THE· DECEMBER· 1938

ALUMNI· MAGAZINE r~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ A HOOSIER ALMANAC ~ ~ DECEMBER THIRTY-ONE DA YS ~

~ THE mon th begins with the De­ 12-Indianapolis alumni have their ~ cember 1st in augurati on o f H er· choice of two Extension Division lec- ~ man B \Nell s.'24, A M'27, eleventh tures: "Human Progress and Retro­ ~ president of the University. This is re­ gression," or "The Art o f Entertain­ ported in full elsewhere in this issue of ment." W. S. Bittner presents the one ~ the ALUMNI MAGA ZIN E, so the Almanac on anthropology ; Mrs. E leanor Miller, ~ moves on (with occasional lapses to the on home-making. ~ years of yore) to a forecast of events Wabash College "Little Giants" meet scheduled to happen on: the Cream and Crimson in another ~ 2-Swishing gowns and gleaming home basketball game tonight. ~ shirt fronts usher in the campus formal 13-Raymond Beights, '39, and his season at the Union-A.YV.S. dance. Chi­ string ensemble play this day, as oth er ~ P.M. cago alunUli dinner-meeting with "Bo" Tuesdays, over YVIRE, at 4 Semi- ~ and game movies. classical music. ~ 3-John Charles Thomas, renowned Indiana Union Open F orum at night. baritone, is the second presentation of 14-The Bard o{ Avon's lvluch Ado ~ the Music Series in the Men's Gym­ About Nothing presented ye'sterday, to­ ~ nasi um at 8: IS . Admission $1.50 and up. day, and tomorrow in Alumni Hall by JI.. 4-Just two years ago today Poet the University Theater. Eight o'clock U ft Carl Sandburg addressed "convo" on and 50 cents. ~ "Liberty. the Const itution. and Poetry." IS-Ma rjorie (Live Alolle and Like ~ The Hoosier Radio Workshop round It) Hillis speaks to Theta Sigma Phi's ~ table series, "Society Today and To­ Matrix Table banquet. Positively no morrow," goes on the air today (and men admitted. ~ every Sunday) at 9 :30 A.M .. YVIRE. It was on this date. in 1914, that the ~ Indianapoli s. Union Board converted Jordan Field Come to the Union Building this into a skating rink by flooding the grid- ~ afternoon and hea r the University iron and letting it freeze during the ~ Chorus sing H andel's oratorio, "The holidays. Sure, it worked. Mess iah." "The Messiah" will be sling 16-Tri-Kappa Cllarity Ball In ~ on Sunday, December II. Alumr;i Hall. ~. S-Now begin s the basketball season, with Ball State Birthday. birthday! Just one year ago today the Univer- ~ opposing Branch McCracken's Fightin' Hoosiers in the sity and YVIRE officials sealed the pact providing for regu­ Fieldhouse at Bloomington. But before it begins, the lar I.U. broadcasts from the campus over the Indianapolis ~ Sphinx Club basketball dinne'r in Alumni Hall at 6 P.M" station. ~ with Ball State "Prexy" L. A, Pittenger, '07. AM'08, 17-Connecticut State Coll ege at Indiana: basketball. among the speakers. Mortar Board's Dames Ball. which means that the women ~ 6-Ha rriet Bard. Hagerstown librarian, reviews tonig ht call for, pay for, buy boutonnieres for, and several other ~ (at eight) Ma rgaret Armstrong's FOWl)' K I' 11Ible, Place: things for, the'ir male escorts. Union Building ; sponsor: University Bookstore'. 18--indiana Daily S iudellt Christmas party {or ladies ~ Indiana bankers and in surance men invited to Mortgage- and ger.tlemen of the campus press. ~ Lending Con ference, sponsored by University business or­ ganizations. he ld in the Union Building 19-Harlan Logan, '25. AM'32. recen t contributor to the ~ MAG.~ZINE, and now editor of Scriblll'r'S, named Rhodes ~ 7-ToI1ight, in the School of Music Auditorium, another scholar from Indiana in 192 7. speaker on the Univ e'rSi ty radio lecture series. This time ~ K eith Tyler, rlirector of American Institute of Radio Edu­ 20-A,A.U.\N. dinner in Union Bui lding. cation; later in December, Allen Miller. director of the Red and green lights bejewel the tower of the Student ~ University of Chicago round table of the air. Building as undergraduate thoughts turn to spending the ~ Calumet region alumni can hear Edwin Kenworthy on holidays at home. ~ "A Pica for th e Hnmanities" at Roosevelt High School, 21-This afternoon at four, r.U. students will be heard East Chicago, 7 :30 P.M., 50 cents. This is on the "Sym­ from the Commons on the "University Questionnaire" ~ posium for Enjoyment" lecture series of the Extension radio program. 1400 on your dial for this regular YVednes- ~ Division. dav featnre. 8-The stadium was named "Bryan Field" by a studel{t "0, Little Town of Bethlehem" and other carols 5111]0' by ~ vote on this day back in '23, but the' beloved President de­ men and women "Y" members on campus tonight." ~ clin ed to have his name considered. and the rUI1ner-up. 22-Las[ day of schoolllntil next year, and student hitch­ ~ "Memori al Stadillm," was recommended to the trustees. hikers stamp their feet on cold corners along the Indian­ Tune in on faculty members Sanders and Collin s for a apolis road. ~ Fireside Bookshop book review at" P.M. today a nd every Indiana v.>. Butle r at Indianapoli s tonight. ~ Thursday, Over WIRE. 2S-MERRY CHRISTMAS, ~" IO-Alumni Association district 9.. Ailimni, to you and yours I M ft councilors meet on the campus. '-==-. 30-Cleveland alumni can see tbe It "Gee, Mom. lookit the present Hoosier court stars in action at ~ they give me I" many a Blooming- the \Vestern Reserve game. ton kiddie will say when he comes 31-If you are anywhere near ~ home todav from the Union- East Lansing. start your New ~ A.\<\I.S. Chr-istmas party for local Year's party by cheering I.U. in the children. Michigan State basketball game. ~"~ Basketball: Indiana vs. Miami at Let's be a triRe early. and wish M ft Blpomington. a ll o f you a HAPPY NEW YEAR! It L~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~d L E T T E R s

SIRs-Have enjoyed tremendously No fault of the athletics department is it that freshman football has not been better :eceiving and reading the fi rst two reported in the MAGAZIN E, the editors of Issues of Indiana's new "streamlined" which suggest articles to sports writers alumni journal-enjoyed them almost This issue's "Fightin' Hoosiers" lists out­ as much as I did seeing the LU band standing freshman football material. Also at the recent Boston game. And in the let Subscriber Tuley be assured that the ,I MAGAZI NE will endeavor to secure and print , light of their performance there-well, architect's drawings of new buildinO"s sche'd­ you have been highly complimented on uled to arise on the Bloomington"campus. I a capable piece of work. -ED. I WILBUR F. PELL, JR ., '37. I i Cambridge, Mass. SIRs-[The MAGAZINE should] have The MAGAZINE had no thought of "stream­ a dep~rtment devoted to outstanding lining" itsel f, but hopes to become as good grads m all fields-not only education I ~member in its fi eld as the "Marching Hundred" is in and scholarship. collegiate band circles.-ED. MARJORIE GRIFFIN CAROTlIERS, '34. Plymouth. the Wellhouse Sms-I like the old Alumnus idea of Not in a department, but all through each Issue, are the MA GAZ INE'S accounts of out­ t news every two weeks better than a standing graduates and former students in at I. V.? monthly magazine in the new deal just many fields, including education and schol­ worked out. arship. Major articles in the first two is­ 1 r C. A. VAN ATTA, 'oJ. sues have included writings by or about a , Grand Rapids, Mich. humorist, two editors, a state policeman a i statistician, an agricultural economist, a r ~f­ erence librarian, and a school teache·r. Score I for minor articles is seven school teachers or SIRs-Believe the MAGAZINE is a administrators, one housewife, two tomato grand piece of work and achievement. canners, two doctors, two farmers a biolo­ gist, a postmaster. a movie actres~, a mor­ Having it in my waiting room has and tician, an engineer, and a banker.-ED. will stir up interest in our own Indiana University. DR . M. H. HUCKERIEDE . ex'36. Sms-I want to let you know that Greencastle. . the game here [Boston] was an out­ standing success in every respect ex­ S IRs-Think the MAG.UIN E is grea t, cept for the score. We had our alumni but would like more news of the grads. meeting after the game. It was an en­ A. E . WILSON, '37. tirely informal affair, attended by about Kalamazoo, Mich. forty from around New England and a few from N ew York. "Bo" McMillin In the October issue the "I Knew Him \Vhen ..." section contained "personals" of talked to us briefly, also [Z. G.] Clev­ 155 different graduates and former students' enger and Lieutenant [Fred] Green of in November, 206. The MAGAZINE will striv~ the band, and two representatives of to please all tastes, will carry enough-but Boston College. not too many-news notes bv classes in each issue.- ED . ­ On the game, opinion here seems to be that Indiana has the makings of a grand team, but it was lacking in scor­ SIRS-THE INDIANA ALUMNI ing push. Indiana should ha ve won or MAGAZINE is a credit to the University tied the game. . . . and the Alumni Association . .. . I am The band story was entirely different; keenly interested in the new buildings that band has been the talk of the town .1 and sketches of their design . .. . I think since Saturday. I think that without that an article would be of interest to question it drew 10,000 extra people to the alumni regarding the freshman the game. The performance was far football material, the names of the boys beyond my expectations, and, believe and where they are from. There was ~e, I had be~n doing a lot of ballyhoo­ I nOIAnA just a mere mention in the last issue mg about this band in advance. One about the game between the tvvo fresh­ man in my concern, who is an old news­ unIV~~SIT'f man teams preceding the Homecomina paper man himself, remarked that be­ game. We think your sports depar~ fore he saw the band he was convinced QOOI{STORt; n~ent overlooked a splendid opportu­ that my collegiate enthusiasm was run­ mty there of giving your readers some­ ning away with my good judgment. He thing in which they would be vitally felt certain that I was exaggerating be­ :nterested. yond all reason the magnificence of this L. K. TULEY, '04. outfit, but after the game he apologized Pickrell and Craig Co., Factors, Louisville, Ky. (Continued ot! page 25) E M o ALUMNI Men on the Cover Jom with all the members and friends of the University in hea rty support of You Cdn now (Pho/.ograph by I Hdia,l!(l,poJ.is Engraz.:iug COI1lPO 'I1Y) President Wells in the great work to get the Herman B Wells, '24, AM'27, elev­ which he has been called." enth president of Indiana University, and L. A. Pittenger. '07, AM'08 (left), INDIANA DAILY STUDENT president of Ball State Teachers Col­ W hat A bout Sports? lege. were photographed in the Cha­ The football season was a disap­ teau Room of the Claypool Hotel at the pointment to alumni and coaches alike. for the University luncheon held during the There is no reason, however. why it following prices.' recent state teachers' meeting in Indi­ should be discouraging. Those who anapolis. saw the Indiana team in action saw a Elsewhere in this issue is a bio­ highly courageous. hard-fighting, and graphical sketch of P resident Wells, capable group of players. To an ob­ taken from the current issue of W ho"s server it seemed that there were three • Who. Such a formalized article fails, excellent reasons why the won and lost however, to give the personal, human column left something to be desired. side of the President known to alumni, To begin with, the season didn't open 50 year (including students, and faculty, and to the state $3 summer session) at large. It tells nothing of the hun­ --it exploded, and then backfired. Ohio dred-year-old, red brick house (the State was lying in wait and smarting Woodburn home) which President from the 10-0 defeat of last year, and \Vells occupies on North College. a probably played their best game of the 25 rest of this semester few blocks from the Square. It leaves T938 season against Indiana. Secondly, $3 and next out of account hi s hearty laugh and Indiana had a squad composed mostly friendly handshake. Nor is anything of sophomores. That might not make said in Who's Who of the President's so much difference in schools where opening hi s office each Tuesday after­ there are large or seasoned squads, but $175 rest of this noon to any and all students who want l.U. does not have large squads and the semester to come in and talk things over. state does not have enough high schools Then, too, there's the story of Wells, playing football to produce many sea­ the undergraduate, playing the F rench soned and experienced prep-school horn in the University band. And the players for the Hoosier universities WRITE story of hi s trips about the state in the and colleges. Thirdly. the injury jinx, interests of better banking in Indiana, which had been fortunately absent for and how he helped draft the present several years, was back in full force at IMMEDIATELY banking code. I.U . in 1938. From the first few min­ Alumni know that \Nel1s, the man, utes after the opening kick-off of the the educator, the administrator, is a initial game, Indiana at no time was fitting choice for the presidency of able to put its full strength on the field . • their University. President Emeritus At one time there were thirteen nrst the Bryan phrased it bettel-, when he said: squad players on the bench with in­ "The selec tion of Dean Wells as presi­ juries. dent of Indiana University gives me These are not alibis; they are facts. INDIANA great sati s faction. Since the decision One alumnus wrote: ,. 'Bo' tolel us was made a trustee said to me that, what to expect this year. but we added a fter interviews with more than twenty a grain or two of salt. r-Iaybe we did DAILY persons, East and West, who were rec­ some wishful thinking. Anyway, we'll ommended by eminent advisors, the believe him after this; we certainly board found Dean Wells peer of the haven't lost confidence and we're not STUDENT best of them./ I trust the wisdom of selling Indiana football short." that judgment. That's that. N ow comes b::tsketball. Please send me the INDIANA "I have come to know that Dean Branch McCracken, new varsity coach. DAILY STUDENT for 0 rest of year Wells has a clear vision of what a uni­ was one of the best basketball players o rest of this semester and next 0 rest versity is for. A university president ever to wear the Cream and Crimson. of this semester. is lured in every direction to establish He enjoyed nne winning teams at Ball NAME______new popular fields of work. President State Teachers College. where he Wells will not be led astray by such coached for eight years. He brings a ADDRESS______temptation. He will consider the old new style of play to Indiana and with ClTY______STMf______and the new with wise deliberation so it high hopes for success for the future as to put the strength of the University of basketball at the Universitv. Cer­ I enclose $ _ ___ 0 Bill me 0 vigorously behind those things which tainly he deserves and will h~v e the are truly fundamental. sincere best wishes and loyal support "It will be a great pleasure to me to of every alumnus. THE DECEMBER 1938 INDIANA ALUMNI MAGAZINE

Continuing the Indiana University Alumni fZuarterly and The Indiana Alumnus

Volume I Number 3

STAFF

GEORGE F. HETGHWAY, LLB'22 Editor Cover ROGER A. HURST, ex'37 PRESIDENT H. B WELLS, '24', AM'27, AND L. A. lv/(waging Editor PITTENGER, '07, AM'08 (LEFT) IVY 1.. CHAMNESS. :\B'06..<\M·28 Assoct"ate Editor News EDITORIAL BOARD I.U. INAUGURATES ELEVENTH PRESIDENT E. Ross Bartley, ex'14 Ward G. Biddle, ' 16 fl. B W ells Brcvl1Ies Ullivcrsi/.l' HI'ud T homas Buck .) Wal ter S. Greenough, '1 0 THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS Mrs Alta Brllnt Sembower, '01 Herman B \N ell s 7 John E. Stempel,'23 Deli'vered at Cere1ll0Jl.i('S 011 Ca11lpus

BRYAN GIVES BOOK TO FOUNDATION ...... TO INDIANA UNIVERSITY "Farewells" Proceeds 10 Co Iv Orgolli::;alioll ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

President, ~IATTH EW WIr-;'TERS, '1 S, Aft!') 7, THE UNIVERSITY IN NOVEiVlBER ...... q Indianapolis A. Campus News Digest Vice·Pres., JOHN S. TAYLOR, '10, LLB'II, Sullivan "MEETING CALLED TO ORDER" ...... 17 Secretary, GEORGE F. HEIGHWAY, LLB'22, Bloomington ;'':ews of ..4Iu"/II/li Clubs Treasurer, WARD G. BIDDLE, '16, Bloomington "I KNEW HIM WHEN _ ...... _ ..... 22 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL .4lul1IlIi News Nvtrs by Class,s 1936·39 FR.

