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resident within postal service AUTUMN 1950 VOL. XV NO. 4 This issue goes to the more than 106,000 members

NEA Opposes Federal Aid Board of Directors Elects New Associates for Private Education

liaison officer with At its meeting in July the National Thomas C. Desmond, president of Department ofState Senate. Education Association considered vari the Phi Beta Kappa Associates, has an the M. of Illi ous problems confronting education nounced the election of the following John Stalnaker, Winnetka, Beta Kappa of today. The shortage of teachers in ele Regular Members by the Board of nois, Phi University specialist in tests mentary schools, the conditions of Directors: Chicago, educator, rural schools, the increased danger of J. Harold Ryan, of Toledo, Ohio, and measurements, professor of psy Institute of Tech loss of academic freedom, and the need Phi Beta Kappa Yale University, chology, Illinois director of studies for the for federal aid for education all came business executive, vice-president and nology, Com Association of American Medical Col up for discussion. treasurer of the Fort Industry Depart The association went on record as pany, director of Standard Tube Com leges, consultant to the State opposing federal aid to private educa pany and Ohio Citizens Trust Com ment. Mechanics- tion by passing the following resolution pany. Williatn W. Strong, of on federal aid: "The National Educa Charles A. Shull, of Asheville, North burg, Pennsylvania, Phi Beta Kappa tion Association believes the American Carolina, Phi Beta Kappa University Dickinson College, physicist, author. Buckhan- tradition of separation of church and of Chicago, author, editor, lecturer, Arthur A. Schoolcraft, of Phi Beta Kappa state should be vigorously and zeal professor emeritus of plant physiology, non, , Marietta ously safeguarded. The association re University of Chicago. College, theologian, educator, professor of education and head of the spects the right of groups, including George E. P. Smith, of Tucson, Ari dean and West religious denominations, to maintain zona, Phi Beta Kappa University of department, registrar, Wesleyan College. their own schools so long as such schools Vermont, civil engineer, educator, pro Virginia Roger of New New meet the educational, health and safety fessor of irrigation, University of Ari Stefan, York, standards defined in the states in which zona, and irrigation engineer, Arizona York, Phi Beta Kappa Ohio State Uni they are located. Agricultural Experiment Station. versity, journalist, educator, banker, "The association believes that these Evelyn C. Rusk of Aurora, New vice-president of National City Bank of New York. schools should be financed by their sup York, Phi Beta Kappa Wells College, professor Carson of Chapel porters. The association therefore op dean of the college and of W. Ryan, Hill, poses all efforts to devote public funds mathematics, Wells College. North Carolina, Phi Beta Kappa Har to either the direct or the indirect sup William S. Rusk, of Aurora, New vard University, educator, author, edi port of these York, Phi Beta Kappa Wells College, tor, Kenan professor of education, Uni Another resolution advocated bar professor of fine arts, Wells College. versity of North Carolina, cultural George of Cold attache with the Department of State ring Communists as teachers. The A. Shor, Spring, New association also voted to exclude Com York, Phi Beta Kappa Brown Uni assigned to the Fulbright educational munists and members of subversive versity, director of plan and research exchange program. groups from the N.E.A. for the American Weekly. Earl P. Stevenson, of Newton, Mass of Phi Beta In a report entitled "Report on the Louis Martin Sears, West Lafay achusetts, Kappa Wesleyan Enemy," Dr. Harold Benjamin de ette, Indiana, Phi Beta Kappa Uni University, chemist, business execu president of Arthur D. clared that public education is being versity of Chicago, educator, author, tive, Little, professor of University. president of the board of undermined by attacks from various history, Purdue Inc., trustees, of Wesleyan University. organizations. He mentioned specifi Wilbur Henry Siebert, Columbus, Phi Beta Kappa Ohio State Uni Frank A. of cally the National Council for Ameri Ohio, Southard, Jr., Washing emeritus re D. Phi Beta Kappa Pomona can Education, headed by A. A. Zoll. versity, educator, author, ton, C, Dr. Benjamin, dean of the School of search professor of history, Ohio State College, economist, educator, United States Executive Director of the Education of the University of Mary University. Inter pub of national Special land, stated that these enemies of Henry Bailey Stevens, Durham, Monetary Fund, As Kappa sistant to the of the lic education are "prepared to whip up New Hampshire, Phi Beta Secretary Treas on all sorts of topics Dartmouth ury. indignation ... College, writer, educator, from the deleterious effects of John fruit grower, director of University Ex Charles Pelot Summerall, of Charles tension of New South Phi Dewey's philosophy on the incidence Service, University ton, Carolina, Beta Kappa relation Hampshire. Hobart retired of juvenile delinquency to the College, Army officer, construction activities in Horace Harrison of president of The Citadel. ship between Smith, Washing Swarth of the fifth grade and a lack of respect for ton, D. C, Phi Beta Kappa Smith Simpson, City, the national more College, foreign service officer, (Continued on page 6)

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nating students with communism, fascism, so To the Edilor: They Say cialism, etc. is not the point which is really at With respect to the Edward C. Kirkland arti Crisis" 3 issue, as they well know. The real question is cle, "Intellectual Freedom in a Time of "How is it to take us to wake think Phi long going up [The Key Reporter, Vol. XV, No. 2], I Beta Kappa and Freedom of Teaching and demand an oath of allegiance and a non- Mrs. Carabelle M. Stitt of Willoughby, Ohio, has To the Editor: Communist oath, and any other oath we want, answered it completely and I congratulate her in your Appearing Summer 1950 edition of of those who flourish and wax fat on the taxes upon taking such a forthright stand. Most of us The Key Reporter a of is remarkable letter writ the people of the United States, whether they Phi Beta Kappas are tired of certain professors ten Edwin S. by Smith, Executive Director, be teachers, accountants, diplomats, or scien and teachers using the cloak of "Academic National tists?" Freedom" Teachers Division, United Public to shield their communistic beliefs and Workers of America. Carabelle M. Stitt, housewife, mother, and teachings and to excuse them from signing a