THE J^EY ^REPORTER
THE PHI BETA KAPPA NEWS MAGAZINE
VOLUME II NUMBER 1 This Issue Goes to 75,100 Members WINTER 1937
members of the group. Moreover, the whole sample of 100 Was OBK Worth While? names comprises less than one-sixth of the living membership HAROLD A. LARRABEE, Harvard '16 of the class, which numbers 629 in all. The comparisons of income among the four sample groups Author of What Philosophy Is were made on the basis of replies to an unsigned questionnaire * lready educators who do not hesitate to use what might sent out by a member of the class, to which 70 per cent of the
pays" l\ be called the "scholarship argument have class replied, giving figures concerning their receipts in the Tunis' begun to quote passages consideration all averages of ,_ A. from John R. pro year 1934. Add to this the that While?* vocative volume entitled Was College Worth Since as few as 25 items may be seriously distorted by the extreme upon his courses. . . . The earnings of the Phi Beta Kappa men from duced into the recent production of the Living Newspaper of our class appearing in Who's Who averaged recently over $6,000 a year, the WPA Federal Theatre. This unexpected event transpires well above the average class income. ... It seems as if the men who resolutely refused to go all out for money are actually better off finan in an otherwise grim labor production called Injunction than of us who did. cially many Granted! which ran for twelve weeks at the Biltmore Theatre Superficially considered, the case for the cash-value of the in New York City. key would seem to be surprisingly confirmed, but a closer Injunction Granted! and the Living Newspaper require a examination of the data raises certain doubts. In the first little explaining. The Living Newspaper is a Federal Theatre place Mr. Tunis, who is often distressingly vague about his project unique to New York City and is sponsored by the New methods, describes his technique of sampling thus: York Newspaper Guild, an A. F. of L. union of editorial workers. Its several productions this year In order to obtain some basis of comparison between then and now, I dug have been liberal out an old Class Album issued our senior year in and picked at and intense dramatization of college, controversial news subjects, random a hundred names from four different groups. an adaptation of the March of Time technique to the this means 25 names from each group. Since use of actors in a theatre. Apparently only living The actors, of course, as 27 members of the class of 1911 were elected to a well as the $BK, Living Newspaper's staff of playwrights and sample" must include all the research "random of 25 practically living workers are drawn mostly from the relief rolls. 6* 1936. ($Z). In Injunction Granted! latest of its News- *Harcourt, Brace Company, New York, , bills, the Living " In this Issue: "Mark-Grabbers Not Wanted Reviews of American Acres, Kittredge's Shakespeare, Wheelock 's Poems CHAPTERS OF PHI BETA KAPPA in and PUBLISHED BY THE UNITED December, March, May September, at the Rumford Press, Concord, N. H. New N. T. Editorial and executive offices, 145 West 55th Street, Tork, Editor, William A. Shimer, Harvard B K; Consulting Editor, Clark S. Cornell * B K; Advertising Manager, John ^ellner. Rates upon application. Subscription 20 cents a year, $1.00 for five years. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Concord, N. H., under Act of March 3, 1879. POSTMASTER: il undeliverable at yogr office and addressee's new address is please known, foiward, rated with postage due to cover charge. forwarding Undeliverable copies should be sent to: PHI BETA org KAPPA, 145 West 55th Street, New York, N. Y. www.pbk. Forwarding and return www.pbk. postage guaranteed. [2] THE KEY REPORTER Winter, 1937 rolls down paper attempted a dramatized of for this one-half of one per cent of our popula Clown ramp, murmuring "Crackdown! history Crackdown!" tion to to strangle the rest of us into off ramp at center. the relation of American labor to the try landing submission by such means as these ! anti-labor Here it must be acknowledged that courts, stressing injunctions, Worker enters left and crosses to right on next Newspaper lapsed repressive legislation, and the invalida lines. the Living from its tion by the courts of legislation favorable Worker. The funny part of it is that he's usual insistence on authenticity in right, ! The question is, who is recorded speeches and events. to labor. That was Injunction Granted! , a absolutely only The the one-half of one per cent? The sixty million series of stylized scenes record shows (and the California rapid thirty livin' Monthly people who work for a and want to get the case for labor and was the source of the research) that in summing up paid for that work or the small minority that 1934 General a cast of . against the courts. With 100 are out to see that they don't! . . There may July Johnson, California "scenes" be a lot of things with the but his spoke in the Greek theatre on the die play is acted in nearly 100 wrong guy, '15, mathematics is just about perfect! campus where nineteen or groupings and 500 lighting cues on a Berkeley years Light on where the president the up lop ramp, of earlier taken single unit set. he had his doctorate. University of California beckons to Johnson, who address organs and liberal audiences this public Johnson Liberal ascends ramp to