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THE PHI BETA KAPPA NEWS MAGAZINE
WINTER 1938 VOLUME III NUMBER 1 This Issue Goes to 78,000 Members
Two suggestions occur to an observer. The first is that at An Outsider Looks at Education the start and at frequent intervals stress be laid upon the second is that acquisition of proper speaking methods. The JOHN KIRKLAND Tale '99 CLARK, participate in should every person who undertakes to teaching or President, New York State Board oj Law Examiners pay enough attention to this primary process so that he she of the qualities I have outlined. Excerpts from an address delivered before ihe Phi Beta Kappa might be a living exemplar Council in Atlanta, Georgia, September 10, 1937. Proper instruction physical, mental, and psychic could easily bring about a new race of students with graceful Though frankly admitting a lack of direct personal carriage and well rested brains. We spend hundreds of mil knowledge of the process of teaching, except for two lions in magnificent gymnasiums and for athletic instructors differentiate brief years of lecturing at Harvard Law School, I am and yet we neglect the two primary functions that rash enough to offer a few sug man from the lower animals gestions which I trust may prove walking and talking. The effect helpful. of childhood neglect in these First of all, my complaint essentials is youthful impairment against the present educational and adult tragedy, utterly in
process is that it does not begin consistent with a course of life soon enough. The great majority guided by wisdom. of potential subjects for the for Turning to the usual teaching mal educational process are processes ordinarily regarded as either ruined or seriously im essential, the general impression paired during the pre-school upon an outsider looking upon period. It has long been a thesis the product of today is that two of mine that practically every {Continued on page 5) physical process in which every individual constantly engages is Asks almost never adequately taught Industry or effectively learned. the College Starting at the instant of birth, [ of the first two physical processes
in which the new-born child en RALPH H. TAPSCOTT
gages and the use breathing President, Consolidated Edison Company of the vocal cords are usually of New Tork sadly neglected in the course of our educational process. It is ince the time when higher
rare that even well-trained in education first came to be inclusive of things dividuals breathe sensibly and s many other than the efficiently and even rarer that broadly cultural subjects and those related to the simple, easily learned prin ciples of vocal control are thor preparation for the traditional professions of medicine oughly taught or efficiently learned. Mr. Clark, Looking at Education in Atlanta law, and, the In the great majority of cases a primarily, ministry, there imitation process. When has been an interest in the problems of education child learns to speak solely by the increasing simple exercises in vocal gymnastics tone placing, proper in preparation for industrial life. enunciation extent that has been able to observe results control of the vocal cords, clear and distinct To the industry shame that our educational of the educational process and to make a term appraisal are so easily acquired, what a long particular ! {Continued on page system produces such sorry results in this 6)
" In This Issue : The Reader Speaks Say "Bayta Review ofLiam O'Flaherty's Famine
PUBLISHED BY THE UNITED CHAPTERS OF PHI BF.TA KAPPA in December, March, May and October, at the Rumjord Press, Concord, N. H. New N. Y. William A. Harvard'^ B Assistant E. Editorial and executive offices, 145 West 55th Street, York, Editor, Shimer, K; Editor, Dorothy Blair; Consulting Editor, Frank P. Graves, President oj the United Chapters; Adver tising Manager, Beryl Williams. Subscription 20 cents a rear, $1.00 jor jive years. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Concord, N. H., under Act of March 3, IS79. POSTMASTER: if undeliverable at your office and addressee's new address is known, please forward, rated with postage due to cover forwarding charge. Undeliverable copies should be sent to: PHI BETA KAPPA, 145 West 55th Street, New York, N. Y. www.pbk.org Forwarding and return postage guaranteed. [2] THE KEY REPORTER Winter, 1938
American Heads Law at Oxford More Friends Still more friends like these are needed CHARLES E. CLARK, Yale'11 to restore the 1930 scale of income for Dean the School Yale oj oj Law, University $ B K's work.
