•dame* &cuJ*4 <*** omia t^ *L, §y\& *;Cu<i <£* c<jtM4Ui>- TsU^GjudLc c£u/hX-."8«i L»L^ AZ^ CtuLt^Uyo^ U<- fftlUlJlMO.<$lc ' dkA <i/m. ttax* ci^ ,tfttiu.\*H*M4jl4A<a)l/*THE UNIVERSITY OPCHICAGO MAGAZINEFEBRUARY 19 4 2THEY CAN HANDLE THE TOUGH JOBSIhe men and women in the Bell System areused to meeting emergencies and they aretrained and equipped to carry on in times ofspecial need. For years they have known thetest of fire, flood and storm. That experience stands in good stead in this greatest emergencyof our time. The Nation is counting on telephone workers to prove faithful to the task andthey will not fail. Always before them is thetradition that the message must go through.BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM . . . SERVICE TO THE NATION IN PEACE AND WARTHE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MAGAZINEPUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI COUNCILCHARLTON T. BECKEditor HOWARD W. MORTAssociate Editor WILLIAM P. SCHENKAssistant Editor ALICE ZUCKERAssistant EditorDAVID DAICHES, DON MORRIS, MARTIN GARDNER, CODY PFANSTIEHL Contributing EditorsTHE COVER: Abraham Lincolnwas born one hundred and thirty-three years ago this month. For permission to reproduce the poem abouthis mother we are indebted to HenryHolt and Company in New York, whoin 1918 published Carl Sandburg'sCornhuskers, on page forty- six ofwhich "Fire-Logs" is printed. Forthe manuscript we give thanks topoet-biographer Carl Sandburg whogave it to Dr. William E. Barton/ theLincolnist in whose great collection itwas found by M. Llewellyn Raney,Director of the University Libraries.The original is cherished behind glasson the west wall of the Lincoln Roomin Harper Memorial Library.THE NEW FINANCIALSQUEEZE, by Harvey C. Daines,Comptroller of the University, diagrams the "pincer" movement of income and expense from which theUniversity must extricate itself. Howis the war affecting the finances ofthe University? What is happeningto student enrollment? Is budgetrelief in sight? What are the factsabout current income, rising costs,total assets, investments and expenditures? In Comptroller Daines' carefulanswers to these and many other questions, is the future of the University—the measure of its advance towardnew frontiers of education and research.The tempo and grace of a France-that-used-to-be is caught in the excerpts from the diary of DavidDaiches, Assistant Professor of English(page 10) . And if you have everwondered what happens when ascholar, born in Scotland and living inFrance, receives a telegram invitinghim to the Midway, you will all themore enjoy his contribution which,when it was written, never expectedto find itself in the Magazine. THIS MONTHTABLE OF CONTENTSFEBRUARY, 1942PageThe New Financial Squeeze, Comptroller Harvey C. Daines 3Notes for a Dilettante, DavidDaiches 10Table-Talk for 8,000,000, BrownleeHaydon 13Athletics, Don Morris 16Revolution on the Campus 18News of the Quadrangles 19News of the Classes 21Books 32NONCHALANCE typified theearly broadcasts of the Universityof Chicago Round Table. T. V.Smith, for instance, regularly broughta great dane to the studio. Duringthe broadcast the dog lay quietlyunder the table at his master's feet.But the engineer in the control boothtook great delight each week in attempting to make the dog bark. Infrantic pantomime behind his soundproof window he gesticulated andmade faces at the dog. "T.V." gotso he'd reach down and pet the dog,calming him at just the right time.The Round Table celebrates itseleventh birthday this month. It wasthe first scriptless network series, andnow has an every Sunday audience of8,000,000. How the Round Tablebegan, how it grew, how it works —even how it became triangular — istold by Brownlee Haydon '35, (page13).Don Morris '36, reports Maroonathletics (page 16), makes a prediction we hope comes true, and signsoff with a little fillip that suggestsspring comes early to the sports desk. The editorial from the St. LouisPost-Dispatch (page 18) speaks eloquently — on a subject of immediateinterest to all alumni who are askingand being asked: What about thisnew new plan at Chicago?Neil Herman Jacoby, recently appointed Secretary of the University,is the subject of a biographical sketch(page 21).Bitter Honey, by Martin J. Freeman, formerly Assistant Professor ofBusiness and Entrance Counselor inthe University, is reviewed by DavidDaiches on page 32. After readingthe review, you too, will probablywant to read the novel.A MEMORIAL service was heldFebruary 2 at the Alpha DeltaPhi fraternity house for Jacques V.Merrifield, '41, who was killed inaction in the Philippine Islands, December 30. Merrifield, a resident ofMaywood, 111., was the first Universityalumnus to die in the service of hiscountry since America entered thewar. He left the University in 1939and became a technical sergeant inthe 192nd Tank Battalion the following year.Return to Sender. Not Passed byCensor is stamped on the envelopes inwhich we sent the January Magazineto Gwendolin L. Cooper, at St. John'sUniversity, Shanghai, China and toTse Fang Huang, 290 Route Marisca,French Concession, in the same embattled city.CODY PFANSTIEHL assistanteditor of the Magazine, left formilitary training on February 18. TheArmy gains one of the most creative,most lovable young men any of ushave known. The Magazine, whichalready owes so much to him, looksforward to whatever he may havetime to write for it in camp.Published by the Alumni Council of the University of Chicago monthly, from October to June. Office of Publication, 403 Cobb Hall, 58th St. atEllis Avenue, Chicag-o. Annual subscription price $2.00. Single copies 25 cents. Entered as second class matter December 1, 1934, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879. The Graduate Group, Inc., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, is the official advertising agency of the University of Chicago Magazine.THE UNIVERSITY OF. CHICAGO MAGAZINECHARTS OF CURRENT INCOME AND EXPENDITURES 1940-41INCLUDING GROSS OPERATIONS OF AUXILIARY ENTERPRISESINCOME(Total $10,929,256)SUNDRY $ 308,886 2.8 %AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES$1,725,019 15.8%PATIENT FEES $1,659,648 15.2'EXPENDITURES(Total $10,826,767)GENERAL ADMINISTRATION$515,575 4.7%GENERAL EXPENSE-$366,123 3.4%PLANT OPERATION $960,270 8.9%RETIRING ALLOWANCES ANDANNUITY PREMIUMS $329,011 3.0%STUDENT AID ?'$546,188 5.1%AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES$1,607,842 14.9%v0LUME XXXIV THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MAGAZINE NUMBER 5FEBRUARY, 1942THE NEW FINANCIAL SQUEEZEOur future: fewer students,rising costs. But aheadshines one bright lightTHE University of Chicago, as well as other universities and colleges in the United States, is nowconfronted with another major readjustment inits financial operation. Declining revenues from endowments and students and increased operating costs areproducing a "pincer" movement from which the University will be able to extricate itself only through themost heroic efforts of its faculty, administrative officers,trustees, and alumni.This new "squeeze" is superimposed on a budget whichhas been highly compressed for more than a decade,necessitated primarily through a shrinking rate of investment return on endowments, which has now reachedabout two-thirds of the former rate.The financial problem of the University can be comprehended in its broad aspects through an examinationof the peculiar features of the major sources of incomeand expense. During the fiscal year ended June 30,1941, the principal sources of income were as follows:Income :Recurring — Amount Per CentStudent fees $ 2,533,461 23.2Endowment 3,026,765 27.7Patient fees 1,659,648 15.2Sundry 308,886 2.8Auxiliary enterprises 1,725,019 15.8Total recurring income.. .$ 9,253,779 84.7Nonrecurring —Special gifts of prior years andincome thereon transferedfrom Suspense Funds to support current operations Other gifts 979,507695,970 9.06.3Total nonrecurring income 1,675,477 15.3 • By HARVEY C. DAINESComptroller of the UniversityIt will be observed that last year's income from studentfees amounted to approximately $2,500,000. This year,due to the operation of the Selective Service Act, theUniversity sustained a reduction of 10 per cent in studentenrollment in the Autumn Quarter and will probablyhave no less than 15 to 20 per cent decline in the Winter*and Spring Quarters, now that war has been declared.Each 10 per cent shrinkage in registration means a lossof one-quarter million dollars in annual income.Reports from Great Britain indicate that university enrollment declined 15 per cent in the first year of the war,30 per cent in the second, and 50 per cent at the beginning of the third year. Whether our experience will follow this pattern is of course unknown, but in any eventgrave financial problems are ahead. It is exceedinglydoubtful that an enhancement of dividends on stockholdings will afford any appreciable offset to the reductionin student revenues, due to the restrictions on corporateearnings through Government price control and high income and excess profits taxes. What will happen to othersources of income is problematical, but the evidencepoints to a decline rather than an increase.Now let us look at the expense side of the picture, witha view to determining the possibilities of retrenchment.During the fiscal year 1940-41 the expenditures, analyzedon an objective basis, were as follows:Amount Per centSalaries and wages . $ 6,842,971 63.2Expense and equipment 3,085,724 28.5Retiring allowances 346,914 3.2Student aid . 551,158 5.1Total $10,826,767 100.0Total income .$10,929,256 100.0 When an attempt is made to curtail these expenditures,considerable rigidity, peculiar to an endowed university,is encountered. In the first place, approximately$2,000,000 (two-thirds) of the endowment income isrestricted in some manner. It is not possible thereforeto divert these items of restricted income to purposesother than those specified by donors. Inherent in this*At the end of the first week, 13.9 per cent.34 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEchanneling of income is a host of administrative problems.Since certain areas of the University are more generouslyfinanced than others, a decided handicap is encounteredby any endeavor to preserve a well-balanced program ofinstruction and research and treat equitably the facultyand other personnel of the University. Obviously, italso sets minimum limits to which the administrationcan go in reducing expenditures for certain projects.Thus it is clear that the endowment income of theUniversity — unlike that of a business enterprise — is nota fluid fund, expendable as administration may determine.A second inelastic feature of the expense side is thelong-term commitment for salaries of officers engaged ininstruction, research, and administration which the University has assumed. Over $3,500,000 annually goes forthis purpose. Many of these positions — full professorsand many associate professors — are life appointments; thebalance entails commitments from one to five years.The items of retiring allowances and student aid arelikewise relatively inelastic, and, after there is added anirreducible minimum for wages of employees engaged inplant maintenance and operation of dormitories and foodservices, the remainder subject to adjustment is greatlydiminished.In addition, the University faces rising costs for necessary equipment, supplies, and materials, and increasingwage rates for its service employees, in keeping with therising cost of living.It is true that some expenditures for the maintenanceof plant may be deferred (an expedient of doubtful valueover a long-run period) ; purchases of library books maybe curtailed; and the operating cost of food units andresidence halls can be cut if the demand for these services declines. But even if these and other adjustmentsare made, the total susceptible to other than a slowlong-term reduction is a small portion of the whole.Nevertheless, the University administration is tacklingthe problem aggressively in the hope of damaging theUniversity's services as little as possible. Some budgetrelief is afforded in the leaves of absence of faculty andadministrative officers for service in the armed forces orin governmental administrative or advisory positions.Other faculty members, still with the University, havebeen assigned to instruction in special defense trainingcourses, requested and financed by the Federal Government. Other faculty members are conducting defenseresearch at the specific request of the Federal Government for which the University is reimbursed.Thus, in spite of the financial strait- jacket to whichthe University must conform, adjustments are in progress which mitigate, in part, the effect of declining income. It is also planned to continue the fund raisingefforts as aggressively as practicable under war conditions.II. Operating Results for 1940-41The gross operating income of the University aggregated $10,929,256 for the year ended June 30, 1941,against gross expenditures of $10,826,767, leaving an excess of income of $102,489. This surplus