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THE • DECEMBER • 1940 ALUMNI • MAGAZINE THE » DECEMBER « 1940 The Cover THE . D::CEMB~R . 1940 INDIANA INDIANA ALUMNI MAGAZINE Vol. 3 N o.3 News Dr. Woodburn Feted on 84th Birthday 3 U niversity in November FORR EST GARDERWINE, '41 12 DR. J AMES A. WooonURN, AB'76, au thor of The History oj Indiana Alumni Club Newsnotes 14 Un.ive rsity, 1820- 1902, is featured on Alumni Notes By Classes HILDA HE NWOO D, AB'32 20 the cover of this month's Magazine. This excellent photographic study which captures the sparkle of our beloved professor emeritus of history was taken Features by L LO YD EVANS of the LU. Bureau of Examining ... History and Government ......... CUAUNCEY SANDERS 6 Visual Instruction and HARRY ENGEL, professor of fine arts. AP to H onor Kent Cooper, '02 J. WYMOND FRENCH, AB'lS 9 Retired Professor- R . E. Lyons ............ FRANK O. BE CK, AB'94 10 Menlo A lthough we have n ot called atten U niversity Life in Chile HARRY J . TOMLINSON, AB'39 11 ti on to the fact in the Magazine, we h ave cha nged our style of designating the classes of graduates and former stu Sports dents. For the first tw o years of publica The Hurrying Hardwood NATHAN KAPLAN , '40 16 tion, we designated a graduate by mere The Hustling H oosiers Sports Review 17 ly li sting his class year, such as JOJ-IN SMITH, '64, and we used an ex' bef o!"'.:: the class year of students who attended the University but did not take degrees, Departments such as JOHN DOE, ex'6S. V oice of Alumn i ........ Letters 1 However, beginning with the O c t ob~r issue of this year, we have listed the H oosier Authors ...................... Book Reviews 2 degree and year of each graduate, such In Closing ..................................... ................................ Editorials 32 as .J OBN SMITH, AB'64, whereas for the non-graduates we merely list the year that they would have been graduated, Staff: GEORGE F. H EIG HWAY , LLB'22, editor; ANDREW G. OLOFSON, AB'39, such as J OJ-IN DOE , '65. managing editor ; Ivy L. CHAMNESS, AB'06, AM'28, associate editor. Some former students and others feit Editorial Board: E. Ross BARTLEY, ' 14; WARD G. BIDDLE , AB'16; MRS. that the term ex' had a sti gma attached ALTA BRUNT SEMBOWE R, AB'Ol; J OHN E. STEMPEL, AB'23. to it, that the natural assumption was that the person in question was unabl ~ Published mon thl y, except Jlily, August, and Sept ember, by the Indiana Universit y La keep up with the scholastic pace and Alumni Associati on. Office of publicati on : Spencer, Indiana. Editorial office: Union had to drop out. We realized that in a Building, India na University, Bloomington, Indiana. g reat number of cases s uch was n ot Annual subscription rate $3.00 (includes membership in Indiana University Alumni As· the case, so we adopted the present sys sociation). Single copi es 25 cents. tem which gives full credit to th os~ Member of Ameri can Alumni Council. Entered as second·class mailer October 9, 1939, at the post office at Spencer, Indiana, earning degrees and does n ot classify under the Act of Ma rch 3, 1879. all non-graduates as ex-es. Voice of the A IRID"i a Magazine Gets Praise From Marine Editor Just a note to enclose with my dues to th" uhristnlas Association and the Magazine. By the way, as one magazine editor to another, I want We cordially invite all alumni to to say that you are sure putting out the best use this space (and a bigger one, if alumni publication I have seen. it becomes necessary) to express them· selves in writing on subjects of inter· gift I am starting my third year as editor·pub· lisher of The Leatherneck, the magazine of est to University alumni. the U.s. 1'I'larines. We still have only a sta[f We particularly invite your r;omment of nine non·commissioned officers even though and suggestions on the Magazine and how it might be improved to serve you suggestion our circulation has jumpcd from 6,000 to more than 25,000 in less than two years. beller. If we don't hear from you, we By the way, I don't believe you have Ollr have no way of knowing just what is new address. Mrs. Butcher (MARY JANE going on in your mind. BA YER, AB'37) and I are calling 3711 Ala * bama Ave., SE, Washington, D.C., our home for the next few months. service is true service, while it lasts." Ll. J. O. BUTCHER, AB'36. EMILY E. BRENTON, AB'25, IV1S'30. Washington, D.C. Bloomington. A Word from Canada You'll Find Many Things On Greater I.V. "011 The Beaten Path" r:INDIANA TOM BRACKEN, who came out of Indiana On