THE UNIVERSITYOF(HKAGO MAGAZINEJ A N U R Y 19 4 5LETTERSPRISONERS OF WARAfter the end of ASTP I was morefortunate than most, for I was senthere to Pine Camp's Italian trainingunit to make use of what I had beentaught at Yale. I am at present acting first sergeant (and hoping anyday to remove the "acting") of thiscompany. I have five Americancadre men and all the rest of thecompany is composed of Italians. Allin all they are a fine lot of men, andany rancor that I may ever have felttoward the Italians in general haslong since disappeared. I only wishthat this were true of Americans ingeneral. If we are going to maintaina grudge against a people forced intoa war for which they had little stomach or desire by a totalitarian government which many of them had already come to abominate, I can seelittle hope in our roseate dreams of apeaceful future.Sgt. Stewart I. Oost,'41Pine Camp, N. Y. I'm writing this while still in thethroes of nausea produced by thetender sentiments of that Yale-trainednursemaid of Italian P.O.W.'s — Sgt.Oost — as expressed in the PrivateMaroon of 13 October 1944. Itreally touches me to learn that hisItalian prisoners "are a fine lot ofmen"; that "they had little stomachor desire" for the war; that manyhave "already come to abominate"their former totalitarian government;that "our roseate dreams of a peaceful future" can only come about ifwe clasp these poor misled peoples toour bosoms. This heart-rendingtheme has also reached our ears regarding the really pitiful misunderstood pawns of the Berlin Paper-hanger. Their caretakers have written us (who, of course, have no wayof knowing) that these boys love theirhomes and mothers, have wives andchildren, enjoy their movies, and evenrecite poetry!For the love of God, rememberthat it was those same men whomowed down the Ethiopians, Albanians, and French. They marchedtriumphantly in the Piazza Venezia after those valorous conquests. Remember that they would have enjoyed with relish the fruits of victory.They have spilled much blood forwhich they must suffer. Their crimescannot be expiated by a polite phrase.They were the enemy who sought todestroy us. They should not bepampered. Fraternization should beavoided. They should be given justice. But justice in total war is nota bed of roses. It is hard. It mustbe enforced.To the self-styled Yale-trained warrior this war may be a chivalrousbout to be followed by a sportsmanlike handclasp as befits a worthy foe.As for me, I would hate to think thatthe Italian pilot who dropped bombsin my direction at the Sicilian landing or the Germans who kept mecrouching in foxholes at Salerno areamong his tender wards. To theman who lives in the mud, who suffers in the cold, who bleeds and facesdeath, the enemy is an object ofhate. He does not like sendingthe enemy to the States to be championed by these very, very clever,{Concluded on inside back cover)J_ JX Jj JJUUXXl] Jl UilJj is proud of the tremendous increase in its mail order business, because it is largely from alumni of the University. It is gratifying to know thatso many alumni continue to look to the Bookstore, even after leaving school, for theirbook requirements.You may be located geographically at an inconvenient distance to browse about inthe store but if in the reading of a book review or in conversation with a friend youlearn of a book you would like to have, just remember you are as near to us as yourmail box or telephone.Because of our close contact with the University neighborhood we are in a positionto recommend what is being read by thinking people interested in keeping well-informed.Here are a few titles that come to mind immediately:PREJUDICE by Carey McWilliamsROAD TO SERFDOM by Friedrich HayekWORLD OF WASHINGTON IRVING by Van Wyck BrooksECONOMIC ORDER & RELIGION by Frank H. Knight andThornton W. MerriamTRAGIC GROUND by Erskine CaldwellJust because you are alumni of the University we think you are pretty swell peopleand to prove it we'll open a charge account with no questions asked. If you are withintelephoning distance call Midway 0800, Local 213, and ask for Mr. Irwin. If you write,send your letter to:THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOKSTORE5802 Ellis Avenue, Chicago 37JOHN F. MOULDS RETIRESWilliam Scott Bond:WE ARE your guests today,Mr. Swift, to emphasize ourregard for John F. Mouldsand our appreciation of what he hasdone for the University over a longperiod of service in a great many different positions.John Moulds came to the University in 1903, entering as a freshman,and graduated in 1907. To help payhis way as an undergraduate, he gota position in the Information Officewhich was in Cobb Hall and covereda number of activities including theFaculty Exchange, where at that timeall the faculty came for their mail.John stayed in this position until hisgraduation. So his first employmentby the University was as an undergraduate in 1904 forty years ago, andwith the exception of a period of twoyears after graduation, he has beena most useful part of the Universityorganization ever since then.For two years after graduation in1907 he had a business position downtown. In 1909 John came back tothe University and began the thirty-five year period of work for the University now ending by his approaching retirement.He became cashier in 1909 andserved in that position seventeenyears until 1926.At the time the alumni magazinebecame an independent publicationin 1914 he became alumni secretaryand served until 1919.In 1920 he became assistant secretary of the Board of Trustees of theUniversity and Rush Medical College and served in that capacity until 1927.When the Development Campaignof 1924 to 1926 was started, Johnbecame executive secretary of theCommittee on Development andmoved to its downtown office, remaining there until 1926. Duringthis time he, with Nathaniel Butler,took a trip of 8,000 miles lasting sixweeks of usually one-night stands tomeet and talk with alumni groupsconcerning their organization and thecampaign.For the ten years from 1923 to 1933John was the executive officer of theFootball Tickets Committee. Strangeas it may seem now, during muchof this time that was a difficult jobbecause our seating capacity wasoften far below the demand fortickets.In 1926 John became assistant business manager at the Quadrangles andserved in that capacity until 1931.Following the retirement of Mr.Dickerson in 1927 he succeeded to THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOMAGAZINEVolume 37 January, 1945 Number 4PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONCHARLTON T. BECK, EditorHOWARD W. MORTAssociate Editor BEATRICE J. WULFAssociate Editor SYLVESTER PETROAssistant EditorIN THIS ISSU E pASEAmerican Idealism^ Lo Ch'uan-fang --------- 3For Better or for Worse, Part II, Dorothy Ulrich Troubetzkoy 7The Man Nobody Knows ------------- 1 1Another Glance at the Stars, Stephen S. Visher ----- 12At Home on Stilts, Marion Davidson --------- 14News of the Quadrangles, Chet Opal -------- 16One Man's Opinion, William V. Morgenstern ------ 20The Associate Editor Visits Youngstown - - - - - - - 21News of the Classes -------------- 22The Cover — John Fryer Moulds, '07Published by the Alumni Association of the University of Chicago monthly, from October30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, is the official advertising agency of the Magazine.the position of secretary of the Boardof Trustees of the University, of theBaptist Theological Union, and ofthe Country Home for ConvalescentChildren, and has continued in thatposition until the present time, andhe also served in the same positionfor the board of Rush Medical College from 1927 until 1941.From 1931 to 1940 he served assecretary of the Alumni Gift Fundand in the Fiftieth Anniversary Campaign from 1939 to 1941 he headedthe Committee on Special AlumniGifts; and, finally, for eighteen years;he has arranged the many details ofthe annual Trustees-Faculty dinner.The lives of great universities areoften measured by centuries. Although by that standard our life hasbeen short indeed, we have seen University employees, officers of the University, Trustees, and members of theFaculty come and go, but the University goes on, on far beyond thesight of any of us.Here then is a record of long, loyal,and effective service in this greatenterprise in which we are all so much interested, and I am sure Ispeak for all of us in expressing toJohn Moulds our deep appreciationof the great service he has renderedthis University for many years and inwishing him a life of good health andhappiness after he leaves us.Harold H. Swift:John, for:Your accurate reporting,Your fine memory of Universityhistory,Your ready availability when aman was needed to fill a gap fortemporary work,Your continual service cheerfullygiven to many activities of theUniversity,Your continued and conspicuousloyalty to all things of the University,.we shall miss you, and shall thinkof you always with gratitude andaffection.God bless you.The meeting is adjourned.Board of TrusteesDecember 14, 19441January Enforces Freshman Recognition of C-Bench TraditionAMERICAN IDEALISM• By LO CH'UAN-FANG, Ph.D. 835An appreciationby aChinese1 X THEN this war is over, and the Old World feels no\ \l more the desperate need of American men, Amer-* * ican jeeps, tanks, transports, and Flying Fortresses, some conceited European or mystical Oriental maybe heard to say again: "America is the land of materialism." Even in ruins, the Old World may wish thus toconsole itself by re-asserting its "spiritual superiority."Paradoxically, while both Europe and Asia today look toAmerica for material aid, not a few Europeans and Asiatics still regard "materialistic" America with moralprejudice and suspicion. Of idealism as a dynamic forcein American life they have no recognition; and the littlepersonal contacts they have enjoyed with individualAmericans do not seem to have bestowed better light.They remain skeptical about "The American Way" oflife.Fourteen years ago, inspired by Charles and MaryBeard's book The Rise of American Civilization, whichpresented a sharp contrast to Spengler's Decline of theWest, I wrote and published in The China Critic inShanghai a long article entitled "The American Way forChina." It drew only an unfavorable comment from theeditor. In the eyes of many Chinese and other nationals,the American way is simply the way of materialism orpragmatism. Their common impressions of America areanything but idealistic.It is not difficult to understand why many peopleusually see only the materialistic side of American civilization. For most people the first, and often the only, convenient medium of contact with America is the Americanmovie, which has provided them with much pleasantentertainment. Certainly the American motion pictureindustry cannot be held fully responsible for misrepresenting America, but a moving picture view of the UnitedStates, while interesting and enlightening in spots, is superficial and one-sided. And, after all, the thousands ofChinese who flock to the movie houses go with the solepurpose of seeking enjoyment, not an appreciation ofAmerica. They like amorous scenes, criminal heroes, andmusical comedies for the emotional release and vicarioussatisfaction that they provide. It doesn't trouble a Chineseaudience if they come away with the impression thatAmericans are light-hearted, money-crazy, and devoted tomaterial luxuries. The many thousands of Chinese students who have studied in American colleges and universities do not always highly esteem American idealismeither. They have gone as special students of engineering, agriculture, aviation, sociology, psychology, educa tion, and other academic and technical disciplines, andvery, very few have bothered to pry into the realm ofAmerican ideals. For the information of the Chinesepublic in this particular domain there are available today scarcely half a dozen books written in the Chineselanguage. America is chiefly represented by such characters as Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, Ann Sheridan, andDorothy Lamour; and by such brands of good cigarettesas Camel and Chesterfield. The combined influences ofmoving pictures, picture magazines, and travellers' taleshave taught the majority of the Chinese people to associate America with material luxuries, pleasurable indulgences, commercialism, "rugged individualism," and racialdiscriminations. The Chinese people like Americans because Americans are friendly and informal. But there isno general appreciation of the fact that in the making ofAmerica idealism has been a contributing force and maystill contribute toward the making of a better world.Observers of America generally like to dwell on therestlessness of the people, their eagerness for success atany cost, and their lack of culture. Without historicalperspective, the important fact that America is a youngnation has escaped many observers' attention. When werealize how newly formed she is, we cannot but beamazed at the rapid progress of American civilizationin the course of three centuries. This progress is the bestproof of the validity, optimism, pioneering spirit, scientific ingenuity, and business acumen of the Americanpeople. A few examples will suffice to illustrate theastonishing rate of growth of the United States. Lessthan a hundred years ago, the streets and houses of SanFrancisco were "built out on piles" near the water front,and often "broken places were found in the street largeenough to let a man down into the water below." ButSan Francisco has changed, has been resurrected fromits baptism of fire, and today presents an impressive andwelcome sight to the people from the Orient when theyfirst step on American soil. A century ago, Chicagowas nothing more than a little fort, but today it is justlyproud to be alive. It can boast of a young university ofinternational reputation where many students from foreign lands listen to lectures by American professors.Only seventy-five years ago, upper Fifth Avenue in NewLo Ch'uan-fang is dean of the School of Arts and professor of psychology in Hua Chung College, which wasdriven west to Yunnan Province, China, as the war progressed. His wife, Ruth Earnshaw, '31, former associateeditor of the Magazine, with her daughter, T'ien-t'ung,flew the "Hump" last summer and returned to her parents'home in Scranton, Pennsylvania, from whence a personalnote has arrived announcing the birth of a son on December 30, 1944. It was just a year ago that Mr. and Mrs.Lo collaborated in an article for the "Atlantic" entitled,Education in the Chinese Hills.34 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEYork was noted for its "squatters' shanties perched onthe rocks," but it has since distinguished itself as aneighborhood of wealth. The original territory of theUnited States has expanded from the Atlantic to thePacific coast, and its new unity as a continental countrywas not achieved until 1869, when the first transcontinental railway was completed. American history coversa short period, but in that short space of time a groupof English colonies has developed into a world power.Materialism alone could not have accomplished allthis. From the landing of the first party from the Mayflower, the making of America has been stimulated andinspired^ if not dominated, by an idealistic faith. Certainly the Pilgrims who came to Plymouth, Massachusetts,in 1620 were not lighthearted, materialistic gold-diggers.They came that they might have "freedom to worshipGod"; and their first act after landing was to fall upontheir knees to give thanks to God. It was this kind ofidealistic faith that helped to sustain the Plymouth colonyin the early days of painful settlement. Were one togive a purely materialistic interpretation to this partof early American history, one would be misrepresentingthe men and women who chose the life of exile, andbraved the "vast and furious ocean" in pursuit of freedomof the soul.American idealism, as I see it, has several aspects.There is religious idealism; there is political idealism; andthere is also social idealism and the idealism of science,all of which may be symbolized in the two words : American democracy. The fullest realization of Americandemocracy is the beginning and end of the destiny ofthe United States.During my last visit to New York in 1940;. I used totake great pleasure in looking over the announcements ofvarious religious meetings in the New York Times onSundays. The variety of religious life ip modern Americais fascinating. Some people, no doubt, would like tocurb the growth of this or that particular form ofreligious faith, for there are practices which they regardas disgraceful, though appealing to others. Yet it is agood thing that all forms of religion are publicly tolerated. Freedom in religious worship is a cardinal principle of democracy. Superstitions will naturally die aseducation advances. At a time when religious freedomis no longer an issue with the American people, it isworth recalling that it was in quest of this freedom thatthe Pilgrims left the Old World. It is good to rememberthat it was devotion to religious freedom that led RogerWilliams to found the Rhode Island colony. It was toguarantee religious freedom that the Maryland Assemblyin 1649 passed the Toleration Act, and that the Billof Rights stipulated that "Congress shall make no lawrespecting an establishment of religion or prohibitingthe free exercise thereof." Today in America, religiousstrife among Christian sects has declined, but is thereno more need for religious toleration? As our littleneighborhood expands into a family of nations, and aswe come into closer contact with non-Christian faiths. is there no more need for a new interpretation of religious freedom? Are Christians willing and ready to extend their charity and tolerance to the Jews, the Mohammedans, the Buddhists, or the followers of Confucius?An enlarged sense of religious freedom should make usequally anxious to cultivate sympathy and understanding toward all non-Christian religions. Not only theChristian heritage should be preserved, but also thespiritual heritage of all mankind. The early Puritanswho sought freedom for themselves turned out to bethe "fiercest kind of persecutors." There is still a challenge to modern Americans to live up to the ideal ofreligious freedom.No sane American will try to prove that Americanpolitical life is all idealistic. Corruption, hatred, jealousy,and mismanagement may be found in American politicsas in any other country. But unless one is entirely prejudiced by a materialistic interpretation of history, one cannot deny that there have been bright moments in American history when idealism helped to shape Americanpolicies, both domestic and foreign. There were timeswhen idealism failed, but the failure of idealism at anytime is no proof that materialism has always prevailed.No man can read the Declaration of Independence without feeling inspired by its noble truths — "that all menare created equal, that they are endowed by their creatorwith certain inalienable rights, that among these arelife, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." One hundredand sixty-eight years since the Declaration of Indepen-,dence was proclaimed, Americans are again participatingin a giant struggle for the preservation of these same'rights. Even today, the same spirit that dared to pronounce the United States free and independent is.working in the hearts of millions of people throughoutthe world. Who can read Paine's Common Sense, orWashington's Farewell Address, or Lincoln's famousspeech at Gettysburg and not hear an idealistic note?Nor was idealism confined to the eighteenth and nineteenth century America. At the beginning of the twentieth century another great American, Woodrow Wilson,sounded the same note when he defined his peace termsin 1917, and a few months later made the celebratedRUTH EARNSHAW LO and LO CH'UAN-FAN©THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 5statement: "The world must be made safe for democracy." That Wilson's idealism failed at the Peace Conference was the greatest tragedy of the twentieth century.A landmark in the history of American democracy wasLincoln's emancipation of slaves on New Year's Day,1863. In principle, at least, the right to "life, liberty,and the pursuit of happiness" was bestowed on three anda half million Negroes. Were Lincoln by some miraclereturned to life today, he would be genuinely distressedat the unhappy lot of many Negroes in present-day America. Over eighty years have passed since the Emancipation Proclamation, but