•'; ".|-,'«^^^à^S&iafe^ -THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MANZINEJ A N U A R Y 19 4 3^/HIS advertisement tells you why we sent it. None of us will have too/ much spending money in the months ahead. Prices are high, war bondsdeserve a big share of income, and income taxes will hit us hard. But we alideserve, and we ali can have, some measure of pleasure, of release from finan-cial and wartime worries.That's why you received a letter from THE POST. Every week, every month,THE POST will bring into your home the most satisfying slippers-and-armchairentertainment: in mystery, romance, adventure and western stories; in bi-ographies of people high in public places; in humor, sports, and half againas many articles— shorter, breezier, more intimate articles— than THE POSTbrought you even a few short months ago.With the letter THE POST sent you is an order form carrying your name.Lest we forget, money-saving prices are quoted below (the one-year priceremains at $3.00) and the Air Mail envelope will do the rest.THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MAGAZINEPUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONCHARLTON T. BECKEditor HOWARD W. MORT and BEATRICE J. WULFAssociate Edi+orsDON MORRIS, CODY PFANSTIEHL Contributing Editor: HARRY SHOLLAssistane EditorTHE COVER: Early in Januarytwenty-nine balloons soared up out ofStagg Field and into the sky, carry-ing six special type counters attachedto a thirty-foot rod. The purpose ofthe counters was to detect the exist-ence of cosmic ray showers in thestratosphere. As a result of this flight,conducted by Pierre Auger and Marcel Schein, University research associatesi cosmic ray showers were de-tected for the first time at more than32,000 feet.The balloons landed at Crooksville,Ohio, having reached an altitude ofabout fif teen miles and traveled at aspeed of about one hundred miles perhour.ROY BALDRIDGE has writtenthe following dedication for hisbook, The Farables, from which wehave reproduced two drawings forour frontispiece : "By his illustrationsin this book, the artist seeks to express his gratitude to Dr. Henry B.Sharman, his teacher at the University of Chicago, as a result of whoseclarifying analysis of New TestamentDocuments, Jesus emerged from thepast with the vitality of a contem-porary leader."EVIDENCE of the important partfood plays in a global war wasgiven us when from North Africa, uponour occupation, carne frantic appealsfor food and supplies, with the threatof riot and violence as an argument.It is clear that one of the instrumentsfor keeping order in reconqueredlands will be an adequate supply offood.Professor Cannon, whose pertinentaddress at the December Convo-cation the Magazine is privileged topublish, is chairman of the Department of Pathology and in 1942 waspresident of the American Associa-tion of Pathologists and Bacteriolo-gists. He is a member of the Medicai THIS MONTHTABLE OF CONTENTSJANUARY, 1943PageWill Food Win the War and Writethe Peace?Paul R. Cannon 3AUSTRALIAN PeRSPEGTIVERobert B. Lewy 6The University' s New College ProgramThe Curriculum,, Clarence H. Faust 8Student Interests and AgtivitiesAaron J. Brumbaugh. 10Robert S. Platt Write s on LatinAmericaCharles C. Colby 11The Dean's Easy ChairGordon J. Laing 13One Man's ArmyCody Pfanstiehl 16News of the QuadranglesDon Morris 18News of the Classes 24Fellowship Board of the National Research Council.MAJOR LEWY, who writes ofArmy life "down under," was,when last heard from, stili somewherein Australia, chief of the eye, ear,nose, and throat service of a hospitalthere."This is a great, growing, and in-teresting country," he writes, "and insome ways reminiscent of our ownfrontier days. I have not yet triedsome of its best dishes, kangaroosteak, kangaroo tail soup (reputedlymudi better than ox-tail) or guana."In civilian life Major Lewy is aChicago physician.WE HAVE a new College program at Chicago. It has beenin the making for more than a decade, but each year has produced itschanges and amendments. Today itis a well formulated pian. Forgettingits contro versial features — the time,place, and method of granting theBachelor of Arts degree — the Magazine offers its readers two enlighten- ing articles telling what the University hopes to accomplish, in class andout of class, for students during thefour years devoted to general educa-tion. And who better qualified towrite these articles than the Dean ofthe College and the Dean of Students?TIMELY as the morning's news-paper is Professor Platt's monumentai work on Latin America re-viewed by Professor Colby. ProfessorPlatt started work on the project in1919, took 25,000 pictures, utilizedevery conceivable means of transpor-tation in his travels, and has comeup with as fine and comprehensive abook about the land of our southernneighbors as one could hope for. Infact at least one reviewer to whorngeographies are anathema was almostmoved to add Latin America, Country Sides and United Regions to hislibrary merely for its very attractiveappearance.CONTINUING the saga of hiseducation Dean Laing reportstwo incidents that brought about"faint beginnings of a spot of em-barrassment" in the otherwise singu-larly bland existence of an alumnidean.ONCE more Cody (now a ser-geant) sends a dispatch fromthe "front." This time he hops a ridein an "enemy bomber" as an observer.The result is he becomes a "casual ty"when our planes complete their mis-sion. But he'll be back to reportagain.FURTHER retrenchment on campus in face of military require-ments is reported by Don Morris inthe News of the Quadrangles. Thelatest eviction is Alumni House'sneighbor, the music depàrtrìient,which has surrendered to the WeatherDirector ate of the Army Air Forces.PuMished 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 oents. Entered as second class matter December 1, 1934, at the Post Office at Chicago,Illinois, under the àct of March 3, 1879. The Graduate Group, Inc., 80 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, is the officiai advertising agency of theUniversity of Chicago Magatine./3 HORTLY before Christmas, CyrusLeRoy Baldridge, ?11? presented theAlumni Library with an autographedcopy of The Parables, recently pub-lished by Harper and Brothers. Inthis lovely edition of the teachings ofJesus, Mr. Baldridge s color illustra-tions and pencil drawings providenew understanding and deeper ap-preciation of the text. We deem it aprivilege to reproduce two drawingsfrom the pencil of Mr. Baldridge,known to thousands of alumni forhis beautiful brochure, "¦ — or What'sa College Fori" — written and illus-trated as a gift to his University onits Fiftieth Anniversary.He that hath ears to hear, let him hearAnd I was afraid, and went and hid thytalent in the earth.«„ THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MAGAZINEJANUARY, 1943WILL FOOD WIN THE WAR ANDWRITE THE PEACE?Starvation is a powerfulweapon in militarystrategyTHE realities of modera, war are gradually becom-ing more evident as we prepare to enter our secondwar winter. Within a few short months we haveseen our fighting men engagé the enemy at many distantpoints, we have watched our military plans unfold, andwe have tried to adjust ourselves to the unfamiliar factsof total war. We have made a slight beginning in therationing of tires and petroleum, of food and coffee.Thus far, however, these few privations have served onlyto intimate a prospective streamlining of our well-nour-ished bodies and a better functioning of our unstimulatedbrains. But war will not disturb us vitally until weundergo more rigorously its fears, its hardships, and itsmiseries. I riiake no apology, therefore, for talking aboutthe war and its accomplices — f amine, disease, and death.For soon ali of us will have these melancholy facts to face.Elsewhére these facts have long been faced. Europe'sunhappy millions now are entering their fourth warwinter. From the desolation of their wrecked cities,amidst poverty, misery, and despair, they look up to theskies with dread and fear, and await the bombers. Overthere the Four Horsemen are riding hard again and atan accelerating tempo. The red horse, War, is stili infront, but dose behind appear the black horse, Famine,and the pale horse, Pestilence. For total war bringshunger, disease, and death, to friend and foe alike. Goneare the so-called humanitarian principles of former wars.In the grim struggle of this war no holds are barred, andlittle mercy can be shown those not on the active fìeldof battle; for modem war attempts by land and sea andair to bring starvation to the foe and thereby break hiswill to fight. And to the extent that total war accom-plishes these things it means famine, mass malnutrition,and pestilence.These are ominous thoughts, but they must be true;otherwise there is ho meàning in a sea blockade or in • By PAUL R, CANNON, Ph.D. "21. M-.D. '25large-scale bombings. Such things are done, not onlyto achieve military objectives, but also to disrupt theenemy's agriculture, commerce, and transportation andthus induce both poverty and famine. For poverty andfamine cause fear, fear causes panie, and panie leads tospiritual and physical deterioration. When famine comes.pestilence invariably follows; these two soon generatethose evil forces which are manifested so often in socialstrife and revolution. Thus starvation, through its demor-alizing action, becomes a military objective, and themeans whereby it is achieved constitute military weaponsof extraordinary value.In World War I we had the slogan, "Food Will Winthe War." Today we say, "Food will win the war andwrite the peace." Now, a slogan to be effective shouldconvey both truth and meaning. I propose, therefore,to ask the question, "Will food win the war and writethe peace?" In the discussion I shall consider mainlythe European phases of the war and the food potentiali-ties of the enemy.We ali know that in total war food is a vital factor.It is obvious, therefore, that if food is to influence thewinning of this war we must first insure its productionin abundance and its transportation to our fighting menand allies ali over the world. The extensive plans nowbeing laid warrant the assurance that we can and willsolve this difficult problem. But when our own suppliesof food have been provided for, what about the enemy'sfood? Is there a reasonable hope that, as in 1918, Ger-many will learn again that empty stomachs do not winwars? The answer to this question will affect in nosmall way both the formulation and the execution ofimportant military plans, particularly naval blockadesand devastating bombings.There can be no doubt but that the Germans plannedtheir food supplies and rationing systems carefully thistime. Moreover, their ruthless policies of conquest haveenabled them to levy vast supplies of foodstuffs fromtheir helpless victims. The fact remains, however, thatfood and livestock once confiscated cannot be leviedupon again with corresponding profit. The time alsoseems to be approaching when Germany no longer willhold immense hordes of captive people under strict34 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEcontrol. When that time comes and the Germans' foodsupplies must come again from German soil, food short-ages may quickly lead to swift collapse. The Nazis boastnow about their fortitude, but Germany's "turnip winter"of 1917 proved to the world that too many turnips inthe stomach can take the fighting hearts out of evenHerrenvolk. And although Hitler shrieked that he wasprepared for seven years of war, it should not be over-looked that from a psychological point of view, the ideasof "lightning war" and "seven years war" are incom-patibles.What are the facts about food supplies in Europe now?According to competent authorities, among them HerbertHoover, the shortages in Germany, although undoubt-edly serious, are not yet criticai. In fact, even during1942 Germany exported foods to other countries. Never-theless, there is a shortage of meats, sugar, and f ats whichhas led in recent months to marked reductions in foodrations. The shortage of fats is also important psycho-logically because fats not only make foods more palatablebut also tend to delay the rapid reappearance of hungersensations. Fodder is scarce and the livestock popula-tions have had to be reduced. Food production hasbecome increasingly difficult due to the loss of farmersto the armies and the factories, inadequate supplies offertilizer, and the wearing out of farm machinery. Butdespite these adverse factors there are no signs at presentof approaching food restrictions comparable to those of1918. Nor is there any evidence that the German civi-lians as yet have suffered the severe weight losses ofWorld War I. We must remember that the Germansknow from past experience a great deal about starvationand may be depended upon to take ali measures withintheir power to ward it off.But when famine does come it will affect most severelythe poor. The poor are always the most numerous, andthey tend to congregate in the cities. They are therenow in the war factories where they receive their frequentbombings on an ever-increasing scale. Only the futurecan reveal how long these people can withstand lowfood rations, lack of sufficient fuel, incessant bombings,and progressive malnutrition.Certainly in time the problem of malnutrition willdominate the panoramic picture of the entire war. Itwill also afford the earliest clues to impending breaksin the enemys' resistance and thus will serve as an in-dicator of coming trends. Although reliable informationis difficult to obtain, reports from Europe now teli anugly tale of approaching famine and pestilence. InGreece the world is witnessing the possible extinction ofan entire nation by famine and disease. Already morethan a fifth of the inhabitants have died since the Naziscarne. As one reporter has said, "Athens is now an immense garbage can. Today, in Greece, there are norich and poor. There are only starving people." Wardropsy has reappeared ali over conquered Europe. Rick-ets and scurvy are reaching alarming proportions. The PAUL R. CANNONfamine fevers, typhus, cholera, typhoid, and plague, areon the increase. Death rates from infectious disease arerising everywhere. Fearful epidemics are knocking atEurope's door.Of ali infectious diseases which may indicate the con-sequences of malnutrition tuberculosis is the prototype.This malady is world-wide in its distribution, it affectsali ages, and its symptoms are well known and relativelyeasy to recognize. Furthermore, for many years tuberculosis has been declining steadily throughout the world.This decline was interrupted in Europe during WorldWar I; by 1918 the death rate in Germany had risen toa point about 25 per cent above that of the 1914 level.Death rates from tuberculosis once more are going upin many warring countries. In Paris during the firsthalf of 1941 deaths from tuberculosis increased 10 percent over those of the first half of 1939. For childrenunder nine years of age the corresponding increase was28 per cent. Rises, although not so alarming, have alsobeen reported from England, Wales, Scotland, and Canada; more alarming are the figures from China, Greece,Poland, Holland, and other conquered countries wherefood shortages are serious. Only in the United Stateshas there been no war increase in this disease.These facts concerning war, famine, and pestilencehave long been known to students of infectious disease.But despite the familiarity of the facts themselves, theTHE UNIVERSITY OFreasoris for the sequence have not been understood sowell. The probable explanation is as follows: Diseasegerms grow in human tissues only when our defensivemechanisms fail to function adequately. Acquired resistance to infectious agents results from the production ininfected persons of antagonistic substances, the so-calledantibodies. The nature of these antibodies has been an enigma for many years, but recently their chemical composi-tion has been ascertained. We know now that they consistof protein molecules and that they must be fabricatedfrom proteins taken in as food. Without an adequateand continuous supply of dietary protein the effectiveproduction of these antibodies cannot be long maintained.Prolonged starvation, therefore, tends to reduce theability to acquire resistance to microbic agents whichotherwise might be well tolerated. Hence. the risingdeath rates from infectious disease in famine areas. Ofcourse there are many other contributory forces influenc-ing the development of infectious processes, but the sum-mation of them ali brings about the common sequenceof war, famine, and pestilence.In the Europe of today not only have the lights goneout but the precious food reserves are running perilouslylow. With livestock slaughtered and with agriculturalfacilities impaired, with increasing requirements by thefighting troops and increasing labor shortages at home,the supplies for civilian use must gradually approach thebottom of the barrel. The shortage of carbohydrates,fats, and vitamins reduces the energy potentials and theesprit de corps and thus affects morale, but without proteins in sufficient amounts a lowered resistance to infectious disease in time becomes inevitable. Unfor-tunately, the bitter fact remains, as Herr Goering hasrecently stated, that no matter what may happen to thefood supplies of Europe, the Germans will be the last tostarve. These words mean literally that within the nextfew months tens of thousands of the conquered peoplewill die. News accounts will say they died from hunger;actually many if not most of them will die because theycould not overcome infectious agents which under normalnutritional conditions would have caused no harm.If food is to win the war, therefore, it can do so onlyindirectly and in God's good time. Drouths, cold win-ters, or excessive rainfall may impair Germany's futureharvests; there is but little hope, however, that the Germans will succumb to famine soon. Starvation will forcethem to their knees only when the conquered countrieshave been wrested from their vampire's clasp by ourmilitary might. Until then our hope must continue tocome from the increasing devastation brought about byconcentrated bombings. The most immediate needmeanwhile is nutritional relief to the captive millionsdoomed by German ruthlessness to die. These peopleali are potential workers against the Axis powers, butwhen they die from famine and pestilence their future CHICAGO M AG AZI