THE KEY REPORTER

THE PHI BETA KAPPA NEWS MAGAZINE

VOLUME IV NUMBER This Issue Goes to 83*000 Members SPRING 1939

PHI BETA KAPPA DEFENSE FUND FOR THE HUMANITIES AND INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM

World Crisis Challenges OBK Senate to stand firmlv lor our tradi tional high ideals, to relax not one jot or tittle of our ef JOHN If. FINLEY forts and services, to ad National tBK Defense Fund Chairman, vance our colors and to chal lenge openly the forces that The Senate of $ B K reacted vigorously at its December are attempting to disinte meeting to the threat which nationalism and material grate democratic principles ism are making upon freedom of thought and breadth of and to cheapen the proc scholarship at home and in other parts of the world. esses of cultural education. Two most unusual resolutions were passed to reinspect a The Senate of $ B K has college and a university where it is feared that high scholastic undertaken to raise a capital standards have been lowered to the point where the chapters fund to keep our work vital should be withdrawn, and to raise a capital fund of $150,000 at this time of crisis. It is a to $300,000 to enable the Society to maintain its service to duty which the choice mem scholarship and democratic freedom in America on the bership of this honored So present high level, without fear for the future or compromise ciety owes American democ with the present. racy and world scholarship. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, The fundamental significance of these two actions is inter Will you not help by your 1>BK Brown, Honorary Chairman, preted in articles on pages 2 and 3. These two gifts and your service to fully actions, Sponsoring Committee, 'P R K Defense taken at the same meeting, though widely different in char gather this fund? Fund. acter, reveal daring and a singleness of purpose. They serve notice that $ B K does not Our Campaign for Funds rest upon dusty laurels of the in these days past, but JOHN KIRKLAND CLARK, $ B K Tale of confusion and strife it Chairman, Executive Committee, 4> B K Defense Fund enters the energetically Chairman of the Phi Beta Kappa Foundation arena of present conflict

prepared to do battle val IF intellectual freedom means anything if it is to be iantly for the high ideals of preserved, it must be fought for. $ B K is the natural broad culture, of sound leader in that fight as is shown by its history in leading scholarship and of demo the contest for broad, general culture. It cannot lead without cratic freedom. resources. It needs support from its members and friends to It does not suffice for carry on this fight continuously and successfully. A careful America's leading schol computation has led the Senate at its December meeting to arly society to regret and the unanimous conclusion that SI 50,000 should be raised at deplore the destructive once toward an ultimate goal of S300.000.

force in the world today. The challenge to intellectual liberty and freedom of John H. Finley It is our duty and privilege thought, of speech and of worship the ideals of *BK

