically every hazardknown to man. 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Thefirst and foremost institution for DramaticTraining in Acting, Directing, and Teaching.Winter Term BeginsJanuary 17thFor Catalog address Secretary, Room 180,CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORKLIBRARY 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.SPECIAL SCHOOLELIZABETH HULL SCHOOLForRETARDED CHILDRENBoarding and Day Pupils5046 "* TelephoneGreenwood Ave. Drexel 1188... CO-EDUCATIONAL SCHOOLSThe Midway School6216 Kimbark Ave. Tel. Dorchester 3299Elementary Grades — High SchoolPreparation — KindergartenFrench, Music and ArtBUS SERVICEA School with Individual Instruction andCultural AdvantagesSECRETARIAL SCHOOLSIntensive Stenographic CourseFOR COLLEGE MEN & WOMEN100 Words a Minute in 100 Days As- ±.gured for one Fee. Enroll NOW. Day ^classes only — Begin Jan., Apr., July*nd Oct. Write or Phone Ban. 1575.18 S. MICHIGAN AVE., CHICAGO <4rIMacCormac School ofCommerceBusiness Administration and SecretarialTrainingDAY AND EVENING CLASSESAccredited by the National Association of Accredited Commercial Schools.1170 E. 63rd St. H. P. 2130Your whole life throughShorthand will be useful to you.LEARN GREGGThe World's Fastest Shorthand.THE GREGG PUBLISHING COMPANY2500 Prairie Ave. Chicago National Education Association. Shecontributes regularly to a number ofperiodicals and is co-author of Education in Health.1910C. D. Donaldson is teaching* psychology and education in the StateTeachers College, at Eau Claire, Wisconsin.Nathaniel Rubinkam, JD'12, lawyer, is proprietor of the law firm ofHoyne, O'Connor & Rubinkam, 77West Washington Street, Chicago. Anenthusiastic yachtsman and golfer, heis commodore of the Columbia YachtClub and also of the Great Lakes Cruising Club.1911From Margaret Foglesong Ingram,AM'20, of 17 Ingram Street, ForestHills Gardens, Long Island, New York,comes this news : "Occupation — teachingEnglish in New York City high school.Ten year survey — took a position in aNew York City training school for cityteachers, having finished a two years'study period at Columbia and surrendered headship of English in a SouthDakota Teachers' College. The depression closed the city training schools andsent their professors into the city highschools, where their education actuallybegan. Highly recommend similar experience for all writers upon educationalpractice. 'Come out of the cloister.'Avocations and hobbies — helping to runa house, not too badly. Writing novelsand plays for my own amusement, andthus far sparing the public. Vacationing, in the British \Tsles, in Miami, inNew England. Elective or appointiveoffices — all dodged! Thank you! Married to Lieutenant Earle BenjaminIngram, of varied activities connectedwith Africa, England and America."1912Harriett M. Allyn's (PhD) dutiesas academic dean and professor of anthropology at Mount Holyoke Collegeinvolve executive work, teaching, andexcavations. At present she is president of the National Association ofDeans of Women. In her spare time sheturns to gardening for recreation.Minnette Baum is secretary of theFort Wayne Federation of Jewish Charities. Previously she was first probation officer for girls in Fort Wayne,Indiana. She has been very active infamily service and civic organizationsin this Indiana city.Walter H. Chambers, LLB, lawyer,530 Eighth Street, Wilmette, Illinois,says that music, especially singing, is hishobby, while golf is his favorite sport.Marie G. Merrill, social worker,is director of the Department of Community Centers of the Board of Education, Chicago.1913Ida Albertina Bengtson, SM, PhD'19, of Arlington, Virginia, is engagedin health work and bacteriological research, having contributed a number ofarticles in publications of the UnitedStates Public Health Service.Rt. Rev. Msgr. Duane G. Hunt,THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 29vicar general of the Diocese of SaltLake City, Utah, was appointed Bishopof Salt Lake City recently.1914Chester C. McCown, PhD, nowholds the title of director of the Palestine Archaeological Institute of PacificSchool of Religion which is chargedwith the publication of the results ofthe Tell en-Hasbeh (Palestine) expedition of the late Dr. W. F. Bade. Onleave in 1935-36, he was annual professor and acting director of the American School of Oriental Research,Jerusalem.Teaching botany and biology at theLong Beach Junior College, Mabel L.Roe, SM, PhD' 15, gives us her addressas Route 1, Box 660, Long Beach, Calif.Caryl Cody Pfanstiehl's two sonsare enrolled at the U of C and shereports that her two daughters are"coming on." Mrs. Pfanstiehl continues her part-time work as psychome-trist and vocational counselor in theMetropolitan Service Department ofthe Chicago Y.W.C.A. She greatly enjoys^ horseback riding, gardening andreading, and has been a member ofMortimer Adler's Highland ParkClassics Class for the past seven vears.1915Minnie E. Fallon took over theduties of James E. McDade, retired, asassistant superintendent in charge ofelementary schools of Chicago this fall.1916Charles Lee JIyde, JD, of Pierre,South Dakota, finds his recreation inAmerican Legion Junior Baseball andPolo. t He is state senator.1917Zoe Burrell Bayliss, assistant deanof women at the University of Wisconsin, may be remembered by some as ateacher in the University School ofEducation several years ago. Since thattime she has done considerable traveling and studying in Europe. In linewith her work, she has contributed anumber of dramatizations for childrenand educational articles to periodicals.Barbara Sells Burke (Mrs. H.C.,Jr.) is on the faculty of Texas Christian University this fall. Her home isat 2829 Princeton Street, Fort Worth,Texas.Joseph C. Carroll, AM'18, DB'19,2944 Indianapolis Avenue, Indianapolis,Indiana, received his Ph.D. degree inHistory at Ohio State University lastJune.Elinor Pancoast, AM'22, PhD'27,of Goucher College, Baltimore, is professor and chairman of the Departmentof Economics and Sociology.1918Margaret A. Hayes, principal ofthe Cameron Elementary School ofChicago since last spring, is very happyin her new position although she thoroughly enjoyed her work as Dean ofWomen in one of the city junior colleges. Her hobby is traveling, especially in the mountains of the West.William Ralph Hutton, AM, DB '18, moved to Nowgong, Assam, to havecharge of the plains work as well asthat for the Mikirs. He is author ofthree Mikir readers and one Mikirarithmetic, and a Mikir New Testament is in press.From San Anselmo, California,comes a note from Ida L. Wicher:"Have very much enjoyed this springa visit from Dr. Anna B. Grey, '17,MD'19, a missionary in Moulmein,Burma, home on furlough this year.She sailed on July 7th for Englandand the continent and from Marseilleson September 25th for Burma."1919Harry F. Chaveriat, LLB, Chicago attorney, was elected president ofthe Chicago Turn Gemeinde (oldestgymnastic society in the west) lastMay.Alice H. Johnstone continuesteaching French in the Austin HighSchool, Chicago.Kenneth Macpherson, UniversityClub, Washington, D.C, is in the tradeassociation information service, reporting operations of Congress andexecutive departments. Following several years in the Department of Commerce as assistant to the Secretary of"Commerce, he served as secretary to thePostmaster General of the UnitedStates from 1929 to 1933.1920The University of Colorado awardedSara E. Branham, SM, PhD'23,MD'34, an honorary Doctor of Sciencedegree at its June Commencement.Senior Bacteriologist for the NationalInstitute of Health, U. S. Public HealthService, Dr. Branham is carrying onresearch in the improvement of treatment in epidemic meningitis. She ispresident of the Washington branch ofthe Society of American Bacteriologists for this year.James R. Bryant, JD, 135 SouthLaSalle Street, Chicago, has been serving as master in chancery of the Superior Court of Cook County since 1933.After office hours, you will find himworking in his garden or refinishingantique furniture.William Andrew Phillips, AM,DB'21, area director of evangelism forthe Baptists, has been transferred fromnorthern California to an area coveringNevada, Idaho, Montana, and Utah.Economist Amos E. Taylor, AM,has prepared each of the annual reportson The Balance of International Payments of the United States since 1931,as assistant chief of the Finance Division of the U. S. Department of Commerce. On the Board of Trustees atGettysburg College, he also holds theposition of adjunct professor of international finance at the Graduate Schoolof American University, Washington,D. C.1921L. R. Christensen, LLB, is practicing law in Mt. Pleasant, Utah, andhas served several small neighboring WORLD'SFinestRADIO"If you do not know the kindof radio reception actually obtained today behind lockeddoors of Research Laboratories,you will be amazed at theperformance of my CustomBuilt instruments in yourhome.""Each precision built receiver is HAND MADE inLaboratories (not a factory) for performance impossible with mass-produced radios. Scott receivershave been known the world over for 15 years as the"Rolls Royce of Radio." I have built them for 982world famous men including the King of Belgium,Henry Ford, George Vanderbilt, Arturo Toscaniniand thousands of others who want the best. Now,ANYONE can own a Custom Built Scott! My newest16 tube model, only $59.50 down, $11 a month,F.O.B. 