is entirelydue to unexpended restricted income and provision forbalances reappropriated to meet outstanding commitments. The gross income included consumable gifts of$1,675,477 (15 per cent of the total income), of which$979,507 (9 per cent) consisted of special gifts receivedin prior years which were applied to support the 1940r4loperations.During the year gifts paid in for all purposes amountedto $3,307,498 of which $1,843,334 was for endowment,$456,652 was unrestricted, and the balance was restrictedin some manner. The amount paid in by alumni duringthe fiscal year just closed was $270,619.During the two years ended June 30, 1941 the Uni-versity received pledges of $8,671,307, of which $5,504,-012 was credited to the Fiftieth Anniversary Fund. Theamount paid in by alumni during this two-year periodwas $478,573. Contributions by trustees of the University amounted to $1,800,405 during the two-year period.Since the beginning of the University the contributionsfrom all sources have aggregated $145,826,333, of which$64,987,582 has been received during the last twelveyears.At the close of the year the total assets amounted to$128,781,040, an enhancement of $1,175,422 during theyear. Of this total, $73,256,058 was in endowment,$44,619,015 was invested in campus buildings and equipment, and the balance was distributed under the categories of general, loan, and annuity funds. The endowment funds are exceeded only by Harvard and Yale, theformer more than three hundred years old and the lattermore than two hundred years.The market value of all investments was 3.9 per centless than the book value of $76,932,176 at the close ofthe year and the diversification was as follows:Per centBonds 27.9Preferred stocks 9.8Common stocks 28.1Real estate, mortgages, and real estate contracts 33.7Sundry 5Total 100-0The rate of return on the average balances of endowment funds for the past year was 4.24 per cent, comparedwith 4.17 per cent in 1939-40 and 6.2 per cent in 1929-30.This reduction of 1.96 per cent is equivalent to a declineof 32 per cent in rate of return or $1,435,819 in annualincome, if applied to the present endowment. Expressedin another way: since endowment is of value only forthe income produced, the reduction in capital productivity is tantamount to a loss of 32 per cent in endowmentprincipal.Real estate taxes paid directly by the University or in-(Continued on page 9)THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 5CHARTS OF BOOK VALUE OF INVESTMENTSOWNED AS AT JUNE 30, 1941Total investments $76,932,176BY CLASS OF INVESTMENTREAL ESTATE LOANS$3,607,369 4.7%COMMON STOCKS $21,642,934 28.1%PREFERRED STOCKS$7,491,481 9.8%BY TYPE OF ENTERPRISERAILROAD$6,559,313 8.5%PUBLIC UTILITY $9,672,339 12.7%GOVERNMENT,$4,656,026 6.0% | ffTmfff~|FINANCE $2,941,785 3.8% [JjQJMiLjTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINECHART OF SELECTED TREND DATATWELVE YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 1941HU INDICATES GENERAL BUDGET DIVISION ONLY WHICH INCLUDESACTIVITIES ENGAGED IN FOR MANY YEARSPRINCIPAL OF ENDOWMENT FUNDSJULY1,1929JUNE30, 194 1 MA^/viA^ <3 $48,580,6413EACH UNIT EQUALS $5,000,000 $73,256,058RATE OF RETURN ON ENDOWMENT FUNDS1929-30 (&&&CXQ) O 6 21930-3 1^ ^ ^ ^194°-41©©©04-2EACH UNIT EQUALS ONE CENT ON EACH DOLLAR OF ENDOWMENTENDOWMENT INCOME1929-30 (^)(^)(\1930-3 1 <||<||(1940-4 I ACTUALHAD 1930-31 RATE BEEN EARNED $3,185,317,(^(] $3,425,060$3,026,765$4,354,607EACH UNIT EQUALS $200,000GIFTS AND RESERVES REQUIRED FOR BUDGET SUPPORT•4& .^fc? «4&? <^&7 *& i&P ^If *Jgp ^^1929-30 OOOOO OOOOM $9'0.8II1930-31 flnnnn nnnOu DO* ¦Hzoe.gse1 $891,0331940-4 IEACH UNIT EQUALS $100,000THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 7CHART OF SELECTED TREND DATA (Continued)TWELVE YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 1941M INDICATES GENERAL BUDGET DIVISION ONLY WHICH INCLUDESACTIVITIES ENGAGED IN FOR MANY YEARSENROLMENT - TOTAL DIFFERENT STUDENTS,929-3° S| S |S SS M || | M ' K245i93o-3i^i^iM|| SSSSEACH UNIT EQUALS 1000 STUDENTSSTUDENT FEE INCOME1929-301930-311940-4 IEACH UNIT EQUALS 4200,000TOTAL REGULAR BUDGET EXPENDITURES1929-301930-311933-341940-41 si (j $7,716,484E)(S)©Ha572'8"$7,087,559$8,475,862EACH UNIT EQUALS $500,000DEGREES CONFERREDl929~30 ff fff fffff ***** ffff'842fffff fffff fffff fff|iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^1930-311940-4 I 1864EACH UNIT EQUALS 100 DEGREES CONFERRED8 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINECHARTS OF CURRENT INCOMEAND EXPENDITURES 1940-41EXCLUDING GROSS OPERATIONSOF AUXILIARY ENTERPRISESINCOME(Total $9,314,953)SUNDRY $437, 181 4.7%PATIENT FEES $1,659,648 17.8%EXPENDITURES(Total $9,218,925)GENERAL ADMINISTRATION— ¦£>_$515,575 5.6%GENERAL EXPENSE$366,123 4.0%PLANT OPERATION$960,270 10.4%RETIRING ALLOWANCES ANDANNUITY PREMIUMS$329,011 3.6%STUDENT AID$546,168 5.9%THE UNIVERSITY OFFINANCIAL SQUEEZE-(Continued from page 4)directly by lessees amounted to $867,885, an increase of$34,498 over the preceding year.During the fiscal year just closed, 11,897 students wereenrolled, an increase of 2 per cent over the prior year.The revenue from students totaled $2,533,460 or 23 percent of the aggregate income from all sources. Studentfee income for 1940-41 was the greatest in the history ofthe University with the single exception of the peak year1930-31, but the total number of different students servedwas 18 per cent less than the all-time peak of 1926-27,when the number was 14,500.It is pertinent to note that the total number of different students is not an accurate measure of the studentload since it fails to give effect to changes in the part-time enrollment at University College and on the Quadrangles. However, data on the "full-time student equivalent" are available only for recent years. It should alsobe borne in mind that a large part of faculty time andenergy is devoted to research for which there is no statistical unit of measure. Such evidence as is available,however, indicates that the amount of faculty time andenergy devoted to research has been augmented in recentyears, this increase being made possible through the receipt of special research funds.The decline in the number of different students duringthe last ten or fifteen years is in line with that experienced by many endowed universities unless programs forpart-time students have been expanded, in which eventsuch students enter in the count "total number of different students" the same as the full-time student. In thecase of The University of Chicago, changes in educationalpolicy have placed increased emphasis on the programfor the. full-time student and less on that for the part-time student.Although the enrollment for 1940-41 was 18 per centless than the peak year 1926-27, the student fee incomefor the year just concluded was $282,843 more than in1926-27, due to increases in tuition rates and assessmentof special fees not previously charged.The scholarship and fellowship aid given to studentsfor the year 1940-41 amounted to $546,188, an increaseof $46,801 over the prior year. Of the total, $169,406was provided from designated gifts and endowment in-/ give and bequeath to theof ./.fj.vyrP.y/hi^. CHICAGO MAGAZINE 9come restricted to student aid purposes, and the balanceof $376,782 was financed from general and unrestrictedincome. In addition, loans made to students amountedto $84,932 which represented an increase of $12,132 overthe previous year.It is clear that economic, social, and political changes,and now war conditions with the possible ravages of inflation, are undermining the financial structure of theendowed and privately controlled institution. Amidstthis distressing outlook one bright light looms in thetangible evidence of loyalty and appreciation manifestedduring the observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of thefounding of this institution. The generous responses ofthe citizens of Chicago and the alumni have been mostgratifying. The University is grateful indeed for thismunificent and wholehearted support.What the University now needs and will continue toneed is a host of loyal friends who will support it throughregular annual giving. To provide the greatest benefit,such contributions should be unrestricted. While giftsfor designated purposes are welcome, the most pressingneed is for unrestricted donations to offset the effect ofshrinking receipts from investments, diminishing revenuesfrom students, and increasing costs of operation. Themajor problem now confronting the University is notexpansion but adjustment of its service to meet the all-outwar effort to which President Hutchins has pledged theUniversity.If, in this age of confusion, the University is to persist,at least to some degree, as a vital force in the explorationand dissemination of knowledge and effective aid in winning the war, it must look to its friends for substantialcontributions to bridge the gap between recurring incomeand outgo. This disparity amounted to nearly $900,000in the Regular Budget alone for the year just closed.What it will be for the year 1941-42 now that the effectsof an all-out war effort are being felt, is yet to be determined, but every effort is being made to reduce thisdisparity.The response through the Fiftieth Anniversary Campaign has demonstrated beyond doubt the high esteemin which the University's accomplishments are held. Itis sincerely hoped that the needs of the University maynot be forgotten in this hour of national emergency whendonors are being confronted with appeals for supportof so many worth-while projects.University of Chicago the sumNOTES FOR A DILETTANTE• By DAVID DAICHESNormandy, 1937; when thesun was shining withits usual brillianceI had forgotten all about this diary until I turnedit up by accident the other day when I was rummaging through an old trunk. Here are some extracts.Sunday, 8th August.The good weather continues, after a dull interval inthe morning. By the time we were ready to go swimmingthe sun was out in all its glory, and we had a grandtime. After dejeuner we came back to the pavilion andsat reading in the garden most of the afternoon. Billieplunged into "Le Mystere de la Chambre Jaune" andI read Baudelaire. In the middle of the afternoon wedescended to the village to return the cider bottle wehad bought the other day. We bought another bottle, andmanaged to open it without spilling half, as we did lasttime. It's much better cider than they give us at thehotel. Just before dinner we wandered along the roadto have a look at the Kermesse which was being heldin a tiny field in the Rue Henry Simon. We were ratherlate for most of the excitement, but the stalls were stillup. I was persuaded by a jovial scoundrel to buy a ticketfor the raffle of a bicycle; but I never saw the bicycle.We had calculated that if we won it we would sell it andget a few hundred francs to ease our lot. . . . There wasan elderly man cooking a curious species of pancake inboiling oil. They smelt wonderful, but our dinner wasin fifteen minutes and we had to be prudent. The pancakes formed the most fascinating shapes in the oil, andafter being removed they were dipped in sugar by a girlassistant. ... Well, they were only pancakes.After dinner we strolled down to the sea and joinedthe local inhabitants in regarding the setting sun withawe and respect. It is the regular evening exercise here.Monday, 9th August.This place is booked up after Saturday, so we've madeup our minds to go into Fecamp this afternoon and seeif we can find a room there. The various agents deputedto look for rooms for us in Paris have relapsed into totalsilence, so our hope of having a place to go to when wearrive there has faded away. Our plan now is to stayon somewhere in Normandy till the end of the monthand then, after the holiday crush is over, go into Parisand look for rooms ourselves. We thought of going fora week or so to Rouen, but by all accounts the hotelsthere are fairly expensive. So the best thing is to go into Fecamp, where there ought to be cheap hotels, and fixup things on the spot, so that we'll have somewhere togo on Saturday.We have just come back to the annexe after dejeunerat the hotel. Billie is doing some washing, and I shallread l'Humanite for a bit in the garden. We shall gointo Fecamp after 4, because we want to catch the afternoon post first. ...6:10 p. m. We have done nothing this afternoon except read in the garden and make new plans about nextweek. We have decided to go to Rouen after all, andhave written to two places there. We should have theirreply by Wednesday morning. We have just returnedfrom posting two letters, and we shall now lounge in thegarden till dinner.Tuesday, 10th August.About 8:30 last night we walked down to the sea andup the path behind the "canot de sauvetage" on the cliff.It was a grand evening. The sea was the dark gray bluethat it becomes towards nightfall after a cloudless day.There was a red glow in the sky where the sun had set,and the cliffs stood out clear and white in the rapidlyfading light. The sea was very calm, and only a fainthush-hush of sound came up to us on the cliff-edge. Welooked out to the west where