THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MAGAZINEOCTOBER 19 4 2THEUNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOLIBRARYCJ-C;THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 0 DFor thirty years the organized alumni of the Universnine independent alumni associations, the largest of whicciation of the Doctors of Philosophy, and the seven otheUniversity. Elected representatives from these nine associatexecutive board and administrative body that sponsored aA year ago the members of the Council were convinalumni relations if there were one general Alumni Assothe Ph.D.'s and the professional schools. Admittedly thtechnical, but it was the belief that such changes would malumnus.After months of constitutional amending the new orof the governing bodies of the Alumni Association and it ity of Chicago have held membership in one or more ofh was the College Association, the most unique, the Asso-r associations representing the professional schools of theions constituted the Alumni Council, which was the central11 general alumni activities.ced that it would be to the advantage of alumni work andciation with constituent divisions representing the College,e proposed transformation would be largely nominal andake the organization more understandable to the averageganization is now effected, and we submit the personnels nine constituent divisions.NALUMNI ASSOCIATIONPresident: Vallee O. Appel '11, JD '15Vice-President : Helen Norris '07Secretary-Treasurer: Charlton T. Beck '04Executive Committee: Charles P. Schwartz '08, JD '09; RobertC. Woellner AM '24, Harriette-Lou Kemp '40CABINET OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONDivision RepresentativesCollege: John Nuveen, Jr. '18; Helen Norris '07; W. FranceAnderson '99; Marguerite McNall '31; Herbert I. Markham'05; Geraldine Brown Gilkey '11; Vallee O. Appel '11, JD '15Law School: Charles P. Schwartz '08, JD '09; Charles F. McElroy AM '06, JD '15Divinity School: Laird T. Hites AM '16, DB '17, PhD '25;Irvin E. Lunger, AM '35, DB '36, PhD '38Doctors of Philosophy: Paul S. Martin '23, PhD '29; EinarJoranson PhD '20Education: Robert C. Woellner AM '24; Harold A. Anderson'24, AM '26School of Business: Einar L. Bjorklund '30, AM '33; Harriette-Lou Kemp '40South Side Medical: Victor E. Johnson '26, PhD '30, MD '39;Ormand C. Julian '34, MD '37Social Service Administration: Josephine G. Taylor, AM '35;Lois J. Utterbach AM '39Graduate School of Library Science: Fritz Veit PhD '41; LewisF. Stieg PhD '35OFFICERS OF DIVISIONAL ORGANIZATIONSCollege DivisionPresident: Vallee O. Appel '11, JD '151st Vice-President: Wrisley B. Oleson '182nd Vice-President: Agnes Prentice Smith '19Secretary-Treasurer: Charlton T. Beck '04Members of Executive Committee: Flerbert I. Markham '05;Paul M. O'Donnell '07; Ben Badenoch '09; Faye Millard Mc-Farland'22; Louise Viehoff '23; Helen Wells '24; Katherine• Trees '34; Robert Hepple '34; Jo^fi^^ga^willie '40; CalvinSawyier '42 Law SchoolPresident: Sidney S. Gorham '28, JD '301st Vice-President: Elmer J. Schnackenberg LLB '122nd Vice-President: William E. Stanley '12, JD '13Secretary-Treasurer: Charles F. McElroy AM '06, JD '15Divinity SchoolPresident: Roy A. Burkhart AM '31, PhD '36Secretary: Sidney E. Mead AM '38, PhD '40Doctors of PhilosophyPresident: Paul S. Martin '23, PhD '29Vice-President: Einar Joranson PhD '20Secretary: James L. Cate PhD '35EducationPresident: Aarcn J. Brumbaugh AM '18, PhD '29Secretary-Treasurer: Lenore S. Jolin AM '27School of BusinessPresident: Einar L. Bjorklund '30, AM '33Vice-President: Clementine VanderSchaegh Ferguson '39Secretary: Harriette-Lou Kemp '40Treasurer: Lewis B. Hamity '39Executive Committee: Arthur F. Goeing '34; Elsie Teufel '40;Robert H. Espenshade '37South Side MedicalPresident: John Van Prohaska '28, MD '341st Vice-President: Graham A. Kernwein '26, MD '312nd Vice-President: Bernard G. Sarnat '33, MD '37Secretary: Gail M. Dack PhD '27, MD '33Social Service AdministrationPresident: Linn Brandenberg '24, AM '321st Vice-President: Henry W. Waltz AM '362nd Vice-President: J. Kenneth Mulligan '34, AM '37Secretary-Treasurer: Alice L. Voiland AM '36Graduate School of Library SciencePresident: G. Flint Purdy PhD '36Vice-President: Margaret M. Herdman PhD '41Secretary-Treasurer: Maurice F. Tauber PhD '41THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MAGAZINEPUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONCHARLTON T. BECKEditor HOWARD W. MORT, BEATRICE J. WULFAssociate EditorsDON MORRIS, CODY PFANSTIEHL Contributing Editors IRA GLICKAssistant EditorTHE COVER: No more college com-prehensives on the second floor, nomore long winding lines of registeringstudents and no1 more quick showersor easy workouts on the track. Nomore touchball games off in the northeast corner of Stagg Field. And stillless purchasing of C books over thecounter in the director's office.T. Nelson Metcalf and Nelson H.Norgren have become officers in theservice, and Bartlett Gymnasium isnow a barracks and training center.Twenty-four hours round the clock asailor stands guard at Bartlett's frontentrance, a sailor set off by grey wallsand climbing ivy. It's the U. S. S.Bartlett for the duration.THOSE who attended the alumnischool last June will rememberthe address given by Avery O. Craven,Ph.D. '24, professor of American history at the University. Craven makesa powerful case in his article thismonth, a revision of his previousspeech, and, minces no words whenhe says, "Man has . . . lost his faith inthe integrity of his fellow man. Greedhas become more powerful than ideals.The value of a good society based onhuman justice and well-being does notappeal with equal force to the chancefor personal gain. We have forgottenthat men must live nobly if they areto survive in this modern world. . . ."TMPRESSIVE is the list of titles*¦ which follows the name of AgnesA. Sharp, Ph.D. '38, author of "I THIS MONTHTABLE OF CONTENTSOCTOBER, 1942PageAmerican Traditions and the Present Crisis, Avery 0. Craven. 3'I Helped Choose an Army !Agnes A. Sharp 6I Become a Rationalist,Roderick Peattie 8Introducing — 10The Dean's Easy Chair,Gordon J. Laing 11Home Port, Chicago ! 13News of the Quadrangles,Don Morris 15News of the Classes 24Helped Choose an Army," and psychological interviewer for the SixthService Command in the selection ofofficer material for the Women'sArmy Auxiliary Corps. She holds thepositions of associate in psychiatry atRush Medical College, University ofIllinois; attending staff in neuropsychiatry at the Presbyterian Hospital inChicago; and chief psychologist andassistant director of the PsychiatricInstitute of the Municipal Court ofChicago.WHITE uniforms that dottedcampus walks this summer arenow being discarded for winter bluesas the Navy begins to feel Lake Michigan's gusty breaths. Some twenty-five hundred of these boys in blue,members of the Naval signal schoolson campus, are the subjects of anarticle that might have been titled,"The Good Ship Chicago."AN INCURABLE romantic isRoderick Peattie, S.B. '15, atleast by his own definition. But in curable or not — romantic or otherwise— alumnus Peattie has turned hisautobiography into a delightful volume which makes you wish you hadbeen a part of his experience. Asyou may have guessed, the title is TheIncurable Romantic, and this issue ofthe Magazine includes a chapter concerning his adventures at Chicago.Peattie now holds a professorship ingeology at Ohio State University.ON THE inside front cover is theformal announcement of the reorganization of the Alumni Association of the University of Chicago. Foryour delectation, appreciation, and information are appended the biographies of your new president and vice-president.THE sixty-four dollar question thatseems to be bothering AlumniDean Laing in his new column, introduced this month in the Magazine, isthe author of the following lines:"And foul suspicion rears up its uglyhead." Off hand we would say it wasthe narrator for the Little Giant SilentOpery Company back in '85, but wecould be wrong. If you have a betterguess, you might write and help himout.NOT 1942 but 1051 is the datefor this coming school year. Orat least it is according to WilliamRainey Harper. Don Morris tells ofthe hypothetical derivation of thisdate in News of the Quadrangles.Published by the Alumni Association of the University of Chicago monthly, from October to June. Office of Publication, 5733 University Avenue,Chicago. Annual subscription price $2.00. Single copies 25 cents. Entered as second class matter December 1, 1934, at the Post Office 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 theUniversity of Chicago Magazine. ,0 "TJ_c 0-i- *c 0o '>cg tui-+- VIc0 >*-t- ^<0-4- 0<0 _>-oc 'c-1- 0w -C^_ -1-a>a -1-_£o ~oOs- _c0 oss toa)0 a>_* fCu *coon "<0o 1—•*-— «J<0 >I <0Z-*-12 0_co -»-0 o§ -1-cEo 0E0&_CTl^C 0IEo¦4- VI0 UJi.-1- tncto 00 0c L-D>a) >-<0IE ** -oDi 2cOVOLUME XXXV THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MAGAZINE NUMBER !OCTOBER, 1942AMERICAN TRADITIONS AND THEPRESENT CRISIS• By AVERY O. CRAVEN, Ph.D. '24In this war our traditionalvalues have turned intoa boomerangA Global StruggleLET me begin by stating what I believe to be thebasic facts in our wartime situation. First, andmost important, our horizons have suddenly beenlifted and we find ourselves in a conflict that is globalin its sweep. It has no national boundaries. It takesour sons from the fields of Missouri and Iowa and Illinoisand hurries them to Australia, to India, to China, andto Iceland to give their lives for the defense of thingsnot only American but British and Russian and Chineseas well.The Atlantic and Pacific oceans that only a few shortmonths ago seemed to be insurmountable barriers againstall outside interests and aggressions, certain protectionfor a smug security, have suddenly become dual avenuesof hostile approach. The unwanted problem of a two-ocean navy is in our laps. Not long ago we sat complacently back and assured ourselves that what washappening in Spain was none of our business. Blithelywe sold our scrap iron to Japan as a neutral's right,knowing full well that it would rain death and destruction on the hapless Chinese cities. It was too bad, butafter all it was not our affair if the Japanese made warin China. The crushing in Poland was none of ourbusiness. The Dutch and Norwegians were people to besympathized with but quite outside our immediate world.The English and Russians were closer but still a longway off. The Atlantic and Pacific bounded our problemsas well as our lands.In this frame of mind, Latin America was interesting and valuable but not vital to our interests. Herways were quaint but backward. Her peoples made interesting subjects for our miniature cameras and her ancient churches were picturesque against the southern sky.But her civilizations were out of date, her peoples were not progressive — the scarcity of automobiles and bathtubsproved that. The United States was all that countedin the Western Hemisphere. We were at best the bigbrother, who might some day be forced to step in andtake charge of affairs.Then suddenly all this changed. We found ourselvesmistaken. We were not secure, we were not outside, wewere dependent ourselves on the very peoples we scorned.Latin America was vital to us both for raw materials andfor physical defense. Europe and China were our ownoutposts. It was now perfectly clear that every step inthe long line of Axis aggressions was an invasion of thingswe held dear. The wars in China and in Europe wereas much our own as though they were taking place onour own soil. All men who believed in freedom andsecurity for the weak as well as the strong were on thedefensive and should have been fighting back. Thewhole world had become so closely knit together thatnone could escape. All those who had been fightingaggression in any corner of the globe had been fightingour battles. Had we only the eyes to see, the bombsthat ripped the women and children of China to bitsmattered for us as much as though they had fallen onAmericans. To have understood that fact would havemade defense today unnecessary. What we must seemingly learn is that the world has become so small, so interdependent, that no peoples can live to themselves;no event that hurts the least of mankind, however farremoved, can leave us untouched. As Norman Angelltold the British people a little while ago, if Englandhad brought her power to bear upon the Japs whenthey first attacked China, had she said "No!" to Hitler'sfirst aggressions, Englishmen today would not be diggingthe mangled bodies of their own children from the ruinsof bomb-wrecked homes.Conflict of ValuesThe second thing which I think is perfectly clear inour present situation is that this is a conflict of values.We did not make it that and the statements of war aimsso far emanating from our government fall lamentably34 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEshort of meeting the necessities of the situation. Theaverage American, in spite of the Atlantic Charter, isyet painfully vague and uncertain about what we arefighting for. Our enemies, not ourselves, made this aconflict of values. Hitler early let it be known that inhis opinion the old order in the western world had failed;that democratic values had not met the test or given theforce necessary to construct a new and better order formankind. He rose to power on the ¦ weaknesses andshortcomings of the systems which bungled into existenceafter the first World War. His promises, if you remember, were to give both the justice and the efficiencywhich had been lacking, and his early boast was thathe was doing more for his people and for the worldin general than the democratic countries were doing fortheir people and for a more equitable western civilization. He still talks about the blessings of the new order.The Japs, in turn, made it perfectly clear in theiranswer to the State Department's note of November 26,1941, that they were acting in accord with a very definiteset of values. We demanded that they "withdraw allmilitary, naval, air, and police forces from China andfrom Indo-China." They came back with the reply that"it [was] impossible not to reach the conclusion that[we desired] to maintain and strengthen in coalitionwith Great Britain and other powers the dominant position we had hitherto occupied not only in China but inother areas of East Asia." This the Japanese could nottolerate because it directly ran counter to their fundamental policy "to enable all nations to enjoy each itsproper place in the world," — which was only saying thatJapan had the same paramount interest in the East thatthe United States had in the Western Hemisphere.That statement, with all its implications, sharply challenged the whole doctrine of the white man's burdenon which the British Empire rests; it just as sharply challenged the tariff barriers and the exclusive right of theUnited States to a Monroe Doctrine in as far as it arguesthe paramount interest of a great power in contiguousterritory. And what was most startling, it thrust forward, in the Japanese belief in divine origins, the problem of the value of nationalism in a world as interdependent as ours. It bluntly asked in the light of ourhemisphere attitudes what business we had in the Philippines or why special rights in China. Before we couldeven recover from the shock of Pearl Harbor we thushad become painfully conscious of the fact that nearlyevery value we had once held was under fire or hadturned into a boomerang. Confused and reluctant wehave been attempting ever since to restate and reorderour national values to fit a situation as difficult as itis bewildering.And then to make matters worse, our Russian, Chinese,and Indian allies have taken positive ground and announced without hesitation the things for which they arefighting and the things for which they are alone willingto fight. Stalin, in his Red Army Day speech last February,was very emphatic about the fact that Russia is not intent on crushing the German state or in demonstratingthe superiority of any race of people. His was a socialand not a political purpose. The Chinese and the Indians have spoken with equal emphasis. They are notfighting just to whip the Japs; they are in this war tobenefit common men. If real democracy is not to comewith allied victory, then they would as soon submit toone ruler as to another.These two situations, the fact of a global stage andthe precipitation of a value struggle, have forced uponthe American people more of confusion and more ofuncertainty than we have ever known in all our lives.They have found us less prepared to meet our crisisthan any other peoples on the face of the earth. Theyare forcing upon us a veritable intellectual revolution.Witness the widespread attempts to interpret and understand democracy. You would think it an almost newidea with us. Witness the almost laughable efforts wehave made to prove that we are and always have beenthe good neighbor of Latin America. Witness the confused and contradictory attitudes held toward Britainand Russia and the final exhausted resolve to quit thinking about values in those connections and to accept thefact of physical alliance in an unwanted war. Andmost of all, witness the almost universal tendency tojump over the whole problem of war and war aims andto indulge in talk of a future peace as though it hadnothing to do with the war itself.The reason for all this confusion and uncertainty isthe simple fact that American traditions are entirely outof line with the two vital situations which we face. Ourminds belong to one