my last visit to Washington, I thought about the same time as I did, dropped in the it might be well to go out to Rock Creek other day for a short visit. As you would Cemetery and take a look at a statue about know, I was very glad to see him. He tells IUNIVERSITY which I had heard a great deal. In due time me that HERMAN WELLS is proving himself I found it. It was indeed not without form; to be a worthy successor to W. L. BRYAN. as to that it was almost faultily faultless, but and that he is going to take I.U. to town. so far as having an especial significance it That sOllnds good. ICALENDAR seemed to me almost as void as the Educa Is Dean SEMROWER still on the map? He tion 0/ Henry Adams. i Fourteen fine quality pages, was a power when I was there. His philosophy A grass·culler came along with what looked '1 size 1O"xI3". Each page fea of life has stood up under the final test in like a pair of sheep-shears in his hand and tures a Campus photograph the world of shirt-sleeve experience. trimmed some grass. "Thousands of people," ••••• suitable for framing. A. J. FELTON, '01. he said, "have worn a path to see that statue, Vice President Front Cover-Union Building but over toward that lillIe lake is the statue ••••• i January-Administration Alexander Hamilton Institute, Ltd. of a woman slanding in front of a sort of ..'" Building Toronto, Canada. fireplace that beats it all hollow." February-·Student Building I went over toward the lake. The "sort of EDITOR'S NOTE: To JlIlr. Felton and the Nlarch- -New Auditorium fireplace" proved to be a sepulchre from April- Music Building thousands oj ather jriends made by Dean C. May- Maxwell Hall J. Sembower we are happy to report that the which the woman had just emerged, with the wonder of resurrection in her face. June- Union nuilding Dean is still going strang at I.U. J uly-U niversity School After that visit I have somehow felt sorry August- Swain Hall A Word of Commendation for everyone of the thousands that have helped Septelllber- School of Busi wear a path to the Henry Adams statile and ness From II Local Alumna not gone over to see the woman in front of October-Marching Hundred I consider the lndianrt Alumni Magazine the "sort of fireplace." November-School of Medi· one of the best public services of our Alma H. WALTON CLARK, AB'96, AJVl"02. cine Mater. It keeps me in touch wi:h thc alumni, California Academy of Sciences, t; December-Chemistry Build- hoth old and new. In the words of my San Francisco, Calif. ing favorite poet, William Wordsworth, "small i Ready for mailing $1.00 Latin America Appeals To Tennessee Students We drove some 15,000 miles this past SUIll' mer, taking in the neighboring republic of Citizens Loan J'lIexico. We carne h~me by way of the Span ish Southwest (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona Illdialla Ulliversity Bookstore and California). Not satisfied with that short Ullion Building and Trust Co. journey, we continued north to Washington Bloomingtoll, Indialla and back through Duluth, Minn., and Lansing, * Mich., to Tennessee. We are "wiser and Please send me INDIANA poorer" to quote a certain gentleman of some GENERAL BANKING importance. UNIVERSITY CALENDARS at $1.00 Enrollment this fall found studen's flock· * ing to Spanish classes. But with our. recent each. enclose a check for $ ............... visit to Mexico, we were prepared for them Name Roy O. PIKE, '00, Pres. and hope to keep them interested in our Member of Federal Deposit neigbbors to the South. Address JAMES O. SWAIN, AB'21, AM'23. Insurance Corp. University of Tennessee, City State Knoxville, Tenn. a Hoosier 11 uthors Aid to Management Four years later he was chosen Vice President of the United States as the running-mate of christnlas The Management Counsel Profession. By Woodrow Wilson, a position he held for eight JOEL DEAN , Director of the Institute of years. S:atistics and Assistant Professor of Statis Dr. Thomas has obtained his information tics and Marketing, University of Chicago; from the best sources and has given us a gift formerly Acting Assistant Professor of straightforward story of Marshall's life. He Economics, Indiana University. (Blooming has not presented him as a great man. Tom ton: Indiana University Publications, So· was in trying situations, however, not the cial Science Series No.2. 1940_ Pp. 89. 75 least of which was his position growing out suggestion cents.) of the illness of the President, and he ac This is an excellent study of the manage quilled himself ably and honorably.