NE 5contributions to the allied cause go with them to thegrave. It is tragic that so little can be done to rescuethem, but their succour must await the avenging swordof our own offensive power.But when the war is over, no matter how food mayhave influenced its termination, food will surely aff ectthe writing of the peace; because, when fighting ceasesand the military organizations of the enemy disintegrate,famine and pestilence quickly will become insistent com-petitors for the spoils of war. And to the military victorwill go not the spoils but rather the responsibility ofsupplying food to ali the starving people, and in ampiequantities, to enemy and friend. If this is not done,misery, despair, and revolution may lay the foundationsfor World War III. For revolutions are energized bythe "little people" of the world and goading hungercan soon make outworn trifles of ethical principles andspiritual aspirations. And when the hungry multitudesraise their hands and cry for bread their supplicationsmust not again be met with the suggestion that theymight eat cake.When this war ends, famines may develop more devas-tating than the world has ever seen. Some 500,000,000persons will be short of food, many millions desperatelyso. Most serious will be the plight of children whosegrowing bodies and minds may suffer permanent distor-tion from malnutrition and embitterment. According toMr. Hoover, if food is not secured for ali these hungrypeople the turbulent forces of revolution, unemployment,suspicion, and hate will speedily prepare the soil forfuture wars.In the post-war search for a lasting peace the stakeswill indeed be large; but if the planning is well doneand the plans are well carried out, the seeds of thenext war may fall this time on unproductive soil. Pre-paredness, however, will require almost impossible de-mands of human frailty. This savage war already hasengendered hatreds which will require decades to as-suage. But if we are ever to achieve a lasting peace weshould ponder well the thought expressed by Hoover andGibson in The Problems of Lasting Peace: "We canhave peace or we can have revenge, but we cannot haveboth."In the solution of these problems relating both to warand to the post-war world, the universities can and mustbear an ever-enlarging share. The University of Chicago is now, as President Hutchins has said, an instru-mentality of total war. When peace comes this university will become once more, as it was always meantto be, an instrumentality of total peace. I scarcely needexpress the hope that soon ali of us may see that kind ofuniversity striving again to meet the urgent problems ofour time. Meanwhile our foremost duty is to prepareoursélves more fully for the stern tasks which lie soimmediately ahead.AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE• By ROBERT B. LEWY, '30, M.D. '35A medico's impressionsof Army lifedown under"IT IS a far cry from my time on the Quadrangles tothe day when my hand was wrung by a general ofdistinction who congratulated me on receiving an op-portunity for overseas service. Maturity had already ar-rived and the desire for foreign adventure was temperedby the thought of leaving family and friends behind. Thetempering was accentuated by further experiences. Itsoon became obvious that those selected for foreign dutyfell into three groups: one group felt it was chosen to doa difficult and somewhat hazardous mission; the secondgroup was indifferent and would serve any where; whilethe third group believed it was sent overseas in an actionparallel to that which sent some of the earliest settlers toBotany Bay — these had difficulty in just getting alongwith people.Our trip was like most ocean voyages, with modifica-tions. We had a convoy, which is secret, consisting ofprotection, which is secret. We took blank days and sailedon the liner blank. We left an unknown port for an un-known destination. Our course was blank by blank. Aftera while the weather became warm and we found our-selves in part of an initiation which from its discomfortwas reminiscent of similar experiences back at the University some years ago. The Jolly Roger was flying fromthe masthead and so we dccided that we had crossed theEquator.The cheer that went up from the many thousands ofmen when we arrived at an Australian port could havebeen equalled in song and story only when Columbus'ssailors first made their landfall on the New World. Thereon the dock was an attractive Aussie "Sheila" — the firstwoman of any sort seen by our boys since they left theStates.The Australians have a peculiar but apt sense of fitness.In line with the general war policy, there was no bandto meet our outfit at the dock. (There hadn't been anyband playing Aloha Oe when leaving the home port.)There was, however, a small but very vociferous aggrc-gation of young ladies who greeted the boys very ef-fectively. While the ship was stili being tugged into posi-tion, friendships were springing up, and twenty-four hoursafter landing, the men had already proved their mettleand were at home in Australia.If the foregoing paragraphs are a little facetious, theyare none the less true. Even the most acute of our nos talgia here is tinged by a "gay caballero" feeling whichmakes the separation from home more bearable. Thenafter a while one settles down and the pali of our usuaitype of thinking settles over the mind. We are again thesame stodgy or racy, educated or uneducated, worried orcarefree individuals that we were at home.Service as a medicai officer gives one a better oppor-tunity for insight into the lives and thoughts of our Armythan one can usually get with any comparable group. Wereally live with the men; we praise them if they are good;we try them if they are bad; we censor their mail; weimpose restrictions and treat whatever evil results of amisstep may occur; we pian their recreation and try byathletics and entertainment to give them an interestingsubstitute for trouble.In this intimate association we can see America in crosssection and many conclusions are inescapable. An interesting example of this is a comparison of education aboveand below the Mason Dixon Line. This can well bejudged by letter censoring. While the southern boysare not illiterate, the degree of lack of education in thegroup is amazing even to one accustomed to the slums ofChicago and the difficulties that we have with our mu-nicipal school system. The educational lack is bothqualitative and quantitative. The below-the-line boys donot average as many years at school, and it appears thatMAJOR ROBERT B. LEWY6THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEThe koalas, or Austra-lian teddy bears, spendmost of their time sit-ting in a crotch of atree. Formerly largenumbers inhabited theforests of eastern Australia, but many thou-sands were killed fortheir soft furs. Nowthey are protected bythe Government. (Photo from National Geo-graphic Magazine]the locai and state laws in the South do not require thenumber of years of schooling that New York and Illinoisconsider a bare minimum.Medicai problems with an Army are necessarily verydifferent from those of civilian practice. Back in a com-fortable Chicago office it was customary to reflect withpleasure and pride on the number of years of study andtraining required to bring one to his present highly dis-tilled state. One's field of work was sharply limited toa "speciality." There were many operations that only aspecialist could perform and many opinions that only onewho had such a background would express or understand.This concept stili applies in the Army, but only in centerssuch as our general hospitals and perhaps station hospital. Ali the rest of us, former specialists or not, areoccupied with the new "speciality" of military medicine.Things taken for granted at home are the sine qua nonof a healthy existence here. The Army is a total community, and wherever it moves a whole civilization mustbe protected. For example, at home the mosquito was anannoyance, to be slapped on a summer night near theBotany Pond, at a concert on the Quadrangles, or atRavinia. Today in this semi-tropical climate it is agreater threat to our Army's manpower than the Japa-nese. Mosquito control is an art in itself: it is a prob-lem of engineering, of flowing streams and quiet ponds,of rain, of entomology, taxonomy and insecticides, of lifehistories and genesis. The problem is very real and isvery much ours, the medicos.Like any other soldier or officer the Army doctor'sfunction is to help win the war. His is a double-edgedsword against disease and injury. Those who are ili mustbe cured, and in a hurry; others must be prevented fromgetting sick. Man hours lost from work and training forthese reasons must be held down to a minimum. The phases of this problem are protean. To list oneor two which have a direct hearing on how fast the warwill be won, we might first mention venereal disease. Wehave seen fourteen men in one command affected byvenereal disease in one week. This was very exceptionaland the situation was promptly corrected. The correc-tion in this case required some Sherlock Holmes sleuthingto find the source, and then cooperation with the locaiauthorities.The problem is thoroughly handled. Men are lecturedon prevention by their commanders, the chaplain, andthe doctors. Medicai facilities are offered to them andthe newest methods of rapid cure are vigorously followedwhen indicated.Then there is the question of dishwater. Most of uswould not have stopped to even consider it in our ownhomes, yet it can almost speli the difference between de-feat and victory. The Army system requires that messkits be washed in a series of three large cans of boilingwater. The first has soap in it and the last two are clear.If these are not inspected daily and the proper soaps arenot used, dysentery promptly makes its way into thecommand. Recently grease was discovered on some messkits. A study of the situation revealed that the soapwhich was used was too fatty and did not contain enoughalkali. It was immediately changed. This may be calledprevention of the first water.One can't help but feel fairly at home here in Australia. The people are very friendly and their youngmen seem to have the same love of life and of escapadesthat characterizes our own college students. One strikingnational characteristic is the apparent lack of avarice.The country is backward, perhaps, if compared with ourAmerican railroads and architecture, but we could learn{Concluded on page 23)THE UNIVERSITY'S NEW COLLEGEPROGRAMTHE CURRICULUMAT THE celebration of its Fiftieth Anniversary in1941 the University pledged itself to continuethe "pioneering on educational frontiers" bywhich it had achieved distinction during the first halfcentury of its existence.- It began to redeem that pledgein 1942 by reformulating its program for the bachelor'sdegree.The new College program begins at what is tradition-ally the junior year of high school. It is devoted to general or liberal education, leaving specialized and tech-nical training to the upper divisions and professionalschools of the University. It may be completed in thirtyto thirty-six months of study.These changes in the University's College pian willnot seem so startlingly new to Chicago alumni as theyhave seemed to some educators who have not watchedthe development of the University's conception of general education or followed the steps by which it has beenput into practice. Some Chicago graduates may recalithe proposals of the University's first president that thefirst two years of college education be separated fromthe last two and be devoted to general rather than specialized or professional training. Many others have beengraduated from the College since it was establishedtwelve years ago as a separate two year unit given togeneral education. Stili others have taken the four-yearcollege course which was established in 1937 and whichbegins with what is ordinarily the third year of highschool.The recent changes in the College have been the nextlogicai steps in the University's progress toward the solution of the problems of general education. For fifty yearsthe University has been concerned with providing thekind of basic, general education that everyone ought tohave no matter what occupation or profession he pro-poses to enter. After twelve years of experience with thetwo-year College pian for high school graduates and fiveyears of experience with the four-year College pian forhigh school juniors, the University has combined the twoand has decided to recognize the completion of its College program by the award of the bachelor's degree asappropriately marking the completion of general or liberal education. Students are admitted to the new program after having finished two years of high school.They may enter it at the appropriate point after havingfinished three years of high school or being graduatedfrom high school, just as students formerly entered the old four-year undergraduate course as sophomores orjuniors by transferring credit for one or two years of college work done elsewhere. Students who come into theCollege after finishing two years of high school can complete the requirements for the bachelor's degree in aboutten quarters. Those who come in after being graduatedfrom high school will ordinarily need six quarters.Public interest in this pian of college education hasbeen greatly accelerated by the war. The lowering of thedraft age to eighteen has directed attention to the University's proposai that general education should begin atabout fifteen and be completed, formally at least, by thetime students are eighteen or eighteen and a half. Theenrolment for the first year of the College program (theyear corresponding to the junior year of high school)increased more than 35 per cent last autumn, and itpromises to increase even more next year.We should perhaps have some doubts about the signifi-cance of this interest if the new program were simply awar measure like the "accelerated" courses which havebeen invented by most colleges since Pearl Harbor. Itwas not, however, adopted as a war measure, but as thebest pian of liberal education the University could devisefor peace or war times. By providing the opportunityfor young men and women to begin their general education as soon as they have the abilities in reading, writing,and reckoning, and the stock of elementary informationrequired for such education, the Chicago program makesit possible for them to be prepared at a reasonable agefor specialized or professional training or to enter uponnon-specialized work without waste of time. It thereforemeets the demands of war time when the period availablefor liberal education is sharply limited by the needs of thenation's military forces and war industries. It meets thesedemands, not because it is a war-time makeshift to be laidaside with the uniforms of returning soldiers, but becauseit is educationally sound in peace or war time.The College, then, aims to provide a liberal educationwithin the limits of time now available for it. It con-ceives of liberal education as consisting of the knowledgeand reasoning ability everyone needs in order to solvewisely the personal, moral, and politicai problems thateveryone must meet. The core of the College curriculumconsists of general courses in the naturai sciences (bio-logical and physical), the social sciences, and the hu-manities. Students do three years of work in each ofthese three fields. As they acquire information and learnto think for themselves, they should develop the ability8THE UNIVERSITY OFto communicate their knowledge. A three-year course inwriting is, therefore, added to the general subject mattercourses. Students generally pursue these four lines ofstudy concurrently through the first three years of theirCollege work, taking comprehensive examinations in thenaturai sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, andin English at the dose of each year. At the end of thestudent's college work he takes a one-year course in prin-ciples and methods designed to assist him to integratethe studies he has pursued. The remainder of his fourthyear is open for the pursuit of special interest courses orfor laying the foundation for later specialized training.The three-year sequence of courses in the naturai sciences falls into two parts, which differ in subject matterand to some extent in method of approach. This sequence is made up of two general courses, one in thebiological sciences and one in the physical sciences, twoyears being given to one of these fìelds and the third yearto the other. The work in the biological sciences in-cludes the study of the structures and activities of themembers of the plant and animai kingdoms. Emphasisis placed upon the workings of the human body in healthand in disease; on the relation of living organisms to theirenvironments ; and on the problems of evolution, hered-ity, and genetics. The work in the physical sciences in-cludes the study of the earth as an astronomica! body;of the geologie history of the earth; of geography,weather, and weather maps; of physics (heat, sound,light, and electricity) ; and of chemistry (the atomictheory and the nature of chemical reactions) .The three-year sequence of courses in the social sciences includes the study of American history, the analysisof economie, social, and politicai institutions, and thestudy of the problems of freedom and control in con-temporary society. The first year is devoted to the studyCLARENCE H. FAUST CHICAGO MAGAZINE 9of American politicai institutions, including the origin,development, and contemporary operations of constitu-tional government, representative democracy, and politicai parties. The second year begins with an exami-nation of the kinds of problems which arise in socialstudies and the methods used in solving them. The analysis of these problems includes the study of some of theoutstanding social philosophies of ancient and modemtimes, and it is directed toward developing the student'spower to make wise choices between the conflicting poli-cies which will be presented to him as a citizen. Thethird year is devoted to an analysis of the problems offreedom and control in contemporary society. The mainsection of the course is concerned with the extent of freedom in contemporary politicai, social, and economie affaire as illustrated in the recent history of the UnitedStates, England, Russia, and Germany. The work in