Notable OBK Dinner, Hotel Astor, February 20th John H. Finley,

Dorothy Thompson, Joseph Bentonelli, Clifton Fadiman, et al. See page 4

PUBLISHED BY THE UNITED CHAPTERS OF PHI BETA KAPPA in November, February, May and September, at the Rumford Press, Concord. N. H. East 44th New N. Y. William A. Harvard * B Assistant E. Editorial and executive offices, 12 Street, York, Editor, Shimer, K; Editor, Dorothy Blair; Consulting Editor, Frank P. Graves, President of the United Chapters. Adver rales upon application. Subscription cents a tising 20 year, SI.00for five years. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Con cord, N. H., under Act of March 3, 1879. If undeliverable at POSTMASTER: your office and addressee's new address Is please known, forward, rated with postage due to cover forwarding charge. Undeliverable copies should be sent to: PHI BETA KAPPA, 12 East 44th Street, New York, N. Y. www.pbk.org Forwarding and return postage guaranteed. [2] THE KEY REPORTER Spring, 1939 overshadows even the challenge to democracy as a political system. It A Strategic Position Fortified cannot be met by armed forces as FRANK PIERREPONT $ B K Columbia may be the course in international de GRAVES, velopments. It cannot be dealt with by New York State Commissioner of Education diplomacy. It calls for a strengthening President of the United Chapters of B K and a widening of efforts on broad fronts Member, Executive Committee, B K Defense Fund of intellectual training. Along these lines, we have made promising progress. Today we are compelled to fight ever established is active today. The in We are resolved, with your support, not again for the Magna Carta of civili vestigations and hearings to be con to slacken or withdraw, but to push zation. A struggle must be made for ducted the Society's Committee on ahead. by individual freedom, which includes free Qualifications will be similar to those During the past ten years, $ B K, dom from restrictions on education and given the scores of institutions through its chapters, its associations, its seeking scholarship quite as much as freedom new chapters and should have a like Senate and its officers, has taken a series from political dictatorship. This freedom effect in raising standards, in strengthen of forward-looking steps to effectuate its is at present dangerously threatened ing the liberal or cultural motives in ideals; to improve the standards of even in America, and $ B K's reaction education, and in providing special liberal, cultural education in our col op has been neither slow nor ineffective. portunities for the superior students. leges and universities by a finer test of A second significant action of the qualifications of new members and of Senate on the same occasion was the institutions seeking or sheltering chap provision for a Committee on the Status ters; and generally to strengthen the of the Liberal Arts and Sciences. This cause of freedom of thought and ex Committee expects to devote two or pression, both in our colleges and in the three years to a thorough designed outside world. study to unite and supplement various partial binder its revised Constitution, broader investigations undertaken other agen powers are now conferred on its Com by cies and to produce a report of such in mittee on Qualifications; its general sight and literary quality that it will quarterly. The American Scholar, is con receive a wide reading not only by stantly gaining strength as one of the educators but by all concerned with the leading reviews of the country; The individual and social consequences of Key Reporter is carrying news of the American secondary and higher educa Society's doings to every member four tion. This study would also guide $ B K times a year; the graduate organiza in selecting colleges for new chapters and tions have been recognized as an in students for membership. tegral part of the Society and are main Frank Pierrepont Graves The new world-wide struggle for taining among the thousands of its freedom cannot hope to salvage civiliza graduates the spirit of the Society. Educators declare that CI> B K now ex tion, except as it seeks the chart of its B K motto, "The love of challenges its to give it membership life." in the country to encourage our thou wisdom is the helmsman of But loyal and substantial support. sand colleges and universities to provide, under the economic and political pres In making this marked progress, we at least for those students who promise sures of today even educators are casting have been handicapped by reduced in to achieve positions of leadership, the the humanities overboard, the come on our well-husbanded invest leaving broad, liberal, thorough education es helm of life at the mercy of this or that ments and by increased costs, unavoid sential to enlightened judgment, good particular skill or technique a pro able in the working out of our program. taste, and social tolerance and vision. ceeding dangerous in uncharted seas. For the past three years we have had to A high-point in that reaction was The chapters of $ B K, with encour appeal to many of our members for reached on December 14th when a score agement from the United Chapters, are contributions to meet annual deficits. 4> of B K Senators, a to the giving attention to means of We feel that the time has come to make devoting day increasing review of the status of scholarship and stimulating interest in liberal education. an appeal to every member to contribute, the work of the Society, unanimously They are favoring honors work, com as generously as possible, so that funds adopted a number of far-reaching reso prehensive examinations, individual may be in hand to carry on our fight, for lutions. The most news-worthy of these, reading periods, and other special op a dozen years at least, and on a perma from the flood of newspaper portunities for the more capable stu nent basis if possible. judging clippings, was the decision to investigate dents. continue to stand firmly for We of the Senate and its committees They a college and a state university that are that basic principle of man's liberty and have toiled faithfully and earnestly. We believed to have deteriorated, mainly intellectual and spiritual progress call upon you all to hold up our hands through political interference and finan faith in enlightened individual capacity. and join material support to your cial mismanagement, to such an extent B K would trust the future to tal spiritual aid. that their $ B K charters should be sus ented young men and women who have pended or withdrawn. This is the first been taught how rather than what to "Your extremely important enterprise will time in its long history that such drastic think. The how implies a broad knowl help successfully to make the general public measures have been taken by the Soci edge of all past thought and action as an aware of the necessity to take a firm stand in crisis." the world Albert Einstein. ety, since one of the 132 chapters [Continued on page menacing www.pbk.every org 5) Spring, 1939 THE KEY REPORTER [3]

Fellowship to Be Awarded spirit, the limitless reaches of her A Defense for the sympathy, her unerring devotion to the in March values that are deathless. American Tradition Zona Gale Breese was a supremely APPLICATIONS for the Isabel Mary great woman. And part of her greatness WILL D. HOWE, * B K Indiana Sibley in the fields of f\ Fellowship lay in the fact that she seemed never Editor and Charles Scribner's Sons Greek and of French are now re Director, being aware that God had touched her with Member, Executive Committee, B K Defense Fund ceived. If a qualified applicant is found, uniqueness of insight and power. With after a hundred and vears the the plaudits of the gifted of earth in her fifty ideals of Phi Beta Kappa still cars, she was humble of spirit. \_ stand as the ideals of American culture. She was gentle. She was serene. Her Do we want those ideals to endure? How sensitive spirit, housed in a fragile body, can wc do our part to them to en had in it the strength of marching help dure? These are the questions which armies. She never ran from an issue or confront us in one of the spiritual crises dodged a decision that involved the of our national existence. Historians principles upon which her being was who studied the social and grounded. More than anyone 1 have have past, economic experts of modern conditions known, she combined militant convic tell us that there are signs in of tions with a godlike tolerance for the America decline and of the American judgments of others. decay tradition. $ B K stands for that tradi There was an amazing directness to tion. It been with her mind. She pierced through appear has contemporary it and will rise or with it. ance to essence alwavs. There was about fall We are forth our billions for her a rare intuitive quality that seemed pouring shall wc withhold to cut across the laborious processes of military armament, our thousands for the of research and drive directly to the heart strengthening those more more spiritual of reality in any problem she touched. permanent,