position just below him. Preceding was elected to alumni acclaimed the production vociferously; University President. GeneralJohnson, the membership in of California is honored to present $BK in a presided over anti-Administration critics saw in the University ceremony by of Kappa to you today this key the Phi Beta Dr. Franz associate professor play the use of government funds to Schneider, Society. . . . "radical" of German and president of the promote so-called dra U. C. ideas; Clown opens hatch between Johnson and President Chapter of the Society. The matic critics, even while disagreeing and hands Johnson large Phi Beta Kappa key. Living used this event ... Newspaper's dramatists with the play's argument, generally Worker {as tableau is held). for profi in mathematics ! Worker goes right. as the basis of the presentation on regarded the technique and presenta ciency off key Voice of Living Newspaper {Loudspeaker). the in program tion an experiment done stage, its indicating (and interesting General Johnson resigns as NRA Administra that the presentation with considerable skill. inadvertently) tor. . . . Donald S. Richberg replaces him. . . . was made the president of the Uni As in all Living Newspaper produc University President goes off ramp. Clown strikes by Johnson over head with slapstick. Johnson goes off. of California. tions, public figures were presented on versity the stage speaking authentic lines as reported in their public utterances, "Mark-Grabbers" among whom appeared Hugh S. John Not Wanted son, introduced as administrator of the in 1935 a square N.R.A., guaranteeing A n effort to exclude from $ B K preliminary meeting the names of those "mark-grabbers" deal to labor. "The right to strike stu- /\ the and Seniors who, by unanimous consent of !" is like the law of self-defense inviolate, J_ \, dents unable to excel in ad the committee, are regarded as ob boomed the stage caricature of Johnson, vanced courses and to include the viously unqualified for election to the so occasional genuine scholar who for good ciety may be removed from the list. . . . reason may fall below an arbitrary grade "Each member of the committee shall standard, is evident in the following then proceed to learn all he can re excerpts from a revision of the Colby garding the qualifications of the students Chapter By-Laws as reported by the assigned to him. He shall proceed in the secretary, Dr. Carl J. Weber. The following manner: Chapter Constitution states that scholar (a) Examine carefully the student's ship and good moral character are the record in the Registrar's office, noting qualifications for membership. not only his average (e.g. 92, or 90, or "A Membership Committee shall con 88) for three and a half years of his sist of five faculty members elected for college work, but also other factors of overlapping terms of five years. . . . importance, such as the character of the Membership on the Committee shall, so courses taken, the distribution of courses far as possible, be distributed among the from the point of view of the extent to various major groups into which the which they have provided a liberal curriculum naturally falls, at least one training, the progress of the student member representing the language and (i.e., whether his work improved as he literature group, one the social science went on from year to year or not) and group, and one the natural science any unusual features of the record which group. . . . may be of value in determining the "Undergraduate Members shall be desirability of the student as a candidate selected the procedure: for election to $ B K. gloriously attired in frock coat with gold by following epaulettes. Immediately after the recording of the (b) Consult the head of the depart mid-year marks the But when San Francisco was helpless by Registrar, the ment in which the student has majored, chairman of the Com for information the in the grip of a general strike one year Membership asking regarding mittee shall request of the Registrar a interest of later, General Johnson reappeared in character, ability, work, and in order of of the 20 per the student. the play to proclaim that the strike was list, rank, top cent of the Senior class. The chairman Consult other members of the a threat to the community, that it was (c) civil war. From scene 24: of the committee shall also invite all faculty with whom the student has heads of departments to submit the taken courses, asking for similar in General Hugh S.Johnson. This is a bloody names of students whom deem formation. . . . insurrection ! It would be safer for a cotton- any they tailed rabbit to slap a wild-cat in the face, than worthy of election to $ B K . . . . At a {Continued on page 6) www.pbk.org Winter, 1937 THE KEY REPORTER [3] The Idea: An Ode A College's Mark of Maturity To the Alpha of Virginia The College of William and Mary DR. GEORGE A. UNDERWOOD, Missouri '05 SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING President, Greensboro Section, Alpha of North Carolina "Come come Experiment." again, again, Does the Triennial Council of "The Great He gave a Ye children of men . . $ BK share vicariously the joy review of democratic government in the Men come and go it brings to the group of men past. Dr. Jack stated that the problem And linger only and women it authorizes to create a new involved was that of effecting a suitable Less briefly than snow. Their