Solton Engel, Columbia '16, New York IT is not often that an American can dence at Oxford University, and then C. Pardee Erdman, Princeton 'IS, Pasadena, Calif. Charles R. Erdman, Princeton '86, Princeton, N. J, transplant himself to a of England and became fellow University College, C. Spencer Ervin, Harvard '08, Bala-Cynwyd, Pa. John J. Wisconsin Washington, D. C. succeed in high rank in one Oxford. These together with Esch, '13, achieving positions, Louis B. Eten, Lafayette '26, New York William D. Amherst Pa. of the ancient professions. Particular his editorship of the Review, he still holds Evans, '85, Pittsburgh, S. A. Everett, Brown '91, Providence, R. L ly is this true of the legal profession, and he is also associate fellow of Jona Frank D. Fackenthal, Columbia '30, Brooklyn, N. Y. Lawrence F. Fagerstrom, Minnesota '13, Minneapolis, Mino, where the strong tradition and the rigid than Edwards College of Yale Univer H. P. Fairchild, N. Y. U. '34, New York Irma H. Faith, Cornell University '17, New York division of activities between solicitors sity. In addition, he is serving on the John C. Farber, Wabash '15, New York Hollon A. Farr, Yale '96, New Haven, Conn. and barristers make advancement of a important Law Revision Com highly Charles J. Fay, Yale '93, New York Francis B. Harvard New York stranger difficult. Perhaps mittee in which recommends Fay, '83, peculiarly England, Mary M. Fay, Hunter '26, New York the classic case of surmounting these Thora M. Fernstrorn, Columbia '15, Brooklyn, N. Ys Mrs. Walter D. Ferres, Vassar '97, Ridgewood, N. J* obstacles is that of Judah P. Benjamin, James W. Fesler, Indiana '23, Indianapolis, Ind. B. T. Feustman, Princeton '17, New York famous American lawyer and writer, Charles K. Field, Stanford '06, New York G. Lowell Field, Wesleyan '32, New York Secretary of War in the Confederacy, Hilda M. Fife, Colby '26, Hampton, Va. Edward R. Finch, Yale '95, New York who fled from this at the close country Alvin Irwin Findley, Wooster '28, St. Petersburg, Fla. Canfield Ohio State '05, Vt. of the Civil War to become the fore Dorothy Fisher, Arlington, W. N. Fish, Princeton '32, Philadelphia, Pa. most barrister of his time in England. Felix A. Fishrnan. C. C. N. Y. '25, New York Isabelle E. Fisk, Welleslev '23, Cincinnati, Ohio The career of a contemporary bids fair Paul S. Fiske, Harvard '07, Hartsdale, N. Y. rival that of and to Benjamin, possibly I even to surpass it in catholicity of accom plishment. Arthur Lehman Goodhart, an $BK Yale 1912, Corpus Professor of Know of Opening? Jurisprudence at Oxford University, If name is not given, address Member No. has just been chosen chairman of the care , of The Key Reporter. law faculty of that University. Professor Goodhart comes of a dis Business, Clerical, Secretarial See also 128 tinguished American family. He is the 127, 119. (Miss, Brooklyn, N. Y.l A.B., Hunter '37; major, nephew of Governor Herbert Lehman history; minors, economics and political science. Exp. sales clerk. Wants clerical or any work; will accept modest of New York and of Judge Leh Irving salary. man of the New York Court of Appeals. Arthur Lehman Goodhart Chemistry, Eugenics He took his undergraduate work in 120. Aaron Levine, 130 Callender St., Dorchester, Mass. B.S., Tufts '37 ($BK '36). Wants position with chemical Yale and later received his LL.B., as noteworthy statutory reforms of the firm for laboratory or other work. well as a B.A., from Cambridge Univer English law. 121. Mrs. Mildred E. MacAllister, 18 Steuben St., Holland Patent, N. Y. B.S., Middlebury '22; M.S. '23; sity in England. That University has In constant touch with developments major, biology. Exp. 13 yrs. teaching biology, chemistry, physics; 6 yrs. vice-principal. Wants work in eugenics, also conferred upon him the of and degrees in American law jurisprudence, euthenics, biological station.
