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 FOREWORD 
 
 FORTUNATE is the historian who has lived through and 
 been a small part of the history he essays to write. So is he 
 able to view his material subjectively^ and to interpret it in 
 accordance with his own exegetical bias. So also is he able to 
 look at his material objectively, since it is altogether factual. 
 From this double vantage ground it will be the aim of this his- 
 torian to review both outstanding and minor events as they ap- 
 pear in the written records of the Club between the end of the 
 igz^-igz/f. season and the end of the ig^^-ig^^ season; to 
 honor the memory of our members who have died within that 
 period; to laud the work of those whose contributions have been 
 of significant value to the Club; a?2d to comment ad libitum et 
 amanter on any or all other matters that may seem to be worthy 
 of note. 
 
 The Chicago Literary Club was founded in iSy^f and has 
 been a live and thriving organism ever since. The story of its 
 first fifty years., of its formative, pioneer, hilarious, turbulent, 
 never uninteresting periods, has been told in masterly fashion 
 and in charmingly Boswellian detail by this historian s pred- 
 ecessor, Frederick William Gookin, for forty years, from 1880 
 to ig20, our Club' s unrivalled Secretary and Treasurer. He saw 
 the Club through storm and stress, through healthy development 
 until at last when he laid dowrj his pen our Navis Litteraria 
 rested in quiet waters. It is now the duty of this historian to carry 
 on and to tell his twenty-year tale as faithfully and truly as he 
 may. 
 
 Payson S. Wild 
 
 Chicago, June i, 1946
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER PAGE 
 
 I. We have Kept the Faith. Club Library ... i 
 
 II. Fifty-first season. Associate Membership. We 
 
 move from tenth to eighth floor. Memorials . 6 
 
 III. 1 925-1 926. Papers by members now deceased. 
 McAndrew. A reporter intrudes. Denton J. 
 Snider 11 
 
 IV. 1 926-1 927. A formidable topic bravely attacked. 
 Purgation. 1927-1928, Frank J. Loesch Presi- 
 dent. James Thompson. George Packard. Meet- 
 ing December 19, 1927 in Ryerson Physical 
 Laboratory, University of Chicago .... 17 
 
 V. Paul Shorey. Louis Block. Clarence Burley. 
 
 Charles C. Curtiss. Louis F. Post. William Kent 24 
 
 VI. 1 928-1 929. Memorials. fFe Move Agaiyi. 1929- 
 1930. Medical and Dental Arts Building. Place 
 de r Inquisition. Dreams of peaceful haven of 
 rest shattered. "Pedagese." Back to Fine Arts 
 Building. Origin of printing Club papers. Me- 
 morials 29 
 
 VII. 1 930-1 93 1. Lessing Rosenthal President. Vignet- 
 tes by Louis Post. Alfred Bishop Mason. Edward 
 S. Ames. Memorials 38 
 
 VIII. Fifty-eighth year. Dr. Herrick. Our bank fails. 
 Parlous times. Harvey Lemon on Michelson. 
 Book Nights. Scintillating program. Memorials. 
 1932-1933. Harvey Lemon President ... 47 
 
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 IX. John M. Cameron President 1933-1934- Classics 
 Nights. Sixtieth Anniversary. "Kudos" medals. 
 Season of 1 934-1 935- Henry M. Wolf President. 
 Famous "Octogenarian Dinner." 57 
 
 X. Sixty-second season. William E. Dodd's "Appre- 
 ciation" of Henry M. Wolf. Club rooms en- 
 larged. Walter L. Fisher. Frederick W. Gookin. 
 Club Freedoms. Sixty-third season. Memorable 
 Ladies' Night ("Black Oxen") 67 
 
 XI. 1937-1938. Reunion Dinner at Chicago Athletic 
 Club. Events and comments. 1938-1939. Anx- 
 ious days. Hitler stalks abroad. Our Ivory Tower. 
 Memorials 76 
 
 XII. 1 939-1 940. Papers worthy of our best traditions. 
 William E. Dodd. 1940-1941. Disquieting season 
 internationally, but we carry on. Bishop Cheney. 
 1941-1942. Change in fiscal policy. Sixteen 
 deaths, a sad list. Dr. Reed 85 
 
 XIII. Our war members. 1942-1943. Onr first Ladies' 
 Night in the University Club. Odysseus calls it 
 perfection. 1 943-1 944. Howard Eldridge. 1944- 
 1945. Income tax immunity. Audit system initi- 
 ated. Carey Croneis elected President of Beloit 
 College. Casper Ooms appointed Commissioner 
 of Patents. 1 945-1 946. We are obliged to move 
 again. Epilogue. Mary Green 94 
 
 APPENDICES 
 
 A. List of the Club's Officers, 1924 to 1946. . . . 107 
 
 B. Roll of members from September 30, 1925, to 
 May 6, 1946 11 1 
 
 C. Papers read before the Club from May 19, 1924, to 
 May 7, 1945, with dates. Names in alphabetical order 123 
 
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 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 FACING PAGE 
 
 William McAndrew 12 
 
 Frank Joseph Loesch 18 
 
 James Westfall Thompson 20 
 
 George Packard 22 
 
 Paul Shorey 24 
 
 Clarence Augustus Burley 26 
 
 Lessing Rosenthal 38 
 
 Edward Scribner Ames 40 
 
 James Bryan Herrick 48 
 
 Henry Milton Wolf 62 
 
 Charles Bert Reed 86 
 
 Payson Sibley Wild 90 
 
 Mary Green 104 
 
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 THE 
 
 CHICAGO LITERARY 
 
 CLUB 
 
 Chapter I 
 
 THAT the Chicago Literary Club has been for more 
 than seventy years a cohesive, non-explosive struc- 
 ture, maintaining a steady, unbroken series of weekly 
 meetings from the first meeting to the two thousand three 
 hundred and twelfth (the number at present writing), when 
 one considers the great diversity of character, training and 
 temperament of its various members as they come and go is a 
 social phenomenon of marked significance. From one genera- 
 tion to the next the membership has been drawn through a 
 rigid "selective service," from the ranks of educated men, 
 chiefly of the learned professions, as might be expected, the 
 Law, Medicine, the Church, Education, Architecture, in- 
 cluding Banking, Journalism, x'\ccounting, and certain other 
 vocations, wherein may be found men eagerly in search of 
 cultural values. 
 
 At the end of his fifty-year history of the Club, Mr. Gookin, 
 the erstwhile Secretary, wrote these words: 
 
 "The future of the Club will be largely what we make it. As we 
 sow, so shall we reap. The destiny of the Club is in the hands of its 
 
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 younger members. It is for them to carry on its traditions, to up- 
 hold its high standard, to make it the cherished meeting place 
 where the best and most cultured men in the city will foregather. 
 Each member in the future as in the past will need to have a keen 
 sense of personal responsibility and be willing to give the Club of 
 his very best. If the members do not fail in this, and it is incon- 
 ceivable that they will, then at the expiration of another fifty years 
 the Club should still be a lusty infant." 
 
 Twenty years of those fifty have passed over our heads. 
 Have we not kept the faith? We have sown no wind and 
 reaped no hurricane. Rather we have kept on sowing our best 
 selected seeds of literary eflFort and are consistently reaping a 
 better harvest. The "younger members" of twenty years ago 
 are now our older members. They have been true to their 
 trust, have carried on our best traditions, upheld our high 
 standards. All who were members one fifth of a century ago 
 and are still alive, will attest the fact that our Club is the 
 "cherished meeting place where the best and most cultured 
 men of the city" still foregather. And who is there among 
 us today who does not feel "a keen sense of personal responsi- 
 bility" for the Club's welfare, and is not willing "to give 
 the Club of his very best?" We venture to believe that the 
 "lusty infant" of 1924 has already passed the "mewling 
 and puking" stage and is fast learning to eat its spinach 
 with gusto. 
 
 So here we are, a body of men of full intellectual stature 
 and prominent station, differing one from another politically, 
 religiously, philosophically, but bound together year after 
 year by love of the beautifully and correctly written and 
 spoken word, and of the companionship of kindred minds 
 and spirits. 
 
 This twenty-year compendium has been compiled from 
 the written proceedings of the Club as contained in three 
 quarto volumes, numbers VIII, IX and X, of the Club rec- 
 ords, from the annual reports of the Secretary and Treasurer, 
 from the yearbooks, from recollections of members, and from 
 a memory impervious to more than fleeting impressions. 
 
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 The Library 
 
 The library of the Club was at one time an interesting, if 
 somewhat bizarre, aggregation of books. Members who 
 wrote books, and many did commit that indiscretion, were 
 expected to donate copies of their works to the Club library. 
 There were dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference 
 books that in their day were timely and useful, but are now 
 obsolescent. Other books were presented to the library. The 
 accumulation grew in size and age. But the bookcases were 
 locked (they still are !) and few asked for the keys. There was 
 (and is today) almost no time for reading during Club ses- 
 sions, and the rooms were not open to members at other 
 times. Cacoethes loqiiendi (an itch to talk) over beer and sand- 
 wiches was a readily acquired infection after the formal 
 exercises, and was regarded quite properly with greater favor 
 than dabbling in the printed lucubrations of long-forgotten 
 authors. So it was that our incarcerated books gathered dust 
 and begat worms. Eventually, however, a few members be- 
 came troubled in conscience, and expressed the opinion that 
 it was quite out of Literary Club character to allow such a 
 fine library to lapse into desuetude. Something should be 
 done about it. At the business meeting on February 26, 1923, 
 these conscientious objectors offered a motion, promptly sec- 
 onded and carried, that a Committee of Three be appointed 
 to eliminate useless volumes from the Club library, and to 
 arrange and catalogue the remainder. The following year that 
 Committee worked valiantly if sporadically at reconstruction 
 and reformation. In the Secretary's report to the Club, ren- 
 dered May 19, 1924, appears the following paragraph: 
 
 "I am not authorized to report for your Library Committee, but 
 it may not be out of place for me to say that that Committee has 
 carefully collated all our books and disposed by sale or gift of many 
 which are doing better and more active service elsewhere than on 
 our own musty shelves. The books remaining have been catalogued, 
 and will be arranged in proper order at some future meeting of 
 the Committee." 
 
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 That the Secretary spoke truly in part for that Committee, 
 although not duly authorized, is evidenced by an item in the 
 Treasurer's report of the same date to the effect that the 
 really remarkable sum of I127.25 was realized in the sale by 
 the Committee, of old books and brochures. What choice 
 items the Committee may have found lurking in hidden cor- 
 ners of the bookcases is not known, for there is no record. To 
 the best of your historian's recollection, that catalogue, if it 
 was made, was never mentioned or displayed. The Secretary 
 says he has serious doubts that that "future meeting" of the 
 Library Committee was ever held. 
 
 The above Secretarial report went on to say: 
 
 "Of great interest to the Club should be the knowledge that 
 every Club publication issued since our birth as a Club in 1874, our 
 yearbooks, Club papers, memorials and other brochures are all to 
 be found in a certain one of our bookcases." 
 
 This was true at the time of that report and we took great 
 pride in that fact. But that state of completion did not last. 
 The case containing these valuable records was gradually 
 filled to overflowing with an ever increasing accumulation of 
 new documents and reports; constant handling of the con- 
 tents as some one of us from time to time went in search of 
 a special item to fill out a personal collection or for other pur- 
 poses, brought on a state of confusion that broke up and 
 practically ruined that complete collection. In our difficulty 
 we consulted our two professional librarians, both members 
 of the Club, Carl B. Roden of the Chicago Public Library, 
 and George B. Utley of the Newberry Library. Many of our 
 publications were already in these libraries. Salvaging what 
 we could from what we had left, and obtaining stray copies 
 from private sources, we managed finally to round up every 
 last item, not quite in duplicate but nearly so. George Utley 
 assures us that the Newberry now has a complete set of 
 everything the Literary Club has ever published. Mr. Roden 
 informs us that his set in the Public Library is almost com- 
 plete, that one or two items are still lacking. Copies of every 
 
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 publication issued by the Club from year to year are sent to 
 these two libraries. Also on our mailing list are the John 
 Crerar Library of Chicago, the Chicago Historical Society, 
 the University of Chicago Library, Northwestern University 
 Library, the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester, 
 Massachusetts, and the libraries of Harvard University and 
 Yale University. 
 
 Three times since 1 924-1 925 the Club has transferred its 
 earthly possessions to different quarters. We shall speak of 
 these moves in due course. Each one left its hallmark of con- 
 fusion on our little library. Today these books languish, as 
 they have languished for twenty years, unread, well coffined 
 and unsung. 
 
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 Chapter II 
 
 WE OPENED the fifty-first season of the Club in 
 October, 1924, under the presidency of George Ellis 
 Dawson, then a man well along in years. He had 
 been a member of the Club for thirty-four years, a modest, 
 retiring man, faithful in attendance, of few words, genial, 
 unaffected, amiable. The meeting was held in Recital Hall 
 where Mrs. Green served one of her excellent dinners to 
 seventy-two members and guests, after which Mr. Dawson 
 delivered his Inaugural, The X Club. At this time the Club 
 had one hundred and eighty-two resident members, sixty- 
 five non-resident, one honorary, and three Associate mem- 
 bers. Concerning Associate members a word is in order at 
 this point. Three or four years before this fifty-first season, 
 Merritt Starr, one of our foremost members and always ac- 
 tively interested in promoting Club welfare, in whose fertile 
 brain the idea was conceived, if we remember rightly, put 
 forward the suggestion that the Club's prestige would be 
 enhanced if we could lure into our fold certain well-known 
 educators, such as college presidents and professors in insti- 
 tutions at a distance from Chicago. Of course these men 
 could not be classed as resident members or even non- 
 resident since they had never been residents of Chicago. Mr. 
 Starr proposed to call them Associate Members. The sugges- 
 tion met with Club approval. Accordingly the By-Laws were 
 revised and this new class of members was formally recog- 
 nized. Like non-resident members, i\ssociate members have 
 no vote and pay no dues. Their connection with the Club 
 would seem to be somewhat tenuous, but it has lasted. Mr. 
 Starr and his friends selected four names as a nucleus: Dr. 
 Melvin A. Brannon, President of Beloit College, Dr. James 
 L. McConaughy, President of Knox College, Professor 
 
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 Kenneth McKenzie, Professor of Italian Literature at the 
 University of Illinois, and Professor William E. Simonds, 
 Professor of English at Knox College. These men were duly 
 elected to associate membership. There have been no addi- 
 tions since. Mr. McConaughy resigned shortly after his elec- 
 tion, and went to an Eastern College leaving his three asso- 
 ciates to do the honors and bear the burden of their class. 
 This they have done without a break for the past twenty 
 years. While on this subject we should mention the Club 
 activities in which these associate members took part. It is 
 a short record. Mr. Starr, who took a great interest in 
 Italian literature, and was a devotee of Dante, obtained the 
 professional services of Professor McKenzie and Professor 
 Ernest H. Wilkins (of the University of Chicago at that 
 time, and for many years President of Oberlin College) as 
 collaborators in the preparation of a paper entitled Dante 
 Six Hundred Years After ^ which he read before the Club with 
 considerable effect in 1921. The Club published this paper, 
 which is number XXVIII in our list of publications. That 
 was Mr. McKenzie's only contribution, an indirect one, to 
 our Club proceedings. Dr. Brannon made one appearance be- 
 fore the Club, on March 8, 1937, when he read a paper on 
 Ti7ne Thinking. At that time he had accumulated something 
 of a record as an educational executive, having been, since 
 his presidency of Beloit, Chancellor of the University of 
 Montana, and President of the University of Idaho. At the 
 time when he read his one paper he was a research worker in 
 zoology at the University of Wisconsin. He now resides in 
 Florida in partial, if not full, retirement. Professor Simonds 
 retired to Ithaca, New York, some years ago; his continuous 
 interest in our Club is evinced by an annual note of apprecia- 
 tion to the Secretary. 
 
 Now to return to our fifty-first season. To an invitation 
 extended to us from the Literary Club of Cincinnati to 
 attend the celebration of its seventy-fifth anniversary to be 
 held during October, 1924, a prompt acceptance was re- 
 
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 turned, and on October 13th Edwin H. Lewis was selected to 
 be our representative. He reported duly that he had been 
 pleasantly entertained in the Ohio city by a colorful group 
 of amateur and semi-professional literati, men like ourselves, 
 of education, eager to learn more of literature and science 
 and to practise the art of writing. 
 
 During the twenty years covered by this epitomized his- 
 tory of our Club proceedings, between five and six hundred 
 papers have been read before the Club, papers of high and 
 low degree, as would be expected in a general literary forum 
 such as ours. At the end of this volume will be found the 
 names, alphabetically arranged, of the authors of these pa- 
 pers, and the titles of the papers each author has read. We 
 might add that there is also an appendix containing the 
 names of all members who were alive at the beginning of the 
 season 1 924-1 925, or have become members since, together 
 with the dates of their "accession," and "dismemberment," 
 if any, whether by death, resignation, or other cause. 
 
 We have selected for special mention and comment, in our 
 perusal of the record with an unprejudiced mind, only those 
 papers of intrinsic worth that awaken our dormant memory, 
 papers historical, philosophical, scientific, highly imaginative, 
 authoritative, humorous and entertaining, all the while 
 remembering that "One star differeth from another in 
 glory." Among the outstanding papers read during this 1924- 
 1925 season were Frank J. Loesch's " Personal Recollections of 
 the Republican Convention of 1880; The Most Commonplace 
 Thing in the Worlds by Wilfred Puttkammer (a paper he read 
 again twenty-one years later before a mostly new generation 
 of members); Scots ^ by William McAndrew; Irving Pond's 
 Ladies' Night address. Education for Art and Life; Shake- 
 speare and the Renaissance, by Merritt Starr (his final contri- 
 bution) ; the first of a series of three exceptionally fine papers 
 by Governor Horner entitled Restless Ashes \ and Values , by 
 Edward Scribner Ames, read at the final meeting of the year, 
 May 1 8, 1925. These were the literary high-lights of the season. 
 
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 We Move 
 
 There had been intimations of an impending change of 
 quarters in the autumn of 1924. The Chairman of the Com- 
 mittee on Rooms and Finance, Holmes Onderdonk, the 
 Chicago Tribune's real estate manager, on October 29, "re- 
 ported progress of negotiations for another Club room, and 
 by vote of the members present was empowered to act." 
 The change was effected in the following February when the 
 Club transferred its Lares and Penates and other supellectile 
 possessions from the tenth floor of the Fine Arts Building 
 (Recital Hall, later called Curtiss Hall in honor of Charles C. 
 Curtiss, one of our members and the Manager of the Build- 
 ing) to the eighth floor of the same building, suite 806-807, 
 fronting Michigan Avenue. On February yth, 1925, the 
 Club met in the new rooms for the first time. The honor of 
 reading the first paper on that memorable occasion fell to 
 Samuel John Duncan-Clark of the Chicago Daily News, a 
 journalist of repute, whose reports and comments during 
 World War I had gained for him a large following. Duncan- 
 Clark was also an amateur painter and star-gazer. The topic 
 of his paper was, Adventures in Ruralia. We still had the 
 privilege of using Recital Hall for Ladies' Nights and other 
 special meetings. For four years we met in this eighth floor 
 suite, where many interesting sessions were held before our 
 next move, a most infelicitous one, concerning which certain 
 remarks will be made at the proper time. Eleven new mem- 
 bers were received into the Club during 1 924-1 925. Seven 
 resident members were removed by death in this period. Mr. 
 Charles L. Hutchinson has been memorialized with deep 
 feeling by Mr. Gookin in his history. Thomas Dent, our lone 
 honorary member, a retired lawyer, highly respected at the 
 bar by his compeers for his suavity, gentle wit, and quiet, 
 unostentatious manner both in and outside of court, died on 
 Christmas Day, 1924. In "his last years, bereft of family, he 
 lived alone in a comfortable Home for Aged Men. Frail of 
 
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 body he was rarely able to come to our meetings, but to the 
 last his loyalty and affection were evidenced by a small 
 annual contribution from his slender means to the Club 
 treasury. This little auto-da-fe (in the literal meaning of that 
 expression) is here recorded as a tardy tribute to his memory. 
 For the other five members who died during this season : Jam.es 
 Clarke Jeffrey, Dr. Norman Bridge, James J. Wait, Edward 
 P. Bailey, and Edgar A. Bancroft, all distinguished members, 
 memorials were written by special committees and read be- 
 fore the Club. The memorial for the last named was printed 
 in the yearbook for the following year. Mr. Bancroft died in 
 Japan July 28, 1925. In chapterTen of Mr. Gookin's History, 
 that recorder, anticipating the end of his story, interpolated 
 a touching eulogy of Edgar Bancroft. Our yearbook memo- 
 rial said in part: 
 
 "Mr. Bancroft was a leader in his profession, an orator of super- 
 lative ability, a patriot of untiring effort, a public servant of un- 
 flagging zeal, a watchful private citizen, a protagonist for the down- 
 trodden, a wise counselor in the never-ending problems of racial 
 conflict growing out of prejudice. . . . He would always rally to the 
 cry of citizenship. All these activities were but experimental mate- 
 rial for his fearless and intelligent conduct of the difficult office of 
 United States Ambassador to Japan, where his skill and concilia- 
 tory genius were leading surely to a restoration of harmony and a 
 better understanding on the part of Japan when Death unkindly 
 came. He was a member of our happy little band of literary aspir- 
 ants, and lent his wit and charm to many of our meetings for sev- 
 eral years." 
 
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 Chapter III 
 
 THE season of 1 925-1 926 opened on October 5, 1925 
 with the usual Reunion and Dinner, held in Recital 
 Hall. Seventy-five members and guests listened atten- 
 tively to the Inaugural address of President Charles Doak 
 Lowry, The PForking Theory of a Laymmi^ wherein the 
 speaker outlined and ably defended his own personal reli- 
 gious convictions. Mr. Lowry was (and still is, though re- 
 tired) a veteran administrator in our Chicago school system 
 with an enviable record for long and efficient service. He has 
 an extensive knowledge of early pioneer history here in the 
 Middle West, especially in the Ohio River States, as two of 
 his later papers attest, John Rankin^ Black Abolitionist, and 
 The Imperial Forest. The Inaugural was followed a week 
 later by a valuable and stirring contribution to Chicago his- 
 tory by Frank Joseph Loesch, a paper entitled Personal 
 Recollections During the Chicago Fire. The author's remark- 
 ably clear memory enabled him to present details of his many 
 experiences in that historic conflagration with vividness and 
 exactitude, visualizing them for his hearers to a high degree. 
 This quality is markedly noticeable in all Mr. Loesch's other 
 papers dealing with past events, quorum pars magfia fuit. 
 The following note appears in the record of the meeting at 
 which this paper was read: "This paper was afterwards 
 privately printed by its author and distributed gratis.'' 
 
 This season was a particularly brilliant one. As one runs 
 through the record of that series of meetings from October 
 to May, one is struck by the fact that nearly all the papers 
 were done by men whom we remember or still know as 
 scholars or specialists, such men as Paul Shorey, professor 
 of Greek at the University of Chicago; James Westfall 
 Thompson, professor of European History at the University 
 
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 of Chicago, and later at the University of California (Berke- 
 ley) ; George H. Mead, professor of Philosophy at the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago; Henry Justin Smith, Editor of the Chi- 
 cago Daily News, and for a while assistant to the President 
 of the University of Chicago; Francis M. Arnold, profes- 
 sional musician, whose papers were quite often interpreted 
 by himself on the piano; Charles B. Reed, of medical and 
 literary fame, whose Masters of the Wilderness, and other 
 histories of early Canadian days, not to mention his memo- 
 rable stories of the North Woods read before the Club at 
 various times, are works of distinction; William McAndrew, 
 Superintendent of Chicago Schools; William E. Dodd, pro- 
 fessor of American History at the University of Chicago, and 
 United States Ambassador to Nazi Germany (appointed by 
 President Roosevelt) from 1933 to 1937; Sigmund Zeisler, 
 well known Chicago attorney, and author of Reminiscences 
 of the Anarchist Case, a paper written for and read to the 
 Club on May third, 1926, and published by the Club in 
 January, 1927; and lastly, William Lee Richardson, author 
 and editor, a blithe and cheerful spirit, and to the very 
 end a purveyor and teacher of the best in literature. Please 
 note that these men are no longer with us save in happy 
 memory. 
 
 As one turns the pages of this season's record to the date 
 of March 29, 1926, one reads these words by no means un- 
 familiar to members of this Club: nox dominarum uxorum 
 viRGiNUM. . . . Ladies' Night obviously. The record con- 
 tinues: "Recitavit suum Ubellum Gulielmus Andreas Mc- 
 Andrew: ''The Wells of Saint Boethius.''' Moistening the dry 
 Andrewsian humor with frequent draughts from the Saint's 
 Wells, The Ladies greatly enjoyed the occasion. If any apology 
 for using a little Latin in a semi-public record twenty years 
 ago is required, let it be said that at that time Latin as a 
 medium of linguistic exchange was still alive, though breath- 
 ing heavily; whereas today it is in a triple state of coma, dis- 
 favor, and disrepute, a casualty of World War IL How much 
 
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 WILLIAM MC ANDREW
 
 simpler is the electron than the subjunctive mood, or radar 
 than the ablative absolute! 
 
 There is much of interest that could be said here about our 
 honored member William McAndrew, designated in the 
 Ladies' Night record just mentioned as Imperator Notus 
 Scholarum Publicarum (violent snorts from Mayor Thomp- 
 son and Margaret Haley!), but this brief history cannot go 
 into biographical details in extenso. One of our long-time 
 members, a public school Principal, has kindly furnished us 
 with copies of a slender publication, issued by and for public 
 school teachers during the spring and summer of 1944, 
 which sets forth the remarkable career of McAndrew from 
 his early days until his suspension by the Chicago Board of 
 Education in March, 1928, and his vindication later by the 
 Board and by the Courts. He was an educator of national 
 renown, kindly, approachable, of unshakable conviction, 
 firm in his methods of school administration, and, though ad- 
 mittedly in the right, was at times accused even by his 
 friends of lacking in tact. In his stormy scholastic career we 
 note that he either had his own way or got out, with a ringing 
 farewell of cheerful defiance. We must quote what he said 
 shortly after his departure; it is thoroughly characteristic 
 of the man as we knew him both in and out of the Club : 
 
 "I have been called the stormy petrel of education. It may be a 
 fair name, for there have been, alas, storms in the two school sys- 
 tems where I have spent most of my days. But I never raised a 
 storm; I never started a fight. I merely hung on to the work that 
 seemed worth doing. I never hated anybody. I never could see any 
 reason for anyone's hating me. Chicago fired me out twice, but gave 
 me a delightfully lively time when I lived there. Not a dull mo- 
 ment! Chicago has for years had what seems to me a marvellously 
 high proportion of talent in its schools, and a pitiful and idiotic 
 record of debauching its teachers by Board stupidity and lack of 
 humane consideration ... I knew the likelihood of trouble so well 
 that when I went to Chicago the second time I had a pretty good 
 opinion that I might last six weeks. I lasted one hundred and 
 eighty-four. Why not let me blow that horn and be thankful for the 
 lively days I spent there?" 
 
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 That they were lively days we who survive can well re- 
 member. In this connection it is pertinent to record here a 
 later incident that had its humorous as well as serious side. 
 On October 17, 1927, a year and a half after his Ladies' 
 Night address, McAndrew read a paper before an audience of 
 more than a hundred members and guests in Recital Hall. It 
 was his final contribution to our Club programs, and came 
 in the midst of his political fight when hostilities had waxed 
 very hot. We entertain a little more than a suspicion, but 
 may be entirely wrong, that he chose his topic with mischief 
 and malice aforethought, knowing that it would probably be 
 misconstrued, as it was. His topic was Life Among the Bone- 
 heads. When the announcements came out the week before, 
 McAndrew at once became suspect in the eyes of an after- 
 noon newspaper that got wind of the matter. This newspaper 
 arranged secretly to have a reporter on hand at the reading. 
 But McAndrew saved his enemies harmless. He dealt criti- 
 cally but not unkindly with the various varieties of ossified 
 human crania with which he had come in contact during his 
 long professional career. His paper had no connection what- 
 ever with its author's political foes, and was quite void of 
 animus. The next day a garbled account of the paper, dis- 
 torted to cause the reader to infer what was never implied, 
 appeared in that nev/spaper. This aroused considerable feel- 
 ing in the Club. \t the following meeting Frank J. Loesch, 
 who was president at that time, made a few caustic remarks 
 anent the affair, and stressed the sacredness and intimate 
 character of our Club proceedings. McAndrew protested, 
 and the Secretary wrote to the editor of the newspaper, 
 whom he knew rather well, asking for an explanation. The 
 reply was more an attempt to justify the newspaper than 
 an apology: "Well, you know it was news^ therefore grist to 
 our mill." McAndrew joined the Club x^pril 8, 1890, and was 
 a member (a non-resident most of the time) until his death, 
 June 27, 1937, a period of forty-seven years. The Secretary 
 remembers with pleasure the receipt of several felicitous 
 
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 notes from McAndrew after he left us, which were illus- 
 trated with unique straight line drawings of his own design. 
 
 To return to the 1 925-1 926 season. During that year the 
 Club received into membership fifteen men, of whom seven 
 are still actively with us. We lost two resident members and 
 three non-resident. These latter were Dr. Charles Gordon 
 Fuller, Robert Todd Lincoln, and Denton Jaques Snider. 
 Dr. Fuller, a well-known oculist, is remembered as a man 
 short in writing Club papers (he read only two in Forty- 
 three years) but long in his genial contributions to our fa- 
 mous post-exercises aftermaths. x'\s a raconteur he had ac- 
 quired much fame; his ever-ready humor made him a most 
 welcome companion at all meetings. Robert Todd Lincoln 
 came into the Club in 1876, and was on our list of members 
 for fifty years without ever having attended a single meeting of 
 the Cluby a record in the Club annals. He had held high 
 Government office — Secretary of War from 1881 to 1885, 
 and Ambassador to England from 1887 to 1893; and was 
 President of the Pullman Company for fourteen years. With 
 Edward S. Isham, also one of our very early members but 
 much more active in the Club, he was a founder of the 
 Chicago law firm bearing their names. 
 
 Denton Snider's relation to the Club was a peculiar one. 
 He became a member in 1888 and remained on our list for 
 thirty-seven years. According to the Club records he never 
 read a paper before the Club, but he did write books — books 
 galore; witness that top shelf in the Club's large bookcase, 
 whereon lie at least/or/y volumes in fairly good binding done 
 by this prolific writer — we had almost said hack. It is a fair 
 presumption that these volumes were presented to the Club 
 by the author in accordance with that erstwhile custom al- 
 ready mentioned. Snider had been a teacher in St. Louis; he 
 lectured widely throughout the Middle West. He possessed 
 a large fund of general information, and wrote on a variety 
 of subjects, as one may see by running one's eye over these 
 titles. There are The Cosmos, several volumes of com- 
 
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 mentaries on Shakespeare, Dante, and others, The Life of 
 Froebely A Trip to Europe^ European History, The Iliad, The 
 Odyssey, quite a lot of verse, and treatises on Philosophy, 
 which, we are told, was his favorite topic. Contemplating 
 this gallimaufry of erudition one is forced to the sad conclu- 
 sion that scholarship got lost in the shuffle, and not for the 
 first time in literary history. 
 
 The Secretary's report read at the close of this 1 925-1 926 
 season ended as follows: 
 
 "All Committees have done their work faithfully and well. The 
 papers have been of exceptional quality in most instances, and have 
 uniformly tended to maintain that quiet atmosphere of dignity, 
 seclusion, and enjoyment, which is the chief asset of this ancient 
 and honorable institution." 
 
 16 ]
 
 Chapter IV 
 
 THE season of 1 926-1 927 opened auspiciously with 
 the usual dinner, sixty members and 12 guests attend- 
 ing, in Recital Hall. President Carl B. Roden de- 
 livered his stirring Inaugural, the topic being Chicago. 
 (Roden's papers were always "stirring" and refreshingly 
 entertaining. Has any one of us who was living in 1922 ever 
 forgotten Roden's Pennsyhany-Dutch'^.) If the members 
 present at most of the meetings of this season were to make a 
 general appraisal of the papers read, all would doubtless 
 agree that at least fifteen, or fifty per cent., were of the high- 
 est excellence. When one considers the different degrees of 
 education, intellectual power, and training existing in a 
 Club such as ours, that ratio is really remarkable. Ladies' 
 Night on January 21, 1927, was the most largely attended 
 meeting of the year. More than a hundred members and 
 guests were present to hear Professor Arthur J. Todd's first 
 paper before the Club on the subject Three PVise Men of the 
 East. The record states that refreshments were served after 
 the exercises. That was then and for a time afterwards the 
 custom on Ladies' Nights. Gradually the habit grew upon us 
 of serving refreshments to the Ladies beforehand. One of the 
 jokesters of the Club, recalling both customs, queried at a 
 much later date (it might well have been Doctor Reed) if we 
 fed the Ladies after the paper as a solace for their boredom, 
 and before the paper as a fortification against it! Suffice it to 
 say that serving a dinner to our Ladies before the exercises, 
 as latterly we have done, has increased the popularity and 
 enjoyment of Ladies' Night to a very marked degree. As 
 these words are being written the Ladies are demanding more 
 frequent Noctes Mulierum. 
 
 Professor Todd, of the department of Sociology at North- 
 
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 western, was a man whom merely to meet was instinctively 
 to like. He made one feel that one's interests were his. His 
 paper, The Secularization of Do?nestic Relations: Nineteen 
 Centuries of Church versus Sex, read to the Club a year later, 
 was a sociological study of considerable import, as we who 
 heard it well remember. The Club published this paper as 
 Number XXXVI in its list of publications. Professor Todd 
 read three other significant papers before he felt constrained, 
 because of overwork, to resign. 
 