the grey merged into thereddish sky, in front where the sea stretched on andon into the horizon — the visibility was good, although itwas getting dark — and to the east where the cliffs marchedalong the coast to Fecamp, where we saw the lighthouseflashing at intervals and, after a while, the lights of thetown come up one by one. . . . We walked back slowly,and from the path we looked down on Yport, with itslights going on gradually and, as we came over the beach,the noise and chatter of street-goers became quite audible. We came down into the town again, and by thistime it was after 9:30. People stood around in littlegroups at corners, and in the cafes and restaurants a fewwere lingering luxuriously over their evening meal. Wecame up the little road to the annexe just before complete darkness descended.This morning opened dully, and we went down to theplage armed with books and l'Humanite. By 11 o'clockthe clouds were away, however, and the sun was shining with its usual brilliance. But there was a fresh windblowing, and Billie decided that it would be better forher not to go into the water, as it would be no funstruggling on the pebbly shore in a sharp wind. I went inand had a rapid swim, and by the time I was out anddressed it was midi, so back we went for dejeuner.In the afternoon we walked to Etretat. The wind had10THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 11died down by now, and the sun was blazing, but wemanaged the walk — only six miles — without undue discomfort. We went up the side of the valley and alongby the sea to Vaucotte, and then straight on, parallelto the shore, through a string of villages, each with theircafes and "alimentations generales," until we descendedinto Etretat. It was pretty countryside, with fields andorchards and attractive country houses.Etretat is a "posh" place. Like Yport, it lies in alittle valley by the sea, but it is much bigger and muchmore of a fashionable resort. There are numerous hotels,most of them looking very luxurious and expensive. Itis a very pretty place, and even the hotels are on thewhole picturesque. There is a fine promenade by thesea, a beach whose only difference from that of Yport isthat it is a good deal longer, and has all sorts of holidayattractions. The cafes are inviting and expensive, andthe restaurants display outside menus whose cost madeus realize once and for all that we are within the ranksof the poor. The whole atmosphere of the place is quitedifferent from that of Yport. It has an air of idlenessand luxury about it: one felt that even to set foot onthe plage would be an elaborate and costly business. Ithas something of the air of, say, Gullane in Scotland,but it has the difference that it caters more obviously forforeigners.We sat for a bit on the promenade (on the part wherethey did not charge 3 francs to get in) and then decidedto take some refreshment. We went to the street leadingdown to the promenade. It is flanked on either side byhotels, patisseries, cafes and restaurants. We stoppedoutside an attractive-looking patisserie where "glaces encornet" were advertised and. we decided after much cogitation and computation of finances to indulge in one.We went inside. There we found a large revolting-lookingEnglish family, consisting largely of half -grown-up sons,wandering round choosing gateaux to eat with their teain the cafe which is included in the patisserie. They were(obviously) rich; they swaggered; they hummed jazztunes as they walked; and we hated them — not only thehatred of the poor, to whom the purchase of an icecream cornet was a matter for deep deliberation, for therich, who guzzled cream cakes in a patisserie every afternoon as a matter of course, but also with the hatred bornof shame for our fellow-countrymen, and of consciouspride that we were superior and different. There is nodoubt at all that we hated them with a violent hatred:they represented to us that crowd of idle rich Englishcontinental holiday-makers in catering to whose tastesso many foreign towns have lost all their real charm.Sucking our ice-creams childishly — we had conducted ourpurchase in faultless French, and hoped we would notbe taken for English, for the English at Etretat are notour race-— we strolled up the street and after furtherdeliberation decided to blow a few francs in a cup ofchocolate for Billie and a bock for me. It was very hot, andwe were thirsty. We found a bus going to Yport aftersome searching and waiting (we didn't walk home as Billie's foot was worrying her) and got back at 6 o'clock.In the evening we completed our extravagance by going to the "Casino" where "deux grands films" werebeing shown, one "une mysterieuse affaire policiere" andthe other "une joyeuse comedie comique." The show wasthe most amateur affair imaginable. We entered, afterpaying 6 francs each, into a long hall with a screen stuckup at the far end and the body of the kirk filled withhard wooden chairs (we were left in no doubt of theirhardness by the end of the performance) . The chairstook up only about three quarters of the width of theroom and five-eighths of its length. On the right a gangway of Casino floor was left bare, and along the rightof that was a glass wall looking directly on to the sea.Right through the performance, until the very end whenit was completely dark, we could see the darkening seaand the cliffs through the glass wall on our right. Atthe back of the hall was a bar, where people drank between the two films.After much noise and a stamping of feet the first filmbegan. We could hear the whirring of the apparatus,and this combined with the poor quality of the soundsystem made most of the French unintelligible to us. Butthe audience enjoyed it, and gave vent to their emotionsspontaneously and naively. It was very amusing. Aftera news reel and an interval, during which a considerableportion of the audience went to the back of the hall fora drink, the joyeuse comedie began, which I must admitI enjoyed better than the mysterieuse affaire policiere.The audience behaved throughout in a manner reminiscent of a "first ordinary" class at Edinburgh University.It was half past twelve before the joyeuse comedieconcluded, so we had had three and a half hours ofentertainment (and how hard the chairs were!). Weenjoyed it less for the actual films than for the experience of seeing a crowd of humble Frenchmen enjoyingthemselves in a way impossible in England. Casino-cinema-bar-dance-hall combined in just that particularway is a delightful and (for us) unusual combination.On the wall it was announced that there are each dayaperetif dances from 5 to 7 and evening dances from 9till midnight. It was such a humble, homely, unpretentiously human place that I annulled the hard thoughtsI had had about it at first. The real joke is calling thatlittle village hall a Casino.We walked home on a clear, starry night and we werein bed at one o'clock precisely.Wednesday, 11th August, 9:45 p. m.We spent this morning missing the bus to Fecamp.We lolled about in the "place" from 10 till after 11,but no bus came (it had left at 9:55) so finally we wandered down to the plage and sat there till midi, when wewent back for lunch. After dejeuner we again waitedfor the Fecamp bus, and after consuming a bock:-, (me)and coffee (Billie) on the terrasse of the Hotel l'Hommetwe eventually got one, and arrived at Fecamp at 2:45.Here we changed some money, and, it being too hot and12 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEsunny to do anything energetic, sat and drank beer onthe terrasse of a cafe on the Place while waiting for abus home. We were back in Yport by 5, ^and immediately went down to the plage for a swim. Then aftera spot of Tolling on the pebbly beach we returned to thehotel for dinner at 7. Here we found awaiting us aletter from Professor Crane of the University of Chicagooffering me a job in the English Department there. . .We decided we were no longer paupers, and spent theevening drinking liqueurs at various cafes. At one ofthem a travelling workman who manufactured puzzlesand other things most ingeniously out of wire (on thespot) entertained us for a bit. We purchased two of hiscrazy puzzles to send to our respective families, becausewe were feeling rich and adventurous. We bought apatent corkscrew from him, too, and gave him an Englishcigaretter, and we talked together with great friendliness. Tomorrow morning we cable Professor Crane,accepting the job. And there is Balliol to be soothed.Thursday, August 12th. 3:15 p. m.The fine weather broke at last just after midi, and ithas been pouring with rain ever since. We are sittingreading in our little room.This morning we went down to the post-office andcabled to Professor Crane that I accepted his offer. Thenfollowed a busy couple of hours writing letters and postcards to our respective families and friends informingthem of the sudden change in all our plans. We sat inthe terrasse of our hotel and sipped aperetifs as we wrote.Our arrangements are still in a whirl. We shall haveto sail for America early in September, and we hardlyknow what to do first. Our year in Paris and povertyis automatically cancelled, and the whole prospect of thecoming year is completely changed. . . We go to Rouen ina couple of days as planned, as our hotel has repliedoffering us a double room with running h. and c. waterat 20 fr., which is reasonable. On Tuesday night weshall go back to England, crossing Le Havre-Southampton, and then a day in London, followed by a day inOxford, in both of which places there are things to doand arrangements to be made. And then up to Scotlanduntil we sail.It is all very exciting. The excitement was to someextent shared by the local post-office when we sent thecable to America. I doubt if they had ever had a cablesent to America from there before, and all the staffmanifested the keenest interest. There was some doubtwhether the address given me by Professor Crane reallyexisted, because it wasn't in the post-office list of U. S. A.telegraph offices, but we decided after much discussionthat Crane probably knew what his own address was,and that we should send the cable to Ephraim, Wisconsin, even though the post-office man tried to persuade usto send it to Ephraim, Utah, which was the onlyEphraim on his list. . .Monday, 16 August, 1:40 p.m.It's time we wrote something about Rouen. We came here on Saturday evening, after a bus journey from Yportvia Fecamp. There was a lot of hanging about andwaiting for busses in cafes before we finally embarked onthe Rouen bus at Fecamp, and intermittent rain was nohelp either. But eventually we were settled in the busat Fecamp, and off we went on the two hours' run toRouen. There were fields and orchards and long avenuesof trees and little country towns and big country townsand advertisements of aperetifs and markets in villagesquares and cafes and cottages and finally the outskirtsof Rouen with its tramlines and fin-de-ville appearance;then Rouen proper with the Seine and the traffic andthe disembarkation. We got a taxi to the Univers-Hotel—a courtyard with meubled rooms in the old and picturesque Rue St. Romain — and were installed in ourvery adequate room by half past six. It had runningh. and c, was large, and overlooked the Rue St. Romain.After washing, we went out to see Rouen and look fordinner. We found the latter in a restaurant on theQuai de Paris, and we sat and ate overlooking the busystreet and the Seine. We treated ourselves to a .16 fr.dinner, with some excellent vin rouge, because our firstmeal in Rouen was something to be celebrated. Thencoffee and cognac in a cafe nearby, and after sittingand smoking there for some time in a state of semi-torporwe stumbled off to bed soon after 9 o'clock. It was thenthat we discovered the real drawback of the hotel, whichcan be explained in one word — NOISE. Noise of manypeople tramping and shouting through the narrow RueSt, Romain, noise of loud and insistent jazz floating inthrough the window all night, noise of traffic gruntingand squealing until well into the morning, noise ofmerry makers returning home singing from their revels,noise of innumerable clocks striking every quarter of anhour with full ceremony, and vaguer and less articulatecity noises penetrating our open windows to mingle withthe more obvious sounds in preventing us from gettingany sleep. And when we did doze off early on Sundaymorning, the church bells commenced. And whenchurch bells ring in Rouen they leave you in no doubtof what they are doing.So when Madame arrived with our petit dejeuner athalf past eight in the morning and inquired whether wehad bien dormie, we muttered something about noise andchanged the subject — we hadn't the heart to tell her thewhole truth.After breakfast we explored Rouen, with its picturesque narrow streets, old wooden houses, innumerableGothic churches, and general mediaeval atmosphere.