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VOL. XII NO. 3 This issue goes to the more than 94,000 members resident within postal service SUMMER 1947

Phi Beta Kappa in Japan Opinion Divided on Membership-at-Large Plan; Holds First Post-War Meetings Proposal An active Phi Beta Kappa association Joint Statement Challenges has been revived in Japan, according to word received as The Key Reporter "The current proposal for member- the Society or to the cause of liberal goes to press. Following a preliminary ship-at-large has as yet been presented scholarship from the adoption of this meeting last December to discuss plans, only in broad outline, and it would be now revived plan, and we are convinced members of the reactivated association premature to discuss it in much detail. that its inauguration would have a met on January 30 to adopt a revised Nevertheless, since two articles in The number of harmful consequences which constitution and to elect officers for Key Reporter have set forth the 'ad have been largely ignored in statements

vantages' the year 1947. of the plan, it would seem thus far published. Officers elected were: Colonel helpful to set forth some opposing con (1) "Even with the assistance of 'test

agencies,' Laurence Eliot Bunker, honorary presi siderations. ing the plan would be ex dent; Lt. Colonel Hubert G. Schenck, "The proposal is in essentials much tremely difficult to administer efficiently president; Yoshio Ichikawa, vice-presi the same as the plan for a 'Council and fairly upon a national scale and Chapter' dent; and Shigeaki Ninomiya, secretary- which was rejected by the unless ultimately it is to be national treasurer. Council of 1934 and by the United in scope, no one would favor its adop Members present at the January Chapters constitutional revision com tion. Not only would it entail a vast meeting also heard an address by Dr. mittee of 1934-37. amount of administrative work, but it Etsujiro Uyehara, Minister without "We find ourselves thoroughly skep would seriously burden the finances of Portfolio in the Yoshido Cabinet. tical of any large benefits accruing to a society which is already finding diffi culty in meeting its ordinary operating U. S. Veteran Students Eager to Study in Foreign Countries; expenses. The adoption of a suggestion, not included in these preliminary an Seek Educational Benefits Available Under GI Bill nouncements but made, it is reported, Hundreds of veterans are now study commerce. Many wish to study the at the Senate meeting, that certain ing under the GI Bill of Rights at liberal arts at one of the cultural centers outside agencies or foundations might educational institutions all over the in Europe. Still others, interested pri subsidize the undertaking would sig world, states Walter C. Eells in an marily in vocational training, prefer to nalize a departure from previous Phi article, "Education of acquire such skills as watchmaking in Beta Kappa policy which would demand Countries," Veterans in Foreign in the Switzerland, diamond cutting in Hol most careful consideration. April 1 5 issue of Higher Education. Thou land or oxy-acetylene welding in Eng (2) "We do not share the confidence sands more, he continues, are planning land. of the committee in the efficacy of any to enroll in schools that range from A few European universities have system of examinations thus far devised Iceland to New Zealand, and from organized special courses of study for as a satisfactory method of determining South America to the Far East. Americans. The University of Oslo, for eligibility for Phi Beta Kappa. To be Veterans' The Administration has example, will offer a special summer sure, there is to be a preliminary selec approved over 1200 educational institu session for American veterans this year, tion of candidates by the faculties of tions in 71 countries for education under and the plans to their respective colleges, and the written the GI Bill. The approved list includes hold a special school in "Western Euro papers are to be supplemented by an Civilization" universities of pean for oral examination and personal nearly all the leading the 130 American inter world, as well as many colleges and a graduate students not only this summer, views. Even a slight experience in the number of professional, technical and but also in 1949 and 1951. weighing of letters of recommendation Veterans' vocational schools. During the past year The Administration advises from faculty sponsors suggests the limita the Veteran Administration's Foreign that difficulties such as high living costs, tions inherent in the first of these Education Division has answered about differences in scholastic standards, ancillary processes; and the difficulties 10,000 letters of inquiry from veterans credits and classifications, as well as encountered yearly, for instance by education in food and committees on of wishing to continue their housing, clothing shortages, the selection Rhodes foreign lands. impose limitations on the number of Scholars, may well lessen our confidence Veterans are eager to study in foreign veterans who will be able to take im in the reliability of the personal inter countries for a wide variety of reasons, mediate advantage of the opportunity view. Performance in a single set of expect to be for foreign under the GI written the article reports. Some study Bill. examinations would probably come language teachers; others are aim Nevertheless, it is believed that the prove to be the most dependable cri ing toward a career in the State Depart increasing interchange of veteran stu- terion for membership-at-large, and international ment or in the field of (continued on page 9) (continued on page 8) www.pbk.org [2] THE KEY REPORTER Summer, 1947