age, our bodies are uncomfortablyin another. The whole course of American history isagainst a global conception of problems and an international mindedness. It is as much out of line with thevalues which the world situation demands.By our isolation attitudes we come honestly. Up untilabout 1815 the United States was in fact a part ofEurope. True, we had secured our political independence at an earlier time, but economic and social tiesheld us fast and even our political problems were thosearising out of our relations with the Old World, largelythe problems of a neutral in European wars. Americanpoliticians made their reputations first as diplomats andthe office of Secretary of State was almost a steppingstone to the Presidency. Our markets were abroad,credit and capital had to be secured there, we clothedour bodies in European finery, and took our intellectualstimulation from her writers. We were at times dividedinto French and English parties.Our Attitude Toward OthersWith the War of 1812 and its ending we about-faced.For the first time as a nation we caught the vision ofthe great continent on which we lived and began to takeTHE UNIVERSITY OFour problems and our leaders out of the land and theforest. As John Randolph put it, we became a greatland animal crawling on our bellies toward the settingsun. From Andrew Jackson to William McKinley ourbacks were to Europe, our faces to the continent. Theproblems of land, banks, internal improvements, homemarkets, and westward expansion occupied our attention. Western men filled the Presidency and dominatedthe Congress. Europe was a place from which menescaped, its systems were of the past, the future waswith America. In the Monroe Doctrine we served noticeon the world that we had reached national maturity,could look after the things of this hemisphere, and wouldview any attempt to extend their systems here as an unfriendly act. By implication we also left Europe to theEuropeans. This attitude reached its climax after thefirst World War, when after a typically American showof idealism in making the world safe for democracy,we suddenly realized how out of part we were and drewback from the League of Nations, repudiated thePresident who had led us into entanglements, and resumed our old position of isolation.In the same period of our history we showed littleregard for our Latin American neighbors. At the expenseof Mexico and in a war which great numbers openlydenounced as one of pure aggression, we added a wholesouthwestern empire to our territory. Under the elasticphrases of the Monroe Doctrine we extended a rathereffective control over the Caribbean, and in the CanalAVERY O. CRAVEN CHICAGO MAGAZINE 5Zone Theodore Roosevelt made a perfect farce out cfnative rights. The invasion of American capital intoLatin America has meant exploitation as much as development. The American traveler in Latin Americahas all too often shown his contempt for the natives andhis mores, and as Hubert Herring has said, has simply"oozed condescension." ,At a recent American university commencement, wheredegrees were to be conferred on a group of SouthAmerican celebrities, the clergyman who pronounced theinvocation prayed for the peoples of these benightedlands. When degree-conferring time arrived there wasno one to receive them. There is certainly little in ourpast conduct to suggest the "equal neighbor" which isthe essential requirement for the good neighbor! Tradition is all on the other side.Nor is there much in our traditions to support a closeand sustained cooperation with England and Russia.Twisting the British lion's tail has long been a majorAmerican sport. Twice we have gone to war againstEngland and about those two struggles a surprisingamount of our national patriotic symbolism clusters. TheDeclaration of Independence and the national anthemboth point to British foes. Englishmen were our severestcritics in the roaring forties when we first reached thehigh-water mark of national consciousness. The cry,"Fifty-four forty or fight," represented our attitudetoward English claims to territory in Oregon. Even inthe twentieth century a Chicago mayor waged his political campaigns on the basis of our traditional distrustand dislike of England.Russia, too, as a communist nation, has been the subject of active and aggressive hostility. Certain groupsin the United States openly preferred German aggression to Russian cooperation until the allied cause hungon the magnificent stand of Russian arms against theonrushes of Hitler. Distrust of Stalin and fear of communist propaganda still lie very closely to the surface,and a permanent frank tolerance and a genuine cooperative spirit toward the Russian nation are thingsyet to be achieved by a goodly group of Americancitizens. Our traditions in regard to communism standsharply in the way.Traditional American DemocracyBut far more important than any of these things isthe fact that traditional American democracy is completely out of line with the present demands of the worldsituation for a genuine democratic purpose by which thewar can be won and a permanent and just peace established. That may surprise you. Yet you must realize that the emphasis in American democracy has beenprimarily on freedom for the individual and not onsocial-economic equality such as the other peoples of theworld are now demanding. We have found room underour traditional democracy for racial discrimination and(Continued on page 21)HELPED CHOOSE AN ARMY!The women s army marks achange in attitudes ofwomen's place in warECENTLY a colonel in the United States Armysaid to me, "From now on and for a long timeto come we will have a large standing Army.Women will be in that Army permanently doingadministrative detail. They will be in the Army in peacetimes, too, not just when we are actively fighting a war."University, of Chicago faculty, University alumni allover the world have been called to serve in various capacities during this war: called by signal corps messagesover the radio, called on the long-distance telephone,summoned by telegraph. Mine came in early June,"Washington calling" by telephone. With growing excitement I listened for thirty minutes to a voice tellingme how the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was beingbuilt. I was asked to help build that first United StatesWomen's Army Corps,Representing Major Oveta Culp Hobby, director ofthe Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, I was appointed anexpert consultant to the Secretary of War to function inthe Army Sixth Corps Area— Illinois, Michigan, andWisconsin. In each of the nine corps areas of the UnitedStates two professional women — a psychologist and adean — were chosen to represent Mrs. Hobby.We were asked to work with Army personnel to interview and select for leadership officer material for thewomen's army from the women candidates who had successfully passed all the preliminary tests, measures, andrequirements. Of the many thousands of candidates(official figures and facts will be released by the Armylater) our job was to choose 440 women representingthe whole country to attend officers training school inFort Des Moines, Iowa. We felt, all eighteen of us,pretty solemn, as we gathered in Washington for our instructions. This was in our minds a history-makingevent. In the United States this is the first women'sarmy. If the War Department's prediction is correct,women will be from now on an integral part of theUnited States Army. A women's army of 150,000 ormore is contemplated with a roster of 7,500 officers. Ifthe war continues for several years, I am sure thesefigures will be "upped" many times. The effects, psychologic, sociologic, and economic, of such an army functioning over a prolonged period are not now predictable. Britain has one million women in uniform; Canadahas its WAAC; and our own Navy Department has its"Waves," directed by Lieutenant Commander Mildred # By AGNES A. SHARPi S!6B A.M. '30, Ph.D. 338H. McAfee,' president of Wellesley College and analumna of the University of Chicago.Our Women's Army Auxiliary. Corps is under way.Already the officers training school has been operatingfor several months. The privates, called auxiliaries, arebeing recruited and sent to Fort Des Moines for training. Requests for over 83,000 women have come fromthe Army. These auxiliaries will take over Army administrative detail in offices and camps, releasing forcombat service the hundred thousand able-bodied mennow tied to these desk jobs. This marks a shift in manyof our attitudes and concepts. It is a new departure andits impact will be felt in many areas of life.Fairly familiar now to some few people are the stepsthat were taken in building this women's army. Shortly,in the rapid expansion and change in war times theywill be forgotten. The beginnings of this army may beworth recording.Women citizens from twenty-one to fifty years old withhigh school education or its equivalent were asked toapply for officers training in the WAAC. Applicationstook the form of a personal history blank to be filled inand sent to the Army with certain supporting papers:birth certificates, educational records, and the like. Applications poured in by the thousands. The Army hadnot foreseen such an avalanche of preferred services. Theskills offered were of the highest business and professionaltypes by women of fine personal abilities and with unusually good training and experience. Selection of officermaterial became overnight a tremendous task. Applications were scrutinized by Army officers and those foundto be incomplete or below minimum requirements wererejected. A mental alertness test of 150 questions builtspecifically for this women's army selection and standardized on about 4,000 women was designed to eliminate55 per cent of the applicants. (All mental abilities testsare constructed to pass and to fail about 50 per cent ofthe population for which they are devised.) A preliminary interview by boards of Army recruiting officers sitting with women leaders in public life was given eachcandidate. During this first interview the obviously lessfit for one reason or another were eliminated.Next, the physical examination given by the surgeongeneral's staff in the various Army camps sorted outthose whose physical condition barred them from Armyservice. The provost marshal reviewed all papers andapplications. And then we of the final interviewingboards went into action.Our assignment was to choose from the now-survivingthousands of applicants the best officer material. Eachcorps area was to choose its best 160 to 200 candidates.6THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 7We were instructed to keep in mind a balanced age range,to locate the presence of that baffling quality known asleadership, to include women with certain special abilities, techniques, skills, and training. Each candidatewas to be weighed by the same scales and measured bythe same standards.Teamed with an Army officer — my partner was acolonel in military intelligence — and a woman leader ofcommunity activities, each of Mrs. Hobby's representatives interviewed hundreds and hundreds of women. Theywere all ages from twenty-one to fifty, all heights andsizes, from under-weight to over-weight, all races and,nationalities. All were enthusiastic and hopeful, andmany were ready to make great sacrifices to be a part ofthis women's army. For officer training the board wasto agree unanimously on at least 80 per cent of thecandidates recommended. On 10 to 20 per cent of thosefinally recommended Major Hobby's representativesmight disagree and separately present candidates whoseemed to her especially fitted for this new army. Asa matter of fact, there was disagreement on less than2 per cent of the cases before the board in which Iworked. We were all surprised at the large number ofPh.D., J.D., M.A., and A.B. degrees held by candidates.Many of the applicants I saw earned in excess of threehundred dollars a month. Many of these women withhigh school training only had been filling executive andmanagerial positions of high responsibility. They allcarried themselves well and with confidence. We werewithout any doubt skimming very rich cream from thetop of the crock. The richness of material was one ofthe compensating factors for a month of gruelling interviewing that went on long day after long day throughSundays and holidays.Again in Washington from the nine corps areas, wepresented the papers and our findings and ratings on thecandidates we had chosen. A group of psychiatrists readall records and examined the papers of each candidate.They questioned the records of some of these applicantsand in a few cases the candidates were rejected by thepsychiatrists.Our final work was to rank and classify our candidates. Each corps area turned over its records to the AGNES A. SHARPWar Department for final action in three batches, thebest or A group, second best or B group, and third bestor C candidates. The War Department drew from thenine areas the top 440 names. These successful candidates were chosen for the officers training school andnotified to report for duty. At once the recruiting ofprivates, or auxiliaries, in the WAAC was begun in eachcorps area by the recruiting and induction service of theregular Army. In this fashion the first women's armyof the United States came into being. The beginningswere auspicious and the record to date is encouraging.The future will record judgment on the usefulness andwiseness of this departure from American custom in awar situation. Women are in the Army now.AS TO ARMY LIFE at Des Moines, I don't think it is very different from the routineat any other camp. Reveille is at 5:45 A.M. and we have fifteen minutes to wash,dress and be on the line in front of the barracks. That, perhaps, was one of the mostdifficult adjustments we had to make and for a few days most of us got up at 5:30 tomake sure we were on time. We soon discovered that we could dress in fifteen minutes and now the entire. barracks is quiet until the 5:45 whistle is blown.You will appreciate one of our difficulties. After many years of attempting tomodulate our voices to a pleasing and ladylike tone, we come out here and have tolearn to throw them at least half a block. To make it worse, this has to be done overthe blare of band music.—Ruth M. Downey, '28, Third OfficerThird Officer Company, WAACFort Des Moines, Iowa.I BECOME A RATIONALIST» By RODERICK PEATTIE, "15The following is an early chapter from RoderickPeattie's autobiography The Incurable Romantic, acharming and highly informal story of a man who notonly finds life worth loving but tremendously amusing.The book finally arrives at the conclusion that a teacher s philosophy is a result of the sum of his experiences,but it is not philosophy which makes this volume so intriguing. Rather it is Peattie 's personality, his frankness,humor, and ability to share his enthusiasm and enjoymentof life.Peattie says in his author's note: "When I began thisbook, I intended to call it cThe Education of an Unimportant Man.' It still is that story . . . But I have changedthe title because as I proceeded I saw that what I wastrying to set down was the story of how an unimportantman strives to make the unimportant details of life important, and as he does so his life becomes dramatic andsignificant to him.3'We are indebted to the author and the Macmillan Company for permission to reprint this excerpt.