(What we saw can be found in any guide book.) Thenfollowed a period of wandering about the streets lookingat the prices and menus of all the prix fixe restaurants tosee where we could dine best and cheapest. We decided— after an aperetif — on a small 12 fr. restaurant furtherup the quayside than we had yet been. We made agood meal: the vin rouge — compris — was particularly(Continued on page 31)TABLE-TALK FOR 8,000,000Eleventh birthday reporton the nation s firstscriptless network serieshe University of Chicago Round Tablecelebrated its eleventh birthday February 1.Like the rest of the University, theRound Table — oldest educational broadcastin radio — has changed with the advent ofwar. But also like the University, the processes of changebegan months before Pearl Harbor and were designedto maintain the program's objectivity and enhance itscontribution to public thinking during the period of warand after.No longer will radio listeners look forward to or longremember sizzling word battles beween eloquent oratorson the most controversial issues of the day. The RoundTable will not argue the merits of an expeditionary forcehere or there, or whether there should be a negotiatedpeace.In the summer of 1941 the Round Table began todig in for the duration. Since that time topics for discussion have been chosen with greater care, on the adviceof a larger number of competent observers of the worldscene, and have been limited in their scope to fundamentals of acknowledged import and relationship to national welfare and security. The Round Table, downto earth, has discussed rationing, inflation, the protectionof civil rights, civilian morale, the church and war, man- • By BROWNLEE HAYDON '35power, science and war, and problems of labor. On theschedule for early discussion are the topics: "Propaganda—Good and Bad," and "What Should We Teach OurYouth Now?"Even more important to the production of importantbroadcasts perhaps than the selection of topics is theselection of speakers. On occasions in the past the importance of a topic has impelled its discussion even inthe face of discouraging efforts to obtain the right speakers. On any subject there are always dozens of ablespeakers ready to appear on the Round Table. Todaya broadcast may be postponed to guarantee that the topnames on this list are available to discuss the topic. Speakers are qualified by the recommendations of faculty members who are familiar with their work and respect theirjudgment.During eleven years of broadcasting the Round Tablehas changed fundamentally in its approach to its responsibility and its techniques of fullfiling its role as an informative public service broadcast.There are a few old timers who remember the firststudio in Mitchell Tower. It was heavily draped toobtain passable acoustics, and was furnished with littlemore than a card table and folding chairs. In those daysthe broadcast was so spontaneous that speakers sometimesmet for the first time a few minutes before air time.Today the Mitchell Tower studio is technically perfect.The spontaneous discussion is as thoroughly prepared andcarefully diagnosed as a program using no script can be.Speakers bring with them their own special knowledge ofthe discussion topic, but now find a monumental referenceON THE AIR, Paul Douglas,professor of economics, discusses a labor problem withWilliam H. Spencer, dean of theSchool of Business, and RaleighStone, associate professor of Industrial relations. Before them,the speakers have an outline ofthe topic. The triangular tablewas specially built for theRound Table.1314 THE UNIVERSITY OF"WE TAKE YOU NOW to the Mitchell Tower studio onthe University of Chicago campus . . ."memorandum prepared for their mental refreshment andstimulation, and expert technical advice on radio technique to ease their nervousness and guarantee their radioeffectiveness.The Round Table was the first scriptless network series,but many hours of discussion precede each broadcast half-hour. The speakers meet the evening before the broadcast to sketch the outline of the discussion and to agreeupon its major content. Sunday morning, after perhapsan hour of talking around and about the topic, the speakers face an open microphone for half an hour and recordtheir discussion. Listening to this record enables thespeakers themselves to criticize both the content andtechnique of their discussion. Additional pointers areadded by the Radio Director, and the speakers are readyto face their radio audience of more than eight millionlisteners with a well-organized and effective broadcast.Late last year Sherman Dryer, who came to the University as Radio Director in 1939 and supervised script-writing and production of the Human Adventure series,was made Radio Production Manager, and John P.Howe, '27, assumed the post of Executive Secretary ofthe Radio Office in addition to his work as assistant tothe vice-president.During recent months the Round Table has increasedthe proportion of outside experts brought before its microphone. Keeping step with the important political andeconomic changes wrought by the defense and war programs, the Round Table has broadcast more than one-third of its discussions from studios outside Chicago- —in Boston, Washington, and'New York.Many leading figures in the nation's defense efforthave recognized the Round Table's large audience and CHICAGO MAGAZINETHE EARLIEST EXTANT picture of the Round Table-probably taken in 1931 or 1932.influence and, typifying democracy at its best, have comebefore the people to discuss freely the problems withwhich they are concerned. In recent months AttorneyGeneral Thurman Arnold, Secretary of AgricultureClaude Wickard, Byron Price, director of censorship, andBrigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, director of selectiveservice, have participated in Round Table discussions.In 1941 the Round Table received three first-placeawards for merit in educational broadcasting. TheWomen's National Radio Committee selected the program as the one "contributing most to the safeguardingof our essential freedoms." For the third successive yearthe Round Table placed first in the educational categoryof the Cleveland Plain Dealer radio poll. At the closeof the year Radio Daily's Fifth Annual Poll of RadioCritics selected the Round Table as the "outstandingeducational program of 1941."Through the years the Round Table has cultivated anatmosphere of informality. Listeners eavesdrop on theexperts as they take the measure of a problem, dissectit, and piece together logical solutions and alternatives.The technique of discussion — the absence of preparedspeeches and loaded arguments, and the give and taKeexchange of opinions — has guaranteed a balanced presentation of the facts on Round Table broadcasts. Withouttime for oratory, observations are more acute, and thereis no impulse toward exaggeration or dialectic when suchpractices may be exposed immediately by the nextspeaker;In 1938 the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, established tofoster the dissemination of information of an economicnature, made a grant to the University to permit theTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 15GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS contribute supplementary data to the weeklytranscripts of Round Table discussions. More than 1 ,000, 00#Q transcriptshave been requested by listeners towhom they are valuable as starting-points for their own discussions andfor future reference purposes.Round Table to bring outside experts to its microphone,publish transcripts of the discussions, and to conductexperiments in educational broadcasting.Public reaction to Round Table broadcasts may bemeasured by the weekly mail which ranges from four orfive hundred letters to many thousands. Each week listeners write to the University for printed copies of the discussions, and as many as 30,000 transcripts have beenrequested for individual broadcasts. More than 4,000listeners subscribe to the Round Table and receive verbatim transcripts of the discussions. Since the first issueof the Round Table transcript was published more than1,000,000 copies have been requested by listeners either singly or by subscription. The transcripts are sold at costfor two dollars a year.The transcript is used by many teachers of social andpolitical science in high schools and colleges. In additionto the discussion the transcript contains added factualmaterials in the form of footnotes, maps and graphs, anda bibliography of supplementary readings on the topicdiscussed. Round Table subscribers may be found in allparts of the world — from Australia to China, South Africato Argentina, and in England, Liberia, Hawaii, andAlaska. One copy is mailed each week — somewhat hopefully — to Zamboanga : right in the middle of the Japaneseoccupied part of Mindanao Island in the Philippines.AT A LEARNED SYMPOSIUM at the fiftieth anniversary a professor illustrated apoint by handing his listener a rubber band."Stretch it quickly and place it against your upper lip," he directed. "It now feelswarm to the touch. Keep it stretched a few seconds. Now release it quickly andtouch it to your lip again. It's cool — almost cold."This," the professor explained, "is a clue to the explanation of rubber elasticity.It indicates that the relation of the heat of the rubber and its compression is similarto that of gas compressed by a piston in a vessel. The experiment shows the 'gas-like1 nature of rubber elasticity."Try if yourself, then be a rubber band scientist to your friends.ATHLETICSFencers and swimmerswill probably upthe percentageThe listings on this page include five and one-half victories, of which four were recorded by thewrestling team, one by the swimmers, and the half-win by the gymnasts (at the same time they were defeating Nebraska, they were losing to Minnesota) . Twenty-three engagements remain on the card, however, of whichthis department predicts Maroon teams will win thirteen,upping the percentage considerably.For one thing, the fencers have had only one meet.It will be recalled that although they lost the openerlast year they came through with a healthy stack of dualmeet victories and eventually won the Conference title.For another, the swimmers have met their two toughestdual meet rivals, and since they have on tap some greatlyimproved talent this year, they should do better. Besides,the wrestling schedule includes another match with Northwestern. And the basketball team, which won a gameon December 6, the night before the Pearl Harbor attack,and has failed to win since, ought to win one of its twogames with Michigan. The Wolverines, the ninth placequintet, have scored only two points more than Chicagoin games to date, though their defensive record has beenbetter. Two consecutive contests with Michigan, one atAnn Arbor and the other on the Midway, end the season.By the time this appears in print the Big Ten meetswill be upon us again, particularly the track meet, whichreturns to the field house March 6 and 7 after a year'sabsence, and the wrestling meet, which will be held inBartlett gym the following Friday and Saturday. It isinteresting to note, en passant that all but two of the current Conference records were set in the field house. Oneof the two, Lee Sentman's :08.5 high hurdles mark, wasset in 1930, before the building was opened, and therebyranks as the grandfather of Conference indoor marks.The other, the only one chalked up last year, is the broadjump mark, the baby of the records, since the event wasfirst added to the indoor meet at that time.The geniuses of the sports world are predicting thatthe track supremacy contest this year will be betweenMichigan and Ohio State, one nominally, the other actually and underdog. The Buckeyes, who have never won aBig Ten track meet, will draw the sentiments of such sympathetic persons as Yancey T. Blade, inveterate field housedenizen, in the campaign to unseat Indiana, however.Michigan, which lost last year after seven straight cham- • By DON MORRIS '36THE MAROON SCOREBOARDBASKETBALLChicago 19—64 PurdueChicago 39—53 IowaChicago 50—69 NorthwesternChicago 24 — 56 WisconsinChicago 26—54 IllinoisChicago 28 — 52 MinnesotaChicago 27—50 Great LakesChicago 35—63 Ohio StateChicago 34 — 63 IndianaChicago 40 — 64 IowaChicago 20 — 54 WisconsinGYMNASTICSChicago 520.6 — 440,69 Purdue Gym ClubChicago 15 — 30 Penn Statec . ^637.84 Minnesota617.06— 1321 NebraskaChicagoFENCINGChicago 10—17 Ohio StateSWIMMINGChicago 51—33 IllinoisChicago 31 — 53 MinnesotaChicago 33—51 IowaTRACKChicago 40 — 64 PurdueWRESTLINGChicago 21—13 Bradley TechChicago 17—13 Illinois NormalChicago 31— 5 WheatonChicago 22—10 NorthwesternChicago 8—22 IowaChicago 0—30 Purduepionships, undoubtedly will come up with a strong team,but not many people in the regions this side of AnnArbor want to see another crown go to the Wolverines,who have won twelve since the indoor meet was insti"tuted in 1911.Ray Randall, Chicago's best runner, was fifth in lastyear's meet and may improve his rating. Warren Wilner,the best of Coach Merriam's quarter milers, might scoreif he were to become properly inflamed. And BobKincheloe, who pulled a pentathalon performance in the16THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 17meet against Purdue, may move into the point-winningranks in pole vault. Kincheloe won the pole vault, tiedfor first