Mr. Smith took pen in to a former nail on hand broadcast few teacher, hit the the head in her loyalty oath. Why are they entitled to exemp ideas he holds on the subject of the teaching pro letter in the same issue in which Smith's letter tion! The labor leaders sign it and the rest of and added fession, some more heavy oil to the appeared, when she said, "Why all the fuss us are ready and willing to sign should it be " loyal!" fire over burning the so-called Intellectual Free unless of course you are not required of us. We should feel it a privilege to dom " question. Heavy oil burns with a thick Herman J. Garretson, Jr. sign! black smoke, and smoke obscures the light of Los Angeles, California We disagree heartily too with Edwin S. Smith's day. Mr. like "liberal" Smith, the Professor rejoinder. Illustrative of his loose thinking and would have us Kirkland, believe that the question To the Editor: false reasoning is the statement in his concluding of whether a Communist has a right to teach . . . The value of a in only loyalty oath is paragraph that in no reported case of the ousting our public schools is not the matter at issue. that it lays legal grounds for conviction of of a Communist or alleged Communist teacher Both these writers, and many others who have perjury where the oath is falsely taken. This is has the charge been made that the teacher was contributed to The Key the previously Reporter, only restraint the oath would have for a seeking to indoctrinate his pupils. The answer "witch-hunting," insist that it is whether they Communist. to that is that a Communist can never be objec call it that or to require a teacher to take The of not, joint report on freedom teaching ap tive in his teaching; his thinking, training, and an oath which labels the taker as a loyal Ameri pears correct as concerns "the impartial analysis associations have made it impossible for him to

can in the largest sense of the citi and evaluation of citizen, word any and all literary, political, be an objective teacher of theory without being zen. Such writers are tenets." not concerned with the first economic, social, or religious There is a propagandist; he is committed to direct action question the loyal citizen asks, namely, "What no evident reason for denying the right to believe and he will endeavor to indoctrinate his students. schools?" right have Communists to teach in our or analyze or evaluate the doctrines of democ I am not saying that communism as an eco Nor are prepared to they explain, on intelligent racy, socialism, Protestantism, Buddhism, or nomic and political theory should not be studied that Communists have right. even communism. we arguments, any Perhaps might even pre in our colleges. What I am saying is that no The words "Solemnly swear to preserve, pro sume that a person should be free to believe in Communist should be permitted to teach it or and defend the Constitution of the or tect, United polygamy, anarchy, robbery, even murder. any other subject because, openly or otherwise, States against all both and we enemies, foreign do But would feel that such persons were desira on the circumstances, he will propa mestic" depending are well known to officers of the armed ble to teach in any school? gandize for it. forces. are They required by the people of the If by Communist we mean a person who merely Clarence Lohman United States as a guarantee of their liberties subscribes to the tenets of Marx and preaches Houston, Texas from those who would accept the privileges of their adoption by legal means, such a person rank, pay, retirement, and the like in return should not be barred from any occupation for Phi Beta Kappa Literary- for the devotion of their lives in the public inter which he might be suited; but we know that est. A public school teacher, in theory, lives a life today's Communists, according to present defi Award Will Be Granted no less devoted to the public interest, receives nitions, are those who seek to overthrow our his pay from the taxpayers, and is hired as a government by foul means to establish their own in 1951 privilege afforded him in order that the children totalitarian rule. It would hardly be sensible or of the taxpayers may gain the education we as a wise to employ an ardent Democrat as an instruc The first annual Phi Beta Kappa people want them to have. tor in a school established to teach Republican award for the best book of literary No public existence or vice versa. employee, deriving his very ism, or scholarship criticism published by a from the public purse, has any right whatever to There has been much outcry about witch hunt press will be announced in question the right of the people to require that ers. A certain senator from Wisconsin can proba university at the annual individual's loyalty to democracy and the law of bly be placed in that category, but I get the im December, 1951, meeting the land as expressed in the Constitution. Every pression that many of the writers who so vehe of the Phi Beta Kappa Senate. Books public employee has one course other than object to a oath have set a only mently loyalty up published between May IS, 1950, and loyalty, and that course is to get out of the public straw man which they then proceed to attack. June 30, 1951, will be eligible for con service. The real point at issue is that persons who advo sideration. Entries should be addressed Men like Smith and Kirkland would have us cate the doctrines of a group that seeks to to the on believe that a professor or a teacher, merely be overthrow the government, that condones slav Committee Phi Beta Kappa cause he deals in ideas, is immune to the require ery in other countries, and in various and devious Prize Awards, 415 First Avenue, New ments of loyalty, and that the people have no ways seeks to American are not destroy ideals, York 10, New York. Five copies of right to require loyalty of their teachers in any fit persons for instructors, and persons who are each entry will be required for distribu way they see fit; that, indeed, the people must honest and sincere in their beliefs should have no tion to the members of the protect them in their jobs regardless of their lack objections to a loyalty oath. committee. of loyalty, if that be the case. Clinton J. Moore The committee members are: Don Whether the teacher is charged with indoctri Kansas Topeka, ald A. Stauffer, professor of English and chairman of the department, Princeton G. Armour The Key 'Reporter University; Craig, professor of English, , Published quarterly by the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa at the Rumford Press, Concord, N. H. Edi and member of The Key Reporter torial and executive offices, 415 First Avenue, New York 10, N. Y. Editorial opinions contained are those of the writer and not those of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. rates upon Book necessarily Advertising ap Committee; Hiram Haydn, editor plication. Subscription, 20 cents a year, $1.00 for five years. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Concord. N. 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Education of Gifted Youth Is facilities in Europe. However, dele studies and a youth center; voted to gates from European countries empha the re-education activities in Studied by NEA Committee intensify sized that much more financial assist Japan; approved an agreement to re ance needed. move customs from such ma A booklet, "Education of the is duties Gifted," was recently issued by the Ed The delegates approved a plan for terials as books, music, and art works; ucational Policies Commission of the the formation of a single world-wide adopted Spanish as a third working National Education Association. The organization of teachers. The new language, in addition to English and subcommittee which prepared the group would combine the World Or French; and announced an expansion report was headed by James B. Conant, ganization of the Teaching Profession, of the Exchange of Persons program president of Harvard University. the International Federation of Ele through grants for travelling scholar The report states that ten per cent of mentary School Teachers, and the In ships to artists, writers, educators, and ternational Federation of humanists. a high school graduating class is gifted Secondary School Teachers. All countries except and one per cent is highly gifted. Of the Soviet Union and these only half go on to college. The its satellites would Supreme Court Rules on reasons for this waste of brain power are be represented. It is expected that other lack of funds, lack of encouragement the two groups will agree Segregated Education Cases to plan and recognition from parents and the and that the new organiza tion will within The Supreme Court handed teachers, and lack of incentive (because be founded the next recently few months. down two decisions segregated of the American tendency to belittle affecting higher education. The court decided exceptional ability and the failure to that the of Texas should require high ability for positions of University leadership). UNESCO Defines Objectives, admit H. M. Sweatt, a Negro, to its law since Mr. Sweatt could not The commission recommends early Plans New Activities school, receive an equal education at recognition of gifted youth and special the law The statement of school provided for Negroes. The court education for them through programs following aims was adopted the General declared that not the physical of electives, accelerated courses and by Conference only of the United Nations facilities but also other intangible broader curricula. The top ten per cent Educational, and qualities of the two schools were un should be encouraged to get college ed Scientific Cultural Organization at its recent in Florence: equal. ucation and the top one per cent edu meeting 1. To eliminate In the other the court ruled that cation beyond the college level. Schol illiteracy and en case, courage fundamental education. the segregation of a Negro graduate arships should be provided for needy 2. To obtain for each person an G. W. at the Uni gifted students, the report points out, ed student, McLaurin, ucation of and funds should be allocated for the conforming to his aptitudes and versity Oklahoma, prevented his re to the needs of tech complete and effective graduate study of the psychology of the spe society, including ceiving nological and higher educa instruction. McLaurin had been ad cially gifted. training tion. mitted to the university as a candidate 3. To advance human rights through for a doctorate in education but was re World's Education Problems out all nations. quired to sit in specially designated Are Discussed by Teachers 4. To remove the obstacles to the places in the classroom, library and free flow of persons, ideas, and knowl cafeteria. The decision stated: "Such Delegates of the World Organization edge among the countries of the world. restrictions impair and inhibit his of the Teaching Profession, organized 5. To promote the progress and ap ability to study, to engage in discus in 1946 to improve the status of teach plications of science for all mankind. sions and exchange views with other ers and to promote peace through in 6. To remove the causes of tensions students, and in general, to learn his

profession." ternational cooperation, met in Ottawa that may lead to wars. this summer. The problems confront 7. To demonstrate world cultural The court limited its decisions to the ing education throughout the world interdependence. specific cases, not re-examining the equal" were discussed: the shortage of teach 8. To advance through the press, "separate but doctrine. It is ers, school buildings and equipment, radio, and motion pictures the cause of felt, however, that the rulings will have the need for revisions in curricula and truth, freedom, and peace. widespread effects. textbooks, and the high illiteracy rate. 9. To bring about better under Several speakers pointed out that ed standing among the peoples of the ucation can serve as one of the most world and to convince them of the Address Changes effective weapons against communism. necessity of cooperating loyally with In notifying Phi Beta Kappa of a William G. Carr, secretary general, one another in the framework of the change of residence, members are said, "Universal education is impor United Nations. reminded that, whenever they are tant as a barrier to communism. The 10. To render clearing house and not able to indicate this change on lack ofeducational opportunities is dan exchange services, in all its fields of a KEY REPORTER wrapper, they should send not gerous to the country and stunts its action, together with services in recon only their new ad dress but the one to which their economic Others brought out struction and relief -assistance. Phi Beta Kappa mail was previously the fact that educated citizens will de The Conference also enacted a pro sent. This information should be di mand the right to govern themselves. gram for re-education of Germany, in rected to Phi Beta Kappa, 415 First Reports showed how the Marshall cluding the establishment of institutes Avenue, New York 10, New York. Plan has helped improve educational in comparative education and social

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The United States and Japan. By That Old-Time Religion. By Archi Recommended Reading Edwin O. Reischauer. Cambridge: Har bald J. Robertson. Boston: Houghton vard University. $4. Mifflin. $3.