among those Congressmen and others Scientists For Survival who had sensed the end of an age. Opposition to the May-Johnson Bill by J. H. Rush developed from many quarters, and it was held in Committee while Senator cpBK, University of Texas, McMahon's Special Committee on Secretary-Treasurer, Federation of American Scientists Atomic Energy entered into an exhaus tive study of the problem. During this When the late war ended in a Uppermost in the minds of the atomic period the scientists found much to do. thunderclap, it left two note scientists were two facts, and a con They testified before the Senate com States' worthy developments in its wake. Sci clusion. The United monopoly mittee, and helped publicize its work. ence had become politically interesting; of atomic bombs will be brief. No They developed support and publicity and scientists had become interested in effective military defense is in pros for a proposed Congressional Resolution politics. pect. The only hope for security there calling for United Nations action on Both developments were, of course, fore lies in world control of atomic world control of atomic energy. They long overdue. Friar Bacon's gunpowder, energy. advocated a National Science Founda Galileo's telescope, Faraday's dynamo, It was not that they ever regarded tion to support fundamental research. Hertz' radio waves all these and such control as a panacea. They saw They discussed the bomb problem with many other scientific advances had dic clearly enough that any war between government officials and lay audiences, tated the methods of warfare long great powers will be an atomic war, spoke on the radio, and worked closely before 1940. Yet men still talked know and that the problem is to eliminate war with writers and reporters to correct

science," ingly of "pure and political itself. But they reasoned that inter popular misconceptions and to create leaders generally had not grasped the national control of atomic energy would more appreciation of the problem. significance of the quiet, persistent in be the most promising point at which to co- tellectual groping which underlies tech attack the problem of war. It would Kecognizing the need for better nological provocation to attack ordination and a recognized might. Nor had scientists tried remove a grave ,_ name, very much to improve the social and and offer a substantial field for co eight scientists from New York, Chicago, political context in which they found operative development, and it posed a Oak Ridge, and Los Alamos met in a themselves. Many found easy refuge in dramatic but relatively simple problem Washington hotel room on November 1, the faith that the fledgling bits of new not yet entangled in old issues. 1945, and formed the Federation of knowledge which they loosed upon the Spontaneously, and with little contact Atomic Scientists. Their brief declara world must work inevitably for human at first among the various groups, the tion specified, among other things, that betterment. Others, not so sure, never atomic project scientists formed associa "the governing Council of the Federa theless shrank from the uncongenial tions at Los Alamos, New Mexico; tion shall consist of those delegates stresses of politics and despaired of Chicago; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and who are in Washington at any given

time." exerting any substantial influence in the New York. These associations comprised world of affairs. And in a way they were about ninety per cent of the research Two weeks later, F.A.S. members met right, for it was only the prestige resulting scientists in these laboratories. Nor were with representatives of sixty national from the belated recognition of their they the juvenile uprisings that they are organizations religious, farm, racial, political value that gave them the power still sometimes represented to be. labor, civic, and other groups and to strike back. Younger men predominated, because laid before them the problem of dis Nearly all of the scientists on the they predominated in the project; but seminating promptly authoritative in atomic bomb project saw more or less charter members included Section formation on the political implications clearly that trouble lay ahead. They Chiefs and Division and Laboratory of atomic energy. The scientists felt that tried to guess what the popular reaction Directors, as well as the rank and file. the unique understanding which cir to the sudden news of the bomb would cumstances had given them might be be, and how much information would The scientists were diverted some crucial in the development of national be made public. Then came the fantastic what from their tentative plans for a policy; yet they had neither the means days following the destruction of Hiro nationwide educational effort by the nor the experience to undertake a na shima: Bing Crosby's brother had a introduction in Congress in October, tionwide informational campaign. The May- defense against the bomb . . . the 1945, of the War Department's organizations responded by forming the bomb might ignite the atmosphere Johnson Bill for the domestic control of National Committee on Atomic In

