THE UNIVERSITYOFCHICAGO MAGAZINEThe Debate of the Year!!HUTCHINS vs. CARMICHAELonWHAT IS AN EDUCATION?TIME: Friday, April 15, 8:30 P.M.PLACE: Mandel Hall, 57th and University.OCCASION: The Annual Alumni Assembly.TICKETS: Yes, and FREE, too, to all alumni.RESERVATIONS: NOW.The supply of tickets is limited. Alumni Association membersare being notified first and will be given preference. BUT,an announcement will be made to the entire alumni bodywithin a few days, so you should mail in the coupon belowimmediately.WHAT THE SHOOTING IS ALL ABOUTPresident Robert Maynard Hutchins will debate his favorite educational theorieswith the brilliant young Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, O. C. Carmichael. Thiswill be an unparalleled opportunity to learn at first hand the views of these distinguished educators on the pressing educational problems of the day. Moreover, itwill be a splendid chance to return to the campus to meet with your friends. And,if your class or group wishes to arrange a get-together at dinner preceding the debate,the Commons will gladly cooperate. But, most important of all,SEND IN THE COUPON TODAYThe Alumni Assembly CommitteeRobert Todd McKinlay, '29, JD '32, ChairmanJosephine T. Allin, '99 Clifton Utley, '26Dan H. Brown, '16 Helen Wells, '24Arthur C. Cody, '24 Robert C. Woellner, AM '24Helen Norris, '07 Howard P. Hudson, '35 (ex officio)The Alumni Council, Cobb Hall 403, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.Gentlemen: Enclosed find a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Please send me tickets for the Hutchins-Carmichaeldebate at the Alumni Assembly April 15. I understand that the Committee reserves the right to limit the tickets to two peralumnus if the demand warrants it.Name AddressI.AfflMBZ SMSMr/OAfM CI/T//V CtO&BVr COST/1938 FRIGIDAIREsilent METER-MISERhrings Greafesf Savings ever Known on. . Current. . food., /ce. . Upkeep/2 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINELettersMILLER vs. TYROLERMay I express the opinion of onealumna about the two articles in yourJanuary number about what the U. of C.is offering to our children. Mr. Millerhas done such a perfect piece of workin describing the typical American go-getter and his educational desires thatit would be funny if not sad. He's doneit all unconsciously too. Mr. Tyrolerhas admirably set forth the real meaning of a University. May those of uswho believe that the fundamental purpose for which we send our children tocollege is to have them know the intellectual attainments of our race andto live in the light of that knowledgeand do their share in increasing it.May we hold up the hands of PresidentHutchins. Let us hew to the linewhether or not we agree with all of histheories.I, for one, have been both mortified and amazed at the lengths, to whichperhaps most of our American collegeshave gone in giving athletic scholarships. Is this a small symptom of thereal character of our culture?One word more, Mr. Editor. Lastyear one of your readers, a woman,wrote a most disparaging letter sayingthat after a moments looking over yourpages she found nothing to stimulateher high mind. Well, I can't quite letthat slip. I care nothing for athleticsand almost as little for social news, butI always find material that keeps mein touch with news in the world ofthought — I think you do a good job — goon to an ever higher standard.Eva Graves Price, '98.422 Granada Drive.Winter Park, Florida.NO ORPHANSWhen I read last month the "viewingwith alarm" observations of Mr. Millerand the heroic defense of Mr. Tyroler,it occurred to me that perhaps mostalumni have neither the misgivings ofthe oldster nor the zealous approval ofthe youngster as to every feature of the Chicago New Deal. Since readingthe February issue of the Magazinehowever, I am really wondering whatall the "shooting" is about.Being also a member of Mr. Miller'sclass as well as one of the alumni whodid not send his daughter to Chicagoas an undergraduate, but to one of the"Country Clubs" mentioned by Mr. Tyroler, followed by graduate work inmathematics at Chicago, perhaps myreasons for doing so may be of interest. Incidentally, if Mr. Tyroler wouldinvestigate, he might find that scholasticwork of a very high order is done atWellesley and Smith, and I have heardit said that serious students may befound at Yale and Princeton also. 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Booklet MX freei«t <* CONTINENTAL TOURS157 Federal St., Boston, MASS^THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 3campus activities and the Loop withits theatres, concerts and night clubsbeckoning at the other end of the Illinois Central. This is rather the "lack ofcollege life" argument in reverse, butin my opinion there is ample collegelife for the student who lives on thecampus. If I recall correctly, some of^e summer quarter bulletins held outthe lure of Chicago as a summer resort and the one summer I spent on thecampus answered for a vacation verynicely. No, I doubt whether manyalumni really refrain from sending theirchildren to Chicago for fear they wouldmiss out on campus life.Even in our day the purpose of college training was understood to be thedevelopment of the student's intellectand his ability to find and make use ofavailable sources, but courses designedfor these results certainly are not limited to Metaphysics and Philosophy, sowhy carry the cudgels for these departments. . . .I agree that tricks of a trade haveno place in undergraduate work andthat the test of a student's accomplishment should not be the accumulation offacts as set down on a term examinationpaper. However, if training the mindto think is the sole end in view, whyis the ability to corral facts over a period of approximately two years andthen proving a knowledge of these factsby a comprehensive so much more desirable than doing the same thing everyquarter, then clearing the mind for action in new fields. Evidently the NewPlan requires the student to acquireand retain a knowledge of his subject,even facts, and the ability to locate thesources of information, in addition tolearning how to think. Naturally thisNew Plan will not appeal to every goodstudent, while many others cannot meetentrance requirements, so it is to beexpected that attendance will suffer.This, however, does not prove that thePlan is wrong. Changes may come, butthe undergraduates who take part intl^ese experiments certainly will not beinjured by their experience. Chicagohas pioneered advance ideas in the pastand may be looked to for further developments in the educational field. Wemay approve or resent these innovations, but the position Chicago holdsamong the country's institutions oflearning precludes any fear that we°r future students will ever be orphans°£ a college that "ceased to exist."I. Leo Wolkow, '09.Louisville, Ky.ALLEN FRIENDS RALLYI am sure that all students who knewPhil Allen read the letter of Mr. Mayer in the December issue with grateful appreciation and also the letters in theJanuary issue, expressing so much interest in a memorial to a great and beloved teacher. Dr. Allen once said thathis idea of immortality was to live onin the lives of others, and that immortality is surely his whether we establisha memorial or not. However, many,many of us will wish to have our sharein the establishment of a memorial tohis interest in students and in graduatework. I wish to help in any way possible and to contribute to the fund forthe memorial. Luella Carter.Doane College,Crete, Nebraska.FORTUNE REPRINTI have just finished reading the reprint from Fortune which I received inthe morning's mail.You are to be congratulated on thepromptness with which you have exploited this favorable publicity.; Thearticle is particularly valuable, from mypoint of view, for its clarification of therelationship of President Hutchins tothe life of the University. It should domuch to dispel the fear of many who,at this distance, have feared that Chicago University was undergoing a transformation from its heritage of educational democracy to a regimented scholasticism.I am glad to acknowledge my ownconversion to the conviction that President Hutchins' presidency will deepenthe significance of the University's scientific accomplishments rather than undermine the efforts of its scientists.J. 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Above, Swing, commentatorfor the British Broadcasting System, Gideonse, professor of economics, and Smith,professor of philosophy, show appropriate seriousness for the seventh anniversarybroadcast on February 13.VOLUME XXX THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MAGAZINE NUMBER 5MARCH, 1938WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER'By GEORGE E. VINCENT, PhD'96THE man we remember today touched the lives ofmany thousands. His influence is still a livingforce. It will affect growing numbers into a fardistant future. He directly changed the aims and activities of many young men and women who had the goodfortune to gain his friendship. Asone of these, I welcome the chanceto speak of him and what he did.He is still a vivid reality to us; hestill arouses our affection, admiration, loyalty. To do full justice tohim and his work is too much tohope. To do one's best is a privilege and an honor.This address will deal with threethings : first, William Rainey Harper's preparation for his life work;second, his ideal of a universitywhich was approached by the University of Chicago ; and third, thequalities of mind and characterwhich gave power and direction tohis career, in this we shall try toavoid the excesses of extravagantpanegyric. For Dr. Harper distrusted and disliked overstatement.He suffered flattery impatiently. Hisown speech was direct, measured,and unaffected.To the people of New Concord GEORGE EWillie Harper seems not to havebeen an infant prodigy. Contemporaries insisted on hisnormality; he was a real boy. Yet when they came tothink about it they did remember he was different. Hecould read when he was three. He had a passion forbooks. Once he got his head in one, he forgot everythingelse. He was only a youngster when he began to collecta library of his own. He was quick at learning, especially at the learning of languages. He committed longBiblical passages to memory. Next to books, music washis chief pleasure. He was not keen about games.There were good reasons why he should grow into asound boyhood. He came of Ulster stock which playedso sturdy a part in the westward-moving frontier. His*An address at the Dedication oj his Birthplace as a Memorial Museum,at Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio. Oct- 22. 1937. father, a merchant, was a respected citizen, active inchurch and civic affairs, trustee and treasurer of Muskingum College. His mother was a woman of strongcharacter and fine intelligence. The family life was wholesome ; its religious feeling earnest but not fanatical ; itsstandards firm although not undulyaustere. This eldest son then wasnot offensively precocious. He wasnatural, modest, friendly, on occasion, mischievous.This real boy somehow was readyfor college at ten. The Presidentsaw no reason for keeping him out.He certainly had no trouble in keeping up. In senior year he and twoclassmates elected Hebrew, of allsubjects ! By lot Willie Harper waschosen to give the Hebrew Salutatory at commencement. That bitof luck put an idea into his head ;he never forgot it. Graduated justbefore he was fourteen, the youngHebraist spent the next three yearsin New Concord, clerking in hisfather's store, reading, studying languages with professors and by himself, playing in the local band. Fora time he thought of music as acareer. A chance to teach Hebrewin the College revealed a rare gift.The pupils were keen, enthusiastic,eager for hard and thorough work. This seems to havesettled the question of his future. It was to be thescholar's life. On President Paul's advice, young Harperdecided on Yale for graduate study.From William Dwight Whitney and two or threeothers, the young graduate student gained insight intothe life of scholarship, its methods, discipline and ideals.Seemingly unsophisticated and not well prepared, hesoon impressed teachers and fellow-students by his quickintelligence, easy mastery, and swift progress. Whitney'sadvice confirmed the decision to make Hebrew a career.Other Semitic languages, Sanskrit, Greek, and Latinwere included in his graduate studies. At the end of hiseighteenth year he became a doctor of philosophy. Thusa good beginning in his preparation for life had beenmade. He knew something of the preparatory schoolVINCENT56 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEand the small college; his teaching ability had beenproved; he had grasped the spirit and principles of research; he had had a glimpse of the university idealwhich was to capture his imagination.It was a Yale classmate who found the young doctorhis first and not too brilliant position, the principalshipof a small Tennessee school which called itself a college.A year's experience there was time not wholly lost. Acapacity for administration and a happy way with students were revealed. The weaknesses of such placeswere remembered. But the really important event of theyear was Dr. Harper's marriage to President Paul'sdaughter, herself a gradaute of Muskingum. Her intelligence, poise, sound good sense, unfailing loyalty playeda significant part in his life and work. She began byvletting him practice on her his method of teachingHebrew.Another Yale classmate rescued Dr. Harper fromTennessee and got him a post in the Preparatory Department of Dennison University at Granville, Ohio.He was soon principal and also tutor in ancient languages. His personality began at once to make itselffelt. Before long he was teaching Hebrew to a voluntaryclass of Dennison professors. There was no escapingthis young man's contagious enthusiasm. He workedwith unresting energy. He wanted "to keep growing."E. Benjamin Andrews, President of the University, wasimpressed and became a helpful, lifelong friend.At this time Dr. Harper took a momentous step. Although reared in a church congregation, he had neverbecome a member. Now, quietly, without emotionalexcitement, he announced his decision to join, not hisfamily's church, the United Presbyterian, but the Baptist Church. How little did he realize what was to follow: a call to a Baptist Theological Seminary, an invitation to Chautauqua, association with a group in Chicago, friendship with a multimillionaire in Cleveland,opportunity to create a new university.In 1878 the Baptist Union Theological Seminary, ina suburb of Chicago, needed an instructor in Hebrew.President Andrews unselfishly recommended WilliamR. Harper and let him go. With his arrival the Seminary began to quiver like a boat fitted with a new andlarger motor. His teaching was not a task but an exciting adventure. Then he asked permission to start asummer school of Hebrew. It was a lively success. Ina few years the one school had increased to five. Correspondence teaching followed with printed lessons, textbooks, a special staff. Dr. Harper began to be knownthroughout the country. Another call was soon to come.Chautauqua Institution on Chautauqua Lake in Western New York had established summer schools in theseventies. Later a Baptist assembly had been startedacross the lake. Its leaders were not alert, but therewas always the danger that some able man might befound to make it a serious rival. Dr. Harper's growingfame indicated him as precisely the Baptist most to Befeared. He was engaged in 1883 to head the Chautauquasummer schools and to establish there one of his schoolsof Hebrew. Chautauqua at once felt the effect of hisleadership. His teaching of Hebrew drew numbers ofministers and advanced students. He strengthened allthe schools. He "had already begun to extend his interest from Semitic linguistics to Biblical literature. He developed the power to hold large audiences with his addresses on such themes as the minor prophets. So Chautauqua had a part in Dr. Harper's preparation. There hemet college and university men from home and abroad,came to know distinguished persons in public life, hadhis faith in summer study and adult education deepened.He gained confidence in himself as an administrator anda public speaker.In 1886 came a call to Yale Theological Seminaryand Graduate School. The Baptist group in Chicago didall it could to keep him, but in vain. Dr. Harper arrivedin New Haven with a family of four children and aneducational and publishing institution. His appeal totheological students, university graduates and undergraduates, was striking. His teaching as usual arousedardent enthusiasm. Soon, too, he was lecturing to largeaudiences in New Haven, Boston, New York, VassarCollege. He maintained his scholarly work, his connection with Chautauqua, the editing of language textbooksin Greek and Latin, his correspondence study and publication enterprises. It was in 1886 that he first metJohn D. Rockefeller. About this time Dr. Augustus H.Strong described to Dr. Harper a plan for a twentymillion dollar Baptist university for New York, a projectin which, he said, Mr. Rockefeller had shown an interest. This stirred again Dr. Harper's imagination, madevivid his dream of a great university on a new plan,and led him to believe that Mr. Rockefeller meant to dosomething in a large way.Meantime the old Chicago University, which Dr. Harper had declined to head, sank into bankruptcy and disappeared. A group of Chicago and other mid-westernBaptists were determined to set up a new institution.Mr. Rockefeller promised $600,000 towards a million.The $400,000 was raised. All turned to Dr. Harper asPresident. He declined promptly; a million dollar college had no interest for him. Why be content with "acollege to begin with" when a "full- fledged" univeristycould be created ? He would serve as trustee of the college and give advice, but that was all. Unless a trueadventure was in view, Yale offered him a sufficientlysatisfying career. He had already declined the presidencies of Brown, Rochester, and South Dakota.But he was not let off so easily. Soon Mr. Rockefellerpromised another million and gave assurance which convinced Dr. Harper that something on a large scale wasa possibility. After making sure that certain attacks onhis orthodoxy had not impaired his influence, he acceptedthe Presidency of the new University of Chicago in 1891.His Yale experience had added to his equipment important things : a knowledge of university methods andproblems, a wider acquaintance with university people,a confidence in his own ability to deal with men andaffairs. He had also had his first glimpse of Europe andof academic things abroad. On the whole, he was singularly well prepared to cope with the tasks he was facing.With vigor and enthusiasm the new President threwhimself into the work of organizing, housing, and staffingthe university of his dreams. Aided by able colleagues,backed by a board of capable trustees, encouraged byMr. Rockefeller's interest, Dr. Harper brought thingsrapidly to pass. His educational plan was promptlyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEadopted. The recruiting of eminent scholars was pushedenergetically. Land had been given but more was purchased. Appeals to Chicagoans primarily for buildingsmet with open-handed response. Dr. Harper showed himself a master persuasion. Unforeseen local gifts on alarge scale added confidence as well as resources. Toa public which knew little of the work behind the scenesthe opening of the University of Chicago in 1892 seemedfairly magical. Its rapid growth in numbers, funds, andprestige maintained this somewhat mythical reputation.But all was not quite the fairy tale it seemed. Fromthe first the gap between the money and the dream waswide, often alarming. There were times when even Dr.Harper almost lost heart. His plans far outran the fundsin sight. Mr. Rockefeller gave at frequent intervals andin large amounts, but he inclined towards a rather moregradual growth. The piling of deficit on deficit disturbedhim. But he, too, was accustomed to see things in alarge way. His imagination and generosity did not fail.He did not lose faith in Dr. Harper and the trustees.So with substantial aid from others and with mariymillions from Mr. Rockefeller the University flourished,not, to be sure, to Dr. Harper's complete satisfaction —a modern medical school, for example, was still lacking— but impressively to the world of scholarship and tothe public at large.Thus in the fifteen years which he gave to the University of Chicago Dr. Harper realized the unifying purpose of his life, the establishment of a great institutionof higher learning on a newplan. He became a nationalfigure ; his work as scholarand educational leader wasrecognized abroad. Memberships in learned societies, honorary degrees and decorationscame thick and fast. Invitations to give addresses andwrite articles were many andpressing. Yet, even in thesecircumstances, he continuedhis teaching and study, tookpart in the work of educational associations, served onthe Chicago Board of Education, headed a Commissionwhich recommended a complete reorganization of the Chicago schools. There seemed tobe no limit to his energy andcapacity for growth.Then the blow fell. Formonths he knew that he soonmust die. To the end in January, 1906, with steady courage he worked on. Classescame to his bedside almost tothe last days.. So long as he was conscious he continuedto think and plan. He was ever faithful to the guidingpurpose of his life, the great university.What were the essential principles and ideals of thisuniversity of which Dr. Harper dreamed, which in solarge a measure he saw realized? From what he wrote and said and did, the main features emerge clearlyenough. In thinking of the plan one must constantlyremind himself that it was drawn up, not in recentmonths, but forty or fifty years ago. If much of itseems familiar, remember that Dr. Harper's pioneeringhelped to make it so. That some of the aims are still tobe realized is only a tribute to his foresight.First of all, the university would not be a thing apart :it would be the culmination of the educational systemas a whole. But this system was to be changed ratherdrastically. At least two years in time were to be savedin elementary and secondary schools. The historic accident of the four-year college course was to be corrected,so far as university students were concerned. The firsttwo years were to be added to the four years of highschool or academy. This would provide a reorganizedsix-year general education for the great majority ofpupils who ought not to undertake university work atall. A place would still remain for certain colleges ofthe four-year type, well placed and properly maintained.Only the second two years would be found in the university itself. They would serve a double purpose : continuation of a general education for a select number, andintroduction to graduate and professional study. Buteven here general education would have the right of way.If preprofessional studies did not serve also the purposes of general education they would be deferred.1This general education would be concentrated and unified. The student's attention would not be dissipatedTHE BIRTHPLACE OF WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER. NOW A MEMORIAL MUSEUMover a large number of subjects at one time. Nor wouldhis studies be isolated things in separate pigeon-holes.Their interrelations and connection with life would bekept steadily in mind. "Not to know something of this1Harper: "The Trend in Higher Education,'It is referred to hereafter as T. Chicago 1905, p. 275.3 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE(connection) is to be in possession only of scattered andimpractical pieces of information," were Dr. Harper'swords. (T p. 99). So, too, individual methods wouldbe substituted for mass instruction. (T 320). The scientific study of the student would be the basis of a newapproach. (T 321). A sense of continuity with the pastwould be fostered. (T 290) . A love of books and reading would be regarded as a test of general education.