While YoujWereGone !During Spring vacation, the Uni¬versity, sans students and most of thefaculty, continued to make news.From Columbus, Ohio, came the re¬port that the deal between Ohio StateUniversity Board of Trustees and Dr.Arthur Holly Compton was definitelyoff. Previously it was rumored thatthe University physicist, a nativeOhioan, had been asked to becomepresident of that University. But thecalling-off of » Trustee meetingwhere the matter was to be consideredspiked all gossip about Compton’sleaving.* • •Tower Topic’s fifth annual OpenHouse for University employees pro¬vided amusement during the noonhour in the Reynolds Club and Hutch¬inson Commons.Monday noon’s variety show in¬cluded a take-off on the Round Table,burlesquing T. V. Smith, Harry Gid-eonse, and Quincy Wright; a CharleyMcCarthy act by Dr. Hilger P. Jen¬kins from Surgery; the Mirror PianoTeam of Recker and Farwell; a“Square Table” of four women insearch of a conversation; and “TheMarseillaise” with gestures by Ro¬mance-linguist Arthur G. Bovee.Tuesday noon two teams battled itout in an "Information Please” con¬test, while on Wednesday the em-j)loyec8 went sports and vacationsconscious, with badminton games, adance team, rowing machines, andbooths about the two cut-throat ri¬vals, the New York and Californiaworld fairs.Twenty-five women strutted thenewest spring fashions in jammedHutchinson Commons on Thursday.* * *Raleigh W. Stone, associate profes¬sor of Industrial Relations in theBusiness School, had a two-sessionopportunity to reveal his views on la¬bor relations before a group of Rotar-ians meeting Friday and Saturday inBurton Court. Men from Northwest¬ern University and other business in¬stitutions in the Chicago area alsospoke.Reaction to Stone’s views from theRotarians, most of them executives ofsmall businesses, was amazed but ap¬proving.« « *The National Council on Educationfor Character and Citizenship held athree day-conference in the Reynolds(Uub on Thursday, Friday and Satur¬day.Speakers at the first session wereSuperintendent of Schools William H.Johnson and E. W. Burgess, Univer¬sity Professor of Sociology. Johnsonrevealed the work being done in theChicago schools to develop characterand citizenship, while Burgess de¬clared that despite the fact that manyof the functions of the family wereslowly being supplanted, the familystill was an important factor in char¬acter development.Other University spea’Kers includedPaul Douglas, Miss Olga Adams, and.Miss Helen Koch.* * *In politics James Cusack, aldermanof the fifth ward and Universityalumnus, released all of his workersto the Mayor Kelly-Paul Douglas fac¬tion, and became an independent can¬didate for re-election. His other po¬litical aides ostensibly came over toDouglas’ side. Observers aren’t tooimpressed by the act.* * *After two months of wranglingBlackfriars’ Board of Superiors final¬ly decided upon a name for their nextmonth’s show. It’s “Love over theLine.”The problem of determining a namehad perplexed the Friars for months.In desperation the boys had even putnames in a hat. The name that waspulled out still didn’t suit them. Fi¬nally, in sheer desperation the Boarddecided to heed the advice of inte:<ested alumni and announced theirchoice.* * *From Wednesday through Saturdaysome 8000 residents of the statedescended upon the campus for CivilService examinations. Friday tops theattendance with 5000, but many ofthese were on campus during the oth¬er days. Average number of examina¬tions given was two per person.Tests were conducted simultaneous¬ly throughout the state to some 21,-000 people, the largest group takingexams for state -jobs in the history ofthe Civil Service Commission. North¬western, Loyola, Illinois, and LewisInstitute were other educational insti¬tutions providing facilities. gPbe ittaroonVol. 39, No. 82. Z-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1939 Price Three CentsMary Gilson,Henry HarkinsTo Study AbroadH e n y e y, Astronomer,Also Recipient of Gug¬genheim Award.“Discharged for misconduct,” “leftwithout due cause,” “refusal to takesuitable work” — these are some ofthe reasons for which workers arerefused benefits under provisions ofunemployment compensation acts inthe United States. Under the Guggen¬heim fellowship awarded her Sunday,Miss Mary B. Gilson, assistant pro¬fessor of Economics, will spend nextyear in Great Britain studying meth¬ods used in handling unemploymentinsurance cases under the 1911 laws.Dr. Henry N. Harkins, Universityinstructor in Surgery now absent onleave at the University of Edinburgh,Scotland, is the second faculty mem¬ber receiving a Foundation award. Hewill continue his research work onsurgical shock. A member of the staffof the University owned Yerkes ob¬servatory at Lake Geneva, WisconsinDr. Louis G. Henyey, instructor inastronomy, receiv^ a grant for in¬vestigation of the theory of the form¬ation of stellar absorption lines inconnection with cyclic heat variationsin stars.Qualified by ExperienceMiss Gilson was selected for thisstudy on the basis of her past ex¬perience in industrial plants and herresearch on British unemployment in¬surance. Since the British laws havebeen in effect for over 20 years manydifficulties have been uncovered andremedied and the cases are nowhandled with a high degree of fair¬ness and dispatch.In this country there is no generalunemployment compensation 1 a w,each state administering its own ver¬sion of the British acts. Miss Gilsonplans to spend a year following casesinto the courts and tracing them backto the factories and into the homesof the workers. She hopes that thestudy will be us«*ful in handling dis¬qualification cases in this country.Hutchins TalksOn New PlanAt Banquet .Speaking on “The New Plan, inTheory and in Practice,” PresidentRobert M. Hutchins will address