atomic energy. with the obvious wide . . . the bomb couldn't ignite the at Faced formation, which carries on a the to through mosphere ... no other country had intention of the backers of bill spread educational program

the know-how ... we must keep the rush it through without adequate hear the established channels of its member

. automo militaristic provisions which and secret . . we'd be running ings, despite organizations. (Both the F.A.S.

. would prejudice biles on atomic pills in 5 years . . the scientists believed the N.C.A.I. have offices at 1749 L only General Groves and three other the effort for world control, they hastily Street, Northwest, Washington 6, D. C.)

people knew the secret . . . the Ger pooled funds and dispatched members Meanwhile, groups of scientists from

mans almost got it ... we must keep the to Washington. Men who had vacations wartime radar, rocket and biological

. . or could get leaves came week warfare projects and regular uni secret . we'd soon be burning clay due by from

. . war relays of two or three from each and instead of coal . pushbutton week, in versity laboratories were organizing

. . . perhaps strangest atomic fare ... there is no secret WE site, to form the lobby moving into the fight. The MUST KEEP THE SECRET. in history. They found ready allies (continued on page 8)

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the leaders who are worthy of support does not mean that Phi support it out of confidence in Beta Kappa should invade the territory of such have made a study of the questions about or their work. which themselves are little informed. And THEY SAY . . . organizations, duplicate What they would Mr. Grummon say if the League of a vast number of intelligent women fail to join Women Voters should start rating colleges and because of disagreement on one or many of universities, and does he think the Association the issues. Editor's Note: A letter from Stuart E. for the Advancement of Colored People should If a program, no matter how wisely chosen, Grummon in the Spring Key Reporter come out in favor of prohibition, or against should be endorsed by Phi Beta Kappa, mem outlined a proposal to broaden the scope vivisection? bers who differed from the majority would be of Phi Beta Kappa activities. In this There is some relationship between the obliged to resign or be in the anomalous posi issue we are publishing a number of question raised by Mr. Grummon and that tion of backing action they heartily disap replies. These reflect as accurately as discussed by Messrs. Garrett, Benesch and proved. possible the general trend of reader opin Bestor in the same issue namely, the rela Phi Beta Kappa members are too independ ion expressed in the many letters we tion between education and race segregation. ent thinkers to wish to be herded into a nation have received. Whether Phi Beta Kappa should withdraw its wide action group. Each member is doubtless chapters from institutions which practice race at present taking action in other organizations segregation is a question which can properly which are more homogeneous in character. "action" be debated in terms of educational standards, Let's leave to these. To the Editor: with which Phi Beta Kappa is vitally con Katherine F. Erskine You request expressions of opinion on the cerned. There are many who would say that Worcester, Mass. questions raised by Mr. S. E. Grummon. the highest academic standards cannot flourish Here are mine: in an educational atmosphere tainted by racial (1) The activities of Phi Beta Kappa, as an or religious segregation. No such argument To the Editor: organization, should follow the Society's motto would support a declaration Phi Beta by I thoroughly agree with Mr. Grummon's that Philosophy (i.e., love of wisdom) is the Kappa in favor of the however. That is FEPC, proposal and suggest, as does he, that some guide of life. This leads individual members of a politico-socio-economic question with which concrete action be taken along the lines which Phi Beta Kappa into activities in all kinds of Phi Beta Kappa as a has no society concern, he mentions. fields art, literature, science, sociology, whatever may be the sentiments of individual It has for many years been a source of regret political movements, etc. as is well illus members. to me that as fine an organization as the United trated the protean nature of the contribu It is often said that the human race is over- by Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa should still be tions to the American Scholar. Our activities are that there are too organized, many clubs, in an when there are so " scholastic," living ivory tower, not purely as Mr. Grummon im societies, groups and circles. One possible many questions demanding study from a non plies. remedy for this situation would be to merge partisan standpoint by the best brains of the (2) Phi Beta Kappa, as an organization, organizations, Phi Beta many including Kappa, United States. As a concrete example, I men should not be utilized by any group of members into and call it the for the Pro one, Society tion the following facts. to