(T 291). Survey courses would replace laboratory exercises in part of the science work, to protect generaleducation from premature or undesirable specialism.The institution would be open to both men and women, in all departments and on equal terms. The onlyexception would be in certain large undergraduatecourses. When these were divided into sections, some"of them would be for men, the others for women.Although the two years, to be known as uniyersity orsenior college, would be a transition period, the true university work would be clearly set off from that of thecollege. The characteristic university activities would beresearch and advanced teaching, the discovery of newtruth and the training of scholars. These would dominate, furnish purpose, and ideals. They would be testsof selection for both teachers and students, measures ofprogress and success. Other things might be added,but these would not be allowed to impede or weakenthe primary duty and purpose. In order to emphasizethe devotion of the university to scholarship, only earneddegrees would be conferred. There would be no honorary degrees.2So the university would not be first of all buildings,equipment, endowment, but a community of scholars.older and younger, but all learners. They would join"the community to make progress in the intellectuallife." (T 329). Every teacher would be an investigatorand if he had not the student spirit he would be askedto withdraw. (T 330). Nor would the president beexempt. He would be the most honored scholar in thegroup of scholars (T 36) ; not a "boss," but a fellow-student and a brother in a family of brothers, (T 337)interested not merely in his own studies but in the workof all.This group of scholars would enjoy the three privileges of a university: "self-government, freedom fromchurch control, and the right of free utterance." (T 4).The Trustees would have final legal authority, but thefaculties would determine educational policy and havea voice in the choosing of new colleagues. Investigatorsarid teachers would be protected against economic or social pressure from without the university or from coercion from within. Said Dr. Harper : "Freedom of expression must be given the members of a universityfaculty even though it be abused, for * * * this abuseof it is not so great an evil as the restriction of suchliberty. (H 457). To protect the university from thepressure of a public interested only in competitive gamesas spectacles and a means of gambling, the director ofathletics would be a regular member of the faculty. Theuniversity would be in control of all games ; there mighteven be an endowment to insure independence of theoutside world. (T 276-284).2Goodspeed: "A History of The University of Chicago, 1891-1916."Chicago, 1916. p. 402.It is referred to hereafter as H. The university would need great sums of money, firstof all for its staff of scholars. Only men of exceptionalability, as nearly geniuses as possible, would be appointed. They must be free to do their best work, todevote themselves with single minds to the advancementof science and learning. They must not be anxious abouttheir daily living ; they must be free from routine drudgery or excessive teaching, they must have time for workand thought, they must have necessary assistance andsupplies, they must be able to attend professional meetings, and to travel at home and abroad, they must lookforward to adequate pensions in old age. (T 107). Allthis calls for large sums. Without them no genuineuniversity can exist.Professional schools of divinity, law, medicine, education, are hardly more than trade schools unless they areput upon a university basis. The true university wouldnot only require a general education— the Bachelor's degree — for admission to these schools, but would insiston university-trained, full-time staffs and a permeatingspirit of research in their work. Of a proposed MedicalSchool Dr. Harper said: "I do not have in mind aninstitution of charity, or an institution that shall devoteitself merely to the education of a man who shall he anordinary physician; but rather an institution * * *whose aim it shall be to push forward the boundaries ofmedical science, one in which honor and distinction willbe found for those only who make contributions to thecause of medical science, one from which announcementsmay be sent from time to time so potent in their meaning as to stir the whole civilized world." (H 331).A unique feature of the university would be its continuous operation. It would offer not an ordinary summer school, but a regular, fully staffed and equipped session, equal in all respects to the other three quarters ofthe academic year. The staff was to be large enoughso that no teacher would be required to work more thannine months. This plan had unquestioned advantages:instructors from other colleges could do advanced workin their vacations ; university professors could have leavein different quarters; eminent men could be borrowedfrom other faculties ; able students could shorten theircourses ; others could make up deficiency in work ; students might enter or leave four times in the year ; teachers from academies and high schools could have thestimulus of university associations ; the university buildings would not be idle through the summer months.A truly university equipment was to be provided. Thescholarly work would center in a great library with outlying departmental libraries. This library would not bepassive but active. Professors of bibliography andmethodology would instruct students in the use of books.(T 123-124). Laboratories would be set up and completely equipped not only in the natural sciences, but inpsychology as well. The growth of the comparativemethod would call for new extensions of the laboratoryand museum idea. A classical laboratory with studiesfor professors, seminar rooms, books, maps, photographs,models, etc., was a part of the plan. A system of museums of many kinds, natural sciences, oriental andclassical studies, would be indispensible.An appropriate, harmonious architectural plan for allthe buildings, present and future, of the university wouldTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 9be adopted so that growth might .be provided for inadvance and the institution itself be a thing of dignityand beauty. Every need of education, of faculty andstudent social life would be supplied.Not only would the university add to knowledge: itwould publish the results of research through its ownofficial press. Monographs, books, scientific and literaryjournals, reports, would be sent out into the variousfields of scholarship and to the public. Thus the university would become in another way a radiating centerof truth and culture.By still other means would the institution seek to serveearnest, ambitious people, young and old, near and farbeyond its walls. An Extension Division by means ofday and evening classes, by systematic lecture courses,by correspondence teaching, would offer opportunities ofmany kinds. To teachers especially would these provevaluable. "Service for mankind wherever man is" wouldbe the motto. (T 27). For this extension work a special staff, almost wholly distinct from the other university faculties, would be appointed. Research men wouldhardly be asked to conduct popular evening classes.The university would undertake experiments in education. For this purpose it would conduct kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools as laboratories.It would utilize its own classes if this seemed to offerpromise. "The field for experiment in education," saidDr. Harper, "is as vast as any that may present itselfin other departments of activity. If only those who experiment," he added, "will be quick to discard that whichshows itself to be wrong, the cause of education hasnothing to fear from experiment." (H 130).Again the university would take under its wing certain academies and small colleges which might seek itsaid. By the sending of advisers and lecturers, by thegranting of fellowships to instructors, by helping to raisestandards, by the loan of books and apparatus, in thegranting of advanced standing to students, the large institution would improve and strengthen the work of thesmall.While the university would be free from ecclesiasticalcontrol, it would feel a responsibility for religious education and would seek to foster the religious spirit. Itwould dignify the study of the scriptures by associatingthem in a scholarly way with philology, literature, psychology, philosophy, history, sociology, and ethics; itwould aim at reconciling general culture and intelligenceand the religious life, which are too generally divorced.(T 61). The institution, as itself a life and an atmosphere, would regard religion not as something separate, but as an organic part of one's whole life "lackingwhich the man lacks completeness and unity and consequently strength." (T 77).Finally the university, which had its birth in thedemocracy of a group of mediaeval scholars, would become at once an expression and a leader of moderndemocracy. In terms of the Old Testament it would beProphet, priest, philosopher, and Messiah. (T 12). Itwould interpret past and present, maintain unity, trainleaders, guide into new fields, promote rule by reasonand denounce corruption as did the prophets of old. (TP. 20).Such in outline was Dr. Harper's ideal university. To a remarkable degree he saw it realized in the Universityof Chicago. The original aims have continued to guidethe institution's growth. True, some of the proposalswere never put into effect. Others were a good dealmodified. Changes in detail were to be expected. Newconditions forced reinterpretation of principles. Nevertheless the fundamentals of the plan persist. The University still stands for a preliminary general education,for thorough graduate training, for the discovery oftruth, for academic freedom. It still maintains continuous operation, extension teaching, and an official press.We must again remind ourselves that these plans wereannounced nearly a half century ago. The fact that mostof them still seem ideas of today is significant. To besure, there are critics of the university as Dr. Harperplanned it. Some of them would strip away undergraduate departments, popular education, vocationalstudies, even professional schools. They would leaveonly a nucleus of scholars devoted to research and thetraining of investigators. Even so they would retain whatDr. Harper deemed the essential core of a university.Other critics deplore the inroads of practical pursuitsupon the general education which, in college or university or in both, ought to be available for able and serious students. This principle, too, Dr. Harper advoatedexplicitly and emphatically.On this occasion it would be pleasant to stress Dr.Harper's interest in the independent liberal arts college.As a matter of fact, his chief concern was with the university. His interest in education as a whole, however,led him to study sympathetically the problems of thesmall college. His paper on "The Situation of the SmallCollege" is a model of acute analysis. He predicted aperiod of intense competition among the smaller institutions. As a result, certain weak colleges would close ;others would become academies or junior colleges ; stillothers — among which he would have classed Muskingum¦ strategically placed, well administered and properlysupported, would survive and play an essential role inthe educational system. "The future of the small college," he declared, "will be a great future; a futuregreater than its past, because that future will be betterequipped, better organized, and better adjusted." (T389-390). This reflects his confident belief that highereducation in the United States would be greatly improved through voluntary teamwork of many kinds.Wastes would be eliminated and greater efficiency secured. (T 387).We come now to these questions : What were thetraits of mind and character which explain Dr. Harper'scareer ? What were the secrets of his power ? Even therapid glance we have had at his life shows that chance,as so often happens, had a crucial part in it. What ifhe had not joined that Hebrew class in college, or hadbecome a musician, or had gone to Germany instead ofto Yale, or had become a Presbyterian rather than aBaptist ? In any event, one feels sure that, if he had donesomething quite different, he would have done it extraordinarily well. It is said that once the president of amajor railway system condescendingly assured Dr. Harper that he could run the company better than thespeaker himself. In the light of later developments thishas all the humor of understatement. Of course, Dr.10 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEHarper, with training and experience, could have donemuch better. His imagination would have foreseen thefuture and made plans to deal with it, instead of lettingthings drift. But, granted that chance was a factor, whatenabled Dr. Harper to use as he did the opportunitieslife gave him?Among his many traits his imagination was conspicuous. It was vivid, retentive, creative. It was of. valuein his work as a scholar. It was one secret of his success as a teacher ; he could see the subject from the student's point of view. His own mind was kindled. Imagination helped him, as expositor of the Old Testament, togrip his audiences. To himself and to them, he becamefor the time a prophet of old, pouring out denunciationand warning. It was a source of his persuasive power :he could paint in the imagination of another a picturehard to forget and to resist. There was a good "deal oftruth in his jocular assertion that he never asked formoney, but merely pointed out opportunities. It wasimagination which aided him in organization and administration, in devising plans, in solving problems. Aboveall, imagination was a chief source of his originality, hisinitiative, his gift for creating ideas and dreams on agrand scale.But this almost exuberant imagination was disciplinedand controlled by a keen, analytical intelligence and acapacity for generalization. His scholarship was careful and conscientious. His mind worked methodically aswell as brilliantly. One of his pleasures was to take asubject apart to its last element and then to reach a well-weighed conclusion about it. His powers of assimilationwere extraordinary. Not only did they give him mastery in his own studies, but they enabled him, by talkingwith specialists as well as by reading, to become familiarwith a wide range of problems in a great variety of fields.He realized his ideal of a university president, a scholaramong scholars, interested in their studies as well as inhis own.His disciplined imagination generated enthusiasm. Themental image of a new idea, a plan to be realized, stirredin him an intense emotional urge. People were fond ofcalling him dynamic, and with reason. He seemed fairlyto pulsate with an ardent and moving energy when oncea big thing to be done got possession of his picture-making mind. Here again he was saved from going off halfcocked, from anything like fanaticism, by the vigilanceof his critical judgment. This emotional energy wascontagious. It gave spirit and drive to his teaching. Itwas a source of his power as a leader of men. Theywere charged and recharged, as it were, with the currentof his vibrant personality. One could not resist the steadyurge of his compelling confidence.But this enthusiasm was no momentary impulse. Itpersisted and pressed on until a desired end was reached.His endurance and vitality were astonishing; his energyand capacity for work, the despair of all who tried tokeep up with him. Obstacles did not deter him; theyseemed only to spur him to new effort. He once spokeof "that hopeful, radiant, enthusiastic faith which carries one over and through everything suggestive of difficulty." (T 51).In spite of his Intensity he had a singularly fair andbalanced judgment. He was a master of judicial state ment. In classroom and lecture hall he gave both sidesof a controversial subject with scrupulous impartiality."Not what to think but how to think" was one of hisprecepts. It was usually hard to tell which view he accepted for himself. Sometimes he was charged withstraddling. But the truth was that he believed hismethod was fair to students and audiences and was a wayof making them think for themselves. When he had anidea or project to advocate he left no doubt about wherehe stood. Again, he so feared the deadening effect ofhabit and tradition that he kept his own mind open tonew ideas. He forced himself to examine them, no matter how distasteful or fantastic they might seem.Dr. Harper was magnanimous. He was, to be sure,ambitious; he enjoyed success, praise from the rightsources gratified him. Yet he gave an impression ofpersonal detachment. It was hard to keep conversation centered upon him and what he himself had done.Talk somehow got shifted to others or to the things inwhich he was interested. The fact was that he took thegreatest satisfaction in the good work and growing reputations of his colleagues, in the prosperity of enterprisesin which he had a part, above all in the flourishing of theUniversity. Like all men he was selfish, but, unlikemost, he had a large and generous self which includedwide circles of persons, institutions, and causes. Hegenuinely identified himself with them.His courage was steadfast and rose at the end to heroism. He went forward amid difficulties which wouldhave disheartened most men; he was steady and confident in threatening crises ; he held himself to almost overwhelming tasks. He inspired others with his unfaltering belief which denied the possibility of defeat. And,finally, during the months when he faced approachingdeath, he gave highest proof of unshaken fortitude. Inthis he was strengthened and sustained by a calm religious faith.These outstanding traits and other more elusive qualities combined to form and animate a notable and potentpersonality who did momentous things for scholarshipand education. Oblivion quickly overtakes even theconspicuous figures of any period. Only to a rare fewis an enduring place in history assured. William RaineyHarper was one of these. No true record of Americaneducation can omit his name.Books and buildings help to keep his memory alive.His own contributions and special volumes containingpapers by his students and colleagues, edited by hisscholarly brother, are to be seen in leading institutions oflearning. A massive library for which he planned bearshis name. An entire university of stately buildingsstands as a memorial. But his most impressive monument is not made of material things; it is a vital forcewhich in the lives of successive generations of scholarsand students will carry the spirit and ideals of his university down the centuries.Today we formally open another reminder of him, hisbirthplace. With the co-operation of his family, this becomes a Harper Memorial Museum, owned and caredfor by his college. It appropriately recalls a side of himof which so far almost nothing has been said. The realboy of early New Concord days grew into a permanent(Continued on Page 22)THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 11^The Mirror — 1938The 1 3th annual Mirror takes the spotlight in Mandel HallMarch 4 and 5 as the campus women present a sparklingrevue of dancing, music and skits. Frank Hurbert O'Hara, '15continues to direct the show, with Merriel Abbott again in chargeof the dancers. Contributing to Mirror this year were both alumniand alumni children.Maxine Creviston Thompson, '33, Jane Kesner Morris, '32, Carol SimonsWhitney, '29, all former Mirror Board members, wrote skits, as did JerryJontry, '33, and Norman Bridge Eaton, '30. In the cast are the children ofEarle Shilton, '1 4, Charles Paltzer, '06, Lander MacClintock, 'II and Clarence Sills, '03AN ALUMNA LOOKS AT HER KINDFirst Prize in Manuscript ContestA GENERATION ago, highereducation was supposed to bethe cure for every shortcoming of the feminine sex. Werewomen often illogical? Were theyover-conventional, unoriginal, andeven downright hypocritical at times ?A college education would cure allthat. It would make them intellectually honest and fearless, as well asable to think things through for themselves — so said those liberals whopioneered for the educational rightsof women.But it was a long generation agothat such pious hopes were entertained. Only one-tenth as many girlsattended college then as do today.When there were only 37,000 womenundergraduates, as compared withthe present third of a million or more,the woman with a college degree wasin the nature of a rarity. She was alittle set apart, that bluestocking ofthe fin de Steele.But today all that is changed.Women with degrees are a dime-a-dozen. A whole generation of us hadbeen graduated — with or withouthonors — from college, has passed outinto the world of jobs and marriage,and is rapidly approaching middle age. It is possible nowto observe a wide cross section to see what an educationdid for us and what we did with an education.Have we justified the hopes of those early liberals?Are we the honest, unbiased, fearless, rational thinkersthey believed we should become?The answer is — alas — no. We may use longer words(and also shorter ones) than did our mothers; we maywear less underwear and more cosmetics, read fewerpsalms and more novels, have fewer children and morenervous breakdowns ; but we are quite as cowed by public opinion as was any Victorian matron.In the not-so-gay nineties, conversation was largelydenunciation. The Thou Shalt Nots far outnumberedthe Thou Shalts. It was considered correct to frownon almost everything, so our mothers spent a good dealof time frowning. But today it is correct to wink ateverything, so we spend a good deal of time approvingof the things we don't approve of, simply because it isthe custom. We are afraid to be different, afraid toblaze new trails. We are not only herd followers, butwe are hypocrites as well. Not in the same way that mMARIAN JOHNSON CASTLE, '20The winner of the first prize in the Manuscript Contest comes from a literary family,has published articles in Harper's, Forum,Bookman and many other magazines. Hermother is a writer and lecturer, and bothher father and brother are ministers. Whenat the University Mrs. Castle enjoyed manycourses under Robert Morss Lovett and Robert Herrick. She lives with her husband inDenver, and shares eagerly his hobby, a largemink ranch in the nearby mountains.By MARIAN JOHNSON CASTLE, '20our mothers and grandmother were,but to quite the same extent. However, we are hypocrites in reverse ;we pretend to be worse than we are.Individually, we alumnae are arather decent lot. Our divorce rate isnotably low. We work — albeit a littleapologetically — in P. T. A.'s andneedlework guilds and churches. Weserve on community chest drives andcharity boards. True, we do it allwith a half-satirical air that impliesthat we just got dragged into it, andheaven forbid that anyone shouldthink us idealists or reformers. Nevertheless, we do work. We are public-spirited in deed, if not in word.Likewise, if you take us singly, weare sometimes simple and serious inour speech. We may, in an indiscreetburst, admit to liking the Bible andDickens and the Doxology. To beingsentimental about our husbands andbabies, our picket fences and hollyhocks, and our hearth fires and viewsof the sunset.But take us in a group, and we aresynthetically flippant. If our grandmothers were afraid to be thought illof, we are just as afraid to be thoughtwell of. We are afraid to seem reverent, dutiful, monogamous, thrifty, or gentle. If we areany of these things, we hide it like a secret vice. We arehypocrites in reverse.Consider this verbal flippancy of ours. It is a sortof a class patter, studded with words like amusing(meaning stimulating, not funny), wonderful (meaningegregious, not wonder-filling), and sloppy (meaning sentimental or stupid, rather than slovenly). We say tremendously and enormously for somewhat. We say interesting whenever we are stumped for something betterto say. And we use nice — mild, insipid little nice — forheavy duty in describing fine paintings, books, operas,and architecture.Some words we have discarded completely. We areembarrassed in the presence of words like goodness,duty, zeal, faith. It is ten years since I have heard anyone speak seriously of "a good woman," or "a dutifulson," or "a faithful married couple." They are not"amusing." And we are equally averse to talking about"a. bad man," or "a betrayed trust," or "a wicked act."Our whole emphasis on living is flippantly inverted.We become solemn and intense over trifles — a new12THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 13canape, the latest diet, or that simply marvelous placewhere they blend your perfume to suit your personality.But nobody dares profess to sinning or repenting (bothseem to have gone out with button-hooks), or to beinghomesick, or to needing religion. It is unfashionable tobe serious about serious things.In addition to our class patter, we are herd thinkers.If our mothers' political thinking went only so deep asbelieving that Mr. McKinley was a wonderful presidentbecause he was good to his sick wife, ours is little moreprofound.For the last few years it has been smart to be liberalto the point of radicalism. Many of us, whose only callouses came from - playing tennis, were wont to holdforth at length on dialectical materialism and the rightof women to work on an absolutely equal basis withmen. Yet if that right had been suddenly imposed uponus, we should have fainted from shock. For most of usaccepted our leisure (in which we argued about ourright to work) as a natural heritage, seldom stoppingto think that we owed it entirely to our capitalistic husbands' efforts in a capitalistic regime.However, since Mr. Stalin began the liquidation ofmost of his former intimates, communism has gone alittle sour with us. Lately we have come out for Peace.Complete, supine, isolationist Peace. We go to lectures,we talk, all without the faintest idea of the practicaldifficulties standing in the way of the achievement ofpermanent peace. But make no mistake about us, we are(at the moment) heart and soul for Peace.Our limited and superficial thinking shows up againin our psychiatric patter. Mr. Freud and Mr. Watsonhave much to answer for in throwing the libido and behaviorism into our laps at about the time that many ofus were leaving college. We have never gotten over it.I know several childless women who are volubly infavor of young people, and not-so-young ones, being uninhibited and learning only through experience. Notonce have these women paused to consider that any wisdom that youth might acquire through experiencing disease, seduction, an automobile accident, or a penitentiarysentence would be far too costly wisdom.Yes, in psychiatric matters we know too much andnot enough. Half the women I know dilate at lengthon their "nerves." They "live under such a frightfultension." They are always "simply nervously exhausted." But why? Most of them have more money,more labor-saving devices, more leisure, and more funthan any generation of women before them. But theirpsychiatric dabbling has made them self-conscious abouttheir mental selves. They take the machinery apart sooften to see whether it's running properly that it hasn'ta chance to run properly. Who knows but that we mightall be better off with a few more of the extrovert housekeeping chores of our mothers?But worse than our shallow talk and our shallowthought is our intellectual dishonesty — our hypocrisy.We swallow some very queer doses if it is the thingto do.Since about the time of the World War it has beensmart to stomach anything that takes place between book-covers or behind footlights. I recall a matineeaudience — largely feminine, with a high percentage ofsilver-fox capes and bachelor's degrees — that turned asickly pea-green during a certain play that was one longportrayal of incest and adultery among the Poor Whites.Yet when we met in the foyer afterwards, not one ofus had the courage to be honest. To be disgusted. Tobe censorious. We only chattered a little queasily aboutits stark truth and power.But among us all, to my knowledge, there was notone whose background was composed of anything butmiddle-class decency and thrift and the courageous, patient struggle to climb uphill instead of to slip down.Yet none of us dared say we thought art could growout of the whole of life instead of merely its erotic moments and its decadent peoples. That realism mightjust as truly portray upreaching as wallowing.This literary hypocrisy of ours was never so fantasticor so funny as during the brief fad for Gertrude Stein.For every one of us who was genuinely impressed (andthere were, no doubt, a few) by the startling information that a rose was a rose was a rose, there were legionsof us who pretended to be.Our hypocritical patter is at its best — or worst — atart exhibitions. We flutter catalogs and parrot the current reverent dicta, and not one in ten of us honestlythinks that the yellow cloth falling off the lunatic tablein the cockeyed room is enduring art.Most of us are abject hypocrites about social customs,especially drinking. A few of us really like and needliquor for its own sake ; but to the rest of us drinking isdesirable only as an urbane decoration of living. Whenit ceases to be that, we detest it. But do we say so? Wedo not.We say instead: "Phil is too priceless when he'shigh!" when what we're really thinking is: "Thedrunken sot ! He paws you when he dances and he risksyour life when he drives a car!"None of us has the courage to declare that, either ashostess or guest, we loathe the custom of sitting aroundat dinner parties drinking cocktails until all the foodhas wilted in the kitchen. Or that we never feel quitethe same again toward a person, once we have seenhim unpleasantly drunk. Or that there is no such thingas "civilized drinking" after a certain amount of liquorhas flowed down people's throats.But, like our grandmothers and mothers, nowhereare we so ruled by the herd as in our attitude towardmoral issues. It is conventional today to be tolerant, sowe wouldn't dream of disapproving of anybody. As aresult, most of us are dishonest. We open our doorsand our social circle to the young man who has twicebeen the cause of fatal automobile accidents, to thewoman who has been divorced so often that we havelost all track of her consecutive polygamy, to the chronicbankrupt who manages to live in the same fine housewhile his creditors go hungry or commit suicide. Yetwe are too cowardly to risk appearing intolerant by"taking a stand" in such matters.Of course there are exceptions among us to every oneof these indictments. Not all of us are muddle-headed(Continued on Page 20)THE FURTHER EDUCATION OF ABusiness Man• By WILLIAM B. BENTON, Vice-PresidentDO you like to be criticized? Dale Carnegie saysyou don't. Criticism is no way to win friends.Does society as a whole like it? It seems thatsociety doesn't either.What are the causes of unemployment? Of crime?Of divorce? Are some races by heredity superior toothers, as Hitler claims he believes? What is the effectof taxation on the business cycle? How do childrenlearn the difference between right and wrong?In a great university, remember that the scientist'smain job is to learn about things we do not know. Theuniversity social scientist grapples with questions suchas these. He puts our customs under the microscope.He investigates how human beings get along together.He studies why we act the way we do. He is the student of society. He has a thankless job.He isn't primarily a critic. The chemist tries to discover the pattern of atoms. The social scientist looksfor patterns of human behavior and belief. Everyoneadmires the laboratory scientist. But scientific study ofour beliefs or conduct is quite another matter.Now the social scientist is not a reformer. If hisstudies indicate reforms, they are up to you and me, thepublic. We can take them or leave them alone, like theadvice of a friend.What kind of work does the social scientist do? Isis important? One man here at the University, a political scientist, has produced an analysis on how and whypeople vote. Another, an economist, projects in chartswhat happens to the demand for sugar, corn, or wheat,when the price changes by as little as one percent. Athird, a sociologist, analyzes the growth and decay ofcities. He reports on the tenement areas, the blighteddistricts. Do you want to know where the blight willtouch next? He hopes to tell you.Suppose you and I are members of a parole board. Convict Number 3518 is up for parole. Will he make goodif we let him go free? We study his record. We talkto him. Was he misled by bad companions? On ourrandom impressions, we make a decision important tosociety.The social scientist approaches the convict in the wayan insurance company studies its risks. He digs intothe records of three thousand paroled men. He answerstwenty-five or fifty questions about each ; about his earlylife, his crime, his prison conduct. He finds out whichof the three thousand violated parole. He compiles figures. These show, in percentages, the "risk" involvedin paroling various types. Farm boys and immigrantsare good risks. Forgers and "lone-wolf" criminals arenot.*Radio address delivered January 28 on the Columbia Broadcasting System. I'm not making up a story. Professor Burgess, asociologist here at the University of Chicago, made sucha study. The Illinois Parole Board uses his results. Therate^of parole violations in Illinois has gone down.% Professor Burgess is now applying a similar methodto marriages. Why do some succeed and others fail?Perhaps his work will help our grandchildren to decidewhen and with whom to rush to the license clerk.If university social scientists confined their work tocriminals and marriages, they wouldn't hit the newspaperheadlines. But they go much further. One professorhere at the University makes his scholarly career thestudy of civil service. He often steps on the politicians'toes. A second devotes his life to studying relationsbetween countries. Do you think he should always agreewith President Roosevelt? If so, he might as well takeup rubber stamping as a career. A third devotes himselfto public administration. Often he agrees with neitherthe Democrats nor the Republicans.These men are political scientists. Are they braintrusters? As long as they remain at the universities,they are often good ones. If they become politicians inWashington, they risk losing their greatest asset: theirobjectivity. However, every administration in moderntimes, both here and abroad, has called on professorsfor advice. Professor Merriam here at the Universityof Chicago has been consulted by every administrationsince Theodore Roosevelt's, both Democratic and Republican.It is the university economists who more often senda shudder up and down the spinal cord of one of ourvested interests.Farmers may object to those economists who supportthe protective tariff.Industrialists shudder when the statistics of the economist show that the tariff's cost to the public is high.Politicians squirm if the economist's analysis of taxation isn't "good politics".John L. Lewis may acclaim one economist who> agreeswith Him. But he may smart under the cold logic ofanother.Thus occasionally you read in the papers that universities are "radical". You may even have heard themcalled communistic. Of course the universities teach theirstudents about communism. President Hopkins of Dartmouth says that colleges could commit no greater crimethan to send students into the world unfamiliar with thekinds of government people will try to sell them. President Hutchins of the University of Chicago once remarked, "If the universities don't tell the students aboutcommunism, their graduates may vote communist bymistake."14THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 15But to accuse the faculties of our great universities ofcommunism is absurd. I have never met a social scientist who does not believe in democracy. True, in thepre-presidential election poll here at the University, eightvotes were cast for the socialist Norman Thomas. Butthat was eight out of nine hundred and one. Not oneprofessor voted communist. Landon polled the mostvotes. As the Roosevelt votes rolled in on election day,America seemed to be saying that the universities arenot radical enough.The social scientist establishes his reputation throughhis devotion to the truth. By learning the truth, we maybe able better to foresee the social changes which technology makes inevitable. Society may be able to achievesuch changes gradually, in an orderly manner. Perhapsthe social scientist can help us avoid the shock of suddenchange, with its wasteful dislocation of our economic life.The social scientist has a harder row to hoe than thechemist or biologist. The chemist drops acid into saltin a test tube ; he sees what happens and expects everyone to agree. When the social scientist studies the causeof war, or a business depression, he is bedeviled by ahundred possible causes and a thousand possible effects.Yet he has no personal axe to grind.If the social scientist is swayed by emotion, rather thanby facts and logic, he ceases to be a scientist. His reputation as a professor suffers. He loses caste. His advancement is retarded. A scholarly reputation is aprofessor's stock in trade.In 1927, Professor Douglas, in our economics department here at the University, criticized the Insull utilityempire. Through '28, '29, and '30 he continued hisattacks. These weren't classroom attacks. As a citizen,he exercised his right to speak his mind in public. Perhaps the investors and the financiers now wish they hadpaid more attention to him. At the time, ProfessorDouglas was widely labeled a propagandist and a red.This illustrates how some of thecriticism of university social scientistscomes through their activities outsidethe universities. As citizens, they stillcarry their university's label. Yetalways they speak only for • themselves; not for their universities.Should the utterances of our professors be curbed, as many politicianshave suggested? Would you standfor curbing if you were a professor?The late Secretary of the Treasury,Ogden Mills, asked, "How can theuniversities attract the men whobring strength and vitality, if thesemen are to be muzzled?"Al Smith has hit many a nailsquarely on its head. He hit hardwhen, in 1920 as Governor of NewYork, he vetoed the so-called LuskBill. This bill permitted a censorshipover the public utterances of teachers.Governor Smith wrote: "If this law Variety, Leading Entertainment Journal, Calls It . . ."STREAMLINE EDUCATION PATTERBY THE EX-CHAIRMAN OF THEBOARD OF BENTON & BOWLES,AND NOW UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO VICE-PRESIDENT. BENTON'STALK WAS LABELED "THE FURTHEREDUCATION OF A BUSINESS MAN,"BUT IT SOUNDED MORE ASTHOUGH BENTON WERE EDUCATING THE U. OF C. IN SOME NEWFANGLED RADIO IDEAS. . . . NICEVOICE, GOOD SCRIPT WITH TWO-FISTED, SHORT SENTENCES.BENTON'S STYLE CAN DO MUCHTO IMPROVE THE LEVEL OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING WHICHIS USUALLY AS DEAD AS ELIZABETHAN DRAMA, BUT UNTIL MOREUNIVERSITIES USE A BRASS-TACKSKIND OF SPEECH-MAKING POLICY,SUCH AS THJS, THE U. OF C'SLONE ENDEAVOR IN THE FIELDMAY RING AS HORATIO ALGER-LIKE AS CORRESPONDENCESCHOOL ADS."— EDGA IN VARIETY.had been in force prior to the abolition of slavery, opposition to that institution which was protected by theConstitution and the laws would have been just causefor the disqualification of a teacher. It deprives teachersof their right to freedom of thought. It limits the teaching staffs of the public schools to those who lack thecourage or the mind to exercise their legal right to justcriticism of existing institutions."Remember Al Smith the next time you hear the charge"radicalism" aimed at a university. If the southern universities, before 1861, had been permitted to study andcriticize the institution of slavery, there might have beenno war between the states. This is the opinion of Professor Dodd of the University of Chicago. He has justresigned as ambassador to Germany to complete his greathistory of the American South.There is no turning back from the onward march oftechnology. Less than a century ago it took three farmers to feed one city dweller ; now, one farmer feeds three.Today we are science-minded. Anything seems possible.We greet mechanical discoveries with open arms. Machines have supplanted hand tools. Old industries die,throwing thousands out of work. New ones, such as theradio, flourish like the green bay tree. The Patent Office nearly every year smashes all previous records.Who shall study the social changes which roll alongin the wake of our ship of discovery? Do you thinkthe militant suffragettes secured the vote for women?The development of mechanical aids for the home hadmore to do with it. The invention of the tin can liftedthe weight of the centuries from the shoulders of women.The ambition of all scientists is to make accuratepredictions. Professor Ogburn of the Chicago facultyis probably America's best expert on social forecasting.He was director of President Hoover's monumentalstudy of social trends.He says that the lives of our grandchildren will differ more from oursthan do ours from those of our grandparents. Our population isn't growing as fast as it used to, he says. Infuture, there will be fewer childrenand more old people. That shouldmean more votes for the conservativeparty. Old-age pension schemesshould flourish. Or may youngpeople rebel and deprive oldsters oftheir votes? Children will becomemore valuable. They will receivemore care and attention. There willbe more Shirley Temples. ProfessorOgburn predicts talking books; hesays America's big industries of 1988are today undreamed of.The university social scientist isn'tyet acclaimed as are his brothers inphysics and physiology. But his daywill come. Fifty years ago even theexpression "social science" was unknown. Mathematics, astronomy, and(Continued on Page 20)QUAD RAMBLESYESTERYEAR CALENDARDear Howard Mort:To me personally, the most interesting item in the February"Yesteryear Calendar" was that dated Feb. 24, 1908. Every oneof the signers of that "Public Notice" was a good friend ofmine, and all who are still alive (most of them, thank God!)still are. Clarence Russell, tackle on the football team (captainI think), used to come round for 35c an evening and study atour flat when my wife and I went out; maidless, we couldn'tleave the baby alone ! Winst Henry was serious, like his oldestbrother; but Hunt had been in between, and how could we imagine a serious-minded Henry?Light-hearted Frank Templeton did not in 1908 dream of theday to come when the baseball coach would in an intercollegiategame send one man in to field, and another one to bat, and soalternate them till Joe Raycroft, sitting in the stands, noticed thisslight aberrancy and raised hell, and poor Frank, Captain but ofcourse completely subordinate to the coach, lost his black C.Already in 1908 you could tell that Al Kramer would someday be a Big Shot financially, though all you knew of BillMcCracken was that he was a cheer-leader — who dreamed thatone year he would run aviation for the government, and the nextwould be sent to jail? Bill Wrather, Wallie Steffen, Ren Shererthat intellectual light amidst the DKE gloom (a gloom of whichdear, loyal Norm Baker was the very core and center!) — howas a Dean I scorned them, how as a spectator of life I rejoiced inthem! Fifteen years later vicious Bill Hewitt pleaded with meto sail with him on the Mackinac Race, and when I laughed athim said gloomily, "Isn't there any way I can ever get evenwith you?"I have sat for an hour, on a busy day, dreaming over thosefifteen names. You bet they were "representative men of theUniversity." And are still. Give me the choice between heavenalone, and Texas with that lot, and I'll take Texas.Sincerely yours,James Weber Linn.March 3, 1914. Members of the Daily Maroon staffwere exchange publishers of the Gary paper while Editor Fred W. Carr '09 (Gary) published the Maroon.Fifteen students worked on Editor Carr's Gary paperwhile he was publishing the Maroon singlehanded.March 4, 1924. James H. Breasted was selectedjointly by the Egyptian Government and the Carnarvonrepresentatives as mediator to settle the disputed controlof Tutankahamen's tomb. Both parties agreed to abideby Dr. Breasted's decision. Since that time a colossalstatue of the Egyptian Pharoah 17 feet, 4 inches high(three men piled on end!) and weighing eight tons hasbeen installed in the Oriental Institute.March 5, 1903. The last steel girder for the newgymnasium was swung into place. Bartlett was dedicated the following January. The Washington Prom,which was held there from 1904 to 1919, returned againto its old home this year after nineteen years of wandering around Chicago.March 7, 1908. In a half page ad, Society Brandfeatured alligator vests as what the properly dressedyoung man was wearing that season.March 10, 1906. Green Hall held a faculty costumeparty. Dean MacClintock attended, dressed as a farmboy, Deans Talbot and Breckenridge came as Jack and • By HOWARD W. MORT, Editor, Tower TopicsHOWARD W. MORTJill, and Dr. Warren was distinguished by coming inhis regular civilian clothes.March 13, 1906. The Daily Maroon appeared onthe quadrangles for the first time as a morning paper(Tuesdays through Saturdays).March 16, 1911. A farewell dinner honoring DeanGeorge E. Vincent was held in Hutchinson Commons.Dean Vincent was leaving to become President of theUniversity of Minnesota. The announcement, a fewdays later, that a portrait of this popular faculty member would soon be added to the Hutchinson Commonscollection brought the following Maroon comment onMarch 17: "That portrait of Mr. Vincent is a splendid idea . . . but might not moving pictures be morepractical in Mr. Vincent's case?"March 17, 1912. The portrait of Miss Marion Talbot was hung in Hutchinson Hall. This has been the onlyportrait of a woman to have a place of honor in thisgreat hall.March 18, 1924. It was announced that North,Middle, and South Divinity Halls were to be re-namedBlake (honoring the first President of the Board of Trustees) ; Gates (President of the Baptist's General Education Board who secured the first Rockefeller gift of$600,000 for founding the University) ; and Goodspeed(Secretary of the Board of Trustees for many years andactive in the University's founding).March 19, 1918. B. G. Nelson (Public Speaking)was called to Washington to supervise the training ofAmerica's "Four Minute Men". Mr. Nelson is nowretired, spending his winters in the south and his summers on his farm near Bangor, Michigan. He still retains that sense of humor which made him so popularwith generations of students.THE CAMPUS DISSENTER• By HERBERT (BUD) LARSON '38PHILOSOPHY instructors in their reference toantiquity are often heard to remark that when ancient Greek met Greek a discussion ensued. Theyteach us that the Greeks of old were great philosopherspartly because they were great talkers, that once a discussion started they allowed it to drift in its logicalchannel to a logical ending. Modern Greeks seem tohave inherited that trait from their assumed ancestors.Bull sessions are still a pivotal point of fraternity life.But recently the discussions have been more pointed,more directed than adrift, more in the nature of salestalks than a search for truth. I refer to the recentpledging period, at which time 156 freshmen affiliatedthemselves with our remaining seventeen fraternities.From the numbers viewpoint Phi Kappa Psi scoopedthe campus with the largest class, seventeen men. Theywere closely followed by Delta Upsilon and Psi Upsilonwith sixteen. Others gaining large classes were AlphaDelta Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Phi Sigma Deltawith thirteen each, Phi Gamma Delta with eleven, andPi Lambda Phi with ten. Chi Psi garnered nine newmen. Four houses, Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Sigma, PhiDelta Theta, and Zeta Beta Tau each took in eight. Theremaining were two for Phi Beta Delta and Phi KappaSigma, and one each for Alpha Tau Omega and SigmaChi.The total number, 156, exceeds last year's total whichwas the lowest since the inception of the deferred rushing system, by two. It is a point worth noting that eightmen, a fairly good sized class, was obtained by thirteenof the seventeen fraternities.It is because of a University ruling that the openrushing period and, pledging date is set for WinterQuarter. Most