new- defenses which will give new vigor, Marjorie Nicolson, $> B K Smith She was let me say it again a life to those forces which must be nour- Dean ofSmith College, t'BK Senator and Vice-Presi supremely great woman, with a great dent, Chairman of the Alary Isabel Sibley Fellowship ness that did not depend on anv ex the other members which are President Committee, of ternal trappings or recognitions. She Guy Stanton Ford and Dr. Alary E. Woolley. would have been a supremely great woman had she never written a book, the first award of $1,500 will be made in never given her mastery of insight and March. An announcement concerning expression to the theater, or struck a the recipient of the stipend will appear poem like a spark from her spirit. in a later issue. In 1934 Dr. Isabelle Stone, $ B K Editor's Note. Zona Gale was born in Portage, Wisconsin, on August 26, 1874. She Wellesley 1905, left to the United graduated from the University of Wisconsin Chapters a bequest of $23,243.75 for the with a B.L. degree in 1895, later receiving de establishment of the Mary Isabel Sibley grees from Rollins College and the College of and was elected to $ B K as an Fellowship in honor of her mother. Dr. Wooster, honorary member by the Flora Stone Mather College Stone, who had been a teacher, received Chapter in 1924. In 1928 she was married to her bachelor's degree at and Wellesley William Llywelyn Breese of Portage. Miss Uni her Ph.D. degree from Cornell Gale's writings include, besides reviews and versity. She continued her study of short stories in various periodicals, some 30 published poems and plays. Greek history and language in Europe novels, essays, From 1936 until her serious illness early in on an Alice Freeman Palmer Fellowship. December, Zona Gale was an active member of the Book Committee of The Key Reporter. Will D. Howe Her death occurred in Chicago, Illinois, on December 27, 1938. Zona Gale ished if the America which wc envisage is to survive? *BK Northwestern GLENN FRANK, I know of no instrument which de

serves better our moral Editor andformei University President New Address lor and financial support than the Society which has To other voices and other pens I OBK Offices throughout the entire period of our shall leave a rehearsal of the sheer national existence stood for the ideals facts of the of Zona Gale. Of On January 28 the offices of the biography of the American tradition. none of the daughters of men in this gen United Chapters and the Founda

eration do the ordinary facts of when she tion and of The American Scholar and The

the posts Key Reporter were moved to 12 East "* B K's efforts to was born, the books she wrote, insure continuity of opera tion through $300,000 is she held, or when life left her body seem 44th Street, New York Citv (telephone raising wholly com mendable in a world where the issue is increas of so little importance in comparison Vanderbilt 6-2735 and 2736) from 145 between the of ingly way reason and the way with her own incomparable self the West 55th Street, where had been force." they of Harrison C. Dale, President, the richness of her located for 18 years. of grasp of her mind, www.pbk.org University Idaho. [4] THE KEY REPORTER Spring, 1939

Defense Program Sponsors and February 20th Dinner

Frank 0. Lowden Jacob Gould Schurman, Jr. hundred noted members have been The defense program of the Henry R. Luce Murray Seasongood $BK Shepardson to serve < James G. McDonald Whitney H. k invited with the B K will be launched with a A Robert A. Millikan Anson Phelps Stokes vSociety Senators as the Committee George Fort Milton Olga Samaroff Stokowski dinner at the Hotel Astor, New York Sponsoring Felix Morley Mark Sullivan of the $ B K Defense Fund for the Hu Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow Charles P. Taft City, on Monday evening, February 20, Geoffrey Parsons Ida M. Tarbell manities and Intellectual Freedom, of George Wharton Pepper Carl Van Doren 1939. Dr. John H. Finley, the National Bliss Perry William Allen White which Chief will preside. Justice Charles Evans Louise Pound Ray Lyman Wilbur Chairman Owen I. Roberts Stephen S. Wise Hughes is Honorary Chairman and Dr. James Rowland Angell, recently Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and Senator Educators' Sponsoring Committee President of Yale, will be the moderator

Carter are . a symposium and round Glass Vice-Chairmen As Presidents d/$BK Institutions for table dis

