University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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William Dodd William E. Dodd NOTHER book, Essays in Honor of William E. Doddf' has been written by 12 former stu- dents of the present United States Ambassador to Germany, who is ProfessorrEmeritus of Modern Hisi turf,Y at the University. The book includes: ttAmerica. and Freedom of the Seas, 1861-65 by Frank L. Owsley 0f Vanderbilt University: ttCantempural-y Opinion in the Virginia. of Thomas Jefferson by Maude H. Verand- f'm of Richmond College; nThe Fabric of Chicago's Early Society by Bessie L. Pierce of the University of Chi- cage, and the Ideology of American Expansiontt by Julius W. Pratt of the University of Buffalo. Lectures . . . Hislory of Science Fall Quarter at the University was a public lehture course on the ttIL-Iistt'n'y of Sciencef not given only by scientists, but orientaiists, historians, and philosophers as well. It was imperfect if measured by the monumental uHistoryr of Science by George Sartun, but it was :1. lung step in the direction of synthesis. The lectures occurred as fotlows: ttSeiennce in the Ancient Near East by Albert '1'. Olmstead. Professor of Orir ental History; Greek Science by Clih'ord P. Osborne. Instructor in Phiiosophy; ttMoslem Sciencett by Martin Sprengling, Professor of Semitic Languages and Liter- atures; I'ltr'lesilieml Science by Einar Joranson, Ansa- ciate Professor of Medieval History; ttI-tenaissance Science by Charles Morris, Associate Professor of Philosophy; The Search for a. Method. by A. Cornelius Benjamin, Assistant Professor of Philosophy; t'Geame- try,, and Algebra by Ralph G. Sanger, Instructor in MathematiCS: the DeveioPment of Scientific Instru- ments by A. M. McMahon. Curator, the Museum of Science and Industry; HDynamical Astronomy, by Wilv liam D. MacMiHan, Professor of Astronomy; ttAnalysist' by Mr. Sanger; Optics? by Harvey 13. Lemon, Pro- fessor of Physics; Electricity and Magnetism by Arthur J . Dempstcr, Professor of Physics; The Emer- gence of Chemistry, The Development of General Chemistry? and ttOrganic Chemistry by James K. Senior, Research Associate in Chemistry,- ttlleat by Dr. Lemon; nPhysical Chemistry? by Thurfin H. Hug- ness, Associate Professor of Chemistry; Modern Devel- opment of Jl'ttalt'nismn by Dr. Dempster; Spectrmcopy and Astrophysics't by George S. Monk. Assistant Pro- fessor of Physics; Cosmogonyt, by Otto Strnve, Prof fessor of Astrophysics and Director, Yerkes Observa- tory; ttDevelopment of Geologytt L and IL by Edson St Bastin, Professor of Economic Geology, chairman, Department of Geology; ttPaleontology: The Study of Fossils by Carey Croncis, Assistant Professor of Geolo- gy, and History of Cosmic Rays, by Dr. Lemon. ONE of the really splendid contributions during the Two things will immediately be observed about the History of Science series. Most of the men giving the series were younger men on the fecultiest and, In gen- eral, they gave the impression that everythmg worth 'der ing in science had been. done at the Unwermty. 'ElhlS may be almcst true in some helds, but the-professmns that depend on science, medicine and englncenhg, to mention oniy two, were hardly mentioned. Work 1n the Biological! ScienceSephysiology and psyehologywn the University campus was stighted. The tnhute we Pay t0 the eii'm'tI however, Still stands. It was a Istep m the right direction. It was not the first step elthet. Prom fessor Charles Morris of the department of Phllosqphy had the idea two years ago and acted on it at that time. Originally intended and interpreted as an attack on the rationalist inHuenL-es at the University, it has compelled students and faculty alike to consider the whole scope of science in. its growth and development, and the re- sulting impulse toward synthesis delights anyune Who has not already identified himself as an exponent of anti-intellectualism. Degrees . . . depression S CONVOCATION for the Fall Quarter ap- proached, the usual Ph.D. contributions to knowledge made their appearance. Wurst ex- amples: The Early Growth of Poetic Realism in An- ders Osterling, 1904-10, ttThc Ideal of the Court Lady in England, 1558-1625ft 'tBoulders from Bengalia, and Procedures Used in Selecting School Books. Best examples: Effects of Nitrogen Supphr on the Rates of Photosynthesis and Respiration in Plants, and ttForecasting the Commodity Price Level, 1850 to 