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CONTENTS PAGE Shake Hands 3
Dr. Robert A. Millikan Installs the Alpha of Utah . . Lynn A. Quivey 6 Blind $ B K Members Oscar M. Voorhees 7 Stolen 7 $ B K's Past Reappears 8
The American Scholar at Work 9 Bayta Battles Beeta 10 $ B K Rhodes Scholars 12 Bimillennium Horatianum 13 $BK Intelligence Tested 14
$ B K Officers of the American National Red Cross 14 A Departure in Journalism 15
$ B K and Fusion 16 $500,000 Educational Survey 17 Officers, Senators, Trustees 19 Editorial 20 *BK Keys 21
The Foundation A Good Beginning . . . . W. Randolph Burgess 22 Membership Report for 1934-35 24 Positions Wanted 25 United Chapters Meetings 27 A Second Group of Reading Courses Clark S. Northup 27 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Administration Building, University of Utah 2 Grip Revealed in 1831 4 4 Hobart Grip of 1871 5 From the Record of May 3, 1777 12 Tombstone with $ B K Key Owen D. Young 17 William J. Wallin 17 Luther H. Gulick 18 Samuel P. Capen 18
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Shake Hand*
Shake hands with 75,000 other $ B K ing lines of the paragraph! Posterity members through The Key Reporter (see guessed that the smudge concealed a secret page 20 for The Reporter's bow!). If you
have forgotten how to shake a $ B K hand, Rare is the research problem that stymies read in the next column the advertisement TIME's hard-working re searchers. Simple enough to reproduced from "the Private Life of discover what Haile Selassie calls Time" in Letters (September 16, 1935) his white horse; what knickknacks President Roosevelt keeps on his and still you won't know, although Editor desk; how Herr Hitler eats aspar R. Luce is * B K Yale '20. In fact Henry agus. Time-consumers and nerve- no one knows, but this is the story. frazzlers, however, are supposedly uncomplicated requests like: "How "On Thursday, the 5th of December, in does one Phi Beta Kappa shake our one thousand another?" the year of Lord God hands with seven hundred and seventy-six, and the first of the Commonwealth, a happy spirit and resolution of attaining the important ends of Society entering the minds ofJohn Off & on (or three days one staff researcher scurried hand- Heath, Thomas Smith, Richard Booker, around, shook a doien or more Phi Betes, Armistead Smith, and John Jones, and including several other staff mem bers. Possibly because most Phi afterwards seconded by others, prevailed, Betes had used the just ratified." handclasp and was accordingly once during an awesome initia tionno two could agree on the Five months later, May 3, 1777, an method. Some were convinced other spirit moved these William happy that the little finger should be and Mary students, but this time waver- crooked; others plunked (or the little fingers entwined; still others ingly. The old partially effaced record for for two fingers entwined (presum distinction that date reads: "For the better ably any two). Finally Phi Beta Kappa headquarters obliged: of the fraternity between themselves in any first two fingers extended; ring or it is resolved that foreign country place, and little finger folded back into
a" smudge of black ink over the remain palm of hand.
Winter, 1936 www.pbk.org will with the little and fingers and grip or salute how good a guess ring the appear later. thumb of the right hand the first two fingers of the other member's right hand. When Secrets Revealed the hands come together with the fingers The mysterious death of William Mor spread by twos, thus enabling them to gan in 1826 started agitation against secret straddle each other before mutually closing societies. In 1831 Avery Allyn published in on the first two fingers, this handclasp will Boston a book containing "A Key to the be found an amazingly facile and fraternal Kappa" Phi Beta with a purported illustra way to shake a $ B K hand, although hands tion of the grip. He wrote: "The sign is are now shaken officially only when mem bers are initiated, and sometimes not even then.
Smudge Unsmudged
Recently and it was this that caught the eye of Time's newshawks always keen for $ B K news guessing about the 1776 smudged minutes gave way to science when the William and Mary Chapter and the revealed in 1831 Grip United Chapters went 50-50 on the bill. Mr. V. Valta Parma, Curator Rare given by placing two forefingers of the Book Collection, Library of Congress, right hand so as to cover the left corner of wrote: "The manuscript has been studied the mouth; draw them across the chin. from every angle the facilities of this Li The grip is like the common shaking of brary afford. In order to test the possibili hands only not interlocking the thumbs; ties of the infra-red-ray, we imported from and at the same time gently pressing the Europe an infra-red-ray film with which we wrist." Dr. Oscar M. Voorhees, the $ B K made all possible experiments. This, how Historian, writes: "In 1817 an entirely ever, produced no results, but indicated different illustration of the mode of shaking hands was sent by the Alpha of Connecticut (Yale) to the Alpha of New York (Union) with the charter and form of initiation. A careful reading of Avery Allyn's pages con vinces me that his relation was with the Alpha of Massachusetts (Harvard) and that before 1831 the two early branches at Yale and at Harvard had come to have different forms of the grip. The one illustrated by Allyn was given by the Alpha Hobart grip 1871 of Massachusetts to the Alpha of Rhode oj Island (Brown) organized in 1830 and has
since." been used there ever Following that the ink superimposed on the writing is Allyn's revelations the Harvard Chapter, the same as that with which the manu led by Edward Everett and John Quincy script was written, with the result that Adams, abolished secrecy. there was no difference in the flourescent The grip was abandoned by some chap activity of the iron particles with which the ters and altered by others. The first official ink was composed. On two lines the ink illustration of a grip appears in the records seems to have been smeared over the writ of the Hobart Chapter as having been ing by using the back of the quill, with the received at its organization in 1871 from result that the original writing has been
eliminated." the Union Chapter. Each member grasps completely
Jhe JCey Reporter www.pbk.org At Mr. Parma's suggestion the puzzle reflected light. The result of this photog
successful." was put into the hands of Mr. Bert G. raphy was only partially Farrar, for 47 years chief of the Documents Mr. Farrar's "nearly complete wording
paragraph," Examination Division of the United States of the which he doubts further Treasury Department, "probably one of experimentation would change is this: "For the most skillful detectors of forgery and the better distinction of the fraternity, be
writing." hidden In the N. Y. Sun for tween themselves, in any foreign country October 29, Lemuel Parton speaks of Mr. or place, it is resolved that a salutation of Farrar's work on the
ordained."
east of Berlin . . . He is like the fiction established and
used" sleuths, smoking a pipe and philosophizing Instead of "last the editor's ama
used," about this and that . . . He knows many teurish eye reads "hand for the "t" elaborate technics but boils it all down to ascender called is not crossed as are the
nature." "t's." chemistry and human other However, even if the reading Concerning the $ B K smudge, Mr. were certain the reason for the blotting out Farrar writes: "Photographs were made of would remain a mystery, therefore, modern this area under a number of different con
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Chapter From the Record oj May 3, 1777. William and Mary
Winter. 1936 www.pbk.org Dr. Robert A. Millikan Installs the Alpha of Utah
By Dr. Lynn A. Quivey, Nebraska '14
Professor of English, University of Utah
Faculty members of Phi Beta Kappa in Department of History, acting as spokes the University of Utah gathered in the man of the local $ B K Association. office of the President of the University President Thomas Honored at 11:22 A.M., January 3, 1935, to meet Dr. Robert A. Millikan, President of Cali The reception of Dr. George Thomas, fornia Institute of Technology and Vice- President of the University of Utah, as President of the United Chapters of Phi Honorary and Foundation Member of Beta Kappa, who had been appointed In the new Chapter then took place. The stalling Officer of Alpha Chapter of the following citation, prepared by Professor Society in Utah. Quivey, was read by Dr. Freudenberger The installation service was held in the and a $ B K key was presented to President main auditorium on the campus, Kings Thomas. bury Hall, before an audience made up of In the election of Doctor George Thomas members of $ B K in the community, to $ B K the following facts are cited: of regents, faculty, students, and friends of 1. He made his degree at Harvard the University. About 1700 were present. Magna cum Laude, standing tenth in his All regular activities of the University were class. suspended during the hour. 2. He attained his doctorate at Frederick William's at Germany, Charter Members University Halle, with a rank higher than Magna cum Laude, At 11:30 the program was opened with being one of two in several years upon music furnished by the University orches whom was conferred the intermediate tra. After this, the faculty members of honor between Magna and Summa.