— EditorTHIS callow youth that was entering the Universityin the fall of 1910 was not an average freshman.Nor was he abnormal, nor subnormal. In the firstplace, partly through his ignorance of college life, hewas somehow aloof from the collegiate scheme of things.Also he did not represent a true mean because he knewso little of conventions. He was tall and thin, he hada shock of uncontrollable black hair, a prominent nose,and his arms were too long for his sleeves. He wore oddhats and affected an overcoat that was half cape. Sometimes he wore a stock about his neck as if he were aboutto go fox-hunting. His clothes, like his social practices,were a bit off color — if not blatant. Margaret Rhodesthought exactly this, and yet it was this very qualitythat kept him in her consciousness.Recently a classmate of those days, one Burton Rascoe,has made a report upon me, in his memoirs entitledIt Will Soon Be Later Than It Is Now, or somethinglike that. He makes me the height of campus fashion,dashing and spendthrift, and suggests that I went throughthe family fortune, so that my brother Donald, followingme, had mere crumbs of financial support. After college, according to Rascoe, I went East to write playsand apparently was sunk without a trace. The implication, which howls for attention, is that Donald wonrenown in spite, or because, of these handicaps, whereasI am probably limping along Broadway gutters, hopingfor a handout. Well, I was not well dressed, but oddlydressed. I was always poor and earned part of my way by this task or that. I did not go to New York, certainlynot to write plays. Now I love Donald dearly, but itmust be confessed that Donald's education did not sufferfor lack of money. He left Chicago because the younginstructors under whom he was placed knew so little.One of the many things I did not understand aboutcollege was the fraternity question. Yet through the efforts of friends I found myself a member of one of themost haughty- taughty of fraternities. We were quite surethat we were the best fraternity on the campus. Ofcourse, a man is not worth his salt unless he feels hisgroup of friends is best. At Amherst there are twelvefraternities, and each, by some strange mathematical formula, belongs to the big four. I will say that probablyno group was more conscious of the necessity of propersocial usage than ours. In our own eyes it elevatedus to a position of almost unbelievable dignity. Thisattitude had a distinct civilizing influence on the youngbarbarians that each year were inducted. And todaythe Chicago chapter of Alpha Delta Phi has the mostconstructive program of any chapter of any fraternityI know.The seriousness with which fraternity men take themselves reminds me of the time when our family wasbeing investigated by the Michigan chapter of Psi Upsilonin my older brother's interest. Not being sure of Edward's family background, they had one of their seniorscall on us. Father and Mother were tremendouslyamused as this youth with no hair on his lip solemnlylooked us over. The whole family read Emily Post inorder to be on their good behavior.The youth came for Sunday-night tea. A veritablebanquet was prepared for him. As it was the maid'snight out, my still-young aunts served the table. Berthacame in with a roast surrounded by delicious gravy. Sheslipped and the roast fell to the floor, careening in itsgravy. The family, already suppressing giggles with difficulty, broke into shouts of laughter. The young manlooked at us with hurt dignity which in no way sloweddown the hilarity. Bertha washed the roast and appeared in a fresh dress but was useless for serving therest of the evening. Hazel, a blooming sort of person,holding in her giggles with difficulty, brought in the dessert. She stepped in the gravy and made a perfect backsomersault. Even then the dignity of Psi Upsilon remained undisturbed. By the grace of God, Edward madethe fraternity.I was a fish out of water in fraternity life and wasalways self-conscious among the brothers. I never learnedto be hail-fellow-well-met, as I desired to be, and I amafraid that I served the house but little. It was a fact8THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 9that the group did have good social standing — whichaided me greatly. However, I did not live in the housebut commuted daily to Windsor Park. For the firsttwo years I knew little about college life but was absorbed by my classes.Up to this point, one would have little basis for guessing the direction of my intellectual interest. It was anexact science, geology. This came about largely throughthe personality of a teacher under whom I enlisted inthe opening term. The manner in which this professorapproached learning so impressed me that he is theonly teacher whose classroom manner I consciously imitate. He was at once an exact scientist and a romantic.He encouraged one to learning, he made learning dramatic, and he accomplished the mental discipline of hisstudents while he smiled. He was past master at threedimensional chalk drawing. He would enter the classroom, pleasantly look us over, and then without a wordturn to the board and make geologic processes live forus. I did not, as students say, "crack a book," but I wasgiven an A in the course. In my graduate days I followed him to Harvard and took my doctor's degree underhim. He is now President Wallace W. Atwood of ClarkUniversity.Yet there is no substitute for work. If my geologyhad been solely under such an "easy" professor, I shouldhave missed much of the virtue of exact science. Thediscipline of fact was supplied me by another, the dominating Rollin D. Salisbury. Salisbury was tall, a quick-moving man with a Vandyke beard. Though he couldbe most affable he was a slave driver. He demandedquickness of reply that was terrifying, and he literallyharassed students at their work. If an answer in classwas the least bit vague, he would snap out, "Perfectlytrue, perfectly general, perfectly meaningless." He didnot like to have women in his class and would flay them,intellectually speaking, until I have seen them cry. Wecalled him "Old Sol" to his back, and one day a womanin class said to him through her tears, "Saul, Saul, whypersecutest thou me?" She won him over completely.In reality, his harsh mannerisms were affected for thegood of the student. Unobtrusively he aided his chargesin every way possible. He disciplined and encouraged mealternately. Though at the end of my freshman yearI received a letter from him praising my work, once hehad me in class he was merciless. As he walked intothe room he would start, "Mr. Mr. Mr. Peattie," andthen, having frightened me, would shoot a question at me.I worked under one other professor renowned for hiscaustic teaching. Sarcasm with him was not an affectation but a quality of character. This was Robert Herriek, teacher of English and novelist of note. Herriekwas impatient with all efforts but his own. He madeclaim that he had discouraged more writers than anyliving man — a curious boast for a teacher. He was theworld's best snubber and alienated his friends by describing them intimately in his books. It is said that The Master of the Inn was a betrayal of confidence. Hebroke off friendship with Mother because he said she hadreviewed him too intimately — the shoe on the other foot.I therefore put my head into the literary lion's mouthin taking a course with him. I once approached him andsaid, "Mr. Herriek, may I speak to you?"He looked me over for a minute as if in astonishmentand replied, "Why, no!"He told me that my vocabulary was meager but adequate to express my thoughts. His last remark to mewas, "Mr. Peattie, you will not find it necessary to takeany more English." Herriek was, however, so brilliantthat one could disregard his insulting manner. I admiredhis writings greatly.A third element in my scientific education was supplied by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin. He was themost important philosopher in geology in his day. WithMoulton, the mathematician, he evolved the planetesimalhypothesis for the origin of the earth. He was a kindlyold man with twinkling eyes and a most venerable whitebeard. His face had something quite spiritual about it.He had hurt his knee and drove up daily in a hack. Oncein his office he would pore over articles with the aid ofa large reading glass. A student coming from a conference with Chamberlin felt that he had received a lessonin courtesy. I had a seminar course under him, for I hadspecialized in geology and was permitted in graduatecourses. Indeed, I was a teaching assistant in the department in my junior year. In this seminar each studentsubmitted twenty questions" on as many sheets of paper.These were arranged according to geologic chronology.The fine old philosopher would answer the questionsin turn — in a manner which somehow gave the impression of humbleness in the face of great truths.Only once did science courses fall short of what couldbe desired. The chemistry department was an impersonalfactory-like division with too many students. The department seemed to have the attitude that here werefacts — take them or leave them. I received from it nopersonal help in my laboratory problems, merely impersonal grading. So demanding was the department — andunjustly — that when we students, serving on a commissionthat put in the honor system, discovered more cheatingin chemistry than in any other department, we did notblame the students but condemned the department. Istarted chemistry under a Scotchman who had just givenup his kilts. I could not understand his brogue, andtherefore never properly understood the science. It wasan educational crime to expect a large auditorium ofyoungsters to base their science upon his teachings. Idisliked him thoroughly, and I hope that he went backto live by some dank tarn in a lonely glen.I had had, then, three inspiring teachers in geology.One dramatized science for me, a second forced me tofactual thoroughness, and a third gave me a broad philosophical outlook. I determined that geology should be[Continued on page 17)INTRODUCINGVallee O. AppelThe election of Vallee O. Appel to the presidency ofthe Alumni Association climaxes a long record of serviceto the University and its alumni. He entered the University as a freshman in 1907 and with no noticeabledelay assumed a leading part in the activities, curricularand extra-curricular, of the far famed class of Ee-o-leven.Almost before his first attendance at Chapel he waselected president of Pow-Wow, the freshman debatingsociety and for four years he argued and orated anddebated, winning honors and friends along the way. Heheld important posts on all of the student publications.Versatile to a fault, our hero served not only as "Chairman of the Philosophy College" but sang and danced andsome say acted the part of Sunny Sweet, the diminutivesocial lion of "The Pseudo Suffragettes," the Blackfriarproduction of 1910. He was a member of Sigma AlphaEpsilon, and in his senior year was elected to Owl andSerpent and the class presidency.Following his graduation he turned to the study of lawand during the next three years won the degree of J.D. atChicago and that of LL.B. at Harvard. Two years oflaw practice came to an end when the United Statesentered the first World War. Now Appel straightwaybecame a member of the first officers training camp atFort Sheridan, where he received his commission. Hewent overseas as an officer in the 86th Division. Afterthe Armistice Lieutenant Appel was detailed as lecturer inlaw at the A.E.F. University, Beaune, France, where heremained until the summer of 1919.Upon his return to Chicago he gave up the privatepractice of law to become trust officer of the GreatLakes Trust Company. He held this position until 1922when he was elected president of the Fulton Market ColdStorage Company, which, according to a somewhat prejudiced authority, is one of the largest and indubitably thebest cold storage company in the world. His colleagues in cold storage seem to appreciate Mr. Appel's worth andabilities, as he has been honored with the presidency ofthe American Warehouseman's Association and has heldmany other important offices in that organization.He has been a most outstanding president of one ofthe University's most outstanding classes. He has heldimportant positions in the Development Fund drive andthe Fiftieth Anniversary campaign. He is a director ofthe Alumni Foundation and president of the CollegeDivision.Helen NorrisThe newly elected vice-president of the Alumni Association is Helen Norris, long time secretary of the Classof 1907. Miss Norris entered the University from LewisInstitute and took an active part in undergraduate life.She became a member of the Sigma Club, sang in theGirls' Glee Club, served on the Student OrganizationsCommittee and on the editorial board of Cap and Gown.Soon after graduation, Miss Norris entered the employof the Commonwealth Edison Company as librarian. Shelater went into the personnel division of the company,and in 1921 the company appointed her to the newlycreated position of dean of women, charged with the dutyof promoting the well-being and the representation of thewomen employees. For more than twenty years she hasbeen a wise guide and friendly adviser to thousands ofwomen in the employ of this great public utility.Outside of her working hours, Miss Norris has beenan active member of the Chicago College Club, theCordon, the Chicago Women's Club, and the AmericanAssociation of University Women.In the alumni organization she has contributed mostgenerously of her time and talents. A long-time memberof the Alumni Council, active in the Chicago AlumnaeClub, and one of the leaders in the Development Fundcampaign, her counsel and her unselfish services havebeen an inspiration to the many alumni with whom shehas come in contact.10THE DEAN'S EASY CHAIRWHEN Carl Beck suggested to me that I shouldcontribute a column to the Magazine, I acceptedwith barely controlled avidity. Indeed, my acceptance was so speedy that even Mr. Beck's face cloudedmomentarily as if he could not help feeling that so important a matter as the initiation of a new department of theperiodical required somewhat more protracted consideration; that at least I might be expected to ask for a few daysto consider the question ; or that it would be necessary forme to study all the present departments of our Magazineand of similar publications issued by the alumni associations of other institutions before I could reach a sounddecision. But the fact is that I had been waiting for along time for some such proposal, for here, I was convinced, lay a far better opportunity of getting in touchwith alumni than could be devised in any other way."My understanding," I said to Editor Beck, "is thatyou impose no restrictions of subject or treatment.""None, whatever," he answered."Naturally, however," I said, "you want no duplicationof any other department of the Magazine. For example,you already have your letters from the alumni — in myopinion one of the most interesting sections — and youhave your long articles to give solidity and weight, andindeed in a comparison of the various alumni periodicalsof the country that I happened on not long ago thejudges mentioned these articles — especially the convocation addresses — as one of the reasons that induced themto give our journal a very high place as an instrumentof education. It is, therefore, obvious that my columnshould not trespass on these fields." '"You are right," he said. "Without the letters, I, aseditor of the Magazine, would lose contact with the subscribers, would not know what they were thinking orsaying, would be hopelessly handicapped in the maintenance of that delicate spiritual unison between editorand readers that is essential to a successful alumni journal. And as to the articles and convocation addresses,whose solidity and weight you stress to an unnecessarydegree, all I have to say is that those who do not readthem with that intense intellectual pleasure that theyare intended to impart, can move on to other parts ofthe Magazine, to your new column, for example, or tothe personal items or to the engagements, marriages, andbirths. For my own part I have always found the birthsone of the most interesting parts of the Magazine. Allthe editor stirs within me as I read them, for every babymeans another probable alumnus and hence a possiblesubscriber.""Apparently," I continued, "we are agreed on the fieldsfrom which my column must keep a respectful distance.But while there would be no room for formal letters init and while it is equally clear that even the introductory ALUMNIDEANGORDON J. LAINGHe wasstimulatedby a gleamparagraph of a convocation address — I mean a real convocation address, one of those with a strong message —would overflow the whole space you have allotted to me,yet, I am sure you must realize that if not letters, theremust be at least brief communications from alumni in thecolumn, and I am confident that you also recognize thefact that, as I am a dean, it will be humanly impossiblefor me to refrain from comment on educational themesquite as high as those discussed in your articles. Moreover, when President Hutchins offered me the post ofalumni dean, I asked him what an alumni dean was,what he did, what he was for, how did he differ from analumni secretary, because I had never heard of one before. He answered that while an alumni secretary wasan ambassador of the alumni to the University, an alumnidean was an ambassador of the University to the alumni,and his chief responsibility was the 'continuing' educationof the alumni. This I think establishes irrefutably theclaims of my column to as much educational commentas can be crowded into it.""Right," said Mr. Beck, "but — don't make it too educational.""We are," I continued, "getting on in our Socraticdiscussion of what this column should be. We have, insome degree at least, decided what can and what cannotbe included in it. But we have not yet reached theheart of the question. Do you agree with me that thecolumn's only chance of a successful start and a prosperous career lies in the active participation of thealumni? As has often been said, a university consists offour estates: the administration (including trustees, president, officials and deans of and in), the faculty, the students, and the alumni. And the alumni yield to none inimportance. We should, therefore, take all possible measures to convince them that we need not only their interestbut their cooperation in all University undertakings.We want to hear their opinions, their suggestions, their1112 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEcounsel, their problems, their questions, and through thiscolumn, we can provide for them a new means of access,ready, convenient, and informal. I believe that if wecan secure their cooperation, and induce them to regardour alumni office as their special entry to the University,and submit to us such problems and questions as theysubmitted or wished to submit to- their professors whenthey were students on the campus, we — you as alumnisecretary and I as alumni dean— would be in a positionactually to perform that service of liaison officers whichwe are supposed to perform. We cannot, however, dothis without alumni participation. I hope you won'tthink this outburst too prosy. I seem to have been carried away by that curious afflatus to which all deans areoccasionally subject. I would not have said so much ifI had not been stimulated by the sympathetic gleam inyour eyes. I promise you I will avoid this sort of thingin the column.""You need not apologize," replied Mr. Beck, "you havenot stated the matter too strongly. If I had been discussing it, I should have gone much further. For what isany column without its correspondents, its contributors?Nothing at all. It fades, disintegrates, and dies."Such was the dialogue between Carl Beck and myselfon the nature of the new column. And now the questionis one which only you alumni can answer. Will youcooperate? Will you contribute something? A suggestion, a comment, a question? The range of subject isvery wide. It is anything that has to do with the academic world. You may appear before our readers underyour own name or anonymously. It shall be just as youwish. Your questions may be answered through the column or by direct communication to you.Certainly there must be many questions that occur toyou that could easily be answered through the column.I already receive numbers of them. To most of them, Ido not know the answers, but there are seven or eighthundred specialists within telephone range on this cam pus, and for the most part the answer is forthcoming."Who was it," inquired one alumnus "who defined anambassador as 'an honest man sent to lie abroad for thegood of his country'?" It was with a thrill of pride thatI answered: "The English diplomat, Sir Henry Wotton(1568-1624)." I happened to have heard it from a professor of European history a few days before.Don't be discouraged if the answer does not come atonce. I am still looking for the answer to this one:"Who wrote the line, 'And foul suspicion rears up itsugly head'?" Surely some of you alumni who know yourEnglish literature can tell me who wrote it and in whatpoem. Doesn't the plethora of epithets date it at least?My alumnus inquirer is getting impatient. I need help.Here is a chance to participate in the column.But you alumni must have many other kinds of questions and if these lie within the range of the University'sactivities, do not hesitate to submit them. Here is a greatreservoir of information waiting to be tapped.Perhaps you have problems, too, and would feel better if you could consult someone about them, at leastgive some expression to them. I am going to set you anexample and tell you about some of mine, and my firstcontribution to the column will be on the subject "TheEducation of an Alumni Dean." This education, I wishto add, is not by any means complete; it is still in processand will continue so indefinitely. For a dean's activitiesare so various that the subject of his education is a vastone. So vast that even the beginning of it, as Fielding sooften says in his quaint history of Tom Jones, must bedeferred to the next issue.