thestudents at the third Student LeadersDinner to be given in HutchinsonCommons, Wednesday, April 12 at6:30.600 student leaders have alreadyreceived invitations to attend the ban¬quet. If tickets are not purchased byApril 7, however, the remainingtickets will be available for distribu¬tion to the general student body.Tickets are 85 cents and are on saleat the Information Desk.Since this is the only opportunitythat undergraduates have to meetwith the President during the schoolyear, the dinner is restricted to stu¬dents. No faculty members have beeninvited.The President, after speaking for30 minutes, will spend the next 45minutes in answering questions pre¬sented from the floor. Questions mustbe in written form.The dinner carries on a traditionbegun five years by John Barden,former editor of the Daily Maroon.This is the third banquet given dur¬ing this time, and is sponsored thisyear by both The Daily Maroon andthe Campus Congress ContinuationsCommittee.The 82-inch reflecting telescope,second largest in the world, was in¬stalled at the McDonald Observatoryin Texas. Dedication is scheduled forMay 6th. The observatory was builtby the University of Texas and isstaffed by University facultymen.* • ♦Returned Saturday from Guate¬mala was Robert Redfield, dean of theSocial Sciences and professor of An¬thropology. His field work in SouthAmerica was, as usual, about Indiana. Enrollment UpFive Per CentEnrollment in the University thisquarter may be three to five per centgreater than that of Spring quarterof last year, E. C. Miller, registrar,announced yesterday. There were6,630 students registered at that time.He predicted that there would be ap¬proximately 900 June graduates, butadded that none of these figures aredefinite.Last quarter’s enrollment. Millerstated, reached 7,375.R. H. Tawney, •Noted Historian,Due TomorrowDelivers First Lectureon Democracy in West¬ern Europe.R. H. Tawney, English®economichistorian, will join the University fac¬ulty as a visiting professor duringthe spring quarter. He arrives on thequadrangles tomorrow.Dr. Tawney, professor of economichistory at the University of London,will present one course at the Uni¬versity on “The Economic Back¬ground of the English Revolutions ofthe Seventeenth Century.” This isthe subject for which he is bestknown academically, and on which heis an internationally recognized au¬thority.Discuss International CrisisThe first of three public lectures byDr. Tawney on “Democracy in West¬ern Europe: With Special Referenceto Great Britain,” will be presentedin Mandel Hall tomorrow afternoonat 4:30 p. m. The lecture, which willdeal with the international situation,is titled "Democracy on the Defen¬sive.”In addition to his studies of therise of capitalism in England in thesixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Dr. Tawney has written on the rela¬tion of religion to economic problemsof the period.He is now engaged in writing acomprehensive synthesis of his studiesin these various fields, and studentsmay have the opportunity to hear inadvance some of the conclusionswhich he has reached.The British historian is also adominant figure in the British Laborparty, and has been a leader in work¬ingmen's education in England.Read in College SurveyDr. Tawney’s best known book,“The Acquisitive Society,” is of thereadings in the Social Science I sur¬vey. Among his other works are:“The Agrarian Problem in the Six¬teenth Century,” “English EconomicHistory,” “Religion and the Rise ofCapitalism,” and “Law and Labor inChina.”Subjects of Dr. Tawney’s public lec¬tures in Mandel Hall after this weekare: “Politics and the Social Struc¬ture,” on April 5, and “The Pros¬pects for the Future,” on April 12.Benes CancelsCalifornia Trip,Lectures MondayGrief stricken over the loss of hiscountry to Nazi Germany, Dr. EduardBenes cancelled his trip to Califor¬nia last week and remained in Chi¬cago during Spring vacation. Besidesconferring with his countrymen onthe events which have recently tran¬spired in Central Europe, Dr. Benescontinued to prepare and revise lec¬tures for the course he conducts atthe University. Announcement alsohas been made that a book contain¬ing his ten speeches will be releasedimmediately after the conclusion ofthe lecture series.Dr. Benes’ additional lectures out¬side the University this week will bean address to the Infants’ WelfareSociety of Oak Park on Thursday,and one before the Chicago Bar Asso¬ciation on the following day.On Sunday he will address a massmeeting at Cleveland, Ohio, commem¬orating the memory of Thomas Mas-ayrk, first president of Czechoslovakia.He returns Monday to resume hislectures in Mandel Hall. Hutchins AppointmentLacks ConfirmationMay LeaveROBERT M. HUTCHINSTallmadge SpeaksOn Chicago’sArchitectureThomas E. Tallmadge, architect ofthe Colonial Village at the Centuryof Progress, and of the governmenthousing project on Chicago’s NorthSide, has been scheduled as the firstlecturer of the Spring quarter on theWilliam Vaughan Moody Foundation.His illustrated lecture is entitled:“Chicago’s Part in the Story ofAmerican Architecture.” Tickets forthe talk, which will take place Thurs¬day at 8:30 in Leon Mandel Hall, maybe obtained without charge at theUniversity Information Office at anytime.Tallmadge, best known for hisecclesiastical buildings, has been amember of the firm of Tallmadgeand Watson since 1905. He has lec¬tured at the Art Institute on archi¬tectural history and was at one timeprofessor at the Armour Institute ofTechnology. He was chief architectof the Victory Loan decorations atthe close of the World War.To follow his book, “The Story ofArchitecture in America,” he is atpresent engaged in writing a book onthe subject covered by his Moody lec¬ture.Blackfriars, for its 1939 presen¬tation of “Love Over the Line,”needs men to