Jhe JKey {Reporter www.pbk.org educational and for this we field, award of the past. Our roots are in the past and him the and the key. membership we can't cut those roots without bringing After President Thomas' speech ofaccept disaster to our whole social organization. ance the persons were following installed "The reason England has established a as officers of the chapter: President, more stable civilization than ours is be Professor L. A. Quivey; Vice-President, cause they have the right perspective on Dr. Secretary- Clay B. Freudenberger; the past and the future. Treasurer, Dr. Mignonette Spilman. "Formerly scholarship meant only an eye turned to the past, but since the days of Dr. Millikan Speaks Galileo it has meant something more than At the close of the formal ceremony of that. Today scholarship has two faces; one installation, Dr. Orin Tugman, Chairman looks toward the past; the other looks forward." of the Department of Physics, introduced Dr. Millikan to the audience. Dr. Milli He declared that Phi Beta Kappa stands
kan spoke to the theme of the present im for the stimulation of profound creative portance of intellectual perspective in the scholarship. solution of the problems of the world, of a scholarly method which considers both the past and the future, and of B K as a valu Blind OBK Members able means of fostering this spirit. A is After the meeting, members of the newly study being made of the blind people who are installed chapter attended a luncheon at members of $ B K by Miss Evelyn the Union Building on the campus, hon McKay, editor of the Outlook for the Blind, of the oring Dr. Millikan. American Foundation for the Blind. information In the evening at 6:30 a dinner was Any about such members should be given in the Union Building in honor of sent to the United Chapters of Dr. Millikan and in celebration of the day. *BK, 145 West 55 th Street, New York. Data Invitations had been extended to members particularly desired include the of $BK resident in Utah, to the Regents of name, address, occupation, college, year of election the University and to all members of the to $ B K and of graduation, de Faculty. About 160 were present. Dr. Mil grees, major study, special arrangements that were made in likan discussed briefly certain problems college such as the em which higher education faces today in ployment of readers and guides, and other America. significant experiences, especially in college.
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Dr. Thomas said the installation "marks institution," Stolen an epoch in the life of the and "the services today are a recognition of the Mr. Lee Olds Kellogg, Minnesota '02, work done and the leadership attained by of Carmel, California, writes: "It is regret institution." this table that your quarterly is so desirable. "It would be unworthy of us, how I took the latest issue from my postoffice box, ever," he continued, "to assume for an in laid it down on the table along with one Shoppers' stant that we are to rest content with Guide, one technical magazine, present attainments. Scholarship is a con one catalog; then I went away forgetting Shoppers' tinuing process and we stand today as if we them. A few hours later the had only begun. Our motto, therefore, Guide, the magazine, and the catalog were must always be, 'Constant effort and more back in my box, but not The American
scholarship.'" and better Scholar. This speaks louder for the intelli
"Mankind," Dr. Millikan said, "has gence of Carmel's intelligentsia than for found it useful to have a finger pointing to their honesty. But can I get another copy?
missed." the past to remind us that we are products It is not a thing to be
Winter, 1936 www.pbk.org O B K's Past Reappears By Oscar M. Voorhees, OBK Historian
immortal." The accumulation of official records and Now he had, while "under other documents of the early days was arms to oppose the landing of troops under Arnold," necessary before a comprehensive history [Benedict] received a letter from of the $ B K could be written. With this Abraham Bishop, telling of the beginnings work I had been busied many years before of the Alpha of Connecticut under the I was appointed the Society's Historian. charter he had prepared and forwarded by Since then the search has been unceasing Elisha Parmele, and under officers chosen and highly rewarding. at Yale on November 13, less than three The Alpha of New York (Union College) months earlier. His joy at this information has found a packet which at its centennial was genuine and found ample, almost in 1917 was not known to exist. Then in the hilarious, expression in the letter which fall of 1932 through an unrevealed agent he then wrote to his correspondent Bishop the Alpha of Connecticut's (Yale) ancient who had succeeded Ezra Stiles, Jr. as charter, dated December 4, 1779, was president of the Alpha. This letter, the only restored to the chapter. Shortly thereafter one in the Register from abroad, was copied the Alpha of Hampshire's (Dartmouth) by James Kent who later attained high chest, now nearly 150 years old, yielded a reputation as lawyer and chancellor of the packet of 95 letters which had not recently State of New York. The temptation to out been examined. These contain much in line this letter of more than 1 500 words is formation which supplements that found great but must be resisted for the present. elsewhere, some which is quite new. Thievery
Mystery The Register was to have a curious ex The return of the Alpha of Connecticut's perience, for in June 1787 it and the ancient charter has a parallel in an equally Alpha's Book of Minutes were stolen by mysterious return in the spring of 1935 of jealous students. Unfortunately the Minute several interesting volumes to the Yale Book was never secured, so carefully had University Library. Most surprising of the culprits covered their tracks, but the these was the ancient Register's Book that Register's Book was later "found at the
house," had been purchased in the early months of Brick meeting where the Alpha's the Alpha's existence. It contains as the Commencement assemblies were then held. initial entry a copy of a letter of a date Following the letter by William Short earlier than any hitherto known to be ex several addresses and other documents of tant. It was written at Williamsburg, Vir interest were copied into this Register but ginia, January 23, 1781, by William Short, its chief value is in the lists of the members the second and last President of the original initiated from year to year during half a Society the man who had in December century. 1779 copied in his own hand the original $ B K and charters for Alphas at Harvard and Yale, Masonry and who had, less than three weeks earlier, That the founders of $ B K were guided penned the valedictory record of the Soci by Masonry in the organization and in the ety at Williamsburg, in which he thus ex characteristics they gave their society has pressed his confidence in its future "the been conjectured but cannot now be main sure and certain hope that the Fraternity tained. The record of initiations in Lodge will one day rise to life everlasting and glory No. 6 at Williamsburg, certified by high 8 Jhe JCey Reporter www.pbk.org officials of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, acteristics. However the thought of grant shows clearly that all the early methods of ing charters may have been suggested by $ B K were adopted before any of its mem Masonic practice, though the charters for bers became Masons. John Heath, the Alphas at Harvard and Yale were voted founder, never became a Mason nor did more than a year before the newly organ William Short who ranks next as influen ized Grand Lodge of Virginia voted its tial in determining the Society's char first charter for a new Lodge.