A deeply informed, if somewhat stodgily writ A sympathetic but objective picture of the ten, account ot the development of modern Japan main folk-type religious traditions and sects of States," Social Sciences and of the American Occupation by the man who "these United which quite vividly re was a Japan expert of the State Department veals the basic common traits of our Protestant

World War held important posts dur culture. Eric F. Goldman during II, ing the Occupation, and is now professor of Far Eastern languages at Harvard. Reischauer's general thesis: MacArthur's administration has Out of My Later Years. By Albert John Adams and the American done an excellent job, but the problem of bring Einstein. New York: Philosophical Li Revolution. Drinker Japan into democratic civilization still a By Catherine ing is brary. $4.75. Bowen. Boston: Brown. serious one, partly because of the country's grave Atlantic-Little, Although scattered over a wide range of sub $5. economic situation and partly because of its and a time-span of the last fifteen mental habits. jects years, A perceptive, zestful portrayal of the solid these essays have a rare unity of progressive in Yankee who became one of the few important sight into basic problems of our times. A keen conservative thinkers the United States has ever Captain Sam Grant. By Lloyd Lewis. and consistent humanism enlightens all that written against a background so broad Professor Einstein be it a cul produced, Boston: Little, Brown. $6. surveys, social, that the book is also a reconstruction of the era of tural, political, or scholastic issue. One is con A of Grant to the of the American Revolution. Miss Bowen continues biography up beginning stantly reminded on checking dates with events the Civil written with the same wide re the technique of partially fictionalized biography War, to find a prophetic prediction on point after search and great that went into Sherman: that she made familiar in Yankeefrom Olympus, artistry point: a vindication of reason applied with ob Prophet. This of the but the Adams materials are so rich and Miss Fighting story schoolboy, jective consistency to human affairs. husband and and Bowen has studied them so thoroughly that only cadet, soldier, father, farmer, businessman rescues the Grant from the occasionally does she have to call on her imagina early tion. shadows of previous inadequate treatments and, Authority and the Individual. By for the first time, makes the Grant of the Presi Bertrand Russell. New York: Simon & comprehensible. dency readily Schuster. $2. Roosevelt in Retrospect. By John Another mind of universal scope and first Gunther. New York: Harper. $3.75. magnitude surveys the dilemmas of efficiency and An over-all appraisal of both as a Roosevelt, freedom in a modern, increasingly technological political leader and as a written with man, world with constructive and challenging fore and Education Gunther's customary discernment and gift for Philosophy, Religion, casts. Ingenious resolutions are brought forward details. The book contains a good deal revealing to reconcile the discrepancies between planning of new material some of it from confidential Alain L. Locke and liberty, efficiencv and happiness, collectivist sources that were obviously close to the President cooperation and individual happiness and self- gathered by Gunther's scores of conversations satisfaction. with people who worked with Roosevelt. Gun A Measure of Freedom. By Arnold ther's verdict: Roosevelt, with plenty of serious man" Forster. New York: Doubleday. $2.50. faults, was a genuinely "great a highly effective domestic reformer and the greatest of A report on a research project sampling reac American war presidents. tions and opinions of college students toward various social and ethnic groups. The results are Literary History and Criticism generalized into a program for the diagnosis and The Growth of American Law. treatment of prejudices of all varieties. By group G. Armour Craig James Willard Hurst. Boston: Little, For that reason there is important information in this for the general reader far Brown. $5.50. study beyond its primary audience of experts in human rela different of legal history. The Permanence of Yeats: Se A decidedly kind tions. Something in the manner of Lynd's famous lected Criticism. Edited by James professor of law at the Middletown, the author, a Hall and Martin Steinmann. New York: the of Ameri University of Wisconsin, tells story Ends and Means in Education: A Macmillan. $5. can law largely in terms of an analysis of the Mid-Century Appraisal. Theo By This collection of essays on Yeats might be background, training, and attitudes of the legal dore B. H. Brameld. New York: Harper. considered a companion volume to recent similar counselors, judges, legislators, administrators, collections devoted to Joyce and re and executives who have wielded governmental $3. Eliot. The sources of criticism are once more authority