America is not yet free from raceriots and racial discriminations. Freedom to the Negrois still limited by many unconstitutional practices. Here,we may say, American democracy has been found wanting. But the reason for this failure was not because Lincoln and his supporters were too idealistic, but becausethere are still Americans who are quite foreign to thespirit of true democracy. In the years to come the politicalidealism of the American people will be put to greatertest as the so-called "problem of the American Negro"engages more public attention.At the opening of the twentieth century, the UnitedStates was already a world empire with colonial possessions in the Pacific as well as in the Atlantic. Americanscould proudly talk of their "manifest destiny." There isevery reason to believe that the United States will beentrusted with or acquire more territories when WorldWar II comes to an end.The situation may not be welcome to all Americans,but it is difficult to see how it can be avoided. Onceagain, the question is not whether America will burdenherself with more possessions, but whether she will playher part well or ill. In all her territorial possessions, menand women will be asking for a long time to come ifthey will be -allowed to share in the great experimentof American democracy. America's promise of independence to the Philippines, when duly fulfilled, will be aninspiration to other colonial and semi-independent peoples throughout the world. Such extension of Americandemocratic principles to foreign lands will be entirelyin harmony with the spirit of the famous NorthwestOrdinance of 1787, which promised the population ofthe then new Northwest Territory the complete enjoyment of religious and political liberty and the blessingsof free education.Among the great nations of the world, America standsout prominently as a classless society. As in China, thereis no hereditary aristocracy. There are no dukes, earls,viscounts, and barons. The simple but dignified title "Mr."is as good for the resident at the White House as fora janitor or postman. The great majority of the American people are not conscious of class distinctions. Atpublic and private gatherings they do not wait to beformally introduced, but waste no time in getting acquainted with one another. Servile to none, but readyto serve, the average American is sensitive only of his own dignity. When Walt Whitman sang of America, hedid not have to pay homage to emperors, kings, andnoblemen, but sang gladly of the mechanic, carpenter,mason, boatman, shoemaker, mother, and young wife.And Carl Sandburg wasn't ashamed of calling Chicago"hog butcher for the world" and "freight handler for thenation." Not royalties, nor aristocratic distinctions bestow honor and glory upon American society, but "We,the People."American social democracy is particularly progressivein giving due acknowledgment to the rights and privileges of women and children. There are few occupationsin which women are not accepted, and few social activities that are restricted to men alone. There is increasing care for children's welfare, and the court oftenserves to guard against any usurpation of children's rights.More and more the home and the school are becomingchild-centered, and the American community is usuallyalive to the needs of young people.There is no doubt that the American educationalsystem and modern means of recreation have contributeda great deal toward leveling social distinctions. ThePuritans are to be remembered for their early interestin public education, although their condemnation of"misspense of time" has generally hampered the growthof popular amusements. The fact that education is nowavailable to practically every citizen in the United Statesis the surest guaranty against any monopoly of learningin the hands of a cultural aristocracy, as was the casein ancient China and in the medieval church. Remarkable, too, in American schools, colleges, and universitiesis the general respect for freedom of speech. Althoughin some cases certain teachings are prohibited by statelegislature or controlled through the state adoption oftextbooks, on the whole there is much less governmentalinterference in education in America than in most othercountries. Whereas in Europe or Asia academic freedomis either nominal or plainly suppressed, it is still anenjoyed right in the United States and well-guarded bythe Supreme Court. When I recall listening several yearsago to a communist presidential candidate at the University of Chicago, and reading the pro-communist student paper Upsurge I become more aware how littlefreedom of speech is allowed in Oriental countries. Thesame thing may be said of the freedom of the press.The democratization of means of recreation in America through mass production is another factor contributing to the elimination of social distinctions. The radio,the automobile, the moving picture, far from being thearistocratic pleasures of a privileged leisure class, areopen to practically all Americans. Whereas a radio is arare luxury in China and an automobile the specialpride of the official class, they are common propertiesin the United States. Thus the average American citizendoes not have the uncomfortable feeling of being outranked by his neighbors.To say all this is not to deny that there are still somesocial distinctions which are anxiously perpetrated by the6 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEwealthy few, and that relations between labor and capitalleave much to be desired. The extent to which American idealism will be able to penetrate into these areaswill mark the shape of American democracy at home.Americans have often been criticized, sometimes bythemselves, for their "rugged individualism." Individualism carried to the extreme may easily become an enemyof collective welfare, and there are times when thedefense of personal liberty is only one way of evadingsocial responsibility. But there is a type of Americanindividualism which lends support to democracy, insteadof working against it. This individualism is the exactopposite of that political philosophy which exalts theState at the sacrifice of individual citizens, which sosuppresses individual initiative, self-reliance, and self-expression that the people become convenient tools in thehands of a dictatorial government. Democracy is basedon reverence for the worth of the individual person, irrespective of sex, race, class, and religion.Some of the best minds in America were illustrative ofthe type of individualism which is the nourishment ofdemocracy. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great American whose intellectual declaration of independence wasan inspiration to every American scholar. His call forself-reliance may still serve as an antidote to any politicalor educational system aiming at mass production andregimentation of timid, conforming, will-less souls. Inplace of blind submission to tradition and authority,Emerson would have a nation of individuals whose guiding principle is: We will walk on ou.r own feet; we willwork with our own hands; we will speak our ownminds. This is the kind of individualism of whichAmerica may justly be proud.Walt Whitman was another great American whopreached individualism "as counterpoise to the levelingtendencies of Democracy." No one would deny Whitman's devotion to the cause of democracy. But he wasequally anxious to foster the growth of that "distinctiveand ideal type of Western character" — the native American individuality. "I avowedly chant the great prideof man in himself, and permit it to be more or less a motifof nearly all my verse," proclaimed the poet. Such prideof man in himself, he believed, was indispensable to anAmerican.American civilization is as much an achievement ofscience and technology as of democracy. It is unfortunatethat when we think of science we generally associate itwith materialism; and it is rather uncommon to speakof scientific applications in immaterial terms. Yet thereis such a thing as the idealism of science, which isdedicated to the conquest of nature in the service ofman. In no other land than the United States is suchhumanistic use of science so popular and intense. Scientific inventions and discoveries have made life in Americamore comfortable and more enjoyable; and certainlymaking life comfortable and enjoyable is much nobleran ideal than leaving man to the mercy of the brutalforces of nature. It is a crooked philosophy of life which regards the absence of a decent home with a cleankitchen and sanitary toilet as a sign of spiritual superiority.The spirit of America is best revealed, however, inits literature. People who label American civilizationas materialistic may find it profitable to spend some hourswith the great American masters, from William CullenBryant to such contemporaries as Carl Sandburg andStephen Vincent Benet. To learn to appreciate America,we must rest our eyes not only on skyscrapers, comic strips,and burlesque shows, but also on literary productionsof the soul of the people. These are the flower of American culture, a spiritual heritage many times more inspiring than the sounds and sights that generally embellishan American city.Many Americans, as well as non-Americans, are already asking what will be the destiny of the UnitedStates in the next half century or more. The defeat ofthe Axis powers is certain, and victory of the Alliesis clearly in sight. Out of destruction and victory willemerge a new world in which America will be infinitelystronger than she was before Pearl Harbor. Her navalsupremacy will hardly be challenged. Her homelandremains materially free from the havocs of war. Vitaland ingenuous as Americans are, it will not be very longbefore they will be able to settle down to normal, prosperous living. But America can no longer isolate herself fromthe rest of the world. American armed forces will probably be stationed in some parts of Europe and in thePacific for a long time after peace is declared. She willhave an important role to play, or, if you please, adestiny to fulfil. How full of eager hope are the heartsof weary mankind that America may fulfil her destinynobly and unselfishly!I believe I have said enough to show that idealismhas not been missing in America. We only have toremind ourselves that not all men are idealists or carefor idealism. This general truth applies to all peoples,and Americans are no exception. There are greatAmericans; there are little Americans. The great Americans have remained loyal to the spirit of the Fathersof the Republic. They have kept alive the fire of idealismon the altar of American democracy. But now and thenthe scene was marred by the presence of skeptics andoutright opponents of idealism. For money, power, orprestige these men of little faith would do anything tohalt the march of American democracy which Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln did their best to prepareand preserve. The real enemies of American idealismare the little Americans who have to depend on racial,class, or religious distinctions to satisfy and maintaintheir petty sense of self-importance.Only a true American democracy will be a blessingto the world. Only an idealistic American century willbe welcomed by millions of freedom-loving people. Aswe near the dawn of history and the day of reckoning,let us pray that idealism will prevail in the UnitedStates of America,Theodyssey ofan ArmywifePart IIj FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSEi By DOROTHY ULRICH TROUBETZKOY, '36It was worth waiting for those large sunny quartersoverlooking the Cape Fear River. We thought we hadonly rented a room and bath but found, to our gratefulsurprise, that it included the hospitality of the house andthe friendship of those who lived there: Miss Sue; hersister, Mrs. Emerson; Mrs. Emerson's daughter Jane;and Jane's mischievous black cocker spaniel puppy, "Topper," who had such a bewitching personality that I evenforgave him for chewing up a precious spool of Scotchtape. Whenever we entertained, Miss Sue insisted thatwe use the living room and her silver trays, and theyinvited me to lunch so often that I invented errands tokeep from overtaxing their generosity. When it rained,I found my breakfast on a tray in front of the fire soI wouldn't have to go even two doors away to the "Governor Dudley" where I had breakfast and dinner. Itwas one of the happiest homes we had in the Army, andwhen we left almost a year later it was like saying goodbye to our own family.The first time Serge came to the "Governor Dudley,"he found me at a table with two colonels, a major, andtheir wives who had invited me to join the family whenSerge was late. But Serge said it looked to him as though1 were getting along in the Army much faster thanhe was.Governor Dudley, who once lived in the historichouse, was the governor of North Carolina who madethat earth-shaking remark to the governor of South Carolina, so I referred to the slow week of school as the"long time between drinks." While Serge slaved awayat height finders, aerial photography, and gun materiel,I thumped on my typewriter, worked in the Filter Center, took an occasional bus trek out to camp, and loafedin pleasant company. Serge usually arrived late Saturday and when there was a study hall, left early Sundayafternoon. In spite of the short time, we found ourselves fast becoming acquainted and sharing the gaietyof parties at home or at the country club or whenevera friend launched a Liberty ship. Helen MacMillaninadvertently christened me along with her ship,* so Isuppose I should add "James Iredell" to my alreadyponderous name. Among our pleasantest recollectionsare the visits to "Orton" and "Clarendon" on the CapeFear. At "King" Roger Moore's historic colonial planta-MY SECOND welcome to Wilmington was nowarmer than the first had been. Again the"Cape Fear" failed to find my reservation,though Serge had made it in my presence long before,but they condescended to give me a room. Number 526smelled rather strange but, in my innocence, I supposedit was furniture polish until I saw a dazed little bugwalking uncertainly up the wall and found others, invarious stages of fumigation, nestled in the candlewickspread. I called the office and announced that I hadseveral of the little creatures captured in Kleenex in casethey wanted to see them. No, it was a delicate subject,proof of which they preferred to ignore, but they senta porter promptly to escort me to another room. It wasrather dingy, but I satisfied myself it was not infestedwith anything more lively than grime, kept my suitcaselocked, and resigned myself to an uneasy night. The nextmorning I had no luck persuading the manager to suspend the three-day limit and I'm afraid, under the circumstances, my efforts were somewhat half-hearted.After nearly three weeks, I hadn't found a permanentroom. There were two days to go at the "Cape Fear,"no room at the other hotel in town, and even the parkslooked crowded. But the stars were still with me, intheir facetious way, and when I went to the "GovernorDudley" for lunch, Mrs. Johnston took pity on my plightand started telephoning in my behalf. The lady onThird Street was going to the beach and couldn't see meuntil the next day. With Miss Sue, it was another caseof gentlemen preferred, but Mrs. Johnston thought somefast talking might help. I walked downtown with myfingers crossed and, when I called back at 8:30, MissSue had agreed to take me on probation .for a week. Seven years ago Dorothy Ulrich won second prize inour Magazine Manuscript Contest. Recently, when welearned that Dorothy had been experiencing "adventures"as an Army wife, we asked her to share them with ourreaders. This is the concluding installment. Her husband,now a first lieutenant in the Army, is in the Europeantheater.78 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEOrton Plantation on the Cape Fear River, North Carolina.tion we were entertained by the Sprunts, hospitable owners of pillared "Orton" and its famous gardens; at"Clarendon," by novelist Inglis Fletcher and her husband.Like most Army couples, we had our money troublesat the most awkward times. Toward the end of OCS,when we had counted on pay and allowance not onlylo see us through the month, but to buy Serge's uniforms for graduation, I had not yet received a dependent's allowance, though Serge had been applying forsome time. Now he was told that the personnel sectionhad "mislaid" the photostat of our marriage certificate,never forwarded the papers to Washington, neglected todeduct for the allowance (so Serge could not accept hisown pay without forfeit), and we learned that theSeventh Regiment had never changed his status from single to married on the service record. All the money wehad was a small check from the Herald-Tribune, but onecan't live long on the profits from a quatrain. Therewas nothing to do but send for another photostat andtell our troubles to sympathetic Sergeant John Lane inthe hope that he could snip some of the red tape.I went up to Theater No. 3 for Billy Livingston'sgraduation and no sweet girl graduates were ever morenervous and self conscious than those stiff young men intheir slick new uniform and shiny gold bars. After thegeneral had his say, row after row marched up for theirletters of assignment and marched back, some of themsmiling now, more confident and less rigid.As Billy and I walked down the street afterwards,three sergeants snapped to attention and Billy turnedaround to see whom they were saluting! He complainedthat his overcoat was too long and didn't fit like ConradVeidt's. But I'm sure the bars glittered brightly at the Stork Club and I guess it didn't matter about the overcoat in New Guinea.December- third was Serge's graduation day and, asthe time drew near, I began to get jittery about his assignment. It came a few days ahead and was a pleasant anticlimax to my fears, for he was to report backat Davis.The 478th Battalion was stationed at Mosquito Junction, a subdivision of Camp Davis and in his whole Armylife it was the organization for which, as a whole, Sergeseemed to have most enthusiasm and admiration. Thechaplain was the only officer who was decidedly personanon grata. He was a gold brick par excellence who evenlooked up the TO's to find an excuse for not making hisown bed.I had a GI Thanksgiving and part of a GI Christmasdinner. Christmas Day got off to a bad start. Serge wasmess officer in charge of the dinner and celebration, so Iplanned to go out to camp on the bus. But thousands ofsoldiers had come to town, only to find that all but two ofthe restaurants were closed, so I had to wait in line forhours. Of course, dinner was over by the time I got toDavis, but the mess sergeant had saved me a plate ofturkey and fixin's. Afterwards we had a party in thebarracks with the other officers, Neilson, Ostendorf,Oberg, Christianson, and Neil, who gallantly said I hadbrought them a real Christmas. I only wish I could have,for they were to spend their next one in New Guinea.Camp Ritchie, Maryland, is a GI country club according to Drew Pearson. Well, it certainly looked likeone, with its Officers' Club on the shores of a little lake,with its bar and slot machines in the cellar, and itspastry chef was a hotelier's dream. For people on thebuttered side of politics, it may have been a countryclub in more important ways. Most of the time thatwe were there, Serge was going to school all day andhad plenty of homework at night. We didn't haveweekends, but one day off every eighth day and we managed to make a few hurried pilgrimages to Gettysburg,Antietam, and Harper's Ferry. Serge could come homenights, except when there were "problems" or he wasOD and fortunately we lived only a mile and a halfaway, in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, right on theMason -Dixon line. We had breakfast in the north anddinner in Dixie.At first I had stayed at the "Hotel Alexander" inHagerstown, then at the Officers' Club for another three-day limit. As I lay in bed one night, I was just awarethat a man and woman were talking underneath mywindow, but I paid little attention until, just before taps,I heard a curious greeting. "Good evening, lieutenant,"said a newcomer, "What are you doing out here?" "Juststudying contours," replied the wolf.As soon as Serge got a few hours off, we began ourhouse-to-house canvass up the mountain, from Cascadeand Highfield to Blue Ridge, and we felt fortunate atlast to find a room in a clean and comfortable house atTHE UNIVERSITY OFthe Summit. But our landlady turned