further their individual aims in any field. motion of Causes. Such an organiza Worthy Last week Ely Culbertson spoke most con Each movement must stand or fall on the basis tion could concern itself with the properly vincingly before our local Talk-of-the-Month of its own merit or appeal. We have seen how relief of the elimination of suffering, prejudice, Club on "The Quota Force Plan for United well-meaning artists, scientists and other pro the abolition of poverty, the election of com Reform," Nations and started a local group of fessional people find themselves used to petent public and the promotion of may servants, supporters. The plan appealed to me as ex exploit the views of an active and disciplined high standards of education. When such a plained by Culbertson, who impressed me as minority. society is formed I shall join it gladly, and being perfectly sincere. Nevertheless, I do not and The activities of Phi Beta give memberships in Phi Beta (3) (4) Kappa, up my Kappa, go overboard for plan until I have had an Parent-Teachers' any through its individual members, is already far the Association, and a num opportunity to analyze the motives of the greater than Mr. Grummon apparently sus ber of other equally worthy clubs. I am sure sponsor, as well as the aims of the plan. pects. There is no need to create new forms Mr. Grummon will do likewise. Until then, if some Phi Beta Kappa commit " go-getters" However, a few determined could Mr. and others whereby though, please, Grummon, any organized the lines of Mr. Grum "deliver" tee, along operate to Phi Beta Kappa. like-minded, can't we have a single-purpose mon's suggestion, should report in favor of Jerome Alexander organization which knows what it was founded such a plan, it would carry a great deal of New York, N. Y. for, and gives its undivided attention to that? weight with me, as with other members of Phi Let us not risk sight of our primary losing Beta Kappa. It would, of course, be necessary object by dispersing the energies of the or To the Editor: that such a committee consist of persons of such ganization in matters however meri which, high calibre that their report would The communication from Mr. Stuart E. carry torious in have no relation to that themselves, proper weight as non-partisan. Grummon raises a fundamental issue with being for which Phi Beta Kappa has stood since 1776. Albert P. Newell respect to the function of Phi Beta Kappa. H. F. Taggart N. Y. will done Ogdensburg, I sincerely trust that nothing be Ann Arbor, Michigan about his proposal. Phi Beta Kappa has a function and an To the Editor: the obligation to foster and support liberal edu To Editor: cation and the traditions of scholarship. This Mr. Grummon's letter is certainly challeng In answer to the four questions asked by Mr. function and this obligation can be carried out ing; but with me, at least, it is a challenge to Grummon, I vote in the affirmative for ques without taking any active part in political, combat. Apparently he would have Phi Beta tions 2, 3 and 4. social or economic problems. In fact, stepping Kappa become another pressure group devoted As to question 1, I feel that the scholastic

action." outside its historical role and becoming a to "effective I well know this is the activities of $BK are of primary importance, League of Key-wearing Voters or an Associa age of mass action through propaganda or above all other subsidiary aims or emphases. "scholastic" tion for the Advancement of Educated Politics ganizations. Each such group, publicly at any But by we should mean not learning," would almost certainly result in scuttling the rate, is confident that the cause it supports is merely "book but academic prowess Society's chief contribution to the life of the worthy, important and vital. applied to life in ever widening areas. Scholar Some such as the of nation. associations, League ship in the true sense is not a stagnant pool, but we Women spend much As individuals, if we feel so inclined, Voters, intelligent thought a swiftly flowing stream giving even as it can and should join the League of Women on the selection of these vital causes. However, receives. for the fact remains even a such as Voters, the Democratic Party, the Society that in league A word of caution, however. We should not the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or any that, with members from all over the country try to solve all human problems at once, whose aims we are in and of political other organization with varying affiliation, it is difficult spreading out thinly and making no real im whose activities wish to to get sympathy and to we agreement. My observation has been pression at any point. Instead, we should em well- contribute. the fact that members of that in the League some members are brace some But many concrete objective that may serve approve of other or informed and approve the Phi Beta Kappa may complete program, as a worth-while starting point. The plan of feel that their objectives convinced that it is that more ganizations and may good, but many (continued on page 10) www.pbk.org [6] THE KEY REPORTER Summer, 1947