.and while Ox Professor Goodhart has entered into M.A., LL.M., LL.D., Insurance ford has awarded him the D.C.L. jousts with various of the Ameri lively 122. (Mr., New York City) A.B., Univ; of Iowa '33; "realists" LL.B., Washburn College majors, education; degree. can the younger school of '35; English, minors, political science, philosophy. Exp. 2 yrs. in in surance claim work. position with insurance Professor Goodhart was admitted to American writers on who Wants attorney jurisprudence, or other work in insurance. the bar in America in 1915, subse have attacked solemn judicial rational Teaching, Tutoring quently serving as assistant corporation izations as untrue to reality. 123. (Mr., Arkansas) A.B., Indiana Univ. '05; A.M. '07; counsel in New York City. At the close of In view of his many and varied ac Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan '09; majors, English, psychology. Exp. 20 yrs. university teaching; published articles and the after served as captain Professor War, having tivities, Goodhart probably books in literature. Wants also research. of ordnance in the United States Army, has now, and will have in the future, 124. (Mr., Flushing, N. Y.) B.S., C.C.N.Y. '34; honors in physics and astronomy; M.S. in education. Exp. teach he was counsel to the American Mission more influence upon the development ing college physics, science survey. Wants teach mathemat ics, physics, astronomy, general science in college, high to Poland. He became a barrister at law of English legal thought than other any school, or private school; also research. and member of the Inner Temple in one man of this generation. In the past, 125. Charlotte Leonard, Troy, Penn. A.B., Syracuse '36; A.M. '37; major, Latin; minor, English; courses in archaeol England in 1919, and at the same time Enghsh lawyers for the most part have ogy and physics. Wants teach in high school, private school, normal school, or college; also work in museum or bookstore. fellow and lecturer of Corpus Christi been quite ignorant of developments of 126. Gertrude Robinson, 58 E. 102nd St., N. Y. C. College of Cambridge University. Later American law and legal theory. It is Syracuse '02; A.M., N.Y.U. '17. Exp. teaching college mathematics and sociology; writing children's books; trans he was made vice sign of prob secretary to the indeed a hopeful that a man such lating and rewriting German books; research in social lems; editorial reading. Wants also publishing work, full or chancellor of that and chair vigorous mental with so University activity, many part time. man of the Cambridge Law Examiners. years of usefulness before him, is already 127. (Miss, North Carolina) B.A., M.A., Duke; Ph.D., Cornell Univ. '31. Exp. teaching high school English and At Cambridge organized The in a position where stenographic he Cam he may thoroughly Latin; published poems and short stories; training. Wants also secretarial, editorial. bridge Law Journal, which at once took and competently translate American 128. (Mr., Brooklyn, N. Y.) B.S., N.Y.U. '32; majors, high rank among legal periodicals. In juristic thought into English ways of Spanish, French; M.A., Univ. of Colorado '33. Exp. li brary, export houses, teaching high school Spanish; knowl was named 1926 he editor of The Law thinking, and serve as a direct channel edge of typing, office routine. Wants also export and import work, library, social service, research. Quarterly Review, the scholarly of intellectual communication between leading 129. Bernice Allen, Kingston, Ohio. Ohio State '28; M.A. law review of England. In 1931 he was American law and the English common '31; credit toward Ph.D.; majors, sociology and economics; minor, history. Exp. college teaching, library and statis called which to the famous chair of jurispru law from it sprung. tical research. Will consider any type of work. www.pbk.org Winter, 1938 THE KEY REPORTER [3]
Dear Phi Beta Kappa Member: Scientists and Shakespea re
We, the undersigned, after years of responsible participation in the adminis George Lyman Kittredge, world trative and financial affairs of Phi Beta Kappa, believe the time is ripe for you to renowned authority on Shake act on the conviction, which we are sure you share with us, that the imperishable speare and formerly Harvard's Gurney values for which the Society has stood since its founding in 1776 make it a medium Professor of English Literature, will de notably appropriate for the establishment of memorials which will enhance those liver the third annual address to be
after." values for the connection with "generations that come sponsored by $ B K in Your gift or bequest to the Phi Beta Kappa Foundation (an educational cor the winter meeting of the American poration chartered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York) Association for the Advancement of will be gratefully received and carefully administered in the interests of American Science. The lecture, "Shakespeare Critics," scholarship and broad culture. We shall be happy to reply to inquiries. and the will be delivered on the evening of Wednesday, December 29, in Indianapolis, Indiana. These an J^^JlJL^JiQ^^ nual sessions are designed to bring the liberal or cultural motive into the spe
cialized scientific sessions. $ B K will
be given space for an exhibit.
The local committee on arrangements is headed by Hugh McK. Landon, $ B K Harvard, vice-president of the Fletcher Trust Company and president of the $ B K graduate Association of Indianapolis.