thisyear rests upon the study of important writers of the pastand of the present who have been concerned with theseproblems.The three-year sequence of courses in the humanitiesdeals with literature, art, music, philosophy, and history.Its purpose is to acquaint students with the majorachievements in these fìelds and to develop competencein the analysis, understanding, and appreciation of his-torical, rhetorical, literary, and philosophic writings andof works of art and music. The three courses which makeup the series deal progressively with richer and more difficult materials and aim at increasing progressively theability of students to use the humanistic disciplines andskills. During the first year students are introduced tovarious kinds of literature (reading a fairly large numberof less difficult examples of each) and to art and music.The second year is devoted to history and literature. Thereadings for this year are fewer and considerably moredifficult than for the first year. Emphasis is placed uponthe art of interpretation needed for the understandingand appreciation of historical, rhetorical, dramatic, andfictional works. The third year is given to poetry, philosophy, and the arts. The emphasis during this year isplaced upon the theoretic side of humanistic study.The three-year sequence of courses in writing is designed to train students to deal effectively with the writing problems they are likely ito encounter later. Thesequence aims, therefore, to teach students to presentinformation clearly, to explain a position or theory or toset forth an argument in a precise and orderly way, tourge a proposai or present a pian of action persuasively.The course in observatipn, interpretation, and integration which students take during their last year of study,is designed to clarify the relationships of the subjectmatter of the general courses in which they have beenworking. It will lead students to analyze and comparethe methods of acquiring and testing knowledge in thenaturai sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities;and it will deal with the history of the relationsbetween the various fìelds of human knowledge,10 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEtracing the ways in which one field or another hasachieved independence or dominance, or has been subordi-nated or even absorbed by another. It is the final aim ofthe course to prepare students to distinguish clearly thedifferences in the nature of the manifold problems theywill encounter as individuate and as citizens and to prepare them to determine the kinds of information and ap-proach needed for the solution of each.Besides the courses described above, which are designedto assist students to acquire the knowledge and compe-tence which are demanded for passing the comprehensiveexaminations required of candidates for the bachelor'sdegree, courses are available in such subjects as mathe-matics, foreign languages, chemistry, and physics. Thesecourses provide opportunities for the pursuit of the special interests of students and for laying the foundation forlater specialized training. To meet the special needs ofsome students, the College allows the substitution of twocomprehensive examinations, covering a year's work eachin a special field, for certain of the regular comprehensiveexaminations. Students who complete this modified program are awarded the degree of Bachelor of Philosophyinstead of the degree of Bachelor of Arts.Universities have a doublé task in war time. Presi-dent Hutchins has said, "Today our work must meet oneof two tests; either it must help win the war, or it mustcontribute to the intellectual development of our peopleand to the solution, by intellectual means, of the problemsthat confront humanity." Toward the winning of thewar, the University has devoted mudi of its facilitiesand many of its teachers and research workers. It hasbeen no less concerned with the intellectual developmentof American youth. It is aware that if America wins thewar but f ails to train the youth of the country to exercisewisely the freedom they are fighting to preserve, thenation will soon lose what it had won. Never in ourTHE University for many years has proceeded onthe assumption that students are mature individuate capable of assuming the responsibility fortheir personal affairs and interested in making effectiveuse of the multiple facilities oflered by the University. Andbecause of this theory there have been few of the tradi-tional regulations pertaining to class attendance, studyhours, extra-curriculum activities, and personal conduct.As a rule, high school graduates who enter the Collegelive up to the University's expectations. The counsel offaculty members is available at ali times to help studentsassume the responsibility that is imposed by the freedomthey are given and to make sure that they profit by theirindependence.But boys and girls of fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen arenot "men" and "women," as we have al ways called thetraditional college students. But they are sufficiently national history has the need for sound education beengreater. The young men who enter the armed servicesof the country need it to meet the shattering, and in manyways corrupting, experiences of war. They will need itas much and perhaps even more in meeting the problemsthey will face when they try to find a place for them-selves in civilian life during the readjustment and con-fusion of the post-war period. They will need it not onlyfor themselves but for the nation, if the democraticmethod of solving national questions is to have a fairchance of success in post-war America.But if there is more need than ever for the kind ofeducation colleges ought to provide, there is less timethan we have had during the last few generations inwhich to give it. The lowering of the draft age and theprobable allocation of the man and woman power of thecountry to war industries will make impossible the fourleisurely years of college we have been accustomed to.If college training must begin where it now begins andtake as long as it now takes, the problem thus created isinsoluble. In that case the youth of this generation mustbe called upon, not only to risk their lives for their country, but to sacrifice their hopes of education to it as well;and the country must be prepared not only for heavytaxes and long casualty lists, but for a hazardous futureunder an uneducated electorate.The University of Chicago believes that it has a solution for this problem, that it can provide within the timenow open for it the kind of basic, general educationwhich everyone ought to have no matter what occupa-tion or profession he will enter: the kind of trainingwhich the business man and the social worker, the house-wife and the soldier, ali alike need.CLARENCE H. FAUST, A. M. '29, Ph.D. '35Dean of the Collegemature mentally to benefit by a sound program of general education. (Indeed, they are usually more maturementally than their parents think they are — and therehave been numerous sdentine studies that bear this out. )But they are stili boys and girls emotionally and socially,and the institution that assumes the responsibility fortheir education must take account of this fact. Primarilydevoted, as any educational pian should be, to the development of the mind, the fóur-year College program at theUniversity of Chicago by no means neglects its responsibility for ali the activities, interests, and problems of theyounger studente.One of the objectives of education is, of course, toenable young people to be wholly responsible for themselves by the time they are adults. The Chicago programis built with this end in view, and as the student pro-(Continued on page 21)STUDENT INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIESROBERT S. PLATT WRITES ONLATIN AMERICATHE publication of Robert S. Platt's Latin America,Country Sides and United Regions by the McGraw-Hill Book Company consummates a program offield work and research begun in 1919 when ProfessorPlatt, Ph.D. '20, joined the faculty of the University. Thisprogram previously had produced many technical andprofessional articles, but in his new book Professor Plattfor the first time reveals the full measure of his thoughtand methods.Work of the sort which preceded the publication ofProfessor Platt's book runs into time and money. Hetraveled, for example, more than 50,000 miles in connection with his seven expeditions to South America andhis many periods of work in the Caribbean countries.He has studied in each of the capital cities and hasworked in ali of the twenty countries and in ali of thesixteen colonies.The diversity of present day conditions in Latin America is shown by the fact that to get on "location" Professor Platt traveled in river steamers, sailing rafts, caulebarges, speed boats, and dugout canoes. He traversed theAmazon wilderness and the Andes by airplanes and hasphotographed from airplanes of ten different types fromcrates to clippers. In his Latin American wanderings,moreover, he has ridden on railways of seven differentgauges, hired automobiles of almost every make andLaborers of the El Temente copper mine live instairstep tenements in the Chilean Andes Not boulders left by a retreating glacier but hugebillets of rubber dumped on a water-front streetto be truclced into a warehouse at Para, Brazilvintage, and pounded trails on foot, oxcart, horseback,and muleback.During the progress of his Latin American work Professor Platt has made detailed investigations of more thana hundred localities. He has studied mining communitiesat sea level and in the high and remote Andes. Ranchos,haciendas, pueblos, villages, and cities have been mappedin detail and, in fact, almost every type of communityin Latin America has come under his criticai observation.His 25,000 photographs probably make up the most comprehensive and systematically planned collection of photographs ever taken by a single individuai in Latin America. He has been consulted in regard to boundary disputes,has cooperated in studies of transportation, and is a recog-nized authority on questions which cali for an intimateknowledge of land and other resources. Most importantof ali he has come to know people in ali walks of life andhas gained thereby an understanding of the ideas andideals of Latin American people.Professor Platt's new book shows that in his work hehas departed both from conventional methods of geo-graphical investigation and from long held notions ofLatin American economy. In his field work, for example,he combines in highly effective fashion a traverse methodof reconnaissance in large areas with detailed studies ofsmall areas typical of the larger units. This combinationwas foreshadowed in an article on the Magdalena At-1112 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINElipac area of Mexico some years ago ( Geographic Surveys,The Geographic Society of Chicago, Bulletin No. 9, University of Chicago Press, 1933), but it is fully and suc-cessfully employed in the new book. In his reconnaissancework, Professor Platt has made large use of the airplaneand has developed a special method of mapping fromthe air. In his study of unit areas he makes large use ofthe fractional code method of rccording observations onair photographs or aerial mosaics — a method which Professor Platt helped to develop and which he was the firstto employ in detailed mapping in tropical areas. Ninety-four unit area studies of this type are presented in hisbook. They introduce the reader to the locai scene andto the author's generalizations and conclusions. As a result, Professor Platt's book, though notable for the clarityof its style, is a vigorous and penetrating inquiry into thelocalities and regions which comprise Latin America.In his new book, Professor Platt successfully challengesa thesis which has been entertained by many writers onLatin America. According to this time-honored point ofview, Latin America is so diversifìed that every regionis different from every other and thus regional compari-sons are unnecessary. Such a conviction is comforting toan author because it relieves him of the responsibility ofmaking comparisons, of introducing connective argu-ments, and of drawing interregional conclusions. Professor Platt's penetrating work convinces him that ali thesematters cali for attention. He argues that although LatinAmerica is diversifìed, the diversity has an orderly patterninto which each region fits in logicai fashion. Such a thesis calls for regional comparisons and for a progressive andconnected sequence of thought. To take full measure fromProfessor Platt's book, therefore, one needs to follow hisexposition and argument from the first to the final chap-ter. The reader, if he chooses, can forego some of thedetailed evidence with which Professor Platt supports hisideas. However, if the reader seeks a working understanding of Latin America, he will be well advised to perusethe entire work.Professor Platt always has stood for adequate evidencein support of generalizations and conclusions. Therefore,anyone who has followed his previous work, is preparedfor the wealth of maps (209) and photographs (297)included in the new book. Most of the maps were madein the field and in areas not previously mapped in detail.In consequence, the maps, in themselves, represent im-portant primary contributions to the geography of LatinAmerica.In its entirety Professor Platt's book, with its originaithesis, its wealth of supporting materials, and its challeng-ing conclusions gives the reader an opportunity to acquirea working understanding of Latin America and LatinAmerican potentialities. The closing chapters present newconcepts of the over-all pattern of Latin American regions. They also reveal new ideas of the interdependentpoliticai structure of the Latin American countries and ofthe relation of these countries, individually and collect-ively, to the United States and the rest of the world.CHARLES C. COLBY, '09, Ph.D. '17Professor of GeographyMrs. Platt and a Peruvian soldier, in a dugout canoe paddled by native Indians, approach a Peru-vian army piane on the upper AmazonTHE DEANVS EASY CHAIRAlumnus E.H.A., '06, submits a question with an editoria! he has written outlining the situation on which hisinquiry is based:WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO VENTURE CAPITAL?Back in college days, I used to visit a small New Eng-land village — wide streets, green lawns, tali spreading elms,etc. On each side of that Street were white rambling earlyAmerican houses, many of them owned and occupied during the summer by hotel men from Boston, New York,and other places.Those men owned their hotels in town, too. Theymade real money and could afford lovely old summerhomes. This picture of contentment might be passed offas another "relic of the good old days."True it is that things are different today, not only inthe hotel business but in every line of endeavor. Hotelmen have been terribly hurt by wars, the cockeyed pros-perity and overbuilding of the twenties, the long years ofdepression, and again wars. But isn't there one very im-portant outstanding reason in addition to ali this? Doesn'tthat reason He in the fact that private enterprise andprivate ownership, in principle, have gone so generailyfrom the hotel business?The operator who owns his own hotel is a rarity insteadof a rule, as in the old days. He is looking ahead to hisnext job instead of spending most of his working time inbuilding up his present position. And he must, of neces-sity, do that, because his tenure of office is so uncertain.A new owner taking over the property may pack him offovernight or within a very short period of time. There isno great incentive to work overtime on something thatmay quickly disappear.But why don't hotel men today own their own prop-erties? The answer, in the estima tion of a great manystudents of the situation, is a simple one. They don't ownhotels because there is no capital available with which tobuy them.Years back, if a man showed unusual ability, there wasalways someone with money who would be ready to backhim.There was a supply-house man, who today is havinghis own troubles. There was a successful business manwith funds to invest, who today is not interested becauseof the Capital Gains Tax and because of ali the presentday uncertainties. There was the locai bank, which today is prevented from advancing anything that looks likea capital loan. There was the rich widow, who now hasher fortune in trust, in insurance annuities, or in the handsof an investment counsellor. There was the locai public,that now thinks the hotel business is too much of a gambleon personalities.In other words, venture capital has just dried up. We ALUMNIDEANGORDON J. LAING". . . doesn'teven have theprivilege of alast word."believe that it can be made to come back and work. Fromtime to time in these editorials we will attempt to indicate¦ — sometimes in "guest editorials" and sometimes f,rom ourown editorial department — situations that we believe aredoing the damage. We will attempt to indicate the manyfactors involved. We will try to show methods by whichthe problems may be solved or at least helped alongtoward a solution.The job is bigger than the hotel business. It must beaccomplished with banks and insurance companies, withinvestment counsellors, with the readers of financial andgeneral newspapers, with government and locai adminis-trative officials, etc. It is a big public relations job thatis a must in the hotel business.Our consultant replies:"The more I have studied your correspondent's problems the less I know what to say to him. He is botheredabout quite a complexity of things under the generalrubric of 'venture capital.' Most of them reflect chieflya yearning for the good old days that are gone for — along time at least — or for various features of said days,feal or imaginary. A few on the list are small-scale, one-man enterprises, now replaced by the corporation; simi-larly, private, 'wildcat' financing replaced by the moreregular, organized procedures of banks, investment houses,etc. — incidentally with their activities circumscribed bylaws aimed to protect the lambs, at which he remotelyhints; and especially, boom times, which also have beenreplaced long since by something very different. And I'mafraid there isn't much use in 'yearning' for the reversa!of any of these forms of 'progress.' To the whole listshould be added any special troubles which have affectedthe hotel business, which we may assume to have been'over-developed !'"The study of venture capital in a general sense issimply a study of the free enterprise economy. Withreference to such a field as hotels, it is a task for a very1314 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINErefìned type of specialist. In fact, everybody knows whatgeneral conditions have been in the past dozen years ; andnearly everybody has his opinion as to the main reasons.It is either the fault of the New Deal, or a consequenceof depression, which would have been msuch worse if ithadn't been for the New Deal policies, according to whomyou ask. (Some would even attribute our troubles to afutile effort to nurse along a dying system.) Your cor-respondent points to the first diagnosis, and I have agood deal of sympathy with this view, but with qualifica-tions which I would have to state, if I said anything, andwhich would be a long story."Alumnus J. T ., '27, poses this question: May a teacherof French, faced with the necessity of teaching Spanishthe next year in order to retain his position, deduct fromhis taxable income the cost of a trip to Cuba made inorder to "improve his Spanish pronunciation and learnthe ways and life of a Spanish-speaking country?"Our consultant answers:"To support the taxpayer's contention, at least in-directly, it may be noted that under the law, regulations,or decisions : ( 1 ) traveling expenses in attending teachers'conventions are deductible; (2) traveling expenses ofteachers on sabbatical leave who receive compènsationwhile engaged in required traveling are deductible (I.T.3380, 1940-1 C.B. 29); (3) railroad fare expended intraveling from place of regular employment to place oftemporary employment at summer school is deductible(G.C.M. 10915, XI-2 C.B. 245) ; (4) a professor tutoringin another city may deduct traveling expenses, includingfood and lodging (I.T. 2481, VIII-2 C.B. 291)."However, against the taxpayer's contention is an ab-solutely pertinent decision to the effect that the expensesincurred by teachers in attending summer school are inthe nature of personal expenses in advancing their education and are not deductible in computing net income(O.D 892, 4 C.B. 209)."If this teacher, while drawing compènsation, was required by his employer to make this trip to Cuba to learnSpanish 'or lose his position,' he may possibly (bujnot probably) have a good case for taking this deduction."