Scholar" "The American at Work
Control," Recently a woman in Georgia requested and Mr. Meyer's paper excited
.. a copy of The American Scholar con considerable comment in the financial taining Abraham Epstein's article, "Fac columns of such papers as the New York Age," ing Old and any other literature Times, New York Herald Tribune, Detroit
workers' which might be used in a class in Free Press, Washington Star, Boston Post, education. This and several other inquiries American Banker, Commerce and Finance. show some of the ways in which the mag Inalienable Rights azine is reaching a far wider public than that comprised by its own subscription list. Well publicized were the Summer edi Us?" Freedom," "Shall We Let the Ladies Join by torial, "Enemies of and Ken Loyalty." Julius Seelye Bixler in the Autumn num neth M. Gould's "Legislating Freedom" ber, formed the basis of a 1 5 minute lecture When "Enemies of was re over WOR sponsored by the Trans-Radio printed in The Christian Science Monitor and, Press. The Seven Arts Feature Syndicate subsequently, in many other papers while
students' has asked permission to build one of their Mr. Gould's analysis of and
teachers' syndicated features around Dumas Ma loyalty oaths was being reviewed Pot," lone's "Our Intellectual Melting by the Springfield Republican, St. Louis another Autumn article. Post-Dispatch, Providence Bulletin, Social Parent- All the members of the State Studies, Bulletin of the American Association of Teacher Association of Kansas will re University Professors, The American Scholar ceive copies this winter of Frederick went strongly on record as an articulate Breathe?" Weltzin's "Dare the Teacher exponent of the tradition of academic which appeared in an earlier issue. These liberty. And right now, as this goes to the are to be included in study group material printer, the same editorial policy is getting dealing with the teacher's relation to the a wider hearing through the reappearance community. of the Autumn editorial, "The Promotion Ignorance," of in the current Pleasures of Document 81, 1st Session, 74th Congress Publishing of the Columbia University The Hon. Duncan U. Fletcher, Chair Press. man of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, secured the reprinting of Charles H. Meyer's "A Planned Economy Street," Phi Betes Live Longer for Wall for distribution among Senate members. This article was the third Statistics compiled by a national insur of an informal series of discussions of ance company of 38,269 graduates of east current financial issues printed in The ern colleges show that Phi Beta Kappa American Scholar in 1935. All three members can expect to live two years Richard A. Lester's "Check-Book Infla longer than letter men from these same tion," Robert B. Warren's "Check-Money colleges. Fraternity Month.
Winter, 1936 www.pbk.org Bayta Battles Beeta
kahppa" Phe bayta intoned a recent Py, etc., and not Zee, Pee, etc. Consistency president of the Rutgers Chapter as should as a rule be maintained in the pro
he began the impressive ritual for the nunciation of the same letter although at initiation of members. A former Secretary times, sanctioned by custom, two types of of the United Chapters rose to participate pronunciation may be used in the same Kappa." and spoke "Phy Beeta Then name, as in Pi Beta Phi, pronounced Pi came the dean of the New Jersey College (eye) Bayta Phee. We all say 'Phy Bayta Kappa" Kappa.' for Women with "Phy Bayta To be consistent we should say Kahppa' Kappa.' then came titters from the initiates and 'Phe Bayta or 'Phy Beeta unsatisfying official explanation. But such phonetic correctness is unknown, The $ B K Senate, weighting logic, save to the erudite scholar! So, keep the 'a' 'c,' recommended that the last Triennial English sound, the Greek and the Eng
'i,' other." Council should decide to prefer "Phy lish then we'll understand each Kappa." Bccta The Council, weighting Form Letter Greek English usage, decided not to prefer "Phy Beeta Kappa." A Alpha Ahlpha Alpha The Council of 1937 will prob B Beta Bayta Beeta ably be asked to prefer "Phy Bayta Kappa." r Gamma Gahmma Gamma A Delta Delta Delta Greeks" "Modern E Epsilon Epsilon Epsilon Greeks," Z The "modern as the inhabit Zeta Zayta Zeeta II Eta Ayta Eeta ants of the fraternity world are sometimes e called, are not at all consistent. The grand Theta Thayta Theeta "Greeks," spokesman for these the George i Iota Iota Iota K Kappa Kahppa Kappa Banta Publishing Company, sponsors the A Lambda Lahmbda Lambda following alibi and advice: "The reason of Greek' course is that the so-called 'modern M Mu Mew Mew N Nu is very rarely a student of Greek and does New New not recognize the fact that Greek letters a Xi Xee Zi (eye) have both an English and a Greek pro 0 Omicron Omicron Omicron II Pi Pec Pi nunciation. Consequently the two are (eye) P Rho Rho Rho often used in the same fraternity name v because the final effect sounds well. Even Sigma Sigma Sigma T Tau the Phi Beta Kappa name, as it is usuallv Tow (owl) Tawe pronounced, is such a hybrid. T Upsilon Oopsilon Upsilon 4> Phi "To sum up, the difference between the Phee Phi (eye) 'ah' X Chi Greek sound as in Kappa, and the Chee Chi (eye) 'a' English as in ask, is too trivial to bother ^ Psi Psee Psi (eye) 9. Omega about. Fraternity Greeks use the English Omayga Omeega form in such cases. Beta, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Erudite Scholar Omega, are pronounced with the Greek 'ay' correctness" 'c', i.e., the sound rather than with Apparently "phonetic and 'ce.' scholarship" the English It is better to follow cus "erudite is not expected of tom and use the Greek pronunciation here. *BK members. However, Mr. Charles E. In the case of both the Xi, Pi, Phi, Chi, Psi, Funk of Funk & Wagnalls Company, pub and the English are Greek forms used, but lishers of dictionaries and encyclopedias, it is wiser to adopt the English sound Zy, writes:
10 Jhe Reporter www.pbk.org Jiey You realize, of course, that as lexicographers ceptance, I would have complete abolition. But we are merely recorders of usage; that we ac whatever the decision of your Committee, I cept the dicta of authoritative speech and pre should regard its report as but half done if it serve the records. We do not seek to impose our failed to carry a recommendation for complete own opinions in any quasi-official capacity. consistency. When we do express an opinion, we speak as Just now I handed a card bearing the three
record," individuals "off the as it were. Greek characters Phi Beta Kappa to a young In the face of the very imposing array of ster now studying Greek at one of our local senators, officers, and editors, as listed on your colleges and asked him to pronounce them. kappa," letter-head, one hesitates even to offer an opin "Fie bayta was his answer. Then I
alphabet." ion. But you have asked for it, so, with trepida said, "Now recite the Greek I "fee," tion, here it is: stopped him when he said and asked,
another?" As I see it, cold logic demands a choice be "Why fie one place and fee The tween the so-called English and the so-called chagrin and bewilderment reflected on his face
Continental pronunciations of the Greek letters was amusing. It had never before occurred to phi, beta, and kappa. There should be no question him that the very acme of collegiate learning of a hybrid with English phi, Continental beta, could sanction a pronunciation of its corporate and English kappa. It should be clean-cut. name that is actually, though authoritatively, Either one or the other. I, for one, am tired of illiterate. pussy-footing. If Ahlma Mahler was correct in Referendum calledfor the classroom, it should not become alma mayter off the campus, and when one says alumnye, Mr. Clyde R. Jeffords, Nebraska '98: I want to know if the plural of alumnus is meant I was very much surprised and disappointed or the plural of alumna. "Annals" to see in the tnat the Senate's recom But the point involved extends much further mendation for the correct pronunciation of Phi than just the pronunciation of a combination Beta Kappa was not accepted. The majority of three Greek letters. As a first step, the decision may and will pronounce according to their of your Committee if pub should, properly individual tastes or prejudices, but a society extend at least to Greek-letter licized, every noted for scholarship ought not to sanction offi fraternity. own should be either zayta psee My cially an unscholarly and inconsistent pronun or zeetapsi, but not zayta psi, as it is always called. ciation like the one proposed. Why any un And that, if your work is effectively carried prejudiced, sane person should favor an English through, should be merely the beginning if you pronunciation of i and a, and a Greek pronun wish to render a real service. ciation of e is incomprehensible to me. Phee My point is this: Either the Continental sys Bata Kappa would be preferable to the mongrel tem of Greek and Latin pronunciations should form. May we not have a reconsideration or be dropped completely in school and college, or referendum before adopting such an absurd between there should be effective cooperation low-brow unscholarly pronunciation? the classical departments on the one side and engineer High the English, medical, law, theological, School Voices Latin and ing, etc., departments on the other. Mr. Edward Fay writes from California: Greek words and phrases that have been taken bodily into our professional or daily speech A discussion has arisen in our English class at should retain the semblance of classroom pro Berkeley High School as to the correct pronun Kappa." nunciation. Just as a man stamps himself as ciation of "Phi Beta kapa," illiterate through the mispronunciation of Is it "fi bata the common pronuncia kapa" French words that have been taken into the tion out here, or is it "fi beta or "fe bata language, so it should be through the mispro kapa"? Either of these latter two would seem to nunciation of Latin or Greek. It may be icono some of us to be more logical than the first, as grandsires set a clastic, but just because our they give both the and the e either the English no style that was consistent in their day, I see or the probable Greek sounds. that we reason why, if we depart from style, I have been chosen to find out what is the in should not be equally consistent maintaining correct pronunciation. Please write and let me Latin and a corrected pronunciation of every know.