Courtesy' of Tk Acts of the Council
Left to right, Top: Mrs. Melissa Jack Hurt; N. Y. Lawyer John Kirkland Clark; Harvard Dean George H. Chase; Secretary William A. Shimer- Secretary's assistant Dorothy E. Blair; Professor J. Sam Guy of the Reception Committee; President Graves presiding; Professor William T. Hastings in action. Bottom: Dr. Voorhees- of Brown watching Mr. Clark Philip Davidson of Agnes Scott. Council manager; Historian Oscar M. Dean G. Doyle George Washington {beyond the white shoe); President Theodore H. Jack Randolph-Macon Henrv cf of Woman's College; barbecue assistant and W. C. Butt, official barbecue President David A. Robertson www.pbk.chef of Emory; org of Goucher. [4] THE KEY REPORTER Winter, 1938 President Graves The Death Two Leaders WILL D. HOWE, Indiana 77 of Editor and Director, Charles Scribner's Sons FRANK P. GRAVES, President of the United Chapters
New York State Commissioner of Education The unanimous election of Frank Pierrepont Graves to the Presi and students alike. He held the John Albert Consens art of dency of the United Chapters of Phi living to be the greatest of the arts and Beta Kappa was not a well de jk lumni and friends of Tufts College only endeavored to establish a set of princi served honor to a distinguished scholar j\ were shocked in greatly learning ples that would make education effec and a most of the sudden death of its presi but _J_ fortunate _\_ administrator, tive for the moral guidance of all youths Dr. John A. on 2nd. dent, Cousens, July in their life after college. President Cousens was one of the great est educators in New England, and few executives in the history of American William McAndrew colleges have ever so fitted completely With the death of William McAn- the position to which have been they drew on June 28th there passed called. from earthly scenes one of the most In the commercial world John Cous colorful figures yet known in the course ens built a successful speedily up firm, of American education. While the and eventually became both a bank dramatic and striking incidents of his president and director of a trust com final year as superintendent of schools in pany. He had, however, as an under Chicago were responsible for drawing graduate been conspicuous as a leader him into the limelight and calling the in scholarship, athletics, and class af attention of the country to his capacities once well established in the fairs, and, as a reformer and educational leader,the business his mind world, instinctively entire career of McAndrew was marked turned back to Alma Mater. Within a by progressiveness, independence, and decade of his graduation he had become courage. influential in shaping the College poli Before returning to Chicago as head Dr. Graves Presides at Atlanta and when the College lost its presi cies, of the school system the bold reformer undertook the
Education for seventeen years, he has After his official retirement in 1928 served always well and wisely in the William McAndrew continued to be fields of teaching and administration. active and forceful in educational cir He is the author of a dozen books on cles. He edited the Educational Review in Greek and education and of many ad his own pungent and inimitable fashion, dresses which have shown his high ideals lectured most acceptably in every part of the vocation to which he has given his of the country, and corresponded life. For his varied service he has re through his letters illustrated with John A. Cousens ceived many degrees and testaments. The clever drawings, both privately and French Consul General now announces 1920 he accepted the position himself. publicly, with active thinkers from the decoration of President Graves as During the years that have since coast to coast. Now he has gone at his Officer of the Legion of Honor. elapsed no administration of a New Eng height and left behind him a life both His friends and their number is land college could have been more fearless and unique. Any attempt to in legion congratulate not only the successful. dicate the lightning flashes of his kindly Society upon its choice, but also Dr. But greater than all other achieve wit or his penetrating epigrams would be Frank Graves upon the honor which we ments has been the influence of Presi inadequate. There was but one William feel certain he prizes as highly as any dent Cousens upon those about him. McAndrew and those who knew him which he has ever received. He was beloved and respected by faculty will not forget him. www.pbk.org Winter, 1938 THE KEY REPORTER [5]
Whitney Hart Shepardson ternational Railways ofCentral America. years ago, but will anyone maintain As a side line Mr. Shepardson has that the proportion of really good W. RANDOLPH BURGESS, PH.D. been greatly interested in the Council teachers is as high today in our broader of Foreign and is now di field of college and education Vice President, New York Federal Reserve Bank Relations, university rector and treasurer of that body and as it was half a century ago? The new Treasurer of the United the editor of its annual year book on It seems to me that one of the greatest Chapters of Phi Beta and Kappa world affairs. He is also trustee and lacks in our educational system today is Phi Beta Kappa the Foundation, Whit treasurer of the Woodrow Wilson the lack of good teachers of men and
ney Hart Shepardson, is a man of varied Foundation. He is the author of a vol women who possess those qualities of experience in interna law, business, ume on agricultural education in the personality which enable them to stim and tional relations, education. He is a United States and co-author of "The ulate the students under them to acquire Affairs." cousin of the late Francis W. Shepard United States in World for themselves the intellectual knowl for years a $BK son, many Senator, This breadth of experience admirably edge and the sound work-habits which and his Frank L. father, Shepardson, fits Mr. Shepardson for service in the are essential for their proper develop councils of $ B K. ment.