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Meier,AM'22, is director of the Spelman-Carnegie Art Research Project andrecently published the second volumeof Studies in the Psychology of Art( Psychological Monographs ) .1922With the opening of the fall sessionof the Junior Agricultural College atBeebe, Arkansas, John "Baumgartner,AM, assumed his new duties as president, after having served as Superintendent of Schools at Brinkley, Arkansas, for twenty-three years.Willard W. Beatty is director ofeducation, Office of Indiana Affairs,Washington, D. C. From 1933-37 heserved as president of the ProgressiveEducation Association.Louis R. Dooley is with the UnitedAircraft Exports Corporation in Shanghai, China.In addition to his duties as head ofthe English Department at State Teachers College at Macomb, Illinois, IrvingGarwood, PhD, is busy studying andlecturing about the literary shrines ofAmerica and Europe. This past summer he drove with his wife and daughter through fourteen countries of Europe to study literary backgrounds.Henry S. Gehman, with ProfessorA. C. Johnson of Princeton University,and Dr. E. H. Kase, of Princeton Theological Seminary, has prepared for publication a work on the John H. ScheideBiblical Papyri. These Greek papyri,written in uncials, are dated about 200A.D.In the twenty-five years that haveelapsed since O. E. Meinzer, PhD, wasfirst placed in charge of the GroundWater Division of the U. S. Geological Survey, the work has increasedmore than ten fold in quantity andlikewise in its technical character. Heis a twenty-year veteran scout and amember of the D. C. Council of theBoy Scouts of America. Last year heserved as president of the WashingtonAcademy of Sciences and was recentlyelected president of the InternationalCommission on Underground Water.Warren F. Woodring, PhD, is visiting professor of English History atOhio State University for this year.After spending the academic year 1935-36 abroad with his wife, Laura Lucas,'34, and devoting most of his time toresearch in London, he returned to theheadship of the History Department atAllegheny College for 1936-37 and wasprofessor at Pennsylvania State Collegefor the summer session of 1937.1923Until two years ago doing personneland industrial relations work in NewYork and Tennessee, Chalice KellyCoyle (Mrs. David C), AM, now runsa home and finds time for volunteer civic activities. She has assisted in organizing the Washington Self-HelpExchange, serving as secretary andchairman of publicity, and is chairmanof the Committee on Government andEconomic Welfare of the League ofWomen Voters. In addition, her interests include music and art, as well asthe art of conversation. Address: 1719H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.Clarence B. Day, AM, of Hangchow College, Zankow, Chekiang, China,is on furlough this year and is livingat 1245 Beall Avenue, Wooster, Ohio.From Bay City, Michigan, comes wordfrom J. H. George, AM'25, who is onthe faculty of the local Junior College.This is his sixteenth year as head ofthe Department of Astronomy and Geology.Milton Gordon, JD'25, has beenteaching real estate law at the American Savings and Loan Institute andhas also lectured on the same subjectat Northwestern University CommerceSchool.Lester R. Gray, employed by theShell Petroleum Corporation, is chieftechnologist at the Wood River (Illinois) refinery. Before being transferredthere, he was chief (Chemist of the Arkansas City and Houston refineries. Hehas three boys, ages 9, 7 and 1.Livingston Hall, recently appointedprofessor of law at Harvard LawSchool, is teaching chiefly criminal law.A. Hulme Nebeker, JD, recentlybecame associated with the firm of Bag-ley, Judd, Ray and Nebeker, now located in the Kearns Building of SaltLake City.Eduardo Quisumbing, chief, National Museum, Manila, had six months'leave during the past year and duringthat period he supervised the buildingof the polo field of the Los TamaraosPolo Club.Homer P. Rainey, AM, PhD'24, isdirector of the American Youth Commission under the American Councilon Education. Tennis and singing arehis hobbies.Helen S. Stafford, PhD, is professor of modern languages at Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio.Paul L. Whitely, AM, PhD'27, ofFranklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., has a son, James Lowell,who celebrated his first birthday on thetwenty-eighth of November.1924Olga Adams, AM'32, is director ofthe kindergarten of the University ofChicago's primary school. Since 1922she has been a member of the executiveboard of the Central Council of Childhood Education and in 1935 was vice-president of the kindergarten section ofthe Association of Childhood Education.Clara Christine Altman, AM, ispresent dean of women at Hastings College. After taking her degree at theUniversity she studied abroad in Parisand in Spain. She is a member ofKappa Delta Theta and of the AmericanAssociation of University Women.L. V. Cavins, PhD, who is affiliatedTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 31AWNINGSwith the Department of Education ofWest Virginia in the capacity of Director of Educational Surveys for thatState and is assisting in the practicalapplication of the county unit systemto all its schools, has taken on the additional work of Editor-in-Chief of theAmerican Educator, "un-technical" encyclopedia, Chicago.Percy Elliott Lindley is dean ofHigh Point College, High Point, NorthCarolina. His book, Human Nature andthe Church, was published by the Macmillan Company in 1932."The Indiana Academy of the SocialSciences elected James E. Moffat,PhD, of Indiana University, presidentfor the current year.1925Robert S. Campbell, SM'29, PhD'32, and his wife, Imogene Foltz, SM'32, of 2518 Buena Vista Way, Berkeley, California, have adopted a boy andnamed him Donald Robert Campbell.After two years of severe and critical illness followed by a remarkablerecovery, Sister Mary Cai^lista Convey is at present a convalescent atMercy Hospital. Before her illness shetaught English in the grades and highschool.John S. Cornett, PhD, professor ofhistory and chairman of social sciencedivision, Kansas Wesleyan University,has just published Fifty Years of Kansas Wesleyan University 1886-1936,which includes an interesting chapteron "The Church Related College inHigher Education."Russell F. Judson, AM'25, DB'26,is directing an area office of the Emergency Peace Campaign in St. LouisFrom this headquarters the organization will serve Missouri, Arkansas, andthe southern end of Illinois.Recently appointed instructor in political science at Williams College, Meredith P. Gilpatrick may be addressedat Box 184, Williamstown, Mass. Tennis and French literature help to fill inhis spare moments.Two members of the Class were included in the list of promotions announced by the Chicago Board of Education last August. Mary Gould Leist,AM, who formerly taught at CalumetHigh School, became principal of theShepard Elementary School, and CarlG. Tietz, previously a teacher at theCarl Schurz High School, became principal of the Lloyd Elementary School.R. S. Marsh, formerly associate professor of Horticulture and associatechief in Pomology at the University ofIllinois, has gone to the West VirginiaUniversity and Station as professor ofArticulture and Horticulturist.The Racine group lost a most enthusiastic alumna this fall when Martha G. Wright (Mrs. Henry A.)with her husband and two childrenmoved to 27 Willow Avenue, Atlanta,Georgia. She had been teaching ^several classes of mothers groups interested in child care and had played anactive part in the Children's Theatremovement and in the scholarship and fellowship activities of the RacineBranch of the American