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l Back Row: Gordon, Camp, Dellenback, Welles, Hauser, Finch, Pease, Givan, Horton, Glover, Holden, Eisenberg, R. H. Clark, Thompson. Third Row: Vinton, Galliher, Caplan, Hellmuth, Schiller, Pogorzelski, Merriell, Lavery, Weissman, MacSporran, Dahl, Edlin, Proctor. Second Row: J. S. Smith, Borden, Boardman, Cummings, Van Slyck, Batten, Hought- eling, Williams, Benson, Brewster, Mackenzie, Brueckel, Duncan, H. M. Clark. Front Row: Furniss, Ryan, Madden, Spiegel, Schmechel, Alter, Bundy, Ewing, Lanman. Phi Beta Kappa The Higher Learning in America in 1940 RGING that philosophical studies must be central in a college curriculum, President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, called on members ofthe Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, at the annual banquet on February 26, to renounce the triviality, voca- tionalism, obsolescent information, and the chaotic elective system which characterize high- er education in America. That metaphysics is basic in science, ethics, and politics, and hence should be recognized in the field of education was the theme of the argu- ment advanced by President Hutchins. I am interested in education, in morals, in intellect, and in metaphysics, President Hutch- ins declared. Hl even go so far as to hold that there is a necessary relation among all these things. I am willing to assert that without one We cannot have the others and without the others we cannot have the one with which all of us here are concerned, namely, educationf' Our problems, President Hutchins argued, are moral, intellectual, and spiritual, and will not be resolved by technical skill or scientific data, but rather, by wisdom and goodness. Wisdom and goodness, continued Mr. Hutch- ins, 'care the aims of higher education. How can it be otherwise? How can we consider man's destiny unless we ask what he is? How can we talk about preparing men for life unless we ask what the end of life may be? At the base of edu- cation, as at the base of every human activity, lies metaphysics. Metaphysics plays a double part in higher education, insisted President Hutchins. By way of their metaphysics, educators determine what education they shall offer. By way of metaphysics, their students must lay the founda- tions of their moral, intellectual, and spiritual life. By way of metaphysics, I arrive at the con- clusion that the aim of education is wisdom and goodness and that studies which do not bring us closer to this goal have no place in a university. By way of metaphysics, students, on their part, may recover a rational View of the universe and of their role in it.

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ra f' hi Beta Kappa SGI-IOLASTIG HONOR SOCIETY HMI! W DONALD ARTHUR HARVEY SCHMECHEL President AMES PAYNE ALTER Vice-President HART HUNTER SPIEGEL Seeremqy ,RH .. - V, , Q, ROWLAND BOYD VANCE Treasurer MCGEORGE BUNDY Member Q' Executive Committee I-fl I 'J rl fiw..Y. J I I WALTON FORD BATTERSHALL HOWARD WOELFERT BLAUVELT HENRY MONROE CHILDS,JR. AMBROSE COGHILL CRAMER, III HERBERT JOHN CURTIS AUSTIN ARTHUR HALLE, JR. JAMES PAYNE ALTER WOLCOTT NEWBERRY BAKER LORING WOART BATTEN, III WILLIAM EDWARD BARNES BENSON LANSDALE BOARDMAN ARTHUR MURRAY BORDEN JOHN EDWARDS BREWSTER JOHN BRIDGE BRUECKEL MCGEORGE BUNDY THOMAS JAMES CAMP,JR. IRVING CAPLAN ARTHUR JOHN CUMMINGS JACK GERALD EISENBERG RICHARD TUCKER EWING LEWIS MORGAN BLOOMINGDALE, JR. HERBERT MOTTRAM CLARK RICHARD HAMPTON CLARK JOHN RICHARD DELLENBACK CLAYTON DUBOSQUE, JR. CARLOS JOAQUIN ANGULO LEWIS CURTIS DAHL ANGUS NEAL GORDON, JR. CLASS OF 1939 fJune Electionsj JOHN LEWIS HARVEY,JR. FRANCIS WILLIS HENSLEY WILLIAM WEED KAUFMANN JEROME SEYMOUR KORNREICH KENNETH IRVING LASH CLASS OF 1940 HENRY LEROY FINCH, JR. EDGAR STEPHENSON FURNISS, JR. HERBERT PARRISH GALLIHER,JR. NICHOLAS STEINER GIMBEL WALKER FORREST GIVAN CHARLES CARROLL GLOVER, III WILLIAM FREDERICK HELLMUTH,JR. REUBEN ANDRUS HOLDEN, IV JOHN MACKENZIE, JR. JOHN SAMUEL MACSPORRAN STANLEY JOHN POGORZELSKI MORTIMER ROBINSON PROCTOR, JR. EDWARD RYAN C CLASS OF 1940 S.S.S. RUSSELL PERSHING DUNCAN GILBERT VICTOR EDLIN PAUL MATTHEXV HAUSER AARON WESLEY HORTON JONATHAN TRUMBULL LANMAN CLASS OF 194.1 JAMES LAWRENCE HOUGHTELING, JR. FRANCIS TRACY SYLVESTER LAVERY GERALD ROBINSON MACLANE JOHN BECKWITH MADDEN 33 GEORGE HUGHES PAGE PAUL EDWARD ROGHE TERRY BENTLEY SANDERS, JR. THOMAS ELLSWORTH TONEY, JR. JULES DAVID WALDER RICHARD HOOKER WILMER,JR. ROBERT SAMUEL SALZER DONALD ARTHUR HARVEY SCHMECHEL DANIEL JACOB SHILLER HART HUNTER SPIEGEL PETER GORDON BRADLEY STILLMAN WILLIAM MCDOWELL STUCKY HENRY CLARKE THACHER, JR. HOWARD SHERWOOD TIERNEY, JR. ROWLAND BOYD VANCE WILLARD NICHOLAS VAN SLYCK, JR. WILLIAM HOWELLS VINTON RICHARD MERRITT WEISSMAN OWEN WATKIN WELLES LOUIS WILLIAMS, III TI-IORVOL MARTIN BEN FANKLIN MCCAMEY, JR. MARSHALL CARLETON PEASE, III WALTER ROMANOW JAMES STERRETT SMITH DAVID MCCRAY MERRIELL LOUIS ARTHUR SILVERSTEIN KARL FREDERICK THOMPSON