against Purdue's weak high jumpers, took seconds in the broad jump and low hurdles, and ran inthe mile relay, winning his leg, the first, though his mateseventually lost the event.For a while it looked as though Chicago might havea wrestling champion or two, or at least a couple offinalists, but both Leonard Humphreville, the 165 poundman, and Bob Mustain, Coach Vorres' heavy, were toppled by their Iowa competitors, Mustain by a fall. Thisindefatigable department, however, still has a feeling thatone or both of the boys may go somewhere.The gymnasts, with the Shanken twins, Earl and Courtney, topping the list, will go to Minnesota for their meet,the swimmers to the Ann Arbor tank, and the fencers,chronologically last of all, to Urbana.In addition to Capt. Art Bethke, who was third inthe Conference breast stroke competition last year, theswimming team should pick up points through the effortsof Bill Baugher, who has at various times this seasoncompeted in all six events open to free style swimmers, sprints, distance swims, and relays, with competence inall. Besides, a sophomore named Hank Heinichen, whoshould be valuable as a sprinter though he has not yetshown much of the stuff which theoretically is his, maycome through. Heinichen won the Illinois high school100 yards title when a student at Lane Tech two yearsago.The sport of water polo, one of those in which CoachMcGillivray's team were frequently wont to acquirechampionships, has disintegrated, at least insofar as theBig Ten and the University of Chicago are concerned.This will have little to do with such swimming teams asMichigan's champions, who never played it anyway. AtChicago, however, the apparent advantage of freeingmore time for swimming practice may backfire, sincewater polo is, if not the best practice in the world forswimming, certainly the only activity which is a goodconditioner as well as an excellent game in its own right.Swimming champsGet their names in lamps,But you can't play soloIn water polo.A PROFESSOR IN A university statistics class recently asked his students to writeout the definition for the word "date" and pass the papers up to the front. Offifty-two papers submitted, only two recognized the fact that "date" might be something more than boy meets girl.A girl gave a four-part definition: I) A particle of food. 2) A time unit (calendar).3) Individual you happen to drag to a dance. 4) Occasion with the One and Only.Another girl wrote "A date used to be something you ate, but now it's a socialmeeting."The next fifty replies stuck to the boy meets girl plot. Said one student: "Definitionof a date: an unmarried female and male together at a previously appointed time andplace for purposes of recreation or study." "... a prearranged appointment, usuallybetween members of the opposite sex, with a romantic undertone," said anotherresearcher. Others observed that a date is "usually in the evening," that the "maleshould always do the asking," that it should last from "one to ten hours," that "theman usually pays the bill, if any," and that it is a "cooperative form of recreation."But the professor's favorite definition came from a young woman who wrote: "Adate is an occasion when you go somewhere with someone of the opposite sex, that Isif there has been a previous agreement as to when they should go."— The Chicago Daily NewsREVOLUTION ON THE CAMPUSHard-hitting editorial from theSt. Louis Post Dispatchof January 25,1942REVOLUTION., IKON - TUMBLING REVOLUTION., hascome to the world of the schoolmen. The University of Chicago has announced that, hereafter,the bachelor's degree will be conferred at the end of thesecond academic year. The bright college years are tobe cut in half. Alma Mater is to bid her sophomoresGodspeed. Upperclassmen are to be initiated graduates.Thus President Hutchins has again acted — this timein a radical way — on one of his major notions aboutAmerican education — that, for what it gives, it consumesaltogether too much valuable time. He has at last strucka blow at the hallowed formula of 8-4-4, the traditionalyear-spans of primary, secondary and collegiate education in the United States.It is not likely that many of the managers of our fraternity-pin and degree plants will rush to emulate hisexample. Siwash's old guard, no doubt, will form ahollow square around Old Main, ready to spill the lastdrop of blood for the old order. Their cause will not bewithout its points, but, in the main, it will be a case oflogic against tradition. And on the campus, traditionis strong.Even at Chicago, it took a war to bring about thechange. However, the very conditions that have broughtthe two-year degree system to Chicago may force similarreforms elsewhere. For the duration, the nation cannotafford its young men the conventional four years on thecampus. And it is also decreeing the kind of educationthese young men — and young women — shall have.President Hutchins himself has turned vocationaltrainer for the duration. He has said that, for the timebeing, everything a university does must be tested by thequestion of whether or not it helps to win the war. Sohe has organized the Institute of Military Studies, withits specialized course in mathematics, meteorology, chemistry, etc., as these are applied on the battlefield and inthe arsenal. Free courses are in progress to train womenfor supervisory posts in industry, etc. Two new buildingshave already been constructed to carry on this realisticwork.All this, of course, runs contrary to Hutchins' ideason the long-run functions of a university. While he hasdeflated many of the false claims of our vocational trainers, he is not opposed to vocational training. Buthe does believe that the university is not the place for it.He believes that the university's duty is to perpetuate andto enrich the higher learning; he believes the higherlearning is worth perpetuating because without it a humane civilization is impossible.There will be a return to the old standards on the Midway, just as there will be such a return at all the otherschools which are now trying to shake themselves into ashape helpful to the prosecution of the war. But thechange-back at Chicago is not going to be made on thegood old 8-4-4 plan. Chicago is going to be more functional. It is going to offer more young people an opportunity to acquire a sound general education. It is goingto enable them to get out into the world or into specializedprofessional studies much sooner. It is going to help themto grow up faster, to become adults. And the post-warworld certainly is going to call for adults.It is difficult to believe that the current experience ofour schools is not going to have some effect on all ofthem. The hot blasts of war are going to scorch a lotof ivy off the walls. And the world of after-the-war isnot going to provide very fertile soil for growing it again.As our letter column has recently testified the winds ofchange are not blowing merely around the Gothic towers.In the grade schools and in the high schools, a new emphasis is being placed on "old-fashioned" discipline andlearning. The progressives are on the defensive. Thealphabet and the multiplication table ¦ — and even Latinverbs — have come back into good grace.There is a dawning realization that it was a mistakewhen Horace Mann imported the eight-year Germanschool and the four-year high school was built on top ofthat. It is beginning to dawn on us that we are taking12 years to do what the German school did in eight —what English and French schools are still doing in eightyears.It begins to look as though we are going to slough someof the dubious padding off our educational system. Letus hope so. This is the way of true functionalism.Instead of treating all of our children as unfortunatemorons who cannot be expected to use their minds, wecan thus bring up a generation with a sense of valuesbased on the experience of the race. They may not bethe best of gadgeteers, but they will be a real hope for abetter world.Still, all this involves a strenuous effort on the part ofteachers, too. How many of them! will turn obstructionists under cover of the empty vocabularies of either"progress" or "tradition"? How much tolerance willthese find in a world sorely in need of tough thinkingand with a lean purse for foibles?18NEWS OF THE QUADRANGLESWHEN PRESIDENT HUTCHINS announcedlast month the University's decision to awardthe bachelor's degree at the end of the sophomore year, he anticipated widespread opposition fromconservative educational groups with vested interests inthe status quo. The opposition appeared early in themonth in newspaper stories from Atlanta, Georgia. Aftera spirited debate, and by a vote of 59 to 28, members ofthe Southern Association of Colleges and Secondaryschools had passed a resolution of censure.Said the resolution: Colleges have striven for yearsto gain uniformity in standards of achievement as thebasis for granting degrees. In view of this fact the Association deplores any attempt to change the existing set-upby awarding the bachelor's degree after only two yearsof college study. "Such practice must lead inevitably towidespread misunderstanding and confusion and result incheapening the significance of the time-honored andwidely recognized baccalaureate degree." ChancellorOliver C. Carmichael of Vanderbilt university said it was"the most serious threat to the idea of liberal arts education that ever has been made."The story broke in Sunday morning papers, February 8.Sunday afternoon President Hutchins sent ChancellorCarmichael, a former Rhodes Scholar, this telegram:"The resolution of the Southern Association in regardto the bachelor's degree at the University of Chicagoshows that the Association has entirely missed the pointof the University's action. The Association would havebeen more intelligent, as well as more courteous, if ithad given the University a chance to be heard. TheUniversity was not even notified that its plans were tobe considered by the Association. The resolution musthave been based on brief and inadequate reports."The University's curriculum to the bachelor's degreeis a four-year course of study beginning with the junioryear in high school. For the time being, at least,students will be admitted to it in the middle, that is,at the beginning of the conventional freshman year, justas students are admitted to all institutions in the SouthernAssociation in the middle of your four-year curricula,that is, at the beginning of the conventional junior year.The University has always favored a six-four-four planof education, and condemns the conventional eight-four-four plan as wasteful and the conventional bachelor'sdegree as meaningless."The faculty of the College of the University is nowreconsidering the curriculum and the examinations forthe bachelor's degree. When this study is completed, Ishall be glad to have graduating seniors in the institutions of the Southern Association try the examinations that will be given for the bachelor's degree at the University of Chicago."The St. Louis Post Dispatch, however, praised themove in a long editorial which the Magazine hasreprinted on page eighteen. The New York Sun likewiseapproved, adding that "the debate about this question inacademic circles promises to be ardent and interesting."Meanwhile the curriculum details were being workedout by the University.Most of the accomplishments along the war front onthe Quadrangles may not, of course, be reported here.But we can report that the Coffee Shop habitues havefelt the impact. Cokes are now "rationed." Instead offive hundred per day, the fountain now dispenses only250 by limiting coke orders to the hours after 2 p. m.By government order, the Commons purchasing department may order only eighty percent of the amountordered in a corresponding month a year ago.Also in the realm of student affairs is the coalition ofthe traditional Blackfriars and Mirror shows. Studentleaders of both organizations, reflecting opinions at otheruniversities, thought it unwise this year to spend moneyon two musical shows when one could do the job. Thecombined frolics, whose profit will go to the Fort Sheridan Army fund, will feature one mens' chorus in thetraditional Blackfriars manner, and a stageful of singers,tap dancers, and womens' chorus numbers. The show isscheduled for the evenings of March 5, 6 and 7, andthe afternoon of March 7.The Cap and Gown also pulled in its belt — so tightlythat the book disappeared. Increased costs of paper andprinting, combined with a lack of interest by students forthe traditional, glossy-paper college annual, were reasonsgiven by the student board of control when theyannounced that no book will be published this year. Theenterprising undergraduate news and feature magazine,Pulse, immediately announced plans for a monumentallast issue in the spring to take the place of the dormantCap and Gown.But at International House the annual "InternationalNights" was a record-breaking success. Spread in colorfulprofusion through lobbys, corridors, assembly hall anddining room were nine shows featuring twenty-one of theHouse's thirty-six nationalities. For the first time