this issue goes to press acceptances have James R. McCain Agnes Scott College cussion on "The Crisis of the Humani William P. Tolley Allegheny College been received from the friends of $ B K ties in the Fight for Intellectual Stanley King Amherst College Free Alfred Atkinson of Arizona dom.'- whose names are given here. Other ac University Miss Thompson will be Daniel L. Marsh Boston University Dorothy ceptances arc coming in and will Kenneth C. M. Sills Bowdoin College the guest of honor and the speakers will daily Henry M. Wriston Brown University be announced in the next issue. S. P. Capen University of Buffalo be Dr. G. A. Borgese, the noted Italian Robert G. Sproul University of California Robert M. Hutchins University of Chicago author of Goliath, the March of Fascism, Raymond Walters University of Cincinnati Thurston J. Davies Colorado College who will represent countries which have Katharine Blunt Connecticut College been deprived of intellectual Edmund E. Day Cornell University freedom; Walter L. Lingle Davidson College Dean Christian Gauss of Dr. Avery A. Shaw Denison University Princeton; Clyde E. Wildman DePauw University Roscoe Pound, recently Dean of the Fred P. Corson Dickinson College Daniel W. Morehouse Drake University Harvard Law School; Dr. Marjorie Harvey W. Cox Emory University Dean of Smith and John J. Tigert University of Florida Nicolson, College; John A. Schaeffer Franklin and Marshall College Mr. Charles Evans Hughes, III, who Cloyd H. Marvin George Washington University David A. Robertson Goucher College will represent the younger members. William H. Cowley Hamilton College Mr. John Kirkland noted lawyer James Bryant Conant Harvard University Clark, William Alfred Eddy Hobart College and chairman of the Phi Beta Kappa Harrison C. Dale University of Idaho make the summation. Arthur C. Willard University of Illinois Foundation, will Stanley B. Niles State University of Iowa The symposium will be broadcast on a E. H. Lindley University of Kansas Gordon Keith Chalmers Kenyon College coast to coast from 8:30 to Carter Davidson Knox College hook-up Thomas N. Barrows Lawrence College 9 p.m. over the Mutual Broadcasting C. C. Williams Lehigh University System through WOR and affiliated Harry K. Eversull Marietta College A. H. Upham Miami University stations. Alexander G. Ruthven University of Michigan Paul D. Moody Middlebury College Joseph Bentonelli, lyric tenor of the Stanton Ford of Guy University Minnesota New York Metropolitan Opera the Roswell G. Ham Mount Holyoke College C. S. Boucher University of Nebraska only $BK member now in opera will Nelson P. Mead College of the City of New York to Defense Program Organization Harry Woodburn Chase New York University sing. Mr. Bentonelli was elected Frank P. Graham University of North Carolina John H. National Chairman $ B K as a student at the of Finley, Ernest H. Wilkins Oberlin College University Remsen D. Bird Occidental College Oklahoma. He was voted one of Italy's The $BK Senators Herman G. James Ohio University four most popular tenors the W. B. Bizzell University of Oklahoma during Frank Pierrepont Graves, President Donald M. Erb University of Oregon Marjorie Vice-President 1934 season. Nicolson, Thomas S. Gates University of Pennsylvania John Kirkland Clark, Chairman, Foundation Harold Willis Dodds Princeton University Clifton Fadiman, $ B K Columbia, Ada L. Comstock Radcliffe College Frank Aydelotte James R. McCain Samuel C. Hatcher Randolph-Macon College book editor of The New Yorker since Edward A. Birge Clark S. Northup Theodore H. Jack George H. Chase Frederick M. Padelford Randolph-Macon Woman's College James Bryant Conant Roscoe Pound Hollon A. Farr David A. Robertson F. W. Boatwright University of Richmond John H. Finley Albert Shaw Alan Valentine University of Rochester Guy Stanton Ford John J. Tigert Robert C. Clothier Rutgers University Christian Gauss Oscar M. Voorhees Sister Eucharista College of St. Catherine William T. Hastings Raymond Walters Laurens H. Seelye St. Lawrence University Will D.Howe Goodrich C White William Allan Neilson Smith College Theodore H. Jack E. Mary Woolley Alex Guerry University of the South Walter Lippmann Owen D. Young R. B. von KleinSmid University of Southern California Sponsoring Committee Ray Lyman Wilbur Stanford University W. P. Graham Syracuse University Charles Evans Hughes, Honorary Chairman Frank Aydelotte Swarthmore College Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Vice-Chairman Remsen B. Ogilby Trinity College Carter Glass, Vice-Chairman Leonard Carmichael Tufts College Rufus C. Harris Tulane University Florence E, Allen Marion Bayard Folsom Dixon Ryan Fox Union College James Rowland Angell Emerson Fosdick Harry O. C. Carmichael Vanderbilt Bruce Barton Alfred Frankenthaler University Noble MacCracken Vassar College William L. Chenery Douglas Southall Freeman Henry Charles E. Clark James E. Freeman Guy W. Bailey University of Vermont Henry Sloane Coffin William Gammell Francis P. Gaines Washington and Lee University Arthur H. Compton Charles W. Gerstenberg E. 0. Holland State College of Washington Karl T. Compton Virginia C. Gildersleeve George R. Throop Washington University Edwin Grant Conklin Ellen Glasgow Lee P. Sieg University of Washington T. Jefferson Coolidge < Gilbert H. Grosvenor William E. Weld Wells College Frederick Coykendall Hermann Hagedorn James L. McConaughy Wesleyan University John W. Davis Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn \\ mfred G. Leutner Western Reserve Llniversity Norman H. Davis Robert L. Hoguet Charles E. Lawall West Virginia George W. Davison Walter E. Hope University J. Edgar Park Wheaton College Rufus C. Dawes Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. \V. A. Bratton Whitman College Stephen P. Duggan Mrs. Darwin P. Kingsley Charles E. Dunbar, Jr. George Lyman Kittredge John Stewart Bryan College of William and Mary Lincoln Filene Hugh McK. Landon James P. Baxter, 3rd Wihiams College Dorothy Canfield Fisher Monte M. Lernann Clarencewww.pbk.A. Dykstra Universityorgof \\ isconsiu Joseph Bentonelli Spring, 1939 THE KEY REPORTER [5]

will instruct and entertain the much to the of in 1931, quality leadership Know of an Opening?? guests with a program similar to America.