work in the technicaldepartment, constructing the setsand developing lighting. Work be¬gins tomorrow, under supervisionof Ted Stritter, Friars technicalmanager, on the second floor of theold power house Press building. Reports Naming Himto SEC Remain Unveri¬fied.By ERNEST LEISERDespite the assurances of WalterWine hell over a nation-wide hookupSunday night, and the printed re¬leases of the Associated Press andthe International News Service, Uni¬versity sources yesterday were skep¬tical as to the truth of the statementthat President Robert Hutchins hadaccepted the post as head of the Se¬curities and Exchange Commission.Hutchins was bannered in Friday’sChicago American as having beenslated to succeed William Douglas,now Supreme Court justice. But con¬firmation of the report would neces¬sarily come from the President ofthe United States, and as yet no con¬firmation has come from officialsources.Hutchins is in Florida, and it is notofficially known when he will return.He has not been contacted, but evenwere he reached, he could not makeany statement until confirmation wasforthcoming from Washington.Should Hutchins accept the postwhich has been reportedly offeredto him, he would end slightly lessthan ten years of service as the mostwidely publicized University presi¬dent in the country. Hailed as the“boy wonder” upon his arrival at theUniversity, he has made headlinesfor his position on national and worldaffairs as well as for his educationaltheories.Resigned from Stock ExchangeHe recently resigned from a posi¬tion on the Board of Governors of theNew York Stock Exchange becausehe refused to sanction a whitewash¬ing of the Whitney case. With hiswide experience Hutchins would bewell qualified as the Securities Com¬mission administrator.But opinions on the Quadranglesindicated that Hutchins would notgive up his $22,500, plus a liberalexpense account, for the governmentpost at only $10,000, nor would hedesert his post as one of the country’sleading educators for a political job.However, the implications of shov¬ing Hutchins into the SEC post areplain, provided that he accepts. Itwould probably mean the first stepi toward advancement to one of thekey positions, if not actually thehead of the government.Despite the seemingly authorizedand consistent rumors that Hutchinshad been offered and had accepted theI job, thereby leaving the University1 minus a president, no one at the Uni-j versity could either verify or contra-, diet the report.Activity AnglesMaroon Surveys 18 Extra-Curricular ActivitiesBegins at BlackfriarsPeriodically one or another of thepublications takes up on itself theburden of surveying activities. Osten¬sibly to inform the uninitiate whatgoes on at the four corners of theQuadrangles, they usually do littlebut pick apart organizations theydislike, or serve as space filler. Pulsehas already started the year with asomewhat incomplete survey of cam¬pus publications. Now the Maroon,with the idea of impartially evaluatingeach organization’s worth, will followthrough in the next month with aglance at each of the 18 activitieswhich control the limited extra-cur->ricular life of the University.* * *Limiting itself to approximately500 words, each survey must neces¬sarily be ove ly brief, but will hitthe high spots of the activity’s work.The surveys will make no deliberateattempt at criticism, but it is almostimpossible to eliminate a bias inevaluating the activity’s work. Sophrases like “politics-burdened Black¬friars” and “an unjournalistic Ma¬roon” will inevitably rear their uglyheads, calling down the wrath of theheads of activities which are slander¬ed, and starting systematic refuta- tion of any charges made.* *The questions answered about eachactivity will attempt to give a pic¬ture of the set-up of the organization,the official and unofficial ways it iscontrolled, the money that comes in,how and where it goes out, the im¬portance of the activity on campus,the fraternity control (if any) of theorganization, the work necessary toreach the top spots and thereby gainBMOCship, the basis for advance¬ment, and the opinions of small fryabout the way their organization isbeing run.Finally an explanation will be giv¬en for the reasons, if there are any,why an individual should participatein any particular activity rather thananother. Next the survey will attemptto discover the worth of the organi¬zation to a campus suffering froma dearth of good student activities,and to decide if the organization ful¬fills its primary purpose.* * *“Big shot” activities which will bebe surveyed include Blackfriars, Mir¬ror and DA from the field of campusdrama. Pulse, Cap and Gown, andthe Mai'oon, the Interfraternity andInterclub Councils, the Student So¬cial Committee, Reynolds Club Coun¬cil, Activities, the Intramural Boardand women’s activities with fewer(Continued on page 3)Page Two THE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1939FOUNDED IN IMlMEMBER ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATEPRESSTht Daily Maroon la the oflicial studentnewspaper of the University of Chicaco,published Riorninars except ^turday, Sun¬day and Monday during the Autumn.Winter and Spring quarters by The DailyMaroon Company, 6831 University avenue.Telephones: Hyde Park 9221 and 9222.A'ter 6:80 phone in stories to ourprinters. The Chief Printing Company.148 West 62nd street. Telephone Went-worth 6123.^e University of Chicago assumes noresponsibility for any statenaents appear¬ing in The Daily Maroon, or for any eon-tract entered into by The Daily Maroon.The Daily Maroon expressly reservesthe rights of publication of any materialappearing in this paper. Subscriptionrates: 33 a year; $4 by mail. Singlecopies; three cents.Entered as second class matter March18, 1903, at the post office at Chicago.Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879.nCPRSSXNTBD FOR NATIONAL ADVSRTISINO BVNational Advertising Service, Inc.College Publishers Representative420 Madison Ave. New York. N. Y.CHILACO ' BOSTOR ■ Lot ARSILIt - SAR FlARCItCOBOARD OF CONTROLEditorial StaffLAURA BERGQUIST, ChairmanMAXINE BIESENTHALSEYMOUR MILLERADELE ROSEBasiness StaffIDWIN BERGMANMAX FREEMANEDITORIAL ASSOCIATESRuth Brody. Harry Cornellns. WilliRoiGrody, Ernest Leiser, David Martin, AliceMeyer, Robert Sedlak, Charles O’DonnellBUSINESS ASSOCIATESRichard Caple, Richard Glasser, RolandRichman, David Salzberg.Harry ToppingNight Editor: Harry CorneliusAssistant: Allan DreyhisstAdvice fromAmateursThere was a conference goingon among University officials inthe President’s Office all yester¬day afternoon, and the membersof the University Publicity de¬partment say that there are asyet no releases on the proposedchanges in tuition fees, whichwere prematurely reported inthe new Department of Educa¬tion catalogue just before vaca¬tion. These facts raise the hopethat there has been a reconsid¬eration, and that the tuitionpolicies will be subject to nodrastic change after all.There were three fee changesindicated in the notice; a dollarincrease in registration charges,a new levy of a three dollarhealth service fee, and a flatrate of $100 for three courses onthe Divisional level, with an add¬ed $20 assessment for each extracourse. Medical and legal tuitionwould remain the same, and theCollege arrangements would al¬low four courses one year in or¬der to allow students to com¬plete the seven-course Collegerequirements under the regulartuition fees.It is only this last three-course proposal that will meet,and has already met, strong op¬position among the students.The best feature of the NewPlan, and the one which seemedmost secure against retrench¬ments, is the freedom to samplecourses at will and to take asmany extra courses as the stu¬dent, with the concurrence ofhis grades and his adviser, feelshimself able to carry. The pro¬posal to increase tuition fees, ifit goes through, will efficientlydrop the University back into theranks of the schools where stu¬dents reluctantly take only asmany courses as they must toobtain the job-worthy B.A. de¬gree.These would be the effects ofsuch a change. Free class visit¬ ing with the consent of the in¬structor would have to be ban¬ned. If the privilege of takingextra courses was curtailed,however, the privilege of freevisiting would naturally go withit. Students with ambitions tolearn a great variety of thingsin their years at school, butwith pocketbooks which arestrained at the usual tuition fee,would be restricted to the regu¬lar three courses. The fact thatthe majority of students mustearn part of their expensesmeans that they would not takeon themselves any added finan¬cial burden in the form of extracourses. There would be no moregoing through in less time forstudents anxious to get on toadvanced work. There would beno noticeable advance in thequality of work done, for stu¬dents work hardest when theyhave most to do, not when theyhave surplus free time.The reasons for the proposedchanges have not yet been re¬vealed. These have been suggest¬ed; that the University may beafraid that students are gettingtoo much for their money, andare trying to get out withoutpaying to the University the fullfour-years’ tuition fees. Butmost students who take extracourses take them because theywant the courses, and becausethey realize that never again intheir lives will they have thischance to study the subjectsthey want to learn about. Theydo not take them with the prim¬ary intention of graduating ear¬ly, or of cheating the Univer¬sity’s finances.Or this; that the officialswant to place a larger burden onstudents taking laboratory cour¬ses, for these are the greatestexpense. But the average labor¬atory course load is no heavierthan the average student loadin other divisions. If the aim isI to place the burden on thoseI who use the most equipment, ai far fairer method would be toI place pro-rated lab fees on allI laboratory courses which use upi expensive materials.I Or, most probably, this; thatI the University had to dip intoits capital for half a million dol-I lars this last year, and is wor-! ried into developing strangej methods for getting increased' revenues. University directorsI must recognize this,—students,! however much they complain,I like the University and have nodesire to see it run into bank¬ruptcy. If it is a matter of nec¬essity they would gladly con¬sent CO a small temporary in¬crease in tuition fees, to be ef¬fective only until the Universityis again on a sound financialbasis. A general increase, plus apro-rated laboratory fee if nec¬essary, would bring in far morewith far less trouble than theproposed tuition system. Itwould impose a small burden onmany, while yet allowing thefull freedom which is so essen¬tial a part of the New Plan. Itwould not penalize the ambiti¬ous student, and it would con¬vince the student body that theintentions behind the Univer¬sity’s move were honorable.If the University cannot getalong without a small increasein registration, if it cannot getalong without removing HealthServices from the general bud¬get, if it cannot get along with- Faculty Members Off CampusFor a Quarter Plan Trips, WriteEuropean trips for research, book¬writing and work in industry willmark plans of faculty members whowill be out of residence during theSpring quarter.Meantime the University will behost during the quarter to severaldistinguished visiting professors, in¬cluding R. H. Tawney, of LondonUniversity, England’s leading eco¬nomic historian and Albrecht Unsold,of the Institute for Theoretical Phy¬sics, Kiel, Germany, who will be atYerkes and McDonald observatories.Two Walgreen LecturersLindsay Rogers, professor