EDITOR'SMEMO PADColwell takes over Golden GateThose Bay Area alumni were terrific!We're speaking of the alumni in SanFrancisco, Berkeley and Oakland.We wrote them last September to saythat President and Mrs. Ernest C. Colwellwould be in California in February. Didthey want to entertain them?Did they! Soon we began to get regu­lar reports. The East and West Baygroups had combined; a large joint com­mittee had been appointed; the swankHotel Claremont parlors had been re­served; they were planning for 300 at aSunday afternoon coffee-dessert program.Three hundred! In an area where wehave less than 700 alumni? We began tosee deficit guarantees before our eyes. Ahundred had been a- crowd in former BayArea meetings. And a dollar and a halfa head for coffee and dessert on a lateSunday afternoon! Headquarters stoodalerted for orders from the coast."Save the date," was the preliminaryannouncement which went out right afterNew Years. We wondered what else we'dhave to rush in and save-300 they said.Better start with 150, we wrote. No an­swer.Meanwhile requests' began to come infrom different committees. Send picturesfor the press; a feature story for Chron­icle columnist; a story and pictures for afortnightly Bay journal; would PresidentColwell consent to an interview on theradio? Mail maroon banners, name tagcards, a list of prominent alumni; howabout a press interview when the Colwellsarrived? How about luncheon at theCommonwealth Club? A cocktail partyat the Claremont Country Club withDunlap Clark, '17, who would also bemaster of ceremonies at the big meeting?One hundred thirty eight reservations inalready. We began to breathe easier.The report is now in. It was 300, allright. On February 5th the Bay Area com­bined clubs had probably set an all-timenational record for Chicago club meetingsconsidering the number of alumni in thearea.• And because names are news in alumnicircles, and with the hope you may rec­ognize old Midway friends, we publish thenames of the general and honorary recep­tion committees.East- West Bay CommitteeChairmen:. Philip R. Lawrence, '40, LLB '42A. Russell Griffith, AM '29, JD '33Secretaries:Mary M. Graham, '43, JD '45Louise Galst Wechsler, '42, AM '44Program:Ralph N. Larson, '25Arnold Crompton, AM '39Accommodations:Horace M. Angell, '41Robert C. Cook, MBA '47Host and Hostess:George O. Braden, '48Louise Galst WechslerTickets:Nancy Newman, '42Paul Baumgart, '42Publicity:Betty Mouse, MBA '47J ames Wingate Climax of a busy week-end at GoldenGate: Mrs. Larson, Crompton, Mrs.Clark, Colwell, Clark, Mrs. Colwell,Larson, Lawrence. Insert: Dunlap Clarkwas in typically good form as he pre­sided at the coffee-dessert hour andintroduced President Colwell.The Honorary Reception CommitteeDr. Luis W. Alvarez, .'32, SM '34, PhD'36Donald Bean, ' 17Judge James S. Blaine, LLB '23Prof. George BogertProf. Guy Buswell, AM '16, PhD '20Dunlap C. Clark, '17Prof. Albert Ehrenzweig, JD '41Prof. Clarence Faust, AM '29, PhD '35Alfred Frankenstein, ' 3 2Prof. Luther Gilbert, PhD '31Alice Tisdale Hobart, , 11Harold Huls, '17, JD '21Dr. Harvey M. Husberger, MD Rush' 18Prof. Lawrence A. KimptonRev. Felix Danford Lion, '36Henry T. Maschal, ' 3 3Prof. Oliver McCaskill, '01, JD '06Dr. M. Laurence Montgomery, PhD '31Dr. Agness Fay Morgan, '05, SM '06, PhD, 17Judge Walter L. Pope, JD ' 12Prof. Edward Z. Rowell, '15, AM '16,PhD '22Herschel G. Shaw, '10Dr. Herman A. Spoeher, '06, PhD '09Prof. Pauline Sperry, SM '14, PhD '16Prof. Jacobus Ten BroekDr. William Weiner, MD Rush '03Franklin C. Wheeler, '43Mrs. Frederick Whitman, '23Los Angeles greets the ColwellsMore than two hundred were at theparlors and dining hall of the First Con­gregational Church just off WilshireBoulevard on January 30 when Presidentand Mrs. Colwell were the honored guests.Delvy T. Walton, DJ '24, president of theClub, and a committee of alumni was re­sponsible for. the reception and dinner.We are sorry that, as we go to press, wedo not have .the names of the committee,because it staged one of the best Los An­geles reunions in recent years.Portland entertains BellAt a lobster dinner in the Cosmopoli­tan Club, nearly one hundred Chicagoalumni and guests entertained Laird Bell,Chairman of the Board of Trustees, onFebruary 24th. Mr. Bell was in the Pa­cific Northwest on business and alert Dex­ter Fairbank, '35, got the alumni togetherto hear about Chicago and meet theBoard president.At the speaker's table were: SupremeCourt Justice George Rossman, JD ' 10 ;newly appointed federal judge Gus J.Solomon, '26; President Walter C. Giers- back, PhD '33, of Pacific University·President Edward L. Clark of Moltno�mah College and his wife, Ferne Gilder­shine, '16.The Portland committee included RoyE. Miller, SM '17, publicity; George W.Friede, JD '31, refreshments; CareyMartin, '16, JD '22, finances.Officers elected: Dexter Fairbank, '35president; Robert L. Weiss, JD '48, vice�pres.; Elsie Maxwell, AM '28, sec.; CareyMartin, '16, JD '22, treas.Denver reorganizingThe Denver Club, which has beenmeeting the third Thursday of each monthfor lunch at Daniels & Fishers, is plan­ning a big ev�ing meeting and a reor­ganization. Active in the future plans ofthe club are: Leslie Gross, '46, JD '49,Ella Metsker Milligan, '06; Samuel Chut�kow, '18, JD '20; and John L. Garrison'15. 'Washington, D.C. at the StatlerPreparing for an eastern swing by Pres­ident Colwell and Dr. Harold C. Dreythe Washington Club, under the presi�dency of Katherine A. Frederic, PhD '40,is planning a reception and dinner at theStatler Hotel on April 18. This club isn'tmissing a bet (except elephants on Penn­sylvania Avenue) to make this the affairof the generation. Sponsors include a listof U. of C . Washingtonians as long as thissheet. There will be cocktails, hosts andhostesses, tables by U niversi ty depart­ments, honored guests from the Senateand House, and maroon displays that willbring the Midway to the nation's capital.New York at Town Hall Club. The big Colwell-Urey reception anddinner in New York-on April 20-willbe at the Town Hall Club in Mid-Manhat­tan. Their program will be similar toWashington's with a hundred hosts andhostesses to see that everyone meets every­'one, including the speakers. Milford De­senberg, ' 19, is chairman.PhiladelphiaEnroute to New York from Washing­ton the party of Colwell, Urey, andAlumni Secretary Mort will stop in Phila­delphia for an alumni dinner at the Uni-v�rsity Club-April 19th. ..MilwaukeeWhen President Col�ell returns fromhis eastern swing he will have a few daysat �{iicago before traveling to Milwaukeewith,;the alumni secretary for a club meet­ing at the University; Club the last weekin April: Fred D. Jenkins, '36, is presi­dent of the Club and has set up a work­ing committee to make this an outstand­ing reception and dinner.DetroitThe following week, May 4th, Presi­dent Colwell will be the guest of the De­troit Club at the Sheraton Hotel. FloydH. Fuller, LLB '17, is president of the'Club.Winter ParkThe alumni of Winter Park, Floridaand area had the pleasure of witnessingthe inauguration of a fellow alumnus aspresident of Rollins College, February18th.Paul A. Wagner, '38, is the new presi­dent of Rollins. Chancellor and Mrs.Hutchins were present for the occasionand joined the Wagners for an outdoorreception following the inauguration. Dr.George R. Crisler, '24, PhD '28, MD '31,is president of our Winter Park club.MobileWhen Hariet Roth, '45 (Mrs. M. E.Olen) learned that Chancellor Hutchinswas to be in Mobile, Alabama on March25, she arranged for a dinner of Mobilealumni to meet and hear the Chancellor.It was held at the Restaurant Lafayette.DaytonThe Dayton Alumni Club-Henry F.Otto, Jr., '27, president, is to have aunique meeting soon. . They will be theguests of Director Siegfried R. Weng, '27,AM '29, of the Dayton Art Institute, fordinner and a special Institute program.LETTERSEight-line sacrificeCongratulations on an issue (March)that doesn't carry any article to a backpage-although this seems to have beenachieved at some sacrifice between pages16 and 17.Herbert Bebb, JD '13ChicagoEd. Note: For those who still have theMarch issue, please insert the followingat the bottom of page 16: "(He was quitedisarmed) by their engaging manner. Themeeting was held in good spirit, and prob­ably proved most informative to a personwho. does not deal daily with these intell­gent youngsters.a We halve had a groupo f German stu­dents on campus sponsored by the StateDepartment. All of them are young pro­fessional people who felt the need forfurther (training in the general area ofthe social sciences),"It reminds us of the days when we usedto paint houses with dad. His only com­ment when he discovered a few boards wemissed was: "Here's a spot where thepaint fell off·" Volume 42 Number 7April, 1950PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONManaging EditorHOWARD W. MORTEditors.LAURA BERGQUISTLEONARD L. COLBY Contributing EditorsJeannette LowreyWilliam V. MorgensternRobert M. StrozierIN THIS ISSUE"EDITOR'S MEMO PAD COVER 1LETTERS 1THE GREAT BOOKS STORY, .fohn S. Harmon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2QUOTEWORTHY, A Sampling of Faculty Comment. . . . . . . . . .. 7BOOKS ON REVIEW 9WANTED: $$$ FOR THE BALL TEAM, Robert M. Strozier. . . .. 12THE PERSONALIZED COLLEGE, William V. Morgenstern. . . . . .. 15JUSTICE IN 1850 B.C., Jeannette Lowrey " 16MARCH CALENDAR " ., 20A HYMN To SUBURBIA, Frederick S. Breed 21NEWS OF THE CLASSES 23COVER: Army veteran Jack Campiche, 29, and son David, 20months, happily collects news from Mrs. Benedict thathe will receive a Noyes scholarship, for which vet­erans or relatives of World War I veterans are eligible.Plus help from the GI bill, it will help finance fourmore quarters of medical school. Even now, 40% ofthe University's enrolment is composed of ex-GI's. Asthey use up their government benefits, en route tohigher degrees, more and more are applying for the1700 various scholarships the University awards.(Cover and photographs on pages 6, 9, 14, 17 and 18by Steve Lewellyn, '48.)Published by the Alu�ni. Association of the University of Chicago monthly. from Octoberthru Ju�e. Office of. Publication, 5733 University Avenue. Chicago 37, Illinois. Annual subscrip­tion price $3.00. Smg]e copies .35. cents. Entered as second class matter December 1, 1934, atthe Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3 1879. The American AlumniCou?cil, B. � .. Ross, advertising director, 22 Washington Squ�re, New York. N. Y., is theofficial advertising agency of the Magazine.One snuck outAway back in 1909 some of us derelictsused to take Sunday morning Bible . . .to catch up on credits. Among the sea­soned addicts besides myself was one Hil­mar Baukhage (then pronounced Bokog­gy) ....The class was large and fraternity menused green and gruesome pledges to at­tend, answer roll call for them, and takenotes.One Sabbath morning after roll call Dr.Matthews announced he'd like to see Mr.Clark (Ski) Sauer, Mr. Hilmar Bauk­hage, and Miss Alice Lee Herrick afterclass. Then came the prayer.A young, D. D., dewey-eyed pledge (Baukhage was a D. U.) dropped downon all fours-crawled along beneath thewindows of Haskell, and out the door. Hebeat it pell-rnell for the fraternity house.He returned by the close of the lecturewith a dishevelled, sleepy-eyed Baukhagewho, in turn, marched up to the desk ...when the lecture was over.It was just one of those silly incidentsof college days I can't forget.Lydia Lee Pearce, '14Pasco , WashingtonEd. Note : We should have held thisstory until after Baukhage (ABC Washing­ton news analyst) piously introduces for­mer Divinity School Dean Colwell at theWashington meeting April 18th (see Edi­tor's Memo Pad).1Despite the heat of a summer's night, a Great Beeks group in Glenview, Illinois, goes on with its lively discussionof "The Prince, by Machiavelli. Leaders are Mrs. Wells. left. and Mr. Claude Wells. ex-public relations man. whoresigned his job to become a student in the University's Committee on Social Thought .. J.THE GREAT BOOI(8STORYOnce the' subject of storm.y debate, the progralD isnow mature,all ages" and expanding,background accepted byfrOID Chicago people ofto BrazilBy John S. Harmon. '46A CHAIN REACTION was setoff in 1943 by three men whoweren't even aware of what they haddone.It began with a suggestion to Rob­ert Maynard Hutchins from Wilbur C. Munnecke, then vice presidentof Marshall Field & Company, onleave administering war projects atthe University of Chicago. His ex­perience had convinced him that busi-'nessmen knew their business but had difficulty in putting their knowledgeinto suitable words and in under­standing one another. In short, theyneeded training in the arts of com­munication. It occurred to himthat a Great Books discussion group,2THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEsimilar to the famous Hutchins-Adlerseminar which had been operating oncampus since 1930, might fill the bill.Hutchins and co-partner Adler,author of the best seller How to Reada Book, agreed to conduct a group atthe University Club. Requirements:that you be a topflight executive, paythe $100 fee ($150 if you broughtyour wife, as most did) , and be willingand able to read. Some 50 personsresponded, among them Chicago Sunpublisher Marshall Field, RichardFinnegan, then managing editor ofthe Chicago Times, Clay Judson,lawyer, and Harold H. Swift.So immediate was the group's suc­cess that Munnecke-who is not or­dinarily the most optimistic of theth.ree-half seriously predicted thatwithin five years a half dozen groupsmight be meeting across the country.Hutchins and Adler admitted this waspossible, hut settled on two or threeas more probable.All three were wrong. Within threeyears, there were city wide programs'in Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit and'Cleveland. Today, more than 50,000people in 400 towns and cities haveread and discussed the Great Booksand the idea has spread to Guate­mala, Brazil, Japan, Venezuela, andIndia.This feat was not accomplishedquietly or without opposition-or evenquickly.In 1918, Professor John Erskinehad founded the Homer to WilliamJames courses, popular among dough­boys at the University of Beaune,France, and had brought the courseto Columbia University. In 1927,several adult groups were begun in New York, in the tradition of the19th century "Greats" course at Ox­ford. Mr. Adler, who had been . apupil of Mr. Erskine's, helped spreadthe idea, as did Everett Dean Martin,Scott Buchanan and Clifton Fadi­man.These were regarded, mildly, as in­teresting experiments.Tempest in the '30'sNot until Hutchins, closely fol­lowed by Adler, came to Chicagowith the idea. that students shouldread the classics directly (rather thanread about them) and then talk withtheir fellow students about what theyhad read, did the rumpus begin. In1930, they launched the first two-yearcourse in the Great Books, accredited,but nonetheless experimental. The fol­lowers of John Dewey were soon talk­ing darkly about a return to the DarkAges. College presidents feared forthe elective system and the textbook.Professors who had never seen GreatBooks courses wrote books on whatwas wrong with them.The Great Books were limited to nofixed number - (today participantsread 49 authors in all, covering 75titles, ranging from Aristotle throughthe Declaration of Independence; Sig­mund Freud and historian Tawney).They were the books which, as oneearly leader said, "dealt most incis­ively, most eloquently, most univer­sally and most timelessly with manand his world. Taken together, theyconstituted a continuous discussionof mankind's common problems."Yet the notion of reading bookswhich treated many different prob- 3lems, books whose scope and insightmade it possible to reread them profit­ably dozens of times, seemed disturb­ing-especially to those who liked edu­cation in· water-tight compartments.They complained you couldn't tellone subject from another under theHutchins-Adler program with its mix­ture of literature, science, theology,and philosophy. When students inthat first course asked if the readingsmight not be repeated so that theycould get better acquainted withthem, Hutchins asked a dean if creditcould be given for the course, secondtime around. "Why should we?" saidthe dean. "They passed it once. Whyshould they get credit for the samething again?"The University began attracting thekind of attention it hadn't had sincePresident Harper and Mr. Rockefellerreplaced Little Egypt as the Midway'snumber one attraction. The curiousand the interested came from every­where, to look in on the controversialcourse. Katherine Cornell sat in onthe group. Lillian Gish came regu­larly while her play was in town.Gertrude Stein led a discussion, andlost one round to the students whospiritedly spoke up for Tolstoi's Warand Peace, when she claimed the Iliadwas the only epic. Orson Welleslistened silently, once, for two hoursand the usually vocal Westbrook Peg­ler summed up a discussion of St.Thomas Aquinas' On Virtue with:"I fell off the sled on the first turn."After the executive group at theUniversity Club succeeded so bril­liantly in 1943, Carl B. Roden of theChicago Public Library offered facili­ties for a community experiment inThe original team of Great Books leaders - Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler.4 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEDuring Great Books week, proclaimed by Mayor Kennelly in '48, 25 lead­ing Chicago citizens were the star attraction 'at an Orchestra Hall seminarled by Hutchins and Adler, and attended by 2,500. Plato's "Apology andCrito" was studied by a panel which included Benjamin Adamowski, Corpo­ration Counsel, Paul Angle, Director, Chicago Historical Society, MarshallField Jr., columnist Sydney Harris, Mrs. Clifton Utley, George L. Seaton,General Manager, Illinois Bell Telephone Co., and Rabbi George Fox.the Great Books, with librarians lead­ing the discussion, instead of pro­fessors. The librarian was no longerto be a lady of the stamp pad, whospoke in whispers and guarded theconfines of the library as if it werea harem. She assumed her proper roleas an active educational force in thecommunity.The fame of these non-professional,non-professorial leaders spread. CyrilO. Houle, PhD. '40, Dean ofUniversity College, who was chargedwith helping develop this venture inadult education, began receiving re­quests for assistance from all over thecountry. The Air Age for Socratesbegan. University College sent leader­trainers to Detroit, Cleveland, Indian­apolis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Mil­waukee and Louisville. One pair ofthese flying GB ambassadors averaged1300 miles and seven classes everytwo weeks. In leading discussionsabout the same book, with variedgroups, they confirmed one hunch­you can discuss great books in analmost infinite variety of ways, andno two discussions are ever alike:Success created new problems. Onewas the book supply. Even in thepopular editions, the 17pr 18 readingsfor the year cost more than $20. Be- cause of sharp demand, even thesewere soon out of print. UniversityCollege was virtually forced into thereprint business to meet the needs ofthe groups it helped create. (Eachyear's readings now sell at $9.60.) Ar­ticles appeared in Lite, Ladies' Home] ournal and other national magazinesand requests for leadership trammgpoured in from nearly all the 48states. The local extension divisionset up branches, coast to coast. The'Great Books program was becomingthe tail that wagged the dog.Hutchins, Adler, Munnecke andHoule got together with Lynn A. Wil­liams Jr., a commuting member ofthe University Club group, who asvice president of the Stewart-WarnerCorporation had introduced the GreatBooks into the S- W factory in In­dianapolis. They set up a non-profitfoundation with Williams as presi­dent. Purpose: to assist communi­ties in setting up discussion groups.Income was to be derived from thesale of reprints and donations frominterested individuals and institutions.They hoped that income from reprintsales might eventually. support theentire operation. One training pro-.gram would launch the venture andproduce 40 leaders, for 20 groups (two leaders per group). These couldtrain more leaders for more groups.The original 20 groups would pro­duce in turn five or ten additionalnew groups and the Great BooksFoundation could cover the countryand still work itself out of businesswi thin five years.But things didn't work out that way.The Foundation, much against itswill, became increasingly aware thatit might have to remain the hub ofthe movement. Leaders didn't seemto be spontaneously generated. Mem­bers of a good group preferred to staywith that group, rather than establishnew ones. Some group members didoccasionally double as leaders, butmore of them found bridge, family,television and the movies too muchcompetition for their time. The GreatBooks did well in getting adults todevote four hours to reading and twohours