1937·40 TEN WHO WENT BEFORE () LE:-.tUEL A. PITTENGER, '07, AM'OB, ~1uncie I [ MR S. ALTA BRUNT SE.MBOWER, '01, Bloomington "FAREWELLS": A BOOK REVJEW . Alta Brl1n t Semilower WAI.1'ER E . TREANOR, ' 12, LLB'22, JD'23, I:: Chicago THE FOREIGN MISSIONARY TOD.\Y Herrick B. Young 1938·41 Sports DEA N L. BARNHART, 'II, Goshen BENTON J. BLOOM, '07, Columbia City FIGHTJN' HOOSIERS . George L. Gardner [9 i\'IRs. OLIVE BELDON LEWIS, '14, Indianapolis NEWELL H. LoNG, '28, School of Music a lumni Bf\SKETBALL OPENS WITH BALL ST_-\TE GAME. . 2[ DOUGLAS H. WH ITE, School of Dentistry alumni NEWS NOTES OF V.\RSITY SPORTS 'William Buchanan 21

Published monthly, except August and Sep· tember. by the Indiana UniversiLY Alumni Asso­ Departments ciation. Office of publication: 338 E. Market St.. Indianapolis. Indi ana. Editorial office: LETTERS union Building, Indiana University, Blooming­ ton, I :ldiana. Annual subscription rate $3.00 (includes MEMO 2 membership in Indiana University Alumni As­ sociation). Single copies 2S cents. FOR ALUMNAE ONLY Helen 'Weatherwax 13 ~IeOlber of American Alumni Council. Admitted to the secolld class of mail mailer r\LUMNI AUTHORS Book Reviews 18 at the post office at Indianapolis, Ind., llnder the Act of March 3, 1879. IN CLOSING . . Editorials 32 ketfecl;(}M. · · by Ora L. Wildermuth, LLB'06 President, Indiana University Board of Trustees

H EN our re\'e red Presi­ ourselves comparing them with W dent Bryan tendered hi s our man at home. \iIi e had found resignation to the trustees of In­ a new yardstick with which to diana University. he cast into the measure men, Men who did not lap of the board the most mo­ measure lip to him were dis­ mentous problem that had con­ carded. fronted it in more than a third of Then on a memorable day in a century, For the head of an March of this year the trustees institution, be it a university, a by unanimous choice elected as business corporation, or any President of this University, other organization, in a large Herman B \\Tells, this sturdy son measure determines its charac­ of Hoosierdom, this gallant son ter, its trend, its success, And of Indiana. I mention this ex­ Indiana University had been tensive quest that it may be made blessed with fine leadership for a matter of record that his elec­ many years, and to continue this tion was not by default, that it type of leadership seemed para­ was not a lazy selection, that he mount. Certainly it ,,'as the de­ was elected because he seemed to si re of all of us. possess to a greater degree than Perhaps the task seemed more any other available man those difficult because the board had qualities \\"hich seemed requisite had no experience in picking a to success. president, \\re kne\y that we His road ",ill not be easy or dared not use Dr. Brvan as a hi s path rosy, They will be ardu­ yardstick by which to- measure Ora L. Wildermuth ous and difficult for he follows new timber. \Vhen I said to one in the footsteps of giants who of the country's foremost educators that ,,'e " 'ere strode down the pathways of this institution. He looking for a man to take Dr. Bryan's place, he follows in the steps of Bryan and Swain and Jor­ said, "My heavens! You can't find such a man. dan, three of the greatest educational adminis­ The best you can hope is to find a successor." trators who ever t rod the paths of collegiate his­ So we began our search, taking the nation as tory. They set a pattern \\hich to fill will require our hunting-ground. Vie were fortunate in hav­ the best that is in man. ing the counsel and advice of some of our own men Our short experience with him augurs well for who have gone far in the field of educational ad­ his success. He has attacked the problems as they ministration, such as Jessup and Lindley and came and has so far taken them in stride. He has Aydelotte and the late Lotus D . Coffman, \Ve shown that he can wear the forty-league boots nec­ conferred with educators everywhere whenever essary for him to match the strides of his illus­ they would listen to us, fr0111 President Conant of trious predecessors. He has been tireless and per­ Harvard on the Atlantic seaboard to President sistent in his quest for faculty men to replace those Wilbur of Stanford on the Pacific . \Ve talked grand old men who under President Bryan made with many prospects and corresponded with many Indiana U ni versi ty academically eminent among others. the universities of America. lIis youth, his For a year \ye searched, And during all this boundless energy, his enthusiasm, his high ideals, time the University was kept going by a young his ambition, his high order of intelligence, and man who had been elected Acting P resident. \Ve hi s executive and administrative genius fit him were in constant touch with him in solving the admirably for the great task that lies before him. problems as they arose. He began to grow on us Under his leadership I predict a continued growth as he likewise began to endear himself to the fac­ for our University and a continuing expansion ulty and the student body, and gradually as ,,'e in the service of this institution to Lhe state of interviewed men recommended to us we found Indiana .

4 Th e December 1938 INDIANA ALUMNI MAGAZINE

Volume I December, 1938 Number 3

The Tenth and the Eleventh: President Emeritus Bryan (Jeft) and President Wells at Inauguration I.U. IIlaugurates Eleventh President Installation of Herman B Wells Takes Place in Simple Campus Ceremonies on December 1

by THOMAS BUCK, '39 Managing Edito r, Indiana Daily Student

N THE unpretentiolls ceremony that he had re­ An academic procession from A lumni Hall to the I quested, Herman B \,yells, University alumnlls, Men's Gymnasium preceded the inaugural ceremonies. teacher, and administrator, was inaugurated eleventh Filing into the vast auditorium, hung with the Univer­ president of Indiana University on December I. sity Cream and Crimson, faculty members and vi siting Standing on a flow er-decked platform before state ; college and university presidents took their places in a and University officials, the thirty-six -year-old former special section directly in front of the speakers' stand. business school dean. who last :March was chosen to Slashes of bright velvet on the gowns and hoods of heac! the University, pledged nearly four thousand stl1­ the staff and the parti-colored garb of hundreds of stu­ dents, faculty members, and friends assembled in the dents lining the bleachers on all sides of the faculty sec­ Men's Gymnasiu111 to "support the constitution of the tion made the assemblage a colorful one. The Univer­ United States and of the state of Indiana and faithfully sity band played Meyerbeer's Coronation jl!Iarch as the perform the duties of my office as president of Indiana vast hall was filled, and a robed University co-ed chorus University." The oath of office was administered by sang Hymn to Indiana. George Lee Tremain, chief justice of the state supreme As an unseen a\ldience of thousands heard the pro­ court. gral1l over their radios-two national chains carried

INDIANA ALUMNI MAGAZINE 5 the affair-Judge Ora L. \Nilclermuth, LLB'o6, presi­ returned to the Universi ty, I know that Indiana Uni­ dent of the University Board of Trustees, told the versity will prosper and grow under his administration. assembly: "\Ne are met to inaugurate the eleventh He knows the meaning of the word 'progress' and how president of Indiana University, Herman B Wells." to accomplish it intelligently. Outside, the chimes of the Student Building sounded "It is with great personal satisfaction that I send my their last note. The oath administered by Chief Justice greetings to the new president of Indiana University, Tremain, four thousand students burst into applause as Herman vVells. Herman B \Vells officially became their president. "M. CLIFFORD TOWNSEND, Governor of Indiana." Lieutenant-Governor Henry F. Schricker then read Lieutenant-Governor Schricker then congratulated a telegram from Governor M. Clifford Townsend, who President Wells and presented him with the great seal was unable to be present at the ceremonies. The wire of the University. read: As Dr. William LO\ve Bryan, president emeritus, "I deeply regret that I am unable to be present at these rose to introduce his Sllccessor, the audience responded services, which, I believe, mark the beginning of a new with a standing ovation to the man who had for thirty­ chapter in the growth and development of Indiana five years headed the University. Dr. Bryan, as if University. speaking to President vVell s alone, said: "The inauguration o f Herman \Yells as president of "President Wells: Thirty-six years ago you and I Indiana University means that the great traditions of were beginners. I was beginning what was thought to the University will be carried forward by a young mall be a difficult and sometimes dangerous enterprise. You with a profound appreciation of the task he now as­ were beginning what is known to be a more difficult and sumes and with a practical knowledge of the problems more dangerous enterprise. I began with very little ex­ he now faces. perience and very little idea of what I should have to "The University is an integral part of our common live through. At the same date you had no experience school system and our democracy is founded upon this and no idea of what you would have to live through. I system of general education for all. took my risk and somehow lived through it. You took "Our citizens look with pride upon their state uni­ your risk and here you are at thirty-six, eleventh presi­ versities and hope that their children may be able to dent o f Indiana University, and more than that, my take advantage of their services. The reputation of our son, a man. state among many people is based upon the reputation "vVhen you took over this office in the stlmmer of '37, of our state university. you were already a man of wide "\Yhen the beloved Dr. Bryan and successful experience. You resigned from the presidency, it From Who's Who in America, had achieved a widely recognized seemed an impossible task to 193 8­1 939 stlccess in the formulation of our choose a successor who could WELLS, Herman B, educator; b. James­ banking code and then in its ad­ to\\"n. Ind., June 7, 1902; s. Joseph Gran­ bring to the University such intel­ ville and Anna Berniece (Harting) W.; stu­ ministration. As dean of the dent U. of III., 1920-2 1; B.S., Ind. Univ., lectual capacity and dignity as Dr. 1924, A.M., 1927; grad. study, U. of Wis., School of Business Administra­ 1927-28; unmarrie,!. Asst. rashier First Nat. Bryall. I believe we have solved Bank, Lebanon, Ind., 1924-26; asst., dept. of tion you had known how to make economics, U. of Wis.. 1927-28; field sec. this problem by elevating Herman Ind. Bankers Assn.. 1928-3 1; sec. "nd re­ its enlarging faculty a group of \Yells, who, both as a student and search dir. Study Commn. for Ind. Financial Ins tns .. 1931-33; instr. economics, Ind. competent men working in spir­ as a member of the faculty, knew Univ.• 1931-33. asst. proL, J933-35; super­ ited cooperation toward the essen­ visor div. of banks and trust cos. and div. of and appreciated the traditions research and statistics, Dept. of Financial tial objectives of such a school. Instns., State of Ind.. 1933-35; sec. Commn. which Dr. Bryan cherished and for Financial [nstns., Slate of Ind., 1933-36; "Out of your manifold experi­ dean of Scll. of Business Adminstrn., Indiana dignified. University. 193'5 -37. acting pres. Indiana ences you have distilled two con­ "Herman vVells ull(lerstands University, July J, J9.l7-Mar. 22, J938, pres. since J938; director Federa l Home Loan victions more essential than any and is in sympathy with the tradi­ Bank o f Indianapolis. Member Indiana ad­ others for the life of a univer­ visory com. Nat. Youth ,Adm inistration; tions of the past, and yet he is a chmn. Conf. on Standardization of College sity. Both have to do with money. Report Forms. Washingto n, D. C. Mem. Am. young man with vigor and enthu­ Eco n. Assn., Econometric Soc., Ind. Acad. The first is that the University Social Sciences (ex-pres.; chmn. corn. pub. siasm for the future and for the service), Ind. Soc. Pioneers, Blue Key, Beta must not spend more than it has. Garruna Sigma, Alpha ·Kappa Psi, Kappa development of Indiana Univer­ Kappa Psi, Sigma Nu. Democrat. Metho­ It must be always solvent. It must sity. dist. Clu.bs: Kiwanis, Sphinx (Blooming­ have always a safely balanced ton); Indianapolis Athletic. A."./.ho·r: (with "From my association with others) Report of Study Commission fo r budget. \Yithout that stubborn Indiana Financial Institutions, 1932. Ad­ Herman \i\Te lls when he was with dress: 519 N. College Av.. Bloomington, Ind. co ndition the noblest institution is the state government and after he on the (Continued Oil page 27)

6 The December 19 88 The Inaugural Address Delivered by President Herman B Wells at His Inauguration on December 1, 1938

HE. formal heginning of a ne,v administratio.ll farther into the great unexplored Northwest Territory T ll1entably marks the close of the old. Dr. Bryan s than any other institution of higher learning. The dif­ administration is unique in the annals of our Univer­ ficulties faced by that tiny institution must have seemed si ty. both in length of service and in record of achieve­ insurmountable: few resources, meagre equipment, a ment. Under his leadership. the institution has had its faculty of only three-yet the responsibility o f training greatest growth in physical and intellectual resources. the leadership needed to develop in a trackless forest a Dr. Bryan. those of us who have been fortunate enough busy. stable, organized society. to experience the strength of your leadership are keenly Today as we look toward the future, the conviction aware of the extent o f your contribution to Indiana grows upon us that the task of the University is even U niversity. You have won the genuine gratitude, the bigger now than it was in the beginning. It is true that unqualified admiration. and the deep affection of all the much has been accomplished by society. It is true that sons and daughters of Indiana. For your many kind­ the University's physical and intellectual resources are nesses, your wi se counsel. and your stead fast support now great. But the problems which the University's since I assumed the headship of the Universi ty, I offer students must be trained to meet are even greater, aris­ you my deepest personal gratitude. ing as they do out of changed economic and social con­ Indiana University is a dynamic institution in a dy­ ditions. The physical frontier. which for generations namic world. The brilliant chapter in the history of our has exerted a profound inAuence upon the progress of University "Titten during President Bryan·s adminis­ society, has disappeared. The mighty stream of immi­ tration has been completed. Vie must of necessity begin gration which Amved from Europe has been stopped. the writing of another. It is appropriate. therefore, for Restricted immigration and a declining birth-rate indi­ us to look toward the future this morning. I shall speak cate a stationary population to be reached during this of some of the factors ,,·hich may condition that future. century. A larger and larger proportion of our total Faith in education has been a dominant feature of population tenc1s to lead an urban life. Society has not our society since the beginning of the republic-a faith yet fully adapted itself to the far-reaching economic S0 strong that through private philanthropy and public effects of the Industrial Revolution, including the taxation a school system has been built unparalleled minute division of labor separating the worker from elsewhere in the world. Throughout the history of our control of the finished product, with the resulting inse­ nation, there has been a deep-rooted conviction that a curities of employment. The social adjustment:- made democratic form of government could be made opera­ necessary by industrial progress are in a large measure ti,·e only by educated men and ye t to be achieveu. '\"omen. Just as challenging are develop­ This faith in education was mani­ From the Address ments in presen t-day political think­ fested in early days by the zeal with "The University cannot discharge ing. For the first time in several ,,·hich the pioneers developed school Gil;' of its obligations to society unless generations, the trend toward de­ it is first and foremost an institution systems in the new territories. The dedicated to schol;:lrship and scho larly mocracy throughout the worlel has first president of Indiana Univer­ objectives ...." been arrested. Some peoples not !'ity, Dr. .-\ndrew \Vylie, in hi s in­ " . . . I find no fault with the voca­ deeply rooted in democratic gov­ tional motive being prominent in the augural address gave expression to University's organization and activity ernment have been seduced by the if the particular training offered is that faith. to its profound depth and compatible with University standards." grandiose promises of unscrupulous breadth, in this sentence : "I am a "It is the duty of the University to leaders. They have traded their believer in the omnipotence of edu­ insure that every student understand precious guaranties of liberty for the fundamental philosophies underly­ cati on." And well did he need the ing democracy." the quick and transitory gains of a sustain in g power of hi s faith, for "I am inclined to place my faith in dictatorship. Totalitarian govern­ Indiana College, as the University an educational program which consid­ ment with communism comprising en the essentials first and the gadgets "as then called, stood at the very second." its left boundary and fascism its edge of the wilderness, piercing ri ght, runs amuck in the world

J~DJA~A ALU.l\I~I ~IAGAZI~E 7 today. Even more disturbing has been the recent out­ while superficially attractive and important, absorb its break in Germany of the mass persecution of a minor­ resources to the detriment of the basic work. ity group the like of which the world has not knO\\"I1 for In our garden of the years the intellectual objective centuries. This display of barbarism might cause timid l11ust dominate the design, and its welfare l11ust be the souls to doubt the reality of human progress. first concern of the cultivators. Other plantings must In addition, there are new and significant develop­ be studied with relationship to the central plant, lest ments in the educational system of the country that they destroy its dominance in the design or sap the affect our responsibility. I shall mention one develop­ nourishment needed for its roots. ment which concerns us particularly: the emergence of The University cannot discharge any of its obliga­ the state university as a dominant factor in higher edu­ tions to society unless it is first and foremost an institu­ cation in America. Lest there be those who believe the tion dedicated to scholarship and scholarly objectives: wish father to the thought, I quote the views of the a place where students learn the slow and arduous president of Harvard University. In an address at processes of mental discipline by which knowledge is Cornell University last year, as reported in the press, acquired and wisdom won; a place where the frontiers President Conant said: "'\Then I examine the history of new truth are pushed back by the research explorer of higher education in America in the last fifty years and old truth is subjected to critical analysis until it and note the growth of the publicly supported institu­ assumes new significance; a place where reason is ex­ tions-the increase in student boely, in plant, and in alted over emotion and force. Unless the University is capacity for scholarly and professional work of the such a place, it cannot develop in each succeeding gen­ highest orcler-l can arrive at only one conclusion. eration of students that "tough-mindedness·' which is During the next century of academic history, university essential for effective living in a complex society. Un­ education in this republic will be largely in the hands of less it is such a place, it cannot continue to be a reservoir the tax-supported institutions. As they fare, so fares the of truth, old and new, upon which youth and adults can cultural and intellectual Ii fe of the American people." draw in charting the course of society. Here, then, at Indiana University we find that be­ I do not mean that the University's work should be cause our future activities must be carried on in a dis­ carried on in a cloistered unawareness of the busy, prac­ turbed and rapidly changing world, and because of the tical world. There can be no effective teaching without nature of our institution, we shall be called upon to bear illustrative material drawn from an understanding of increasing responsibility. It is appropriate, therefore, current affairs. The physical scientist in the university that we re-examine the functions of the University. laboratory must keep constantly abreast of the prob­ It would be generally agreed, I believe, that publicly lems of industry and of the experimental efforts to supported education from the kindergarten through the solve them; likewise, the social scientist finds the raw graduate school has for its objective the fitting of the materials for his work in the frenzied atmosphere of student to play his role effectively in a society of free the exchange, the squalor of the slums, the uncomfort­ men. At the University level, this purpose is best ac­ able hovel of the share-cropper-in fact, any place in complished when the primary energies of the institution this wide land where social problems exist. But knowl­ are devoted to the promotion of the intellectual Ii fe. It edge of current affairs is not sufficient for an under­ may seem strange that it is necessary to reaffirm this standing of fundamental principles. Universities must function of the University. But the fact is that the Uni­ be maintained as watch towers of human progress, from versity, like other large and complex institutions, may which men may gain a view of life in its entirety, and easily become involved in all types of programs that. in which there will be main- (Continued on page 27)

Lemuel Moss David Starr Jordan Jolm M. Coulter Joseph Swain Wm. Lowe Bryan 1875-84 1885-91 1891-93 1893-1902 1902-37

8 The December 1938 Andrew Wylie Alfred Ryors Wm. M. Daily John H. Lathrop Cyrus Nutt 1829-51 1852-53 1853-59 1859-60 1860-75 Ten Who Went Before c.A Look Back at the Unbroken Chain of1. U. Presidents, Begun in 1829 by Andrew Wylie