* * * * *The Education of an Alumni DeanA MAJOR difficulty in running a serial like TheEducation of an Alumni Dean in a column is thatone is frequently compelled to end an instal-ment in the very middle of a detailed analytic descrip-tion of some highly important aspect of the subject. Theresult of this is that the reader, whose interest by thistime has been aroused even to excitement and who islooking eagerly forward to the further development ofthe theme, finds himself suddenly thwarted, blocked,stopped, without explanation or warning or apology, anddoomed to a long month's waiting for the next issuebefore he can have any opportuni ty of satisfying his naturai curiosi ty or appeasing his literary appetite. Hismood of interest changes to one of exasperation, which isnot good either for the column or the Magazine. More-over, I wish to add that I think his attitude is whollyjustified. I am entirely in sympathy with him, and sin-cerely hope that he realizes that it is not the fault ofthe columnist but of the editor of the Magazine. Forwhen I raised this question with Editor Cari Beck theother day, he replied (with marked editorial firmness),"A column is a column," with the implication that it isa measure of space, whereas ali we columnists know thatit far transcends any idea of space, and is indeed aliterary geme, one of the modem additions to the old listof literary categories such as the epic, the lyric, thedrama, the novel, the short story, and so on. Literature,as every professor tells his class a thousand times, is agrowing thing, and the column is one of . its latest off-shoots. It cannot be held down to mere measurementof space. "Cannot" I said, and yet it is. It is strangewhat editorial authority will do even to the most generous,the most genial, the most reasonable of men. Thenewspapers are full of references to the czars of thebureaus in Washington. But what are these compareHwith the czars of the magazines or newspapers? I noticethat my fellow columnist, Charles Collins of the ChicagoTribune (an alumnus of ours, by the way, and therefore thoroughly trained in literary forms) sometimes com-ments on the difficulty of finding a suitable last line. Buthe should not be concerned about; this. He is lucky tohave an opportunity of a last line. There are manycolumnists who don't even have the privilege of a lastword.At the end of my last instalment I had just admittedthat prior to my appointment as Alumni Dean myknowledge of alumni in general was distinctly limited. Ihad, however, added that there was one group with whichI was acquainted, namely, my own particular alumni,graduates or former students who had taken work with mewhen they were candidates for the bachelor's, master's,or doctor's degree. I had taken some pains to emphasizethe closeness of this relation, had become slightly senti-mental about it perhaps, but I submit that it is something which justifies at least some degree of sentimen-tality. For I have found them to be a notably mag-nanimous group. If any of them and I ever had adifference of opinion about the quality of a term-paperor the rating of a class exercise or the grade of an exami-nation, it is ali forgotten now, and the only recollectionof it on their part is a humorous one, a whimisical won-derment why they should have thought it so important.I remember once addressing an audience of alumni onthe subject, The Trials of a College Professor, and afterthe lecture one of them carne up and said: "But youdidn't say any thing about alumni as a source of pro-fessorial tribulation." I answered that I hadn't beenable to think of any trials caused by alumni and thisindeed was true. To be sure, I can remember one orTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 15two minor incidents, so slight as hardly to merit the term"incidents" ; at most, negligible contretemps, faint be-ginnings of a spot of embarrassment. One of these oc-curred in the pre-Alumni-School period. At that timethe University had an alumni week-end, generally Fridayand Saturday about the middle of June. These daysfell in the last part of the spring quarter while classeswere stili going on. On Friday returned alumni wereexpected to drop in on their old professors, and one ofmy former students called on me. He was a good friendof mine and at any other time I should have been de-lighted to see him. But not just then. It was at tenthirty that he carne and I had a lecture at eleven, forwhich I regret to say I was not prepared. Now, thereis nothing that helps a professor more than some knowledge of the subject on which he is about to lecture to agraduate class for an hour, and I was hurriedly gettingsomething together when he walked in. I told him howglad I was to see him and we chatted about the manychanges that had taken place in the department since hehad been there. But meanwhile I saw the hand of theclock stealing on toward eleven o' clock and there wasmy lecture stili unprepared. Finally I said, "I am sorrybut I must ask you to excuse me. I have a lecture ateleven and there are a few points in it that I must stiliverify."He rose at once. "It was stupid of me," he said "notto think of that eleven o' clock class of yours, and I oughtto have remembered that you always need a good dealof preparation for your lectures." When I looked a littleblank at this, he realized that his remark was not exactlycomplimentary, and — always a dangerous thing to do — hetried to mend the situation."No, no," he added, "I didn't mean that, for I haveheard you give scores of lectures and I don't remembera single one that indicated the slighest preparation of anykind."I recali another occasion of similar character. Onemorning, when I entered my classroom and began tolecture in a course that I suppose I had given twenty-five or thirty times before, I noticed that I had a visitor.Her face was vaguely familiar but I couldn't place her.Now any fellow professor who happens to read this willunderstand that when I say that I had given the coursetwenty-five or thirty times, I mean nothing more thanthat I had lectured on the same subject as often as that,with of course full considera tion of ali those changes inpoint of view that current research had necessitated, withfull treatment of those additional sources of informationthat had been discovered in the two or three decades thathad passed, and with complete bibliographies that in-included not only ali the literature that had appeared butalso comments of my own, either of the annihilating ormildly commendatory type, on the reviews that had beenpublished of the recent books. But apparently ali thisnew material had been woven into the texture of myoriginai lecture with such subtlety and finesse that it completely eluded the attention of my visitor, though sheseemed to be following me closely. For after the lectureshe carne up to me and greeting me cordially said: "Professor, I can't teli you how much I enjoyed my visitto your class. I took this course with you more thantwenty years ago, and I recali this very lecture. I amglad you haven't changed it. You have no idea hownostalgie it has made me feel. Why, it is just as if Iwere twenty years younger and back in college again.There is certainly one advantage about lectures in theclassics. Take them once and you have them forever.Nothing new to bother one!" I told her how glad I wasthat she had come in.I remember most of my alumni and alumnae but Iconfess that after they have been out of college fortwenty-five or thirty years and I have not seen them inthe meantime, I find that they have grown out of mymemory. And I mean "grown." Confronted by somestately society-lady, who tells me that she was a studentof mine in the late nineties, it is extremely difficult tocut her down to her college size and to recognize in her,with ali her dignity and aplomb, the black-haired slip of agirl whom I had had in my Latin class so long ago andwhom I remembered vividly not so much for the felicityof her translations as for the gay humor and light-heartedway with which she evaded ali my efforts to impress herwith the wisdom of the ancients. On a few occasions Ihave found the situation relieved by my alumna havinga daughter with her, of college age and an almost perfectreplica of what she herself had been, and whenever thathas happened I have a curious feeling that of the twoit is the daughter who comes closer to my alumna. Andprecisely the same thing happens when an alumnus whomI haven't seen since his graduation, turns up with a son,for it isn't the father with the grand manner that comesfrom a distinguished career, who conforms to my re-membrance of the student I had had, but the brightyoung fellow grinning by his side.In this column the Magazine is offering a new serviceto you who are alumni or former students of the University. The service is two- f old. First of ali, you are invite dto send in any questions about the University, its history,its curriculum, past and present, its educational policiesand ideals, its degrees and what they stand for; or questions on education or educational institutions in general.And secondly you are asked to submit questions that arisein your own business or professional life or in matters thatHe outside your business or professional routine in whichthe University might be able to help you.Ali Communications should be addressed to the AlumniDean, the University of Chicago Magazine, and shouldbe signed with your own name. In some cases the replywill be sent directly to you; in others your letter will bepublished in the column, with your name or initials orsome pseudonym, as you wish. Please be definite on thispoint of the signature. The Communications should be asbrief as is consistent with a clear statement of the case.^ rONE MAN'S ARMY _____• By CODY PFANSTIEHLA practice bombing flightshows observer Cody whatawaits the enemyGreenville Army Air BaseGreenville, South CarolinaNovember 19, 1942A LONG with the crew of our bomber, I am theoreti-cally dead. As the Ione enemy piane, we got oneof their ships. But after knocking us out, theother two Air Force bombers went on to complete themission of blowing up a munitions 'dump. Thus themission was a success. However, even after we wereshot down, we took some more passes at them, justfor practice, before we headed home.In its routine training program for combat crews, thesquadrons of this Group run bombing "raids" over near-bytowns and over our bombing ranges. I wanted to kriowwhat went on on such a trip, since it is the function of theintelligence office to see that the planes get there safely,and to question the crews on their return.So about one o'clock this afternoon Lieutenant Sans-ing, my boss and the Group Intelligence officer, and I setoff in a jeep for one of the squadrons at the far end ofthe base. I was carrying a large composition-board, onwhich was mounted a large map, on which was drawn awavy black line. This line was the "front." Any perti-nent observations of action beyond this line were to beespecially noted by the pilots and crews of the afternoon'sraid.We dismounted at the squadron ready room. This isa wooden shack near the concrete hardstands where thebombers are parked. Inside the littered room a scoreof young pilots lounged about. They were variouslydressed in brown leather flying jackets, or in coveralls.A few were in the regular officers' dress. They sat orlolled on an old green davenport and on a couple ofwooden benches placed around a rough wooden tablein the center of the room. Brown wooden clothes Iockersstood against the walls, between the Windows. Smallblack model airplanes of various enemy and allied designshung from the rafters, and silhouette identification chartshad been tacked to the underside of the slanting roof.The inevitable bright red Coca Cola dispensing machinesquatted in one corner. A blue, practice bomb casing, itsnose-cap removed, stood upright on its tail fins in anothercorner, chuck full of papers and cigarette stubs. Newspapers, torn copies of Look, Peek, and Spot, and brightlycolored comic books lay about the floor and over the table. To one side, on a low shelf, stood the smallcardboard covered manuals and booklets on enemytactics which our office distributes.Lieutenant Sansing pushed his flight cap back on hishead, making his boyish face look even younger. Heturned to the map which I had placed on a slantingtable nailed to the wall at the far end of the room. Ahalf dozen of the men easily gathered about him. Helaid out the target folders he had prepared.The target folder contains, if possible, a picture of theenemy town or concentration and enough of the sur-rounding territory to make clear the target's location, asmall map of the country around the target, and a largermap showing the territory over which the piane mustpass to reach the target, and pages of explanation aboutthe target itself, locations of enemy fire in the area, andany geographical details helpful in quickly identifyingthe town or area.In this case the photo lab boys had fìown out earlierin the week and shot a picture of the bombing range —concentric circles of lime hundreds of feet apart abouta small white wooden shack — located on a bare hilltopin a lonely wooded area of the state.Lieutenant Sansing called to the room at large: "O.K.,you guys who are going on this mission; come on overhere. We're going to brief you."Lieutenant Stanley touched me on the arm: "Let's go,"he said. We left the building; we were to be the enemyship, hence we couldn't listen in on their briefing. Iwalked beside the big lieutenant over the sandy soil toour ship.Meanwhile, I knew, Lieutenant Sansing would be ex-plaining the location of the target, its significance (todayit was a munitions dump), where enemy anti-aircraft firemight originate, what possible interception there mightbe and from what direction. Then the tali, thin Communications officer, Lieutenant Eckowenko, would explainthe radio set-up, reveal the frequencies to be used, andthe code symbols for planes and ground stations. Theremight be a last minute weather report. There would bean explanation by the ordnance officer of the type ofbomb load. Then questions by the pilots. That wasbriefing. In general it is remarkably well portrayed inthe many motion pictures you have seen about the RAFor the U. S. Air Forces.But now we were at the piane. The soldier guardstood in the background, his rifle at his side. In theshadow of the large wing a youngster in a brown leatherjacket was kneeling, writing our names on a mimeo-graphed form. A sober faced soldier stood at his side,hands in greasy overalls pockets. He was the engineer.16THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 17A grinning staff sergeant, a stocky fellow in O.D. shirtand trousers, nodded to us as we carne up. He was theradio operator-gunner. I gave my name to the kneelingone. He entered it on the form. I was to be an observer.Then the young man in the brown jacket stood up."Ready?" he asked, matter of factly. We nodded.The radioman turned toward his little trap door. Ithung down from the low belly of the bomber, midwaytoward the tail. Our trap door was just forward ofwhere the wings joined the fuselage. Even though themedium bomber stood high on its tricycle landing gear,so the long propeller blades could clear the ground, wehad to stoop under the belly as we entered the squarehole in the skin of the monster.The brown-jacketed fellow turned out to be theco-pilot. He went through the square hole first, climbing the few steps set in the vertical door flap which servedas a ladder when it was let down. Lieutenant Stanleyfollowed. Then carne Lieutenant Hayes, a slight fellowwhose smile occasionally brightens our already brightoffice when he comes over to Group Headquarters forintelligence staff meetings. Then I climbed through thesmall square hole, grasping one of the many pipes andbars which filigreed the inside of the piane. After mecarne a pudgy young lieutenant with a