of Pub¬lic Law at Columbia University andan authority on Ame ican public lawand politics, will teach at the Uni¬versity under the Charles R. Wal¬green Foundation and Eduard Benes,former president of Czechoslovakiawill continue here during the quarterunder the same foundation.Another member of the department,William H. Zachariasen, assistantprofessor of Physics, leaves April 4for Scandinavia where, while visitingthe peninsula, he plans to work on abook. Dr. Edward L. Compere, as¬sociate professor of Surgery, willvisit Italy and France to inspect sur¬gical centers in these continentalout a small general increase intuition, the students will under¬stand and dig down for it untilthe new financial plans begin topay. But the students will notunderstand any crack-brainedplots to increase revenues bycutting out this special form ofacademic freedom;—freedom topay a flat fee in return for anopen welcome to the facilitiesand opportunities which haveinduced them to study on theMidway.ATTENTION, PIPE SMOKERSl |M. Shorris A Co •f lor gen-1| |erationi tobacconitlB, have openedtheir first retail store at 1005 E. 55thstreet. SPECIALISTS IN QUALITY TO¬BACCOS.FREE—With every purchase of $1.00or more a 25c package of KELKENNYMIXTURE. This offer expires Mar. 25.Pipes — Smokers' Articles! '■C a m p u S'I RestaurantNow ServingComplete Dinner1Including Dessert SI Cefiee countries. Planning to spend thequarter in research on early philan¬thropy in England, Margaret Creech,assistant professor of Social ServiceAdministration, already has sailedfor London. Persia is the goal ofGeorge G. Cameron, instructor inOriental Languages. Dr. Cameron isen route there to join the OrientalInstitute’s Persopelis expedition.Dr. T. P. R. Jacobsen, research as¬sociate in the department of OrientalLanguages and Literatures, also willleave the country, going to Swedento work on an additional Ph. D. de¬gree there.Quincy Wright, professor of Inter¬national Law, will pursue his studyof “Causes of War,’’ and Harry A.Millis, professor Emeritus of Eco¬nomics, will start his work as direc¬tor of the Study of Collective Bar¬gaining under the Twentieth CenturyFund. T.O.Q.Seminar in Comparative L a w.Seminar Room 2, Law School, 2:30.Phonograph Concert, SymphonyNo. 11 in G Major, Haydn'; ClassicalSymphony in D Major Opus 25, Pro-kofieff; 12:30 to 1:15.Lutheran Student Association,Election of Officers, YWCA Room, IdaNoyes, 7:30.LEXINGTONTHEATRE1162 EAST 63rd StStanley Lambert. ManaxerTues., Wed., Mar. 28th & 29thERROL FLYNN BASIL RATHBONE“Dawn Patrol"— PLUS —MELVYN DOUGLAS VIRGINIA BRUCE“There's ThatWoman Again"Text Books★StationeryRental LibraryAll BooksFrom All Publishers★TypewritersUnnsual Gifts★Refreshments★Magazines and Newspapers★Kodaks—FilmPrinting and Bevelopinf^ ServicePostal StationDINING ROOM AVAILABLEFOR PARTIES. A cordial invitation is extended to you to let usbe of service.OPEN EVERY DAY8 A. M. TO 9 P. M.1309 E. 57Ui U.ofC. BookstoreI5802 ELLIS AVENUEBQ.rasfUiGfCAP & GOWNWill Soon Make a Special Offei toBURTON-IUDSON RESIDENTSWATCH FOR IT!tTHE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1939St. John's CollegeTutorials and Languageat St. John’sBy R. CATESBY TALIAFERROThis is the fourth in a series ofarticles about St, John's College, An-vapolis, Maryland, written for theMaroon by members of the St. John'sfaculty or administration.The so-called St. John’s Programhas now been operating in a smallcollege in Annapolis, Maryland, forover a year. It has been widely publi¬cized as a program based on the read¬ing of about a hundred or more greatbooks from the Greeks to the presentday, covering all the major subjectsof an undergraduate college, or theseven liberal arts.Now such a program was not bornovernight; it had roots not only inthe tradition of western civilization,but also in the immediate past in thereasonable reaction of many peopleagainst chaotic elective systems, in.-mature specialization, survey courses,the degeneracy of textbooks, and theconsequent loss of principles and in¬sights. There was more than just re¬actions, there were definite move¬ments and definite attempts to formu¬late a program based on fundamentalbooks which would restore the greatdisciplines to their proper place in aliberal arts college.* * *It was at St. John’s however, thata movement and an attempt of thiskind shouldered the responsibility ofdoing more than talking about gen¬eral principles, or of discussing a fewgreat books in the humanities. For thefirst time the problem of the student’smastering mathematics, laboratoryscience, and languages, was faced interms of the classics. Up to then therehad been the tendency either to relyon the rest of the institution one wascriticising to supply certain necessarytechniques acquired by more or lesslaborious methods; or to ignore thewhole quadrivium of arithmetic,geometrv, music, and astronomy,with music representing mathemati¬cal physics; or to fail to face the factsand throw a collection of great worksat the heads of bewildered students.The first of these alternatives ag¬gravated the divorce between princi¬ple and operation .so bitterly com¬plained of. The second implied cut¬ting off a half of the great Westerntradition by those who pretended soassiduously to worship it, with a con¬sequent impoverishment of even thetrivium’s grammar, rhetoric, andlogic. The third produced chaos anda quick disintegration.It has been a cardinal point in theworking out of the St. John’s Pro¬gram to avoid these mistakes. Since the great books in science had to beread as well as the others, the stu¬dent had to be trained to operate inmathematics as well as to talk aboutthem; and to work in a laboratoryand repeat crucial experiments aswell as read about such things. Todeal directly with the embodiments ofprinciples is as necessary