Association ofUniversity Women.1926Paul E. Barry is with Abbott, Proctor & Paine (stocks and bonds), Chicago.Robert E. Landon, PhD'29, is aconsulting geologist, principally in mining in Colorado and other westernstates, with headquarters at 202 Exchange National Bank Building, Colorado Springs, Colorado.After school hours in the spring andfall find Mabel M. Whitney, AM'28,busy in her garden raising old fashioned flowers. She lives at 106 East154th Street, Harvey, Illinois, andteaches at Parker High School, Chicago.F. W. Bradley, PhD, makes a hobbybf collecting contemporary Americanproverbs. A member of Columbia cityschool board, he is dean of the Collegeof Arts and Science at the Universityof South Carolina.1927Alice C. Baum, 125 South Humphrey, Ave., Oak Park, 111., is teachingEnglish at Austin High School, Chicago.From 717 Holston, Kingsport, Tennessee, comes this news from Dr.Miriam Walker Beauchamp: "Myhusband, Dr. Carroll Beauchamp, andI have purchased a modernly equippedoffice, and a lovely two story brickhouse with a marvelous view of theSmokey Mountains. We're 1,900 feetabove sea level. Came here last February and expect to make this our permanent home.""At present," writes Eva HachtmanBerkenbilt (Mrs. Joseph), "I'm completely occupied taking care of our infant son whom we hope will be a member of the Class of '57." Address herin care of the Veterans Facility, atKnoxville, Iowa.Edward Morris Bernstein, associateprofessor of economics at the University of North Carolina, says "I'm having a pleasant time reading, writing,and talking economics. I am marriedto the former Edith A. Lewis, Michigan '33. While I manage to see manyChicagoans, there is a regrettableshortage of members of the Class of '27in the vicinity."Louise M. Bloom is teaching German in the public high school atWinona, Minnesota, where she has beensince graduating.Wilson K. Boetticher is a historyteacher at Amundsen High School, Chicago, and his wife, the former LeotaBlow, is a psychologist for the Bureauof Child Study. Both greatly enjoycruising the Great Lakes summers ina 32-foot cabin cruiser.George E. Bottomley is programsecretary of the Fisher Branch of theDetroit Y. M. C. A.^David Cameron is trying to support a wife and two kids on what hegets from the Evanston Township HighSchool. 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Phone Radcliffe 8000 A change of address from Pittsburghto 523 Weit Third Street, Stillwater,Oklahoma, has been received fromIdress Cash.Leo A. Diamond, JD'29, an attorney on the staff of the General Counselfor the Treasury Department assignedto the Bureau of Internal Revenue, describes his work as "devising biggerand better taxes."In a recent communication, Alice A.Donaldson gives her present positionas head of the Morrill High Schoolfor Crippled Children, 6011 South Rockwell Street, Chicago.M. Elizabeth Downing, MD'32, isphysician for the girls of the Universityof Chicago Laboratory Schools.Alva Hudson Ellis has the positionof supervising the elementary laboratory schoorat Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.Gould Eox, JD'28, lawyer, is withthe firm of Fox, Fox and Fox, 1214American National Bank Building,Kalamazoo, Mich.From 133 Summit Avenue, Summit,N. J., comes a note from Calvin S.Fuller.Since 1935 Elwood Gaskill has beenthe organist and choirmaster at the Arlington Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also graduate manager of the Harvard Glee Club andinterested in various other musical activities.At Stanford University, Arthur C.Giese is a member of the biology faculty.Beatrice O. Green (Mrs. W. H.Wilson), writes from 811 East Seminary Street, Danville, 111.Walter M. O. Fischer heads thechemistry department of Creston (Iowa)Junior College and Senior High School.Nettie Harwell writes from Ramer,Alabama. She finds her time well occupied with nursing an invalid motherand attempting to do social work.At the Classen High School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Mrs. Edna L.Hedges instructs the students in whysand hows of foods and nutrition.Lois M. Hinson is one of the luckyones who lives in California at 1709Marengo Avenue, South Pasadena.Arthur W. Howard combines teaching English with being guidance officer at John W. Weeks Junior HighSchool, Newton Centre, Mass.O. R. Kerley is now head of the Department of Mathematics at Von Steuben High School, Chicago.Daniel M. Kingsley has been assistant professor of anatomy at Louisiana State University Medical Center inNew Orleans since obtaining his MDfrom Rush Medical College in 1932.John A. Krafft coaches football andbasketball at the high school in Elgin,111.M. Lewison, MD'32, has establishedhis office for practicing medicine inChicago at 2403 East 75th Street.The membership of the WestminsterPresbyterian Church of Bay City, Michigan, of which Homer D. Mitchellis pastor, totals 728.Cornelius Osgood and his wife, Har riet Keeney Osgood, were in Alaska onan ethnological field trip this summer.Osgood is associated with the PeabodyMuseum of Yale University.Esther Haley Parker, 3737 SouthCampbell Avenue, is teaching at theThomas Kelly High School, Chicago.Now located in Greeley, Colorado,Robert T. Porter, MD'32, is in theGreeley Clinic with two other U. of C.Medical School men, Dr. Heinz andDr. Darst.Recently transferred from Pittsburghto New York City, Reese H. Price isnow one of the assistants to the vicepresident of the University States SteelCorporation in advertising.Marjorie L. Pryor gives her presentlocation as 1937 Evergreen Road,Homewood, 111."Keeping the home fires burning," isthe present occupation of Mrs. DaleQuerfeld (Alice Carter), 203 NorthCenter Street, Clinton, 111. She addsthat her husband is in business andher four year old son, Charles, is inmischief at least part of the time.In addition to teaching English atTuley High School, Chicago, ArthurM. Rabinovitz is principal of the Austin Community Center HebreNv School.Comments Mrs. Harvey W. Rankin(Helen E. Engel) : "Though 'beingmarried and keeping house' requires nofurther elaboration, it is definitely atime-consuming and very satisfying occupation." Address her at HenriettaApts., Athens, Georgia.Sylvan H. Robertson, MD'33, ispracticing medicine in Chicago andNorth Shore. He is an instructor inmedicine at Northwestern University,an associate in medicine at Cook CountyHospital, and is on the clinical staff atMichael Reese Hospital. His home isat 864 Roslyn Circle, Highland Park.Ernest H. Robinson, who is a member of the American Chemical Societyand Camera Chemists Club, is the director of the Chicago Laboratories of Johnson and Johnson.Voilet Pritzker Ruby (Mrs.) tellsus: "I'm being a wife, mother andprogressive educator (that's a fancykind of schoolma'am) all at once. Ormaybe I'm just being them in thinsandwichlayers." She and her husband,live at 512 Drexel Avenue, Glencoe,Illinois.Mildred Schieber has been marriedto Myles Standish and is now livingat 1609 North Mobile Avenue, Chicago.Elva W. Seideman is an advisor andmathematics teacher at the Junior HighSchool in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.H. C. Slover is employed by Glore,Forganand Company, investment brokers, 123 South La Salle Street, Chicago.Helen M. Smith is living at 347North Holyoke Avenue, Wichita, Kansas, where she is teaching home economics in the Wichita High SchoolEast.Hyla M. Snider has been teachingat Connecticut College for Women, NewLondon, for the past seven years.Ralph Spaulding sends this note:THE UNIV"Did pretty well during the depressionso bought a farm and now there is adepression. However it is some 'farm'with firs and hills and snow cappedBoker (Mt.) for a vista." The farmis on Route No. 2, Everson, Washington.Cecil Stark is teaching English anddramatics in the Proviso TownshipHigh School of Maywood, 111.Edith Achsa Stevens is associatedwith Miss Wood's Kindergarten Primary Training School in Minneapolis,where she supervises kindergarten student teaching and also teaches art andsocial studies. She has taken somegraduate work at University of Minnesota summers.Eda A. Telstad, teacher in the HomeEconomics Department at Vine StreetJunior High School, has been in Kalamazoo, Michigan, since September,1927. Her present address there is 529Wheaton Avenue.William E. Vaughan is now associated with the Shell Development Company of Emeryville, California, as a research chemist.Oliver G. Vogel, a research engineerfor Edison G. E. Appliance Companyof Chicago, is married and is living at108 South Harvey Avenue, Oak Park.Photography and