round, solemnface. He was our navigator.The pilots had climbed forward and up another stepto their transparent plastic-roofed compartment. Throughthe doorway, only a foot or so from the trap door, wecould see their heads above the backs of their low-slungseats. The aerial engineer climbed up after them, squat-ting in the doorway just behind and between their seats,where he could keep an eye on the crowded instrumentboard. The navigator was sitting quietly on the otherside of the trap door on a sort of shelf, and LieutenantHayes and I were straddling the trap door, our feetplanted in the few inches of free bare metal floor spacesurrounding the opening.I bent down and pulled the trap door shut. It closedwith a solid bump. We folded down the floor piate overit, much as the porter does to cover the steps of aPullman car. Then we had a little floor space tostand on.We were in a small compartment whose walls wereIined with fixtures painted green and black — a radiopanel for the radio compass and the navigatore set; thepot-bellied driftmeter, with its red rubber eye-cup stick-ing out the top; a folding table, now turned back tomake a leather-covered seat; a thermos bottle, a mapbox, a lazy-tongs device for map interpreting; and, aboutchest high, there were two small oblong windows. Aboveus in the center of the ceiling was a plastic bubble, justlarge enough to contain a man's head and a sextant. Alithis was the navigatore compartment.Between our compartment and the back section of thepiane, where the radio operator-gunner sat, was the great CODYPFANSTIEHLA lively "cas-ualty"bomb-bay, extending almost to the top of the fusilage,and boxed in, leaving only a small passageway throughwhich one must worm in the unlikely event he wantedto get to the back of the ship.A whirring noise started from our right engine, be-coming higher and higher in pitch; a propeller biadethrew a shadow past the window. The engine coughed,caught once, coughed again, and suddenly carne to lifewith a racking sound that shook the piane and quicklydeepened to a smooth continuous roar. Through it weheard the whirring of the other starter, then anotherroar joined the first as the left engine caught. It was asif a giant held our room, vibrating with power.Now Lieutenant Stanley, ahead in the pilot's seat onthe left, pulled the brown rubber mushroom earphonesdown over his ears. I could see his profile against thesky as he bent to the right to check his instruments. Iunbuttoned my blouse. It was hot in our little room.It was like being Jonah in a metallic smelling whale.The floor shook under me. I looked out. We wereswinging in a gentle curve, leaving the line. I graspedan overhead pipe as the ship, underway at last, surgedand lumbered toward the approach taxiway. We wob-bled like a fat lady going down a theater aisle, and Icould feel the brakes take effect in each great wheelbelow us as Lieutenant Stanley guided the ship. Werolled onto a taxiway and the motors picked up a littleas we moved toward a take-off runway. The groundpassed by astonishingly rapidly. The gray-green build-ings of nearby barracks and administration buildingsmoved smoothly backward and out of my view throughthe little window.The left wheel dragged, and we swung to face theimmensely broad runway. There we paused for amoment while the motors accelerated and cleared theirsteel throats. The brakes were locked, and it was queerto hear the motors roar with power and not feel the(Concluded on page 22)NEWS QF THE QUADRANGLES• By DON MORRIS, '36EVERY year, in the week between Christmas andNew Year's Ève, it has been the custom for a largenumber of the learned societies to hold meetingsscattered across the country like lights on a Christmastree. Last month, in a phrase which is being tagged toa great many things these days, it was ali different. Because of transportation exigencies most of the meetingswere called off. The American Astronomical Society didmeet, but it was an exception to the rule.In this partial vacuum, however, the University called aspecial meeting of college administrators, principally inthe Chicago area, to discuss the problems resulting fromwar manpower shortages and specifically from the newprogram for college students proposed by the military andnaval authorities.President Hutchins, making the opening speech beforethe sixty-six college heads or delegates gathered inBreasted Hall of the Orientai Institute, strafed both thegovernment and the educators. The government, he said,is wrong in what apparently is its belief that "the onlyeducation useful in wartime is an education designed toproduce large quantities of low-grade mechanics and smallquantities of high-grade ones."On the other hand, he said, the government can scarce-ly be expected to move in wartime to force the colleges todo something in their own field which the colleges undertheir own steam never have been willing to do. By thisMr. Hutchins referred to the task of clarifying what thepurposes and content of education should be and whatshould be done to fulfil the purposes."The government has, in fact, done some things in re-gard to education that are well in advance of advancededucational thought," he said. "It has fixed conscriptionat the right level. It has, except for the pernicious exception permitting enlistment in the Navy at seventeen,prohibited volunteering at the right ages. It has liqui-dated the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps, and it is to behoped that it will liquidate the Navy Enlisted Reserve, forthe liquidation of one and the maintenance of the othermeans that college students will be deferred because theireyes are good enough to get into the Navy Enlisted Reserve. Those whose vision is inferior and who have, onfailing to get into the Naval Reserve, joined the ArmyReserve will now be drafted to take their chances onbeing returned to education after three months' militarytraining."I do not believe that the accident of having or nothaving 18-20 visual acuity should determine whether acitizen should be conscripted or decide the length of hishigher education. Stili the government has establishedthe principle that men who attend educational institutions at public expense should be selected on the basis of their ability to do the work rather than their ability topay the bills. For this we should be truly grateful. Weshould be asking too much if we demanded that the government should be in advance of the educational thoughtof our time in dealing with the ark of the covenant, thecurriculum."If anybody is to lay hands on the ark of the covenant,we must do it ourselves. We now have a new frameworkwithin which to do it. We now know that our malestudents, and perhaps soon our female, will leave us notlater than the age of eighteen and a half. Since we knowthat the Army and Navy are not going to engagé in anymarked degree in liberal education, we may concludethat if liberal education is to be given in this country it isgoing to be given by the age of eighteen and a half."I hasten to add that I hold this truth to be self-evi-dent, that no program of liberal education, whether itends at eighteen or twenty-two, can produce a man whowill never have to learn any thing more. A liberal education should communicate the leading facts, principles, orideas which an educated man should possess, together withthe intellectual techniques needed to acquire, understand,and apply more facts, principles, or ideas. Education isor should be a life-long process. We delude ourselves ifwe suppose that educational institutions, by any age, cando what only a full life of study, reflection, and experience can accomplish."The first major educational casual ty of the war is thestandard educational organization of the United States.If liberal education is indispensable to a free country, andif it must be given by the age of eighteen and a half,the 8-4-4 pian must fall; for liberal education cannot begiven by the high schools. The organization which willpermit us to give a liberal education by the time the student is called to the colors is a six-year elementary school,a three- or four-year high school, and a three- or four-year college."President Henry G. Harmon of Drake University, alsospeaking at the conference, put clearly the often vaguelystated need for education in practical post-war problems.He indicated that these peace problems will for manyyears not be peace problems at ali but simply war problems minus the actual hostilities."War will not be the greatest issue in life for the presentgeneration of college students," he said. "They will liveout their lives in a fluctuating and explosive era punc-tuated by strife and revolutions. This generation of collegestudents will not outlive the period of re-creation thatmust follow the war."This re-creation will be a more sweeping thing thanis meant by the word 'reconstruction.' It will requiretrained peace makers, and today the training of peace18THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 19makers is being neglected. The men who are fighting thiswar will play a vital role in the peace. They will notmake the peace in the sense that they will sit around theconference table, but they will be the ones who will acceptor reject the peace once it is written."Mr. Harmon pointd out the unsolved problems whichthe re-creation must involve. We have, he said, not solvedthe economie problems of this country, and those problems will be present in an aggravated form after the war.Finance and industry have never been operated smoothlyon a national scale; soon they will have to be operatedon an international scale, he said. We must work on theseproblems — educate our students to work on them — orface revolution, he declared.President Harmon also asserted that the old chronologyfor college students must be made more fiexible in orderto accomplish the tasks produced for education by thewar. There is, he pointed out, no reality in the tradi-tional chronologies, no minimum age limit for collegestudents. Colleges must admit qualified younger students, he said, and added that intercollegiate athletics andcampus social activities probably face suspension for theduration.Of the delegates attending the conference, the followingChicago alumni are presidents of their respective colleges :Theodore B. Stephens, A. M. '37, Ph.D. '41, Aurora College; H. Gary Hudson, Ph. D. '31, Illinois College; G. L.Greenawalt, '21, Jackson Junior College; Carter Davidson, Ph.D. '30, Knox College; V. F. Schwalm, A. M. '16,Ph.D. '26, Manchester College; Frank A. Beu, Ph.D. '36,Western Illinois State Teachers College.Status of StudentsLess than two weeks earlier the University had calledtogether its male students, coincidentally it turned out, onthe day the Army-Navy statement on college youths wasreleased, for the purpose of giving them at quarter's endthe best available information on their prospeets for thefuture.College men who are doing satisfactory academic workcan make their most effective contribution to the wareffort by remaining in college until they are called upunder the provisions of the new program, the studentswere advised.The University was advised from Washington just priorto the meeting, the students were told, that men in theArmy reserve program will not be called to active statusuntil ten days after the end of the winter quarter, or aboutAprii 5.Effect of the statement on the Navy "V" programs wasinterpreted by Napier Wilt, one of the three speakers, tobe that at a date as yet undetermined, the Navy reservistswould be put into uniform and continued in college forvarying lengths of time. The period for each studentwould be determined by the amount of college work healready had completed, but the maximum period anyundergraduate would continue in college would be twoand one-half years. The Navy intends, he pointed out, to adhere to itsoriginai pian of giving examinations to determine whichstudents are making sufficient scholastic progress to continue in the V-l and V-7 reserve status, and which shouldbe inducted as apprentice seamen.The Marine Corps at present intends to follow thegeneral pian of the Navy for its reserve group, ProfessorWilt said. He now serves in the dean's office as liaisonman between the armed forces and the University.Students eighteen and nineteen years of age, not undera reserve enlistment, will be called by Selective Servicein the ordinary course, unless there are unforeseen changesin the pian as announced, Dean Clarence H. Faust toldthe men. Mr. Faust had just returned from Washington, where he participated in a series of meetings heldto consider the service status of college students.Drafting of the eighteen-nineteen year old groups willnot mean that ali men of these ages will be inducted im-mediately or at one time, Dean Faust said. These ageclasses will be simply a proportionate part of the Armyinductees. By continuing their education until called,they will fit themselves for more effective service, and willenhance their chances of being assigned for the specializedtraining in colleges, he told the students.Award to Miss LenrootAt the December Convocation the University conferredits Rosenberger medal for the ninth time in the existenceof the award. Vice-President Filbey presented the medalto Katharine F. Lenroot, head of the Children's Bureau ofthe U. S. Department of Labor.The Rosenberger medal was awarded for the first timeKATHARINE F. LENROOT20 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEin 1924, going to Frederick Banting, the discoverer ofinsulin. The most recent award was to the late FrederickStock at the time of the Fiftieth Anniversary celebration.Dr. Stock already had received the honorary degree ofDoctor of Music.The award to Miss Lenroot was the first time the medalever was conferred on a woman. The citation was "inrecognition of her distinguished service in social work inthe United States; for her important role in the development of the Children's Bureau, as its chief since 1934; forher leadership in the organization of the Pan-AmericanChild Congresses; and for her contributions to interna-tional understanding through her work with the Inter-American Committee in the International Conferences onSocial Work."Miss Lenroot, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, was active in social work in Wisconsin before1915, when she went to Washington. She served underthe late Grace Abbott in the Children's Bureau until shewas asked to assume her post as chief of the bureau uponMiss Abbott's resignation.Death of Hans BeutlerHans Beutler, research associate in the Departmentof Physics and one of the foremost spectroscopists, diedin his apartment December 15, apparently of a cerebralhemorrhage. Dr. Beutler was born in 1896 at Reichen-bach in Germany, and was educated at the Universityof Greifswald, where he was awarded the Ph. D. degreein 1922. In the following year he joined the researchstaff of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, a positionhe held for ten years. In 1930 he concurrently joinedthe faculty of the University of Berlin as privatdozentand later as research associate. He carne to the UnitedStates in 1936 as a refugee. After teaching for one yearat the University of Michigan, he joined the faculty atChicago in 1937. In Germany, he had done importantwork on highly diluted flames and elementary atomicprocesses, achieving first rank among German spectroscopists. After coming to the University his work inspectroscopy continued, in part using the giant spectro-graph, second largest in the country. Dr. Beutler's motheris believed to be stili living in Berlin. He also is survivedby an uncle, Alfred Beutler, of Milwaukee.War CampusThe winter quarter which began this month bade fairto be the first in which the "war campus," superimposedon the University community, outnumbered the normalcomplement of students. Registration figures are notavailable as this is written, but it appeared likely that thenumber of regular students on the Midway would, as lastquarter, again fall slightly below the five thousand mark.The "war campus," which began with a few hundredsouls in the summer of 1940, had, however, zoomed towell over five thousand, with the end not yet in sight.Breaking down the five thousand into its parts would in- HANS BEUTLERvolve revealing a couple of military secrets, but suffice itto say that the largest one consists of the two Navy schools— signal and radio. Second in size are the two groupsattending the basic military training classes of the Instituteof Military Studies, which since its organization in 1940has trained or is training more than seven thousand men.Third is the Army Air Forces Technical Training De-tachment studying to be weather officers in the Instituteof Meteorology. To the regular group of cadets will beadded this quarter a group of "pre-meteorology" students,studying for admission to the regular course in weather.Other constituents of the "war campus" include the SignalCorps men on inactive duty studying electronics and highfrequency radio, the classes sponsored by the U. S. Officeof Education in military mapping, map drafting, photo-grammetry, office supervision, statistics, geometrical optics,and optical shop work; and a group of fifty men underthe Civil Aeronautics Administration program are takingthe elementary work for training as Navy combat pilots.Doubling UpThe living conditions of students at the Universityhave undergone some striking changes in recent weeks,in a direction some of the students have referred to asspartan. First, half of the residents of InternationalHouse were asked to move in with the other half toprovide housing aocommodation for some of the uni-formed meteorology students. Then ali of the menliving in the House were asked to move, leaving the men'swing filled with tyro meteorologists, the women's wingto itself. Then women students in Blake and Gates Halls(Concluded on page 23)THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO M AGAZI NE 21THE NEW COLLEGE(Continued from page 10)gresses in the College he finds himself more and moreon his own. But when he enters the four-year program,although he needs no intellectual coddling, he stili needsa wise counsellor to help him in the problems that lieoutside, or partly outside, the realm of his intellectualpursuits.Thus class attendance is compulsory in the first twoyears of the four-year program, and so are course tests.In the third and fourth years the student may