Greek word. The tenor of the Mr. received Personally, I prefer a complete acceptance of reply Fay complete ac is suggested a sentence from his re- the Continental system. Failing by
Winter, 1936 11 www.pbk.org sponse: "I am sorry that mere usage rather OBK Rhodes Scholars than logical consistency should decide the Of the 32 Rhodes Scholars in the pronunciation, but at least it is better to 1934 list 13 were members of $ B the 1935 have an officially correct pronunciation K; list
one." than to be without of 32 includes 17 $ B K members, and of the 1 5 non-members 6 are from institutions Sage Resentment without $ B K Chapters. These 17 members are Richard Brown Baker, Yale; Marshall Mr. A. A. Schenck, Princeton 1869, Ballard, Jr., Tulane; Charles Bane, Chi $BK 1927, protests: cago; Samuel R. Dunlap, Rice; John J. I greatly regretted to learn that the Council Espey, Occidental; Fred Gillen, Wiscon seemed to a pronunciation of its favor hybrid sin; James Goodfriend, Jr., Missouri; name. Duncan C. Lee, Yale; Thomas H. Mac- When I read over our Princeton professor to Bride, Harvard; Milton Meissner, Lehigh; of Latin manuscript of Latin Salutatory, my my Herbert L. Merillat, Arizona; Ray Miller, prior to commencement, he was emphatic that Kansas; William S. I must follow either the Continental pronun Mundy, Jr., Virginia; Allison Carl ciation or the English pronunciation and not a Henry Page, III, Princeton; William mixture of the two. Here 65 years after gradua Pfaffmann, Brown; L. Sachse, tion I find the learned Phi Beta Kappa Society Yale; and James Gaston Williamson, making the same blunder. Arkansas. Mr. Henry Cochran, President of the Bank er's Trust Co., congratulated me on my getting the key. I would toss my key into the waste basket but for his kindness in initiating the alumni movement at Princeton.
The Other Side
Only one voice has been raised on the other side. An eminent authority advises to "regard as valid only actual pronuncia tions, not pronunciations persons would like." Have other members other reasons for the Committee?
Wheaton Scholarship
Massachusetts Kappa at Wheaton Col lege awarded to Miss Ruth Elizabeth Haiges, '34, the 1935 scholarship of for graduate study.
Dr. Finley in Scotland Dr. John H. Finley, Knox '87, Associate Editor of The New Tork Times, $ B K Senator, and member of the Editorial Board of The American Scholar, has just re turned from Scotland on where, November Dr. Hollon A. Farr, Secretary of the Yale he represented six 25, American Carnegie Chapter, sent in this picture of a unique trusts at the Andrew Carnegie centenary use of the $ B K key on the tombstone of observance at the birth place Dunfermline, Edward Young Gould, Yale 1842, from a of Andrew Carnegie. cemetery in East Granby, Connecticut.
12 Ihe JCey {Reporter www.pbk.org Bimillennium Horatianum
65 B.C.-A.D. 1935
" and A. Y. a New In The 2000th birthdayof Horace, the rep Co.); Campbell, Horace, D' humanism" terpretation (Methuen and resentative Latin poet of Co.); Alton, Horace and His Age, a Study in Historical Back (Dr. Grant $BK Wisconsin Showerman, ground (Longmans, Green and Co.); Shower calls for a handsome present. Horace '13), man, Horace and His Influence (Longmans, Green will gladly accept the gift of your personal and Co.); Frank, Catullus and Horace (Henry Holt); a Return to Allegiance reading of his odes, in translation if you Glover, Horace, (Macmillan Co.). will or must, or of a book about him see the following list taken from the University (4) Geographical: E. K. Rand, A Walk to Horace's Bulletin" Farm (Houghton Mifflin G. M. of Iowa "Service (April 28, 1934) Co.); Hallam, Horace al Tibur and the Sabine Farm, second as prepared Professor C. Flickinger, by Roy edition (Harrow School Bookshop). $ B K Northwestern '99, General Chair Articles in the Classical Journal: man of the American Classical League's (5) Slaughter, Appreciation," "Horace, an III (1907), 45-57; celebration. Mendell, "Nee Cithara Carentem," XIX President-emeritus Charles F. Thwing (1924), 369-79; Mierow, "The Most Modern Antiquity," ($BK Harvard '76) of Western Reserve Voice from XXIII (1928), 348- Bimillennio," University is Chairman of $ B K's Com 58; Dilley, "Pro Horatiano XXVII "Horace and mittee on Cooperation with the Classical (1932), 509-14; Ellis, His Bimillennium," XXVIII (1933), 643-56. League. The current issue of The American
Scholar carries an article on (6) Plays: Trevelyan, "Horace at the University enlightening Athens," Horace" of in Sir George Otto Trevelyan, a "The Genius of by Dr. Andrew F. Memoir by his Son, George M. Trevelyan West ($ B K Princeton Pro 173 '12), formerly (Longmans, Green and Co., 1932), pp. fessor of Latin and Dean of the Graduate 98; Robinson, "Horace Implicitus," No. 4 in School at Princeton. This article may be Plays and Songsjor the Latin Club (published by the author, "A Foun useful in celebrations and exhibits in Delaware, O.); Lawler, Venusia" tain in (Service Bureau for Classical and libraries. schools, colleges, Teachers). Dr. will consult with Thwing gladly Vitae," (7) Songs, with music: "Integer No. 12 in members planning observances of this Flickinger's Songsjor the Latin Club bimillennium. (University Publication Society, Iowa City). A Brief Bibliography
(1) Editions, with notes: Odes and Epodes Smith (Ginn and and (Benj. H. Co.), Shorey Laing Dr. Showerman Dead Sanborn and Co.), Bennett (Allyn and Bacon). and Epistles Kirkland Satires (Leach, Dr. Grant Showerman, a scholar who Shewell and Sanborn), Greenough (Ginn and lived practically all of his 65 years in Co.), Rolfe (Allyn and Bacon), Morris (Ameri yet knew Rome better than the can Book Co.). Wisconsin, Romans, died on November 13. He was a (2) Translations, Adaptations, etc.: Fairclough, member of the Wisconsin Chapter of $ B K, two volumes in Loeb Classical (G. P. Library professor of classical literature at the Uni Putnam's Sons); G. M. and G. F. Whicher, d' of and author of Roba Italia (The Bookman, Amherst, Mass.); versity Wisconsin, nearly a Untermeyer, Including Horace (Harcourt, dozen books, of which the most praised are Brace and Howe); Field, Echoesfrom the Sabine Eternal Rome, 1924, and Rome and the Ro Farm (Charles Scribner's Sons). mans, 1931. His Horace and His Influence, will be read again this year (3) Books of Interpretation: Elizabeth H. Haight, 1922, by many Horace and His Art oj Enjoyment (E. P. Dutton lovers of Horace and lovers of Showerman.