{Communications should be addressed to the Alumni Dean, TheUniversity of Chicago Magazine.)DEAN NORMAN MACLEAN is one of the University's official advisers to studentswishing to prepare themselves for armed service. At a freshman meeting todiscuss these various services two of the questions and Norm's answers were: "Whatare the special services in the Marines for which students can prepare?" "TheMarines have just one specialty — combat!" (prolonged applause). "What are theprospects for pre-medics being deferred?" "You can shake any tree on the Quadrangles and 54 pre-medical students will fall out." (The crowd got the point.)HOME PORT, CHICAGO!FROM the signal bridge of the flagship the blinkerlights wink an order. Down in the radio shack staccato signals are interpreted into information of vitalinterest to the task force of grey ships speeding throughheavy seas. The United States Fleet is on its way to chalkup another Coral Sea victory, another Midway triumph,another smashing blow at enemy sea power.Upon the signalman operating the blinker, upon theradioman receiving the splatter of dots and dashes maydepend the success or failure of another chapter in thewar at sea. And the chances are that both men learnedtheir specialty in the heart of Chicago's south side, in theivy-covered buildings along the Midway.One day last spring a truck drove up in front of aUniversity of Chicago building. It was followed by another and another. Dungaree-clad sailors unloaded sea-bags, rifles, and countless other items of Navy gear.Shortly afterward a long line of marching bluejacketsappeared along the Midway green and filed into the structure of learning long familiar to educators all over theworld. The Navy had arrived!Today another type of education is going on at theUniversity. Young men from all sections of the UnitedStates are unloading their seabags and marching toclasses to learn how to become experts in the greatestNavy in the world. Almost 2,000 of them are learningin a few short weeks how to become experts in the Navy'smethods of communication. They are converted fromfarm boys, truck drivers, students — almost any occupation — into man-o-war's men. When they leave theMidway they go to sea prepared to perform intricateduties and they will know how to perform them. Despite the dry-land appearance of the surroundings,the Naval Training School is operated in the same saltyway as a battleship at sea. Armed sentries patrol thestreets around the main buildings, the trainees "hit thedeck" at 0530, eat "chow," appear before the "captain'smast" for punishment, and live like sailors at sea. Thecommanding officer and his aides are sea-faring men andthey demand the "Navy way" from their charges.A veteran of both the Army and the Navy guides thedestiny of the ever-increasing school. Brisk and demanding, yet thoroughly human, Lieutenant Commander M.B. Lowe is an ideal officer to command a communicationsschool. Born on an Army post, he lived among soldiersthroughout his youth as the son of a brigadier general.A brother was a captain of Marines who was killed inaction during World War I. As a second lieutenant,Lieut. Comdr. Lowe served with the Army forces underGeneral Funston in the Mexican border campaign and received wounds which brought about his discharge fromthe Army.When the first World War began, the ex-Army officerwas determined to re-enter the service. He entered thenaval service as a supervisor of radio instructors at theGreat Lakes Training Station and fulfilled a variety ofassignments, including intelligence, before he was discharged in 1920. By nature a sailor, he went aboard theUnited Fruit Company ships flying the colors of Hondurasand was honored by that government by being named anhonorary commander of the Honduran navy.In civilian life, Lieut. Comdr. Lowe was both a graduate lawyer, specializing in communication law, and anelectrical engineer. As consulting radio engineer forDouble ranks of bluejacketsmarch from Bartlett Gym toclasses on the Quadrangles.Unselfconsciously happy, eachsailor keeps his individuality,as no two white caps are evertilted the same. Columns likethese are always to be seen,traveling between classes, todrill, to meals, or perhapsjust back to Bartlett to bed.1314 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEAmerican Airlines he established the coast-to-coast radiosystem which aided the expansion of transcontinentalflying. Later he became chief radio engineer for theIllinois state police, a pioneer law enforcing agency inthe radio field.With all these duties he turned again to the Navy in1927 and received a commission as an ensign in the NavalReserve. He commanded the reserve unit in Kansas City,Missouri, and later headed the Chicago unit. On January 1, 1941, he was ordered to active duty to relievethe executive officer at the naval training school at theChicago naval armory and served as senior officer-instructor there for eight months.Named resident inspector of naval material at Indianapolis, Lieut. Comdr. Lowe supervised production ofimportant supplies in 163 major plants. He was orderedto command the Midway training school last May.An expert radioman, the "skipper," as he is calledunofficially by men under his command, drops into radioand signal classes regularly and astonishes the studentsby receiving messages with uncanny speed."It's good for morale," he explains. "If the menknow their officers can do it, their interest increasesand they try harder. We have to turn out the best andwe are doing it."Attesting to Lieut. Comdr. Lowe's ability as an officer are several decorations which he keeps in his home,away from the public eye. They include the Mexican THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO'S cooperationwith the U. S. Navy and its training schools hasnot been limited to granting the facilities of Burtonand Judson Courts, Sunny Gym, parts of Ida Noyes,and Bartlett Gym, but it also has been responsiblefor the faculty of the radio training group studyingon the Midway. These men, under the direction ofPaul B. Jacobson, principal of the University highschool, assistant professor of education, and directorof the radio school, include: J. F. Christ, chief ofcode instruction and associate professor of businesslaw; Wilbur L. Beauchamp, chief of theory instruction and assistant professor of teaching of science;Clifford Holley, theory instructor and instructor inphysical sciences in the College; and Stephen Johnson, assistant chief of code instruction.Additional instructors at the training school,drawn largely from the University's staff, are ClaytonBlandin, Jr., Harold Eby, Edward Radatz, RichardRose, L. E. Spencer, H. C. Sweeney, Laurence Vincent, and A. W. Warinner.border campaign medal; the Victory medal from WorldWar I, the Naval Reserve Faithfulness and Fidelity,National Defense, Illinois Naval Militia, Flood Duties(1937), Good Conduct, and a special decoration fromGuatemala for service during the rebellion of 1918.Second in command at the local Navy school is(Continued on page 19)The gymnasium where so many have run the track half a dozen times or sweated their anguished way through collegecomprehensives is recognized no longer. Triple tier bunks fill the deck and the track has its quota of beds and seabags.NEWS OF THE QUADRANGLES• By DON MORRIS, '36The New TermWithout fuss or feathers, the University this monthmarked an important anniversary merely by shifting aneducational reform into high gear. A year ago lastmonth, the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of theUniversity was celebrated, as what alumnus does notknow, with a full complement of visiting dignitaries,learned discourse, and carnival revelry in the field house.Fifty years ago this month the University began operating. President Harper had assembled his glittering firstfaculty and begun the construction of the City Gray.Classes met. Research began, on 55th Street above thestores. Last year's anniversary was a formal occasion,honoring the organizational beginning of the institution.This month's anniversary marks the functional beginning. Its celebration is functional. The first regularentering class has begun work in the program for therelocated bachelor's degree.As it happens, the formal anniversary could not wellhave been held this year anyway. The dignitaries areshoulder deep in war work, and the dormitories wherethe learned men stayed and the field house where thecelebrants reveled now contain a part of the Navy'ssignal and radio school. So classes began at the University in the fifty-first autumn quarter as they began inthe first — quietly. President Harper had opposed a grandopening, saying he wanted the beginning to seem asif it were "the continuation of a work which had beenconducted for a thousand years." The hypothetical year1051 began likewise.Another parallel held this month. In 1892, workinglate the night before the first classes, President Harperis alleged to have murmured to Dean Judson, "I wonder if there will be a single student there tomorrow."In 1942, President Hutchins knew there would be 750brand new* entering students, but in a larger sense hetoo could not know if there would be "a single studentthere tomorrow." For "tomorrw," in wartime, the University's student body could shrink below the thresholdof normal University existence. But the University hadplanned well. No endowed University would have abetter chance for survival, for vigorous reconstruction,than Chicago.The first handful of high school graduates to enteras juniors in the reorganized College started work atthe outset of the summer quarter. Before the openingof Freshman Week this fall, 625 more high school graduates were on the books as prospective "transfer-student"*In addition to 57 freshmen who entered in February and105 who entered the University in July on their "accelerated"war programs. juniors in the College. And 125 who finished the sophomore year in high school last June were prospectiveCollege freshmen. The second group constituted a 56per cent increase over the entering students in the FourYear College last year. The figure of 625 is higherthan might have been expected, since the Universityhad admitted groups of high school graduates in February and June, who, in other days, would have had towait and be counted in autumn total. Most of the students in the entering group will have completed theirgeneral education and hold the bachelor's degree beforereaching the age of twenty and, if war continues, entering military service. This, of course, is undoubtedlyimportant in the motives of many of the students, sincemost human beings would probably fail to imitate thecareer of Leon Henderson, who returned to completehis undergraduate education after rising to a captaincyand great responsibility in the first World War.Expedient as it is for students in wartime, however,the plan is designed to accomplish lasting improvementsin education. These, as well as doubts as to the likelihood of their actual fulfilment, have been discussed inearlier issues of the Magazine. The plan is now beyondtheorizing; the new program, as the University enters itssecond half century of education and research, is under way.The Summer QuarterThe downward trend of enrolment was arrested in thesummer quarter because a goodly number of undergraduates, particularly in the College, stayed on. Thiswas in response to a trebled offering of College courses,a response showing the eagerness of the students to acquire as much education as possible in the time at theirdisposal. Specifically, enrolment in the College was up207.2 per cent, undergraduate enrolment as a whole88.7 per cent. Offsetting this, of course, was a 22.8per cent drop in graduate enrolment, which, the summerbeing ordinarily and primarily a graduate quarter,amounts to a loss slightly larger than the undergraduateincrease.Eminent visitors to the campus included HernaneTavares de Sa, professor of biology at the University ofSao Paulo, who spoke on "Brazilian- American Relations:from Thomas Jefferson to Oswaldo Aranha" in thecourse of an extended tour of the country; Dr. WilliamG. Hardy, Ph.D. '22, head of the Department of ClassicalPhilology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton; andLucas Galigniani, lawyer and economist, of the University of Buenos Aires, who discussed with economistsand social scientists the economic organization of theUnited States and the war.1516 THE UNIVERSITY OFJames Hayden TuftsDr. James Hayden Tufts, professor emeritus of philosophy, a member of the original faculty of the University,died August 5 in Berkeley, California. He had beenhospitalized for a short time for a heart illness. Dr. Tuftswas both a profound scholar and an active figure inmany movements for social improvement. He also heldimportant administrative positions in the University, having been dean of the faculties, vice president of theUniversity, and acting president, in the period betweenthe administrations of Ernest DeWitt Burton and MaxMason.Dr. Tufts' distinction in philosophy rested on both hisstudies on the history of philosophy and his original ap-JAMES H. TUFTSproach to the philosophy of ethics. Among other writings, he was the translator and editor of the standardhistory of philosophy, by the German, Windelband, andco-author with John Dewey of Ethics. His historicalanalysis of the anthropological and social history ofethics, and his application of the principles of ethics toproblems of the family, business, and the state, constituted an original approach which helped establish thebook as one of the distinguished contributions to modernphilosophy.Dr. Tufts was a close friend and worker with JaneAddams in her earlier days in Hull House; he was oneof the committee which organized the Institute of Juvenile Research; one of the organizers of the first statehousing commission, and was active in the NationalFamily Welfare Association. For many years, followingthe garment workers' strike, he was the labor arbitratorfor the clothing industry in Chicago.Born in Monson, Massachusetts, July 9, 1862, Dr. Tuftswas educated at Amherst College; Yale University, fromwhich he received the bachelor of divinity degree; and CHICAGO MAGAZINEthe German universities of Berlin and Freiburg. Hetook his Ph.D. from the latter in 1892. Before comingto the University of Chicago, he had taught mathematicsat Amherst and was an instructor in philosophy at theUniversity of Michigan, 1889-91.In 1900 Dr. Tufts attained the rank of professor inphilosophy at Chicago, and from 1905 until his retirement in 1930, he was head of the department. Following his retirement, he taught a seminar in philosophyat the University of California at Los Angeles. Severalyears ago he moved to Berkeley.Dr. Tufts married Cynthia Hobart Whitaker of Leverett, Massachusetts, in 1891. She died in 1920, andin 1923 he married Matilde Castro, professor of education at Bryn Mawr College, who survies, as do thetwo children of the first marriage, — a daughter, IreneTufts Mead, of Chicago, a practicing physician andmember of the University's student health