since the professor gets paid for Soul Afire Study in Behavior philosophizing, which is part of his Philosopher's Quest, By Irwin Edman. job. The Great Snow, By Henry Morton New York: Viking. $3. Robinson. New York: Simon & Schuster. In what sense is philosophy the guide of as our keys and el- $2.75. Reviewed by Donald A. Stauffer life, cryptically Edman liptically tell us? Not, as Mr. Reviewed Edmund Fuller I remember very well reading one of by sees it, as the polestar is a guide Irwin Edman's many other books the The twenty-day snowfall which gives something dispassionate, unmoving and one that comes nearest to being the twin this book its title is a device for a study aloof. The philosopher as a guide is of this present volume in name as well of the behavior of a group of people of man our Philosopher' more a woodsman, a like as features 's Holiday. I under stress. The book implies that it selves, moving with us along trails picked it up in a camp library in that shows us the plight and conduct of Man which he has covered before, pointing tropical steambath in the New Hebrides when faced with the paralysis of the out possible forks and branches, well mistakenly called Espiritu Santo. I intricate system of services, transporta aware of the weather, and of just how singled it out for what seemed to me a tion and communication that keeps far and fast tourists can walk and simple and excellent reason: of all the much of modern life going. tenderfeet can climb. In the which fungus- essay volumes it was least slimy and A wealthy patent lawyer, Ruston most directly states his position, Mr. eaten and mildewed. It was a pleasure Cobb, is snowbound in his sumptuous Edman writes of the dilemmas con to write Mr. Edman a fan letter, to tell Rhinecliff mansion with his neurotic fronting the private thinker in the public him that the contents were as fresh as wife, Nolla; his effeminate young son, world, the problems of language, of the cover, and to find it possible even Roddy; his daughter, Sicely, whom he audience, of truth, of the reconciliation in that climatic hellhole to drink the rescues from the Albany Railroad Sta between the simple and the profound. dews, not the mildews, of Paradise. tion via the Hudson River. With them "Our philosopher was seen to be merely Mr. Edman is still on his holiday. He are Nolla's sister, Berry (enamoured of a mature human being speaking to is fun at the expense of all us Cobb), and her fellow guest, Laimbeer, having other mature human beings. And as simple readers ; but since he is so urbane a brooding painter; young Lieutenant they understood him, they were all and and about there and his who are in witty it, together." Rollefson; parents, friendly philosophers is no reason why we shouldn't have fun Cobb's employ. Except for Roddy's His thought turns many facets toward with him. He invents characters; they death of pneumonia, they survive the our eyes. "is a conversation triumph over Philosophy insult him, rebut him, fire." disaster of 1949 which claims 800,000 in which the soul catches Or it is him, are blandly superior to him, ask lives in alone and "a disciplined dream, a coherent vision him impossible questions. It is as if a ravages a large part of the country. of what men might make of the world room were full of scores of Charlie are some good and large themselves." There moving and of Or it rests upon McCarthys and Mortimer Snerds. And things in The Great Snow, chiefly certain "a basic human orthodoxy, a sense of if you ask, "Mr. Bergen Mr. Edman, recognitions, too of love withheld, the natural call if one the late, believe?" it, will, half com I mean what do YOU world." of inadequate insufficient material Or it begins "with insights, a dozen ventriloquist voices will answer. passion. Ruston at the world that science reveals for our Moreover, Cobb, philosophy! What a way to present belief." least, does face successfully numerous It may be a skeptical murmur, Shades of Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Saint tests physical, moral and emotional. a coma muted by aspirin, of "Universal and Schopenhauer (all together able Paul, Spinoza, sleep." These things, with some love, universal But however it of whom appear in one of the essays and story-telling, are sicklied o'er with the appears, the miscellaneous facts of the talk"to Mr. Edman) ! What can we learn pale cast of intellectualism, made world are never forgotten; here is a from such legerdemain, ventriloquism, an parade of special philosopher