BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN 1ne Alumnus Winter Issue, 1944 BELOIT COLLEGE RlJLLF.TIN 1943 1944 BELOIT COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Prrsidrnt-l.. Elmer Macklem '21 , 831 Park Ave., Beloit Fia·Prn.-Charlts Butler '26, 646 Pkasa11t St., Glen Ellyu, Ill. MEMBERS OF AI.UJ\·f'.'JI COC::"\CIL For th~ Period Prcviou~ to IS S S Rev. Frank D. Jackson 'H, 189 Jane~villc St., Milton, Wis. 1886-1890 S:imud M. Smith '90, 839 Lake St., Oak Park, Ill. 1891-1895 Ed11:ar L. Shippet '92, 1619 - 60th St., Keno~ha, Wis. 1896·1900 Jnhn R. Houliston '99, 704 Gary Ave., \>,' ht·aton, Ill. 1901-1905 Wirt Wright '01, 6> F.ut Huron St., Chicago 1906-1910 Harold G. Town~end '07, Tru~t Co. of Chic:igo, 10-4 S. I.a Salle St., Chic;igo 1911-1915 H arold E. Wokott ' 12, 912 Ridgewood Road, Rockford, Ill. 1916- 1920 Walter C. Candy '16, 2163 ;..lorih 51st St., Milwaukee ,, 1921-1925 C. Elmer ~bddom '21, 8~ I Park A v ~ .• Relnit 1926-1930 Charles F.. lfotltr 'U, 6-46 Pleasant St., Glen Ellyn, Ill. 1931-1935 Constance Fulkerson '31, 226 \:V. Lincoln Ave., Belvidere, Ill. 193(,-1940 Mrs. Gt·orge Bbk~ly '36, 716 Emerson St., Beloit /\cademy Arthur W. Chapman, 64-Vi N. \\7 ashtenaw Ave.. Chicago BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN THE ALUMNUS Yul. XLII ] anua ry, 1944 No. 2 ]AMES B. GAr.E '28, Editor Published at Beloit, \Vis.:onsin, by Rrloit College, seven tim~s a year, in October, January, Fcbru:uy, M:irch, April, June, :ind August. Enrrre<l >• 'tcood cl»• m>il m>rrrr >I rbr l'o" Oflicr ar Bdoir. \\'ii.con.in, :\pril 26, 1922, undrr Acr of Con1rrss of August 24, 1912. QUOTATIONS "THE feeling of bc.-ing a part of the 1-it'lp mt' t<i realize constantly that I have vVAC is much like the feeling I've al- somt'thing to do fo r. and to give, these people. way~ had oi being a pa rt oi J3doit- a feeling But help me not to lose sight of the fact that that no maw.·r what comes later, my life will they, on their part, haH· much to teach me."- be iuller and ric.hr.r for having been in it."- From a prayer bv 1111 / fir Fora lieutenant A If' AC first /frutenant urvi119 at Fort Sheri- l:illed in action in . India u·heri· he had been a dr111. mtdiwl missionary f or many years. '" Kt·cp ndoit *going * for *tho se of us who " Ii you will look* up* my* record made dur- Girl'."-.'/ nn<;Ja/ lieutenant, i7I action in the ing nw short stay at Beloit you will wonder Pari/ir 011 n destroyer. what I'm doing i11 art instructor\; rapacity- wcll, so am I. However, news of Beloit is of "He v.:as a \vonderful* * son,* and the happiest great interest to me. Some of the usual 'most four yl·ars oi his lift' wen.· spent 011 thl' cam- fond m('mories' that I have, arc of Beloit."- pus of Beloit Collegr."-A mother of a naval ,/ studi:11 t now rrt a destroytr bau. lieutenant kif/rd in action in the Pacific. "I ht.:lit"vC that *I owc* some* alumni dues, so " \Vhrn I take *the Alumnus* * from the enve- if you would µ!case let me know just how lop<' I just sit down and go through it from much it is I will remit it. I soon will have covl"r to cover and always find it very irm:rest· compll't•·d one year in this army and I cer- ing reading. A messagl" from Beloit is always tainly wish I were back at B(·loit instead of wekomr."-A graduate of 1893. here."-A serqeant stationed in thl' 1-V est. * * * . "\,\\· always look* forwa* rd* to the Bulletin. ''The intrntion of the foun1lrrs ... was \Vhen is the next one coming out ?"-A house· clearly that oi promoting here the forming of r.:.:ife. opinion. From the first, Beloit has talkcd about values, and by that it has mrtmt valut's "Perhaps now *111ore *th an *ever hdqre I real- of the spirit. moral ideals consonant with the ize: how much my college days meant to me tl:'achings of Jesus. It has always aimrd at and all other Beloiters. how much Beloit gave clrarness of brain, at scientific accuracy, but it us. Today prohably the campus doesn't seem has also striven to strengthen moral convic- much like the old Beloit, hut I am sure that tions. To trll the truth as wrll as to find it, the spirit is t11erc. As alwavs. I am proud to oppose ill will with good will, to teach of Brloi t's present activiti1•s and work."-A social srrvice or unselfishness, to encourage SPAR in Nez<; Yod-. loyalty to conviction, to enlarge the fields of knowledge. and to deepen personal values- "Instill in me *humilitv * .