service, anda son, James Warren Tufts, who has a farm near Amherst, Massachusetts.William Jesse Goad LandDr. William J. G. Land, who had lived at Brownsville, Texas, since he became professor emeritus of botanyin 1931, died of heart disease on August 1 at hissummer home at Rome, Indiana. Recognized for hiswork on angiosperms and gymnosperms and on tropicalvarieties of the Hepaticae, he had been associated withthe University as student and faculty member for morethan four decades, beloved by students for his generosity.At the time of the first World War he organized thefirst Midway rifle club, and the War Department acceptedhis invention of a holder for telescopic sights on the oldSpringfield rifle. He refused any compensation from theWar Department, but years later accepted from officialsan honorary permit to carry a gun in any part of theUnited States or its possessions.Born at Alton, Indian, in 1865, he entered the University in 1897 and was graduated in 1902, receivingthe Ph.D. degree two years later. He then joined thefaculty as assistant in plant morphology, and progressedthrough the academic rankings to a full professorship in1928. His researches in tropical botany took him tomany out-of-the-way parts of the world, including Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, Samoa, Polynesia,and Australia.Trustees ElectedJuly and August brought the election of two newmembers of the Board of Trustees, bringing to four thenumber added to the board since May. The election ofJoseph C. Beaven, president of Standard Milling Company, a subsidiary of Hecker Products Company, wasannounced July 9. John A. Stevenson, president of PennMutual Life Insurance Company, was elected at theboard's August meeting. The election of Howard Good-(Continued on page 18)THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 17A RATIONALIST(Continued from page 9)my career. Science became my delight because, I suspect,it opened for me new channels of thought. Too oftenstudents in college choose to develop merely their propensities and so miss opportunities to open new roomsin the brain. My new enthusiasms led me to crystallography (the most exact science in the world), mineralogy,microscopic petrology, and paleontology. The youngromanticist was fast becoming a rationalist. I even investigated such subjects as spectroscopy and astrophysics.Encouraged by Atwood at the end of my sophomore year,I determined to become a college professor. So unexpected was my choice of career that its announcementsent my mother off into gales of laughter.Geologists are little trained without field experience.As a freshman I pursued a field course about Chicago.That summer I went with a class for a month to Baraboo,Wisconsin, in a region that is remarkable for its geologicinterest. It overlaps both the glaciated and the nongla-ciated hill country. It is marked by some high and veryancient quartzite hills, flanked by later sedimentary rocksof considerable variety. The tops of the ridges representan old river erosion level. - Such we call a dissectedpeneplain. As the ridges slowly elevated with continentalchanges of level the precursor of the Wisconsin River cuta gorge through the quartzite. Then the glacier dislodged the river and dammed each end of the gorge soas to form the now much-visited Devil's Lake. The unraveling of these problems absorbed me. Moreover, therewas just enough swagger to camp life — the high boots,the instruments of precision, and what have you — to remind me of the forestry profession of which I had oncedreamed.Later in the summer I made an expedition with a classfor a month in and about Ouray, Colorado. I partlypaid for the trip (Rascoe take notice!) by making a collection of rocks for the Chicago Academy of Sciences.Ouray lay at the end of a canyon, and there one alwaysheard the splashing of cascades down canyon walls. Thesettlement was a rather rough mining center with muchpicturesqueness, cowboys, miners, pack trains, and thelike. And geology in the clear atmosphere of the Westand in the deep canyon gashes in the earth has greatdefinitude. Nature there lays bare her secrets. Weworked in mountains and on desert plain. It was myfirst experience with the real West. Father had been toOuray in its earliest days and Mother had written herwestern novel, The Edge of Things. I was brought upon descriptions of the desert, the purple mountain shadows, and the freshness of enclosed canyons. We campedin groves of aspens, we rode horses, we carried unneededrevolvers, and we wore, when being photographed, useless chaps. We followed dizzy trails to isolated miningcamps. We crossed passes where we had . to drag ourhorses down snow fields. And, at last, I stood beside my horse's head "looking with eagle eye over the vastexpanse of plains below."Back at the University I took up the musty study ofpaleontology. One summer was spent in the Ozarks,collecting fossils. I worked hard. In my elementaryeducation, though I sat hours at my school desk, I wasin spirit frequently far away in green fields beside running brooks. Now I needed no spur to concentration.There was high interest in making definite conclusionsbased upon accumulated facts. Reasoning was exciting,but habits and mental attitudes can never be entirelyset aside. I was still something of the mystic — -I still am.At Hoosac School I had been as deeply religious as ahealthy, active boy of twelve could be. I carried thisemotionalism with me so that in Chicago I served regularly as an altar boy at early mass in our local Episcopalchapel. But the ritual and pomp which had marked theservices at Hoosac were lacking in Windsor Park. Infact, the services were pretty barren of beauty. I remember one Easter Sunday, after the choir had "murdered"a great choral, our little minister — we called him thePastorette — rocked back and forth on his heels and announced through his beaver teeth, "Tonight the choirwill give us The Crucifixion/3 It was too much forthe dignity of the congregation. Men left the service tobreak into laughter in the vestibule.But now, having discovered science, I lived in a mechanistic world. I had no need for so personal a God. Aman does not have deep personal convictions until he hasdoubted. I was going through my period of doubt — Iwas preparing myself for more personal conviction. Butmy early religious experiences were of some avail, forthey gave me a foundation of mysticism which was nowto serve me. Then I discovered God in a paleontologicallaboratory.I had been working upon the phylogeny of the common river clam. If you will examine less and less matured clam shells, perhaps microscopically, you will discover primitive stages of development which in each caseare similar to some of the early geologic ancestors of yourmollusk. This is the great story of the recapitulation ofthe race, the theory which claims that every step in theevolution of an organic form may be discovered telescoped info the early life of the individual you are considering. It explains why the zinnia seedling looks sounlike the matured plant, why the salmon goes to freshwater to spawn, why the frog begins its early life as apolliwog, and why eons of time are represented in thestages of the human embryo.Of course, these marvels of evolutionary recapitulationand the progress of life had long been known; but to methey were a personal discovery of great importance. Ileaned back from the dusty laboratory table, swept asideas it were the details that were there represented by thefossils, and saw a vision which was the great story ofceaseless and, I like to think, progressive change. I hadnow before me not merely the story of the rise from18 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEprotoplasm to man, but the motivating theme of the story.Here were values of which my professors, Williston andWeller, said nothing. So wonderful to me was the revelation that I felt no need to look further for evidenceof Godhead. Here at last was something true and yetinexplicable which I might worship. I then wrote myfirst article. I had no trouble in having it accepted bythe Chicago Literary Monthly because, by happy chance,I was editor. The article was entitled "The Religion ofa Geologist." I documented my ideas with quotationsfrom Goethe, Tennyson, Ranke, and Herbert Spencer.I wrote with the high literary mannerisms of twenty yearsof age :Then, slowly and kindly, it dawned upon me that afterall, back of each phenomenon was something in evolutionyet unanalyzed, an inspiration, a spirit we could never compress within a test tube nor lay beneath a microscope. It furnished the spark, it permeated the world, it was the cause ofthe remotest star, of the. blade of grass at my feet. It wasunnamed, unmeasured, and always would be. With greaterreverence than my boyhood knew, I was again brought to myknees in worship of the Eternal.The writing of the article made me happy because itreconciled my imaginative and rationalistic experiences.Also it attracted some adult friends. Several professorswrote me kindly notes. Atwood said, "Rod, you are notyet a geologist, and I doubt if you know what God is;but I like the article." Salisbury made no comment;perhaps he feared mysticism in a student of his exactteachings.I was by no means always faithful to my studies.Though serving the inner workings of my fraternity butNEWS OF THE QUADRANGLES(Continued from page 16)man and Herman Dunlap Smith was announced in May.A native of Burton, Washington, Mr. Beaven was anofficer in the Army Air Corps for two years in the firstWorld War. He has been with the Hecker firm since in1925 and has been a resident of Chicago since the company's headquarters was moved to the city. He is thebrother of Dr. Albert W. Beaven, president and professorof practical theology at the Colgate-Rochester DivinitySchool, and of Dr. Paul W. Beaven, chief of the pediatricsdepartment at Rochester General Hospital and assistantprofessor of pediatrics at the University of Rochester.Mr. Stevenson, who was born in Cobden, Illinois, butis now a Philadelphian, has a varied and extensive background, including educational, civic, and welfare, as wellas business activities. He received his undergraduateeducation at Southern Illinois State Teachers College andat Ewing College, and was awarded the master's degreeby the University of Wisconsin in 1912 and the Ph.D.in education by the University of Illinois in 1918. Afterteaching at the University of Illinois and serving as professor of education and director of the School of Life slightly, I represented the group in many campus organizations. I was property man and then stage managerfor the rather elaborate productions of the DramaticClub, and even wrote a play for it. I was a poor actor.I was unwise enough to spend time writing, in collaboration with Donald Breed, an extravaganza called Pranksof Paprika. The text was utter foolishness, but the lyricshad sufficient virtue to inspire our collegiate musiciansto excellent melodies. The most sophisticated of themusical compositions was by Margaret's brother. I waskept busy accepting my own contributions for the ccLit.33I became a member of the student senate and found ita worth-while experience. In our local fashion, I was"tapped" for the senior honor society. This was anorganization of great self-importance and was a bit stuffy :after a year of pontifical deliberation we approved theinstallation on the gymnasium of a fire escape that wasabout to go up anyway. I was chosen one of the twelveUniversity marshals, a distinct honor. Margaret Rhodeswas an aide, the female of the species. We wore maroontassels on our mortarboards and performed at Universityfunctions.At the end of my junior year Salisbury called me inand said: "I have here a complete list of your outsideactivities. If you wish to continue your work in geologyyou will cut them in half."I said: "Yes, sir. May I see the list?" I was amazedat the number of memberships and committees listed.I studied them carefully, returned the paper, and continued: "Yes, sir. You have everything there but adrinking club."Insurance Salesmanship at Carnegie Institute of Technology, he entered the insurance business as third vicepresident of the Equitable Life Insurance Society. In1928 he left to form his own agency for the Penn Mutual,of which he has been president since 1939. In additionto other business and civic responsibilities, he is Pennsylvania state chairman for the sale of war bonds.Forty Years of ServiceFred Tracht, manager of the University bookstore since1915, celebrated the completion of forty years of serviceto the University in August. In 1902 he applied for apart-time job at the Press, but made himself so usefulthat he has been a full-time employee ever since. Bornin 1875 at Galion, Ohio, he started the printing businessin the office of a cousin, publisher of a newspaper inUpper Sandusky. With this experience he came to thePress, where he worked until 1915, when he was namedto manage the bookstore, which at the time occupied asingle room in Cobb Hall. Under his aegis the enterprise grew to its present size, with a large main store at58th Street and Ellis Avenue, and two branches, one atthe Department of Education and the other at theUniversity College downtown.THE UNIVERSITY OFHOME PORT, CHICAGO(Continued from page 14)Lieutenant C. O. Simpson, another veteran of sea dutyand communications work. During the last war he servedon the bridge of the flagship of the Fourth Division ofthe Atlantic Fleet and later in the armed guard serviceaboard merchant ships.As an enlisted man he was in charge of naval radiostations throughout the country, including a five-yearperiod in the Ninth Naval District. During this stretchhe won a special gold medal which was struck for himpersonally and presented by the Commandant of the district.Before returning to active duty during the presentemergency, Lieut. Stimpson was the publisher of theRadio Amateur Call Book."The Navy teaches signalmen two practices that shouldlast a lifetime," Lieut. Comdr. Lowe says, pointing toa group of dungaree-clad sailors gathered around a' mastin the field adjoining Sunny gym. "They learn to usetheir eyes and, more important, to use their heads. Hereat the University of Chicago we keep driving at thesepoints all the time. These men occupy an important postat sea. Misinterpreting a message might cause death anddisaster. Getting things right and doing a good job isessential for success in naval warfare."Seven general subjects are taught to prospective signalmen at the local school. The three main phases ofsignal communication are the use of blinker lights, semaphore flags, and the flag hoist. Others necessary forwork aboard ship are naval communication procedure,English, spelling, and a general instruction course.Lieutenant A. G. Scott is officer-in-charge of signalinstruction. Under his direction young bluejackets freshfrom recruit training at Norfolk, Virginia, or the GreatLakes Naval Training Station learn as much as can betaught about signalling on dry land. Their course extends over sixteen weeks but exceptional men often complete their basic work in three months."The unusual thing about these men is their eagerness to learn and get out into action at sea," Lieut. Scottsays. "Many of the boys arrive here with only half oftheir leaves finished. They leave recruit training, gohome for a few days, and can't wait for the day theyare to report here. So they pack their seabags and showup early. That kind of men makes the United StatesNavy the great organization that it is."A hum of voices and busy students greet the visitorto the blinker school in the fieldhouse. Chief Signalman C. A. Ball, a veteran of twenty-nine years in theNavy, is teaching a group of young sailors how to "getthe feel" on the blinker light key. Small electricbulbs flash on and off from long tables facing each otherat a fifty foot distance. Ten men at each table sendmessages which are received by an equal number at theopposite table. Then signals flash from the latter tableand are interpreted by the first group. CHICAGO MAGAZINE 19Chief Ball is proud of this activity."We made those tables ourselves," he explains. "Whenever we have some extra time we pitch in with hammersand nails and in a few minutes we have another unit forthe primary work."Constant practice at the tables makes the studentsadept at sending and receiving the blinker signals. Mostof them easily exceed the eight words a minute requirement after seven weeks of training. In nine weeks eventhe slowest can send and receive ten words a minute.Out in the center of the fieldhouse two large groupsof men are sitting on bleacher seats. At either end ofthe high ceiling large lamps flash on and off in thesemi-darkness. Every man on the bleacher seats has hiseyes concentrated on the light as his hand jots down thestream of letters and words being winked out. This isregarded as excellent practice for the unfavorable conditions to be met later at sea.The field next to Sunny gym is filled with colorfulactivity. Men gathered around four towering mastsbreak out multi-hued flags and hoist away. Streamersof fluttering pieces of cloth are strung from top to bottom of the halyards. Every flag means something — amessage from ship to ship. One group answers another,simulating actual messages which would pass betweenmen-o-war at sea.Other men handle the semaphore flags. From the hesi-Multi-cplored signal flags flutter from halyards as men ofthe Naval Training School wig-wag near U.S.S. SunnyGym. These sailors like their work and always rememberthat the signalman has a box seat