 A startlingly formidable topic confronted us one evening 
 during this season. It was this: y^ Trilogy of Essays in Outline: 
 Institutions, Their Functions and Instruments; The Near and 
 the Remote Aspects of Liberty; Publicists, Their Characteristics 
 and Functions. There is no note or comment in the record to 
 indicate the listeners' reaction to the reader's intellectual 
 struggle to cover hectare with a bull's hide without cutting 
 the hide into strips. The record says merely: "For purposes 
 of elucidation special charts were used," which struck some 
 of us present as like piling Ossa on Pelion. But our recollec- 
 tion is that the reader came through bravely, having made 
 some headway at least against a wind of hurricane propor- 
 tions. A belated credit is his due for his courageous effort. 
 
 At the end of the year the Secretary in his report began by 
 waiving his usual rhetorical sublimations: 
 
 "Then hence, begone, the cunning metaphor, 
 The pretty trope, the artful orator, 
 For nothing must our minds (alleged) detract 
 From stale statistics and from frozen fact." 
 
 These were portentous words, for the statistical report that 
 followed immediately seemed to imply that the Club's 
 euphoria was being threatened by something malignant. It 
 was stated that the Club had lost during the year twenty- 
 four members, a record number, the causes of this social dis- 
 solution being, besides the natural one, death, voluntary 
 resignation, and involuntary decapitation administered 
 legally by the Electoral Committee (which furnishes no 
 
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 FRANK JOSEPH LOESCH
 
 cerements). Tragic are the misfits that occasionally and para- 
 doxically find themselves lost in our Club. They are bound 
 to us by a mere filament, which soon breaks. Fewer and 
 fewer, we are happy to say, as recent years have passed, have 
 been these cases requiring drastic action. We took in seven 
 new members that season, ending with one hundred and 
 sixty-eight resident members, a net loss of only seventeen. 
 This purgation proved beneficial, as the report for the follow- 
 ing year clearly shows. 
 
 Lyman J. Gage, for forty-three years a member of this 
 Club, died in retirement at Point Loma, California, on 
 January 26, 1927, at the age of ninety-one. He was so well 
 known in the world of finance and politics during \ns floruit 
 (the final decades of the nineteenth century and a few years 
 thereafter) that most of us are familiar with his name at 
 least. This eminent financier wove his remarkably useful and 
 successful career into the tapestry of our city's history. 
 Chicago was then in a rapidly growing stage of development, 
 and Mr. Gage was a large factor in that growth. He was 
 President of the First National Bank of Chicago for a num- 
 ber of years, and, as Chairman of the Board of Directors of 
 the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (which those liv- 
 ing few of us who saw it regard as second to no other before 
 or since), was largely responsible for its phenomenal success. 
 Mr. Gage was also Secretary of the Treasury under President 
 McKinley, and then President of a New York Trust Com- 
 pany until he retired in 1906. Mr. Gage is said to have nur- 
 tured a personal interest in Things of the Spirit; it may be, 
 therefore, that his selection of Point Loma in Southern 
 California as a place of retirement, where various cults of 
 the Occult were much in evidence, was more than a coin- 
 cidence. As showing Mr. Gage's lasting interest in the Club, 
 we quote from the Secretary's report last mentioned: 
 
 "In December, only a month before his decease, Mr. Gage sub- 
 scribed most generously toward defraying the expense ot publish- 
 ing Sigmund Zeisler's paper on the Anarchist Trial." 
 
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 As the fifty-fifth president of the Club Frank J. Loesch 
 assumed office on October lo, 1927, and after the dinner read 
 his Inaugural address before an audience of eighty-one mem- 
 bers and guests, his topic being Four Pedagogues and a Boy. 
 This was the eleventh of sixteen papers read by Mr. Loesch 
 before the Club during his membership of thirty-five years, 
 and the fourth coming within the purview of this twenty- 
 year history. He was to write four more sui generis papers 
 before his death in the summer of 1944, at the advanced age 
 of ninety-two. These latest papers were all based on events 
 and scenes of his earlier days, his recollections of which, as 
 we have already seen, were so clearly stamped on his mem- 
 ory as to be almost photographically accurate. Mr. Loesch's 
 next paper, presented a little over eight years later on April 
 27, 1936, was unforgettable — A Domestic Tragedy. Let us 
 look at the Secretary's note of that meeting: 
 
 "For one hour and thirty-five minutes, which passed altogether 
 too quickly, the reader, hale and hearty at eighty-four, in a clear 
 and resonant voice, and in effectively dramatic fashion, entertained 
 the Club with an account of the notorious Leslie Carter divorce 
 case of the late eighties, in which Mr. Loesch had actively partici- 
 pated as counsel. The paper was received with great applause." 
 
 That scandalous story, that had rocked Victorian prudery 
 off its feet, was told without reserve and with rich humor. 
 A year and a half later, on Ladies' Night, November 29, 
 1937, "an exceptional occasion," as the record states, Mr. 
 Loesch was the reader on the topic Gleams from the Glimmer- 
 glass^ another set of recollections, colored by fancy and de- 
 livered with poetic feeling. This meeting was held in the main 
 dining room of the Chicago Woman's Club, then situated on 
 East Eleventh Street, the unusually large mixed audience 
 numbering one hundred and sixty-two. Mr. Loesch, still vig- 
 orous, read his next paper on April 22, 1940, his subject: 
 Memories of the Chicago Bar in the Seventies and Eighties. 
 This was of special interest to our legal members, who were 
 familiar with the names and traditions of the well-known 
 
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 JAMES WESTFALL THOMPSON
 
 lawyers, and judges of that earlier period. One more 
 paper was written for the Club by Mr. Loesch while he 
 was confined to his rooms a confirmed invalid — a non- 
 agenarian faithful to a commitment made months be- 
 fore. Unable to appear in person to read his final contribu- 
 tion on May lo, 1943, Mr. Loesch asked Bernadotte E. 
 Schmitt to read it for him, which was done most acceptably. 
 The title of this paper was Some Leading Chicago Business 
 Men in the Eighteen-nineties — more from that capacious bag 
 of memories. In July of the following year this long and 
 active life came to its close, and the Club lost a stalwart 
 member, a man of striking appearance, patriarchal in his 
 latter days, commanding instant respect, a type of citizen 
 altogether too rare. During his incumbency as President of 
 the Club (1927-1928) rich and nourishing pabulum was 
 served to the Club by fifteen of our best writers of that 
 period, who have since died. Ten men still living contributed 
 papers of the highest quality; eight of these men are mem- 
 bers today (two non-resident, six resident). Twenty-five of 
 what Horace calls "'Nodes DeunC (nights of the gods) out of 
 thirty nights mark the season with a double asterisk of excel- 
 lence. It is a difficult and delicate matter, without seeming to 
 be unfair, to single out certain papers for special mention, 
 but since a few here and there stand out more clearly in 
 memory than others because of some particularly note- 
 worthy feature, we venture to particularize with no shadow 
 of intention to make invidious distinctions. Two eminent 
 historians occupied the desk on two successive evenings, 
 William E. Dodd and James Westfall Thompson, the former 
 reading us A Chapter from American History^ written with 
 characteristic clarity and emphasis, the latter distinguishing 
 Hell horn Dunkel with only a faint reference to beer. Thomp- 
 son had a great flair for belaboring a welter of apparently 
 unrelated facts, gathered from many sources, and moulding 
 them into a consistent and logical historical sequence. He was 
 a master of research; he had an inordinate knowledge of 
 
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 historical events, chiefly mediaeval and ancient; he also 
 knew men and books of all ages. He became a member of the 
 Club in 1899, was Professor of European History at the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago until about 1934, when he went to the 
 University of California, where he died in September, 1941. 
 During the thirty-five years he was in Chicago he read 
 twenty-eight papers to the Chicago Literary Club, two of 
 which the Club printed. The Last Pagan^ his presidential ad- 
 dress in 1 91 6, and Cain, read in 1926. Thompson was a con- 
 scientious and indefatigable worker, a prolific writer, an 
 accurate historian. We miss a truly gifted member. 
 
 Some Further Samples oj the Drama of Today was a lively 
 discussion of three modern {modern in 1927) plays by George 
 Packard, who, according to the record of that evening, laid 
 special emphasis on the apothegm: "Drama is the Right 
 Hand of Literature, and Must Not Die." Plays and play- 
 acting were and still are one of his hobbies; he always reads 
 with dramatic effect and vigorous intonation, which makes 
 for easy listening on the part of the audience. George Packard 
 joined the Club in 1894. He and Lessing Rosenthal (1898) 
 share the high honor of being our only living pre-twentieth- 
 century resident members. Packard was President of the 
 Club for the season of 1918-1919, and has ever been a faith- 
 ful attendant and a ready and able contributor to the exer- 
 cises. In the course of his fifty-two years of Club activity he 
 has prepared and read thirty papers. If the record has been 
 correctly read, this number exceeds the number of papers 
 read by any other member during Club history. Several 
 memorials to deceased members show his delicate touch. He 
 has the gift of saying just the right thing in appropriate words 
 and in the proper tone. George Packard has done much to 
 preserve the ideals and the traditional atmosphere of the 
 Club. He entertains strong and well-defined convictions, 
 which he does not hesitate to express when occasion arises; 
 but he is never contentious; those who differ with him re- 
 spect his views and opinions, and any argument that may 
 ensue always ends peacefully if indecisively. 
 
 22
 
 GEORGE PACKARD
 
 Revenons a nos ynoutons. In a little "box" on the page giv- 
 ing the account of Henri David's Motoring with Belphegor^ 
 we find this quotation: 
 
 ''Je vois oil moti sort me mene, sans me plaindre ou m'effrayer" 
 
 an attitude of mind proper to an adventurous traveller, 
 
 Francis M. Arnold's paper on Our Greatest Composer^ as he 
 termed Edward MacDowell, was a musical treat to those 
 who heard it that night, November 28, 1927. Either this 
 paper or one similar to it had been heard or seen by Mrs. 
 MacDowell three months before, for in another "box" in the 
 record we read the following excerpt from a letter to Arnold 
 from Mrs. MacDowell dated September 29, 1927: 
 
 You have made a very human and lovable figure of my husband, 
 and also given a keen and appreciative review of his work and his 
 place in the musical world." 
 
 Arnold used the piano to illustrate MacDowell instru- 
 mentally, while an outside friend sang some of MacDowell's 
 choice songs. 
 
 We forsook our own rooms to meet in another place on 
 December 19, 1927. An invitation had been extended to us a 
 month earlier by the University of Chicago to hold this meet- 
 ing at the University in some suitable room to be duly desig- 
 nated. As the record has it, 
 
 "This meeting was held in Room 32, second floor, of the Ryerson 
 Physical Laboratory (the birthplace of three Nobel Prizes in 
 Physics). Before the exercises a number of our members dined at 
 the Quadrangle Club by special arrangement." 
 
 The paper of the evening was by Professor Harvey B. 
 Lemon, the title being Stars and Atoms, and was copiously 
 and beautifully illustrated by many rare experiments. 
 
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 Chapter V 
 
 IADIES' NIGHT, January 30, 1928, was held in Re- 
 cital Hall with an attendance the "largest in many 
 -^ years," one hundred and ten ladies and outside 
 guests, and sixty-seven members, a total of one hundred and 
 seventy-seven. Paul Shorey was the orator. His topic was 
 Evolution — A Conservative's Apology. It was a character- 
 istically brilliant essay and elicited ringing applause at the 
 close. 
 
 Paul Shorey, whose father, Daniel L. Shorey, was one of 
 the founders of this Club in 1874, joined the Club in 1884. 
 For half a century he was a literary glory of this unique or- 
 ganization. He died at his residence in Chicago on April 24, 
 1934, Though in recent years he seldom appeared at our Club 
 meetings, partly because of poor health and partly because 
 of the demands upon his time of academic and literary work, 
 he nevertheless prized his membership and never refused to 
 participate in our exercises when asked. His last appearance 
 was at our annual Ladies' Night on October 30, 1933, when 
 he read a paper before a large and enthusiastic audience on 
 Soakiiig the Rich in Ancient Athens. 
 
 His death deprives the world of a scholar of the widest re- 
 nown in the language and literature of ancient Greece, and of 
 hardly less renown in the languages and literatures of West- 
 ern Europe. It has been said, and many of his students have 
 no difficulty in believing it to be true, that he was fully 
 qualified to head the departments, in any university, of 
 Latin, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and English litera- 
 tures, and philosophy and logic. His learning was simply 
 prodigious, and always accurate. His memory was extraor- 
 dinary. In matters of general interest, science, political econ- 
 omy, political science, JVeltpolitik, he was thoroughly in- 
 
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 PAUL S H O R E \'
 
 formed. His opinions were always pronounced, were based on 
 what he felt to be the truth, and almost always leaned to 
 the right. He was by nature a conservative. Furthermore, his 
 opinions were carefully thought out, logical, and expressed 
 with such force and conviction that only a trained disputant 
 and dialectician could hope to cope with him with any de- 
 gree of success. His papers read before the Club were eagerly 
 anticipated and keenly enjoyed. Humor, learning, and 
 brilliancy shared equal honors. 
 
 Singularis, Doctor pergratus, 
 
 Fronte serena, tranquillus, sedatus, 
 
 Blandiloquens et artifex fandi, 
 
 Eruditus, peritus, et mente praegrandi, 
 
 Amabilis vir, veneratus ubique, 
 
 Semper colendus, pol, tibi mihique. 
 Ave et vale, O tu gloriose, 
 lucunde, urbane, illustris, famose! 
 
 Another memorable meeting of this season was that of 
 April 30th when more than a hundred members and guests 
 assembled in Recital Hall to hear Roscoe Pound, Dean of 
 Harvard Law School, on Another Side of British Cri7ninal 
 Justice. Dean Pound became a member in 1910. Clear in the 
 mind is the recollection that when the then Secretary ap- 
 peared before the Electoral Committee to read Pound's 
 application he (the Secretary) remarked almost with awe 
 that never before in Club history had such a flattering record 
 of scholarly and scholastic attainments, legal learning, and 
 success as a teacher been crowded into a single application. 
 After graduating from Harvard Law School Pound returned 
 to his native State, Nebraska, where he practised law and 
 soon became Professor of Law in the University of that State. 
 Later he accepted law professorships at Northwestern and 
 Chicago Universities. The Club saw almost nothing of him 
 for he left at once after joining us to teach law at Harvard, 
 where he became Dean of the Law School in 1916. After 
 eighteen years of non-resident membership he returned to 
 present the only paper he ever read before the Club, the one 
 
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 mentioned above. Though past the age of retirement he is 
 still moderately active. His name is an honor to our roster. 
 
 Five men of great usefulness in their different spheres of 
 activity were removed by death during this 1 927-1 928 sea- 
 son. Three of these were resident members at the time of 
 their decease, two were non-resident. All were well known in 
 Chicago and had filled places of responsibility and honor. 
 Louis James Block (i 894-1927) achieved educational fame 
 as Principal of the John Marshall High and Elementary 
 Schools, where he was held in the highest esteem by teachers, 
 pupils, and the community he served. Besides being an ad- 
 mirable administrator he was a versatile writer and poet. 
 Many of his poems were of a high order of merit, as were his 
 various plays and essays. Quite a number of these appeared 
 in the seventeen papers he read to the Club. His last contri- 
 bution bore the title Five One-act Plays. 
 
 Clarence Augustus Burley, a valued and active member 
 from 1877 to 1928, was a solid pillar of the Club at all times. 
 During his fifty-one years as a member he not only played an 
 important role in Club business affairs but appeared at the 
 lectern with papers on a wide variety of topics (ranging from 
 Crime to Aesthetic Culture) and as the Leader of Symposia 
 and Book Nights, for a total of twenty-six times, an average 
 of once in every two years. A member of the Club wrote of 
 Clarence Burley, some years before the latter's death, these 
 words : 
 
 "He enjoys a well-deserved reputation for impartiality, poise of 
 manner, weighty utterance, carefully prepared opinion, fairness of 
 attack, and uniform courtesy and kindliness." 
 
 That was true of him to the end. /\fter his death a brief 
 memorial said of him: 
 
 "He was a member of many clubs, but his attachment to the 
 Chicago Literary Club, and his affection for it, were peculiarly 
 marked. He had served as Chairman of all the standing commit- 
 tees, and was the Club's President in 1 902-1 903. His papers were 
 always well thought out, his discussions, debates and impromptu 
 
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 CLARENCE AUGUSTUS B U R L E \'
 
 remarks clear, forceful, logical, to the point . . . Those who were 
 privileged to know Clarence Burley during his riper years will ever 
 carry with them a delightful and wholesome memory of a man of 
 calm and unruffled temper, amiable, deliberate, never over-asser- 
 tive or opinionated, a well-informed patron of the arts, a wide and 
 critical reader, a liberal thinker; in short, a man who lived 'the 
 good life' of the true philosopher." 
 
 A member who did the Club a most useful service, namely, 
 engineering us into the Fine Arts Building in the spring of 
 1910, where we enjoyed comfortable quarters on the tenth 
 and eighth floors respectively for nineteen years before mak- 
 ing a most unhappy change, was Charles Chauncey Curtiss. 
 Mr. Curtiss joined the Club in 1886, but never read a paper 
 or attended more than half a dozen meetings during his 
 forty-two years of membership. This unusual relationship 
 was due to the uncertain condition of his health, which re- 
 quired him to spend his evenings at home. But he was a loyal 
 member whose great interest in our welfare never lessened. 
 His manner was courtly and dignified, never stiff or haughty; 
 he was approachable and kindly receptive. One noted the care 
 with which he selected his tenants: the story is that he se- 
 cured control of the building when it was a warehouse and 
 sales room for the Studebaker Wagon Company, and con- 
 verted it into a home for artists, musicians, culture clubs, 
 and the like, calling it the Fine Arts Building, and insisting 
 that his tenants should possess certain aesthetic qualifica- 
 tions in order to obtain a lease. The character of the building 
 thus established by a sound patron of the arts has continued 
 to this present. Mr. Curtiss was our benefactor for many 
 years. 
 
 Two striking personalities died early in 1928, Louis Free- 
 land Post and William Kent. The first thing that comes to 
 mind as we who knew him recall Louis Post is that he was a 
 "single taxer," a devoted follower of Henry George and ad- 
 vocate of the Georgian theories. But he was much more. A 
 virile and fearless writer, editor and reformer, who acquired 
 his qualifications for these activities the hard way because of 
 
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 early educational limitations, he had been first a lawyer, 
 serving as Assistant United States Attorney in New York, 
 and later running for Congress on the Labor ticket, then be- 
 came an accomplished editorial writer, and finally landed in 
 Chicago in 1898. There he and his wife edited and published 
 that unique periodical. The Public^ for a number of years. He 
 joined the Literary Club in 1901. The record credits him with 
 eight instructive and entertaining Club papers, the last one 
 read in 19 17, when he was living in Washington as Assistant 
 Secretary of Labor under President Wilson, a position he 
 held from 19 13 to 1921. First, last and always Post was La- 
 bor's great friend and stand-by. He died in retirement. 
 
 William Kent lived a strenuous life both in Chicago and in 
 California. As a member of the Chicago Common Council for 
 two years he stood for political reform, fighting graft and 
 dirty politics with great vigor. He was the first president of 
 the Chicago Municipal Voters' League. Having returned to 
 California in 1907, he represented districts in that State in 
 Congress. He was an Independent politically, and a forceful, 
 picturesque, not to say picaresque, character. The last paper 
 he wrote for the Club bore the title My Political Beginnings. 
 It was sent to the Club from California and was read by Carl 
 Roden on January 4, 1926. An older paper by Kent, written 
 and read by him in 1905, Res Indigestae^ was revived twenty- 
 eight years afterwards and read by Wilfred Puttkammer on 
 October 23, 1933. 
 
 We ended this outstanding season of 1 927-1 928 with one 
 hundred and seventy-five members, a net gain of seven over 
 the previous year. The average attendance of members (ex- 
 clusive of guests) at each meeting was fifty-one. as against 
 forty-one the year before. A crown of wild olive was awarded 
 to Francis M. x\rnold, our musical interpreter, for having 
 been present at every meeting. 
 
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 Chapter VI 
 
 IF ONE were to select a member of this Club as a composite 
 typical representative of our ideals, principles and high 
 purposes, the choice would rest on a man who has served 
 the Club in various capacities officially, has been a steady at- 
 tendant for years, has written original papers on divers sub- 
 jects, a man with a classical background to his professional 
 knowledge, widely informed, and always ready with sound ad- 
 vice when asked for it. The Club has had such men in days 
 past, and it has them now. We may call them "sustaining 
 members." One man of this kidney was President of the Club 
 during the season of 1928-1929, Charles P. Megan. His Inau- 
 gural address of October 8, 1928 was a keen analysis of the 
 unusual will of Dr. Norman Bridge, a wealthy member of the 
 Club who had died shortly before. The season offered us 
 again a goodly array of exemplary papers. To particularize: 
 there was Thompson on Shakespeare and the Politics of His 
 Time; Packard on Eugenie O'Neil; Roden on The Epic of the 
 Prairie Schooner; Rabbi Stolz on Jewish Classics; Henry P. 
 Chandler on Whether and How Can Democracy Attain Intelli- 
 gence? (question still unanswered in 1946); William E. Dodd 
 on History and Patriotism^ and Norman Hapgood, a mem- 
 ber of the Club (i 894-1937), author, editor and scholar, 
 whom the Club imported from New York to discourse on 
 The Modernness of Shakespeare's Women. There is seldom 
 a gap in our list of creditable papers, and there was none 
 this year. 
 
 We ended the year, after balancing the gains and losses, 
 with one hundred and eighty resident members, five more 
 than we had the year before. Two resident members died, 
 one of whom was Professor Albert H. Tolman of the Univer- 
 sity of Chicago, a Shakespeare expert and President of the 
 
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 Club in 1920-1921. A memorial to Professor Tolman said 
 of him: 
 
 "He was an industrious, careful, exact scholar ... a high-minded 
 citizen, standing firmly for what he conceived to be right; a friendly 
 spirit among his fellow men. We shall not forget the charm of his 
 personality and humor." 
 
 Dr. Emilius Clark Dudley was a physician of note in 
 Chicago's medical annals. He became a member of the Club 
 in 1 88 1. During his membership, broken by resignation in 
 1916 and renewed in 1919, he read many papers, his final one 
 in 1924 after returning from a trip to China. Shortly after 
 that he was obliged to seek a warmer climate because of 
 failing health. He died December first, 1928. 
 
 Somewhat amusing is the excuse for resigning given by a 
 member with a one-track mind. The Secretary's report of 
 May 20, 1929, says: 
 
 "He alleged as his reason for desiring to effect a disjunction that 
 he thought the Club papers lacked unity and coordination, mean- 
 ing, if we interpret correctly his elaborated and considerably in- 
 spissated letter of resignation, that a single theme of political or 
 economic interest should be treated by all the essayists, thus afford- 
 ing the Club a broad basis for the discussion of a single subject from 
 many angles." 
 
 "That fellow evidently doesn't like variegated topics by 
 variegated members," was someone's comment at the time. 
 
 We Move Again 
 
 Toward the end of the year mysterious meetings of the 
 Committee on Rooms and Finance had been held. What that 
 Committee was considering came to light at the meeting on 
 May 6, 1929, when President Megan announced an import- 
 ant matter of business for immediate attention. The record 
 reads thus: 
 
 "Although not a regular business night the question of moving 
 to other quarters next year was deemed so important that the 
 Directors thought it necessary to have the Committee on Rooms 
 
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 and Finance present its report for discussion and action at this 
 meeting. Accordingly Chairman Osgood of that Committee re- 
 cited the history of the negotiations and finally recommended and 
 moved that the Club transport itself to the Medical and Dental 
 Arts Club, twenty-second floor, 185 North Wabash Avenue. The 
 motion was duly seconded, and with very little discussion carried. 
 It was also voted to hold the final meeting of the present season. 
 May 20th, in the new quarters." 
 
 We had to move fast to make this change, but under Mrs. 
 Green's able superintendence our entire outfit, furniture, 
 books, pictures, everything mobile, was freighted across the 
 Loop to the Medical and Dental Arts Building, set up in the 
 Club room, and ready for the final meeting of the year — a 
 notable achievement. This move was precipitated in part 
 by what seemed to be a general desire for a change, in part 
 by the lure of a much lower rental, which, including the ex- 
 penses of transport, would still be less than what we had 
 been paying, and partly because the proposed new Club room 
 looked wonderfully attractive and convenient when the 
 Committee and various members first inspected it. Mr. 
 Curtiss' death the year before, and a possible unfriendly 
 change of management of the Fine Arts Building may also 
 have influenced our decision. x'\t any rate we bade a fond fare- 
 well to the Fine Arts Building in our final meeting on May 
 13th in Curtiss Hall. At this meeting officers for the follow- 
 ing year were elected and Charles D. Lowry read his paper 
 on John Rcmkiji^ Black Abolitionist. 
 
 On the 20th sixty-four of us assembled in the new Club 
 room, after taxing the elevator service to its groaning limit, 
 admired our newly polished furniture, and freshly pur- 
 chased (by us) curtains and draperies, and prepared with 
 smug satisfaction to enjoy the paper oi the evening, recking 
 little of the troubles and petty annoyances that were to beset 
 us in the future. Dr. J» Wendell Clark christened the occa- 
 sion with his essay Fashion^ requests for printing which were 
 sufficiently numerous to justify its appearance later as num- 
 ber XXXVII of our published papers. In his annual report 
 
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 that night the Secretary announced a net gain of five for the 
 year in resident membership. The evening ended in jubilance, 
 and only the Electoral Committee in secret conclave knew 
 that a disgruntled and wholly unfit member had been jetti- 
 soned owing to the extreme exiguity, which finally reached 
 total deficiency, of his dues payments. 
 
 Came the autumn of 1929 and the shattering debacle of 
 national and world finance, and of our dreams of a peaceful 
 haven of rest and intellectual recreation. With regard to 
 longed-for quietude we were speedily disillusioned. What we 
 thought after the first two or three meetings might prove to 
 be only a minor tribulation, euphemistically so called, be- 
 came permanently a major affliction. Cacophony reigned in 
 that multisonous hall. Round about us were half-open spaces 
 whence drifted in upon us, despite our magnificent heavy 
 draperies, splitting earfuls of culinary clangor, disquieting 
 applause not intended for us from raucous rioters in noisy 
 session, cash register symphonies, the jangling of elevator 
 doors at inopportune moments, loud echoes from careless 
 footsteps on the stone flagging, and other deafening alarums 
 of divers sorts, all most embarrassing to both reader and 
 hearer. Our beloved Gallic member, Henri David, was Presi- 
 dent of the Club during that frenetic year, a distressing job 
 unwittingly wished upon him but faithfully performed. His 
 Inaugural address. The Destiny of the Soul, was delivered 
 with difficulty. He confessed later to this narrator that he 
 had a vivid recollection of shouting himself hoarse that night 
 trying to convince us that our souls had not already reached 
 their final destination in the Place de V Inquisition, forever 
 condemned to bedlam. 
 
 But there were extenuating features to this season. It was 
 by no means all gloom and sour disappointment. We tacitly 
 agreed to banish Erebus, enjoy ourselves despite untoward 
 circumstances, and cultivate that fellowship which is pecul- 
 iar to this Club. 
 
 A large majority of the papers read during this season were 
 full of literary vitamins. We were well nourished. There was 
 
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 Packard again with a story of travel in the Sahara; Thomp- 
 son, who drew a deadly parallel between the Roman Empire 
 and America Today; Victor Yarros on Letters and Literary 
 Sta7idards in Boiirgeoisia; Edwin A. Munger with a sprightly 
 tale of his early days in the country, As Told by the Survivors \ 
 Llewellyn Jones on John Dewey's Philosophy; George Marsh, 
 whose scholarly papers on early nineteenth century literature, 
 and its minor authors in particular, have so acceptably been 
 heard on our programs — his topic this time, being Spoon 
 River a Century Ago; Dr. Anton J. Carlson on Hunger^ illus- 
 trated with charts, and afterwards satisfied at Mrs. Green's 
 sandwich table; Dodd on The First Integrated Social Order of 
 the South; O. J. Laylander on The Genesis of Pedagese — and 
 here we pause for a special comment. This paper was unique. 
 It coined a new word in the American language. An educator 
 for years, a former school superintendent, and later a mem- 
 ber of a school-book publishing firm, "O. J.," as he likes to 
 have us call him, has had ample opportunity to become 
 familiar with all existing educational theories and methods of 
 Schools of Education. His paper excoriates the flummery, the 
 excess verbiage, the complicated methodology, the useless 
 courses of these Schools. We quote his own words: 
 
 "Pedagese is the verbal coin of the pedagogic cult. It is the jar- 
 gon of educational psychology parrots. ... It embraces all the 
 mysterious terminology used by the educationists to confound the 
 uninitiated and to exalt the leaders above the common herd of 
 plain, everyday school teachers. It is the verbal cloak used, not to 
 conceal thought, but to cover the hole where thought is not." 
 
 This was a timely message to teachers everywhere. O. J. 
 had it printed and distributed it. Some years later he sent a 
 copy to H. L. Mencken of Baltimore, and received the fol- 
 lowing reply: 
 
 "Dear Mr. Laylander: You are kind indeed and I offer my best 
 thanks. Your little essay is a masterpiece and I hope to quote from 
 it in my book now under way. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 H. L. Mencken" 
 
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 Upon the Club, where this novel paper originated, is 
 faintly reflected the glory that is O. J.'s. 
 
 In February, 1930, we enticed a distinguished non-resident 
 member from New York, William L. Chenery, Editor (now 
 Publisher) of Collier s^ to our platform, to tell us about The 
 Modern Magazine^ which he truly did to our great enlighten- 
 ment. At the next meeting Dr. Luckhardt, of the University 
 of Chicago Medical staff, discoursed, with the aid of lantern 
 slides, on High Lights and Shadows in the Discovery of General 
 Anesthesia. A qualified expert in the field of anesthetics, him- 
 self an originator of a new variety, the Doctor gave us a not 
 too technical paper that was most informative to those of us 
 who were not versed in medicine. An historical document 
 that aroused wide interest was Bernadotte Schmitt's Inter- 
 viewing the Authors oj the War (World War I), a paper read 
 on St. Patrick's Day, 1930, and later published by the Club. 
 Schmitt had just returned from Europe where he had had vis a 
 vis conversations with the Ex-Kaiser and several other promi- 
 nent war potentates. Two papers were our entertainment on 
 Ladies' Night, with an audience of one hundred and thirteen 
 ladies and members present, one by Clarence Hough, The Wild 
 Nineteen-twentieSy the other. The Dreaded Nineteen-sixties^ by 
 Morris Fishbein. Since only half the time has elapsed between 
 1930 and i960, it is too early to conjecture whether Dr. Fish- 
 bein's gloomy forebodings for a period fifteen years hence have 
 any chance of fulfilment. A glance at what has happened dur- 
 ing the last fifteen years would frighten any ordinary prophetic 
 instinct into silence, if not extinction. Before the Ladies' Night 
 meeting adjourned a motion was made by Lessing Rosenthal, 
 duly seconded, and carried, to the following effect: 
 
 "that the Chicago Literary Club add its petition to the petitions 
 of many other bodies and individuals that Congress purchase for 
 the United States a well known collection of incunabula (including 
 a Gutenberg Bible)." 
 
 Although the Literary Club adheres strictly to its rule 
 never as a body to give expression to its views or opinions on 
 
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 political or other extraneous matters, or to urge legislators to 
 take certain action, in this instance, since the question was a 
 purely literary and bibliophilic one, it seemed fitting and 
 proper to add the Club's name to this petition. 
 
 A lively little debate on the question of Socialized Medi- 
 cine was that between Holman Pettibone and Dr. Reed. 
 Each speaker had an evening to himself, Pettibone advocat- 
 ing Socialization, Dr. Reed the status quo. The question is 
 still a wide open one at this present. 
 
 Willard King's Notes (not mites) on Cheese tickled our 
 olfactories by suggestion, and caused us to approach the re- 
 freshment table with a discrimination theretofore unexercised 
 save by experts. The following Monday night, against the 
 usual din, which had become a streperous constant, aug- 
 mented by the unrestrained conversations of otologists, 
 laryngologists, and various other votaries of Aesculapius 
 wandering in and out of our bailiwick supremely indifferent. 
 Professor Todd raised his voice and successfully put over his 
 sociological essay, Our Vanishing Family. At the next meet- 
 ing, on May 12, 1930, after the formality of electing the new 
 officers of the Club, expectantly we greeted Chairman Petti- 
 bone of the Rooms and Finance Committee, when he rose 
 and with ill-assumed gravity announced that he and his Com- 
 mittee had made satisfactory arrangements, on the strength 
 of which he was able to recommend that the Club move from 
 the Medical and Dental xArts Club back to the good old Fine 
 Arts Building and into Suite 825 on the eighth floor, on a five- 
 year lease. The recommendation was ratified vive voce before 
 the President could put the question. Our high spirits were 
 tuned just right then to hear John Heath's characteristically 
 humorous story on Life at Dear Old Saint Swithin s. Carl 
 Roden ended the year's literary program with a "Western," 
 Overland Stage and Pony Express. 
 
 It was a case of quitting Bedlam for Beulah Land. No one 
 was more highly gratified than Mrs. Green, who had the 
 requisite stamina not only to oversee the details of moving us 
 
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 both ways in one year, but also to endure without complaint 
 the inconveniences and racket of a kitchen not her own. 
 