to discussion every fortnight.Nonetheless, new groups needednew leaders, and the Foundation, asthe only organization with experiencein the field, decided it would haveto provide them. To meet local de­mand and reduce travel costs andtime, Foundation representatives wereestablished in New York, Detroit, LosAngeles, and San Francisco. Groupswere established by mail, in smallertowns and cities, and in cities abroad.Not resting on laurelsNow, seven years after the found­ing of the University Club seminar,Life magazine in a recent editorial,looks on Hutchins' work, finds it good,suggests that the battle is won, andthat he and his followers rest on theirlaurels.In fact they have no intention ofdoing so. In a modest office at 59 EoMonroe Street, Mr. Munnecke nowdirects a small staff of paid workersand hundreds of volunteers, and looksforward to an even bigger' year in1951. (Munnecke assumed the presi­dency in June, 1949, when Williamsresigned to devote full time to beinga U ni versi ty vice president.)Munnecke expresses the Founda­tion's purpose thus: "Most of us be­lieve the individual members of a soci­ety inevitably determine the form, thegovernment; and the customs of thatsociety. A free society can be main­tained only when its members bothdesire and understand freedom. TheTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEGreat Books Foundation has provedthat substantial numbers of citizenscan and will read the best that hasbeen said on such issues as freedom,democracy, government, capital, labor,profits, taxes etc. and meet to discussthese ideas with their friends andneighbors. This is not done in theidle search for useless knowledge, butin an attempt to determine for them­selves what they as individuals shouldbe for and are for, and what theyshould be against and are against. Inall cases, why they are for and whythey are against."American education has madegreat strides in the field ,of training,but it has only scratched the surfacein the field of education. If a manwants to learn printing, if a womanwants to learn sewing, he or shecan go to a night school. But wherecan somebody go if he wants to learnto think? A man can learn publicspeaking almost any place, but wherecan he learn to say important thingswell? "The only place I know is inthe Great Books program. The read­ings plus the give and take discussionmethod makes it the soundest meansof general education for adults on amass basis."His is no voice crying in the. wilder­ness. The program, which was oncethe exclusive property of the U of C,is now one of the. most importantThe AuthorJohn S. Harmon, AB '46,writes firsthand about the tri­umphs and tribulations of theGreat Books Foundation. He isassistant to its Program Directora kind of handyman careerwhich entails anything fromleading a Great Books Discus­sion himself, to writing trainingmanuals for other leaders, andjunketing around the United'States promoting' the idea out­side the Chicago area. He triedtwo other N ew York collegesbefore embarking on studiesat the University, which hefound his first satisfactory edu­cational experience, and wassufficiently fascinated by theGB program to leave graduatework in English to become thefirst non-professional leader ofa seminar at University College. 5"The Odyssey," by Homer, was discussed on a television program called''It's a Great Idea," produced on ABC and NBC networks. Every week acontemp<?'f�Ey' problem was analyzed in the light of ideas contained in agreat book: 3: i�eft to right, Mrs. Walt'er P. Paepcke, a director of the GBFoundati�n,�j"tVrr'�. Dale O'Brien, housewife, and Mr. Robert L. Simons, restau­rant owner. '''!';''{courses in the Extension Division ofthe University of Wisconsin, which, inconjunction with the Foundation, hasheld a series of regional leader-train­ing . programs across the state.Faculty members have assisted incommunity work at Wabash College,Butler University and Earlham Col­lege in Indiana. The presidents ofseveral colleges, among them FatherCavanaugh of Notre Dame, are GreatBooks discussion leaders. Eleven col­leges in Texas hav€ Great Booksgroups meeting on their premises. Sev­eral high schools have begun the pro­gram,as an experiment and continuedit as a regular course. However, GBgroups are not limited to schools, li­braries and colleges. Such varied or-'ganizations as the Union League Club,Chicago; The American Legion, NewAlbany, Iridi'ana; Abbott Laboratories,Chicago; and Eli Lilly and Company,Indianapolis, are meeting places forGreat Books groups. The idea thateducation is a lifetime process isshared by many people in 45 states,ranging from 7000 in Illinois to 10in Mississippi.Sir Richard Livingston, Presidentof Corpus Christi College, upon hisreturn to Oxford University, England,wrote he was greatly impressed bywhat had been done in Chicago. Ina culture geared to the advertisers' myth of the twelve year old mind, itis natural that the program shouldstand out as an oasis in a desert ofmediocrity. Even in material 'thingspeople must make qualitative choices.In the non-material-the problems,for instance, which our age must an­swer correctly or perish-it is evenmore important to be armed with themost understanding and knowledge.The great conversation across the agesdevelops this understanding and fur­nishes the minutes of the previousmeeting.Stimulus to thinkingThe conflict of ideas among thegreat authors stimulates people infothinking about issues which are deepand broad. A woman in Milwaukeesaid, "I've read the Declaration ofIndependence a hundred times, butI've never worried about the ideasbefore. I've been worried about themfor two weeks now, but I think thatfor the first time I'm getting an ideaof what it means."A retired schoolteacher in theNorthwest tells the following story."The leader kept pressing me for thereasons behind my opinion and whenI didn't give them to his or thegroup's satisfaction, the discussionturned to someone else. I was ter­ribly annoyed and I stayed away from6 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEAround the dining room table in the parsonage of the St. James Congrega­tional Church, on Chicago's near north side, an inter-racial group meets totalk about Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." The seminaris in its third year and is always followed by a social hour and refreshments.Leaders are: Mrs. Esther Harmon, business woman (left, at head of table),and William McCurine, social worker.The younger set talks about "The Declaration of Independence," at NewTrier Township High School, in Winnetka, Illinois. Unlike members in com­munity classes, these seniors write themes based on the books and are trainedin the skills of writing, as well as those of thinking, speaking and reading.Matthew P. Gaffney, Superintendent, reports that graduates say to him thatthe Great Books course was the best preparation they received for college."Paradise Lost." by Milton, is the topic at the Union League Club in Chicagowhere, Wilbur C. Munnecke, president of the GB Foundation (left, at headof table), is shown leading a third-year discussion. The group includes lawyers,business counselors, insurance and real estate men, investment brokers, salesand credit managers and their wives. the next meeting and got even moredisturbed. I was determined to goback because in fifty years of educa­tion, this is the first time an idea everdisturbed me."A reporter in Minnesota said, "1only went as far as eighth grade, and Inever even heard of the Greeks, butthey've got a helluva lot to say to U�today."The Foundation is now revising itsplans to meet changing conditions andgrowing interest. The new communityplan, which will be the basis for theFoundation's future work, places lessstress on book sales as income. In thebelief that the community will bearits rightful share of the expense ofleader training and administration ofthe course, the Foundation has estab­lished a scale of fees and expensesfor its services. These are to be metby local committees in a variety ofways. For instance, the RosenbergFoundation supports the San Fran­cisco program, while expenses .in LosAngeles are borne by a local Asso­ciates plan, the people themselves con­tributing. In San Antonio, the PublicLibrary budget includes the cost ofthe Great Books project.The Foundation's services are asfollows:1. An annual demonstration meet­ing. In Chicago a Great Books Weekwas proclaimed by Mayor Kennelly inSeptember, 1948, and endorsed byGovernor Green and President Tru­man. Some 2,500 persons jammedOrchestra Hall, and 1,500 were turnedaway, when Hutchins and Adler leda discussion of Plato's 2,400 year oldApology and Crito. Some participantsin this famous discussion includedMarshall Field III, Ralph Helstein,packing house union leader, MeyerKestenbaum, pre sid e n t of Hart,Schaffner and Marx, and Robert L.Simons, proprietor of the HitchingPost restaurants. A similar discus­sion in Milwaukee brought Machi­avelli's Prince, the book under discus­sion, to the attention of every man,woman and child in the city, throughthe medium of radio, television andthe newspapers. An electric sign threefeet high atop City Hall said "Reg­ister for Great Books."2. Annual leader training and re­fresher course. Great Books leadersare not teachers-the books them­selves are. Leaders merely ask the(Continued on page 19)THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 7•QUOTEWORTHY. . . A sampling of faculty commentFREE ENTERPRISE AND THEWORKER"America's system of free enter­prise, if it is to survive and developits full potentialities for human living,must be as meaningful in the lives ofworkers and their families as it is inthe lives of those who own and man­age 'business and industry..It must fiill the material wants ofworkers generally, and provide thenecessary rewards for those ambitiousworkers who strive to advance on thejob and better their families' positionin the community.WarnerThe total amount of economic andsocial opportunity for the ambitious,who wish to use the way of entrepren­eurship to success, is far less todaythan in grandfather's day. Whenworkers do not feel the channels ofmobility are clear, their satisfactionyields to frustration and hostility.Only as long as they know that theopportunity for advancement is avail­able for anyone who wants to try, isthe American Dream real and truefor them.The means lie in increased publiceducation opportunities for youth, inearly identification of real talent andthe urge for success among young peo­ple, and in keeping outstanding lower­status young people in school throughbetter guidance and counseling pro­grams. Such a program can prevent many young people from going towork before they have prepared them­selves with the necessary educationalskills to compete for advancement.We must also keep the routes of mo­bility open in business concerns. Since'blocked mobility' is a major causefor some of the decline in a worker'sfaith in the capitalistic system, it isthe duty of management to do all thatit can to free this system and makethe worker realize that opportunitydoes exist for him and that manage­ment is alert to helping him.Mobility channels can be kept openby a company making careful inven­tories of job specifications and theskills of workers already existing inthe company. Information should beobtained about workers' backgrounds,with special emphasis on learning at­titudes, social skills, specialized ex­perience and abilities that help work­ers to qualify for better jobs, and forincreased policies of promoting fromwithin wherever possible.If the opportunity is available forthose who really wish to try and forthose who have the necessary talent,faith in free enterprise as a systemwill continue strong, because it willthen be paying off for the worker inthe same way that it does for man­agement."-W. Lloyd Warner, Professor ofAnthropology and Sociology and au­thor .o] "Democracy in Jonesville,"and "Social Class in America:" speak­ing before the Executive ProgramClub in Chicago, on "Individual Op­portunity: Crucial Test of a Free So­ciety."PRESTIGE GROWS ABROAD"During my trips abroad, I havebeen impressed by the high prestigeour University en­joys in Europeancountries. In Ger­many, the Frank­furt p�ject hasraised ''our reputa­tion almost to thepoint of reverence.What the Frank­furt pol icy has Weiss contributed to the rehabilitation ofhigher education in Germany youhave been told before, but you maynot have fully appreciated the enor­mous gain in prestige the Universityof Chicago has earned in return forits contribution."-Paul A. Weiss, professor of Zo­ology, addressing the annual facultydinner, given by the Board of Trusteesat the South Shore Country Club.THE NEW GLAMOR OF PHYSICS"There are many indications thatthe state of physics is good. ThePhysical Review is losing money, anexcellent sign in itself. Its bi-monthlyissues bulge with learned contribu­tions to knowledge and few, if any, ofthe Letters to the Editor stay withinthe 600-word limit prayerfully re­quested by the harassed editorial staff.I can remember 'when all the ses­sions of the Washington Meeting ofour Society were held in a small lec­ture room at the Bureau of Standards,Even this one meeting was poorly at­tended, the happy physicists, notprodded by the goad of GovernmentContracts, mostly sat outside on thelawn and discussed mutual acquaint­ances. Nowadays a shuttle taxi serv­ice has to be provided to haul thepanting members from auditorium toauditorium and important papershave matinee and evening perform­ances,The only known physicist widelyknown then was Dr. Einstein, whosetheories were incomprehensible to thepublic, which, nevertheless, had cor­rectly judged that something funda­mental and new had 'been added. Inthese times, any young man who cancall himself a nuclear physicist is 'be­sieged with requests to speak: beforewomen's clubs on the world politicalsituation, and the panel discussionson nuclear physics if placed end toend would stretch from Los Alamosto Bikini.. . . Suddenly physicists are exhib­ited at Washington tea parties, in­vited to conventions of social scien­tists, where their opinions on societyare respectfully listened to by life long8 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEexperts in the field, attend conven­tions of religious orders and discourseon theology, al)d are asked to endorseplans for world government and togive simplified lectures on the nucleusto Congressional committees. No won­der heads have been' turned, andphysicists have rapidly became accus­tomed to, and accepted as normal, astandard of living and traveling whichis only related to their immediatepast by a vertical discontinuity ...What great benefits has physics be­stowed on mankind to merit all thisprestige and assistance? We may citethe example of Michael Faraday, oneof us, who contributed mightily tothe fund of knowledge which madepossible the well nigh universal dis­tribution of electric light and power,giving each of us 100 servants to besummoned by the flip of a switch. Orwas it 'because of the work of ourcolleague, Hertz, which led to theestablishment of instantaneous wire­less communication all over the earth?Unfortunately, we must face the facts.The principal motivating power be­hind the enormously increased sup­port for physics in the last decade hasbeen the realization that physics andphysicists are important for wagmgwar, and since waging war is impor­tant, physics is important. I know ofmany circumlocutions with which togloss over this ugly statement; I amalso aware that there are many whowould challenge these words as a mis­representation of the present state ofaffairs, yet I myself believe them to beessentially true."-Samuel K. Allison, '21, PhD '23,Director of the Institute of NuclearStudies, speaking on "The State ofPhysics, or the Perils of Being Im­portant," before the American Physi­cal Society, Chicago meeting.WHY A SINOLOGIST?"We who study ancient China donot think that we are merely engagedin an academic pastime which has noimportance for the modern world.If ever there was a time when menneeded to consider objectively whatthey are doing, and where they aregoing, that time is today. To gain thenecessary perspective we study thepast and the classics of our own west­ern world; this is as it should be, butit is not enough. For detachment weneed also to study a culture which has developed quite separately from ourown.Chinese culture has done this-the!longest unbroken development the hu­man race has enjoyed-and while itoffers nothing comparable to the tech­nical and scientific achievements ofthe West, it has concentrated to aunique degree and with considerablesuccess on the problem of human re­lations, which we have neglected. Wehear it said so often that all men havea right to happiness, that the dignityof human personality is sacred, andthat the state exists for the individualrather than the individual forthestate, that we regard such ideas withboredom as Western or even Ameri­can inventions. When we find thatthey were proclaimed with the utmostfervor in China, as much as 2,500years ago, they appear in a new lightand with added meaning ... "-Dr. H erlee Creel, '26, PhD '29,Professor of Early Chinese Literatureand Institutions, who gave the recentcampus lecture series «Patterns ofThought in the Chinese World."TH� BALD FACTS"Baldness in a male appears to re­sult from three principle factors: hisgenetic inheritance, his age and thepresence of a plentiful supply of malehormones. Medical science can donothing to treat the first two condi­tions and it is undesirable to do any­thing about the third."-Dr. Stephan Rothman, Professorof Dermatology, at Billings Hospital,in a discussion at the Conference onthe Growth, Replacement and Typesof Hair, held by the N. T. Academyof Sciences.THE HUMANITIES STIMULATE"In America, at least, the emphasison formal method and the imitationof the physical and biological scienceshas proceeded to a point where thefullest development of social science ishampered. The emphasis on formalmethod sometimes carries the socialscientist into exercises in which some­thing not very important is done verywell. There sometimes appears in theuse of statistical methods in psy­chology or anthropology or sociol­ogy an exercise of the intellect inwhich nothing very much is foundout about human beings or societies. The knowledgeis measured; yetit is somehowmeager and un­satisfactory.The identifica­tion with thenatural sciencesa Ion e sheltersthe con tempo­r a r y Americansocial scientist from a stimulationfrom philosophy and the arts andlit era t u r e which social scienceneeds. Partly because of this thesense of problem in American socialscience has diminished. Because small. matters can be precisely done, largematters are left unconsidered. Ameri­can political science has departed sofar from philosophy that now in manydepartments of the subject centralproblems as to justice, or as to the re­lations of the individual and the state,get little attention. Anthropology, a.science currently enjoying suc�ss inmany fields of enquiry, has almost no­thing considered to say as to the na­ture of human nature. And psychol­ogy, as Sidney Oliver complained,having named itself the science of thesoul, substituted the study of behavior-which is another thing.The stimulation which the socialsciences can gain from the humanitiescan come from the arts and literaturesthemselves, and through an under­standing of some of the problemswhich interest philosophers and themore imaginative students of the cre­ative productions of mankind . . . Itis not denied that many academic stu­dents of Chaucer or of the Frenchlanguage emphasize the mastery offormal method to a degree that theytoo are shut away from the humanityof man and from consideration of theimportant questions about man. Ped­antry and formalism are weaknessesof humanistic learning as of socialscience. What is here asserted is thatthe arts and literatures of the worldare sources of understanding of manin society from which social scientistsmay enrich their insights and theirsense of problem."