attendclass if he sees fit — class attendance has not decreased,incidentally, since it was made voluntary at Chicago —and he is encouraged to take course tests to discover forhimself how well he is progressing. The only tests thethird- and fourth-year students are compelled to take arethe comprehensive examinations offered in each field atthe end of the year. The degree is awarded on the basisof the general examinations, and if the student thinks heis ready to take them before he has completed the regularcourse, he is at liberty to do so.As there is considerable diversity in the temperamentsand backgrounds of the students, each younger studentis given individuai consideration. Some are, either bynature or training, more or less independent and reliablethan others. Some are accustomed to asking for guid-ance, and some are hesitant. In each case the Universitymakes an effort to obtain a thorough understanding ofthe student, his background, his interests, and, in par-ticular, his parents' and high school teachers' estimatesof his specific needs and abilities.The entering student is assigned an adviser, selected onthe basis of the student's vocational interest. The adviserhas familiarized himself with the student's work andbackground even before the student arrives on theAARON J. BRUMBAUGH campus and his program is planned in a student-adviserconference. Officially the adviser is concerned with thestudent's mental development, but conferences with theadviser, always held informally, include such matters,closely related to his mental progress, as study conditions,health, and social activity. The adviser often encouragesthe student to adjust his study load or change his working conditions. If a student seems not to be makingdesired progress, remediai reading under the directionof a specialist is frequently recommended. The advisermay suggest that the student go to the Health Service,where complete health facilities are provided.Ali students are given complete physical examinationsupon entering, and throughout the year the medicai staffof the Student Health Service is available for emergencytreatment (with hospitalization for a limited time ifnecessary) and for clinical and psychiatric consultation.The student's interests in athletics, dramatics, debat-ing, music, and journalism are provided for as an important part of his education. The advisers are selectedbecause of their broad experience with young people'sproblems and interests, and the directors of student activities help each student pian a program of appropriateextra-curriculum activities. Some activities, e.g. publica-tions, dramatics, special interest clubs, are organized spe-cifically for students in the College, but these studentsmay also take part in corresponding activities and organ-izations maintained by more advanced students. Students are eligible to join fraternities and women's socialclubs when they have entered the third year of the College program.In physical training and athletics the "Chicago idea"of de-emphasizing the spectator side and emphasizing theplaying aspect prevails in the College just as it does inthe University. A large number of teams (dormitory,inter-class, etc.) exist in every traditional sport, with professional coaching, and an informai season of "varsity"games is scheduled with near-by schools.Student musical activities have always been variedand important at Chicago, and the symphony orchestraand the choir are open to members of the College.Various religious groups are active on the campus,with student organizations and special advisers. A number of Protestant denominations are represented amongthese groups; there are also the Calvert Club for Catholicstudents, and a branch of the Hillel Foundation for students of the Jewish faith. One of the most significantorganizations on the campus is the Chapel Union, a non-sectarian organization with general headquarters at theRockefeller Memorial Chapel. This organization, withmembership open to ali students interested in religion,sponsors a varied program of social and religious events.As a means of providing congenial social groups andliving conditions conducive to effective study, specialdormitory accommodations are available to out-of-townstudents and to those who do not live within an easy[Concluded on page 23)22 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEONE MAN'S ARMY{Continue d from page 17)ship respond. The engines on either side relented aftera bit. The ship began to move forward slowly. Thepilot had gotten through his earphones the go-aheadsignal from the control tower.Then a big, soft hand pushed me backward. I graspeda piece of jutting metal and spread my legs to bracemyself. Power rushed into the engines, the groundstarted to move faster, and more power rushed into theengines. The piane surged forward, eager, alive. Sud-denly the metal floor cushioned. The immediate worldpressed upward, as if from a springy pillow. The bottomsof my shoes pressed softly against my soles. We werein the air. I glanced down. A brown field slipped byunderneath. I saw with surprise that we were already afew hundred feet in the air.Lieutenant Hayes dropped to his hands and knees.He disappeared forward through the square metal tunnelon the left side of the ship that leads to the nose andthe bombardiera position. I followed, feeling the smoothmetal floor under my palms and the hardness of it againstmy knees.I carne out above the world, for the bombardiera nestis in the transparent nose of the piane. He is almostliterally the flgurehead on the prow of the ship. Hiscompartment, tali enough for a very tali man to standerect, is built almost entirely of plastic glass; the forwardend of the floor, the walls, and the round ceiling are alitransparent.The sun carne through the glass. It was warm onmy neck. "You should have worn a hat. You'll getsunburned up here," Lieutenant Hayes said above thethrumming of the engines. I grinned and nodded. No,I didn't sunburn easily.We were circling the base, waiting for the others tocome up so we could be off to intercept them. On thebroad runways below planes crawled along. They lookedexactly like the models we used to gape at at Christmastime along State Street. We could see the other planes,stili parked by the squadron, and the black dots ofmechanics standing around them. I felt the lift and theoccasionai surge of the bomber. I felt this power whichheld us up in the sky. I listened to the steady swishingof the wind as it rushed past us in the snout of the shipas we drove into the regions of the sky.Then we saw the enemy planes begin to taxi out andtake off. We banked and thundered out across countryto meet them before they got to the target. The airspeed indicator by my left hip registered 200 miles perhour. The altimeter read 3500 feet.Brown fìelds moved backward under us as we hungin the sky. Then the land below became more andmore covered.with trees. They were deep . brown, andthrough them were occasionally splashed deep red ones and ali of it was like a rich, lush, deep-matted orientaicarpet. And there below us, just as they appeared inthe movies, were three bombers in V formation, movineacross the picture.The wind raised its voice against the glass. I noticedthat the ship had slanted. We were in a graduai dive,down onto the three planes below and to the right of us.Sitting low on my small bicycle seat in the very noseof our bomber, I grasped the handles of the machine gunand pulled it down. I pressed my cheek against themetal and squinted through the circle of the near sightpast the ball of the sight on the end of the gun. Wegathered speed. The wind began to shriek against theglass. The three planes below continued smoothly ahead.Now we were nearer. Our motion was like riding downa not-to-well paved road in a coaster wagon. My sightkept sliding off the lead piane. I saw the gunner in theupper turret swing his guns toward me. My sights wereahead of their right engine now. I pressed the trigger.Imaginary bullets poured into the enemy engine — I'mafraid real ones would have gone wide!— and I let up onthe button.A pressure pushed us down. Our piane was levelingout. The three planes passed beneath us as we swoopedover them and banked off to the right. I looked out.To my surprise we were in a steep bank. I hadn't feltit. We were banking to let our radioman-gunner, nowat the turret gun, take a shot at them.You can't do much more than bank a medium bombersteeply. But what you can do with a medium bomber,we did, weaving back and forth across the path of thethree steadily progressing planes, now above, now below.In reality, because their combined areas of fire coveredevery approach angle, we would have been down at thefirst approach. Once we attacked them from below andto the side. As we crossed diagonally under them andzoomed upward I could count the rivets in the belly ofthe lead piane. Always it seemed that we were driftingup to them, and that they moved backwards past us. Itwas amazingly like the movies.We gave it up after a few more passes. We turnedand streaked for home. I watched the rivers and fìeldsslip by under us, and soon the broad runways of thebase were below. The engines sang a lower tune. Thewind's whistle became more insistent as our wing flapswent down and we dropped quickly toward the field,hovering just above the cement. Then a quick giantkissing sound as the tires touched the cement,; and wewere part of the ground once more. We drove onto ataxiway and rumbled back a mile to the squadron. Weturned into a smaller taxiway and trundled to our place.The brakes took hold. We stopped. The engines gavea last full-throated roar and chugged into ringing silence.We had retired amidships in the navigatore compartment before landing, as is the mie. Now we droppedthe trap door and stepped to the earth.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 23NEWS OF THE QUADRANGLES(Continue d from page 20)were asked to move in with their sisters across the campusin Beecher, Green, Kelly, and Foster Halls. Beecherwas reserved for students in the College. Then men inHitchcock and Snell Halls were asked to doublé up intheir space, also to make room for projected militaryneeds. The net number of persons forced to move offcampus was relatively small, but there was considerablymore efficient use made of the available housing. Morepainful than any of the dormitory shifts was that occa-sioned when the Army Air Forces took over the tradi-tional quarters of the Daily Maroon and the Cap andGown, which is undergoing a revival this year after a one-yèàr lapse. The Maroon staff, which already hadundergbne a couple of putsches this year, and the strug-gling yearbook group moved in with the staff of themonthly Puh e. The very walls shook.While student affairs are under discussion, it shouldbe reported that Chicago's athletic endeavors last fallwere creditable, the cross country team finishing sixth,ahead of two institutions which did not enter full teams,and the six man forces winning their only intercollegiategame. The basketball season did not start so auspiciously,though. The team lost the first game, to the sailors ofthe Glenview Naval Air Base, by two points in the secondovertime period, and failed to win any of the three re-maining games of the calendar year 1942.THE NEW COLLESE(Continued from page 21)commuting distance of the University. Dormitory headswho are experienced in supervising and directing the activities of boys and girls are responsible for the social life,and for the evening and week-end activities of these students. In the matter of living arrangements as in otherUniversity relationships students are given freedomcommensurate with their maturity and their individuaisense of responsibility.Thus the four-year training program of the College,providing for the intellectual, physical, and social development of the student, is designed as an induction tothe full freedom of University life.AARON J. BRUMBAUGH, A.M. '18, Ph.D. '29,Dean of Students AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE(Continued from page 7)from the Australians how to enjoy life. Perhaps it isthe slower pace here, but competition does not seem tobe so keen.The flora and fauna are exotic. That half-mammal,the duck billed platypus, is most interesting, while thekangaroo and the wallaby, so well known to our zoos,are fascinating. The national animai should be the koalabear. This lovable little teddy is not over-smart and hislife is simple. He lives on twenty species of eucalyptusleaves and is a nocturnal feeder. The young ride on theback of the parent long after they come out of the pouchat the end of ten months. This period is perhaps ex-ceeded only by the human species, which may do it fortwenty years or more. The koala bear is kind, friendly,and warm, and your genuine or "Dinkum" friend. Andso is Australia.U. S. MARINE CORPS SEEKING COLLEGE MEN AS CANDIDATES FOROFFICERSThe U. S. Marine Corps has immediate opportunities available for alimited number of college men for Officers Candidate Training. Menhaving attended an accredited school or college for two years and withtwo years experience in civilian work are eligible. The age limit for thosephysically qualified is twenty to thirty-one, inclusive.Men accepted in the above classification will be given regular MarineCorps training for officers candidates at the school provided for that pur-pose.Applicants should apply at the locai Marine Corps Officer ProcurementBoard.24 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINENEWS OF THE CLASSES? IN THE SERVICE ?Richard Macneish, '40, is in officers candidate school, anti-aircraftdivision, at Camp Davis, North Carolina.Lieut. Burton Lifschultz, '32, iswith the Signal Corps of the WarDepartment in Washington, D. C.Àt a recent graduation exercises ofthe chaplain school at Harvard University, the one diploma that was for-mally presented was accepted sym-bolically for the class by Capt. Arthur C. Piepkorn, PhD '32, whograduated with the highest honors.Jacob B. Swanson, '42, writes thisnote from Lockbourne Field, Columbus, Ohio: "On the very day I re-ceived my degree from our Alma Ma-ter last June, I also received the now-familier - to - millions notification,'Greetings. You have been selectedby your neighbors.' To make a longstory short, I am now a sergeant inthe Corps of Military Police in thedivision of investigation and am at-tached to the Air Forces."COLLEGEA Schoolof BusinessPreferred by College Menand WomenStudent body represents 30 states,80 colleges.Stenographic, Secretarial,and Accounting CoursesSend for free booklet: "The Doorwayto Opportunità."Court Reporting CourseWrite for special free booklet aboutschool of Court Reporting: "Short-hand Reporting as a Profession."Methods courses for business teachers.Only high school graduates accepted.THE GREGG COLLEGEPresident. JOHN ROBERT GREGG. S.C.D.Director. PAUL M. PAIR. M.A.Dept. C. A., 6 N. Michigan Ave.Chicago, III. Lieut. Karl A. Olson, AM '38,chaplain, has been assigned to dutyat Camp Polk, Louisiana. He attend-ed the chaplain school at Harvard andis a former Chicago pastor and University instructor.Lieut. Léonard F. C. Reichle, '36,is attached to the Office of Naval Officer Procurement at Richmond, Virginia. He writes : "My job is that ofadministrative officer. Responsible tothe director of Naval Officer Procurement, I have been assigned the taskof managing office operations.Included in my duties are thoseof formulating office procedures, co-ordinating the activities of the twobranch offices with the main office,and supervising some 40-odd civilianemployees who are engaged in theprocessing of applications. Also, I assist the director by maintaining budgetcontrols and performing special as-signments."From Mrs. Keith (Caroline Masini)comes news that Capt. John J. Keith,MD '33, is with a medicai detachmenton Guadalcanal. He writes: "If onelikes hot weather, one would searchfar to find a warmer spot than Guadalcanal. There is, however, verylittle else to recommend it." Mrs.Keith and the three children are livingat Marion, Iowa.Pvt. Arnold J. Kuhn, '37, is withthe Army's 40th Ordnance Companyat Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.Hunt Badger, '40, sends us thisnote: "I am now waiting for myclassification as an aviation cadet. Weare stationed at Santa Ana, California, and will be here for at least another month. I volunteered for theArmy, as I felt it was my duty andfeeling that if I did fail, I would continue with my plans to come backto the University this year. I will haveto wait until the war is over now, butI pian to come back and no maybes."Gustav E. Johnson, '33, PhD '40,is a captain in the Army Air ForcesTechnical Training Command at Tul-sa. He was formerly at Gulfport Field,Mississippi.Capt. John Patrick Kelly, '30, isin special service work (and very fondof it) in the Army Air Corps at DowField, Bangor, Maine. He writes thatlast summer he saw Col. John Ger-hart, '28, at the base, who "had hisown P-38, name on side of it and ali.Really can fly the trick, too."Ashton M. Tenney, '12, is a sec ond lieutenant at the Fighter Command School at Orlando, Florida.Robert E. Herzog, '34, has quali-fied through a training course to bean instructor in instrument flying(link trainer) and is with the AirTransport Command at St. Joseph,Missouri.Gershon Cooper, '42, tells us thatit was his intention to return to Brit-ain (his home is in Glasgow) to en-list, but decided he could be of equalservice in the Canadian forces. TheArmy was the only branch in whichhe was physically acceptable, becauseof eyesight, so he is now training atCamp Borden, Ontario.Robert C. Dwyer, '40, before leaving Camp Crowder was made sergeantand section chief in the classificationsection, where, he says, he met quitea few recruits from the University.He is now at the Officer CandidateSchool at Fargo, North Dakota, theonly OCS where limited service men(color blind, in his case) are admit-ted.Ben Meeker, AM '40, is pharma-cist's mate at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Great Lakes Naval Training Station.Joseph Schwartz, '41, is at CampGrant, Illinois. He was married onSeptember 22, and writes that hismarriage "is very successful, probablybecause my wife and I are happilydetermined to make it so." He adds:"I am learning lots about practicalTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 25ESTABLISHED 1908GROVEROOFINGFAIrfex3206ÓILLILANO6644 C0TTA6E GROVE A^"ROOFING and