There are signs that this situation is being widely recognized and that efficient methods are under An Outsider . . . Education reasonably consideration and in operation in many {Continuedfrom page 7) places to break down this pernicious essential elements of a proper education result. The preceptorial system, the are neglected. One ofthese is intelli sadly faculty advisers, the college plan in our gent instruction in mathematics and the greater universities, all these are feeling other the study of the construction and the way toward the re-establishment of of words. spelling a system which will bring about a This brings me to the point of con natural and voluntary desire on the part the of our trasting efficiency secondary of students to master their work and, in schools and of our colleges. It is within that process, to establish sound habits the past years that the tremendous thirty of working. spurt in secondary education has oc To one who acquired reasonably curred. It is not that it has surprising efficient work habits during an educa been in efficiency to a consider lacking tional course, it seems a tragedy that so able for an had to be extent, army large a proportion of those who are trained to become teachers. Only now students seem bound to face life slowly was it realized that not every stu without the ability to enjoy the work Whitney Hart Shepardson dent who succeeded in graduating from which they will have to do. If it is a a grade school was qualified to acquire delightful experience to learn to be a $ B K Brown '83, was, until his recent the traditional high school training. great athlete, it is an even greater retirement, professor of Greek at Colgate When the discovery was made that a pleasure to learn and to enjoy the proper University. large proportion of students would de use of one's intellectual powers. But, in Whitney Shepardson, after gradua rive greater benefit from trade schools of the one case, as in the other, only con tion from Colgate in 1910, was various kinds, a process of educational desig stant, consistent and at times boresome nated a Rhodes scholar and took a First experiments commenced from which we practice iterated and reiterated can Class in modern history from Balliol have not yet emerged. On the whole, bring about the result. College, Oxford. He returned to this however, those high schools which have To accomplish this desideratum, there country and taught for a year at St. maintained a major part of the tradi must be teaching by men and women Mark's School in Massachusetts and tional courses have succeeded reason qualified by ability and training to do then went to Harvard where he took his well in fair work- ably inculcating a good job of teaching. In the important law degree in 1917. after the habits among their students. In this Shortly task of intellectual instruction we need outbreak of the War he became attor particular the formation and main not merely the skill of intellectual abil ney for the United States Shipping tenance of proper work-habits I find ity, but, even more, the power of real Board, but in 1918 he went into active an almost universal concession that the personality. The great majority of our service with the Field Artillery. At the colleges of our day almost completely teachers seem to lack that essential qual close of the War he served with the fail. ity of personality which is required for Commission to Negotiate Peace as as In earlier years, college students a real teacher that quality of human sistant to Col. House, and followed that were all subjected to a substantially interest, of desire to create in the mind of interesting service with some weeks of identical educational process and the the student a real ambition to work on the Secretariat of the League percentage of teachers able to accom learn and to aid in the of Nations. After a few years of legal plish effective results was correspond furtherance of that ambi tion. experience he served with the Interna ingly high. In the past sixty years, the Somewhere tional Education Board and the Gen number of college students has been along the line today we eral Education Board, of which latter multiplied over and over again. No are failing to give proper appraisal the number of to those organization he became a director. Since doubt capable and effi personality qualities which held various business posi cient and qualified mark the real 1928 he has properly teachers teacher. In selecting those tions and is now vice-president of the In may be as large today as it was whom we choose as www.pbk.org sixty teachers for our [6] THE KEY REPORTER Winter, 1938
youth, are we not too much schools can impart utilitarian depending Ash the training upon what have been able to do they Industry of nearly so well as life itself will do after with the pen in the of way publication College the youngsters are graduated. of books and theses and the hallowed I believe that employers . generally Ph.D.? (Continuedfrom page 7) are patient and willing to let specific As an outsider looks on education knowledge and specific skills of these it should be able to develop today, I am driven to the conclusion results, with the if people render an important though no years, only young that our need is more able by primary from the college those means contribution to the bring important teachers, more exceptional controlling leadership which the schools can determination of what is and is not things and do de in the profession and more intelligent good in it. velop. Certainly, for my own part, I guidance of our great masses of stu the question is raised would rather that alumnus