for the ra¬tional animal that is man, as to at¬tempt to contemplate these principlesas abstractions. A complete orderingand intellectualising of man’s sensiblepowers can only be done in this way.Furthermore if it is real intellectualsuicide to deny the existence of abso¬lute principles in themselves, it isperhaps as great a folly to claim thatone possesses and knows them fully,o * *It was therefore necessary to em¬ploy other means of teaching thanthe dialetical procedures of seminarsand the orderly presentation of lec¬tures. For mathematics and languageit was necessary to have daily drillsfor acquiring techniques, drills wherethe techniques were not ends butmeans for the elucidation of princi¬ples, where the art of mathematicsand the art of language might bepractised, so that through the arts thescience of them might be more thor¬oughly conquered. It was for this rea¬son that the tutorials in n’athematicsand language were created, smallgroups of not more than ten studentsmeeting five days a week, an houreach day for mathematics and an houreach dny for language, over the wholeperiod of four years. The texts usedare of course the great mathematicaland linguistic classics on the list ofbooks. —For without these tutorialsthe St. John’s Program would wellmerit the reproach of its enemiesthat it could only turn out smart-alecks and dizzy journalists. Withoutthem, it would turn out at best acrowd of students fit only for thegraduate departments of philosophy,the solidity of the seminars them¬selves would be undermined, and theaverage student, without much knowl¬edge but with a great deal of goodsense would not stay long in such acollege.Rut on the other hand it is neverforgotten that these techniques mustbe illuminated by principles, thatthey lead to the heart of the greatlogical and metaphysical problemswhich concern us all. It has beenfound interestingly enough, after ayear and a half’s experience, thatmathematics serves as a great med¬ium of expression in making the aver¬age student aware of such problemsand in focussing his attention onthem. It might be said in some waysthat it is more an instrument of rhet¬ oric than of logic. And curiouslyenough in days of dark metaphysicaldespair when seminars were only con¬fusing and Greek was hard-diggingand uninspiring, it has been the math¬ematics tutorials which have keptmany students, many even who wouldnever have taken mathematics underthe elective system, from intellectualsuicide. Of course this is only reallycurious to us because our collegeshave forgotten what mathematics isreally about; it is not curious in it¬self. Plato was well aware of it, St.Augustine has written in the De Mu¬sics a whole treatise on this aspectof mathematics and many others havefollowed them.With these general principles inmind, it is the purpose of this articleto describe the language* tutorials insome detail. It has shocked many peo¬ple that only a year should be de¬voted to each of the four languagesGreek, Latin, French, and German, inthat order. The defense made byspokesmen of St. John’s has been un¬der two heads. First, that the methodof teaching languages is generallywasteful, that with the proper drilland intensity of training the formsand syntax can be learned very muchmore rapidly than is generally thecase. Secondly, that is not the aim ofa liberal arts college to turn out menlearned in foreign languages, but thatthe learning of these languagesshould be subordinated to their use¬fulness for English, to the develop¬ment of a language sense, and to theunderstanding of general grammar,universal grammar, and symbolismsof various kinds.I agree with this defense in gen¬eral, but I think that all of this couldbe accomplished much more thorough¬ly by three years of Greek and a yearof Latin with the omission of themodern languages, not because theyare modern, but because the studentwould be in a position after the morethorough grounding in Greek oflearning these for himself as heneeded them.But it is perfectly possible to karna great deal of Greek in a year andthis is how the St. John’s freshmandoes it. During the first two weeks helearns all of his declensions and a fewof Euclid’s definitions by heart. Thenext four weeks he learns his con¬jugations and begins memorizingpassages from the Meno. After thatsome more memorizing, any furtherdrill in verbs that is found necessary,and as much syntax as possible. Afterthe Christmas holidays, he begins do¬ing a series of translations on theMeno; an absurdly literal one withgrammatical symbols, a less literalone, and several with different de¬grees of freedom. One hour a weekis given over to an explanation oftext on the Meno, and towards theend of this second quarter the stu¬ dents make a start towards writingcommentaries, although some memorywork continues all through.This same procedure is more or lessthe general pattern for each of thefour years, although there are varia¬tions according to the needs and placeof each in the whole program. In thesecond year, for instance, where St.Augfustine’s Confessions occupy theplace of the Meno in the first year, itis hoped that Thomas of Erfurt’sSpeculative Grammar may be intro¬duced, and in the third year, possiblyBole’s Laws of Thought.But it might be asked why spendso much time on learning a difficultlanguage like Greek? Could not thislanguage sense, this understanding ofgeneral and universal grammars begotten without the memorizing ofGreek forms and Greek prose con¬structions? —The answer is almost amedical one. The disease of the aver¬age student today is largely a sym¬bolic one or more specifically a lin¬guistic one. Having had little lang¬uage-harmony, and no grammar, hisown language is almost pure habit.Having no intellectual grasp of thesymbolic system as such in which helives and moves