out to be sucha miser and a snoop that Army people had already nicknamed her the old witch and every native had his taleto tell. Other wives warned me not to leave letters orother personal belongings around. Discovered on herhands and knees in one of the closets, she gave the remarkable excuse that she was dusting shoes — with novisible dust cloth — when she was probably in search ofa liquor supply. Surprised while going through the belongings of a couple on leave, she said she was looking¦ for ink which might freeze. During a water shortage,only a slight trickle came through her faucets while therewas obviously enough water for the usual Monday washnext door. She had taken advantage of the situation toturn the water low in her own cellar. She listened tofootsteps and timed the running of the water in sinkand tub to check on her roomers. She tried to makeeach couple get along with one bath towel a week andsuggested flatly that the husbands could just as well takeshowers at camp as baths in her house. She even wentoutside to spy on a couple who were careless aboutpulling down their shades. She had an insane curiosityabout everyone in the house and pestered each one inturn for secrets about the others, not realizing that wewere all in a conspiracy to outwit her.It was a relief when we moved to a spacious house inMonterey, across from the country club, where therewere no other roomers. Our landlord spent the day athis office and went away on long weekends, so much ofthe time we had the house and its rather eccentric cookto ourselves. The fly in the ointment was his five-year-old daughter, an agent provocateur par excellence,wfjpse whoppers made Paul Bunyan sound like a piker.When cold weather came, we moved to a snug bungalowwith the Bartons who were always kind and considerateand earned our special gratitude by allowing us to havebreakfast at 6 A. M.After Serge finished his second course of study, hewas alerted for desert maneuvers and I packed to goalong. We traveled as far as Chicago together and hada whole hectic day there between trains, scurrying fromthe Art Institute (where we saw Dutch masterpieces fromhis grandfather's collection) to the University of Chicago,from lunch in Oak Park to dinner on the North Shore.When I boarded the Scout for Los Angeles, I founda barracks bag in my berth. So that was what the ticketagent meant by a "split upper!" Eventually, a rathersheepish corporal claimed his luggage and murmuredsomething about misreading a "Q" for a "G." The trainwas so crowded that people were sleeping in the washrooms, we had to wait one to three hours to get in thediner, and the food often ran out. The train was soslow that during one long stop on the prairies, a girlwho looked like Jane Withers walked up to the engineand exclaimed, "Well, they sure had me fooled. Ithought it was a mule team!"We arrived in Los Angeles eleven hours late. Before I CHICAGO MAGAZINE 9left, I had written and wired a relative of Serge's toreserve a hotel room for me, but she turned out to belike the Russians in Futility who could do nothing aslogical as that. So, late at night I was faced with theproblem of finding a room in a city which had its SROsign out. When I looked in the directory, it seemed asthough everyone I had ever known in L.A. had disappeared. But after waging a desperate telephone assaultfor three hours, I had finally secured myself two possiblebeds with people who knew people who knew peoplewho knew me. (Yes, I confess I did visit GertrudeStein at Bilignin in 1938.) At one o'clock I moved inwith Grace Bagley. Well, half a bed is much betterthan no bed and I had more than expected to spend thenight in Union Station.Everything looked different and better by daylight,and the breakfast of strawberry guavas, hot corn muffins, bacon, and coffee did wonders for my morale. Ifound that I was in a fascinating little house, perchedon a garden hillside overlooking Hollywood and only alittle the worse for earthquakes. Every room had its ownslant and level which I found rather charming afterour formal New England . house where a crooked picture amounts to heresy. For two months I was to bevery happy there, working at the little black desk on theporch or loafing in the garden while Grace went to herstudio on the "Sunset Strip" which I called "GremlinLocal 13." Sometimes I went with her and I shoppedfor our casual meals unless we developed a yearning forroast beef and french fried potatoes in Hollywood, aChinese dinner downtown, or grand duchess cocktailsand flaming shashlyk at a Russian place out on theStrip. And, oh yes, I got a bed of my own! Sergecame during an occasional break and we did the town,from Beverly Hills and the Pacific Ocean to OlveraStreet and China City, with many stopovers in Hollywood or on Wilshire Boulevard. On the last afternoonof our last day in California, the Woodses lent us theirU. SERGE TROUBETZKOY10 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEcar to drive to San Gabriel so that Serge wouldn't haveto go back East without seeing at least one of JuniperoSerra's famous missions.After our Christmas leave, Serge had pneumonia andI was dosed with sulfadiazine at home because therewere no accommodations for wives at the post hospital.Alert lists were coming out with alarming regularity andhardly were we up and around when Serge's name appeared. It was a reprieve to learn that it was forLouisiana maneuvers. The orders left little time forplanning, so I hurriedly packed the unsuitable clothesI had with me in the Pennsylvania mountains and boughta roundtrip ticket from Blue Ridge to the bayous. Amistake in the ticket landed me on a troop train fromwhich I was evicted in Cumberland, Maryland, and culminated in a wild ride over the mountains during ablizzard to catch the National Limited in Keyser, WestVirginia, with less than a minute to spare. In St. Louis,Serge and I both had tickets on the Sunshine Special,but found ourselves pulling out on different sections.The next time I saw my typewriter it had been onmaneuvers and every time I opened the lid of the onewhich was left with me, there was a notice threateningdire consequences to anyone who made illegal use of thisgovernment property. However, I took far better careof Uncle Sam's machine than the GI's did of mine.I arrived in Alexandria on a fine spring day, wearinga heavy fur coat and hat which would have kept mewarm in Siberia. There was a four-day limit at the"Bentley" and living quarters were so scarce that people offered $50 rewards and nylon stockings for information leading to rentals and ran such plaintive ads as:"We have a little boy named Peter, but we can't keephim in a pumpkin shell," or "help — my mommie and Icame all the way from Alaska to be with daddy, who isjust back from overseas, and now we can't find a placeto live. Do you have a furnished house or apartmentwe can rent, so we can stay together?" How was I tocompete with such art and affluence? First, I had totalk myself into an extension at the hotel and wroteSerge that I was waging such a campaign of meetingfriends and influencing people that I might go to Congress if I didn't get a room. The editor of Town Talkinterviewed me and I lectured to women's clubs, shamelessly publicizing the fact that I was about to be evictedfrom the hotel. I soon discovered that Clara Stopper'sspecialty shop was the downtown meeting place of Alexandrians and made it my headquarters too. About thetime I had resigned myself to the prospect of three nightsin the USO dormitory before pitching a tent, one ofClara's customer-friends told me about a little house inthe garden of Mrs. Skye on White Street. We movedin after a weekend of vast Creole dinners, flamingcafe brulot, and grand opera in New Orleans and foundour new landlady as gracious as Miss Sue had been.She invited us to breakfast in the main house and toldus that Josephine would cook a steak dinner when Serge "No Hutchins or Adler here!" says Dorothy. The oldestschoolhouse in the States, at St. Augustine, Florida.came on leave. His schedule was erratic, but we didfind time for little excursions to Natchitoches on CaneRiver Lake, Lafayette and St. Martinville in the Evangeline country, and Mrs. Balfour Miller gave us a private"Natchez Pilgrimage" in spite of the war. Our owngarden with its camellias, roses, redbud, and floweringfruit trees was not the least of reasons why we lovedliving in Louisiana. But on Easter Day we had to leaveand with the foreboding that our Army life togetherwould soon be at an end.When we got back to Blue Ridge, Serge was "invited"to take a five-day leave and we knew what that meant.It was not a gay trip to New York, for the threat ofseparation hung over us, all sorts of petty business seemedto absorb the time, and the D.A.R. convention ga*e usanother day-to-day housing problem.On the first night of May we set the alarm for 4A. M. As always, I got up and prepared breakfast whileSerge shaved and dressed, but neither of us had anyappetite. We said goodbye in the darkness and I listenedto his footsteps echoing down the Pennersville Road until they were swallowed up in silence. Faintly throughthe valley I heard reveille and the music from camp.Then the train wailed on the mountain and I knew thathe was goneNow that Serge is overseas, my Army housing andtravel problems are over, but I can't say that I'm veryhappy about it. Each new town had become a gameand I was just getting the knack of playing it. I'm backwith the family portraits and oriental rugs, with my ownlinen and china and silver. There's plenty of hot waterand more tubs than people, but the rooms are lonely.It isn't much fun to carry on a conversation with thepaintings of my husband or Tsar Alexander II in theirdress uniforms. Actually, it takes very few things — aclock, a photograph, a bottle of perfume, a few books—to transform a strange room, to give it the imprint ofa personality, when one wants to make it home. Afterall, home like gold is where you find it.THE MAN NOBODY KNOWS tCfrp _WHEN we learned the other day that Bruce Barton has a brother who is a second cook in theMerchant Marine and a member of the C. I. O.to boot, we went right down to the Y. M. C. A. Seamen'sHouse, on West Twentieth Street, to see what the renegade had to say for himself. His name is Charles William Barton and he is a quiet, weathered man of fifty-sixwith gray hair and a black mustache. He put to sea forthe first time more than two years ago, after a long andblameless life as the publisher of a string of newspapersin Wyoming. While we were probing into his past — heattended Amherst College, holds the degree of Bachelorof Philosophy from the University of Chicago, and wasonce an official in the Morning Telegraph's advertisingdepartment — he kept fidgeting. "I try to keep my pastquiet these days," he said. "I go under the name ofBill Barton now. My shipmates think I'm an old-timesailor and God knows what they'd think if they everknew about Bruce."Barton joined the Merchant Marine, he informed us,not long after Pearl Harbor. "I've got a son-in-law who'sa full lieutenant in the Navy," he said, "and I realizedthat if I didn't do something I'd have to spend the restof my life listening to him and my nephews tell me whatthey did in the war. I was a pilot in Naval Aviation inthe last war, but the only thing I could get into this timewas the Merchant Marine, so I joined that." For a fewmonths Barton served on a sand barge on Lake Michigan. Then the lake froze up and he came to New York.Here he found that the quickest way he could get to seawas as a cook, but he didn't know any more about cooking than the average newspaper publisher. He set aboutqualifying himself by getting a job at Childs' as a baker'shelper and kitchen handyman. "So help me," he said,"the restaurant they put me to work in was in Bruce'sbuilding. I used to see him going through the lobby —Reprinted by permission of the "New Yorker," copyright1944, the F-R. Publishing Corporation.A A ASo far as the alumni files were concerned Charles William Barton of the Class of 1910 was lost. We had tracedhim from his early publishing venture with "The Advance,"a religious weekly, through his years with the "New YorkTelegraph," to the ownership of the "Casper (Wyoming)Tribune" and the "Sheridan (Wyoming) Post Enterprise." of course, he eats at the Ritz — but he never saw me. Hedidn't even know I was in town, and it was a long timebefore I got around to telling him I was in the service."We asked Bill how Bruce reacted to the news. "Well,"he said uneasily, "I think he got a kick out of it. He'snever mentioned my C. I. O. card, though."The service suits Barton fine. "It's kind of like the olddormitory life at college," he said. "I play the mandolinand the guitar and the accordion and the mouth organand the tin whistle. We do a lot of singing." Bartonis the oldest of the crew of ninety-nine on his Libertyship. Also, he is one of the dozen members of the crewwho have worked up enough courage to dive into theocean from the upper deck, a distance of about fortyfeet. He was captain of the swimming team at Amherst.His ship has been in all the important Mediterraneanports and carried troops to St. Tropez during the invasion of southern France. "It's a funny thing," he said."The first month of a voyage everybody in the crew is agood fellow. Along about the third month the ship begins to fill up with sons of bitches. At the end of five orsix months you never knew there was so much temperament in the world. Everybody jumps if you look athim." The last voyage of Barton's ship lasted six months,which gave him ample time to grow a full black beard.He showed us a picture of himself with the beard c,ndwe thought he looked rather like Ernest Hemingway butolder. He cut it off before he came ashore, a couple ofweeks ago. Barton said it is true that most sailors hit forthe nearest bar when they get back to a home port, butthat he gets a room at Seamen's House, takes a hot bath,gets a haircut, shampoo, massage, manicure, and shine,takes a Turkish bath, drinks a lot of milk, and then cutsloose on five-dollar dinners. "It's a pleasure to be waitedon," he remarked.We had him tabbed as the founder of the "NorthwesternFarmer and Rancher" and followed him back to Casperwhere he had purchased the daily "Casper Times." Andthen we lost him. Neither Bob Barton, '16, nor BruceBarton, who chose Amherst instead of Chicago, camethrough with a post office address that would reach theirbrother. We had about decided that Charlie had takenup residence in the wilds of Medicine Bow National Forestwhen the "New Yorker" came to our rescue and told thestory of the recent life and adventures of Barton 1910.<c5f>11ANOTHER GLANCE AT THE STARSDEAR DR. HUTCHINS:Presumably you will be interested in the enclosedreprint, on "Starred Men of Science." A numberof alumni, some of them former faculty members, whoread the article when it appeared about two weeks ago,have written me concerning its disclosures.As you know, I am deeply interested in the University,desirous of doing what I can to help. The decline inthe output of starred alumni in various departments andin faculty strength is disturbing.Your efforts to make tenure not permanent, unless theprofessor continues to merit reappointment, are sound,I believe, as is retirement at 65, and restrictions on holding extra money-making jobs.One retired professor who wrote about this article,distressed by the decline disclosed for his department,believes that you have erred in not permitting largeenough salaries to attract exceptionally ambitious men.He is convinced that the winning of a star requires notonly ability and hard work but considerable aggressiveness. He reports that his department contains a numberof men who, though able, lack ambition.I suggest that you regularly award a sizable salarybonus to each man winning a star, and let it be knownthat they can count on this recognition.You should also replace some of the retiring starredmen with recently starred men. You have added veryfew starred men during your presidency (only Franckand Bo wen ?). Young men are highly desirable, and ifa man who will win a star can be obtained, of coursehe can be gotten more cheaply than one already starred.But to add almost no one who has already won a starTHE accompanying table gives in Column I thenumber of secientists first starred in American Menof Science in 1933 through 1944 who were on thefaculties of the universities which had three or moresuch scientists in 1944. These totals were obtained by acheck of the 1944 edition, supplemented by changes announced in Science.The leading universities in the number of fairly youngstarred scientists on their faculties are Harvard, California, Columbia, Chicago, Michigan, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell, Illinois, Minnesota,Hopkins, and Wisconsin, with totals decreasing from 50 to13. Most of these institutions possess a somewhat comparable number of older starred scientists, some of whomare still active workers.Apparently little or no consideration has been given,in discussion of comparative scientific strength, of the contrasts in size of the faculties. However, this considerationthrows interesting light upon what might be called median faculty strength. In brief what proportion of thestaff are distinguished scientists? The second and third is a mistake. Institutions with which we are competingdo not follow this practice.Sincerely yours,December 1, 1944 S. S. VisherDEAR MR. VISHER:Thank you for your letter of December 1 enclosing a reprint of your article which I had read inthe alumni Magazine.I do not feel disturbed at the account which you give.In view of the very great efforts of many other institutions to follow the lead of the University of Chicago inachieving scientific eminence, it is remarkable that theUniversity has been able to hold its own.I am not aware that any restrictions on salaries havecaused the loss of any men to other institutions; nor doI think that in an academic community financial rewards,at least in the form of bonuses, will obtain the resultsdesired.We have made almost no major appointments in thenatural sciences because we have felt that we neededyounger men most. We are rather proud of our abilityto select young men who will be starred.One aspect of this problem that I have seldom, if ever,seen referred to is the proportionate number of men starred.Our faculty is much smaller than that of Harvard, California, and many state institutions in which the scientificwork is supplemented by large schools of agricultureand engineering. I should be willing to wager that theUniversity of Chicago had a larger proportion of starredscientists than any other institution.Sincerely yours,December 16, 1944 Robert M. Hutchinscolumns of the accompanying table supplement ColumnI. Column II is the number of the members of the teaching staff on November 1, 1944, as officially supplied Raymond Walters for his "Statistics of Attendance in American Universities" (School and Society, December 23,1944) . It shows that the teaching staffs of Columbia andCalifornia include more than 2,300 persons, while several other universities have more than 1,000 teachers.Conversely some strong schools have fewer than 300.Column III is the number of scientists starred in thelast three editions per 100 members of the 1944 teachingstaff. The figures indicate that in this respect the leadinguniversities are the California Institute of TechnologyPrinceton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chieago, Michigan, and Stanford. Thus the three leaders intotal numbers (Column I) fall behind the fourth (Chicago), but three which are among the second five inColumn I lead in Column II, and seven surpass Harvard. This is possible because these three specialize inthe sciences in which starring is done, while Chicago,Harvard, and Columbia, for example, offer instructionin many fields not recognized by starring — the humani-12THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 13STARRED SCIENTISTS OF LEADING UNIVERSITIESBrown CaliforniaCalif. Tech. . .Chicago ColumbiaCornell Duke Harvard Hopkins Illinois Indiana Iowa Iowa StateMass. Tech. . .MichiganMinnesota . . .N. Carolina . .Northwestern .Ohio Pennsylvania .Penn. State . .PrincetonRochesterRutgers Stanford Swarthmore . .Virginia Washington U.WisconsinYale IFacultystarred1933-444 IITeachingstaffNov. 1, 19441572,3761407982,4881,0524651,7757651,7434676224134428208363111,3301,1231,322864220544444645912704681,469994 IIIFacultystarredper 100members2.61.714.33.81.41.80.62.82.11.01.51.6L04.33.72.12.00.90.81.10,310.21.3Ll3.43,32.21.30.92.2 IVAlumnistarred1933-4483063613214471557101713510714314471118 VEnrolmentof menNov. 