-Robert Redfield, '20, ] D '21,PhD '28, Professor of Anthropologyand author of "T'he Village thatChose Progress," writing on «SocialScience Among the Humanities" inMeasure magazine.RedfieldSix brand new books by University of Chicago authors.A VILLAGE THAT CHOSE PROG­RESS: CHAN KOM REVISITED. ByRobert Redfield, University of ChicagoPress, 187 pp. $2.75.Seve:rJteen years ago Professor Redfieldvisited Chan Kom, a small Indian settle­ment in Yucatan. There he immersedhimself in its daily life and records avail­able from an earlier time. In the presentbook, he reports the ensuing stream ofpractical events and spiritual and intel­lectual vicissitudes, and. he carries out thehighly interesting and edifying enterpriseof appreciating' the community's effects,both conservative and progressive.No one who reads this work will forgetthe struggles of the Maya people of ChanKom for municipal status; for internalorganization of their lives under the im­pact of new official duties assigned to' them,not only at their wish but by their insist­ent effort ; the encroachments of culturefrom America and the near-by Spanish­speaking city; the arrival of new economicways and means,. the introduction of tech­nologly and electric and oil-power to grindtheir corn, bake their bread, and keeptheir cattle healthy, and their turning tocattle-raising and merchanting. Still lesswill he forget the contest between a Prot­estant gospel which aroused a counter­consciousness Df Catholicism, and, whilelosing the battle of conversion, left bothcontestants still under the dominion of theH -mett (which does not mean Man in theEra of the H ydrogen Bornb ) , the shamanpriests with their Maya rituals in religionand magic healing.The reader will recall this visit, if onlybecause of the exquisite .phrasing in whichProfessor Redfield recounts his observa­tions. In the field \)f cultural anthropology,of which he is a great master, the workertoo often is overwhelmed by the scenesand the minds he portrays, and brings to'his painting crude colours and clumsyhands.Redfield's treatment is delicate, warm,accurate, incisive and elegant: it is anexercise in beautiful English, and sincethe subject is a far-away village whichknows Iittle of this world, and not'so verymuch in its Maya way, of any other theeffect is one of charming romance: al- though the subject matter is so concreteand scientifically recorded : the world ofcorn, the bush, a falling fertility of theland, struggles between leading familiesfor dominance, private property challeng­ing ancient ways of common holdings, cat­tle increase and cattle disease, the transi­tion from thatched houses to' masonry, and50' on.To me the most significant chapter isthe one called The Great Schism. It tellsof the advent of Protestant missionaries,and the fate of the Pat family who decidedto embrace this religion against the prev­alent Catholicism in its peculiar bush vil­lage form. I miss there any substantialtrace of economic motivation; it is al­most entirely absent. The contest about n;­Iigion is one that is enacted in the terrainof the spirit, that is, the transcendentalmeaning Df life and its joys and sorrows,and in the area of rivalry for social pres­tige among proud people living in closeproximity to each other in an area smallenough to be clearly observed, noticed,and applauded and followed or abandonedas men of distinction by the villagers. Thisis an especially important theme in an ageand a world gripped by the Great MarxianSuspicion which' makes all consciousnessthe accomplice as well as the offspring ofthe economic only.Will the young people of Chan Kombreak with the traditions and peace oftheir fathers: wear city dresses; dance inclose embrace; commence co-education;prefer the hypodermic needle to the sha­man rituals? Will their increasing interestin buying and selling wipe out the peace­ful subservience to' the reign of supersti­tion; will their entrance into the inheri­tance of the Spanish language make thema part of a world which, ibeing one ingeography but not in ethics, introduce themto the agonies of ever-threatened peace?1965 should be the date for Chan Komvisited for the Third Time, and we hopethat Professor Redfield writes its record,-Herman FinerProfessor, Political Science9 LAFAYETTE: Between the Americanand the French Revolution (1783-1789),by Louis Gottschalk. University of Chi­cago Press, $7.50.The fourth volume of Professor LouisGottschalk's exhaustive. study of the lifeand times of Lafayette covers only sixyears. They were, however, importantyears both for the yDung Frenchman andfor the two nations of which he was apart. The United States was getting itsnew government established and Francewas drifting towards her great Revolution.Lafayette had something to do with eachdevelopment. It was not a great part butthe Marquis had a way Df associating him­self with significant men and movementswhich contributed more to' his importancethan he did to theirs.In two ways Lafayette was of assistanceto' the United States. Always he was reachto' aid Americans who needed help illEurope. Some of these were adventurers,such as yDung john Ledyard, who wantedto' cross Russia; some were merchants andtraders, who wanted better commercial op­portunities; a few were American officialswho benefited socially as well as politicallyfrom Lafayette's connections.The second contribution was a bit morevague and uncertain. In 1784, Lafayettereturned for a visit to the United States.Gottschalk views him as an "ambassadorof good will," his visit is a factor of im­portance in strengthening the friendshipbetween France and America. He alsothinks that the wide interest in his visitand the conferring of citizenship by differ­ent states was a force working for greaternational unity in the United States. Neitherclaim should be given too much weight.The part which Lafayette played inFrench affairs is, on the other hand, dem­onstrated to' have been of much greaterimportance than has usually been thought.He labored long in the interest of theHuguenots and took a leading part in thegrowing opposition to' Negro slavery. Hedid much to' clear away absolute restric­tions on French trade and, as the FrenchRevolution came on, proved himself areal democrat in the Assembly of Notables.His progressively more liberal speechesthere .in the interest of orderly reform,10 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOare not those of a weakling. Lafayette,indeed, seems to have, at last, grown up.Gottschalk's work is painstakingly thor­ough. Sometimes he. seems to &0· into �e­tails that might be Important m the lifeof a truly great man, but which, in thecase of Lafavette, are not of great signifi­cance. He does however keep his heroin the proper se�tiI?-g and his book �asreal value in depicting the age of whichhe writes.-Avery Craven, PhD '24Professor, American HistoryA NEW LEASH ON LIFE by RichardGrossman, '49. Random House, NewYork. $2.00.So Chancellor Hutchins wired HermanBoxer he could come to The University ofChicago. But, he cautioned: Herman wouldget no special favors just because he wasa veteran.The wire was the climax to a nationalfuror. Herman, a decorated K9 Corps vet­eran with proper dog tags, had applied forhis G.l. rights to attend an American Uni­versity.Immediately there were those whohowled that education should not be per­mitted dogs, including a D.A.R. (Dogs ofthe American Revolution) unit in Bostonwho wanted Herman deported.But Herman was equal to a Chicagoeducation-writing a phenomenal paper onhuman vivisection-and found himself hold­ing his own with such national institu­tions as Information, Please, on which heproved to know more about trees thanJohn Kieran. .A love story involving Berenice, the beau­tiful beagle from Buckingham Palace,winds through the book. And when therewas a question as to whether HermanBoxer would marry the ... shall we say,girl, Churchill hits the airways with aspeech on the Boxer Rebellion.There are 40 pages of illustrations and40 paragraphs of text.The author, Richard Grossman, '49, gothis inspiration for the book one day on theMidway when he was looking through theChicago telephone classified directory fora pet shop where his friend could buy akitten.There was an ad for "Don's PrivateSchool for Dogs." The picture showed ahooded dog with a diploma. Dick fell towondering how veterans of the K9 Corpswould fare with the G.l. Bill. Since heknew more about the U. of C. than any dogschool, Grossman decided to have his dogenter the University'S College.A few weeks later while his roommate,Bill Herrold '48 (now at Harvard LawSchool) was out on a date, Richard wrotethe first draft with suggested illustrations.The manuscript finally arrived on a Ran­dom House desk. There it was turned overto artist Carl Rose, who saw in it a goodvehicle for his type of drawing. Grossmannever met Rose until publication day whenthey were interviewed on Mary MargaretMcBride's radio program.This is Grossman's first attempt to breakinto print and, although he means the bookto be a satire on man, his institutions andbeliefs, he admits he will be quite happyif the book merely makes people laugh.His mother, Jean Schick Grossman, is theauthor of Do You Know Your Daughter?and Life With Family, for which Dick, hissister, and father, were the guinea pigs.In the fall of 1948, Richard met EleanorSnyder, a ballet dancer appearing in Brig- adoon. She had previously appeared inChicago with the touring company ofBloomer Girl. They were married lastOctober.Grossman's brother-in-law, Lawrence· Le­Shan, an assistant professor at RooseveltCollege, is studying for his Ph.D at Chi­cago.Richard and Eleanor Grossman live at 49West 73rd Street, New York. He is doingeditorial work for the Oxford Book Com­pany, publishers of school texts. To thequestion, "are you working on anotherbook?" he replies: "No comment."H.W.M.DYNAMICS OF PREJUDICE, APsychological and Sociological Studyof Veterans, by Bruno Bettelheim andMorris Janowitz. New York: Harper &Brothers, 227 pp. $3.50.In this book Dr. Bruno Bettelheim, As­sociate Professor of Education, and MorrisJanowitz, Assistant Professor of SocialScience, report. on a study of race preju­dice they made in 1946 shortly after theveterans of World War H returned tocivilian life. It was one of a series ofstudies made by social scientists with finan­cial assistance from the Department ofSocial Research of the American JewishCommittee.The senior author is Principal of theOrthogenic School for emotionally dis­turbed children, one of the laboratoryschools of the University. His interest inthe human personality has led him tostudy and write on such diverse subjectsas child delinquency, Nazi methods inGerman concentration camps (with whichhe had personal experience) and now rac­ial intolerance. In applying his knowledgeof human personality to a specific prob­lem he not only illuminates the problembut also casts a general light on the rootsand causes of human behavior. This bookthen is of more general interest than itstitle would suggest.Bettelheim and Janowitz sent youngwomen with skill as interviewers to a MAGAZINErandom sample of white, non-Jewish vet­erans in Chicago. They talked with about150, all men below the rank of commis­sioned officers, about their military experi­ence and their readjustment to civilianlife. Questions about attitudes towardJews and Negroes were brought in nat­urally, together with questions about eco­nomic conditions, family relations, religion,etc. Each interview took from four toseven hours.Forty per cent of the veterans wererated as "tolerant" of Jews, 28% as pos­sessing stereotyped notions about Jews in­cluding some unfavorable attitudes, 'and31 % were outspokenly or intensely anti­Semitic. Attitudes toward Negroes wereless favorable, the proportions being eightper cent tolerant, 27 % stereotyped, and65% outspoken or intensely anti-Negro.This study appears to demonstrate thatsuch social factors as level of education,religious and political affiliation, nation­ality of parents, and socio-economic statushave very little to do with intolerance.The tolerant and the intolerant were dis­tributed impartially among these socialgroupings. Only one social factor-socialmobility-was related to intolerance.There was a definite tendency for thosewho were downward mobile socially to beintolerant, and for those who were up­ward mobile to be tolerant.Whereas social factors appear largelyunrelated to race prejudice, individualpersonal factors are definitely related. Inother words, tolerance and intolet1mce areaspects of personality. Two psychologicalcharacteristics go with tolerance. Theyare strong and systematic control of im­pulses and feelings of security. Threecharacteristics go with intolerance: feel­ings of hostility, frustration, and isolationfrom people. In the case of attitudes to­ward Negroes, where relatively few weretolerant, the control of impulse among thetolerant ones tended to be truly "inter­nalized," that is, dependent on conscienceor superego.The authors sum up by saying, "intol­erance is always an outlet for hostilitybut-it depends for its intensity on th:Boxer and R. M. H.THE UNIVERSITY CHICAGOdegree of hostility accumulated, and onthe strength of the controls which re­strain it." This leads them to some con­clusions about child-rearing which mightresult in reducing racial intolerance in thenext generation. They say, "education forbetter ethnic relations must reach deeperlevels than can be touched by factual �n­formation." They 'suggest that the childwho grows up to be tolerant is one whohas been treated affectionately and consist­ently as a young child in the family.Thus this book has great relevance forparents and teachers, because it relatesthe problem of race prejudice to the emo­tional experience of the child.-Robert J. Havighurst, ChairmanCommittee on Human Development'�THE MAGIC FIRECRACKER, byMitchell Dawson, 'I I, JD '14. The Vik­ing Press $2.50. For youngsters from8 to 14.We never did quite decide whetherUncle Dick, with his retinue of one hun­dred Chinese plus rickshaws, mules. andhorses to match, actually dropped m atSunrise Farm on the banks of. the Rappa­nassee. U nde Dick was on hIS way fromChina to Paris to stage a show at the 1878Exposition.It was real enough to younl? Greg whoquickly fell for his Uncle DICk. Therewere those fantastic evenings when �heywent for walks and shot off the ancientfirecrackers (only one each evening) l!ncleDick had purchased from an old C�mesemerchant. Following each. explosion afunny little Chinaman, or fairy, .or dra�onappeared for sixty second� dunng whichtime Greg could have a WIsh.The wishes always seemed t? come outall right with logical conc!usIOns. helpedalong by Uncle Dick's q�llet philosophyabout doing what you thI�k you can orhaving faith or some such Idea.Of course Uncle Dick stayed through theFourth of July and, wit.h his �ast troup,staged such a pyrotechnic �venmg as wasnever witnessed before or smce.On Page 187 the coolies broke camp andstarted packing. Five pages la�er the� wereall beyond the brow of �he hill leadmg t�Summerville, nearest rail center for ChI­cago or Paris.Mitchell Dawson is a Chicago. lawy�rwho has built a literary reputation VIamagazines from the A tlantic and Harpe�sto the Post and Readers' Digest. The MagicFirecracker was written for his son Gre.gwhen he was nine. (He's now 15.) It ISdedicated to him and his younger brotherand sister, Hilary and Jill.-H. W.M. OFTHE PERMANENCE OF YEATS:SELECTED CRITICISM, Edited byJames Hall and Martin Steinmann. TheMacMilla�:\ Company. $5.00.U niversity of Chicago readers will findsatisfaction in the fact that in this volume,which ihbludes such a representative as­sortrnent of modern critical thought, thereis an' 'extraordinary number of contribu­tors who have, at one time or another,been connected with the University -. Threemen-Elder Olson, '34, AM '35, PhD '36,Morton Dauwen Zabel, PhD '35, andKenneth Burke-are, at present, visitingor permanent members of the faculty.Four more-David Daiches, Allen Tate,Cleanth Brooks and Edmund Wilson­have for various lengths of time, taughtin the University. And another contribu­to'r-perhaps the most distinguished ofall- is T. S. Eliot, who, if powerful ru­mor is to be believed, will appear herewithin the next year.It is generally a dangerous thing tospeak of the "permanence" of a poet whe?only a decade or so has passed �mce hISdeath. Yet I imagine few who WIll quar­rel with the title which Messrs. Hall andSteinmann have given to their collectionof Yeats criticism. In compiling The Per­manence of Yeats the editors have drawnon a wide variety of critical approaches,have in some instances, gone back morethan' a score of years for their materials,and have even-at what must have beensome pain to themselves-included theill-natured doubts of such detractors asMiddleton Murry and D. S. Savage.Yet the collection for all its hetero­geneity, rests securely w�thin a, frameworkprovided by the assumption that .the prob­lems which Yeats presents are Importantones. There are many things about Yeats(a Nobel prize winner) which bot�er thelay reader: we strive to. reconcile themystic with the man of affairs, the opaquedogma of A Visio'n with the. e�ocatIveimagery of the ve:se, and-wI!hm our­selves-the satisfactions of reading greatverse with the knowledge that we tru_Iyunderstand neither the verse nor Itsgreatness. But the important fact-!he factwhich attests that most of us have m someway sensed Yeats' permanence-is thatwe are thus bothered, that we are eagerto pursue such a collection as this, whenwe might well leave all researches to thescholarly journals.Of the studies in The Permanence ofYeats only the editors' introductory essay,The Seven Sacred Trances, appears forthe first time. The rest have appeared else­where although in the majority of casesone j�dges that their initial publicationreached a far smaller audience than that MAGAZINE 11promised by the present collection. ,Thusone is pleased to find El��r Olson s re­markable treatment of Sailing to Byzan­tium included in the book. It is an an�l­ysis which first appeared, together WIththe study by Norman Maclean (English)of a Wordsworth sonnet and an. introduc­tory comment by Professor R. S: Crane,(English) in the Unioersity Reuietu ; thethree together have come to be regarded-quite improperly, it seems to me-as .abite-size manifesto of the so-called "ChI­cago School" of criticism. In its n�w sur­roundings, Mr. Olson's study and, m p�r­ticular, his initial ground-clearing, receivenew point and are clearly far more thana "careful reading" of the poem, althoughit is with this term that the editors dis­miss' them.Morton Dauwen Zabel's Yeats: TheBook and the Image first appeared in TheNation within a' year or two of Yeats'death. Its republication in The Pe�ma­nence of Yeats is singuarly welcome, smce,among other things, it warns against pre­cisely the sor.t of. parado�:huntI�g an�triumphant discovery of inconsistencywhich, perhaps naturally, characterizes somuch comment upon Yeats-even, m fact,the collection at hand.If the editors of The Permanence ofYeats had done nothing else, they woulddeserve thanks for reprinting such popu­lar studies as those of Edmund Wilson,from Axel's Castle, and David Daiches,from Poetry and the Modern World.These general discussions of Yeat�' lifeand work are among the most easily as­similable of the sections in the volume.From them, I should judge one mightproceed to the kind of challenge presentedby Kenneth Burke's exploration of mo­tives a wide-ranging study of Yeats' useas theme of the One and the Many, whichinvades a variety of critical areas, includ­ing the Freudian, to emerge with an �l­most impassioned judgment as to the WIS­dom and order of Yeats' mind.This is an important book to read-im­portant for the essays I have menti�ne�as well as for such others as Mr. Eliot simpressive acclamation, first delivered atthe Abbey Theater, of the morality and"middle-aged" universality of "the greatestpoet of our time." Bu� g:eate: in;portancelies in the fact that, within this smgle v<?l­ume, critics of great distinction hav� dIS­cussed one poet with almost uniformwarmth and wisdom and high seriousness.In such a book as this, then, lies impres­sive evidence that a poet of our own timehas become-in the term which we re­serve for only a few poets of any time­an immortal.Ned Rosenheim '39, AM '46Assistant Professor, HumanitiesFor Your Date BookREUNION AND HOMECOMINGJune 8-1012 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEKleffen and Strozier Flom and Strozier Coleman and StrozierWANTED: $$$ FOR SENDINGTHE BALL TEAM TO TOI(YOAny angel· interested in sending the University nine toJapan, or underwriting tuition for worthy young people,will be warmly welcomed by the DeanCHICAGO ATHLETES havebeen enjoying the spotlight forthe last few weeks, and the Dean ofStudents office has been sporting avery proud father in the person ofJohn Bergstresser.John's son, Dick, along with Mrs.Carlson's son (she is secretary toPresident Colwell), and the offspringsof Charles C. Colby, '09, PhD '17,(Chairman, Geography) and Dr.A. H. Vander Veer (Psychiatry) aremembers of the Fresh-Soph Teamwhich captured the Chicago PrivateSchool Basketball League Champion­ship. Chester Murphy, '39, who alsocoaches the University's tennis teams,coached the boys through a seasonduring which they lost no games.The boys are not only good basket­ball players, but good students, mostof whom plan to enter the Collegethis fall where they will continue theirathletic activities. Their parents got By Robert M. StrozierDean of Studentstogether in the Quad Club a fewweeks ago, gave the boys and Chestera dinner and, with great pride, pre­sented them with testimonials. Mrs.Bergstresser, Mrs. Colby, and Mrs.Carlson planned the affair, and a pic­ture of the beaming team appearedin the local