for the Big Show.20 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINESt. Paul's Church houses the Naval Radio Training School. Sailors learn Navy code, and send and receive messagesat a high speed. On the radio man depends a ship's contact with the fleet or with home bases over the horizon,and his is a job that requires fast thinking, deft fingers, and a tense vigilance. "Sparks" is a key man on shipboard.tant, clumsy motions of novices, their movements aretransformed in a few weeks to the quick, smooth technique of experts. They practice everywhere. Even inthe corridors of the dormitories men ask each other forcigarettes, for the time, for a girl's telephone number,by quick movements of their arms.Lieut. Comdr. Lowe has a good explanation for theinterest shown by his men."They want real action," he states. "And they wantto see the action. No one has as good a view of a battle or an engagement with the enemy as a signalman.Gunners are locked in their turrets, firemen and machinists are below decks, the ammunition passer is unable totell what is happening — but th« signalman has a "boxseat" for the show. High on the signal bridge, alongsidethe captain or the admiral, he can look over the wateron every side. He must be visible to other ships, hemust be watching them all the time ready to send orreceive important orders regarding the action."When a boy comes to this school to become a signalman, I know the Navy has a man eager to get into thebig scrap. If he didn't, he'd never ask for a signalman'sjob." And if you walked along the Midway and took agood look at the men from the signal school, you'd agreewith their skipper. This stretch of green Midway along which so many ofthe sailors walk and drill may well be called Navy Row,for along it are the USO headquarters for the campus,Burton and Judson dormitories in which a number of thetrainees live, and the Navy's radio training school. Thelatter, on the southwest corner of 60th Street and Dorchester Avenue, is located in a structure which will longbring pleasant memories to thousands of Woodlawn residents. Known as St. Paul's church not so long ago, itis a landmark on the Midway. Significant events in thelives of neighborhood residents took place within the oldwalls of the building. Baptisms, Sunday school classes,weddings, funerals, and other religious ceremonies in thecourse of man's life were held at St. Paul's.A visitor entering the old church now would find it abusy hive of activity every day. Young men, sailors inthe Navy, are learning one of the most important specialties required in naval warfare. With earphones clampedover heads and fingers flying over typewriter keys, thenovice radiomen are overcoming the difficulties of interpreting wireless messages. Long rows of tables havereplaced the old wooden pews where once devout congregations knelt to learn the message of their Creator.The altar has been transformed into a maze of strange(Continued on page 23)THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 21AMERICAN TRADITIONS(Continued from page 5)the doctrine of superior races. We have permitted thegrowth of great private fortunes and the developmentof an aristocracy of wealth, and we have justified bothin the name of free enterprise and progress. We havepermitted the growth of corrupt political rings in ourcities and states which deny the capacity of the besteducated and most prosperous people on the face ofthe earth for self-government. We have proven overand over again that we consider that government best'which enables us to get the most and we have lifted thegame of "grab" into a fine art. Any alderman in anyAmerican city of over fifty thousand population cangive you a fairly accurate statement of the annual "take,"as it is called, in that city. From crime to educationthe toll is taken and even the "good citizen" often prefers an alderman from whom he can get things to theone who is scrupulously impartial and honest. We donot begin to demand perfection in personal characterfrom our officials until we have reached the office ofgovernor and the Presidency itself.This does not mean that we are a degenerate people.Far from it! It simply means that in the rapid growthof our nation the emphasis in our democracy has beenon freedom and on political, not social, equality. Itcould hardly have been otherwise with a people whofaced a great rich continent and who turned it from awilderness into a social-economic complexity in less thana hundred years. Our tasks have been those of conquest. The call has been for the rugged individualistwho could trample down opposition in his drive to success and progress, whether that opposition be materialdifficulties, hostile competitors, or the law itself. In theface of American opportunities men would achieve allthe equality necessary if they were left free. Government could keep its hands off; any man worth his saltwould rise to the extent of his ability. Philanthropy andpublic charities would take care of the inherently weak.Not until very recently have we begun to see thatliberty and equality — the two ingredients in our democratic doctrine — are bitter enemies: that, once awayfrom frontier conditions, they tend to destroy each other.If men are free they will not long remain equal; if theyare kept equal to any degree it will be at the expenseof their freedom. Now for the first time we have begun to face the delicate problem of keeping some kindof a balance between the two. When the opportunityof the great free open West is gone, when the firstbuoyant days of industrial and finance capitalism haveended, we have, almost reluctantly, permitted the handof government to reach in to check and restore. Evennow many of you are not certain that "a new deal"for the benefit of the forgotten man is in order. Youare not all convinced that it is thoroughly Americanfor government to check individual freedom in the nameof greater equality. It is not my purpose to argue the question now. ButI must point out that the thing the Russians are talkingabout, the thing which interests the Chinese and thepeople of India, is not the old traditional American typeof democracy. It is a social thing which has to do withself-determination and economic abundance for all peoples, all races, all classes. It is so thoroughly social thatit questions the validity of the acquisitive drive, of selfisheconomic interests, and even, sometimes, of the capitalistic system itself. It demands to know whether democracy has and will give greater social justice to all men,the weak as well as the strong. It insists that the socialorder exists for something besides individual gain, thatit prove it can overcome greed in human society, thatit can put integrity back into civilization.A New OutlookWhat is the meaning of all of this for us now andin the days to come? As I have suggested, it forcesupon us a tremendous intellectual readjustment whichwill wrench us sharply from much of our past thinking, our past attitudes, and drive us to new outlookson society both at home and in the wider world. Itmust begin with an honest, clean-cut realization of whywe are at war, what our group of nations is actuallyfighting for, and what price we must pay for a permanent peace. This cannot be done by a glib recitalof platitudes, as so many are trying to do. It is a harshand nasty business from which even the bravest mightshrink. But it has to be attempted. We are not at warjust because Japan attacked us at Pearl Harbor, justbecause Hitler invaded Poland. We are at war becauseour civilization as a whole has broken down for lackof sound and virile quality. There is a reason for Hitlerand for the Japanese as well, and it lies in the failureof our systems and our purposes to do justice and livewith sincerity among men. The German people andthe Japanese people may be somewhat more warlike intheir tempers than the rest of us but back of their maddrives lie the deep longings of human beings for betterconditions. They may be mistaken in how to get thesethings, but the urge to secure satisfactory national development was most certainly the starting point in theircourses. Our civilization has become a mad struggle forthings. The basic use of nationalism has been tomonopolize earth's riches for favored groups. Greatareas for economic exploitation have been carved outand monopolized, tariff barriers have been set up, nativepeoples have been plundered to enrich the few at home.Nations that should have united for mutual advantageshave been played off against each other by their morepowerful neighbors and rendered helpless. England hasdone that continually on the continent of Europe. Chinahas, been a happy hunting. ground for other powers, andthe conduct of no nation there could possibly inspirethe confidence of other nations. The dominant characteristic of classes within the nations has generally been22 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEone of selfish disregard of larger social interests. Advantage by any method has become the accepted rule. Fewnations have been willing to observe the rules and agreements set up by international effort when their own endscould be better served by disregarding them. As fewcitizens have held the laws of their countries sacred aboveself-interest. Man has thereby lost his faith in the integrity of his fellow man. Greed has become morepowerful than ideals. The value of a good society basedon human justice and well-being does not appeal withequal force to the chance for personal gain. We haveforgotten that men must live nobly if they are to survivein this modern world.Our Responsibility for a World OrderOur first job is to fight this war with purpose, to makecertain that the things we are after are the enduringthings. Then the peace will take care of itself. We can,perhaps, win a war waged just to protect ourselves andto defeat Hitler. But if we do and leave the causeswhich produced this war untouched, we will live only tofight again in another generation. We have tried itonce. Whether we like it or not, we as a nation mustface and face honestly the fact that our traditional valueshave been invalidated. An international mindednessmust gradually take the place of our old smug nationalisolationism. We must begin to accept the responsibilityfor the weak everywhere. We must accept the responsibility for law and order and justice throughout the earth,accept it not as a dictator, not even as one of a specialgroup who must set the world in order according to ourown plans, but accept it as a human obligation wheremen of all classes and all races work together as wehave learned to work together here in America — southerners, New Englanders, westerners, and mid westerners.Nationalism and internationalism, like sectionalism andnationalism, must be made to work together. Even withcomplete victory the right of self-determination must notbe taken away from any peoples we have conquered. Therestoration of the British Empire or of the special privileges of any race or nation, including ourselves, is not ouraim. We want a world in which both peace and progresscan endure. If we are to have both our peace and ourmodern technology, the day of empires and favored nations must end.Regional cultures must survive above all else and theymust be tolerated even where they embrace creeds andpolitical philosophies as foreign to our own as possible;majorities must be made to respect the rights of minorities as a part of democratic government; free enterprisemust accept socialism for those who wish it; republicansystems must live peacefully alongside of monarchies. Thedays of propagation, whether of religion or politics, mustend. We have had too much of the silly notion that allof right and all of justice can be found on one side,whether it be in political issues or regional cultures. Theday of responsible international living is at hand. An international civilization is not just a matter of economics and political balances. It has developed into a desperate struggle just to live and let live. It can only besupported by complete integrity, a generous toleration, arebirth of a wholesome respect for agreements and laws.There is no substitute for goodwill. Even the most complicated machinery for an international political systemwill be valueless without these more fundamental things.Equally important, if not more so, is the necessity formaking American democracy into a genuine social force.If we have reached a point where aggression on theweak in any part of the world is our business, we havealso reached the point where the failure of democracyto function in our own states and cities is a thing whichmatters desperately to the least of mankind in the farthest corners of the world. If we cannot make democracywork here so as to give justice to all our own people; ifour democracy is just a system by which corrupt politicalrings may rule our cities and states; if democracy is onlythe opportunity for men to become rich and for socialand intellectual things to be overshadowed by materialgains, then it offers little hope to an expectant worldthat is shedding its blood to advance the interests ofhumanity as such. Freedom must carry with it an equalamount of responsibility. Men must curb themselves andtheir own selfish impulses in the interests of social good orsome outside force must be imposed. That is not only awar necessity, it is a modern necessity. It is the test ofthe right to be free. If with an extravagant public educational system, if with abundant economic opportunity,the American citizen can become only a soft, well-fedegoist, distrustful of his fellows and seeking only hisown personal gain, then there is little use in fighting todefeat Hitler or the Japs. We have already lost the warto ourselves. If our patriotism can only be stirred by agroup of half-naked Hollywood stars trading kisses forbonds, it isn't worth stirring.Necessity for. Good MannersVictory, to mean anything, must begin close at home.The modern world with all its technical skills has failedto produce the good society largely because it has failedto produce men who are interested in living in a goodsociety. We are short on gentlemen. The most basicdemand in America today is for that type of man who,as William Alexander Percy says, is "remembered for hisgentleness, his directness without bluntness, his courtesy,which robs obedience of all humiliation." If we are tohave a decent world we have to lay some emphasis ondecency in individuals, and any good society must startwith something quite foreign to most Americans of thepast, with the cultivation of simple good manners, whichafter all are only the manifestation of a proper regardfor the rights of others. The good old James LouisPettigru once defined politeness as "the habitual consideration of those with whom we converse, making ita rule never to give ourselves the preference." To myTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 23way of thinking that is the richest heritage a great manhas ever left our country. It is the very essence of democracy. It is the beginning of a new American culture.It is the first and most vital step toward a new internationalism and permanent peace for all mankind. Andmanners are not the product of religion or philosophy.Neither Aristotle nor St. Thomas can supply them. Theyare, and they always have been, the product of nativeand immediate cultures. They are ever the reflection ofthat poise and self-contained serenity given to those whohave come to terms with the human and physical world.And since this is the case, it is as well to rememberthat while some of our traditions have unfitted us toface the present and the future, others provide thefoundations for a rich and native culture which willprove our salvation in the days ahead. In those yearswhen America's back was to Europe and her face to ourown West, we bred a race of restless, individualistic,neighborly, cooperative pioneers. They were resourcefuland self-reliant and they demonstrated over and overagain, as one of their number said, that a fool can puton his own coat better than a wise man can do it forhim. They became provincials, but provincials who believed with all their hearts that what they were buildingin America was superior to anything the earth had everknown before. They believed in, and practiced, fair playand sportsmanship. They were neighborly and considerate of the rights of others. They were honest and willing to earn the bread which they ate. They laid thefoundations for a culture strong and virile, genuine andsincere, because it was native to the American earth andto the experiences of a people conquering a continent.Out of such a cultural heritage America can know therichness of a good society. She can retain in the newera of internationalism most that is her own, for anyHOME PORT, CHICAGO!