1, 19221,5002,5001,5001,9001,1002,7004001,2001,3001,5003,0001,9008001,9001,0002,1001,9001,0006001,2001,200 VIRatioenrolmentto alumni0.541 1.12030 2.236 0.618 1.8350 1.416 1.618 1.17 0.310 0.441930 0.518 0.6612 0.69 0.514 0.6326 0.67522 0.7366 1.013 0.822 1.4ties, social sciences, law, education, and divinity, for example. Column III gives support to the claims of alumniof certain other schools that Harvard's average scientificfaculty strength is not as great as Princeton's or Chicago's,for example, despite its leadership in the number ofstarred scientists on its staff.Another manner of rating the strength of institutions,in so far as it is revealed by starred scientists, is the number of alumni who win stars. Collegiate alumni are considered in Columns IV, V and VI. Column IV is thenumber of scientists first starred in 1933, 1937, or 1944who received their college degree at the institutions inthis list which graduated three or more. It shows thatHarvard led with 44 such alumni, followed by Chicago36, California 30, Cornell 21, and Yale 18. Since enrolments vary widely, an effort has been made to discoverthe output in proportion to enrolments.Column V is the approximate number (nearest 100)of undergraduate college men in attendance November 1 ,1922, according to Raymond Walters' report (School andSociety, February 24, 1923). The approximate mediandate of graduation of these scientists is 1922.Column VI is a ratio between enrolment and starredcollegiate alumni. It is based on the reasonable assumption that the 1922 enrolment of men in the college was approximately the average number enrolled during theyears when most of the scientists who were starred in1933-1944 graduated from college. The numeral is theapproximate number of starred college alumni per 1,000male college students. It was obtained by dividing eleventimes the enrolment into the number of starred collegealumni (the starring was spread over eleven years). Menonly are considered as very few women won stars — only4 of the 250 starred in 1944. College men, instead of allundergraduate men, are considered because most starredmen attended the college rather than the schools ofagriculture, engineering, or education, for example.According to the information at hand, presented inColumns IV- VI, the leading colleges in the yield ofstarred alumni of the last three starrings in proportion tosize are Chicago, Cornell, Hopkins, Harvard, and Yale,with Chicago doing about 50 per cent better than Harvard or Yale.Other colleges which have had relatively many of theircollege alumni starred lately, but for which data comparable to those in the table are not at hand, are Amherst, California Institute of Technology, Dartmouth,Denison, Haverford, Missouri, Nebraska, Pomona, Oberlin, and Swarthmore.Stephen S. Visher, '09, Ph.D. '14AT HOME ON STILTSBy MARION DAVIDSON, '16While buildinga naval base inTrinidad, B. W. I.IN JUNE 1941 a friend exclaimed, "What! Trinidad?It's hot and it stinks. Don't go!"Fifteen months later, then a lieutenant in theNavy, this same friend visited our home on the UnitedStates Naval Base. Although only ten degrees above theequator, he discovered a delightful climate, which demanded blankets even in August, and that the savorsof Trinidad were neither more numerous nor intensethan in Yakima, Yonkers, or Ypsilanti. His second tripcompletely convinced him that to be stationed therecould be fascinating, except for missing a bride recentlyacquired in the States.Mrs. Davidson and I enjoyed an enchanting, interesting way of life. We lived in a small house, one of agroup constructed on the base for the supervising personnel, swallowed in a delightful valley where the redhowler monkeys roared at dawn from the "bush." Thesehouses were identical except for the variable exteriorcolors. Built on stilts about ten feet high, each containeda living-dining room, kitchen, bath, two bedrooms, anda porch — locally a "gallery." Beneath this floor, on theground level, was space for a station wagon or a pickup,a laundry, a storeroom, and a room and bath whereAnnie, our cook and maid, lived.Annie was a "black-black" woman from Martinique.She spoke excellent French, classified me as knowing thewords and "Madame" as having the accent. Her English,mixed with French, patois, and West Indian expressions,was always a puzzle. "Fridge" meant refrigerator, winding the alarm clock was "giving it the chain," "icy-hot"was the thermos, and her periodical remark, "Madame,it has no bread" meant that the cupboard was bare. Alarge gold-toothed bridge in her "down teeth" was aconstant concern to the household. When she "felt toeat" the contraption was removed, with the result thatmost of the time it was lost, and, as we had generouslycontributed towards the dentist's bill, it seemed part ofthe family possessions, with the contingent responsibilitiesof property protection. Often her apron pocket, thecrushed stone beneath the house, or the lawn, producedanswers to the treasure hunts. However, she was anexcellent cook and would shame any New York chef.She knew the intricacies and secrets of French cookery,which were cunningly released by degrees during twoyears, because exposure of her talents might make morework for Annie. Her chutney made from mangoesequalled Major Gray's. She knew just the proper dashof bitters for a grapefruit, she swizzled rum cocktails to A house on stilts and agile Annie,who un-shoes, strikes, and re-shoeswithout missing a step.their ultimate heads, and she could prepare the nativecalaloo soup to such perfection that I became a devotee.Ordinarily I am not fond of soup. Another ability, notculinary, was the speed with which she could removeher shoe, strike an insect, replace the shoe, and rarelymiss a step or the insect!Most persons seem to abhor crawling and flying things,yet more questions are asked by friends about the speciesin Trinidad than about any other subject. Some imaginethat unless one eats a patty of butter immediately afterdelivery by a waiter, a mysterious winged bug will soardown and disappear with it. This is as exaggerated asa fisherman's catch, but it is possible to find a bird sittingon the foot of one's bed upon awakening in Barbados!'During our initial weeks in Trindad all the crawlingand flying creatures of nature seemed to have congregatedon the Island, but much is seasoned by time, for themajority soon went unnoticed and unmolested. Twice,iguanas about four feet long were killed in a tree inour back yard. A crapaud, a gigantic toad about thesize of a bathroom scale, lived beneath our house. Hewas an excellent broad jumper who could compete withany champion except for the uncertainty of the directionof his jump. Two small lizards frequented our househunting insects, while others of varying lengths were asplentiful outside as rabbits on an Indiana farm. Snakes,mostly boas, were abundant during the first year. A zoowas established in the laboratory, but a coral escapedfrom his jar and ended the zoo in the office. Of the threevarieties of bats, only the noted vampire bat is a dangerous individual. The first description of this species cameduring my first week in Port-of-Spain, while reading alocal book one night in bed. Completing the chapteron vampire bats at 1 : 00 A. M., I was convinced that thetrees were filled with them and that a thousand eyeswere watching a prospective victim under a mosquito14THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 15net. On the base the barracks and houses were screenedand we slept soundly.Life on the base had other problems. Because ofmilitary secrecy, little can be written until later days regarding many interesting phases. It is an enormousundertaking to construct a naval base with its widediversifications in our own country, but it is a stupendousproblem to construct one in a jungle in a foreign land intime of war. Its success depends on building an organization which must supply the personnel with food,quarters, transportation, stores for clothes and the necessities of life, police protection, fire prevention, andmedical attention; which must clear the "bush," buildroads and bridges, handle and store thousands of tonsof cargo, repair machinery; make furniture, do laundering, perform all types of engineering, quarry stone, andmix concrete, and establish spiritual and recreationalfacilities. In addition were the preparation of payrolls ina foreign currency, receiving employees, accounting formaterial and expenditures, and the administration ofthousands of employees. Specialists had to be obtainedto manage these departments. Many were continentals(United States citizens) who had worked in Alaska,China, England, France, Greece, dug gold in BritishGuiana, drilled for oil in Mexico, Venezuela, and Burma,and one who had dined with Hitler.The first year was a period of pioneering — a period oflicking the tangled hell of the "bush," mosquitoes, mudin the wet season, dust and fires in the dry season. Theproblem of understanding and adjustment between thecontinental personnel and the local workmen was complex. Although a British Crown Colony with English thecommon language, terms and expressions in Trinidadare very foreign to our way of speaking. Who could beexpected to interpret "give me a drop, boss," "go for eet"and "mopsie" as meaning "give me a ride, boss," "runfor it," and "sweet mamma"; or what continental couldThe Davidsons athome on their firstChristmas in Trinidad.Marion Davidson hassince received theNavy's MeritoriousCivilian ServiceMedal "as recognition of the excellentservices renderedover and beyondthose normally required in connectionwith your duties."Davidson, who is withthe engineering andcontracting firm ofJames Stewart andCompany, providedthis account at ourrequest for the humanside of his Caribbeanadventures. Barber shops are sun-heated and tree-shaded.understand "tea" as "breakfast," "breakfast" as "lunch,"and "marino" as "undershirt," until a basis of mutualunderstanding was established? Many British WestIndian employees had to be instructed in the use of ourtools, the operation of machinery and heavy equipment,and taught American construction terms. These wereso unusual to them and so terrifying that women andchildren wept as the first caterpillar tractor passed on itsway to the site. They were so unusual that when rubberboots were purchased so work could be accomplishedin the water, the native waded in to a depth above theboot tops. Due to daily increase in personnel this sameinstruction, same guidance, same patience continuedthrough seven days a week for almost two years.By far the majority of these employees performedmagnificent work. While many Calypsoes were writtenin jest about the "Yankee dolla'," certainly there was adefinite desire on the part of many to do their duty, toimprove and cement the relationship between the twonations. My office was filled during the last two daysin Trinidad with Chinese, East Indians, whites andblacks, conveying to me their good wishes that I might"shade under the palm branches of good health."By far the majority of our continental employees, also,performed magnificent work. Many had left the Statesprior to the declaration of war; many of these remainedfor two years without leave, without seeing their familiesand sons who entered the military service. They wereconscientious, patriotic, and realized the strategic importance of the naval base in Trinidad to the protectionof the Panama Canal and to the interests of the UnitedStates. These men and the pioneers who came in thebeginning, in my opinion, deserve the credit for theaward of the first Army-Navy E Pennant granted to abase in the Atlantic, and contributed in no small measureto the war effort of our country.The period of construction of this naval base inTrinidad was the most aggravating, exhilarating, fascinating, and interesting experience of a lifetime. Long hoursand hard work were mixed with pleasant surroundingsand humor. What more can one wish?NEWS OF THE QUADRANGLES• By CHET OPALA ReformationTHE Board of Trustees of the University at a special session December 28 brought to a close twoyears of careful consideration of the educationalorganization of the University by approving a report ofits Committee on Instruction and Research which provides for a series of sweeping changes.The committee, of which Trustee Laird Bell is chairman, undertook its study with the assistance of a committee of the University Senate. Six main points are involved in the reorganization voted by the Board:(1) The University Senate, which has heretoforebeen composed entirely of full professors, isbroadened to include associate professors and assistant professors who have been members of theFaculty for three years.(2) This Senate is to elect a council of about fortymembers which is to act on all educational issuesand which is to meet at least quarterly.(3) The new council is to elect an executive committee of seven which will be continuously in touchwith the President.(4) The council is to take affirmative action on educational matters, and is to have the right to disapprove proposals of the President in this field.The President likewise has a veto over actions ofthe council. Should the President and councilbe unable to resolve the issue, the Board willmake the final decision.(5) As is customary at other leading endowed universities, the President may recommend facultyappointments to the Board after consultationwith the departments, the practice by which thePresident has recommended faculty appointmentsto the Board only with the approval of the department concerned being discontinued. If thedepartment involved does not approve, theBoard will decide whether the appointmentsshould be made.(6) The Board maintains its prerogative to create ordiscontinue units in the University when in itsjudgment it is desirable to do so.The Board has asked the Senate to appoint a committee to cooperate in putting the new organization intoeffect."The Board has pride in the eminence and achievements of the Faculty of the University of Chicago, andit has confidence in the leadership of the President," Harold H. Swift, chairman of the Board, said in announcingthe action. "Our purpose is to provide a means by whichthe Faculty and the President can cooperate more effec tively and establish a better exchange of ideas and information than present procedures permit. We believewe have made this possible, and in so doing have strengthened the University."President Robert M. Hutchins commented: "Althoughthe plan is not perfect — I must admit. that I still prefermy own! — it is better than the scheme under which wehave been laboring. I hope that it will commend itselfto all the members of the University."Approximately 155 assistant and associate professorswill be eligible for the Senate, increasing its present membership of about 195 to close to 350.Dynamite in the Cracker BarrelSince he assumed office in 1929, President Hutchinshas frequently suggested the need for change in educational administration. His annual report for 1944 contained the following statement: "From time to time inthe last fifteen years I have suggested that a change wasneeded in the educational administration of the University. The President of the University of Chicago has noauthority to determine educational policy, though hisposition gives him responsibility for it."In 1942 I suggested to the Board with the unanimousapproval of the deans and other administrative officersthat it act to achieve clarification, either (1) by makingthe authority of the president — whoever he may be at anytime — commensurate with his responsibility, or (2) recognizing the existing facts and changing the title of President to Chairman of the Faculties."At my suggestion the Board requested the Senate ofthe University, composed of all Faculty members of therank of professor, to elect a committee to discuss theseproposals with the Trustees' Committee on Instructionand Research. The discussions between the^se committees began in January, 1943, and are still in progress. Tfe$two proposals I made have proved to be unsatisfactory toboth the Board and the Senate; I therefore have withdrawn them. The committees are now engaged in de;veloping an alternative proposal."Members of the Committee on Instruction and; Research, which submitted the report, are: Laird Bell,chairman; William Scott Bond, Max Epstein, Paul V.Harper, John Nuveen, Jr., Paul S. Russell, and HermonD. Smith. Members of the Senate Committee on Academic Reorganization are: Fay-Cooper Cole, Dr. PaulC. Hodges, Carl R. Moore, Ernst W. Puttkammer, ArthurP. Scott, Leonard D. White, and Quincy Wright. CarjevCroneis was a member of the committee until his resignation from the University September 1 to assume thepresidency of Beloit College, when Professor Scott waselected in his place.16THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 17"Sentenced to platitudes ..."The report which embodied the recommendationsconsisted of twenty pages and reviewed at length thediscussion which has been in progress since PresidentHutchins called for a reform. Said the committee ofthe Board:"In our consideration of the type of organizationneeded, we have tried to deal with the place of theseveral officers and bodies in the organization withoutregard to present incumbents. It has not always beeneasy to keep discussion on that basis. Vigorous leadershipsuch as we have had, and hope always to have, is boundto create antagonisms, and they accumulate rather thandecrease over the years of a president's tenure."This is not peculiar to Chicago. Further, in an institution that encourages in its faculty freedom of thoughtthere are many views and philosophies. If a presidentis to formulate policies (as we believe he should), hemust have some over-all plan in his mind. Nearly anything that he does is likely to run counter to the viewsof some part of the faculty. A president confined inhis public utterances to what will be agreed to on allhands would be sentenced either to platitudes or to intellectual sterility. It is not in that way that an institution progresses. We deem it our problem to find someway of getting for the University the benefit of both theunifying influence of firm administrative control and thecritical reactions of many scholarly minds."The Board committee felt almost from the start thatauthority should be centralized, with appropriate safeguards, according to the report. Last April 27, the Senate committee reported, recommending ( 1 ) a more democratic Senate made up of full professors and all otherfaculty members with the rank of assistant or associateprofessors who have served six or more years in suchranks (but not including persons holding appointmentsexclusively in the College) ; (2) a Senate executive committee of seven made up as suggested before; and (3)provision for an amendment of the statutes which wouldset up committees of inquiry on departments believed tobe unsatisfactory.At the succeeding meeting of the Senate, a memorialon the state of the university was presented to the Boardby the Senate members. "This recognized the duty of thePresident to initiate proposals for educational policies andreforms, but asserted that there should be reserved to theSenate, 'or other central academic ruling body/ a decisionon all proposals which substantially affect educationalends, policies, and organizations of study. The memorialwas chiefly devoted, however, to the expression of concernlest the University be committed to a particular ideologyor philosophy."At the same meeting of the Senate, a petition signed by143 members of the Faculty was submitted to the Senate,urging that it request the Board to proceed to reorganizethe Senate to make it more representative of the Facultyand elected by it. The report continues: "Persuasion rather than authority ...""We have gained the impression that the present general views of the Senate committee are as follows: Finalcontrol (subject to the Board of Trustees) of educationalpolicies and performance should rest in the faculties. Apresident's functions in that field are to be alert to educational developments and to initiate changes for consideration by the faculties. He should proceed by persuasion rather than by authority. His primary duty is tomaintain the morale of the faculties. The Senate, consisting only of full professors, with the possible additionof associate professors with some period of service in theUniversity, should be the sole agency of