bones Chapter? The coming to our campus of adjustment of a number of wills rather in the ground Lie the famous national society meant that than an adherence to what may be and rot. They are forgot. The idea alone Perisheth not. A few spirits Hardier than the rest Sailed towards the west To encounter the breath Of a new world, Danger and death. They builded a town That faded, and was dying. Yet, springs return In white, in fine-spun rain. Children gather violets and cowslips again. Orchards blow their scent, Seeds take root. Woman's College of the University of North Carolina Summers burn In splendour; will." Autumns bear fruit: the final word had been written in the fallaciously called "the popular Once more, the creative mind, of the growth to full of He believes has succeeded The hand that drew history maturity democracy the Woman's College of the Designs anew. University reasonably well in countries which have of North Carolina. The forty odd years tried it for some length of time. We see the rise, city of preliminary work were approved The of the College divides Moulded to thought history $ B K's Committee on three That endures, by Qualifications, naturally into periods: its founda To purpose that allures a singularly competent and non-partisan tion in 1891 as the North Carolina The heart of man; body of judges. Our group of $ B K College for Women and the formative Born himself of Order and Plan, the Breathed upon became Woman's College Section initial years under Dr. Charles D. the Creative One. of Alpha of North By Infinite, Carolina, established Mclver, the first president, who was in 1 904. This procedure was in harmony supported by Governor Charles B. Then there is one with the new status of the University of Aycock two men who had much to Who enters the race North "Renaissance" Carolina, which now includes, do with the of North And dares to dream, in addition to the Campus at Chapel the To follow a plan Carolina; development, 1906-1932, With eyes on the goal: the liberal arts college for women under Hill, Dr. Julius I. Foust, the second The will to believe at Greensboro and the Schools of president, to its present position In God and man. strong and Agriculture at Raleigh. Southern Not for himself, but for others, Engineering among colleges educating To better the Installation of the Section took whole, place women; and the present, with the That towers rise may on the afternoon and evening of Decem institution a liberal arts college for Against the skies, ber 1934. Dr. women And a City Beautiful, 12, Theodore H. Jack, in the state university. Dean between heaven and Caught earth, president of Randolph-Macon Woman's W. C. an Jackson, outstanding man of May come again to the birth. College and $ B K Senator, officiated, our region, and President Frank P. using the dignified ritual of the Society. Graham of the Greater University take Youth, heart, guests at this and gown Attending cap of North Carolina, are effec Go apart . . . working affair represented the at for the Be not afraid to stand alone. University tively upbuilding of the Col Heed not the pack Chapel Hill, Randolph-Macon Wom lege. Of wolves that pursue, an's College, Duke University, Univer A large of the Voices of lust and greed. majority approximately of South Westhampton Guard the word, the deed. sity Carolina, 1500 students take the liberal arts Be the essential you. College of the of course. An A. University Richmond, B. (in prospect) is a of College of Wil University Virginia, condition of eligibility for election to liam and and Washington and Yours is an heritage of sea and star! Mary, $ B K. This recognition of the pre Let your will be purposed, Lee University. eminence of liberal scholarship is ex Your way patterned, pected to Your end lead even those students Control, The Great Experiment Your Idea beyond what you are. interested primarily in professional train Dr. Theodore H. Jack delivered the to firmer Note. Part of a poem read by the author ing, lay foundations in the main before the William and Mary Chapter. address, choosing for his subject liberal arts and sciences. www.pbk.org [4] THE KEY REPORTER Winter, 1937 "Dual" An Educational A Painless Plan EDITORIAL for an all-university Professional Continuing School" "Education," -** of so-called Your Education a substitution for the usual coordinate professors" "dual and college, involving Before you throw too many brickbats at enrolment" "dual in, for example, that headline give us an opportunity to ex "education," plain. We immediately grant that education liberal arts and is described is either painful or painless, as you prefer. That in School and Society for October 10, 1936 doesn't mean we have no personal conviction by its Dean Harry S. Ganders, B. Ed., on the subject, merely that we are in a hurry to get to the point. Teachers College Ph.D. from Columbia. As an undergraduate you were elected to All who believe that the college of regularly." other colleges of Syracuse University (1) Lippmann says "I read it The The members are "upper division curricula for all students preparing following among American Scholar comes to you only four teaching" for and (2) "continuously revised the 1,285 who, since last June, have times a year. It takes only a few hours to read, students' but its pages will you in touch with the programs of study as changing made financial contributions toward keep