watercolor paintingare the hobbies of Melvin L. Welke,who is minister of the Peoples Church(Unitarian) of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.Emma Nathalia Andersen, PhD, isteaching classes in botany at the University of Nebraska where she holds anassistant professorship.Rae Blanchard, PhD, teaches English, as associate professor, at GoucherCollege, Maryland. In the past she hasbeen associated with the ColoradoTeacher's College and University ofChicago.Frank J. Hardesty writes that heand his wife, the former ElizabethHamer (University of Michigan, '22)are enjoying life in Long Beach, California, with their two children, LindaMae and Frank III. He is an exploitation engineer, Los Angeles Basin Division, Shell Oil Company.Frank J. Roos, Jr., is now a memberof the faculty of the Department of FineArts at Ohio State University. Macmillan has just published his IllustratedHandbook of Art History.1928Teaching French in DuSable HighSchool of Chicago since 1931, EdithCollom took a year's vacation in 1934-35 and had time to indulge in a lotof freaks and fancies, including hikes,picnics, swimming, the study of Frenchand history, amateur astronomy. Active*in club work, she has held numerousoffices in the Daughters of the American Revolution and Children of theAmerican Revolution and is at presentcorresponding secretary of the FrenchSalon of the Chicago Woman's Club.David Dressler, chief parole officerof New York State, sat through 1,000burlesque performances before writinghis thesis on the burlesque theater forhis PhD degree at New York Univer- ERSITY OF CHICAGO Msity. He won his master's degree inpsychology at Columbia in 1931 aboutthe time he received a civil service appointment as a parole officer, and hasbeen promoted several times since thenon the basis of competitive examinations.Edna E. Eisen, SM'29, has writtena geographic reader entitled, Our Country From the Air, published recentlyby Wheeler Publishing Company. Amost enthusiastic traveler, she speakswith authority. Her present position isassistant professor of geography at KentState University, Kent, Ohio.Paul C. Matthews, JD, Chicagolawyer, is engaged in general practice,tending now toward bond and corporation law, and is living in Hinsdale withhis wife and two children, Paul, Jr., 4,and Elizabeth, 2.Elvin E. Overton, JD'31, has beenteaching law since graduation from lawschool in 1931, first at the Universityof Arkansas as instructor and following that at the University of Tennesseeas assistant professor. He has been professor at Mercer University since 1934and was appointed Dean of Law Schoolthis summer. As for his hobbies, theMacon Little Theatre is predominant.Adelaide Sasser is now doing research for Davison-Paxon Company,Atlanta's (Georgia) largest departmentstore.1929Julia Frances Allen, AM, is deanof Hamilton College in Lexington, Kentucky. Prior to going to the southerninstitution she taught in Christian GirlsSchool in Nanking, China. Later shewas Girl Reserve executive of the WestSide branch of the Chicago Y.W.C.A.John L. Ballif, Jr., AM, is nowdean of men at the University of Utah.He also holds the title of associate professor of Modern Languages.Adam Daniel Beittel, DB'25,PhD, has been made dean of GuilfordCollege, North Carolina.Catherine Sanderson Blakeslee,AM, heads the board of admissions atMount Vernon Seminary, Washington,D. C, which position she has held sinceshe left the position of secretary to thedean, Mount Holyoke College.Jacob Geffs, JD, is professor of lawat the University of Alabama.Leeds Gullick has published aChristian Camp-Conference Leaders'Manual (in Japanese). Just at presenthe is assisting G. M. Fisher (directorof research for Laymen's Inquiry) in asurvey of Matsuyama, for the Instituteof Pacific Relations.P. L. Hollister, SM, is acting headof Biology Department at CumberlandUniversity, Lebanon, Tenn., for thecurrent school year. Formerly he hada teaching fellowship at Peabody College and has been working toward thedoctorate and reports that the dissertation is more than half done. In theavocation field, he likes tennis and volley-ball and enjoys reading the biographies of men of science.Reporting on an enjoyable motor trip G A Z I N E 33Wasson-PocahontasCoal Co.6876 South Chicago Ave.Phones: Wentworth 8620-1-2-3-4Wasson's Coal Makes Good — or —Wasson DoesCOFFEE -TEALa Touraine Coffee Co.IMPORTERS AND ROASTERS OFLA TOURAINECOFFEE AND TEA209-13 MILWAUKEE AVE., CHICAGOat Lake and Canal Sts.Phone State 1350Boston— New York — Philadelphia— SyracuseCUT STONEOffice ResidencePhone Radcliffe 5988 Phone Beverly 9208ZIMMERMAN CUT STONE CO.Cut — Planed — Turned — StoneHigh - GradeBuilding-Rubbles - Flag Stone - Garden Rocks55 East 89th Place Chicago, IllinoisELECTRICAL CONTRACTORSMEADE ELECTRICCOMPANY, INC.ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORSWIRING FOR LIGHT & POWER3252 TelephoneFranklin Blvd. Kedzie 5070ELECTROLYSIS34 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEELECTRIC SIGNSFEDERAL NEONSIGNSFEDERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYCLAUDE NEON FEDERAL CO.8700 South State Street9W. D. 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The road, which encircles the interior, is one of the mostscenic in the west, going through manydense stands of tall fir, skirting the Pacific Ocean on the north-south stretch,and touching coast Indian reservationsat places with names such as 'Hump-tulips/ 'Queets,' 'Hon/ etc. These coastIndians, in contrast to Jhose of the interior of the west, are short, squatty,broad-faced, mongoloid types, livingmainly on their salmon catches." Masure is a junior physiologist of theUnited States Department of Agriculture and his headquarters are in We-natchee, Washington.# Head of the Department of Education at Livingston College, Salisbury,N. C, Isaac H. Miller has been conducting courses in education and psychology, directing extension courses,and directing the summer school forteachers. His extra-curricular scheduleincludes active participation in civicand church work, home gardening, andpoultry raising.1 930Paul E. Burkholder, AM, writesfrom Bradford, Pennsylvania, where heis manager and secretary of the Boardof Commerce.N. George DeDakis, JD'31, 201North Wells Street, Chicago, is engagedin the general practice of law.Victor Evjen, AM, appointed U. S.Probation Officer of the Department ofJustice last October, is writing a seriesof articles on "juvenile delinquency" atthe request of Dr. Artman, editor ofCharacter. The first of this series entitled "Whither the Juvenile Court?"appeared in the May, 1937, issue andthe second, "Do Schools Spread Delinquency?" in June.Robert A. Frank, JD'32, is an attorney for the Public Works Administration in Chicago.Elizabeth Gray Howland is nowprincipal at the Drake ElementarySchool of Chicago.John F. McCarthy, JD'32, is employed in law department of the Chicago Title and Trust Company, 69 WestWashington Street.t The Michigan Psychological Association recently elected Wilson McTeerof Wayne University as its presidentfor the present year, while he continuesto act in the capacity as secretary-treasurer of the Detroit Psychological Club.A natural born "fixer," he gets a kickout of applied mechanics.Norman H. Nachman, JD'32, lawyer, and his wife, Anne Lev, '34, giveus their present home address as 2818West Thomas Street, Chicago.Along with his work as special agentfor the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Norman R. Rootdoes part time coaching as assistant to, Track Coach Ned A. Merriam at the U. of C. and is head track coach atArmour Institute of Technology. Hewas married June 27, 1936, to MargaretC. Felch.Bernard D. Urist, AM'31, receivedhis LLB from the University of Wisconsin in June, 1937. He had an article on "Housing as a Public Purpose"in the June, 1937, Wisconsin Law Review.1931From Portland, Oregon, comes newsof George W. Friede's (JD) electionto the Oregon - Legislature for a two-year term.H. Gary Hudson, PhD, was appointed to the presidency of IllinoisCollege this summer and went to Jacksonville in September to take charge.He was formerly professor of history atSweet Briar College.John Cornelius McCurry is nowthe law partner of Charles R. Aiken,'31. Their office is located at 77 WestWashington Street, Chicago.G. O. Meierdierks, AM'36, is teaching at Lane Technical High School,Chicago.Russell L. Palm is principal of theRiley School of LaPorte, Indiana. Hishobby is mediaeval history.John B. Woosley, PhD, is workingwith the Research Committee of theNorth Carolina Bankers Association