press.Bill Moyle's swimming team canalso boast an undefeated season. TheUniversity, moreover, has an extraor­dinary swimming crew, which hasjust won the City Championship.Baseball in TokyoRecently the Dean of Waseda Col­lege in Tokyo visited the Midway andtalked to T. N. Metcalf, Kyle Ander­son, and me about the possibility ofsending our baseball team to Tokyo.Some time ago-vbefore the War­there was a series of encounters be­tween the baseball squads of Wasedaand Chicago. The Dean hopes the University of Chicago team can comeback to resume the contest. Kyle andI are assidously searching for somebenevolent person with a large pock­etbook and a great wish to promoteinternational relations at this uniquelevel.What-no radicalism?I was very much interested in thereport President Colwell brought backfrom his recent tour in California,where he met many alumni and spokebefore alumni groups. Four yearsago when he was there, he was closelyquestioned about alleged "radical­ism" in the University. He was sur­prised this time to meet silence onthe subject; in some instances he hadto ask specifically if the alumni weren'tdisturbed by the problem. Appar­ently . most alumni now feel quite se­cure on this point. It may well betrue that some real good resultedTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 13Bomgardner and StrozierSince the Dean, in his monthlydiary-column, seems to r u s haround so furiously to all campusevents, and do so with such goodhumor, we thought you'd like tosee these candid pictures ofStrozier-in-aC+ion (above). Occa­sion was the 44th annual Wash­ington Prom, held in the Shore­land Hotel. He handed out prizesto the pair of young peopleelected Man and Woman of theYear, and consolation gifts to 10more who were nominated forthe titles. In the photographsyou see Strozier variously withJim Kleffen, president of StudentUnion; Men-cf-rhe-Yeer ely de'Bomgardner, vice president ofSUi Woman-of-the-Year BarbaraKenyon, Social Chairman of In­terclub Council; Claire Davidson,president of Nu Pi Sigma; MaryColeman, president of UnitedWorld Federalists, and Pat Flom,Secretary of Student Union.from the Broyles committee fiasco inSpringfield last spring. At that timeit seemed an unduly heavy burden tothe University to have to defend itselfagainst groundless charges. Never­theless, students, the faculty, adminis­tration, and the trustees banded sol­idly together to defend the Univer­sity, if it had to be defended. Thisfeeling must have been caught by thealumni, too.Scholarships for young journalistsI was particularly happy to learnabout the new' Katherine SpeedMurphy Fund for scholarships. Itamounts to $700,000, the interest ofwhich will go to aid deserving stu­dents with their education. Preference Kenyon and Strozieris to be given those who intend toadopt journalism as a career. Thereis no school or department of jour­nalism in our University, of course,but there are nonetheless many stu­dents who intend to take up journal­ism as a career. The terms of thegift permit, usage of the funds forother deserving students, if not enoughare interested in journalism. The lateHenry C. Murphy, in whose honorthe Fund was established, was analumnus, and an extremely successfulnewspaper man. I know of no betterway to spend money than on the edu­cation of worthy young people. It isa theme I may repeat to the point ofboredom, but it comes so sincerelyfrom the heart that I cannot helpstressing this important subject.Czechs honor MasarykTwo celebrations honored ThomasG. Masaryk, the founder of the CzechRepublic, and a former member ofthe University faculty. The first eventwas a, dinner at the Quadrangle Clubat which a former Czech ambassadorspoke. Louis Gottschalk (ModernHistory) introduced him, and thedinner was attended by many facultymembers and members of the studentMasaryk Club. The second eventwas held in Mandel Hall with Mr.Jan Papanek as main speaker: therewere also musical numbers by Czechgroups, some from the Chicago Sym­phony Orchestra.Wash PromThe Washington Prom took placeon the 25th of February at the Shore­land Hotel, and was duly colorful andinteresting. Barbara Kenyon, daugh­ter of Dr. Allan T. Kenyon, '22, MD'26, of the Medical School, was Davidson and' Strozierchosen Woman of the Year, and' ClydeBomgardner, the Man of the Year.Clyde has worked as vice-presidentof the Student Union and has donea particularly good job. I had theprivilege of making the presentationto them and to the other candidates,including Claire Davidson, Pat Flom,Mary Coleman, and Jim Kleffen.End of the coal shor+sqeThings are quieting down a bit asthe quarter ends. The coal shortageforced us to cancel some student af­fairs, at our busiest time of year. Itis amazing how many technicalitiesare involved in just cancelling a class,closing a building at night, or varyingthe routine of business-as-usual. How­ard Matthews sent a notice to allthe faculty and staff that no build­ings would be heated in the evening,or on Saturday, except with the spe­cial approval of the Dean of Stu­dents. You may wonder how I cameby this strange duty, but it is standardpractice to ask the Dean to do any­thing nobody else wants to do. Solong as we are a service organization,I assume we should accept that rolein the University community. In anycase, I was immediately deluged withtelephone calls telling me why this orthat class had to meet at an odd hour,or why this or that program had togo on. All sounded legitimate to me.Not cold, not impersonalI have always contended since Ifirst arrived as a student' on the Mid­way that the University of Chicagois not a cold and impersonal place.It is true the University is largeenough to permit isolation if a studentseeks to hide himself. But it can be14 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEa place of warmth and kindness forthe person seeking. intellectual andsocial communication. The U niver­sity is a community because it is moreor less self-contained. It has many4�;yerse elements as we all know, yetir�i! the;;, most delightful ones thatk:'; anywhere. In spite ofctive spots, I personally',js nicer than the Hydearea in which we live. Heref�2hlty and s.tudents live in an atmos­ghere alive with activity and excite­tp.ent. It is impossible to walk: acrossthe campus without feeling it. Allalumni feel it when they come back,even though they may regret some ofthe changes that have taken place.I am not talking this way becauseI am Dean of Students, singing theold school song. I know that anyperson who has lived here for a longor short period catches the spiritwhich bespeaks the University's great­ness.Student-Pecul+y rapportThe Student-Faculty Ad vis 0 r yBoard is at last organized, and I sensethat it is going to playa significantrole in student-faculty relations. Oneof the first proposals to emerge wasthe establishment of student-facultycommi ttees in each area of the U ni­versity. Interestingly enough, whenthe Deans of Students met for a dis­cussion of several projects, followingthe meeting of the Student-FacultyAdvisory Board, he found that theDivision of the Social Sciences, theLaw School, the School of SocialService Administration, and the Busi­ness School already have such com­mittees operating. Nevertheless, all thedeans agreed to pursue the mattereven further in their respective baili­wicks. Faculty members of the Ad­visory Committee are William R.Ming, Research Associate in the LawSchool; John O. Hutchens, AssociateProfessor and Chairman in the De­partment of Physiology; Milton B.Singer, Associate Professor and Chair­man of the Social Science Staff ofthe College; Robert A. Horn, Assist­ant Professor of Political Science; andDonald Meiklejohn, Associate Pro­fessor of Philosophy in the College.John Bergstresser and I are serving asex officio members of the Committee,and Frank: Logan, President of theStudent Assembly, is serving in a The newly-organized Student-Faculty Advisory Board for the student govern­ment discusses University problems at the second meeting of the group. Leftto right are Merrill Freed, Bob Jacobs, Jim Kleffens, president of the StudentUnion, Dave Broyles, Frank Logan, president of the student government, Deanof Students Robert M. Strozier, chairman of the group, David Strauss, AssistantDean of Students John Bergstresser and Professors John Hutchens, Robert Hornand Donald Meiklejohn.similar capacity for the Assembly.The Assembly's Executive Councilhas been meeting frequently withJohn Bergstresser during the pastweeks, shaping up a statute whichwould in effect give it responsibilityfor granting privileges to student or­ganizations on campus, and the taskof enforcing regulations enacted andinsuring privileges granted. Negotia­tions have been painstaking, and Ihave been impressed-in the meet­ings in which I participated-withthe diplomatic skill of some of ourstudent politicians.The amenable facultyFrank Logan, president of StudentGovernment, is meeting John Berg­stresser and me to consider the re­establishment of a faculty-studentboard on Student Government.' Morethan a year ago we established thisboard, which met occasionally .in anadvisory capacity to the Student Gov­ernment. Last year it was less ac­tive, but: now again there seems tobe need for an active committee. Thepresent need is, I believe, accentuatedby the expanding, competent workbeing done by Student Government.Happily, I have not asked a singlefaculty member to serve on a com­mittee or board with students, whohas refused to do so unless he was tobe out of residence. This is a goodsign to me, which negates any ideathat close relationships between stu­dents and faculty are not possible on a large campus. The Y.W.C.A. isnow asking faculty members to opentheir homes on certain evenings sothat groups of students may meetwith the faculty informally and dis­cuss mutual interests. Such meetingsand discussions have long been takingplace in the residence halls. And fora long time Social Science and lawstudents have met in the afternoonsfor tea.Recently, Mr. Parsons, Dean ofStudents in the Physical Sciences, anda member of the Department ofChemistry, has reported a programof student-faculty relations in his De­partment that is extraordinary.Religion on campusBy the time this is in print theCommittee on Student Interests willhave made its monthly visit to . thecampus. I plan to take them on atour of De Sales House, the Catholicstudent center, Hillel House, the Jew­ish center, and Chapel House, theheadquarters for Protestant organiza­tions. Interest in the denominationalgroups has been high this year, al­though we have not been able to fullyexplain this sudden upswing in re­ligious interest. Reflections of thetrend can be seen in the addresses byMr. Hutchins, the Round Table dis­cussions on the subject of Religionand Higher Education) and variousspeeches by President Colwell.One Man's OpinionTHE PERSONALIZED CO:LLEGEA custom-tailored education is possible in the College,which measures how much a student knows, exempts himfrom work mastered, and carefully checks his progressBy William V. Morgensternindividualization t? that point isequal. Butthe margin of the Collegebegins to appear when the studententers and takes the placement tests,which are unique. They measure withconsiderable exactness the amount ofeducation the student has acquired.These tests have been so carefully de­vised for their purpose that they ratea student with almost the relentlessreliability of a punch-card sorter.There is, for example, the recentmass. case of young J. Edward Nelson: TheWhatever-the merits of these argu- Admissions Counsellor and Admis­ments, the criticism can not be applied sions offices had a good enough pre­to the relations and the education liminary judgment of the young manwhich the College of the University from his application blanks and en­of Chicago provides. It unquestion- trance test to give him one of theably has the most completely indi- $1,200 entrance scholarships. Theyvidualized education that has been knew he was good, but it took thedeveloped anywhere. No other edu- placement tests to show just howcational organization has worked out good he actually was. The testsor tt��s;c;th� IRe�h:?cL� with whic� the demonstrated that a combination ofCollege':0��t�rl:rtlh��;;;,.�he . �?ucatlOnal an en.Yironm�nt that encouraged in­needs a1i\� pro?��Ss "of .. :,1ts. students ". "" dependent effort, plus unusual oppor­One reas�n t?e ,Colle��, e�Joys. th��\� \itunities {or schooling iq this country�ethods, 1 t mI�ht be ob;��;.:�e�, 1.�h� �, 'and in I taly had" g�v:n him, the equiv­It h�s ?ad �t Its com��t;ld. the a Y!, alent of the College education. Inspeclahsts m the University whose .part, the Nelson case proved whatknowledge and expenenc� made solu- tne.'Qollege has maintained since 1942,tion of the problems possible. The:e that.is, the English, and the continen­is, fOf. example: no abler group m ,tal systems-of education are two yearsedu.cat1�nal testing than that of the. ' ahead ,of, the p#�vailing American.Umverslty. ' ,.Inqlvidual attention begins with No "whizzing" throughthe sel�ction of the students, the vast' I t should be noted th��� despitemajQtlty of whom are interviewed soine journalistic explanations, Nelsonpers,bnally:, The interviews benefit did not "whiz" through the College.the prospective student, who knows He didn't go through the 9011�ge atwhat the College program is, what its all. Since he had the equivalent ofstandards are, what the courses are what the College requires for a de­like, and how he will qualify for a gree, he was considered to have metdegree. The entrance test, including its requirements and 'was permittedan aptitude section which is used by to start studying in a Division. Thishundreds of other colleges, provides' recognition of achievement is thesome really pertinent evidence of an important aspect of "individualiz­applicant's ability to do College work. ation" of education. It is obviouslySince most colleges interview stu- senseless to make a student repeat fordents, and use the aptitude test, the empty purposes of meeting credit re·ONE OF the chief arguments ofthe proponents of the small col­leges is that they are able to individ­ualize and personalize the educationof their students. The concurrentcontention is that colleges which areassociated with bigger universities mayhave superior resources, includingteachers held to higher standards bythe university association, but thestudents necessarily are treated in the15 quirements something he has alreadymastered, yet the College is the onlyundergraduate institution able andwilling to recognize the mastery.Complete by-passing of the Collegeis rare, of course. Ordinarily, theplacement tests may show attainmentbetter or inferior to what formalschooling indicates the student has.But whatever the result, there is thiscareful diagnosis of his level, includingwhat parts of a general course thestudent may have competency, so thathe need pull himself up only in thedeficient sections.This close determination is madealso in the comprehensive examina­tions. For each examination, the stu­dent gets a report which shows howhe did in the areas and skills tested.But the individual attention a Col­lege student gets is not confined tothese determinations. There is morepersonal attention than existed in theold days. This relationship is sys­tematically established through in­structors, advisers, residence hallheads, and miscellaneous agencies,such as the assistant .dean of studentsin charge of activities, the HealthService, and others.The adviser and the instructor are,of course, primarily concerned withthe scholastic success of the student.It is the adviser who discusses withhim, after the placement tests, suchquestions' as which courses he takesfirst, whether he should take" a com­prehensive examination after attend­ing- a course, a part of it, or noneat all.The adviser, however, cannot ad­vise satisfactorily merely on the basisof how well the student is doing inclass, as is indicated by reports frominstructors, or the quarterly tests. Hegets into the broad area of the per­sonal life of the student, his worries,16 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEhis interests. He has reports fromthe assistant heads of the residencehalls, to which he adds his own in­formation through conferences.Every once in a while a studentgets into enough trouble to be anobject of momentary public interest.The most remarkable proof of theextent of individual student attentionis the thickness of the file of theerring individual. Invariably it is jammed with information, from cor­respondence with parents to reportsby psychiatrists of Student Health.In contrast, students who are doingwell can be picked almost at randomby looking for the thin folders in thefile drawer.That thickness of the folder of anindividual in difficulty is a revealingindication that the College is no im­personal operation. When the' prob- lem child's folder is read, it containsplenty of justification for summaryaction long since. But the Collegedoesn't operate that way. It prefersto do a job of salvage, rather thantake the easy o,U t of expulsion. Some­times it fails, but· more often the pa­tience and the effort payoff. Thereis a lot of understanding as well aseducation in the relation of the Col­lege to its students.News of the QuadranglesJUSTICE IN 1850 B.C.Archaeologists in Iraq unearth the oldest known record of asuccessful prosecution for murder; three men found guiltyTHE OLDEST -KNOWN recordof successful prosecution of mur­der has been unearthed in Iraq byUniversity of Chicago and Universityof Pennsylvania archaeologists.A murder-trial tablet, describingthe prosecution of three men and awoman under democratic process oflaw in a civilization existing almost4,000 years ago, was discovered inthe scribes' quarter of the ancient cityof Nippur.The clay tablet, written in cunei­form, was translated by ThorkildJacobsen, PhD '29, dean of humani­ties, and Samuel Noah Kramer of theUniversity of Pennsylvania-two ofonly a dozen scholars who can readthis oldest-known form of writing. Itreveals the legal procedures followedby the Sumerians and records the tes­timony given at the trial and the finaldisposition of the case.The trial of 1850 B.C., or there­abouts, was held to try the Luinannamurder case.Luinanna, a temple official, wasmurdered by three men who after­wards told the widow of the killing.Contrary to the customs of the land,the widow, Nindada, failed to notifyauthorities 'of the crime. .The case, laid before the 'king, wastried before'the Citizens Assembly atNippur. Nine men arose' to prosecutethe murderers and the wife, 'and de- By Jeannette Lowrey, Man's oldest record of the successful prosecution of a murder was .inscribed ,on this clay tablet nearly 4.000 years ago. The tablet measures .abcu+ four bytwo inches. The part of the text, missing 'from th� lower left corner was ·found.on a small fragment unearthed 50 years ago at the same city. A centimeterrule shows the size' of the' tablet. 'THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINErnanded the death penalty for all four.Two other men spoke in defense ofthe .. wife, pleading she had no handin . the murder.Swayed' by the latter view, the as­sembly. exonerated the woman ongrounds that fear would be sufficientto silence her. The three men weresentenced to be killed in' front of thel 'chair of the murdered official.r ' Acclaiming the document as "sig­'::nificant for the light it throws on the;;:Cu�tural and political state of thetime'," Max Rheinstein, professor ofcomparative law, says:"The very. fact that murder wasprosecuted before a public agency andpunished as a public crime by publicauthority in the year 1850 B.C. in­dicates a long development of fairlyhigh civilization in ancient Nippur.I t took many centuries in such com­plex and highly organized societies asthose of the European Middle Agesto stamp out 'blood feuds' and to sub­stitute public prosecution."In the tablet there's also an in­teresting trace of more primitive ideas.Sentencing the convicted to be killedin front of the official's chair (thechair symbolizing the murdered man)indicates a desire to placate thesoul and may also constitute an actof expiation meant to placate the out­raged god or goddess."The murder trial document is oneof a very few clay records which showthe Citizens Assembly in action, sayuniversity archaeologists.The role of the Citizens Assemblyas a court with power of life anddeath is a survival of the earliestpolitical organization of the Sumeri­ans. Democratic in nature, the as­sembly of citizens decided on allmajor political and legal matters.Early kings, elected by the assembly,derived their authority from thepeople.As the power of the king grew inlater years, the assembly lost its politi­cal authority, but continued to func­tion as a court of law.When discovered, the clay tabletwas damaged at both the beginningand end. Its complete text was de­ciphered, however, from the frag-'ments of another copy of the samedocument, uncovered in the U niver­sity of Pennsylvania's first expeditionto Nippur 52 years ago.The fact that two copies have beenfound may well indicate that impor- 17Dr. Albert Dorfmantant law cases were handed on fromgeneration to generation for study inmuch the way lawyers today studycelebrated cases.ACTH fights rheumatic feverACTH-while still not the cure':__is suppressing rheumatic fever, the No.1 killer among children, says a Uni­versity pediatrician.In his first clinical report on theeffect of ACTH, used in treatingrheumatic fever patients in the jointU ni versi ty of Chicago- LaRabida Jack­son Park Sanitarium pilot researchproject, Dr. Albert Dorfman, '36,PhD '39, MD '44 of Bobs RobertsMemorial Hospital for Children, de­scribed ACTH as "the first real ex­perimental tool for the attack 'againstrheumatic fever." This project, setup last July with. the help of theChicago Heart Association-one ofthe financing agencies-is being con­tinued as a five-year project to studyrheumatic fever and associated dis­eases.Dr. Dorfman, who directs the re­search project at the University andLaRabida, reported actual repressionof rheumatic fever in six patientstreated to date with the ACTH pro­vided by Armour and Company."Response of the six patients, twowith acute rheumatic heart disease,leads us to hope that by administeringACTH during acute attacks, damageto the heart can be mitigated," Dr.Dorfman said."Continued research here and atother institutions over a period ofyears will be necessary, however, tosubstantiate the preliminary findings." Dr. Earl P. BendittMost promising of the cases nowbeing studied at Bobs Roberts is thatof a 13-year-old boy whose conditionwas critical when he entered the hos­pital.Since administration of ACTH, hehas been out of danger.ACTH, according to Dr. Dorfman,has striking. effects on the. diseaseprocess, reducing to normal the pulserate, temperature, and sedimentationrate, indicative of active rheumaticfever. Changes in cardiac status wereshown by decrease in. heart size andchanges toward normalcy 'in the heartmurmurs.The clinical findings were depend­ent upon maintenance of therapy:all evidence of disease activity re­turned with cessation of therapy.Dr. Dorfman also pointed out thatthe toxic effects of the drug can beheld to a minimum when the drugis used under control methods. Theeffects, including acne, the roundingof the face, and retention of salt andwater, disappear" he said, with thesuspension of the drug treatment.Laboratory studies on the mech­anism of ACTH indicate, moreover,that ACTH may be protecting thetissues that ordinarily are destroyedin the course of rheumatic fever. ..Dr. Dorfman's studies of the chem­ical changes occurring in the. tissueof rheumatic fever patients were be­gun at the Army Medical Researchand Graduate School (Washington,D. C.) where he was chief of bio­chemistry. The assistant director ofthe present research program is nowDr. Earl P. Benditt.18 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINENobel prize for Hutchins?Along with 27 other can�id�tes,six of them American, ChancellorRobert M. Hutchins has beeninorni­nated for the Nobel Peace Pri�e.Word came via an Associated Pressdispatch from Oslo, N orway, �wI1�tethe Nobel Peace Institute is located.Other nominees include PresidentHarry S. Truman, Ralph Bunche, Al­bert Schweitzer, George Marshall..,Clarence Streit, Prime Min i s t e �'i(Nehru and. six institutions.Nominations may be made hXInstitute members, former reCIpI­ents of the award, members of variousnational governments, professors ofLaw, Philosophy, Political Scienceand History, members of such inter­national organizations as the Interna­tional Court of Arbitration in theHague. Two Chicagoans have pre­viously received the Peace Prize­Jane Addams, and vice presidentCharles Dawes (for the Dawes Plan).Long, exhaustive studies will bemade into the qualifications of eachcandidate, and the winner announcedby Autumn, 1950. King Gustav ofSweden presents the award and the$40,000, tax free, which goes with it,on December 10.Chancellar Hutchins may havebeen nominated for one, or a numberof these qualifications: for his workas chairman of the Committee toFrame a World Constitution; such in­ternational projects as the Universityof Chicago-Frankfurt program in Ger­many; the Goethe Festival in Aspen,Col.; his interest in developing atomicenergy for peacetime, industrial use.New scholarship fundsTwo new scholarship funds havebeen established at the University, oneof $700,000 to honor the late HenryC. Murphy, '95, Indiana newspapereditor. The other is a $12,000 medicalscholarship fund, in memory of Dr.Henry R. Boettcher, eminent Engle­wood surgical specialist.The Murphy scholarship fund wasestablished by the will of Mr. M ur­phy's widow, the former KatherineSpeed, who died last year.The Boettcher scholarship, the sec­ond established by the Boettcher fam­ily, was set up by Dr. Boettcher'schildren, Mrs. Allan Converse, '28, ofGreenwich, Connecticut, and HenryF. Boettcher, chairman of the drama The men behind "Measure": left. managing editor Otto von Simson; right.assistant editor Alfred I. Folsom '40; in the middle. the debut issue of the,new magazine.department of Carnegie Institute ofTechnology.Murphy, prior to his death in 1947,was editor of the Marion News andthe Evansville Courier. An alumnusof the University of Chicago, he wasmanaging editor of the University'sstudent newspaper, the W eekly, in1893-94 and president of the 1894senior class.. Added to his newspaper work,Murphy served as chairman of theboard of the Upper Avenue NationalBank of Chicago, chairman of theFirst National Bank in Woodstock,and a director of the Clark Equip­ment Company and of the Interna­tional Cellucotton Products Company.He was president of the EvansvilleChamber of Commerce in 1916-17.Dr. Boettcher, who was 79 at hisdeath in 1945, was a member of thefirst staff of the Englewood Hospitalin Chicago, and an eminent eye andear surgeon.He taught at Rush Medical Col­lege, was ear surgeon of the IllinoisCharitable Eye and Ear Infirmary for31 years, and eye surgeon for theWabash Railroad Company. At Engle­wood hospital, he established the firstfree clinic and the Englewood FreeInfant Nursery. Another stipend, of $250 a year, hasbeen established at the University inhonor of Charles E. Merriam, dis­tinguished service professor emeritusof political science.The gift of a son, Charles J. Mer­riam, '22, JD '25, the award will befor the senior graduating from an Illi­nois high school who submits the bestsurvey on recent improvements inlocal government in his community,improvementt which are needed, cit­izen interest, or other governmentmatters. Aim of the award is toawaken the interest of high schoolstudents in local government. Reportsmust be submitted before May 1 toProfessor Charles Kneier, chairmanof the political science department atthe University of Ilinois.A measure of MeasureThe first edition of Measure, a newcritical journal to appear quarterly,was introduced at the beginning ofthe winter quarter. The magazineboard of editors, headed by ChancellorRobert M. Hutchins, includes fromthe quadrangles Daniel J. Boorstin,David Grene, John U. Nef, RobertRedfield, and Otto G. von Simpson..To make it a truly internationaljournal, several distinguished Euro-THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 19peans are serving as advisors and tal­ent scouts abroad; Montgomery Bel­gion, critic and essayist, from GreatBritain; Jacques Maritain, philoso­pher, France; Allessandro P. D'En­treeves, historical and political scien­tist, Italy, and Franz J. Schoeningh,author and editor, Germany.Editor von Simson, of the art fac­ultyand a member of the Committeeon Social Though t, is an expert onByzantine and early Christain. art.The publisher of the new magazineis Henry Regnery. Ebony scholarshipEbony magazine is responsible forthe four-year civic scholarship, in theCollege, which will be awarded. forthe first time next fall.The award, to be given to an enter­ing Negro student of outstandingability, was established by John H.Johnson, president of the JohnsonPublishing Company, during thecampus observance of Negro HistoryWeek.The civic scholarship program wasinaugurated to broaden scholarshipGreat Books (Continued from page 6)questions and guide the discussion.They must he trained primarily in theart of asking provocative questionsand keeping the discussion relevant.Above all, they must be trained in theart of listening. They range todayfrom a man who taught himself howto read, to scholars with Ph.D's. TheFoundation's training course for lead­ers consists of nine two-hour sessionsduring the first year, and five re­fresher sessions every year thereafter.There are two discussion leadersfor each group. This permits eachto rephrase questions, and preventseither from lecturing or monopolizingthe discussion.3. The Foundation also helps in­dividual leaders by publishing a Guidefor Leaders, covering the minimumrules for leading a discussion, Sugges­tions for Leaders, a compilation of theissues and questions which have re­sulted in the best discussions, infor­mational materials on the Great BooksFoundation etc.When a leader has finally beentrained, and the enrolment campaignhas netted a group of 20 or so par­tici pan ts, you can expect a scene likethis to follow:Thirty people are seated around a.hollow square of tables. T here areash trays in front of them and pocketsized reprints filled with underliningsand marginal notes. Two leaders taketheir places at the head of the table.Leader A: Would you sign the Declaration of Independence, Mrs.Jones?Mrs. Jones: I certainly would.Mr. Smith: I wouldn't. I'm againstrevolution for any reason.The discussion is on. It movesthrough an analysis of the purpose ofthe document, its importance in theworld today.Leader B: Do you think all menare created equal, Mr. Wilson?Mr. Wilson: No. That's all cam­paign oratory as Willkie called it. Ilook around me and I see that somepeople have more than others nat­urally. Some are wiser, some arehandsomer, some are stronger-Mrs. Smith: Mr. Wilson, you'rewrong. All men are created equal.This is truth, not window dressing.Leader A: What's the basis of yourdifference with Mr. Wilson?Mrs. Smith: Well ... I just be­lieve it, that's all.Mrs. Jones: I'll help Mrs. Smithout because I agree with her. All menare created equal in the eyes of God.That's what the Declaration said andthat's what it means.Mr. Wilson: But suppose I don'tbelieve in -God?Mrs. Jones: Then it's just too badfor you, Mr. Wilson.The leaders of the discussion maybe a schoolteacher and a librarian orthey may be a lawyer arid a house- opportunities in the College throughcontributions of named awards bybusiness organizations.A new secretaryHoward H. Moore, legal counsel ofthe University, has been appointedsecretary of the board of trustees.Moore, who has been assistant sec­retary of the board since 1945, re­mains legal counsel of the Universityin' addition to assuming the duties ofthe secretary. He succeeds as secre­tary, Vice-president R. Wendell Har·rison, acting secretary of the board.wife. They must be any two peoplewho are willing to listen to otheropinions, able to ask interesting ques­tions, and humble enough to keep outtheir own points of views. Mr. Smith,Mrs. Jones, Mr. Wilson and Mrs.Smith may be members of any raceor occupation, be drawn from anyeducational level, and strata of oursociety. Many of these people wouldnever meet in the course of everydaylife. Even more likely, they wouldnever sit around and discuss the bigideas of humankind, from the ancientsto the moderns, listen to the opinionsof others and benefit from differentexperiences. (All ideas are tested inthe light of contemporary· knowledgeand experience.) Mr. Jones wasprobably as surprised as anyone elseat hearing Mrs. Jones' opinions onthese subjects.Thirty thousand people are nowreading and discussing the GreatBooks - the thinking populace sonecessary to a democracy. Let theirnumbers be multiplied!Editor's note: T he Great Booksis an idea which was nurtured at theUniversity, and in which alumni mayhave a special interest. Are you now-leading a group or are you a memberof your local Great Books Commit­tee? If you are not, but would liketo participate, write the Great BooksFoundation, 59 East Monroe Street,Chicago 3, for information about tliep�gram in your community.APRIL CALENDARSaturday, April IGYMNASTICS-At West Point. National Collegiate,Sunday, April 2RELIGIOUS SERVICE-Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 59th andWoodlawn, 11 a.m., The Reverend Charles W. Gilkey, DeanEmeritus of the Chapel. Palm Sunday.Monday, April 3LECTURES-University College seminar, Leadership in Confer­ence Discussion, conducted by Thomas Fansler, director of r�­search, National Safety Council, and Charles B. Tuttle, presI­dent, Charles B. Tuttle and Associates. Section Ic will meet at3:30 p.m., section lIb will meet at 7 p.m., first of ten weeklysessions, 19 South LaSalle street. $25.Hans J. Morgenthau, professor of political science, University ofChicago, "The Dilemmas of AmericaI?- Foreig? Policy," Walg�eenFoundation lectures on The Foreign Policy of the UmtedStates, 4:30 p.m., James Henry Breasted lecture hall (1155 East58th street). Free.University College seminar, World Politics, conducted by ClaudeWells, lecturer, University of Chicago. First of ten weekly ses­sions, 7 p.m., 19 South LaSalle street. $18.Tuesday, April 4LECTURE-University College seminar, Language, Meaning, at�dMaturity, conducted by S. I. Hayakawa, author, Language znThought and Action. First of ten weekly sessions, 7 p.m., 19South LaSalle street. $18.DEBATE - At Burton Lounge (Burton-Judson). 4:30 p.m.Princeton vs. Chicago. "Should the United States Nationalizeits Basic Industries>" .MUSIC--:-Concert by the Association of Commerce and Industry. Glee Club. University of Chicago Settlement benefit series, 8:30p.m., Leon Mandel Hall (5714 University avenue) . $1.20 and$1.50. .Wednesday, April 5LECTURES - University College seminar, Elementary ScienceTeaching: Methods and Resources, conducted by AbrahamRaskin, assistant professor of biological sciences and examiner,University of Chicago. First of ten weekly sessions, 4:30 p.m.,19 South LaSalle street. $15.Hans J. Morgenthau, professor of political science, University ofChicago, "Old Problems and New Illusions," Walgreen Founda­tion lectures on The Foreign Policy of the United States, 4:30p.m., James Henry Breasted lecture hall (1155 East 58th street) .Free.University College seminar, The World's Great Plays III, con­ducted by Melvin Seiden, lecturer, University of Chicago. Firstof ten weekly sessions, 7 p.m., 19 South LaSalle street. $12.Charles Morris, lecturer in philosophy, University of Chicago,"Multiple Man and the Dilemma Thereof," public COUFse,Paths of Life, 8 p.m., room 122, Social Science building (1126East 59th street). $.75.Thursday, April 6LECTURE-Phillips Talbot, visiting assistant professor of politi­cal science, University of Chicago, "Can Point Four Competewith Communism?" University College series on Point Four: ANew Approach to Peace, co-sponsored by the Chicago Councilon Foreign Relations, 5:15 p.m., Woodrow Wilson room, Chi­cago Council on Foreign Relations (116 South Michigan ave­nue). $1.Friday, April 7LECTURES-University College seminar, Adult Education: ItsOrganization and Administration, conducted by Malcolm S.Knowles, director of education, central department, ChicagoY.M.C.A., and Cyril O. Houle, dean of University College andassociate professor of education, University of Chicago.· Firstof ten weekly sessions, 12 p.m., 19 South LaSalle street, $18.Hans J. Morgenthau, professor of political science, University ofChicago, "The Atomic Challenge and the American Answer,"Walgreen Foundation lectures on The Foreign Policy of theUnited States, 4:30 p.m., James Henry Breasted lecture hall(1155 East 58th street). Free.DEBATE-At Mandel Hall, 5714 University. 3:30 p.m. ProfessorHerman Finer, department of Political Science; Dr. MorrisFishbein, faculty of the Medical School; Dr. F. Joseph Mullin,dean of students in Biological Sciences: "Should the UnitedStates Adopt a Policy of National Health Insurance?" Spon­sored by Student Forum.Sunday, April 9�ELIGIOUS SERVICE-Rockefeller Memorial .Chapel, 59th andwoodlawn, 11 a.m., Easter Sunday. The Reverend. Wallace W.Robbins, Axociate Dean of the Chapel. Monday, April 10LECTURES-Ralph J. Bunche, acting assistant secretary-general,department of trusteeship .and information from non-self­governing territories, United Nations, "The Pal�stine Intervenetion: From Mandate to War," University of Chicago WalgreenFoundation lectures on Man, Democracy, and Peace, 4:30 p.m.,Rockefeller Memorial Chapel (59th street and Woodlawn ave-nue). Free.. .. .University College semmar, More. Effective Spe�kml? I, cond.uctedby Mrs. Bess Sandel, instructor m speech, University of Chicago,First of 20 sessions at 6: 15 p.m., Monday and Thursday evenings,19 South Lasalle street. $25.Tuesday, April IILECTURES-Ralph J. Bunche, acting assistant secretary-general,department of trusteeship and information from non-self­governing territories, United Nations, "The Palestine Interven­tion: Mediation and Conciliation," University of Chicago Wal­zreen Foundation lectures on Man, Democracy, and Peace, 4:30p.m., Rockefeller Memorial Chapel (59th street and Woodlawnavenue) -. Free. .University College seminar, Understanding. Moder� Poetry, c�n­ducted by Arvid Shulenberger, lecturer m English, Un iversj tvof Chicago. First of ten weekly sessions, 7 p.m., 19 South La­Salle street, $15.Wednesday, April 12LECTURES-Michael Polanyi, professor of social studies, VictoriaUniversity, Manchester, England, "The Perils of Inconsistency,"University of Chicago series, The Logic of Liberty, 4:30 p.m.,room 122, Social Science building (1126 East 59th street). Free.LECTURES-Ralph J. Bunche, acting assistant secretary-genemjdepartment of trusteeship and information from non-self­supporting territories, United Nations, "The Twilight ofColonialism," University of Chicago Walgreen Foundation lec­tures on Man, Democracy, and Peace, 4:30 p.m., RockefellerMemorial Chapel (59th street and Woodlawn avenue). Free.Charles Morris, lecturer in philosophy, University of Chicago,"The Ways of Dependence," public course, Paths of Life, 8 p.m.,room 122, Social Science building (1126 East 59th street). $.75.Thursday, April 13LECTURES-Ralph J. Bunche, acting assistant secretary-general,department of trusteeship and information from non-sel£­governing territories, United Nations, "Human Rights andFundamental Freedoms," University of Chicago Walgreen Foun­dation lectures on Man, Democracy, and Peace, 4:30 p.m.,Rockefeller Memorial Chapel (59th street and Woodlawn ave­nue). Free.Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall, dean, division of biological sciences,University of Chicago, "With Everybody Healthy," UniversityCollege series, Point Four: A New Approach to Peace, co­sponsored by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 5: 15p.m., Woodrow Wilson room, Chicago Council on Foreign Rela­tions (116 South Michigan avenue). $1.Friday, April J,4LECTURES-Ralph J. Bunche, acting assistant secretary-general,department of trusteeship and information from non-self­governing territories, United Nations, "The Challenge ofHuman Relations," University of Chicago Walgreen Founda­tion lectures on Man, Democracy, and Peace, 4:30 p.m., Rocke­feller Memorial Chapel (59th street and Woodlawn avenue).Free.Mortimer J. Adler, professor of philosophy of law, University ofChicago, author, How To Read A Book, "The Immortality ofthe Soul," The Great Ideas series, 7:30 p.m., 32 West Randolphstreet. $1.50.Sunday; April 16RELIGIOUS SERVICE-Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 59th andWoodlawn, 11 a.m., The Reverend John B. Thompson, Deanof the Chapel.MUSIC-University Lecture-Concert series, The Piano Sonata inthe Nineteenth Century, Ernst Levy, professorial lecturer inmusic, University of Chicago, will discuss "The Last PianoSonatas by Beethoven," and play Beethoven Opuses 109, 110,and 111, 8:30 p.m., Leon Mandel Hall (5714 University ave­nue). Free.Monday, April 17LECTURE-University College seminar, The Constitution of theUnited States, conducted by Charles A. Nelson, director, basicprogram of liberal education for adults, University College.First of eight weekly sessions, 7 p.m., 19 South LaSalle street. $9.. Tuesday, April 18LECTURES-University College workshop, Geography and WorldAffairs, conducted by Carl H. Mapes, chief map editor, Rand20THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 21McNally and Company. First of six weekly sessions, 6:30 p.m.,Library of International Relations (351 East Ohio street). $9.Jean Duchesne-Cu illemin, professor of history of religions, Uni­versity of Liege, Belgium, "Zoroaster: Prophet of AncientIran, 8 p.m., james Henry Breasted lecture hall (1155 East58th street). Free.MUSIC-Student-faculty musical, Simply the Best, University ofChicago Settlement benefit series, 8:30 p.m., Leon Mandel Hall(5714 University avenue). $1.20 and $1.50.Wednesday, April 19LECTURES-j\fichael Polanyi, professor of social studies, VictoriaUniversity, Manchester, England, "On Scientific Beliefs," Uni­versity of Chicago series, The Logic of Liberty, 4:30 p.m., room122, Social Science building (1126 East 59th street). Free.Charles Morris, lecturer in philosophy, University of Chicago,"The Ways of Dominance," public course, Paths of Life, 8p.m., room 122, Social Science building (1126 East 59th street) .