who does not make the shoddy by annoying and sets of Chinese boxes? To quote knowledge ("He had adapted the gam great refusal of the particular and im uses" from the book: "To teach, one must bit of Zuckertort to his own mediate in order to worship an abstract have made up one's mind, one must a merchant prince), and and rigid system. Dante is as important describing arrive at conclusions. One really tortured affectations ("A to this book as Shakespeare is by literary confusions." Aquinas; shouldn't teach one's own grape of pleasure broke under her quoted or paraphrased more probably throat" But I am afraid this quotation won't do, tongue, trickled down her than any more professional speak frequently for it is not Mr. Edman himself Berry's voice on the phone) . A wearisome philosopher; and music and painting but one of his quaint friends, this and snobbish upon such things ing, give emotion and color to ideas. dwelling time a Brazilian meteorologist on an as Hoyo de Biedermeier Outrageous fables and reductions to Monterey cigars, open-air trolly in Rio. Sometimes Mr. tables, articles de vertu, Reeamier divans, absurdity are presented to the dis Edman does speak in his own person, etc., makes us know ourselves for an tracted, the unconvinced and the un- as when he asks a psychiatrist who has uncouth lot, but sometimes carries Mr. awakened. But its approach is genuinely just straightened out a man with a Robinson's style close to a parody ofitself. philosophical in that it may help anyone philosophic neurosis, "Doctor, do you He is a Freud-conscious author who to grow who is made the me?" up uneasy by suppose you could cure The psy explains to us with a pointer childish desire for one certain answer. everything though he admits that he has instead of himself that be chiatrist, Mr. Edman threatens to write a sys contenting been about thinks havior is authentic. Over this ostenta wondering Edman, tematic tome such as professional phi "learned" that there is no immediate danger, tiously sophistication is an losophers require, if he can overcome Donald A. Stauffer, who teaches English at his sense of humor and his sense of doubt. Edmund Fuller, editor of Crown Publishers, is the author of several books of is the author of A Star Pointed North, a recently Princeton, Let us hope this dire never arrives, as well as a re day published historical novel Frederick poetry and literary criticism, about for first things should come first. Negro abolitionist cent novel, The Saint and the Hunchback. Douglass, leader. www.pbk.org Summer, 1947 THE KEY REPORTER [7] envelope of naivete that has set its Einstein: His Life and Times. Bv stage after the manner of Stromberg- Theodore Spencer, $BK Har Philipp Frank. New York: Knopf. $4.50. Carlson ads and made its successful Life of the noted physicist. vard, joins the Book Committee story men in the image of Men of Distinction. with this issue of The Key Re Gentleman's Agreement. By Laura Z. This to be symbolic of a novel, porter. Poet and literary critic, Hobson. 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Former Head of $BK Associates Membership-at-Large (cont. from p. 1) in many minds, and with some reason, Dies in Montclair March 20 into an agency with the sole function of concerning that criterion we entertain the attainments of individual former president certifying Lily Murray Jones, most serious doubts. The nature of the examinees. Such a we of the Phi Beta Kappa died result, hold, Associates, examination questions, how balanced would constitute a disservice to Phi on March 20 in New Montclair, Jersey. between a student's and gen specialty Beta Kappa." Daughter of the late George Welwood eral subjects, how distributed among the she was the widow of Adam Murray, divisions of the field of learning; the Thomas S. Barclay, Stanford as LeroyJones, interpretation of results so as to ensure Donald W. Davis, William and Mary sociate profes fairness as among subjects and as among Frank E. E. Germann, Colorado sor of Philoso institutions obviously the decisions William T. Hastings, Brown and the phy upon such questions bristle with diffi George V. Kendall, Wabash first director of culties. Great as is the progress made in Edward C. Kirkland, Bowdoin admissions at recent years in methods of evaluating Raymer McQuiston, Ohio Columbia Uni Columbia scholarship, it may be doubted whether Dwight C. Miner, versity. in any body of men and women the David S. Morse, Union Like her hus wisdom is now resident which would be