ona study of the assets and earnings ofNorth Carolina banks during the pastten years. Partially as a result of thisproject, the bankers of the state in cooperation with the State Banking Department and the University held a conference for bankers at Chapel Hill,N. C, during the week of July 12-16.Woosley is professor of economics inthe University of North Carolina.1932Susan Grey Akers is acting directorof the School of Library Science andprofessor of Library Science at the University of North Carolina. After leaving the University she at various timeswas associated with libraries of Wellesley, University of North Dakota, andthe University of Wisconsin. Until1938 she will be a representative of thecouncil of the American Library Association. Her book Simple LibraryCataloging first published in 1927 hassince passed into a second edition.Associate agricultural economistwith the Resettlement Administration,Linden S. Dodson, PhD, is presentlyengaged in studying living conditionsand population mobility in the southernAppalachians. His son, Robert Seymour, will soon celebrate his secondbirthday. Address the Dodsons at 1606North Adams Street, Arlington, Virginia.Helen A. Hunscher, PhD, was recently appointed acting professor ofhousehold administration and actinghead of the department of householdadministration of Flora Stone MatherCollege of Western Reserve University.Wilson Lyon, PhD'36, professor ofhistory at Colgate University in Ham-THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 35ilton, New York, spent most of thesummer in Paris working under a grantfrom the Social Science Research Council.John Mills, Jr., has now embarkedupon his own photographic business,specializing primarily in advertisingand illustrative photography — and is located at 360 East 55th Street, NewYork City. He is also staff protog-rapher for the Consumer's Union.Bryan Sewall Stoffer, PhD, wasinaugurated president of Doane Collegeon May 31.Gerald Breen Switzer, PhD, is thepastor of the West Point Grey UnitedChurch, Vancouver, British Columbia.Former assistant principal of theBowen High School, Harry F. Yateshas been promoted to the principalshipof the Oglesby Elementary School ofChicago.1933John Elam is connected with thereal estate firm of Fieber and Reilly inIndianapolis.The present position of Ruth Endi-cott, AM, is that of instructor in theGraduate School of Training for PublicService at the University of Cincinnati.John L. Gale is with Hilmer V.Swenson Company, advertising, 1801West Byron Street, Chicago.Martin J. Herrmann is now associated with the accounting division ofthe St. Joseph Herald-Press, St. Joseph, Michigan.Eli Messenger is connected withEli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis,Indiana, as assistant in charge of research for the Personnel Department.Morey Stanley Mosk, who is practicing law at 541 South Spring Street,Los Angeles, reports two outstandingevents for him in the past year : hismarriage to Edna Mitchell of BeverlyHills, California, on September 27,1936, and his recent appointment to theExecutive Board of the MunicipalLeague, oldest civic and political organization in California.1934C. Darwin Andersen, AM'35, returned to teaching to St. John's Military Academy at Delafield, Wisconsin,after a summer of traveling in theUnited States.Seymour Baker, AM'35, is nowteaching at Carnegie Tech. Last yearhe was at Harvard working toward aPhD.Melvin L. Goldman, JD'35, lives at5000 East End Avenue, Chicago. Sailing is his favorite sport and photography his hobby.John B. Goodwin, AM, has movedfrom Washington and may now be addressed at St. Louis University, 221North Grand Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.Carolyn R. Just is working for F.R. Moulton, American Association forthe Advancement of Science, Smithsonian Institution Building, Washington, D. C.After a summer of wandering — twoweeks in Paris, three in Dordagne, oneon the Riviera, two in Italy and a two-week cruise through the Mediterranean —Marion Keane, AM'35, reports thatshe is back in Urbana teaching Frenchto the young.From the time of graduation to April,1937, Frank C. Springer, Jr., was assistant curator of the Foster Hall Collection of the life and works of Stephen C. Foster, which recently becamethe property of the University of Pittsburgh. Since returning from a trip toEurope, Springer has been associatedwith Eli Lilly and Company of Indianapolis, manufacturers of pharmaceutics.Much of his spare time is devoted tocontinuing his study of music, mainlypipe organ.Paul G. Roofe, PhD, is instructinganatomy at the University of LouisvilleSchool of Medicine.William E. Wakefield is in theoffice of the general superintendent ofWilson and Company, Union StockYards, Chicago.As Robert A. Walker and his wife(Louise Craver, '35) are travelingthis year, they give as their permanentforwarding address, 715 Lowell Street,Dallas, Texas.1935Art teacher at the Lee ElementarySchool of Tulsa, Oklahoma, EllaBisell is interested in everything connected with art and old-fashioned English gardens.Roy J. Gossman is assistant principalof the Juvenile Detention School, Chicago. The lournal of Exceptional Children of June, 1937, carried his articleon the "Adjustment of Juvenile Boys."Awarded his Master's degree at Michigan State College in June, James F.Heyda is now working toward a PhDin mathematics this fall at the University of Illinois where he has a graduateassistantship.Nathan H. Morris reports: "Myfirst geography course at the University in Autumn, 1934, inspired fne withthe desire to develop a comprehensiveguidebook of the U. S. In my last quarter in Autumn, 1935, somebody else gotthe same idea and started the FederalWriters' Project under WPA to prepare regional, state and city guidebooks.I was employed by the Illinois Sectionof the project and was recently appointed editor of the Chicago Guide,which will be a 250,000 word guidebook of metropolitan Chicago. I ridethe usual hobbies with others, but occasionally alone when my gourmet propensities lead me to pickled cockscombs,watermelon wine, lotus roots, rattlesnake, hearts of palm, etc."Mrs. Louis A. Wagner (FrancesBonnem) is now teaching in the Chicago Public School System.1936Marjorie Anderson, PhD, 135 East74th Street, New York City, is assistant professor of English at Hunter College of the City of New York and, incollaboration with Blanche Cotton Williams, published An Old English Handbook (Houghton, Mifflin, 1935). Longtime member of the Board of Managersof the Women's University Club, shepresides over the meetings of the Hun- FUNERAL DIRECTORH. D. LUDLOWFUNERAL DIRECTORFine Chapel with New Pipe OrganSEDAN AMBULANCETel. Fairfax 28616110 Cottage Grove Ave.GROCERIESLEIGH'SGROCERY and MARKET1327 Ea'st 57th StreetPhones: Hyde Park 9100-1-2QUALITY FOODSTUFFSMODERATE PRICESWE DELIVERHANDWRITING EXPERTVERNON FAXONEXAMINER OF QUESTIONEDDOCUMENTS(Handwriting Expert)134 TelephoneN. La Salle St. Central 1050HEATINGPHILLIPS, GETSCHOW GO.ENGINEERS & CONTRACTORSHeating, Ventilating, Power,Air Conditioning32W. 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Beu,PhD, coached the Little Nineteen Conference Golf Championship Team for1937, has served as a member of thecurriculum committee to consider thecurriculum of Illinois public schools forthe past two years, and has been busywriting magazine articles and books.During the past year "in collaborationwith Dr. Emma Remhardt, he publisheda textbook entitled An Introduction toEducation.Appointed a scholar of the AdvancedSchool of Education of Teachers College, Columbia University, for 1937-38,Hazel Davis, AM, has taken a year'sleave of absence from her position asassistant director of research of theNational Education Association inWashington, D. C, to carry on this yearof study in New York.William L. Ludlow, former headof the Department of Political Sciencepnd Sociolosrv at Muskingum College,New Concord, Ohio, began his pastorate at the Berea Congregational Church,Berea, Kentucky, in September.Dorothy M. Punderson, AM, is amember of the faculty of the Collegeof Puget Sound located in Tacoma,Washington.Edith Patterson Read, AM, isworking for J. B. Lippincott Companyin the capacity of editorial assistant.Susannah F. Redhouse is teachingand serving as assistant principal atVanderpoel School, Chicago.Dean Frederick Allen Replogle,PhD, of Oklahoma City University, lastyear completed a survey of Welfare Activities in Oklahoma City, published infour volumes by the University Pressand is vice-chairman of the OklahomaCity Council of Social Welfare