and has his being, hisreason is caught in the pure mechan¬isms of his language. It is not strangethat this is an era of dictators andradio-hysteria.Now it is not sufficient for liberat¬ing reason, only to talk about lang¬uage, to dissect it and analyze it with¬out creating first a contrariety ofhabit, for this yields only abstrac¬tions in the mind, at best inadequateschemas, and more often empty ver¬balisms as far as the average studentis concerned. In the same way it isnot sufficient in mathematics to talkabout certain theories in generalterms, although this is absolutelynecessary in order to give the multi¬tude of particular operations an endand a unity without which they wouldhave no meaning and could not be in¬telligently learned.It is therefore necessary to set upcontrary motions in the world oflanguage-becoming; not merely tolearn there are such things as differ¬ent symbolic systems or differentgrammars, but also to memorize, andmake a habit of, new grammaticalconstructions, and paradigms of allsorts. Just as in the Republic thesoul is led to contemplate the formsby the contradiction of the fingerwhich is both large and small, so itwill be. free to see the essence andaccident of its own symbols and in¬struments of knowledge by the con¬tradiction of strange constructions,and the clash of incompatible sys¬tems. In other words it is only by thecontrary embodiments of a form thatthe form itself will appear by thedialectical treatment of the apparentcontradiction. Page ThreeI have not time in this article toargue the point very fully. But itshould be evident by now that if themechanical habits of a mother tongueare to be broken, they must be brokenby a language quite different fromit. Of all the languages in our tradi¬tion Greek seems the most desirableand the most susceptible to such ause. It is the most highly inflected, itis the most flexible as to word order,and its literature and science aresuperior to that of Latin.But if Greek or any foreign lang¬uage is to be used as an antidote tothe false habits of the mother tongue,the antidote too must be in the formof a habit. Forms are only reallyknown when they are embodied in thesoul, for otherwise they remain ab¬stractions. It is for this reason thatthe rigorous memorizing of para¬digms and sentences ought to be pre¬scribed in order that Greek should bepractised and felt as far as that ispossible, the science of it embodiedin the art of it.In view of all these considerations,the St. John’s Program must walkthe chalk line between the dilettan¬tism of progressive methods and thedullness of the so-called classicaleducation of the nineteenth century.One has only to look at the collegeprograms of the early eighteen-hundreds to know why the madness ofprogressive education, and electivesystems is upon us. Mathematics andlanguage are fundamental studies forall the liberal arts, but they must beseen in the context of all the liberalarts, and finally they must lead todialectic.Activities—(Continued from page 1)big names, but playing almost as im¬portant a part on the Quadrangles asthe Joe College organizations, whichwill be covered include the ASU,Political Union, Chapel Union, andDebate Union.Starting tomorrow with a look intothe inner workings of Blackfriars,the survey will continue for 18 is¬sues to come, barring death or un¬foreseen accidents to its authors.Tennis Racicets$1.65 to $17.50Balls, Presses, and all accessoriesShorts, Sox, Shirts, Shoes, etc.Most complete stockWOODWORTH'S1311 E. 57th St. OPEN EVES.Near Kimbark Ave. DORchester 4800TEXT-USED and NEW-FOR ALL UNIVERSITY COURSES INCLUDINGLAW, MEDICINE & EDUCATIONFountain Pens, Note Books, ZipperCases, Stationery, LaundryCases, Brief Bags Largest and Most Complete Line ofTypewriters For Sale, Rent,or ExchangeWOODWORTH'SBOOK1311 East 57th StreetNear Kimbark Avenue- 2 BLOCKS EAST OF MANDEL HALL -’V,11,1 miimiiiijipiii II ■ .pwput-'HiWJ ■rnyyipm ipwwpiwipwiiy u) ■ . 'I' '.i.mi--IL,! 1 J.. iljji^i rwwjemtmfrr'^r^-Page Four THE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1939Netmen Win, Lose, Tie on Southern TripTennis Team Minus MurphyGets First Setback in Three YearsBy WALTER ANGRISTResults:Chicago 6; Alabama 1Chicago 4; Mobile 3Chicago 3; Tulane 4Chicago 8; Texas 3In spite of the fact that the varsitytennis squad played their Southerntour matches last week without theaid of Bill Murphy, Coach Wally He¬bert's number one man, the racketwielders put up a good showingagainst some of the best tennisschools in the South to finish with arecord of two wins, one tie, and oneloss.Hebert’s squad, consisting of ChetMurphy, Art Jorgenson, Charlie Sho-strom, John Kreitenstein, and JamesAtkins rode for three days in carschauffered by Bob Hershel and Jim¬my Melville in order to reach Tusca¬loosa on the 21st for the Alabamamatch. Any worries that Wally He¬bert might have had because the Ala¬bama athletic office was so desirous ofthe meeting were dispelled when theMaroonmen easily held back theCrimson tide with a 6-1 win.Take AlabamaWith a hot sun beating down on thehard-packed Alabama tournamentcourts the Chicago courtmen won alltheir matches with the exception ofJimmy Atkins, recruited from lastyear’s “B” team. Charlie Shostrom,who rose from number six positionlast year to play in the second berththis season, played the only spectacu¬lar match of the day with SamGentsch. Gentsch came back strong inthe second set but bowed to Sho-strom’s service and forehand power inthe third set, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.Hebert’s racquet wielders thenheaded for Mobile where they werescheduled to meet a team consistingof members of the Springhill Collegetennis squad and ranking players of the amateur Mobile city leagrue. In¬tended as a practice match the Mo¬bile affair turned into a real contestwith Chicago turning on the power inthe doubles to win 4-3.