through law in some one of its forms. An incisive and provocative analysis of the contemporary brought to this with greater The result offers a notable new slant to the stu responsibilities and potential of education in the bear, time, however, (if at times cumber clarity and elegance than in similar collec dent of law and fascinating contemporary social crisis, with constructive any "future-centered" tion, perhaps because the great of Yeats some) reading to the layman. suggestions of ways in which a variety sustains a of approaches. A education can contribute to the reconstruction of variety bibliography of Yeats is appended. democratic society. These ways include greater scholarship Arthur This Is Germany. Edited by emphases on intercultural education, worker and Settel. New York: William Sloane. $4. adult education, and the development of social- The Humanities: An Appraisal. mindedness, An analysis of different phases of the German Edited by Julian Harris. Madison: Occupation by twenty-one experienced British Wisconsin. and American reporters. a few of the University of $2.75. Only chap Man's Religions. By John B. Noss. ters are superficial journalism; the rest provide a Twelve scholars, humanistic New York: Macmillan. $4.50. representing thoughtful, fact-packed warning. Especially studies ranging from musicology to the history of Williams' "specialism" incisive sum Instead of the usual handbook of comparative noteworthy are J. Emlyn science, here unite to decry and to as it reveals here is a readable presentation of the ask for an mary of the "German religion, enlarged awareness of the social utility major religious traditions of mankind in the of itself today, Robert Lewiston's calmly devastat humanistic studies. Though few of the papers "reforms," educational of their historical development. The inner move ing critique of the and setting beyond this obviously justified plea, there dynamics of become more are a Peter de Mendelssohn's disquietingly detailed religion, accordingly, good many obiter dicta for educational description of resistance under the Occupation. vital and evident. policy makers to ponder.

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The Romantic Imagination. By C. M. Stellar Evolution. By Otto Struve. Too Little Love. By Robert Hen- Bowra. Cambridge: Harvard University. Princeton: Princeton University. $4. riques. New York: Viking. $3.75. $4.50. An up-to-the-minute report on the theories of The English title Through the Valley is far An enthusiastic endorsement of English Ro origin and evolution of the stars, now under con more descriptive than the American substitute. 1926. mantic poetry which takes into account both its sideration by astrophysicists in all parts of the This story of a changing England begins in relation to European literature and its central world. Intended not so much for astronomers That world, for good or for ill, is gone, even as theory of the imagination. In describing the as for physicists, chemists, geologists, and all Rome is gone, and with it the easy life, full of Romantic Imagination Mr. Bowra accepts the those who are interested in the processes of evolu responsibilities for the large landowners; it was a confusion, or absence of distinction, between tion in the material universe. Presents a fascinat day when fox hunting was a major occupation as poetry and religion which most anti-romantic ing picture of the truly magnificent and awe- well as a sport. The lovely ladies become old hags, critics of the 20th century have attacked. While inspiring panorama of creation. Its sub-title, still longing for Worth gowns; the men die off. Observatory," such an approach leads Mr. Bowra to deal sym "An Exploration from the is a The sons and the younger women try to take pathetically with Keats or Wordsworth and even cryptic statement of its distinguished author's hold. But the heritage is no longer for the Mere to be hospitable to the unfashionable Swinburne, attitude toward the work to which he has devoted diths and their sort. They are disfranchised, as it it leads him, inevitably, slightly off the center of his life. were, by Labor. The changing social order prongs Byron. much unpleasant driftwood into prominence, but it also gives many idealists a place. The Natural Philosophy of Plant Mid-Century American Poets. Ed Form. By Agnes Arber. New York: ited John Ciardi. New by York: Twayne. Cambridge University. $5. Beyond Defeat. Hans Werner $4. By From her life-long concern with the morphol Richter. New York: Putnam's. $3. Each of the fifteen younger poets here included of Mrs. Arber has here ogy flowering plants, This is a first novel and for the sake of our own has prefaced his own selection of poems with a developed an synthesis that pro enlightening future and that of the world let us hope many of statement of his principles and practices. The vides the linkage between morphologi necessary the same sort will follow. It breathes sanity on result