$.75. .Thursday, April 20LECTURE-William Fielding Ogburn, distinguished service pro-o fessor of sociology, University of Chicago, "The Impact ofMachines on Undeveloped Areas," University College .series,Point Four: A New Approach to Peace, co-sponsored by theChicago Council on Foreign Relations, 5: 15 p.m., WoodrowWilson room, Chicago Council on Foreign Relations' (116 SouthMichigan avenue). $1.Friday, April 21LECTURE-Hermann 1. Schlesinger, professor emeritus of chem­istry, University of Chicago, "Recent Developments in HydrideChemistry," 8 p.m., Furniture Club (666 North Lake Shoredrive). Free.MUSIC-University Concert, Woodwind players of the ChicagoSymphony Orchestra, conducted by Ernst Levy, professorial lec­turer in music, University of Chicago, music of Haydn, Janacek,and Mozart, 8:30 p.m., Leon Mandel Hall (5714 Universityavenue). $1.50.Sunday, April 23RELIGIOUS SERVICE-Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 59th and Woodlawn, 11 a.m., The Reverend John B. Thompson, Deanof the Chapel.MUSIC-University Lecture-Concert series, The Piano Sonata inthe Nineteenth Century. Ernst Levy, professorial lecturer inmusic, University of Chicago, will discuss and perform Liszt'sSonata in B Minor, 8:30 p.m., Leon Mandel Hall (5714 Univer­sity avenue). Free.Wednesday, April 26LECTURES-Michael Polanyi, professor of social studies, VictoriaUniversity, Manchester, England, "Freedom of Science," Univer­sity of Chicago series, The Logic of Liberty, 4:30 p.m., room122, Social Science building (1126 East 59th street). Free.S. 1. Hayakawa, author, Language in Thought and Action, "Lan­guage and Human Survival," University College series, HowCan Semantics Help? 6:30 p.m., room 809, 19 South LaSallestreet. $1.Charles Morris, lecturer in philosophy, University of Chicago,"The Ways of Detachment," public course, Paths· of Life, 8p.m., room 122, Social Science building (1126 East 59th street) .Free ..Thursday, April 27LECTURE-Theodore '\IV. Schultz, chairman, department of eco­nomics, University of Chicago, "Food for the World," UniversityCollege series, Point Four: A New Approach to Peace, co­sponsored by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 5: 15p.m., Woodrow Wilson room, Chicago Council on Foreign Re­lations (116 South Michigan avenue). $1.Saturday, April 29DRAMA-University Theater, "Volpone, or The Fox" by Benjonson, 3:30 and 8:30 p.m., Leon Mandel Hall (5714 Univer­sity avenue). $.35, matinees; $.70, evenings.Sunday, April 30DRAMA-University Theater, "Volpone, or The Fox" by Benjonson, 3:30 and 8:30 p.m., Leon Mandel Hall (5714 Univer­sity avenue) $.35, matinees; $.70, evenings.RELIGIOUS SERVICE-Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 59th andWoodlawn, 11 a.m., The Reverend Bernard M. Loomer, Deanof the Divinity School.A Hymn to Suburbia(H ere's an invitation from Fred­erick S. Breed (Education Emeritus),who has been living at Dune Acres,I ndiana, since his retirement. Heused to be a more or less regular cor­respondent but in recent years wehave received no manuscripts. Havingread this article, we know the answer:life's too easy to do anything butlisten to the whippoorwill.)In A Texan in England, J. FrankDobie, a college professor equally athome with cowpunchers and acade­micians, longhorned cattle and long­haired poets, offers a prescription forthe happiness of civilized man. "Manytimes," he says, "I have thought thatthe greatest happiness possible to aman-probably not to a woman-is tobecome civilized, to know the pageantof the past, to love the beautiful, tohave just ideas of values and propor­tions, and then, retaining his animalspirits and appetites, to live in a wil­derness where nature is congenial,with a few barbarians to afford pic­turesqueness and human relations."I commend Dobie's prescription tothe reader's tender consideration: ifpossible, "live in a wilderness wherenature is congenial." That's what every suburbanite aspires to do. Heis not weary of civilization or thestruggle for existence. And he is notpeculiar! He is in search of respitefrom the din and the dirt and thejostling crowds of modern Babylons.After a day in the midst of the me­tropolis, where he has been blockedand body-checked by a new speciesof aggressive Amazons, or swiveled outof play by a switch of their hips, hefinds solace in taking refuge amongthose who have settled with him be­yond the din. He would hardly callthese kindred spirits "barbarians." Hewould merely apologize for their ap­pearance and explain that .they onlylook that way after crawling out ofthe habiliments of polite society.Civilization can be too much withus. Sure; one purchases relief at aprice: for the 7: 15 commuting trainin the morning and the 5: 15 at nightare not exactly joy rides. But theescape to something refreshing-that'sthe pay-off. And it is worth the cost,says the seasoned commuter. Anadolescent from the rural areas mayrush to the metropolis, wide-eyed andgawking with wonder, but after yearsof being pushed around he finally chooses to run, run away that is, andtake refuge once more in God's greatunsullied out-of-doors.An hour's time and a monthlyticket enable him to collide with themadding crowd when business re­quires it, after which he returns withdeep content to the tranquility of thewoodland, to his cabin or castle amongthe trees. Skyscrapers, towering un­gainly, are left behind for stately oaksand majestic pines. The roar of traf­fic, the honk of horns, the clang oftrolley bells give way to the subduedthud of the surf on a sandy beach,the faint rustle of leaves in the wind,the song of a thrush at sunset.No more is night made hideous andsleep impossible by grinding trucksand screeching taxicabs. When hisevening is all but spent, and he beginsto drowse over his reading, our sub­urbanite retires to his pillow andleaves the rest to Morpheus. The callof the whippoorwill comes plain andclear as he relaxes for the night, thenlow and indistinct. The murmur ofthe waves grows faint."Any room for more barbarians?"you ask."Yes, plenty."22 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE"My only regret is that I didn'tinvestigate these opportunities earlier"SOMETIMES it takes a while to get your bearings.In my case, for instance, I worked six months in abank, a year with a casualty insurance company, andafter four years in the Navy I put in 12 months work­ing in an office with my father. I was dissatisfiedwith my career, and convinced that I was not cut outfor office work.About this time a friend of mine began talking tome about his long experience in the life insurancebusiness. He was getting out of life, and out of hiswork, exactly what I was looking for. So I decidedto make a four-month study of his business.This convinced me that life insurance offered thekind of life and earnings I wanted, and that myfriend's company, the New England Mutual, wasideal. Its policies are unusually liberal, and it hasback of it the prestige of being the first mutual lifeinsurance company chartered in America.I signed up. I took the company's thorough train­ing course. And now - my time is my own, whichmeans I'm working harder than ever before, but itdoesn't seem that way because I'm getting so muchsatisfaction out of my work. I have' time to con­tribute to my home town through civic work, andthere is still time left for g�lf and tennis. And myearnings, which are in direct 'proportion to the effortI put in, are considerably higher than when I workedfor someone else.I have only one regret, and it is that I did notinvestigate earlier the opportunities offered by thelife insurance profession.Recent . graduates of our Home Office training course,although new to the life insurance business, earn averagefirst-year commissions of $3600 -which, with renewal com­missions added, brings the total yearly income average to$ 5700. From here, incomes rise in direct proportion to eachindividual's ability and industry.If you'd like information about a career that gives you abusiness of your own, with no slow climb up a seniorityladder and no ceiling on earnings, write Mr. H. C. Chaney,Director of Agencies, 501 Boylston Street, Boston 17, Mass.The NEW ENGLAND MUTUAl LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY B. B. Plyler, Jr., Wilson, N. C.These University of Chicago men are New EnglandMutual representatives':Harry Benner, 'II, ChicagoGeorge Marselos, '34, ChicagoJohn R. Downs, '46, ChicagoThey can give you expert co�nsel on "Living Insurance"-a uniquely liberaland flexible life insurance program tailored to fit your family's needs.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 23NEWS OF THE CLASSESOphthalmological AlumniAlumni of the Department ofOphthalmology of the Universityclinics formed an ophthalmologicalalumni club in October. The forma­tion was in honor of Dr. E. V. L.Brown, 'MD (Rush) '98, SB '02, headof the Department of Ophthalmol­ogy, University of Chicago MedicalCollege, 1926-42. Fifty-three alumniand their wives met for supper-theclub was organized during the fallsessions of the American Academy ofOphthalmology. Dr. Brown and hiswife were welcomed by ProfessorArlington Krause, present head ofthe Eye Department at Billings,Dewey Katz, past assistant professorof Ophthalmology at Billings and byothers. The organization honored thememory of the late Louis Bothman,associate professor of the Eye depart­ment in whose honor the foundingdinner was to have been jointlygiven. At the election of officers JackP. Cowen, '27, MD (Rush) '32, waselected president.Faculty vs. 1897Edgar J. Goodspeed, PhD '98, is one of50 outstanding religious scholars includedin a written forum on the Apostle Paulwhich appears in the new anthology, Con­temporary Thinking About Paul, publishedEdgar J. Goodspeedin January. Dr. Goodspeed examines thefirst collection of Paul's letters in an ex­cerpt from An Introduction to the' NewTestament.Quiz KidsOn a recent TV show in Chicago, the Quiz Kids took on four Universityfaculty members. In the first row, on the right, Professors Joseph Mullin(Physiology) and Mary Louise Eilert (Medicine): 'in the back row, ProfessorsPhilip Hauser, right, '29, AM '33, PhD '38 (Sociology), and Harry S. Everett,PhD '22 (Mathematics). Prize slipup on the, program: when asked whatstate cepi+els we're named after the state itself (e.g. Oklahoma City), Pro­fessor Mullin replied-New York City. He has been ribbed about it eversince. Show producer. of course. is Louis G. Cowan. "31 •• Col. Harry D. Abells and Mrs. Abellsare spending the winter at North Benning­ton, Vermont (Box 366) where Col. Abellsis recovering from a heart condition. Let­ters from friends are as good as medicine •from bottles.1899William Nobel Keller, MD (Rush) i'sretired in Steilacoom, Washington. He hadbeen superintendent of Western State Hos­pital in Steilacoom.George H. Sawyer and wife spent Janu­ary and February in Florida, away fromthe winter snows of Bloomington, Indiana,where they live with their daughter andson-in-law; the latter is director of bandsat the University of Indiana.1900Alden H. Hadley is educational represen­tative in the division of public relations,Indiana Department of Conservation.Mrs. G. A. Schmidt (Sarah F. Lindsay)is a retired teacher of college English. Sheis living in Fort Collins, Colorado.1901Bennett Challis is a teacher of Economicsin the Henry George School, New York.1903Claude George Dickey, MD (Rush) is re­tired in Lakewood Village, California.1904G. George Fox, AM '15, rabbi emeritusof South Shore Temple in Chicago, hasopened a family and marriage counsellingservice in Chicago. He was retired onNovember 1st; the Congregation gave Rabbiand Mrs. Fox a testimonial banquet andpresented them with a two-months' tripto Europe and Israel.1905Charles A. Shull, PhD '15, of Asheville,N. C. has been appointed, for a six-yearterm, to the board of the Asheville-Bilt­more Junior College. The board hopes tomake this a four-year college eventually.It has just purchased 60 acres on SunsetMountain for the new campus. Mr. Shullwrites: "I can see it clearly from only a fewsteps from my door, six miles away - abeacon light for the intellectual, moral andspiritual progress of this great mountainreg ion,"James Roy Ozanne of Evanston, Illinois,was recently elected president of the Evans­ton Y.M.C.A.1906Heman Burr Leonard is. a retiredmathematics professor from the Universityof Arizona. He is living in Tucson.At the annual meeting of the St. Luke's(Chicago) Board of Trustees recently Hunt­ington B. Henry became first vice-president.1907The Reverend Guy C. Crippen, AM '12,DB '12, is a member of the County Wel­fare Commissioners Board in Madera, Cal­ifornia. It is believed that Rev. Crippenis the first minister to have ever servedas a member of this board.24 THE UNIVERSITY CHICAGOR. R. Williams, SM '08, is acting as Di­rector of Grants for Research Corporation,Chrysler Building, New York. He is alsochairman of the Williams-Waterman Fundfor the Combat of Dietary Diseases. Hisduties are two-fold. He encourages re­search in the physical sciences, especiallyin smaller institutions; second, he promotesresearch in nutrition plus the practicalapplication of measures for eradication ofdeficiency diseases.John F. Moulds has taken on an oldnew job in Claremont, California. He isnow assistant to the president of PomonaCollege. He's filling in for a man on leavebut it's down his old alley of keepingalert to sources of funds for education.His daughter, Frances, who was graduatedfrom Pomona last June, is taking work atSan Diego State College to prepare forteaching.1908George A. Garrett has become the firstUnited States ambassador to Ireland. Hehad been named minister to Ireland in1947. Before taking his diplomatic postGarrett had been resident partner ofMerrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Beane,stock. brokers.Mrs. Lester B. Lockwood (Stephanie Ver­va it) has been awarded the AcademicPalms with the grade of Academy Officerby the government of the French Republic.Max Spencer Rohde, MD, reports fromNew York City that he still gives partiesin his willow garden.Dudley H. Miles, AM, has retired asteacher from the Evander Childs HighSchool in New York and is now livingon the Atlantic Shore, Shelter IslandHeights,' New York.1909Stephen s� Visher, SM '10, PhD '14, pro­fessor of geography at Indiana University:signed the visitors' register in the AluJ?l1lLounge in early February. He was Justreturning from an air swing through LosAngeles and San Francisco (to visit his son)between semesters at Indiana University.He flew on to Indianapolis, where he hadparked his car a week before. Dr. Visherenjoyed to the full flying over westerncountry .he had mapped in his earlier days.1910William Cabler Moore, PhD, was guestspeaker on January 7 at the regular Satur­day morning broadcast sponsored by theWestern Connecticut Section of the Amer­ican Chemical Society over Station WICCin Bridgeport, Connecticut. Dr. Moore'stopic was "Corrosion - An Enemy of thePocketbook."At the annual meeting of the SL Luke's(Chicago) board of trustees recently CharlesF. Glore' became second vice-president.1911Sylvia Alice Miller, AM '15, is teachingin lone, Washington.Lemuel F. Smith, SM, retired professorfrom Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo" Mich­igan, is, teaching chemistry at, FurmanUniversity, Greenville, South Carolina.1913J. Ben Hill, PhD, after 40 years of teach­ing in the Botany department. of Pennsy�­vania State College, has retired, He ISteaching, this 'year as a visiting professorat the University of Miami in Coral Gables,Florida. Mrs. Hill is the former HelenDeuss, '16. OFBenedict K. Goodman has an investmentsoffice in Evanston, Illinois.1914Edith Mays Boughton is retired andliving in Harbert, Michigan.Percival Bailey, PhD '18, professor ofneurology and neurological surgery at theUniversity of Illinois college of medicine,received the French legion of honor medalrecently. The medal was awarded by theFrench government in recognition of Dr.Bailey's contribution to medical scienceand for his counsel to. French doctors whovisited the U. S. to study this co�ntry'sprogress in neurology.Mrs. Herbert A. Wildman (Caroline M.Cassum) is a teacher of mentally and handi­capped children in Bloomington, Illinois.Lester E. Williams, AM '18, is head ofthe department of mathematics at Hunt­ingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama.Mrs. James W. Pearce (Lydia MarionLee) is still deep in activities in the Colum­bia Basin-"having fun homing in on de­bates on CVA, City Manger form of govern­ment and racial problems."1915Bessie Strongman is a retired physicianin Llanika, Hawaii.Jesse F. Steine, PhD" is retired.Mrs. John L. Lobinger (Elizabeth E.Miller) has just published a new book:"Activities in Child Education." Her homeis in Winchester, Massachusetts.Gustave O. Arlt, AM '29, PhD '31, ischairman and professor of German Lan­guage at the University of California. Heis also associate dean of the graduate school.1916With the help of Lorna Lavery Stafford,instructor at Mexico City College, the in­stitution started the first graduate schoolon the American plan in Latin America.She is the wife of the former Consul Gen­eral of the American Embassy in Mexico.Lois Diehl, AM '34, is. a, correla tor of theeastern region for the National YWCA.Mrs. Marguerite Anderson Metz is direc­tor of the Missouri State Public Welfarein Kirksville, Missouri.Robert Harvey 'is a United Church minis­ter in Wawanesa, Manitoba. Mrs. Harveyis the former Lois D. Logan, AM '16.Corwin' Wickham is a grain broker inChicago.An honorary degree of doctor of lawswas conferred recently by Loyola Uni­versity, Chicago, on Andrew C. Ivy, SM '18,PhD '18, MD '21, vice-president in chargeof professional schools at the Universityof Illinois.1917Josephine Banta, AM, is a modern lan­guages instructor at St. Cloud Teachers'College in St. Cloud, Minnesota.1918Mrs. Roscoe R. Johnson (Anita Bolotin)is manager of an apartmen t hotel inCarmel, California.Servaas Hofmeyr Rossouw, AM, is min­ister of religion for the Dutch ReformedChurch in Capetown, South Africa.Stella Eckels of Mullen, Nebraska, is mak­ing a trip to England in late April.1919Mrs. Frances H. Madsen (Frances M.Hauss) AM, is director of a private nurseryschool in Detroit.Duncan C. Annan is an air force colonel MAGAZINEat Wright-Patterson Field in Dayton, Ohio.Charles W. Becker, vice-president of Wil­son and Company in Chicago, was a can­didate recently for vice-president of theChicago Athletic Association.1920Hazel May Comell is retired in Moun­tain Lakes, New Jersey.Margaret M. Brayton is curator of Chilodren's Museum in Detroit.Coleman Clark, nationally famous tabletennis champion and exhibitionist, is re­turning to his earlier livelihood on Chi­cago's investment row. He is now a Chi­cago representative for the Provident Mu­tual Life Insurance Company of Philadel­phia. Clark spent 15 years in the invest­ment field before becoming an entertainerwith the ping pong paddle.1921Andrew M. Baird has been elected adirector of Younker Brothers Incorporated,department store chain in Des Moines,Iowa.1922The arguments of management and laboron the use of income data in wage negoti­ations are discussed by Richard NormanOwens, AM, PhD '28, professor of account­ing and business administration at TheGeorge Washington University, Washing­ton, D. C., in the current issue of that in­stitution's publication "Confidential-fromWashington."J. Forrest Crawford, officer of the for­eign service of the U. S., has been trans­ferred from Baghdad, Iraq, to Beiru t,Lebanon, as Attache.Letitia Mary Mintz is program registrarof the YWCA in Akron, Ohio.1923Jackson Moore, vice-president and a di­rector of Sears Roebuck & Company, hasannounced his retirement from the firm.His home is in Atlanta, Georgia.Harold E. Christiansen, president ofChristiansen Advertising Agency in Chi­cago, was a candidate for secretary of theChicago Athletic Association.Hazel Louise Nystrom is a psychiatricsocial worker in Sacramento, California.Jesse Pierce, SM, is a research engineerfor Northrop Mrcraft in Los Angeles.Lex C. Whelan is with the Allen-BradlyElectrical Company in Milwaukee whereAlexander F. North, '17, is comptroller.1924O. Paul Decker, vice-president of theAmerican National Bank and Trust Com­pany