fraternities and freshmen favor a deferred rushing system, but feel that they would be mutually benefited if the day for pledging were moved upto (say) early in November. Arguments for an earlierdate run something like this : It would strengthen thefraternity set-up both financially and from the point ofnumbers, it would aid in freshman orientation at theUniversity, it would eliminate much wasted time andmoney that is now necessarily expended for a fourmonths rushing program after school starts, and itmight add to the vigor with which fraternity men rushhigh school men for the University as well as for theirown house if they knew they could pledge them earlier.This year, again, the Interfraternity Council is attempting to use what influence and pressure it can muster toconvert the authorities to their view of the problem andreturn the pledging date to sometime in the AutumnQuarter.WOMEN'S CLUB PLEDGINGThe women's club rushing season, which ended justbefore that of the fraternities was much less successful.Only 51 were pledged, which number is 75 less than that of the 1936-37 period. (The drop-off, however, canpartly be accounted for by the fact that transfer students were pledged in the Autumn Quarter and so arenot included in the total, whereas last year they werepledged at the same time as freshmen.)The Esoteric Club pledged the largest number, twelve,followed by Mortar Board and Quadrangler, whopledged nine and eight, respectively. Others were Ar-rian, one; Achoth, six; Chi Rho Sigma, four; DeltaSigma, one; Deltho, three; Phi Beta Delta, one; PhiDelta Upsilon, one ; Pi Delta Phi, five ; Sigma, five ; andWyvern, four.SENIOR CLASS ELECTIONUnder the present arrangement at the University littleregard is held for class. Whether one is a senior or firstyear student means little in undergraduate life, andeven on registration cards and in the Student Directorydistinctions are noted only as "The College", "The Divisions", or a "Graduate School." The only group whichstill attempts formal organization is the Senior Class,which goes through the motions of an election each winter to choose a President and a Secretary-Treasurer.Chief duties of the officers are to arrange some sort ofa ball or class function, and to raise money so the classmay leave a remembrance with its Alma Mater.This year it looked for a time as if real spirit for thething were generating. With four candidates for President and three for Secretary, with the campus plasteredover with ballyhoo signs and whitewashed sidewalks,with nomination petitions being circulated by the dozens,and with Daily Maroon articles and editorials furtherspreading the publicity, great results were anticipated.But they weren't so. From a class list of about 800seniors, only 234 ballots were cast. The office of President was won with only 73 votes, or less than one-tenthof the class membership. The winner was George Halcrow, former head of the A.S.U., a College Marshal,Captain of the Track Team, Big Ten 440 Champion lastyear, and a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity. The newSecretary-Treasurer is Betty Booth, attractive presidentof Sigma Club and President of the Interclub Council.WASHINGTON PROMTraditionally known as the biggest of the social eventsis the Washington Prom, held annually on the eve ofWashington's birthday. This year's is the 34th annualaffair. At its inception the dance was held in BartlettGymnasium, and continued so until 1919. Then itdrifted away, and in recent years has always been heldin loop hotels, ball-rooms, and nearby clubs. Nowagain, after many years off campus, the Student SocialCommittee has brought the Prom back to the gym, afurther move in the current attempt to form a "campuscommunity", to promote social life "at home", and to(Continued on Page 22)17IN MY OPINIONBy FRED B. MILLETT, PhD'31, Visiting Professor of English, Wesleyan UniversityALTHOUGH it is still too early to get a clearperspective on the New York theatrical seasonof 1937-38, certain events of the season are already a memorable part of the history of the contemporary American theater. Just what the annual statistics of successful and unsuccessful productions will revealis not clear, but a hurried reference tothe dramatic advertisements in anyNew York paper makes it obvious thatthe slow revival of the theater fromthe onslaught of the depression is stillin progress, and that the number ofproductions this season is unlikely toexceed that of last season and will certainly fall far short of the boom yearsof the late twenties. One unusual feature of the current season is the immediate failure of a number of importantproductions which aroused expectations but did not fulfill them, andwhich consequently were greeted withloud critical damns. The TallulahBankhead version of Anthony andCleopatra, much frequented in theprovinces, was taken off after five performances in NewYork in the face of volleys of virulently critical abuse.The dramatization of Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat by JackKirkland (of Tobacco Road fame) ended in an exchange of fisticuffs between the outraged dramatist anda critic who insisted on doing his duty as he saw it.The Times' critic's epitaph on the dramatization ofErskine Caldwell's Journeyman concluded with thewords, "The worst is over in the theater for a long timeto come. After Journeyman one can contemplate thefuture with jubilation and look back on Tortilla Flat withaffection and respect." The Federal Theater continuesits local activities in an atmosphere of contention andsuspicion. Its major achievement this season is thefourth number in the Living Newspaper series, One-Third of the Nation, a powerful staging of New York'shousing problem by the aid of all sorts of theatrical andnontheatrical devices.The small number of "musicals" produced, and thesmaller number of successful "musicals" seem to indicatea shift in American taste away from musical comedy oroperetta or the reluctance of theatrical angels to sinkmoney in the most expensive type of dramatic production. A contributing influence here, no less than in thelegitimate drama, is the moving picture, which canachieve effects comparable to those of the "musical" and,if successful, can reach a vastly greater audience. Rivalry of this sort is not inconsiderable, despite the conspicuous failure of the Nelson Eddy-Eleanor PowellRosalie. In the theater, the most sensational failurein this genre was the Rockefeller Center Virginia, despite the advantages of the most mechanically resource-FRED B. MILLETTful stage in America and the services as librettists ofsuch writers of intelligence and experience as LaurenceStallings, Owen Davis, and, as "play-doctor," HenryWagstaff Gribble. At the moment, the most indubitablysuccessful "musicals" are Hooray for What! with EdWyrin and I'd Rather Be Right with George M. Cohan.Both productions have tremendous assets in the expert and popular comedians that head the casts. Both productions differ, moreover, from musical comedy or operetta of the type ofthe Student Prince or Maytime in thestrong admixture of contemporary satire. To combine the idiocies of sucha zany as Ed Wynn with satire oninternational diplomacy, munitionsmakers, and the world's passion forwar seems the height of incongruity,but perhaps the crackbrained laughter of this lunatic figure is the onlyappropriate response to a civilizationdedicated to madness and destruction.The satire in I'd Rather Be Right,though superficially bolder, is moregenial and less lunatic. The frank utilization of President Roosevelt, his Cabinet, and the Supreme Court asmajor characters in the satirical musical comedy promises more than it actually gives us, although the fundamental impudence and liberality of the device have a tremendous appeal. But the view taken of the Presidenthimself is only modestly satirical. He is not representedin the language of the Union League Club or the capitalistic press. He emerges, not as an American Stalinor Mussolini, but as a well-intentioned and kindly blunderer. Any other than a friendly and sympathetic treatment of the personality would be impossible from sogenial a comedian as George M. Cohan, perhaps the bestloved of American comedians since the death of WillRogers. Despite the physical differences of the men,the impersonation is amazingly expert. The slightlyvacuous look, the loose mouth, the saccharine over-friendly utterance are superb touches of the caricaturist.But the jauntiness and deathless nimbleness and unquenchable optimism are George M. Cohan's, and thesupreme moment of the show is that when Cohan goesinto the cocky strut and impudent tail-wagging of theold song-and-dance man.1This season seems likely to prove one of the TheaterGuild's less successful years. Sidney Howard's TheGhost of Yankee Doodle struck most of the critics as aconfusion rather than a clarification of the plight of theAmerican liberal in the next great war. The adaptationof the French dramatization of Flaubert's Madame'Cohan himself is responsible for some of the pulled punches. At thefirst performance of the show in Boston, he refused to sing a stanza of alyric directed at his old friend Al Smith, and substituted for it innocuousstanzas of his own.18THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 19B ovary did not repeat its Parisian success. The Guildhas been unable to persuade Katherine Hepburn, enormously successful in Jane Eyre on the road last year,to run the gauntlet of metropolitan criticism, from whichshe emerged so badly wounded after her appearance inThe Lake. Its difficulties with the latest Behrman opus,Wine oj Choice, have been endless* Miriam Hopkinsabandoned the play in disgust after its Chicago engagement. Alexander Woollcott was drafted to add his bulkand his wit to the allurement of an unpromising piece.At the moment, it seems doubtful whether the play willever reach New York or whether it will survive the sixweeks of the Guild subscription season, if it goes there.To date, the Guild's only unquestioned success this yearis Behrman's adaptation of Jean Giraudoux' Amphitryon38. The play, first presented on the Coast last springby Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne and reworked beforethe New York opening, has been beautifully and sympathetically produced. In fact, the production is perhaps too considered and calculated ; it has a little of theartificial beauty of a corpse and not of a living being.But in its artful kind, it has perfection of costume andmakeup, gesture and intonation, with subtle and bawdyimplication. Most critics have underscored its eroticismand overlooked its philosophical envelope. Whereas mostearlier versions of the legend of Jupiter's wooing ofAlcmena in the guise of her husband Amphitryon havebeen cynical and rowdy, this version is in spirit chasteand philosophical. Its concern is with the psychology,not of marital infidelity but marital fidelity; it is evenmore deeply concerned with the philosophical discrepancy between godhood and manhood. Perhaps the mostilluminating passage in the play is the discussion overthe breakfast trays by Jupiter and Alcmena of the relative advantages of mortality and immortality, and — notfor the first time in history or legend — the woman hasthe better of the argument.Perhaps the most surprising feature of the currentseason is the deserved popularity of a number of Elizabethan revivals. Behind two of these — Dekker's TheShoemaker's Holiday and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar —is the vitalizing imagination of young Orson Welles,whose Middle Western origin and early theatrical experience are a source of legitimate pride to Chicagoans.The productions are alike in the simplicity of their staging and the vigor of the direction. Neither productionis quite true to the spirit of the original text. The firstof these plays, as Ivor Brown, the visiting English criticobserved, is a three-decker sandwich, built up out of thelow comedy of Simon Eyre and his apprentices, the sentimental comedy of Jane and Ralph, and the romanticcomedy of Rowland and Rose. In the Mercury Theaterproduction, the sentimental and romantic values are burlesqued, and consequently the gentle spirit of the oldpiece turns slightly sour. The low comedy is generouslyfurnished by Whitford Kane as Simon Eyre, MarionWaring-Manley as his wife Margery, and Hiram Sherman — formerly of the Goodman Theater — as the apprentice Firk. In his production of Julius Caesar, Welleshas ironically stolen some devices of staging from thetheatrical Hitler regime. Visually, the production is memorable for its strong shafts of light thrusting acrossimpenetrable darkness. The Nazi costuming, the dictator-like representation of Caesar, the rabble-rousingof Mark Antony, the brutality of the hypnotized mobgive the dull old play an astonishing excitement and contemporary significance. Welles himself acts the crucialpart of Brutus with sensitivity and discretion. He conceives of him as the well-intentioned liberal, defeated inthe end by the ruthlessness of his opponents and his ownscrupulousness. Whatever Shakespeare's moral was —and I am not at all sure that he knew just what he wasdriving at — the Welles production is a thrilling anti-Fascist experience and a portent of the fate of the tooconscientious liberal in conflict with brutal power. Amore complete adherence to the spirit of Shakespeareis evident in the Federal Theater's production of Corio-lanus. The performance of a practically unknown playof Shakespeare's was a refreshing revelation of his mastery of political psychology and his insight into its varieties. Here his concern is not with the liberal but withthe aristocratic type. Democrats and radicals, rubbedthe wrong way by Shakespeare's contemptuous treatment of ambitious politicians and the many-headed multitude, should not be deterred thereby from seeing thedramatic and spiritual significance of this tragedy of thearistocratic tradition, a tradition admirable in its devotion to the principle of noblesse oblige, but self -destructive in its arrogance and its incapacity for compromise.In his extraordinary insight into the character of Corio-lanus, no less than into such a character as Brutus,Shakespeare seems to be pointing to the moral of Aristotelian moderation, to the Greek principle of Nothingin Excess.It is not to be expected that the American plays ofthe current season should measure up to Shakespeare'sin poetic power or imaginative insight. Susan and Godis a characteristic Rachel Crothers production, up-to-the-minute in subject, witty, knowing, and reasonably penetrating. But the play is of merely topical significance,sine Buchmanism and the Oxford Group Movement areimpermanent, if legitimate, objects of satire. The satire,moreover, is the only significant element in the play, except perhaps for a touching study of an awkward adolescent .girl whose normal adjustment to life is hampered by the separation of her parents. It is when MissCrothers attempts in the third act to turn her heroine,a nit-wit bewitched by Buchmanism, into a sympatheticand admirable woman, that the play collapses into improbability. Miss Crothers' God is impotent to turn thisparticular sow's ear into a silk purse. Gertrude Lawrence, of course, gives a brilliant performance as the sillyheroine, but in the emotional dilemma of the third act,she is obviously embarrassed by the volte-face the playwright demands of her. She is intelligent enough toknow — even though Miss Crothers is not — that such aheroine deserves nothing short of strangulation at thehands of her long-suffering husband.On an entirely different plane of imagination and accomplishment is John Steinbeck's dramatization of hisnovel, Of Mice and Men. Here Steinbeck reveals, notonly an enviable eye for fresh material and unhackneyed20 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEenvironment but an admirable sense of the potentialitiesof the dramatic form. Of Mice and Men is not, of course,for all theater-goers. Its bunkhouse language is embarrassingly masculine. The material is repellent. Themovement is ponderous. The mode is that of naturalistic tragedy, a dramatic type beyond the theatrical experience of most Americans. The distinguishable elements of melodrama and sentimentality are probablyfused more successfully in the novel than in the play.But on the stage it is a terrifying and haunting experience, and with it the author joins the small company ofyoung men who belong undubitably to the significantliterature of our time.Of greatest interest perhaps to University of Chicagoreaders is the recent production of Thornton Wilder'sfirst full-length play, Our Town.2 In this singularlymoving play, Wilder has followed the slow rhythm oflife, love, and death in a small New Hampshire villageof about a generation ago. But here as elsewhere in hiswriting he is concerned less with particulars than withuniversals. In consequence, while the manners andmores of American small town life are lovingly suggested, the superior values of the play lie in the emotionsand ideas that grow out of the consideration of the particular in the light of the universal. Of the seriousAmerican writers of our time, Wilder is one for whomthe spirit still has vitality, and in this play he has beenalmost perfectly successful in projecting that vital spirituality.To many persons in the audience, the more superficial2How to Get Tough About It by Robert Ardrey, '30, was produced toolate for comment in this issue. This is Ardrey rs second play on Broadwaywithin a year. His third, Casey Jones, was produced on February 19.thinkers. "Not all of us are hypocrites. A few of usreally mean it when we sound fashionably cynical; andstill fewer of us are brave enough to refuse to followthe herd in tolerating books and plays and customs andcodes that are, to us, intolerable. But the great majority of us only pretend. We have set up as a modelfor ourselves an imaginary being known as "the sophisticated, college-bred woman" ; and we spend our livestrying to copy her.I do not believe that our shortcomings are the faultof our colleges, which did all they could to provide uswith the tools for building a good life. Rather, thetrouble with us is that our new status has gone to ourheads a little. As the newly educated sex, we are likethe newly rich — we have not yet had time to becomemedicine have absorbed men for centuries.Is society sick, or merely suffering from growingpains? The public should support the great universitiesin their efforts to provide a balanced view of what ishappening to society. When we cease to be devoted to aspects of the play may seem the most attractive. .For it-gives constantly that pleasure of recognition which isone of the functions of most realistic and some idealisticart. Middle-aged American play-goers, most of whomseem -to have been born and bred in small towns, cannotfail to respond with amused delight to the shrewdnessand good humor with which Wilder has noted the characteristic behavior and psychology of village life. ButOur Town is not a dramatized Main Street. Its methodis never purely realistic. In fact, it is a deliberate challenge to the method of realism. There is no scenery.The only properties are tables and chairs, a couple offlorar arbors (for those who insist on scenery), and twopracticable second-story windows. Yet Wilder is asskilful as the Elizabethans in flooding a bare stage withmoonlight through evocative language. The realisticdialogue of the plays is introduced and interrupted by aproperty-man who acts as interpreter between the actors and the audience and who exists beyond time.The power of the play increases as it proceeds. Thefirst act is almost too deliberately anti-theatrical. Theplay reveals no dramatic conflict save the eternal conflict between life, love, and death. It reaches its maximum potency in the third act, where, in the village cemetery against the background of the quiet broodingspeeches of the dead, the agony of severance from loveand life is acted out. Its peak of emotion comes when,as the curtains are slowly drawn by the commentator,the young husband falls, speechless with grief, beforethe grave of his wife, who has just become reconciledto joining the company of the philosophical and timelessdead.accustomed to our privileges.But the situation is not hopeless. All we have to dois to sharpen those tools which were put into our handsto aid us in living richly. But we shall have to hurry- —we women who are crowding thirty, or forty, or fifty.We shall have to take a rapid and rather desperate inventory of ourselves to find out what we are really likeunder all our stage trappings of pretense. We shall haveto try, for perhaps the first time in our adult lives, tobe wholly honest about our emotions, our sentiments,our tastes, our opinions, and those outmoded things —our ideals. About books and art. About religion andmorals. About duty and love. It will take courage atfirst, this being honest. But, ah — in the end — the ineffable satisfaction of being ourselves!the truth, then, as Professor Merriam has put it, we canblow out the light and fight it out in the dark ; for whenthe voice of reason is silenced, the rattle of the machineguns begins.An Alumna Looks dt Her Kind (Continued from Page 13)The Further Education of a Business Man (Continued from Page 15)ATHLETICS• By PAUL MAC LEANScores:BasketballChicago, 29; Minnesota, 45Chicago, 34; Ohio State, 36Chicago, 29; Iowa, 42Chicago, 32; Wisconsin, 46TrackChicago, 63*4; North Central, 31 y2Chicago, 47 ys ; Northwestern, 38%Chicago, 77; Loyola, 18WrestlingChicago (second team), 8; Northern IllinoisTeachers, 26Chicago, 21; Wheaton, 11Chicago, 35 ; Northern Illinois Teachers, 0Chicago (second team), 26; Morton Junior, 16Chicago, 31 ; Duncan "Y," 5FencingChicago, 11; Rantoul Army Air Corps, 7Chicago, 17 y2 ; Notre Dame, 9y2Chicago, 10; Wright Junior, 7Chicago, 12; Wisconsin, 5SwimmingChicago, 23 ; Minnesota, 61 ; Iowa, 76Water PoloChicago, 6; Iowa, 1GymnasticsChicago, 435 ; Illinois, 387^ALTHOUGH the University basketball team isdestined to remain in the Big Ten basement,with only a faint chance of winning a single conference engagement, other Maroon winter sports teamson the Midway are more than keeping pace.Chicago's track, wrestling, fencing, water polo andgymnastics teams went through the past month withouta defeat. While the swimming team lost a dual meetto Northwestern, perennial Big Ten contender, and tookthird in a three-way meet with Minnesota, Coach E. W.McGillivray's tank squad is stronger than a year agoand is certain to end in the upper division of the conference splash.Coach Ned Merriam's sophomore-fortified track squadwon its last three dual meets. It defeated Northwestern,North Central college and Loyola. Prior to that itdropped a dual meet to Illinois by a one-point margin.The Maroon team, while not expected to be a title-bearer, is strong enough to give most conference opposition hot competition.Coach Merriam's hopes of a top indoor season werediminished shortly after the Illinois meet when BobWasem, star sophomore hurdler and quarter miler, frac tured an ankle in a basketball game. Wasem is hobblingabout on a steel-braced cast at the present time. He isnot expected to be able to return to track work until theoutdoor season.The Maroon squad is one of the strongest on the Midway in several seasons. Captain George Halcrow, holderof the conference outdoor quarter mile title, is travelingthe indoor event in 50 seconds. He has not been pressedthis season. He is anchor man on the mile relay teamwhich already has given notice that it will be in the conference tussle at 3:23 0r under. John Webster, whohas been clocked in the half mile at 1:57.1; KenathSponsel and Chester Powell, the latter two sophomores,make up the balance of the mile relay team.Besides the quarter, half, and the mile relay team,Chicago also is strong in the dashes. John Davenport,another sophomore, is undefeated to date in dual competition. He has been timed consistently at :6.4 in the60-yard dash. In the Northwestern dual meet he ranaway from Delaney, PUrpie conference dash finalist twoyears ago. Davenport also is bettering his performancesin the low hurdles and the broad jump.The hurdles are better fortified this season than last.Matthew Kobak, who took third place in the