thegeneral public was invited to attend. Proceeds went toa fund for foreign students unable to receive money fromtheir homes because of war conditions.With Army and Navy officers as special guests, twenty-two of the sixty members of the class of the Institute ofMeteorology received commissions as second lieutenantsin the Air Corps at a graduation ceremony on Valentine's1920 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEday. Eight of the graduates will become junior meteorologists in the United States Weather Bureau. Fivealready hold lieutenancies in the Air Corps. Fourteenothers will receive commissions shortly. All sixty members of the class received certificates of professional competence at the exercises in Bond Chapel. The sixtymeteorologists are the second group trained by the University's Institute of Meteorology, primarily for the armedservices. The first group completed training in June andwas assigned posts immediately. Training of the presentclass was accelerated after the start of the war by holdingclasses through the Christmas holidays and on Saturdays.A third class, originally scheduled to start training July1, wiJJ begin February 23. The third group has beenincreased to one hundred — sixty air corps trainees andtwelve ensigns from the Navy.Leading educators representing colleges and universities in all parts of the country have been invited bythe University to attend a conference on pre-inductionmilitary training to be held at the University. ScheduledFebruary 20-22, the conference is under the auspices ofthe Institute of Military Studies of the University."Few questions confronting American education todayare more pressing than that of pre-induction militarytraining in those colleges and universities which do not have R. O. T. C. units," President Hutchins pointed outin connection with the conference. "It is hardly of lessconcern to those institutions whose R. O. T. C. unitscannot accommodate all students interested in suchtraining." Mr. Hutchins referred to the numerousdefense courses which have been introduced in educational institutions to prepare young men for service."These offerings have been adopted in a spirit ofpatriotism and energetic willingness," said Mr. Hutchins."But the problem is so huge that patriotism and energyalone will not solve it. We need to know that the militarytraining provided will be uniform and sound and thatit will be utilized by the armed forces. It is clear thatthe whole program of pre-induction training requirescollaboration between educational institutions and themilitary authorities."The collection box in the Bookstore for the VictoryBook Campaign held some good reading as the collectionfor soldiers' and sailors' libraries got underway thismonth. First books contributed were Fathers and Sons,South Wind, Don Quixote — in two volumes, Daisy Miller,Eliot's The Use of Poetry, They Came Like Swallows,The Unicorn Murders, The Outward Room, the Playsof Anton Chekhov, Death in the Quarry, The Mayor ofCasterbridge, and the Principles of Scientific Blitzing.Hutchinson Court Under SnowTHE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 21NEWS OF THE CLASSESSaga of the SecretaryNeil Herman Jacoby was appointed Secretary of the University of Chicago in January. At 32,he takes on one of the most importantadministrative jobs at the University—in a year no one has predicted willbe uneventful for the world or theQuadrangles. How it happened makesa saga of searching for and findingnew frontiers — a saga bright with highaccomplishment.In 1905, bonnie Christina Macmillan left her homestead near Toronto,and pushed on to the new frontierthat beckoned in Dundurn, outpost village in Saskatchewan. There shebecame the local schoolmistress.There, too, she met Herman ReynoldJacoby, who had come from Minnesota to seek his fortune in the Canadian province. The two pioneers weremarried. Their first child, Neil, wasborn in Dundurn on September 19,1909.Although his early childhood wasspent in Canada, a good part of theeducation of young Neil — who in anincredibly short time was to be sitting in the council of governors andpremiers- — was procured in Ashland, Oregon, and in Tacoma, Washington.In 1925, Young Neil, just turned sixteen, enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan. President Walter G. Murray (now emeritus) aroused his desireto be a teacher. The combined coursein arts and law Neil took as a sophomore — his tuition paid through a fullscholarship awarded on his freshmanrecord — turned his thoughts towardlaw. But a course in economicsopened another vista. The course wasled by William Walker Swanson, who,with one of the first University of Chicago, doctorates of economics in hispocket, had set out for Saskatchewanin 1908. Dr. Swanson, now head ofthe department of Economics atSaskatchewan, had few students, ifany, as hungry for economics as youngNeil. At any rate, Neil took an honors course in economics and graduatedin 1930 with the Copeland scholarship — highest senior award. ProfessorSwanson retained him for work withthe Canadian Social Science ResearchCommittee.Also, young Neil had written an essay in a competition sponsored by theRoyal Bank of Canada, titled "AnAppraisal of Dominion Provincial Fiscal Relations." It had won a $1,000scholarship good at any Canadianuniversity. He had applied for aRhodes scholarship too, was deferredbecause of his youth, and urged totake a year of graduate study withvirtual assurance of an appointmentat the end of the year.Meantime, his essay had gotten intothe hands of Simeon E. Leland, nowhead of the Economics Department ofthe University of Chicago. ProfessorLeland invited young Neil to come tothe University of Chicago. ProfessorSwanson urged Neil to accept. Heneeded little urging. He had visitedthe Quadrangles in 1929 on a tourwith his family. He liked the American pattern, and the "lively" wayChicago and the University were apart of it. Great things were brewing,he knew. A pioneer's chance to pushon to a new frontier in education wasat hand. In the future were teaching,writing, research — the handling of$4,000,000 monthly in public fundsand millions more of private funds —attempted bribes and death threats.He came to Chicago in the fall of1930 as a graduate student in the Department of Economics and researchassistant to Professor Leland. YoungNeil Jacoby specialized in mathematical statistics under the great HenrySchultz, and in government finance,economic theory, money, and banking.Government finance became his majorNEH. H. JACOBY, SECRETARY OF THE UNIVERSITY22 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEfield. He had passed his twenty-firstbirthday.He was just completing his master'sthesis on "Sales Taxation of theUnited States" when the Great Depression scraped bottom, accompaniedby a thorough political turnover.Judge Henry Horner, just electedGovernor of Illinois, was urging a retail sales tax to finance public relief- —to be the first of its special kind in thecountry. There were no precedents.The time was early in 1933. NeilHerman Jacoby had just turned 24when Joseph J. Rice, Governor Horner's director of finance, asked theyoung economist to come to Springfield. The young economist decided itwould be good to tackle first-handsuch problems in administration. Supervisor of the Legal and ResearchDivision of the Department of Finance — a big title, and a big job, ona frontier in finance.Those were emergency times; thesales tax was passed as an emergencymeasure. The State found itself witha law on its hands affecting 150,000businessmen — and no set of regulations. One afternoon late in March,director Rice asked the new administrator to write a set of regulations.How soon? Now — deliver them tomorrow morning! Administrator Jacoby went to work, assisted bystenographers in relays. At nineo'clock the following morning, theregulations, filling a sheaf of closelytyped pages, were placed on Mr.Rice's desk. They still largely prevailand have been widely imitated.As supervisor of the legal and research divisions of the Department ofFinance, Professor Jacoby was responsible for interpreting sales tax collection regulations and acting as liaisonman between business and government. He was also charged with liquorand gasoline tax administration andhis responsibilities extended to statebudgeting. He became acquaintedbroadly. He met Mr. X, Alton's biggest bootlegger, who dropped in oneday and placed "a big roll of hundreds" on his desk as a "contributionto the Democratic Party" with a clearinnuendo about a little tax juggling.The bootlegger went back to his outpost with his roll. Professor Jacobybecame well acquainted with Governor Horner. The governor, beforehis final illness, had an odd schedule.He worked intensely until 9 P. M., lefthis office, saw a motion picture, wasback in his office at midnight. Professor Jacoby attended many a moviewith the governor. He also foundtime to organize the National Association of Tax Administrators, which he served as chairman, and the National Association of Liquor Administrators, embracing members from bothtax and monopoly states, which heserved as vice-chairman. His reputation as a Houdini in state financetraveled far.The Premier of Saskatchewan wasin a financial fix. He called ProfessorJacoby to head a provincial tax commission to investigate the financialstructure of Saskatchewan and its municipalities. The State granted Professor Jacoby leave of absence. He wacgiven a Royal Commission as chairman of the five-man body whichheard testimony all over the Province.The chairman wrote a 200 page report. In the report, the Commissionrecommended a new consumers' tax,an income tax increase, centralized taxadministration and other measures. Itestimated the yield, an estimate soclose to realization that the young professor's name became legendary inSaskatchewan in government andbusiness circles.Professor Jacoby was just turned28. He was a married man, now.Shortly after he had arrived on theQuadrangles he had met attractiveyoung graduate student Claire Gruhn,a Chicagoan, who was doing work inhistory in the same (Social SciencesResearch) building. They were married in 1933, and have a son, Neil H.,Jr., aged 2, whom they call "Pat."A partner in the investment banking and counsel firm of LawrenceStern and Company, State FinanceDirector Rice asked Professor Jacobyto become manager of the researchdepartment of the company. Professor Jacoby wanted experience in private finance. He took the job andalso became a member of the investment committee of the firm. His province was investigation of proposednew bond issues and counsel to privateinvestors. Shortly after he joined thisfirm, early in 1937, the sharp depression within the depression took place.The investment banking businessslowed to a walk. Professor Jacoby requested a leave of absence. He is still"on leave" from the firm.Professor Leland was then conducting a study of Local Fiscal Relationsin Illinois. He asked Professor Jacobyto coordinate this study. Professor Jacoby also wanted to finish his thesisand achieve his doctorate. He wonhis doctorate and in July of 1938 accepted an assistant professorship infinance in the School of Business.Shortly afterwards Governor Horner asked Professor Jacoby to becomea member of the Illinois EmergencyRelief Committee. Professor Jacoby was named chairman of the committee in 1939. Hewas not yet turned thirty. The postwas a tough, payless, largely thankless one under pressure from all partsof the state. It was in this job thatProfessor Jacoby was dogged withdeath threats from the disgruntled.Professor Jacoby also had been doing a full-time teaching job and wasdoing research in the field of oil conservation, which is now his hobby.The sudden discovery of the greatnew oil fields in Illinois in 1938 hadraised mighty problems of oil conservation. Development of the fieldswas chaotic. The law of capture encouraged uneconomic practices. Thesubject was delicate and difficult.Governor Horner asked Professor Jacoby to study the situation and makea confidential report on: Did thestate need a new law; if so, whatkind? Professor Jacoby spent his quarter's leave on the oil conservationproblem, and reported to the governor. But Governor Horner wastaken ill and no action was taken onthe Jacoby report.Professor Jacoby, just turned thirty,surveyed new frontiers. No one haddone a job on the decade's changesin financial structure and businessmethods. They had been colossal.Professor Jacoby wanted to map abroad research program and allot segments to graduate students. Two,theses were completed when helearned that the National Bureau inEconomic Research had inauguratedan identical program.The program was being sponsoredjointly by the Association of ReserveCity Bankers and the RockefellerFoundation. Winfield Riefler, president of the American Statistical Association, on the faculty of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton,N. J., and now director of researchfor the Defense Advisory Commission, directed this project. Dr. Rieflersought Professor Jacoby' s collaboration and the University granted himleave. Meanwhile, he was advancedfrom