 From the outline of the year's program, cited above, it will 
 be seen that our papers maintained a high level of human 
 interest and literary excellence notwithstanding the sordid 
 and confusing environment. Belles Lettres was still quoted at 
 par when we got back to our new stockade in the former 
 Anna Morgan studio, which during the summer that fol- 
 lowed was redecorated and refurnished. Blind Homer's im- 
 passive bust occupied its wonted position, our familiar por- 
 traits and pictures were hung, our traditional "atmosphere" 
 was revitalized. Our gravid fiscus groaned with gold, for, as 
 the Treasurer had reported, in the matter of rent alone we 
 were twelve hundred dollars in the black (after deducting 
 the nominal rental charged us and the very considerable cost 
 of moving, much of which had been imposed upon us by the 
 powers that were in the Medical and Dental Building), and 
 the Great Depression had not yet started the banks on their 
 lethal pathway. Our financial condition was sound, and we 
 were ready for a new era in the autumn of 1930, under the 
 presidency of our well known philanthropist and public 
 benefactor, Lessing Rosenthal, whose life, as a member of 
 the club, added to his father's before him, as a member, 
 spans the entire history of the Chicago Literary Club. Be- 
 fore closing the story of this 1 929-1 930 season, we should 
 note the loss of two members, Dr. William T. Belfield, who 
 died only three days before the season opened, after forty- 
 one years of membership, and John D. Wild, whose death 
 occurred on August 6, 1929. Both men were closely iden- 
 tified with the Club intellectually, and both read papers 
 that the Club published afterwards. It may be interesting 
 to recall the time when the rules for printing papers were 
 formulated. In his history Mr. Gookin states that at a 
 certain meeting held during the season of 1 893-1 894 several 
 short stories were read, among them David Swing's A True 
 Love Story ^ a delicate and amusing satire, and Henry S. 
 
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 Boutell's A Deserted Village. An urgent desire to see these 
 two papers in print started the Club in the publishing busi- 
 ness; the rules were drawn up forthwith, and these two 
 papers appeared in print simultaneously in November, 1894, 
 as numbers I and II on our list of Club publications. Dr. Bel- 
 field's paper, The Value of Mental Impressions in the Treat- 
 ment of Disease, was printed a little over a year later as num- 
 ber III on our list. It was Dr. Belfield's first contribution to 
 Club programs. (These regulations for printing papers have 
 been in effect for fifty years, and have worked fairly satis- 
 factorily. Latterly, however, we are discovering that these 
 regulations have rusted in a broken mold, and need recasting 
 in sounder metal. This parenthetical observation is made for 
 whatever it may be worth.) Dr. Belfield's papers were few 
 but cogent and practical. He was a clear and forceful writer. 
 John Wild's paper, Pseudo-Humanism, was printed in De- 
 cember, 1915, and is number XX on our list. He read three 
 other papers to the Club, all philosophical in character, for in 
 philosophy he was a "natural." Of him James Westfall 
 Thompson, a close and understanding friend of many years, 
 wrote in a highly sympathetic laudatiofunebris: 
 
 "His human interest in all sorts and sides of things, his keen 
 imagination, his cheerfulness made him the soul of stimulating 
 friendship. He could be gay without frivolity, he could be serious 
 without being solemn. He was interested in men and events, in 
 current social and religious problems, in the march of knowledge; 
 he had an aptitude for new ideas, a singular freshness and clarity 
 of thought. But his private reading and his most serious conversa- 
 tion was about philosophy. For he was born with a naturally con- 
 templative, reflective mind. . . . He knew the history of philosophy 
 not as an amateur but as a scholar." 
 
 Thompson concluded by saying that John Wild, like the 
 ancient Stoics, "found in the progress toward virtue a suffi- 
 cient end of existence. But his was not an austere, but a 
 sunny stoicism that may still be vivid to help in the forward 
 groping of humanity." 
 
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 Chapter VII 
 
 BACK in Curtiss Hall, our Year of Horror over, we as- 
 I sembled on October 6, 1930, eighty-four members and 
 eighteen guests, the largest initial meeting in several 
 years, to hear Lessing Rosenthal's Inaugural address, Mil- 
 ton's ^'Areopagitica\ and the Liberty of Licensed Printings 
 received with great favor and applause. This greatest of Mil- 
 ton's prose works was carefully interpreted, and shown to 
 have been one of the strongest factors, if not the strongest 
 factor, in ultimately and permanently establishing that free- 
 dom of the Press now enjoyed by our English-speaking 
 peoples. Lessing Rosenthal, a veteran of forty-seven years of 
 the Club's numerous vicissitudes, down-sittings, uprisings, 
 major agreements, minor disagreements, and attempts to 
 promote good literature, is an eminent lawyer, conciliator, 
 benefactor, bibliophile, a man of a thousand friends. A 
 cordial word is always on his lips. His quiet philanthropy is 
 widely known. He is a trustee of Johns Hopkins University 
 andof the Brookins Institution. His interests are many, ranging 
 from higher education and civic welfare to industry and com- 
 merce. He has supported generously this Club in all its pro- 
 jects and purposes, an ever dependable stand-by. And now 
 we greet him as he calls the first meeting in the new rooms 
 to order, and gazes upon a decorative transformation effected 
 by architect Harry F. Robinson and Mrs. Green, "a veritable 
 Victorian vision of simplicity, utility, harmony, and restful- 
 ness" (the words of an eye witness, a bit exuberant, but under 
 the soft, ceiling-reflected lights, recently installed by Chair- 
 man King of the Rooms Committee and by Earle Shilton, the 
 rooms did look wonderful). It was home^ exclusively our own, 
 until changeless Change should overtake us. Horace aptly 
 described the situation in his Carmen Saeculare, when he said: 
 
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 LESSING ROSENTHAL
 
 "And now good faith, peace, honor, erstwhile modesty, and 
 virtue, long neglected, venture to return, and blessed plenty, with 
 her full horn, is here again." 
 
 Edwin L. Lobdell introduced the new rooms to literature, 
 in the guise of history, with his Recollections of Fifty-five 
 Years in Chicago. These Recollections of our aged and aging 
 members, which from time to time are presented for our en- 
 lightenment, serve to show that the past, that is, history, 
 ancient or modern, is something not to be put aside and for- 
 gotten, but something Jiiiman, as much a part of us as is the 
 present itself; that humanity is universal. We had an excel- 
 lent "run of shad" (to use a piscatorial metaphor) all through 
 this season, "choice to good," and all edible. William L. 
 Richardson's On Giving One's Self Away, read on the night of 
 October 20, before a large audience, was a luminous and en- 
 gaging essay by a master of English, That evening, before 
 the meeting, Mrs. Green served the first of a series of six- 
 thirty dinners for members in Curtiss Hall, an innovation 
 that met with instant favor. Dr. Bowman C. Crowell, a 
 specialist in tropical diseases, read his first paper before the 
 Club on November 10, with general approbation: The JVhite 
 Man in the Tropics. That same evening President Rosenthal 
 announced a gift to the Club oftwo plaster vignettes oftwo de- 
 ceased ex-presidents of the Club, Edwin Burritt Smith (1901- 
 1 902) and Clarence A. Burley ( 1 902-1 903) . The vignettes were 
 made by the late Louis F. Post, a well-remembered former 
 member, and were presented to the Club by Mrs. Post. 
 Whither these objets d' art have disappeared, whether the 
 friable plaster of their composition could not long endure 
 time's inexorable anatripsis, this deponent saith not. Presi- 
 dent Rosenthal, on the evening just mentioned also read a 
 letter recently received by the Secretary from Alfred Bishop 
 Mason, an octogenarian member residing then in Florence. 
 The letter was a friendly reminiscence of his early days in the 
 Club, a token of continuing interest in our welfare. We may 
 remind ourselves at this point that there were two early 
 
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 and prominent Masons in the Club, both of our founding 
 year, 1874. Edward G. Mason, was in at the very birth of the 
 Club in March, while Alfred B. Mason came in in the follow- 
 ing November — when we were still in our swaddling-clothes 
 era. Edward G. Mason was the first Secretary of the Club 
 (i 874-1 876). He died twenty-seven years before the time 
 when this present narrative begins. From Edward Mason's 
 records, memoranda, and letters Mr. Gookin derived a con- 
 siderable amount of material for his story of the Club. 
 Alfred B. Mason lived until January, 1933. 
 
 On December first Edward S. Ames' paper. Religious 
 Humanism^ a major effort, so caught the fancy of those pres- 
 ent that one hundred and five copies were immediately sub- 
 scribed for in case the Publication Committee should decide 
 to publish the paper. The Committee acted promptly, and 
 the paper appeared the following February under the Club's 
 imprint with its title shortened to Humanisyn^ pure and 
 simple. There is length, breadth, thickness, a uniform solid- 
 ity, beauty, in the thought of Edward Ames as expressed in 
 the papers he has read to the Club since 1915- Eight of these 
 have been philosophical or religio-philosophical in character. 
 They have stirred our dormant thought-processes and 
 aroused us to think for ourselves on things that in our daily 
 routines we are wont to ignore. He balances opposing argu- 
 ments and different lines of thought, and leaves one to infer 
 his conclusion, or, better, to draw one's own. He is eminently 
 fair; his attitude is always unassuming, never dogmatic; 
 philosophy is not a one-way street; traffic flows both ways. 
 Dr. Ames combines dignity with charm and simplicity. His 
 language is clear, unequivocal. He makes one feel (as another 
 has expressed it) that the cosmic element is essential to relig- 
 ion; that we must learn to get along without using misleading 
 terms ; that we should go forward more quickly if men were less 
 willing to stand for what they have really abandoned; that 
 facing the facts is better than any anodyne and that when we 
 manage even in small measure to see life steadily and see it 
 whole, there is a kind of deep delight, too deep for words. 
 
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 EDWARD SL'RIBXER AMES
 
 The record states that Mrs. Green was absent that even- 
 ing, so could not serve us the customary collation of un- 
 needled beer, sarsaparilla, white rock, and ginger ale (we 
 were still in the anti-alcoholic period), and the delicatessen 
 thereunto appertaining. At any rate we dispersed feeling 
 quite euphoric and sublimated. 
 
 Casper W. Ooms proved himself rarely fine as both writer 
 and reader with his first paper on January 19, 1931, which 
 dealt with D. H. Lawrence: Censored and Unsung. Careful 
 reading and research, and an ability to appraise values 
 quickly, moulded this paper into a keen critique. 
 
 The much mooted question of Prohibition was in the air 
 all over the country at this time; heated discussions pro and 
 con were rife. The Club took its full share in the argument. 
 It was therefore quite appropriate that we should listen to 
 a disquisition on the subject from a legal and fairminded 
 point of view. Temperate in thought, habit, and attitude 
 Charles Megan was just the man to discuss the Dry Law. He 
 settled nothing, of course, but we hearkened interestedly, 
 though with our individual convictions unchanged. An- 
 nouncement was made on the night of March 16, that Ladies' 
 Night would be observed the following week, the 23rd, in 
 order to accommodate the speaker. Dr. Preston Bradley, 
 who could not be present on the 30th, the night set apart for 
 the ladies. It was agreed by unanimous vote at this same 
 meeting to set forward one day the March 30 meeting, that 
 is, to March 31st, Tuesday, for the put-pose of allowing our 
 members to attend a lecture by the English novelist John 
 Galsworthy in Orchestra Hall scheduled for the 30th. Dr. 
 Bradley gave his audience of more than one hundred good 
 listeners in Curtiss Hall his Personal Impressions oj Iceland, 
 which he had visited the summer before. Iceland was then 
 one of the distant outposts of civilization, but World War II 
 has given it a new significance. Preston Bradley came in to 
 the Club in 1926. Probably no man in semi-public life in and 
 around Chicago is a more familiar figure. Though a man ot 
 seemingly limitless physical and mental energy, one wonders 
 
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 how he manages to keep going so successfully in his endless 
 activities. Besides ministering to his huge popular church on 
 the North Side, and its numerous ramifications, he must re- 
 spond continually to calls to the lecture platform, to address 
 civic, religious, secular, and various other gatherings, and to 
 broadcast on the radio. His moral force has acquired a mo- 
 mentum that carries it far. His attendance at our meetings 
 has been sporadic because of these endlessly diverting en- 
 gagements; but he values his membership and maintains it 
 faithfully. 
 
 Death deprived us of six members during this season. 
 Three were of the very texture of the Club: Edwin A. Mun- 
 ger, Clement W. Andrews, and George Herbert Mead.The 
 first named enjoyed life — in the fullest sense of those words; 
 his disposition was buoyant and cheerful; he had a facetious 
 fancy, a friendliness that invited friendliness. He was per- 
 sistent in the accomplishment of the ends he had set for himself 
 to attain, and with the final results of his life work he was con- 
 tent without vainglory. He was a diligent lawyer, and a faithful 
 Master in Chancery for twenty years. His religious interest 
 was Swedenborgian, the New Church, as it was called. With 
 this sect he was actively connected until his death. He lived 
 a good and blameless life. His memorialists said of him: "No 
 blessing which men crave was denied him" — an exceptionally 
 strong statement, but accepted by his friends without re- 
 serve. Edwin Munger could truly say with the Psalmist: 
 
 "The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; 
 yea, I have a goodly heritage." 
 
 His death occurred on September i8, 1930. Six months 
 later his son. Royal F. Munger, Financial Editor of the 
 Daily News, read his first and only paper. Finance Since the 
 World War^ a comprehensive survey made two years after 
 the unforgettable deflation-sodden era had begun. 
 
 Clement Andrews was a New Englander from witch- 
 haunted Salem, Massachusetts. Boston Latin School and 
 Harvard gave him a thorough education. Having specialized 
 in chemistry he became an instructor in that branch of 
 
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 science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ap- 
 pointed to supervise the Institute's library, he soon became 
 so interested in library work that he decided to veer into 
 librarianship as a career. About that time, 1895, John 
 Crerar, a member of this Club, who left us a generous be- 
 quest in his will, was founding and endowing a free library 
 here in Chicago, the John Crerar Library, now recognized 
 as one of the great scientific libraries of the world. Andrews 
 was called hither to organize and build up this famous insti- 
 tution. His skill and devotion brought great returns. He did 
 the Club much durable service on Committees and as Presi- 
 dent (1917-1918), and had ten papers to his credit on the 
 record. He was one of those whose loss may be accounted 
 great. Andrews quickly adapted himself to the rapid pace of 
 Chicago life, ate of our local lotus, and made no bones of the 
 fact that Lake Michigan breezes were a relief from the noto- 
 rious East Winds of the Hub. He died November 20, 1930. 
 George Herbert Mead, Chairman of the Department of 
 Philosophy at the University of Chicago at the time of his 
 death, April 26, 1931, was a gifted and inspiring teacher,who 
 offered a wide range of courses covering the entire history of 
 philosophy. His general philosophical position was that of 
 pragmatism. What better epitaph could he have than the 
 words of his close friend John Dewey: 
 
 "His mind was deeply original — in my contacts and in my judg- 
 ment, the most original mind in philosophy in the America of the 
 last generation." 
 
 Here are three different types of men. This diversity of 
 character in our Club membership is one of the structural 
 rivets that have contributed to the integrity and soundness 
 of our literary craft, and helped to keep it afloat for seventy- 
 two years. 
 
 From time of old Monday nights have been sacred to the 
 Literary Club, but, as stated above the meeting on March 
 31st, 1 93 1, was held on a Tuesday, the previous evening hav- 
 ing been given over as a sacrifice to a noted Englishman of 
 letters. There was no indication that the sweet savor arising 
 
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 from our altar ever reached his divine nostrils. Toward the 
 end of this season there were three contributions of note 
 added to our Club literature, all written by men whose useful 
 careers have since been brought to an end by death. Some 
 Old Eye Doctors and Pseudo-Eye Doctors was the title of Dr. 
 Sanford R. Gifford's first paper, read April 6, 1931. It called 
 our attention at once to the uncommon qualities of this skill- 
 ful and popular ophthalmologist, famous son out of the West 
 of another famous eye-specialist, whom the son delightfully 
 memorialized in a later paper, Garlic and Old Horse-blankets^ 
 published by the Club in 1943. Dr. GifFord had a smooth 
 narrative style, unexpected humor bubbling to the surface 
 every now and then, that raised an appreciative laugh. His 
 second paper, read in 1935, was purely literary and non-pro- 
 fessional, Arthur Symons. The Aetiology of a Literary Crush. 
 This paper was a striking proof of Dr. Gifford's wide cultural 
 background. When he read his final paper on February 14, 
 1944 (a reminiscential valentine, as it were). Nasturtiums and 
 Stained Glass^TY3.ge.&Y was lurking behind him, though we saw 
 it not, for only eleven days thereafter he was gone, a victim of 
 devotion to his patients, who were also his friends, and to over- 
 work. He had won from us our highest esteem and affection. 
 Most untimely seemed his death to us who know not what 
 mysterious hand guides the capricious shears of Atropos. 
 
 Henry Horner came into the Club in 1922. He read only 
 three papers, all bearing the same title. Restless Ashes. The 
 third installment was read on April 27, 1931. Judge Horner's 
 memorialists have given us concisely the substance of these 
 papers : 
 
 "All described the musings of the dead as from afar they ob- 
 served how wondrously their wishes and best-laid plans were 
 twisted and broken by relatives, lawyers, and even probate 
 judges." 
 
 In November of the following year Judge Horner was 
 elected Governor of Illinois. He then took on non-resident 
 status for eight years. His gubernatorial career is so recent as 
 
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 to be familiar to all of us now living. He was reelected to a 
 second term in spite of his political enemies, but it was a 
 stormy term. His personal attention to all the details of his 
 office was too much for him. He succumbed to overstrain 
 and died October 6, 1940. Though not with us he was of us 
 until the end. 
 
 Dr. Irving S. Cutter, the third of the trio mentioned 
 above, joined the Club in 1926. The subjects he chose for his 
 four papers were strictly Western, the first dealing with an 
 historical event, the Yellowstone Expedition^ the second with 
 a political event of considerable local interest, The Case of 
 the Lincoln, Nebraska, City Council (May 11, 1931), and two 
 character studies, Edwin James, Explorer, Botanist, Physi- 
 cian, and Charles M. Russell, Cowboy Painter, both read on 
 later dates. On Mid-western and Western history Dr. Cutter 
 was thoroughly well informed. He was Dean emeritus of 
 Northwestern University Medical School, Medical Director 
 of Passavant Hospital, a physician of importance and learn- 
 ing, popularly known in the city and countryside through his 
 Health Column in a morning newspaper, from which he dis- 
 pensed medical advice and comment to the multitude. Dr. 
 Cutter died February 2, 1945. 
 
 Two men of early prominence in the Club died between 
 seasons in the summer of 1 931, William Mackintire Salter and 
 Merritt Starr. The few of us who date our membership back 
 forty odd years will recall Mr. Salter's personality, a man of 
 winning exterior and scholarly mind. Trained for the minis- 
 try he released himself from the toils of dogmatic theology, 
 and for many years was the Leader of the Chicago Ethical 
 Society, a predecessor of Horace J. Bridges, whom our pres- 
 ent membership knows more intimately, as he was with us 
 until the autumn of 1945. Mr. Salter was also a trained phi- 
 losopher. His books, of which he wrote quite a number, deal 
 with the Ethical movement and with Philosophy, and were 
 widely read. Mr. Salter added lustre to an already brilliant 
 assemblage of highly educated and talented members. 
 
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 Merritt Starr's personality stands out in this historian's 
 memory like a church steeple in a rural etching. He was 
 President of the Club during the season 1910-1911. He was 
 not only a lawyer of great ability but a talented and finically 
 scrupulous writer. The Secretary remembers sitting with him 
 when he was correcting the proofs of his Dante Six Hundred 
 Years After. He had rewritten those proofs two or three times. 
 When gently reminded that that sort of thing ran up the 
 expense of printing considerably, his curt reply regarding 
 expense was the same as Farragut's regarding torpedoes. He 
 was quick and easy in conversation. When he and Judge 
 Brown and Walter Fisher, all equally facile of tongue, met 
 at the post-exercises refreshment table and fell into an argu- 
 ment, there followed a logomachy that brought a crowd 
 around to listen in amused amazem.ent. We can remember 
 several such occasions. Starr was forceful, thorough, practi- 
 cal. If any one move of his was impractical, it would seem to 
 have been his sponsorship of Associate Membership, which 
 he conceived, bore and nursed into a By-Law, which for 
 twenty-five years has received no attention whatsoever from 
 resident members. We have already in a previous chapter set 
 forth briefly the story of the genesis and present status of 
 Associate Membership. To the few of us who occasionally 
 consult our antiquated By-Laws and give them a little 
 thought, x'\ssociate Membership seems utterly superfluous, 
 an "appendix" that could be excised without loss of "face," 
 dignity, or prestige. Of course the three names of Associate 
 Members, who have been on this static list for a quarter of 
 a century, should remain as long as they live; but to select 
 men, no matter how prominent or eminent, who have never 
 lived in Chicago, who can contribute nothing to the Club 
 (distinctly a Chicago institution), seem.s incongruous, and 
 perhaps ridiculous. On our own front lawn awaiting the call 
 are giants, knights-errant, literati, scholars, sufficient for 
 maintaining a strong resident membership. All honor, how- 
 ever, to the memory of loyal and progressive Merritt Starr! 
 
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 Chapter VIII 
 
 "^uspiciis optijnis, Medice Famose, incipit te Giibernatore 
 noster Annus LVIIF' 
 
 THUS began the historian's epitome of events, when, 
 on his Httle journey through the crisscross by-paths of 
 the record, he came to the eighteen hundred and 
 seventy-eighth meeting of the Clan, where four score mem- 
 bers and guests were assembled in Curtiss Hall to dine and 
 hear the Inaugural address of a past master in the gentle art 
 of presiding, Dr. James Bryan Herrick. Clio was at his side 
 as he told us about Castromediano^ a Forgotten Patriot aijd 
 Martyr of the Italian Risorgimento. 
 
 Dr. Herrick's beloved figure, though now not so often seen 
 in the Club as formerly because of increasing years, is famil- 
 iar to us all, even to our newest members, for the extraor- 
 dinary medical reputation he achieved during the long period 
 of his activity as practitioner and consultant is still well 
 remembered. A member of the Club since 1909 he has seen 
 us through good and evil times, one of the latter being the 
 year when he was President, and when we and the world 
 were in the very heart of the Great Depressiojj. According to 
 the record Dr. Flerrick has read eleven papers before the 
 Club on assorted subjects, historical, medical, rurally remi- 
 niscent, autobiographical. His two or three medical papers 
 were exegetical essays, clear, simple, non-technical. IFhy I 
 Read Chaucer at Sixty aroused considerable wonderment in 
 the minds of many, chiefly his colleagues in medicine, that he 
 could ever find time, even more have the inclination, to 
 delve into unintelligible (sic) fourteenth century poetry; but 
 the Doctor merely snorted, said he had given his reasons, 
 which were valid enough, and — he is still reading Chaucer 
 at eighty odd. 
 
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 Dr. Herrick's autobiography, charmingly read, was se- 
 verely handicapped by adverse meteorological conditions. 
 Here is a part of the record under the date of January 30, 
 
 1939: 
 
 "Arrangements had been made for a Ladies' Night Dinner at 
 the Chicago Woman's Club on East Eleventh Street. One hundred 
 and sixty-two reservations had been made. Early that morning a 
 violent blizzard visited Chicago and continued unabated until mid- 
 afternoon. Fifteen inches of snow fell accompanied by a high wind. 
 Traffic was badly jammed, streets and walks were impassable for 
 hours. The meeting, however, was not cancelled. A hardy few, mem- 
 bers and their ladies, braved the storm, enjoyed a good dinner, and 
 listened with delight to The Story of a Good Boy by James Bryan 
 Herrick." 
 
 That was a memorable storm, a veritable "Norther" 
 straight from the Arctic Tundra. It retarded locomotion but 
 quickened the spirits of the minority that made the grade. 
 
 Dr. Herrick had the happy faculty, when presiding, of 
 saying the right thing at the right time, gracefully and 
 featly. His little introductions, comments, obiter dicta, in 
 smoothly flowing words, usually with a light touch of humor, 
 were a real feature of that year's meetings. 
 
 At this point it may be well to record what happened to us 
 financially in the early summer of 1931, a few months prior 
 to the opening of the fifty-eighth season. The Treasurer 
 wrote in the record as follows: 
 
 "On the eighth of June, 1931, the bank containing the Club's 
 cash funds closed its doors. The Treasurer was away at the time in 
 the East and did not return until the end of the month. Acting un- 
 der instructions from the Chairman of the Committee on Rooms 
 and Finance the Treasurer sold one of the Club bonds, one thou- 
 sand dollars, at a premium of five and one quarter per cent and 
 accrued interest. With the proceeds of this sale a new account was 
 opened at the First National Bank of Chicago." 
 
 Dividends of thirty-five per cent on the amount impris- 
 oned in the defunct bank were paid to us within a year by 
 the Receiver. All together, including a final dividend paid in 
 
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 JAMES B R \' A N H E R R 1 C K
 
 December, 1945, we have received a little over fifty-five per 
 cent. Those were parlous times, as we remember only too 
 well. The interest on some of our bonds was defaulted, and 
 the bonds lay dormant for a considerable period, but in time 
 became salable. Other bonds with gilded edges were called 
 at a good premium. In the long run the Club suffered 
 comparatively little financial damage, thanks largely to a 
 strong finance committee, and to the nation's recuperative 
 power. 
 
 It was in this depressive period of June, 1931, that the 
 death occurred of a long-time potent member, whose impor- 
 tance to the Club, as a writer and loyal supporter was more 
 than ordinary, Sigmund Zeisler. He came into the Club in 
 1893. He wrote with vigor and a full understanding of what 
 he was writing about on such contrasted subjects as the 
 Oberammergau Passion Play and the imaginative Mysterious 
 Case of Kasper Hauser. But the present generation will re- 
 member him best for his story of the famous (or notorious, if 
 you will) trial of the so called Anarchists. 
 
 Mr. Zeisler was an active participant in that trial as a 
 member of the counsel for the defense, the unpopular side. 
 It is a dramatic tale he tells; the progress of the trial he re- 
 hearses in detail, and an unprejudiced reader must admit 
 that the case he makes for the defense is a strong one. We 
 have stated before that this paper was so well received and so 
 highly regarded as a historical document that the Club voted 
 promptly to publish it. Nearly six hundred copies were 
 printed and distributed to members. Mr. Zeisler was engaged 
 in writing the life of that talented, and Chicago's own, 
 musician, Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, when death overtook 
 him. Two chapters of this work he read before the Club. They 
 constituted his last offering. We might add that Sigmund 
 Zeisler, at the time he read his Anarchist paper, was the sole 
 survivor of all who took an active part In that trial. 
 
 A very special occasion was Ladies' Night, November 30, 
 1 93 1. The Secretary extended himself somewhat when he 
 
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 wrote the account of that red-letter evening in the Club 
 album. His comments, if any, are usually brief. List ye: 
 
 "It was an enthusiastic, appreciative audience in high spirits. 
 Professor Harvey B. Lemon of the Department of Physics of the 
 University of Chicago was the reader of the evening, his subject 
 being Albert A. Michelson, the Man and the Man of Science. After a 
 proper and humorous introduction by President Herrick, the reader 
 held the rapt attention of his audience with a significant appraisal 
 of the great physicist, and an exposition of his accomplishments, at 
 once sympathetic, emotionally restrained, and literary. ... It is to 
 be noted that after the reading members and guests lingered longer 
 than is their wont on Ladies' Nights. The atmosphere was one of 
 cordiality and good feeling, due in no small measure to the quality 
 of the paper and to its felicitous rendition. It was a happy crowd. 
 Dr. Herrick was a genial and busy host. Ralph Clarkson, the artist, 
 had placed two portraits of Michelson on the stage and arranged 
 the lighting of them. Mrs. Green served refreshments to more than 
 one hundred and sixty persons." 
 
 That was only one of the Club's many "high spots," 
 which we touch not infrequently because we have men with 
 a long reach. 
 
 We have as yet said nothing about our long-established 
 Book Nights. These are an important feature of our pro- 
 grams. In the early days of the Club there were Conversations 
 and Symposia on certain evenings, generally conducted by a 
 Leader, who introduced a topic, and then called upon various 
 members for their individual views, or else turned the meet- 
 ing into a free-for-all discussion, which often became a rather 
 warm affair. Out of these somewhat informal occasions was de- 
 veloped the more formal Book Night. On the prepared pro- 
 gram appeared the name of a Leader for a given date. It was 
 his duty to find two or three other members who volunteered 
 to select books of sufficient worth to justify a written review. 
 The names of these books and their respective reviewers 
 would then be printed on the announcement card for the 
 given date. The Leader would preside, announce each re- 
 viewer, and read his own review last. This has been the cus- 
 
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 torn for many years. As a rule we have only one Book Night 
 a year, but at times there were two. These are profitable 
 occasions. The reviews, carefully prepared, enable other 
 members to acquire a fairly definite idea of the quality and 
 scope of the book under review, and to determine its worth 
 for ownership. Each review is timed to be read in about 
 fifteen minutes, in case there are four reviews, and in twenty 
 minutes in case there are three. Let us look at a typical Book 
 Night. The reviewers are trained connoisseurs of books, 
 skilled in the fine art of winnowing the wheat from the chaflT, 
 straining the whey from the curd, and obtaining a digestible 
 concentrate. The time is December, 1931. The books were 
 timely then, and still deserve a place on the front shelf of 
 your library. Willard King is the Leader. He introduces 
 Charles Megan, who presents Willa Gather in her Shadows 
 on the Rock. Victor Yarros follows with Bernard Shaw's Cor- 
 respoyidence with Ellen Terry. The gist of James Harvey 
 Rogers' America Weighs Her Gold is then given by Casper 
 Ooms. And last of all comes the Leader with an analysis of 
 The Epic oj America by James Truslow Adams. It is an hour 
 of distilled information, pleasant to the taste, stimulating to 
 book-lovers, which we all are — or are supposed to be. To re- 
 view a book properly and intelligently is no easy matter. It 
 requires both literary skill and literary acumen, besides a 
 general knowledge covering a wide field. The Club has been, 
 and still is, fortunate in having men of this caliber, such men, 
 for example, as those named above, John M. Cameron, 
 William Lee Richardson, Carl Roden, George Utley, George 
 Packard, Theodore Buenger, Irwin Gilruth, and others, one 
 and all of whom are good M. B.'s — Masters of Bookishness. 
 The general economic prostration of the early thirties had 
 just about reached its nadir as the new year 1932 swam into 
 our ken. Financial distress was general. Even Club dues were 
 a burden to some of our members who were caught in the 
 pecuniary vise. One evening about mid-season the Club 
 Directors met and "voted to instruct the Treasurer to sus- 
 
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 pend the dues indefinitely of members known to be in finan- 
 cial straits and unable to pay." This relief was duly adminis- 
 tered, and the Treasurer's recollection is that in nearly every 
 instance the amounts suspended were ultimately repaid. But 
 our individual financial troubles were as naught compared 
 with the scintillating program of that year: Dr. Reed's 
 Forest Phantasms, Irving Pond's circus paper, Hold Your 
 Horses, the Elephants are Coming!, George Halperin's initial 
 Russian paper Gogol, Henry P. Chandler's The State as 
 Parens Patriae, Galla Placidia by Theodore Buenger, Uncle 
 Americus by George Powers, Madame de Sevigne by John 
 Cameron, Professor Todd's A New Critique of Cant (requests 
 to publish were numerous), and several others of homo- 
 genized Grade A rating. Unique was Lewis Stebbins' "//" a 
 Man Die, Shall He Live Again,'' a paper based on a question- 
 naire sent to the members of the Club to obtain their per- 
 sonal views of the question. The paper was mimeographed by 
 the author and distributed to members two weeks later. At 
 the final meeting of the year Ernest Zeisler read his first con- 
 tribution to the Club, a paper on Causality. This brilliant 
 young author's papers, six of which he has read since his ad- 
 vent in the Club, bear on their face his ideograph: a shining 
 shield embossed with a figure of Minerva holding a scroll on 
 which appear the words Logic and Reason. At the desk, with 
 a lightning-like gesture, he opens a hermetically sealed can, 
 pours out the highly condensed contents, and anon we are 
 deluged with a shower of syllogisms, causes, efi^ects, pure and 
 false reasoning, and all the other paraphernalia of the logi- 
 cian, before we can get our umbrellas up. To the nimble- 
 witted his essays are delightfully diaphanous. 
 
 It had been a season of financial anxiety for most of us. In 
 his report at the last meeting the Secretary, somewhat too 
 sententiously and sentimentally, as this recorder thinks, 
 philosophized as follows: 
 
 "We have steadfastly gone on our literary way, pursuing our 
 ideals, and turning — at least once a week — from sordid things to 
 
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 things incorruptible, which as Tully once said, 'are the food of 
 youth, the consolation of age, the ornament of prosperity, the com- 
 fort and refuge of adversity.' Adversity has been a blessing to us, 
 for we have attended our meetings this year in larger numbers, as 
 the figures show, than heretofore for some years. Be it said, how- 
 ever, sotto voce, that we are not praying for a continuance of ad- 
 versity." 
 
 Professor Harvey B. Lemon became the sixtieth president 
 of our tight little democracy, and was inaugurated on 
 October 3, 1932, in Curtiss Hall. We listened with close at- 
 tention to his exposition of Cosmic Rays, and went as far as 
 our lay minds could go toward understanding that mysteri- 
 ous force, about which the speaker said physicists knew but 
 little. We were still holding our larger meetings in Curtiss 
 Hall; in late October on Ladies' Night Judge Holly addressed 
 an audience of one hundred and twenty on the topic, A For- 
 gotten Governor, namely, John P. Altgeld, the first Demo- 
 cratic Governor of Illinois elected (1892) since the War 
 Between the States. Rabbi Louis L. Mann read his first and 
 only paper, A Study in the Philosophy of Doubt — What the 
 Disbeliever Believes, which held our thoughtful interest. Ow- 
 ing to the exigencies of his position as the head of a large 
 congregation, as a lecturer, and civic worker, Rabbi Mann 
 felt obliged to sever his connection with us in 1936. It is a 
 matter of regret that we had nothing more from his potent 
 pen. Just after the election in November, 1932, the Club 
 voted that 
 
 "the Secretary be instructed to convey to the Hon. Henry Horner, 
 our fellow member, the Club's congratulations and felicitations on 
 his recent election to the Governorship of Illinois." 
 