conferenceoutdoor broad jump last year, is specializing in both thehigh and low timbers, if he maintains his present speedand form, comparable to any in the conference, he willbe a tough customer in the indoor Big Ten meet, to beheld in the Midway field house, March 11 and 12.Coach Spyros Vorres' wrestling team has been plugging away on the mat with outstanding success this year.The eight-weight team has four clever wrestlers who areprimed to make the conference meet, to be held at Northwestern, a slang-bang affair. Captain Ed Valorz, 175pounds, took second place in the Big Ten last year, andshould annex the title this season. Bob Finwall, 145pounds, former Big Ten champion, is headed for anothermat crown. Gil Finwall, Bob's brother, although notas experienced, is sure to make the 135-pound divisionspirited. Fred Lehnhardt, down now to the 165-poundclass, may upset pre-season dope and bring a few conference points into the Maroon camp.Foils, epees and sabres have been flashing on the Midway with continuous success this season. Coach AlvarHermanson's swordsmen have won all their meets. During the past month they defeated the Rantoul Army AirCorps, Notre Dame, Wisconsin and Wright Junior College. The team, Big Ten champion, is headed for another conference halo. Captain Herbert Strauss, a three-weapon man, is much improved over a year ago. Lastseason he took third in the conference epee matches.The Maroon water polo team, which last year sharedconference honors with Northwestern, commenced theseason by an impressive win over its Purple rival. Since2122 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEthen it has defeated Iowa and stands undefeated in theChicago Parks District tournament.Coach Dan Hoffer's gym team made an impressiveseason's beginning in conference competition by a winover Illinois. Prior to that the squad checked up a victory over George Williams college. Incidentally, CoachHoffer's hockey team has been traveling at a fast clipagainst amateur clubs in Chicago. On Feb. 26 it madeits first collegiate debut against Illinois at Urbana.The Maroon basketball team, suffering from an acutecase of "conferenceitis," has still five games to play.There is a probability that the team yet may enter thewinning column and thus break a conference losingstreak that dates to "way back when." During the pastmonth Coach Nelson Norgren's quintet lost to Minnesota, Ohio State, Iowa and Wisconsin. Games yet tobe played are with Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Purdueand Ohio State.Although the team has been disappointing from manypoints of view, the quad is fast, eager and well-balanced— but not as much so as its opponents. The long stringpart of the inspiring teacher, the eminent scholar, thenoted university president, the distinguished public man.For Dr. Harper in his personal relations never ceasedto be the modest, friendly, unassuming, at times playfulperson foreshadowed in his boyhood and youth. In hisfamily life he was thoroughly human and not abovepractical jokes. He never forgot his old friends. Henever put on airs. He liked to come back to New Concord and Granville to visit with people he used to know.interest commuters and independent groups in schoolfunctions. With Gothic Bartlett transformed by elaborate decorations to an American Mount Vernon,. HerbieKay's fine band, and a reasonable price, this year's SocialCommittee has distinguished itself by starting a newcycle in an old tradition, for the affair drew about 800people, the largest crowd to ever attend a Prom.FILM SOCIETY, NEWSREELA new competition among student activities has grownin the form of a struggle for film patrons. Last year theFilm Society held a virtual monopoly on the trade withweekly showings of famous film masterpieces, drawingturn-away crowds at 35c matinee and 50c evening prices.Then, once each quarter, the Campus Newsreel reviewedin motion pictures, the events on campus. But each hadits following, and there was little competition. of conference defeats apparently is an "Indian sign" whichthe players cannot shed.Football Coach Clark D. Shaughnessy made an innovation on the Midway last month and commenced a "winter" instead of "spring" football practice. More thanthirty players are practicing three times a week in thefield house and will continue to do so for ten weeks.Coach Shaughnessy is well pleased with the plan. Underthe leadership of Captain Lewis Hamity the squad isspirited and determined. It faces one of the strongest,yet most interesting, schedules in many football seasonson the Midway.The winter Junior Davis Cup tennis tournament isunder way in the fieldhouse. Chicago's Big Ten championship team is headed for a general clean-up. CaptainJohn Shostrom, Bill and Chester Murphy, John Kreiten-stein and Art Jorgenson are undefeated to date. CharlesShostrom, the only Maroon net man to lose a match,dropped it to Kreitenstein, another University player.The outlook for another conference U championshipteam this spring is brighter even, than a year ago.At Chautauqua his recreation was playing a cornet in theband. He took an intense interest in football matcheswhen the University of Chicago played.It is fitting that this house of logs, relic of the democratic frontier life, symbol of the pioneering spirit,should be preserved as a memorial to a sincere, neighborly, natural, unpretentious American who was alsoNew Concord's most famous son, and Muskingum's mostillustrious graduate.Early this year the Newsreel group entered the fieldof the Film Society by showing in addition to its newsreview the old feature "Hunchback of Notre Dame."From there it moved on to ordinary double feature programs of old-timers, with light entertainment as drawing cards, cutting deeply into Film Society business andpacking them in at only 15c. Film society bigwigs immediately complained to the Office of the Dean of Students, and were promptly told they had no monopolyrights but would have to compete. So they just aspromptly cut prices and lengthened programs, all ofwhich leaves the campus with two movie groups, oneshowing old "cinema art" films weekly at higher prices,and the other showing quarterly news reviews of campusand more regular "light entertainment" programs at 15c.So the double feature scourge is not only professionaland in big theaters. It has hit campus with a vengeance.William Rainey Harper (Continued from Page 10)The CampUS Dissenter (Continued from Page 17)NEWS OF THE QUADRANGLESTO both alumni and the world in general the Sunday morning Round Table broadcast providestheir most intimate contact with the University.Each Sunday morning the Round Table speakers,usually three members of the faculty, are friendly visitors in a million and one-half homes. Through them,tlie University, instead of a remote and impersonal institution, becomes identifiable in terms of personalities.If the Round Table be considered as an advertisement,it is an effective one. The speakers of the Round Tableknow their subjects, they can make them interesting,and on the whole, they express themselves with clearness and deftness.The Round Table's seventh anniversary came onSunday, February 13. The anniversary found the program the best in the educational field, boasting thelargest audience of any of its type. In Washington ithas a big following ; two Presidents have listened to it ;Cabinet members, Senators, Representatives and othergovernment officials are regular listeners. Three of itsmost interested followers in the Senate are LaFollette,Capper and Wheeler. The Round Table is frequentlyquoted on the floor of Congress; the Department ofAgriculture often has put a stenographer at a radio totranscribe the discussion. When the Round Tablestarted out on its eighth year it was introduced bySecretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, who spokeabout the broadcast in terms of long acquaintance. Professional and business men regularly listen to the RoundTable, and correspondence with the managing editorsand publishers of the country's leading papers provesthat most of them hear and like the program. But itseems to have a universal appeal; Dean Spencer recently was given super-service by a Pullman porterwho recognized him as one of the regular speaker's.The first Round Table went on the air the secondSunday in February, 1931, as a local program overstation WMAQ. (In October, 1933, it was made anNBC red network program and today is broadcast over37 stations.) Subject of the first broadcast was theWickersham report, which had just been released to anation that was preparing to vote out prohibition. Ideaof the program, as developed by Allen Miller, thenradio director of the University, and Miss Judith Waller.vice president and general manager of WMAQ, was toprovide an exchange of views like that which occurredacross the round table of the Quadrangle Club at lunchtime. The first Round Table speakers were ProfessorsPercy H. Boynton, T. V. Smith, and Winfred E. Garrison. They spoke without scripts, and despite thefears of the radio executives, did so well that the RoundTable never since has been written out. No other program on the networks has such a privilege. The program is an extemporaneous exchange of views; to usescripts would be to kill its spontaneity. It requiresreal knowledge of a subject, facility of expression, and23 • By WILLIAM V. MORGENSTERN, '20, JD '22an element of courage, to speak out on the air withoutthe reassurance of a written speech. Not everyone canmaster the technique. To say that the program is extemporaneous in expression is not, however, to say thatit is not prepared. Twice before each broadcast theparticipants meet to block out the outline of their thirtyminute discussion. That general guide established, theymust spend considerable time gathering and checkingtheir material, knowing all the while that nine-tenthsof what they prepare will be discarded.That first Round Table set the pattern in subject,as well as in form. More and more definitely, the broadcast has tended to become a forum for the discussion ofnational and international economic and political problems. There have been broadcasts on topics from thesciences and the humanities, but these are becomingrare. The audience which the Round Table has established looks to it for interpretation of the events ofthe practical political world;Most familiar of the faculty to the Round Table audience are T. V. Smith, Dean William H. Spencer,Harry D. Gideonse, Jerome G. Kerwin, and JamesWeber Linn. The late Stuart P. Meech often was heardon the program. Recently more money has beenbudgeted to the support of the broadcast, and outsideauthorities are beginning to appear more frequently.Despite the handicap of a poor hour, which conflictswith church services in the Middle West and the extrahour of Sunday morning sleep on the Pacific Coast, theRound Table ranks as one of the major programs ofthe air.ABOLISH THESESStudents in Education at the University now canearn the Master's degree without writing a thesis asa result of a recent action of the University Senate. TheDepartment of Education was first to take advantageof the Senate's authorization, applicable throughout theDivisions of Biological and Social Sciences on departmental initiative. This shift in interpretation of thesisrequirements establishes an alternative to the traditionalprogram which calls for a thesis, although students stillmay write theses if they wish.Abolition of the iron-clad thesis requirement, whichwill have a particular appeal to those who want to teach,emphasizes the breadth of training a student may acquirein his course work rather than the degree of specialization to which his efforts must be put. It means, FrankN. Freeman, professor of Educational Psychology, says,that the Department of Education is "taking more seriously than ever its function of training teachers as wellas research workers."Following the action of the Division of Social Sciences in making the step possible, the Department ofEducation announced the alternative plans for obtaining24 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MA'GAZINEa Master's degree. Under Plan I the requirements arethe same as they have been for the past few years andinclude, besides the residence period (equivalent to oneacademic year, or three quarters) required for any degree in the University, an acceptable thesis and thepassing of a final examination.Plan II substitutes for the thesis an acceptable paperor report showing ability to select, integrate, and evaluate data with respect to some educational problem orprocedure, and requires the passing of an additionalcourse entitled "Critique of Educational Literature."Under each of these plans a student is permitted tomake up his program in part from courses taken in allieddepartments, when it can be shown that such coursesare definitely related to the student's special field ofinterest in education.TYLER SUCCEEDS JUDDThe educational world has been speculating for morethan a year as to what the University would do aboutreplacing the famous Charles H. Judd, the "educationalstatesman" who made the Department of Education apotent influencethroughout theland. Dr. Judd,Charles F. GreyDistinguishedService Profes-_ sor of Education, reaches theretiring age thisJune. He hasbeen on leave ofabsence, engagedin Washingtonas director of research for theNational Resources Committee's study of therelation of education to government and as amember of thePresident's Committee on Education, which hasbeen appraising the relation of general to vocationaleducation. The speculations about his successor endedthe middle of February, when President Hutchins announced that Dr. Ralph W. Tyler, Ph. D., '27, wouldhead the department.Dr. Tyler is professor of education and research associate of the Bureau of Educational Research, Ohio StateUniversity. When he comes here next October, he alsowill assume the post of chief examiner of the Board ofExaminations, a job which Professor L. L. Thurstonehas held reluctantly. Although Dr. Tyler will not be36 until April, he is highly regarded by professional educators. Trained in the natural sciences and also wellequipped as a statistician, and educational psychologist,his skill as an evaluator of educational methods hasRALPH W. TYLER, PhD '27He succeeds Judd brought him particularly to il!hfe 'attention of secondaryschool and college authorities. At Ohio State he hasbeen Chairman of the Committee on Evaluation, a position in which he has cooperated with all departmentsof the university in defining their educational objectivesand measuring their realization through the tests he hasdevised. In laymen's language, he has been measuringhow well particular methods of education really educate.Dr. Tyler also is directing a study, supported by theGeneral Education Board, for the Progressive Education Association. This study is evaluating the performance in college of graduates of progressive high schoolsin comparison with that of graduates of traditionalsecondary schools. To assist in the investigation, leading colleges of the country have agreed to admit, foran eight year period, graduates recommended by thirtyprogressive schools, whether or not they meet specificentrance requirements of courses in particular subjects.In directing this work Dr. Tylar heads a committeeon curriculum and one on evaluation. All the testswhich are being used in the investigation, now in its fifthyear, have been created under his direction. This program, which Dr. Tyler will continue at Chicago, hasbrought him into close association with secondary andcollege level teachers and administrators. Although nottechnically a specialist in curriculum making, ProfessorTyer insists that effective measurements in the field ofeducation must be predicated on thorough going acquaintance with problems of curricula.While working for his doctorate at Chicago, Dr. Tylerstudied mostly with Dr. W. W. Charters, head of thedepartment of education at Ohio State University, andDr. Karl J. Holzinger, whose field is that of statisticsand educational measurement. Professor Tyler's doctoral dissertation was on "Statistical Methods forUtilizing Personal Judgments to Evaluate Activities forTeacher-Training Curricula."He was born in Chicago, April 22, 1902 ; did hisundergraduate work at Doane University, and receivedthe Master's degree from the University of Nebraska in1923. A high school teacher at Pierre, South Dakota,in 1921, he was assistant supervisor of sciences, University of Nebraska, 1922-27; then associate professor ofeducation, University of North Carolina, 1927-29. Hewas appointed associate professor of education at OhioState University in 1930, and in 1931 was given the rankof professor.Among the professional organizations of which Dr.Tyler is a member are the American Association forthe Advancement of Science, the American EducationalResearch Association, American Statistical Association,National Society for Study of Education, and the National Educational Association. In 1933 he was editorof "Service Studies in Higher Education." He is theauthor, with Professor Douglas Waples of the GraduateLibrary School of the University of Chicago, of "Research Methods and Teachers' Problems," and "WhatPeople Want to Read About." His book, "Constructing Achievement Tests," published in 1934, is the accepted authority in that field.Dr. Tyler married Flora O. Volz, of Hildreth,Nebraska, in 1921 ; they have three children, HelenTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 25Jeannette, 15 ; Ralph Winifred, 13 ; and Ann Elizabeth, 5.LIPPMAN LECTURESThough the successor of Dr. Judd has been chosento the satisfaction of the educational world, there is stillone very important job to which the University hasn'tas yet the right answer. That is the holder of the chairof the Charles R. Walgreen Foundation for the Studyof American Institutions. But the Foundation contemplates, among other effort, public lectures from time totime. First of the Foundation's activities came withsuch a series, presenting Walter Lippman, commentatoron contemporary affairs, author of a number of important books, overseer of Harvard University, and ingeneral a distinguished student of the American way.Mr. Lippman spoke three evenings in Mandel Hall toaudiences that overflowed on the stage. Students hadfirst. right to tickets and the faculty and outsiders might,with luck, get a single ticket.Great Britain, Mr. Lippman said, was declining as aforce in international affairs ; to that decline he ascribedthe turbulent state of the world for the past twenty-fiveyears. Successor to Britain as the arbiter among thenations will be the United States, "the final force inthe international life of mankind." But, Mr. Lippmanwas quick to add, the United States is not yet strongenough in relative power or in political experience toundertake the job of policing the world."I believe that we are going to be and that this is theAmerican destiny; I believe that the next era of peacein the world, when finally it is achieved, perhaps in onegeneration, perhaps in two or three, will find Americaplaying a role similar to that played by Britain in thehundred years between Waterloo and the Marne."In his second lecture Mr. Lippman said that he wasconvinced that the cardinal objective of the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis is not the pretended aim of isolatingSoviet Russia, but the reduction and dismembering ofthe British Empire. "Napoleon said that God is on theside of the big battalions. I am afraid he was right.The simple fact which distinguishes the post-war fromthe pre-war world is that then liberalism was backed bysupreme power and that now despotism is powerfulenough to dream of supremacy. Then the big battalionswere on the side of what we regard as civilization andnow they seem to be on the side of barbarism. Thisis why democracy is in retreat . . . why liberty isdespised."Continuing his analysis in the third lecture, Mr. Lippman developed the thesis that international peace is unobtainable through collective action of the several nations,but results from the existence of a final and ultimatesingle power. Asserting that for twenty years therehas been a growing tendency among the western nationsto group themselves around the United States, Mr. Lippman said : "The fact that we are unentangled and areyet so powerful puts us involuntarily in the positionwhere the action of all governments is finally determined by what they think America would do." TheUnited States is in the process, he believes, of assuming the maritime responsibilities of Great Britain in the Pacific Ocean, of developing the strength to discouragethe Japanese ambition of reaching beyond the Asiaticmainland to become master of half the world. "It isan awful responsibility into which we are entering. . . .What I have said is not a plea that we should becomeintoxicated with our destiny and hurry to achieve it.Isolationists play a necessary and useful part in slowingdown a process that, were it too rapid, might bring confusion and disaster. But that the isolationists can domore than to slow down the destined development ofthis country, I do not believe.""PEIPING WOMAN"On of the three reconstructions made of the skull ofthe "Peiping Woman," who lived half a million yearsago, has been presented to the department of anthropology and placed on exhibition in the Oriental Institutemuseum. The reconstruction was brought to Chicagoby Dr. Trevor Bowen, Comptroller of the Peiping UnionMedical College, who gave it to the University on behalf of the College and the National Geological Surveyof China.The skull represents the anthropological Eve, in theopinion of Dr. Franz Weidenreich, former member ofthe University faculty, and now in charge of the Peipingexcavations. Since 1927 anthropologists and geologistsfinanced by the Rockefeller Foundation have been excavating a great limestone cave about 35 miles fromPeiping.In the spring of 1936, Dr. Weidenreich pieced together the completely preserved brain case and partof the left side of the face of "Peiping Woman," fillingin missing portions by comparison with portions ofother skulls of the type found in the cave.Three casts of this reconstruction were made, one forthe University, one for the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and one presumably for theRockefeller Foundation."Dr. Weidenreich believes that the Peiping skullsrepresent an older race than the Java "missing link,"which was once thought to have existed in late Tertiarytimes, but now is considered related to a later periodin the ice age," Dr. Fay-Cooper Cole, Chairman of theDepartment of Anthropology of the University, said inannouncing the gift."PEIPING WOMAN"From left to right: Gorilla skull, "Peiping Woman," and modernman (North China). A reconstruction of the recently-found skull,an important anthropological discovery, is now in the OrientalInstitute.A RECENT ALUMNUSComplains Too• By LEWIS A. DEXTER, '35TYROLER, '35 and RobertMaynard Hutchins (Yale,'21) have between them gotmy goat. In the latest alumni magazine, we find Tyroler defending hisidea1 of Hutchins' idea2 of what auniversity should be like.There might be something to besaid for this if the university thatHutchins and Hutchins-Tyroler aretalking about ever existed or evenseemed likely to exist. But anybodywho has had anything to do with theUniversity in recent years knows perfectly well that there is no danger ofthe University turning into a resortof neo-Aristotleanism for yet a littlewhile.And it's very unfortunate both forthe University and for Mr. Hutchinsthat the latter's talents as academicirritant No. 1 (and an excellentpublic speaker) should spread theidea that such is the case. It is unfortunate for Hutchins because hisnotions are going to be judged bythe anti-intellectualist, unneo-Aristo-tleanized creatures like Tyroler andmyself, whom the University has recently graduated.It is unfortunate for the Universitybecause as both Miller3 and Tyroleragree, it is losing the University confidence. If you are a Socrates, goahead and swallow the hemlock; butdon't let any press agent persuadethe public to press it to your lips,when in fact you're nothing of thesort.Now what is the University actually doing? What has it got to sell?Hutchins and still more Tyroler-Hutchins create