Winter. 1936 13 www.pbk.org OBK Intelligence Tested
The following table shows how $ B K from an article by Dr. Arthur F. Payne and compared with other honors awarded Mr. James D. Perry in School and Society for to 204 day-session June 1935 graduates September 14, 1935. A summary of an at the College of the City of New York. extensive comparative study of $ B K men Note that $BK has the highest per- by Dr. Payne will appear in a later number centile rank. This information is taken of The Key Reporter.
Second Awards Phi Bela Magna Cum Year Prizes h appa Cum Laude Laude Awards Medals
Number of students receiving honors or elections 36 26 45 77 125 Number of honor students having psycho logical score 31 17 43 71 1 00 Average psychological percentile ranking of this group 94.41 91 89.69 89.53 86.21 Average percentile rank of all City Col lege students 79 79 79 79 79 Per cent, of the group exceeding the aver age of their class 100 88 83. ~!2 84.8 79 Per cent, of the group exceeding the aver age of the test 100 100 100 99 99 Per cent, of group in the upper quartile of their class 65 41 49 42 29
OBK Officers of the American Name to Be Changed
National Red Cross Phi Delta Kappa is considering a change of its Greek-letter designation to "Delta President Franklin D. Hobart Roosevelt, Kappa," Phi and the adoption of "Ameri and Harvard Chapters, President. can Association for the Advancement of Chief Justice Charles Education" Evans Hughes, for use in all public announce
Brown, Vice-President. ments. Members of $ B K will welcome Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, William this change as setting an important prec edent not for and Mary, Chairman, Central Com only avoiding confusing in names courageous mittee. similarity but for action in removing such that may already Mr. Samuel Knight, Yale, lawyer in San be established. This example should apply Francisco, Central Committee. also to those insignia which arc frequently Dr. Henry Upton Sims, Alabama, lawyer mistaken for B K keys. in Birmingham, Central Committee. Dr. Ernest P. Bickncll, Indiana, Vice- Tau Kappa Epsilon President in charge of Insular and For Eta chapter of T K E, 17 years at the eign Operations. LTniversity of Chicago, claims an all-time Dr. Thomas W. Gosling, Yale, Director, fraternity record of 97 out of 170 fraters Junior Red Cross. elected to $ B K.
14 Ihe J(.ey Reporter www.pbk.org A Departure in Journalism.
can." "You may count on me to do what I California, Los Angeles, Dr. Frank C. "When I receive word you from I shall Touton, University of Southern Califor work." be happy to go to nia. "The plan that you outline appeals to me District of Columbia, Washington, Dean excellent." as Roy J. Deferrari, Graduate School, "It will give me great pleasure to serve Catholic University of America. as a representative of The American Scholar Florida, Dr. J. community." Gainesville, Manning to this Dauer, Llniversity of Florida. here arc a few sample responses to a Georgia, Atlanta, Mr. Dudley C. Cowles, plan for local representation which we Vice-President, D. C. Heath & Com believe is a contribution to the technique of pany. journalism and will enable the magazine Indiana, Greencastle, Professor Raymond to make the greatest possible contribution W. Pence, De Pauw University. to liberal scholarship and American life Miss Louise J. generally. Indiana, Indianapolis, Bonar. Twenty-five men and women, in cities Iowa, Iowa City, Dr. J. scattered from Baltimore to Los Angeles, Roy Flickinger, of Iowa. have already agreed to serve for the coming University Dr. Edwin year on a Readers Council for The American Kansas, Manhattan, L. Holten, Scholar. Kansas State College. "Council" Dean Paul P. The term accurately indi Kentucky, Lexington, Boyd, cates the character of this new organiza College of Arts and Science, LTniversity tion. It is an advisory body and a medium of Kentucky. for transmitting to the editors ideas and Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Mr. Albert R. reactions originating in widely separated Erskine, Business Manager, The Southern communities. Review. The interest and enthusiasm of the Louisiana, New Orleans, Professor Fred- members arc a powerful reenforcement to crick Hard, Tulane LTniversity. our hopes for the growing usefulness of this Maryland, Baltimore, Dr. Alice F. Braun- quarterly. By constructive criticism, by lich, Goucher College. pertinent suggestions for new authors and Massachusetts, Tufts College, President new and a generous dona articles, by very John A. Cousens, Tufts College. tion time and thought toward an effort of Massachusetts, Wellesley, Dr. Martha to make The American Scholar better known, Hale Shackford, Wellesley College. are the magazine invaluable they giving Mississippi, Columbus, Mrs. B. L. Parkin assistance. Members of the Readers Council son. receive a monthly communication called Dean Frederick M. "The Council Fire." Missouri, Columbia, Tisdel, College of Arts and Science, The roll of the Readers Council pub of Missouri. lished below shows the caliber of its repre University St. Mr. R. H. B. sentatives. And we look forward to a Missouri, Louis, Thomp son, Headmaster, St. Louis substantial lengthening of this list during Country Day School. the next few months. New York, Ithaca, Mr. Archie M. Palmer, Readers Council The Executive Secretary, The Cornellian Alabama, Birmingham', Dr. WilliamStanley Council. Hoole, Birmingham-Southern College. North Carolina, Greensboro, Professor
Winter, 1936 15 www.pbk.org George A. Underwood, The Woman's Texas, Dallas, Professor John O. Beaty, University. College, University of North Carolina. Southern Methodist Ohio, Cincinnati, Professor G. S. Sykes, Virginia, Lexington, Dr. Livingston W. Washington and Lee Univer University of Cincinnati. Smith, Ohio, Oxford, Dr. Harvey C. Minnich, sity. Dean Emeritus, School of Education, Virginia, Lynchburg, Professor Herbert C. Miami University. Lipscomb, Randolph-Macon Woman's South Carolina, Greenville, Professor S. E. College. Bradshaw, Furman University. West Virginia, Charleston, Mr. F. Ray Tennessee, Nashville, Mr. Arthur Crown- Power, Assistant State Superintendent of over, Jr. Schools.