' Sam Golentaul's famous "Information That $BK members do attain leader V>name is not given, address Member No. Please," sponsored the Canada is evident from the fact that 5,480 by Dry ship care of The Key Reporter. on the National appear in Who's Who in America one Company Broadcasting Art, Music Company's system. Mr. Fadiman will out of fewer than six. This proportion is 180. Miss Ella Davis, 24 W. 69th St., N. Y. C A.B., Examination" Hunter '38; major, art; minor, mathematics. Exp. ap a "Final give to four the more remarkable when one con prenticeship to photographer. Wants anything requiring ability in drawing, photography or knowledge of art, science, famous Phi Beta Kappas: Mr. siders small the number Charles how relatively is stenography, typing. 181. Edward Meltzer, 64 E. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, III. Evans the Reverend Ralph of $ B K members to the total popula Hughes, Jr., Mus.B., Northwestern '25; A.B. '26; research and study here and abroad in advanced music musi- W. Sockman, Mr. Mark Sullivan, and tion or even to college graduates. And theory, education, cology, symphonic oratorio, operatic repertoire, orchestral Mr. Alexander Woollcott. Mr. Fadiman of course thousands of other members instruments. Exp. - has conducted symphony orchestras in Vienna, Boston, New York, Chicago, Providence; 15 yrs. would like members to suggest ques are quietly at work in the home, school, college and high school teaching. Wants position as con ductor of civic symphony orchestra and oratorio chorus, such as tions in fields liberal education, office, laboratory, studio and church, combined with college or radio work. scholarship, and intellectual freedom. frequently contributing more to Amer Business, Secretarial See also 180, 78, 195 182. Wis.) A.B., Lawrence '21; majors, business Those questions acceptable ican culture than some in the more (Mr., submitting administration, economics. Exp. 17 yrs. in food field. Wants executive college economics, to Mr. Fadiman will receive their choice public positions listed in Who's Who. assistantship; teaching business. of Phi Beta Kappa Orations in two vol This leaven in our democracy should be 183. (Mr., III.) Northwestern '28; M.A. '29; major, math ematics. Exp. as university assistant-taught mathematics, umes or a two-year subscription to The kept wholesome through high standards did secretarial and statistical work in psychology and education; other part-time work. Wants secretarial, high American Scholar. of liberal scholarship. The 300 or more school or college teaching, preferably in Chicago area. 165. (Mr., 111.) Ph.B., Brown '31; major, English; work $ B K members who can do so public addresses sponsored possibly annually by in psychology and education at Northwestern. Exp. 7 yrs. in public relations, vital statistics, industrial hygiene, are invited to attend. Reser B the meetings of 132 chapters and cordially K, teaching, family welfare, administrative, executive. Wants work as executive or in public relations. vations for members and their friends 107 graduate associations, the distin assistant, writer, 184. (Miss, Conn.) Ph.D., Maine '35. Exp. 10 yrs. and questions for Mr. Fadiman's test of guished magazine The American Scholar, vocational counseling, social work, personnel work. Wants work in placement, counseling; teaching in eastern college. $ B K wit and mentality should be sent The Key Reporter's quarterly visits Editorial, Journalism See also 190, 78, 193, 194 to the Secretary, Dr. William A. Shimer, to 83,000 members, all contribute to an 185. Harry Galkin, 52 W. First St., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Oberlin '36; major, English. 1936-37, Inst, of International 12 East 44th New York City. esprit de corps. Close contacts with Street, Ed. assistantship taught English in Milano, studied at Regia Univ. Knowl. March committees will be scholarly persons, even through the Italian, French, printing, typing, During editing. Wants editorial work, writing; also translating organized in the New York metropoli printed page, stimulate creative thought French, Italian. 186. Robert S. Langer, 37 Collins Ave., Troy, N. Y. tan area in support of this movement and informed social action. The gradu A.B., Union '36; M.A. in English, Harvard. Exp. l}4 yrs. in factory. Wants journalism anywhere in country, but ate associations established in and, following that, similar committees being preferably in East. 187.^Charles E. Walters, 2122 N. 64th St., Milwaukee, will set in other cities. populous serve this be up every community Wis. Colgate '99. Exp. editorial, writing, literary criti columnist. purpose with $ B K's characteristic sim cism, Research See also 191, 146, 78, 179, 193 plicity of organization and program. John Erskine, John H. Finley, Wil 188. (Miss, Mo.) Ph.D., Univ. of Missouri '34; majors, The Senate has adopted still another classical languages, archaeology; special work in English liam Allan Neilson, and Roscoe Pound literature. Exp. library, excavating, research, proof practical measure designed to provide reading, stenography. Wants also archaeology, literary work, are speakers a series of $ B K to be in teaching; translating Latin, classical and modern Greek, the support necessary to the continuance French, German, Italian. broadcasts this spring. of this work by $ B K. A nation-wide Teachinc See also 182, 183, 184 189. Arthur E. Finney, 14 Cliff Mass. campaign is organized to inform St., Plymouth, being Boston '05; majors, Spanish, Portuguese; minors, French, Exp. 15 yrs. member of the extent and strategic Italian. teaching Spanish. Wants academy Strategic Position Fortified every teaching, also translating. social importance of $ B K's work and 190. Darrell Huff, 1107 E. Burlington St., Iowa City, Iowa. A.B., Iowa '38; now working for M.A. in journalism {Continued from page 2) to give each member an opportunity to and for Ph.D. in psychology. Exp. newspaper feature and magazine writer, reporter, photographer, picture editor. needed contribute to a fund of $300,000 Wants college teaching, magazine or newspaper work. indispensable condition to present con 191. (Mrs., N. C.) A.B., North Carolina '29. Exp. to protect the Society's for the vitality teaching, research. structive thought and action. By electing 146. Miss E. Elizabeth Moore, 827 MacVicar decades ahead. This will enable B K Ave., Topeka, Kans. A.B., Washburn '31; Kansas members without regard to M.A., '36; sex, race, Latin. Exp. 6 yrs. to concentrate its energies, not on itsell majors, English, high school teaching, practice 4 yrs. substitute and religion, or economic or political philos supervising teaching, assistant as an organization, but on its educa college teaching, library, Y.W.C.A., Americanization. Wants $BK upholds the of college teaching, research, translating, library work. ophy, liberty emphasis and tional objectives. With its 192. (Miss, Ind.} Ohio Univ. '37; major, English; minor, and action funda education. License to teach English. Wants also tutoring or thought, expression, as methods re-examined and adapted, work as companion. greatness. $ born mental to human B K, 78. (Mr., N. Y. C.) A.B., C.C.N.Y. '36; majors, often before since its 163 years English, founding Latin, French; minors, mathematics, physical _ history, nation should be with the in - 1776, science; graduate study in English, Columbia. Exp. ago, to the problems of the age, $ B K \lA yrs. research assistant, 2 yrs. school cherished in America as dignifying a preparatory teaching will continue to throw its time-tested English, mathematics, history, Latin. Wants also library, book store. principle now trampled underfoot clerical, research, publishing, being influence into the struggle for the preser 179. (Miss, Jamaica, N. Y.) A.B., Colby '37; M.A. in in lands near-sighted advo zoology, Columbia. Exp. college laboratory assisting, many by promotion of vation and intellectual private tutoring. Wants college teaching or assistantship in cates of national material strength. biology, tutoring, research, technical assistance. creative cooperative scholar freedom, 193. (Miss, N. Y. C.) A.B., N.Y.U. '35; majors, English, or but $ B K stands for no party class, Classics; A.M. '36; Ph.D. in archaeology, Johns Hopkins '38. ship, and capable democratic leadership. Exp. cataloguing, private tutoring, for intellectual well em research, radio, only ability lecturing, camp counsellor. Wants college teaching in Classics, fine arts; research; publishing; museum position. ployed. * B K promotes democracy in highest Translating See also 185, 18S, 189, 146 our colleges by bestowing the "It gives me much pleasure to accept the 194. (Miss, Mass.) A.B., Iowa '32; M.A., Boston '35. possible honor upon excellence in gen Exp. 2 yrs. high school teaching, editing. Wants German designation of Chairman of the Honorary translating, general editing. irrespective of eral scholarship, wealth, Sponsoring Committee. I have been compelled 195. (Miss, 111.) Ph.B., Chicago '55; major, German; minor, French; knowl. of Spanish, Slovak. Exp. 5 yrs. social athletic, or to make it a rule to refuse sponsorship of all fraternity affiliation, elementary school teaching. Travel abroad. Wants mai'nly sorts of appeals, many of which are in behalf French translating, travel bureau work, foreign correspond other campus prestige. The pre-emi ence, secondary school teaching, preferably near Chicago. of worthy organizations. . . . But I am sure nence of this scholastic honor is a that no one can misunderstand the reasons for General heritage of the colleges and instance." 196. (Ml, Penn.) Gettysburg '33; major, economics. precious making an exception in this Exp. CCC camp administration, public relations, selling. guarded jealously. It means Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. should be www.pbk.org Wants position anywhere while attending law school. [6] THE KEY R E PORTER Spring, 1939