 This was duly done, and two weeks later the Secretary 
 read to the Club Governor Horner's gracious acknowledg- 
 ment. A piece of excellent writing was Pierce Butler's The 
 Ancient Books of Wales. Butler's special field was librarian- 
 ship and old-book lore. Prolonged applause greeted the 
 speaker at the close of his reading. A trinity of Book Nights 
 
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 featured this season — something unusual, since, as we have 
 already seen, two Book Nights per annum have been the 
 rule (latterly only one). At the Book Night meeting of 
 December 12, 1932, the author oi Remakers of Mankind, Mr. 
 Carleton Washburn, was present in person, and heard his 
 book reviewed by Theodore Buenger. The other two Book 
 Nights fell on February 10 and April 13, 1933. Edward 
 Thomas Lee, founder and Dean of the John Marshall Law 
 School, joined the Club in 191 5. He was always loyal to our 
 traditions and faithful in discharging his obligations. His 
 papers, not many in number during the twenty-eight years 
 of his membership, were either legal or historical, as a rule. 
 On January 14, 1933, he gave us his Reminiscences of Fifty 
 Years, a rich assortment of episodes and experiences, unique, 
 varied and various, a human document, spiced with dashes 
 of a characteristic dry wit, for which he was well known. 
 Dean Lee's health failed in 1943, and his death occurred in 
 December of that year. Other papers of this season that left 
 their favorable impress on our memories were John Nuveen's 
 Jesse James was a Piker, Carl Rinder's Hew to the Viands, 
 Let the Vita?nins Fall Where They May (his first), Irving 
 Pond's What is Modern Architecture? , and Charles Yeomans' 
 Gloria in Peristalsis, a paper that kept the audience in a state 
 of continuous mirth, and for printing which many requests 
 were signed. There were also Harry Robinson's The Master 
 of Gunston Hall, Frederick Andrews' A Hoosier Sunset, Leon- 
 ard Hancock's Servants of the City (the obligations — not to 
 call it slavery — of a public School principal), Byers Wilcox's 
 Mysticism in Modern Science (his first), and Arno Luck- 
 hardt's An Adventure in Science. In vogue at that time, 
 established a short time previously, was the custom, eventu- 
 ally to lapse into desuetude, of awarding a medal, jovially 
 called the High-Cockalorum-Kudos medal, to the member or 
 members who had achieved a one hundred per cent attend- 
 ance record for the season. It so happened that this lofty 
 honor was conferred upon the same two members who had 
 
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 won it the year before, namely, Irving K. Pond and Harry S. 
 Hyman. At the end of the year we had only 158 members. 
 Resignation, transfer of residence, and death had been most 
 unkind. William Lee Richardson, one of our choice littera- 
 teurs, retired to Hingham, Massachusetts, where he wrote 
 and taught, under the burden of failing health until his death 
 in 1940. James Westfall Thompson accepted a professorship 
 in the University of California at Berkeley; Seargent P. 
 Wild went to Vermont and is now city editor of a daily news- 
 paper; and Henry Horner established bachelor's quarters in 
 the Governor's mansion at Springfield, Illinois. Three mem- 
 bers died in 1932, two between seasons in the summer, and 
 one in December. Martin A. Ryerson maintained his mem- 
 bership in the Club for forty-one years, but took almost no 
 part in Club affairs. Small wonder, for his outside interests, 
 business, philanthropy, trusteeships, were so large that his 
 time was constantly at a premium. As a Trustee for years 
 of the Art Institute of Chicago, he established and gave to the 
 Institute the famous Ryerson Library of art; he was a mem- 
 ber, and for many years president, of the original Board of 
 Trustees of the University of Chicago; he was one of the in- 
 corporators of Field Museum of Natural History, and he 
 gave to the University of Chicago the Ryerson Physical 
 Laboratory. These were only a few of his many activities 
 and benefactions. A man of this stamp who values his mem- 
 bership, though an inactive one, sufficiently to preserve it 
 intact for four decades, is distinctly an asset to the Club. 
 Jesse M. Owen was with us for only a few brief years, but, 
 a gentle soul and a thorough scholar, he left his mark in the 
 form of three impressive papers, two of which are especially 
 to be remembered, his Landmark in Early Irish Literature ^ and 
 his John Woolman and Quakerism in the American Colonies. 
 We received eight new members that season (four of whom 
 are still with us). As the record saith: "They were cordially 
 welcomed to our fellowship and to our three and two tenths 
 per cent, refreshment table."
 
 These were portentous times. Hitler's shrill yapping was 
 beginning to be heard across the Atlantic; Huey Long, like a 
 boa constrictor, was squeezing Louisiana to death; Franklin 
 D. Roosevelt's torpedo chaser was showing its lights on the 
 horizon; and John M. Cameron was elected President of the 
 Chicago Literary Club. 
 
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 Chapter IX 
 
 1% yf'R. CAMERON'S Inauguration in Curtiss Hall on 
 
 October 2, 1933, was celebrated by a horrible din of 
 raucous human voices, drums, bugles, and brass 
 bands. But we members were innocent of evil intent; we had 
 planned no such welcome. The racket came from Michigan 
 x^ venue, where the "Forty and Eight" Parade of the Amer- 
 ican Legion (in Chicago for its annual convention) had 
 formed, and was wasting its energy in a peaceful but tumul- 
 tuous riot of noise. 
 
 By crowding together after the dinner in the rear of the 
 hall, we managed to hear fairly well ex-President Lemon's 
 introduction of his successor, and the latter's address. An 
 Ancierjt Wonder JVorker. This was the first and only occasion 
 in Club history, in so far as this recorder wot, when a Club 
 president's reception was accorded the honor of a torch-light 
 procession and the blare of trumpets. Mr. Cameron con- 
 jfessed that he was quite overcome by such a spontaneous 
 political demonstration. 
 
 One week later George Halperin read his second paper on 
 the great Russian writers, this one being Dostoevsky. This 
 paper, and two read subsequently, on Tolstoi and Turgenev 
 respectively, as we write are being printed by the Club under 
 one cover as Number XLIX of our Club publications. As was 
 said in the announcement of this brochure, "These studies 
 are well written, comprehensive, sympathetic, informative." 
 
 Dr. Frederick C. Test's papers are always interesting. 
 Very much so was his Historic Halts, read on November 6. 
 In this paper the author "deceptively and artfully hung 
 on the old Trip-to-Hades peg his presentation of famous 
 and infamous historical characters with well known physi- 
 cal deformities." 
 
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 Earle Shilton's first paper on November 13, Old T/^Wdr, was 
 a real "western" thriller, a dramatic story of the author's 
 experiences in his early days in the far West. Shilton's con- 
 tributions — we have had six of them, and anticipate more of 
 them with zest — always make us sit up and listen. His is 
 virile writing, lively, shot through with humor. Leaders and 
 Wheelers, another exciting tale of the West, followed in 1936. 
 Most of us will not forget his three latest papers, Blight 
 (1939), God's Country (1941), and Gentleman Farmer (1944). 
 The first named was an expert realtor's tragic survey of the 
 numerous areas in Chicago that have fallen into decay and 
 disrepute; the second was the story, vividly related "with a 
 sweep and a swing," of a farming experiment out on the Great 
 Plains; the tale was rich in humor and racy incident. This 
 was a Ladies' Night paper before a highly delighted audience. 
 Gentleman Farmer (the tribulations of an absentee farmer) 
 was the author's Presidential Address in October, 1944. 
 
 Two Book Nights and two so-called "Classics Nights" 
 were special features of this 1 933-1 934 season. A "Classics 
 Night" is an evening given over to the rereading of a paper 
 written and read years before by a former resident member, 
 now non-resident or deceased. On December 18, Frederic A. 
 Delano's Authority and Responsibility, read by the author 
 before the Club in January, 1910, was read again by Casper 
 W. Ooms. And on January 29 Paul V. Bacon's essay on 
 Leonardo da Vinci, read originally by the author just twenty- 
 three years before, was read by Llewellyn Jones. Both auth- 
 ors are still living at this writing, one in Washington, D. C, 
 the other in Boston. Paul Bacon's essay was memorable for 
 the care and thoroughness with which he portrayed the great 
 artist and engineer. 
 
 Other noteworthy papers of the year were the aged (87) 
 George E. Dawson's Reminiscences, which commanded our 
 profound respect. Mr. Dawson lived about a year and a half 
 longer, just long enough to participate in Henry Wolf's dis- 
 tinguished Octogenarian Dinner on March 11, 1935. Mr. 
 
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 Dawson died in the following August. Dr. Arthur J. Cramp 
 gave us another of his "Pink Pill" papers. He was an expert 
 on pseudo-medicine and patent remedies, and scored both 
 with telling effect. 
 
 Dr. Reed's Sieur de St. Denis, and Jallot His Valet de 
 Chambre, was one more of his historical treatises, that called 
 for well-deserved applause. George Bowden's Politics was a 
 keen comment on the current political situation; and George 
 Marsh's The Boswelling of Boswell, like all his essays, was a 
 delight to hear. 
 
 Came the second of April, 1934, and our Celebration of the 
 Sixtieth Anniversary of the Founding of our Club. We gave a 
 dinner to ourselves at the Woman's Club on East Eleventh 
 Street, and eighty-seven of us were there. We call upon the 
 written record for further details: 
 
 "President Cameron presided and opened the post-prandial 
 exercises with appropriate remarks. He then called upon Mr. Fred- 
 erick W. Gookin, Secretary and Treasurer of the Club from 1880 
 to 1920, who told us something about events and members of 
 former years. The President then asked Mr. Casper W. Ooms of 
 the Program Committee to read an address delivered before the 
 Club by the First President of the Club, Dr. Robert Collyer, at the 
 First Club Dinner held in June, 1874. This address, an important 
 historical document, was greatly enjoyed and much appreciated 
 for its still timely significance after sixty years of change and 
 growth. This reading concluded the exercises. It had been planned 
 to have present as Guest of Honor, Hon. Franklin MacVeagh, the 
 Club's oldest member (97), and the only surviving Charter mem- 
 ber; but at the last moment he was obliged to remain at home, de- 
 tained by the infirmities of age. At the speaker's table besides the 
 President, were five of our older members: George Dawson, George 
 Packard, Frederick Gookin, Frank J. Loesch, and Irving Pond. 
 A telegram of regret was received from Cyrus H. McCormick." 
 
 Franklin MacVeagh lived only three months after this 
 sixtieth anniversary. He was quite active during the early 
 days of the Club. The record states that he read nine papers, 
 his latest and last being his Inaugural Address as President 
 in October, 1906, when we began holding our meetings in the 
 
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 Orchestra Hall Building on Michigan x'\venue. MacVeagh 
 was U. S. Secretary of the Treasury during President Taft's 
 administration, 1909-1913. The Club saw very little of him 
 thereafter. 
 
 Godfrey Eyler's Waldemar papers, rich in spontaneous 
 humor, and vastly entertaining, autobiographical and inti- 
 mate, have been marked additions to our Club Library of 
 Wit and Humor. The first of these papers we heard in 1927, 
 the second in 1934, and two more were to follow in three and 
 six years respectively. It is to be hoped that Waldemar has 
 not drained his recollections dry. 
 
 Ambassador William E. Dodd, at home on a brief vacation 
 from Berlin, honored us with a visit at the meeting on April 
 23rd, 1934, and listened to a paper by one of his former 
 colleagues, James Westfall Thompson, now also a non-resi- 
 dent member, on The Libraries and Book Trade of Ancient 
 Rome. Book-making and Libraries, ancient and modern, were 
 among Thompson's special subjects of research. This paper 
 was to be his ultimate contribution to our Club programs, 
 for, as previously stated, he died in California in 1941. A 
 week later Howard Eldridge read a paper, A Glance at Speng- 
 ler, which was far more than a mere Glance \ it was in reality a 
 condensed, thoughtful, and philosophic review of Spengler's 
 Der Untergang des Abendlayides. Eldridge had the mathe- 
 matical mind to understand and interpret this extremely 
 difficult book. 
 
 Two men of very strong character, but differing widely in 
 temperament and education, were lost to us during this sea- 
 son of 1 933-1 934. They were, Arthur John Mason, a natu- 
 ralized Englishman, and Paul Shorey. We have already paid 
 tribute to the latter in these pages. Arthur Mason joined us 
 in 191 1, and was a faithful member for twenty-two years. 
 His papers were not many, but were written and delivered 
 with spirit and enthusiasm. An engineer, inventor, philan- 
 thropist, he will be remembered by those who knew him well 
 as a man of the strictest integrity, of eagerness to accomplish 
 
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 whatever scheme or purpose was in his mind, of forceful 
 leadership, of wide interest in human and humane affairs, of 
 keen and active intellect, full of the zest of living, a man 
 whose friendship was a valuable asset to those fortunate 
 enough to possess it. We ended this season with 156 resident 
 members. 
 
 The awarding of the High-Cockalorum-Kudos medals for 
 perfect, unadulterated, individual attendance came as a sur- 
 prise of the first magnitude. Two weeks before the end of the 
 season it was evident to the Secretary that the same two 
 men who had won the honor twice before were set to win it 
 a third time. So the Secretary had applied to the august 
 Finance Committee for an appropriation to purchase two 
 gold (Mex.) medals for these triple winners. Somewhat 
 grudgingly the Finance Committee (as is its wont in the mat- 
 ter of extraordinary expense) granted the appropriation. But 
 — eheu, nos miseros! — it was discovered at the final meeting 
 that there v^tvQfour others who had also won the honor! This 
 was an anticlimax of the first water. Two medals certainly 
 could not suffice for six winners; accordingly, the six had to 
 be content with having their names read, and a summa cum 
 laude conferred upon them collectively. During the time 
 when it was customary to report the number of meetings 
 attended by individual members, this was the only occasion 
 when there were more than one or two one-hundred-percent- 
 ers. The six winners were, including the two who had al- 
 ready won twice, namely, Irving Pond and Harry S. Hyman: 
 
 "Our ever-faithful and efficient President, John M. Cameron; 
 Mrs. Mary Green, who feeds us so richly from week to week, re- 
 stores our lost hats and umbrellas, and removes the ashes and 
 other debris of our orgies; our President-elect, Henry M. Wolf, 
 whose future herculean job he is already entering upon with en- 
 thusiasm; and the Secretary." 
 
 At the end of this most interesting year we applied a fig- 
 urative stethoscope to ourselves, found that we were sound 
 in wind and limb, and acknowledged with satisfaction the 
 
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 removal of legal restrictions on potent beverages. Now those 
 who so desired were able to look upon spiritus Jrumenti when 
 it was amber — or white (mule) — with a conscience void of 
 offence and with unfelonious interest. 
 
 The "reign" of Henry IV (Wolf) began de facto on October 
 8, 1934. (He had been Ruler de jure since the previous May.) 
 Before going farther we may as well state who the antecedent 
 Henry's were: Henry I (Huntington), 1 883-1 884; Henry \\ 
 (Freeman), 1 898-1 899; and Henri Troisieme (David), 1929- 
 1930. (We have also a goodly list of Charleses, Edwards, 
 Jameses, Georges, and Johns on our list of King-Presidents, 
 but as this is not a history of royalty, we are concerned for 
 the present only with our kindly and efficient "Henry IV.") 
 
 We met for the usual Reunion and Dinner at the Woman's 
 Club on Eleventh Street. (At that time the Woman's Club 
 was observing its strict rule of total aridity. Later on, as will 
 be duly related, we held our Reunions and Ladies' Nights 
 where our palates and thirsts could be appealed to and 
 quenched, respectively, more in accordance with the desires 
 of the majority.) At the close of the dinner President Wolf 
 issued his first "edict" in the form of certain Suggestions, 
 which were read and received with applause. They were: 
 
 i) The names of newly elected members shall be printed on the 
 postcard notice of the first meeting following their election. 
 
 2) Each newly elected member shall be generally introduced by 
 one of his sponsors at the first meeting he may attend following his 
 election. 
 
 3) Because of the care that is exercised in the selection of new 
 members, each member of the Club shall be deemed to have been 
 introduced to each other member of the Club. Accordingly, it shall 
 be regarded as good Club practice for everyone attending a meeting 
 to speak to any other person attending the meeting, regardless of 
 whether there has been a formal introduction or not; and the same 
 custom shall apply to guests of members. 
 
 The spirit of these suggestions has been followed, if not 
 the letter. President Wolf's Inaugural Address bore the title. 
 And Who Was Townsend Harris? In his twenty-nine years of 
 
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 H E X R \' M I L T () X WOLF
 
 membership Henry Wolf contributed only two papers (this 
 Inaugural was his second and last), but his interest in the 
 Club was always so Intense, and his nature so generous, that 
 his connection with us was of inestimable value. In October, 
 1935, just a year after the date of Mr. Wolf's Inaugural, the 
 then President of the Club, George Utley, read an "Appreci- 
 ation" by William E. Dodd, a sort of Oratio Funebris, of 
 Henry Wolf, which we shall record in these pages farther on. 
 This season of 1 934-1 935 developed a number of literary high 
 points reached by several readers. All the papers were excel- 
 lent, but we mention only those that particularly Impressed 
 us and elicited more than perfunctory applause. There was 
 Irving Pond's Just One Thing after Another; George Pack- 
 ard's Jean Nicolet and His Discovery of Lake Michigan; 
 Bernadotte Schmitt's The War — Twenty Years After ^ for 
 printing which there were many requests; Harry F. Robin- 
 son's paper on William Lloyd Garrison, entitled / Will Be 
 Heard; Edward S. Ames' A Critical Constructive View of Re- 
 ligion; A Spiritual Autobiography, requests for printing which 
 were numerous; Marcel Proust, by Henri David, published 
 by the Club one year later; More Summers in a Garden by 
 Dr. Herrick (enthusiastically received); Charles Megan's 
 To Have and to Hold; Professor Arthur Todd's A Bundle of 
 Myrrh (like all his papers a gem of thought and of composi- 
 tion); Dr. Test's Hedgeway Rambles (illustrated with pic- 
 tures); George Powers' The Daring Dane; Through a Glass 
 Darkly by Anan Raymond; George Halperin's Tolstoi; and 
 Walter Llewellyn Bullock's The Poetry of Gabriele D'Annun- 
 zio. This was Professor Bullock's final paper and appearance 
 before the Club, for thereafter he was leaving the Chair of 
 Italian Language and Literature at the University of Chi- 
 cago to accept a similar professorship In the autumn at the 
 University of Manchester, England. Bullock, English born 
 but educated in the United States, taught large classes suc- 
 cessfully at the University of Manchester both before World 
 War II and for four years of it. During the War he was 
 
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 called upon for special war work, one of his tasks being to 
 act as a sort of liaison interpreter between groups ofCI's" 
 and English "Tommies," explaining to one group the lin- 
 guistic peculiarities and manners of the other. He died in 
 February, 1944, from overwork and exposure, while fulfilling 
 some special mission. 
 
 There were three unique meetings during the season under 
 review, for the uniqueness of which three causes were respon- 
 sible, namely, meteorological conditions, a different environ- 
 ment, and coincidence. Our Booknight fell on December 10, 
 1934. That afternoon between four and seven a highly local- 
 ized and violent blizzard swept down on the city, contrary to 
 weather predictions. Coming as it did during the closing 
 hours of business, it naturally created an intense desire to 
 reach home on the part of all who were not already there, and 
 once there to remain. As a result the attendance at this meet- 
 ing was the smallest on record, only a brave sixteen being 
 present, which included the three reviewers, the President 
 and Secretary. Only seven of these sixteen are resident mem- 
 bers today; four are non-residents, and four are dead. We 
 might add that Mrs. Green, anticipating the usual large 
 attendance on Booknight, had prepared her "snack" accord- 
 ingly. Most of it went begging, and had to be given away to 
 the needy. The second unique meeting was held in Room 133, 
 Eckhart Hall, University of Chicago, on March 25, 1935. 
 Room 133 was the Physics Laboratory and Lecture Room of 
 the University. We listened first to a short lecture by Pro- 
 fessor Hermann L Schlesinger on The Production and Use of 
 Scientific Talking Pictures. This was followed by Talking 
 Movies illustrating a) Molecular Theory, b) Sound, q)Acous- 
 ticSy d) Energy and its Transformation, and e) Electricity. 
 This sort of thing was quite new in the annals of the Club, 
 and the fifty-five members and guests who were there were 
 fully alive to its importance. 
 
 April 29, 1935, was the third unique meeting. The year 
 1935 celebrated the two thousandth anniversary of the birth 
 
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 of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus. By an unusual 
 coincidence tlie reading of a paper on Horace {How Old is 
 Horace?) by the Club Secretary on this Ladies' Night hap- 
 pened to fall on the occasion of the two thousandth con- 
 secutive meeting of the Chicago Literary Club. This meeting 
 was held in the Zeisler Room of the Chicago Woman's Club 
 at 72 East Eleventh Street. 
 
 The "most unique" (if we may be allowed in this one in- 
 stance that exuberantly redundant and impossible phrase) 
 meeting of this season, and perhaps of many seasons, was the 
 Complimetitary Dinner, on March eleventh, 1935, at the 
 Woman's Club, given to the members of the Literary Club 
 by President Henry M. Wolf, in honor of the Club's six 
 Octogenarian members, who were seated (with one exception, 
 namely, Mr. Joseph Adams, who was in Florida) at the head 
 table with the President. These six were: 
 
 Mr. John J. Glessner Born 1843 
 
 Mr. George E. Dawson Born 1847 
 
 Mr. Joseph Adams Born 185 1 
 
 Mr. Frank J. Loesch Born 1852 
 
 Mr. Frederick W. Gookin ..... Born 1853 
 
 Hon. Charles S. Cutting .... Born 1854 
 
 All five seemed to be in fairly good health except Mr. 
 Glessner, aged ninety-two, who was quite feeble, but had 
 made a supreme effort to attend this meeting despite his in- 
 firmity. Three of these six died within a year; a fourth sur- 
 vived for thirteen months, and two lived eight and nine 
 years longer respectively, Joseph Adams and Frank Loesch. 
 All six were long-time members and constituted a group of 
 ancient and honorables, the like of which the Club had never 
 seen before. A.t the close of the dinner President Wolf eulo- 
 gized the Octogenarians (humorously alluded to later by 
 Judge Cutting as the "Octoroons") and introduced them in- 
 dividually. Appropriate responses, interspersed with flashes 
 of wit, were made by the five, all still mentally alert. The 
 Secretary read a letter of regret from Joseph Adams, the 
 
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 missing Octogenarian; also a letter of regret that he could not 
 be present from Lessing Rosenthal, and a telegram of con- 
 gratulation from James Westfall Thompson of Berkeley, 
 California. The regular paper scheduled for the evening was 
 then read by Professor Marcus W. Jernigan on New Dealers 
 and Social Planning During the American Revolution. Seven- 
 ty-eight members responded to Mr. Wolf's invitation to 
 attend this exceptional occasion. President Wolf attended 
 only three more meetings after this. Early in April he was 
 taken ill, never recovered, and died June 4, 1935- 
 
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 Chapter X 
 
 ^T THE first meeting of the Club on October 7, 1935, 
 /-\^ George Burwell Utley became the sixty-third Presi- 
 -^ -^ dent for the sixty-second season. (The apparent dis- 
 crepancy is due to the fact that there were two presidents for 
 the season of 1 896-1 897.) After the usual dinner (we were 
 still meeting on special occasions at the Chicago Woman's 
 Club) President Utley made appropriate allusion to the 
 recent death of Henry Wolf and then read the following in- 
 formal communication from our William E. Dodd, U. S. 
 Ambassador to Berlin. The Club voted to have this Appre- 
 ciation spread on the minutes of this meeting. This was done. 
 Your historian hereby transcribes the document in its 
 entirety: 
 
 HENRY MILTON WOLF 
 
 I became rather intimately acquainted with Henry Wolf the 
 evening when I read my first paper before the Club, October 28, 
 1 91 2. The subject was the puzzling American leader of Civil War 
 times, Robert J. Walker. [See Chicago Literary Club Publications, 
 No. XIV.] As the Great War came on, and the changes of our 
 economic relations with the world were evident to all, we had many 
 occasions for intimate exchange of our views. He was more sympa- 
 thetic with Germany than I during those days, he of a German 
 family, I a student at Leipzig about 1900. As Woodrow Wilson de- 
 veloped his world peace and freer trade policy, we came almost to 
 agreement. At the same time Mr. Wolf developed an intense inter- 
 est in College and University education, and was generous enough 
 to give the History Department of the L^niversity of Chicago one 
 thousand dollars a year to support a Chicago Fellowship in German 
 Universities. It was a most stimulating gift, and a number of very 
 able young scholars and teachers in our country were set upon their 
 careers in this way. Spending some months in Japan while Edgar 
 Bancroft, a member of this Club, was U. S. Ambassador in Tokyo, 
 Mr. Wolf became so interested in Far Eastern life and politics that 
 
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 he gave the History Department thirty-five hundred dollars a year 
 to help establish a Chair for the teaching of Chinese-Japanese his- 
 tory; and Professor Harley F. McNair came to the University of 
 Chicago as a result. There was never a hint from the donor that the 
 Chair of Far Eastern History should bear his name, though I feel 
 now that such a reminder of Mr. Wolf's generous interest in the 
 University of Chicago ought to appear in the catalogues. Although 
 I do not know the exact terms of his now famous will, I am con- 
 vinced that the University was not forgotten. 
 
 When I left Chicago in June, 1933, our friend showed a troubled 
 interest, and we talked over certain problems more than once. He 
 was a little doubtful then of my happiness in the troubled realm 
 of Europe; but his generosity toward distressed Germans was equal 
 to his generosity toward the History Department. When I saw him 
 again in the spring of 1934, our interests were the same as they had 
 been for years, and he seemed so well that my former uneasiness as 
 to his health almost vanished. And a little later I learned of his 
 election to the presidency of our beloved Literary Club, and I ex- 
 pected to see him and meet with the Club in January, 1935. Un- 
 fortunately I was seized with Influenza about the middle of the 
 month, our whole family similarly ill, and I was unable to visit 
 Chicago. It was one of the great regrets of my life. In June, 1935, 
 the sad news of his death reached me here (Berlin). A twenty-five 
 year friend had passed away. He was an honest, able, and frank 
 lawyer of high attainments, and I think his life and work will long 
 be remembered in the Club and in our city. His gifts and his will 
 are marvellous reminders to men of wealth how much one may do 
 for the advancement of the fortunes of his fellows and his people. 
 
 At the request of President Utley the members stood in 
 silence while the Secretary read the names of the four mem- 
 bers deceased since our May meeting: Francis M. Arnold, 
 George E. Dawson, Otto L. Schmidt, and Henry M. Wolf. 
 The President then read his Inaugural essay entitled, An 
 American Collector and His Bagy an account of the life of 
 Edward E. Ayer and his fine collection of Americana, arti- 
 facts and books, now in the Field Museum and the Newberry 
 Library. 
 
 During the summer of 1935 our Club Rooms had been en- 
 larged by the addition of an extra room, which made for much 
 greater convenience.
 
 The outstanding papers of this season, besides the Inau- 
 gural address, were these: Petronius^ by Theodore A. Buen- 
 ger, an account of the life and works of the famous Roman 
 Arbiter; Ze'itoiin^ by Dr. Percival Bailey; A Lawyer Looks 
 at Life^ by George Packard; Arthur Symons. The Aetiology of 
 a Literary Crush ^ by Dr. Sanford R. Gifford; A Modern Aspa- 
 sia^ by John M. Cameron; A Literary HoaXy by Ward E. 
 Guest; A Doctor Looks at Communism ^ by George Halperin; 
 A Predatory Prince^ by Dr. Charles B. Reed (the Prince being 
 a black wolf of the North Woods, whose history was fascinat- 
 ingly told in vivid language) ; The Mystery of Lights by Har- 
 vey B. Lemon; The Arithmetic of Choice^ by Billy E. Goetz 
 (his first paper before the Club); Going West to the East, 
 Ladies' Night address, March 30, 1936, at the Woman's 
 Club, by Bernadotte E. Schmitt; Black and Ta?j: the Ja- 
 maican Melange y by John R. Heath; A Domestic Tragedy 
 (previously mentioned in this history), by Frank J. Loesch; 
 Tolerance, by Judge William H. Holly; and the final paper of 
 the year, Hugo Grotius, whose great treatise on International 
 Law is his chief claim to fame, by Casper W. Ooms. 
 
 At the close of the exercises on this last evening of the sea- 
 son. May II, 1936, a resolution was offered to the effect that 
 the Club consider holding its Annual Reunion at some place 
 where members, who wished, might have beer, wine, or cock- 
 tails with the dinner. The resolution was carried by a re- 
 sounding viva voce vote. 
 
 Walter L. Fisher, who has been mentioned before in these 
 pages, a member of the Club for forty-four years, died on the 
 ninth of November, 1935. At the meeting on December 
 second, a memorial to Mr. Fisher was read by Judge Cutting. 
 We quote the following excerpts : 
 
 This Club has lost in the death of Walter L. Fisher one of the 
 most brilliant and powerful men that have ever joined its ranks. 
 He was our President for the season of 1913-1914. . . . He was a 
 lawyer of distinction, and as the wielder of a logical, vigorous, well- 
 stored wit, he probably had no equal at the Chicago Bar. His 
 
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 strongest weapon was a satirical sting with which he clothed his 
 unusual faculties of analysis and elucidation. . . , Those of us, how- 
 ever, who were in a position to know him in his less tense activities 
 will always recall with delight the exercise of his striking store of 
 accurate information that his unusual memory swung into action 
 to the discomfiture of those who ventured to disagree. He was as 
 skilled in playful dialectics as he was in the serious business of his 
 profession, and with quite as much success. . . . This Club mourns 
 with everyone in Chicago capable of intellectual appreciation, the 
 passing of this valiant, honorable, able, and outstanding man. 
 
 Walter Fisher was Secretary of the Interior under Presi- 
 dent Taft, and many of us recall his connection as "expert- 
 extraordinary in the tangled traction and railway terminal 
 affairs of this community." It seems quite probable that two 
 of the most powerful intellects the Club ever had were those 
 of Paul Shorey and Walter Fisher. Their temperaments were 
 very different — Shorey 's was gentler, Fisher's more violent; 
 but both were men of facile wit and astounding memory, and 
 invincible in argument. Verily eo tempore erant gigantesl 
 
 On January 13, 1936, after the exercises, many of the 
 members, in response to an invitation read by the Chair, 
 went into the Cordon Club adjoining our rooms to view an 
 exhibition of paintings by Mrs. Irwin T. Gilruth, the wife of 
 our esteemed member. We were received most cordially by 
 the artist and admired her work. 
 
 Frederick William Gookin died on January 17, 1936. He 
 was eighty-three years old. He joined the Club in 1877, so 
 was thus a member for fifty-nine years. The service he ren- 
 dered to the Club during that period of nearly three score 
 years cannot be evaluated in concrete terms, for it was a 
 great and invaluable service, beyond normal estimate. He 
 was elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Club in 1880 — we 
 may say that he was Executive Secretary — and for forty 
 years was the Club's pilot, guiding the Club safely through 
 its adolescence to maturity. All his records are marvels of 
 accuracy and penmanship. He was an artist not only with the 
 pen but with the brush. For many years he embellished our 
 
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 Club publications and the Yearbook covers and pages with 
 designs of his own, no two ever alike, both in black and in 
 colors. They were truly works of art. He was a man of wide 
 culture, though not a college graduate. His early banking 
 experience, and the diligent cultivation of his natural artistic 
 ability made him a notable authority in finance and art criti- 
 cism. He wrote and read before the Club twenty-one papers, 
 most of which dealt with either finance or art. His last paper 
 was read to the Club in 1927. 
 
 Mr. Gookin's crowning achievement was his History of the 
 Chicago Literary Club, covering the Club's first fifty years. 
 This was a monumental piece of work, that could have been 
 done only by a man thoroughly familiar with Club affairs to 
 the last detail, who preserved a huge file of correspondence, 
 enjoyed intimate personal relations with the members, and 
 was blessed with an accurate and retentive memory. He writes 
 with deep feeling, touched at times with emotion, of mem- 
 bers and events of the early years of the Club, That early 
 period, the first twenty or twenty-five years, let us say, was 
 characterized by many more conspicuous happenings than 
 were the next twenty-five. Small wonder that Mr. Gookin 
 laid special stress on those formative years of rapid juvenile 
 growth, of strain without and within, of futile but humorous 
 attempts to entertain visiting English dignitaries, of the 
 necessity of moving Club headquarters every little while. 
 But the years grew quieter, bizarre events ceased to occur, 
 and Mr. Gookin apparently sensed the fact that the Club 
 had reached maturity, and had settled down to its real busi- 
 ness of cultivating belles lettres. The final paragraph of his 
 Foreword is just as true today as it was when he laid down 
 his pen: 
 
 "The personnel of the Club is of course constantly changing 
 from natural causes, yet the Club itself has changed little, if any, 
 as the years have slipped by. The distinctive character that was 
 given it in the beginning has always been maintained. New mem- 
 bers take the places of the old but the Club remains the same." 
 
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 The greater part of Frederick Gookin's life was the Chi- 
 cago Literary Club. His Fifty-year History alone confirms 
 this statement. 
 
 At the final meeting of the Club on May ii, 1936, the 
 annual report said: 
 
 "Retiring President Utley has been faithful in attendance and 
 in the discharge of all his duties. It may safely be said that the most 
 hazardous feature of a presidential regime, next to preparing the 
 Inaugural Address, is being regularly present. This obstacle has 
 been but a low hurdle for the highly esteemed occupant of the Chair 
 this past year." 
 