the faculties inthe determination of educational questions. Thereshould be no increase in the powers presently exercisedby the President."However well qualified the academic body of anyeducational institution may be, through its president orthrough its faculties, to consider 'educational policy,' itmust be said that the term has so broad a significancein many of its aspects that the Trustees cannot avoid taking responsibility in regard to it. It has been constantlyasserted that the functions of the University are teachingand research. How far are the Trustees prepared to goin emphasizing research rather than teaching? Are theTrustees prepared to abandon the College? Are theyprepared to have removed all administrative control overthe fields and extent of research? Are they prepared toforego control of future developments of new units orfields of activities? In the judgment of the committee,the Trustees have not the right to wash their hands ofthese matters, but on the contrary are bound to createmeans by which the best efforts of the teachers andscholars and administrators can be invoked and theirbest judgment secured on educational questions, withoutdodging their own ultimate responsibility for the finaldecision."While in our discussions much emphasis has beenput on the functions of the faculties in educational matters, little emphasis has been put on those of a president.We believe the presidential functions to be of at leastequal importance and that they should include majorresponsibility for (a) the formulation of general policiesand (b) coordinating the activities of the various unitsof the institution."In our judgment, therefore, the organization of theUniversity should be designed to make the most of thecollective judgment of both the faculties and the administration, to encourage the administration to pioneer asit has in the past, and to make it easier to proceed bydiscussion and persuasion toward a common goal of constant improvement. We value the vigorous initiative ofPresident Hutchins and would regard that quality as amajor factor in the selection of any president. We valuethe mature judgment of the full professors. We value,too, the views of the younger men who are still on theway up the academic ladder. We recognize that there18 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEare many points of view and believe that sound decisionsrequire that they should be presented."No particular philosophy ...""We do not consider that the University should becommitted to any particular philosophy. This does notargue, however, that the University should not worktoward a common and unified purpose. It is the Trustees' duty to see that the resources of the University areapplied to the best advantage. It seems to us clear thatthe central unifying forces within the University shouldexercise a measure of control over both teaching andresearch. It cannot be true that all the limitless possiblefields of research are at any given time of equal value.Some central agency within the academic organizationmust be in a position to weigh the relative importanceof the projects of research to which the University's resources shall be devoted. A body of the size and constitution of the present Senate is not in our judgment anappropriate agency for that purpose."We trust it is unnecessary to state that nothing iscontemplated by these observations which would encroachupon the principles and practices of academic freedom,which we regard as the settled policy of the University."Faculty HonorsThree University professors were honored last monthby the 25,000 members of the American Association forthe Advancement of Science when they were elected toexecutive posts.Anton Julius Carlson, professor emeritus of physiology,who served last year as the ninety-fourth president ofthe AAAS, was elected to the executive council for afour-year term. Succeeding him as president for thenext year is Charles F. Kettering, vice-president of General Motors Corporation in charge of research.Ernest P. Lane, chairman of the department of mathematics, was elected a vice-president of the AAAS. Hewill head the division of mathematics, the highest honorthe mathematicians can bestow on a fellow worker in theabstract science. Fay-Cooper Cole, chairman of theUniversity's Department of Anthropology, was made amember of the council for a two-year term.Youth on the CampusRecent studies have demonstrated that by all testsstudents fifteen and sixteen years old are mature enoughto undertake the intellectual work of college, ProfessorTyler reported at a recent luncheon of the Citizens Boardof the University.In an address entitled "New Light on Basic Issues inAmerican Education," Professor Tyler said: "It is clearthat students who have taken the college courses at theage of fifteen, sixteen, or seventeen, have done just aswell as students who have taken the courses at eighteen,nineteen, and twenty."If we are to improve the education of adolescents during the next fifteen years as we have improved the education of younger children, it will require a reshaping ofpur high school so that the work of the high school can be completed in the period between the ages of twelveand sixteen."Also, we must provide a college program whichstimulates and guides intellectual development, placingresponsibility upon the student and giving him opportunity for independent work so that he can complete hiscollege education at the age of eighteen to twenty and beenabled at that time to go into an occupation or to enterthe university for training required for the professions,."Further studies made at the University show that students entering the College after the sophomore year ofhigh school are on a par mentally with those enteringafter high school graduation, Professor Tyler said. Thishas been demonstrated in tests of intelligence, reading,writing, and computation.He also cited the results of an inquiry by the NationalSociety for the Study of Education which revealed thatso far as the biological and mental equipment is concerned, students reach a degree of maturity "somewherebetween the age of fourteen and sixteen that shouldmake successful college work possible.""Tests of mechanical abilities show that a plateau isreached at about age fifteen," Professor Tyler said."Various studies of mental growth have been made andindicate that although mental growth is not stopped evenat age twenty-four, the growth curves flatten out typicallybetween age fifteen and sixteen, so that most young people at this age have 90 per cent of the mental abilitiescharacteristic of adults. There is also evidence to suggest that the degree of mental growth from the agefifteen on depends very largely upon the amount of intellectual stimulation."Textbook knowledge, he said, is not retained by students, most of whom forget 70 per cent of the factswithin two years; while the ability to think and analyze,where developed in more progressive schools, has remained undimmed even after three years. High schooland college curricula should be revamped to developthinking ability and skills which are retained throughoutlife, Professor Tyler asserted.Each in His PlaceOr, the devil take the blindmostThe University's pioneering step in abolishing highschool credits as a basis of placing students in the College,begun full scale last September, enabled more than 100of 800 entering students to advance beyond the level indicated in their official high school credits, ExaminerRalph W. Tyler has announced.As previously reported here, high school credits werethrown into the discard and a battery of placement testswas given the new students, of whom 370 entered beforecompleting high school and 424 after high school graduation.Students entering after the sophomore year of highschool face a normal curriculum calling for thirteen comprehensive examinations; those who enter after highschool graduation have eight "comps" to take.The placement tests, however, have made it possibleTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 19for many students to cut down the number of requiredexaminations. Of the 281 who entered after the sophomore year of high school, 67 were excused from one ormore year-long courses. One of these, a youth fromTulsa, Oklahoma, was excused from four comprehensives—more than a year's work. His broad general knowledgecan be ascribed to the fact that he has not decided on acareer: consequently he is interested in everything. Ofthis group of 281, 52 were excused from one comprehensive, 12 from two, and two from three (a year's work).Every student entering the College after high schoolgraduation must take eight comprehensive examinations.But of the 424 such students entering in September, 51demonstrated superior knowledge in the placement testsand were informed they could take one, two, or, in onecase, three comprehensives without full attendance.Special advice was given them as to what specific lecturesto attend. Of the 51, 17 already have taken and passedthe third-year comprehensive in physical sciences, 16 withgrades of A or B.Of 89 students who entered after the third year ofhigh school, four advanced on the heels of those in theyear above: they have but nine comprehensives to take. Mrs. Leon P. Smith DiesDorothy Ware Smith, A.M. '29, wife of Lt. Comdr.Leon P. Smith, assistant dean of students on leave formilitary service, passed away on November 18, 1944, inWashington, D. O, after several months' illness. Whileshe was in the hospital, Mrs. Smith composed this prayer:On a world in pain,O Father in heaven,Pour out thy love, thy mercies like rain.To minds torn and troubled, whose questionings nevercease,Send thy gift that passe th understanding;To them, O God, give peace.To bodies sorely suffering, hopeful of cure,Give power — thy strength — to withstand all things,The power to endure.To spirits crushed and blighted, whose cherisheddreams seem dead,Give patience to learn — and courage —To walk the way that lies ahead.Mrs. Smith had taken part in Chicago activities, including the Settlement League, dramatics, the Women'sOrchestral Association, and the United Church of HydePark. In Washington she had held a war service appointment in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.Besides her husband, Mrs. Smith leaves two daughters,Dorothy Jean, a freshman at George Washington University, and Elinor Ware, a student at Holton-Arms.Snow again etchesthe world's skeletonover the RosenwaldHall entrance to theHarper Library Quadrangles.ONE MAN'S OPINIONOUT of the discussion of academic administrationwhich has continued for two years has emergeda remarkable document — the report of its Committee on Instruction and Research which the Board ofTrustees adopted as the year closed. It is remarkablenot only because it is a clear cut statement of the rightsand responsibilities of the Faculty, the President, andthe Trustees in enabling the University to meet its responsibilities, but even more because of its emphasis onthe spirit of progress and pioneering which should animate the University. The language of most trustees andregents is that of caution and reaction; the language ofthe Board of the University is forthright and liberal.No other trustees in the country could have sponsoredsuch a document. It may well be that the position theyhave taken and the clarity with which they have statedit will make the report significant outside the University.When governors and regents now undertake to impedeeducational progress they are likely to be measuredagainst the standards the Board has established.The Board has not evaded the issue of its own ultimate responsibility in framing the principles of the University's educational administration. It affirms its traditional and scrupulous position that the Trustees shouldnot interfere in educational matters nor in the academicfreedom which always has prevailed here, but it recognizes that it can not dodge the ultimate responsibilityfor deciding what kind of an educational institution theUniversity should be. The assertion of this responsibilityis unequivocal, but it is made only collaterally to theequally unequivocal assertion of the primary responsibility of the Faculty and administration to determine theeducational course of the University. The ultimate legalpower is in the Trustees; it would have been dishonestif that fact were not recognized.But the reluctance of the Board to use its power isindicated by the language it uses. The language andthe position, it might be well to repeat, are remarkable."... the primary duty of the University of Chicago [isto] take an aggressive part in educational developments. . . Vigorous leadership such as we have had, andhope always to have, is bound to create antagonisms. . .If a president is to formulate policies (as we believe heshould), he must have some over-all plan in his mind. . .A president confined in his public utterances to what willbe agreed to on all hands would be sentenced either toplatitudes or intellectual sterility. It is not that way thatan institution progresses. We deem it our problem tofind some way of getting for the University both the unifying influence of firm administrative control and the critical reactions of many scholarly minds. . . The organization of the University should be designed to make themost of the collective judgment of both the faculties andthe administration, to encourage the administration topioneer as it has in the past, and to make it easier to > By WILLIAM Y. MORGENSTERN, '20, J.D. '22proceed by discussion and persuasion toward a commongoal of constant improvement. . . We do not considerthat the University should be committed to any particularphilosophy. This does not argue, however, that theUniversity should not work toward a common and unified purpose. . . The strength and distinction of theUniversity have been achieved not alone by the eminence of its scholars. The University has been characterized chiefly by its willingness to pioneer."This is no vague or timid approval of the necessityfor keeping the University abreast of the times; it is acall for progress, for pioneering, for development ofideas. Nor is it just noble rhetoric; the firm stand theTrustees took in support of academic freedom nearlyten years ago in the State Senate investigation is proofthat it is willing to face the consequences of freedom, ofprogress, and of pioneering. The machinery which theBoard has established to implement a University committed to pioneering is equally conclusive as to its position. It has faced the question of giving initiative tothe President and yet protecting the rights and integrityof the Faculty, and it has done so, not in terms of acurrent issue, but on the basis of general principles.For two years the University has paid a considerableprice, in terms of the public representation of the issueinvolved, for recognizing the need of clarification. TheCommittee on Instruction and Research, with Laird Bellas its chairman, has spent an interminable amount of timein studying the question, and it has had many conferenceswith the committee representing the University Senate.It took courage to raise squarely the issue of educationaladministration and it took at least an equal measure ofcourage and resolute thinking to resolve the problem.The result seems to be worth the cost.As Mr. Hutchins has said frequently, and probably withmost effect in his speech a year ago at the Trustees' dinner, and, as the Trustees point out in their report, the University is a complex organization. Educational machinery adequate to its size and complexity had become essential. But as Mr. Hutchins has said with equal frequency, satisfactory academic organization is only ameans to accomplish the University's purpose. TheTrustees have broadly stated the purpose, leaving its determination to the Faculty and the President. Mr.Hutchins has maintained that the purpose of the University can be determined only by discussion and agreement.The basis for effective discussion has now been established.William Rainey Harper's fundamental idea was that hedid not want "just another university." He was able tomake the University original and different because hestarted with a new organization. But once that organization became old enough to crystallize, the danger wasthat it would abandon its pioneering mission. The Boardhas done all it can to avert that danger. It has done itsown pioneering.20The Associate Editor Visits YoungstownFATHER ULLMAN, who for years had been advertising manager ofYoungstown's daily Vindicator, died before Myron and Carl hadreached their teens. Financing college educations rested squarely on the boys'own shoulders. Myron UUman, '12, JD'14, the elder, was offered a scholarshipat Chicago and was well established on the Midway when Carl UUman, '15,finished high school and, also with a scholarship, joined Myron at Chicago.MYRON CARL man is assistant to the vice-presidentof the Youngstown Sheet and TubeCompany.Marion M. Maguire, '20, has livedin Youngstown for twenty-two years.She teaches English at the RayenSchool. In 1937, a few years aheadof the world blackout, she took fivemonths off to circle the globe. MissMaguire has a master's degree in education from Columbia.Mrs. K. E. Higley (Myrtle M.Heard, '26) is teaching history andsociology in a township high schoola few miles out of Youngstown. Herhusband is a maintenance foreman atthe Youngstown Sheet and TubeCompany. After leaving Chicago MissHeard, on recommendation of theA.A.U.W., was admitted to Oxfordwhere she studied before her marriagein 1930.From Time's proofreading department in Cleveland, Anne C. Lavine,'26, moved to Youngstown in 1928to ioin the English faculty of East..ol. Before the war her extra-HAtilA OWllUluMyron worked up to head checker at Hutchinson Commons, clerked Saturdays at the Hub, and still found time to pick off varsity letters in soccerand cross country. Carl joined the Commons' staff and became head waiterunder William H. Spencer, '13, JD'13, who later became cashier under Carl.The two Ullman boys finally returned to their home town where Myron isnow one of Youngstown's leading attorneys. Carl entered the Dollar Savingsand Trust Company as a clerk, climbed to the top in the trust department,studied law on the side and passed the Ohio bar, and finally worked down tothe president's office on the first floor, where his door is always open to permiteasy access for customers and associate editors alike. curricular interests included Youngstown's little theater activities and interior decorating. Recently these havebeen sacrificed for Red Cross canteenwork, not to mention the University.From the beginning of alumni annualgiving, Miss Lavine has been the conscientious Foundation chairman forher city.Claus E. Backstrom, '27, who has(Concluded on p. 30)On the seventh floor of the Mahoning Bank Building overlooking thesquare we walked in on the entireMumaw family. It was the office ofattorney Daniel W. Mumaw, JD'12,where daughter Marjorie was at thereceptionist desk. Son James had justcome in on leave from the 1 39th Ordnance Department and he was making plans with dad to attend the highschool football game that night.Mother entered while the introductions were in progress. She was onher way to the Westminster Presbyterian Church where the ladies werescheduled to pack Christmas packages for the two hundred church boysin service. James, a graduate ofWooster College, expects to followdad's profession when Uncle Sam finishes with his services.We were in Youngstown on Friday, October 13, which turned outto be the twenty-fourth birthday ofCharles H. Oestman, son of Mrs.Charles Oestman (Harriet E. Stolten-berg, '18). Charles, a graduate ofDuke, is an ensign in the Navy. Hehas three sisters at home attendinghigh school: Betty Jane and MaryJane, twins; and Harriet. Mr. Oest- MORE than a hundred years ago Christian Isaly, with his wife and twoyoungsters, arrived in America from Switzerland. Floating down theOhio on a raft with his family and a copper cheese kettle, Christian was attracted to the Alpine hills of Monroe County. Here he shoved his raft ashoreand started a fire under the cheese kettle.Around this kettle grew a dairy, a milk route, and finally one of America'smost modern and original dairy plants serving the largest chain of dairystores in the country. Today, from Pittsburgh through Ohio to Fort Waynethe name of Isaly is famous for dairy products, particularly Jersey-rich icecream, and white front, spic and span restaurants featuring Isaly products.Directing this huge business with its seven manufacturing plants