advisable." significant developments of year after year. It conditions make it the United Chapters from the saving will bring you, not the gossip of the daily "Dual professors must be primarily interested unfortunate effects of the depression newspaper nor the breathlessness of weekly or in teacher preparation, experienced preferably monthly publications, but the matured thought in must be students of until the hoped-for gifts and bequests teaching adolescents, of minds dealing intelligently and interestingly public-school trends and thoroughly prepared (the usual tax reductions apply) have with all phases of today's culture and to in the subject-matter of the academic and morrow's trends. given the Society an adequate endow special areas they represent. . . . ment. The Chapter, year of election, and The American Scholar is not a has-been "In a real sense the dual-professorship is the place of residence are given. on an academic stool, it is a vigorous person to the success of a school such as is here key ality in the prime of life; it is not a pedantic described. It is the dual-professor who must Clara Beranger, Goucher '07, New York publication filled with learned discussions of personify that union of academic and profes Irving H. Berg, N.Y.U. '23, New Rochelle, N. Y. the life-cycle of the Tasmanian bi-valve, it is a Yale 111. sional interests which is essential in teacher Philip Bernstein, '26, Chicago, publication for anyone with a Evelyn W. Betts, Goucher '10, Baltimore, Md. stimulating training. It is he who must get academic de Walter L. Bierring, Drake '28, Des Moines, la. *BK intelligence. Kenneth M. Bissell, Yale '07, Hollywood, Cal. partments to understand (1) why numerous Edwin F. Blair, Yale '24, New York The December issue will discuss "The Two courses which be deemed desirable for Hitler," may Alice Bochringer, Bar. '23, Springfield Gdns., L. I. Men Who Formed "Recent Record Eugene L. Columbia New York general liberal arts students not represent Bondy, '06, Music," may Wm. G. BonelU, So. Cal. '31, Los Angeles, Cal. ings of "Subsidies to American Busi ness," Tomorrow" the optimum selection of courses for prospective Florence Bounds, Lawrence '05, Appleton, Wis. "Science of and several John V. Bouvier, Jr., Columbia '86, New York teachers; (2) and why the content of other other subjects all in a modern way. John F. Boyer, Washington U. '27, New York lively, academic courses must be modified to serve W. L. Braerton, Kansas '03, Denver, Colo. teachers." Claude R. Brown R. I. prospective Branch, '07, Providence, SAMPLE Edgar Ewing Brandon, Miami '11, Oxford, O. A COPY Millard Brelsford, Denison '11, Granville, O. Kingman Brewster, Amherst D. C. The American Scholar is your magazine. Dean Ganders concludes: "The unit '06, Washington, Ralph O. Brewster, Bowdoin '09, Dexter, Me. We are sure you will enjoy it and we want to Brockway, Barnard New York gives prestige to teacher education Dorothy '19, send you a sample so that you can defi D. Bronson, Cornell C. '24, Los Angeles, Cal. copy find out just what the magazine is. There beyond that which could be given by Ernest Brown, Oklahoma '29, Shortsville, N. Y. nitely Silas B. Brown, Lafayette '90, Montclair, N. J. are no strings attached to the offer. Read the college." single coordinate But Charles A. Browne, Wms. '92, Washington, D. C. any coupon; then sign it and mail it. B. R. Buckingham, Wesleyan '23, Boston, Mass. whence the prestige and whither the Edgar Buckingham, Hvd. '87, Chevy Chase, Md. Louis A. Buie, S. Carolina '35, Rochester, Minn. liberal spirit of the sciences? arts and C. W. Bunn, Wisconsin '13, St. Paul, Minn. W. Randolph Brown New York Here the duel between the liberal col Burgess, '12, THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR James M. Burke, Cal. Berk. '08, Visalia, Cal. 145 West 55th Street lege and the teachers college threatens Charles C. Burlingham, Harvard '79, New York Addison Burnham, Harvard '90, Boston, Mass. New York, N. Y. to leave both exhausted. Lee D. Butler, Princeton '22, Chevy Chase, Md. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia '82, New York Please send me a sample copy. Then send Butler, Amherst '25, New N. Y. Sperry Rochelle, me a bill for $2.00 for a year's subscription. If Jos. L. Buttenwieser, C.C.N.Y. '83, New York Leo M. Butzel, Michigan '09, Detroit, Mich. I like the sample I'll pay the bill. If I don't, James Byrne, Harvard '77, New York I'll tell you to cancel. Hugh Cabot, Flarvard '19, Rochester, Minn. Edward Caldwell, Knox '27, New York COUNCIL DATE CHANGED Louis G. Caldwell, Amherst '13, Washington, D. C. Name Ernest E. Calkins, Wisconsin '99, Delaware, Wis. The Nineteenth Triennial Council Katharine Calvin, Allegheny '03, Akron, Ohio Street Mrs. T. D. Cameron, Wellesley^?, Albany, N. Y. of $ B K will meet at Atlanta, Georgia, Ernest R. Campbell, Davidson '28, Denver, Colo. John Campbell, Iowa '02, Denver, Colo. City State on of W. W. Cal. Berk. San Cal. September 8 to 11, 1937, instead Campbell, '25, Francisco, KRW37 Elsie D. Canan, Chicago '21, Johnstown, Pa. to as announced. 