 The same report also let drop the following general obser- 
 vations for the purpose of allaying certain misunderstandings 
 and fears that had arisen on the part of our newer members 
 regarding taking part in the exercises: 
 
 "It may be well to remind ourselves i) that it is a distinct honor 
 to be elected to membership in this Club; 2) that the Club does 
 not consist of a Doctor Johnson and a handful of stooges; 3) that 
 participation in the exercises is purely voluntary, that is to say, 
 an invitation to contribute is not to be construed as a royal 
 mandate, but to be accepted only at the convenience of the mem- 
 ber invited; and 4) that the Club thus guarantees the freedom 
 of each member, freedom of action, freedom of speech, freedom of 
 conscience." 
 
 The sixty-third season opened on October 12, 1936, under 
 the most favorable auspices. Our affairs were in strong exec- 
 utive hands, hands familiar with the requirements and obli- 
 gations of the presidential office. The Chair was well endowed 
 with dignity, wit, and the gift of winged words. The Program 
 Chairman was suffering from an embarrassment of riches: he 
 had more voluntary contributors on his hands than there 
 were dates to be filled! And, quite as important as anything 
 else, we were gathered where total siccity did not prevail, 
 namely, at the University Club at Michigan Avenue and 
 East Monroe Street. (This was in accordance with the resolu- 
 tion passed at the last May meeting.) It was a highly agree- 
 
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 able and most acceptable change. An excellent dinner with 
 wine and a cognac cordial was served in the College Room on 
 the eighth floor. President Irwin Thoburn Gilruth, after be- 
 ing introduced by ex-President Utley, made an appropriate 
 speech of acceptance, and then called on John M. Cameron to 
 read a memorial to the late John J. Glessner. This was a 
 beautiful tribute, beautifully written. Mr. Cameron was one 
 of our best artists in words and phrase-making. President 
 Gilruth's Inaugural bore the title, The Last of the Victorians^ 
 a dissertation on Kipling. It was unanimously agreed that 
 this Reunion was far more delightful than any other in recent 
 years. Others of the same kind were to follow in the future, 
 and in the same place. 
 
 The literary high spots of the year were numerous. There 
 was Wilfred Puttkammer's Princes of Thurn and TaxiSy the 
 story told in the author's smooth and lucid style, of "the 
 creators of the postal system as we know it today, the origi- 
 nators of the organized, systematic, regular transportation of 
 mail nationally and internationally." It was a bit of valuable 
 history dug up out of a field little known to most of us. The 
 paper was printed and published by the Club in 1938 as 
 Number XLI of our publications. Then there were ^ Unique 
 Gift by Louis M. Sears (a non-resident member), Professor 
 of History at Purdue University; a discussion of the Railroad 
 Problem by Ex-president of the Santa Fe Railroad, William 
 Benson Storey, a quiet, modest man of high reputation, 
 whom we respected and admired; and Henry Barrett Cham- 
 berlin's Reminiscences of a War correspondent^ an account of 
 his exciting and dangerous experiences in the Spanish War of 
 1898. A large audience heard this thrilling story. Three years 
 later we heard the sequel to this paper, an equally hair- 
 raising tale. Mr. Storey died in 1940, and Mr. Chamberlin in 
 1 941. Both were men who had lived fully and richly. At the 
 meeting on November 9, 1936, two members, Dr. C. B. 
 Reed and Henri David, both ex-presidents of the Club, were 
 chosen as delegates to attend a Dinner on November 18 to be 
 
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 given in honor of our fellow member, Carl B. Roden, for 
 many years Librarian of the Chicago Public Library. 
 
 A few other papers of the year deserving of more than 
 casual mention were: Snappers up of U?iconsidered Trifles by 
 George Marsh (one of this learned author's numerous snappy 
 titles, under which he successfully screens his theme) ; Arctic 
 Knight Errarit by Charles Yeomans; The Horatian Trail by 
 Stephen E. Hurley, a keen thinker and excellent speaker, 
 whose private collection o^ Horatian a, by the way, is perhaps 
 the largest in the country outside of the Congressional 
 Library; A Rebel Against Reason (Bergson) by Theodore 
 Carswell Hume, a brilliant young preacher and philosopher, 
 who was shot down in 1942 by an enemy plane on the North 
 Sea while on his way to Sweden as a delegate to a religious con- 
 ference; and Dean Edward T. Lee's A Chapter in United States 
 History y which the author published in brochure form later, a 
 copy of which is in our Club collection in the Public Library. 
 
 One of our very largely attended Ladies' Night meetings 
 was the one held March 29, 1937, at the Woman's Club. One 
 hundred and sixty members and lady guests sat down to an 
 excellent dinner at seven o'clock. The main dining room was 
 filled to capacity; many members had brought three and four 
 lady guests. President Gilruth called us to order at eight 
 o'clock, the audience arranged itself to listen comfortably, 
 and the Speaker of the evening was introduced. Dr. Anton 
 J. Carlson, well known Physiologist and Scientist of the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, whose somewhat startling paper was en- 
 titled Black Oxen and Toggenberg Goats. The speaker began 
 at once to rip open, expose, ridicule and refute all the theo- 
 ries and experiments hitherto made involving attempts by 
 pseudo-scientists and charlatans to bring about human reju- 
 venation. The lecture was forthright, purely scientific, 
 illuminated with humor, prudery-shaming, philosophical, 
 fact-exposing. It was received with applause, especially by 
 the younger generation fresh from school and college to 
 whom the scientific facts set forth by the speaker were noth- 
 
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 ing new; and with weaker approval by some of their elders, 
 who were as yet not fully conditioned to the constantly 
 broadening dissemination of biological knowledge. 
 
 Eighteen new members were admitted during this season, 
 the largest number in many years. Our resident members 
 numbered one hundred and fifty-eight. The deaths of four 
 men should be mentioned here: Charles S. Cutting died in 
 April, 1936; Edwin L. Lobdell in May, 1936; Cyrus H. 
 McCormick in June, 1936, and Paul Steinbrecher in January, 
 1937. Judge Cutting and Edwin Lobdell had been members 
 for a quarter of a century and served the Club well. The 
 Judge had a fine sense of humor and a genial presence. Mr. 
 McCormick, though inactive in his later years, had kept up 
 his membership for fifty-five years. Paul Steinbrecher, a 
 successful business man, a prominent civic worker for polit- 
 ical and social betterment, always found time for mental im- 
 provement, was a discerning reader, and acquired a wide 
 knowledge of books. Though with us but a short time he so 
 endeared himself to his fellow members that Mr. Cameron 
 said of him in a brief memorial: 
 
 "That for which he will be longest remembered, and most great- 
 ly missed, was the charm and the friendliness of his personality, 
 and his genuineness, his sincerity, and his personal worth," 
 
 an epitaph of which any man might well be proud. 
 
 As a colophon with which to end this pleasant and profit- 
 able season may we quote the words of the immortal Marcus 
 Tullius as written in his De Deoriim Natura: "Life is sus- 
 tained by three things: food, drink, and the spirit, that is, 
 the mind." This Club has all three of these things; Mrs. 
 Green and the Fiscus furnish the first two, the members the 
 last named, the spiritus, that intangible thing — call it what 
 you will, the soul, the intellect, that mysterious quality with- 
 out which a Literary Club would be but a collection of witless 
 wights, alive but wholly non-noetic. 
 
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 Chapter XI 
 
 ORANGE JUDD LAYLANDER, familiarly and best 
 known as "O. J." to all of us, graced the Curule 
 Chair for the season of 1 937-1 938. This genial and 
 generous gentleman, endowed with a lively and non-caustic 
 wit, had made arrangements some months before for holding 
 our Annual Reunion and Dinner on October 1 1 at the Chi- 
 cago Athletic Club's palatial quarters, 12 South Michigan 
 Avenue. "O. J." was a man of ripe years and experience, de- 
 voted to the Club, and possessed of a youthful spirit and zest 
 for life, undaunted by whatever might happen, a "contented 
 man," as he liked to call himself. We met, one hundred and 
 eleven of us, in the banquet hall of the Athletic Club. The 
 flowers and liquid refreshment were furnished by the new 
 President as a thank-offering to Flora and Bacchus. It was a 
 sumptuous dinner, after which President Laylander, duly in- 
 troduced by his predecessor, delivered his Inaugural Random 
 Shots. These hit the mark with such frequency as to arouse no 
 little merriment. Enthusiasm and good feeling were rampant. 
 In a world of flux, at a time when all things, domestic and 
 foreign, economic and political, seemed to be at sixes and 
 sevens (the second global war was in the making but not yet 
 visible), the Club made its way unostentatiously, gracefully, 
 profitably, creatively through its sixty-fourth season. We 
 heard a series of papers of a high order of literary merit, 
 papers intelligent, intelligible, entertaining, instructive, 
 scholarly, such as we had learned to expect from our mem- 
 bers. The President set a precedent in the matter of intro- 
 ducing the speakers. Being a "natural" in wit and raconteur- 
 ship, he always had at his immediate command a pertinent 
 bor2 7not (at times an unvarnished mot de risque)^ which put 
 the audience in good humor, and gave the reader an oppor- 
 
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 tunity for a "comeback," if he had one — which was not 
 often. This habit enlivened many a meeting. On the eighth 
 of November, 1937, Henri David read his eleventh paper be- 
 fore the Club, Casanova, a large audience, eighty-two, being 
 present. M. David's papers always attract a crowd of eager 
 listeners. His themes are almost wholly French, French writ- 
 ers, French historical events, French life, and are couched in 
 flawless English, though he knew no English when he came 
 to this country about the end of the last century. His achieve- 
 ment in the linguistic line has been most remarkable. He is 
 thoroughly versed in French literature. He carries over into 
 his English the Gallic charm of the best French writers. 
 Until his retirement a few years ago he was a Professor of 
 French at the University of Chicago. He joined us in 191 5, 
 and has contributed fourteen delightful papers. Mention has 
 already been made of his Motoring with Belphegor and his 
 presidential address at the beginning of that heart-sinking 
 year in the Medical and Dental Arts Building. He bore up 
 well under that ordeal, which must have been more difficult 
 for him than for the rest of us. M. David is a lively and en- 
 tertaining conversationalist, well informed on literary and 
 political subjects. For over thirty years he has been an orna- 
 ment to this Club. We are proud of him. Three of his best 
 papers have been published by the Club: Flaubert and George 
 Sand in Their Correspondence (No. XXXII), for which, for a 
 long time after, there were frequent calls from booksellers; 
 Marcel Proust (No. XL), and La Douceur de Vivre, on the 
 Reign of Terror (No. XLIII). 
 
 Dr. Morris Fishbein, well known editor of the Journal 
 of the American Medical Association, a member for nearly 
 twenty-five years, expounded to us in November of this sea- 
 son the evil methods of quackery in a paper. Modern Medical 
 Charlatans. Dr. Fishbein keeps himself informed on up-to- 
 date illegal medical practice just as he does on legal. 
 
 Dr. Chauncey Maher's first paper, read in January, 1938, 
 proved him to be an artist in depicting rural life. He told us 
 
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 the story of a little town in Southwestern Illinois, where he 
 had lived as a boy, and drew the picture with such simple 
 lines and clear perspective that the memories of many of us 
 who had had similar associations with country villages in the 
 days of our youth were vividly stirred. Dr. Maher gave us 
 two other papers later, the third, Louie, the simple story of a 
 "village quean", told with delicate matter-of-fact-ness and 
 verbal artistry. 
 
 Death came on December 6, 1937, and claimed John 
 Maxcy Zane in California. He joined us in 1905, resigned 
 later, and rejoined us in 1935. Oratory is No More was his 
 swan song to the Club in April, 1937. This was a peculiarly 
 fitting subject for Mr. Zane since he cherished a great fond- 
 ness for the Roman and Greek orators and poets and read 
 them constantly and familiarly in the original. His paper was 
 a lament that such men were no longer to be found among us 
 in these latter days. Mr. Zane had won for himself an en- 
 viable position in the practise of law, and was the author of a 
 widely read legal treatise. He was also well versed in modern 
 literature. He was an avid collector and connoisseur of fine 
 and rare books, and for several years had been and was at 
 the time of his death President of the Caxton Club, the un- 
 identical twin of the Chicago Literary Club. 
 
 There was a goodly number of papers read during this sea- 
 son by members who had already proved themselves distin- 
 guished writers. At this point they need not be mentioned, 
 for lo, are their names, titles and dates not duly inscribed, 
 with comments here and there, in Volume X of the Records 
 and Proceedings of this Club? Seven new members were 
 taken into the Club during this season, among whom and 
 still with us as active members, were Bertram J. Cahn, 
 Nathan S. Blumberg, and David S. Oakes. Anticipating a 
 little, we may remark that the paper. One Sixth of a Dozen, 
 read by the last named, to the Club in 1944, was one of the 
 wittiest papers we ever listened to; it kept us rocking in our 
 seats with laughter. There were three resignations: men who 
 
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 lacked the cranial fortitude to maintain their interest, and 
 could not acclimate themselves to our rarefied atmosphere. 
 Two good men were transferred to the non-resident list: Dr. 
 Henry C. A. Mead (son of our Professor George H. Mead, 
 named heretofore in these pages), who was called to the 
 Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and Llewellyn Jones, 
 journalist, bookman, and literary critic, who was quite sud- 
 denly called to Boston in April, 1938, to assume the chief 
 editorship of the Christian Register y the official organ of the 
 x-^merican Unitarian Association. 
 
 Furthermore, it must be recorded with regret, two mem- 
 bers, whose qualifications for membership were of the best, 
 dismembered themselves by permitting their economic in- 
 terest in the Club to reach the zero level of their personal in- 
 terest. At the business meeting held January 24, 1938, the 
 following amendment to the By-Laws was proposed by 
 Willard King, at that time Chairman of the Committee on 
 Rooms and Finance, namely, that the figure "seventy-five" 
 in section 6, Article III, be changed to "sixty-five" so that 
 the latter part of section 6 shall read thus: 
 
 ". . . and provided further that in the case of members who have 
 been enrolled for twenty years or more and are in good standing 
 and have reached the age of sixty-five years, the payment of fur- 
 ther dues by them shall be optional on their part." 
 
 Due notice of this proposed change was mailed to members 
 and at the next business meeting on February 21 the amend- 
 ment was adopted by more than a two-thirds vote of the 
 members present and voting. 
 
 Rethumbing the pages of this season this historian repents 
 his decision to omit further mention of papers in the upper 
 bracket of excellence. Two are worthy of a word of special 
 praise which can be given without prejudice or doing violence 
 to the others. These two are Harry F. Robinson's Precursors 
 of Mark T-n'ain and the final paper of the year. Collectivism^ 
 by Billy E. Goetz. There were many requests that the former 
 be published; it was a grand piece of laborious research, 
 
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 a contribution to pre-Clemensiana of no inconsiderable 
 value to literary historians. Collectivism was a well-equal- 
 ized and dramatic presentation of two opposite points of 
 view; the arguments were so well balanced that it was 
 difficult to choose between them. It high-lighted the end of 
 the season. 
 
 About this time the work of Lin Yutang, the popular 
 Sinologue, was much in vogue and provoking much discus- 
 sion. The attention of the Club was called to one of his books 
 in which he had classified the present generation of mankind 
 into the herbivorous and the carnivorous, the former being 
 sweet-tempered, the doers of things, the creative artists, the 
 latter being the opposite. Someone remarked incidentally in 
 casual conversation that if that classification had a grain of 
 truth in it, then the Literary Club must be wholly herbivor- 
 ous, for were we not all creative artists, and did we not come 
 hither hebdomadally to graze on choice literary herbage for 
 a fumid and soporific hour? Yes, interposed another some- 
 one, but when yonder curtain is drawn at the end of a cud- 
 chewing hour, does not grass-cropping then lose its attrac- 
 tiveness, do the fleshpots of the Nile not beguile us, and 
 does not the dormant carnivorous instinct assert itself as 
 we line up with drooling lips at the snack table? Where- 
 upon the second someone recited in a tone of finality these 
 unpremeditated lines: 
 
 Here live we well and scarcely know 
 The wide world's constant ebb and flow; 
 Here grass is green, the herbage lush, 
 Strong waters gurgle, bottles gush; 
 We feed our minds on chlorophyll. 
 On chives and chard and pungent dill; 
 We feed our maws on fowl and fin, 
 On sugar, fats, and protein. 
 We are the perfect syncretist, 
 To whom both hay and flesh are grist. 
 I think that Lin Yutang would say 
 The golden mean is the natural way. 
 
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 The first someone said he quite agreed. 
 
 Dour-faced Anxiety bestrode a world steadily becoming 
 more threatening and certainly much smaller as George IX 
 {ne Linnaeus Marsh) assumed the crown and scepter on 
 October lo, 1938. Adolf Schicklgruber, the miraculous up- 
 start, was firmly seated in the German saddle; six months 
 before our annual reunion he had annexed Austria, and as we 
 foregathered was taking over the Sudetenland; universal 
 hegemony was clearly his goal. Europe was aflame and the 
 sparks were falling on the other nations of the earth, already 
 dry as tinder. "Amid the confused voices of the world's 
 ignorance and sadness," to which we listened for the next 
 half dozen years, what do we, the Literary Club, do? We 
 must find consolation somehow; compensation must be 
 sought for our utter loss of confidence in what the late and 
 much lamented "B. L. T.," a Chicago Columnist of renown, 
 was wont to call "the w. k. human race." We resort to our 
 Ivory Tower, leaving our sordid shoes of trouble at the door, 
 don the robes of the human spirit blithe, and give ourselves 
 over for a brief hour to meditation on the finest and greatest 
 things of our inheritance. Our Committees on Exercises 
 rarely fail to provide us with spiritual nourishment to meet 
 our individual tastes, from the thick and heavy roast to the 
 nuts and raisins. During this season of 1938-1939 our pro- 
 gram ranged from President Marsh's gently flowing This 
 Other Eden^ Demi-Paradise, his felicitous Inaugural, to Ern- 
 est Zeisler's severe critique of the famous (in his own circle) 
 French mathematician, Evariste Galois, read at the final 
 meeting in May. We concluded that the writer of this bril- 
 liant paper was not in agreement with M. Galois in many 
 respects, but not being at all familiar with higher math- 
 ematics, we hardly understood the grounds for disagreement. 
 But a spicy argument, tinged with a soup^on of vitriol, and 
 couched in the King's English was good to hear and helped 
 us, as we faced a five-month vacuous vacation to forget that 
 "der Fuehrer" was careering more madly than ever on his 
 
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 wreckage-strewn, carnage-stained way, and about to under- 
 take his nefarious invasion of Poland. 
 
 Irving K. Pond read his twenty-sixth and last paper be- 
 fore the Club in October, 1938, Do Children Think? It was 
 autobiographical, a careful analysis of his own psychology 
 and mental growth. At the time of his decease, which oc- 
 curred within a year after reading this paper, the unbroken 
 tenure of his resident membership was longer than that of 
 any other surviving resident or non-resident member, with 
 only one exception in each list. He wrote much, easily, clear- 
 ly, entertainingly, precisely on architecture (his profession), 
 art, and general topics of human interest. The literary and 
 professional facets of his mind shone with equal brilliance. 
 Acrobatics was his hobby, in which he had been proficient 
 from his youth up, and of which he was a profound student 
 until his death. He was personally acquainted with most of 
 the "rhythmic" artists in all the large circuses and carefully 
 studied their methods and movements. The results of this 
 study, combined with his expertness as a draughtsman, en- 
 abled him to prepare a paper for the Club, A Day Under the 
 Big Top: A Study in Life and Art (published by the Club in 
 1924 as Number XXXIII of our publications), that was a 
 work of genius. It was a scientific analysis and study of the 
 art and rhythms of acrobatic performance, signally illus- 
 trated with elaborate figures and designs by the author. 
 Irving Pond was devoted to the Literary Club, and proved 
 his devotion by constant and regular attendance year in and 
 year out. For several seasons he never missed a meeting. He 
 was a conversationalist of the first order. His opinions were 
 strongly held, but we respected them though we could not 
 always accept them. He joined the Club in 1888, and was our 
 President for the season of 1 922-1923. One of the strongest 
 pillars of the Club broke and fell when Irving Pond answered 
 the call of Death. 
 
 No novice at writing or in delivery but merely making his 
 first appearance before the Club on October 31st, 1938, was 
 
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 Dr. Ralph W. Gerard with his The Shears of Atropos^ a story 
 of personal experience, a remarkable escape from death by 
 plague. It held us spell-bound. Two other papers of singular 
 merit have come from his pen since then, Unresting Cells^ and 
 Ola, the latter a clear-cut delineation of a shrewd type of 
 Vermont Yankee, now becoming scarce, with whom the au- 
 thor had had many dealings and conversational bouts — a 
 tale of great charm. Another new member. Professor D. Roy 
 Mathews, also made his initial appearance at our lectern, on 
 February 27, 1939, with an historical paper, French Exiles 
 and English Relief, that evidenced no little research and was 
 received most favorably. His second paper. Generals and 
 Geographers, was read in 1943; it dealt with geopolitics, a 
 novel topic arising from the War. 
 
 Still another new member in his first appearance before us 
 on March 6, 1939, gave us a wonderful evening of pleasure 
 and instruction, Tappan Gregory with his The Camera's 
 Catch of North American Wild Animals (illustrated), a run- 
 ning talk on his own photographs of animals from moose to 
 mice taken by set cameras and flashlights. A year later we 
 were favored with his Eze, on the Corniche, and two years 
 later with his The Black Sox, the sinister story of corruption 
 in professional base ball, and in 1943 with his The IVhisper of 
 the Guns. 
 
 Outstanding papers of this 1 938-1 939 season (every sea- 
 son has them for that matter) were many, done by the tried 
 and true who are never found wanting — their experience 
 guarantees an acceptable and often perfect product, but as 
 most of these authors and their work have already received 
 comment in these pages, we must turn to other matters, 
 pausing, however, for a moment to say that Bernadotte 
 Schmitt's resume of the period From Versailles to Munich, 
 igi8-igj8, was another masterly historic document, for the 
 publication of which there were many requests; and that 
 Charles Megan's Murder in the Tower, the latest develop- 
 ments by research in the story of the two young princes, 
 
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 was published by the Club in 1940 as number XLII of the 
 Club publications. 
 
 Between May 1938 and May 1939 death removed from us 
 three valued members, Samuel John Duncan-Clark (June 12, 
 1938), Homer Hunt Cooper (January 28, 1939), and John 
 McRae Cameron (Janury 2, 1939). The loss of these mem- 
 bers brought us acute sorrow. A Committee, with George 
 Packard as Chairman, appointed by the President to prepare 
 a suitable memorial to Mr. Cameron, read its report on 
 February 6, 1939. This little summary is so appropriately 
 done that we are fain to quote here some of its phraseology: 
 
 "John McRae Cameron was one of the finest characters and best 
 loved men that ever graced our Club's presidential chair. In his pro- 
 fession he attained most of the possible honors, and was President 
 of the Chicago Bar Association in 1924. . . . He possessed an in- 
 flexible character, relieved by a trenchant humor, was an omniv- 
 orous reader, and his mind and intellectual sympathies were always 
 on the alert. . . . This Club knows well the literary acumen shown 
 by his many papers. He was well known as a writer and speaker on 
 public affairs. A fine and loyal citizen, he could be counted on in 
 any emergency. Mr. Cameron knew not how to compromise with 
 any man or measure that did not conform to his very strict ideals of 
 fair human conduct. His scorn for the trivial was intense and yet he 
 liked to be and was one of the most companionable of men. We, 
 who remember his graphic comments at our dinners and his dry 
 wit and unusual wisdom displayed in all his Club relations, shall 
 probably miss him most of any of the circles to which he belonged. 
 He was a great lover of books and a most appreciative collector of 
 rare editions. . . . We who are left are glad that he lived so long and 
 so fully— that he was one of us— and so modestly and faithfully 
 filled the niche in Nature's economy to which his rare achievements 
 entitled him. ... To have known him as we knew him was indeed a 
 privilege that makes more heavy our sense that he has left us. To 
 realize that he loved us as much as we loved him is the one assuag- 
 ing factor in our separation." 
 
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 Chapter XII 
 
 TO THE new Premier, Wilfred Puttkammer, on October 
 9, 1939, was handed the gavel by retiring President 
 Marsh, to whom just one year before it had been 
 handed by Vice President Puttkammer acting for President 
 Laylander who had been unable to attend meetings during 
 the final weeks of the previous season. The Premier's delight- 
 ful and scholarly Inaugural followed. The Marshals of 
 Napoleon. 
 
 The feeling had been growing and had become quite gen- 
 eral that it was unbusinesslike, because of the tenuous tenure 
 of life common to all men, that access to the Club's safety 
 deposit box should be the prerogative of the Treasurer alone. 
 Consequently the Directors met at the close of this meeting 
 and passed a resolution that the Chairman of the Finance 
 Committee, Willard King, should act as Second Lord of the 
 Treasury and be provided with a key to the safety box. This 
 action brought a measurable sense of relief to the First Lord 
 of the Treasury, who had long felt that his responsibility 
 should be shared. 
 
 One week after our Reunion meeting Dr. Charles B. Reed 
 read his twenty-ninth paper before the Club, The Gossip of 
 the Pines. It was his last appearance as a reader, for within a 
 year he was gone. He did write one more paper for the Club, 
 however, at some time during the following months, which he 
 called The Haunted Cedar. The manuscript of this paper was 
 turned over to the Club by his wife and was read posthu- 
 mously to the Club by a fellow member shortly after Dr. 
 Reed's death. A further estimate of Dr. Reed, his work, and 
 his connection with the Club will be made later in this nar- 
 rative. On October 23 the Club Directors appointed Presi- 
 dent Puttkammer to represent us at a meeting to be held in 
 
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 Hull House on November i6 to honor the memory of Irving 
 K. Pond. The President reported duly on this meeting, and 
 told us in detail about the many tributes paid to Pond by 
 individuals and by organizations. Pond had long been a 
 patron of Hull House and its generous friend. 
 
 A charming discourse on Nonchalance by Stephen E. Hur- 
 ley, following a clever and witty introduction by the Presi- 
 dent, was the treat in store for us on Ladies' Night, October 
 30, when one hundred and sixty members and guests gath- 
 ered at the Woman's Club (we had not yet established the 
 custom of inviting the ladies to dine with us and listen to 
 winged words at the University Club) to celebrate this an- 
 nual event, an event that seemed to be growing in impor- 
 tance, satisfaction, and pleasure-giving with each successive 
 year. 
 
 The list of papers read this season was worthy of our best 
 tradition in respect to quality. The writers were mostly of 
 the Faithful, who can always be relied upon to produce what 
 we like and enjoy. Some papers are anticipated with eager- 
 ness because we know that their authors are likely to have 
 something extraordinary to say and will say it most attrac- 
 tively; but all papers receive respectful attention. Among the 
 Memoranda published in our yearbook for nearly a quarter 
 of a century (the wording is Victor Yarros') is this; 
 
 "That the best papers often flash upon us unexpectedly, and not 
 infrequently are read by members whose names may be unfamiliar, 
 or who have recently been admitted; and that all members are 
 entitled to the benefit of the presumption of fitness and compe- 
 tence." 
 
 One of those papers that "flashed upon us unexpectedly" 
 was The Pathologic Physiology of Endowed Institutions by 
 Dr. Emmet B. Bay, a brilliant young physician, and com- 
 paratively new member. It was his first and thus far only 
 paper read to the Club. It is to be hoped that he will follow 
 up such a good beginning with more "flashes" from his pen. 
 We had two Book Nights this season, one in January, and
 
 CHARLES BERT REED
 
 one in March. The books reviewed were all significant and 
 timely, and the reviewers of our best. The Book Night is a 
 real Institution in this Club, and merits the large attendance 
 it usually has. It so happened that the same book, Lin Yu- 
 tang's Moment in Peking, was reviewed at each of these Book 
 Nights by two different members. That astute gentleman was 
 riding high in those days and stirring up considerable interest 
 in the book-reading world. 
 
 William E. Dodd, one of our best known members, who 
 has been mentioned many times before in these pages, had 
 been transferred to the non-resident list, and was living near 
 Washington, D. C. We learned with sorrow that he had died 
 on February 9, 1940. From the memorial prepared by a 
 special committee, a comprehensive and sympathetic memo- 
 rial (written, so we surmise, by Dodd's colleague, Bernadotte 
 Schmitt) we quote the concluding paragraph, which sums 
 up beautifully the character of Professor Dodd as we knew 
 him in the Club: 
 
 "We of this Club remember Mr. Dodd as a quiet, unassuming 
 gentleman with a keen sense of humor. Beneath his placid and 
 genial exterior, however, there was a strong will, a stern devotion 
 to truth and justice and an intense desire to serve his fellow men. 
 Without being in any sense a zealot or a fanatic, Mr. Dodd was, 
 whether in academic life or in national affairs, a force making for 
 righteousness; his passionate denunciations of tyranny, after he 
 laid down his ambassadorship, will not soon be forgotten by those 
 who heard him. This Club has lost one of its most distinguished and 
 noblest members." 
 
 So we bid farewell to our honored dead and welcome the 
 quick who must take the vacant places and carry on. 
 
 'The disquieting season of 1940-1941 arrived. The Hit- 
 lerian hawk had pounced upon Poland and brought on a gen- 
 eral European war; the Nazi buzzard was close behind de- 
 vouring the smaller and helpless countries piecemeal; isola- 
 tionism and internationalism were having a heated argument, 
 and we were beginning to discover that our vaunted ocean 
 barriers would not be invulnerable to foreign attack. We 
 
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 were in a state of unrest and confusion. It is quite unneces- 
 sary, however, to remind ourselves of those days and events 
 which we all remember too well. As a Club we went on with 
 our job of "pulmotoring" humanistics, of trying to conserve 
 and promote the imponderable things of the human spirit, 
 which are the better part of life. 
 
 It had now become an established custom to hold our an- 
 nual Reunion at the University Club and there we gathered 
 on October 7, 1940, ninety-five in number, to hear the new 
 President, Harry Sigmund Hyman, deliver his Inaugural, 
 Sour Grapes^ an Apologia Pro Senectute.W^ have all read and 
 heard many attempts to rationalize Old Age, from Tully to 
 Judge Edward O. Brown (Vid. our Club Publication No. 
 XVI) to Harry S. Hyman, but it seems probable that most 
 men, whether middle-aged or old, who give the matter seri- 
 ous thought, find it difficult to be convinced deep down with- 
 in that the so-called compensations of Old Age outweigh its 
 deficiencies. Such optimism Harry Hyman characterized as 
 "sour grapes." We were grieved to hear of his death the fol- 
 lowing summer, after twenty-eight years of loyal mem- 
 bership. 
 
 Thomas C. McConnell read his first paper before the Club 
 on November 25, 1940, Indian Culture: Its Effect on Law and 
 Politics South of the Border. This paper proved beyond any 
 question that a new literary light had appeared in the Club 
 firmament. The enthusiastic reception of this paper by a 
 large audience evidenced both a deep interest in the subject 
 matter and an appreciation of the author's clear and un- 
 studied style. There were many requests for publication. A 
 little more than two years later Mr. McConnell gave us his 
 second paper, the incredible but true story of how he ran to 
 earth and brought to justice the notorious swindler John 
 Factor ("Jake the Barber"). The Club published this paper 
 (No. XLVII) in July, 1943. And who of us, or of the ladies, 
 present on a later occasion^ will forget Mr. McConnell's De- 
 fense of Doctor Crippe?i read on the night of January 28, 1946?
 
 Bertram J. Cahn gave us his first and only paper, The 
 Siory of the Chicago Crime Commission (of which he was an 
 honored and very active member) on December 2, 1940. 
 Mr. Cahn's business requirements and the fact that he re- 
 sides outside of Chicago have prevented him from devoting 
 as much time to Club meetings and Club contributions as he 
 would like; but his interest has never wavered. 
 
 Samuel Edmund Thorne also read his first and only paper 
 on January 13, 1941, yf« Oxford Scho/ar.He was soon to leave 
 us to go into special war service, from which he has lately 
 emerged as Librarian of the Yale Law Library. We regret his 
 permanent absence. 
 
 It was doubtless sorhething of a surprise to us all on Jan- 
 uary 27, 1941, to have Ernest Zeisler prove with his inexor- 
 able and irrefutable logic, of which he is par excellence the 
 master, that Nietzsche's philosophy was totally opposed to 
 Nazi ideology. In those dark days the authoritative assur- 
 ance that the philosopher Nietzsche, who exalted the "will 
 to dominate," and extolled the "superman" as "an unscrup- 
 ulous, pitiless demigod, superior to ordinary morality," 
 was wholly opposed to the similar doctrine of Schicklgruber, 
 brought several quasi grains of comfort to those who heard 
 this remarkable paper. 
 
 This seems to have been quite a year for introducing new 
 or recent members to our lectern. Judge Will M. Sparks gave 
 us his first and only paper on March 10, 1941, The Rappites^ 
 an odd community that flourished down in Indiana in the 
 neighborhood of Judge Sparks' early home. The Judge knew 
 this sect and its cult at first hand and gave us their story with 
 telling effect. The Club hopes that the Judge may be per- 
 suaded to give us another story equally interesting. Still 
 another "first appearance" in this season of first appearances 
 was that of Sidney L. Robin with his Incunabula of the Illit- 
 erate^ a paradoxical title, from which, quickly cutting the 
 Gordian Knot, he skillfully extracted contrariety and sub- 
 stituted perspicuity. 
 
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 Ladies' Night of this season, on March 31, has already had 
 its due meed of mention in these pages; it was held in the 
 Woman's Club, where we were destined to hold only one 
 more (in the following year) before entertaining our feminine 
 friends in more advantageous surroundings. 
 