(Continued from page 20)devices. Humming machines and lines of wire are scattered around a platform in apparent disorder. Everything is in place, however, in the usual "Navy way."This is the nerve center of the class. An ingenioussound track sends out message after message for thestudents to transcribe. At intervals the instructor cutsthe class into a news wire carrying the latest world newsbulletins. This offers variety to the students.Lieutenant E. R. Smith is officer-in- charge of radioinstruction. He holds to the theory that every man canbe taught the radio trade.Three basic subjects begin the course for radio students. They are taught to interpret Navy code and toconvert it back from English at the rate of twenty-fivewords per minute. Typing is important, and studentsmust reach a speed of forty words per minute. Part ofthis training is taken up with short classes in drawing good society is a provincial society, and that fact willremain the hope of civilization amid the complexities ofthe new interdependence.We Must Not Fail AgainIn 1917 when the United States entered the firstWorld War, the down-trodden and war-weary peoples ofEurope hailed us as veritable liberators and our democracy as the hope of mankind. More important thanour arms in bringing victory was that idea. At itscoming, revolution broke out in Germany and gainednew strength in Russia. Woodrow Wilson became thesymbol of a new and just world; men touched his garments almost as those of a savior.We failed the common man in the days which followedand in so doing caused democracy to fail. Cynicismtook the place of hope. Self-government lost ground onevery hand and disillusioned peoples yielded to dictatorsand accepted other systems. We cannot escape our shareof the blame for the reactions in a Europe that had feltnew hope with our coming. We are now paying theprice for our own betrayal of our own values.Today the peoples of China and India and Australiaview us much as did the peoples of Europe in 1917.Travelers tell of their faith in and love for America.They believe we are the agents of the common man. Ifwe fail them now, if democracy does not base its fighton universal values, if our purposes in fighting do notautomatically insure a better order and a lasting peacebased on justice for all men, then we have had our lastchance. The East will curse us as did the West anddemocracy will perish at our own hands. We cannotfail them, we must not fail them, for we have bitterlylearned that to fail others is to fail ourselves.letters and symbols with pencil in the Navy style. Nextis instruction in naval communication and procedure.The subject concerns the etiquette of the Navy's radiocommunication. The student learns the proper time toanswer and transmit messages.Other routine subjects augmenting the basic coursesare radio theory and material, direction finder instruction, drill and lessons from the Bluejackets3 Manual.A young man comes out to the Midway as a seaman,with little or no experience in the Navy. After sixteen weeks he leaves with a trade he can use for therest of his life and a red stripe with white eagle on hisleft sleeve marking him as a petty officer. Before him isadventure and travel. Before him may come one of themost important tasks in the struggle involving all of us.What he has learned along the traditional green ofthe Midway will follow him to the far corners of theearth. He represents another contribution of Chicago'sbustling Navy energy to the ultimate victory over America's enemies.24 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINENEWS OF THE CLASSES* IN THE SERVICE ?.Lieut. Col. Preston B. Heller,'23, an ambulance driver in the lastwar, has been invalided in this war.He is at home in Chicago.John C. Pelzel is a lieutenantwith the Marine Corps at San Diego,California.Frank C. Springer, Jr., '34, is inthe communications office at the Naval station at Tutuila, American Samoa.Capt. Edward B. Ranck, '28, is atthe station hospital of Camp Forrest,Tennessee.Charles A. Johnson, '40, AM'41, is at Chanute Field with theArmy Air Force.LeRoy M. Christophe, MA '41,is a chief petty officer at the Navyrecruiting center, Little Rock, Arkansas.Corp. Seymour Keith, '39, JD '41,is with the 14th regiment at CampRobinson, Arkansas.Sidney Z. Karasik, '36, JD '39, iswith the Quartermaster Corps at FortFrancis Warren, Wyoming.Arthur C. O'Meara, '31, JD '33,is a lieutenant at the Army's recruittraining center, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.Two alumni have recently been appointed to the Navy's new school forgunner's mates at Michigan City, Indiana. Lieut. Burton L. Hoffman,'38, MD '41, has been named medicalofficer and Ensign Howard S. Young,Jr., '35, has been named securityofficer.Rudolf Stormer, '36, is a privatein the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, Fort Lewis, Washington. Thisregiment is popularly known as theski troopers.Everett Claspy, AM '30, is withthe Infantry in Australia. He writesthat he has "had office work at theregimental and divisional headquarters and had a wonderful opportunityto observe the operation of an army."Lieut. Donald H. Rudser, MD'36, Army Medical Corps, has reported for duty at Self ridge Field :base hospital, Michigan.Roger D. Winger, AM '20, hasbeen commissioned to the chaplaincyin the Army and is stationed at FortBragg, North Carolina. He writes:"I am enjoying very much my duties.. . . The chaplain finds himself a keyperson in his regiment and secures adegree of spiritual responsivenessamong his men so far beyond whathe usually receives in the civilian min istry that the chaplaincy becomes atremendous challenge."John M. Leeper, '39, has beenawarded the "wings" of the Navy'sair forces at the Naval Air Station,Jacksonville, Florida.Harvey M. Karlen, '39, has beenassigned to the 7th Armored Divisionat Camp Polk, Louisiana.Capt. Andrew J. Danovsky, '30,is in the Army at Camp Barkeley,Joe K. Fannin, '31, AM '32, is aprivate at Camp Robinson, Arkansas.E. C. Davis, MA '26, has beenmade a lieutenant commander in theNaval Reserve and will be connectedwith the physical training programdirected by Gene Tunney.Francis C. Dougherty, '39, JD'41, is at Jefferson Proving Ground,Madison, Indiana, in the propertyoffice.Samuel Spira, '27, JD '31, is withthe 320th Engineers at Camp Swift,Thomas I. Megan, '35, JD .'38,is an officer with the balloon barrageunit at Camp Tyson, Tennessee.Harry Sonenthal, '29, JD '30, iswith the 174th Infantry at Fort Lewis,Washington.Everett L. Sundquist, MD '39, iswith the 5th General Dispensary, 2ndArmy, Camp Pickett, Virginia.Ralph Lewis, '32, is being trainedas an armorer in the Air Corps atBuckley Field, Colorado.Dudley K. Lyndon, '20, is withthe Navy, stationed on Treasure Island, San Francisco.Harry J. Levi, '40, LL.B. '42, iswith the 9th special service unit atFort Sill, Oklahoma.Andrew G. Peterson, '41, is inthe Naval Reserve, on the U. S. S.Prairie State.Lieut. Col. B. C. Allin, '08, isattached to the staff of the commanding general, San Francisco Port ofEmbarkation. The San Franciscoheadquarters operates all of the Armyport activities on the Pacific Coastother than Seattle.Ensign Forest D. Richardson, 37,MBA '42, is on active duty with theNaval Reserve, based at Rockland,Maine.Lieut. Dale L. Lobsinger, '32, iswith Squadron VR-2, Naval Air Station, Alameda, California.William N. Jones, '37, MD '40, isa surgeon with the Johns Hopkinsmedical unit in Australia. Arthur C. Piepkorn, PhD '32, islocated at the chaplain school at Harvard University.Lieut. Robert D. Beaird, II, '37,is in the Army Medical Corps at thestation hospital, Camp Grant, Illinois.Lieut. G. L. Dosland, JD '26, hasbeen named commanding officer, andWilliam J. Tilden, '25, executiveofficer at the Naval training school forradiomen at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Lieut. Dosland formerlycommanded the Navy's school on theQuadrangles.Abraham S. Hyman, JD '31, is atFort Bragg, North Carolina, while hisbrother, Sidney Hyman, '36, AM '38,is in northern Ireland.Lieut. Forrest S. Drummond, '32JD '34, is at Harvard University'sNaval training school.Goodlett J. Glaser, '34, is a captain in the Army Air Corps at KeeslarField, Biloxi, Miss.Elmer C. Grage, '27, JD '33, iswith the headquarters squadron atLemoore Army Flying School, California.James H. Farrior, MD '31, is acaptain in the Army Medical Corpsand is stationed at the post hospital atMaxwell Field, Alabama.Frank D. Engeler, JD '40, is anensign in the Naval Reserve and hasbeen stationed at the Kodiak NavalAir Base, Alaska.Earl F. Colborn, '11, has beencommissioned a captain in the Armyand expects to be assigned to the personnel section of the Air TransportCommand in Washington.Delbert H. Kerchner, '23, JD'24, PhD '36, is with the first financetraining battalion at Fort BenjaminHarrison, Indiana.James M. Davran, '39, JD '41, isa private in the 355th TechnicalSchool Squadron at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.Lieut. George A. Kappus, '27, JD'29, is with the Quartermaster Corpsin Brooklyn, N. Y.Donald C. McKinlay, '37, JD '40,is at the section base at Nawiliwili,Kauai, T. H.Henry T Richard, AM '31, is acaptain in the Infantry at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.Kenneth R. Baldus, MBA '41, isstationed at the reception center atFort Leavenworth, Kansas.Robert L. Shapiro, '31,.. JD '33,has been promoted to a captain in theField Artillery, Camp Leonard Wood,Missouri.Joseph B. Goldberg, '33, JD '34,is at the Army's second replacementwing in Salt Lake City, Utah.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 25Fred T. Barrett, '30, JD '34, iswith the 27th Technical SchoolSquadron, Jefferson Barracks, Mo.Robert H. Parker, MD '37, is inthe Navy's Medical Corps, at Pensa-cola, Florida.Lieut. Lee S. Thomas, '38, is assistant military attache at the U S.legation in Lisbon, Portugal.Herbert J. Greenberg, '32, JD'34 is in the Quartermaster Department of the Great Lakes TrainingSchool, Illinois.Major Clayton J. Lundy, '24,SM '25, MD '27, is chief of medicalservice at Scott Field, Belleville, Illinois.1892Despite a recent severe illness,William D. Harrell, MD, continueswith his medical practice in NorrisCity, Illinois. He writes that he hasdelivered over 3600 babies and thathalf his time "is spent writing birthcertificates." He adds, "I am sending my regards to all the alumni andto old Rush. I do like the name ofRush."1895Cornell University announces thatSamuel L. Boothroyd, professor ofastronomy and geodesy since 1921,has retired from active service andhas become emeritus professor.Kenwood 1352WE DELIVER ANYWHEREKIDWELLALL PURPOSE FLORISTJAMES E. KIDWELL826 E. 47th St., Chicago, 111.00SM€m Creamr€Jf.TffTJG!Mk ft j ^SSSiEXTRA CAREMAKES THEEXTRA GOODNESSA Product ojSWIFT & CO.7409 S. State StreetPhone Radcliffe 7400 1899Josephine T. Allin of Chicagosends this bit of news: "I was retired on June 10 by the Board ofEducation, too old for service; butfortunately for me, our Uncle Samdid not judge me in the same way,and so since June 17 I have beenworking for him at the Studebakerplant, aviation division (on ArcheyRoad, as Mr. Dooley would call it).Lam an inspector of piston pins, andI must admit that before June 17 Inever had heard of a piston pin! Butnow just ask me, and I'll tell youa-plenty. It is a lot of fun and alsoa great satisfaction to be free to dothis and to be given the opportunity."1900Harry J. Gottlieb has been elected president of the Chicago Bar Association. His twosons, Harry N., Jr.,and Alan, are bothin the service.Gottlieb was amember of Owland Serpent andmade Phi BetaKappa at the University. He haspracticed in Chicago since 1916 andis a member of the firm of Gottlieband Schwartz.1902During the spring, students at Randolph-Macon Woman's College presented in the original the Greek playAlcestis, directed by Mabel KateWhiteside, AM '15, PhD '32, professor of Greek and head of the department. This was the twenty-eighth year that a Greek play hasbeen given on that campus and JuliaD. Randall, AM '13, writes that theproduction "went off beautifully inthe fine natural amphitheatre anddrew the usual crowd of classicalscholars from all around."During the last four years Rev.Aubrey P. Nelson has been incharge of missionary churches on theBahamas island of Eleuthera.Ruth E. Moore writes that shehas retired from teaching, is livingin Chicago, and has "sent many astudent to the University of Chicago."Earl Dean Howard, PhM '03,PhD '05, has been made area rent director of the Chicago Defense-RentalArea of the OPA.1903Edith L. Woodmansee reportsthat she is moving from Washington,D. C. to "the far west." 1904The Veterans of Foreign Warshave awarded Max Thorek, MD,their distinguished citizen medal for"contributions to the welfare of veterans of foreign wars and to humanity." Dr. Thorek is chief surgeon ofthe American Hospital and attendingsurgeon at County Hospital, Chicago.Mintin A. Chrysler, PhD, longtime professor of botany and head ofthe department at Rutgers College,New Jersey, retired in July. He issucceeded by Marion A. Johnson,SM '26, PhD '28, member of theRutgers faculty for some years.1907Appointment has been made ofFrank Luther Mott as dean of thejournalism school of the University ofMissouri. Author of several books,Dr. Mott won the Pulitzer prize forhistory in 1939.1908John A. L. Derby reports that heis living in West Hartford, Connecticut, and is an air warden there.1909The class held its annual reunion-dinner at International House onJune 12, with the usual attendanceof about 25. President JohnJOSEPH H. BIGGSFine Catering in all its branches50 East Huron StreetTel. Sup. 0900—0901Retail Deliveries Daily and SundaysQuality and Service Since 1882MOFFETT STUDIOCAMERA PORTRAITS OF QUALITY*) So. Michigan Blvd., Chicago . . State 8750OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHERU. o< C. ALUMNIHIGHEST RATED IN UNITED STATESENGRAVERSSINCE 190 6 —? WORK DONE BY ALL PROCESSES ++ ESTIMATES GLADLY FURNISHED ++ ANY PUBLISHER OUR REFERENCE *^RAYNEIT• DALHEIM &CO.ZOS+ VV. LAKE ST., CHICACO.26 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINESchommer was fishing in the wildsof Wisconsin but temporary chairman, Albert S. Long, made a splendid toastmaster. Chief regret (outside of John's absence) was the absence of Paul Harper, trustee-member, who promises faithfully to makeup for it next year.Two events of the past year to beespecially recorded: Mrs. Wallie Steffen, widow of our ex-president, passedaway at Christmas time. Her sweetsmile was missed by everybody. Rosemary Quinn was married in Aprilto Charles Spencer and starred as theclass bride.Class roll call brought out vital andinteresting news of sons and daughters in service and of service beingrendered by class members themselves.Major William R. Peacock is inactive service in Chicago. ReverendWalter Pond is aiding the RedCross and other activities in theCathedral. Mary Courtenay issponsoring patriotic activities of allkinds in the Gompers school forcrippled children, of which she isprincipal. Sam Lingle is air wardenfor his block.The Thomas Millers, the Longs,the Dilles, and the Badenochs allhave fine reports of what their sonsare doing in the air service or in theNavy. The same story comes fromDoris Morgan Scott, Marie Kellogg Miller, Florence ManningNeedham (in Washington) and Zel-ma Davidson Harza, now returnedto Highland Park.Florence Tyley Skidmore is incharge of the honor roll of boys inservice from Harrison technical highschool; their service flag has 325 stars.Edith Osgood Eaton is workingwith the Midway service for sailors.Melvin J. Adams joined CarlByoir and Associates in June — an organization specializing in public relations.Katharine Slaught is still teaching in Hyde Park high school.Valentina Bachrach's daughter,Ruth, is entering the University thisfall as a freshman.1910Etta Lounsbury Montgomeryhas been teaching in Los Angeles formany years. She is assistant editorof the California Classroom Teacherand is joint author of a to-be-published work on modern Turkey.Walter F. Sanders, AM '18, deanof Park College, Missouri, served ascoordinator of a course in municipaladministration recently offered at thecollege. The fight for good government in Kansas City has attracted BLACKSTONEHALLanExclusive Women's Hotelin theUniversity of Chicago DistrictOffering Graceful Living to University and Business Women atModerate TariffBLACKSTONE HALL5748 TelephoneBlackstone Ave. Plaza 3313Verna P. Werner, DirectorBERG BROTHERSHAY— GRAIN— SEEDS8465 TelephoneBaltimore Ave So. Chi. 2900HARRY EEINGENBURG, Jr.STANDARDREADY ROOFING CO.Complete Service10436S.Wabash Ave. TelephonePullman 8500Ajax Waste Paper Co.2600-2634 W. Taylor St.Buyers of Any QuantityWaste PaperScrap Metal and IronFor Prompt Service CallMr. B. Shedroff, Van Buren 0230 widespread general attention, and somuch interest in the science of government was shown by students in thenear-by college that instruction bymen having first-hand experience incity government was offered as a two-semester-hour course.1912President Roosevelt nominated Ingram M. Stainback, JD, as governorof Hawaii. Stainback at the time ofhis appointment was United Statesattorney for the District of Hawaiiand has practiced law in Honolulusince 1912.Paul G. Hoffman has been appointed national chairman of theUnited China Relief.1913Alan D. Whitney of Winnetkawrites: "At 48 I am doing little ornothing toward the war effort, butlike everyone else, I feel the situationkeenly. Truth to tell, I am not sodisturbed at the general outlook nowas I was in '36 when Hitler took theRhineland, in '38 when he marchedinto Austria, and later when he putover the Munich pact. Those eventsstabbed me as poignantly as did PearlHarbor, with this advantage to thelast named, that it finally woke us up,i.e. the vast majority who were stillasleep."Martha Green Sawyer is lecturerin business reports at the Universityof Michigan.1914Friends of the Howell Murrays(she was Elisabeth Sherer) will be in-. terested to knowthat he has beenmade chairman ofthe Chicago Citizens Committee ofthe Greek War Re-1 i e f Association.