OBK and Fusion
"Fusion" The administration of New Ruth Hill, Wells '35, Third Deputy York City, headed by Mayor Fiorello Commissioner Dept. of Public Welfare. H. La Guardia, apparently trusts brains Dr. Jerome Meyers, Dartmouth '04, trusts." instead of "brain The following Assistant Director, Bureau of School officials and employees of the City are Health Service, Department of Health. members of $ B K. The Law Department includes Paxton A. A. Berle, Jr., Harvard '13, $ B K Blair, Princeton '14, Head of Division of Wesleyan '35, City Chamberlain. Appeals; Russell Lord Tarbox, Williams Eugene R. Canudo, New York Univer '92, Head of Division of General Litiga sity '31, Personal Secretary to the Mayor. tion; Joseph L. Weiner, Columbia '23, Joseph D. McGoldrick, Columbia '22, Head of Franchise Division; and the fol Former Comptroller of City of New York. lowing with the title Assistant Corporation Miss Pearl Bernstein, Barnard '25, Counsel: Nicholas Bucci, Columbia '16; Secretary, Board of Estimate and Appor Erie M. Elrick, Rutgers '23; Paul E. tionment. Fusco, Columbia '22; Julius Isaacs, New Austin H. MacCormick, Bowdoin '15, York City College '17; Robert W. Lish- Commissioner of Dept. of Correction. man, Harvard '26; Milton Irwin New Robert Moses, Yale '09, Park Commis man, Yale '27; Lewis Orgel, New York sioner. City College '25; Edmund L. Palmieri, Kenneth S. Franklin, Rutgers '10, Park Columbia '26; Laurence J. Rittenband, Director. Harvard '28. Paul Blanshard, Michigan '14, Commis sioner of Accounts. Will Maslow, Cornell University '29, Examiner of Accounts. "Knowledge is capable of being its own E. Michael White, Alabama '26, Ex end . . . it is an object, in its own nature aminer of Accounts. so really and undeniably good, as to be the Mrs. Sophia A. Olmsted, Barnard '18, compensation of a great deal of thought in Examiner of Accounts. the compassing, and a great deal of William Hodson, Minnesota '13, Com trouble in the attaining." missioner of Public Welfare. Cardinal J. H. Newman
16 Jhe Jiey Reporter www.pbk.org $500,000 Educational Survey
Members of $ B K everywhere, partic ularly leaders in education in other states, will watch eagerly during the next two years the progress in the State of New York of a searching investigation of every phase of public education. This study will be made under the aegis of a Board of Regents' committee of three members, of which two are $ B K members, Mr. Owen D. Young, St. Lawrence '94, <3? B K Senator, chairman, and Mr. William J. Wallin, New York University '01. The in quiry will be financed by a $500,000 grant from the General Education Board, the chairman of which is Mr. John D. Rocke feller, Jr., Brown '97, former $ BJi Senator. The director of the inquiry is Dr. Luther Gulick, $BK Oberlin '14, who will be assisted by Dr. Samuel Paul Capen, $ B K Tufts '03, Chancellor of the University of Buffalo, formerly director of the American Council on Education. Owen D. Young
Dr. Gulick heads the Institute of Public Administration in New York. He is Eaton
Professor of Municipal Science and Admin istration at Columbia University; he is director of research for the New York State
Commission for the Revision of the Tax Laws, which has devoted itself extensively to local government improvement. Last
year Dr. Gulick directed the research for the Commission of Inquiry on Public Service Personnel which made an exhaus tive survey of government personnel, national, state, and local.
The Director Explains
Dr. Gulick, when asked to explain the significance of this the first complete
official self-examination of its schools New York has had, said: "Next to self-government public educa
tion is democracy's greatest adventure.
After 1 50 years of 'experimentation with free public education, the state of New William J. Wallin York has at last made up its mind to re-
Winter, 1936 17 www.pbk.org think and re-plan its educational philos ophy and practice. This is the significance Regents' of the Inquiry into the Character and Cost of Public Education in the State of New York.
"Studies of the financial problems of the system, and they are many, will be cor related with the kind of education given in the many types of schools throughout the state. The new problem of increased at tendance at high schools, which has trebled since 1922, will have special consideration, for this overwhelming influx amounts to a revolution in needs, demands and costs. And not less important than this study will be the one of the role and training of the teacher."
Mr. Young discussed still another divi sion of the Inquiry. "Adults now make de mands on the public education system which were unheard of a few years ago, but this desire to learn which men and Luther H. Gulick women seem to have discovered suddenly, has not been met by our public schools, for
classes." lack of money to carry on the
Dr. Florence R. Sabin Dr. Florence R. Sabin, $BK Smith '11, was awarded the M. Carey Thomas Prize of $5,000 of Bryn Mawr College on No vember 2, at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the college. Dr. Sabin is a member of the staff of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and was formerly professor of histology at Johns Hopkins. The prize is given period ically to an American woman in recogni tion of distinguished achievement.
"Contrary to the opinion of the general public, whose chief channel of acquaint ance with the fraternity is the movie, Phi Beta Kappa keys are highly esteemed in Greek circles. The public should be made
this." aware of George S. Toll, Banta's Samuel P. Capen Greek Exchange, October 1935.
18 Jhe JCey Reporter www.pbk.org Officers of The United Chapters
Clark Sutherland Northup, Ph.D., Cornell William Allison Shimer, Ph.D., Harvard President Secretary 145 West 55th St., New York, N. Y. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y,
Roberta. Millikan, Ph.D., Oberlin W, Randolph Burgess, Ph.D., Brown Federal Reserve Bank of New York Vice-President Deputy Governor, Treasurer California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. 145 West 55th St., New York, N. Y.
Oscar McMurtrie Voorhees, LL.D,, Rutgers Historian 44 Sicard St., New Brunswick, N. J.
THE SENATORS
Honorary Life Edward A. Birge, Ph.D., Williams Albert Shaw, Ph.D., William and Mary President Emeritus, Editor, Review of Reviews, New York, N. Y. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Edwin A. Grosvenor, LL.D., Amherst Charles F. Thwing, Litt.D., Harvard Professor Emeritus of Government, President Emeritus, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
1931-1937
Frank Aydelotte, Litt.D., Indiana Robert A. Millikan, Ph.D., Oberlin President, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. President, California Institute of Technology, George H. Chase, Ph.D., Harvard Pasadena, Calif. Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Roscoe Pound, Ph.D., Nebraska Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Dean, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. William H. Crawford, LL.D., Northwestern Francis W. Shepardson, Ph.D., Brown President Emeritus, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa. Literary and Fraternity work, Granville, Ohio George H. Denny, Ph.D., Washington and Lee John J. Tigert, Ed.D., Vanderbilt President, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala. President, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. Guy Stanton Ford, Ph.D., Wisconsin Oscar M. Voorhees, LL.D., Rutgers Dean of the Graduate School, Historian of The United Chapters, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 44 Sicard St., New Brunswick, N. J. W'ill D. Howe, Ph.D., Indiana Mary E. Woolley, L.H.D., Brown Editor and Director President, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, N. Y. Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.
1934-1940
John Kirkland Clark, LL.B., Yale Theodore H. Jack, Ph.D., Alabama Lawyer, 72 Wall Street, New York, N. Y. President, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Va. James Bryant Conant, Ph.D., Harvard Walter Harvard President, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Lippmann, A.B., Editor and Author, Hollon A. Farr, Ph.D., Yale New York Herald Tribune, New York, N. Y. Associate Professor of German, Clark S. Northup, Ph.D., Cornell Yale New Haven, Conn. University, Professor of English, Cornell N. Y. John H. Finley, LL.D., Knox University, Ithaca, Associate Editor, Ellen F. Pendleton, Litt.D., Wellesley The New York Times, New York, N. Y. President, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. Christian Gauss, Litt.D., Princeton David A. Robertson, Litt.D., Chicago Dean, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. President, Goucher College, Baltimore, Md. Frank P. Graves, Ph.D., Columbia Owen D. Young, L.H.D., St. Lawrence New York State Commissioner of Education, Chairman, General Electric Co., Albany, N. Y. 570 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y.
OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE FOUNDATION
Owen D. Young, Chairman John H. Finley, Vice-Chairman William A. Shimer, Secretary W. Randolph Burgess, Treasurer Term Ending December 1935 Term Ending December 1936 Term Ending December 1937 John H. Finley John Kirkland Clark Frank Aydelotte Will D. Howe Frank P. Graves Christian Gauss Clark S. Northup David A. Robertson Francis W. Shepardson Ellen F. Pendleton Oscar M. Voorhees Charles F. Thwing Albert Shaw Owen D. Young Mary E. Woolley
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Owen D. Young, Chairman John H. Finley, Vice-Chairman Will D. Howe Frank Aydelotte John Kirkland Clark
Winter, 1936 19 www.pbk.org EDITORIAL
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In order to protect the design, quality, provided. Prices include hand finished and use of the $ B K key, the Council has machine engravings; for hand engraving ruled that the United Chapters should se add $1.00 to price of key. Any key may be cure the services of an official jeweler and ordered with or without a bar or a pin at check all orders against the membership tachment. If a key is desired, a letter should roll before authorizing the manufacture of be addressed to Phi Beta Kappa, 145 West the keys. 55th Street, New York, N. Y., with a check The accompanying illustration shows the for the amount and a legible spelling of the design and sizes of the keys most commonly name as it should be engraved. The name used today. The two larger sizes can also be of the chapter and the year of election supplied, as can reproductions of keys of other designs if sufficient description is should be given.
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Winter, 1936 21 www.pbk.org The Foundation By Dr. W. Randolph Burgess, Brown '12, Treasurer
What is the Phi Beta Kappa Founda in cash in two bank accounts. An income of tion? Even the simplest explanation $10,274 was received from bonds and
mortgages the fiscal year of $ B K's accomplishments and plans for during ending the future involves the old question, "Who July 31, 1935. bills?" account pays the a question which cannot The Endowment Income may
be answered without reference to the be thought ofas a reservoir in which income Foundation. from investments is stored until needed by From the organization of the United the Society. The Foundation carries on Chapters in 1883 until 1924, there was no no independent activities but underwrites of the United Chapters which Foundation, presumably because there budgets also approved the Trustees. were no funds. But as the Society was have been by its 150th in its approaching anniversary The $ B K Quarterly accustomed virtually penniless state, a campaign was begun to raise funds for the One of the major activities of the Society building of a Hall in memory of the fifty aided by funds derived from the endow you have founders of $ B K, at the College of William ment is The American Scholar. If an Scholar dur and Mary, and for the creation of not been reading The American endowment to supply an income large ing the past year, you can find some infor and 32. enough to really carry on $ B K's work of mation about it on pages 9, 1 5, 22, encouraging scholarship. But if you are already familiar with the magazine and can cope with a few figures, Incorporation you may be interested in its financial back The Memorial Hall was completed and ground. During the fiscal year 1934-35 paid for. And a beginning was made in The American Scholar received $9,020 from providing an endowment. So for the first subscriptions and a minimum of advertis time $ B K was faced with the burden of ing, and paid out $9,103 for the printing assets. Some kind of corporation seemed and distribution of the magazine and for the only sound way to safeguard the prin articles. A superficial comparison of these cipal and administer the income. The Phi sums may make help from the Foundation Beta Kappa Foundation, chartered in 1924 seem unnecessary, but the disbursements as an educational corporation under the figure shown does not include relatively University of the State of New York, was large sums actually paid out which should the result. The Members of the Foundation be charged to The American Scholar. The are the Senators of the United Chapters, office staff of the magazine must eat, at and its Trustees arc elected from among least occasionally, and cannot work with their number. The Senators are elected by out some desk space, and this means salaries the National Council composed of dele and rent, neither of which can be accu gates from all chapters, and in this way the rately segregated, but which are partly Foundation is responsible to the Society covered by funds appropriated by the as a whole. Foundation for the maintenance of the
general offices. Present Status Self-support At the close of the last fiscal year the Foundation had $264,823 in investments in Two thousand additional subscriptions bonds and mortgages, and a total of $9,570 would go far toward making the magazine
22 Jhe JCey Reporter www.pbk.org really self-supporting. Still another 1,000 next year, and that the money which now would mean that an author could be given comes to it from the Foundation may be something approaching adequate com applied toward other objectives. There arc pensation for the type of article which many other means of encouraging scholar the magazine has been carrying. Hon ship which will be considered by the oraria to authors now average only about National Council, the Senate, and the $30. Trustees as more funds become available. The hope is that The American Scholar Only a beginning, but a good beginning, may become self-supporting within the has been made.
Gifts to the Foundation
Two gifts to the endowment were made of the donor's mother, to be awarded to in the last fiscal year by the $BK Alum women between 25 and 35 years of age nae of New York under the leadership of alternately in the fields of (1) Greek arche the president, Mrs. Halsey W. Wilson, Min ology, history, language, or literature and nesota '13. The present officers, headed by (2) French language or literature. The Mrs. Theodore Westermann, Nebraska '96, Foundation has paid the State of Illinois are considering the creation of a scholar an inheritance tax of $2,653.17. The estate ship fund to be administered by the should be settled soon and it is expected Foundation. that the Foundation will receive something Other contributions to the endowment in excess of $22,000. were received from Mr. Edward C. Wiley, Miss Stone was a Durant scholar as an Williams '81; Mrs. Nellie Woo, University undergraduate at Wellesley. She went to of Washington '30; and Miss Harriette Cornell University for graduate work, and Wray, Illinois '08. received the Ph.D. degree in 1908. She won the Alice Freeman Palmer Fellowship Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship and spent the next year in Europe, prin The Foundation is the beneficiary of a cipally in Greece, where she continued her bequest from the estate of Miss Isabelle study of Greek history and language. She Stone, Wellesley 1905, for the establish then spent a year teaching in the South, ment of a fellowship to be known as the but was obliged to resign her position Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship, in honor because of her father's illness.
FORM OF BEQUEST
"I hereby give and bequeath unto the Phi Beta Kappa Foundation, a corporation chartered by the Regents of the LTniversity of the State of New York, the sum of
purposes." dollars, to and for its corporate
fax Deductions
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corporation." scientific, literary or educational and that contributions may be deducted from tax returns, under the provisions of the federal gift tax, estate tax, and income tax laws.