thisyear.Last year Dorothy L. Ulrich, 711Farmington Avenue, West Hartford,Connecticut, did graduate work in theAmerican literature department at Columbia University. Two of her poemsappear in Columbia Poetry, 1937, ananthology of verse by Columbia University students published by the University Press.Richard D. White, geologist withthe Standard Oil Company of Texas,may be addressed at 1313 PetroleumBuilding, Houston.A note comes from Edward A.Wight, PhD, and wife (Minnie Gie-secke, PhD'35) of Dubuque. He isdean of the College of Liberal Arts atthe University of Dubuque, Iowa.1937Mahanam Brater Brahmachari,PhD, a monk of the Hindu religiousorder "Mahanam Sampradaya," wassent here by his mission during theCentury of Progress to represent theHindu religion in the World Fellowship and enrolled in the University in 1934 to study for a doctorate. Thiswork now completed, he has returned tothe quiet Sriangam monastery, situatedin Faridpur, near Calcutta, where heWrites that "once again the realizationof the spiritual values in life and help-ing my people to do the same by teaching and preaching will continue to constitute the major duties of my life."Miles Brousil is with the IllinoisState Employment Service.Awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship bythe Social Science Research Council,Keith Butters is now doing graduate work at Harvard. His address is33 Sacramento Street, Cambridge, Mass.Richard D. Englehart is a junioraccountant with Fred S. Roller andCompany, Chicago.Joaneath Hill is in the office of thevice-president in charge of sales, Spiegel, Inc., Chicago.Margaret Si monson, PhD candidate, Department of Chemistry, is working with the Standard Oil DevelopmentCompany, Elizabeth, New Jersey.RUSH1881Retired from active practice, William Painter, MD, is residing in University Park, Iowa. One of his sons,J. C. Painter, who got his MD degreeat Rush in 1912, continues his medicalwork at the Sunny Crest Sanatoriumin Dubuque, Iowa.1883Cassius D-. Wescott, MD, and hisson, Dr. Virgil Wescott, have theirophthalmology offices in the building at30 North Michigan Ave., Chicago. Dr.Cassius Wescott is the author ofvarious papers on his specialty.1888From Beaver Crossing, Nebraska,Charles W. Doty, MD, writes that hestill has a fairly active practice in medicine.1897John Alexander Reuter, MD,writes from 420 Alvord Street, TheDalles, Oregon, that he was married onFebruary 27, 1937, to Ethel Gasman,MD. He has served as president of theMid-Columbia Medical Society, and is amember of the Oregon State MedicalSociety, B.P.O.E. No. 303, Al Kader,Portland, Oregon.1900In a recent communication fromGeorge F. Zerzan, MD, of Holyrood,Kansas, we learn that he is a pastpresident of the Kansas Public HealthAssociation and author of an articlewhich appeared in the Journal of Clinical Medicine on "Electro-Coagulationof Tonsils."1901Robert Sonnenschein, MD, hasnotified this office of his change of address from 180 North Michigan Avenueto 4518 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago.1903John B. Matthews, MD, chief surgeon of the Allis Chalmers Manufac-THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 37turing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, holds a fellowship in the AmericanCollege of Surgeons and membership inthe state and county medical associations, as well as the American MedicalAssociation. The American Journal ofSurgery published his article on "Sodium Amytal basal anesthesia." Heo0es in for photography.1904Mrs. Oscar Dike (Elsie PrinceMiller, '00, MD), writes from Standard Mill Road, West Nyack, New York,that she is not in practice. She mentions her two children, Ethel Miller,and Oscar D., Jr.Daniel M. Shoemaker, MD, is professor of anatomy and director of thedepartment at St. Louis School of Medicine and is included in the membershiprolls of the American Anatomical Asso-cation, Missouri Academy of Science,St. Louis Anthropological Association,Sigma Xi, and Nu Sigma Nu.1906Under the question "What are youravocations and hobbies?" Walter W.Hamburger, '03, SM'G4, MD, notes:"(1) The University, (2) My own dualpersonality as evidenced by devotion to(a) The Saturday Evening Post and(b) The Nation; (a) clinical and (b)investigative medicine; (a) music and(b) cacti." He has practiced internalmedicine since 1906 and is now clinicalprofessor of medicine at the Universityof Chicago and attending physician atMichael Reese Hospital. He is a member of the Board of Governors of theInstitute of Medicine, vice-president ofthe Chicago Heart Association andtieasurer of the American Heart Association. Walter Hamburger, Jr., betterknown as Peter, has started his sophomore medical work at Billings this fall.1907E. K. Niles, MD, physician, is a police surgeon for the City of Chicago.His address is 4342 Van Buren Street,Chicago.1909Charles Newberger* s ('07, MD)oldest daughter, Dawn Charlotte, received her AB degree at the June Convocation at the University of Chicago,and his youngest daughter, Shirley,completed her first year. Dr. Newberger, who makes a specialty of obstetrics, has his Chicago office at 310South Michigan Avenue, and is an assistant professor at the College of Medicine, University of Illinois.Last semester the two oldest sons ofWilliam A. Parks, '06, MD. WilliamA., Jr., and James W., were enrolledin Oberlin College while the youngestboy was in West High School. Dr.Parks is practicing orthopedic surgeryin Akron, Ohio.1917Louis Bothman, '15, MD, has beenpromoted to the rank of clinical professor in the Department of Opthalmol-ogy at the University of Chicago. Heis associate opthalmologist at St. Luke'sHospital. Address Frank Argyle Williams,'15, MD'17, at 324 West Jersey, Eliza-zeth, N. J., where he maintains hisorthopedic surgery practice. His wifeis the former Elizabeth Neely. AliceAnn and Mary Elizabeth are the children's names.1918Johanna Heumann, '16, MD, hasbuilt up a following in pediatric workin Chicago, and belongs to the Chicago,Illinois and American Medical organizations, in addition to the ChicagoPediatric Society. Married to SamNeedelman in 1928, she has two girls.1921Margaret Bell, '15, MD, is directorand professor of Physical Education andmedical advisor of women at the University of Michigan. In 1929 and '30she was at the University as an instructor in internal medicine at the Clinics.She is a member of Alpha Epsilon Iota,Pi Lambda Theta, Alpha Omega Alpha,Women's Research Society, NationalEducation Association, American Public Health Association, American Association of University Women. She is afellow in the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association and the American Physical Education Association. From 1933 to '34 shewas president of the Mid- West PhysicalEducation Association and for the yearpreviously was Midwest president of theNational College Directors Society. Sheis a frequent contributor to national publications.A member of the University of Indiana's department of Surgical Pathologyfaculty, George A. Collett, MD, alsohas his shingle hung for general surgical practice. He has three children,Hugh, 16; Jean, 12; and Mary, 6. Twoyears ago he headed the MontgomeryCounty Medical Society.1923Sara G. Geiger, MD, is psychiatristin the Milwaukee County Mental Hygiene Clinic.1924Twice presiding senior of Phi ChiMedical Fraternity, Merrill W. Pang-burn, MD, is practicing general medicine and surgery in Miller, South Dakota. In a recent communication, hespeaks of his three children.In Phoenix, Arizona, Thomas W.Woodman, '22, MD, has established afine surgical practice. He was marriedin 1924 to Esther Ann Lehne and theyhave two children.1925Sobisca S. Hall, MD, has had ninepapers published in the West VirginiaState Medical Association Journal. Heand Mrs. Hall and their four children(Patricia, 11; Barbara, 9; Phyllis 9*and Philip, 7) may be reached at 249Carr Avenue, Clarksburg, West Virginia. He holds membership in a number of organizations including theAmerican College of Surgeons, and thestate and local groups.Louis B. Kartoon, '23, MD, physi- MUSIC ENGRAVERSHIGHEST RATED IN UNITED STATESSINCE 1906 + WORK DONE BY ALL PROCESSES ++' ESTIMATES GLADLY FURNISHED ++ ANY PUBLISHER OUR REFERENCE ?=RAYNEirDALHEIM fxCO2 OS* W. LAKE ST., CHICAGO.PAINTERSGEORGE ERHARDTand SONS, Inc.Painting — Decorating — Wood Finishing3123 PhoneLake Street Kedzie 3 1 86E. 