* tolerance. kimlli- integrity, honor-this is the one thing Beloit ness, hrothcrlincss. :i\'lake me cognizant of was founded to pro111otr."- /ri•inq 111nurer, the seriousness and importance of my mission. 1940. 3 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN Northrop Quoted Ileports on Trip '.'J' A'.'J' artide, " The F:l<"ctric Basis of Li{e" "REPORT on North Africa" is the ac- I in the Novcmher '·B llarptr's il1agazine, count by Kenneth G . " Casey" Craw- Author (;rnrge \ V. (;ray says the following ford '24 of his experiences as a war corres- concerning a theory propounded by Filmer pondrnt in l'iorth Africa shortly after the Stuart Cuckow :"!orthrop, Beloit College invasion oi that continent by Allied forces. graduate of 1915 and now a professor of He was at that time a forrign correspondent philosophy at Y ale: for the New York newspaper Pfl.1, but since his return has become associated with News- "An interesting theory ... has het'n pro- posed by Ors. H. S. Burr and F. S. C. North- werk magazine. rop. They put electricity first. They see The book was every organism, from microbr to man, as the published by Far- dwelling place of a dominating electro-dy- rar and Rinehart namic field, something analogolls to the mag- and a copy has netic field which reaches out from and sur- been presented to rounds a magnet . Ry sysrematically meas- the Beloit Col- uring the voltage difien:nces between various lege library by parts of an organism, it is possible to map the the author. An owr-all electrical pattern oi the individual. earlier work of This ova-all pattt:rn is the electro-dynamic his, " The Pres- field of the theory of Burr and '.'J'orthrop ... sure noys." an account of Wash- "Filmer Stuart Cuckow i'\ orrhrop is a pro- ington lobbyists, fessor of philosophy at Yale. His principal also is in th(: li- interrst i5 the philosophy of science, and in bran•. 1931 he published a book, Scien ce mzd First F~vorable re- Principles, outlining the physical theory of na- views were ac- ture. this book he reviewed the Greek In corded the book concept of continuity. l t was the fundamental 111 the nation's pri11ciple of ancient science, d<·rind from the press, and it has enjoyed a wide sale. Craw- mathematicians' and astronomers' emphasis on ford's aCCOllllt of his crossing to Africa on a structllrc and the constancy of form in natllre. destroyer is especially interesting reading, a nd Then he compared the N cwtonian concept of he do<"S well in explaining the de(;aullc- atomicity, based on the discontinuity of matter Giraucl conflict, as well as the American atti- as disclosed by physics and chemistry. The tude in the Darlan affair. Greeks emphasi7.cd the one, the whole; the '.\J'ewtonians emphasize.I the many, the parts The African campaign, Crawford states, in eternal motion; and there was no reconcilia- changed the political character of the war. tion betwrcn the two principles. But Profes- " There Roosevelt revealed to the people of sor T\orthrop pointed out that a consistent the worlcl, indllding his own people, what world picture must recognize both principles kind of a war he proposed to fight and there- . .. :\Torthrop generalized the rival concepts fore what his indicated objectives were. His into a unifi<"d throry of the cosmos as a macro- conduct of the T\orth African campaign, both scopic atom, binding the many by its field into in its military and diplomatic aspects, sug- one . .. ny 1939 a wealth of experimental re- gested anything but world revolutionary sults had !wen accumulated in the laboratory, leadership ... Our basic war policy, it became and Burr and Northrop restated their thesis a1>parent, was one of military expediency and in a report to the T\ ational Academy of Sci- power politics rather than reform and wel- ences in Washington on 'Evidence for the fare politics. It was realism with a ven- Existence of an Electro-Dvnamic Fick! in Liv- geance .... ing Organisms'." . " For better or for worse, this war lost its rcvolutionarv feel in Korth Africa. It is now Chicago alumni 1?;athcr for lunch every Fri- a coo p crat i v~ fight by the United Nations to day noon at ~landcl's in C hicago-ninth halt Axis aggression and destroy the Axis floor. Everyone is welcome. armies and leadership." 4 J BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN ADVENTURE COMES EARLY (The follow ing is a major portion of Chapter I of "Under a Lucky Star (A Lifetime of Adventure}", the autobiography of Roy Chapman A 11drews '06.