assistant to associate professorof finance.In New York, he remained closelyidentified with the, University. Hewas a frequent participant— probablythe most frequent — on the Universityof Chicago Round Table, and participated in faculty and alumni activitiesattendant on the Fiftieth Anniversarycelebration.Professor Jacoby was now 32. Hehad traveled widely — worked on manynew frontiers. He had been in everystate in the Union and every provinceof the Dominion. He had seen firstTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 23hand, through a constant desire to"look in on" libraries and other buildings, every important educational institution in the two countries. Whenhe first saw the Quadrangles, comingfrom the west where buildings were"clean and white," he was disappointed, "but as I browsed, went inthe libraries," he says, "that initialimpression disappeared."He saw in the University easily themost dynamic institution of highereducation on the continent."This seemed to be a restless place,"he recalls, "I thought I'd fit."The University, with its eyes onnew frontiers, thought so, too.Professor Jacoby will continue histeaching in the School of Business.Secretary Jacoby goes on to a newfrontier in that important borderlandbetween the University and community. There his administrative dutieswill have to do with the Universityand its alumni, the Citizens' Board ofSponsors, the directors of Foundations, and fellow scholars.The University and the communitylook to him for greater illumination inthe new position he occupies— a frontier position, born during a time ofwar and extending beyond the immediate crisis into new frontiers ahead.IN THE SERVICEIrving Bass, AM '40, is at FortRandolph, Canal Zone.Morgan Blum, who was a graduate student at the University lastyear, is now a staff sergeant at a"firing point" somewhere in California.Robert E. Bowen, MD '39, is afirst lieutenant in the Medical Corpsat Paine Field, Everett, Washington.Frank Breul, AM '41, is a sergeant at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.Herbert C. Brook, JD '36, isstudying to be an ensign at AbbottHall, Northwestern University, Chicago.Jack Philip Donis, '38, MBA '39,a sailor in the U. S. Navy, is storekeeper at the Navy Pier Supply Officein Chicago.Carl Larsen, '40 former UnitedPress reporter on the Quadrangles anddowntown, is now a private in Company A, 29th Battalion, at CampCrowder, Missouri.Roger Quincy White, JD '29, isin the U. S. Navy Public RelationsOffice at 333 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago.Kermit Wiltse, AM '40, is stationed at the Reception Center, FortSnelling, Minnesota. A. Vaughn Winghell, MD '32, isa lieutenant-radiologist in the U. S.Navy, stationed in Washington, D. C.Harry Kalven, '35, JD '38, formerLaw Review editor and Blackfriarsauthor, is now in the 29th Signal CorpsBattalion at Camp Crowder, Missouri,and is enjoying it very much.Mark Fisher, '43, is in the ArmySignal Corps somewhere in the CanalZone.Graham Kernwein, '26, MD '31,is now at Camp Custer, Michigan.Ewing L. Lusk, Jr., is a first lieutenant in the 10th Cavalry, Fort Riley,KansasJoseph Rosenstein, '39, AM '41,is in the 76th Field Artillery Battalionat Fort Ord, California.William Arthur Runyan, '37,JD '39, of Chicago was commissionedas an ensign on January 16, after fourmonths of intensive study in the NavalReserve Midshipmen's school at Abbott Hall on Northwestern University's Chicago campus.Egbert F. Sghietinger, '40, is acorporal at Fort Lewis, Washington,where he is in the Signal Battalion.Julian L. Sghermer, '39, JD '41,is in the Quartermaster Detachmentat Camp Crowder, Missouri.Stephen Stepanghev, AM '38, islocated at Camp Wheeler in Georgia.Richard Thomas Smith, '37, JD'39, who, before entering servicetaught at Rockford College and practiced law in Rockford, Illinois, is nowan ensign in the Navy, having received his commission at Abbott Hallin Chicago on January 16.Charles Stevenson, '38, is a seaman, first class, stationed in Chicago.1892August N. Anderson, MD Rush,is city physician of Lincoln, Nebraska.1896A letter dated October 18, 1941,has just arrived from Howard S. Galtof Yenching University in Peiping, acknowledging the citation given him inabsentia at the Fiftieth AnniversaryCelebration and telling us of his anticipated retirement and return to theUnited States next summer. 1897George G. Tunell, PhD, who wasthe fourth student to be matriculatedin the University, has retired fromactive duty after more than thirty-six years of service as commissioner oftaxes and insurance manager for theSanta Fe Railway.1901Emma C. King, AM, was honoredat Mary Hardin-Baylor College in Bel-ton, Texas, on January 31 when thecollege celebrated its ninety-seventhbirthday.1903With a view to devoting his fulltime to writing, Werrett W. Charters, PhD '04, will retire this comingAugust after serving as director ofOhio State University's Bureau ofEducational Research since 1928.1904Perry J. Stackhouse, who waspastor of the First Baptist Church ofChicago for twenty years, is now retired and living in St. Petersburg,Florida.1905Lilian Mary Lane is dean ofWomen's College of New Haven inNew Haven, Connecticut.1907At a recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancementof Science William E. Wrather, andEsmond R. Long, '11, PhD '19, MD'26, both of whom received medalsat the Fiftieth Anniversary Convocation (see Magazine, November, 1941 ) ,were appointed members of the Association's Executive Committee.1908Paul O'Donnell, JD '09, practiceslaw at 1 North LaSalle Street, Chicago.Having been drafted to head thenational Victory Book Campaign, LosAngeles city librarian Althea Warren asked the boys in the armedforces what they wanted and foundtheir taste ranged from Ghirardi'sRadio-Physics to Ellery Queen. Agoal of ten million donated books hasbeen set.ALUMNI NEWS STORYEditor, News of the Classes: Here is a news item for the MAGAZINE.24 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE1910Urban A. Lavery, JD., has resigned as editor of the American BarJournal to resume the practice of law.1913C. E. Jackson is mill manager forthe Consolidated Water Power andPaper Company in Wisconsin Rapids,Wisconsin.1914Stephan Osusky, JD '15, who wasambassador from Czechoslovakia toFrance when the war broke out, isnow a member of the CzechoslovakianCabinet in exile with headquarters inLondon.Adele Helm hurshau sen is residing at her birth place in FranklinGrove, Lee County, Illinois, havingbeen retired after more than fortyyears of service in the schools of Illinois.Arthur B. Mercer of Providence,Rhode Island, heads the Baptist Education Society of that state this year.1917Harry A. Keener, MD Rush, formerly of Philadelphia is now locatedat 3042 Laurel Street, San Diego,California.1918James M. L. Cooley, AM, headof the Modern Language Departmentat Shattuck School in Faribault, Minnesota, has been appointed to fill thenewly created position of Dean ofStudents there.On January 18, Merrill C. Meigswas honored by the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences when, at its tenthanniversary dinner, he was presentedwith a certificate of honorary membership.Mabel Orr, a retired scienceteacher, is living in Danville, Illinois,where she is active in club work.1919Hanfors Tiffany, who chairmansthe Department of Botany at Northwestern University, was this yearelected to the Board of Governors ofthe Chicago Academy of Sciences.1922Harold F. Gosnell, PhD, headsthe clearance and correlation sectionof the Division of Field Operations inthe Office of Price Administration,Washington, D. C.George E. Olmsted is treasurer ofthe Michigan Public Service Companyin Traverse City, Michigan.1923Norman Wood Beck, PhD '41, hasa new positon this year on the facultyof New York University where he isan instructor in political science.Lester Gray is now chief technolo gist for the Shell Oil Company inWood River, Illinois.1924Joseph M. Campbell directs dancing at Hull House in Chicago.1926Charles E. Lane, PhD '33, hasresigned his position as associate professor of physics at Mississippi StateCollege to become director of theGround School of the Army AirCorps Training Detachment at GridorField, Pine Bluff, Arkansas.1928Russell Vernon Boom managessales promotion for the M. L. ParkerCompany in Davenport, Iowa.Mary E. Currier, AM, is teachinghome economics at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.Mrs. Crosby Hodgman (DonnaHampton) is doing field work on thecost of living for the Bureau of LaborStatistics of the Federal Departmentof Labor besides working for the recreation department of Hull House inChicago.On the first of this month MauriceH. Seevers, PhD, MD '32, formerlyon the faculty of the University ofWisconsin Medical School, becameprofessor of pharmacology and chairman of the department at the University of Michigan Medical School inAnn Arbor.1929E. Roger Dunn, AM, PhD '40, isacting head of the Department ofSocial Studies at Potsdam, New York'sState Normal School.1930Having time to spare from hispractice of law, Elmer Gertz, JD, iswriting "a social history of the Chicago Tribune — not for, but about it."Mrs. Dwight E. Harken directsthe graduate training course in personnel administration at RadcliffeCollege in Cambridge, Massachusetts.1931Martha D. Alexander, SM, isteaching mathematics at the University of Chicago High School.Edmund Hyzy is a patent examinerfor the U. S. Patent Office in Washington.Life insurance underwriter, Lee J.Loventhal has been serving as a volunteer worker for the Treasury Department on the Payroll AllotmentPlan for employee purchase of defensebonds.1932John N. Schmucker of the Aluminum Company of America has been appointed to the Advisory Committeeof the War Productions Board.1934Robert McAllister Davis, MD'37, a captain in the Army MedicalCorps, is stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.Formerly with the Shell Oil Company, Richard V. Holling s worthis now teaching at the University ofTulsa's College of Petroleum Engineering.1934Claude M. Langton, PhD, is withthe Houston Oil Company in Houston, Texas.H. W. Taylor, PhD, associate professor of English at Western StateCollege of Colorado at Gunnison, ispresident of the local chapter of theColorado Archeological Society.1935Frederick J. Arnold is superintendent of a bakery in Lincoln, Illinois.Lillian Hayman, MBA '41, teachesbusiness courses at Maine TownshipHigh School in Park Ridge, Illinois.William E. Looby, MD Rush '35,formerly an aide to Brigadier GeneralJohn M. Willis, camp commander ofOffers young men and womenunexcelled preparation for business careers in the shortest timeconsistent with thoroughness.StenographicSecretarialCourt ReportingBookkeeping andAccountingDAY AND EVENING SESSIONSThe Year 'RoundCall for FREE vocational guidance booklet "The Doorway ToOpportunity." Visit the collegeany week day.(co-educational)The Gregg CollegePresident, John Robert Gregg, S.C.D.Director, Paul M. Pair, M.A.6 N. Michigan Avenue at Madison StreetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE ' 25Camp Grant, Illinois, has recentlybeen appointed a captain.Byron Miller JD '37, and his wife(Jeanette Rifas, '36, JD '37,) andbaby have moved to Washingtonwhere Byron is on the staff of theOffice of Price Administration.Leo Shields, who received his doctorate from the University of NotreDame last year, is now teaching economics at Holy Cross College inWorcester, Massachusetts.1936David Crawford, AM, is superintendent of elementary schools in Ro-chelle, Illinois.William B. Hebenstreit is a research chemist at ihe Bell TelephoneLaboratories in New York City.Martin J. Hanley, AM '41, is nowwith the Continental Roll and SteelFoundry at East Chicago, Indiana.Terence C. Holmes, PhD, is inSouth Porcupine, Ontario where he isa geologist for Dome Mines, Ltd.Donald J. Hughes, PhD '40, famous Varsity wrestler, is now doingresearch for the Navy Department inthe national capital.S. Lee Miller, Jr., is with theAmerican Can Company in May-wood, Illinois.Alvin A. Rood is teaching mathematics at Shaker High School inShaker Heights, Ohio.1937J. E. Lennox Black, AM, doublesas personnel worker and instructor ofchild psychology at Provincial NormalSchool in Winnipeg, Manitoba.Arthur Witt Blair, AM, is assistant professor of elementary educationat Texas Christian University in FortWorth, Texas.Lyman C. Huff, SM '39, is working for the Water Supply Division ofthe U. S. Geological Survey, locatedin Portland, Oregon.Ralph N. Johanson, SM '37, PhD'39, is professor of mathematics atBradley Polytechnic Institute in Peoria, Illinois.HIGHEST RATED IN UNITED STATESENGRAVERS SINCE I 9 O 6 v WORK DONE BY ALL PROCESSES ++ ESTIMATES GLADLY FURNISHED +? ANY PUBLISHER OUR REFERENCE +pRAYNERif• DALHEIM fxCO. J2054 W. LAKE ST., CHICAGO. Francis M. Lyle, MD Rush, is onthe surgical staff of Rockwood Clinicin Spokane, Washington.Herman L. Meyer, Jr., SM, is aninstructor in mathematics at the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.John G. Morris, correspondentfor Life magazine has been transferred from New York City to LosAngeles.Leone Piekaeski, formerly on thestaff of Hospital No. 1 at Fort Bragg,North Carolina, is now at Touro Infirmary, New Orleans.David G. Speer, AM '39, is an instructor in German and Spanish atMississippi State College. 