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Booklet sent free.Meador Publishing Co.324 Newbury St., (Boston* Mass.REAL ESTATEBROKERAGE MORTGAGESTHEBILLS CORPORATIONBenjamin F. Bills, °S2, ChairmanEVERYTHING IN REAL ESTATE134 S. La Salle St. State 0266MANAGEMENT INSURANCEREFRIGERATIONPhones Lincoln 0002-3 Established I iD. A. MATOTManufacturer ofREFRIGERATORSDUMB WAITERS1538-46 MONTANA STREETRESTAURANTSMISS LINDQUISFS CAFE5540 Hyde Park Blvd.GOOD FOOD— MODERATE PRICESA place to meet in large and small groups.Private card rooms.Telephone Midway 7809in the Broadview Hotel cian, has his office at 220 South StateStreet, Chicago.At present vice-president of the Coles-Cumberland Medical Society, WilliamM. Swickard, '21, MD, holds membership in the Aesulapian Society of Wa-,bash Valley, Masonic Consistory (Danville), and is a fellow of the A. M. A.Address him at 604j^ Jackson Street,Charleston, 111.1926Frederick P. Ptjrdum, '23, MD,writes from East Brady, Pennsylvania,where he is engaged in a general practice. His two boys, William Hayes andJohn Joseph, are now -five and six yearsof age.1927Leonard A. Honl, '23, MD'27, hasestablished his practice in Makoweli,Kanai, Hawaii, and was elected president of the Kanai County Medical Society in 1930.1928President of the local Kiwanis organization for 1937, Bert Jan Ark,MD, is practicing in Eaton Rapids,Mich. He is the proud father of threegirls, Jeanne. Virginia, Judith.Donald Grubb, '25, MD, is connectedwith the Veterans Administration Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.The branch office of Reuben Ratner, MD, has been set up at 2300 PolkStreet in addition to his main office at450 Sutter Street. Married to Rose M.Butler in July, 1933, he has a son, HylanStuart, who will be two years old nextJanuary. His activities include Masons,B'nai Brith, Independent Order of OddFellows, the presidency of the SanFrancisco Graduate Club of Phi DeltaEpsilon Fraternity and the city, stateand American Medical Associations. Hespecializes in internal medicine and isa staff member of Mount Zion Hospitaland Canon Kip Dispensary.Allan S. Shohet, '25, MD, is practicing internal medicine with emphasison cardiology in Chicago at 3952 WestJackson Blvd. At the same time he isa clinical associate in medicine at Rush,a member of the Illinois State MedicalSociety and fellow of A. M. A. andmedical director of the Jewish PeoplesConvalescent Home.1929In 1932 Howard J. Hartman, '25,MD, was elected treasurer of the Waterloo (Iowa) Medical Society, which office he still holds. He has written articles on Anterior Polio-Myelitis for theIowa State Medical Journal and theMedical Record of New York, and alsoone entitled "The Patient-Physician Relationship Should Be Maintained" forthe first named journal. He marriedHelen Heineke in 1929, and they liveat 401 East Fifth Street, Waterloo, la.Orthopedics is the specialty practicedby Paul E. McMaster, MD, of 1930Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. He is also teaching at the University of Southern California.Western scenery, paleontology, andIndians are the hobbies of F. M. Nicholson, '19, PhD'21, MD, whose favor- The Best Place to Eat on the South SideCOLONIAL RESTAURANT6324 Woodlawn Ave.Phone Hyde Park 6324wx&fvsm&yjROOFERSBECKERAll types of RoofingHome InsulatingAll over Chicago and suburbs,Brunswick 2900Grove Roofing Co.(Gilliland)Old Roofs Repaired— New Roofs Put On25 Years at 6644 Cottage Grove Aye.Lowest Prices — Estimates FreeFairfax 3206RUGSAshjian Bros., inc.Oriental and DomesticRUGSCLEANED and REPAIRED2313 E, 71st St. Phone Dor. 0009SHEET METAL WORKSECONOMY SHEET METAL WORKS•Galvanized Iron and Copper CornicesSkylights, Gutters, Down SpoutsTile, Slate and Asbestos Roofing®1927 MELROSE STREETBuckingham 1893SURGICAL SUPPLIESBRIDGE CORSETSandSURGICAL SUPPORTSBERTHA BRIDGE. DESIGNER926 Marshall Field AnnexE. Washington St. TelephoneDearborn 3434TEACHERS' AGENCIESAMERICAN COLLEGE BUREAU28 E. Jackson BoulevardChicagoA Bureau of Placement which limits itswork to the university and college field.It is affiliated with the Fisk TeachersAgency of Chicago, whose work covers allthe educational fields. Both organizationsassist in the appointment of administratorsas well as of teachers.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 39ite sport is camping. Practicing generalsurgery in Chicago, Dr. Nicholson isaffiliated with the Illinois State Academy0f Science, American Association forthe Advancement of Science, HarveySociety of New York, Chicago MedicalSociety, Illinois State Medical Society,and American Medical Association. Hispublished wrtings include "Changes inIron in Nerve Cells Following Injuryto their Axones," "MorphologicChanges in Nerve Cells," "RockyMountain Spotted Fever," "Changes inThyroid Gland Tissue," "Encephalitis,""Meningeo-encephalitis," and "BotulinusPoisoning.""After graduating from Rush MedicalCollege in 1929," writes James Norman O'Neill, 1930 Wilshire Blvd. LosAngeles, J'I spent two and one-halfyears in the Cook County Hospital,Chicago, and two years as surgical resident in Saint Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee, followed by six months in the University of Vienna, where I studied general surgery and pathology. I have beenpracticing surgery in Los Angeles forthree years and am a member of themedical faculty of the University ofSouthern California."Gilbert J. Rich, MD, is director ofthe Milwaukee County Mental HygieneClinic and is married to Maran C.Kleps, formerly of Brookline, Pa.1931Address Claire E. Healey, MD, atVarsity Apts., West Lafayette, Indiana,or at Purdue University.1932A fellow of the American MedicalAssociation, Khacher Hysep Tutun-jian, MD, neurophychiatrist, is on thestaff of the Manteno (111.) State Hospital.1933Ralph G. McAllister, MD, writesfrom 242 East Lincoln Highway, DeKalb, Illinois. He is maintaining anoffice for general medical and surgicalcases. On June 18, 1936, he was married to Verna J. Boget. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club.Harry B. Miller, MD, opened anoffice for the practice of diseases of theskin, last August, at the Steiger Building, Hartford, Conn. His son, RichardBruce, is now eighteen months old.The -practice of Eugene B. Schuster, MD, 1543 Denniston Ave., Pittsburgh, is confined to pediatrics. A member of the Allegheny County MedicalSociety and the Medical Society of theState of Pennsylvania, he was appointedby the American Medical Associationas a fellow. He is married to Elizabeth E. Jackson.At present Maurice Zolman Silton,MD, is an assistant instructor of obstetrics and gynecology at Universityof Southern California Medical Schooland also resident in obstetrics and gynecology at the Los Angeles County Hospital.1934George C. Coe, '28, MD, physicianand surgeon, 55 East Washington Street, Chicago, is an instructor at theUniversity of Illinois College of Medicine and clinical assistant at Mt. SinaiHospital. At the June Convocation,Mrs. Coe (Ida Cohen) received herbachelor's degree.A fellow of the A.M.A., HymanBenjamin Copleman, MD, is carrying on a general practice in New Brunswick, N. J.SOCIAL SERVICEThe annual meeting of the IllinoisConference on Social Welfare was heldin October in Rockford, Illinois. EleanorGoltz, AM '30, formerly field work instructor in the School of Social ServiceAdministration and now associate professor of social work, University ofMichigan, and Harrison Allen Dobbs,of the faculty, assisted with the studycourses which preceded the regularConference. Miss Edith Abbott, Mr.McMillen, Florence Mary Warner andmany of the students attended the Conference.Clinton E. Belknap, AM'37, publicassistance administrator, Hall County,Nebraska, has been re-elected presidentof the Nebraska State Conference ofSocial Work.R. Clyde White, professor of SocialService Administration, is abroad during the Autumn Quarter 1937 studyingthe administration of unemployment systems in England and other parts ofEurope.Catherine M. Dunn, AM'30, whohas been on the faculty of this schoolsince 1933 and was on leave during thelast year at the University of California, has taken a position with thePublic Assistance Division of the Social Security Board.Edward Conover, AM'31, has takena position as district representative inthe Old Age Assistance program in theState Department of Public Welfare inIllinois.# # *Students who received the AM degree in 1937 and have new positionsare:Maurice Holcomb, Child WelfareServices, State Relief Committee ofOregon.Kenneth Thomas, Child WelfareConsultant in the Department of Public Assistance in Idaho.Inabel Burns Lindsay, teacher ofcase work at Howard University,Washington, D. C.Peninah Seligman, Jewish SocialService Bureau, Chicago.Ellen Jacobson, Family WelfareAssociation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Rhea Radin, Case Supervisor, Travelers Aid Society, San Francisco, California.