of Chicago, has been appointed to acivilian panel to give advice and guidancein management and management methodsto the Army.Mrs. Helen I. Soutter, AM '28, and herhusband will leave next month for Europeto attend the International Stamp Exhibi­tion in London.David J. Shipman, JD '27, has announcedhis association with Albert H. Robbins, '21,JD '23, of the Illinois Bar for the handlingof International matters. Robbins, who hasbeen practicing in London since 1928 andspecializing in international legal matters,will continue to spend a large part of histime abroad. Shipman will devote most ofhis time to the Chicago office.Charles L. Goldberg, who has his lawdegree from Marquette University and'who has a general law practice in Milwau­kee, is participating in the leadership ofTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOa Great Books course-now in the thirdyear. Badminton is his physical activity.1925Harry Paul Newton is a chemist andassistant director of research for the South­ern Regional Research, USDA, New Or­leans.Gordon Phelps Merriam, SM, is retiredfrom foreign service and is living inDamariscotta, Maine.Theodore Ott Yntema, AM, 'PhD '29, isvice-president of Finance for the FordMotor Company in Dearborn, Michigan.Elmer VQight, JD '28, is an attorney inChicago.G. Donald Hudson, AM '26, PhD '34,chairman of the Department of geographyat Northwestern University and geograph­ical editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica,has been elected president of the Associa­tion of American Geographers.1926Karola Geiger, AM, PhD '30, is assistan tprofessor of German at De Paul Universityin Chicago.Lee H. Ostrander was recently electedpresident of the Highland Park, IllinoisCommunity Chest.Guy L. Bames is a pastor in Missoula,Montana.Marvin Norwood, AM, is an appliancedealer in Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Norwood isthe former Marie C. Fears, 24.1927Ruth M. Kellogg, AM, is associated withthe American Management Association inNew York.Manuel L. Lopez is associate professorof Modern Languages at Whitman Collegein Walla Walla, Washington.Ralph Brandreth Kennard is a physicistin the U. S. Air Force in Washington, D. C.Mrs. Forest E. E. Blackbum (Ruth H.Schroeder, AM '28) is a rural school teacherin Antioch, Illinois.1928Estella Alice Clark was married to ErnestR. Roop July 28.Robert E. L. Massey is a cattle buyer forSwift and Company in Chicago. Mrs. Masseyis the former Annette M. Allen, '29.Ivar Spector, PhD, of the University ofWashington in Seattle, has just published"Introduction to Russian History and Cul­ture."Maurice S. Palles, JD '29, is part ownerof Industrial Wipers in Chicago.Mrs. Toby Kurzband (Diana W olm) is apsychiatric social worker at the Bureau ofChild Guidance in New York City. Herhusband is Toby Kurzband, '29.Albert E. Barnett, AM, PhD '32, will bewith the Candler School of Theology,Emory University, Georgia after Septem­ber 1.Kenneth N. Campbell, PhD '32, has beenProfessor of Chemistry at Notre Dame forseveral years. He is actively. engaged inresearch, especially synthetic drugs and ischairman of the Division of MedicinalChemistry of the American Chemical So­ciety. He is also chairman of the NationalMedicinal Chemistry Symposium to be heldat Notre Dame this June. Mrs. Campbell(Barbara H. Knapp, '29, SM '31) receivedher PhD in chemistry from PennsylvaniaState College in 1937. She has been cooper­ating with her husband in research onsynthetic drugs and is also Lecturer inChemistry at the South Bend Center of Indiana University. She was recently eiectedvice-president of Sigma Delta Epsilon, thenational organization of women engagedin scientific research.1929Carlisle Dietrich, MD (Rush) is a derma­tologist in Tacoma, Washington.Arthur M., Marks, is a meteorologist inWashington, D. C.Charles A. Nebel is a Lieutenant Colonelin the army at the Frankfurt Military Post,Transportation Section. His wife is EleanorD. Murdock, '31, AM '33.Mrs. Charles F. Darlington (Alice N. Ben­ning) is now living in London where herhusband is senior European representativefor the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company.1930Ralph john Bartoli is tax manager ofthe southern territory for Sears, Roebuckand Company. His office is in Atlanta,Georgia.Melbourne Henry JQhnson is a YMCAsecretary in Chicago. .Frances Kathryn. Amelia Nelson is astenographer for the Worman Service, In­corpora ted in Chicago.1931Franklin Googins Butler is assistant sec­retary, Providence Washington IndemnityCompany in Providence, Rhode Island.Royden James Dangerfield, PhD, is pro­fessor of political science at the Universityof Wisconsin.Max Friedman has been elected to theBoard of Trustees of Mohlgan Colony,Crompond, New York.George E. Lewis is an accountant for theAtlantic Oil Company in East Palatka,Florida.Louis Richard Forbrich, SM '32, is achemist in Pittsburgh.Mrs. Walter T. Eisenhauer (May H.Kent) is teaching in San Gabriel, Cali-fornia. -William Sherman Minor is professor ofphilosophy at the University of West Vir­ginia.A daughter, Carol Wilson, was born tothe William S. Friedeman family on No­vember 6.Mrs. Harry E. Miner (Helen K. KnQPp)is now living in Honolulu.1932William J. Sweeley, MD (Rush) has re­ceived his certificate in the practice ofDermatology. He is practicing in Coldwelland Montclair, New Jersey.Adolph Nachman, MD (U of C) '36, hasbeen appointed to the faculty of the Chi­cago Medical School. He is an instructorin pediatrics.William WinstQn Pike, MD, is a psychia­trist in New York.Arthur Karl Peterson is medical directorof R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company inChicago.Charles Edward Weir is a physicist forthe National Bureau of Standards in Wash­ington, D. C.Louise E. Killie, AM '44, is teaching gen­eral science and biology in the DownersGrove high school (Chicago suburb).1933Julia Margaret Barber, AM, is assistantdirector of Christian Education, MichiganCouncil of Churches.Louis B. Newman, MD (Rush) is a mem­ber of the Medical Consulting' and Advisory MAGAZINE 25BIRCK-FELLINGER CORP.E.xc'usiveCleaners & Dyers200 E. Marquette RoadPhone: WEntworth 6-5380SUPERFLUOUS HAIRREMOVED FOREVERMultiple 20 platinum needles cen be used.Permanent removal of hair from face, eye­brows, bad of ned, or any part of body;also facial veins, moles. and warts.Men and WomenLOTTIE A. METCALFEELECTROLYSIS EXPERT20 years' experienceAlsoGraduate NurseSuite 1705. Stevens BuildinCJ17 N. State StreetTelephone FRanklin 2-4885FREE CONSULTATIONWasson-PocahontasCoal Co.6876 South Chicago Ave.Phone: BUtterfield 8-2116-7-8-9Wellon'l Coal Mekes Good-or­Wallon DoelEASTMAN COAL CO.Establi.h.d 1902YARDS ALL OVER TOWNGENERAL OFFICES342 N. 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Chalifoux '22PHOTOPRESS, INC.OFFSET-LITHOGRAPHYfine Color Work A Specialty731 Plymouth CourtWAbash 2-8182 Board, Armour Research Foundation of theIllinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.Ralph Bertram Bowersox, SM '34, PhD'38, is a physicist at the California Instituteof Technology. His wife is the formerHelen E. Prosser, '30.Marvin M. Dickey, MD (Rush) is prac­ticing in Elgin,' Illinois.William J. Cotten, AM, is a teacher inFolkstone, North Carolina.Harold J. Plumley, PhD '37, recentlytook over a new position as deputy chief ofthe Engineering Department, I, atthe U. S.Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak,Maryland. Dr. Plumley came to the lab­oratory from the Electrical Engineering de­partment of Commonwealth Edison in Chi-Harold J. Plumleycago. His first assignment in White Oakwas to work with Naval mine recoveryand disposal. His group. is credited withdeveloping techniques for u n d e r w ate rordnance recovery which resulted in thesaving of millions of dollars by the govern­ment.1934Edward E. Di Bella who studied at theSchool of Social Work on campus, has beenappointed director of the Community Chestand Planning Council of Prince GeorgesCounty, Maryland.Edgar Lewis Burtis is an agriculturaleconomist in Washington.Charles Nathaniel Meyer is connectedwith the Glackamore Antique Shop in NewYork.Mildred Throne is assistant editor of theIowa Historical Association publications.William W. Farley is assistant directorof Research for Collins Radio Companyin Cedar Rapids, Iowa.John B. Iglehart is working in industrialrelations for Libby, McNeill and Libby inChicago.David Allan McCaulay, SM '40, is a chem­ist for the Standard Oil Company in Whit-ing, Indiana.1935Daniel Meyer Eisler recently received aDoctor of Philosophy degree in Bacteri­ology from Western Reserve University,Cleveland.David J. Harris has been elected a di-.rector of the Highland Park, Illinois Com­munity Chest. MAGAZINERobert A. Hall Junior, AM, has writtena book entitled: "Leave Your LanguageAlone." He is associate professor of Lin.guistics at Cornell University.Alice C. Shaffer, AM, is program officerfor the UN Children's Fund in CentralAmerica.Erci William was born to Mr. and Mrs.Gifford M. Mast in Davenport, Iowa onFebruary 8, 1950.John Campbell Pelzel is a teacher atPeabody Museum in Cambridge, Massa­chusetts.Jesse B. Blayton of Atlanta is the ownerof radio station vVERD, the first stationin the United States to be owned by aNegro. He is also vice president of theCitizens Trust Company, Carnegie Pro­fessor of Business. Administration at At­lanta University, and principal of J. B.Blayton & Co., Certified Public Account­ants.1936George G. Gelman is technical directorfor the Food and Container Institute,Armed Forces, in Chicago. He was mar­ried to Ruth Samberg on December 25.Alvirdo Pearson, MD '36, is a physicianand surgeon in North Hollywood, Cali­fornia.William Bardwell Mather, PhD, is chair­man, Mineral Technology Division, South­west Research Institute, San AntonioTexas. 'Three members of the alumni familyare busily occupied erecting homes in thesouth and southwest suburbs of Chicago:Alvin J. Gilbert, '36; Bernard R. Wolf, '35JD '36; and Arnold M. Gilbert, '42. Thei;company is Gilbert & Wolf, Argo, Illinois.1937Charles J. Katz, MD (Rush) and Mrs.Katz (Ruth Pauline Werner, '43) announcethe birth of a son, Jonathan Bruce, on De­cember 8 in Wilmington, Delaware. Dr.Katz is presently assistant superintendentand medical director of Governor BaconHealth Center in Delaware City, Delaware.Lindsay J. Ervin, Lieutenant Colonel, isassociated with the Medical Corps, U. S.Air Force in Washington, D. C.Mrs. Paul N. Culp (Leona M. East) is apublic health education consultant in LosAngeles. IBruce D. Cheadle is secretary of theLockport, Illinois Civic and CommerceAssociation-devoted to the economic andsocial welfare of the community.Catherine B. Cleary, who taught Eng­lish in the East, took an LLB at Wiscon­sin in 1943, practiced law in Chicago until1947, and then went with the First Wis­consin Trust Company in Milwaukee, isnow assistant trust officer with that com­pany.John Flory is in the credit departmentof the Robert H. Johnston Co., cookies andcandies, in Milwaukee.Headquarters received a clever announce-RICHARD H. WEST CO.COMMERCIALPAINTING & DECORATING1331W. Jackson Blvd. TelephoneMOnroe 6-3192THE UNIVERSITY CHICAGOment with baby footprints from CodyPfanstiehl: "Eliat came at 8:49 A.M.; 4 lbs.8 oz. Then came Julia at 9:24 A.M.; 6 lbs.11 oz. To Margaret, Cody, and CarlaPfanstiehl, January 19, 1950, in Washing­ton, D. C." What delayed you, Julia? Any­way, there are twins in the family andeven Arthur Godfrey took note of it onhis broadcast. Cody, Washington publicityman for the local CBS station, is a friendof Arthur's, of course, since Godfrey doesall his relaxing on CBS hookups.John G. Morris and wife Mary AdeleCrosby, '39, are enjoying their new, modernhome on Whippoorwill Road in Armonk,N. Y. John is picture editor of The LadiesHome Journal and commutes to New Yorkand Philadelphia.Robert Arthur Darrow, PhD, is associa teprofessor in the Range and Forestry Depart­ment, A & M College of Texas at CollegeStation, Texas. His wife is the formerBertha M. Schweitzer, '33, SM '36.Wilbur Taylor Reece, AM, is a dentistin Springfield, Illinois.Thomas L. Karsten, JD '39, is practicinglaw with emphasis on work before Federalagencies.Adrian Brodey, MD (Rush) is now prac­ticing medicine (dermatology) in New YorkCity.Dawn C. Newberger, AM '47, was mar­ried to J. George Thon on October 23. Herfather is Charles Newberger, '06, MD(Rush) '09.Kermit H. Anderson, MD (Rush) is aLieutenant Colonel in government serviceat Brooke General Hospital, Fort SamHouston, Texas.Barbara Moulton is a physician in Wash­ington, D. C.Gladys Anita Baker is educational direc­tor in the School of Nursing, Hackensack,New Jersey.Nicholas E. Collias, PhD '42, is teach­ing in the department of Zoology at theUniversity of "Wisconsin.Mrs. Jerome J. Colby, AM, is a personnelpsychologist in" the Department of State,Division of Foreign Service, Bethesda, Mary­land.William S. Bard and wife, DorothyEchard have moved back to LaPorte, In­diana (1315 Michigan Avenue) after residingfor a time in Homewood, Illinois.1938A son, Peter Louis, was born to the LouisC. Shaeffer, AM '48, family on January 27.Toshihisa Tom Watanake, MD (Rush) ispracticing as a radiologist in Los Angeles.Allan Kessel Shackleton is assistant man­ager of the John Hancock Life Insuranceagency in Dallas, Texas.Vera Miller, AM '40, PhD '47, was mar­ried to Nathaniel M. Shapiro on January24 in New York.James Lucian McCamy, PhD, is professorof political science at the University of'Visconsin.ASHJIAN BROS., Inc.IITABLISHID 1121Orien ta l and DomesticRUGSCLEANED and REPAIRED8066 South Chicago Phone REgent 4-6000 OFRobert S. Brumbaugh, AM '38, PhD '42,is professor of philosophy at the Universityof Indiana. Mrs. Brumbaugh is Ada Z.Steele, '40.Bernard M. Hollander, MBA, is an at­torney for the Department of Justice inWashington.Leonard Lieberman, SM, PhD '40, is asso­ciate professor in the Marine physicalLaboratory, U. S. Navy Electronics Labora­tory, University of California.Dan R. Baker, MD, is a physician inDayton, Ohio.Mrs. Lillian G. Hersh lives at 7401 N.Bridge Lane, Milwaukee. Her husband,Marvin, a graduate of the University 'ofWisconsin, is in the contracting and con­struction business.1939Abel D. Swirsky is clinic administrativeofficer of The Menninger Foundation,Topeka, Kansas.George Edwin Cole, AM, is a statisticianfor Gallup and Robinson, Princeton, NewJersey.Rachel E. Anderson reports that afterten years-she still misses the campus. Sheis associated with the medical informationand service department of Merck and Com­pany in Elizabeth, New Jersey.William J. Tallon is an instructor at theUniversity of Minnesota. His wife is theformer Jane E. Sekema, '42.John Joseph Cronin, AM, is dean, Uni­versity of Connecticut, School of SocialWork in Hartford, Connecticut.Rob Roy Macgregor is chief U. S. pro­bation officer for Kansas. His office is inKansas City.Gilbert Stanley Hardie, MD, is practic­ing in San Diego, California.Wilfrid Arthur Flaherty, MD, is practic­ing in Spokane, Washington.1940William Cecil Rogers, AM '41, PhD '43,is director of the Minnesota World AffairsCenter in Minneapolis. Mrs. Rogers is theformer Mary Jane Anderson, '41, AM '48.Mrs. M. I. Lebow (Ruth Hope Young)SM '41, is a consultant geologist in LosAngeles.Robert E. Merriam, AM," alderman of the5th ward in Chicago, was married to Mrs.Marguerite Eiger in Thorndike HiltonChapel on February 4. Alderman Merriam,youngest member of the city council, is theson of Dr. Charles E. Merriam, Universityprofessor emeritus in Political Science.Walter Ernest Nagler is a dentist inDundee, Illinois.N. Harry Camp Junior, AM '41, is a pro­fessor at Bucknell University in Lewisburg,Pennsylvania.Fern Lowry, AM, is a social worker inPuerto Rico.Raymond P. Harris is with the BannerLumber Company in Milwaukee. Mrs.Harris was Lita Chukerman, '41. They haveone child, Robert, nearly 4.1941Maria E. Keen is in London doing re­search work for a PhD.Roland D. Jackel is a ceramic scientistin the Navy Department, Washington, D. C.Vinietta Virginia Kibort, SM '45, is aninstructor at Roosevelt College in Chicago.Paula Lina Sarg is associated with thepublic health department in the HawaiianIslands.Joseph Ransohoff, MD (U of C) is aneurological surgeon at New York Neu­rological Institute. MAGAZINE 27GLEN EYRIE FARMFOR CHILDRENDELAV AN LAKE. WISCONSINBO YS a nd GIRLS 8-12 Y r e,Farm experience besides camp activi­ties including swimming.June 20th to A ug'ust 22ndSend for story of the "Farm.VIRGINIA HINKINS BUZZELL '13Glen Eyrie Farm, Delavan, Wis.w. B. CONKEY CO.HAMMOND, INDIANA��4Ied�'P� ad 8tdeJe4 ..SALES OFFICES: CHICAGO AND NEW YORKPlaters- SilversmithsSince 1917GOLD. SILVER. RHODIUMSILVERWARERepair.d, R.nni .... d, R.lacqueredSWARTZ & COMPANY10 S. Wabash Ave. CEntral 6-6089-90 ChicagoSwift ts Ice CreamSundaes and sodas are special treatsmade with Swift's Ice Cream. So de­licious, so creamy-smooth, so refresh­ingly yours ....A product ofSWIFT & COMPANY7409 S. State StreetPhone RAdcliff 3·740028 THE UNIVERSITY CHICAGOTelephone KEnwood 6-1352J. E. KIDWELL Florist826 East Forty-seventh StreetChicago 15. IllinoisJAMES E. KIDWELLPhones OAkland 4-0690-4-0691-4-0692The Old ReliableHyde Park Awning Co.INC.Awning. and Canopie. fo, All Purpo •••4508 Cottage. Grove Avenue•Auto Livery•Qui.'. unob'ru.lv. ..rvlc.When you wanl iI, a. you wan' i,CALL AN EMERY FIRSTEmery Drexel Livery, Inc.5516 Harper AvenueFAirfax 4-6400Since1895SURGEONS'INSTRUMENTSof ALL TYPES 0EQUIPMENT and FURNITUREfor OFFICE and HOSPITALAll Phones: SE�/ey 3-2180V. MUELLER & CO.320-408 S. HONORE STREETCHICAGO 12, ILLINOIS OFAt any rate that is what Margueritede Grasse, '20, did when circumstancesmade it necessary for her to select alivelihood. "Services Unlimited" oper­ates out of Marguerite's office-apart­ment at 38 East 76th Street. Her staffincludes a stylist from a smart FifthAvenue shop who does personal shop­ping; a Parsons' graduate in charge ofdecor; a food specialist who knows whereand how to eat; and a list of on-callshoppers, museum conductors, musicaltherapist, interpreters, and baby sitters.On most services there are no chargesto the customers. "Services Unlimited"makes the difference between wholesale MAGAZINEFrom Corsets To CanastaWhen you are a resident of New YorkCity your most casual Iowa acquaintancesbecome intimate friends when they ar­rive in the bright-lighted city. What tosee, where to buy, how to go, when totip-of course you, a sophisticated NewYorker, will help them, direct them,take them.A certain amount of this is good fun.But friends tell friends until your timeis occupied with strangers seeing anddoing the city. When your house is al­ways crowded with friends of friends,the answer is to open a hotel and hangyour room rates in a prominent place.And when this happens in the areasof sight seeing, shopping, and arrang­ing parties, you organize "Services Un­limited" and advertise your rates in Cue,"The Weekly Magazine of New YorkLife." and retail or trade discounts from shopsor caterers.At the tinkle of a phone bell the stafffans out from 76th Street on manystrange and unusual assignments:A glamour corset-for the Hasty Pud­ding show. Picked up from the ward­robe mistress of Bill's Gay Nineties.A little-old-lady sitter. The kids wantSaturday night off and it would help ifthe sitter could play canasta with grand­mother.What to do with a boa constrictorand an alligator, trophies of an Africanhunt. A little shop in lower Manhat­tan made matching shoes and bag forthe wife.Paper rose petals ordered Friday nightfor a Saturday morning wedding. Thestaff stayed up all night with scissorsand colored paper.A playground sliding chute for anentrance into the drawing room of anadult kid party. The chutes were sunkin cement at the parks and bolted downin gymnasiums. One was ordered "ontrial" from a sporting goods house.Hundreds of leaches for a CorpusChristi client-to start a farm. Man­hattan had no such supply. Margueriteremembered an ad in an old magazine:"Upper Crust Leaches." An extendedsearch uncovered the ad and a companyin Paris. The order was placed, theleaches were met at La Guardia fieldand delivered to a boat for the Texascoast.An order for size 12 sox without elas­tic (what price progress) from a man inIowa.Mrs. de Grasse is resident buyer fora women's ready-to-wear shop in Car­racas, Venezuela. She arranges for alltypes and nationalities of weddings. Sheand her staff have redecorated and fur­nished many an office and apartment.They have learned to fit toupees by mailand know where to rent blue birds.But Marguerite de Grasse probablygot the most satisfaction from design­ing and furnishing a red, white, andblue log cabin snack bar in Dublin atlong distance. The owner wanted to ap­peal to the American trade in Erin. Shehas never seen the finished product asyet but if they followed instructions it'sa log cabin with varnished kegs forchairs and red checkered linen tablecloths. She also provided a month ofmenus with such recipes as corn bread,apple pie, baked beans, and