is a collection of observations on modern cal and philosophic thought. Her treatise goes a every page. Perhaps many will dismiss it as "just that should do much to take the toward an of the forms war" poetry mystery long way understanding another novel of but it is much more than out of it: the statements reveal a of con displayed the intricate complexities of the group by this. It is the sort which makes you think. Before scientious, hard-working, sensitive writers whose plant world. It has been written in evidently writing this novel the author, with Alfred An- responsibility to their own art and to that of response to the insistent question that arises in dersch, edited Der Ruf in the American Zone in their predecessors is obvious. the mind of real scientist: are things every "Why Germany. After a year Der was suspended are?" Ruf as they because of the sharpness of its attack on the oc

cupation authorities. Herr Richter an author The Mind of Proust. By F. C. Green. is to be welcomed by all serious and honest readers. New York: Cambridge University. $4.50. Atomic Energy. Edited by J. L. A massive paraphrase of Proust's massive Crammer and R. E. Peierls. A Pelican work with attention especially to its dependence Book. Baltimore: Allen Lane, Inc. 35 The Barkeep of Blemont. Marcel upon Bergson. A solid book, though perhaps too By cents. Ayme. New York: Harper. $3. solid to stand as a signpost directing the reader One of the best of the several low-cost pocket back to the pages of Proust himself. A post-war novel of France, whose people are books that have been published in the recently intellectuals, collaborators, black marketeers, Pelican and Penguin this up-to-the-minute series, Communists, socialists, etc. It is an extremely collection of articles on atomic is The Shaping Spirit: A Study of energy excep well-written satire aimed at the unscrupulousness readable and authoritative. Wallace Stevens. William Van tionally completely of Communists, whose presence in the small By It covers both the processes which atomic by the scene of the engenders O'Connor. Chicago: Regnery. town, story, suspicion, Henry bombs are produced and the constructive uses of hypocrisy, and violence. Uncommonly good $2.75. atomic in and energy biology industry. It is in reading. deed to find it available in this Wallace Stevens, now 71, has in the last ten gratifying country at such a low price and so after years proved one of the most fecund poets in promptly its America. His constant theme has been the imagi appearance in England. Its authors include Hans Bethe and Morrison of Cornell as well as World Enough and Time. Robert nation and its shaping of experience; his readers, Philip By qualified British experts. though few, have been influential critics and equally Penn Warren. New York: Random teachers. This study, the first of its kind, is an House. $3.50. elucidation of the assumptions, forms, and major America's foremost living novelist employs a symbols of one of the most interesting poets famous Kentucky murder case of 1826 to recreate writing today. a whole epoch ofAmerican life. Critics have justly Fiction compared Jeremiah Beaumont to Melville's Cap tain Ahab. Man's conflict with fundamental John Cournos forces is vividly portrayed here, and if there is violence in the fictional design there is also moral Natural Sciences ity. In any case, there is the sense of the authentic epic here, with a hero truly Promethean, a hero F. Mather Shadow of a Kirtley Man. By May Sarton. who may well have come from a myth. There is New York: Rinehart. $2.75. no space here for a synopsis, but even the minor characters have the of been cre Ever since the publication of her quality having The Principles of Scientific Re distinguished ated by a master of fiction. first novel, The Single Hound, Miss Sarton's search. Paul Freedom. Washington: By place has been assured. Only a poet could write Public Affairs Press. $3.25. such beautiful novels as The Bridge of Years, and An excellent book for admin now the story of Persis Bradford's son, Francis businessmen, 415 First Avenue as well as for research Adams Chabrier. In the evocation of who *BK istrators, and teachers, Persis, New York 10, N. Y. scientists. Deals realistically and with is dead when the novel starts, there is much of incisively Please send illustrated order blank the nature of research, its planning and its pro the subtlety Maurice Baring displayed in Daphne showing the sizes of the S5, $6, and $7 keys, bars, and pin attachments to cedures, its impact upon society, and its bearing Adeane. Only at the very end of the book does upon the philosophy of our day. The author's young Francis free himself from his mother to exploration of the possibilities of dialectic ma become a full man; it is the story of the educa terialism as an instrument of scientific research is tion of the heart. The very essence of Boston particularly pertinent at this time. and of Paris is in this book.