1930: An Appraisal of 150 Predictions? The question may be rightly raised whether any stu- dents, pressed by economics need to get a degree as quickly as possible, should be allowed to attempt a contribution to knowledge to which the University must lend the prestige of its name. The fault of trivial re- Search by students does not lie with the students neces- sarily. It lies in the professionatization and degradation of the Ph.D. and the weight of academic Custom in re- quiring a. thesis for such a degree. These errors have been heightened by the economic insecurity of students, during the depression years who are in a. very justifiable. hurry to get the degree and get out to teach as 50011 M possible. In this they do not differ from law or medical students, except that the PhD. in same depart- ments sets a much easier and quicker task then the J.D. or the M.D. Charles Morris 27

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Crane . . . English HORTLY before President and Mrs. Hutchins left for a visit to the Hawaiian Islands for the month November 16 to December 21, the Presi- dent announced the appointment of Ronald S. Crane, Professor of English, as chairman of the department of English at the University. Since the death last sumw met of Charles IL Baskerviil, former chairman of the department, Robert Morss Lovett had been acting chair- man. This, incidentallyr was about as far as the Uni- versity ever went toward dehance of the state Legisla- tive committee which had askEd the dismisml of Pro- fessor Lovett. Professor Crane is a. graduate of the University of Michigan and holds his doctorts degree from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. From 1911 to 1924p he ad- vancrd from instructor to assistant professor to as- sociate professor of English at Northwestern University. Coming to the University of Chicago as an associate professor in 1924:, he was made full professor in 1925. Professor Crane's chief research interest lies in the English essay and he has edited two volumes entitled ttThe English Familiar Essay, 1916. and ttNew Essays by Oliver Goldsmith, 1927. In connection with the latten- work, Dr. Crane discovered that Goldsmith, be- fore he wrote his famous uDesettet'l Village? had writ- ten it as an essay. Since 1930, Professor Crane has been editor of the learned journal, nMecdem Philology. Dr. Crane has long been one of the few men in the department of English whose classes have had some basis in intellectual anti aesthetic analysis. This means that absorbing questions like. nWhen was the Deserted Viiiaget writtentt? are abandoned in favor of tWiii'hat is poetry'tP; ttWhat kinds 0? poetry exist ?; ttHnw is poetry tu he appl'aiscd'iit; uBy intutitionith By formal aesthetic analysis by the intellect ?; ttIs there any real conflict between the judgment of the intellect and ap- praisal by the intuition ? The tide perhaps has turned in the department of English from the skepticism of pure empirieism, In the hands of an intelligent ration- alist, mureover, the truths that empiricism has to utter are not overlooked. The converse of this proposition is also true. An intelligent empirieist will not overlook the truths of rationalism. Adler . . . lnferiority Complex 5 a visitor last fall. Dr. Alfred Adler, famed proponent of individual psychology? of Vienna and the Long Island Medical College in New York, lectured at the University campus on the Mean- ing Elf NeurosiS-lt Dr. Adler is one of the leading authorities of the world in the field of dynamic psychology, acmrding to psychologists. Early in the century, he was a. collabo- rator with Sigmund Freud of Vienna. Sharply disi agreeing with Freud as tn the fundamental cause of nervous disorders Called neuroses, Dr. Adler and his followers broke away to form their own school of thou ht, individual psychology. This school maintains the octrine of the ttindivisible unity of personalityti in each human being. When this unity of personality is disturbed, the neurosis occurs, Adler sayht white Freud attributes neurosis to sex, accurding to Universityr psychologists. To explain t h e f n 1' c e s which d 1' i v e PHOTO BY SCHWA'H men 21nd women to want security and even supremacy, Dr. Adler mined the term, inferiority mmplex.n Here Freud and Adler disagreed again, Freud holding that these drives can be traced to sex. New Testament-l 300 A. D. MONG the gifts received by the University during A