southernfried chicken.Marguerite de GrasseH.W.M.James Morgan Read, PhD, foreign serv­ice secretary of the American Friends Serv­ice Committee, has been appointed directorof the education and cultural relations divi­sion in the Office of the High Commis­sioner in Germany.Robert M. Johnson, instructor in politicalscience in the College of Commerce atDe Paul University, Chicago, is a candidatefor the Democratic nomination for StateSenator from the 41st Senatorial district(Du Page and Will counties) in the primaryelection in April. Johnson has been a mem­ber of the De Paul faculty since 1946 andis a trustee of the village of Bensenville inIllinois. Charles Edward Lowe is a research chem­ist for E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Companyin Buffalo, New York.Maurice Francis Leahy, AM, is a mer­chandise claims investigator for OscarMayer Company in Madison, Wisconsin.Mrs. Margaret Ewald Dunn is a gradu­ate student in the School of Fisheries atthe University of Washington.Donald Stevenson Howard, PhD, profes­sor at UCLA, is expected to be appointeddean of the graduate school.Francis E. McIntyre, PhD, has resignedas director of export control, office of in­ternational trade, Department of Com­merce. He accepted a position as Director29THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE.GEORGE ERHARDTand SONS, Inc.Painting-Decorating-Woo� Finishing3123Lake Street PhoneKEdzie 3-3186Since J878HANNIBAL, INC.UpholsfersFurniture Repairing1919 N. Sheffield AvenuePhone: Lincoln 9-7180HAWTINPHOTOENGRAVERSPhoto Engraver.Artists - ElectrotypersMakers of Prlntlno Platel538So. Wells St. TelephoneWAbash 2-6480BEST BOILER REPAIR & WELDING CO.24-HOUR SERVICEIJCENSED·· BONDEDINSUREDQUAUFIED WELDERSHAymarket 1-79171404-08 S. Wester.u ATe., ChicagoTuckerDecorating Service1360 East 70th StreetPhone Midway 3-4404 of Economic Research with the CaliforniaOil Company in New York City. He andMrs. Meln tyre, (Frances Gibson '29) andtheir sons, Douglas and Kenneth, are livingin Larchmont, New York.Harry George Monteith is a research en­gineer, senior grade, in analytical chemistryfor the Aluminum Company of America,New Kensington, Pennsylvania.Alan F. Bond, MD (U of C '43), son ofOtto F. Bond, Professor of French andChairman of the College French Staff, hasleft residency at Lying-In after six monthsto return to People's Hospital, Akron, Ohio.He is head resident at People'S. His wife,(Charlotte A. Roe '40) is a graduate stu­dent in zoology at the University.1942Governor V. Quinn, AM, is principal ofLincoln High School in East St. Louis,Illinois. .Martin S. Bloom is a graduate studentat the University of Zurich. He is marriedto Shirley F. Glassoff, '45. She, too, is astudent there.Andres W. Andresen, AM, is a chaplainfor the Federal Correctional Institution inEnglewood, Colorado.Josephine Peet Andree, SM '44, is livingin Norman, Oklahoma where her husbandis professor of mathematics (University ofOklahoma).Clara Elnora Willman, AM, is directorof the Children's Division, State Depart­ment of Public Welfare, Olympia, Wash­ington.Morris A. Gordon, SM, is a mycologistfor the U. S. Public Health Service inChamblee, Georgia.Lawrence Edward Nicholson, AM, is astudent at Columbia University.Raoul Monserrate Perez, PhD, is an in­terpreter for the United Nations.William Thomas Roberta, MD (Rush) isa physician in Buffalo, New York.Andrew K. Butler, MD (Rush) is prac­ticing in Newport News, Virginia. His workis in X-ray and radiology.Felix Kaufman, MBA '48, is an instructorat Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.Mrs. Albert Mindlin (Dorothea' Fried­lander) AM '43, is a clinical psychologistin Baltimore, Maryland.William Torrey McKibben, PhD, is ateacher at the University of Utah in SaltLake City. .Clark Bane was married to Charles L.Hutchinson last October. The couple isliving in Wilmington, Delaware.Peter Bohdan Fischer, PhD, is a profes­sor at Michigan State College, East Lansing.Richard P. Matthews, son of Rudy D.Matthews, '14, is library cataloguer andmember of the faculty of Rollins College,Winter Park, Florida, where Paul A. Wag­ner, '38, is president. Richard's father alsolives in Winter Park.1943Wilma Bennett, AM, is a librarian at ahigh school in Lowell, Indiana.Lawrence A. Hoffman, AM, is a studentat Johns Hopkins University.Elizabeth A. Johnson is a translator forthe United States government in Oberursel,Germany.Rose Hum Lee, AM, PhD '47, is actingchairman of the department of sociologyat Roosevelt College in Chicago.George William Denemark, AM '47, isteaching in the department of educationat the University of Illinois. His wife isthe former June E. Breidigam, '43.Mrs. Irvin P. Seegman (Eleanor Bern- LEIGH1SGROCERY and MARKET1327 East 57th StreetPhones: HYde Park 3·9100-1.2DAWN FRESH FROSTED FOODSCENTRELLAFRUITS AND VEGETABLESWE DELIVERTELEPHONE TAylor 9-MIUJ0' CALLAGHAN BROS.PLUMBING CONTRACTORS21 SOUTH GREEN ST.P hone: SAginaw 1-3202FRANK CURRANRoofing & InsulationLeak. 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Thomas Colosimo (Ruth LouiseRussell) is in merchandising in New YorkCity. She works for Bonwit Teller.Harry Finch Corbin Junior is presiden tof the University of Wichita, Wichita,Kansas. He was installed March 9.Aaron Brown, PhD, has begun hisseventh year as president of Albany StateCollege. Under his leadership the collegehas increased its income by more than35%; the faculty and staff more than 100%;and the institution has been accredited bythe Southern Association of Colleges andSecondary Schools.William C. Capper has just finished theextra-busy season with income tax reports.He is with the Milwaukee accounting firmof Arthur Anderson & Co. At home he hashis own two deductions: Billy, 3 andChris, 1.1944Laurence Finberg, MD '46, is assistantresident in pediatrics at Baltimore CityHospitals; he becomes head resident thisJuly. His wife is Harriet P. Levinson, '45,AM '47.Mrs. Ray Pearson (Ann Martin) MD (Uof C) '47, is a housewife in Springfield,Illinois.Virginia Spence, JD, is connected withthe March of Dimes in New York.Betty Marie Stumpe was married toWendell H. Peary on June 11, 1949.Barbara Rose Eppstein, AM, is a psychia­tric social worker at Mt. Zion Hospital,San Franciso.Carl August Bauer, SM, is an astronomyinstructor at the University of Michigan.Robert H. Taylor is a consulting actuaryin Cedar Rapids, Iowa.Susan Pauline Null .Is executive directorof Maricopa Girl Scouts in Phoenix, Ari­zona.Richard R. Taylor, MD (U of C) '46,chief of internal medicine at Army andNavy General Hospital in Hot Springs,Arkansas, now has the rank of captain.Robert T. Crauder, who has completedtwo years work with the Friends ServiceUnit (China), plans to return to the UnitedStates soon. He will return by way of HongKong, India, Italy, Switzerland, Germany,France and England.1945Bess Marie Sutton, AM, is an elemen taryschool teacher in Philadelphia.Leonard Roscoe Lee, MD (U of C) '47,is a physician 'in Bethany Hospital andClinic, Bethany, Missouri.Burton L. Gordon, MBA '48, . was mar- .ried recently to Elaine Levington. MAGAZINEGerald Hill, MD '47, is in Ann Arbor,Michigan completing residency in psych ia.try and neurology. 'Mrs. John E. Spiess (Priscilla- AldenJoice) SB �47, was married October I; 1949.Charles Jacob Ruth, MD (U of C) '4"'1,1sa physician and surgeon at Camp Cooke,California.Roland Eugene Schmidt, MD (U of C) isresident doctor at Huey P. Long hospitalin Pineville, Louisiana.George Edward Schroeder, SB '46, is con­nected ·with the Kelco Company in Chi­cago.Carlton Fay is a teacher in boys trainingin New York. ,Ruth Marie David was married last Mayto Seth Leacock, '49. They are living inSan Francisco. .Mrs. Grace H. Ferguson (Grace Harrison)AM, is a visiting teacher in the', Nashville,Tennessee Public Schools.1946Roy Meyer, AM, has been 'appointed tem­porary instructor in geography and geologyat Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.Geraldine Le May, AM, isdN:ing in Mel­bourne, Australia. She is connected withthe U. S. Information Library.Robert John Weaver, PhD, is in plantphysiology at the University of California.Geraldine Ann Gallagher, AM, is a stu­dent at the University of Pennsylvania.David Owen Long is teaching history:ethics and the history of thought at theUniversity of Bridgeport in Bridgeport"Connecticu t.Dean Linford Bunderson, MD (U of' C) .is a medical doctor in Waipahu, .Oahu,T.H. r .Mrs. Patricia H. Smith is a studeti:t atColumbia University. 'Phyllis Elayne Goldman (Mrs. MelvinAdelman) is a bacteriologist for MichaelReese Hospital in Chicago.Miss Sydney Rosen, AM '49, has beenattending the London School of Economics.Betty L. Pingree, AM '48, is instructorand head of the Nursery School at Centen­ary Junior College, Hackettstown, NewJersey.Lyman B. Burbank, AM, hopes to finishhis dissertation for a PhD from New YorkUniversity this June. This summer he willlead a group of students and teachers toEurope under auspices of the UniversityTravel Bureau.Hazelle Sheila Bernstein, MBA, was mar­ried to Jack A. Haberman on May 25.1947Evelyn Lemmerman, AM, is a socialworker in Kearny, New Jersey.David Greenberg is rabbi of TempleBeth El, Spring Valley, New York. RabbiGreenberg organized the temple while hewas a student at the Jewish Institute ofReligion, Hebrew Union College, New York.He was installed by 'his teacher, the lateDr. Stephen S. Wise.Mrs. Gertrude S. Hodgson, AM, is work­ing in the Chicago office of the IllinoisState Department of Public Welfare.Wilbert C. Weigel, MBA '49, was mar­ried recently to Dorothy Victor.Arthur Horowitz is general manager ofHorowitz Brothers in New Haven, Con­necticut.Frank J. Wrobel, JD '48, is practicinglaw in Chicago. He was married to Vir·ginia J. Plac, '44, in November, 1948.Bruce Fulton, AM, .is teaching in the31THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINElOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE HAULINGe60 YEARS OF DEPENDABLESERVICE TO THE SOUTHSIDEeASK FOR FREE ESTIMATEe55th and ELLIS AVENUECHICAGO 1 S, ILLINOISBUtterfield 8-6711·DAVID L. SUTTON. Pres.CLARK-BREWERTeachers Agency68th YearNationwide Service­Five OlJice�-One Fee64 E. Jackson Blvd.. ChicagoMinneapolis-Kansas City, Mo.Spokane-New YorkPENDERCatch Basin and Sewer ServiceBack Water Valve" Sumps-Pumps1545 E. 63RD STREET6620 con AGE GROVE AVENUEFAirfax 4·0550PENDER CATCH BASIN SERVICE1545 EAST 63RD STREETBIENENFELDChiclICJo', Most Complete Stock ofGLASSGLASS CORP. 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Wolff,Public Relations, in New York.William Gerard Seiler, MBA, is managerof the La Louisiane Restaurant in NewOrleans.Mrs. Colin Campbell (Rosemary Garst)AM, is an instructor at Iowa State College.She was married last June.Edwin Shapiro, connected with the Con­fection Cabinet Corporation in Detroit wasrecently transferred to Chicago.James Henry Stevens, MBA '47, is in thereal estate and insurance business in SanFrancisco.John Larson Howard is an insuranceunderwriter for the Zurich Insurance Com­pany in Cleveland, Ohio.Jean R� Karin, SM, was marrie� t<;» �idn�yBiegelson on December 22. She IS Jiving mWoodhaven, New York.Mrs. John A. Tangerman, (MargarettaSackville) AM, is dean of women and headof the Sociology department of ValparaisoUniversity. Husband John, '38, is associ­ated with the advertising department ofthe Hammond Times (Indiana).1948Alexander Ulreich Junior, MBA '49, hasbeen promoted to the rank of Captainin the United States Air Force Reserve.Until December Ulreich worked in theAlumni office.Elizabeth Clifford is enrolled in businessadministration at the University of Ne­braska.James B. Enochs, PhD, is dean of menat San Francisco State College.Patricia A. Golden was married recentlyto Robert Magrill and is living in Hunt­ington Park, California.Robert Edmond McCabe, AM, is an in­formation specialist with the InternationalActivities Staff of the HHF A.Marvin L. Goldberger, PhD, is a physicistat Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Charles W. McInerney, SM, is a com­modity broker in Chicago.Kenneth Hoffmaster was recently electedan Assistant Secretary in the trust depart­ment of the Northern Trust Company,Chicago.Conrad Luther Bergendoff, AM, is a Ful­bright scholar at the University of London.Eleanor F. Denahee was a candidate foralderman in New Haven, Connecticutwhere she is a second year student in theUniversity of Connecticut Law School.Gordon Pershing Martin is a librarianat the University. He. was married in Jan­uary to M. Martha Gray, '37.Dorothy L. Rothrock, SM, is a house­wife in Henderson, Kentucky. She was mar­ried to Dorris Tapp in February, 1949. TELEVISIONDrop in and see a programRADIOSFr�tn consoles to portablesRadio- TV ServieeAt home or shopELECTRICAL APPLIANCESRefrigerators RangesWashers BlanketsSPORTING GOODSFor all seasonsRECORDSFine P��I!��i��mfo�o��1fdrenHEN �J1IAI!\lI_)�935 E. 55th StreetAt Ingleside AvenueTelephone Midway 3-6700Robert Gaertner, '34 Julian Tishler, '33TREMONTAUTO SALES· CORP.I. Direct Factory DealerforCHRYSLER and PLYMOUTHNEW CARS6040 Cottage GroveMidway 3-4200A',oGuaranteed Used Cars andComplete Automobile Repair.Body. Paint. Simonize. Washand Greasing DepartmentsHYLAND A. NOLAN,PLASTERING, BRICKendCEMENT WORKREPAIRING A SPECIALTY5341 S. 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Both organizationsassist In the appointment ot administratorsas well as ot teachers.Our service Is nation-wide.Since J885ALBERTTeachers' AgencyThe best In placement service for University.College, Secondary and Elementary. Nation·wide patronaCjJe. Call or write UI at,25 E. Jackson Blvd.Chicago 4, IllinoisSTENOTYPYLearn new, speedy machine shorthand. Lesseffort, no cramped fingers or nervous fatigue.Also other courses: Typing, Bookkeeping,Comptometry, etc. Day or evening. Visit,write or phone for data.Bryant��StrattonCOLLEGE'-18 S. MICHIGAN AVE. Tel. RAndolph 6·1575BOYDSTON BROS.. INC.UNDERTAKERSSince 18924227-29·31 Cottage Grove Ave.OAkland 4·0492 Robert Vance Presthus, PhD, is teachingat the University of Southern California.John Hardin Adams, MBA,· is in the airforces and is stationed at Okinawa.John R. Winterbotham, SM, is a realestate salesman for J. H. Winterbotham &Sons .in Chicago.Robert Edward Lamitie is a student atSpringfield College in West Springfield,Mass.Webster Cash is associated with theNorth Central Bureau of Investigation inWashington, D. C.Hope Casselberry has become engaged toThomas A. Potter of Lake Forest, Illinois.She is a secretary at Countryside Schoolin Barrington, Illinois.Martin Karl Nurmi, AM, is a student atthe University. of Minnesota.Mrs. Carol D. Stauffer is a housewife inBirmingham, Michigan.Elizabeth A. Harth, who has been work­ing for her B.S. in accounting at Max­quette University in Milwaukee, is on atour of duty for three months with thetransportation army unit in Milwaukee.Elizabeth is a reserve officer in. the army.Howard C. Hornig is working for hisPhD in nuclear chemistry on the Mid­way.1949James G. Burt, SM, has joined the re­search staff of the DuPont Company's Or­ganic Chemicals Department at the jack­son Laboratory, Deepwater Point, New jer­sey.George Stevenson Syme Junior, AM, is ateacher at Northwestern School, Minne­apolis.Albert La Verne Johnson, AM, is re­search consultant arid Professor at DenverUniversity. His wife is the former Char­lotte I. Johnson, AM '49.Eugene Gale Miller, MD (U of C) is aninterne at County Hospital in Chicago.Stuart Clayton Rawitscher of Williston,North Dakota, was reported married inFebruary to joan Kaye of Chicago.Arthur S. Lentz, MBA, is professor ofbusiness administra:tion at Sioux Falls Col­lege, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.Philip C. Klingsmith Junior, JD, is lo­cated in Denver where he is associated withRobert L. McDougal, attorney at law. Mrs.Klingsmith is the former Carolyn Hagen,MBA '48.Ralph John Coletta, JD, is associatedwith the Aetna Casualty and Surety Com­pany in Peoria, Illinois.Alfred La Barge, MBA, is now a staff as­sistant in the Central Controller's Office,Ford Motor Company, Detroit.Charles R. Bacon, MD (U of C) beginsas assistant in surgery at Highland-AlamedaCounty Hospital in Oakland, California injuly. His father is Vinton A. Bacon, '19,MD '22.Robert H: Cardew, PhD, has been electedPresident of the' Alliance Francaise of Cin-cinnati.Melvin Leo Fowler, AM, is a researchassociate in Archaeology at the Ill irioisState Museum in Springfield.Madeleine R. Zeller, AM, was marriedto Winfrid K. F. Liepe on December 24.David C. Bass, AM, is an instructor atjackson College in jackson, Mississippi.George Fremont Sheldon, AM, is asso­ciated with Central Intelligence Agency inWashington, D. C.Dorothy Louise. Poling, AM, is doingwork in corrective reading at Illinois In­stitute of Technology in Chicago. MAGAZINEHouston T. Robison, PhD, is professorof history at Buffalo State .Teachers' Col­lege.Paul Khan, SM, is working on a researchproject for new tuberculostatic agents atthe Squibb Institute for Medical Research,New Brunswick, New Jersey.DEATHSArthur M. Sherman, MD (Rush) '95, diedNovember 5. He was a resident of Port­land, Oregon.Mary Brooks Baird, '96, died january 21in Claremont, California. .Mrs. Edward S. Mead (Emily Fogg), '97,widely known sociologist and civic leaderand wife of Edward S. Mead, retired U. ofPennsylvania professor, died january 21 inPhiladelphia. Mrs. Mead was awarded analumni citation by the University in1941.Helen Van Etten Chase, '00, died at herhome on Chicago'S South Side February 6,1950, at the age of 72. (Her mother Iivedto be 98.) For 63 years she lived in the'family home at 3251 S. Wabash Avenuewhere the Negroes in this blighted areawere her best friends. In recent years sheand her sister lived together after both hadretired from years of teaching shorthandin schools in Chicago.Edith Baxter, '01, died January 14 at herhome in Carmel, California.Harry J. Lurie, '03, JD '05, died Feb.20 in Chicago.Clyde McGee, '04, pastor emeritus of theBethany Union Church in Chicago, diedFebruary 25.Guy Edward Killie:, '05, died February 3at his home in Chicago. He had retiredfrom the United States Customs Servicein july, 1947.It has been reported that Harry B. Ben­ninghoff, '06, AM '07, passed away morethan a year ago.Alfred I. Roehm, PhD '10, professoremeritus of modern languages at PeabodyCollege, Nashville, Tennessee, died Au­gust 25.Lillian E. Kurtz, '12, died December 26.Silas M. Sewell, SM '13, died last Sep­tember. He pad lived in Marcos, Texas.Lucia Granville Pittman, '14, died july13, 1948, in Duluth, Minnesota.Claude W. Munger, '14, MD (Rush) '16,former president and trustee of the Amer­ican Hospital Association and winner ofits 1949 award of merit, died February 3in Boston.Rollo Clayton Speer, '16, minister inClearfield, Utah, died May 15, 1947.Bruce H� Douglas, MD '20 (Rush),health commissioner of Detroit, died Au­gust 11. Dr. Douglas was killed in an au to­mobile collision as he was starting on avacation.Francis D. Harper, '20, son of WilliamRainey Harper, first president of the Uni­versity, died February 6 in Oconomowoc,Wisconsin.Delbert H. Kerchner, JD '24, PhD '36,died August 7 in Bloomfield, Indiana.Folkert Alvin Park, '25, AM '31, ministerof Bartonville, Illinois, died December 4,1948.Mrs. Louisette M. Crawford, '32, died onlune 10 in Chicago.Proving you never know what to expect at aPressConferenceJOHN THOMPSON had always been se­cretly proud of his friendship with BillTurner. Dr. Turner. Judge Turner. Pro­fessorTurner. Wherever international lawwas mentioned, there Bill Turner's namewas mentioned, too. And now Bill wascoming home from Europe after making aspecial survey for the government.John had received a note from Bill,mailed from London, suggesting that hemeet the ship in New York. So here Johnwas, boarding the ship to meet Bill Turner. After a long-lost-brother greeting, Billsaid, "We'll have to wait a few minutes,John. The press wants to ask a few ques­tions. Then we'll head for the country forthe weekend. 1 have to go to WashingtonMonday ... " John noticed that the oldprofessorial pace had been stepped up to aman-of-affairs rapidity, but otherwise Billpossessed the same old shaggy friendl i ness.At the press conference John stood be­side Bill, who parried some questions skil­fully and answered others with a crispdirectness.In elaborating on the answer to oneNaturally, names used in this story arc fictitious. question Bill said, "I hadn't thought ofthis in quite these terms before, but nowthat 1 look at John Thompson here besideme and remember his good work, 1 thinkI can very easily point out a most irnpor­tan t difference between Americans andpeople in some other parts of the world."John could feel a redness creeping uphis neck as all the reporters looked his way."John Thompson," Bill said, "has beenworking up our way for twenty-five years.He represents an American idea or tradi­tion that's based on two things-freedomand enterprise. John is a New York Lifeagent. 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