10 13 previously (To be continued) www.pbk.org Winter, 1937 THE KEY REPORTER [5] fraternity. Scholarship has become re Following the Founders spectable. The opinion of the Honor Group has been sought on various LAURENCE A. California '22 HARPER, occasions by both University authorities and campus leaders. Most important of When established larger luncheons afforded opportunities honor originally by all, the policy of encouraging "a small number of to discuss politics with Oswald Garrison very worthy student activity has done what no merely students" at William and Mary, Villard and Norman Thomas, to visit formal recognition of scholastic achieve $BK was an active society. Its objective the Eskimos with Captain MacMillan, ment could do. It has created an intercourse." was "social and improving to discover the secrets of the harem with organization of well-rounded person Its members met and dis von and to the universe on frequently Hoffman, survey alities, able and ready to carry the cussed subjects on which they had with de Sitter. best traditions of liberal scholarship. reflected, ranging from the necessity of Opportunities were also found for religion in government to the natural service. The students cooperated in ness of polygamy. But as the society promoting scholarship in the high 2 expanded most chapters left the path schools by sending speakers to conven Know of an Opening of the Founders. They concentrated tions of the California Scholarship address Member No. If name is not given, , upon the award of the key, the tradi Federation, by entertaining its societies care of The Key Reporter. tional banquet and oration, and an when they visited the campus, and by Actuarial occasional poem. giving special encouragement to the 87. Edward Rubendall, Jr., 1027 W. Lincoln Blvd., The Alpha of California followed the Federation's Seal Bearers during their Freeport, 111. A.B., Illinois College '32; major,_ mathematics. Exp. insurance accounting. Wants actuarial work with more recent precedents until freshman year. Each semester the stu 1924, life or casualty company. when the undergraduates decided that dents helped the advise the faculty Editorial See also 89 like the had lower and throughout the they, Founders, something classmen, 88. (Miss) B.A. and M.A., Cornell Univ.; major, English; minor, psychology; languages, French, Spanish, German. to contribute to the life of their Univer year maintained a Student Ad they Exp. newspaper copywriting, reporting, editing; free high school teaching. Wants also editorial work. sity. They looked about them and saw visory Bureau where freshmen and lancing, 89. (Mr.) B.A., Univ. of Georgia '32; M.A. '33; major, that the campus, with probably more others with academic difficulties could English; minors, French, psychology. Exp. tutoring, newspaper and book reviewing, clerical, typing. fellow- reporting than a tinge of envy, was scoffing at the confess their ignorance to a Wants also high school or college teaching, general office "student," work. who retaliated withdraw student instead of its depths to by exposing Research to his books. Some one to bridge an instructor. ing had 90. Mrs. Martha Teach Gnudi, 1409 E. 14th St., Long Calif. Univ. of Southern Calif. graduate the between classroom and campus As the functions of the $ B K Beach, A.B., '29; gap group work '29-'30; Laurea in Lettere, Univ. of Bologna '31. and combining the best features of increased all students on the University Exp. Research, writing. by 91. Dorothy Sheridan, 31 Linden Ave., Pelham, N-.Y. both, socialize the studious and make Honor List were invited to participate, A.B., Cornell Univ. '33; major, economics. Knowl. statistics, exchange. statistical clerk. "respectable." accounting, foreign Exp. the work and at the scholarship thereby dividing Wants also investment analysis, statistical work. The $ B K undergraduates undertook same time uniting all the Honor Stu Secretarial the task. Faculty-student dents in one group. teas, picnics, 92. (Miss) M.A., Brown '06. Exp. stenography, filing, 14 yrs. in last position. and other social gatherings brought In short, California's experience dur research; professors and students together outside ing the past twelve years has demon Teaching the classroom. Small discussion groups strated anew that the Founders were 93. Clara G. Wurman, 2092 Davidson Ave., Bronx, N. Y. Hunter '35. Wants teach mathematics; office work, statisti and right the element of promoted intellectual endeavor, in emphasizing cal work, or tutoring. "Any Honest Professor Is a Little Restive at the Heroics profession,'" so often ascribed to his says Dixon Wecter, professor of English literature, University of Colorado. profes "... professor complains in "Some . . "In the first place most college every ., having worked pretty hard whimsical despair of engulfed in in their sors are incurably lazy. Since the days being student days collecting $BK test papers given keys . . seem to of Socrates, greatest of them all, they themes, reports, ., be left in a state fatigue." to . . . either to his assistant reader or to the of chronic . . preferred have . talking wastebasket." action." writing or world." "Still I would not willingly change my profession for any other in the (For complete article see The Forum Magazine or The Northwestern Alumni Review for October www.pbk.orgUniversity 1936.) [6] THE KEY REPORTER Winter, 1937 OBK Worth While? There are many who rejoice that this (Continuedfrom page is so and who deeply deplore the tend 7) "sell" to on the dollars- Several samplings yielded a figure ency scholarship and-cents basis. BOOKS around but the author holds $4,500, Tunis' "failures" What Mr. book has proved, if that the non-reporting would Special Interest indeed