ALF a score of men have preceded Herman B Succeeding \Vylie was another Pennsylvanian, Alfred H \Vells, inaugurated last week as the eleventh chief Ryors, an orphan reared by friends of his father near executive of Indiana University, in the president's Pittsburgh. After teaching mathematics in several chair at old LU. The line began with Andrew vVylie frontier colleges, Ryors came to Indiana from the in r829, came down through the famed David Starr presidency of Ohio University when he was forty. He Jordan and the revereci Vlilliam Lowe Bryan, and has headed the University here for only one year, leaving included men from many fields, of various ages, and to become a professor at Centre College, Kentucky, of diverse talents. where he died at the age of forty-six. President \Vells, now thirty-six years of age, ranks A "boy preacher" at sixteen, LU. graduate at with former Presidents Jordan, Coulter, Wylie, and twenty-four, chaplain to the United States Congress, Swain as one of the five University heads to be elected and agent for DePauw University, were some of the while still in his thirties. Of the remaining six presi­ positions held by William M . Daily, third "prexy" of dents, one \\'as sixty years of age at the time of hi s elec­ LU. Daily was brought up near Brookville, Indiana, tion, and the other five were in their early or middle and was the first Hoosier lad to head his state Univer­ forties. The average age of all Indiana University sity. He was forty-one when elected in r853 and re­ presidents at the times of their elections was forty-two signed after an incumbency of six years to preach the and a hal f years. gospel in Louisiana. Terms of office for the ten former University ex­ Indiana's oldest president at the time of his in­ ecutives have ranged all the way from one year to auguration was John H . L athrop, aged six ty when he the thirty-five years in the president's chair served by began hi s one year in office immediately before the President Emeritus Bryan. The average term for all Civil War. Lathrop was a Yale graduate, the first LU. "prexies" has been about ten and one-half years. president of the University of Missouri, and for ten Andrew \Vylie, first president back in the days of ' years chancellor of the University of vVisconsin before Indiana College, took office one hundred and nine accepting the Indiana post. Upon leaving Blooming­ years ago. Although the school was founded in r820, ton, Lathrop joined the faculty of the University of the office of president was not created until vVylie's elec­ Missouri, and later became president of that school for tion, which occurred when he was thirty-nine. vVylie, the second time. a Pennsylvania farm boy who had entered Jefferson The third longest presidency in Indiana University's College at fifteen and was that institution's president history was that of Cyrus Nutt, teacher and acting at twenty-two, also headed vVashington College 'in the president of DePamv University before his election to Keystone state before coming to Indiana. He was in Indiana's leadership, when he was forty-six. His office at Bloomington for twenty-two years, the second fifteen-year term ended in r875, when Lemuel Moss, longest presidency of any LU. head. a native Kentuckian brought (Continued 011 page 20)

INDIANA ALUMNI MAGAZINE 9 Bryan Gives Book to Foundation Proceeds of "Farewells" Sales Presented to Organization Promoting University Interests

UNDS resulting from the sales of Fareu}cl/s, latest "promote educational and charitable purposes and ob­ Fbook written by President Emeritus \IVilliam Lowe jects," the Indiana University Foundation has pro­ Bryan, will go to the Indiana University Foundation vided an agency for alumni and other friends of the for its promotion of Universi ty interests, according to school who wish to make gifts to the University. Gi fts a recent announcement. The Foundation is an organi­ rece ived have gone to perform various functions which zation designed to supplement the work of the Univer­ lie outside the legal po\yers of the school, but which en­ si ty in a ll field s. hance the value of the University to the state and to Dr. Bryan has provided the cost of publishing the its ci tizens. book, and has stipulated that the Foundation shall haye An early project of the I'oundation was the \Villiam all proceeds from its distribution, officers of the Foun­ Lowe Bryan Scholarship and Fellow ship F uncl, origi­ dation said in putting the book on sale recently. Promo­ nated as a student tribute to Dr. Bryan at the time of tion o f the book will form a Foundation project, as his resignation and, uncler the administration of the have such enterprises as the Hoosier Historic Sites re­ Foundation, expanded to include donations from cital program, a study of the professi on of business alumni, faculty, and friends. It is expected that returns counsellor, exploitation of a rust-resisting process per­ from investments made will be available next fall to fected in University laboratories, the \t\1illiam Lowe inaugurate a revolving series of scholarships and fel­ Bryan Scholarship and f'ellowship Fund, and co-spon­ lowships to aid dese rving students. In this way, the sorship of a grant for graduate study and research in fund will constitute a perpetual memorial to Dr. Bryan real estate and land economics. and the se rvices he has rendered the University. "The Bryan gift is an unusual one, but illustrates Membership in the Foundation falls into two classes: very well the purposes for which the Foundation was founders and councillors. COllncillors are chosen for organized," said \t\1illiam A. Alexander, '0[ , Univer­ one-year terms from interested persons in the various sity librarian and member of the Foundation's board of states who cooperate in furthering the purposes of the directors. "An important objective of the Foundation Foundation. The principal donors who contribute or is to sponsor publications in the a rts, and no more fit­ pledge one thousand dollars or more are known as ting object could be found than thi s book by President founders. Emeritus Bryan," Mr. Alexander continued. He added The present list of founders includes George A. Ball; that the book would be di splayed in the University Mr. and Mrs, 'William "IV. Black (Mary Jane Daily, library, and that an autographed copy would be secured AM'2S) ; Dr. Willis D . Gatch, '01; the late Dr. Fred­ for the library's collec- eric R. Henshaw, DDS special '26 ; Uz McIvIurtrie, '08; Dr. William Lowe Bryan tion of the works of Albert L. Rabb, ' 14; the late William H. ScheiAey, '01. H oosier authors. A M'03; and Clair H. Scott, LLB'17. Farewells is now 0 11 The Foundation hopes to stimulate alumni and other sale at the L. S. Ayres friends of education to make gi fts which shall be useful Company, Indianapolis, over a broad field; to fmance research, to subsidize and at the Indiana scholarly publications, endow visiting pro fesso rships, University Bookstore, hold patents, and offer other forms o f aid. Bloomington. Alumni Directors of the Foundation are \Villialll Lowe may secure mail order Bryan, '84 (AM'86, hon LLD'37) ; George A. Ball; copies through the Uni­ Palll V, McNutt, '[3, hon LLD'33 ; Hugh .McK. Lan­ versity Bookstore in clon, hon LLD'3J; Wendell L. Wilkie, 'I3, LLB'16; tim e for Christmas Ora A. Wildermuth, LLB'06; Uz Mc1\tIurtrie, '08; presen ta tion, John S. Hastings, LLB'24; Albert L. Rabb, '14; Clair Chartered two and H . Scott, LLB'I7; Ward G. Biddle. '16: and William one-hal f years ago to A. Alexander, 'or.

)0 The D ece mb er 1938 "Farewells": A Book Review President Emeritus Bryan's Latest Book Contains Addresses, Columns, and Reminiscences

by ALTA BRUNT S EMBOWER, '01

HERE are men who not only represent institu­ few changes made in them since they were delivered­ T tions. but who nre those institutions. Jowett for that these are the words of a great man and philosopher fi tty years \\·as Balliol to the men of that college; Arnold whom they were permitted to know first-hand. for fourteen years was Rugby to the English school­ Every alumnus and every student of Indiana Univer­ boy; Eliot for a stretch of fifty-six years was Har­ si ty will want this book. It is the voice of the campus. vard: Mark Hopkins for thirty-six years was vVilliams The excerpts from the "President's Column," published College. for so long in the Daily Student, and addressed infor­ For thirty-five years William Lowe Bryan was Indi­ mally to the student body, are delightful. ranging from ana University. \Nhen he tells us about those years. it is humorous understanding to heartfelt advice. Dr. Bryan as if the towers and the stones and the paths 0 f the had an eye for many lines of endeavor in student life. Indiana campus speak. Such wGrds are precious, the He knew the athlete. He observed the budding journal­ more so because Dr. Bryan speaks the language of the ist. He knew a great many things which the students present and not of the past. The humanity of the man, did not suppose that he knew. Every college president hi s humor, his innate integrity, and his individual phi­ does. Now it can be told-and it is told charmingly and losophy a re apparent behind the dignity and authority sympathetically. These excerpts are from columns not of the president emeritus. included in any former volume. Glance at them, and Reading hi s words, we understand why the Univer­ you may recall the day that you first read them in the sity grew during his administration from a struggling Student. pioneer educational institution into a great state univer­ To quote from Farewells would be to choose among sity. Vve understand why graduates of Indiana Uni­ thoughts appealing to as many different types of mind versi ty ha ve carried everyw·here certain habits 0 f appli­ as there are students in a university. Dr. Bryan was cation, adaptability, thoroughness, and final achieve­ president of all his students. You must find yourself ment associated with the name of Hoosier. There is among those to whom he wrote this book. A glance at usually a man behind such things. That man was \Vil­ some of the author's captions above the excerpts from Jiam Lowe Bryan. his columns suggests what he talked about to his chil­ The title of Dr. Bryan's book is Farewells, but the dren as he calls these students 0 f volume constitutes only a beginning of his rich remi­ From the Book niscences of those years in which he served the Univer­ the present and "Times without number as you a no the past: "Can I I have swiftly passed On the call1pus sity as president. On the last page one almost expects you ha ve given me a word and a look to find "to be continued," for Dr. Bryan has only tapped Admit the Truth of good fellowship of which nothing in bronze or on canvas can be the a vein of which his readers will clamor to have more. about Myself?"; rival."-Letter to the Class of 1923. The reminiscences forming the third section of the "Shakespeare in "The only Americanism in which I believe is an Americani sm wbich pro­ book a re newly written. Dr. Bryan was working on / World Politics"; tects the reality of free s peech and does not leave it as a clinker in the Consti­ them when the other sections were in proof. No doubt. "Idealists"; "My tution."-The President's Column. as he worked, other insistent memories rose to mind. Secret Dread"; "I have attended, in all, sixty-four Commencements at I ndiana Univer­ Friends of the University will not be content until these "Why Do You sity. We boys used to rusb for the seats on the front row as soon as the are also put on record. Not Use Snuff?"; doors were opened on the great day. "To One vVho Is Our tenancy was brief. Out we had to Classes between 1919 and 1937 will be reminded of go at the command of that English­ on the Verge of born head janitor and sole janitor, their commencements by the President's addresses pub­ Thomas Spicer, of beloved memory. li shed in the first section of Farewells. They will recall Making an After­ Then if he was too busy elsewhere to oust us again we sat on the steps of the clear accents of the President's voice as he spoke to Dinner Speech" ; the platform directly under the Niag­ ara of oratory poured over us from them on that momentous day. They will realize as they "There Is a Green above. "-Reminiscences. read these addresses in cold print-and there have been (Cont'd on p. 25)

INDIANA ALUMNI MAGAZINE 11 The Foreign Missionary Today

by HERRICK B. YOUNG, '25 Secretary, Presbyterian Board of Foreigil l11issions

A group of Korean nurses and an American missionary celebrate Christmas in Taiku, Chosen

"BUT I thought a foreign missionary spent his time Marie E. Cash, '35, American iVIission, Sialkat City, sitting under a palm tree surrounded by a semi­ Punjab, India. circle of naked 'heathen' who listened patiently to his Mrs. Paul H. Schmucker (Rhetta Foote,'24), Meth­ reading of the Bible in order to receive the bread and odist Mission, Klang, Federated Malay States. rice which he held in the other hand," remarked a friend Howard A. Bosler, NID'3 I, Medical Missionary, Garkida, Via Jos, Nigeria, British West Africa. of college days after hearing some of my own experi­ Edward W. (Ted) Mumby, '21, AM'27, Lucknow ences in the missionary college in Teheran, the capital Christian College, Lucknow, India. of Iran, where I spent ten fascinating years. Alva Miller, ex'q, Y.M.C.A. Secretary, Jerusalem, It may be somewhat of a shock to realize how times Palestine. have changed in the field of foreign missions as \vell as Dr. William A. P. j"'Iartin, '46 (died I916). Peking, in everything else. To understand how varied and in­ China. teresting the work of the modern foreign missionary is, Ted Mumby ("I" man in wrestling and football) has one need only look down the following li st of Indiana wrestled his way into the hearts of countless students University alumni who are endeavoring to bring ideals in India who have learned from him far more than as well as ideas into a world that is disillusioned about the physical training which they so greatly needed and many of its old traditions and so sad ly needs "peace on which he has so ably given. Dr. and Mrs. Herman earth. good will toward men": Wylie and Dr. Wylie's sister, Martha, by their medical Martha E. Wylie, ' 21, GN'24, Presbyterian Mission, work in China have won an enviable reputation as they Shantung. China. have healed the sick and brought relief and comfort to Dr. and Mrs. John Herman Wylie (Mary Edith thousands who did not have access to fine medical care Bushnell ), both 'IO, American Presbyterian Mis­ such as \-ve enjoy in this country. sion, Peiping, China. Perhaps nothing could be more appropriate as an Ralph D. vVellons, '14, AM'24, President, LucknolV explanation of "what missionaries are like" than a Christian College, Lucknow. India, and Mrs. \VeJ­ Ions (vVillafred Howe \i\lellons, 'IS). paragraph written by one of our Presbyterian foreign B. NIay Bailey, '12, Dean of a Methodist girls' school missionaries not long ago in commenting on just this in Tokyo, Japan (now in Indiana on furlough ). subject: Mrs. Herbert F. Kuehn (Mabel Harb, '24), Metho­ "Here is a job that not only gives scope for but dist Mission, Seremban, Federated Malay States. demands all one's knowledge, both rational and intui­ Mrs. Wilbur Lyon (Mary Alice Kirby, 'IZ), Ameri­ tive, the exercise of every ability that the entire per­ can Presbyterian Missions, Vengurla, India. sonality can muster. The call comes from every Herbert E. Dester, MD·26. ~IedicaJMi ss ionary. quarter. The mi ssionary is almost unique in this: he I3asna Via Raigarh. India. has access to all classes of (Continued on page 26) ]2 The December 1938 For Alumnae Only c./II1id -Terms Fail to Slacken Co-ed Tempo, as Campus Women Edit World's Greatest College Daily

by H ELEN WEATHERWAX, '39 Editor, T he Indiana Daily St1ld('J1t

H'i semiannual scourge of mid-terms during No­ N \'.\ jobs, or are employed in domestic work, office po­ T \'ember, with students pagi ng wi ldl y th rough neg­ sitions, as waitresses in dormitories, or as clerks, teach­ lected textbooks, crowding library reference rooms, ers, a nd tuto rs. and doubling sorority " quiet" hours, served to slacken A !nong the ma ny new women students on the campus for only a short time the whirl of co-ed activities on the this semester are a number from other countries. Laura campus. de !\rce, graduate student from Uruguay, is attending Perhaps the prime highlight of the month was the the University on a Latin American fellowship given announcement that Thanksgiving vacation would be by the American Association o f University \i\Tomen. A extended two days, reversing a decision made last year. former professor of universal history in the normal Co-eds who had attempted to solace themselv es against institute of Montevideo and once a law student in that the long holiday in "Gloomington" by planning im­ city, Miss de Arce chose 1.U. because "it is a cultural promptu festivities cast aside plans for sorority parties center typically American" and because of the presence and date dinners and joyfully pre­ here of Dr. E. H. Sutherland, so­ pared fo r a four-day feasting and ciology department head with an \\'ardrobe replenishing "back on international reputation in sociol­ the farm." ogy and criminology. Chief social events of the tur­ Ellen Taylor, sixteen-year-old key month included such things as freshman from Honolulu, came to pledge dances where sorority Indiana for pre-medic work be­ freshmen-after having prepared cause it is the alma mater of her the dance fl oor and hung the deco­ father, T homas L. Taylo r, MD'08, rations-were feted with frog now a physician in the Islands. hops, snow frolics, gridiron grap­ Hilda and Maria Sabrino, fresh­ ples, and kindergarten capers, to men from Puerto Rico, were told name but a few. And then there by other Puerto Ricans that 1.U. were the sorority tea dances, with was an excellent institution for timid freshmen being swept off initiation into the ways of modern their fe et by bold fraternity upper­ co-eus. So far they like most the classmen, bashful male pledges freedom and friendliness o f their leaning nonchalantly (?) on the campus neighbors. victrola, bored senior co-eds seek­ ing escape, crowds around the The Mere Male Is Dispensed \'fIith Mrs. George Coop~r (Mable Bottsford, punch bowl, and the blare of a ex'91) writes of the Hoosier Poet . .. "By women o nl y!" was the slo­ s\\' ingy Dorsey record, A ll this gan which served one day late in served to brighten Saturday afternoons with " nothing November to drive away the masculine element usually else to do but study" now that football is over. involved in writing and editing the Fndia.lla Daily Stu­ dent. Membe rs of Theta Sigma Phi. professional jour­ But Not All Is Fun nalism sorority. decided to go it alone for a clay and. Thus far the picture is too frivolous, and not all co­ \\'ith the exception of one column-"View :Masculine" eds are spending their spare time in the aforementioned on the ed itorial page-co-eels on the staff put out the manner, according to reports from the employment di­ entire paper. The ladies of the press even covered the yision of the dean o f women's office. More than ten per Indiana-Purdue game, and the annual gridiron banquet cent of the University's eighteen hundred co-eds have hono ring the \·arsity. [,acuity (Colitililled on pa.r;e 25)