 This season (unique in respect to the disclosure of promis- 
 ing "novices") came to a close on May 12 with one of Wil- 
 fred Puttkammer's "Classic Nights." The paper he selected 
 to read was Bishop Charles Edward Cheney's The Barefoot 
 Maid at the Fountain Inn, which the good Bishop himself had 
 read before the Club on November 13, 191 1, and the Club 
 had published in 191 2 as its Number XII. Only a few of us 
 are left who heard Bishop Cheney read this beautiful and 
 romantic story with his rich, sonorous voice and precise ar- 
 ticulation. The Bishop had a marvellous command of our 
 language, and used it perfectly with telling simplicity. (The 
 Club published four of his remarkable papers.) Puttkammer 
 read this paper most effectively; we who had heard or read it 
 before were delighted to hear it again. 
 
 Rather feelingly, perhaps plaintively, the Secretary in his 
 final report for this season, observed that for most of us this 
 year's thirty "literary sociables," as he termed them, con- 
 stituted collectively a beacon light of joy and hope shining 
 through the murky clouds of man's inhumanity to man. This 
 bright ray, he said, has aided us, and will continue to aid us, 
 to be prepared in our minds and with our means for whatever 
 may befall: aut vincere aut mori. 
 
 So we faced the fateful year of 1 94 1 -1942, and Pearl Har- 
 bor. At the largely attended first meeting on October 6, 1941, 
 at the University Club, Vice president John Heath, in the ab- 
 sence of Ex-president Hyman, deceased, introduced Willard 
 King, the new President. His Inaugural, Two Cultures, by 
 general agreement one of the best papers of all his numerous 
 excellent ones, if not the best, left us intellectually well 
 satisfied, and gave the Club a fine sendoff. A violent 
 rainstorm that began in the afternoon and continued all 
 
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 P A Y S O N SIBLEY WILD
 
 through the evening heightened rather than dampened our 
 enjoyment. 
 
 A succession of successful evenings throughout the autumn 
 followed. On December 8, 1941, after hearing a lot of inter- 
 esting things we did not know concerning some obscure but in 
 their time important literary people — the whir of George 
 Marsh's Flight of Lame Ducks — we were told that the Direc- 
 tors of the Club would hold an important meeting forthwith. 
 This meeting foreshadowed a marked, not to say radical, 
 change in our fiscal policy. A letter to the Directors from the 
 Finance Committee stated that at the President's request 
 that Committee had given consideration to the matter of in- 
 vesting the surplus funds of the Club; the letter went on to 
 say: 
 
 "The Committee believes that present conditions justify a de- 
 parture from our previous practice of investing such funds in cor- 
 porate or Government obligations and point rather to the wisdom 
 of purchasing equity stocks in corporations of proved stability and 
 earning capacity. The Committee recommends the purchase of the 
 common stocks listed in the following table. . . ." 
 
 The list named eleven well known stable corporations, 195 
 of whose shares collectively we were advised to buy in va- 
 rious small amounts, using the Club funds in bank for the 
 purpose. The Directors acted at once and authorized the pur- 
 chase. The stocks were duly bought as specified by the Fi- 
 nance Committee, and have proved to be a very profitable 
 investment. There have been but few changes and additions 
 since, only those suggested by our investment counsel, whom 
 we engaged two years later to supervise our modest portfolio. 
 
 There were several "Firsts" during the latter part of this 
 season, that is, first papers by members hitherto untried: 
 Douglass Pillinger's Within Four Walls, a delightful contri- 
 bution (Mr. Pillinger's smooth and delicate style of writing 
 was again evidenced in his recent paper on Elinor Wylie)\ 
 Dr. Bengt Hamilton's The Relation Between Good Government 
 and Bad Temper, a charming and humorous discourse; Joseph 
 
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 Chada's The Czechs in America; George Boiler's Printing and 
 the Renaissance-^ Paul H. Douglas' story of the Owens \ and 
 William H. King, Jr.'s Yankee Lawyer in the Courts of Cook 
 County. Three of these five men left us soon after this to go 
 into War Service: Dr. Hamilton, George Boiler, and Paul 
 Douglas. 
 
 The Ladies' Night meeting on March 30, 1942, was held at 
 the Woman's Club. It was our last meeting in that Club, and 
 was a red-letter occasion; Pierce Butler declaimed with dra- 
 matic effect his story, The Tale oj the Young Man Who Lost 
 His Baggage Keys, rich in incident and humor, most enter- 
 taining, and heard with much laughter. The Woman's Club 
 was soon thereafter taken over by the Army, and eventually 
 sold to a syndicate. 
 
 At the final meeting of the season Carl B. Roden read a 
 paper by our William E. Dodd, deceased, a paper written 
 thirty years before and published by the Club (No. XIV), 
 Robert J. Walker, Imperialist. 
 
 The list of members taken from us by death during the 
 months just past is a sad one to contemplate; it consists of 
 both resident and non-resident members, many of whom 
 served the Club for long periods of time, others for only a 
 brief time: Charles Bert Reed, William B. Storey, Rabbi 
 Joseph Stolz, George Warner Swain, Walter Emanuel 
 Treanor, William Lee Richardson, Henry Horner, Henry Bar 
 rett Chamberlin, Harry Sigmund Hyman, Charles Edgar 
 Pence, George Noble Carman, James Westfall Thompson, 
 Howard Leslie Smith, Harry Fletcher Scott, William Horace 
 Day, and Walter Mabie Wood. 
 
 Dr. Charles Bert Reed as a writer was one of the most ver- 
 satile men the Club ever had. In thirty-four years of member- 
 ship he wrote thirty papers. Although his literary work was 
 his avocation, it was hardly secondary to his medical activ- 
 ities, which were numerous and never neglected. He was a 
 skilled gynecologist, and an active member of the various 
 medical societies, but his leisure hours were spent in his 
 
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 library, or in some large reference library, either in research 
 or in imaginary writing. The historical and the imaginary 
 were the two fields in which he loved most to delve. He was a 
 stickler for style; he knew the value and exact use of words. 
 From a broad humanistic background was reflected the 
 sinewy sentence, the rhythmic clause, the finished paragraph, 
 the often unusual but eminently fitting word. His contribu- 
 tions were always received with acclaim. The Club published 
 three of his papers: his Inaugural Address as President (1914- 
 1915), his Albrecht von Haller, and his delightful canine story 
 of the North Woods, Duke. He loved the North Woods, and 
 spent many summers camping, fishing, exploring in the vir- 
 gin wilds North of Lake Superior, whence he would return 
 with fresh material for his pen. It was his good fortune to 
 part quietly and painlessly from this world while up in this 
 wilderness where he loved best to be. Dr. Reed's opinions in 
 secular matters open to argument were strongly and con- 
 servatively held and ably defended, but he would never 
 suffer a friendship to be marred by disagreement. The Club 
 has lost a rare man in Dr. Reed. 
 
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 Chapter XIII 
 
 THE following resident members, besides the four al- 
 ready named in the previous chapter (Boiler, Doug- 
 las, Hamilton, and Thorne), went into War Service, 
 their names having been retained on the Club roster: George 
 W. Ball, now a non-resident living in Washington, D. C. ; Ross 
 J. Beatty, Jr., Seward H. Bowers, Ward E. Guest, Max Rhein- 
 stein, Dr. Michael L. Mason, Elbridge B. Pierce, Dr. Charles 
 B. Puestow, Dr. Everett Lee Strohl, and Dr. Arthur R. 
 Turner, the last named now residing in Washington, D. C. 
 Six of these War Service men have returned to resident mem- 
 bership, namely, Ross J. Beatty, Jr., George Boiler, Ward E. 
 Guest, Dr. Mason, Elbridge Pierce, and Dr. Strohl. Still 
 to return, or otherwise to be accounted for, are Seward 
 Bowers, Dr. Puestow, Max Rheinstein, and Paul H. Doug- 
 las. Of Seward Bowers we have had no word yet; Dr. Pues- 
 tow, we understand, is in Chicago, but has not yet reinstated 
 himself; Max Rheinstein is expected to return eventually to 
 his position in the University of Chicago Law School; Paul 
 Douglas, severely wounded, has been convalescing in a 
 Washington, D. C. Hospital. 
 
 (This is being written just after the close of our 1945-1946 
 season.) 
 
 The 1 942-1 943 season began under the presidency of Dr. 
 Arno B. Luckhardt, whose Inaugural address was entitled. 
 Collector s Items of a Medical Historical Bibliomaniac. The 
 record states that 
 
 "On a table before the speaker were many of these 'Items,' rare 
 medical incunabula, books and engravings, ivory figurines, and 
 other curios, which, after the reading, were demonstrated and ex- 
 plained by Dr. Luckhardt." 
 
 Ralph Horween's second paper read before the Club in 
 October, 1942 (it will be remembered that his first was on 
 
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 The Battle of Jutland) ^ Sir William Sydney Smith . . . An 
 Episode in the Eastern Mediterranean, was another historical 
 contribution of importance, well conceived and thoughtfully 
 worked out (as was his Jutland) in such a manner as to hold 
 our undivided interest and win enthusiastic applause. 
 
 Stephen Hurley's Chance was delightful; Mr. Hurley al- 
 ways packs his contributions with closely woven thought, al- 
 most Emersonian, we might say, but never obscure. When 
 Charles Yeomans comes forward with one of his all too rare 
 papers, as he did on November 9 of this season, and read 
 Clergy ma?i i?i Conflict, we know it is to be a real occasion. A 
 choice, delicate humor, of the Yeomans brand, pervaded 
 this paper. Theodore Buenger's paper on Gregory the Great 
 gave us a fine touch of the author's classical, or post-classical 
 in this case, and well known scholarship. On a night in Jan- 
 uary, 1943, Horace Bridges gave us a clever Sherlock Holmes 
 Misadventure, an original story in the familiar Doylesque 
 manner and style, an imitation that would deceive any but 
 the most expert Doyle fan. Mr. Bridges favored us (and the 
 . ladies) in the autumn following with another of these Holmes 
 take-offs, which the ladies found very much to their taste. 
 
 When, on March 29, 1943, we held our first Ladies' Night 
 in the University Club, far more meet for such entertainment 
 than any place we had hitherto found, the pleasure and 
 peculiar satisfaction we felt were quite similar to the feelings 
 of Odysseus, when, entertained at a banquet given him by 
 Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians, he began his story thus: 
 
 "Lord Alcinous, it is indeed a lovely thing to hear a bard such as 
 this man with a voice like a god. I myself feel that there is nothing 
 more delightful than when the festive mood reigns in people's 
 hearts and the banqueters listen to a minstrel from their seats in 
 the hall, while the tables before them are laden with bread and 
 meat, and a steward carries around the wine he has drawn from the 
 mixing bowl and fills their cups. This, to my way of thinking, is 
 something very like perfection." 
 
 The ladies all said it was perfection. At last we were able 
 to serve wine without let or hindrance, and the dinner was 
 sumptuous, for because of a lucky turn of Fortune's wheel, 
 
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 b
 
 the menu had been arranged and ordered just before new and 
 drastic Government Food restrictions went into effect. The 
 "bard" with the "voice like a god", to wit, Wilfred Puttkam- 
 mer, regaled the audience with a brilliant paper, A Famous 
 Family of Old Augsburg^ which was loudly applauded. That 
 meeting registered a new high water mark in Ladies' Night 
 annals. 
 
 Joseph Adams joined the Club January 3, 1 876. He was on 
 our resident member list for sixty-seven years. He died 
 March 30, 1943. The Secretary remembers having seen this 
 elderly member present at the Club but once during the last 
 twenty-three years of his membership. On that occasion Mr. 
 Adams found the tobacco smoke so objectionable that he re- 
 fused to come again. We recall one or two attempts made by 
 the Club to interdict smoking during the exercises, but they 
 were futile; the majority favored this restful habit and so 
 ruled. Too many of us were devotees of Nicotina and refused 
 to abandon her cult when we were assembled. 
 
 Governor Frank O. Lowden, both a resident and non- 
 resident member for fifty years, died March 20, 1943, at his 
 country estate in Oregon, Illinois. On December 15, 1942, a 
 sad accident, causing immediate death, removed Charles 
 True Adams from our resident list. His father, of the same 
 name, was an early member of the Club. 
 
 Three or four excellent papers and a Book Night brought 
 the season to a successful close. Among these was George 
 Dyer's Is Sociology a Science?^ George Powers' Lowdown on 
 Cousin George^ and Harry Robinson's Mr. Dooley. 
 
 "To one who has observed for many years at close range the per- 
 sonnel of this Club the most amazing thing is the high morale, 
 which continues to hold its own year after year during every vari- 
 ety of vicissitude, national prosperity, national depression, prohi- 
 bition, Calvin Coolidge, the Decline and Fall of Big Business, 
 Union Racketeering, a World War and now a Global War — what- 
 ever the situation or condition, the Literary Club flourishes therein. 
 Its solidarity and loyalty are truly unique." 
 
 (From the Secretary's report of May 10, 1943.) 
 
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 Our seventieth season, 1 943-1 944, which opened on Octo- 
 ber II at the usual place, the University Club, had for its 
 President Francis Howard Eldridge, whose Inaugural Ad- 
 dress, Mars and the Daughters of Mnemosyne^ igiS-ig^j^ 
 proved to be his valedictory, though we knew it not, for he 
 died the following summer, the victim of a shocking accident. 
 Howard Eldridge was a personage, a man of distinguished 
 character and ability, quiet, modest, a clear thinker, a keen 
 lawyer and student of law, with a remarkable command of 
 both the spoken and written language, a man of steadiness, 
 of philosophic bent, fond of elucidating the recondite, of in- 
 terpreting intricate thought. The Club has had few men of 
 his stamp, of his mental integrity, of his power of analysis. 
 
 Seldom does the work of members of this Club fall below 
 the minimum of excellence long established and familiar to 
 all; and there are always a few who attain the maximum or 
 exceed it. Of the men who composed the program for this 
 season most have already been characterized, and, after a 
 fashion, evaluated — fairly, we hope. A general summation of 
 the year's "produce" might be described as follows, disre- 
 garding names and merely alluding to titles indirectly; as is 
 nearly always the case the topics have varied widely — vari- 
 ety of subject and treatment being one of our reasons for be- 
 ing — biographical, autobiographical, analytical, scientific, 
 descriptive, detective, humorous, witty, political, exciting, 
 educative, mythical, mystical, practical, stimulating — rang- 
 ing from Sewers to Submarines, from Tennyson to Twins, 
 from Douglas to Dives, from Eggs to Aesculapius, from Music 
 to Maga, from Schoolcraft to Stained Glass, from Long to 
 Law, from Peace to Pessimism — papers and essays seldom 
 inducing somnolence, interest-awakening, stylistically indi- 
 vidual, rarely smelling of the lamp, written and composed 
 for the most, part under the watchful gaze of the goddess of 
 Wisdom. An Olympian program, if there ever was one. 
 
 During this season we lost three resident members, Ed- 
 ward Thomas Lee, Dr. Sanford R. Gifford, and Dr. Bever- 
 
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 idge H. Moore. The first two have already been eulogized in 
 this narrative. The third, Dr. Moore, was an orthopedic sur- 
 geon of skill and ingenuity, friendly, genial, modest, popular, 
 who, as head of the Crippled Children's Hospital for years, 
 greatly relieved the suffering of those poor unfortunates and 
 was held by them in deep affection. His contributions in 
 lighter vein and his companionship are sorely missed. 
 
 Of our non-resident members three died during 1943 and 
 1944, Judge Julian W. Mack, of New York, Theodore C. 
 Hume, and Walter L. Bullock. Some of us older members will 
 remember Judge Mack as an able, honest, impartial Judge, 
 much given to philanthropy, a lover of literature, a writer of 
 acceptable papers, always active and much interested in our 
 Club affairs. 
 
 If Science and the Future had been the title of a paper read 
 on March 13, 1874, the date of the founding of this Club, one 
 wonders what the point of view of the writer would have 
 been compared with the point of view of Professor Carey 
 Croneis, who read a paper with that title on the seventieth 
 anniversary of the Club, March 13, 1944. 
 
 Under the vigorous leadership of Earle A. Shilton we 
 opened our seventy-first season on October 9, 1944. In the 
 Book of Fate it was written and decreed that we were to 
 enjoy several essays of special merit worthy of mention, and 
 were to witness the complete surrender of Germany, the 
 death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the accession 
 of Harry S. Truman to the Presidency, a series of world- 
 shaking events, taken all together — including the exercises of 
 the Chicago Literary Club. Of course we were all very much 
 concerned with world happenings outside of the Club, but 
 this narrative deals only with our internal Club affairs, and 
 therefore passes lightly over Welt-Politik^ except as some 
 member deals with it, or with a particular phase of it. This is 
 what Professor Max Rheinstein did on October 23 in his 
 paper Birth of a Nation. He had just spent the previous year 
 on a special mission to Puerto Rico, and gave us the story of 
 
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 that mission including details of the troublesome political 
 situation in that island, and its struggle for independence. 
 
 An intrepid young mine superintendent's experience in his 
 younger days before he became a full-fledged lawyer was 
 thrillingly told by George W. Gale in his first paper Silver 
 Creek. John Leonard Hancock scored a perfect philological 
 bulls-eye in his dissertation on Words. An expert classicist, 
 Mr. Hancock proved beyond the shadow of a cavil that to 
 evaluate properly our great English language one should be 
 able quickly and easily to determine its sources, which we all 
 know are the ancient languages in large measure, especially 
 Latin. Leonard Hancock has read five papers before the 
 Club. Wit and humor flow naturally from his pen. 
 
 At a special Directors' meeting on November 28 the Chair- 
 man of the Finance Committee, Frederick B. Andrews, was 
 empowered to make an arrangement with Gregory, DeLong 
 and Holt, Investment Advisers, to supervise the Club's 
 finances. Two weeks later Mr. Andrews reported that such 
 an arrangement had been satisfactorily made. 
 
 Meyer Kestnbaum, the head of a large manufacturing con- 
 cern, made his initial appearance before us with a well con- 
 sidered paper. Six Days Shalt Thou Labor^ a subject he was 
 well qualified to discuss as a sympathetic industrial leader. 
 John Nuveen, Jr.'s fifth paper Plaint of a Bureaucrat made a 
 hit with us all. We learned at first hand of the intricate twists 
 and turns of Red Tape which Government Bureaus bind and 
 wind around some poor Gulliver unfortunate enough to be in 
 their toils. Mr. Nuveen's papers are always full of intellectual 
 nutriment well mixed with humor. Dr. Bailey's fourth Ar- 
 menian paper Musa Dagh, illustrated, met with great favor. 
 Dealing with a section of the world with which most of us are 
 not familiar. Dr. Bailey serves us goodly portions of informa- 
 tion of value and interest. Other papers of the year deserving 
 a very high rating were Louis Leon Thurstone's Three 
 Theories of Intelligence (another first) \ Puttkammer's A 
 Man-made Colossus, on the origin, rise, and fall of the British 
 
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 East India Company; William H. King, Jr.'s keen critique 
 of the Supreme Court; Willard King's biographical chapter 
 on Chief Justice Fuller (a small portion of a definitive biog- 
 raphy of Fuller, which Mr. King is still working at assidu- 
 ously) ; Dr. Warren S. McCulloch's One Word After Another 
 (also 2i first) ^ an intimate interview with one poet (Edward 
 Arlington Robinson) by another (the author), and published 
 by the Club in December, 1945; Nathan S. Blumberg's 
 Eighteen Cases^ a query as to how rigid or how elastic is our 
 Constitution; Casper Ooms' delightful American Dreyfus, 
 one of the best, if not the best, of all his contributions to 
 Club literature; Anan Raymond's A Logistic Parallel-^ and 
 Robert A. Mowat's Life and Letters in Scotland in the Eight- 
 eenth Century, which was the final paper of the year. Mr. 
 Mowat is well versed in English and Scottish literature and 
 had read previously before the Club carefully written papers 
 on Burns and Tennyson. Unfortunately he was suddenly 
 taken ill while reading this final meeting paper, and was un- 
 able to finish it. Dr. Bailey, who was sitting nearby, assisted 
 Mr. Mowat to a chair, and, always ready for any emergency, 
 read the remainder of the paper. 
 
 Constantly shifting circumstances during the year had 
 thrown the prearranged program out of order; but the pa- 
 tience, skill, and tact of the Program Chairman, Theodore 
 Buenger, had restored an order that brought us the fine 
 grist of papers mentioned above. 
 
 George G. Powers was one of the four choice members we 
 had lost during the year. (The other three have been duly 
 memorialized in these pages.) He was a business man en- 
 dowed with unusual literary ability. He had successfully 
 fought the depression, and had come through with his happy 
 disposition unimpaired. His presence always radiated good 
 cheer; his hearty greeting was an uplift, and his Club papers 
 were ingenious, novel, and fine examples of American humor, 
 humor which he relished in the reading as we did in the 
 hearing. 
 
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 The Club had been confronted the year before with the 
 necessity of showing cause why it should not pay an income 
 tax. We had no evidence of exemption, so we set about obtain- 
 ing it. Through our skillful attorney, George W. Gale, such 
 evidence of exemption was carefully prepared and sent to the 
 Internal Revenue Department. On December 14, 1944, we 
 received a letter from Washington, D.C., which gave us as- 
 surance that we should be free from income tax payments as 
 long as we continued to be an unadulterated source of cul- 
 ture and literature; but we were warned that we must beware 
 lest our dugs suckle bastards. 
 
 The Club had voted to have an audit made of our finances 
 at the close of this 1 944-1 945 season. This was done by one 
 of our own members, Mr. Edward B. Wilcox, a certified 
 public accountant. This was gratifying to the Treasurer, and 
 relieved him of a responsibility that he was glad to have 
 shared. A year later it was voted to have the audit an annual 
 affair, and to have copies of the audit distributed to members 
 at the final meeting of the year. 
 
 An esteemed active member of the Club since 1941, Pro- 
 fessor Carey Croneis of the University of Chicago was called 
 to the presidency of Beloit College and duly inaugurated in 
 September, 1944. The Literary Club's reputation as a feeder 
 for high positions of honor outside of the city was greatly 
 enhanced thereby, as it was also by the appointment of Cas- 
 per Ooms to be Commissioner of Patents at Washington, 
 D. C. in the summer of 1945. We were sorry to lose these two 
 good men from our active list, but felt highly honored vica- 
 riously. In September, 1945, Charles Yeomans received 
 Letters Patent signed by Commissioner Ooms, and wrote to 
 a fellow member that he was wondering whether any other 
 member of the Literary Club would care to dispute his claim 
 to the distinction of being the first member of the Club to be 
 so honored by the new Commissioner! 
 
 Hon. William H. Holly was elected President of the Club 
 for 1 945-1 946. There was no other candidate. The Judge was 
 
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 in Washington when notified by Chairman John Heath that 
 he, the Judge, was the choice of his "party" for President. 
 There must have been some spoofing befween the two, but 
 the Judge had the last word. He wired Heath as follows: 
 
 "I cannot refuse my country's call. I appreciate the valiant 
 fight my friends must have made for me and will not forget them in 
 the distribution of patronage." 
 
 Judge Holly had the misfortune to suffer a leg fracture dur- 
 ing the winter of his incumbency so was absent from the 
 Chair for several weeks, but he has fully recovered. 
 
 At the end of the season. May, 1946, the Club finds it im- 
 perative to change its location after thirty-six years in the 
 Fine Arts Building, sixteen of which have been spent in its 
 present quarters. Our lease expires June 30, 1946. Unable to 
 negotiate with the new owners of the building, we regarded 
 ourselves as having been rather unceremoniously excalci- 
 trated, and immediately looked for new quarters. Thanks to 
 the indefatigable efforts of Earle Shilton, Chairman of the 
 Rooms and Finance Committee, new rooms have been 
 found in the building at 84 East Randolph Street, owned and 
 controlled by the John Crerar Library, whither we expect 
 shortly to go. 
 
 During the spring of 1946 the Club came to the realization 
 that its By-Laws had accumulated too much rust, were too 
 antiquated to serve our changing and latter day needs. Con- 
 sequently a Committee of three was appointed, headed by 
 Irwin T. Gilruth, to scrutinize the By-Laws carefully and 
 revise them or cast them in a new mould. This Committee had 
 not time to do this work and report to the Club before the 
 close of the season. Its report, therefore, will not be made 
 until some time next season. The story of this report and of 
 the changes or alterations it may suggest, as well as the story 
 of our move to East Randolph street, will have to be left to 
 the next historian of the Club. 
 
 We buttressed the Club with new and sturdy material by 
 receiving into our fellowship nine new members during 1944- 
 1945, and eleven during 1 945-1 946. On May 6, 1946 we had 
 
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 155 resident members, 50 non-resident members, and 3 
 Associate Members, a total membership of 208. 
 
 Three members died during this latest season. George 
 Steele Seymour was taken by death September 7, 1945. He 
 was a veritable literary addition to the Club. He was a clear 
 and forceful writer, a collector of rare books, and a true poet. 
 Though a member but for two short years, he made his worth 
 apparent to us all. He had a wide acquaintance among lit- 
 erary people, both professional and lay. George Seymour was 
 a man of parts whom we could ill afford to lose. 
 
 Herman L. Matz, who died in December, 1945? was a 
 member for fifty-one years, and in his prime was devoted to 
 the Club. Howard Van Sinderen Tracy also left us in Decem- 
 ber, 1945. He was hampered by ill health but was loyal to the 
 Club to the very end. Billy E. Goetz is now connected with 
 Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio; and Horace 
 Bridges, one of our highly valued stand-bys for years, suffer- 
 ing from ill health, has been compelled to live in retirement 
 in Greenport, L. I. 
 
 As we are now at the end of the period which this historian 
 is supposed to cover, he desires to express his gratitude to 
 the Club for having honored him by keeping him in office for 
 so many years, and by assigning to him the pleasant duty of 
 compiling this narrative history. The months spent in its 
 preparation have been happy ones. It has been his endeavor 
 to set forth events and minor happenings, trivial though they 
 often may seem, which are of record and a human part of our 
 Club experience; also to appraise fairly and impartially the 
 personalities, characters, and literary accomplishments of 
 both the dead and the quick. His readers, if any there shall 
 be, may differ with him in some of his estimates, but he hopes 
 not in all. 
 
 The question may at times be asked by an inquiring new 
 member how it is that this Club, against materialistic odds, 
 achieves so well its primary object of literary and aesthetic 
 culture, maintains its traditions, binds to itself with hoops of 
 steel the loyalty and devotion of its members, and enjoys an 
 
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 atmosphere of distinction so different from all other Clubs. 
 The answer is simple and easy: let the inquirer glance at our 
 long and distinguished list of members, deceased and living; 
 there he will find the "Create & Goode," the names of the 
 foremost men in all the professions and in business, who have 
 adorned Chicago and the nation for nearly three generations, 
 leaders of the bar, of medicine and surgery, of the pulpit and 
 the rostrum, judges and justices, ambassadors, cabinet mem- 
 bers. University and College professors and presidents, men 
 of prominence in commerce and banking — all of them men 
 who have valued greatly the purposes and customs of this 
 organization and were proud to belong to it. Of such has been, 
 still is, and will continue to be the Independent and Demo- 
 cratic State known as the Chicago Literary Club. 
 
 Experience has shown that friendships, for the most part, 
 formed in this Club have proved to be untarnishable assets, 
 non-defaulting, non-taxable, dividend-paying, corruption- 
 proof, impervious to decay. 
 
 MARY GREEN 
 
 For nearly forty years the most popular and most valuable 
 "member" of the Club; caretaker and guardian of our phys- 
 ical property and welfare; who sees that all things, chairs, 
 official table, lectern, lights, papers, periodicals, ballot box, 
 gavel, and other appurtenances are in order and in readiness 
 for each meeting; who wards off trouble and defends us 
 against imposition; who arranges in their proper place and 
 labels our unused or superfluous publications; who has been 
 our cateress for many a Reunion and Ladies' Night dinner; 
 who brews the most delicious cup of coffee in Chicago and 
 serves the tastiest of delicacies to sustain us on our home- 
 ward journeys; who remembers and can call by name every 
 member of the Club; who listens with interest to our exer- 
 cises and can comment intelligently upon them; always mod- 
 est and unassuming; to her its true and tried friend the 
 Chicago Literary Club pays affectionate homage. 
 
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 • '-V 
 
 M A R \' G R E E X
 
 APPENDICES
 
 Appendix A 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE CLUB 
 
 FROM 192,4-1925 TO I945-I946 
 
 ,V*)*i¥'>i«»»>*Wt^'Hl-f'f^.¥^S!l,¥'^^ 
 
 George Ellis Dawson 
 Charles Doak Lowry 
 Carl Bismarck Roden 
 Frank Joseph Loesch 
 Charles P. Megan . 
 Henri Charles-Edouard 
 
 David 
 
 Lessing Rosenthal . 
 James Bryan Herrick 
 Harvey Brace Lemon 
 John McRae Cameron 
 Henry Milton Wolf . 
 
 PRESIDENTS 
 
 1924-25 George Burwell Utley . . 1935-36 
 
 1925-26 Irwin Thoburn Gilruth . 1936-37 
 
 1926-27 Orange Judd Laylander . 1937-38 
 
 1927-28 George Linnaeus Marsh . 1938-39 
 
 1928-29 Ernst Wilfred Puttkammer 1939-40 
 Harry Sigmund Hyman . 1940-41 
 
 1929-30 Willard Leroy King . . 
 
 1930-31 Arno Benedict Luckhardt 
 
 1931-32 Francis Howard Eldridge 
 
 1932-33 Earle Astor Shilton . . . 
 
 1933-34 William Harrison Holly 
 1934-35 
 
 1941-42 
 1942-43 
 1943-44 
 
 1944-45 
 1945-46 
 
 Theodore Arthur Buenger 1946-47 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS 
 
 AND CHAIRMEN OF THE COMMITTEE ON 
 OFFICERS AND MEMBERS 
 
 William Lee Richardson . 1924-25 
 Charles Yeomans .... 1925-26 
 James Persons Simonds . 1926-27 
 Clarence Augustus Hough 1927-29 
 Andrew Rothwell SherrifF 1929-30 
 Ernst Wilfred Puttkammer 1930-31 
 John McRae Cameron . 1931-32 
 Irwin Thoburn Gilruth . 1932-33 
 Harry Franklin Robinson 1933-34 
 George Linnaeus Marsh . 1934-35 
 Lester Reynold 
 
 George Griffith Powers . 1935-37 
 Ernst Wilfred Puttkammeri937-38 
 Stephen Edward Hurley . 1938-39 
 Francis Howard Eldridge 1939-40 
 John Reardon Heath . . 1940-41 
 Lester Reynold Dragstedt 1941-42 
 George Halperin .... 1942-43 
 Paul Roberts Cannon . . 1943-44 
 John Reardon Heath . . 1944-45 
 Carl Otto Rinder .... 1945-46 
 Dragstedt 1946-47 
 
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 VICE-PRESIDENTS 
 
 AND CHAIRMEN OF THE COMMITTEE ON 
 ARRANGEMENTS AND EXERCISES 
 
 Irwin Thoburn Gilruth . 
 Carl Bismarck Roden . . 
 S. J. Duncan-Clark . . . 
 Charles P. Megan . . . 
 Harry Franklin Robinson 
 Francis Howard Eldridge 
 George Burwell Utiey . 
 William Lee Richardson 
 Harry Sigmund Hyman 
 Llewellyn Jones . . . 
 Casper William Ooms . 
 George Halperin . . . 
 
 1924-25 Edward Byers Wilcox . . 1936-37 
 
 1925-26 Theodore Arthur Buenger 1937-38 
 
 1926-27 Godfrey John Eyler . . 1938-39 
 
 1927-28 Frederick Z. Marx . . . 1939-40 
 
 1928-29 Ralph Waldo Gerard . . 1940-41 
 
 1929-30 Billy Earl Goetz .... 1941-42 
 
 1930-31 Chauncey C. Maher . . 1942-43 
 
 1931-32 Percival Bailey .... 1943-44 
 
 1932-33 Theodore Arthur Buenger 1944-45 
 
 1933-34 George Turnley Dyer, Jr. 1945-46 
 
 1934-35 Thomas Chalfont 
 
 ^935~3^ McConnell 1946-47 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS 
 
 AND CHAIRMEN OF THE COMMITTEE ON 
 ROOMS AND FINANCE 
 
 Holmes Onderdonk . . . 1924-25 Willard Leroy King 
 Roy Clifton Osgood . . 1925-29 Frederick Bernard 
 Holman Dean Pettibone . 1929-31 Andrews . . . . 
 
 Earle Astor Shilton . . . 1946-47 
 
 1931-40 
 I 940-46 
 
 CHAIRMEN OF THE COMMITTEE ON 
 PUBLICATIONS 
 
 Henry Milton Wolf . 
 Theodore Jessup . . 
 George Burwell Utley 
 S. J. Duncan-Clark . 
 Henri C.-E. David . 
 Willard Leroy King 
 Irwin Thoburn Gilruth 
 George Burwell Utley 
 James Bryan Herrick 
 Charles P. Megan 
 
 Paul 
 
 1924-25 Theodore Arthur Buenger 
 
 1925-26 Francis Howard Eldridge 
 
 1926-27 Arno Benedict Luckhardt 
 
 1927-28 Harry Franklin Robinson 
 
 1928-29 John McRae Cameron . 
 
 1929-30 Charles Bert Reed . . . 
 
 ^93°~3^ BernadotteEverly Schmitt 
 
 '^93^~3'^ Earle Astor Shilton . . . 
 
 1932-33 Irwin Thoburn Gilruth . 
 
 ^933-34 George Griffith Powers . 
 