dents in the formation of sound work- If, however, any coming as to what wishes in the into my business should learn at first habits and love of learning. Here, it industry prep aration of men and women for hand from the business itself and, ac seems to me, may our great organiza young later employment, the question pre cording to each day's change in em tion lead the growing youth of our supposes a right which, I am sure, nei phasis, adopt from to the spe country into better conditions of life day day ther nor the state nor spe cific facts on which his processes must through more effective use of the industry any cial group possesses either as to the rest themselves. qualities with which they are endowed. character of the educational process or The student who goes to college to as to the content or philosophy embodied prepare for the profession of engineering Oxford for Women in the individual courses. would do well not to ask the college Clearly, the function of our higher to make an engineer of him, but rather a merican women graduates and teach- institutions is to fit young men and to prepare him to begin, after com Jj\_ ers have an opportunity to enjoy young women for living as well as for mencement, to learn something about historic Oxford while taking the vaca earning a living. It cannot be other engineering through the practice of the tion course, "England in the Past Fifty than unhappy for these people if their profession. What he makes himself in Years," which will be offered by the formative years are devoted to making college, both intellectually and spirit Women's Colleges of Oxford University, them instruments of a group or servants ually, is of more importance than the July 6 to 27, 1938. Information can be of some preconceived philosophy. What cargo of knowledge he carries away obtained from Miss Marion L. Day of 9 ever may be said in advocacy of voca with him. St. Luke's Place, New York City. tional training in schools devoted to that In our current economic and social purpose, I am very sure that to voca- problems, I feel that industry should /> tionalize our colleges and universities not even wish to intrude its conceptions would, in the long run, defeat its own into the institutions of learning. Its best X after- purposes as well as narrow the interests will be served by graduates satisfactions of the students. who have the mental power to tackle Our most highly technical indus the problems of industry with minds tries, if they are wise, will be very glad free from any mass of ready-made rules LEADERSHIP that there are men and women coming and formulae. into industry, into public life, into the I have little sympathy with a not field of journalism and returning as uncommon habit of criticizing college instructors into the educational enter instruction because it is unpractical, prise with the fullest and broadest de and indeed such criticism often is ill- velopment of their powers of discern stated. What properly may be criticized ment, with the habit of thorough and is an attempt on the part of the school You who have known good detached analysis, and with a breadth man to make his courses realistic while hotels will agree that The Taft of sympathy that can relate technical failing to recognize the necessity for a problems to their human and social sufficiently comprehensive background. is the leader. We're in front of objectives. I assume, of course, that academic free the procession when it comes Even as to the technical aspects of dom carries with it implications of aca
it seems clear that a greater demic and that academic to convenience of location, education, responsibility service can be rendered to young peo responsibility will keep the schools and perfection of height of service, ple and to society through a realistic the schoolmen free from adherence to approach which does not seek to cult and from emotional comfort and the ultimate in develop any merely immediately useful specific knowledge. approach to the subject matter of their economy! Schools are admirably fitted to a pains curricula. taking and firm grounding of their In brief, I am sure that the best in 2000 ROOMS WITH BATH, FROM $2.50 students in the never changing funda terests of the student and of society are HOTEL Alfred Lewis, Mgr. mentals common alike to engineering served if the schools adhere to the an and economics, the theory of govern cient tradition of an independent and ment and, through expression, the arts. responsible scholarly approach to funda Limitations of time and money and a mentals fundamentals that have been LTt NEW YORK relative remoteness from the current broadly planned for the development of actualities of a highly involved world mental vigor and a capacity for well- V make it quite impossible that these same rounded living. Mention of The Key Reporter will be mutually helpful www.pbk.org Winter, 1938 THE KEY REPORTER [7]
"... to furnish you with argu
too." Books to Own ment and intellect The Book Committee: Zona Will D. Burton E. Livingston, The Vicar of Wakefield Gale, Howe, Robert A. Millikan, Irita Van Doren. Cast, -fetej The Key For the reader's convenience orders jor any books or magazines will be filled prepaid by THE last few weeks have been sent exciting Reporter. A jree introductory personal or gift subscription to The American Scholar will be ones in THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR with any order oj at least $6.00 editorial office. We knew the Autumn number of the * B K quarterly was good; we knew it contained controversial articles. But still we
were pleased and surprised at the deluge of
mail it brought.
