University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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23 ■ IJbelieve we can get creative men and women that way and only in that way. Atmosphere and Action. In an atmosphere of sincere hard work and ideas taking shape as reality—in a life where ideas are the form of action and action the form of ideas—only there the quali-ties our life now most needs can grow. That is why—finally—I have taken a hand in making architects as well as in making architecture. The Taliesin Fellowship aims to give such spiritual climate and soil to youth as Dutchmen gave, physically, to the Larkspur, encouraging free growth according to nature and in much the same way the Larkspur was encouraged. ■ The culture of the Larkspur was an experiment with the Dutch. And the Taliesin Fellowship is likewise an experiment. But it is an experiment along the lines of normal growth with a chance of life for the individual soul. And is that not much better than inevitable sterility of the individual and certainly the death of the soul as individual? ■ Only superior human material can shed and survive the popular education of today. Whenever education really “takes” we seldom hear of its brilliant successes outside the classroom—either in the chair or on the benches. | Our “experiment” in civilization—we call it democracy- needs another type of success. Machine-age life, if it is to be happy or continue very long, needs real interpretation and creative self-expression. And this is no matter of complex “Education” as we practice it—but is a more simple matter of Culture as we have not yet learned to practice it. For the Badger Taliesin April - 1933

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22 anything higher, now, than conventional or pecuniary success, the sincerity inevitable to high aim becomes a quality of the hero, while such art as we know can only be had by way of taste. ■ But I know of no great civilization ever built by way of “taste. Art must always take the lead, as it has in any true form of culture. Every living people leaving us a record of their life to read as great art, lived that art as their own life or the other end around lived their lives as great art. We are not a happy people in this sense. We are missing something of immense consequence. And what is missing cannot be taught. It may be engendered. Therefore we need engendering culture more and need informative education much less. Dutchmen made the queen of the garden from the lowly larkspur by way of culture, not by way of education. They studied the nature of the Larkspur, the climatic and soil conditions it loved and planted it where these abounded: took the finer specimens that grew and gave them more of the thing natural to their growth until we got the Delphinium. The Taliesin ' Fellowship ■RANK U.OYD WRIGHT ARCHITECT tea room under K kitchen L bo i rooms M qiris rooms N machine shops O p r i n f shop P leader R associate leoders S quest house T foremen help U qaraqrr 'Z light plont reserve wafer nippb ! barns stable

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NEW FACULTY MEMBERS 24 Lloyd Kirkham Garrison Dean of the Law School I enjoy everything,” says not only the voice of Lloyd Kirkham Garrison, new dean of the Law School, but his eyes and his smile in fact, his entire personality—also confirm his statement. Emerging from aristocratic and distinctive Harvard in 1922 with the degree of bachelor of laws. Dr. Garrison, grandson of the famous liberator William Lloyd Garrison, entered the law office of Root, Clark, Buckner, and How land in New York City. Since August 1930, Mr. Garrison served in the capacity of special assistant to the attorney general of the United States and directed, under the Solicitor General, a nation-wide inquiry into the operation of the bankruptcy act. Considering, “All the world's a stage, Dean Garrison says, “it is the function of our schools to give prospective lawyers not merely stage directions, but the temper of mind which will make them worthy actors. John D. Hicks Professor of History Sarcastically humorous in lecture and pleasingly entertaining socially, is the able successor of Prof. F. L. Paxon of the history department Prof. John D. Hicks. Although Professor Hicks received his B.A. and his M.A. degrees from Northwestern University, he is, nevertheless, not entirely a stranger to our campus, since it was here that he obtained his Ph. D. in 1916, and here that he taught during the 1919 summer session. “But it's changed a lot since then, smiles Prof. Hicks. A desire to be known as a historian rather than a college dean, induced Professor Hicks to leave his position as Dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Nebraska and assume the position of professor of history here at Wisconsin. Gustav J. Gonser Major in Command, University R. O. T. C. “This is the first time I've ever had charge of a university R. O. T. C. unit, but I like it, remarks Major Gustav J. Gonsor, commandant of the Wisconsin R. O. T. C., transferred here this past year from the regular army. Rough but pleasant in manner and speech, the Major has already won the admiration and respect of the men in the corps. Since his graduation from West Point in 1912, he has been stationed in ten different states. A portion of his service has also been in the Hawaiian Islands. He came originally from Elmira, New York, and proves a worthy successor to Major Tom Fox, commandant here the pre-cceding several years. Hicks Garrison Gonser