into Never-neverland. The fantasy of it the City of New York, is, in this review Books to Own is only on the surface. The poet is seeing er's opinion, the most valuable study in contemporary America, confronted with the field of Philanthropic Foundations The Book Committee: Will D. Howe, a world catastrophe. Smash civilization, that has yet been published. It describes Burton E. Robert A. Milli Livingston, if you must, on the rest of the globe, she the purposes and methods of the larger kan, Irita Van Doren. cries. Make Europe a wilderness again Foundations, in satisfying detail, and where the wild beasts roam through gives a comprehensive overhead view For the reader's convenience orders for any books of or magazines will be fitted prepaid by The Key what were once the habitations of men. the activities of all Foundations, in so Reporter. A free personal or gift introductory We here in America will maintain our far as their own secrecies and inhibitions subscription to The American Scholar will be sent selves and rebuild civilization. You permit. with any order of at least $6.00. think we are degenerate. Well, perhaps The whole discussion of the Founda a few of us are, consumed with greed or tions is brought by the author into their At Midnight on the fear or reckless individualism, but that relationship to higher education in Hollis' is only one percent. Underneath the America and Dr. marshalling of 3 1st of March speed, the paint and the gadgets, the facts and achievements brings the reader American is healthy and strong, with to a deep sense of appreciation for the By Josephine Young Case. Houghton nerves unimpaired, daring, resourceful, remarkable service which the Founda Mifflin Company, Boston, 1938. $2. kindly and responsible, as hungry to live tions have rendered to the development and to create as he was three hundred of America's cultural life. Granted the catastrophic miracle, years ago. In interesting and surprising conclu this poem is the believable story of a That is a large idea, and Mrs. Case sion, the author assures us that these in New England which dis community has clothed it in a fable which has real- struments of philanthropic service are covered one morning in 1938 (or there itv and is persuasive. The men and not on the wane, as some have feared, abouts) that it must learn to live in terms women in the story who have the respon but that, on the contrary, the number of 1620. The miracle is a tall one. On sibility of perpetuating not only the race and resources of philanthropic founda the stroke of midnight on the thirty-first but its accumulated treasures of learning tions are increasing each year and at an of March, the electric power fails and and experience, have a touch of Spoon accelerated pace. next morning the truckman who deliv River and of Tilbury Town, but they This is a book that should be read by ers the milk to the comes creamery live their own independent life plain everyone who is interested in America's ashen-faced to the store to tell that the country folks from anywhere, accepting cultural and philanthropic enterprise. concrete highway peters out in rubble the catastrophe philosophically, as they Arnaud C. Marts, and primeval forest. Exploring parties, would, not feeling heroic at all, but very President. Bucknell University east, west, north and all return south, determined to survive and to make what with the same story. The pines stand thev knew of civilization survive after thick where the towns and neighboring them. villages once were. The two hundred The of the Barrett: Saugers- Gus Warder looked out over muddy fields men, women and children of Family That were already drying in the sun ville discover with a shock that, save for And would be fit to plow and harrow and sow A Colonial Romance the inhabitants of the American them, Before many weeks were gone. He turned again continent for all of the Within his mind the plan of crops and and, they know, By Jeannette Marks. Macmillan Com stock. . . . have been expunged. world, New 1938. $5. It would be difficult, this working out pany, Tork, One gathers that the gifted daughter