and threehundred retail outlets is grandson Samuel D. Isaly, '20, president. His officesare in the air-conditioned, sound-proof, four-story building overlookingYoungstown and the Mahoning River.When Sam Isaly received his degree from the old C. & A. School (nowthe School of Business) in 1920, the Isaly family had just started its programof expansion from its Mansfield, Ohio, milk route. He joined the companyand has had the fun of helping to develop this empire. The one little milkmaid in the Isaly family is Jo Ellen, four years old.2122 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINENEWS OF THE CLASSES? IN THE SERVICE *'Col. William J. Mather, '17, whowas given leave as bursar of the University in August, 1941, when calledto active duty as a major, has recentlybeen promoted. He has been in command of a regiment since May, 1943,and is a graduate of the Army's Command and General Staff School. Hewas active with Arthur L. H. Rubinin 1940 in the organization of the Institute of Military Studies of the University and in 1940-41 commandedthe institute's training battalion.Col. Richard H. Jeschke, '17, of theMarines reported in Washington lastfall after thirty three months overseas. He took part in the initial invasion of France and subsequent operations in Normandy after havingspent eighteen months in the SouthPacific. He has been awarded ninedecorations and medals and has received three individual letters of commendation. His son, Capt. R. H.Jeschke, Jr., and son-in-law, Lt. Col.J. S.Oldfield, are both in the sameMarine division operating in theI /\ C"\\\ cLt, Col. Harold D. Lillibridge, MDRush '25, after a seven months' tourof duty in the China-Burma-Indiatheater, of which two months wasfront line with Chinese troops, wassent back to the United States because of rheumatism aggravated bythe climate. He is assigned now toFort Riley, as commander of a medical battalion.EXTRA CAREMAKES THEEXTRA GOODNESSA Product ofSWIFT & CO.7409 S. State StreetPhone Radcliffe 7400 To Pfc. Alexander Isaacs, '25, AM'26, civil affairs in the field in Franceis a story of contrasts: foxholes andchateaux; K-rations and champagne;German bombs and flowers.For more than four years, Capt.Ralph D. Bennett, PhD '25, has beenhelping at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in the development of newweapons, mostly for underwater use.The first problem was to assemble anadequate crew of nearly a thousandtechnical men, and then to helpfashion them into an organizationthat could function with some effectiveness. Their success has been sufficient to interest the Navy in providing a new and more adequate plant,now under construction near Washington, and to foster a plan for thecontinued development in this plantof new weapons so that if there is a"next time" it will find us better prepared. Capt. Bennett has the American Defense Service Medal and theEuropean - African - Middle EasternArea Campaign Medal. In civilianlife, Capt. Bennett spent three yearson the Quadrangles as a researchassociate, studying the basic properties of insulating materials and developing new methods and instruments for the measurement of cosmicrays. From 1931 to 1936 he was associate professor of electrical measurements at M.I.T. and during thisperiod continued development ofcosmic ray measuring methods andequipment. He was in charge of twocosmic ray expeditions — one inAlaska and the western part of theUnited States and one in Colorado.He became full professor of electricalmeasurements in 1936 at M.I.T.,where he stayed until he was calledto active duty in July, 1940.After spending the past two winters in the tropics, Lt. Comdr. Solomon Perry, MD '26, is wonderinghow he will weather the winter snowstorms at Sampson, New York, wherehe is radiologist at the Naval Hospital.Lt. Sam Street Hughes, JD '29, onleave as mayor of Lansing, was transferred from the Military GovernmentSchool at Columbia University eightweeks before completion as he wasneeded in the Pacific area. He wassent to Hawaii, then to "somewherein the Philippines" via the Marshalls,Admiralty Islands, and Dutch NewGuinea. The civil affairs work thereis very interesting and the Filipinos,he writes, are extremely happy that the Americans came and are verycooperative.Claude L. Brignall, '29, has beenpromoted to a colonel. He is commanding a fighter replacement training unit in India. His job is to givefighter pilots combat tactics beforegoing into China to fight.Robert M. Zingg, AM '30, PhD '33,reports to us: "A brief ten years after finishing a doctorate in anthropology under Dr. Fay-Cooper Cole,whose specialty is the Malay peoplesof the South Pacific, the Red Crossaccidently sent me to the war theaterof China-Burma-India where thereare a god's plenty of primitive people.Some of them are such deadringersfor Dr. Cole's head-hunters of thePhilippines that there is every evidence, as he showed, that the Philippines may have been populated originally by migration from this part ofthe world. However, the great jobthat the boys are doing in this partof the world is not anthropological."Lfc Meyer Brown, '31, MD '35,has been doing neurology and psychiatry at the huge Marine base,Camp Lejeune, for the past twoyears, seeing much, learning much,and living well with his wife (SylviaBerger, '35) and 29-months-old son,Harvey Allen.Major Edmund Walsh, '31, MD'35, has spent all his time in theArmy at the Gorgas Hospital in theCanal Zone and has seen quite abit of tropical medicine that he onlyexpected to read about in textbooks.He has a new daughter he hasn't seen,born last August, but is hoping toget home soon to visit the family.PETERSONFIREPROOFWAREHOUSE•STORAGEMOVING•Foreign — DomesticShipments55th & ELLIS AVENUEPHONEMIDway 9700THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 23After spending the past year atthe Bureau of Medicine and Surgeryof the Navy Department in Washington, Commander Arthur J. Vor-wald, PhD '31, MD '32, has beenassigned as liaison officer for the bureau in England, with headquartersat the embassy in London.Leo E. Gatzek, '33, is at the NavalAcademy in Annapolis and reportstwo "promotions": (1) to the rankof parent of a baby boy and (2) tolieutenant (j.g.)-Lt. Ricker Van Metre, Jr., '34, ison shore duty in the United Kingdom— an indirect result of his ship's beingtorpedoed some months ago. He hadbeen executive officer and navigator.After leaving ship he was slated forliaison duty in a French port but thatfell through. He doesn't like shoreduty — says he feels like a slacker.Lt. Charles A. Bane, '35, has finished a five months' tour of duty inthe European theater, which took himto London (for D-Day and the robots), Paris, and General Patton' sfield headquarters (a strange placefor a Naval officer). He is back forWashington duty, half regretful butpleased to rejoin his wife and daughter.Capt. Vladimir Sasko, '36, MD '38,was quite busy in an evacuation hospital during the Admiralty campaignand has since been transferred to amedical laboratory in New Guinea.His wife, Helen Stamm Sasko, is assistant director of home service of theCincinnati chapter of the Red Cross.Lt. Kenneth Worland, '37, has beenknocking around the New Guineajungle for the past few months, fight ing insect pests and ogling at thenative ceremonial dances.Capt. Richard Hood, '38, lookingback over 50-odd missions as a 15thAir Force P-38 Lightning pilot, pointsto June 10 as the most exciting experience of his combat career. Hewrites: "It was my fifth mission andI was scared to death. The target forour fighter bombers was an importantoil refinery at Ploesti. Flak was heavyand accurate and a thick smokescreen obscured our target. Nevertheless, we dived through the smoke,relying on instruments, and droppedour bombs. Coming off the target Iescorted another P-38 on single engine back to Italy and then finallylanded about two hours after myformation at home base. Everybodythought I was missing in action."Hood was awarded the DistinguishedFlying Cross for outstanding achievements on this flight and his groupwon its third Distinguished UnitCitation. (He also wears the AirMedal with three Oak Leaf Clusters.)His 50th combat mission was flownescorting heavy bombers striking oilinstallations in Germany. On campushe was a member of the band andtennis team and a Delta U.T/Sgt John Britz, '39, AM '40, isin Holland, for the first time experiencing trouble with the language.Strange to say, the people really dowear wooden shoes there! In the rainand mud they are probably moreuseful than leather shoes, he says.And he would like to see comparativestatistics on Belgian mud vs. Pacificjungle mud.- "I doubt that the Belgianwould suffer too much.""The job of being an itinerant POST-WAROPPORTUNITIESFORTECHNICALLY THAiNEOGRADUATESIf you are a technically-trainedgraduate of the class of 1941, 1942,1943 or 1944 . . . if you enteredmilitary service without previousindustrial connections . . . TheProcter & Gamble Co. has a message of interest for you.For many years, college men havemade careers for themselves withthis Company in the departmentsof Production Management, Chemical Research and Development,Plant Maintenance, and Mechanical Design and Development.As America's largest manufacturersand processors of soaps, glycerineproducts, and vegetable fats andoils, this Company operates 29factory and mill units in the UnitedStates and Canada. Each workingday these plants produce one million dollars worth of soap, shortening and oil.During the past 15 years an average of one factory each year — athome and abroad — has been added.Post-war plans are to continue thisgrowth and to expand Companyoperations into new factories withnew products and far-reachingtechnical developments.Procter & Gamble has been builtby men coming up through thebusiness. Factory Superintendentsgenerally are young men. The Company believes in developing itsmain group of executives insteadof hiring them from the outside.We do not wish to distract yourattention from your present veryimportant assignment. But whenyou are ready to return to civilianlife, we should like the opportunityto discuss with you the industrialopportunities this Company has tooffer.PROCTER & GAMBLEINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DIVISIONCINCINNATI 17, OHIORETURNING WITH MacARTHURAFTER reading "Medico In Normandy" in Private Maroon, !feel if necessary to report on thePhilippine situation. There is nopaper shortage here nor is there anydanger. Landing on the initial daypresented no problem and it was acommentary on democracy that inthe first location the owner of thebuildings we were using came backfrom the hills. "Your home is myhome,58 were the first words weheard on the Islands. That democracy was not dead here was evident.Flags secreted since the Japaneseoccpation flew in the streets — theU. S. flag and the flag of the Philippines. From the hills came thepeople who for lonely years hadwaited on the pledge, "I shall return." The return of democracy tothe Islands, where the ideals had never died, was by far the greatestfeat of the Pacific war, and perhapsof all the war. To those in thecloisters of the University, those whohave had any doubts as to what weare fighting for (myself included) Iconfirm that if is real and imperishable. Had if not been so, victorywould have been prolonged and thecost would have been great.The medical work has been satisfying, not only from the standpointof the Filipinos, deprived of anymedical care during the period ofoccupation, but also from the viewof helping our own men. AfterNew Guinea it was like cominghome again. People with our idealsand customs; even our popularsongs on their lips had not beenforgotten.Capt. Edward B. Kinports, M.D. '4224 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEminister to an itinerant congregationis never dull," writes Lt. CarrollOdell, '39, Army chaplain. "Thus farI have never had a chapel or churchbuilding for an Army service. Since weleft the states I've conducted serviceson shipboard, in pastures, in appleorchards, and last week in a factorywarehouse. Tomorrow services will bein a huge plant building near ourwork. In my spare time I have beenable to visit the beaches on whichour forces landed in Normandy, anumber of battlefields of that section, and Paris will be next — if, as,and when permission can be secured."Pfc. Chester Feldman, '40, SM '41,is in the Philippines and so is Sgt.Joseph T. Gallagher, AM '42, whosays that the people, so many of themin the little towns, are a joy to seeafter being away from any kind ofcivilization for so long. Lt. (j.g.)Dale Johnson, '42, took part twicein the invasion on Leyte. He has sixinvasions and 50,000 miles behindhim in the SWPA.Capt. Hugh Bennett, '40, MD '42,took part in the first landings in theNetherlands East Indies. He doesn'tlike the climate and could use goodold U of C coffee shop cokes anytime.Lt. John L. Argall, '41, has seenservice in Texas and attended Harvard University before an assignmentin England in 1943. He has been inFrance for some time, where he recently met Lt. Charles S. Wilson, '37,while the latter's ship was in aFrench port.S/Sgt. Gordon P. Martin, '41, feelsthat the Southwest Pacific gets betterthe farther they progress. It's an experience in tolerance and patience.The Jap air raids sometimes causeloss of sleep but they are consoledby the knowledge that they causethe Japs considerably more uneasyhours. He's looking forward to a return to the campus — it can't be toosoon.Major Cecil Drew, '41, is in Libyaon the shores of the Mediterraneanforecasting the weather. He had goodswimming last summer and goodpheasant hunting in the fall. A yearago he was sending out weather reports from the mountains of Jugoslavia after parachuting in both personnel and equipment. He lived withthe Partisans and found out firsthand what guerrilla warfare was."From the Aleutians to the Central Pacific, via Chicago, but still onthe same glorified rowboat, dodgingcoral instead of icebergs," reportsLt. (j.g.) Marshall Blumenthal, '42.He adds that he tried to be home the A. T. 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P. 2130 same time as the Shanken twins("who by the way did a terrific jobin Italy' )j but it didn't work out.Lt. (j.g.) John Cervenka, '42, hasbeen serving as provisions officer inKwajalein and the Marshalls. He saysthe climate is ideal, they have thelatest movies, and there are aboutthirty Army nurses to keep thingsfrom getting monotonous. However,all is not play. The supply department frequently works all the mensixteen hours a day to expedite anddischarge ships and hasten their turnaround.Lt. (j.g.) Richard H. Custer, AM'42, is working hard and wishes hehad taken certain foreign languageswhen he was at the U. He is servingas supply and disbursing officer of afleet oiler, after a few months inthe Pacific and a few more on commissioning duty.Lt. (j. g.) Robert C. Thorburn, '42,is on the staff of Commander FleetAir in Seattle, instructing pilots inthe use of rockets. It's a good job.he writes. His wife (Jean Hopkins,'43) and nine-months' old son areliving with him.Capt. Robert Nicholson, meteorology graduate in 1942, after leavingChicago was stationed at PresqueIsle, Labrador, Iceland, and now inGreenland, where he has been forecasting weather for aircraft flightsover the various north Atlantic routes.The highlight for T/5 Hal Green-berger, '42, so far on his Europeantour was the half day he spent in theSorbonne, one of the most beautifuland inspirational spots he has everseen and the "only intellectual atmosphere that can outdo our own."T/5 Richard S. Baer, MBA '42,is near enough the University of Teheran to visit it more than once. Hewrites that "the school is relativelybrand new — only about four yearsold — and the buildings and landscaping are ultramodern: some doorwaystwenty or thirty feet high, columnsthat would delight a photographerfor Vogue, sharp angles and longhorizontals a bit reminiscent of FrankLloyd Wright and his 'boat house'just off the Chicago campus. But whowants to look back in later yearsupon something ultramodern? Nothanks; I'll take the U of C, its Gothic, adaptations thereof, and other old-world architecture, and its ivy andold stone atmosphere."Lt. Seymour Banks, MBA '42, after two years doing and teachingbasic training, is now on the beautiful island of Oahu in a chemical laboratory company. The work is veryTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 25interesting, the scenery lovely, andthe location and quarters wonderful.He comments: "After being here forsome time, they say one becomes'pineapple' or gets 'rock fever.' Letthem come. I'll be happy with apoinsettia and hibiscus hedge aroundour house and an avocado tree in thebackyard. Still — 57th Street is a wonderful street and Lake Michigan isreally better than Waikiki."Lt. Eugene Pomerance, '42, is currently stationed at Tinker Field inOklahoma City. He was married lastApril to Virginia Lus, '43, "whichmight be considered a tribute to thesocial life backstage with D.A. andU.P.," where they met.Sgt. Thomas A. Dvorsky, '43, sinceleaving England has seen France,Belgium, Holland, where there hasbeen plenty of activity, and says itshouldn't be long now before he seesBerlin.T/Sgt. John McBride, '43, has beenin -India long enough to get used tothe country but hardly to like it.He writes: "The fact that one has alot of time to think over here as wellas the thought-provoking subjects thiscountry furnishes may be variouslyinterpreted as a blessing or a curse.But they do make one very consciousof the great importance of and needfor education in itself and even moreof educated men in the next decade.The University perhaps more thanany other institution because of itsposition of leadership in Americaneducation has a vast degree of responsibility in this connection and Ithink it will continue to meet thechallenge as it always has in thepast. Never before has this contribution meant so much. I am glad tosee that the government recognizesthe need for education in its G.I. Billof Rights and I for one intend totake full advantage of it at the University."Capt. Robert C. Thompson, '43,has received the Air Medal for combat service in the Solomons, wherehe piloted a dive bomber for fourteen months for the Marines.Ensign Harlan M. Blake, '43, is"living the life Riley never dreamed ofon an island still un-nameable." WhenBlake wrote us, he was only 750 yardsfrom the front line and said the Japresistance was still tough. His workas operations officer on an admiral'sstaff is interesting, but he looks forward to returning to the Universityfor a couple of years of work.S/Sgt. Charles Stanley, '43, is anoperations non-com in that branchof the QMC which is largely respons- Slhisjuocu^Chicago's OutstandingDRUG STORESWasson-PocahontasCoal Co.6876 South Chicago Ave.Phones: Wentworth 8620-1-2-3-4Wasson's Coal Makes Good — or —Wasson DoesHOWARD F. NOLANPLASTERING, BRICKandCEMENT WORKREPAIRING A SPECIALTY5341 S. Lake Park Ave.T.l.phon. 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So far he has reached NewCaledonia, the Fiji Islands, Ellice Islands, New Hebrides, Solomons, andhas been in action at Bougainville,the Marshalls, and the Marianas.Bertram and Leonard Rifas, '43,are both in England with the AirForces. They have been stationedwithin twenty five miles of each otherand have been able to get togetherfrequently despite transportation difficulties. Leonard has been awardedthe Air Medal and two Oak LeafClusters.Lt. Frederick M. Schuette, '43, isflying out of a base in Italy as firstpilot on a B-24 Liberator. He hastime to make one profound observation for the benefit of postwar planners: put the world's money on atobacco standard, or more specifically, on an American cigarette standard. Where he is located those whohave a carton or two " of Camels,Luckies, or what-have-you can livelike kings. For instance, at the lieutenant's operational base, a largeshare of the personnel is living comfortably in sandstone cottages constructed by Italian labor at a cost offour or five cartons of cigarettes. Thismethod of payment is frowned uponby the military authorities, and doubt-~less by the smokeless civilians athome, but given the choice of paying$40 or four cartons of cigarettes,Schuette — a non-smoker — could hardly choose to pay money.Lt. John E. Rickey, '44, is in AirTraffic Control stationed somewherein India. He was married to a LosAngeles girl after leaving school lastMarch and they had a short honeymoon in New York before he left foroverseas.After nine weeks of Infantry basic,Pvt. Victor Herbert, Jr., '44, spent amonth as acting company clerk —"nothing more than a glorified secretary." He is now in Special Services,26 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEMURPHY BUTTER and EGG GO.WHOLESALE2016 CALUMET AVE.CHURNERS OF FANCY CREAMERY BUTTERFINEST WISCONSIN EGGSPhone CALumet 5731BEN SOHN & SONSManufacturers ofMATTRESSES ANDSTUDIO COUCHES1452 TelephoneW. Roosevelt Rd. Haymarket 3523BIENENFELDGLASS CORP. OF ILLINOISChicago's Most Complete Stock ofGLASS1525 PhoneW. 