who was ship- band, needed for the successful operation of Editor's note: The member at-large for years many so complex and ambitious an under proposal was reported in the Spring and a Phi Beta taking. We are sure that the results Winter numbers. We welcome discussion. Lily M. Tones Tr 0 very J Kappa senator would be far more uncertain and in and a member of the editorial board of equitable than those now achieved by Scientists (continuedfrom page 2) the American Mrs. Jones took a Scholar, the individual chapters in the selection special and in scientists joined with these groups to devoted interest Phi of new members. Beta Kappa. In 1940 she helped or on the na (3) "We believe that the adoption of organize, January 5, 1946, ganize the Phi Beta Kappa tionwide Federation of American Sci Associates, the plan involves the risk of impairing a of 200 members of the in the words of its group Society the principal means by which in the past entists, formed, whose purpose is to foster and advance "to meet the the Society has been able to influence constitution, increasingly the welfare of Phi Beta Kappa and the apparent of scientists in higher education in this country. That responsibility ideals for which it stands. A Life mem the welfare of mankind and means, that instrument, has lain in the promoting ber of the she served as the achievement of a stable world Associates, high value set by colleges upon the pos peace." vice-president of the in 1 group 943-44, session of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter and and as president from 1944 to 1946. She The F.A.S. in the of 1946 the resulting determination in number spring was a member of the board of directors joined forces with a coalition of less institutions to raise their standards lay from the time the Associates were or organizations in the climactic struggle of scholarship and to invigorate their ganized until the time of her death. for the principle of civilian control of intellectual life to such a point as will Her effective efforts in behalf of the atomic in the United States. warrant the conferring of a charter. Let energy Associates National estab it recommended the appoint Lectureship, us not, through fear of claiming too Later, lished in contributed to ment of David E. Lilienthal as Chair 1942, heavily much for our Society, be led into under the success of the program when it was man of the control and estimating its present very real and Commission, resumed on its original nationwide basis supported him and the other Commis potent influence upon American edu after government restrictions sioners the fight for in 1946, cation. If now we proceed to establish unreservedly in on wartime travel had been lifted. Senate confirmation. a secondary list of institutions in which Lincoln who succeeded The F.A.S. supports the essential Cromwell, Phi Beta Kappa membership may be Mrs. Jones as president of the As principles of the U. S. Proposals to the attained by a short-cut method, we sociates last declared in a UN on world although its November, weaken by just so much the incentive control, special statement to the board of direc members feel that the emphasis on the to full participation, through the es tors: "She had done more than her veto issue was premature. Now that tablishment of a chapter, in the ac share for our cause. her negotiations in the UN Atomic By inspiring tivities of the Society. That the difficulty Energy her enthusiasm and sense of Commission are focused on the personality, of drawing up such a secondary list being responsibility for its success, she played detailed functional problems connected from the hundreds of possibly eligible a major part in our work and will be with the structure and operation of a institutions would induce its own assort missed each and all of our control agency, some worth-while under sadly by ment of procedural a point directors." headaches is members and standings reached. ' may be on which we need not dwell. Federation scientists have recognized (4) "Lastly, since the inauguration of from the beginning that the odds against the system even in the that experimental We regret to announce any acceptable world control agreement proposed looks toward its ultimate Works resigned on way George A. are heavy. Yet they have seen many extension to qualified 22 as of institutions over April Executive Secretary men from diverse fields science, busi United Chapters of Phi Beta the entire country, we should anticipate the ness, politics, the military faced with once in it would Kappa. Until his successor is ap that, fully operation, the hard facts and driven to the same Executive Com ensure a considerable proportion of Phi pointed by the inescapable conclusion: that military Billman will serve as Beta Kappa members who had had no mittee, Carl defense is a relic of the dead past, and Acting Secretary. chapter affiliations. The resulting tend that national security must hereafter be ency would be to transform the Society sought through political measures. www.pbk.org Summer, 1947 THE KEY REPORTER [H]

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