INDIANA ALUMNI MAGAZINE 13 o f a nea r-ca mpus booth-and-table spot comp la ined that his lig~t bill for the mon th woul d be down h fteen doll a rs, because of an increase o f study, or something. O ver in the library, earnest research­ ers had less difficulty fi nding seats. re­ sult of a retracted organi zation house a Campus rulin o' that a ll a ffili a ted freshmen m ust b . I study in the "libe" when not JIl C ass. News Digest Asked by the Daily Stlfdent a nd the P res id ent's office to finel a way out, the f ra ternities and sororities publ ished a li st o f classrooms vacant for an hour or two on some days, to which orga ni zed f rosh mi ght now repa ir. F rom a ny poi nt on the campus. dur­ ing those last few days be fore the O ld Oaken B ucket ttlt. could be hea rd the cadenced chant of the g reen-ca pped The University first-vea r men a s they strode to classe;; pacil{g o ft' ten steps. then shouting "Beat Purdue!" The cha nt even went in November 0 11 the the air lanes. as the U niversity'S radio staff essayed one o f its regular question-and-answer broadcasts from The Month in Brief speakers, and both parties were repre­ the Commons, only to be drowned out sented in convocati on addresses. Mean­ HE eleventh month. the month of by the a nti-Lafayette spirit. . while, va rious off-campus local patri­ turkey dinners, electIOns, the first A t about this time. the L U . va rsIty T otic g roups had protested a proposed snow fall mid-terms. the P urdue game, deba te team de fea ted the U ni ve rsity o f pre-election meeting o f the Comlllunist and Day, found the U niver­ M ichigan team in the fi rst campus ~Bl g Art~i s ti ce pa rty, occasioning the D ai/yStude1/t to sity active in a ll these events- and Ten argument of the yea r. O n the (on­ bristl e about civ il hbertles 111 a f ront­ more. fe rence question. "Resolved, that the page editoria l. F or days th.erea fter, the Pre-election N ovemiJe r opened with U nited States should form an a lhance student daily was filled with letters to a blue fall haze in the a ir, and, during with Great Britain." the varsity took the editor, both pro and con on the sub­ the first few days, forest fires were the affirmative and won a SJ6-29 audi­ ject, as student attention was ca lled to smouldering a n d b urning a.round ence decision over the vi stors. the B ill o f R ights. Bloomington. S tudents on th.elr way Then, two nights before the Purdue Carne then A rmistice D ay w ith its to Indianapoli s could see. by I1Ight, the game, student spirit fl ared agalll.lI1 ~he long necklace o f tire hlazinR across the freedom from classes, the long blu e lin e aJlnual pep meet!l1g. Led by a city hre hills north o f town. o f the KO.T .e. r eview, a nd a n add ress truck with wide-open sire Jl , the student by Dr. H a ns Leonhardt, o uste:1 by Then poli tics took the center of the c rowd o f jolly mourners w ho hacl come Nazis from the Free City o f Dan Zig. In to bury ( not to p ra ise) O ld J a wn Pur­ stage in the fi rst week 0 f the month. hi s A lumni Hall talk, Dr. L eonha rdt The cam pus Young Repubhcan Club, due filed across the ca mpus to the made a plea for rearmam en~ and lead­ ya WIling g ra ve .op~ned in the sod n e ~ ~ ever on the alert for innovations, even ershi p in world affairs by thIS country. went so fa r as to sc hedule a political the ca nlpfire butlt 111 front o f the men ,., T he date for the second home game gym. Tha t same night some l11ysten­ rallv without speeches, and with re­ o f the year- TU. vs. Iowa-was desig­ fre;hments ! T he J acksoll Club heard its ous agent pa inted the ha te ful symbol. nated as "Dads' Day," and fa thers o f "P.U.," on severa l ca mpus btllldll1gs. U nive rsity students and va rsity men Dads' Day Officers were on hand to see the Cream a nd Verne K. Harvey, ' 27, MD'29 Rothrock Kunkel, and Minton (left Crimson turn back the H a wkeyes. Dad~ to right) head new association His division gets a new home registered in the the morning, to~r e d the camp us, and met fo r lunch to to nn a perma nent Dads' Day ASSOC ia tion. E lected were :Willia m A. K unkel. ' 16. F t. Wayne publisher a nd U niversity trustee, as president; U.S,. Sena t ~ r S herman lvIinton, LLB'IS, vice-p resI­ dent : and Dr. David A . H.o throck, '92, A M '93, fanner director of ad missions, secreta ry (see cut). An a ward went to D r. Rothrock as the oldest dad p resent. A lone' about now mention should be made ot' mid-term ex a ms. nearly ob­ scured by the ri si ng tide o f U ni ve rsity spirit against the a ppr oac hlll ~' game with P urdue. But the q UIz e ft' ect wa~ potent a nd far-reaching, and one owner

Th e Dec l'1JIb e 1' 1 938 first floor, and the basement will be campus. (Reprinted from the Indian­ given over to the vital statistics di­ apolis Star.) vision and the shipping department. A Shingle by shingle, board by board. food and drug laboratory will be lo­ They tear her down, Assembly Hall. cated on the second fl oor, and an a ud i­ Despised and ancient though she be, torium on the third. Shall we in silence let her fall? Dr. Verne K. Harvey, '27, MD'29 Her rafters r;lIlg with shouts of joy (see cut), director of th e Indiana Di­ From frenzied throngs who came to see vision of Public Health, describes the One team emerge state champion erection of the building as an impor­ And celebrate their victory. tant milestone in the history of both the Upon her stage Maude Adams knew state health department and the School Those things that every woman knows: of Medicine. Dr. Ernest Rupel, '17, Here Otis Skinner sought for love. MD'r8, and Dr. William \Vise. lVrD'16, And fouod, alas, a crimson rose. are also members of the State Board of Forbe's-RobertSO Il made Hamlet li\'e Health. Behind her footlights. Singers came; Principal and Former Students Ex-PreSidents her platform knew: The great she knew, and shared their fame. Arsenal Tech head H. H . Anderson Principal-Freshman '11, AM'29, confers with I.U. freshme~ Conference And now, forgotten. save by one. Her by-gone glories mine to tell, and rUl110r had it that on the campus at S ix hundred University freshmen One mourner drops a single tear P urdue, one hundred miles away, there had a chance to sit down and talk things In memory. r\ nd so-farewell I appeared the r.U. monogram. chi seled over (see cut) with their high sc hool A1HlfVH B . LEIBLE. '15, AM'r6. by a master hand in the turf of the grid­ principals at the second annual P rinci­ A ssistant Professor of English. Jron. pal-Freshmen Conference held on the _ Came next the Purdue game at La­ campus November 7. One hundred and ((Marching Hundred" tayette, the roads black with students twenty-eight school administrators at­ Goes East tended the meeting, and conferred with and other r.U. folks 011 the biennial "That in comparable band" was how hegira to the camp of the enemv. The thei r former students to make the tran­ sition from high school to coll ege a less Gerald F . Coughlin, president of the result is, unfortunately, history. Re­ Boston College A lUl1lni Associa tion, turning studen ts settled clown for a few difficult one. A ll morning long students filed into deSCribed the "Marchino' H undred" days' work before Thanksgiving vaca­ when it played there in co~nec tiol1 with tIOO. la tely extended by the trustees to the new Laboratory School to meet and talk with their home town school heads, the r.U-Boston ColIege football game three days in stead of one. on November 5. T urkey-stuffed, the nve thousand re­ and in the afternoon and even in g prin­ All Boston agreed that the Hoosier turned to a snow-covered campus, to Cipals gathered for "shop ta lk." "Our band ~vas tops, and Hub City papers take up where they had left off. Scut­ educational system has 'watered' its went II1tO columns of praise after the tling back and forth to classes, with academic program to permit students band had tied UD traffic on staid Com­ overcoats buttoned up against the chill ""'ho cannot profit by training in aca­ monwealth Av~nue. which had wit­ e nd-of- the-month winds whistl ing demic scholarship to enter college," the principals were told by Dr. F rancis T. nessed only five parades before in its through the bare trees, students had three-century hi story. scarcely time to pause and note that S paulding, of the Harvard University ,\ ssembly Hall was nearly level with school of ed uca tion, the speaker for the Carrying well over a hundred men, th e ground, or that huge wooden occasion. and two movie photographers to record the musical triumph on University frames marked the corners of the soon­ A Dream and Two Trees to-be-constructed men's dorms near fi 1m, the band made the trip East i;1 South Ha ll and of the proposed audi­ The joi nt dream of the late John VI'. four chartered busses, escorted from torium south of the Fieldhouse. Cravens, '97, AM'20, University regis­ trar for forty-two years, and of his Bay State Invasion New Board of Health Building friend, Nathan R. Smith, ex'oI, Min­ "Marching Hundred" struts down Construction started recently on the neapolis, was realized on November 12 Commonwealth Avenue new $325,000 Indiana State Board of when two trees were planted on the Health B uil ding on the Medical Cen­ campus. ter campus in indianapolis. The first "On my annual visits to Blooming­ structure for this purpose to be lo­ ton," NIr. Smith recently wrote Presi­ cated on the campus of a universitv dent H . B Vlfell s, "John Cravens and I medical center, the new building will talked of planting a tree just because ofter the School of Medicine direct ac­ we love the campus and because it is a cess to the state health program as a beautiful way to be remelllbered. Now, source of tra ining in the lield of public John has passed on but because of a ll r health. Ilmeal izecl hopes it would be proper The building, a three-story-and­ that these two trees [a hickory and a basement structure, will harmonize in sycamore]. both native to Indiana, be appearance with the new Clinical planted on the most beautiful colleo'e Building. It will be of reinforced con­ campus in America." h crete. with Ind iana limestone trim and a buff brick finish. T he interior will be Sic Transit Gloria Campi of glazed til e. Administrative ofnces Lines written upon the tearing down of the state department \\·ill occupy the of old Assembly Hall on the University

EDIANA ALUMXI :'IAGAZr~T E 15 tary read iJ1 g. include volumes by Ra­ cine, Moliere, Daudet, Hugo. Lamar­ tine, and Sand, and form the hrst con­ tribution offered sin ce the department made an appeal for aid in creating a de­ partmen tal library. School of Dentistry News Results of recent aptitude tests given to the present freshman class show that this group has earned higher grades in the quiz than any other beginning class since the tests were inaugurated seven years ago. Dr. Gerald D. Timmons, DDS'25, acting dean, is a new trustee of the American Dental Association. On P; 0­ Bradford Gives Farm Deed to Wells vember 9, Dean Timmons was on the John W. Bradford (center) hands the deed for his country home to President H. Bloomington campus to confer infor­ B Wells. At left is Hugh McK. Landon, hon LLD'31; on right, ma lly with undergraduates on the prob­ S. C. Kivett, ex'06, and Samuel D. Miller lems confronting students entering the School of Dentistry. state to state by especially assigned ral history and wildli fe and a splendid Continuing the monthly spec ial highway police. Way points included opportunity for future geologists. courses offered bv the School for N ia gara Falls, Lexington and Concord, alumni and other 'Indiana practicing and the first glimpse of the ocean (and Journalism Conference dentists, the December course will be the inevitable shore dinner) which devoted to ceramics and will be con­ Eleven alumni were among tbe half many 0 f the Hoosier bandsmen had ducted by Dr. William E. Kennedy, a hund red newsmen of the state pres­ ever had. Historic Boston Common DDS'25, and Dr. Robert J. Meyers, ent for a journalism conference on the rang with the martial music of the DDS'28, both faculty members teach­ campus November 11 and T2. The famed marching unit, as Bostonian ing that subject. meeting, sponsored jointly by the Uni­ candid cameramen had a field day. An versity department of journalism and November Degrees Awarded open-air radio broadcast preceded the the Hoosier State Press Association, band's appearance at the Boston game, included round tables on country corre­ To 304 University students went aca­ where the Indiana musicians went on spondence, local features, and account­ demic degrees on November ro. ac­ to repeat the triumph of the same or­ ing. Faculty members sat in to answer cording to an announcement of the ganization at Harva rd in T926, when newsmen's questions on their special­ Board of Trustees. This brings the the "Marching Hundred" was dubbed ties. Speakers at the d inner on N ovem­ total number of 1938 graduates up to the "best college band in the land." ber II were Tom \Vallace, editor of [,292. November g raduates are counted the Louisville Times, and Basil \i\fal­ as members of the June class, although, Bradford Farm to University ters. ex'18. editor of the Minneapolis because of technicalities or delays in Star. (Co l1til1l1ed on page 24) A 2,800-acre farm overlooking the Alumni to register in the Signa White River valley near Martinsville Delta Chi den included Scott Cham­ I ndiana to the Sea was recently given to the University by bers, '30, and Walter S. Chambers, University Bandsmen visit J ohn W. Bradford. ninth-generation "Old Ironsides" ex'93, both 0 f the Newcastle Courier·· descendant of Governor \iVilliam Brad­ Times; Rolland A. Brodhecker,'21, ford, of the old Plymouth colony. Salem Banner: \i\1alter H. Crim, '02, Buildings o f the farm will be used Salem Republican-Leader,' Joseph W. eventually by the Riley Hospital for Spriggs, ex'35. Indiana University Children, perhaps for convalescent pa­ Press; Albert Aronson, ex'08, Louis­ tients, and nine hundred acres of tim­ ville Tit/us; Doyle W. Oursler, '38, ber and mineral (moulding sand) lands Cynthiana Argus; William A. Kun­ adjoin the homestead. kel, ' 16, Ft. /\IVayne Journal-Gazette; Mr. Brad ford retains the rigbt to George VI . Purcell, '09, AM'ro, and occupy the house-a three-story resi­ \Nilliam Miller, ex'28, both of the dence made from bricks manufactured Bloomington World,' Paul Feltus, Oil the farm-during his lifetime. ex'21, Bloomington Star; and Ella There are also several service build­ Grames, ex'33, Clay City N e7.US. ings for heating plants, wa ter systems, and living quarters. Dean Mueller Donates Books Saying that the gift is "anotber of those generous demonstrations of char­ Dr. Kate H. i'vI ueller, dea n of women, itable inclination s by Indiana peopk recently donated twenty-eight French concerned with the welfare of chil­ books frOIll her personal library to the dren," President H. B 'Wells pointeu reading rOOI11 0 f the depa rtment 0 f out that the donation offers a location French. according to the Daily Student. for hea ling the sick and studying natu ­ The books, to be used for supplemen­

16 The D ecember 19 38 "Meeting Called to Order" c/flumni Club News from All Points of the November Compass

Chicago Cleveland informal get-together after the 1. U.­ E N of the Indiana University Graduates and former students liv­ Boston College game. More informa­ tion on the meeting and the Cream and Club of Chicago met for luncheon ing in the Cleveland area will be inter­ M Crimson invasion of Boston is found in on November I4 in the restaurant of a ested to know that the Big Ten Club there has been reorganized. Once a communication from W . C. Mattox, Loop department store. George F. ex'ag, printed in the "Letters" column Heighway, alumni secretary, was pres­ boasting I,SOO members, the club is again on the upgrade, and plans lunch­ on page I. ent, and informal discussion centered eons every Wednesday noon, with a New York City around the INDIANA ALUMNI MAGA­ speaker, a piano player, college songs, P resident Emeritus William Lowe ZTNE and varsity football. Twenty and the fellowship of Big Ten men. Bryan was the speaker at a luncheon members of the organization attended Younger college men are invited to attended by thirty-three New York the luncheon. make new friends and obtain knowl­ alumni on November IS. Charles Ben­ edge of local conditions, according to New Orleans plans of the club, and an employment zel, '27, president of alumni in Man­ From 'way down yonder in New Or­ bureau will be operated for Big Ten hattan, presided and introduced Dr. leans came a request from Oran Raber, alumni residing in Cleveland. Bryan, according to a report of the '12, for LU. song sheets and yells to The Cleveland organi zation has al­ meeting sent by Curtis Holton, '26. use at the Big Ten Universities Club ready secured LU. songs and name "Dr. Bryan's short, in formal talk in­ annual banquet on November 19. lists, and l.v. alumni in that city are cluded a few reminiscences of his Hoosier alumni "pitched in" with other urged to consider the club. P resident earlier days as president, and his ex­ is Carl F . Olson, 600 Leader Building, Midwestern Con ference graduates and pressions of admiration for and con­ Cleveland. fidence in President Wells," Mr. Hol­ former students and each university Cleveland alumni should also keep in had its own cheer leader and fight mind the LV. banquet to be held at the ton wrote. songs. Mr. Raber, who is with the Statler Hotel in their city on February Dr. Bryan was in New York also for Southern Forest E xperiment Station in 27, in connection with the convention the meeting of the trustees of the Car­ the Federal Department of Agricul­ of the American Association of School negie Foundation for the Advancement ture, reports that the Big Ten group in Administrators. of Teaching. the Crescent City numbers about five Boston Indianapolis Men hundred members. New E ngland and New York alumni The annual banquet of the Indiana Milwaukee met in Boston on November 5 for an University Club of Indianapolis for the "This meeting was unusually su (' ­ varsity football squad and the coaches cessful," reads the report from the will be given on \lVednesday, December Milwaukee Alumni Club fall gather­ 7. Governor A. B. (Happy) Chandler, ing held at Cape Cod Inn on Octo­ Alumni Club Schedule of Kentucky, will be the principal speaker at the dinner, scheduled to be­ ber 28. "Claude Rich ['29, Alumni Indianapolis (Men)-Eve'rY Monday Association field secretary] ga ve us a noon, Columbia Club gin at 6 :30 p.m. at the Indianapolis fine talk which was beneficial to the President, ALLEN W ARNE, '25 Athletic Club. Tickets are two dollars IvIilwaukee alumni as well as to LU.," 6270 P ark Avenue per plate. A meeting to select new officers of the report concludes. Chicago-Tuesday noons, Harding Officers of the club for the coming Restaura nt. Fair Store, corner the "I" Men's Association has been year are George Teter, 'oS, president; Dearborn and Adams scheduled for 4 :45 p.m. of the same Thomas Holmquest, '37, vice-presi­ President, JAMES C. KIPER, '32 day, according to Leroy Sanders, ex'os, dent; and Mrs. R. J. Holthouse (Doris 35 E. Wacker Drive, Room 776 president of the lettermen's organiza­ May Kirk, '29), secretary. South Bend-Every Monday noon, tion. This meeting will also be held at The fall meeting was in charge of Y.M.C.A. ' the Indianapolis Athletic Club. H. W. Donovan, '23, and speakers in­ President, CHARLES HAHN, LLB'32 f cluded Justus Castleman, '00; Harold 1237 Longfellow Notice , Strow, '24 ; Charles H . Skinner, '13, T erre Haute-First Tuesday of each All club secretaries or presidents are PhD'2S; and William Conrad, '06. month, 6 p.m., Deming Hotel urged to send in reports of their local Among the many others in attend­ President, NORMA N BIVIN, ex'27 Indiana University meetings for publi­ ance were Mrs. H. \lv . Donovan 1640 Second A ve nUe cation in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. (Thelma M. Morgan, ex'24) ; Mrs. C. Vlashington, D.C.-Every vVednes­ Please give full particulars, indicating H . Skinner (Alma S. Boots, ex'IS) ; day, 12 :30 p.m., New Yo rk Ave­ place of meeting, date of next get­ Kenneth Browne, '32; E velyn Conrad, nue Child's Restaurant together. special guests present, and '37; Mrs. George Teter (Ruth E. Smith, Prcs':dent, JOHN J. REI N H A RD, '06, names of all alumni who attended. Spe­ ex'ro); John E. Habbe, '21, MD'23; LLB'07 cial forms for listing this information George Givan, 'IS; Emma Force, '23; 3213 Foxhall R o;,d a re a vaila ble at the alumn i office, and and Robert J. Holthouse, '36. will be sent upon application.