he can be said to have proved of bring that mark down materially. The his income is that income mentioned is one of $125,- anything by data, top security" "there is no such thing as ECONOMICS 000 ; and there is one class-member who for the individual in our economic reports himself "a tramp, who has not World Trade years." and that this is especially true slept in bed for five system, of business and investment. When a and Its Future The only income figure actually given panic comes, however, enough indi for $ B K men is the average of "over By Sir Arthur Salter year" viduals in the $ B K are to be to the seven group $6,000 a pertaining A penetrating analysis of the whole found in secure positions to individuals who appear in Who's Who. relatively modern economic problem is presented make their average return seem com in this study of the causes and cure of the other 18 members of the Certainly the stagnation of world trade. $1.50 Tunis' "sample" paratively high. But their temporary Society in Mr. group eminence, like that of the famous actor LITERATURE would bring that figure down substan with the fifth-rate supporting cast, is tially. But even granting a mark of A of "due almost to the flatness of History $5,000 a year for the $ B K in entirely group country." the surrounding An upswing American 1934, what is proved thereby? When Biography in the economic cycle will present a very their average is compared with random 1800-1935 different picture; so would a study of the samples from the class athletes, the Harvard class of 1904 if it had been By Edward H. O'Neill clubmen, and the unheard-of men, what made in 1929. Of course a A survey and evaluation of the entire happens is that the whole of a June, highly really range of American from the selected group of scholars should be biography highly-selected group is stacked up earliest important hves to books of the expected to be above the average after against chance pickings from much present day. $4.00 25 years, perhaps even in pecuniary larger groups. It would be much fairer SCIENCE rewards. But that should find them to compare the $ B K men with the 25 they selves at or near the top of the financial of best athletes, or the 25 richest clubmen. Color Changes heap in 1934 merely emphasizes how Finally, even granting everything we Animals in Relation to completely, in that year of grace, the have questioned, the whole survey American world of business was upside Nervous which Mr. Tunis has made may be read, Activity down. And most of them would bristle not as a picture of what scholarship By G. H. Parker at the suggestion that their good pays to the gifted fleeting normally in dividends The relation of the central nervous fortune should be taken as the measure and industrious but as a panorama of system and neurohumors as factors in of whether $ B K was worth while. the chromatophore reactions of the the topsy-turvy state of our economic Dogfish and the Killifish, revealing the what some people system in 1934. In "Mark-Grabbers" two functions are interdependent. 40 figures. $1.50 are prone to refer to longingly as "normal" times, the $ B K group (Continuedfrom page 2) SOCIOLOGY (Praises be !) contains too many in (e) Make use of any further means "service" dividuals in the so-called possible to judge more accurately the Migration and professions to give it a chance to com desirability of the student as a member. Economic Opportunity pete successfully with business, finance, "After collecting this information, each By Carter Goodrich engineering, and the law in terms of member of the committee shall prepare and Others garnered gold. Without going to the a written report concerning each of the This of Population Redistribu extreme of that pride which shows students assigned to him, summarizing Study tion is a pioneer effort to evaluate the through the holes in one's and his findings and attention to cloak, calling relative economic opportunities of the discounting all those rationalizations of points of greatest importance. In each various sections of the United States. 11 plates, 79 figures, 79 tables. $5.00 failure which mock monetary success, case the committee member shall con it may be truly said that membership in clude his report with the recommenda RELIGION the Society correlates fairly well with a tion that the student be or be not income" The Apostolic Age preference for a high "psychic nominated for membership. . . . [At rather than a swollen pay-check from a a second meeting of the committee] and the New Testament dull or calling. Mr. Tunis each of these written reports shall be dreary By George A. Barton several times emphasizes the apparent read, and each candidate (whether A scientific study of the influences that happiness of the teachers, physicians, recommended or not the report) by shaped Christianity in the years im and scientists among his class-mates. discussed carefully. ... A majority mediately following the death of Christ, disputed points of vote shall [nominate]. . . . The secre clarifying OXFORD ACADEMY history and dogma and synthesizing will thereupon call all PREPARATORY to leading colleges. tary faculty the elements of the period. $1.50 27tb year. Successful where othera fail. College Board Examinations. members of the Chapter to a meeting to Certificate privileges. Awakensdor- mant faculties. Teaches study, con receive the report of the UNIVERSITY OF