Winter, 1936 23 www.pbk.org Membership Report for 1934-1935 Lnitialed 1934-35 Deaths Total Initialed 1934-35 Deaths Total
Chapter Founded In C. Al. Hon. Rep't'd Living Chapter Founded In C. Al. Hi . Rep'fd Living
Agnes Scott.. .1926 11 145 Missouri . .1901 15 679
Alabama 1850 28 2 663 Mt. Holyoke. .1905 27 5 668 Allegheny 1902 11 412 Nebraska 1896 41 2 1340 Amherst 1853 18 13 908 N. Y. C. Col.. 1867 54 14 1232
Arizona 1932 12 33 N. Y. Univ.. .1858 49 676
Arkansas 1932 11 73 No. Carolina . 1 904 95 810
Bates 1917 6 426 No. Dakota.. .1914 16 423 Beloit 1911 10 289 Northwestern. 1890 47 1188 Boston 1899 18 724 Oberlin 1907 28 1 975
Bowdoin 1825 14 554 Occidental. . .1926 18 11 241
Brown 1830 53 16 1490 Ohio State ... 1 904 33 1 898
California 1898 142 2 1930 Ohio Univ... .1929 24 1 121
Carleton 1914 16 383 O. Wesleyan. .1907 33 1034 Chicago 1899 91 4 1969 Oklahoma 1920 34 628 Cincinnati 1899 21 7 474 Oregon 1923 26 493
Colby 1896 9 2 495 Penn. Univ.. .1892 27 50 599 Colgate 1878 20 661 Pomona 1914 14 2 452 Col.. 1904 16 Colorado .1899 335 Princeton. . . 48 1465 Colorado Uni. 1904 28 496 Radcliflfe 1914 15 489 Columbia 1896 56 1709 Rand.-Macon 1917 17 440
Connecticut . . 1934 13 24 Rice 1929 25 158 Cornell Coll... 1923 9 283 Richmond 1929 14 4 148 Cornell Univ.. 1882 43 1489 Rochester. . . .1887 35 2 566
Dartmouth. . .1787 37 13 1351 Rutgers 1869 42 962 Davidson 1923 16 5 230 Sewanee 1926 10 1 123 Denison 1911 19 4 434 Smith 1904 37 1 1101 DePauw 1889 19 1 675 So. Carolina. . 1926 17 2 271
Dickinson. .. .1887 13 5 490 So. Dakota ... 1 926 7 127 Drake 1923 11 370 So. Calif. 1929 33 17 329 Duke 1920 46 434 Stanford 1904 86 1428 Emory 1929 10 177 St. Lawrence. 1899 6 303 Florida 1934 5 1 14 Swarthmore . . 1896 16 416 Frank. & Mar. 1908 8 6 269 Syracuse 1896 49 1382 Georgia 1914 23 3 521 Texas 1905 46 990
Gettysburg. . .1923 11 3 218 Trinity 1 845 7 241 Goucher 1905 19 1 466 Tufts 1892 21 454 Grinnell 1908 7 3 516 Tulane 1909 23 315 Hamilton 1870 12 7 484 Union 1817 10 239 1781 63 Harvard 31 2016 Utah 1934 9 10 Haverford 1899 10 5 329 Vanderbilt. . .1901 17 517 Hobart 1871 7 10 347 Vassar 1899 34 1193 Hunter 1920 64 668 Vermont 1849 13 594 1926 5 Idaho 145 Virginia 1908 13 807
Illinois Col... .1932 6 75 Wabash 1898 7 314
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26 Ihe -Xey Reporter www.pbk.org United Chapters Meetings A Second Group of Reading Hotel New Weston, New York City Courses November 26, 1935 By Clark S. Northup
Committee on Revision of the Constitu The first of our lists was pub tion and By-Laws of the United Chapters: reading 70- lished in the Annals for pp. Mr. John Kirkland Clark, Lawyer, New 1934, 76. Owing to a combination of circum York, chairman; Dean Roscoe Pound, stances the list was not all that the com Harvard Law School; President Theodore piler intended it should be. The present H. Jack, Randolph-Macon Woman's Col list, therefore, is supplementary. lege, Lynchburg, Va.; Dr. Wilber E. largely It also embodies many suggestions re Bradt, State College of Washington; ceived from several to all Professor M. D. Steever, Lafayette College; correspondents, of whom the compiler offers his best thanks Dean Thomas J. Wilson, Jr., University of for their kindness. Further to North Carolina; Professor William T. suggestions, be included in a later will be welcome. Hastings, Brown University; President list, Raymond of Cincin Walters, University LITERATURE nati; Professor Clifford M. Hicks, Univer GENERAL sity of Nebraska; President John C. Futrall, University of Arkansas. Edwin L. Shuman. How lo Judge a Book: a Handy .Method of Criticism Jor the General Reader. Boston, December 9, 1935 Houghton, 1910.
Committee on Associations: Mr. William ENGLISH M. Wills, Haverford College, chairman; Ralph P. Boas and Barbara M. Hahn. Social Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe, Los Angeles, Backgrounds oj English Literature. Boston, Little, Calif. ; Mr. John Kirkland Clark, Lawyer, Brown & Co., 1931. New York; Professor Hollon A. Farr, Yale Carl C. and Mark Van Doren. American and University; Mr. Hugh McK. Landon, British Literature Since 1890. New York, Century, 1925. Business, Indianapolis. John W. Cunliffe. English Literature During the Last Half-Century. New December 17, 1935 York, Macmillan, 1919. Revised, 1923. Committee on Qualifications (Recom AMERICAN mends institutions for new chapters): President David A. Robertson, Goucher Carl C. and Mark Van Doren. See the last group. College, chairman; Dean George H. Chase, Ralph P. Boas and Katherine Burton. Social Harvard University; Dean Guy Stanton Backgrounds oj American Literature. Boston, Little, Ford, University of Minnesota; Dr. Frank Brown & Co., 1933. P. Graves, New York State Commissioner DRAMA of Education, Albany; President Theodore H. Jack, Randolph-Macon Woman's Col George Bernard Shaw. Plays, Pleasant and Un lege, Lynchburg, Va.; Dean Charles B. pleasant. New York, Brentano's, 1906. John Galsworthy. Plays. A one-volume edition Lipman, University of California, Berke was published by Duckworth, London, in 1929. ley. Sir James M. Barrie. Plays. New York, Scrib December 18, 1935 ner. Bruce Carpenter. The Way oj the Drama: a Annual of the Senate (see page meeting Study oj Dramatic Forms and Moods. New York, 19). Prentice-Hall, 1929. Members of the Phi Beta Kappa Founda Brander Matthews. A Study oj the Drama. 1910. tion, Incorporated. (The Senators are Boston, Houghton, Barrett H. Clark. A Study oj the Modern Drama. the Members of the Foundation.) New York, Appleton, 1925. Revised, 1928. of the Beta Kappa Founda Trustees Phi Thomas H. Dickinson. The Contemporary Drama tion (see page 19). oj England. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1917.
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Percy Lubbock. The Crajt oj Fiction. London, 1921. More than a century of idealism Jonathan Cape, Buss Perry. A Study oj Prose Fiction. Boston, Houghton, 1902. Revised, 1920. and achievement is fittingly POETRY memorialized in 2 volumes of Edwin A. Robinson. Poems. Selected with a Pref ace by Bliss Perry. New York, Macmillan, 1931. REPRESENTATIVE Robert Frost. Selected Poems. Third Edition. New York, Holt, 1934. Edna St. Vincent Millay. The Buck in the Snow
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Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar LaRue Van Hook. Greek Life and Thought: a Portrayal oj Greek Civilization. New York, Columbia Wendell Phillips The Scholar in a Republic University Press, 1923. Bliss Perry The Amateur Spirit Richard W. Livingstone, ed. The Legacy of Greece: Essays, by Gilbert Murray, William R. Josiah Royce What Is Vital in Christianity? Inge, John Burnet, and Others. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1921. Woodrow Wilson The Spirit of Learning Richard W. Livingstone. 77k Greek Genius and Its to Us. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1912. IN VOLUME II Meaning Kate Stephens. The Greek Spirit: Phases of Its Progression in and Litera DeWitt Clinton ^enlevements and Responsi Religion, Polity, Philosophy ture. New York, Sturgis & Walton 1914. bilities of the Age Co., John M. Warbeke. The Searching Mind of Greece. Charles Sumner The Law of Human Progress New York, Crofts, 1930. Paul E. More. The Great Traditionjrom the Death William Herbert Carruth Heroisms of Peace oj Socrates to the Council oj Chalcedon {399 B.C. to Paul Shorey Can an American be an Optimist? A.D. 451). Princeton, University Press, 1917-1927. 5 volumes. van Dyke Democratic Henry Aristocracy George Howe and Gustave A. Harrer. Greek 1924. *EACH VOLUME IS COMPLETE IN ITSELF Literature in Translation. New York, Harper, Goldsworthy L. Dickinson. The Greek View of Life. London, Methuen, 1896. 7th edition, 1909. PHI BETA KAPPA LATIN LITERATURE 145 West 55th St., New York, N. Y. George Howe and Gustave A. Harrer. $ is enclosed for: Roman Literature in Translation. New York, Harper, ? Vol. I ? Vol. II ? Both Vols. 1924.
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