INDIANA ALUMNI MAGAZINE 17 AluIllni Authors 'l\eviews and Books Written by Graduates, Former Students, and Faculty Members

With the Red Cross in Ellrope, 1917­ opened to the author by reason 0 f his ers. the author has not there fore al­ 1922. By the late ERNEST P. BICIZ­ status as a dispenser of relief in the lowed herself the lu xury of an agree­ NELL, '87, Vice-Chairman in Charge war-devastated areas, it is much more able sloth in details of style and histori­ of Insular and Foreign Operations, than a recital of Red Cross operations. caI accuracy. T he American Red Cross. (Wash­ His friend and associate, Dr. John Although the historical machinery of ington: The American National Red van Schaick, Jr., says in a prefatory the novel is ample and skillfully con­ Cross. 1938. Pp. xii, 506. Illustrated. "Appreciation": "Ernest Bicknell was trived, it in no wi se encumbers the sim­ $1.5 0 .) one of the most delightful of compan­ ple and rapid narrative. The hero of the ions and coll eagues. He had had many book is Red Hugh O'Donnell, a met­ THIS volume follows and supple­ human contacts and experiences and he tlesome youth of fifteen, in whom mem­ ments Pioneering with the Red Cross wrapped them all around with a gentle bers of the powerful cla n of O'Donnell and In War's Wake, 1914-1915. It re­ tolerance and kindly humor. And to an see a potentially great leader in their cites events in an epochal period of hi s­ unusual degree, the physical appear­ struggle against the iron regime of dep­ tory in which the author, born near allce of this man told exactly what he uty rulers appointed for II-eland by Vincennes and g radua ted from Indiana was. He was over six feet tall. His Queen E lizabeth. S ir John Perrot, University, played a highly important hair very early had turned snow-white. whose tenure as Governor in Ireland part. Serving under the banner of the His movements, always unhurried, extended from 1584 to 1588, contrives Red Cross from the San Francisco ca­ were characterized by a dignity in the capture and imprisonment in Dub­ tastrophe 0 f 1906 until his death, Sep­ which self-importance never appeared, lin of young H ugh and Art O'Neill, son tember 29, 1935, he originated a tech­ because it never existed in the slightest of another Irish chieftain. With the nique of relief which served as a model degree. There was not a mean, a small, aid of a pretty Irish colleen, the boys to other Red Cross societies over the a selfi sh hair in hi s head." escape from their prison and flee across world. It is the account of this dispens­ The volume presents many interest­ Ireland, pursued by E nglish soldiers ing of relief which fills the pages of With ing and unusual illustrations; it is beau­ and weakened by starvation and hard­ the Red Cross in Europe. It concerns it­ ti fully printed and promises to hold a ship. Hugh finally reaches his home, self chiefly with the American commis­ prominent place in the vVorlci War lit­ where he is elected to the honorary title sions in Albania, Austria. Belgium, erature. \Vhat might have been a mere of The O'Donnell. Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, recital of facts comes vividly to life un­ Historical characters are revitalized Greece, H ungary, Italy, Montenegro, der the deft touch of the author, who with a sure arti stry. Red Hugh, who Poland, Rumania. Russia. and Serbia. was a trained journalist. was in fact a famous leader in Irish his­ The foreword states: "It is evident VI/ALTER S. GARD, ex'o2. tory. appears in this book as an impetu­ that the story of all these commissions A merican Red Cross, ous and somewhat gullible youth, whom could not be accounted within the brief National Headquarters. the harsh servitude of Ireland and his limits of this volume. Some have been Washington, D.C. OWI1 luckless captivity hasten to a ma­ given far greater space tha n others, turity full of burning promise for the either because the material in the notes + + + furtherance of the Irish cause. In the was more voluminous or because the R ed Hugh of Ireland. By MRS. JEAN­ capacity of an Elizabethan adminis­ work seemed 0 f greater importance. NETTE COVERT NOLAN, of Indianap­ trator. S ir John Perrot. who sits for The material was to be found only in olis. Illustrations by RICHARD BEN­ the initial portrait of the book, is gruffly notes, diaries, and letters. in scattered NETT. (New York: Harper and convincing, with his rugged physique. records and in the Red Cross files." Brothers, Publishers. 1938. Pp. his patriotic nostalgia for England, and This posthumous volume was edited by his loquacious parrot, the gift of a sea 250. $2.) Mrs. Grace V. Bicknell, who was captain who had sailed on the Spanish closely associated with her husband MRS. NOLAN has dedicated her latest Main. throughout the stirring days of the novel to "all . . . young Americans Deft and rapid in portrayal of char­ World War and the years immediately who are proud of an Irish ancestry." acters, Mrs. Nolan writes in an English following the Armistice. She might have expanded her dec1ica­ unencumbered by vagueness or mere­ Students of the war which involved tion to embrace all readers, young and tricious adornment. The diction is the world from 1914 to 1918 and the re­ old, who, in a literary epoch rather too rapid and nervous in such passages as construction period which followed will exclusively occupied with sodden real­ those which recite the escape from find in this book a valuable fund of ism or morbid self-analysis, still relish prison and the flight across Ireland. anecdote and historical data which can­ a book that endeavors to recapture a T here a re absolutely none of those not be overlooked in securing an accu ­ fragment of the romantic past. Red pain f uI1y minute or fulsomely poetic rate picture of those years which a re Hugh of Ireland is a historical novel descriptions that repel the youthful influencing so greatly the present day ill that does not attempt to evade the aus­ reader and foster alacrity for skipping world affairs. Replete with intimate tere requirements of its genre; for in in the older. observations and quotations made pos­ keying her book to the taste of young A book should not be criticized too sible by the unique opportunities people rather than to that of thei r eld ­ severely for (Conti/wed 011 page 25)

]8 The December 1988 Fightin' Hoosiers

by GEORGE L. GARDKER, '34 Assistant to Director of A thletics

Herbert Gets Off for a Gain in the Bucket Tilt

Season Ends With Oaken Bucket Tilt and Football Banquet; Logan Named '39 Captain

ERHAPS the best way to start thi s ill the final Big Ten standing. The one J a mes Logan, I ndianapolis; James El­ Pa rticle on the close of the 1938 fo ot­ Con ference victory was o ver Iowa. lenwood, Ft. vVayn e : Ralph Huff. ball season is to quote Dr. 'William The record shows that under "Bo" Muncie: ancl John Janzaruk, LaPorte. Lowe Bryan. The short speech he McMillin. Indiana has won eighteen. Sophomore lettermen are Ray Brin­ made at the ba nquet on November 23 lost seventeen. and ti ed five games in gle and F loyd Tiplllore. both of Elk­ fi ve seasons. and th is was the fi rst los­ hart: Mike BucchiaTieri a nd Mike honoring the team is as follows : ing season since [934. In the eighteen Naddeo. both o f Monongahela . Pa.; "I wish to spea k to you who are not victories are ten Con ference wins. a Ray D umke and Frank S mith. both of on the team. Coach McMillin a nd hi s show ing topping that of any other In­ S t. Joseph. lV[ich.; Dwight Gahm, Lou­ men have given you a priceless lesson. diana coach fo r any regi me. isville, Ky.: Archie Harris, Ocean City. a better le sson than if they had won "Bo" and his " pore little boys" were N.J.; Eddie H erbert, Gary; R ussell every game. If they had \\ on every guests of honor at the annua l football Higginbotham. A nderson .: Harold game, the most weak and cowardly banquet g iven under the a uspices of Hursh, Middletown, Ohio; Cobb Tllan on the campus would be shouting the Men's U ni on. Dr. Matthew vVin ­ Lewis. Bicknell: Clee Maddox, Ko­ and cla iming for himself a part of their tel's. 1\B'15, AM' I7, of Indianapoli s. komo : Steve N agy, Whiting ; Joe victory. presid ent of the Alumni Associa ti on, Nicholson: E vansville; E ddie Rucin­ "But when the score was wrong, the was toastmaster, and introduced the ski , East Chicago; A l Sabol, Duquesne, weakling and co ward tu rned tai l and principal speaker, "Red" Barber, sports Pa.; Willia m Smith, Natrona Heights, forsook his comrades in their battle. announcer 0 f rad io station \tVL VV, Cin­ Pa.; J oe Tofil, Campbell, Ohio ; and They have tests over in the psychologi­ cinnati. Z. G. Cl evenger, ex'o4, Uni­ Emil Uremovich. Hobart. ca l laboratory-tests of in telli gence­ versity director of athletics, and Paul tests of character- but here was a test Graha m, '39, football captain, were Purdue 1J, Indiana 6 o f your manhood, and you know well also on the progra m. The Old Oaken Bucket remains at how you rate. You have your fortune A fter the reading a t the banquet of Purdue for another yea r, its lease re­ told. You kno\\>' what you will do in th e Jist of varsity awards for the [938 newed in the opening seconds of the the thick of the dangers which menace football squad, Robert H aak, Ham­ annual Indiana-P urdue game when the world. You will run to cover, leav­ monel, sen ior tackle, was voted the most Jack Brown, Purdue halfback, scam­ ing the fight to better men. or you will valuable player to the tealll lhis seaso;1. pered through the India na team to do as ou r coach and our men did in James Logan, now of Indianapolis and score a touchdown on the kickoff. every heart-breaking momen t of thc a former iVlorton High School (Rich­ A nd tha t proved to be the ma rgin of game." mond) star, was elected captain for victory. for the game ended with P ur­ T hose 0 f us who watched the team 1939. He is a junior and plays guard. due a Jon e touchdown ahead of the in ac tion week after week saw, through T he following men were a warded Cream and Crilllson. Indiana. instead the disappointments and di scourage­ letters: seniors-Ca ptain Paul Gra­ of faltering as so many expected, car­ ments, the moulding of a team spirit ham, E I Dorado, Kan.; Edwin Clasen. ried the battle to the Boilermakers, and and a di splay of team courage that is Ka nsas City. Kan.; R obert H aak. rema in ed the aggressor a ll afternoon, rarely exemplifi ed at India na. Hammond ; Vincent O liver. \i\,1hi ting.: with the exception of a brief lapse ill Frank Petrick, Youngstown, Ohio; the third qua rter. At that time, P ur­ What t he Record Book Shows Russell Sloss, Duquesne, P a. : \,Vi ll ia m due took adva ntage o f an Inciiana fUl11­ T o sum it all up, the F ightin' Stevens, Borger. T ex.; Robert Ste­ I)le to run and pass forty-three yards Hoosiers, a nd they were that, did not venson, Linton; and John \i\/idaman, for its second tOll chdown. ma ke an impressive record over the \Narsa\\·. The F ightin' Hoosiers were paced season's play, ending up in eighth place Juniors honored \\'ere Captain-elec t by a brilliant performance by the entire

I.'\DIANA ALUi\I:,\I ~I AGA ZIN E 19 line, ancl came through in the second were by more than one touchdown, and Keesport, Pa.; Charles \i\1hite, Craw­ half to march eighty yards for a touch­ those extra touchdowns were from in­ fordsville; Rex Wisehart, Anderson; down by Ray Dumke. In the final min­ tercepted passes in the closing minutes and Charles Yoponzo, Gary. utes of play the Crimson tried desper­ of the Illinois and Boston games. --0-­ ately to tally again by forward passes, Individual honors con ferred by sports but this bid was cut short by the gun. writers' selections to various mythic2.1 Ten Who Went Before Indiana had only one real scoring op­ "all-" teams went to Haak, Petrick. (Colltinued tram page 9) portunity in the Bucket classic, and Logan, and Graham. "Spanky" Haak lip in Dearborn County, Indiana, was took full advantage of it. was named to the Associated Press first Indiana played alert, aggressive Big Ten team, and the United Press chosen president. The Rev. :VIr. Moss was forty-six when elected, and left football, forcing Purdue at every turn. second squad. In addition, he was the presidency of a college in Chicago Even late in the game, when Purdue shi fted to guard position on the mythi­ took the ball on downs on the Indiana cal all-state grid eleven chosen by the to accept the LU. offer, continuing in office nine years. 22 after a barrage of Indiana passes Indianapolis Star. had failed to net a first down. the Boil­ Petrick, an end, was named to the Eighteen days before his thirty­ ermakers were unable to make any ap­ United Press first team in the all-Big fourth birthday, David Starr Jordan preciable gain, and Indiana took the Ten ranks, and placed on the second took office as seventh president of In­ ball again for the final attack. team of the Star's choice. Captain diana University on New Year's Day, r885. Born on a New York farm and Indiana 7, Iowa J educated at Cornell, Jordan taught Against Iowa. the Hoosiers gave at Lombard Co1!ege, the old Indian­ concrete evidence of their ability to apolis High School, and at Indiana be­ keep fighting under adverse circum­ fore being elevated to the presidency. stances, and overwhelmed a stubborn A world traveller and an authority on foe for LU.'s only Big Ten win. the biological sciences, Jordan had ex­ Three times Indiana was within two plored remote corners of the earth for yards of the Hawkeye goal line, but the United States Fish Commission. could not punch the ball across. But Some of the specimens he collected after Iowa had tallied a field goal in are still on display in Biology Hall on the fourth quarter, Indiana started its the Bloomington campus. Jordan left fourth bid, and was not to be turned Indiana in r891 to become the first back. president of the new Leland Stan ford Starting from the Indiana 20, and University in California. relying solely on forward passes tossed Although born in China, Indiana's to John Widaman, Eddie Herbert, and next president was the product of John Janzaruk, Indiana hit pay dirt on Hoosier schools. John M. Coulter was a pass to Herbert, and the final score graduated from Hanover Co1!ege at was Indiana 7, Iowa 3· nineteen, taught there and at Wabash Col1ege before assuming the presi­ Boston College 14, Indiana 0 James Logan, '39 dency of LU. when he was thirty-nine. Superior backfield talent and speed N ext year's football captain He served two years, resigning to be­ told the tale as Indiana bowed to an come president of Lake Forest College. undefeated Boston College eleven, 14 Graham and Captain-elect Logan both and later was a faculty member at the to 0, in an intersectional game played were listed on the Star's second team, University of Chicago. in the Hub City on November 5. The and Logan was given honorable men­ Joseph Swain taught at Indiana passing, running, and kicking of tion by the United Press. eight years following his graduation Charlie O'Rourke, Boston halfback, from the school, and left with Jordan offset the sparkling runs of Swede Frosh Numeral Winners Named to teach at Stanford. He was called Clasen and Floyd Tipmore to give the Freshman football squad members back across the country in 1893 to Easterners a win over a crippled Indi­ to be awarded numerals at the close of head Indiana, assuming office two days ana team. the season are: Leonard Alford, Gar­ before his thirty-sixth birthday. He rett; Dan Bassett, Elkhart; Alfred remained in the president's chair nine Wisconsin 6, Indiana 0 Bragalone, Campbell, Ohio; Ralph years, leaving to become head of At Madison, only the final gun Chambers, Norman Linne, James I\1Ic­ Swarthmore College. It was then that stopped an Indiana attack that had Cormick, Robert Marshall, and Rich­ William Lowe Bryan began his thirty­ harassed the Badgers continually. In­ ard Price, Indianapolis; J. C. Coffee, five-year presidency of the school. diana muffed two scoring chances Morganfield," Ky.; Ben Detterman, President Bryan was forty-one at the while \i\1isconsin was driving over its Warsaw; Mike Dumke, St. Joseph, time of his election in 1902. lone tally. The game ended with the Mich.; Vernon Erk, Richmond; Wil­ Under the leadership of Dr. Bryan. ball in Indiana's possession on the lard Hanson, Donald N uner, and the University made vast strides in Badger six-yard line after as thrilling Eugene White, South Bend; Russell equipment and enrollment, and when a rally as had been staged on the Wis­ Hardesty, Bloomington; Auburn Her­ Herman B \i\1ells was inaugurated elev­ consin gridiron in years. ron, Mishawaka; Everett Hoffman enth president last week he became and Dick Kaylor, Evansville; Oscar head of an institution of fi fty-three Summary and Mythical Teams Lange, Wabash; Ed ward Link, buildings and about seven thousand The season record shows that Indi­ Sharpsburg, Pa.; Jim McGuire, Kala­ different students studying each year ana won one game-Iowa, tied Ne­ mazoo, Mich.; Kenneth Moeller, Ft. on the campuses at Bloomington and braska, and lost to Ohio State, Illinois, Wayne; Ed Schmidt, Rensselaer; Indianapolis, with another six thou· Kansas State, \i\1isconsin, Boston, and Kenneth Smith, Piqua, Ohio; Pete sand in extension courses, according to Purdue. Of the six losses, only two Talbert, Auburn; James Trimble, Mc- present estima tes.