centration. Develops character, in Membership itiative. Country location. Spacious Committee. Those students a PENNSYLVANIA PRESS BTOQDds overlooking bay. Land and receiving water snorts. HomelatmoBpbere. Social life. Catalog. Dr. Joseph M. Weld* majority vote at this shall be Philadelphia berg, Principal, Box R 95, Pleas- meeting membership." antville, N. J. considered elected to helpful www.pbk.Whenorgwriting to advertisers mention of The Key Reporter will be mutually Winter, 1937 THE KEY REPORTER [7] dwindling of the magnificent hardihood see the muscles of the third-generation Boohs to Own of the pioneers through the generations, pioneers tightened only by a game of The Book Committee: Zona Gale, to that point where the highest adven tennis or croquet. And it is a warning Will D. Howe, Burton E. Livingston, ture is to bet your tailor-made shirt on and a challenge that no one can ignore. Robert A. Millikan, Irita Van Doren. a horse. The fact that Mrs. Peattie can ignore it In the title she chose this and spend nearly half her book on For the reader's convenience orders for any books very writer has assumed a other the sadistic Evelyn from New York who or magazines will be filled postpaid by The Key responsibility Reporter. A free introductory personal or gift than that of telling a good story, and it never knew what a pioneer was, and on subscription to The American Scholar will be sent is a responsibility she has not met satis the reliably false expatriate Vin marries with any order of at least $6.00. factorily. We see the terrifying casual- is a thing to be deeply regretted. On ness of Adoniram's descendants, but the other hand she has allowed the AMERICAN ACRES Mrs. Peattie does not seem to see. We reader to see the challenge, albeit dimly and through a haze of romantic By Louise Redfield Peattie. G. P. writing, and this she to be commended. Putnam 's Sons, New York, 1936. $2.50. for is Perhaps she means to write a longer To give a solid picture of three genera work; perhaps this is only the skeleton. tions such writers as John Galsworthy If so it hangs together very well, and and Sigrid Undset have chosen the fattened in ratio to its long bones trilogy. Mrs. Peattie has confined her up would be a book worth reading. long story to one comparatively short Eleanor Green, Author of The Hill volume and in doing so gives the im pression of skimping rather than of compressing her material. The author INTIMATE LETTERS of JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER moves back and forth through a century Huneker at his very best gay, frank, Rabel without creating any sense of time. She aisian, sardonic and purely nonsensical. Intimate opinions written with no expectation of seeing crosses continents and oceans in a page, them in print. Formerly issued at S7.00. Beauti fully printed and bound a worthy addition to moves from Illinois to Paris to Provence your library. 8 vo. $1.98. Complete catalog upon request without feeling the levelling edge of LIVERIGHT, 386-4th Ave., N. Y. C. different tongues, different customs, different nations. The young Amie, FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL ACADEMY FOUNDED 1787 about whom the book revolves, is in A Widely Recognized, Moderately Priced occupied with memories of Preparatory School dulgently Excellent records at many colleges. Wholesome school life and sports. Unusual equipment and location. Expe that American place she visited when rienced Masters. Full program of athletics. Junior School. Catalog on request. she was six, and though in the ten years George Lyman Kittredge E. M. HARTMAN, Pd.D., Principal Box that pass before her next visit there P, Lancaster, Pa. ten years spent in Europe other THE COMPLETE WORKS things must have entered her somewhat OF SHAKESPEARE precocious mind, we are never allowed to see them. It would be a better book if Edited by George Lyman Kittredge. Ginn and New 1936. 1561 pp. $6. the number of episodes of running off to Co., York, a another continent had been limited to Something new in Shakespeare (other STOP one instead of three, with a fourth in the than a different spelling of the name !) FOR offing at the end of the story. It would deserves head-line prominence. With also be a better book if those American its usual advertising sagacity, Holly acres of which Mrs. Peattie writes had wood injected "A Midsummer Night's CJftirtma* Dream" Juliet" been limited to a certain if and "Romeo and number, SHOPPERS she had told specifically the first crop into current print. Broadway has be that brought a profit and started the come Shakespeare-conscious. accumulation of Adoniram's wealth. Doubtless the new edition of Shake The Best Location in The last example illustrates the speare by Professor Kittredge of Har thinness that might have been avoided vard will not climb to such heights of New York if the had been written as a popular but for readers story patronage, And there's a certain something trilogy. For the reader should be told throughout the world it should prove to about the atmosphere which more of the Adoniram than be a volume of peculiar value and in pioneering makes people glad they chose the that he rose in his stirrups and foresaw terest. Here in compact, readable form the generations; more of the Indians are all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. HOTEL than that they portaged their canoes Each play is preceded by a