1938Harry Bricker, AM, is a remedialreading teacher at Gulf Coast Military Academy in Gulfport, Mississippi.Carl Frommherz who received hislibrary science degree at Columbia in1940 is now assistant librarian at Elmhurst College Library in Elmhurst,Illinois.Virginia Gingerick, AM, PhD,'41, is an instructor in the HumanitiesSurvey at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.Karl M. Lazarski, MD '40, is onthe staff of Henry Ford Hospital inDetroit.7t£4VDeliriously Differentare Easy to Make with? TASTY/? chewy/? CRUNCHY/. 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Cool slightly and cut into bars.CURTISS CANDY CO., CHICAGO, ILL.26 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINECarol Henry Rehm, is on themedical staff of Hollywood Hospitalin Los Angeles, California.John Whitman Sears is in theMilitary Welfare Service of the RedCross in San Carlos, California.From Railroad ticket-taker to criminologist is the history of Stow E.Symon, AM, now attached to theClassification Board of the IllinoisState Penitentiary.Sylvanus A. Tyler, SM, is teaching mathematics and physics at Alabama State A. and M. College.1939Armand R. Bollaert, formerly withthe Martell Company in Kankakee,Michigan, is now with the CelotexCompany, Marrero, Louisiana.Dorothy Culp, PhD, is an assistant professor of history at WesleyanCollege in Macon, Georgia.Mary Smith Fairbanks is withthe Douglas Aircraft Corporation inLong Beach, California.Dorothy K. Grant, teaches musicin the public schools of Cicero, Illinois.BUSINESS DIRECTORYAMBULANCE SERVICEBOYDSTON BROS.All phones OAK. 0-492operatingAuthorized Ambulance Servicefor Billings HospitalUniversity Clinics, etc.PACKARD AND LASALLE EQUIPMENTAUTO LIVERYAuto LiveryLarge Limousines5 Passenger Sedans $3 Per Hour$2 Per HourSpecial rates for out of townEMERY-DREXEL LIVERY INC.5547 S. HARPER AVE.FAirfax 6400AUTOMOBILESFRED W. REMBOLD, INC.6130 Cottage Grove Ave.DODGE and PLYMOUTHDirect Factory DealersSales and ServiceDependable Used CarsPhone Midway 0506 Donald R. Fryxell, AM, joinedthe staff of Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, Alabama this year.He is an instructor of English.John William Krietenstein is affiliated with Draper and Kramer andCompany in Chicago.Maurice W. Lee, PhD, assumedthe post of associate business economist in the Office of Price Administration last fall.David L. Moonie, MBA, has recently accepted a new position as costaccountant with the Western Pipe andSteel Company of California. Hisheadquarters are at Huntington Park.Dorsey L. Morgan, SM, is teaching physics at Prairie View College inTexas.Desmond Murphy, AM, is superintendent and principal of the elementary schools of New Lenox, Illinois.Karl H. Pribram, MD '41, is serving a year's internship at Billings Hospital in Chicago.Clarence G. Van Arman is now asergeant in the 2nd Infantry at FortSheridan, Illinois.1940Elizabeth Barineau, AM, teachesSpanish and French at Andrew College in Cuthbert, Georgia.N. Harry Camp, Jr., AM '41, isteaching, among other things, physics,chemistry, biology, history, government, and commercial geography atthe Malcom Independent Schools inMalcom, Iowa.Frank L. Esterquest, PhD, wasmade head of the Department of History at Western College in Oxford,Ohio, this year.George J. Gebauer, PhD, is on thefaculty of Earlham College, in Richmond, Indiana where he teachesLatin and history.June LaVerne Hanson, AM, hasbeen appointed a test technician forthe Oregon State Board of Health, located at the University of OregonMedical School in Portland.Esther E. Kirchhoefer, AM, isnow registrar at Gustavus AdolphusCollege in St. Peter, Minnesota.Richard D. Kleene, PhD, is an instructor in chemical warfare at Edge-wood Arsenal, Maryland.David Lloyd Harris, AM '41, is inAlgonquin, Illinois where he teachesEnglish and the social studies in thepublic schools.Philip Rutter Lawrence, a seniorin the University's Law School, hasbeen admitted to the bar of the District Court for the District of Columbia.Esther A. Oehring, AM, is teaching kindergarten at the campus schoolof Iowa State Teacher's College inCedar Falls. AWNINGSPhones Oakland 0690— -0691-The Old Reliable -0692Hyde Park AwningINC. 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Seiler is' doing chemicalwork for the Buick Airplane Plant atMelrose Park, Chicago.John H. Stellwagen, PhD, is anassistant professor of Spanish at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee.William S. Vance, PhD, is professor of English at Edinburg JuniorCollege, Edinburg, Texas.social serviceTynne Alanko, AM* '33, is withthe Children's Division of the IllinoisDepartment of Public Welfare.Mrs. Marguerite Bowman, AM'38, is now affiliated with the PublicWork Reserve of the Federal WorksAgency working out of Lansing,Michigan.Frieda Brackebusch, AM '39, isthe new Director of Social Service atthe St. Louis County Hospital.Grace Browning, AM '34, is conducting a series of meetings with agroup of social workers in GrandRapids, discussing the special problems of rural case work.Lucile Bruner, AM '39, formerlywith the Louisiana State Departmentof Public Welfare, is now executivesecretary of the Travelers Aid Societyin New Orleans. 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We wentto bed early, and either because there really was lessnoise this time or because we were so sleepy we sleptvery well.This morning we were up betimes, and after taking insome snapshots to be developed at a shop in the RueJeanne d'Arc we wandered around some more, seeingthings. At twelve we had our mid-day aperetif, butthis time disaster followed. Since the news of the Chicago job, we have been drinking different kinds ofaperetif each day, in an endeavor to become authoritieson the different species. This time I had a Rossi andBillie chose a Suze sec. The Suze ("aperetif a la gen-tiane fraiche") was horrid, and Billie gave up afterone sip: I had to have the rest. It was very horrid. AsI had finished my Rossi before drinking most of Billie'sSuze I began to feel queer shortly afterwards (I'm surethe two were never meant to be mixed) and went homeand lay down for a bit. I soon recovered, and we lunchedin our room off rolls, cheese, cider and chocolate, whichwe had bought that morning.After lunch it was Billie's turn to feel queer, so wejecided we would go and lie at our ease on one of the hills at the*S. E. (?) end of the town. It was hot,and the ascent was longer than we expected, but theexercise seemed to be beneficial to the stomach and bythe time we arrived at a place to park ourselves we bothfelt fit though exhausted. The hill commands a fineview of Rouen and a large stretch of the Seine (weforgot to take our camera, idiots that we were) , and wesat for a long time and admired it before settling downon the grass to read. We sat solid till after 4, when thesun disappeared and the wind blew and we were bothfeeling very thirsty. So we descended and had a bock,and then returned to our room and — surprisingly enough— fell asleep. At 6 o'clock we awoke and went to thephoto shop to collect our snaps. It was raining slightly.And now we are back in our room again, waiting to goout in search of dinner.9:20 p. m.We have returned from a very good dinner (12 fr.) atthe corner of the street, where we were the only peoplein the restaurant. We are both more than half asleep, andshall flop into bed in a moment.Tomorrow we start on the first stage of our journeyback to Scotland and then out into the unknown. WasI right to accept this Chicago job? They will hiss mefor this at Oxford. . . Well, I have always wanted tovisit an exotic country.WHEN BARTOK CAME to Chicago to give a concert, he spent one evening asa guest of his friend, Dr. Stephen Rothman, of the Department of Medicine.Dr. Rothman invited a friend living at International House — an ardent admirer ofBartok — to meet the composer at his home. The young man, very embarrassed,explained that he couldn't possibly come "I have tickets for a lecture on Bartokjat International House tonight."But everything ended happily. Bartok decided to attend the lecture too when helearned that the program would include recordings that he had made but never heard.c,T<>tATOOPPrcf32 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE.BOOKS.Bitter Honey. By Martin JosephFreeman. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. $2.50.When Professor Freeman("Tom" to his friends: how hegot Tom out of Martin Joseph I couldnever figure out) left the Universityof Chicago last year to take up a position at Hunter College, New York,some of us had a vague idea that hehad a novel cooking, but as professors'novels rarely emerge from the studywe did not really expect to see it blossoming forth in all the glory of a Macmillan jacket for all the world asthough it were destined to be a bestseller. But here it is, as fresh, livelyand perceptive a piece of work as wasever conceived on the Midway, andif my voice can be heard above Mr.Freeman's purring I should like to saysomething about it.Bitter Honey is a series of episodesin the life of a small boy in a littlemid-western town; the episodes arelinked by a unity of atmosphere ratherthan of structure; they reveal vividlyand sympathetically and without anysentimental nonsense the psychologicaland physical habits of a sensitive ten-year-old set against the backgroundof the family and — less distinctly — thecommunity life. Character ratherthan action determines the scope ofthe book. The hero is displayed fullybut briskly, the author resisting thetemptation to yearn over him or topush the identification of the writerwith his subject to the point wherenostalgia corrupts art. The other characters are spaced effectively betweenforeground and background, and wemove backwards from David, thesmall boy, through his clearly drawn grandmother and the progressivelyless distinct other members of thefamily to the dim and supernumeraryMrs. Dubonnet. The important thingis the character of David and the feelof his environment, in which theMARTIN J. FREEMAN, Ph.D. '34. . . His novel about a small boyemerged from the study, and isreviewed on this page.grandmother is the principal figure.And the important thing is well done:the prose is lively and clear-cut; thedialogue is manipulated without fussor exhibitionism; the descriptive passages slide unobtrusively into place tofulfil without shouting their quietfunction. Mr. Freeman knows whathe wants to communicate and howto communicate it.I can see little reason, however, forthe somewhat theatrical backgroundplot dealing with the fancy Mrs. Dubonnet, the elopement of David'selder sister, and the final reconciliation between the stern grandmotherand the runaway couple. This is surelyto provide a meretricious interest which the book does much bettewithout. As a symbol of the non-conforming and therefore suspected element in small town life Mrs. Dubonnet does very well: but to retain hereffectiveness she ought to remainthroughout a symbolic character andnot try to play the fairy godmothe>to any of the others. The scene inwhich David visits her house and thefinal scene in which the shadowy plotis tied up all too neatly and with sometrace of that sentimentality which therest of the story has left us whollyunprepared for, stick out of the book.;They are on a different level of realityfrom the rest, and disturb the reader.This is a minor flaw in a book ofreal quality. Had Mr. Freeman notbothered about a plot in the popularsense and contented himself with aseries of sketches whose unity wouldbe provided by the nature of the hero(as Dylam Thomas did so effectivelyin his Portrait of the Artist as a YoungDog) the book would have been perfect of its kind. Lacking the richnessof texture of, say. James Still's Riverof Earth (in which a similar story iscounterpointed more profoundly tothe life of the social group) BitterHoney possesses nevertheless qualitiesof clarity, understanding and quiethumor which set it well above theusual run of books written by menwho look at their former selvesthrough the wrong end of the telescope. There is delicacy here, anddiscipline; there is an unpretentiousstyle fitted most aptly to the subject;there is a refreshing steadiness of vision. If Bitter Honey does not reachthe best selling ranks of How GreenWas My Valley, a book with a not dissimilar theme, it is because Mr. Freeman has preferred to do a simple jobwith sustained effectiveness ratherthan a complicated one unevenly.David Daiches.Department of English.THERE IS GRIM coincidence in the fact that of the wrestling captains of thelast five years three have joined the Army air corps, and two of those are deador missing.Bob Finwall, 145-pound Conference champion in 1938, joined the air corps in1940. He flew into Alaska last November. His plane was never found.Edward Valorz, National A. A. U. 19 1 -pound champion in 1939, was piloting thebomber which crashed near Seattle last September.Sam Zafros, 1941-2 captain, joined the Air Corps in January. He is trainingat Randolph Field, Texas.