20 The December 1938 Basketball Opens With Ball State Game Twenty-Game Card Lined Up for Hoosiers; Five Lettermen Back

EETING the Ball State College nest Andres and Bill Johnson. both of M fi ve in the opening tilt of a twenty­ 1938-39 Jeffersonville; Marvin Huffman, New­ game schedule, the Indiana University castle; Clarence Ooley, Spencer; and basketball squad will go into action on I.U. Basketball Schedule Ralph Dorsey, Horse Cave, Ky. December 5. Hoosier court fans will Dec. s-Ball State Bloomington Three reserves from last year's squad also have opportunity to see the Cream Dec. 1000Miami - - - Bloomington are Jack Stevenson, Indianapolis; Ly­ and Crimson play Miami University, De·c.I2-Wabash - - Bloomington man Abbott, Martinsville; and Dale Dec. 17-Conn. State - Bloomington \"'abash College, and an intersectional Dec. 23-Butler Indianapolis Gentil, Mt. Vernon. Four sophomores game with Connecticut State College in Dec. 30--\"'estern Reserve Cleveland who played football have reported to the Fieldhouse at Bloomington before Dec. 31-Mich. State - East Lansing Jan. 7-0hio State - - Columbus the squad. They are Harold Hursh, the team takes to the road. Jan. g--IIlinois ­ Champaign Middletown, Ohio; Russell Higgin­ In keeping with this year's trend in Jan.I4-Wisconsin Bloomington botham, Anderson; Floyd Tipmore, Jan. 16--Purdue -- - Bloomington University sports, Coach Branch Mc­ Feb. 3-Xavier - - - Cincinnati Elkhart; and Harold Zimmer, Spring.· Cracken's basketball squad must rely Feb. 6--0hio State - Bloomington field, Ohio. heavily on sophomore material to fill Feb. [I-lowa - - - - Iowa City McCracken's first assignment with Feb. 13-Chicago Chicago varsity assignments. Five lettermen Feb. 18--Northwes tern Bloomington Ball State brings him up against a team and three reserves are hold-overs to Feb.20--Iowa -- - Bloomington from the school where he coached eight start the season. For the past two Feb. 25-Minnesota - Bloomington years before returning to Indiana this Feb.27-Purdue - - -- Lafayette weeks, the squad, cut from the thirty­ fall. For his assistant he will have Joe Mar. 4-Michigan - - Ann Arbor Platt, captain of the University basket­ six candidates who answered the first All home games 7 :30 p.m. in ball team last year, and now working call, has been practicing on the Field­ Fieldhouse toward his master's degree. In charge house hardwood in preparation for the Non-Conference games ...... 75C of freshman court candidates is Ralph Ball State game. Big Ten games ...... $1.00 Graham, assistant varsity football Returning lettermen are Captain Er­ coach.

News Notes of Varsity Sports by WILLIAM A. BUCHANAN, '39

Cross-Countrymen Win Again annex team honors. Trutt's showing, cession stands and a catwalk on top for HREE titles in ten days! That is however, may be attributed to the fact photographers. The first floor will T the record of Coach Sid Robin­ that he had raced only three days be­ house a radio booth, public address sys­ son's Indiana University cross-country fore. The Crimson ace previously had tem, and scoreboard controls, and the team from November 12 to 22. beaten all three of the men who led him entire second floor will be given over to The Hoosier harriers capped their to the tape in this meet. the working press. strenuous titular campaign on N ovem­ The following men have been given ber 21 at East Lansing, Mich., when cross-country awards : varsity, Cap­ What's Happened to Them they ran off with the National Collegi­ tain Mel Trutt, Hammond; Robert A few notes on what some of the ate A.A. championship. Three days be­ Barter, Mt. Vernon; Roger Poorman 1937-38 Indiana University athletes are fore Robinson's men had taken-for and Paul Bente, Ft. Wayne; Vernon cloing: Joe Platt, basketball, and the sixth consecutive time-the Big Broertjes, Hammond; Edgar Hedges, "Sparky" Miller, football, are back in Ten title at Purdue, which in turn was Boonville; and Harry Robins, Owens­ the University working for advanced preceded by the winning of the state boro, Ky. Freshman numerals went to degrees . . . Ken Gunning, basket­ hill-and-dale meet, held at Butler Uni­ Don Baumgartner, Newport, Ky.; ball and track, is coaching at New versity. Charles G. Daniels,-Rochester ; Camp­ Mexico State Teachers' College ... Mel Trutt, Hammond senior, stole bell Kane, Valparaiso; and Robert George Fowler, football, is playing pro the individual show in the first two Chambers, \iVarsaw. ball with Nashville . . . Jim Birr, meets and finished fourth in the na­ football and basketball, is in the auto­ New Press Box Proposed tional competition to lead the Crimson mobile business in Indianapolis .. . runners in their victorv march. Ed Sports scribes in these parts will not Louis Greiger, baseball, is attending Hedges, Vernon Bro~rtjes, Roger be disappointed to learn that the Board Law School, as is Henry Becker, base­ Poorman, Harry Robins, Paul Bente, of Trustees recently approved prepa­ ball ... Nelson Beasley is basketball and Bob Barter \-vere the other LU. ration of plans for a new press box in coach at Linton, replacing Congress­ point-getters. Memorial Stadium. man-eJect Gerald W. Landis, '23 . .. Although Trutt failed to lead the Long under consideration, the new and a nother grid star from a little pack home in the national meet for the press box will become a reality for the further back, Ralph (Buck) Weaver, fi rst time this season, Indiana piled up 1939 grid season. A double-deck af­ ex'29, has hung up an enviable record enough points further down the line to fair, there will be a ba sement for con­ in wrestling bouts at Terre Haute.

INDIANA ALUMNI MAGAZINE 21 "I Knew Him When • • • " cAlumni News Notes by Classes

1887 meetings of the American Academy in Washington. D.C., sessions of the Amer­ Secre/an. VVILLIAM 1. FEE 1307 E. roth St., Bloomington ican College of Physicians and Surgeons in Nell" Y ork Ci t~" and spent a "'eek visit­ ~ ews J1a" beeJl recei"ed of the sudden ing clinics in the East. death of \I RS. CHARLES A. CADWELL Dlartha Wallillgford) at her home in \V ARD G. BJDDLE, University comp­ Long Beach, Cal., where she had lived troller, is the new most illustrious grand for the last fi f teen yea rs. Mrs. Cad well master of the \Jasonic Grand Council of lI' as reared ill the Bloomington commu­ Royal and Select \Iasters of Indiana. nity ;ind "'as one of the early members of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Besides 1917 the husband and daughter in Long Beach, Secre/an . VII-MER L. TAT LOC K a sister, M r~. \V a Iter Bradfu te (Florence lT6 S. iist St.. Terre Haute \\' iIllingford, ex'86) , and two nephews, DR. H . L . KAHAN (l\JD'19), Gary, Alldrew ".1 ack" Rogers, , ro, and Blaine writes that he considered it one of the \V. Bradfute, ex'rl, of Bloomington, main events of his li fe this fall "to drive survive. with my ol\"n kid to Bloomington to enter 1893 him as a fresh man in the ScilOOI that has The new editor of the Trident, magazine SNre/ar.\', MRS. SA N FORD F. TEn:ll done so much for me." 528 N. Walnut, Bloomington of Delta Delta Delta, is Mrs. Ney Mac·. Minn (HELEN ATKINSON, ex'19). A Tn EODORlc DI

22 Th e Decemuel' 1938 motller, :'-Irs. Gentry (Grace L. Clark, married in OctoiJer. Smith is a th letic ex'9S), of N ew A lbany, until his recent coach in Union Center High School. illness. Besides the parents, a brother and t\\ O si,ters, one of whom is Elizabeth 1937 (;entry, ' 25, sUf\·i,·e. Secretary.. ELEANOR J ONES 1925 26 E. Mechalli c St., Shelbyv ill e 1\1. R OBER'fA l'IJrNER , ex, was married Serre/ar}', MARGARF.T H. G EYER in October to Captain David Sherman 909 Portage A ,·e., South Bend Babcock, g raduate of the United States On November 4 W. D. TI-I OI~N BUH Y Militarv Academv at W es t Point a nel an (Ph))'36) , assistant p rofessor of geog­ offi cer ~t Fort Be'njalllin Harrison, Indi­ raphy in the Un i" ersity, \\·as made a fel­ anapoli s. lOll' I)f the Indiana Acad emy of Science. 1938 />,. new fe lloll' of tile American College Secretary, DORIS SEWARD of Surgeons is FRANK i\f AU REH J. Y.M.CA., Huntington PII)'27), Brazi l physic ia n. H e a ttl:nded tbe sessions of the organization in N ew TU LTANNA 1':. SMITH, who recei ved he~ master's degree this fall, ha'3 been York Citl' in OctolJer, then re turned to Introducing Junior, I.U, varsity quarter­ Mrs. Paul McCord, of Oaklandon, since the Clay "C ounty H ospital, where he has back of 1955 and son of J. FRANK done 1ll0 ~ t of his surgical lI· ork. LINDSEY, '13_ On November 26 this O ctober 2. Both M r. and Mrs. McCord future all-American "had been in train­ were gradua ted from Purdue U nive rSity. 1927 ing two years," as Mr. Lindsey ex­ EDWARD RAY GOU DIE writes that he plains it. "Junior has just called time, has secured a pos ition on the Feeleral Sl'Cre/ary, MRS. MILDRED LF.GG E N ES SEL and taken up a position of advantage to Bituminous Coa l Commission at \Vash­ SO l S. 6th St., Goshen size up the enemy situation and decide ington, D.c:.. a nd entered the George whether to run or pass," his father, a Chi­ T he ne\\' fir st vi ce-p resident of the In ­ W ashing ton Law Schoo l this fall. diana Sta te Conference on Social W ork cago real estate man, writes. Close ex­ amination will reveal the coming quar­ WILLIAM FORTUNE: , hon LLD , I\'as is VEnNE K . HA RVEY (MD'29), director terback's thumb guards, presumably honored N ovem l>e r [9 b y the unvei l ing of the sta te divis ion of public health. there to facilitate reception of laterals. of a bronze bas reli ef of himself at Boon­ Tn UH;\I.'\N A. (;'O ITSCHALK, ex'07 , state v ille, his birthplace. The bronze plaque administra tor of public welfare, was re­ lI'a<; erected b\' the Warrick County His­ elected secretary at th e conference held torical Society in recognition of D r. F or­ the fir ,;t II-eek in N O" emller in Indian­ 1934 tune's long career of publi c servi ce. H e rtpo lis. S errc'larr, L YM AN SM ITH Versa illes is now a resident of Indianapoli s. 1929 " I recently WOll a horseshoe conte,t, LT. KE:NNETH R. LE\\'Is, F ifth Corp Sure/ar.\', Ml< s. MTRI.\M CO MGS R UBEY a nd it rem inds me of the tllne~ C ha rlie Area inspector of Scabbard and Blade, r809 )/-; N. 7th St., T erre Haute Hornbostel r '34] a lld 1 p itched fo r the a ttended the National Scabbard and H ARRY C. i\fILLIcH and [I'Iiss Marjorie ATO house," writes LOUIS F. l\I CDA N­ Blade conven tion at Berkeley, Ca L, in Liebendorfer, of Vllwood City, Pa., were IE L, e:\, now a receiving clerk with (;en­ November. married in Octo ber. Mr. l'I[iller is a t eral i'llotors in Anderson . JOHN W. HUl ZI':NGA , Ai\[ , has been present a merchant in the Pennsylvania T:\ MES A. STuAwr , TR., and I\IR S. ~lp poin ted assistant in history a t Western town. ST'UART are the parents' of a daughter, Reserve University, C leveland. 1930 Susan, born in Indianapo l is on October M ARIO A. CASALE writes: "Have re­ 27. Sllsan's grandfather. James A. Stua rt, f'rl'sidclI /, JOSEPH A. SMITH ceived an appointment to an interneship Sr., 'or, is managing edito r of the I no ian­ 223 E. 35 th St., New York City in the Annada le S tate Reforma tory in apolis Star. N €W J ersey, for the purpose of comp let­ ";'II arried tI\O years on N ovemiJer 9, ing a study of delinquents a nd their in­ and ha,·e a .fine baby boy, Leslie Wayne, 1935 stitution31 train ing." aged 7 months," i\[AR\TNJo: NORTH re­ SNr("/ary, MRS. ISA BEL CON;'o.' Ol.LY E GIS po rts. N orth is the manager of a g ra in c/o Dr. Lester Bui s, Henry Ford H ospi ta l. C HARLES H. CUNKU : is doing g rad­ Detroit, Mich. elevato r at Cha lmers. uate work at th e Un iversity of Colorado, Edith Alice Prentice in Octol)C[ be­ Boulder, Colo. 1931 came the bride of FHA NI< E . DOLIAN, "Assistant supervisor, II Ia rion County '30, AM'3 f, Ph 1)'33. 'l'he marriage was adul t educa tion division, Works P rogress Secrl'/arv, MRS. PEGGY CUL]I[ ER HU NUI. MoI'" performed a t Jeff ersopville. i\[ r. Dolian Administration," J OHN P. DU NCAN re­ 5302 Ca rrollton, Indianapolis is a chem ist in Terre Haute. ports as his present occupation. Among late O ctober wecldings was that HAR OLD A. S:\HTI-I. P(~ . and ,\ [iss De­ Treasurer of tli e Muncie Paper Stock of 1NEZ B. LITTEN , ex, a nd the Rev. loris H arshiJargtr, alumna of M a nches­ Company is the positioJl S AMU EL B. Clayton Waddell. of Baton R ouge, La., ter and Ba ll Sta te T eachers' colleges and DOBROW holds now. alumnus of H oward College a nd the teacher in the Clear Creek school, were PAUL DEAL is now working for Gen­ Southern B aptist Theological Seminary. eral E lectric in B ridgeport, Conn. I\Irs. Waddell had been teaching in the Ellettsville school. Inauguration news and other im­ RISAlJURG I NOU E, PC; , J a panese war portant reports prevent the print­ 1940 ing of large numbers of alumni corresponden t for the Domei News Serv­ news notes this month. The "per­ RA LPH B. FISHl':R ,ex, and Miss Freda ice, \\'as killed d uring recent fi ghting in sonals" will be back at full length \Vood, of Blooming ton. were married on central C hina, according to an a nnounce­ in the January issue.-Ed. October I S. The\' ,yjllma ke their home ment from T okyo. in lndia napolis.

INDIANA ALU:'-Il\'I .l\JAGAZINE 23 obtain the help of specialists who are Alumni present were Elwood Brooks, University in November members of the business school faculty, '07, Salem; William F. Vogel, '12, Jef­ (Colltinued fronl page 16) and business clinics will be held in vari­ fersonville ; William F. Loper, AM'30, the completion of courses, their de­ ous localities during the year. Next Shelbyville; Maurice A. Turner, grees are not actually awarded until July a conference of retail and whole­ AM'35, Liberty; Jesse G. Turner, fall. sale merchants will be held on the MS'33, Mt. Vernon ; Louis A. C. Rals­ ton, '26, AM'32, Orleans; I vor Rob­ Included in the li st of new diploma campus. In the meantime Pro fessor J. Haas plans to spend about a month in inson, AM'30, Boonville; Grant E. winners are 102 master of science de­ each of ten state regions studying local Derbyshire, '01, Princeton ; Donald grees, 45 bachelors of science in educa­ market problems. The problems will DuShane, ex'08, Columbus ; and Clyde tion, 38 masters of arts, 30 bachelors 0 f then be turned over to the business Parker, PG'32, ·Washington. arts, 27 bachelors of science in medi­ school staff for further study. Profes­ Using for experimental purposes a n cine, 10 doctors of philosophy, and sor Haas recently completed a state all-state band and an all-state orches­ other degrees in business, nursing. law, survey of the grocery and drug busi­ tra, each composed of eighty musicia ns music, and home economics. ness. selected from approximately fifty high schools, music supervisors 0 fInd ian a Dormitory Contracts Let schools met at the new School of Music Building during Thanksgiving vaca­ Contracts for construction of four tion. The band and orchestra clinic was University dormitories-two for men sponsored by the Central and Southern and two for women-were let at the Indiana Band and Orchestra Associa­ November meeting of the University tion, and members of the high school Board of Trustees. The total amount musical units were housed in Bloom­ of the contracts was nea rly $500,000 ington homes. less than estimated construction costs. A third presentation of Stage Door, A PVlA grant will supply 45 per cent University Theatre production, cli­ of the cost of building the four dormi­ maxed the two-day state drama con­ tories. ference attended by three hundred high school teachers and pupils. Choral The trustees also authorized the so­ readings, a radio show, and a mario­ cial training unit at Indianapolis to nette performance were included move its offices, classrooms, and library among the events for the visitors. from the Extension Center to the Medi­ cal Center. They decided to furnish a On the Air Again room in the library on the Bloomington \Norks of two LU. composers were campus for the use of retired faculty heard over the "Magic Key" program members. Congratulations are due GARNETT F. TETER, '18, new city justice of Albert of the Radio Corporation of America Lea, Minn. Describing his office as that during the month. The Sunday after­ Visher on Lightning of "a city dad to spank the bad boys-and noon program presented Frank Black Lightning kills fewer persons in In­ occasionally girls," Mr. Teter handles and his orchestra in a presentation of small criminal cases such as bogus "Saturday Night," a symphony numbel­ diana than it does in other states, Dr. S. checks, hears traffic offenders, and per­ S. Visher, University professor of ge­ composed by Dean Robert L. Sanders, forms marriages, among other duties. of the School of Music. Later in the ography, told a recent meeting of the After his I.U. commencement ("Teddy" Roosevelt was the speaker, and Mr. Teter month the familiar strains of "Star­ Indiana Academy of Science, held at dust," written by "Hoagy" Carmichael. Purdue University. Reporting a total can still quote from the address), this alumnus was a school teacher and super­ LLB'26, were heard on the same pro­ annual loss of $491,000 by Hoosier intendent in South Dakota and Minne­ gram. farmers as a result of lightning, Dr. sota. He married one of his teaching Visher said there were more than two staff, and they have a son now in high Atom-Smasher school. This son plays the same trom­ hunc1red thunderstorms in Indiana last \Vithin a year and a half the Uni­ year, but that Indiana lags far behind bone "almost as good as dad used to" that Mr. Teter played in the I.U. band. versity will have the world's third other western states in the number of For some reason, Mr. Teter writes, the largest cyclotron, or "atom-smasher," tornadoes suffered. Albert Lea city band plays "Indiana" on according to a recent announcement Eleven other faculty members read march occasions, and it all takes him of the department of physics. papers at the three-day meeting. The back to when". .. The eighty-ton electro-magnet will Indiana Academy of Science was be housed in a wing of the new physi­ founded in [884 by David Starr Jor­ cal science building to go up on East clan, la ter president of the University. More and Better Conventions Third Street, west of the present Biology Hall. The magnet alone will The University continued its role as be nine feet square, half as high as a Research for State Business host to conventions during November, man, and will generate ten million A new research service designed to as drama, music, and school superin­ volts. aid merchants with marketing and mer­ tendents' meetings were held on the The machine, through its beam of chandising problems is being worked campus. particles flashing between the two out by Professor Harold M . Haas, of lVlembers of the Southern Indiana magnetic poles, will be able to disin­ the University's School of Business Superintendents' Association. conven­ tegrate any known substance, and will Administration. Both wholesale and ing in the new Laboratory School, penetrate lead three feet thick, it was retail men in the state will be able to heard talks on progressive education. announced.