“Kill him Louis”This match, one of the few big ten¬nis contests that have appeared inMobile, brought out the largest crowdof the tour. While a typical baseballbleacher audience alternately cheeredand booed Chet Murphy lost a 6-2,6-3 match to Louis Facquin whoranked on top last year in Alabama,Mississippi, and Georgia. Even theball boys joined the crowd during thefirst doubles match with cries of“Come on Red!” and “Kill himLouis!”. In this four man contestMurphy and Kreitenstein lost theirmatch to Facquin who paired up withLenny Floyd, Southern Junior tiltistlast year. The contest went to threesets.On the 23rd the Maroonmen droveto New Orleans and spent the after¬noon taking in the sights. In spite ofThursday’s rest, Hebert’s men foughta hard but losing battle on the fol¬lowing day with the powerful Tulane“Green Wave”, the final decisionmaking the score 4-3.Shostrom StarsThe best match of the meeting goesto Shostrom who decisively whippedthe highly touted Billy Westerfield,the Tulane captain. Chosen by WallyHebert as the best play of the tour,the score only went to 6-0, 6-3. AfterAbrahms trounced Chet Murphy 6-1, |6-1, Guy Cheng, the former Chinese jDavis Cup member added to maroon |griefs by dusting off Kreitenstein to'the tune of 6-2, 7-5. In a match thatfound both participants continually |on the defensive Art Jorgenson final- ily topped Wimberly in a slow but Igruelling 7-5, 9-7 victory. jIn the doubles the U. of C. court-men broke even when Shostrom and Jorgenson won their match withCheng and Phelps while Murphy andKreitenstein finally lost to Wester-field and Abrahms in a lengthy 4-6,8-6, 8-6, decision.Over-ruling pre-game dope, theMaroonmen managed to hold the Uni¬versity of Texas net aggregation toa 3-3 tie with Bobby Kamrath, nowranking fourteenth nationally, win¬ning a decision over Chet Murphy ina match that saw many rallies.Shostrom lost to Christner, 9-7, 6-3while Kreitenstein and Jorgensen wontheir matches. In the doubles Murphyand Kreitenstein lost to Kamrath andChristner while Shostrom and Jorgen¬son won their match, 6-4, 6-1.When asked for his opinion of thetrip Coach Hebert stated that “it wasa success in that we got in five daysof good practice in well kept courtswith good weather. As to the resultsof our matches . . . You know, we hadit all figured out on paper before w'eleft that the squad is one of the best(before Bill Murphy came down withthe mumps). Now that we’ve held ourown against two of the best tennisschools in the country, I guess thepaper work was just about right.”Cassels, DavidsonScore in RelaysThree Chicago men. Bob Cassels,Ed Davidson and John Davenport,distinguished themselves in the Chi¬cago Relays last Saturday night amidthe stiffest competition they will faceall year.Cassels and Davidson tied for thirdplace in the pole vault not far behindthe great Milt Padway of Wisconsin,who cleared 14 feet to take second.First place winner was Earle Mea¬dows, U.S.C., world outdoor recordholder, who reached the height of14 feet 6;4 inches to establish a newworld indoor record.Davenport managed to cop secondin the qualifying heat of the 50 yardsprint but failed to place the secondtime he ran. Baseball NineBeats Nortnal;Drops 3 GamesThe Maroon baseball team openedthe 1939 baseball season during theSpring vacation with four practicegames, one at Illinois Normal andthe other three with Illinois Wesley¬an. Although they took Normal eas¬ily, 3-0, the games at Wesleyan werequite a different story, for they lostall three of them, two by one runmargins.Lapatka proved himself the stand¬out of the week’s games by pitchinga three hit game against IllinoisNormal and a two hitter in the matchwith Illinois Wesleyan. His hittingwas also above average and in theNormal game he drove in one of thethree runs made by the Maroon team.The first game against Illinois Wes¬leyan is one of those cases of havingall the chances but just missing thevictory. Chicago was allowed 14 baseson balls and knocked out five hits butthey were not able to put togetherthe necessary scoring combination.They had the bases filled three times,but only used one of those opportu¬nities to get runs across the plate.Gramer, hurling his first collegegame, allowed eight hits in seven in¬nings but luck was against him andthe Maroons lost 7-6.In the first game of a double-head¬er Illinois Wesleyan made 11 hits offveteran Bob Reynolds to win 10-2.In one big inning the Maroon oppo¬nents ran up six runs to put the gameon ice. Much of the loss was probablydue to faulty fielding for the Chica¬go team committed five errors.The second game of the day wascalled at the end of six innings atwhich time the score was 4-3 in favorof Wesleyan. Football PracticeStarts Today;30 Men ReportThirty members of the Universityof Chicago’s 1939 football team willreport for four weeks of spring prac¬tice starting today.Co-captains John Davenport andBob Wasem are members of the Uni¬versity’s track team and will not re-port, but several of last year’s veter¬ans as well as most of the freshmanteam will be present, according toCoach Clark Shaughnessy.Emphasis in the spring sessionswill be on the physical fundamentalsof the game. "The practices will bedivided into elementary and advan¬ced sections, but since most of themembers of last fall’s team weresophomores, both sections will receivea thorough conditioning in blocking,tackling, running, and kicking.Practice will be between 4 and r);30p. m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,and Friday afternoons.Classified AdsWANTED: Stronr hr*vy »*t Uxid^nt for tm-porary rmplosrment. N«ed not be Koodlooking but muat be quick on hi* feet andnot afraid of meeting people. Siaairt neednot apply. 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