Plea for Unprincipled Education, by Datus A C. Smith Jr., was perhaps the greatest single cause of comment. The Princetonian of Mr. Smith's alma mater repeated his stand in its columns. Charles Beard wrote us his thoughts on the subject, and so did Jerome D. Greene of Harvard. And a request for permis
sion to distribute 500 reprints of the article at the University of Texas arrived from the Tacilurnians, "a small and flexible group for getting certain things done which the members agree upon occasion should be done dis semination of Mr. Smith's article being a example." pertinent
DR. BEARD'S letter and Mr. Greene's
will appear in the discussion columns N. Y. Public of our Winter number. If it were not already Courtesy of Library L. Alma-Tadema so crowded with good things we should like to Reading Homer add a number of the other comments we received including a note from a medical journal in regard to Dr. Hugh Cabot's Hurdles THE CASE OF THE SEVEN prepared to go. As Kurt rose, there was a slight for Doctors. clink on the floor. Martin laughed. "Serves you Young OF CALVARY Kurt. would me c^si. .fctej right, You lecture on wearing
one." BUT we can scarcely make room for even Anthony Boucher. Simon and Schus By Kurt's internal allowed him a shame such items as these at the agony interesting off," ter, Inc., New York, 1937. $2. faced smile. "It often falls he admitted. expense of our Winter table of contents. You fixed." "I must have the will agree, for example, that we could not ring We give here an introduction through crowd out such an article as Joseph Hudnut, closely- Dean of the Harvard School of Architecture, excerpts to a grammatical and has written for us in his woven mystery, with the Berkeley cam new Architecture Discovers the Present. The arrival was Kurt Ross . . . Martin pus of the University of California as its Dean Hudnut has already stirred up his share noticed inconsequentially that the Phi Bete setting, a Sanskrit professor as of controversy in the past; we feel certain that Sherlock, key had evidently fallen off again and this time non- a this new essay will excite architects and Phi Beta Kappa member as Watson, gone unnoticed. architects alike. Dr. Alice Hamilton will give and another member as chief suspect. us a report entitled The author is in reality William A. P. Healthy, Wealthy if Wise Industry. $ B K of California It was several minutes later that Martin Robert Fletcher has written of White, University
entered the room. . . living . There was dirt The First Co-Eds '32, and the professor of Sanskrit is on the knees of his otherwise $BK spotless flannels, and Walter M. Horton's Professor A. W. Ryder, Harvard and bits of twigs and leaves stuck out of his The New Orthodoxy '97. hair. But his cigarette case was safe in his constitute will set you to thinking. These only pocket, and even safer in another pocket was Paul was right, Martin reflected as Kurt Ross a sample of what the Winter issue will offer. something which he had seen from entered. Something was wrong. The tall blond dangling an inner branch of the bush, young Swiss looked somewhat like the Spartan something easily enough overlooked in a police search concen THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR boy just as the fox reached the juiciest tidbits. trated on stilettos. Martin had 145 West 55th Street Martin almost expected to see a vulpine head discovered where Kurt Ross had lost his Phi Beta Kappa New York, N. Y. rear itself from behind the black waistcoat, key. Please send me a sample copy. Then send just about where the Phi Beta Kappa key subscription. If me a bill for $2.00 for a year's dangled. I like the sample, I'll pay the bill. If I don't, I'll tell you to cancel. Martin shuddered slightly and reached for a cigarette. In After a careful Martin slipped on his pocket his fingers touched once Name . brushing, more the gold key. He was his coat and looked in the mirror. ... As he reassured. There could be no mad Street . turned from the mirror, Kurt spoke. "Aren't sectarian loose in Berkeley. key?" you going to wear your Phi Beta Kappa
. . . . State . City "Hell, no. . . . I'd rather not decorate my KRW38 stomach with a blatant atrocity like that. If were some decent maybe they size, yes, but as He laid the gold Phi Beta Kappa on the AND may we suggest that THE key it is . . table and "I SCHOLAR would make a welcome said, found this. I thought you "It would a it." "Where," be mark of . to our dis might want . . Christmas gift to numbers of your friends? courtesy Kurt asked, visitor." gift rates are: one to four gift tinguished . . . with an unsuccessful Our special attempt at nonchalance, right." key?" subscriptions at $1.50 five or more at "All It was less trouble to wear the "where did you each; find . that . . "And it $1 each. damned than to argue with Kurt. Mar was while you thing were struggling with the mur key?" tin slipped the so." key on his watch chain and derer that you lost your "I think
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