The D ec ember 1938 Around me at Fenway Park. the only and violence in a spirit prejudicial to For Alumnae Only thing I could hear besides the music historical truth. One might also object (Colllilllled from page 13) was the buzz of motion picture cameras to the fact that a disproportionately adviser for the issue was Mary Farmer and the click of candid cameras. It large section of the book is occupied Stempel, '24, \vife of the head of the really was a magnificent spectacle. with the story 0 f a prolonged imprison­ journabsm department and hersel f an W. C. MATTOX , ex'09. ment. during much of which there is lit­ experienced newswoman. Cambridge, Mass. tle suspense and slight preparation for Major stories of the all-co-ed edition the eventual escape. The element of included a nnouncement that Mar j orie conflict, so vita l to the maintenance of Hillis, author of the popular Live interest in a book 0 f this sort, seems not AloHc and Like It, would speak at the always so strongly accentuated as it annual Matrix Table banquet on De­ might be. The solitary villain of the cember IS, the Mortar Board sopho­ book, the shadowy and spectral Dragos, more recognition list honoring fifty-six appears rather too fitfully to inspire in co-eds outstanding in scholarship and the reader that sensation of horror activities, and details of the annual proper to the species. The enthusiastic Dames Ball, the lone occasion of the Irishman of today might wish that the year when women students pay all the conversationa l passages had been a lit­ expenses of an evening's entertain­ tle more high ly seasoned with peculiarly ment. Irish locutions and that the book in Alumna Tells Riley Story other ways had presented a still more detailed exhibit of celebrated Irish folk Among the alumnae most recently to characteristics-superstitions, amuse­ become authors is Mrs. George Cooper ments, and occupations. Perhaps some (Mable Bottsford, ex'9I), of Green­ of the protracted emphasis on the boys' field. In her Clara Louise: an I d)'ll, imprisonment might have been shifted i'drs. Cooper tells the story of the love to the flight across the Irish country­ of James Whitcomb Riley for her sis­ Climbing to the top in her profession of side in the interest of enriching the ter, Clara Louise Bottsford. Hoosier nursing education is ALMA RUTH book in details of Irish life. village Ii fe of a half-century ago and ADAMSON, GN'29, AB'32, now in her But ours is an irritable age, suffering many other interesting sketches are in­ fourth year as science and theoretical in­ rather from overstimulation than its cluded in the book, of which George structor in the school of nursing at San Francisco's St. Joseph H ospital. opposite. If Mrs. Nolan has in some Ade says: "This little book by Mrs. Prior to her position at the west coast measure softened the rudeness of the Cooper is a very happy reminder 0 f our hospital, Miss Adamson was on the fac­ Ireland of 1587, she has been happy in great Hoosier poet not hitherto given ulty of the nursing arts department of the recreating its poetry. Her novel illus­ to the publ ic. The volume is a very Hospital of the Good Shepherd, Syra­ cuse, N.Y. She has also served at Beth trates throughout an excellence more genuine tribute a nd I have read it with Israel Hospital in Newark, N .J., where enduring than that of harsh realism, interest." she was second assistant director of the faculty for seeing in the past that --0-­ nurses. Her brother, Wendell M. Adamson, '28, which the past contains of buoyancy AM'37, is now working on his doctorate and wholesomeness for our spirit of Letters at the Columbia University School of perpetual youth. (Colliinued from page I) Business Administration, where he holds a teaching fellowship. Ross F . LOCKRIDGE, JR., '35. humbly and said that I had been far too Indiana University. conservative. + + + We had a lot of publici ty before and "Farewells" after the game, and I am quite sure that (Conlinued from page 11) The Rules of Sociological Me/hod I can say that Indiana is decidedly on (EMILE DURKHFIM). Translated Hell, A lso a Black" ; "Wishing You the the map in Boston. Vie stole the show (eighth edition) by JOHN H. Joy of Life in Health." from Harvard and Chicago. MUELLER, Associate Professor of If you can resist the lure of these You will be interested in knowing Sociology, Indiana University, and captions, you never belonged at Indiana that, within my memory, a great change SARAH A. SOLOVAY . Edited by University. Students of all ages will has come about in India na in connec­ GEORGE E. G. CATLIN. (Chicago: want this book. It is beautifully en­ tion with football. \Nhen I was a stu­ The University of Chicago Press. titled Farc'i('clls, but it is a book of in­ dent there, we played one or, at the 1938. Pl" lx, T46, $2.) most. two games with Con ference spiration for living. today and for all teams. Usually we had a trip to Chi­ time. TIm significance of this work on so­ --0-­ cago or Michigan and the Purdue game. ciological method, published in France The rest of the schedule was with De­ in 1895, has not been fully appreciated Pauw, Wabash, Indiana State Normal, AlUII1ni Authors in the United States pa rtly, perhaps, Rose Polytechnic, and occasionally a (Collli;wcd frO/II page I8) because early American sociologists game with Kentucky or Ohio. Now, failure to exempli fy virtues wholly out­ looked askance at some of Durkheim's with a schedule fairly studded with side the author's intentions. Remem­ theories and were more directly at­ Conference games and'big-time games, bering. however, that the period of tracted to the writings 0 f Comte, the picture is entirely changed. My Elizabethan rule in Ireland was for the Spencer, and various German sociolo­ feeling is tha t the band is an importa nt most part a time of master less passions, gists. One can only surmise, however, contribution to Indiana's growing rec­ unspeakable barbarities, and profound what Durkheim's influence might have ognition, and I should certainly vote miser);, one might in a vein of captious­ been if this book had been put into the for the band to go to Fordham next ness accuse Mrs. Nolan of having prac­ hands of American students forty years year. ... ticed a partial avoidance of bloodshed (C01ltinlled 0'/1 page 26)

INDIANA ALUMNI MAGAZIKE 25 foreign missionary is less hazardous Alumni Authors than it was fi fty yea rs ago, it is also (Continued frOIll page 25) more difficult. 'W hereas the ea rl y rep­ ago. Its translation at this time and its resenta tive of the Chri stian Church of publi ca tion in the University of Chi­ the \ IVes t was listened to with respect cago Sociological Series a re, in them­ as soon as he stepped from hi s boat at selves, a belated recognition o f its im­ a foreign port, today hi s bein g a W est­ porta nce. e rne r is something to Iive down. T he critical introducti on by P rofes­ The growth of sizeable Christia n so r Ca tl in and the preface by Durkheim g roups a 1\ around the world indica tes stressing the main points o f hi s view that some progress has been made ma ke a deta iled review of the book un­ towards the goal o f establi shing "self­ necessary. Durkhei1l1 objected to the supporting. sel f -governing, a nd self­ "vague generalities." the philosophic propagating indigenous churches." But assumpti ons. and the dialecti c m ethods now that there are nationa l Christia n which he attributed to Comte, Spence r, leaders who are well ed ucated, it is even and l'vl il1. His concern was to fi nd a more important that the foreig n mis­ na tural obiective basis fo r socia l sci­ sionary of the present day shall be out­ ence. T hi s leel him into a critica l a n­ standing professiona ll y a nd, in addi­ a lysis of the na ture o f socia l facts. ti on, be a rticula te as to the pa rt Christ's Chapters follow on the rules for the teachings can play in the life o f the obse rva ti on of social facts, determina­ world today. HOWARD W. KACY, LLB'21, was re­ ti on of normal and pathologica l facts. cently elected chairman of the legal sec­ The two million Presbyterians in cl assifi ca tion of social types, expl ana ­ tion of the American Life Convention, this country have a Board of Foreign ti on of social facts, and rules fo r estab­ the oldest and largest (146 member or­ Missions which administers its work li shi ng sociological proo fs. He as­ ganizations) association of legal reserve overseas in Africa, B razil , Chile. China, life insurance companies in the world. A sumed a scientific basis fo r sociology native of Huntington, Mr. Kacy prac­ Colombia, Chosen, Gua tema la. India, ill his theory of "collective conscious ­ ticed law there after graduation from Iran, J apan, Iraq, M exico, P h ilippines, ness" and collective representa ti ons. In I.U., later became associated with a life Sia m, Syria, and V enezuela . hi s mind, these not only furnished the insurance company with offices in Wash­ Scattered through these varied and ington, D.C. soc iologist with strictly objective facts. interesting lands a re more than 1, 200 but also differentia ted his field f(om bi­ doctors, teachers, cl ergymen, agricul ­ ology and psychology. He was, in fact, Especia lly in these times, whatever tUl·i sts. and other men a nd women, a ll a ttempting an analysis of Spencer's positi on I mi ght hold in the United doi ng hi ghl y specialized work such as "fo\l rth order 0 f phenomena" devoid S tates, the re would be a constant working with the blind. editing and o f the Spencerian assumptions. The awareness that I should not rea ll y publishing Christi an lite ra ture in the fa ct tha t he sta rted with some question­ be needed ; there would be hundreds languages of the people, or, throug h able assumptions should not be allowed of men. just as competent and worthy agricultural demonstra ti on, bringing to to detract from Durkheilll's underlying as 1. who would be glad to take my the people a more abundant li fe. The effort to find solid fo undations fo r a place. H ere I fi ll a ni che peculia rl y efforts of these Ameri can representa­ science of society. my own, and few, if a ll y, envy me." tives are supplemented by more tha n S tudents inte;-ested in the problems eig ht thousand helpers in the ma ny in ­ o f methodology \vill fi nd much of his­ To be sure it is a goodl y heritage left stitutions in the di fferent countries. toric interest in this classic ; but they to us by the hardy pioneers who faced T he administrati on o f such a fo rce is will find much more. T he book should tremendous odds in the early days. obviously no small task. stimula te renewed interest in the logic Some of the older alumni may remem­ It may be interestin g to note at this of the social sciences. . ber D r. William A. P. l\1artil~ , the son point tha t of every doll ar given through FREDERI CK A. CONRAD, AM' £3. o f one o f the first P r e~by t e ri a n minis­ our Board for foreign work, fourteen University of Arizona. ters in Indiana, who left for China with cents is spent on administration, a nd hi s young wi fe at the age of twenty­ - - 0-­ eighty-six cents goes overseas. T hat is two. A t the request o f the Chin ese gov­ more than matched by the eighty-seven Foreign Missionary Today ernment he was asked to found Tung cents contribu ted by the Chin ese, Bra­ W en Co ll ege, which he headed for zilians, a nd other na ti onals towa rd the (Con tin ued fro III page 12) twenty-six years. His days were cost of the medical care, educa ti onal people. H e has relationships, both cra mmed to t.h e brim, for he translated help, and other service rendered by the offi cial and socia l, with the leaders of interna tional law books into Chinese. mi ssionary. not as set charges but as the coml11unity, pol itical, reli gious, was ca ll ed 0 1) constantlv for advice both evidence 0 f their apprecia ti on. Conse­ economic. educationa l ; and to him by the Chinese gove;nmcnt a nd the quently, every American dollar swell s the porter and the bootblack a re real Ame rican consul s. a nd was to fo und a to $1.73 when it is spent overseas. persons. Usuall y he finds interesting g reat Chinese university when the M y particula r job in our organiza­ friends in the fo reign community. Boxer uprising intervened. A t the age tion is "to mainta in a coherent relation­ And, though separated frO I11 old o f seventy-eig ht, back in this country ship 'with the individual missiona rv friend s, he has a n especia ll y happy on furlough, he remarked one day, " J'm i rol11 application, through appointment, relationship with them ; perhaps our too young to quit . .." a nd started throug h fie ld service, through f u r­ recent return from furlough makes back to his adopted la nd. wher e he died loughs in the country, and on through that vivid to me just now. Then there in 1916 at the age o f eighty-nine. reti rement." vVhen I think of a ll tha t is a further aspect that may appear M odern rapid communication has involves, it is so overwhelming that I different to others : to me it is a satis­ brought the world so cl ose together guess I'd better stop this a rticle and faction to be out o f competition. tha t while in some ways the life of the get at it.

26 The D ecembe r .l9 B8 rather than technical skills better 1. U. Inaugurates President The Inaugural Address learned in the business or profession (Col//iuUl'd fro I,., pagl' 6) (Conlil/ued from page 8) it~~If. We should give proper recog­ quick way to wreck and ruin. The tained the calm and quiet necessary for 1l1tlOn to the social obligations and im­ other article of faith which I find in objectivity and comprehension. . plications of each vocation, and dili­ you is that in the spending of every In addition to promoting the intelJec­ gently strive for the development of dollar one must keep always in mind tuallife. the University must help stu­ new truth through scholarly research. what the University is for. Napoleon dents develop sound bodies and hab­ Vocational training of this nature con­ spent money lavishly for powder and its that affect constructively not only Hicts in no way with the intellectual for men. but every dollar where it their physical well-being while on the ideal of the University. would do most to win his war. So you campus, but also their health through­ But the responsibilities do not cease must spend 11loney for coal which goes out life. This latter phase has become with the training of youth. Universi­ up in smoke as well as for men. But increasingly important uecause the ties are also called upon to supply edu­ whether for coal or for men you know large majority of our students now cational opportunities for adults. These that every penny is to win a victory come from and return to urban com­ include forums, extension classes off greater than Napoleon's-the victory munities. It is important that they the campus in the evening hours, short of mankind at its best. acquire an interest and skill in those courses on the campus, instruction by "In this moment we cannot forget forms of sport which may he continued correspondence, and popular lectures. that we face a troubled world. What it throughout maturity. The University This demand is altogether proper. Mul­ will come to at the worst we do not must provide year-round facilities for titudes of college seniors have been as­ know. But at the worst you will stand these activities. sured in numberless commencement in your place of responsibility with \Vith the development of mind and speeches that graduation marks the be­ valiant heart. I f the worst conles, YOli body, the University also has respon­ ginning, not the end, of education. will not say: sibility for the development of charac­ Knowledge increases so rapidly in most professional fields that frequent return The time is out of joint. 0 cursed spite ter. Never was that responsibility of That eyer I was born to set it right. greater significance than at this present to the classroom and laboratory for at hour. I f the rising tide of intolerance least short periods of time is desirable. "But you will say: and hatred is to be arrested before it Not so obvious. but none the less real, Now God be thanked. engulfs the world, there must be, in the is the desire of adults everywhere to Who has matche<1 US with this hour." words of a group of eminent English­ extend their cultural background. In­ diana University, through its Exten­ Members of the audience a