INSULATINGEASTMAN CO AL CO.Established 1902YARDS ALL OVER TOWNGENERAL OFFICES342 N. Oakley Blvd.Telephone Seeley 4488BOYDSTON BROS., INC.UNDÈRTAKERSSince 18924227-29-31 Cottage Grove Ave.Ali Phones OAKIand 0492WM. FECHT ELECTRIC CO.CONTRACTORS - ENGINEERSLIGHT & POWER CONSTRUCTION600W. Jackson Blvd. TelephoneMonroe 2208GEORGE ERHARDTand SONS, Inc.Painting — Decorating — Wood Finishing3123 PhoneLake Street Kedzie3l86MEDICAL BOOKSof Ali Publisher*The Largest and Most Complete Stock andali New Books Received as soon as published. Come in and browse.SPEAKMAN'S(Chicago Medicai Book Co.)Congress and Honore StreetsOne Block from ltush Medicai CollegeKenwood 1352WE DELIVEB ANYWHEREKEDWELLALL PURPOSE FLORISTJAMES E. KIDWELL826 E. 47th St., Chicago, 111. first aid and lots more (because I wantto) about the scientific nature of war-fare. The more I learn about it, themore it fascinates me. Between thisfeeling and my feeling toward a cer-tain select group of the yellow race,I feel confident that I will be able toput ali I've got into winning thiswar."Capt. Robert Lee Shapiro, '31, isat the tank destroyer center at CampHood, Texas. He writes that "whilethe Marines and the Air Corps seemto be getting ali the glory now, andrightfully so, you will hear of the tankdestroyers and very soon, too. Wethink we are pretty good also."Aerol Arnold, '31, AM '33, PhD'37, and Beverly E. Duffy, AM '36,are both instructing in the Army AirCorps at Chanute Field, Illinois.Seymour S. Guthman, '29, JD '30,is a private training at Camp Lee, Virginia.Herbert Lesser, '39, JD '42, islearning to be a link trainer instructor at Chanute Field, Illinois, andfinds the job so interesting, he reports,that he has applied for officer candidate school.Lieut. Anthony C. Yerkovich,MD '39, has completed over sixmonths of sea duty as transport sur-geon.Major Arthur N. Ferguson is inthe Army Medicai Corps attached toOliver General Hospital, Augusta,Georgia,Ensign William A. Kozumplik,PhD '42, has been taking an intensive course in ' post-graduate Communications at the Naval Academy atAnnapolis for twenty-two weeks, inpreparation for duty on a combatantship.Capt. Jerome L. Metz, '30, is atthe Pine Bluff arsenal, Arkansas.Pvt. àdolph Heght, '36, MS '37,is at the Aero Medicai Research Lab-oratory, Wright Field, Ohio.Capt. Maurice H. Friedman, '21,PhD '28, MD '33, is at the base hospital, Hunter Field, Georgia, attachedto the Third Air Force.Lieut. Ralph W. Nigholson, '36,is an instructor in the base defensesection, Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia.Ensign Perlman J. Lester, '40, isa Navy Communications officer of anadvance base unit.J. Victor Mansfield, PhD '42, director of the Photo Research Laboratories, Chicago, on temporary leave ofabsence, holds the rank of chief pho-tographic specialist in the Naval Reserve. He has been at the GreatLakes Naval Training Station and is now stationed at Pensacola, Florida,for initial assignment to active duty.Arthur M. Marks, '29, is servingin the Army as a weather forecasterat the base weather office, BradleyField, Connecticut.Leroy M. Christophe, AM '41,states that he is a Navy recruiting officer for Negroes over the state of Arkansas.Capt. Goodlett J. Glaser, '34, inthe Air Corps at Keesler Field, Mississippi, says that he hopes "to returnsome day and study the history we arenow helping to make."Lieut. James A. Key, '24, is at FortCuster, Michigan, with the MilitaryPolice Corps. He writes : "Hope to bea credit to the University of Chicagoin my service in the Army."Lieut. Theodore Cohn, '37, saysthat he hates to think of telling thegrandchildren about fighting in theBattle of the Great Lakes, so he's try-ing for foreign duty. He is currentlystationed at the Naval Hospital atGreat Lakes.Capt. Mark T. Goldstine, Jr.,'31, AM '37, is being held a prisonerin the Philippines.Major Rufus Boynton Rogers,'11, is commanding officer of the355th Headquarters and Air BaseSquadron. He says: "Am way outhere on the desert miles from nowhere— nothing but sagebrush and stones(10 inches of snow now). Just one ofthe many Ferry air bases where thecrews train in the Flying Fortresses.It's a great life if you don't weaken.Best to ali of the .class of 1911."Francis H. Itzin, AM '40, is in theSutifkCream%?^^?l^^^lSF^S?fi5EXTRA CAREMAKES THEEXTRA GOODNESSA Produci ofSWIFT & CO.7409 S. State StreetPhone Radcliffe 740026 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZI NEOrdnance department at McChordField, Washington.Richard G. Guilford, AM '39, isat the Advanced Naval Training Station, Gulfport, Mississippi.Wilbur T. Nelson, AM '41, is an,ensign in the Coast Guard at NewLondon, Connecticut.James C. Stauffacher, PhD '36,is psychological examiner at the in-duction station at Jefferson Barracks,Missouri.Ensign Alex Spoehr, '34, PhD '40,is at the Naval training station at Cornell University.Karl Schmitt, AM '42, is a meteorology cadet at U. of C.William N. Beverly, Jr., '37, hasbeen sent to the 4th Corps Area Signal School at Athens, Georgia, for athree months' course.Pvt. Charles R. Peavy, '42, is stationed at Baer Field, Fort Wayne, Indiana.Aviation Cadet James Loeb, '39, istraining at the Naval Air Station atJacksonville, Florida. Moreau Maxwell, '39, is also a Naval aviation cadet at Glenview, Illinois.V-MAILAm now a service pilot with theferrying division of the Air Trans-port Command. At present am alsocharged with weight and balance control of airplanes loaded up for trans-atlantic delivery. Plenty of excite-ment and more fun than a flock ofSurveys.Lieut. Harold Graham, '37Municipal AirportNashville, TennesseeSomeone in this Army got crossedup on his signals. My backgroundwas perused and it was decided thatan education in business administra-tion could best be put to work withthe Medicai Corps. So I'm fìllingprescriptions from the pharmacy atthe station hospital of the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center in Texas.Strange as it seems even to me, I'mlearning quite a bit down here andactually enjoy this kind of work.I've been very fortunate to date, butI an*, nevertheless, hoping /for anearly PAllied victory. Aren't we ali?Lester D. Patinkin, '41Station HospitalSan Antonio, TexasHere I am, a mess officer. Theydropped it in my lap and told me tostart f eeding the men the next day. CLARKE-McELROYPUBLISHING CO.6140 Cottage Grove AvenueMidway 3935"Good Printing of Ali Descriptions"Tuck PointlngMaìntenanceCleaning PHONESRAceland 0800CENTRAL BUILDING CLEANING CO.CalkingStainingMasonryAcid WashlngSand BlastingSteam CleaningWater Prooflng 3347 N. Halsted StreetJOSEPH H. BIGGSFine Catering in ali its branches50 East Huron StreetTel. Sup. 0900—0901Retail Deliveries Daily and SundaysQuality and Service Since 1882AMERICAN COLLEGE BUREAU28 E. JACKSON BOULEVARDCHICAGOA Bureau of Plaeement which limits itswork to the university and college field.It is affliated with the Fisk TeachersAgency of Chicago, whose work covers alithe educational fìelds. Both organizationsassist in the appointment of administratorsas well as of teachers.ENGLEWOODELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO.Distributors, Manufacturers and Jobbers ofELECTRICAL MATERIALS ANDFIXTURE SUPPLIES5801 EnglewoodS. Halsted Street 7500BLACKSTONEHALLanExclusive Women's Hotelin theUniversity of Chicago DistrictOffering Graceful Living to University and Business Women atModerate TariffBLACKSTONE HALL5748 TelephoneBlackstone Ave. Plaza 3313Verna P. Werner, Director That was fine, but the doggone placedidn't have a bit of equipment. Wefed 'em and have been ever since —the best on the post. Oh, the glory!Lieut. Walter E. Nagler, '40Fort Myers, FloridaThe glamor of great battle wagonsand fancy gold braid was dispelledthe first day. The Navy is a com-pletely military organization whichnecessitates strict discipline and a rig-orous daily routine, so you can seeI had a big readjustment to makecoming from U. of C. Hitting thedeck at 0530, chow at 0620, thendrill, sundry work details, and chowagain rounds out half the day. Bytaps at 2130 a man will sleep evenin a hammock, but guard duty usu-ally frustrates the attempt. Nevertheless we ali like it and have a whaleof a good time.Robert W. Landry, ex '44Grat Lakes Naval Training StationSince becoming an instructor ofembryo officers the training of whommust be successful, I have come todisagree with Mr. Hutchins' theoryof offering education cafeteria fashion — it's ali there, but the studentscan "take it or leave it." That at-mosphere pervadèd the classroom,where the attitude of the instructorcould have been a lot more aggressive. The average freshman in college today is not sufficiently matureto realize the importance of highereducation, which means that theteacher must go more than half wayto meet him. Not that I doubt for amoment the superiority of my AlmaMater, but you asked for comments.Lieut. Richard B. Freund, '36Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.Transferred from Washington, D.G. to Fort Clark in July. Duties here— sales, bakery, laundry, and salvageofficer. Plenty of deer, duck, andquail, so that the meat shortage is nottoo bad.Lieut. Paul H. Whitney, '36Fort Clark, TexasI've been in the Navy since Janu-ary, commissioned since May, andawaiting a permanent assignment forat least six months. Long ago I.hadexpected to be somewhere far awayin the Pacific, but here I am shame-lessly enjoying California's wintersunshine with no immediate prospectsof moving anywhere. During the lastTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 27two months I've been working in atleast four different assignments aliconnected with the anti-submarine in-stallations in the San Pedro area. Iexpect to be renewing registrationwith the University as soon as mycorrespondence course arrives.Incidentally, I made the acquain-tance of Bob James, '41, when wewere stationed near San Francisco.He's somewhere between Alaska andAustralia at the moment.Ensign Jerome J. Cantor, '41San Pedro, CaliforniaHave been in the Chemical War-fare Service for six months or almostimmediately after induction. Havejust passed the Officers' CandidateBoard, an applicant for officers' training. The board is just like a comprehensive only a whole lot faster;approximately two hundred questionssnapped at you in five minutes byseven to nine officers. Some fun. HopeI can get by o.k. and get my goldbars, then I have a good chance tobecome the unknown soldier of thiswar. I've already put in my application for same. Ali kidding aside,the Army is a prolonged vacation inthe open air with hard work at times.Herbert V. Sjoquist, '30Camp Grant, IllinoisI am in the special services sectionof the 95th Division. It is our dutyto provide ali the recreational andeducational activities for the menin my division. We also cooperatewith the civilian population. I amnot confined to one camp or post, butmove with my division to Alaska, India, China, or where will you.Sgt. Gordon W. Ray, '41Fort Sam Houston, Texas Also as a deserving alumnus I haverecently been awarded a Phi BetaKappa key."Perhaps the above should havebeen added to Ripley's cartoon of my98-game football record. You mayhave noted that I gave a twenty-min-ute talk at the Quarterback Clubluncheon on November 9 to abouteight hundred football fans at theMorrison Hotel on Some Old-TimePerils to Football — such as playingcoaches, ineligible non-students, sub-sidation football as a big money-mak-ing business, and the roughness or so-called brutality of the game thatcaused its suspcnsion in more than a score of colleges. It was somewhatof an historic dissertation on football."1906Mabel Payne Lightbody is a vol-unteer worker at the Charleston, SouthCarolina, ration board. Her husband,James Lightbody, '07, reports thatshe likes the "Low Country" and itsgrits-and-rice menu three times a day.1909Rabbi Lee J. Levinger has movedfrom Columbus, Ohio, to Walla Wal-la, Washington. He is director of theJewish Welf are Board there.No one can resist CookiesTHE CLASSES1879W. P. Verity, MD, in renewinghis subscription to the Magazine, tellsus that he is ninety years old, andalthough he can't travel, he would stililike to attend some of the alumnimeetings. He is living at Two Buttes,Colorado, and sends regards to ali in-quiring friends.1897A. R. E. Wyant writes us as fol-lows: "At the fiftieth anniversary ofmy graduation at Bucknell I wasclected president of the BucknellEmeritus Club. I hurdled 'the majorhandicap to education' there and re-ceived a summa cum laude degree. made withCandyRECIPE ON EVERY WRAPPERCURTISS CANDY COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS28 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINELEIGH'SGROCERY and MARKET1327 East 57th StreetPhones: Hyde Park 9100-1-2DAWN FRESH FROSTED FOODSCENTRELLAFRUITS AND VEGETABLESWE DELIVERTELEPHONE HAYMARKET 4566D'CALLAGHAN BROS., InePLUMBING CONTRACTORS21 SOUTH GREEN ST.HAIR REMOVED FOREVERBEFORE AFTER20 Years* ExperienceFREE CONSULTATIONLOTTIE A. METCALFEELECTROLYSIS EXPERTGraduate NurseMultiple 20 platinimi needles can beused. Permanent removàl of Hair fromFace, Eyebrows, Back of Neck or anypart of Body; destroys 200 to 600 HairRoots per hour.Removal of Facial Veins, Moles andWarts.Member American Assn. Meditai Hydrology andPhysical Therapy, Also Eledrologists Associationof Illinois$1.75 per Treatment for HairTelephone FRA 4885Suite 1705, Stevens Bldg.17 No. State St.Perfect Loveliness Is Wealth in BeautyHOWARD F. NOLANPLASTERINS, BRICKandCEMENT WORKREPAIRING A SPECI ALTY5341 S. Lalce Park Ave.Telephone Dorchester 1579INTENSIVE¦ STENOGRAPHIC COURSEfor College PeopleSuperior training for practical, personal use or proflt-able employment. Course gives you dictation speedof 100 words a minute. Classes begin January, Aprii,July and October. Enroll Now. Write or phone forbulletta.BRYANT & STRATTON College18 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago Tel: RAN. 1575 1910William G. Moore, PhD, is chair-man of the chemical advisory commi ttee of the Stamford, Connecticut,Civilian Defense Council. This com-mittee's function is to make and exe-cute plans for the defense of Stam-ford against chemical warfare agents.1911With tank tactics and machinery onthe front pages of the daily papers,we are reminded by John F. Reddigkthat he devised, at the age of eight,one of the early motor propelled combat cars. Later a major in the Army,Reddick convinced General LéonardT. Wood that armored tractors inforce would win World War I. Justprior to the war Reddick had sug-gested that caterpillar tractors beadapted to armored combat cars toovercome barbed wire and machinegun nests. Said General Ludendorff,chief of staff of the German high command, "American manned tanks werethe chief cause of Germany' s defeat."1916Leona E. Ruppel has been teach-ing social science at Harwood Girls'School in Albuquerque, New Mexico,since December 1. The school is aMethodist Home Mission School forSpanish-speaking girls. She writesthat there are twenty teachers on thestaff, five of whom are foreign mis-sionaries — two from China, one fromSingapore, one from Korea, and her-self from India.1919Pearl H. Asher is a psychologistat the Illinois State Training Schoolfor Boys at St. Charles.Ethel Stilz writes that she hasbeen house director and an instructor in fine arts at Swarthmore Collegefor the past fourteen years and saysthat Swarthmore is her "hobby." Shesays that, as everyone else is doing,she has added first aid, air raid war-den, and Red Cross activities to herschedule.1920A letter from John A. Morris onreads at follows: "I have been withthe Salvation Army since shortly aftergraduation. I now hold the rank ofbrigadier and am stationed at thesouthern territorial headquarters. Iam responsible for the audit and sta-tistical department for the fifteensouthern states. Since the declarationof war, the Salvation Army has beena member agency of the USO andyou will be interested to know thatI am the personnel director for ourUSO units in these fifteen southernstates." He is stationed in Atlanta. 1922William Berry, PhD, is assistantto the director of personnel at theAmerican Red Cross, Alexandria, Virginia.1924The S. D. McFadden News Bureau,San Francisco, headed by Samuel D.McFadden, has recently ConsolidatedPacific Truckman Magazine, 15-year-old western motor transportation tradejournal, with its own Western Truck-ing News Service. The latter publication is now the largest newslettertype of publication in the westerntransportation field, it is said.1925Irene M. Eastman, SM, is an instructor in chemistry at North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo.Wm. G. Friedemann, PhD, is withthe Studebaker Aviation Corporationin Chicago.Ashjian Bros., ine.ESTABLISHED 1921Orientai and DomesticRUGSCLEANED and REPAIRED8066 South Chicago Phone Regent 6000HUGHES TEACHERS AGENCY25 E. JACKSON BLVD.Telephone Harrison 7793Chicago, III.Member National Associationof Teachers AgenciesGenerally reeognlzed as one of the leadlng TeachersAgencies of the United States.Albert K. Epstein, 'ilB. R. Harris, *2IEpstein, Reynolds and HarrisConsulting Chemists and Engineers5 S. Wabash Ave. ChicagoTel. Cent. 4285-6HKJHEST RATED IN UNITED STATESEN^RAVERSSINCE 1906 —+ WORK DONE BY ALL PROCESSES ++ ESTIMATES GLADLY FURNISHED +? ANY PUBLISHER OUR REFERENCE +• DALHEIM &CO. é2054 W. LAKE ST, CHICAGO.