the impression thatthe University should be and even isa "community of scholars" which istraining people to "think." And asMiller very properly implies theaverage alumnus who knows he hasraised children, not guinea pigs, re-^ni versity of Chicago Magazine, pp. 13ff. , Tanuary 1938,2Saturday Evening Post, pp. 16 ff., Jan.22, 1938.3University of Chicago Magazine, pp. 12ff., January 1938. gards any such search for pure reasonas pure buncombe.Fortunately, however, a good manyundergraduates at Chicago do manage in various ways to enjoy themselves pretty well— and they domanage to learn to "think" alongthe way.The impression is also created thatMr. Hutchins thru study of theclassics has been "remarkably successful in encouraging the process ofthought" in undergraduates. If thiswere "true," it would be grand news.But it is in fact quite typical of thefundamental faults of Aristotleanismthat Tyroler should quote Webster'snotoriously inadequate definition of"experiment — a trial made to confirmor disprove something doubtful," andthen assume as premise that the trialhas partially proved the point. SinceAristotle, and in fact since Baconand even Galton, the theory and technique of psychological experimentshas altered out of all recognition. Yet,as befits believers in the inept Aris-totlean doctrine of self-evident truths,Adler and Hutchins in their honorscourse make no single attempt to testin any adequate fashion the effect oftheir methods of training.Here again, however, no large proportion of the student body is subjected to the bewildering influence ofclassical logic and metaphysics. Andthose parents of undergraduates whofear that because Hutchins does notwant to produce contented cows he isapt to bring forth discontented philosophers need not be too much afraidtherefore.And, in fact, the reaction of protest by the non-philosophic individualagainst this belittlement of contentedcows is thoroughly sound ; thought is(a) an amusement or (b) an answerto necessity. As an amusement it iscaviar to the general ; and it is notan amusement which is as rewardingas some. Witness the number of college professors who would rather bemillionaires.As an answer to> necessity (or ananticipation of necessity) thought is, of course, entirely desirable; but oneof the most important things for anyone to learn early in life is when notto think (that is if one is seekinghappiness). It is desirable to have afew specialists trained in technicalwork who think deeply about toothbrushes or shaving or agriculture oreconomics or colorimetry; but inmost areas of our lives, all of ushave to accept most of our activitieswithout thought. And so far as canbe determined Mr. Hutchins has notstated what the limits of thought areor for what purposes thought is to beused. Without such prior philosophical analysis, one wonders whetherany serious consideration can be givento his suggestions.For, in all probability, he is advocating "thinking" because it is eitheran amusement which he has greatlyenjoyed and therefore thinks othersshould enjoy or a ritual which hereverences and thinks others shouldreverence. In neither case, is thereany need for anyone to agree.These unorganized comments areprompted by recent effusions of Mr.Hutchins ; it is a pity that there is anyoccasion for writing them. For themost tragic fact about Hutchins'work is the vast amount of energy,devoted with the best of motives, toreinstating an outmoded discipline.For Aristotle in his time was O.K.;but a lot of water has flowed underthe bridge since. And of recentyears, such men as Wittgenstein andSchiller and Russell and Carnap(now at Chicago) and Korzybskihave launched devastating criticismsat the Aristotlean philosophy, criticisms which it may not be incumbentupon Mr. Hutchins to accept butwhich it is necessary for him toanswer. Yet, so far as can be determined, he is innocent of them, andbelieves that the alternative is betweenpragmatism (of the Deweyean school— he does not as I recollect deal withLewis' conceptualist pragmatism) andthe classical tradition.Now for an ordinary college president to be familiar with such men26THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 27would perhaps be demanding toomuch; but Mr. Hutchins is an extraordinary one. He ought to befamiliar with the newer logics andtheories of scientific method before heattempts to reconstruct the old ones ;he ought to be familiar with the notion that the trouble with us is thatwe all talk metaphysics, and we needto study philosophy simply to dowithout it (i.e., to eliminate metaphysics).And therefore, I suggest as a partof the Maroon's campaign for a moreNEFF AWARD chastened Hutchins, that severalweeks be devoted to familiarizing theneo-Aristotleans with modern philosophy. In other words, get Hutchins,Adler, and McKeon to write the nextthree volumes in the InternationalNon-Aristotlean Library.In December, President Hutchins announced a giftto the University as a memorial to one of its formerteachers, Theodore Lee Neff of the Romance LanguageDepartment. This gift, made by Mrs. Theodore LeeNeff and son Lloyd L. Neff, was in the nature of anendowment, the interest on which will be used as anannual award at the June Convocation, for excellence insome branch of French study, and will be known as theTheodore Lee Neff Award.Decision as tothe requirementsfor the awardwill rest with acommittee consisting of theHead of the Romance LanguageDepartment a schairman, andtwo other members of the samedepartment engaged in theteaching ofFrench.Associate Professor Neff retired from activeteaching in 1925,and died November 11, 1936.He received hisBachelor's degree from As-bury University, now known as De Pauw, in 1883, andhis Master's degree from the same institution in 1886.THEODORE LEE NEFF After two years of study in Germany and France hereturned to his Alma Mater, teaching both languages,later going in the same capacity to Iowa State University for a short time. In 1893 he came to the Universityof Chicago for study toward his Doctor of Philosophydegree, which he won cum laude in 1896. At Dr.Harper's suggestion he joined the Chicago faculty, wherehe remained until his retirement. He was a memberof Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.During his many long years at the University Dr. Neffbecame one of the best loved teachers in the early historyof the school, and gave freely of his time, energy, andpatience to personal conference with his students. Thisbecause of his love for teaching and his great personalinterest in those in his classes. He also engaged inliterary and research work, not only in editing andwriting for classroom use, but in writing magazine andnewspaper articles to stimulate interest in the Frenchlanguage and people.Between the years 1896 and 1925 Dr. Neff utilizedhis accumulated vacations for several trips to Europewith his family, studying in the Sorbonne and CollegeDe France in Paris, and in the University of Grenoble.He also travelled extensively in England, Germany,France, Switzerland, Italy and Northern Africa, in whichlast country he became especially interested in the Frenchinfluence on the system of education.As one of the early winners of the "C" Dr. Neffmaintained a constant interest in all forms of athletics,and was followed by his son Lloyd, forming the firstfather and son combination in membership in the Orderof the "C." Lloyd L. Neff of the class of 1914 isVice President of Corn Belt Farm Dailies, a group ofdaily farm newspapers with offices in Chicago, KansasCity, Omaha and East St. Louis, and lives with hisfamily in Kansas City, Mo.HOLD RUSH ALUMNI GRADUATE ASSEMBLY ATRUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE— JUNE 6 AND 7An innovation has been planned at Rush this spring.The alumni will be invited to return for two days ofclinical and operative work, ward rounds, and demonstrations to be held at Rush, the Presbyterian, Cook Countyand affiliated hospitals Monday and Tuesday, June 6and 7, 1938. Instead of impersonal clinics, series ofward rounds have been planned to give the visitor anopportunity to personally contact members of the faculty and discuss with them the patients presented. Operativedemonstrations will interest those in the surgical andgynecological fields. Short presentations limited to fifteen minutes, by the clock, are being arranged. Thesewill cover some of the more important recent clinical developments as well as clinical and experimental workwhich is being done by the faculty.NEWS OF THE CLASSES1887T. Vassar Caulkins celebrated thefiftieth anniversary of his ordination onOctober 28, "which took place at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, with former deanof the Divinity School Eri B. Hulbertpreaching the ordination sermon.1893Charles A. Hemenway, BD, 3416Forty-fourth Avenue, Seattle, Washington, is recovering from the ravages ofsleeping sickness, an attack of which hesuffered some time ago. 1897Col. Harry D. Abells, Superintendent of Morgan Park Military Academy, who was appointed to the facultyat Morgan Park by President Harper,is celebrating his fortieth anniversary ofassociation with the school. He alsocelebrated his fortieth wedding anniversary on December 27, 1937.1898George L. L. White, DB,03, AM'04,is associate secretary of the Ministersand Missionaries Benefit Board of the Northern Baptist Convention with headquarters in New York City.1899E. A. E. Palmquist, BD'04, recentlycompleted seventeen years as executivesecretary of the Philadelphia Federationof Churches. During the last year hehas^ added to his responsibility by undertaking, with fivt other clergymen appointed by the mayor, the study of crimeconditions in the city of Philadelphia.The son of Lucie Hammond Schacht(Mrs. F. W.) took his AM in Englishsome two years ago at the University ofChicago. Mrs. Schacht is a member ofthe Department of Social Studies at Chicago Normal College.1900Now retired, Florence M. Fostermakes her home at 511 Ninth AvenueNorth, St. Cloud, Minnesota.1903Joseph Emerson Hicks, DB, hasbeen pastor of the First Baptist Church,Bristol, Virginia, since 1932. Duringthat time three hundred and sixty newmembers have been received into thechurch, and there are now over elevenhundred members.1905Mrs. Angus B. Inkster (Maud E.Barkenbus) lives in Camas, Montana.The address of Anna E. Elfreth,teacher, is 614 West Rittenhouse Street,Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.1906Helen Stoddard Loveland is livingat 130 Morningside Drive, New YorkCity.John Ralph Voris, BD, has completed five years of active work of the"Save the Children Fund" in the southern mountains — a work which has established a program for the educationaland spiritual welfare and character-building of children of that region,reaching some thirty thousand youngFlorence R. Scott of the Universityof Southern California had an articlein the December Publications of theModern Language Association, entitled"Sir Robert Howard as a Financier."1908"Way back in 1927, when commercialaviation was an infant industry, Merrill C. Meigs, now publisher of theChicago Evening American and chairman of the Chicago Aero Commission,landed in San Francisco — the first paypassenger ever to be flown by UnitedAir Lines from Chicago to San Francisco and the only passenger on thatfirst trip. Because of his deep interestin aviation — he is a licensed transportpilot, one of the best known amateurflyers in the country and a vigorous advocate of a Chicago lake front airport —Mr. Meigs recently celebrated the tenthanniversary of the event by reflying theroute in one of today's modern airlinersConsultWESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC ELEVATOR COMPANYMerchandise Mart • Telephone Superior 7878IF YOU HAVE AN ELEVATOR PROBLEMREPAIRS — SERVICE — MAINTENANCEMODERNIZATION — NEW ELEVATORSHYDE PARK MOTOR SALES, INC.5442 Lake Park Ave. Dorchester 2900Service on all modelChrysler DeSoto Dodge PlymouthCarsWe specialize in greasing the above cars for only 45 cents.—THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 29of the same line." — From Printer's InkMonthly.1910Floyd S. Hayden, district superintendent of the Citrus Union High Schooland Junior College of Azura, California,has been president of the School Masters Club of Southern California andalso of the Administrators Club of LosAngeles County. His son, Sheldon S.Hayden, is head of the Speech Department in Santa Monica Junior College.Leverett S. Lyon, AM'18, PhD'21, isexecutive vice-president of the Brookings Institution, Washington, D. C. Golfand squash are his diversions. TwiceUnited States delegate to the International Congress on Business Education,once in Amsterdam in 1929 and the othertime in London in 1932, he is presidentof the American Marketing Associationand of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity.David R. Moore, PhD, professor ofhistory at Oberlin College, has writtenA History of Latin America publishedin the Prentice-Hall series recently. Atthe present time Moore is sojourningwith his wife in Mexico City.Fred W. Upson, PhD, likes to fishin Northern Minnesota in the summerand for the rest of the year do suchgardening as the Nebraska climatemakes possible. He is dean of the Graduate College of the University of Nebraska and chairman of the Departmentof Chemistry.1914Travel, preferably foreign, is the avocation of Margaret F. Williams, AM'33, an English teacher at Lewis Institute, Chicago. She hopes to go to Italyand England this summer if the worldremains sufficiently peaceful.1915Archer B. Bass, AM, sailed on the"Normandie" on September 29 for ayear's study in King's College, University of London, while on a seven to ninemonths' "leave" from the Court StreetBaptist Church at Portsmouth, Virginia,where has has been pastor since 1929.John P. Deane, AM, professor ofbiblical literature, is at Beloit College,Wisconsin.Ellen L. Goebel, AM, PhD'31, isteaching German at the University ofTulsa.Minne Canad^y Kyle is now livingin Oswego, Kansas.Susan W. Orvis, AM, writes that sheis busy on a thesis for her PhD at Boston University, in the department of history and psychology of religion. She islocated at Oberlin, Ohio (Apt. 2, Theological Quadrangle), to complete someof the research necessary.Harlan T. Stetson, PhD, of theMassachusetts Institute of Technology,delivered the John Arthur Lecture atthe National Museum in Washingtonon February 24. The subject of thelecture was "The Sun and the Atmosphere."1916Edwin M. Bruce, SM, professoremeritus of chemistry of Indiana StateTeachers College, is residing at 2108 North Tenth Street, Terre Haute, Ind.For many years he was president of theBuilding and Loan Association.Gladys M. Greenman, kindergarten-primary supervisor, has served for threeyears as secretary of the State Association of Childhood Education, presidentof the State Supervisors Group for twoyears, and on the executive board of theProgressive Education Group in Connecticut for two years. Her address is137 Mason Street, Greenwich, Conn.This year C. L. Kjerstad, AM, PhD'17, head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Dakota,is offering courses in mental tests, philosophy of education, character and personality, ethics, logic and history ofphilosophy.E. H. Zaugg, PhD, is on furlough inthe United States from Japan, and whilestaying at Ventnor, New Jersey, at 11Portland Avenue, acted as delegate tothe sesquicentennial celebration ofFranklin and Marshall College, held inOctober. 1017Delos James, DB, who recently prepared a leader's manual called Christand the World Today, is counselor inreligious education at the annual conference of the Colorado Methodist Episcopal Church at Canon City, Colorado.From 821 Boone Street, WebsterCity, Iowa, comes word from LeonaRuppel, who is staying home takingcare of her aged mother.Waldemar Williams, AM, waselected president of the London Conference of the United Church of Canadalast June.1918Charles H. Behre, Jr., PhD, ofNorthwestern University, is spendinghis sabbatical year in Europe. He attended the International Geological Congress in Russia and is now engaged instudying some of the lead and zinc deposits of Europe, notably those in Germany and Poland, under a GuggenheimFellowship grant.Samuel P. Gurman, JD '20, a member of the firm of Olson and Gurman,Chicago, represented the City of Chicago as special assistant corporationcounsel from 1929 to 1932. When notoccupied with law cases, he enjoyshorseback riding.James H. Hance, PhD, is now locatedin Salt Lake City, Utah, having recentlyreturned from College, Alaska.Mrs. E. M. Hicks (Jessie B. Bryant) lives in Florence, South Carolina.1919Courtland V. Davis is principal ofthe Evergreen School in Plainfield, NewJersey.Teacher and physician, Esther M.Geisheimer, PhD, is professor of physiology at Woman's Medical College,Philadelphia.Sylvia M. Griswold, PhD'32, is temporarily in Chicago at 5747 BlackstoneAvenue.Richard A. Jones, SM'20, is locatedat Washington, Kansas (Box 162). 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He expects to return to London next summer.Vice-president of the Phillips DrillingCompany of San Antonio, Texas, B.Coleman Renick, SM, PhD'22, is thefather of three youngsters, PaulineDavidson, Pauline Elizabeth and B.Coleman, Jr., aged seven, six, and two,respectively.1921Mrs. Jessie Stewart Brown is nowlocated in San Diego, California, at 3452Mountain View Drive.Warren C. Cavins lives at 225 Covington Drive in Detroit, where he manages a five and ten cent chain store.William Hugh Erskine, AM, hasjust supervised the fifth edition of hisJapanese Customs and the publication ofTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEWhatever you doShorthand will be useful to you.Learn GREGGthe world's fastest shorthand.THE GREGG PUBLISHING COMPANY6 North Michigan Ave. ChicagoAMBULANCE SERVICEBOYDSTON BROS.Emergency 'phones OAK. 0492-0493operatingAuthorized Ambulance Servicefor Billings Hosp taiUniversity Clinics, etc.PACKARD AND LASALLE EQUIPMENTASBESTOS&}M#sW PIONEERING IN THEDEVELOPMENT OF INSULATIONMATERIALS FOR THE CONTROLOF HEAT-LOSS SINCE 1873KEASBEY & MATTISON COMPANY140 So. Dearborn St. Ran. 6951 AWNINGSPhones Oakland 0690— 0691—0692The Old ReliableHyde Park Awning Co.,INC.Awnings and Canopies for All Purposes4508 Cottage Grove AvenueBOILER REPAIRINGBEST BOILER REPAIR &WELDING CO.BOILER REPAIRING AND WELDING24 HOUR SERVICE1408 S. Western Ave. Tel. Canal 6071BONDSP. H. Davis, 'II. H. 1. Markham, 'Ex. '06R. W. Davis, '16 W. M. Giblin,F. B. Evans, 'II '23Paul H. Davis & Co ¦MembersNew York Stock ExchangeChicago Stock Exchange10 So . La Salle St. Franklin 8622BOOKSMEDICAL BOOKSof All PublishersThe Largest and Most Complete Stock andall New Books Received as soon as published. Come in and browse.SPEAK^IAN'S(Chicago Medical Book Co.)Congress and Honore StreetsOne Block from Rush Medical College Japanese Festival and Calendar Lore.Twenty-nine years in Japan have madeMr. Erskine something of an authorityon these subjects.LeRoy W. Ginter manages the Chicago office of the Pan-American Life Insurance Company of New Orleans.Harold P. Lawrenson is assistantsales manager of the Sperry Flour Company in California.Assistant director in charge of arteducation in Indianapolis, Belle C.Scofield paints in her leisure hours, ispresident of Pi Lambda Theta, andholds the office of first vice-president inthe Indiana Artists organization.Marion J. Tait, AM'29, is in Gol-aghat, Assam, India, teaching at theGirls' High School.Franklin E. Vestal, SM, formerlyassociate professor at Mississippi A & MCollege and recently in the geologic staffof TVA, is now at Chicago continuinggraduate work.In February, Roy A. Wilson, PhD,joined the Venezuela Gulf Oil Companyand is now in Ciudad, Venezuela.1922Mrs. Linda Spence Brown, AM, isunder appointment at Sweet Briar College as Director of Food Service.Ralph B. Harris, AM, is managerof the Washington field office of theSocial Security Board and resides at135 Glenbrook Road, Battery Park,Bethesda, Maryland.Robert C. Matlock, chemical engineer, is with the Ken-Rad Tube andLamp Corporation of Owensboro, Kentucky.E. M. Parks is with A. E. Fath,PhD, in Germany working for the So-cony- Vacuum Oil Company.1923For his occupation, Maurice S.Brody of 4824 East Sixth Avenue, Denver, Colorado, lists "professional speculator in stocks and bonds." In this worksince 1923, he bases his operations onthe "business cycle."Mrs. Arthur J. Cole (Muriel Fink)of 626 Central Avenue, Findlay, Ohio,announces the arrival of her first child,a boy, born in October.Edwin T. Buehrer, DB, AM, leftHaworth, New Jersey, to become pastorof the Fellowship Church of Orono,Maine, a community project sponsoredprimarily by faculty members and students of the state university.Harry C. Caplan is vice-president ofthe Marvin Envelope and Paper Company, Chicago.F. R. Eddy is regional manager ofthe Chicago office of the CommercialCredit Company.A newly appointed member at OhioState University is Ruth T. Lehman,AM.Robert V. Merrill, PhD, of theUniversity of Chicago faculty, was aguest professor of French at DavidsonCollege last summer.L. C. Robinson, SM'24, PhD'35, isassociate professor of geology at theUniversity of Kentucky. Photographyis his hobby.Charlotte Kathryn Fasold Shu- man (Mrs. J. J.) tells us her daughterhas now reached the age of four. Statefederation delegate from the Waban'sWoman's Club, Mrs. Shuman gets herexercise playing golf and gardening.Address: 296 Woodward Street,Waban, Massachusetts.Paul Gordon Silas went to AustinCollege, Sherman, Texas, at the beginning of the school year under ateaching appointment.Philla A. Slattery, AM'24, is nowa member of the Mundelein College(Chicago) faculty.Allee Miller Smith was recentlyappointed to a teaching position atChristian College, Columbia, Missouri.James W. Vest, JD'26, is claims attorney for the Hartford Accident andIndemnity Company.The principal recreational activities ofG. W. Willett, PhD, are the NorthWoods, farming, bowling, and golf.Willett is principal of the Lyons Township High School of LaGrange, Illinois.1924William A. Askew is minister ofthe First Christian Church of Benton,Illinois, where he has been since November, 1935. Last August he spenthis vacation with his brother, David,minister of the First Christian Churchof Saltville, Virginia, assisting him withevangelistic meetings for Sugar GroveChristian Church of Seven Mile Ford,and enjoyed a family reunion, with fivebrothers present. As secretary of theSouthern District of the Disciples ofChrist in Illinois, he is a member ofthe board of the Illinois Christian Missionary Society, and is also a memberof the state board of the Illinois Christian Education Commission of Disciplesof Christ.Reed W. Bailey, SM'27, is directorof the Intermountain Forest and RangeExperiment Station of the U. S. ForestService, Ogden, Utah. He is directingresearch in erosion and stream flow, inrange and forest management, and isconducting personal research in physiography and sedimentation.Kenneth E. Barnhart, PhD, isworking in the research department ofthe United Charities, St. Louis, Mo.Carl De F. Benson is a partner andmanager of the Ford agency of Bensonand Malone in Apache, Okla.Helen Bosard, AM, accepted ateaching position at the University ofAlabama at the beginning of the schoolyear.M. Aline Bright, head of EnglishDepartment at Murphy High School,Mobile, Alabama, has been elected toDelta Kappa Gamma, "National TeacherFraternity," instituted originally inTexas to honor teachers in service. Sheis also a member of the Public RelationsCommittee of Teachers of English. Sheserved as chairman of the pageant honoring one hundred years of public education in Alabama, held in 1936. Theceremony was given on the lighted athletic field of Murphy High School buthonored Barton Academy, the originalhigh school of Mobile.O. C. Clifford, Jr., has moved toTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 31Houston, Texas, where he is supervisorof seismograph exploration for the Atlantic Refining Company.Mona Fletcher published a paperentitled, "Use of Mechanical Equipmentin Legislative Research," in the January, 1938, issue of The Annals of theAmerican Academy of Political andSocial Science. She is assistant professor of political science at Kent StateUniversity.Samuel Fox is a partner in Fox &Fox, attorneys, Chicago.A. R. Krapp, AM'25, is vocationalsecretary at the Y.M.C.A. at