* * *It is with deepest regret that welearned of the death of Marian Heller,PhB'24, in October, at Hartford, Connecticut, of lobar pneumonia. MissHeller was formerly assistant supervisorin the United Charities and was for atime field work supervisor in the Schoolof Social Service. TEACHERS' AGENCIES (Cont.)Albert Teachers' Agency25 E. Jackson Blvd., ChicagoEstablished 1885. Placement Bureau formen and women in all kinds of teachingpositions. Large and alert College andState Teachers' College departments forDoctors and Masters; forty per cent of ourbusiness. Critic and Grade Supervisors forNormal Schools placed every year in largenumbers; excellent opportunities. Specialteachers of Home Economics, Business Administration, Music, and Art, secure finepositions through us every year. 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Ogden AvenueSEEley 3734 Evenings by AppointmentUPHOLSTERINGANDERSON & EKSTROMUPHOLSTERERS — DECORATORSREFINISHING — REMODELINGMATTRESSES— SHADES— DRAPERIESFurniture made to your order1040 E. 47th St. Oakland 4433Established over 40 yearsVENTILATINGThe Haines CompanyVentilating and Air ConditioningContractors1929-1937 West Lake St.Phones Seeley 2765-2766-276740 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEX-RAY SUPPLIESX-RAY SUPPLIES& Accessories"At Your Service*Tel. Seeley 2550-51Geo. W. Brady & Co.809 So. Western Ave.ENGAGEDJack Herzl Sloan, '25, MD'31, toHelen Frey of Chicago. They will bemarried on December 9.MARRIEDPhyllis Baker, '21, to Raymond A.Matz, on December 22, 1936, in Thorndike Hilton Chapel; they are residingat 6403 Ellis Avenue, Chicago.Elizabeth Roe, '28, to William StixMilius, on September 9. After a honeymoon in France and Italy, Mr. and Mrs.Milius returned to St. Louis on November 4 and are residing at 5795 LindellBoulevard, St. Louis, Missouri.C. Herman Pritchett, PhD'27, toMarguerite A. Lentner, July 27, Thorndike Hilton Chapel. At home in Knoxville, Tennessee, where Mr. Pritchett isassociated with the Tennessee ValleyAuthority in the Social and EconomicDivision.Henry Malcheski, '29, to Gene Williams, on July 2, in Thorndike HiltonChapel; at home, 1121 East 54th Street,Chicago.Sophia Malenski, '29, of Batavia,Illinois, to Uno T. Hill, November 7,Thorndike Hilton Chapel.Carrie Smith, AM'29, to DennisF. Parsons, JD'29, on July 30, inThorndike Hilton Chapel. At home,4509 Lake Park Avenue, Chicago.Milo Easton Jeffries, '30, to WilmaFasley, Thorndike Hilton Chapel. October 30. At home, 5738 Stony IslandAvenue, Chicago.Dr. Paul Edward Feldman, '31, toAlyce Kathryn Acker, October 30,Thorndike Hilton Chapel. At home inManteno, Illinois, where Dr. Feldmanis on the State Hospital staff.A. Louise Horrocks, '31, to Carl O.Madsen, Thorndike Hilton Chapel,August 28. At home, 827 D East 49thStreet, Chicago.Lydia D. Von Drasek, '31, to CarlH. Novelle, Bond Chapel, August 17;at home, 4822 Wallbark Avenue, Downers Grove, Illinois.Genevra Bell Reid, '32, to RaymondN. Constanzer, October 16, ThorndikeHilton Chapel ; at home, 5748 SouthMay Street, Chicago.Dorothy Maxine Schumann, ex'32, to Paul Edward Betscher, BondChapel, July 17; at home, 1833 West104th Street, Chicago.K. H. Tutunjian, MD'32, to MarieSulahian, April 18, in Cairo, Egypt.They returned to the United States inJune and are now residing in Manteno,Illinois.Bernard Sarkis Kalayjian, MD'33, to Anne Amelia Engdahl, in Thorndike Hilton Chapel, on July 17. They are making their home in Indianapolis,Indiana. Dr. Kalayjian is a member ofthe staff at the Methodist EpiscopalHospital in that city.Kendrick A. Smith, '33, SM'36,MD U of C '37, to Berenice Montgomery, Thorndike Hilton Chapel, November 8.Gertrude Harriett Rolston, '33, toCyril J. Baldwin, October 28, Thorndike Hilton Chapel.Eleanor Bell Whitelaw, AM'33,to Albert Edward Whitford, October 23,Thorndike Hilton Chapel; at home, 431North Frances Street, Madison, Wisconsin.Lorn a M. Alfred,^ '34, to Dr. CharlesE. Dunlap, September 29, in GrahamTaylor Hall; at home, 55 QueensburyStreet, Boston, Massachusetts.Elizabeth C. Steere, '34, to Gar-iand C. Routt, '33, AM'37, BondChapel, September 24; at home, 6108Dorchester Avenue, Chicago.Hei en Emily Wason, ex '34, to H.Ross Archer, Bond Chapel, November6 ; at home, Wedgewood Hotel, Chicago.Helen L. de Werthern, '35, toAllen Manvel, GS, Bond Chapel, October 9 ; at home, 420 E. Canedy Street,Springfield, 111.Margaret A. Fister, ex '35, toGeorge Hartley, Jr., in Thorndike Hilton Chapel, on July 3.Dick J. Freriks, MD'35, to MaryMacNeal, September 11, Thorndike Hilton Chapel.Ruth Eddy, '36, to Fritz K. Downey, GS, September 25, Thorndike Hilton Chapel; at home, 3704 WyandotteRoad, Kansas City, Missouri.Virginia C. Marquardsen, '36, toHarold E. Voigt, y33, September 14,in Thorndike Hilton Chapel. Address :Box 711, Midland, Texas.Virginia H. McCloud, '36, to Chester C. Rice, July 17, Thorndike HiltonChapel; at home, 310)4 North MenardAvenue, Chicago.Roy E. Smith, ex '36, to Mary Frances Walter, October 23, Thorndike Hilton Chapel.H. H. Waggoner, AM'36, to LouiseTowle Feather of Manchester, NewHampshire, on June 26. At home, 166East Lane Avenue, Columbus, Ohio.Mr. Waggoner is an assistant in English at Ohio State University and isworking toward his doctorate.A. Lincoln Ash worth to Hazel A.Roberts, September 28, Thorndike Hilton Chapel.Doris Irene Dace, ex '38 to HaroldH. Grothaus, MBA '36, August 21,Thorndike Hilton Chapel. At home,Shoreland Apts., 5135 Kenwood Ave.,Chicago.Donna B. Donkle, '37, to JohnLouis Baker, Jr., ex '35, Bond Chapel,September 4; at home, 10433 SouthCampbell Avenue, Chicago.Lillie Lehmann, '37, to Lowell R.Hanna, August 22, Thorndike HiltonChapel.Virginia Marilyn Lindwall, ex'37, to Sherman L. Olson, October 23,Thorndike Hilton Chapel.Libuse Lukas, '37, to FranklinMiller, Jr., September 1, Thorndike Hilton Chapel; they are now living inNew Brunswick, New Jersey, where heis teaching at Rutgers University.Elinor Loeff, y37, to Milton A.Gordon, '29, JD'31, October 20, in Chicago ; at home, 5200 Blackstone Avenue,Chicago.Rosemary Prest, ex '38, to RobertC. Wilson, in Queenstown, Ontario, October 16. They are living in Chicago.Audrey A. Saunders, ex '38, to JohnWilliam Oliphant, September 14, Thorndike Hilton Chapel.Jane Vollertsen, ex y37, to ThomasHerbert MacRoy, October 9, Thorndike Hilton Chapel.Margaret G. Weaver, GS, to LloydE. Harris, MD'37, Bond Chapel, September 25 ; at home, 629 Deering Place,Chicago.BORNTo A. R. Krapp, '24, AM'25, andMrs. Krapp (Harriet M. Blair '24)an eight-pound boy, Richard Blair, June5, Decatur, Illinois.To Allan S. Shohet, '25, MD'28,and Mrs. Shohet, a son, J. Leon, June26, Chicago.To Herbert B. Gaston, MD'30, andMrs. Gaston, of Dearborn, Michigan,a daughter, Jeanne Marie, October 22.To Mr. and Mrs. William J. McKee(Frances Carr, '30) a daughter,Judith Carr, August 31, Pittsburgh.To Henning J. Anderson, AM'30,and Mrs. Anderson, a daughter, MarciaMathilda, May 20, Marquette, Michigan.To Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Beames(Sinah Kitzing, '31), of Piedmont,California, a daughter, Miriam Sinah,October 18.To C. Armand Barnes, MD'37, andMrs. Barnes, a daughter, Janet, August22, Chicago.DIEDGeorge H. Simmons, MD'92, editorand general manager emeritus of TheJournal of the American Medical Association, died at St. Luke's Hospital,Chicago, on September 1. An outstanding figure in the medical profession, Dr.Simmons was general secretary of theA.M. A. from 1899 to 1911 and editorof the A.M.A. Journal from 1899 to1924.William S. Ryan, MD'95, died October 23 in Chicago' after a long illness.For many years he conducted the VanBuren Emergency Hospital in Chicagofor near west side industrial workersand had served overseas as a captain inthe medical corps.Joseph Beifus, '02, July 26, 1937, inMunich, Germany.Myra Hanson, '04, prominent Toledo (Ohio) club woman and retiredhigh school teacher, died April 11, 1937,after an illness of one week.Ralph Emory Nelson, PhD'18, former chairman of the Chemistry Department at Purdue University, died July1, of heart disease.Nathan Schilling, y36, was killedin action on the Aragon front in Spainabout the first of November. According to reports, he met his death whileundertaking a dangerous sniping job forthe Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion.>3~j*K/**».'*4>*. . . 'Vi v*" *46 iteveryday affairs of ^ of ^gencies. 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