35th St. Lafayette 8400Alice Banner Englewood 3181COLORED HELPFACTORY HELPSTORESSHOPSMILLS FOUNDRIESEnglewood Emp. Agcy ., 5534 S. State St.Ajax Waste Paper Co.2600-2634 W. Taylor St.Buyers of Any QuantityWaste PaperScrap Metal and IronFor Prompt Service CallMr. B. Shedroff, Van Buren 0230putting out a weekly mimeographedregimental newspaper at Camp Hood,Texas. "None of the danger, but allthe loneliness of the South Pacific."Pfc. John T. Boyd, '44, has spentthe past year in Italy but hopes tobe back on the campus sometime thisyear. He has become engaged to LoisMerker, '44, a Wyvern.Sp(G)3c Ellen F. Lindsey, '44, isa gunnery instructor in the Waves atCecil Field in Jacksonville, Florida.Ensign Mary Ann Gillison, '44, after completing communications schoolin Northampton, Massachusetts, wassent to the Navy Department inWashington. She has announced herengagement to Lt. Leon Sayvety, '41,who is at the Base Weather Stationof the San Francisco Municipal Airport. THE CLASSESIn 1903 Wallace St. John, PhD '00,joined the faculty of the RangoonBaptist College, which later becameJudson College, in Rangoon, Burma.In 1908 he was appointed to headthe philosophy department in thatcollege and he occupied the position for twenty nine years. In 1926he was appointed principal of Judson College and a little later alsohead of the philosophy departmentof the entire University of Rangoon.He continued in both of these positions until the completion of the building scheme for the new Universityof Rangoon eight years later. Fromthat time on he continued as headof the philosophy department for theUniversity until retirement in 1938,when the University of Rangoongranted him the honorary degree of.Doctor of Literature. Though he hadreached the age of seventy years, theBurma Baptist Mission requested Mr.St. John to remain one year longerin charge of the Mission Station atMaymyo, Burma. Returning to theUnited States in 1939, Denison University granted him the honorarydegree of Doctor of Divinity in June,1940. Having been requested to writethe history of the American BaptistMission in Burma, he returned toBurma in 1940 and applied himselfto the task. Early in 1942 the Japanese invasion forced him and his wifeto escape- and they flew to India,where they have been in exile eversince. Now they look forward to thetime of return to Burma and continuance of the literary tasks alreadybegun. In India he has been at theWellesley girls' high school at NainiTai, U. P.1905Emma Perry Carr, PhD '10, spokeat a recent meeting of the Pittsburgh section of the American Chemical Society held in the MellonInstitute. Miss Carr is head of thechemistry department at Mt. Holyoke and has gained international recognition for her work in theoreticalchemistry. A teacher at Mt. Holyokesince 1910, she has organized a research group which has made notablecontributions to the knowledge of thestructure of organic compounds.1909Ivan Lee Holt. PhD, and Mrs.Holt (Leland Burks, AM) are livingin St. Louis again, where the Bishopserved for twenty- two years. He isnow Methodist Bishop of Missouri,with general supervision also of the.Methodist work in Mexico and Central and South America. His area for the past six years included NorthTexas and New Mexico.1911The board of trustees of FurmanUniversity has voted to confer thehonorary degree of Doctor of Letters on Charles V. Stansell, AM,associate editor of the Kansas . CityStar, it has been announced. The degree will be conferred at the commencement in Greenville, South Carolina, next May. Stansell is a graduate of Furman, class of 1907, andwas a member of the Furman University faculty before going to Kansas City. He participated in the 1933Pulitzer prize award to that newspaper for general editorial excellence.1913Gleason C. Lake, SM, MD Rush'14, PhD '18, is medical director ofthe U. S. public health service atthe Marine Hospital in Boston.M. S. Markle, SM, PhD '15, professor of biology at Earlham College,Richmond, Indiana, since 1915, isthe president for 1945 of the IndianaAcademy of Science.1914Mrs. Edwin Eisendrath (LouiseSulzberger) is serving as head of theHome Service Corps of the RedCross in Chicago.William H. Wiser, '15, and Mrs.Wiser (Charlotte Viall, '14) are inNew York City. He is connectedwith the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions.1915Orville D. Miller of Hinsdale, Illinois, writes us that his daughter,Martha, has been ranked by the Chicago Lawn Tennis Association as No.1 in the Class for Junior Girls under18 and No. 1 in the Class for Girlsunder 15. Championships for 1944won by Martha included Northwestern (girls under 18, singles, and girlsLa Touraine Coffee Co.IMPORTERS AND ROASTERS OFLA TOURAINECOFFEE AND TEA209-13 MILWAUKEE AVE., CHICAGOat Lake and Canal Sts.Phone State 1350Boston— New York— Philadelphia— SyracuseENGLEWOODELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO.Distributors, Manufacturers and Jobbers ofELECTRICAL MATERIALS ANDFIXTURE SUPPLIES5801 EnglewoodS. Halsted Street 7500xTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 27under 15, doubles), River ForestOpen, Middle States, and Massachusetts. She was a member of thechampionship Western Lawn TennisAssociation team of six girls under18 at the Girls National Tournamentin Philadelphia.1917Vernon G. Loggins, AM, is teaching at Columbia University andliving in New York City.1919Pearl G. Carlson, AM, takes upher duties this month as librarianand assistant professor at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.1922Among four Oklahomas who wereinducted into the state's Hall ofFame on the anniversary of Oklahoma's statehood last Novemberwere Paul B. Sears, PhD, and BurtonRascoe, '15. Persons honored by selection for the Hall of Fame arechosen without respect to politics,religion, or financial standing, thesole question of thejr eligibility beingthe service they have rendered theircommunity and their state. Searsis professor of botany at OberlinCollege and gained national prominence while a member of the facultyof the University of Oklahoma bypublication of his book, Deserts onthe March, in the dust bowl days.A contributor to botanical journalsand magazines, he is the author ofseveral widely read works in thefield of ecology and conservation.Rascoe, drama critic of the NewYork World-Telegram, attended theShawnee public schools and has paidhigh tribute to the Shawnee publiclibrary as his benefactor when hewas assistant librarian there. He began his writing career with theShawnee Herald. Among other publications with which he has beenTINY TOTSTERILIZEDDIAPER SERVICE1742-44 n, . «...e 75th st. PLAza 8464E. J. Chalifoux '22PHOTOPRESS, INC.Planograph — Offset — Printing731 Plymouth CourtWabash 8182 associated are the Chicago Tribune,McCall's Magazine, The Bookman,Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Esquire, andAmerican Mercury.John R. Rowe, AM, has beeneducational director of EncyclopaediaBritannica for four years. He hascharge of institutional sales to alltypes of schools and libraries in theUnited States, which involves alarge amount of public relationswork.1924William A. Askew was recentlycalled to the pastorate of the Central Christian Church in Jacksonville, Illinois. In October he waselected chairman of the board ofdirectors of the Illinois ChristianHome for the Aged in Jacksonville.Harold A. Anderson, AM '26, assistant professor of eduction, directorof student teaching, and Marshal ofthe University, has been elected president of the National Council ofTeachers of English. An active member of numerous Council committees,HAROLD ANDERSONMr. Anderson served last year as firstvice-president and director of public relations for the Council, made upof 8,000 teachers of English on theelementary, secondary, and collegelevel. As president, Mr. Anderson hasappointed a curriculum committee tomake a nation-wide study of the English curriculum. The survey will beconcerned with formulating a statement of the functions which instruction in English should serve in American education and with suggestinga program of instruction and a curriculum pattern designed to correlateEnglish activities with all school subjects.1925Edith Heal of Tucson, Arizona,has published her first novel, ThisVery Sun. Her previous books havebeen for children. Albert K. Epstein, '12B. R. Harris, '21Epstein, Reynolds and HarrisConsulting Chemists and Engineers5 S. Wabash Ave. ChicagoTel. Cent. 4285-6Phones Oakland 0690—0691—0692The Old ReliableHyde Park Awning Co.INC.Awnings and Canopies for All Purposes4508 Cottage Grove AvenueECONOMY SHEET METAL WORKS•Galvanized Iron and Copp.r Cornie.iSkylights, Gutters, Down SpoutsTil., Slats and Asbestos Roofing•1927 MELROSE STREETBuckingham 1893BOYDSTON BROS.All phones OAK. 0492operatingAuthorized Ambulance Servicefor Billings HospitalUniversity Clinics, etc.CADILLAC EQUIPMENT EXCLUSIVELYPlacfeatone decoratingberimePhone Pullman 9170.10422 aSlijotieis gibe., Chicago, 3JU.1927J. M. Findley Brown, AM, leftPittsburgh last June to take up newduties as minister of the UnitedPresbyterian Church at Walton, NY.1928Jacksonville Junior College, Florida, has appointed Sigrid Moe, AM,an instructor.1929John F. Stearns, AM, formerly ofAuburn, Maine, has gone to thePark Church in Elmira, N. Y.1930Calvin S. Yoran, PhD '33, is doingchemical work with the Brown Rubber Company in Lafayette, Indiana.John T. Sites, AM, is in Denveras a draftsman for the RemingtonArms Company.1931Frances S. Cushman has been28 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINECHICAGOANS FIGURE AT MATH CONFERENCESNEWLY elected president ofthe Mathematical Association of America is C. C. MacDuf-fee, '20, PhD '21, and of the American Mathematical Society, T. H.Hildebrandt, '06, PhD '10. Walter Bartky, '23, PhD '26, professorof applied mathematics and associate dean of the Division ofthe Physical Sciences at the University, has been elected a memberof the board of governors of theMathematical Association ofAmerica. Among those attendingthe joint meeting of the mathematical societies held in Chicagothe end of November are the following Chicago PhD's: GordonPall, McGill; W. C. Krathwohl,Rufus Oldenburger, L. R. Wilcox,Illinois Tech; Ivan Niven, Purdue;R. W. Bussey, W. L. Hart, Minnesota; C. C. MacDuffee, R. H.Bardell, M. H. Ingraham, Wiscon sin; Dio Holl, Iowa State; F. W.Owens, Penn State; MargaretMauch, North Dakota State; E. W.Chittenden, Iowa; J. O. Hassler,Oklahoma; W. L. Miser, Vanderbilt; F. S. Nowlan, R. D. James,British Columbia; G. D. Gore, LoisGriffiths, Harvey Simmons, E. J.Moulton, Northwestern; V. G.Grove, Michigan State; Ruth Mason Ballard, Wright Junior College; T. H. Hildebrandt, Michigan; A. L. Nelson, Wayne; H. F.MacNeish, Brooklyn; Ruth Ras-musen, Wilson Junior College;Mary D. Clement, Wells; M. G.Boyce, Western Reserve; B. W.Jones, Cornell; A. E. Ross, St.Louis; J. M. Kinney, Chicago Junior College; E. P. Lane, WalterBartky, A. A. Albert, H. S. Everett, R. G. Sanger, L. M. Graves,Anne Lewis, G. A. Bliss, J. E. Wil-kens, William Karush, Chicago.made superintendent of the UnitedStates Indian Vocational School inPhoenix, Arizona.1934Margaret Randall is a five-yearveteran of the play, Life With Father,having played variously six of thewomen's parts and acted in threeof the touring productions. Sheplayed in the two-year Chicago runat the Blackstone. She was an Esoteric while on campus and appearedin many student drama productions.1935Carl R. Aagaard is employed bythe Illinois Central Telephone Company in Quincy as an accountant.Mrs. Phillip DeLacy (Estelle M.Allen, PhD) has become a part-timeinstructor at Central Y.M.C.A. College in Chicago.Among those at the recent dedication ceremonies of the Vaughan General Hospital at Hines, Illinois, wasElizabeth F. Vaughan, MD '39,granddaughter of Victor C. Vaughanfor whom the hospital is named. Dr.Elizabeth Vaughan is the wife ofRobert M. Potter, MD '39, now alieutenant with the Navy MedicalCorps.1936Zonita Jeffreys Owens, AM, is inWashington working for the WarDepartment. She is a research analyst in the historical division ofthe A.A.F.Essie M. Curtright, AM, has beenteaching in Kansas City, Kansas,since September. 1937Ottis L. Johnson, AM, is teachingin the Washington, Indiana, cityschools.John G. Morris, war correspondentin the ETO for over a year, spentTREMONTAUTO SALES CORP.Authorized DealerCHRYSLER and PLYMOUTH6040 Cottage GroveMid. 4200Used Car DepartmentComplete Automobile RepairsBody Shop — Point ShopSimon/zing — WashingGreasingBLACKSTONEHALLAnExclusive Women's Hotelin th.University of Chicago DistrictOffering, Graceful Living to University and Business Women atModerate TariffBLACKSTONE HALL5748Blackstone Ave. TelephonePlaza 3313Verna P. Werner, Director HARRY EENIGENBURG, Jr.STANDARDREADY ROOFING CO.Complete Service10436S. Wabash Ave. T.l.phon.Pullman 8S00Phone: Saginaw 3202FRANK CURRANRoofing & InsulationLeaks RepairedFree EstimatesFRANK CURRAN ROOFING CO.8019 Bennett St.JOSEPH H. BIGGSFine Catering in all its branches50 East Huron StreetTel. Sup. 0900—0901Retail Deliveries Daily and SundaysQuality and Service Since 1S82ALICE GREENLEAF. '37. — "My:newest job might be described as a'movement to the rear,' as I am nowlocated in the Tambourine Mountainsa few miles south of Brisbane, Australia. I have been in this area forseveral months, but not this far south.My nursing experience as a memberof the ANC in Australia has been varied and interesting. The assignment asprincipal chief nurse of this unit keepsme well enough occupied that I do notspend much time counting the daysuntil I will be eligible for rotation. Iwas promoted to first lieutenant last}May. The snapshot was taken last year.You will see that I had better luck with.the koalas than Eleanor did when shevisited Australia."THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 29GEO. D. MILLIGANCOMPANYPAINTING CONTRACTORS2101-9 South Kedzie AvenuePhone: Rockwell 8060TELEPHONE HAYMARKET 4566O'CALLAGHAN BROS., Inc.PLUMBING CONTRACTORS21 SOUTH GREEN ST.TEACHERSREGISTRY &EXCHANGE32 W. Randolph Street, Chicago ISuite 1508-10 Randolph 0739Administrators — Teachers in all fieldsMember of N.A.T.A.a vacation of about six weeks atChristmas time with his family inNew York. He planned to returnto England after the holidays.1938Lt. Col. Richard F. Mullins, JD,has been retired by the Army becauseof physical disability incurred in theMediterranean area. He is practicinglaw now in Wichita, Kansas.1939Anita Baker Book and her husband left Omaha, Nebraska, a yearago for Avon Park, Florida. Whenthe Army closed its military aviationcadet academy there last October,her husband was transferred to Fairfield, California. Mrs. Book stoppedover in Chicago for a couple of weeksbefore leaving for the west coast.She expected to join the Consirwaydivision of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation.Walter H. Hoskins, PhD, is medical director of the Mai tine Company, with offices on upper FifthAvenue in New York. He is livingin Garden City.Myron R. Kirsch, SM '41, received his honorable discharge fromthe Army last October and is nowdoing public health education workin the Chicago veneral disease control program.1940Frank G. Ziobrowski, MD, is serving as surgical resident at the DetroitReceiving Hospital.1941Jane Rose Blumenthal, AM '42,is assistant music critic for the Los^ Angeles Examiner besides writingpublicity for the Magazine of Celebrities.1942Gerald M. Porter, AM, recentlyresigned as associate social protectionrepresentative of the Office of Community War Services with headquarters in San Antonio, to becomeexecutive secretary of the DenverPublic Health Council.Elizabeth Hoyt Baker, AM, is asocial worker at the NeighborhoodCenter of Montclair, N. J.William Nelson, Jr., writes: "Thefloods may inundate whole communities, the 110° summer may scorchthe sterile earth, but Oklahoma is theland of smiling, friendly people. Although research hours are long, Istill find time for young people'swork. At present am simultaneouslycub master and county cub commissioner. My boss, Scout CommissionerDan Jones, is U. of C. geologist,PhD '33." Bill is stationed in Bartles-ville.1943Margy Ellin Lazarus is a fieldrepresentative for the Bureau ofLabor Statistics of the U. S. Department of Labor. She makes her homein Brooklyn, N. Y.Maxine Maree, AM, is doingpsychiatric social work in DesMoines, Iowa.Helen Elizabeth Berry after doingRed Cross motor corps work forsome time, reported in November inWashington for two. weeks trainingand assignment for overseas duty.CLARK-BREWERTeachers Agency63rd YearNationwide ServiceFive Offices — One Fee64 E. Jackson Blvd., ChicagoMinneapolis — Kansas City, Mo.Spokane — New YorkGEORGE ERHARDTand SONS, Inc.Painting — Decorating — Wood Finishing3123 PhoneLake Street Kedzie 3186HUCHES TEACHERS AGENCY25 E. JACKSON BLVD., Chicago, IllinoisTelephone Harrison 7793Member National Associationof Teachers AgenciesGenerally recognized as one of the leading TeachersAgencies of the United States. POND LETTER SERVICEEverything in LettersHoove* Typewriting MimeographingMultigraphing AddressingAddressograph Service MailingHighest Quality Service Minimum PricesAll Phones 418 So. Market St.Harrison 8118 ChicagoCLARKE-IVIcELROYPUBLISHING CO.6140 Cottage Grove AvenueMidway 3935"Good Printing of All Descriptions"SUPER-COLD CORPORATIONMANUFACTURERS OF COMMERCIALREFRIGERATION2221 South Michigan AvenueCHICAGO 16, ILLINOISShe expected to go under the titleof staff assistant and hoped to bein a clubmobile unit.Dorothy A. Eggebrecht, MBA, ison the faculty of Davis and ElkinsCollege in Elkins, West Virginia.Josephine Baptiste, AM '44, is running her shop, "Tiste Toggery," inGary, Indiana.Rabbi Israel H. Weisfeld, PhD,spiritual leader of the West SuburbanJewish Center at Oak Park, hasaccepted the call to the pulpit ofShearith Israel Congregation of Dallas, Texas, one of the foremost synagogues of the Southwest.Mrs. Bradley Patterson, Jr. (Shirley Dobos) is doing work at theCranbrook Institute of Science inBloomfield Hills, Michigan, alongwith her research work in reading forDr. Allison Davis of the U. of C.faculty. Bradley, '42, AM '43, isteaching social science and Germanand also coaching soccer at theschool.1944Beth Mahan was home in the latefall for a two weeks' vacation fromNew York, where she has been working for six months.Carleton College at Northfield,Minnesota, has appointed VirgilScharrer, AM, to its faculty.Roosevelt high school in East Chicago, Indiana, has Betty June Cantz-ler as a teacher.Florence V. Sargis is teaching atthe Morton Grove, Illinois, elementary school.Donald F. Ebright, PhD, is spending the present year as a lecturer30 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEand writer interpreting modern India. In October he was in Chicagoin order to open the FourteenthAnnual Oak Park Forum and laterspent a week in joint lectures withEly Culbertson, discussing India'splace in a world scheme. He hasbroadcast over Chicago's WGN andother stations on the same topic. Hewrites that the more he travels andlooks back on the two years oncampus, the more he realizes in everygood stimulating sense that the University of Chicago is great!YOUNGSTOWN ALUMNI(Continued from p. 21)his master's degree in sociology fromthe University of Nebraska, has beenpastor of the First Covenant Churchfor nearly eight years. There are threechildren in the Backstrom family:Ruth Alice, in high school; Robert,in junior high; and Eva Nonnea, ingrade school. Mr. Backstrom is apast president of the YoungstownMinisterial Association.Abraham H. Feinberg, rabbi ofRodef-Sholem Temple, who did hisundergraduate work at the University of Cincinnati, returns to theQuadrangles from time to time tocontinue his work in comparative religions. He hopes to receive his PhDfrom Chicago in the not too distantfuture.William C. Hurson, '37, is assistantto the purchasing and traffic managerat the Youngstown Steel Door Com-Ashjian Bros., inc.ESTABLISHED 1921Oriental and DomesticRUGSCLEANED anJ REPAIRED8066 South Chicago Phone Regent 6000Tuck PointingMaintenanceCleaning PHONEGRAceland 0800CENTRAL BUILDING CLEANING CO.CalkingStainingMasonryAcid WashingSand BlastingSteam CleaningWater Proofing 3347 N. Halsted StreetLEIGH'SGROCERY and MARKET1327 East 57th StreetPhones: Hyde Park 9100-1-2DAWN FRESH FROSTED FOODSCENTRELLAFRUITS AND VEGETABLESWE DELIVER Telephone Haymarket 3120E. A. AARON & BROS. Inc.Fresh Fruits and VegetablesDistributors ofCEDERGREEN FROZEN FRESH FRUITS ANDVEGETABLES46-48 South Water MarketAMERICANPHOTO ENGRAVING CO.Photo EngraversArtists —Makers of ElectrotypersPrinting Plates429S. Ashland Blvd. TelephoneMonroe 7515QUICK TRAININGIntensive Courses to meet the needs ofindustry and government— Stenographic,Bookkeeping, Typing, Comptometry, etc.Day and Evening — Catalogue FreeBryant^O StrattonCOLLEGE18 S. Michigan Ave. Tel. Randolph 1575pany. His intramural activities include the captaincy of a local bowlingteam which won the championshiplast year. The Hursons have one son,Michael, who is three years old.SOCIAL SERVICEEdward Conover, AM '31, has beenmade the community organizationconsultant for the United War Fundof North Carolina.Arthur James, AM '39, has recentlybeen appointed chief of the internalsecurity section of the War Relocation Authority, and is located inWashington, D. C.C. Ted Johnson, AM '39, has beenmade executive secretary of the Missouri Association for Social Welfare.Leona J. Olson, AM '41, has become medical social worker withthe American Red Cross in PercyJones General and Convalescent Hospital at Battle Creek, Michigan.Dorothy Emerick, AM '42, has accepted a position in the child welfaredivision in the State Department ofPublic Welfare in Oregon and willbe located in Vanport City. Van-port City is a wartime city built bythe federal government to take careof a housing shortage in the area andis principally made up of defenseworkers.Claire Stong Newlon, AM '42, hasaccepted a position with the homeservice division of the American RedCross in Seattle, Washington.Clara Willman, AM '42, has lefther position as director of the Anne Arundel County Department of Public Welfare in Maryland to becomehead of the division of child welfarein the State Department of PublicWelfare in Washington.Margaret Evelyn Smith, AM '43,has taken a position with the Goodwill Industries in Chicago.Of the students who took the master's degree at the December, 1944,Convocation, Kathleen Boyle is amedical social worker in the socialservice department of the KansasCity, Missouri, General Hospital;Rebecca Cohen is case worker in thedivision of psychiatry of the University of Chicago Clinics; Mildred Farisis director of home service of theAmerican Red Cross in Columbus,Ohio; Carol Goldstein is field workinstructor at the School of SocialService Administration; Helen Hra-chovska will leave for Washington to join the staff of UNRRA;Adaline Lee has been made case consultant with the division of publicassistance in the Wisconsin State Department of Public Welfare; PhyllisPeltz has taken a position as medicalsocial worker in the American RedCross and is located in the U. S.Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Illinois;Winifred Ryder has joined the staffof the War Relocation Authority andwill be located in the San Franciscooffice.ENGAGEMENTSMr. and Mrs. Robert Koenig ofHasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, announce the engagement of theirAMERICAN COLLEGE BUREAU28 E. JACKSON BOULEVARDCHICAGOA Bureau of Placement which limits it»work to the university and college field.It is affliated with the Fisk TeachersAgency of Chicago, whose work covers allthe educational fields. Both organizationsassist in the appointment of administrator!as well as of teachers.RICHARD H. WEST CO.COMMERCIALPAINTING & DECORATING1331 TelephoneW. Jackson Blvd. Monroe 3192Catch Basin and Sewer ServiceBack Water Valves, Sumps-Pumps6620 COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE1545 E. 63RD STREETFAIRFAX 0330-0550-0880PENDER CATCH BASIN SERVICE1545 EAST 63 RD STREETTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEdaughter, Helene, to Lloyd D. Elliott,LLB '23.Cpl. Kenneth Treiman, '43, has become engaged to Joyce Wahl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rene Wahl ofWinnetka and a graduate of the University of Iowa.MARRIAGESMildred Denison, daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Murray Denison of New-burgh, New York, was married onNovember 12 in the Perroquet Suiteat the Waldorf-Astoria in New Yorkto Lt. David H. Mendelsohn, '33, JD'35, now stationed in Washington,D. C. The bride is a graduate ofBeaver College and Syracuse University.Madelyn Rose Bell of Dallas,Texas, was married on October 29 toLt. Bruce A. King, '35, JD '37. Aftera wedding trip to New Orleans, thebride and groom are at home in FortWorth.Phyllis Rosabonheur Greene, '38,became the bride of Ensign John Waller Mattingly on August 28 at adouble ring ceremony held in Thorndike Hilton Chapel. The bride hasrecently written: "John is an Illiniman, an engineer turned Navy flyer —a PBY5A flyer on Atlantic patrol, tobe exact. We live in a room 8x8x8,with kitchen privileges, and when myhusband dresses, I must retire, literally, as we're both six footers!" TheMattinglys' current address is 2621West Blount, Pensacola, Florida.John A. Crawford, '42, and Lorraine Golden, '42, were married onSPRAGUEIRON WORKS44 10 WEST ADDISON ST.TELEPHONEPALISADE - - 2210Platers, SilversmithsSpecialists . . .GOLD, SILVER, RHODANIZESILVERWARERepaired, Rednished, RelacqueredSWARTZ & COMPANY10 S. Wabash Ave. CENtral 6089-90 ChicagoESTABLISHED 1908ROOFING and INSULATING NEILER, RICH &(NOT INC.) CO.ENGINEERSMechanical and ElectricalConsulting and Designing431 So. Dearborn StreetChicago 5, III.Telephone Harrison 7691Since 1878HANNIBAL, INC.UpholstersFurniture Repairing *1919 N. Sheffield AvenuePhone: Lincoln 7180A. J. F. Lowe & Son1217 East 55th StreetPlumbing — Refrigeration — RadioSales and ServiceDay Phones Mid. 0782-0783Night Phones Mid. 9295-Oakiand. I 13 IOctober 31. He is researching in theMetallurgical Lab on campus.Ruth Patricia Murray, '43, andCpl. Robert J. Hughes, '41, weremarried on July 15 at St. Cyril'sChurch in Chicago. The Hughes areat home at 329 Cottonwood Avenue,Hampton, Virginia.Helen Chapel, '43, was marriedlast April 22 to Lt.(j.g.) Warren G.Loungren, now overseas in the SouthPacific.Mr. and Mrs. A. Joseph Geist ofBelle Harbor, Long Island, announcethe marriage of their daughter, Norma, to Harper Heizer, '44. The groomis doing graduate work.BIRTHSTo Marian Maxwell Punke, AM'42, and Harold Punke, PhD '28, ason, Harold Dean, on June 23.Laurence H. Carr, '32, SM '34, andMrs. Carr (Helen Randall, '34) haveanother son, born on September 13at Lying-in Hospital. The Carrs nowhave three children — Margaret, 6;Thomas, 3; and the baby, Jonathan.Mr. Carr is the son of Dr. HarveyA. Carr, former professor of psychology at the University. The familylives in Homewood.Luis W. Alvarez, '32, and Mrs.Alvarez (Geraldine Smithwick, '34)have a new daughter, Jean, born onOctober 3. The family is living inSanta Fe, N. M.Leonard F. C. Reichle, '36, andMrs. Reichle announce the birth oftheir son, Leonard William, on November 21 in Richmond, Virginia.,. A daughter, Emily Ann, was bornon October 17 to Homer E. Rosenberg, '36, JD '38, and Mrs. Rosenberg (Joan K. Goodman, '38) inEvanston. The baby's maternal grandfather is Benedict K. Goodman, '13.Lorelei Baum arrived on last Hallowe'en morning, weight 7 J/2 pounds.She is the daughter of Robert Baum,'41, and Mrs. Baum.DEATHSJohn Franklin Cameron, MD Rush'80, of Hamilton, Indiana, on September 20.George Inglis, MD Rush '84, ofOswego, Oregon, on August 28.J. Allen Patton, MD Rush '90, inLos Angeles on September 25. Hehad retired in 1933 as medical director and second vice-president of thePrudential Life Insurance Co., afterthirty-eight years of service. He wasa former vice-president and presidentof the Association of Life InsuranceMedical Directors and taught for several years at his Alma Mater.John S. Whitson, MD Rush '95,physician of Enderlin, North Dakota,on August 6.Herman S. Judd, MD Rush '95,physician of Tacoma, Washington, onApril 19 in Tacoma.Ludwig M. Loeb, '96, MD Rush'00, assistant professor of medicine atthe University Medical School from1907 to 1937, died on September 7in Chicago. 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Flint, '96, retired surgeon, member of the medical facultyat Yale University from 1907 to 1921,and commander of its hospital unitoverseas during the first World War,died at Seal Harbor, Maine, on September 16. He had served as anassistant in anatomy at U. of C. soonafter receiving an MD from JohnsHopkins in 1900.Franklin J. Lins, MD Rush '97,of Durand, Illinois, on August 1 inSt. Anthony's Hospital in Rockford.George S. Adams, MD Rush '01,on July 28. Dr. Adams had been medical superintendent of the YanktonState Hospital and on the staff of theSacred Heart Hospital, where he died.Stuart H. Sheldon, MD Rush '02,fellow of the American College ofSurgeons and member of the staff ofEmanuel Hospital in Portland, Oregon, where he died on August 26. Heserved during World War I and hadbeen chief of obstetrics at the Salvation Army White Shield Home.Edward C. Eicher, '04, on November 30 in Washington, D. C. JudgeEicher had presided over the seven-months-old sedition trial in the U. S.District Court of the District of Columbia and his death automaticallyended the trial. He was a native ofIowa and practiced law in the statefor many years. He was a member ofthe Securities and Exchange Commission from 1938 to 1942, and its chair-BIRCK-FELLINGER CORP.ExclusiveCleaners & Dyers200 E. Marquette RoadPhone: Went. 5380Serving the Medical ProfessionSince 1895V. MUELLER & CO.SURGEONS' INSTRUMENTSHOSPITAL AND OFFICEFURNITUREORTHOPEDICAPPLIANCES•Phone Seeley 2180, all departmentsOgden Ave., Van Buren andHonore StreetsChicago 12 man for one year. Mr. Eicher wasa member of Congress for six years(1933-39).Burchard B. Ferenbaugh, LLB. '07,in Danville, Ohio, on October 4.Sister Antonia McHugh, '09, PhMTO, leading American educator andoutstanding Catholic scholar, and for33 years identified with the Collegeof St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota, died on October 11. She hadbeen ill in the hospital for two weeksbut had been an invalid for severalyears. She retired from her post aspresident of the College of St. Catherine in 1937, becoming presidentemeritus. Under her direction thecollege became one of the country'soutstanding schools for girls andyoung women. In addition to building the prestige of the school, SisterAntonia also was instrumental in perfecting the physical equipment of theinstitution, with several new buildings erected on the campus duringher administration. With her post aspresident she became Mother Antoniaand in 1931 was elected a superior ofher order. The same year she wasdecorated by Pope Pius XI with theCross of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice fordistinguished service to Catholic education. Sister Antonia was long activein the Association of Minnesota Colleges and was vice-president of thatorganization in 1931 and president in1936; in 1933 she was elected firstpresident of the Educational Conference of Sisters of St. Joseph ofCarondelet; and served as a memberof the governor's committee on education for the unemployed in Minnesota. In 1943 she was awarded ourAlumni Citation for outstanding service to education.Sherman B. Hibbard, MD Rush'12, Kansas City, Missouri, physicianon September 21 in St. Marys Hospital at Rochester, Minn.Mrs. W. A. Jensen (Lillian Francis,'12 ) on July 9 in Corvallis, Oregon.Fredericka C. Zeller, '14, retiredphysician of Peoria, Illinois, passedaway on August 28. Born in the tinyvillage of Spring Bay, Illinois, sheearly decided to follow in the footsteps of her father, Dr. John G. Zeller, upon whose medical skill that entire community depended. Afterwork at Chicago and at the University of Illinois, she received her medical degree from Northwestern. Shethen spent three years abroad, working in the hospitals of Paris, London,Vienna, and Berlin. Returning tothe United States by way of the Pacific, she visited Palestine, India,China, and Japan, studying variousproblems of disease in those lands, returning to Peoria rich in the knowledge she had gained. After her retirement from active practice shedevoted herself to the improvementand development .of the western farmlands which she inherited from herfather and her brother, Dr. GeorgeA. Zeller, noted alienist.Dwight Sanderson, PhD '21, emeritus professor of rural sociology atCornell University, on September 27in Ithaca, New York. He joined theCornell faculty in 1918 after servicein numerous eastern states in variedentomological and zoological fields.Mabel Roberta Carter, DB '31,passed way at Woodlawn Hospital inChicago on July 19. Miss Carter received her AB at Ohio Wesleyan.She taught in the Philosophical College at Jacksonville, Illinois; was professor of Biblical history and literature at Scarrett College, Nashville,and at Hollens College, Virginia. Shespent several vacation periods at theUniversity of Chicago and later became a regular student. She completed requirements for the PhD butlater chose to take the BD. She became interested in the needs of ourforeign born population and for several years was an instructor of adultclasses in language.Oscar C. Orneas, Jr., '33, chemistof North Scituate, Massachusetts, onOctober 12. Mrs. Orneas is the former Claudia J. Knight, '37.Ruth Ferguson, AM '42, on August22 in Kansas City, Missouri. Shehad been an assistant case work supervisor in the Social Security Commission in Missouri.TuckerDecorating Service5559 S. Cottage Grove Ave.Phone MIDway 4404Albert Teachers' Agency25 E. Jackson Blvd., ChicagoEstablished 1885. 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However, the sergeant(his Good Behavior ribbon does notshow in his heroic portrait) may havemy name if he wishes.16th Evacuation HospitalSWASTIKA EMBLEMSWe are "somewhere in Germany,"battering away at the Siegfried Lineand it is some line. Compared to iteven Minnesota's mighty wall againstwhich Berwanger, Sahlin, Zimmer,and Flinn battled in '35 is tissue paper.Am with a real fine bunch of fellowsand glad to be doing medical workonce more.There is something wonderful aboutAmerican fellows, a cockiness that borders on ethnocentrism, yes, but is afreedom from fear, a respect for eachother, a liking for life, people, andthe world in general which the peoplehere do not possess and envy. Thisreally is the "Old World"; be asscientific as you like, you feel it in theair, see it in the demeanor of the people, the tone of their press, the shapeand texture of their houses. This is aninsane world of treachery and deceitand hate. These Europeans are bredon wars, they grow up to kill one another — these "isms" are not accidentalbut genuine outpourings of the cultural soil of Europe.In the house in which I write this,in this very room, are pictures ofChrist, and the fellows coming in fortreatment (some of them even walkout alive, mirabile dictu) look at themand say, "The family must have beenreligious." Religious! On the oppositewall is a picture of the grandfather inmartial attire, 1878 fashion, with pictures of the three patron "saints" ofthe Franco- Prussian War — Bismarck,the first Kaiser, and von Moltke; inthe kitchen, until shells knocked it offthe wall, was the Kaiser of WorldWar I, and all about are swastika emblems of today's madness. One household dedicated to three wars. Religious? C'est a rirelAnd this is only one house. You canimagine Prussia proper. In France wesaw monuments galore to the wardead, even a well kept cemetery forGerman soldiers! These people don'ttalk our language in more ways thanone. America really is the "NewWorld," thank God for that.Pvt. Milton Bernard, '37Germany HORSE SENSEI usually approve of Pres. Hutchins'policies but I violently disagree withProfessors Warner and Reeves. Theyare typical of the dry rot that hasnearly ruined our educational system,and our country too. Socialistic paternalism and government meddlingin everything by incompetent politicians and theorists has led us fardown the path of national decadence.What education needs is a tremendous emphasis on quality and a sharplimitation on quantity. At presentevery lazy kid in the country is being encouraged to train for a whitecollar job, to loaf through college atdad's expense, and make a living offthe community by sharpness of witand slick dealing parasitism. IQalone is only one test. A high IQmost positively should not entitle anyone to anything but what he canearn. The only proper use of anIQ test is to help decide who are toodumb to be worth educating.As I see it the purpose of educationin general is to teach people how tolive better and to be better citizensin every sense of the word. Highereducation adds to this responsibilitythe fitting of people to be leaders ofour civilization, to improve the American way of living and spread itsbenefits to all who will adopt them.If I held an influential position inthe educational world I would get together a tough, hard-headed committee, largely dominated by successfulbusiness and professional men (andmaybe a few women) and devise apractical and conclusive test for"horse sense," sometimes called common sense, sense of proportion, orthe fitness of things.I would apply this test to everyyoungster entering high school, andall who failed would be automaticallyexcluded from so-called college preparatory courses, and instead trainedto be real producers of some sort. Scientific methods of farming would bea major feature of rural and nearrural high schools, while the tradeswould be taught in city high schools.Then maybe we could find good carpenters, cabinet makers, blacksmiths,pattern makers, moulders, tool makers, and machinists under forty yearsof age.Again the "horse sense" examination would be applied to all collegeapplicants and only those who demonstrated that quality of mind wouldbe admitted.No one could enter on graduatestudy for a master's degree in education until he had actually earned his living in the business or industrialworld for five years, preferably working in the field he or she intends tomajor in. Another five year periodof real, honest-to-God, practical workin the field would be required beforea candidate could be enrolled forwork toward a doctorate. One ofthe important criteria as to whetherhe was qualified to enter on suchstudies would be the letters of recommendation from employers and business contacts. They would have toshow clearly that the candidate hadleadership ability, initiative, judgment, horse sense, enthusiasm, industry, and an open and judicial mind,free from hide-bound prejudice anddogma. Many attributes of a wellrounded character would be minutely scrutinized, and only those whoproved worthy to be entrusted withthe teaching and leading of our country would be accepted. In this waya college degree would mean that itspossessor would be really worthy ofbeing followed by the 90 per cent ofour population who blindly believewhatever they read or hear over theradio.The higher education of impractical, scatter-brained enthusiasts andthe putting them into positions ofauthority and leadership is fundamentally what is responsible for suchdecadent phenomena as the NewDeal, piling up debt, drunken sailorfashion, "to create prosperity," penalizing by taxation those who producereal wealth, in order to give a handout to those who are too lazy or incompetent to produce for themselves.I know of no surer way to destroyAmerica with its opportunities foranyone to demonstrate what he canreally produce and make of himselfthan to bottle feed at public expense every youngster that would liketo postpone for another few yearsreally getting down to work. Theworth-while youth will earn his education himself if necessary.The Stephens College plan of educating women as helpmeets ratherthan competitors of men deservesmore universal adoption. It wouldcause tremendous changes in somecurricula and the trend of studentadvising. Incidentally it would carrywith it a realistic training of bothmen and women in the bases of marriage and family life. Many collegesare making a start in this directionbut much remains to be done to really"get down to brass tacks."Col. Gerald P. Lawrence,MD Rush, '13ItalyHAIR REMOVED FOREVERBEFORE20 Years' Exp.ri.ne.FREE CONSULTATIONLOTTIE A. METCALFEELECTROLYSIS EXPERTGraduate Nun.Multiple SO platinum needles can beused. Permanent removal of Hair fromFace, Eyebrows, Back of Neck or anypart of Body; destroys 800 to 800 HairRoots per hour.Removal of Facial Veins, Moles andWarts.Mamotr Amoriean Assn. 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