Decatur,Illinois.Bertha R. Leaman, AM, PhD'35,holds the title of associate professor ofhistory at Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa.Roland C. Matthies, JD, attorney,is connected with the Lake County TitleCompany.Ellen M. Olson has been co-directorof the Kindegarten- Primary Departmentat Chicago Normal College since February, 1928. President of the CentralCouncil of Childhood Education for anumber of years, she is at present national chairman of the publicity committee of the Association for Childhood Education and a year ago was made a member of Pi Lambda Theta at the U. of C.T. C. Phemister, SM, formerly ofCambridge University is now head of theDepartment of Geology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.Homer J. Smith, SM'31, PhD'35, hasjoined the staff of the Department ofGeology of the University of Tulsa,Oklahoma.The first of the year, Horace A.Young, JD, announced the opening ofan office for the general practice of lawin the Field Building, Room 2111, 135South La Salle Street, Chicago. Formerly, he was with Bell, Boyd andMarshall. IOOCA new address recently obtained forVirginia Carpenter Black (Mrs. William P.) is 8128 St. Paul Avenue, Detroit, Mich.Kenneth W. Blake, MD'35, is practicing medicine and surgery at 727 West7th Street, Los Angeles.Harry R. Booth, JD'26, Chicagolawyer, who has his office at 160 NorthLa Salle Street, is assistant attorneygeneral for the Illinois Commerce Com-'mission.Elizabeth H. Brown is doing socialwork in Chicago.Wanzer Hull Brunelle who' waselected moderator of the Presbytery ofKalamazoo is proud also of his recreation room, equipped and operated by theyoung people of his church at Buchanan,Michigan.Address Ernest L. Churchill, AM,at 10045 85 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta,Canada.LeRoy W. Dahlberg, JD, Detroitattorney, was recently appointed Michigan chairman of the Junior Bar Conference, composed of the members of theAmerican Bar Association between theages of 21 and 35, and will be in chargeof organizing the work of the Conference in the state. Associate professor of English, LeahDennis teaches at Alabama College atMontevallo.Stanley G. Dulsky, SM'31, PhD'34,psychologist, is with the Institute forJuvenile Research, Chicago.Brandon H. Grove, PhD'34, is stillconnected with the Socony- Vacuum OilCompany in Hamburg, Germany. Hiswork in the past year has taken him overmuch of Europe and into northernAfrica."Since receiving my SM in 1932,"writes Mrs. Bennett Hammond (Alicede Mauriac) of Cody, Wyo., "I have(1) had a job as clinical psychologistwith the Juvenile Court in White Plains,N. Y. (2) Gone to Athens, Greece, tomarry Bennett Hammond, an unclassified student at the University of Chicagofrom 1930-31. (3) Taken all the coursesrequired for a PhD "at Columbia University in psychology. (4) Then justbefore starting my thesis, moved toWyoming with my husband to settledown as ranchers. My husband and Ihave started a chorus in Cody, of whichhe is director. All that we know and allour experience in choral singing weowe to Mack Evans, U of C Director of Music and to whom we refer whenin doubt as to the method of directing.William C. Imbt, SM'32, is locatedin Mattoon, Illinois, where he represents the Standard Oil Company in theIllinois field.Paul H. Keller and his wife DorisTrevett, AM'26, are living at 100 Montclair Avenue, Newark, N. J., and havetwo youngsters, the oldest, a boy, wasfive last August, and the youngest, agirl, was one December 23.In writing from Decatur, Indiana,Margaret Sheley Kohne (Mrs. Gerald J.) tells us that her husband is aphysician and speaks of her two children, Dorothy Jean, who soon celebratesher fifth birthday, and Gerald Michael,now twenty months old.Harriette V. Krick is now living inRichmond, Kentucky, where she teachesat Eastern Kentucky State TeachersCollege, as associate professor ofbiology.John D. Larkin, AM, is associateprofessor of political science at ArmourInstitute of Technology.Morris A. Lieberman, JD'32, is anassociate of the law firm of MacChes-ney, Becker and Wells, 30 North LaSalle Street, Chicago.Frances F. Mauck is assistant professor at Russell Sage College, Troy,N. Y.Marcum B. May, AM, minister ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church of Holland, New York, is taking the Methodist Course of Study with a view toordination. He has three children.Edward B. Meriwether, JD, is amember of the faculty of the Universityof Arkansas. 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Alexander is president ofthe Federal Discount Company withoffices at 1426 South Flower Street, LosAngeles, Calif.Morton John Barnard, JD'27, Chicago attorney,- is chairman of the Committee on Conflict of Laws in Probate, ofProbate Division of Real Property, Probate and Trust Section of the AmericanBar Association and is also a member ofthe Committee of Revision of ProbateLaws of Illinois State Bar Association.The Chicago chapter of the WaylandAcademy Alumni Association recentlyelected him president.Carlile Bolton-Smith, JD, is lending his law knowledge to the Securitiesand Exchange Commission in Washington, D. C.Mrs. F. A. Brink (Elinor Nims),PhD1, is professor of social science atGeorgia State Woman's College at Val-dasta. Her husband is commissioner ofhealth in Clinch County, Ga.Margaret B. Butler, AM, is on thefaculty of Teacher's College, Denton,Texas.J. T. Carlyon, PhD, has been calledto the Southern Methodist University atDallas, Texas, from his former post atIliff in Denver, Colorado.Byron A. Carse, LLB, is president ofthe A. H. Sibley Company, Insurance,2306 Dime Bank Building, Detroit,Mich.S. Chylinski, PhD, physicist, is withE. I. du Pont de Neumours and Company, Wilmington, Delaware.Harmon O. DeGraff, PhD, directing research for the Census Tract Maps,is professor and head of the Departmentof Sociology at the University of Akron.H. S. Dimock, PhD, has just publishedRediscovering the Adolescent (NewYork; Associated Press, 1937).Julia H. Duenweg is director of artin the Terre Haute, Indiana, publicschools^The address of Fred Herrick is 10Mitchell Place, New York City.I Hu, PhD'28, after fours years inCanton, went to Hua Chung College toteach education and psychology. He ismarried and has a youngster aged fiveyears, who is headed for Chicago whenthe war is over.Nathan W. Levin moved his headquarters to New York the latter part ofSeptember, 1937. Until that time he hadpreviously spent five and a half years assisting in the administration of the Estate of Julius Rosenwald, but has nowopened an office in his name for the purpose of managing investments, primarily of members of the Rosenwald family andassociated philanthropic and corporateinterests. He is continuing as an officerof the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the Michigan Boulevard Garden ApartmentsCorporation and the Rosenwald FamilyAssociation. He has established his residence at Scarsdale, New York, wherehis two children are attending the Green-acres School.Selby Vernon McCasland, PhD, isnow annual professor in the AmericanSchool at Jerusalem.Mrs. Samuel Mitchell (CarolineGarbe) of 709 College Avenue,Wheaton, 111., is a member of the National Finance Committee of Pi LambdaTheta and was recently appointed amember of the Wheaton Library Board.She spent the summer traveling in Mexico with Anne Nechak of Bronxville,New York.Marie A. Remmert left the teachingprofession last spring to become a housewife. Married to A. S. Kirkemeyer onJune 29, 1937, she moved to Springfield,Minnesota, where her husband is assistant cashier in the State Bank.Sidney M. Smith, who for the pasteight years has been pastor of the FirstBaptist Church, Marquette, Michigan,resigned his pastorate on August 15 tobecome chaplain and welfare worker atthe Michigan State House of Correctionand Branch Prison of Marquette.David Leon Woodward, pastor at theFirst Church of La Grange, Illinois, wasrecently honored by being elected president of the Chicago Baptist MinistersConference.1927Bertha I. Baker, AM, is a memberof the Flint Junior College at Flint,Mich.James E. Bennett teaches in theBelleville, Illinois, Township HighSchool.W. Earl Breon is now serving as extension secretary for McPherson College, Kansas, and is living at 305 NorthOlivette, McPherson.Gould Fox, JD'28, lawyer, is a member of the firm of Fox, Fox and Fox,with offices in Room 1214 of the American National Bank Building, Kalamazoo.•John A. Krafft coaches athletics atElgin (111.) High School.Lemuel C. McGee, PhD'27, MD'30,is a physician for the Golden Clinic,Davis Memorial Hospital, Elkins, WestVirginia. An amateur cinematographer,he devotes many leisure hours to takingand projecting 16 mm moving pictureswith his seventeen months old daughter,Lenore, as the chief subject.A. H. Sutton, PhD, was recently promoted to an associate professorship atthe University of Illinois. He has justcompleted a monograph on the Missis-sippian productids.T. W. Zee, PhD, is a refugee fromShanghai University, and is teachingat Hua Chung College, Wuchang. Hereports that his home as well as his college was in the path of war and thathe believes everything to have been destroyed. In Shanghai he did some experimental work with small industries,THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 33chiefly working with bakelite glass andsynthetic soup-flavoring.1928Esther Mathilda Anderson, chiefdietitian, is employed by the VeteransAdministrative Facility, Des Moines.J. D. Brennard, AM'30, is doingcredit research for the Chicago Mail Order Company.W. P. Clark, PhD, of the State University of Montana, tells us that his son,John W. Clark, of the Department ofPhysics at the University of Illinois, recently married Ruth J. Hartley of Fair-bury, 111., who graduated from Illinoisin 1937.Grace D. Conard was recently appointed to the faculty of the Art Department of the Florida State College forWomen.Clarence R. Decker, PhD, was recently appointed to the position of executive vice-president of the Universityof Kansas City, where he has been sincethe fall of 1934. In three and a halfyears there, he has gained quite a reputation as a leader both in campus and community affairs. He founded and editedthe University Review, a quarterly literary journal, led in building up the library, was responsible for bringing outstanding lecturers to the campus, andwas a co-founder of the Chamber MusicSociety in that city.Beatrice H. Feingold is employed byGottlieb and Schwartz as a legal secretary.Cecelia Galvin, elementary schoolprincipal, lives at 836 North RuralStreet^ Indianapolis, Ind.Thomas W. Johnson, writes fromThe Manse at Wilcox, Saskatchewan,Canada, where he is now pastor of theUnited Church.Clarence Mills, PhD, last fall acrcepted an appointment at WilberforceUniversity, Ohio, as professor and headof the Department of Romance Languages and Literature.Dartnell Trine Mills (Mrs. Gordon H.), housewife, writes from 27Glenfern Avenue, Hamilton, Ontario,Canada, and mentions her young sonborn last year.Catherine Boettcher Owen, pianist and teacher, of 6336 Harvard Avenue, Chicago, was abroad last summerand though not studying, spent considerable time hearing music in Bayreuth andMunich.Alvin M. Weil, MD'30, is practicingobstetrics and gynecology at 2106-8First Central Tower, Akron, Ohio.1929Harry G. Abraham, AM, is living inWoodstock, Illinois, where he is principal of the local high school.Associate professor Evelyn C. Avery,SM, is teaching at Elmira College, NewYork.The present address of Albert F.Bridgman, AM, is 134 West Baker,Flint, Michigan.George K. Fisher, AM, is principalof the Traverse City (Michigan) HighSchool. Seymour S. Guthman, JD'30, is secretary to a member of Congress and maybe found during office hours at Room1524, New House Office Building, Washington, D. C.Leon R. Gross, JD'30, an attorneywith the firm of Samuel H. and LeonardB. Ettelson, 120 South La Salle Street,is interested in child education and underprivileged children. Listening togood conversationalists, playing tennis,and going to the theater are his favoriterecreations.D. L. Hunter, mining engineer, hasbeen with the Phelps Dodge Corporation at A jo, Arizona (Box 273) for thepast three years.Lloyd V. Moore, PhD, resignedfrom the University of Tulsa to accepta position as associate pastor at TrinityCenter, an institutional church of SanFrancisco which sponsors a wide program of educational and religious work.Mrs. Royall H. Snow (DorothyCarter) is busy keeping house thesedays. Address her at 122 West California Avenue, Columbus, Ohio.1930John D. Aikenhead, AM, is an inspector of schools for the ProvincialGovernment of Alberta, Canada.Elwood Atherton, PhD'37, is withthe Illinois Geological Survey atUrbana engaged mainly in geophysicalwork. |931Quirinus Breen, PhD, is in the Department of History at Albany College,Albany, Oregon.Mary Graddy Brock, SM, is teaching at the Decatur (111.) High School.B. K. Chen, PhD, spent two years inPeiping after returning from Chicago,and there acted as research professorof the Chefoo Marine Institute. In1933 he went to Hua Chung College tohead the Biology Department.Richard V. Clearwaters, AM, ispastor of the Calvary Baptist Church atCedar Rapids, Iowa.Elma Gansevoort recently marriedJ. Hall and now lives at 6241 SouthWestern Avenue. She is a kindergarten teacher,A member of the Armour Institutefaculty, Walter Hendricks, AM, isprofessor of English and head of thedepartment. His published poetry includes Flames and Fireiles, Spires andSpears, and Double Dealer.Mrs. Frank N. Hewetson (Jean E.Hawks) PhD, is assistant professor ofnutrition at Michigan State College.Her husband is a member of the horticulture department.Marjorie Marcy Irvine (Mrs. Fergus) is head of the science departmentof the McGehee School for Girls inNew Orleans. Her husband is headchemist for the Celotex Company inthat city.Coral A. Kube is teaching art atSullivan High School in Chicago.Richard O. Lang, AM'32, PhD'36,writes from 29 Witley Court, WoburnPlace, W. C. 1, London, England. 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Dearborn StreetTelephone Harrison 7691FENCESANCHOR POST FENCE CO.Ornamental Iron— Chain Link —Rustic WoodFences for Campus, Tennis Court,Estate, Suburban Home or Industrial Plant.Free Advisory Service and EstimatesFurnished333 N. Michigan Ave.Telephone ST Ate 5812FLOWERS.A .-•- *#A ^ CHICAGOw^ Established 186SQV^ FLOWERSPhones : Plaza 6444, 64451364 East 53rd StreetFORM CLAMPSUNIVERSAL FORM CLAMP CO.Form Clamping and Tying DevicesBuilding Specialties972 Montana St., Chicago, Illinois•San Francisco — Los Angeles — Jersey City— Philadelphia — Cleveland — Houston —Boston — New York — SyracuseFRACTURE APPARATUSFRACTURE EQUIPMENTORTHOPEDIC BRACESSPLINTSBONE INSTRUMENTSZIMMER MFG. CO.WARSAW, IND. Germany and Czechoslovakia as a fellow of the National Research Council.On March 30 he and Mrs. Lang willleave for a week in Brussels, then aweek at The Hague. From there theygo to Bremen and Hamburg, spendingfour days at each place; then to theUniversity of Kiel for a few days andshould get to Berlin toward the end ofApril for a six weeks stay. He is visiting the Statistical Offices in a number ofother cities in Germany (besides thosementioned above) including Frankfort, A/M, Karlsruhe and Munchen.About the middle of June they go for amonth's study in Prague; then for aweek each in Vienna and Budapest.Finally, they plan to spend three weeksin Italy and one in Switzerland beforesailing for the U.S.A. the last week inAugust.Hannah M. Lindahl is supervisorof elementary education in the publicschools of Mishawaka, Indiana.On January 9th James A. McDill,AM, preached his first sermon under hisnew pastorate at the First Union Congregational Church at Quincy, 111.Louise Bolsinger Merrick (Mrs.Hubert C), training supervisor forMandel Brothers, is secretary-treasurerof the State Street Personnel Group.^ George Otto of the Soil Conservation Service was on leave during thepast summer and worked for the IllinoisGeological Survey on the subsurfacegeology of the Chicago region.George W. Rust, PhD'35, is with theCerro de Pasco Copper Corporation inPeru. Nancy Clark Rust has recently sailed to join her husband. Sheexpects to live in Lima until a housebecomes available at Cerro.G. B. Switzer, PhD, pastor of theWest Point Grey United Church, Vancouver, B. C, Canada, has been appointed chairman of the British Columbia Joint Committee of the Churches forWestern Relief, which representsRoman Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish denominations.Wilfred Tansley, SM, PhD'33, forseveral years has been engaged in mineexamination and development in Brazil.Eleanor Tatge, is in Washington,D. C, engaged in bibliographic workfor the Geological Society of America.1 932Grace E. Benjamin, AM, socialworker, is a member of the faculty ofNorthwestern University. She teachessocial work on the Chicago campus.Cornelia M. Berry is a teacher atthe Central High School, Louisville,Ky.Herzel Cohen, PhD'37, has receivedan appointment with the Emulsol Corporation in Chicago.In addition to his teaching duties atthe University of Notre Dame as assistant professor of social work, FrankT. Flynn, Jr., manages the South BendCommunity Fund, is on the Board ofTrustees of the Indiana State Prison,is a member of the State N. Y. A. Committee, and serves on the Board of theState Conference of Social Work.Flynn is very proud of his young son, Francis Thomas, III.Ruth M. Griswold, SM, is a research assistant in the Division of HomeEconomics at Michigan State College,East Lansing, Michigan.Jack L. Hough, SM'34, of the SoilConservation Service spent the summerin Chicago on leave of absence studyingsediments collected from Buzzard's Bayand Cape Cod Bay.Billy Meredith Hardy (Mrs. Virgil S.) at Athens, West Virginia, considers the birth of her daughter, RuthMeredith, on May 29, 1934, the mostimportant event in her life since leavingthe University with a diploma. Mrs.Hardy is a junior case worker for theMercer County Department of PublicAssistance.Samuel M. Mayfield, '32, is nowteaching geology at Bowling GreenNormal School, Bowling Green, Ohio.Roy C. Petry, PhD, was recentlyelected assistant professor of churchhistory in the School of Religion ofDuke University.A son, Robert, was born to GordonRittenhouse, SM'33, PhD'35, and hiswife in May. Gordon, who is with theU. S. Soil Conservation Service, spentpart of the year in the sedimentologylaboratory of the University of Chicagostudying his field collections from theMississippi Delta country. He is nowin Washington, D. C.WTord comes that Joseph T. Salekwas abroad this summer for three andone-half months, one month of whichwas spent in the Soviet Union. He ispastor of the Flatbush Unitarian Churchwhere he has been since 1935.Neva Streator married Ralph C.Davis on December 26, 1936, and theyare at present located at 6201 KimbarkAvenue. Mrs. Davis is a high schoolteacher in the Chicago schools.V. M. Samuel, AM, writes of hisinteresting work with Rev. R. R. Keithahn in the Ashram Kodaikanal, awork representative of an internationaland interreligious fellowship.Edna Bell Spencer (Mrs. WalterC.) is executive secretary of the American Red Cross branch in Greenville,Miss.Hakon Wadell, PhD, who since hisreturn from Iceland and Sweden hasbeen with the Museum of Science andIndustry, Chicago, has accepted a position with the Socony- Vacuum Oil Company for work in Venezuela.Allen P. Wikgren, PhD, is nowregistrar and professor of classical languages at Ottawa University, where healso teaches two courses in religion.1933Mary Bloder is teaching science atSalmon, Idaho.Half a dozen of Carl Bode's articleson education have been published in thelast year and a half. He is an Englishteacher at the Milwaukee VocationalSchool.William Gordon Braude, is now aninstructor at Brown University, fromwhich he received his PhD in June ofthis year.Myron C C&lb pastor of the FirstTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 35Christian Church at Orange, California,divides his attention between his newjxfysition on the State Board of ChristianEducation and his new daughter, Roberta Jeanne, born September 19.In addition to taking care of her two-year old youngster, Betsy Louise, andkeeping house, Mrs. Lawrence M. Dubois (Lorraine D. Solomon) is firstvice-president of Infants' Aid. Address :7310 Ridgeland Avenue, Chicago.Kenneth S. Ghent, SM, PhD '35,is teaching mathematics at the University of Oregon.• Helen Graves has a new positionthis year as grade supervisor at Buchanan, Michigan.Samuel Guzzi, AM'35, is assistantauditor for John M. Smyth Company,dealers in retail furniture in Chicago.Head of the Department of RuralSociology at North Dakota Agricultural College, Donald G. Hay is doingresearch at the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station.Aaron B. Kendrick, PhD, is teaching at the University of Illinois MedicalSchool.Michael J. Lampos is instructingFrench classes at Washington StateCollege.Vivien W. Maves is superintendentof schools in Wallingford, Iowa.Walter A. McCleneghan receivedhis ThD from Iliff School of Theologyin June.John A. Nietz, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh makes a professionalhobby of collecting old American schooltextbooks and his collection now contains over 1,300 books over fifty yearsold and 175 published over a hundredyears ago.Franklin C. Potter, PhD, is withthe National Parks Service, Washington, D. C.H. W. Straley, III. is a member ofthe staff of the Department of Geologyof the University of North Carolina atChapel Hill. He spent part of last summer in geomagnetic work in connectionwith the problem of the genesis of theso-called "Carolina Bays." He has 'recently been elected president of the Carolina Geological Society, a group comprising the geographers, geologists,mining engineers, metallurgical engineers, pedologists, and ceramic engineers of the states of North and SouthCarolina.Edmond Jabez Thompson, PhD, hasbeen elected convener of the ChristianEducation Committee of Toronto CentrePresbytery. 1 934Chester C. Abrahamson, chemist, iswith the Celanese Corporation of America, Cumberland, Maryland.Party chief, Arthur C. Austin iswith the Seismograph Service Corporation in Tulsa.Auberta B. Brown is now marriedto Leif Erickson and lives in Sidney,Montana.Ruth E. Callender is advertisingmanager of the Antioch Shoe Project,Portsmouth, Ohio.Frank D. Carr and Virginia Eys-sel Carr, '35, are living at 2426 Ben- derwirt Avenue, Rockford, Illinois.Frank is a salesman for Proctor andGamble. .Miss L. C. Chou, after her specialtraining in psychiatric social work,went to work at Peking Union MedicalCollege, where she acted as supervisorof the Social Service Department inthe training school. Concurrently sheheaded the social service department ofthe Peiping Municipal PsychopathicHospital. Work of this type has gottena healthy start in the north, so whenGinling College at Nanking requestedMiss Chou to start similar training atthe college and open up communitywork of a similar sort, she accepted theinvitation. However, Ginling Collegehas been obliged to move upriver toWuchang, where it is housed on theHua Chung College campus, and MissChou »is starting her field work andcommunity teaching in Wuchang instead.J. G. DeLaVergne has been transferred to< Fort Wadsworth, New York,and is chaplain there.William W. Farley 3rd, is assistantseismologist for the Shell PetroleumCorporation at Mount Vernon, Illinois.U. R. Gore, PhD, is assistant agronomist at the Georgia ExperimentalStation.Edna A. Harris is assistant principalof the Dixon School of Chicago.Charles L. Howe is with the Geophysical Division of the Shell Petroleum Corporation, Head Office, ShellBuilding, St. Louis.David Hsiung, PhD, after two yearsof teaching at Ginling College in Nanking, joined the faculty of Hua ChungCollege in Wuchang in 1936. In addition to the usual academic duties of aphysics professor, Dr. Hsiung is takinga leading part in the Hua Chung College Wartime Service Committee. TheCollege is supporting, both financiallyand with volunteer workers a dressingstation at Nien Yu Tiao, the railwaystation at Wuchang, where woundedsoldiers are transshipped for uprivertowns for hospitalization. Dr. Hsiungputs his practical knowledge of physicsto use every day in assisting in the making of various instruments for militaryuse; he was responsible for building therefuge-trenches for the students to takeshelter in during air-raids.Frances Jelinek, Milwaukeeteacher, is secretary of the Committeeon Tenure of the N. E. A.Carolyn R. Just was recentlyawarded the Faculty Junior Prize forranking highest in scholarship in theJunior year at DePaul University College of Law for 1936-37. Secretary toDr. Forest Ray Moulton since 1930, shemay be addressed in care of the American Association for the Advancement ofScience at the Smithsonian InstitutionBuilding, Washington, D. C.Psychiatric social worker, BlancheP. Kleiman, AM'35, is assistant to thesuperintendent of the Jewish Children'sHome in Kansas City, Mo.Arpad F. Kovacs, PhD, is under appointment as a member of the faculty FUNERAL DIRECTORH. D. LUDLOWFUNERAL DIRECTORFine Chapel with Ne'w Pipe OrganSEDAN AMBULANCETel. 