this period was an ancient Greek manuscript of the GOSPels of Luke and J aim, written about 1300 A. D. and discovered in Athens, which was recently acquired by the Divinity School. It was purchased from Daniel Keiiad, a. numismatist tdeale: in old CuinSL of Jersey City, largely through :1 gift by John S. Miller, Chicago attorney. This edition is the 26th volume of New Testament Greek manuscripts in the University's collection, which is the second largest in the country. The University of Michigan owns at present the largest collection of these manuscripts. Scholars have noted that the chief peculiarity of this particular manuscript is the unusual formaticm of the Greek letter, gamma, throughout the volume. Most of its pages are unadomed by miniatures or colored letters. Two further gifts recall the memory of two men an the famous original faculty brought to the University in 1892 by President XVitliam Rainey HarperiJ. Lauri enee Laughlin, Professor of Political Economy, 1892 to 1916, and Franklin Johnson, Professor of Divinity, 1592 to IQUkwhen the Board of Trustees accepted their portraits for University halls. The portrait of Professor Laughlin, who was the chief academic proponent in the country of the 1914: Federal Reserve Act, was painted by Johansen and now hangs in the Social Science Assembly Room. The portrait of Professor Johnson, done by Charles Hupkinson, is in the Common Room of Swift hall. The portraits were presented to the University by Mrs. Laughiin and Mrs. Johnson, wives of the deceased scholars. Stein . . . Wilder MONG the books published by the University Press was Narretionti by Gertrude Stein. It containa the four lectures she delivered at the University last year. Thornton Wilder, novelist, professorial lecturer at the University, and friend of Miss Stein, wrote the introduction to the 62Apage volume. ttNarrationh has .9. very unusual cover of modernistic design, and the make-up throughout is as unusual as Miss Stein's style. It is not difhcuit to perceive what Miss Stein was trying to do in the book If read aloud cor- rectly, her prose becomes musical, and if the accents are properly arranged, it becomes intelligible. The silent reader will encounter some difliculty in determining the antecedents of her pronouns. But, by and large, her writing in this book is intelligible to the average Jay reader, treating grammar, the distinctions between prose and poetry, the relation of news-writing to his- tory, and the retation of the writer to his audience.

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Radicals or liberals? YER the vacation at Christmas, many alleged O radicals traveled down to Cincinnati to abolish themselves as uradicals and became uliberalis? In short, the noisy National Student League and the thoughtful Student League for Industrial Democracy merged; and, together with religious, peace, and humani- tarian organizations, hecame the American Student l'nion. This organization has essentially .1 liberal plat- fU'l'U'L It is against wan fascism, anti general tyranny of any kind. Ii: took a rightfui and sofnewhut righteous stend on academic freedom, and it will befriend stu- dents who suffer from economic insecurity. wrathful in- structors, race prejudice, or discrimination. Nationally it is probably controlled by liberals. Locally, tempera- mental radicals may attempt to seixe the organization. although this is generally reco Ilizec'l to be against the interests of the radicals themse ves. Nevertheless the present era in the University's social history will undoubtedly be known as the iittn'hult-mt thirties.H If you don't think so, take a look at 1935, the dime novel year when the University as hero, the Chicago Herald and Examiner as villain Mr. Charles IL Walgreen as the dupe, and Miss Lucille Norton, as the victim, got ail tiny wanted in terms of prestige, circu- lation, publicity, and the joys of dutiful faimjlg,r obedience respectively in the State Senate Investigation. The year saw the University break many lauces for democracy, particularly against William Randolph Burp as he was so appropriately called in Northwestern Uni; versity's W.A,A.eM.U. Show of 1936. But iances fur democracy seem to be dangerous things to handle these days. No matter where they are thrust they always seem to bruise an incipient fascist tanti-radicalt or an incipient cmununibt tradiean. Liberal and cbnservative democratic persons, excluding the