Of independent living. . . . But given sun Rudolf Besier's "The Barretts of of Mr. Owen D. was told once play Young And rain enough, no late or early frosts, Street" Wimpole was excellent dra too often that the American people are The sweat of every back that could be bent, would succeed. Gus folded over his arms matically but imperfect factually. The not what once they were, and decided to They And his feet more in the earth. Edward Moulton-Barrett it exhibited speak her mind. She has done it with dug deeply was kingdom and he would succeed. This his was one discoverable in the imagination and compelling dramatic hardly neutral light of library or study. The power; done it so movingly, in fact, that Assuredly, Mrs. Case knows her play made him a sort of Victorian Cali the reader finds himself wishing that on America. Her book is a comfort in a ban, more clinical than historical. It is some thirty-first of March the electric time of earthquakes and hurricanes, and light beside his own bed might fail as it such.

at did the bedside of the frustrated ar Hermann Hagedorn. Prices and terms tist, John Herbert. For Saugersville is Author and poet are the same . . . BUY Values differ! Get another Sangri-la, a world where the what you pay for. Try all portables harried creature of the age which has BY . . . Convince your Royal's su abolished space and made an idol of Philanthropic self of COMPARISON periority! time, may slacken his pace and learn Foundations and to live again. NEW Mrs. Case's narrative in verse is a Higher Education ROYAL escape story. captivating Who, retaining ' Ernest Victor Hollis. Columbia -"-- his sense of would not live in By L3V values, WITH New 1938. $3.50. Saugersville, to begin again the superb University Press, Tork, TOUCH C0NTR01 adventure of building America? But the This book, by Dr. E. V. Hollis of the ROYAL TYPEWRITER CO.. Inc. 2 Park Avenue. New York, N. Y. poem other than a of Education of the College of is something flight Schoolwww.pbk.org See Your Nearest Royal Denlsr Spring, 1039 THE KEY REPORTER [7]