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ECKMANTuck Pointing and BuildingCleaningWindow Calking7452 Cottage Grove Ave.Phone Vincennes 6513MOTOR LIVERYCLOISTER GARAGEChicago Petersen Motor LiveryA PERSONAL SERVICEof Refinement, Catering to theUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO•5650 LAKE PARK AVE.Phone MIDWAY 0949 at Saint John's University, Brooklyn,New York.Madison Kuhn, AM, is a memberof the faculty at Michigan State College at East Lansing.John F. Locke, PhD, is associateprofessor of botany at Mississippi StateCollege.Harold V. Miller, SM, is assistantgeographer for the Tennessee ValleyAuthority. He was married to DorothyWise of Indianapolis, Indiana, in September, 1935, and they have one boy,Donald Harlan, now fifteen months old.Stanley W. Lang is connected withLewis, Pickett and Company, 105 WestAdams Street, Chicago, "as municipalbond buyer.Bernard B. Miram is doing socialwork for the Jewish Children's Bureauof Chicago. -Albert E. Sidwell, PhD, is a member of the staff of the SpectrographicBiological Investigation under the direction of Associate Professor Hognessof the University of Chicago.J. Dyke Van Putten, PhD, is professor of social science at BlackburnCollege.1935Mrs. Kathryn Cardwell Baker isteaching at Baylor University, Waco,Texas.H. B. Bentsen continues as associatebusiness manager of George WilliamsCollege during the school year and inthe summer is associate camp directorof College Camp, Wisconsin.M. C. Bergen, AM, is an instructorof mathematics and acting registrar atMorgan Park Junior College.Lucy May Coplin is teaching atWest Virginia University, Morgantown,W. Va.Thomas H. Coulter is a sales engineer for the Universal Insulation Company of Chicago.Word comes from Harold M. Dudley, director of "Friends of the CCC"at Washington, D. C, of the continuation of that work organized to honor andsustain the permanent values of theCivilian Conservation Corps. At workon a short volume, The American Crisisand the Churches, he has also collaborated with Chaplain A. C. Oliver, Jr.,in editing This New America, a volumeof American folk literature "which hasgrown up in and around the institutionof the corps."Jack R. Greenfield, 3556 West 15thStreet, Chicago, is teaching piano, ac-cordian, and harmony and doing orchestra work at the same time.Robert M. Grogan has resignedfrom the National Parks Service and iswith the Illinois Geological Survey atUrbana. Before leaving the Parks Service he was stationed at Gooseberry StatePark near Duluth, Minnesota.Pewter, copper, silver and pottery aredesigned and hand wrought in the Haydon Studio operated by Brownlee W.Haydon at 1204 East 47th Street, Chicago.Mr. and Mrs. Orrin J. Henbesthave a daughter, Rosemary, born February 16, at Little Rock, Arkansas. Owen P. Heninger, MD, formerlyat Safford, Arizona, is now practicingmedicine and surgery in Salt Lake City,Robert Orland Hutchinson, PhD,is professor of mathematics at TennesseePolytechnic Institute.Laurin E. Hyde, AM, is with theUnited States Social Security Board ofWashington, D. C, as associate technical advisor.William M. Lees is studying atRush Medical College and continuinghis work on brain waves with Dr. T. J.Case at Billings Hospital.George Livingstone of Chicago isassistant director of publicity for thewestern division of the Columbia Broadcasting System.Jack W. Loeb, JD'37, is now withthe firm of Haas and Leffmann, 135South LaSalle, Chicago.Frances Mayer, AM, is with theNew York State Department of SocialWork, in Syracuse.Kenneth Parsons is working forthe Carter Oil Company, Ada, Oklahoma.H. S. Perdue of the geology staff ofBrandon College, Manitoba, spent partof the field season on Kashabowie Lakenear Port Arthur in study of the Cout-chiching problem.Norman R. Sackheim is assistant tothe head accountant of the Link BeltCompany, Chicago.Harold W. Scott, PhD, formerly ofthe Montana School of Mines at Butte,is now a member of the staff of the Department of Geology at the Universityof Illinois at Urbana.1936David M. Amato is an audit clerkfor the Department of Justice, Washington, D. C.In cooperation with two other men,E. E. Bratcher, PhD, is now engagedin writing a book in the field of schooladministration. Responsible for establishing a field chapter of Phi DeltaKappa at Jackson, Miss., he is now amember of the National Committee onField Organization of Phi Delta Kappaand represented Alpha Iota Chapter atthe Annual meeting held in Cincinnatifrom December 28-30. He is director ofteacher training and associate professorof education at Mississippi College,Clinton, Miss.N. R. Brewer, PhD, was recentlyappointed Inspector of Foods for Detroit Public Health Department.Last fall Harold R. Jolliffe, PhD,accepted an appointment as a facultymember at Ohio University. His titleis assistant professor of classical languages. The July, 1937, number ofThe Philological Quarterly, carried hisarticle on the subject of "Bentley versusHorace."Edward C. H. Lammers, PhD, spentthe summer studying structural problems of the pre-Cambrian of the Bear-tooth Mountains in Montana andWyoming.Dorothy Ulrich' s article on"Thornton Wilder, A Classic of Tomorrow" appeared in the Decemberissue of Avocations, published by H. L.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE o/Lindquist of N. Y. C, and her poem,"For the Too-Ambitious," was chosenas the poem of the week by the LiteraryDigest for December 25 (this was reprinted from Columbia Poetry, 1937).Also writing dramatic criticisms forThe Hartford C our ant, she recently reviewed the opening New York performance of A DolVs House by HenrikIbsen with a new acting version byThornton Wilder and Orson Welles'revival of The Shoemakers' Holiday byThomas Dekker.1937George Boyd, PhD, is acting as assistant to Professor Harkins in the Department of Chemistry at the Universityof Chicago.Elizabeth Brown Chase (Mr^.H. B.), PhD, is an instructor in b|||g:ogy at East Carolina Teachers ColJ^^During the eleven years Ver:||§P|l,Crackel has been superintendent of meCrete (111.) Public Schools, the enrollment has more than doubled and thefaculty has trebled itself, and in addition two building programs have beencompleted.Mabel Flum is a substitute teacherfor the Chicago Board of Education.Mrs. Louise B. Freeman is nowwith the Kentucky Department ofMines and Minerals at Lexington.Ralph O. Heuse, SM, is continuinghis studies at the University of Chicago.Maurice E. Holcomb, AM, accepteda position as child welfare worker underthe provisions of the Social SecurityAct financed by U. S. Children's Bureau and was. assigned to Coos Countyby Oregon State Relief Committee withheadquarters in Marshfield.Jacob Z. Jacobson is book revieweditor of the International Journal ofIndividual Psychology and teaches atLake View Evening High School, Chicago. Former state secretary of theFarmer-Labor Party of Iowa, he is theauthor of two books and a serial novel.Rayond E. Janssen, SM, who isnow working toward his doctorate inpaleobotany, at Chicago, is author of"The Earth Before Man," which formsVol. 1 of the University of Knowledgeissued under the editorship of GlennFrank.Alfred Kelcy is working for theSpencer Lens Company, Buffalo, NewYork.Wendell P. Metzner, PhD, is withthe Monsanto Chemical Company at St.Louis, Missouri.Nathan Newman received thesenior honor scholarship award givenannually by the National ExecutiveCouncil of the Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity to the senior having the highestscholastic average.At the huge dance festival staged inRockefeller Center for fiv.e weeks fromNovember 29 to January 2 under thetitle of "Dance International," PatriciaParmelee directed with Garrett Donn-Byrne a series of fifteen afternoon concerts of national and folk dances, pre senting both the traditional and creativedance of many peoples, in the RainbowRoom.Robert J. Schubach is teaching accounting and auditing at the Universityof Kansas City.Laurence L. Sloss, PhD, is teaching geology and paleontology in theMontana School of Mines at Butte.Kenneth M. Smith, MD, is interning in University Hospital at AnnArbor and Mrs. Smith (Dorothy Norton, '35) is lending her time and secretarial talents to various University ofMichigan offices. She writes: "It isour first year away from the U. of C,but living in the shadow of anothergreat University makes it seem not toodesolate. We expect to be here forseveral years but don't intend to become'expatriated' from the U. of C. Wewere pleasantly surprised to find JamesMiller, PhD'37, and his wife here. Heis now an instructor in the Universityof Michigan Medical School and veryproud of young David Miller who arrived in August."Bruce Van Buren is now engagedin petroleum exploration in Venezuela.RUSH1889Word comes from C. H. Cremer,MD, of Cashton, Wisconsin. Not onlythe local physician and surgeon, he hasat one time or another held every publicoffice in the village.1899From Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., comesa note from Frank X. Pomainville,MD, physician and surgeon. He ishealth officer of the town and formerlyserved as president of the School Boardand Mayor.1908John W. Green, MD, limits hispractice to Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.Offices held in professional groups include the presidency of the NorthernCalifornia Eye, Ear, Nose and ThroatSociety and the secretaryship of theSolano County Medical Society. He ispresident of the Last Man's Club. Heholds forth during office hours at 727Sonoma Street, Vallejo, Calif.1913Herbert J. Movius, MD, is presidentof the International Medical Club ofSouthern California and for recreationturns to fishing and hunting. Addresshim at 3875 Wilshire Boulevard, LosAngeles.Edmund Jacobson, MD, of the Laboratory for Clinical Physiology ofChicago, addressed the St. Louis Medical Society on "The Tense Patient inGeneral Medical Practice," on January18th. 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MATOTManufacturer ofREFRIGERATORSDUMB WAITERS1538-46 MONTANA STREETRESTAURANTSMISS LINDQUISrS CAFE5540 Hyde Park Blvd.GOOD FOOD— MODERATE PRICESA place to meet in large and small groups.Private card rooms.Telephone Midway 7809in the Broadview HotelThe Best Place to Eat on the South SideCOLONIAL RESTAURANT6324 WoodJawn Ave.Phone Hyde Park 6324 the Bureau of Indian Affairs and alsoto the Federal Jail.Mattie J. Bullard, MD, physician,is associated with the Student HealthService of the University of Minnesota.Frank Pearcy, '22, PhD'24, MD,psychotherapist, has his office in NewYork City at 471 Park Avenue.1930Leo A. Elkowie, MD, physician,was married to Phyllis C. Smith in1927 and has two girls, Patricia Annand Phyllis, aged 8 and 7. They maketheir home at 529 Durham Drive, Birmingham, Ala.1932Eye, ear, nose, and throat is* CharlesF. Leich's (MD) specialty. He islocated in Evansville, Ind.1933John J. Keith, MD, is a practicingphysician with offices at 1242 SeventhAvenue, Marion, Iowa. Mrs. Keith isCaroline Masini, ex '26. They haveone daughter, Mary Katherine, nowover a year and a half old, and live at1727 Eighth Avenue, Marion.1935" Gordon Burns, '30, MD, is a resident at Chicago Lying-in Hospital.A. Stone Freedberg, MD, startedhis practice of internal medicine lastNovember in Boston, Massachusetts, at416 Marlborough Street. He was married to Beatrice Evelyn Gordon on August 29, 1936.Richard L. Kennedy, MD, 55 EastWashington Street, Chicago, is a practicing physician and surgeon.Jacob S. Aronoff, MD, is interningat King's County Hospital, Brooklyn,New York.Kenneth L. Matson, MD, physician and surgeon, maintains an officewith Doctors Holmblad and Jacobsonat 28 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago.SOCIAL SERVICEThe annual meeting of the AmericanAssociation of Schools of Social Workwas held in New Orleans during thelast week in January. Miss Breckinridge, Miss Edith Abbott, Miss GraceAbbott, Miss Wright and Mr. White attended the Conference and took part inthe program. Elizabeth Wisner, PhD,'29, Dean of the School of Social Work,Tulane. University, has been presidentof the Association for the last two yearsand Marian Hath way, PhD'33, Associate Director, School of Social Work,University of Pittsburg, is secretary.James Brunot, '30, AM'32, who hasbeen on the Regional Staff of the Social Security Board, has resigned toaccept a position with the State Charities Aid Association of New York totake charge of the work of organizingtheir Committees on Public Welfare invarious counties of New York.The news of the death of ElizabethWhite, '29, AM'34, in Baltimore onJanuary 28, 1938, has been receivedwith deep regret. Miss White was for merly a field work supervisor in theSchool of Social Service, and had recently been a member of the staff ofthe Board of State Aid and Charitiesof Maryland.Kurt Thies, graduate student 1935-36, has been appointed a member ofthe faculty of the new School of PublicWelfare Administration at the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.SOUTH SIDE MEDICALIt is interesting to note, now that theSouth Side Alumni number about twohundred graduates, that over sixty or agood thirty per cent have been interested to some extent in research.Whether the methods of instruction are,or will be, different from those of othermedical schools, is a debatable question.But^ it is doubtful whether any othermedical school can boast of as high apercentage of graduates interested in thescience, as well as the art, of medicine.Recent publications of alumni whichhave come to our attention are the following :James L. O'Leary, '31, "Structure ofthe primary olfactory cortex of themouse." Journal of Comparative Neurology, June 15, 1937.Winston H. Tucker, '33, "Treatment of meningococcic meningitis withmeningococcus antitoxin." Presented atthe annual meeting of the Illinois StateMedical Society, May 19, 1936.Herman P. Harms, '33, John vanProhaska, }33, and this year's AlumniPresident, and Lester R. Dragstedt,"The relation of pancreatic juice to pancreatic diabetes." American Journal ofPhysiology, September, 1936.John van Prohaska, '33, 1. "Effectof pancreatic juice on pancreatic diabetes." 2. "The fatty infiltration anddegeneration of the livers in depancrea-tized dogs." 3. "Observations on pancreatic extract lipocaic' and its role inthe prevention and cure of the fatty livers of depancreatized dogs." 4. "Effectof morphine on gastric secretion." 5."Effect of prolonged continuous injection of epinephrin on blood pressure."Boris B. Rubenstein, '33, "Studiesof physiological changes during themenstrual cycles of women in relation tofertility." Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med.vol. 35, 1937.Meyer Brown, '34, and Harry A.Paskind. 1. "Frequency of epilepsy inoffspring of persons with epilepsy. Withspecial reference to differences betweeninstitutional and extramural patients."Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry,November, 1936. 2. "Constitutional differences between deteriorated and non-deteriorated patients with epilepsy. I.Stigmas of degeneracy." Archives ofNeurology and Psychiatry, November,1936. 3. "A review of physico-chemicalstudies in epilepsy." American Journalof Psychiatry, vol. 93, 1937.Paul Foster, '34, 1. "Thermocouplesfor the medical laboratory." Jour. Lab.Clin. Med., vol. 22, October, 1936. 2.(With H. Laurens.) "The effect ofartificial radiant energy on tissue temperatures gradient in men of differentTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 39ROOFERSBECKERAll types of RoofingHome InsulatingAll over Chicago and suburbs.Brunswick 2900RE-ROOFING — REPAIRINGGROVEROOFINGFAirfax3206Gilliland6644 COTTAGE GROVE Av7INSULATINGRUGSAshjian Bros., inc.ESTABLISHED 1921Oriental 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 SUPPORTSBRIDGE CORSETSandSURGICAL SUPPORTSBERTHA BRIDGE. DESIGNER926 Marshall Field Annex25E. Washington St. TelephoneDearborn 3434TEACHERS' AGENCIESAlbert 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. PrivateSchools in all parts of the country amongour best patrons; good salaries. Well prepared High School teachers wanted for cityand suburban High Schools. Special manager handles Grade and Critic work. Sendfor folder today. skin color and after artificial pigmentation." American Journal of Physioloqy,vol. 118, February, 1937.J. B. Regan, '34, "Observations onintranucleolar bodies in normal andpathological tissues." Proceedings ofthe Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic.April 28, 1937.Ken Blake, '35, "Transitory hyperglycemia and glycosuria in acute coronary occlusion." Journal of the American Medical Association.Kendrick Smith, '36, 1. "The influence of muscular exercise on bloodsugar concentrations." Journal of Clinical Investigation, May, 1937. 2. "Thedifferentiation of normoglycenic glycosuria from other benign glycosurias anddiabetes mellitus." Archives of InternalMedicine, 1937.DavidBodian, '37, 1. "A new methodfor staining nerve fibers and nerve endings in mounted paraffin sections."Anatomical Record, vol. 65, 1936. 2."An experimental study of the optictracts and retinal projection of the Virginia opossum." Journal of ComparativeNeurology, vol. 66, 1937. 3. "Thestructure of the vertebrate synapse. Astudy of the axon endings on Mauth-ner's cell and neighboring centers in thegoldfish." Journal of Comparative Neurology, vol 68, 1937.Sara E. Branham, '34, senior bacteriologist U. S. Public Health Service,Washington, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Colorado, June 14, 1937, inrecognition of her contributions to bacteriology in relation to public health.1936Our old friend, Clarence Bledsoe,it is reported (of course nobody everhears from him), has finished a yearof successful interning and married life,and is now staying on as assistant resident at Alameda County Hospital insunny California in lieu of starting inprivate practice in Portland, Oregon,in July, 1938.It is rumored that H. E. Brown isnow out making ends meet doing private practice in our own Windy Cityof Chicago after a banner service atPresbyterian Hospital here. Yes, H. E.is married.I. B. Cantor ("Eddie") says that hefinds his work as an interne at theWoodlawn Hospital, Chicago, pleasantand profitable.Dr. A. M. Cherner (for that he is)is a rising South Side M.D., driving hisown Plymouth coupe, and remaining associated with the Woodlawn Hospitalhere where he took his internship.Richard Ebert, it is known, isworking his ears (off) in Boston's CityHospital. Well, he was getting too fatanyway.E. R. Hodgson came back to Billings as an assistant resident in Medicinefor six months, only to return to Madison, Wisconsin, where he served his in- TEACHERS' AGENCIES (Cont.)AMERICAN 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.Paul Yatesjf ates-Fisher Teachers' AgencjTEstablished 1906616 South Michigan Ave., ChicagoHUGHES TEACHERS AGENCY25 E. 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WISCONSINThree Camps— 8-12: 13-14: 15-17Woodcraft, Athletic and Water Sports,Music, Photography, Scouting, Long CanoeTrips, Riding, Shooting, Shop, Nature Lore,Camping Trips, Unexcelled Equipment,Experienced Staff, Doctor-Nurse.WRITE THE DIRECTOR FOR CATALOGW. J. MONILAW, M. D.5712 Kenwood Ave., Chicago ternship, to assume an appointment inthe Department of Neurology.Marianne Horney enjoyed her yearas medical interne at Billings, and hasnow taken up the study of Psychiatryin Philadelphia, Pa.Francis B. Hunter, we hear, saysthat his two-year rotating internship atthe Philadelphia General Hospital can'tbe beat.The X-rays have got A. W. Marco vie h ! We find Marco hard at workany day of the week on Billings' fifthfloor, learning how to Interpret whatis right there before him in black andwhite.Frank M. PETKEvicn spent a profitable six months down in Champaign,Illinois, at the Carl Clinic before serving a surgical internship here at Billings. Now he is starting an eighteenmonths' medical service at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Mo.John Post is back at Billings as asurgical interne after twelve months inmedicine at Barnes in St. Louis, Mo.While there he found himself on theGovernment payroll for a time duringthe Mississippi and Ohio floods of lastyear and had experiences no end, theysay.Chon Rammelkamp, was at Barnes(St. Louis) in Medicine, is now inSurgery at Billings and will return toBarnes as an assistant resident in Medicine in January, 1939.V. B. Scott, our PhD, is now makingthe Physiology Department of IndianaUniversity more like that of the U. ofC. every day. It is a great life, but soshort, says V. B.Phil Shanedling has decided to bean Eye doctor and found the Ophthalmology Department at Billings to hisliking; so is back again after a year'srotating service in a Wisconsin hospital.K. A. Smith remained at Billingsonly long enough to become engagedto Miss Bunney Montgomery and thenwent to Mayo's, from whence he has returned only long enough to permit thesanctimonious sayings necessary to weldhim in wedlock on the 8th of November, 1937.David Templin found the memoryof the charms of one Miss GladysWiseth far too irrestible to allow themto be so far away after he found himself entrenched at Mayo's. Oh yes,you can guess the rest. He surrendered on September 25, 1937, and can'tunderstand why he didn't sooner.Willard Weary paid his respectsat Billings a short while ago, sayingthat Baltimore, Maryland, is a greatplace to learn the things every M.D.should know. He is staying in Baltimore and hopes to make a surgeon ofhimself. John Weir is back. Oh my, yes.He returned from a year in Mississippiwhere he taught Anatomy, and is nowa proud father and a Billings surgicalinterne. Somewhere along the line hefound time to get a PhD in Pathology.Says he will balance his books soonand see who owes who.ENGAGEDEva Jasper, '34, to Albert M. Sweig,'29. The wedding will take place inJune.Iris Rundle, '31, to Roger V. Swift,AM'33. The wedding is scheduled forApril.MARRIEDJane Weber, '34, to Bernard Wein-gart, on January 2, 1938, in Cleveland;at home, Hotel Sovereign, Cleveland.BORNTo Roy Kegerreis, MD'30, and Mrs.Kegerreis (Pauline Hahn '30), adaughter, Barbara, August 10, 1937,Oak Park, 111.To Errett Van Nice, '31, and Mrs.Van Nice (Ruth Swift, Vassar '33,GS'35), a daughter, February 2, 1938,Chicago.DIEDWilliam R. Schoemaker, DB'99,PhD'03, died September 19, 1937, at SanDiego, California, where he had madehis home since resigning from his pastorate at La Junta College because ofill health in September, 1932.John M. Westgate, GS'03, agronomist, died September 25, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii, age 59. Director of theAgricultural Experiment Station atHonolulu from 1924 to 1935, he had beenprofessor of Tropical Agriculture at theUniversity of Hawaii since 1935.John Lamar Hopkins, JD'08, diedFebruary 5. Engaged in general lawpractice in Chicago since 1908, he wasa senior partner of the firm of Hopkins,Starr and Godman, and counsel for theChicago Loan Agency of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.Dr. W. A. Buice, '18, of Chelsea,Oklahoma, died February 2 from coronary thrombosis at Santa Monica, California. Professor of Bacteriologyand Hygiene at Baylor University fora number of years, he took an M.D. degree at the University of Oklahoma in1930 and during the past year had beenconnected with the Eastern State Hospital, Medical Lake, Washington.Ora (Doc) L. Pelton, III, '34, ofElgin, Illinois, on January 16, 1938, atPresbyterian Hospital, Chicago, after abrief illness.Orlin Ottman Fletcher, DB'83.died in Brooklyn, New York, on October 20, 1937. 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