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 29ACMESHEET METAL WORKSGeneral Sheet Metal WorkSkylights - Gutters - S mole e sta e IcsFurnace and Ventilating Systems1 1 1 1 East 55th StreetPhone Hyde Park 9500BOYDSTON BROS.AH phones OAK. 0492operatingAuthorized Ambulance Servicefor Billings HospitalUniversity Clinics, etc.PACKARD AND LASALLE EQUIPMENTAjax Waste Paper Co.2600-2634 W. Taylor St.Buyers of Any QuantityWaste PaperScrap Metal and IronFor Prompt Service CaliMr. B. Shedroff, Van Buren 0230STANDARDBOILER and TANK CO.524 WEST 42nd STREETTelephone BOUIevard 58861926A civilian under Air Force supervi-sion, Charles E. Lane,, Jr., PhD '33,is helping to train Air Force cadetsat Grider Field, Arkansas.Seward A. Covert has recentlyclosed his own office to assume a full-time connection with the Ohio Crank-shaft Company of Cleveland, carry-ing on defense work.1929Mildred Hopkins, MS, is teach-ing mathematies at the Mitchell, Indiana, high school.1930Cassie Greer, MA, is with the cityschools in Chicago.Lloyd H. Barker has left King-man, Indiana, to be principal of theLawrenceburg Consolidated HighSchool, Indiana.1931A letter from Ruth EarnshawLo, a few weeks ago, indicated thatshe had sent a round robin lettera tobe copied and sent to her manyfriends with her Christmas greetings. But letters from the little marble vil-lage of Hsichow, nestling in the foot-hills of the Thibetan mountains, afew li off the Burma Road, travel bymessenger and truck to Kunming, byChina Air across to Calcutta, to Cairo, down across Africa to Leopold-ville, to Natal in Brazil, up the SouthAmerican coast, across the Caribbeanto Miami and home. The round robinletter has apparently succumbed tothe perils of the journey, so we,Ruth's parents, are sending you thisletter in its stead, telling of the year'sevents in Hsichow, and expressing forRuth and CF, their good wishes andgreetings to their friends at home.Of course, the biggest event of theyear was the arrivai of CatherineT'ien-T'ung Earnshaw Lo, January 7,1942. According to Mousheng Lin,"T'ien-T'ung" means "Of one familyunder smiling skies," a very lovelyname for a beautiful baby.Ruth describes the baby: "Catherine is the most beautiful baby inali Asia. She has a brilliant mind.Her feet and hands are just like CF's.Her hair is dark and wavy, her eyesare brown, and her skin like. a softpeach." If you have ever consideredRuth modest, let the above descrip-tion of her daughter dispel the illu-sion. Even CF adds, "People juststand and say Oh! and Ah! whenthey look at her. She is so lovely."Ruth has continued her teachingat the college (Hua Chung) sincethe baby arrived. She and CF havearranged their teaching schedules sothat one or the other is always athome with "T-T." The teaching staffand the students are working long andearnest hours despite the trying warconditions. Life for five years in arefugee college can pali at times. Evenin their primitive village the cost ofordinary living has soared to fantasticfigures. Fixed salaries paid in Chinesedollars are hopelessly inadequate foreven bare necessities. The college hasrecently granted a subsistence allow-ance to supplement the regular Chinesesalary scale, but with milk at $1.50 aquart and eggs at 50 cents each, livingis definitely sub-standard. AmericanChristian missionaries are paid inAmerican dollars and fare much betterthan their Chinese colleagues. Ruthwrites in a recent letter that she hasbeen looking over her possessions andtransmuting them into cod liver oiland Klim for the baby.Ruth recently wrote about a flock ofAmerican jeeps passing through hervillage. They were driven by a veryhomesick lot of American boys fromBrooklyn and their eyes popped to see an American girl in that far-off villagenear the Burma Road.Her latest letter tells of a youngAmerican flier from Arizona crashinghis piane in a rice field near her house.His engine "conked" just as he wasclearing the last range of mountainsand just before he reached the lake,and he made a crash landing practi-cally in Ruth's backyard. Ruth wasable to explain him to the Chinese po-lice and military and get him to thehospital, where his injuries weretreated. He was semi-conscious fromgas fumes and was in danger of sum-mary treatment by the Chinese military, to whom ali planes are Japanese,and any flier who does not speak Chinese is obviously an enemy. After afew hours' rest in this Shangri La village he thumbed a ride to Kunming,groggy from his crash and surprise atfinding a University of Chicago girlin the borders of Thibet.While the appearance of Americanjeeps and planes in Yunnan is re-assuring in some ways, it might alsoindicate that Hua Chung College mayagain find itself in the path of oppos-ing armies. Ruth says very little aboutTailored Uniforms Made to MeasureWomen Doctors and Nurses, Stock sizeInterne SuitsANEDA McSWEENY1910 So. Ogden AvenueSEEley 3734 Evenings by AppointmentMacCormac School ofCommerceBusiness Administration and Secretarla!TrainingDAY AND EVENING CLASSESAccredlted by the National Association of Ac-credited Commercial Schools.1170 E. 63rd St. H. P. 21.30MOFFETT STUDIOCAMERA PORTRAITS OF QUALITY30 So. Michigan Blvd., Chicago . . State 8750OFFICIAI. PHOTOGRAPHERU. of C. ALUMNIBEST BOILER REPAIR & WELDING CO.24-HOUR SERVICELICENSED ~ BONDEDINSUREDQUAUEED WELDERSHAYmarket 79171404-08 S. Western Ave.. Chicago30 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEthe war, on account of the censorshipand also because they are almost com-pletely isolateci from ali news sources.She says nothing at ali about thehardships the staff and students aresuffering, although it is now impos-sible to obtain any supplies over theBurma Road, and they are ali livingsolely upon the resources of the province.May we say with justifiable pridethat Ruth and CF are doing a swelljob, both as people and as teachers.They are giving a great deal of America to China and, we hope, by reasonof their many friends in America, arebringing much of China to us here inthe United States.Ethel and Arthur EarnshawScranton, Penn.1932Robert R. Haun, PhD, is carryingon a physical science survey at theUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis.Mary F. Gates, MS, is at the Hor-ace H. Rackham School of SpecialEducation, Ypsilanti, Michigan.Will Brett, MA, is teaching agri-culture at the Fulton, Illinois, highschool.1933Winifred E. Drueck is teaching at CALL FOR A SPEAKERThe Boston Alumni Club, beingin the mood to hold an informai din-ner, is anxious to get in touch withan alumnus in the service or a waragency who would be willing toruminate over some of his experiences before the club.Any alumnus who will be in thevicinity of Boston in the near future and who has something to sayis politely urged to communicatewith Mr. John Perlee, 12 HarwoodRoad, Naticlc, Massachusetts.Warren Palm School, Hazel Crest, Illinois.1934Winifred A. Gleason is at Mont-rose high school, Montrose, Michigan,as a commercial teacher.Robert E. Hosack, MA, is a part-time instructor in American government at Duke Uiversity.George C. Ashman, Jr., MS., iswith the Dryden Rubber Company,Chicago.John G. Neukom is one of the con-sultants of the Fuel Rationing Boardin Washington, D. C. 1936Thomas M. Cutt, PhD, is teaching at the Darlington School for Boysat Rome, Georgia.As secretary of the study groups,William E. Diez is affiliated with theCouncil on Foreign Relations, NewYork City.Roberta Eversole Hanley, MS'38, is with the E. A. Siebelt Companyof Chicago.William Hammer, AM, PhD '37,teaches German at Shorewood highschool, Milwaukee.1937Marion Hays, MA, is teachingchemistry and algebra at the LakeForest Academy, Illinois.Horace S. Gilbert, MA, is withthe Civil Aeronautics Administrationat Reno, Nevada.Teaching mathematics, Clara M.Berghoffer is at the high school inReed City, Michigan.Robert Platzman, SM '40, PhD'42, is working on a war project atM.I.T. in Cambridge.Charles A. Collins has accepteda position in the radio index divisionof A. C. Nielsen Company, marketinganalysts. The company has installedaudimeters on thousands of radiosTHE GRADERS AT AMERICA'S MEAT HEADQUARTERSARE EXPERTS, AND THEY HELP YOU BUY WISELYExtra fancy beef, theflnest obtainable, ismarked Swift's Premium Specially tender beefcarries this brandname — Swift's Select Tender and flavorful,but a leaner beef, isbranded Swift'sArrow S*».« ^Tgoodness, extraof c*traflavor. POTATOSfSSK Swift's beefPlace sirl^nc°,;e, from beatpeas.WJty ^\rrs $P ASKFOR SWIFTS ™ BEEFTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEfrom border to border. Collins willanalyze the tapes from these machinesto determine who's listening to what,when, and for how long. The Collinsesmoved to Evanston to be near thecompany's headquarters.Irving M. Klotz, PhD '40, is in-structing at Northwestern University.As a chemist Doris M. Hunter isat the laboratory at Fort Sheridan.The following communique hasbeen received at Alumni House:From: Ensign and Mrs. Forest D.RichardsonTo : Our FriendsSubject: Launching of 1942 ClassDestroyerReferences: Dr. Gilmore Soule, Lt.Chester B. Alien, ( MC ) , USNR1. A 1942 class destroyer (DD), aboy, was launched in Rockland,Maine, on November 23, 1942, at1415 Eastern War Time from theKnox County General Hospital.2. This new destroyer which is thefirst of a successful series planned bythis branch of the U.S. Navy, has beennamed Forest Dale Richardson, Jr.3. Additional data, released by thecensor, are as follows:a. Gross Tonnage — 7 pounds 5ounces.b. Overall Length — 20 inches (ap-prox. )e. Superstructure — Blond hair.d. Home Port — 222 Broadway,Rockland, Maine./s/ Ensign Forest D. Richardson,USNR, MBA '42Hildegard Breihan Richardson,'381938Helen C. Baber, MBA, is teaching at the Hinsdale Township HighSchool, Illinois.1939Frank Jirik is teaching part timeat the University of Kansas.POND LETTER SERVICEEverything in LettersHooven TypewritingMultigraphinoAddressograph Service MimeographingAddressiiigMailingHighest Qualìty Service Minimum PricesAH Phones 418 So. Market St.Harnson 8118 Chicago Helen Wilczynski, MA, is an instructor at St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines,Asheville, North Carolina.1940J. Thomas Hastings, MA, is tech-nical director of the Illinois highschool testing service, and associate ineducation and personnel, Universityof Illinois.Hubert Loy is an instructor atState Teachers College, Moorhead,Minnesota.Elizabeth M. Barineau, MA, islocated at Lander College, Green-wood, South Carolina, as an instructor in French and Spanish.Teaching chemistry and physics,William C. Larkin is at St. Joseph(Michigan) high school.Robert Cocroft, SM, is with thePure Oil Company at Winnetka.Overton Sacksteder is productionmanager of the General Lamps Manufacturing Company at Elwood, Indiana.1941Wilma Bangert, MA, is teachingsocial science and history at the LoringSchool, Chicago.Sara Jane Rhoads is working inChicago at the Sherwin-WilliamsCompany.1942Florence K. Lee has been appoint-ed a correspondent with the U. S.Treasury Department at the Merchan-dise Mart, Chicago.K. Jerry Morray is located withthe U. S. Rubber Company in Detroit.Kurt Rorig is an assistant in chemistry at Carleton College, Northfìeld,Minn.Irene Speros is with Lever Brothers, Hammond, Indiana.Demetrios V. Louzos is at theBurgess Battery Company in Freeport,Illinois.HARRY EENIGCNBURG, Jr.STANDARDREADY ROOFING CO.Complete Service10436 TelephoneS. Wabash Ave. Pullman 8500Alice Banner Englewood 3181COLORED HELPFACTORY HELPSTORESSHOPSMILLS FOUNDRIESEnglewood Emp. Agcy., 5534 S. State St. Bernard Balikov is working at theUniversal Atlas Cement Company inBuffington, Indiana.Gilbert F. Ford, Jr., is with theNorthern Regional Research Laboratory at Peoria.George L. Heiser is with the U. S.Rubber Company at Mishawaka, Indiana.SOCIAL SERVICEThe alumni of the School of SocialService Administration held a reception in honor of Miss Abbott onSunday afternoon, November 15.The establishment of the Edith Abbott Scholarship Fund by the alumniwas announced at this time and MissAbbott was presented with a checkfor $3,500 which had been contrib-uted toward the scholarship.Miss Abbott recently attended acommittee meeting of the U. S. Children's Bureau Commission on post-war planning which was held in NewYork City on December 8.At the annual meeting of the Illinois Welfare Association held in Peoria, November 11-12, Dora Gold-stine, AM '31, assistant professor ofmedicai social work, conducted acourse of study on the social aspeetsof medicai care. Jane M. Moore,AM '31, field work instructor, conducted a course of study on the principles of case work. Richard M.Eddy, AM '34, now assistant managing officer of the Illinois State Training School for Boys at St. Charles,conducted an institute on under-RICHARD H. WEST CO.COMMERCIALPAINTING & DECORATING1331 TelephoneW. Jackson Blvd. Monroe 3192ECONOMY SHEET METAL WORKS•Galvanized Iron and Copper CornicesSlcylights, Gutters, Down SpoutsTile, Slate and Asbestos Rootìng•1927 MELROSE STREETBucltingham 1893Phones Oakland 0690—0691—0692The Old ReliableHyde Park Awning Co.,INC.Awnings and Canopìes for Ali Purposes4508 Cottage Grove Avenue32 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEstanding and treating juvenile delin-quency.Grace A. Browning, PhD '42, assistant professor of social service ad-ministration, conducted an instituteon case work at the regional meetingof the USO at Exeelsiotf Springs,Missouri, on December 1.Eunice Robinson, a member ofthe field work staff of the School fora number of years, has recently beenmade the executive director of theAmerican Red Cross Chapter inDenver.Joan Kain, AM '30, has left thechildren's division of the State Department of Public Welfare in Oregon to join the staff of the NationalTravelers Aid Association.David Finlay, AM '38, has beenappointed field examiner for the National Labor Relations Board in Cincinnati.Celia Eisman, AM '39, has accepted a position with Cook CountyPsychopathic Hospital.Oscar Whitebook, AM '39, hasbeen appointed secretary of the division of child welfare and family se-curity of the Council of Social Agencies in Seattle.Aileen McBrien, AM '41, hasbeen made associate director of thepersonnel training unit in the servicesto the armed forces, American RedCross, at national headquarters inWashington, D. C.Martha Branscombe, PhD '42,has accepted a position with the so-SUNSHINE LAUNDRYCOMPANYAH ServicesDry Cleaning2915 Cottage Grove Ave.Telephone Victory 5110E. J. Chalifoux '22PHOTOPRESS, INC.Planograph — Offset — Printing731 Plymouth CourtWabash 8182CLARK-BREWERTeachers Agency61st YearNationwide ServiceFive Offices — One Tee64 E- Jackson Blvd-, ChicagoMinneapolis — Kansas City, Mo.Spokane — New York cial service division of the U. S. Children's Bureau in Washington.Gioh-fang Dju, AM '42, has accepted a position as statistician withthe Travelers Aid Society of Chicago.Eleanor Feeney, AM '42, has accepted a supervisory position withthe American Red Cross in Chicago.Neva Smith Itzin, AM '42, hasbeen appointed instructor in socialwork at St. Louis University, Missouri.MARRIAGESRuth Brody, '40, to Lieut. JohnCorcoran, '40, on July 25, 1942, inChicago. At home, 811 Oak Street,Carthage, Missouri. He is stationed atCamp Crowder.Mary G. Pocock, AM '38, to Edward H. Cook on October 10. Athome in Decatur, Indiana.Herbert C. Brook, JD '36, to JaneLord on October 17, 1942. He is anattorney for the OPA in Washingtonand they are at home there at 5740Colorado Avenue, N. W.Marion Maxwell of Cheyenne,Wyoming, to Harold H. Punke, PhD'28, on October 24.BIRTHSTo Hertsell Conway, '32, PhD'37, and Mrs, Conway (Anne Sinai,'39) a daughter, Abigail Frances, onArmistice Day, 1942.. The Conwaysare living in Clayton, Missouri.To Frederick J. Haug and Mrs.Haug (Dorothy J. Heicke, '31) asecond daughter, Hedi, on November1. They are living at Flushing, LongIsland.To Henry Swain and Mrs. SwainT. A. REHNQUIST CO.. _ CONCRETEFLOORS\-tf\rvr SIDEWALKS\\ V MACHINE FOUNDATIONS\\ EMERGENCY WORKV ALL PHONESEST. 1929 Wentworth 44226639 So. Vernon Ave.Albert Teachers' Agency25 E. Jackson Blvd., ChicagoEstablished 1885. Placement Bureau formen and women in ali kinds of teachingpositions. Large and alert College andState Teachers' College departments forDoctors and Masters; forty per cent of ourbusiness. Critic and Grade Supervisors forNormal Schools placed every year in largenumbers; excellent opportunities. Specialteachers of Home Economics, Business Ad-ministration, Music, and Art, secure finepositions through us every year. PrivateSchools in ali parts of the country amongour best patrons; good salaries. Well pre-pared High School teachers wanted for cityand suburban High Schools. Special manager handles Grade and Critic work. Sendfor folder today. (Elizabeth Poole, '37) a son, David,on November 5 at Wilmette. David isthe grandson of Elizabeth FranklinPoole, '10, of East Orange, New Jersey.DEATHSDice Robins Anderson, PhD '12,on October 23 at Fredericksburg, Virginia. Dr. Anderson joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in1907 and was professor of history andpoliticai science from 1909 to 1919. Hewas president of Randolph-MaconWoman's College from 1920 to 1931,and of Wesleyan College, Macon,Georgia, from 1931 to 1941. At thetime of his death he was professor ofhistory and government at MaryWashington College.Roy H. Brownlee, PhD '06, ownerof the R. H. Brownlee Laboratory ofPittsburgh, on November 13, in Renova, Pennsylvania, while on a businesstrip.Emily A. Frake, '09, on November5 in Chicago.Mildred Conrad Horner, '18, ofChicago on November 15.Marian A. Laird, AM '38, on November 1.Grace E. Benjamin, AM '32, onJune 20, 1942.Sven Banjamin Anderson, '98, inOctober at San Francisco.Jens P. Jensen, PhD '26, on Au-gust 25, 1942. He was formerly of theeconomics department at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.F. R. Darling, '03, on September10.The Best Place to Eat on the South SideCOLONIAL RESTAURANT6324 Woodlawn Ave.Phone Hyde Park 6324University of ChicagoPUBLIC LECTURESThe Orientai Institute and the Department of Orientai Languagesand Literatures offer a series of illustrated lectures onANCIENT NEAR EASTERN LIFE AND THOUGHTJanuary 15 — The Worship of the Egyptian GodsHarold H. Nelson, Acting Director of the Orientai InstituteFebruary 12 — What the Orient Taught the GreeksAlbert T. Olmstead, Professor of Orientai HistoryMarch 12 — The Babylonian ScientistGeorge G. Cameron, Assistant Professor of West Asiatic HistoryAprii 9 — The Egyptian Looks at the SkyRichard A. Parker, Orientai Institute Research AssistantFriday s at 8:30 P. M. Breasted Lecture Hall Admission FreeCharles R. Walgreen FoundationWAR AND THE LAWJanuary 14 — Civil Liberties in WartimeKenneth C. Sears, Professor of LawJanuary 21 — Alien Enemies and Alien FriendsErnst W. Puttkammer, Professor of LawJanuary 28 — The Armed Forces and the Civilian PopulationMax Rheinstein, Max Pam Professor of Comparative LawFebruary 4 — Law and Labor Relations in WartimeCharles 0. Gregory, Professor of LawFebruary 11 — International Cartels and the WarEdward H. Levi, Associate Professor of Law (on leave)February 18— Wartime Price ControlGeorge F. James, Associate Professor of Law and Assistant Dean of theLaw School (on leave)February 25 — Wartime Procurement and the Law of ContractWilber G. Katz, John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Dean of the Law SchoolMarch 4 — Military JusticeMax Rheinstein, Max Pam Professor of Comparative LawMarch 11 — War and the Rule of LawMortimer J. Adler, Professor of The Philosophy of LawThursdays at 4:30 P. M. Room 122, Social Science Research BuildingAdmission FreeBUYUNITEDSTATESDEFENSEBONDSANDSTAMPS