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House Votes Restrictions Guggenheim Foundation Has Chapter and Association News on Tax-Exempt Institutions New Advisory Board Head The Phi Beta Kappa chapter at the The University of Buffalo has established House of Representatives has The Guggenheim Memorial Founda the Samuel Paul Capen Award in honor passed a bill the present tax- changing tion has appointed Dr. Louis B. Wright of Chancellor who retired this exempt status of colleges and univer Capen, chairman of its Board. The Advisory presented an sities. year. The award will be appointment was made the following "to the undergraduate student The bill would require that nually colleges retirement of Dr. Frank Aydelotte, in the College of Arts and Sciences who taxes on income earned real pay from who has held the position since the since the last best exempli estate that is not used for educational has, award, Foundation was established in 192S. fied that spirit of free inquiry and of purposes and which was purchased or The purpose of the Foundation is individual or artistic creation that is owned through currently borrowed to aid scholars and artists to carry Chancellor Capen has made such a and on income from all funds, derived on research and creative activities. In characteristic ideal of higher non-governmental research not related learning the 25 years that Dr. Aydelotte pre Buffalo." to instruction. at the University of sided over the committees of selection, The financial The first award will be made next difficulties of colleges 2,317 Fellows from the United States, year. and caused costs universities, by rising and Latin America have re Canada, y Y y and increased enrollments accompanied ceived appointments from the Founda by decreased income from investments, tion. The University of Kentucky chapter have led many institutions to go into has voted to underwrite the publication In recognition of his service, Dr. business not related to educa of a biennial book the directly Aydelotte has been granted the title incorporating tion. Committees of the Association of one or two pieces of student pref of Chairman Emeritus of the Advisory work, American Education and the Associa on the undergraduate se Board. Director Emeritus of the In erably level, tion of American Universities had lected by the award committee. The stitute of Advanced Study at Prince warned that this trend might prove a plan was adopted as a means of ad ton, Dr. Aydelotte is also American threat to the tax-exempt status of the cause of higher standards Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees and vancing higher education. of and of is in charge of the selection of American scholarship publicizing Phi Rhodes Scholars. Beta Kappa on the campus of the Program of Student Aid university. Dr. Wright is director of the Folger y y y Is Considered by Congress Shakespeare Library in Washington. He was formerly Research Professor at The Santa Clara Valley (California) A bill has been introduced in Con the Huntington Library, San Marino, Association is planning the presenta gress which would provide scholarships California. tion of a weekly or monthly radio for students. The Student Aid needy Both Dr. Aydelotte and Dr. Wright program to further the cause of scholar Bill would provide for scholarships of are members of Phi Beta Kappa. ship. not more than $800 a year for four years. tory in the Department of Architec The bill also provides for a student Associates (Continued from page 1) ture, Massachusetts Institute of Tech loan program which would gradually nology. become self-supporting. Another provi Mexico, Phi Beta Kappa University of Dorothy Stimson, of Baltimore, Mary sion is for the establishment of a Na Virginia, first secretary and consul, land, Phi Beta Kappa Vassar College, tional Council on Student a Aid, American Embassy, Mexico City. professor of history and chairman of twelve-member board to be appointed Jerome A. Straka, of Bernardsville, the department, Goucher College. the United States Commissioner of by , Phi Beta Kappa Uni Arthur Sweetser, of Washington, Education. versity of Wisconsin, business execu D. C, Phi Beta Kappa Harvard Uni tive, vice-president, Colgate-Palmol- versity, author, director of the United Bronk to Speak for AAAS ive-Peet Company. Nations Washington Information Of Detlev W. Bronk, president of Johns Gertrude A. Slaughter, of Madison, fice. Hopkins University, will deliver the Wisconsin, Phi Beta Kappa University Marguerite Stitt Church, of Evanston, Phi Beta Kappa lecture under the aus of Wisconsin, author. Illinois, Phi Beta Kappa Wellesley pices of the American Association for Herbert L. Spencer, of New York, College, Republican Congressional nom the Advancement of Science and the New York, Phi Beta Kappa Bucknell inee. United Chapters at the annual meeting University, president of the Samuel H. Walter E. Sullivan, of Madison, Wis of the A.A.A.S., to be held in Cleve Kress Foundation, former president of consin, Phi Beta Kappa Bates College, land December 26-30. Dr. Bronk will Bucknell University. professor of anatomy, University of deliver his address on the evening of James Duane Squires, ofNewLondon, Wisconsin. December 29 in the Grand Ballroom of New Hampshire, Phi Beta Kappa Uni Members who have transferred to the Hotel Statler. Raymond of North professor of Walters, versity Dakota, Life Membership during the past few president of the University of Cin history and chairman of the depart months are: Drury W. Cooper, Carl W. cinnati, will preside. ment of social studies, Colby Junior Painter, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Lyman All members of Phi Beta Kappa will College. Bryson, George W. Davison, Arthur A. be welcome at the lecture. Invitations Henry L. Seaver, of Lexington, Mass Ballantine, Mark Eisner, Inez Gaylord, will be sent in the fall to those members achusetts, Phi Beta Kappa Harvard Hiram Blauvelt, William W. Crocker, who live in the Cleveland area. University, formerly professor of his and Walter Timme.