INDIANA ALUl\f\,I l\IAGAZI~E 27 mental policy just expressed, I am ful than armies, and that is an idea The Inaugural Address struck with the realization that it adds whose hour has arrived." We must (Continued/rom page 27) little or nothing new to the concepts keep, within our borders and on this pitalization on the part of those with­ and ideas which have so iong guided campus, the mighty constructive force out means to pay has developed very the work of this institution, and that of the ideas of renowned scientists and rapidly, and the University has tried to is a reassuring thought. Nevertheless, scholars. meet the demand. The result has been even though the basic concepts change Indiana University has occupied a that the cost of meeting this demand little, new problems constantly arise prominent position in research activity has now absorbed so large a propor­ which must be analyzed and met in a since the days of David Starr Jordan. tion of the appropriation made to the manner consistent with the Univer­ In recent years, however, that position School of Medicine that the facilities sity's fundamental pattern. I wish to has been jeopardized by lack of funds. for training physicians and nurses are mention a few of these that I see im­ The reduction in the University's ap­ seriously affected. meadiately ahead. propriations at the bottom of the de­ As I review the statement of funda­ The first has to do with the faculty. pression, combined with rapidly in­ A university can be distinguished only creasing enrollments, has left few as its faculty is distinguished. Through­ funds available for research. Without out the years, we have been fortunate financial aid this work suffers. Tanks "COCKY" ROBBINS in being able to retain on our campus of chemicals, cages of white mice, some of the nation's leading scholars musty monographs, computing machin­ and his a-piece largely because of their intense loyalty ery, and hundreds of other materials to the institution. To replace such out­ are the unspectacular but necessary es­ Dixieland Band standing men as they retire, to attract sentials of research activity. Graduate and hold promising young men, is our research assistants are necessary in or­ featuring ARLENE OWENS, major problem. So keen is the competi­ der that the valuable time of the senior tion everywhere for outstanding men men may be efficiently utilized-a pro­ formerly with that they are difficult to secure, even for cedure universally recognized in indus­ "Red" Nichols' Orchestra institutions with adequate resources; try as "good business." As soon as pos­ but for institutions such as ours, with sible, adequate provision must be made Available for Dances and Parties limited revenues, the problem is un­ for the expansion of our research pro­ 5013 - Phones - 6691 usually acute. gram. All society will benefit through the new wealth created by the discov­ Ih.oOMD;()TOx,IxDr.,xA This problem is of concern to all of the institutions of higher learning and eries of the scientist, and our students to all of the citizens of this state. The will receive the stimulation of intellec­ star rating in the volumes of American tual enthusiasm which is imparted by M en of Science is the universallyrecog­ the teacher flushed with the ardor of' nized mark of distinction in the physi­ discovery. cal and biological sciences. Of the Obsolescence is a prominent feature folerrp QCbri§3tma§3! twelve men born and educated in Indi­ of university Ii fe, and that is as it ana to receive this coveted award dur­ should be. An institution dedicated to ing the past ten years, none today re­ a search for the new and a re-interpre­ to I.U. Alumni main to do their work in this state. Only tation of the old by the very nature of two born and educated in other states its activity, if successful, accelerates from have been brought to Indiana. There­ the rate of change beyond that to be fore, we have suffered a net loss of ten. expected in other areas of human en·· Evidence equally startling with refer­ deavor. It is necessary, therefore, that ence to the loss of scholars in other our administrative machinery and ped­ THE fields is available. We must conclude, agogical procedure keep pace with the accordingly, that year after year the procession, with the changing tempo state loses a large portion of its most tal­ of new ideas in the arts, the sciences, GABLES ented men. Loss of men such as these and the professions. constitutes a reduction in human re­ We have recognized this need. A sources not less serious than the loss of committee of the faculty has been en­ physical wealth caused by the erosion ALU~1NI : gaged for several months in a thorough which yearly washes the productive analysis of administrative and teaching Stop in for a meal topsoil from qur denuded hilllancl. methods. It is hoped that its recom­ or a snack when you're Great teachers beget great men. The mendations will furnish the basis for here to take your son or minds of scores of the next genera­ changes in University organization and tion's leaders may be moulded by a policy to facilitate the work of teachers daughter back home for singie teacher. Moreover, every new and students, either by application of the holidays. step in technological or human prog­ that which has been tried elsewhere ress must first be conceived in the mind and has been found successful, or of of a man. In fact, civilization moves methods entirely new. A preliminary forward only by the efforts of t;le in­ report calls attention to changes which tellectual giants of each generation. have sufficient promise of rich educa­ Any state that wishes to remain in the tional rewards to warrant very serious vanguard of progress must have withill consideration by both faculty and KNOWN FOR FINE FOOD its borders men with original and su­ trustees. A mong these are comprehen­ perior minds. It has been said that sive examinations; survey courses for "There is only one thing more power­ the fi rst two years; the divisional as

28 The December 19 38 distinct from the departmental form of tion would cripple an instrumentality organization; and the gelleral college making for security. plan both as a program for achieving Our public school system also is our better orientation of the student and great bulwark of liberty; action which as a method of providing a course of would weaken it in all probability training with a two-year terminal. ,,~ould imperil our liberty. Without Although the University must con­ lIberty, there can be no security worthy tinually modify its own procedures and of the name. A slave mav have the se­ techniques, it must at the same time curity of food and shelt~r for transi­ guard against fads and panaceas with tory periods, but always his very ex­ only the novelty of the moment to rec­ istence is subject to the whim of some ,II ommend them. Changes should be master. That is not the security for • made only upon the basis of adequate which the American people strive. mformatlOn. Therefore, I believe that The public school system is not only at the conclusion of the present self­ the bulwark of democracy, but also its survey, either a new standing commit­ noblest work. The state university is tee should be appointed or a bureau of the crown of the public school system, The Center of u~iversity research organized to pro­ and as such should both by precept and VIde an administrative fact-finding fa­ by ~xampl~ vitalize the democratic way cility. of !Ife. It IS the duty of the University Campus Activity to msure that every student understand At ~he present time, the University finds Itself concerned anew with the the fundamental philosophies under­ place ascribed to education by society. lying democracy. I choose my words -at Sunrise The social necessity which caused our advisedly. I would not suggest that people to erect a great public school the student be indoctrinated with a system during the past century still given set of principles, but rather that exists today. The importance which he understand the philosophical basis they assigned to education, making it for democracy-an understanding that the first responsibility of the state after ~ncompasses not only its benefits, but the maintenance of peace and the pro­ ItS weaknesses as well. Democracy tection of its citizens, has not lessened. need not depend for acceptance upon a Dr. Wylie, in that address to which I bureau of propaganda, which uses eva­ have already referred, said. "An ig­ sion, half truths, and distortion. It is norant people cannot long be free." the one system of government about An ignorant people fall easy prey to which the truth can be told to win the support of men, for it is the only form the blandi~hments of the demagogue, who promIses all without thought of of government compatible with the performance. Realization of this sim­ dignity of men. ple fact has caused our people always There has been a little too much to rally in support of our schools when tendency on the part of our people to their existence has been threatened by accept democracy as a priceless pos­ the selfish desires of unthinking or un­ session won by our ancestors, to be scrupulous groups. han<;led to mel~bers of the present gen­ eratIOn on a sIlver platter without ef­ Weare now entering a period in our fort or thought on their part. Nothing national existence when this traditional could be farther from the truth. As position of importance assigned to edu­ John Dewey has said, "Democracy has cation may be challenged. Many new to be born anew every generation, and demands are being made and will be education is the mid-wife." made upon the public purse. Economic Life on a state university campus and social conditions are now such that can offer students unusual lessons in many of the demands will be motivated by the very commendable desire to in­ democracy, quite apart from classroom work. It is important, therefore, that crease the security of our people dur­ we retain on this campus the whole­ .~ ing youth and old age, and in their jobs. • •• some tradition of genuine democracy E?ucators ~ertainly are in sympathy that has always chaTacterized the so­ wIth the desIre for security. Their lives cial relationships of our student body. are spent in helping students develop their fullest capacities and abilities for But the responsibility of a state uni­ adjustment to modern living, which in versity for democracy does not end InDIAnA with the intelligent presentation of doc­ tun: open ~or them the doors of oppor­ tUnIty leadmg toward individual secur­ trine in the classroom and the assur­ unIV~~SITY ity. The efforts of scholars in the labo­ ance of democracy within the student ratory and in the library are aimed bod~. I~l its own organization and op­ ~OOI{STOR~ toward developing new discoveries and eratIon It must set a dramatic example processes which add to the job possibili­ o.f .democracy in action inspiring to all ties and earning opportunities of all. cItIzens of the state. Authority must Thus it would be foolhardy to relegate derive from reason, not from position. education to a secondary position in There must be clear demarcation of public responsibility, since that very ac- (Continued on page 30)

INDIANA ALU~PH MAGAZINE 29 "keeping up with the Joneses" is likely no reason why the institutions in this The Inaugural Address to result only in extravagant and un­ state might not assume a position of (Colltinued from page 29) necessary expenditures. Competition national leadership in developing co­ authority and responsibility among among schools is a healthy, wholesome operative!ya plan for higher education trustees, administrative officers, fac­ thing when that competition takes the which would insure the elimination of ulty, and students, arrived at by the form of efforts to raise academic stand­ unnecessary overlapping and duplica­ democratic processes of investigation ards, but quite another when it takes tion and allow each institution to draw and discussion. Each of these four the form of elaboration and multipli­ upon the specialized facilities of the groups must be interested, not in per­ cation of courses, man power, and others. More important, the success f ul sonal prerogatives or in selfish desires, equipment without regard to the needs operation of the plan would mobilize but in the good of the institution as a of the institution's clientele. Many of the resources for higher education, and whole, and in its service to society. the proposals are in the nature of edu­ in so doing would provide the maxi­ There must be sincerity, devotion. and cational and administrative gadgets, mum benefit fOl- our youth and for so­ loyalty, and. above all else, determina­ desirable and pleasant to have, but not ciety. In the development of such a tion to further the fundamental work essential to the furtherance of the plan, Indiana University should be of the University. fundamental work of the University. I ready to make any necessary adjust­ The University and the state alike am inclined to place my faith in an edu­ ments in its own program. deterred have limited resources with which to cational program which considers the neither by tradition nor by institutional meet unlimited demands. Only by dili­ essentials first and the gadgets second. pride. gent husbanding and efficient utiliza­ The resources of our institution are Democracy in education implies tion of all financial and human re­ too slender, and the work to be done equal opportunity for all who are ca­ sources can University and state dis­ too great, to countenance any improper pable of learning. In our grade schools charge their obligations. In this effort, drains on the available funds. this ideal has been achieved. vVe have the University again should be a model It is incumbent upon the University made substantia! progress toward of democracy in action, achieving a not only to husband its own resources, achieving this ideal in high school; not record of fiscal integrity and efficiency but also to participate in any plan many youth with capacity to learn at that will furnish an inspiring refuta­ which would husband the total re­ this level find it necessary to quit be­ tion to those critics who attack repre­ sources for higher education in Indi­ cause of limited financial resources. sentative government on the grounds ana. State and regional co-ordination At the college level, however. equality of fiscal ineptitude. and co-operation of effort have been of opportunity is not yet realized. N ot­ In the past few months, I have been much discussed by educational leaders withstanding the fact that the state has presented with numerous programs, recently, both in this state and else­ generously developed great tuition­ both academic q.nd administrative, al­ where. The opportunity for the suc­ free educational institutions. the cost most all of which, when considered cessful development of a program of of attending. together with the loss of alone, were commendable and would this nature is excellent here because income which might otherwise be serve a desirable end. Frequently, there has long existed the friendliest earned, presents a problem of great sponsors maintain as a part of their spirit among all of our institutions, difficulty to youth in our lower eco­ argument in support of their proposal both public and private. Distances are nomic strata. that "X" school, "Y" school, or "Z" not great, and communication and Only one out of ten persons of col­ school has it, and that if we are to com­ transportation facilities are unexcelled. lege age attends an institution of pete, we must have it. But academic It seems to me, therefore, that there is higher learning. Most persons familiar with college students would agree that there are some in that group who do not belong there, but attend principally because their families have the means to send them and it is the popular and CITY SECURITIES CORPORATION pleasant thing to do. I think it would likewise be agreed that some of the INVESTMENT SECURITIES ninety per cent who are not in college Repreaented by should be, but are denied that opportu­ nity for pecuniary reasons. The pres­ J. DWIGHT PETERSON '19 ent selective process, therefore, fails RICHARD C. LOCKTON '30 NOBLE L. BIDDINGER '33 to insure the attendance of all those who would profit from college training E. W. BARREn '26 C. W. WEATHERS '17 or whose further education would yield great returns to society. 417 CIRCLE TOWER -:- INDIANAPOLIS Some states, in seeking a soiution to this problem, have been thinking in

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80 The December 1938 terms of more il1 stitulions. It seems to Though the problems be many and be found: the competence and loyalty me that a better solution, and one of grave, they need not discourage us. of the faculty and administrative staff; less cost, would be an enla rged system The resources available for their so­ the interest, enthusiasm, and promi­ of scholarships on the basis of need lution are vast. Not the least of these nence of the a lumni ; the ability and anel superior ability, provided for are the friendship of cOJlll1lunity a nel loyalty of the student body: the gener­ either by the state or by private donors. state as evidenced by the presence he re ous devotion and keen foresight of the I do not make any plea for the attend­ today of high state officials and friends Board of Trustees. ance of all youth in coll ege or univer­ from every walk of life, and the co­ Cognizant of the rich resources sity. But I am convinced that new se­ operative spirit of the institutions of which 'are ours to command, heart­ lecti ve processes must be developed higher lea rn i ng as indica ted by the enecl by the achievements a lready won to determine which young persons presence here of so many of their lead­ in more than a century of distinguished should continue their ecl ucation, and ers. Within the institution itself. ele­ service to state a nd na ti on, we face the that adequate fin ancial provision Illllst ments of incalculable streng th are to future with confidence. be made for the attendance at the per­ sons so selected. Many of our noisiest reformers are greatly concerned with the rigidities established in our society by economic power. The socia l significance of eco­ nomic stratificati on will, in my opinion, be minimized if society determinedly "Give and take'; keeps the door 0 f ecl uca tional opportu­ nity open to the boy and g irl of supe­ rior ability. In this statement of contemporary say I problems challenging our attention. my treatment. as is apparen t, has been selective rather than exhaustive. Other problems could be in cluded-problems inherent in the development of our great professional schools. both on this campus and in Indianapolis; problems that must be solved in order to enrich student social a n e! recreational life; difficulties that must be overcome in effecting an even cl oser relationship be­ tween the U niversity a nd its alumni : rela tionships that must be determined between the University and the com­ munity both here and at Indianapolis. Opportunity has already presented it­ self for the discussion o f some of these. and other opportunities will be avail­ able in the future. Moreover, my re­ marks are not intended to constitute a declaration of policy to serve as a plat­ form or all-inclusive guide for future action . S uch an attitude would imply that the function of institutional plan­ ning was the responsibility solely of the executive, ari " implication with which I cannot agree. jVIention of these COCA-COLA matters today, however, will, I hope, BOTTLING CO. serve to expose my thinking on matters Phone 3541 of importance, and will form the basis Bloomington, Ind. for future discussions on the part of interested persons, which will aid 111 the formulation of sound policies.

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T HAS been very pleasant. so far this fall, to watch Indiana University needs these honor graduates ! They the first-year men and \\·omen become acclimated to will add to the academic accomplishments of the school, I and shed luster on Alma Mater. This is the time these stu­ University life. It is heartening to see them enter into dents are beginning to think of higher education, and this and participate in an adventure in learning which will is the time for alumni to go into action in their home C0111­ mean, for most of them, a diploma in 1942 and mem­ munities ! bership in the select body of educated citizens. Distance Is Nothing But every year , about this time, we begin to think From far over the sea comes the ALLTMNI i\IAGAZlNE about those young men and women who ought to be subsc ription of John V. Crowe, ex'I3, now in charge of freshmen on the campus-and aren't. For every green­ Ford Motor Company interests in China, the P hilippines, capped man striding out of the Business Administration and Indo-China. Mr. Crowe lives in Shanghai, and his Building talking about that freshman accounting course, Alumni Association membership makes him the longest­ or for every young co-ed exploring for the first time distanced of all MAGAZINE subscribers. There are several the mysteries of "Introduction to Teaching," there is more in the Philippines, which is a pretty good chunk of at least one other boy or girl somewhere in the state who the way to China, and, in the opposite direction, Auguste ought to be enrol led in the University- and isn't. Raynold Werner, PhD'38, of Geneva, Switzerland, prob­ ably ha s the record. Late last spring alumni and campus honorary organi­ But distance is as nothing to the MAGAZINE and , whether zation members were sent lists of high school honor your subscription remittance comes from the farthest cor­ graduates in their respecti ve home communities, with ner of the civilized globe, scrawled on a queer-looking the request that these"A" students be in formed about foreign office check, or from just across the street, you are Indiana University. This \\·as a part of the High School invited to send it in and receive in turn all the Universitv Advisory Conferences program, arranged annually by news and views ten times a year from the campus you still Director of Admissions Frank R. Elliott, '17, AM'2j, think of as your "other home." to acquaint high school seniors with the advantages of their State University. The first part o f this year's pro­ Gratitude for the Outposts gram-the sending of faculty members to confer with We've been intending to do this for some time, so here high school seniors-will get under way soon. Alumni are public thanks to our "country correspondents," those are asked to remember that a "follow-through" word heretofore anonymous reporters who send to Bloomington of advice, or a bit of counselling later in the year, often each month news of University happenings in other cities. can be of great value in attracting outstanding college Russell E. Campbell, eX'36, covers the Medical Center; Mary Orvis, AM'J8, sends in reports on the Indianapolis material to Indiana. Extension Center ; and School of Dentistry news comes Visitors from the campus are necessa rily limited in from H a rry J. Healy, DDS'3I. News of the Fort Wayne the time they can spend among the eight hundred high Extension Center printed in the MAGAZINE is the "vork of schools of the state, but an alumnus in the community Floyd R. Neff, 'I3; Hugh W. Norman, '2I, AM'24, keeps the year ' round can be a source ot guidance and counsel us in touch with new developments at the Calumet Center; when occasion arises. A fine example of this is the re­ and Galen Sargent, South Bend city school director of edu­ cently-organized service committee of the Indiana Uni­ cational research, is responsible for news of the Extension versity Women's Club of Indianapoli s. This group will Center there. actively counsel high school honor graduates in the Thoughts for the Holidays capital city. Plan right now to take a little time off from making New About one-third of last year's 1,350 honor graduates Year's resolutions to read the January i-jsue of the MAGA­ of some six hundred Indiana high schools elected to go ZINE. In addition to the regular departments, it will carry a to Indiana University, and no small report of the alumni district councilors' credit for this belongs to alumni en­ meeting on the campus this month, an thusiasm for Alma Mater. Other architect's sketch of the new state board schools will continue to claim some of ~ of health building to go up soon on the Indianapolis campus, a picture of two this "cream of the crop" for the vari­ of our alumni hovering over President ous reasons of proximity, church af­ Franklin D. Roosevelt as he signs an ex­ filiation, scholarships, and the like, and ecutive order in which these J.U. men that is as it should be. But many other were interested, basketball news right up hi gh school honor seniors are even to press time, and many other features. now deciding that college is not for Incidentally, the January issue would them, when a word of encouragement be a mighty fine one with which to start or an explanation of life at the Uni­ your gift subscription, in the event you versity, coming frolll an alumnus, have a fellow-alumnus friend in mind whom you want to relive hi s LU. days would renew their interest in continu­ ten times a year, while thinking kindly ing their education, and lead to their thoughts of you, the donor. In any case, serious consideration of Indiana. MERRY CHRISTMAS! an ideal gift in the I.U. tradition . ..

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