anti-radicals and the radicals, cumprise a. larger proportion of the Uni versity's population than the nationis and are somewhat bewildered hy the dangers of being democratic, Their bewilderment arises from the fact that radicals and anti-radicals for all their cross-purposes, ere tem- porarily allietii First there are the radicals who I'ane developed a technique by which they cannot lose. They never ask for anything. They demand it. If a demand is. refused, that is newa: if it is granted, that also is news. Then there are the radicalst allies, the anti-radical press. The demands are made to stir wrathfnl publicity in the unti-radieal press, and such newspapers cannot lose in this: game either. Theg.r gain some reputation for Americanism tnot much and some circulation 0:150 not muehi. Fulminutions of the arithmetical press and organizations drive iiberal and conservative democrat- ically minded persons to the ranks of the radicals, he- cause they know that Hitler and Mussolini used pre cisely' the same fuiminations almost word for word in their rise to power, The University has long been the goat of this co; operative teamrwork between radicals and enti-mdicels. The University, along with other universities, will he the goat of the campaign of 1936 because the pro- fessors have committed the sin of placing their knowl- edge at the disposal of their country. Their honest mis- takes- oecured, not because they viewed themselves as am aristocracy of brains, but because they traverSEd new fields. The;r participated in government by re- quest, not by desire to do so. It is even easier to at- tack a university by attacking its student body. And the nice thin about all this is that universities cannot Fight back. ' hey think it would be undignified. There are no communists on the University's faculty. There is one socialist among the 337 faculty members. Judge Ed ward Hi ntnn The American Student Union is not communist; it is not socialist; it is not even radical. Anyone who states the converse of these assertions is guilty of worse then misrepresentation. That is how red the University of Chicago is. Judge Edward W. Hinton S the Winter quarter began, the Law School last A a. beloved professor, Judge Edward W. Hinton who had been at the University for the last 22 years and was a nationally known authority on piead- ing procedure. He died January 2 at his home, 1221 East 56th Street, Sixty-seven years old, Judge Hinton had been ill of a nervous disorder for two years and had undergone Five operations; nevertheless he had con- tinued his teaching duties up to the recent Christmas vacation and was scheduled to resume classes the iirst of the year. Second ranking member of the University's law faculty in point of service, Judge Hinton held the James Parker I-Iall Professorship at the University. He came 10 the University in 1913' resigning the dean- ship of the law school of the University of Missouri to accept the Chicago post He had practiced law in Columbia, Missouri, for two decades and served as judge of the district court there. Judge Hinton was widebr known among legal scholars for his: standard case-books. among which are nI-Iintonis Cases on Code Pleading, itHinton's Cases on Trial Flametieen and iiCasee on Equity Pleedin 3' He collaborated with W. W. Cook on Cases on gommon Law Pleadingf' President Robert M. Hutchins said of Professor Hinton: He was the must eminent scholar in the field of procedural law in the United States. He was cine of the men upon whom the reputation of the Uni- versity; Law School was founded. His was an ex- traordinary cnmbination of scholarship mid teaching ability. His personality was such as to make him an exceptionally effective teacher; his knowledge was broad and his experience varied. Colleagues remarked upon the affection with which Judge Hinton was regarded by his students. Clarity of thought, eveness 0f temper, humor, and profound scholarship marked his teaching Career. He held a. conservative point of view, stressing the importance of the rules as they had grown up. but with a. sense of the: continuing nature of legal development, they pointed DU Judge Hinton was a consultant in the drafting of the new Illinois Civil Practice Act, and taught a cburse in the Act attended by more them 500 lawyers when the Act became effective two years ago. He was :1 member of the Illinois Survey for Criminal Justice, which re- ported in 1926. 28