Marks' the special merit of Miss work

that she sets aside this interpretation and makes Edward Moulton-Barrett more THE LETTERS OF credible and creditable as a man, his

conduct as a father more understand able. Ralph Waldo Emerson Miss Marks has performed invaluable service to Browning scholarship by her Edited by Ralph L. Rusk researches on the island of Jamaica in

the West the foundation place Indies, THE PERSONALITY of Emerson is best expressed in what have hitherto of the Barrett fortunes, where she has been the least accessible of his writings his letters. Now this great under had access to a hitherto untouched makes it possible for everyone to have access to this invaluable wealth of family records. She begins her taking chronicle there in with 1655, the arrival material. Here, in six handsome volumes of some 3,000 pages, are 2,313 of Lieutenant Barrett with a force to letters of Emerson never before printed; 270, hitherto partly published, are oust the .Spaniards, and, in the course given more fully or completely; 509, already printed, are listed: and 1,281 of her account, places greatest stress on

these three Barretts: Edward Barrett known to have been written are also listed. The letters throw new light on

of Cinnamon Hill on Ja (1734-98) almost every aspect of Emerson's life and work, from his eleventh year to maica's Northside, under whom the the year before his death, and give a picture of the whole man, not merely family fortunes developed; Edward of the Transcendental mystic. Included are a critical introduction the Moulton-Barrett (1785-1857) of Cin by namon Hill and of Hope End in Eng editor, full notes and a complete index. When published May 8, the list price under whom, the fortunes land, family will be $30.00. Until then, all six volumes may be had at a special pre- dwindled; and his daughter Elizabeth publication price of $25.00. Write to address below for prospectus. Barrett Browning, poet (1806-61), of VVimpole Street, London. The two cen turies of colonial background in the FRIEDHUH PAULSEN THE SPIRIT Barrett history form a story as rich and AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF VOLTAIRE various as that of the American North

west and its growth. Predominant in THE FIRST complete edition in any A NEW study bv Norman L. Torrey. "No

the memoirs of the Ger other book since Voltaire's death . . . has that story was patriarch Edward Bar language of noted man and philosopher whose ideas been written with greater insight into the rett, who lived manorially in Jamaica educator have had a profound influence on educa texture of his mind and spirit and into the and defied fires, earth hurricanes, world.'' tion everywhere. Translated and edited by meaning of his message to the quakes, and slave insurrections to drive Theodor Lorenz, with a foreword by Andrew R. Morehouse, Saturday Review him from his increasing acres. Nicholas Murray Butler. $3.75. of Literature. $3.00. But the responsibility he passed on to Edward Moulton-Barrett, that of pre OF serving the family and its fortunes, was THE CONSTITUTION LEAVES a heavy one, for already in the 1790's RECONSIDERED GRASS events were shaping to diminish those A BRILLIANT symposium in which 'ead- A FACSIMILE reproduction of the first fortunes (declining profits from sugar ing authorities discuss the background of (1855) edition of this famous work of Walt and rum, for one). Small wonder, then. the Constitution and its authors, analyze Whitman. Also contains a facsimile of the that the time the 1830's and 1840's by the Constitution itself, and examine its cover of Whitman's own copy of the paper- with their terrible losses Ed arrived influence at home and abroad. Edited for hound edition. With an introduction by ward Moulton-Barrett was desperate. the American Historical Association by Clifton Joseph Furness. Published for the Facsimile Text Society. He was painfully devoted to the ideal of Conyers Read. $3.75. $2.00. family solidarity; he depended on Eliza beth as a sort of anchor for the family; THE WORKS OF DEFOE'S REVIEW he knew how ill she was and how im .JOHN MILTON portant were to her. Therefore drugs REPRODUCED from the original edi was as one when she eloped in 1846 he HERE IS all that scholars and printers tions, this set makes available in exact possessed. And just such logical if un can do in the way of a memorial to the facsimile every issue of the Review known most impressive man who ever used our to exist. The twenty-two happy reasons explained his opposition volumes con language the definitive edition of tain 5,960 pages. to the marriages of his other two chil only Introduction and biblio Milton's works. In eighteen handsome graphical notes by Arthur Wellesley dren, Alfred and Henrietta. He was a volumes of twenty-one books. Library edi Secord. Published for the Facsimile Text man deserted, as he saw it, in the midst tion, $105.00; special edition, $315.00. Society. 88.00. of disintegration.

The convincing revaluation of Ed that Miss Marks ward Moulton-Barrett Columbia Press gives us is matched by her discerning University treatment of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Rox C337, 29tt0 Hroadway, New York individually and in her marriage with Robert Browning. She says much that is www.pbk.Mentionorgof The hey Reporter will be mutually helpful [8] THE KEY REPORTER Spring, 1939 both new and cogent concerning the former's poetry and her partiality to

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