^L a ^^ Their son, Howell,^41 ¦ is an ensign in the¦ Navy and has made^^^^^^^^^ more than one tripabroad. Daughter Betty, married toHeath Wakelee, is living in Cincinnati, and Marjorie entered Monti-cello College this fall.William H. Lyman and Mrs. Lyman announce the marriage of theirdaughter, Barbara, to George B. Cru-den on August 1.W. J. Donald, PhD, managing director of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, has been madechairman of a special advisory committee which will work with the WarProduction Board to evolve simplifiedsystems of reporting and accounting.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 27George Maurice Morris, JD '15,was inducted to the presidency of theAmerican Bar Association at the lastannual meeting in Detroit. He hasbeen chairman of the alumni advisoryboard of the Law School since its formation in 1929, and was president ofthe Law School Association for 1940-41. He is a member of the Phi DeltaPhi law fraternity, and in 1939 washonorary president of Delta KappaEpsilon.Morris is a native of Chicago anda graduate of the University highschool. He graduated from the LawSchool with an outstanding record,and practiced in Chicago until he entered the Army in 1917 as a private.He later received a commission as firstlieutenant. After return to civilianlife, he continued his practice in Chicago until 1919, when he moved toWashington. He is a member of theAMERICAN COLLEGE BUREAU28 E. JACKSON BOULEVARDCHICAGOA Bureau of Placement which limits Itswork to the university and college field.It is affliated with the Fisk TeachersAgency of Chicago, whose work covers allthe educational fields. Both organizationsassist in the appointment of administratorsas well as of teachers.INTENSIVE¦ STENOGRAPHIC COURSEfor College PeopleSuperior training for practical, personal use or profitable employment. Course gives you dictation speedof 100 words a minute. Classes begin January, April,July and October. Enroll Now. Write or phone forbulletin.BRYANT & STRATTON CollegeIS S. Michigan Ave. Chicago Tel: RAN. 157S Washington law firm of Morris, Kix-Miller, and Baar and of the Chicagofirm of KixMiller, Baar, and Morris.1917Reveley H. B. Smith is chairmanof the protection division of the townof Winchester, Massachusetts.Pauline Levi Lehrburger hasbeen appointed director of the Volunteer Service Bureau of the BostonCouncil of Social Agencies and hasbeen "loaned" to the Boston Committee on Public Safety as executivein charge of volunteer registration forthe Boston Committee on PublicSafety — the civilian defense agency.1918Homer Hoyt, JD, PhD '33, is vicepresident and economist of the Appraisal and Management Service ofAmerica, a new organization withheadquarters in Chicago.1920Walter A. Bowers is senior chieffiscal officer of the budget estimatesbranch of the Services of Supply,War Department, Washington. Hehas been in government service formany years and is the highest ranking civilian of his division.1921A. C. Findlay is a governmentstatistician at Richmond, Virginia.Arthur Bevan, PhD, state geologist of Virginia, has been awarded theDSc degree by Ohio Wesleyan University.1922Rose Mary Fisk Hill is writingfor the consumer division of the Office of Price Administration in Washington. He has given much attention to taxmatters, and since 1939 has beenchairman of the section on taxation ofthe American Bar Association. During the past year he was a memberof a special committee of three oncoordination and direction of the BarAssociation's war activities.Morris has been a contributor tolaw and banking publications and isjoint author of two books: Practiceand Procedure before the UnitedStates Board of Tax Appeals andHidden Taxes in Corporate Reorganizations.He was married in 1918 to MiriamWarren Hubbard of Chestertown,Maryland. 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RESOLUTIONS, ILLUMINATED INSCRIPTIONS,MEMORIALS; BIRTHDAY, CHRISTMASAND GUEST BOOKS; CRESTS, COATSOF ARMS, TITLE PAGES•DIPLOMAS, CITATIONS,HONORARY DEGREES, CHARTERSValued papers and letters restoredand bound38 SOUTH DEARBORN STREETDEARBORN 0001 CHICAGO28 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEstatistics, vital statistics, the census ofagriculture, and statistics relating tostate and local government. Dr.Hauser was on the faculty of theUniversity for six years.Frank L. Beals is assistant superintendent of schools in Chicago. Archie Blake, SM '31, PhD '37,writes that he has transferred to theNational Inventors Council, Washington, D. O, for the duration. Heis secretary of the section on seismology of the American GeophysicalUnion.1923Lawrence Martin is chief editorial writer of the Chicago Daily Times.Associated with the Harris Trustand Savings Bank, Chicago, sincegraduation, J. Russell Ward hasbeen elected vice-president of theFirst National Bank of Neenah, Wisconsin.1924Florence M. Guenther of Detroit writes that her civilian serviceconsists of the "extras that come withteaching, first aid course, Red Crosshelps, etc."Meyer S. Levin is at the NationalInstitute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.1925George T. Renner, professor ofgeography at Columbia University, isauthor of a feature article in Collierson desirable post-war changes in theworld map, which has attracted extensive international attention.Harry R. Booth, JD '26, is withthe Office of Price Administration inWashington.Ralph E. Stringer, AM, principalof the Robinson township high schoolin Illinois, has been elected a districtgovernor of Rotary International.1926The National Academy of Sciencesat its spring meeting elected JohnG. Kirkwood to membership.1927For the past two years Lemuel C.McGee, PhD, MD '30, has beenmedical director of the HerculesPowder Company in Wilmington,Delaware.1928Albert E. Barnett, MA, PhD '32,professor of literature and history ofthe Bible at Scarritt College forChristian Workers, Nashville, isauthor of two recent books on religious subjects.Professor Carl Broman, of MaryBaldwin College, Staunton, Virginia,has been elected to membership inHarvard University's Pierian Sodality, the oldest musical organization inthe United States.1929The Bureau of the Census, U. S.Department of Commerce, has announced the appointment of PhilipM. Hauser, AM '33, PhD '38, asassistant director of the bureau. Hewill be in charge of social statistics,including population and housing CLARKE-McELROYPUBLISHING CO.6140 Cottage Grove AvenueMidway 3935"Good Printing of All Descriptions" Albert K. Epstein, 'riB. R. Harris, "21Epstein, Reynolds and HarrisConsultinq Chemuts end Engineers5 S. Wabash Ave. ChicagoTel. Cent. 4285-6THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 291930Helen Dudenbostel Jones is doing research for the division of bibliography at the Library of Congress.Ruth Peterson, AM '36, wroteearly in the summer that she expectedto be going soon overseas with herhospital unit and that she would be"most interested to look for U. of C.alumni in whatever far corner of theworld" she gets to.Robert L. Nicholson, AM '31,PhD '38, has been appointed chairman of the department of history andpolitical science at Culver-StocktonCollege, Canton, Missouri.1931Fred B. Millett, PhD, professorof English at Wesleyan University,Connecticut, has been invited by theRockefeller Foundation to make asurvey of programs and personnel inthe field of the humanities. He isone of the editors of The CollegeSurvey of English Literature, published by Harcourt, Brace and Company.Clarence H. Webb, MS, co-founder of the children's clinic inShreveport, Louisiana, is one of twoChicago alumni elected as a districtgovernor of Rotary International.Orlo L. Crissey, AM, is directorof vocational training of employeesat the A.C. Spark Plug Company,Flint, Michigan.1932Ruth Abells Douglas, SM '35, isliaison officer for the AmericanWomen's Voluntary Service at thenational headquarters in New York.At the Muirdale Sanatorium, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, Edith J. Vecker,AM, is director of the social servicedepartment.John P. Barnes, Jr., JD '34, iswith the Office of Price Administration in Washington.1933Former secretary in the University's education department, Gertrude Rolston Baldwin is now employed as secretary by the AutomaticTransportation Company, Chicago.Lionel F. Artis is housing manager of the Federal Public HousingAuthority in Indianapolis.Minor H. McFerran is workingfor the Bureau of Aeronautics of theDepartment of Commerce in Washington.The Battelle Memorial Institute ofColumbus, Ohio, announces that F.G. Todd, PhD, has joined the technical staff and been assigned to research in industrial physics. Toddhad been a member of the faculty ofPennsylvania State College and ear lier was with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.Wolfe Mostow, SM, is a physicist with the Navy Department inWashington.1934Madelaine F. Strong is in chargeof all women's placements from thevocational guidance and placementbureau of the downtown school of theCollege of the City of New York.1935Neal M. Bowers is with the geographic division of the Office of Coordinator of Information in Washington.Writing from Johannesburg, SouthAfrica to renew his Magazine subscription, Robert Morris, MD, sayshe is serving in the Union DefenseForce in the South African MedicalCorps. He was married on May 5to Miss Eileen Myer of Johannesburg.1936Frank A. 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M.(Course, $3.30; tax included.)•Single admission. $0.55 (federal tax included). tNo single admission.For detailed Announcement of Lectures and Lecture-Conferences, addressUniversity College, The University of ChicagoTelephones: Dearborn 3673 and 3674THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOWM. FEGHT ELECTRIC CO.CONTRACTORS - ENGINEERSLIGHT & POWER CONSTRUCTIONva/ i i di . TelephoneW. Jackson Blvd. Seeley 2788GEORGE ERHARDTand SONS, Inc.Pointing — Decorating — Wood Finishing3123 PhoneLake Street Kedzio 3 1 86BOYDSTON BROS., INC.UNDERTAKERSSince 18924227-29-31 Cottage Grove Ave.All Phones OAKIand 0492La Touraine Coffee Co.IMPORTERS AND ROASTERS OFLA TOURAINECOFFEE AND TEA209-13 MILWAUKEE AVE., CHICAGOat Lake and Canal Sts.Phone State 1350Boston — New York — Philadelphia — 8y rae use Forrest L. McKennon, PhD, is aresearch chemist with the Pan American Refining Corporation, Galveston,Texas.Stanley Siegal, SM '38, PhD '41,is a physicist at the National Bureauof Standards, Washington.Herbert C. Brook, JD, is with theOffice of Price Administration inWashington.When sending his subscription tothe Alumni Magazine, Harlan M.Smith, AM '38, wrote that he hasaccepted a position with the post-wardivision of the Bureau of Labor Statistics at Cambridge, Massachusetts,and said he doesn't "wish to lose contact with the doings of the Quadrangles or have to learn all the repercussions of the new bachelor'sdegree through reading newspapers."1937Russell T. Nichols is with theTreasury Department in Washington.E. T. Arnold, Jr., MD, is practicing medicine at Hogansville, Georgia,and in 1941 was president of theTroup County Medical Society.Herman Director has been appointed acting chief of the office ofprocedural consultant, War Production Board, Washington.Charles W. Green leaf is withthe War Production Board in Washington.1939Robert L. Jack, AM, is teachingat Alcorn A. and M. College, Mississippi, and is a frequent contributorof articles on Negro education.Alfred - T. DeGroot, PhD, hasbeen promoted to professor of thehistory of religions and head of thedepartment at Drake University, DesMoines.Thomas W. Sugars, MD, is aphysician at the Neuropsychiatric Institute, Ann Arbor, Michigan.1940Muriel Ruekberg Last is a research assistant in the department ofpharmacology at the University. Shewas married last January to Jules H.Last.Alden C. Steinbeck is helping tobuild planes at Douglas Aircraft inSanta Monica, California.It is reported that JosephineJames, '40, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has arrived in Australia withan American Red Cross Task Force.Cora E. Turner has accepted anappointment as an engineering drafts-woman at the U. S. Navy Yards inCharleston, South Carolina.Charles L. Hamner, PhD, is assistant plant physiologist at the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Depart- Ashjian Bros., inc.ESTABLISHED 1921Oriental and DomesticRUGSCLEANED and REPAIRED8066 South Chicago Phone Regent 6000HOWARD F. 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Speed, Jr., Houstongeologist, as petroleum technologist inthe office of petroleum coordinatorfor war in Washington.1942On leave of absence as head of thephysics department of Union College,Lincoln, Nebraska, Robert W.Woods, PhD, is teaching radio fundamentals in the officer training program at Crufts Laboratory, HarvardUniversity.Roger F. Varney, PhD, is carrying on bio-assay and developmentalresearch for E. R. Squibb and Sonsat New Brunswick, New Jersey.THE UNI VERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 31W. B. CONKEY COMPANYHAMMOND, INDIANA[ ! I I II I II ¦ '• ¦ MIIIMIIMH 1IIMIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIII Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|||PRINTERS and BINDERSBOOKS and CATALOGS| iiiiiiiiiiiniiiii iiinimiimiiiinitiSALES OFFICES: CHICAGO AND NEW YORK IBEST BOILER REPAIR & WELDING CO.24-HOUR SERVICELICENSED - BONDEDINSUREDQUALIFIED WELDERSHAYmarket 79171404-08 S. Western Ave.. 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He is headmaster of theBarrington Country Day School andsuperintendent of the newly organized community consolidated schooldistrict No. 1.To Theodore Hamilton and Mrs.Hamilton (Leone Bailey, '32) theirsecond son, on March 17.To Orvis A. Schmidt, '36, andMrs. Schmidt (Elizabeth Merriam,'32, AM '35), a son, Roger Merriam,on March 29, at Washington, D. G.To Theodore G. Engelmann, Jr.,SM '40 and Mrs. Engelmann (ElinorM. Taylor, '39), a son, TheodoreGeorge III, on January 2 in Chicago.To Bryce L. Crawford, Jr., andMrs. Crawford (Ruth Raney, '37),a son, Bryce Low III, on July 17.The Crawfords are in Minneapoliswhere he is assistant professor ofchemistry at the University of Minnesota.MARRIAGESFlorence Cook Gleason, '25, toEarle L. Slayton, on June 29. Athome, 9957 Winchester Avenue, Chicago.Henrietta K. Ross of Watseka, Illinois, to Robert K. Fiersten, '38,SM '39, on June 18. Fiersten is afirst lieutenant in the Army SanitaryCorps, stationed as an instructor inclinical laboratory procedures at Billings General Hospital, Indianapolis.Ruth Therese Lucas, '42, toMatthew H. Block, PhD '41, onJune 2. At home, 5482 South Greenwood, Chicago.Anita Baker, '39, to William ShipBook of Asheville, North Carolina, inMexico last March.Ruth L. Waterbury to Harry Q.Petersmeyer, '39, of the Army AirCorps, on May 26 at Gardnerville,Nevada.Beatrice Jackson Durkee to Rev.Francis C. R. Jackson, BD '97, ofRedlands, California, on November15, 1941.Diana Winston, '42, to OliverJ. B. Kerner, '41, on May 7 inGreenwich, Connecticut. At home,147 East 161st Street, New YorkCity. MEDICAL BOOKSof All PublishersThe Largest and Most Complete Stock andall New Books Received as soon as published. 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Dr. Ranson had been professor of neurology and director ofthe neurological research institute atNorthwestern University since 1928.May Marks Atwater, AM '13,on August 11, in Chicago, after anillness of a year and a half.Roy C. Flickinger, PhD '04, headprofessor of classical languages . atBOYDSTON BROS.All phones OAK. 0492operatingAuthorized Ambulance Servicefor Billings HospitalUniversity Clinics, etc.PACKARD AND LASALLE EQUIPMENTRICHARD H. WEST CO.COMMERCIALPAINTING & DECORATING1331W. Jackson Blvd. TelephoneMonroe 3192Albert Teachers' Agency25 E. Jackson Blvd., ChicagoEstablished 1885. Placement Bureau formen and women in all kinds of teachingpositions. Large and alert College andState Teachers* College departments forDoctors and Masters; forty per cent of ourbusiness. Critic and Grade Supervisors forNormal Schools placed every year in largenumbers; excellent opportunities. 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Pagan,'27, SM '28, PhD '31, the August edition of the Bryologist, botanical journal, published his latest research papers and a complete list of his publications. Dr. Pagan died at DukeUniversity on April 15.Born at Barrio Rucio, in southwestern Puerto Rico, Dr. Pagan was forty-six at the time of his death. However, his had been a full life whenmeasured in accomplishments.He held membership in the Botanical Society of America, Sullivant MossSociety, Michigan Academy of Arts,Literature and Science, and SigmaXi, national honorary scientific fraternity. Dr. Pagan also held the postsof visiting fellow at Yale, exchangeLEASEBusiness Equipment ,FILING CABINETSDESKS — LOCKERSCUPBOARDS — SHELVINGMetal Office Furniture Co. Oretsd Beplde, MichiganT. A. REHNQU1ST CO. CONCRETEFLOORSSIDEWALKSMACHINE FOUNDATIONSEMERGENCY WORKALL PHONESest. in Wentworth 44226639 So. 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Soon afterreceiving his master's degree, he married Stella Millan, who had just received her A.M. from the University'smathematics department."He was not only an investigatorand teacher, but a man of unusual executive ability," said Charles J.Chamberlain, professor emeritus ofbotany, who lectured at the Universityof Puerto Rico in 1941 and who knewDr. Pagan since his undergraduatedays at the University.The Best Place to Eat on the South SideCOLONIAL RESTAURANT6324 Woodlawn Ave.Phone Hyde Part 6324E. J. Chalifoux '22PHOTOPRESS, INC.Planoqraph — Offset — Printing731 Plymouth CourtWabash 8182COMMUNICATIONS. . . directing arm of combat"Get the message through!" That's thetradition of the men who wear this insignia. Of the 18,000 Bell System people nowin the armed fortes, nearly 4,500 are withthe Signal Corps. 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