 ■ Bucy 1944-47 
 
 1934-35 
 1935-36 
 1936-37 
 1937-38 
 ^93^-39 
 1939-40 
 1940-41 
 1941-42 
 
 1942-43 
 1943-44 
 
 108
 
 CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES 
 
 Edwin Lyman Lobdell . 1924-25 
 Henry Porter Chandler . 1925-26 
 George Burwell Utley . . 1926-27 
 Irwin Thoburn Gilruth . 1927-30 
 Beveridge Harshaw Moore 1930-31 
 George Linnaeus Marsh . 1931-32 
 George Griffith Powers . 1932-33 
 Arno Benedict Luckhardt 1933-34 
 Bernadotte Everly Schmitt 1934-35 
 Theodore Arthur Buenger 1935-36 
 
 Chauncey C. Maher 
 
 Lester Reynolds Dragstedt 1936-37 
 Charles Yeomans . . . 1937-38 
 George Kenney Bowden . 1938-39 
 Ernest Bloomfield Zeisler 1939-40 
 Casper William Ooms . . 1940-41 
 Godfrey John Eyler . . 1941-42 
 Sanford Robinson Gifford 1942-43 
 John Leonard Hancock . 1943-44 
 William Harrison Holly . 1944-45 
 Charles P. Megan . . . 1945-46 
 
 1946-47 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARIES 
 
 Frederick W. Gookin . 1880-1920 Payson S. Wild 
 
 . 1920-47 
 
 TREASURERS 
 
 Frederick W. Gookin . 1880-1920 Payson S. Wild 
 
 1920-47 
 
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 Appendix B 
 
 ROLL OF MEMBERS 
 
 FROM September 30, 1925, 
 TO May 6, 1946 
 
 RESIDENCE in Chicago or vicinity is to be under- 
 stood when no place is named. All Non-resident 
 ■^ Members except Associate Members were Resident 
 Members when elected. The addresses under their names 
 were their last known places of residence, or, if not living, the 
 places where they resided at the time of their decease. An 
 asterisk indicates associate membership. 
 
 Members 
 Gordon Crowell Abbott 
 Nathan Abbott 
 Fred Lyman Adair 
 Charles True Adams 
 Joseph Adams 
 Samuel Adams 
 Benjamin Franklin Affleck 
 Victor Clifton Alderson 
 
 La Jolla, California 
 Rudolph Altrocchi 
 
 Berkeley, California 
 John Ward Amberg 
 Edward Scribner Ames 
 Arvid Lawrence Anderson 
 Clement Walker Andrews 
 Edmund Andrews 
 Emory Cobb Andrews 
 
 Date of Election 
 December i8, 1922 
 January 16, 1893 
 February 25, 1935 
 May 2, 1938 
 January 3, 1876 
 February 7, 1921 
 December 13, 1926 
 October 21, 1901 
 
 November 7, 1921 
 
 March 5, 1900 
 April 26, 191 5 
 November 16, 1936 
 December 23, 1895 
 April 6, 1925 
 December 5, 1927 
 
 [ III ] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Resigned, May 16, 1932 
 Not Known 
 
 Died, December 15, 1942 
 Died, March 30, 1943 
 Resigned, February i, 1926 
 Resigned, September 12, 1929 
 Died, February 25, 1946 
 
 Died, March 3, 1936 
 
 Died, November 20, 1930 
 Resigned, April 17, 1937 
 Died, June 17, 1932
 
 Members 
 Frederic Bernard Andrews 
 Paul McClelland Angle 
 George Allison Armour 
 
 Princeton, New Jersey 
 Francis Marion Arnold 
 Alan Vasey Arragon 
 
 Address unknown 
 Edwin Charles Austin 
 Paul Valentine Bacon 
 
 Boston, Massachusetts 
 Arthur Alois Baer 
 Percival Bailey 
 Robert Walter Balderston 
 Amos Ball 
 George Wildman Ball 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 John Potts Barnes 
 Robert Perkins Bass 
 
 Peterboro, New Hampshire 
 Henry Moore Bates 
 
 Ann Arbor, Michigan 
 Emmet Blackburn Bay 
 John Townsend Beatty 
 Ross James Beatty, Jr. 
 Alfred Beck 
 
 William Thomas Belfield 
 Chester Sharon Bell 
 
 Neenah, Wisconsin 
 Richard Bentley 
 Louis James Block 
 Nathan Sidney Blumberg 
 George Boller 
 George Kenney Bowden 
 Seward Henry Bowers 
 Henry Sherman Boutell 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Charles Frederic Bradley 
 
 Boston, Massachusetts 
 Preston Bradley 
 William Harrison Bradley 
 
 Ridgefield, Connecticut 
 Henry John Brandt 
 Melvin Amos Brannon* 
 
 Gainesville, Florida 
 Frank Chapin Bray 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Horace James Bridges 
 
 Greenport, L. I. 
 
 James Andrew Britton 
 
 Date of Election 
 January 9, 1928 
 January 21, 1946 
 February 23, 1880 
 
 April 30, 1 91 7 
 November 3, 1919 
 
 November 30, 1939 
 December 13, 1909 
 
 December 18, 1944 
 January 5, 1934 
 May I, 1933 
 February 10, 194I 
 November 20, 1939 
 
 January 9, 1931 
 May 18, 1903 
 
 April 6, 1896 
 
 February 8, 1937 
 January 13, 1933 
 January 13, 1933 
 May 26, 1919 
 December 3, 1888 
 January 4, 1937 
 
 May 19, 1930 
 May 21, 1894 
 January 24, 1938 
 February 13, 1939 
 February 4, 1924 
 December 9, 1935 
 March 24, 1882 
 
 April 19, 1886 
 
 April 5, 1926 
 March 28, 1881 
 
 December 6, 1943 
 January 16, 1922 
 
 January 15, 1905 
 
 March 13, 1916 
 
 and 
 February 2, 1942 
 November 7, 1921 
 
 [ 112] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 
 Died, June 8, 1936 
 
 Died, May 18, 1935 
 Not known 
 
 Resigned, November 7, 1941 
 
 Died, April 12, 1940 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1926 
 Died, October 4, 1929 
 
 Died, December 8, 1927 
 
 Died, March 11, 1926 
 Died, July 26, 1932 
 
 Died, September 17, 1929 
 
 Resigned, April 24, 1941
 
 Members Date of Election 
 
 Charles Leroy Brown May 4, 1931 
 
 George William Brown November 26, 1894 
 
 Benjamin Franklin Buck May 26, 1919 
 
 Paul C. Bucy December 9, 1935 
 Theodore Arthur Buenger March 10, 1930 
 Benjamin Reynolds 
 
 Bulkeley December 23, 1895 
 
 Concord, Massachusetts 
 
 Llewellyn Bullock. December 8, 1930 
 
 Manchester, England 
 
 George Christian Bunge November 26, 1934 
 Clarence Augustus Burley April 23, 1877 
 
 January 23, 1928 
 November 5, 1923 
 May 10, 1937 
 November 5, 1923 
 January 4, 191 5 
 March 18, 1935 
 November 19, 1928 
 December 23, 1895 
 May 15, 1922 
 
 Pierce Butler 
 
 James Christopher Cahill 
 
 Bertram J. Cahn 
 
 John McRae Cameron 
 
 Herbert John Campbell 
 
 Paul Roberts Cannon 
 
 Anton J. Carlson 
 
 George Noble Carman 
 
 James Gray Carr 
 
 George Frederick Cassell November 23, 1925 
 
 Edwin Henry Cassels November 8, 1909 
 
 Joseph Chada May i, 1939 
 
 Henry Barrett Chamberlin May 13, 1935 
 
 Freemont Augustus 
 
 Chandler 
 Henry Porter Chandler 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Theodore S. Chapman 
 William Ludlow Chenery 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Harry Lincoln Clapp 
 Alexander Beattie Clark 
 Clarence P. Clark 
 Jacob Wendell Clark 
 RudolphAlexanderClemen December 17, 1928 
 
 Princeton, New Jersey 
 Wells Morrison Cook 
 Homer Hunt Cooper 
 Homer John Coppock 
 Henry Richmond Corbett 
 Max Henry Cowen 
 Arthur Joseph Cramp 
 
 Hendersonville, North Carolina 
 Avery Odelle Craven April 7, 1930 
 
 Alfred Careno Croftan February 7, 1921 
 Carey Croneis April 14, 1941 
 
 Beloit, Wisconsin 
 Bowman Corning Crowell February 25, 1929 
 
 [ 113 ] 
 
 March 21, 1927 
 December 7, 1917 
 
 November 27, 1933 
 May 24, 1 91 5 
 
 November 7, 1932 
 May 26, 1919 
 April 26, 1937 
 November 10, 1924 
 
 May 21, 1918 
 March i, 1926 
 December 18, 1944 
 May ID, 1924 
 December 6, 1920 
 April 6, 1925 
 
 Date Membership 
 
 Terminated 
 
 Resigned, January i, 1941 
 
 Died, April 20, 1927 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1931 
 
 Died, April 18, 1930 
 Died, February 21, 1944 
 
 Died, February 23, 1928 
 Resigned, October i, 1941 
 Resigned, June i, 1939 
 
 Died, January 2, 1939 
 
 Died, June 24, 1941 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1934 
 Died, July 7, 1941 
 Resigned, March 27, 1937 
 
 Resigned, February 8, 1941 
 
 Died, April 16, 1935 
 
 Not known 
 
 Resigned, November 6, 1940 
 
 Resigned, January i, 1935 
 
 Died, January 27, 1930 
 Died, January 28, 1939 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1939 
 Resigned, February i, 1932 
 
 Resigned, February 14, 1933 
 Resigned, October i, 1926
 
 Date of Election 
 January 14, 1907 
 December 6, 1886 
 May 10, 1926 
 November 22, 1909 
 May 21, 1923 
 
 November i, 191 5 
 February 20, 1899 
 
 January 3, 1885 
 
 April 30, 1934 
 June I, 1891 
 March 17, 1941 
 February 13, 1893 
 
 February i, 1897 
 
 October 23, 191 1 
 March i, 1926 
 
 Members 
 Lestei^ Curtis 
 Charles Chauncey Curtiss 
 Irving Samuel Cutter 
 Charles Sidney Cutting 
 Samuel Dauchy 
 Henri Charles-Edouard 
 
 David 
 Bradley Moore Davis 
 Ann Arbor, Michigan 
 Edward Parker Davis 
 
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
 Loyal Davis 
 George Ellis Dawson 
 Horace Dawson 
 William Horace Day 
 
 Bridgeport, Connecticut 
 Frederick Adrian Delano 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Thomas Francis Delaney 
 Clarence Paul Denning 
 Frederick Robert DeYoung November 4, 1929 
 David L. Dickson February 18, 1946 
 
 William Edward Dodd March 11, 191 2 
 
 Thomas Elliott Donnelley December 2, 1901 
 Paul H. Douglas December 18, 1939 
 
 Carl Albert Dragstedt December 17, 1945 
 Lester Reynold Dragstedt February 14, 1927 
 Garrett Droppers March 11, 1907 
 
 Williamstown, Massachusetts 
 Emilius Clark Dudley March 28, 1881 
 
 and 
 April 21, 1919 
 Samuel John Duncan-Clark November 5, 1923 
 George Turnley Dyer, Jr. April 22, 1940 
 Sidney Corning Eastman April 16, 1894 
 
 and 
 January 28, 191 8 
 October 30, 1922 
 December 22, 1924 
 March 10, 1930 
 March 3, 1924 
 January 9, 1928 
 March 13, 1893 
 
 Charles Raymond Ege 
 Francis Howard Eldridge 
 John Dayhuff Ellis 
 Godfrey John Eyler 
 Otho Samuel Fasig 
 William Wallace Fenn 
 
 Cambridge, Massachusetts 
 Robert Collyer Fergus 
 Morris Fishbein 
 Walter Lowrie Fisher 
 George Foster Fiske 
 Robert Stanley Forsythe 
 John Sharpless Fox 
 
 November 12, 191 7 
 May 8, 1922 
 March 2, 1891 
 March 13, 18^3 
 November 28, 1938 
 May 2, 1927 
 
 [ 114] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Died, November 23, 1930 
 Died March 26, 1928 
 Died, February 2, 1945 
 Died, April 17, 1936 
 Resigned, October i, 1933 
 
 Died, October 2, 1937 
 
 Resigned, February 14, 1935 
 Died, August 19, 1935 
 Resigned, February i, 1942 
 Died, March 16, 1942 
 
 Resigned, May 27, 1929 
 Resigned, October 31, 1932 
 Died, February 9, 1940 
 
 Died, July 7, 1927 
 Died, December i, 1928 
 
 Died, June 12, 1928 
 Died, April i, 1930 
 
 Resigned, April i, 1927 
 Died, August 21, 1944 
 
 Died, March 6, 1932 
 
 Died, November 9, 1935 
 Resigned, May 16, 1932 
 Resigned, October i, 1939
 
 Members 
 Jerome New Frank 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Henry Brewster Freeman 
 
 Route 2, Troutville, Virginia 
 Charles Gordon Fuller 
 
 Benton Harbor, Michigan 
 Lyman J. Gage 
 
 Point Loma, California 
 George W. Gale 
 Eugene Maximilian Karl 
 
 Geiling 
 Ralph Waldo Gerard 
 Frederick. Andrews Gibbs 
 Sanford Robinson Gifford 
 Harry Obrin Gillet 
 Irwin Thoburn Gilruth 
 John Jacob Glessner 
 Leroy Truman Goble 
 Billy Earl Goetz 
 
 Yellow Springs, Ohio 
 Frederick William Gookin 
 Arthur Joseph Goldberg 
 Frederick L. Gratiot 
 Lawrence Murray Graves 
 Tappan Gregory 
 Lee Henry Griffin 
 Mark Emmet Guerin 
 
 Washington, D. C, 
 Ward Earl Guest 
 Richard Walden Hale, Jr. 
 
 Needham, Massachusetts 
 George Halperin 
 Alfred Ernest Hamill 
 
 Arthur Little Hamilton 
 
 Sugar Hill, New Hampshire 
 Bengt Leopold Knutson 
 
 Hamilton 
 Edgar Lockwood Hamilton 
 John Leonard Hancock 
 Norman Hapgood 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Edward John HLarding 
 
 Seattle, Washington 
 William Knott Harding 
 Jess Dean Harper 
 Paul Vincent Harper 
 Samuel Alain Harper 
 Winfield Scott Harpole 
 
 Date oj Election 
 December 15, 191 9 
 
 December 18, 1916 
 
 December 21, 1883 
 
 February 27, 1884 
 
 April 1 4, 1 941 
 
 November 6, 1936 
 December 14, 1936 
 December 18, 1944 
 April 7, 1930 
 November 8, 1920 
 April 8, 191 8 
 May 4, 1883 
 November 3, 1919 
 November 26, 1934 
 
 February 26, 1877 
 March 12, 1945 
 March 6, 1922 
 March 25, 1946 
 February 8, 1937 
 April 12, 1937 
 May 13, 191 8 
 
 November 7, 1932 
 February 2, 1942 
 
 January 9, 1931 
 April 25, 1 92 1 
 
 and 
 November 11, 1935 
 February 25, 191 8 
 
 May 4, 1936 
 March 6, 1922 
 February 4, 1924 
 January 15, 1894 
 
 November 9, 1891 
 
 April 12, 1937 
 January 9, 1928 
 December 18, 1916 
 January 26, 1934 
 May 6, 1907 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 
 Died, January 17, 1926 
 Died, January 26, 1927 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1938 
 Died, February 25, 1944 
 
 Died, January 20, 1936 
 April 4, 1927 
 
 Died, January 17, 1936 
 Resigned, February i, 1923 
 
 Resigned, October 23, 1940 
 
 Resigned, March 20, 1928 
 Died, April 29, 1937 
 Died, December 14, 1926 
 October i, 1938 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1938 
 Resigned, October i, 1926 
 
 [ 115 ]
 
 Meynbers 
 Karl Edwin Harriman 
 Russell Hassler 
 Albert Baird Hastings 
 
 Boston, Massachusetts 
 Edward Howard Hatton 
 William H, Hazlett 
 John Reardon Heath 
 Josef Ludvig Hektoen 
 Henry S. Henschen 
 James Bryan Herrick 
 William Harrison Holly 
 William Henry Holmes 
 McPherson Holt 
 John Lamar Hopkins 
 Henry Horner 
 Ralph Horween 
 Clarence Augustus Hough February 9, 1925 
 Theodore Carswell Hume May 6, 1935 
 
 Claremont, California 
 Francis J. Hurley 
 Stephen Edward Hurley 
 Harry Sigmund Hyman 
 Henry Downing Jacobs 
 Samuel Jacobsohn 
 Thomas Gumming MacMillan 
 
 Date of Election 
 November 3, 191 9 
 May 4, 1936 
 November 23, 1931 
 
 May 19, 1924 
 February 10, 1941 
 December 21, 1925 
 February 7, 1938 
 January 23, 1928 
 May 31, 1909 
 April 28, 1930 
 November 11, 1935 
 January 16, 1922 
 December 9, 191 8 
 October 30, 1922 
 March 13, 1939 
 
 May I, 1939 
 November 26, 1934 
 April 21, 1913 
 November 14, 1910 
 December 11, 1944 
 
 Jamieson 
 Frank Le Baron Jenney 
 Marcus W. Jernigan 
 Theodore Jessup 
 Bruce Johnstone 
 
 Inverness, California 
 Llewellyn Jones 
 
 Cambridge, Massachusetts 
 Thomas Davies Jones 
 Walter Clyde Jones 
 Clay Judson 
 Edwin Roulette Keedy 
 
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
 Chauncey Keep 
 Arthur Isaac Kendall 
 William Kent 
 
 Kentfield, California 
 Meyer Kestnbaum 
 WiLLARD LeRoy King 
 William H. King, Jr. 
 Wendell J. S. Krieg 
 Sidney Kuh 
 
 Alvin Wilford Laforge 
 Urban Augustus Lavery 
 Orange Judd Laylander 
 
 March 16, 1936 
 January 23, 191 1 
 April 7, 1930 
 January 8, 1900 
 November 17, 1941 
 
 January 4, 191 5 
 
 January 26, 1880 
 May 28, 1906 
 March i, 1926 
 March 10, 1913 
 
 December 10, 1906 
 November 7, 1921 
 March 5, 1900 
 
 November 17, 1941 
 December 18, 1922 
 November 25, 1940 
 January 15, 1945 
 February 15, 191 5 
 May 26, 1 91 9 
 December 15, 191 9 
 April 9, 1928 
 
 [ 116 1 
 
 Date Membership 
 
 Terminated 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1926 
 
 Resigned, October 6, 1941 
 
 December 13, 1926 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1933 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1939 
 Resigned, February i, 1926 
 Died, February 5, 1938 
 Died, October 6, 1940 
 
 Died, January 5, 1935 
 Died, October 22, 1942 
 
 Died, July 7, 1941 
 Not known 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1938 
 
 February 7, 1938 
 Resigned, July i, 1932 
 
 Died, September 27, 1930 
 Died, March 28, 1928 
 
 Died, August 12, 1929 
 Resigned, October i, 1933 
 Died, March 13, 1928 
 
 Resigned February 15, 1927 
 May 17, 1926 
 Resigned, April 2, 1930
 
 Members 
 Blewett Lee 
 
 Atlanta, Georgia 
 Edward Noble Lee 
 Edward Thomas Lee 
 John Thomas Lee 
 Harvey Brace Lemon 
 G. Russell Leonard 
 
 Altadena, California 
 Charles Leviton 
 Edwin Herbert Lewis 
 
 Palo Alto, California 
 Walter Lichtenstein 
 
 Robert Todd Lincoln 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Charles Augustus 
 Lippincott 
 
 South Bend, Indiana 
 Wilson V. Little 
 Edwin Lyman Lobdell 
 Max Loeb 
 
 Frank Joseph Loesch 
 John Avery Lomax 
 
 Dallas, Texas 
 Herbert Ivory Lord 
 
 Detroit, Michigan 
 Frank. Orren Lowden 
 
 Oregon, Illinois 
 Charles Doak Lowry 
 Arno Benedict Luckhardt 
 Frank Worthington Lynch 
 
 San Francisco, California 
 Nathan William 
 MacChesney 
 
 Libertyville , Illinois 
 Julian William Mack 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Franklin MacVeagh 
 Chauncey C. Maher 
 Edward Manley 
 Louis L. Mann 
 William Henry Manns 
 George Linnaeus Marsh 
 Edward Moss Martin 
 Franklin H. Martin 
 Marion Thruston Martin 
 Frederick Z. Marx 
 Alfred Bishop Mason 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 Date of Election 
 April 1 6, 1894 and 
 February 15, 191 5 
 April 14, 1941 
 January 4, 191 5 
 November 3, 1919 
 March 6, 1922 
 December 13, 1937 
 
 November 20, 1939 
 November 13, 191 1 
 
 November 6, 1916 
 
 and 
 November 19, 1928 
 February 21, 1876 
 
 January 10, 1898 
 
 April 22, 1946 
 November 18, 1912 
 May 19, 1924 
 February i, 1909 
 March 25, 191 8 
 
 May 15, 1905 
 
 March 13, 1893 
 
 September 23, 1904 
 January 27, 1928 
 January 4, 191 5 
 
 May 18, 1906 
 
 April 4, 1892 
 
 March 31, 1874 
 November 11, 1935 
 October 22, 191 7 
 November 3, 1930 
 December 12, 1921 
 December 17, 191 7 
 February 8, 1937 
 November 26, 1923 
 February 4, 1935 
 May 10, 1926 
 November 16, 1874 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 
 Died, December 14, 1943 
 
 Died, June 6, 1938 
 Resigned, June 20, 1931 
 
 Died, July 26, 1926 
 
 Died, March 14, 1929 
 
 Died, May 22, 1936 
 Resigned, January 13, 1928 
 Died, July 31, 1944 
 
 Died May 25, 1933 
 Died, March 20, 1943 
 
 Died, September 4, 1943 
 
 Died, July 6, 1934 
 
 Died, May 15, 1932 
 Resigned, February i, 1936 
 December 13, 1926 
 
 Resigned, November i, 1939 
 Died, March 7, 1935 
 Resigned April 27, 1937 
 
 Died, January 25, 1933 
 
 [ 117 ]
 
 Members 
 Arthur John Mason 
 
 Bate of Election 
 January 13, 191 i 
 January 20, 194I 
 March 8, 1937 
 December 12, 1921 
 
 April 16, 1894 
 
 April 8, 1890 
 
 December 30, 1881 
 
 November 28, 1938 
 
 February 2, 1942 
 May 19, 1924 
 December 21, 1925 
 January 16, 1922 
 
 May 14, 1915 
 
 Michael Livingood Mason 
 D. Roy Mathews 
 Robert Elden Mathews 
 
 Columbus, Ohio 
 Herman Lewis Matz 
 William Andrew 
 McAndrew 
 
 Mamaroneck, New York 
 Cyrus Hall McCormick. 
 Thomas Chalfont 
 
 McConnell 
 Warren Sturgis 
 
 McCuLLOCH 
 
 James Edward McDade 
 John Patrick McGoorty 
 Kenneth McKenzie* 
 
 Princeton, New Jersey 
 Andrew Cunningham 
 
 McLaughlin 
 Franklin Chambers McLEANjanuary 4, 1937 
 Raymond Forrest McNally December 14, 1936 
 
 St. Louis, Missouri 
 William A. McSwain November 16, 1936 
 
 George Herbert Mead November 7, 1921 
 
 Henry Castle Albert Mead November 23, 1931 
 John Collier Mechem February 28, 1921 
 
 Charles Patrick Megan January 17, 1921 
 Franklin Julius Meine November 11, 1935 
 
 Edwin Lillie Miller 
 
 Detroit, Michigan 
 Charles Philip Miller, Jr 
 John Stocker Miller, Jr. 
 Beveridge Harshaw Moore November 6, 1916 
 Charles Aaron Moorman April 7, 1930 
 Victor Morawetz 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Jared Kirtland Morse 
 Robert Arthur Mowat 
 Clarence W. Muehlberger December 19, 1938 
 
 East Lansing, Michigan 
 Edwin Alston Munger December 5, 1927 
 
 Royal F. Munger May 5, 1929 
 
 Charles Arthur Myall April 5, 1926 
 Charles Alexander Nelson November 9, 1891 
 
 Mount Vernon, New York 
 Clarence Adolph Neyman 
 George Perry Nichols 
 Harold William Norman 
 David Mathew No yes 
 
 Hollywood, California 
 
 November 27, i! 
 
 February 13, 1933 
 January 22, 1917 
 
 November 24, 1879 
 
 December 12, 1921 
 November 26, 1934 
 
 May 26, 1919 
 February 9, 1925 
 November 28, 1938 
 December 19, 1938 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Died, June 28, 1933 
 
 Died, December 12, 1945 
 Died, June 27, 1937 
 Died, June 2, 1936 
 
 Resigned, July 3, 1931 
 Resigned, February i, 194I 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1931 
 Resigned, February i, 1938 
 
 Died, April 26, 1931 
 Resigned, August i, 1942 
 Resigned, October 15, 1926 
 
 February 7, 1938 
 Died, August 21, 1934 
 
 Resigned, July 12, 1941 
 Resigned, February i, 1931 
 Died, February 29, 1944 
 Resigned, February 21, 1933 
 Died, May 18, 1938 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1930 
 Died, October 11, 1946 
 
 Died, September 18, 1930 
 Resigned, January 18, 1932 
 Died, February 18, 1930 
 Died, January 12, 1933 
 
 May 17, 1926 
 January I4, 1927 
 
 118
 
 Members 
 John Nuveen, Jr 
 David Sidney Oakes 
 Howard Vincent O'Brien 
 Eric Oldberg 
 Holmes Onderdonk 
 Casper William Ooms 
 
 Chevy Chase, Maryland 
 Hugh Robert Orr 
 Roy Clifton Osgood 
 Jesse Myron Owen 
 George Packard 
 Russell Packard 
 George Arthur Paddock 
 Benjamin Eldridge Page 
 Alonzo Winslow Paige 
 
 Schenectady, New York 
 Leslie Monroe Parker 
 Norman S. Parker 
 Charles Edgar Pence 
 William Ferdinand 
 
 Petersen 
 HoLMAN Dean Pettibone 
 Myron Henry Phelps 
 Elbridge Bancroft Pierce 
 Douglass Pillinger 
 Irving Kane Pond 
 Louis Freeland Post 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Harold H. Postel 
 Roscoe Pound 
 
 Cambridge, Massachusetts 
 Henry Alfred Poveleite 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio 
 George Griffith Powers 
 Robert Bruce Preble 
 John Van Prohaska 
 Charles Bernard Puestow 
 Ernst Wilfred Puttkammer 
 Anan Raymond 
 Charles Bert Reed 
 Clark Scammon Reed 
 Curtis Williford Reese 
 Alexander Frederick 
 
 Reichmann 
 Max Rheinstein 
 Charles Spencer 
 Richardson 
 
 New Haven, Connecticut 
 William Lee Richardson 
 
 Hingham, Massachusetts 
 Samuel Mayo Rinaker 
 
 Date oj Election 
 December 21, 1925 
 May 2, 1938 
 November 8, 1943 
 December 18, 1944 
 January 16, 1921 
 February 3, 1930 
 
 January 17, 1921 
 April 26, 191 5 
 December 22, 1924 
 November 26, 1894 
 April 22, 1946 
 May 4, 1 93 1 
 May 24, 1920 
 March 22, 1880 
 
 December 6, 1943 
 December 6, 1943 
 November 20, 1930 
 
 October 30, 1922 
 May 21, 1923 
 December 6, 1886 
 April 21, 1941 
 April 22, 1940 
 November 12, 1888 
 October 28, 1901 
 
 January 31, 1944 
 March I4, 1910 
 
 April 3, 191 1 
 
 November 19, 1928 
 February 7, 1921 
 December I4, 1942 
 January 20, 1941 
 March 12, 1923 
 November 7, 1932 
 December 10, 1906 
 April 21, 1919 
 November 26, 1923 
 
 January 20, 1913 
 November 20, 1939 
 
 January 14, 1907 
 
 December 6, 1920 
 
 December 12, 1921 
 
 [ 119] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 
 Resigned, June 6, 1931 
 
 December 13, 1926 
 Died, December 13, 1932 
 
 Resigned, October 11, 1937 
 Died, December 4, 1925 
 
 Died, July 22, 1941 
 
 Resigned October i, 1935 
 Not known 
 
 Died, September 29, 1939 
 Died, January 10, 1928 
 
 Not known 
 
 Died, July 9, 1944 
 Resigned, February i, 1929 
 
 Died, September 5, 1940 
 
 May 14, 1934 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1930 
 
 Not known 
 
 Died, May 19, 1940
 
 Members 
 Carl Otto Kinder 
 Paul Lockwood Ritten- 
 
 HOUSE 
 
 George Evan Roberts 
 
 Larchmont, New York 
 Egbert Robertson 
 Sidney L. Robin 
 Edward Stevens Robinson 
 Harry Franklin Robinson 
 Carl Bismarck Roden 
 Erwin W. Roemer 
 Lessing Rosenthal 
 Charles Owen Rundall 
 Edwin Warner Ryerson 
 Martin Antoine Ryerson 
 William Godfrey Sage 
 William McIntire Salter 
 
 Silver Lake, New Hampshire 
 Carlos Pomeroy Sawyer 
 Joseph Halle Schaffner 
 Elmer Schlesinger 
 Hermann Irving 
 Schlesinger 
 Frederick W. Schlutz 
 Otto Leopold Schmidt 
 Theodore Schmidt 
 Bernadotte Everly Schmitt 
 
 Alexandria, Virginia 
 Henry Lenzen Schmitz 
 BowEN WisNER Schumacher 
 Arthur Pearson Scott 
 Frank Hamline Scott- 
 Harry Fletcher Scott 
 
 Athens, Ohio 
 Louis Martin Sears 
 
 West Lafayette, Indiana 
 Trevor K. Serviss 
 George Steele Seymour 
 Malcolm P. Sharp 
 Victor Louis Sherman 
 Andrew Rothwell Sherriff 
 Earle Astor Shilton 
 Paul Shorey 
 Howard Lyle Simmons 
 James Persons Simonds 
 William Edward Simonds* 
 
 Ithaca, New York 
 Ernest Sylvester Simpson 
 Archibald Whittier 
 Smalley 
 
 Date of Election 
 December i, 1929 
 
 November 7, 1927 
 April 18, 1910 
 
 March i, 1943 
 December 14, 1936 
 January 25, 1926 
 May 19, 1924 
 December 17, 1917 
 March 8, 1937 
 January 10, 1898 
 November 23, 1931 
 November 7, 1921 
 March 2, 1891 
 December 13, 1909 
 March 9, 1885 
 
 February 15, 1904 
 November 5, 1923 
 January 17, 1910 
 
 May 9, 1932 
 January 26, 1931 
 November 12, 1909 
 December 5, 1927 
 December 5, 1927 
 
 January 20, 194I 
 December 21, 1925 
 February 28, 1921 
 May 4, 1891 
 January 17, 1921 
 
 May 15, 1916 
 
 December 9, 1935 
 May 3, 1943 
 January 24, 1938 
 November 19, 1928 
 October 25, 1926 
 February 15, 1932 
 October 31, 1884 
 March 6, 1922 
 March 12, 1923 
 January 16, 1922 
 
 February 26, 1923 
 
 March 2, 1925 
 
 [ 120 ] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Tertninated 
 
 Resigned, May 21, 1928 
 
 Died, February 27, 1937 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1934 
 Died, August 11, 1932 
 Resigned, June 16, 1926 
 Died, July 30, 1931 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1934 
 Died, February 20, 1929 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1939 
 Died, August 20, 1935 
 
 Died, January 21, 1927 
 Resigned, August 23, 1927 
 Died, October 11, 1931 
 Died, October 28, 1941 
 
 February 2, 1942 
 
 Died, September 7, 1945 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1939 
 
 Died, March 18, 1935 
 
 Died, April 24, 1934 
 Resigned, October i, 1931 
 
 December 13, 1926 
 Resigned, August 14, 1940
 
 Members 
 Henry Justin Smith 
 Howard Leslie Smith 
 
 Madison, Wisconsin 
 Sidney Alden Smith 
 Isaac Alonzo Smothers 
 Denton Jaques Snider 
 
 St, Louis, Missouri 
 Franklyn Bliss Snyder 
 Ralph Monroe Snyder 
 Will M. Sparks 
 Charles Riggs Sprowl 
 James A. Sprowl 
 Samuel Cecil Stanton 
 
 Hinsdale, Illinois 
 Merritt Starr 
 Lewis Abyram Stebbins 
 Paul Steinbrecher 
 Otto Albert Steller 
 Richard Corwine Stevenson 
 Joseph Stolz 
 William Benson Storey 
 Everett Lee Strohl 
 George Warner Swain 
 Harold Higgins Swift 
 William Charles Tanner 
 Robert Cable Teare 
 
 Wynnewood, Pennsylvania 
 Schuyler Baldwin Terry 
 Frederick. Cleveland Test 
 Frank Wright Thomas 
 James Westfall Thompson 
 
 Berkeley, California 
 Slason Thompson 
 W'Illiam McIlwain 
 
 Thompson 
 Samuel Edmund Thorne 
 
 New Haven, Connecticut 
 Louis Leon Thurstone 
 Arthur James Todd 
 Albert Harris Tolman 
 Floyd Williams Tomkins, Jr, 
 Howard Van Sinderen 
 
 Tracy 
 Melvin Alvah Traylor 
 Walter Emanuel Treanor 
 Charles Henderson True 
 Arthur Ray Turner 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Frederic Ullmann 
 Thomas Ingle Underwood 
 
 Date of Election 
 May 19, 1924 
 December 19, 1898 
 
 December 11, 1944 
 December 17, 1923 
 December 3, 1888 
 
 December 18, 1916 
 January 21, 1946 
 May 13, 1935 
 April 22, 1946 
 April ID, 1944 
 May 26, 1919 
 
 April 16, 1894 
 October 12, 1917 
 May I, 1933 
 May 8, 1922 
 January 9, 1931 
 December 15, 1902 
 April 22, 1935 
 April 26, 1937 
 May 15, 1922 
 November 3, 1919 
 February 6, 1905 
 November 19, 1928 
 