history of NEW WESTON where Adoniram built his house and its sources, publications, and produc log Madison Avenue at 50th Street staked out more of the food the text is interpreted where the his claim; tions; NEW YORK those people the clothes original is not the ate, they wore, meaning clear; ' Single $4.00 Double $6.00 the winters had to endure. I do not punctuation, as well as the spelling, is they Suites $8.00 mean to suggest that Mrs. Peattie modern. Read, for instance, these lines Note: Do you know that Weston Court should have written an historical novel; of Falstaff as are punctuated in an they is now one oj the most talked ofplaces demands knowledge of these and then as but one ordinary edition, Kittredge in New York to "sip, gossip and dine*'? things in order to comprehend the writes them: (Continued on page 8) Mention The www.pbk.org of Key Reporter will be mutually helpful. [8] THE KEY REPORTER Winter, 1937 Honour pricks me on. but how if honour Yea, among the poets of the younger genera "It is night, and we are alone together: prick me off when I come on? how then? Can tion. I believe that when the experi your head honour set to a leg? no; or an arm? no; or take mental warblings of the Left Wingers Bends over the open your away the grief of a wound? no. book, feed have dwindled the and eyes devour Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour away, thrilling ing prick me off when I come on? How then? majestic organ tones in this collection The substance of my dream. O sacred Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? of poems by John Hall Wheelock will hour No. Or take the grief of a wound? No. away roll out full and strong to delight the That makes us one you, fleeting and I fled!" The achievement of over half a ears and soothe the spirits of the ever already century of inspired, intensive study, increasing audience, whom the poet Kimball Flaccus Professor George Lyman Kittredge's salutes with these lines: Author of Avalanche of April, A Poem Shakespeare bids fair to be come the standard work for schools, universities, libra ries, and homes throughout the reading world. Dorothy Blair ATEST HARVARD. POEMS, 1911-1936 By John Hall Wheelock. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936. 245 pp. $2.50. JAY COOKE Lovers ofAmerican poetry Henrietta M. Larson need no introduction to John by Hall Wheelock, whose six A vivid picture of the workings of an important section of American busi published volumes manifest ness as exemplified in the career of the first banker-promoter. Miss Larson an integrity of spirit and a traces Cooke's activities during the Civil War, his introduction of high pres high standard of formal ex sure selling into the securities business, his methods of railroad promotion, cellence all too rare in our and his significance as forerunner of the investment-banker. $5.00 time. Since the earlier books have long been out of print, Leadership October Farm this handsomely printed col lection is especially welcome. in a Free Society by William Brewster Mr. Wheelock, retaining The happy title of this volume is those poems he wishes to by T. N. Whitehead derived from the name Brewster preserve, has added a gener Does modern with its gave his farm in ous section hitherto not pub technology, Concord, Mass., resultant new type of progressive where he established a famous lished in book form. These society, provide the bird sanctuary. The book is a selec latest lyrics may well be stability needed for human satisfactions? tion from the voluminous diaries compared with such widely In the question Mr. in which he recorded his intimate known and justly famous answering "Earth," Whitehead makes a brilliant anal observations on its sim predecessors as bird-life; Panther," ysis of our industrial civilization dignified prose style rivals "The Black and ple, Fish-Hawk." and its problems. $3.00 that of Thoreau. $2.50 "The I can perceive no loss of strength John Lawrence S. portrays a famous leader of or skill; if anything, the Endecott, by Mayo, early Massachusetts who represents the vigor of the Puritans. ?5-oo spacious grandeur and sheer sturdy musical genius of the poet The Development of Religious Toleration in England, 1603- have been enhanced by the 1640, by W. K. Jordan, discusses the roots of the liberal tradition. $5-00 passage of years. Georg Wilhelm Steller, by Leonhard Stejneger, introduces the pioneer It is precisely this rich of Alaskan history, the greatest of the earlier naturalist-explorers. $6.00 musical quality which dis tinguishes all great poetry. Chinese Shadow Shows, by Genevieve Wimsatt, invites attention Shakespeare, Keats, Baude to the ancient, highly entertaining folk-art of pantomime in China. $3.50 laire, succeeded in capturing The Evolution of Keats's Poetry, by Claude L. Finney, interprets Keats and isolating on the printed in the light of personal, social, philosophical, and literary forces. $10.00 page that stuff which it may not be too hackneyed to call the music of the spheres. Mr. HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Wheelock is in the great tradition.His mood is sombre, "Publishers ofthe Loeb Classical Library brooding, introspective, as Randall Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts opposed to the brittle, flashy, 19 hysterical mood so prevalent PRESS Mention oj The Key Reporter will be mutually helpful RUMFORD www.pbk.org CONCORD. N. H.