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ture; fluent French, German, Russian, working Tenure of the Academic Senate. The Know an P seeks of Opening knowledge Spanish, editing, translating, committee would report its findings to research in Greater Boston. Robert G. Sproul, president of the uni would in turn report to 718. (Miss, N.J.) A.B., M.A., Ed.D., Syra versity, who Rates for items in the "Know of an cuse. Experience the regents. Opening?" teaching, guidance, counseling, column are ten cents per remedial education, on secondary school, college, In June the regents, upon the recom word for a single seven cents adult levels. Veteran. Wants position in or near insertion, mendation of President Sproul, dis per word for two or more consecutive New York City. missed 157 university employees who insertions. should addressed Replies be or appear for hear 719. (Mr., Mass.) Ph.D. in international af had failed to sign to to Member No. care of The Key , fairs, Clark University; age 36 when available; ings. Part of this decision was reversed Reporter. will be forwarded pre- and postwar experience as director of histori They at the later a total of Officers' meeting, leaving cal Reserve promptly to the advertiser. research; army captain, 83 dismissed. Corps. Wants employment with large business Six members of the Academic Senate firm (or federation of firms) doing business with the ex 697. (Mr., Colo.) Associate professor, English. abroad as assistant director of research, or posi who failed to cooperate Graduate work Ph.D. Minnesota '47 tion to conduct surveys in and were dismissed. Chicago; political, social, amining committee English-esthetics. Ten years experience college. economic fields in foreign countries. Prefers to The group of 39 who were retained had Seeks western position English. Enthusiastic work abroad. Suggests face-to-face consultation. satisfied the committee that were lecturer, successful researcher. they not Communists but were to 720. N.Y.) Economist and statistician. refusing (Miss, "conscientious" 699. (Mr., D.C.) A.B. Brown summa cum B.A. Hunter, M.A. N.Y.U. Seven years experi sign for reasons. How laude; Ph.D., Harvard. area re market research and A.M., Doing ence, industry analysis; ever, Regent Neylan expressed the search for State Department. Desires teaching desires responsible position with good future. opinion that it would not be fair to per position in political science or international mit a small to their posi relations. group keep 721. (Miss, N.Y.) A.B. 1942, A.M. 1947, po tions without to sign. He said, litical science. Administrative, personnel and having 700. B.A. (Miss, Minn.) speech, Wisconsin, organizational experience with private firms. "The small balance of 39 people is do 1947. Secretarial and radio experience. Wants Public speaking and radio experience. Job ana the university a great disservice. work ing stimulating radio, publishing, personnel, Prefers D. but would con retained." lyst. Washington, C., should not be other fields. Travel. They sider non-NYC position. Several members of the Committee 711. (Mr., Mass.) Ph.D. in history and inter on Privilege and Tenure 'spoke in be 722. (Mr., Wash.) Age 48; magna cum laude; national age desires college or relations, 1951; 35; half of the mem Ph.D., European and English history. Wants non-signing faculty university appointment September 1951. Special position good college or university. Desires satis bers. Professor Stuart Daggett, chair fields: American diplomatic history, history of balance between and research. fying teaching man of the committee, said: "In hear England, history of British Empire and Com and the monwealth, nineteenth century Europe. Five ing the non-signers proving A.B. political science. Expect of to pub 723. (Mr., 111.) years as army officer. Author book be of the of them, the Chicago Sept. 1950. Inter loyalty majority lished late 1950. Agreeable to personal interview. University Ph.D., committee thought were departmental committee, specialization in Amer they helping ican civilization and of ideas. the regents implement their non-Com 712. (Mr., N.J.) Age 36. Married. Ph.D. candi history Teaching preferences: political social science sur non- date New York University. Five years govern science, munist policy. We feel that these Re program, American history and culture. ment official, division director, in Europe. vey signers should be retained in university Studied in Europe. Age 28. signed to complete Ph.D. major public studies, employ and that we have made a proper affairs, minors, government, economics, interna regents' interpretation of the April tional relations. Knows German. Inti French, offer." California Regents Vote to mately familiar with European affairs. Would time position with export firm Clark director of the Insti like full or part Retain 39 Members Kerr, Future possibilities Faculty or in personnel work in NYC. tute of Industrial Relations, said, "It more important than salary. starting The Board of Regents of the Uni is unthinkable that our work should of California, at its on have been for nothing. Can the regents 713. (Miss, Ala.) M.A. political science. Mi versity meeting voted to retain 39 close the channel of appeal which nors history, modern languages. Senior college July 21, faculty they teaching experience. Graduate research assistant. members who had refused to sign the themselves opened? Rather than hav Undergraduate French assistant. Interested in non-Communist teaching contract. The ing caught Communists you have social science research or senior college teaching. vote was 10-9, with Regent John F. caught the free and independent spirits "yes" Neylan his ballot to of the and if you disregard 714. (Mr., N.Y.) Age 24, veteran, NLA. in changing university, English, Ph.D. course work completed, N.Y.U. immediately after the voting. He took our report, you will crush great spirits scholars." Seeks suitable teaching, editorial, or research this action in order to be able to reopen and destroy great position anywhere in U.S. the question at the August meeting. Governor Earl Warren, a member of The oath controversy, which the Board of Regents, urged the ac 715. (Mr., Mi.) Yale LL.B. Age 33. New loyalty has been on at the for ceptance of the recommendation of York, Connecticut bars. Experience: trade regu going university the lation law and estate practice, nine years. De over a year, resulted in a compromise committee and President Sproul. He older lawyer. sires position as assistant to settlement in April. At that time, the said that in view of the fact that the regents voted to substitute a non-Com committee and the president had found 716. (Mrs., Calif.) A.B. Cornell University. munist clause in the letter of contract that none of the group was a Com English major with background studies in Latin, each stafFmember in place graduate work of munist, the regents should support Greek, French, German, etc., also university scholarship. Considerable second the original oath. Provision that unless in methods of of loyalty finding they had additional experience. Desires ary school teaching, research, was made that any member of the evidence. or secretarial position. editing, faculty who did not sign the new con Mr. Neylan, who led the opposition, tract would be allowed to present his hopes to be able to reverse the decision 717. (Mrs., Mass.) Mature woman, Radcliffe on Privilege and at next A.M. Courses Sorbonne. Student history, litera case to the Committee the meeting of the regents.

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