 February 28, 1921 
 January 23, 1928 
 March 6, 1922 
 February 20, 1899 
 
 December 27, 1880 
 
 February i, 1909 
 November 28, 1938 
 
 January 11, 1943 
 January 16, 1922 
 February i, 1909 
 .December 21, 1891 
 
 November 27, 1933 
 April 21, 1919 
 November 28, 1938 
 February 12, 1923 
 February 5, 1940 
 
 February 27, 1928 
 April 6, 1925 
 
 [ 121 ] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Resigned, October 20, 1926 
 Died, January 22, 1941 
 
 Resigned, February 24, 1930 
 Died, November 25, 1925 
 
 Resigned, September 30, 1925 
 
 Died, August 2, 1931 
 
 Died, January 13, 1937 
 May 20, 1929 
 
 Died, February 7, 1941 
 Died, October 24, 1940 
 
 Died, March 21, 1941 
 
 Not known 
 
 April 26, 1937 
 
 Resigned, April 2, 1930 
 Died, September 30, 1941 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1933 
 
 Resigned, June 5, 1930 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1936 
 Died, December 25, 1928 
 Died, March 24, 1932 
 
 Died, December 23, 1945 
 Resigned, November 18, 1925 
 Died April 26, 1941 
 Resigned, October i, 1936 
 
 Resigned, July 24, 194I 
 May 2, 1927
 
 Members 
 George Burwell Utley 
 Derrick Vail 
 John Valentine 
 Joseph Loring Valentine 
 Theodore R. Van Dellen 
 Gerhardt Von Bonin 
 Frank Gibson Ward 
 John Weaver 
 Charles William Wendte 
 Benjamin Wham 
 Charles Crawford 
 
 Whinery 
 Herbert Clarkson 
 
 Whitehead 
 Russell Whitman 
 
 George Francis Whitsett 
 
 Mill Valley, California 
 Edward Byers Wilcox 
 John Daniel Wild 
 Payson Sibley Wild 
 Seargent Peabody Wild 
 
 Rutland, Vermont 
 Henry Percy Williams 
 DeWitt Cosgrove Wing 
 Henry Milton Wolf 
 Harry Hinds Wood 
 Walter Mabie Wood 
 
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
 William Creighton 
 
 Woodward 
 RoLLiN Turner Woodyatt 
 Austin L. Wyman 
 Victor S. Yarros 
 
 La Jolla, California 
 Charles Yeomans 
 Ulysses Simpson Young 
 
 Glen Ellyn, Illinois 
 William Foster Young 
 John Maxcy Zane 
 
 Ernest Bloomfield Zeisler 
 Erwin Paul Zeisler 
 Paul Bloomfield Zeisler 
 SiGMUND Zeisler 
 Edward Americus 
 
 Zimmerman 
 Herbert Paul Zimmerman 
 
 Date of Election 
 April 6, 1925 
 February 18, 1946 
 April 30, 1945 
 January 7, 1921 
 February 18, 1946 
 November 8, 1943 
 May I, 1916 
 April 9, 1928 
 December 21, 1874 
 December 13, 1926 
 
 December 6, 1920 
 
 May 4, 1925 
 April 8, 1890 
 
 and 
 March 19, 1934 
 May 19, 1924 
 
 January 4, 1932 
 November 14, 1910 
 December 15, 1902 
 April 8, 1929 
 
 November i, 191 5 
 March 24, 1913 
 May 28, 1906 
 April 8, 1935 
 October 28, 1901 
 
 November 19, 1928 
 November 22, 1915 
 March 25, 1946 
 December 7, 1903 
 
 November 3, 1919 
 January 15, 1934 
 
 May 10, 1926 
 December 4, 1905 
 
 and 
 January 14, I935 
 December 5, 1927 
 November 16, 1936 
 December 5, 1927 
 March 13, 1893 
 
 May 3, 1943 
 October 25, 1926 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Died, October 4, 1946 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1926 
 
 Died, October 17, 1930 
 
 May 18, 1931 
 
 Died, September 9, 1931 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1931 
 Resigned, June 6, 1936 
 
 Died, August 6, 1929 
 
 Died, October 5, 1928 
 Died, June 4, 1935 
 Died, May 23, 1941 
 
 Resigned, October 9, 1937 
 April 26, 1937 
 
 Died, February 18, 1935 
 
 Died, December 6, 1937 
 
 Resigned, March 14, 193^ 
 Died, June 4, 1931 
 
 Resigned, October 3, 1930 
 
 [ 122 ]
 
 
 tj^I^'^^^Sfi^^^P-3^^J^iP>>tP^^^^^:^^^tJ^^ 
 
 Appendix C 
 
 PAPERS READ 
 
 * 
 
 BEFORE THE CLUB 
 
 FROM May 19, 1924 TO May 7, 1945 
 
 ff^^^ff^ff^ffi^^^f'^^H.ff'^i^^f^ff^ff''h^^f^^^ 
 
 Gordon Crowell Abbott 
 
 Picturesque Mexico (An informal talk) 
 
 Fred Lyman Adair 
 
 The Evolution of Maternal Care 
 
 Rudolph Altrocchi 
 Aspects of Humor 
 
 Edward Scribner Ames 
 Values 
 
 One Day in Athens 
 Religious Humanism 
 
 A Critical Constructive View of Religion — A Spiritual 
 Autobiography 
 
 Arvid Lawrence Anderson 
 
 The Side Show 
 Murder Suspect 
 Up Periscope 
 
 Edmund Andrews 
 
 Vikings of the Pacific 
 Frederick Bernard /Andrews 
 
 A Hoosler Sunset 
 Sandwiches and Kings 
 In Defense of Worrying 
 
 Francis Marion Arnold 
 A Month on the Nile 
 Appreciation of Music 
 Our Greatest Composer 
 
 Some Relations of Music to Life (Illustrated with the 
 piano) 
 
 [ 1^3 ] 
 
 March 24, 1930 
 
 February 14, 1938 
 
 October 19, 1925 
 
 May 18, 1925 
 December 13, 1926 
 December i, 1930 
 
 December 3, 1934 
 
 December 5, 1938 
 October I4, 1940 
 April 3, 1944 
 
 January 6, 1936 
 
 April 17, 1933 
 April 20, 1936 
 December 12, 1938 
 
 March 9, 1925 
 February 8, 1926 
 November 28, 1927 
 
 March 10, 1930
 
 Paul Valentine Bacon 
 
 Leonardo da Vinci (Read originally by the author before 
 the Club on January 30, 191 1. Re-read by Llewellyn 
 Jones on this occasion) 
 
 Percival Bailey 
 
 Zeitoun 
 Sissouan 
 
 Haci Bektas Veli 
 Musa Dagh 
 
 Robert Walter Balderston 
 The Gopatis 
 Betsy Ross, Myth or History? 
 
 George Wildman Ball 
 The American Traveler 
 
 John Potts Barnes 
 The Peerless Advocate 
 Consumer Co-op. A Story 
 Rose Anna's Return 
 
 Emmet Blackburn Bay 
 
 The Pathologic Physiology of Endowed Institutions 
 
 John Townsend Beatty 
 Disraeli 
 Mithraism 
 
 Ross James Beatty, Jr. 
 Gladstone 
 
 The Spatial Relationship of Art and Architecture 
 Los Californios 
 
 Chester Sharon Bell 
 
 Andrew Johnson 
 Nathan Sidney Blumberg 
 
 Coffee, the Biography of a Beverage 
 
 Eighteen Cases; The Supreme Court vs The Constitution 
 
 George Boller 
 
 Printing and the Renaissance 
 George Kenney Bowden 
 
 Politics 
 Politics 
 Politics 
 
 Preston Bradley 
 
 Some Personal Impressions of Iceland (Ladies' Night 
 
 address) 
 Robert Collyer 
 My Patron Saint 
 My Summer Neighbors 
 
 [ 124 ] 
 
 January 29, 1934 
 
 October 21, 1935 
 January 8, 1940 
 March 24, 1941 
 January 8, 1945 
 
 March 2, 1936 
 February 7, 1938 
 
 October 28, 1940 
 
 January 12, 1934 
 April 26, 1937 
 January 20, 1941 
 
 December 18, 1939 
 
 March 5, 1934 
 October 25, 1937 
 
 March 5, 1934 
 January 4, 1937 
 February 10, 194I 
 
 March 11, 1940 
 
 April 10, 1939 
 April 2, 1945 
 
 February 9, 1942 
 
 February 19, 1934 
 February 17, 1936 
 May 2, 1938 
 
 March 23, 1931 
 March 4, 1935 
 February 7, 1944 
 January 15, 1945
 
 Melvin a. Brannon 
 
 Time Thinking 
 
 Horace James Bridges 
 
 The Religious Objection to the Animal Origin of Man, 
 
 and the Misunderstanding Involved in it. 
 Mr. Bridges presents Mr. H. L. Mencken 
 A Misadventure of Sherlock Holmes 
 A Tragedy of Ceylon: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. 
 (Ladies' Night address) 
 
 James Andrew Britton 
 The Fight Against Tuberculosis 
 The Professions and Modern Racketeering 
 
 Charles Leroy Brown 
 
 An Affront to a Literary Coterie and Its Influence on 
 History Writing 
 
 Benjamin Franklin Buck 
 
 Schools and School Masters 
 
 Paul C. Bucy 
 
 The Sea to the South 
 One December Morning 
 It's Poison! 
 
 Theodore Arthur Buenger 
 
 Galla Placidia 
 
 Petronius 
 
 The Greek Anthology 
 
 Gregory the Great 
 
 The Family 
 
 Walter Llewellyn Bullock 
 
 Giovanni Pascoli, Second in a Great Triad of Italian 
 
 Poets 
 The Poetry of Gabriele D'Annunzio 
 
 George Christian Bunge 
 
 John Law 
 
 Legal Antiquities 
 
 Pierce Butler 
 
 Adventures in Rare Bookmanship 
 The Ancient Books of Wales 
 The Literary History of Scholarship 
 Literary Art; Craftsmanship or Personality 
 The Tale of the Young Man who Lost his Baggage Keys. 
 (Ladies' Night address) 
 
 James C. Cahill 
 
 Poetry of the Commonplace and in the Commonplace 
 
 Bertram J. Cahn 
 
 The Story of the Chicago Crime Commission 
 
 [ 125 ] 
 
 March 8, 1937 
 
 November 2, 1925 
 January 17, 1927 
 January 18, 1943 
 
 November 29, 1943 
 
 March 16, 1931 
 February 26, 1934 
 
 January 27, 1936 
 
 April 19, 1926 
 
 November i, 1937 
 December 4, 1939 
 February 22, 1943 
 
 February i, 1932 
 October 14, 1935 
 October 23, 1939 
 December 14, 1942 
 October 30, 1944 
 
 December 21, 1931 
 May 12, 1935 
 
 December 9, 1935 
 January 15, 1940 
 
 March 31, 1931 
 December 5, 1932 
 February 8, 1937 
 January 22, 1940 
 
 March 30, 1942 
 December 22, 1924 
 December 2, 1940
 
 John M. Cameron 
 The Lowly Pun 
 The Novels of Major Baring 
 Madame de Sevigne 
 
 An Ancient Wonder Worker (Presidential Address) 
 A Modern Aspasia 
 The Fourth Century 
 
 Herbert John Campbell 
 The Bondage of the Past 
 Literary Gossip 
 
 Paul Roberts Cannon 
 
 Covered Wagons 
 
 War, Famine and Pestilence 
 
 James Gray Carr 
 
 Eleven Editions of Osier 
 Rudolf Virchow 
 
 Anton J, Carlson 
 Hunger (Illustrated) 
 Thirst 
 Black Oxen and Toggenberg Goats 
 
 (Ladies' Night Address) 
 Bringing Home the Sheep 
 Obstacles in the Way of an Optimum Diet 
 
 George Frederick Cassell 
 Of Such as These 
 We Read Poetry 
 Excursion into Verse 
 
 Edwin Henry Cassels 
 College for Whom and Why? 
 
 Joseph Chada 
 
 The Czechs in America 
 
 Henry Barrett Chamberlin 
 Reminiscences of a War Correspondent 
 Further Reminiscences of a War Correspondent 
 
 Henry Porter Chandler 
 
 The Self-Revelation of a Harvard Professor 
 The Attainment of Intelligence in Democracy 
 The State as Parens Patriae 
 
 The Right of Free Speech in England and the United 
 States 
 
 William Ludlow Chenery 
 The Modern Magazine 
 
 Charles Edward Cheney 
 
 The Barefoot Maid at the Fountain Inn (Read by the 
 author originally November 13, 191 1. Re-read by E. 
 W. Puttkammer) 
 
 [ 126 ] 
 
 January 5, 1925 
 January 18, 1929 
 February 29, 1932 
 October 2, 1933 
 November 18, 1935 
 January 12, 1938 
 
 April 18, 1927 
 March 15, 1937 
 
 April 18, 1938 
 November 16, 1942 
 
 December 4, 1933 
 April 5, 1937 
 
 January 13, 1930 
 January 11, 1932 
 
 March 29, 1937 
 February 20, 1939 
 November 30, 1942 
 
 October 26, 1931 
 February 25, 1935 
 November 20, 1939 
 
 March 28, 1927 
 
 January 19, 1942 
 
 November 9, 1936 
 December 11, 1939 
 
 May II, 1925 
 March 25, 1929 
 January 4, 1932 
 
 December 13, 1937 
 February 10, 1930 
 
 May 12, 194I
 
 Jacob Wendell Clark 
 
 Pragmatism and Mountebanks 
 
 Fashion (Published by the Club in February, 1930) 
 
 The U. S. Visits the Doctor 
 
 Rudolph Alexander Clemen 
 Every Man His Own Aladdin 
 The Century Plant and Us 
 
 Robert Collyer 
 
 Literature and Great Cities (Read by the author, the 
 first president of the Club, on June 15, 1874. Re-read 
 by Casper W. Ooms on the sixtieth Anniversary of the 
 Founding of the Club) 
 
 Homer Hunt Cooper 
 An Obsolete Shield of Guilt 
 An Unwritten Biography 
 
 Arthur Jose'ph Cramp 
 Pink Pills for Green People 
 Out of the Mouths of Babes and Others 
 Uncle Sam and the Pink Pill Industry 
 
 Carey Croneis 
 
 Science and the Future 
 
 Bowman Corning Crowell 
 
 The White Man in the Tropics 
 
 Experiences with People 
 
 The Influence of Mars on the Progeny of Aesculapius 
 
 Irving Samuel Cutter 
 
 Fort Atkinson and the Yellowstone Expedition 
 The Case of the Lincoln, Nebraska City Council 
 Edwin James: Explorer, Botanist, Physician 
 Charles M. Russell, Cowboy Painter 
 
 Charles Sidney Cutting 
 
 The Trials of a Lawyer 
 Samuel Dauchy 
 
 Yankee Clippers 
 
 Henri Charles-Edouard David 
 
 Motoring with Belphegor 
 
 Pierre Loti, the Exotic 
 
 The Destiny of the Soul (Presidential Address) 
 
 Marcel Proust 
 
 Casanova 
 
 Beaumarchais— A Business Man— A Man of Letters 
 
 "La Douceur de Vivre" under the Reign of Terror 
 
 The Physicians in Moliere 
 
 George E. Dawson 
 
 The X Club (Presidential Address) 
 Reminiscences 
 
 [ 1^7 ] 
 
 May 10, 1926 
 May 20, 1929 
 March 27, 1933 
 
 May 18, 1931 
 February 20, 193^ 
 
 April 2, 1934 
 
 February 20, 1928 
 October 28, 1935 
 
 December 6, 1926 
 October 27, 1930 
 January 15, 1934 
 
 March 13, 1944 
 
 November 10, 1930 
 April 29, 1942 
 November 22, 1943 
 
 March 12, 1928 
 May II, 1931 
 April I, 1935 
 February 16, 1942 
 
 May 4, 1 93 1 
 February 25, 1929 
 
 November 21, 1927 
 February 4, 1929 
 October 7, 1929 
 January 7, 1929 
 November 8, 1937 
 November 6, 1939 
 December 16, 1940 
 April 20, 1942 
 
 October 6, 1924 
 January 8, 1934
 
 Frederic Adrian Delano 
 
 (Read originally by the author January 31, 1910. Re- 
 read by Casper W. Ooms) 
 
 William Edward Dodd 
 
 A Great Debate on a Great Subject 
 "A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind." 
 A Chapter from American History 
 History and Patriotism 
 
 The First Integrated Social Order in the South 
 Robert J. Walker, Imperialist (Written originally for the 
 Club in 1 91 2. Read by Carl B. Roden) 
 
 Paul H. Douglas 
 
 Some New Material on Robert Owen and Robert Dale 
 Owen 
 
 Lester Reynold Dragstedt 
 Bones 
 
 The Guardian of the Wilderness 
 An Old Town Pump 
 
 Samuel John Duncan-Clark 
 Adventures in Ruralia 
 Star Gazers 
 
 How I discovered a New World at Fifty 
 A First Century Reporter— A Study of John Mark and 
 
 His Narrative 
 The Story of the Struggle for World Peace 
 
 George Turnley Dyer, Jr. 
 Is Sociology a Science? 
 
 Francis Howard Eldridge 
 
 The Ephemeridae of Literature 
 Tribes Hill and a Vanished League of Nations 
 A Glance at Spengler 
 To Secure these Blessings 
 Who is This Confucius? 
 Not Wholly as the Twig was Bent 
 Mars and the Daughters of Mnemosyne, 1918-1943 
 (Presidential Address) 
 
 John Dayhuff Ellis 
 
 Mass Production — End Products 
 Ambroise Pare 
 
 Godfrey J. Eyler 
 
 Waldemar in the Parsonage 
 
 In Praise of a Declining Art 
 
 Early American Maps (Illustrated) 
 
 Waldemar Leaves the Parsonage 
 
 Eight Men Lived in a Tent 
 
 Waldemar's Flegel Jahre 
 
 Man's Struggle Against Authority 
 
 \ 128 1 
 
 December 18, 1933 
 
 April 12, 1926 
 May 2, 1927 
 October 31, 1927 
 March 11, 1929 
 January 20, 1930 
 
 May II, 1942 
 
 February 2, 1942 
 
 January 12, 1931 
 April 9, 1934 
 February 6, 1939 
 
 February 9, 1925 
 February 28, 1927 
 January 23, 1928 
 
 November 11, 1929 
 October 19, 1931 
 
 April 5, 1943 
 
 February 6, 1928 
 April 25, 1932 
 April 30, 1934 
 April 25, 1938 
 April I, 1940 
 March 8, 1943 
 
 October 11, 1943 
 
 April 24, 1933 
 April 22, 1935 
 
 March 14, 1927 
 April 15, 1929 
 March 9, 1931 
 April 16, 1934 
 March i, 1937 
 March 4, 1940 
 March 22, 1943
 
 Otho Samuel Fasig 
 
 Lincoln and Prohibition: A Speculation 
 
 Robert Collyer Fergus 
 The Great American Commoner 
 
 Stephen Arnold Douglas: The Beginning of the Illinois 
 Central Railroad 
 
 Morris Fishbein 
 
 A Short Story, "The Birds" 
 
 Charlatan 
 
 Medicine in a Changing World and Food Fads and 
 
 Fallacies 
 The Dreaded 1960's (One half of Ladies' Night program. 
 
 See Hough) 
 I can Remember When 
 Modern Medical Charlatans 
 The Last of the Great Charlatans 
 
 John Sharpless Fox 
 
 A Modern Gulliver 
 
 Schoolcraft, Traveller, Explorer, Naturalist 
 
 George W. Gale 
 
 Silver Creek 
 
 Ralph Waldo Gerard 
 
 The Shears of Atropos 
 Unresting Cells 
 Ola 
 
 Sanford Robinson Gifford 
 
 Some Old Eye Doctors and Pseudo Eye Doctors 
 Arthur Symons. The Aetiology of a Literary Crush 
 Garlic and Old Horse-Blankets 
 Nasturtiums and Stained Glass 
 
 Irwin Thoburn Gilruth 
 
 A Circuit Rider of the Last Century 
 On Going to Extremes 
 
 The Last of the Victorians (Presidential Address) 
 The Social Novel 
 
 Some Observations on the Nature and Standards of 
 Amateur Literary Effort 
 
 Leroy Truman Goble 
 Punch — The Immortal Year 
 
 Billy Earl Goetz 
 The Arithmetic of Choice 
 Collectivism 
 The Usefulness of the Impossible 
 
 November 14, 1932 
 
 March 2, 1942 
 January 3, 1944 
 
 December i, 1924 
 November 23, 1925 
 
 November 19, 1928 
 
 March 31, 1930 
 December 2, 1935 
 November 15, 1937 
 December 18, 1944 
 
 February 24, 1936 
 March 20, 1944 
 
 November 20, 1944 
 
 October 31, 1938 
 November 27, 1939 
 November 13, 1944 
 
 April 6, 1 93 1 
 November 11, 1935 
 December i, 194I 
 February 14, 1944 
 
 May 6, 1929 
 March 26, 1934 
 October 12, 1936 
 April 8, 1940 
 
 January 11, 1943 
 
 March 16, 1925 
 
 March 23, 1936 
 May 9, 1938 
 April 21, 1941 
 
 129
 
 Frederick William Gookin 
 
 Ukiyo-e 
 
 Tappan Gregory 
 
 The Camera's Catch of North American Wild Animals 
 
 (Illustrated) 
 Eze, on the Corniche 
 The Black Sox 
 The Whisper of the Guns 
 
 Ward Earl Guest 
 A Literary Hoax 
 
 Richard Walden Hale, Jr. 
 
 The Royal Americans 
 
 George Halperin 
 
 Gogol, the Dawn of the Russian Novel 
 
 Dostoevsky 
 
 Tolstoi 
 
 A Doctor Looks at Communism. A Trip to the U. S. S. R. 
 
 Pushkin, Russia's Most Significant Figure 
 
 Fascism and Social Revolution 
 
 Turgenev 
 
 The Miracle of Russia's Resistance 
 
 The Autumnal Chekov 
 
 Bengt L. K. Hamilton 
 
 The Relation between Good Government and Bad 
 Temper 
 
 John Leonard Hancock 
 
 Servants of the State 
 
 Avast! Belay! We're Off for Baffin's Bay! 
 
 Servants of the City 
 
 Cross Currents 
 
 Words, Words, Horatio 
 
 Norman Hapgood 
 
 The Modernness of Shakespeare's Women 
 
 Jesse Dean Harper 
 
 Antaeus Contends with Midas 
 
 Samuel Alain Harper 
 Man's High Adventure 
 
 Albert Baird Hastings 
 
 High Life 
 
 John Reardon Heath 
 
 Help Wanted; or Life at Dear Old St. Swithin's 
 
 Ballyhoo 
 
 Black and Tan: The Jamaican Melange 
 
 [ 130 ] 
 
 April II, 1927 
 
 March 6, 1939 
 March 18, 1940 
 February 17, 194I 
 May 3, 1943 
 
 January 20, 1936 
 January 25, 1943 
 
 December 14, 1931 
 October 9, 1933 
 May 6, 1935 
 February 3, 1936 
 March 28, 1938 
 March 27, 1939 
 February 3, 1941 
 February i, 1943 
 January 10, 1944 
 
 January 12, 1942 
 
 April 5, 1926 
 February 11, 1929 
 May I, 1933 
 November 24, 1941 
 November 27, 1944 
 
 January 28, 1929 
 
 May I, 1944 
 
 December 16, 1935 
 
 January 14, 1935 
 
 May 12, 1930 
 April 4, 1932 
 April 13, 1936
 
 James Bryan Herrick 
 
 Auenbrug^er and Laennec, the Founders of Physical 
 
 Diagnosis 
 Obiter Dicta Medica 
 Medical Diagnosis for Laymen 
 Castromediano, a Forgotten Patriot and Martyr of the 
 
 Italian Risorgimento (Presidential Address) 
 More Summers in a Garden 
 
 The Story of a Good Boy (Ladies' Night address) 
 Memories of Medicine and Medical Men in Chicago 
 
 1 885-1942 
 
 William Harrison Holly 
 
 A Forgotten Governor (Ladies' Night address) 
 Tolerance 
 
 Encyclopaedia Britannica— Third Edition 
 A Rogue of the Renaissance (Ladies' Night address, read 
 by Earle Shilton) 
 
 Henry Horner 
 
 Restless Ashes 
 Restless Ashes II 
 Restless Ashes III 
 
 Ralph Horween 
 
 The Battle of Jutland 
 
 Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith— an Episode of Bona- 
 part and Sea Power in the Eastern Mediterranean 
 
 Clarence Augustus Hough 
 
 Constellation Indiana in the Literary Firmament 
 The Wild 1920's (one half of Ladies' Night address. See 
 Fishbein) 
 
 Theodore Carswell Hume 
 A Rebel Against Reason 
 Conscience and Compromise 
 
 Francis J. Hurley 
 
 Recollections of a Claim Adjuster 
 
 Stephen Edward Hurley 
 
 The Horatian Trail 
 
 Quiet, Please 
 
 Nonchalance (Ladies' Night address) 
 
 Chance 
 
 Men of Lawe 
 
 Harry Sigmund Hyman 
 
 The Golden Fleece 
 The New Orientation 
 The Lost Art 
 
 The Two Oracles. An Imaginary Conversation 
 Mann — Historian and Artist 
 
 Sour Grapes — Apologia pro Senectute (Presidential 
 Address) 
 
 February 16, 1925 
 January 9, 1928 
 November 17, 1930 
 
 October 5, 1931 
 January 21, 1935 
 January 30, 1939 
 
 December 7, 1942 
 
 October 31, 1932 
 May 4, 1936 
 March 7, 1938 
 
 January 29, 1945 
 
 April 27, 1925 
 May 14, 1928 
 April 27, 1 93 1 
 
 May 13, 1940 
 October 19, 1942 
 
 February 21, 1927 
 March 31, 1930 
 
 January 25, 1937 
 November 21, 1938 
 
 January 31, 1944 
 
 January 18, 1937 
 January 9, 1939 
 October 30, 1939 
 November 2, 1942 
 October 18, 1943 
 
 January 26, 1925 
 January 10, 1927 
 March 4, 1929 
 March 12, 1934 
 February 26, 1940 
 
 October 7, 1940 
 
 131
 
 James Clarke Jeffery 
 
 Here and There in the Byways of Justice 
 
 Marcus Wilson Jernigan 
 
 Superstition Laid Low. The First Battle in New Eng- 
 land 
 New Dealers and Social Planning during the American 
 Revolution 
 
 Theodore Jessup 
 Hobbies 
 
 Llewellyn Jones 
 
 Poetry: Good, Minor and Bad 
 
 James Branch Cabell and Romance 
 
 Omniscience, or How to be a Literary Editor (Ladies' 
 
 Night address) 
 The Philosophy of John Dewey 
 Get Right with God, or the Gospel According to 
 
 Freud 
 The Newspaper as a Form of Literature 
 Scandinavian Adventures 
 
 Clay Judson 
 
 Old Kentucky Letters 
 
 William Kent 
 
 My Political Beginnings (Read by Carl B. Roden) 
 Res Indigestae (Read by the author originally Novem- 
 ber 27, 1905. Re-read by E. W. Puttkammer) 
 
 Meyer Kestnbaum 
 
 Six Days Shalt Thou Labor 
 
 Willard L. King 
 
 A Pioneer Court of Last Resort 
 
 Insane Delusions 
 
 Notes on Cheese 
 
 Letters 
 
 Semantics 
 
 Meiosis 
 
 Two Cultures (Presidential Address) 
 
 Our Most Celebrated Member 
 
 William H. King, Jr. 
 
 A Yankee Lawyer in the Courts of Cook County 
 Bacteria in 321 U. S. 
 
 Urban Augustus Lavery 
 Sergeant McGuffy's Breeches 
 
 The Repudiation — A Stain on American Honor — The 
 Case against Mississippi et al. 
 
 October 13, 1924 
 
 February 16, 1931 
 March 11, 1935 
 
 January 3, 1927 
 
 January 25, 1926 
 April 2, 1928 
 
 April 29, 1929 
 December 2, 1929 
 
 March 14, 1932 
 December 11, 1933 
 February i, 1937 
 
 November 26, 1928 
 
 January 4, 1926 
 October 23, 1933 
 
 December 4, 1944 
 
 October 27, 1924 
 October 25, 1926 
 April 28, 1930 
 January 11, 1937 
 January 16, 1939 
 February 12, 1940 
 October 6, 1941 
 March 5, 1945 
 
 March 16, 1942 
 February 26, 1945 
 
 January 11, 1926 
 April 9, 1928 
 
 132
 
 O. J. Laylander 
 Two Short Stories 
 The Genesis of Pedagese 
 Methuselah and Others 
 Hair 
 
 A Boy Again 
 Random Shots (Presidential Address) 
 
 Edward Thomas Lee 
 
 Reminiscences of Fifty Years 
 
 A Chapter in United States History 
 
 A Bit of History 
 
 Harvey Brace Lemon 
 
 Stars and Atoms (Illustrated) 
 
 Albert Abraham Michelson, the Man and the Man of 
 
 Science (Ladies' Night address) 
 Cosmic Rays (Presidential Address) 
 The Mystery of Light 
 Epsilon Aurigae — Colossus Among Stars 
 
 Charles Leviton 
 
 Overtones 
 
 Edwin Herbert Lewis 
 
 On a Few Very Common Words 
 
 Edwin Lyman Lobdell 
 
 Recollections of Fifty-five Years in Chicago 
 Some Personal Reminiscences of Well-Known 
 Chicagoans of the Last Century 
 
 Max Loeb 
 
 Keeping Abreast 
 
 Frank Joseph Loesch 
 
 Personal Recollections of the Republican Convention of 
 
 1880 
 Personal Experiences during the Chicago Fire 
 Four Pedagogues and a Boy (Presidential Address) 
 A Domestic Tragedy 
 
 Gleams from the Glimmerglass (Ladies' Night address) 
 Memories of the Chicago Bar in the Seventies and 
 
 Eighties 
 Some Leading Chicago Businessmen in the Eighteen 
 
 Nineties (Read by Bernadotte E. Schmitt) 
 
 Charles Doak Lowry 
 
 John Sevier, Tennessee's Pioneer Statesman 
 
 The Working Theory of a Layman (Presidential Address) 
 
 John Rankin, Black Abolitionist 
 
 Waves 
 
 The Imperial Forest 
 
 Genesis of a School System 
 
 December 3, 1928 
 January 27, 1930 
 January 18, 1932 
 February 5, 1934 
 December 14, 1936 
 October 11, 1937 
 
 January 16, 1933 
 February 22, 1937 
 April 13, 1942 
 
 December 19, 1927 
 
 November 30, 1931 
 October 3, 1932 
 March 9, 1936 
 April 4, 1938 
 
 March 3, 1941 
 
 February 15, 1932 
 
 October 13, 1930 
 November 19, 1934 
 
 February i, 1926 
 
 October 20, 1924 
 October 12, 1925 
 October 10, 1927 
 April 27, 1936 
 November 29, 1937 
 
 April 22, 1940 
 
 May 10, 1943 
 
 March 2, 1925 
 October 5, 1925 
 May 13, 1929 
 January 13, 1936 
 April 3, 1939 
 February 28, 1944 
 
 133
 
 Arno Benedict Luckhardt 
 
 Historical Highlights and Shadows in the Discovery of 
 
 General Anesthesia (Illustrated) 
 An Adventure in Research 
 Dr. William Beaumont and the Medical Epic of the 
 
 Northwest Territory 
 Collector's Items of a Medical Historical Bibliomaniac 
 
 (Presidential Address) 
 
 Chauncey C. Maher 
 
 Payson 
 
 A Month of Fascism 
 
 Louie 
 
 Edward Manley 
 
 A Day that is Dead (Lincoln, Nebraska in the '70's) 
 
 Louis L. Mann 
 
 What the Disbeliever Believes: A Study in the Phi- 
 losophy of Doubt 
 
 George Linnaeus Marsh 
 
 The Byron Centenary 
 
 Poet into Sohcitor 
 
 Chroniclers of the Fancy 
 
 Spoon River a Century Ago 
 
 The Boswelling of Boswell 
 
 Snappers-up of Unconsidered Trifles 
 
 This Other Eden, Demi-Paradise (Presidential Address) 
 
 A Flight of Lame Ducks 
 
 Maga 
 
 Franklin H. Martin 
 
 Personal Health 
 
 Frederick Z. Marx 
 The Lawyer 
 
 D, Roy Mathews 
 
 French Exiles and English Relief, 1 792-1 802 
 Generals and Geographers 
 
 Herman Lewis Matz 
 
 Dirt 
 William Andrew McAndrew 
 
 Scots 
 
 The Wells of Saint Boethius (Ladies' Night Address) 
 
 Life Among the Boneheads 
 
 Thomas Chalfont McConnell 
 
 Indian Culture: Its Effect on Law and Politics South 
 of the Border 
 
 Luck and Witless Virtue vs Guile; in Which an English 
 Clergyman proves the Nemesis of John (Jake the 
 Barber) Factor, alias J. Wise, alias H. Guest 
 
 The Egg 
 
 [ 134] 
 
 February 17, 1930 
 May 15, 1933 
 
 May 6, 1940 
 
 October 5, 1942 
 
 January 3, 1938 
 April 24, 1939 
 February 8, 1943 
 
 January 25, 1932 
 
 October 24, 1932 
 
 November 3, 1924 
 March 22, 1926 
 March 19, 1928 
 December 9, 1929 
 March 19, 1934 
 November 30, 1936 
 October 10, 1938 
 December 8, 1941 
 December 6, 1943 
 
 November i, 1926 
 
 April 20, 1 93 1 
 
 February 27, 1939 
 December 13, 1943 
 
 December 20, 1926 
 
 February 2, 1925 
 March 29, 1926 
 October 17, 1927 
 
 November 25, 1940 
 
 March i, 1943 
 November 15, 1943
 
 Warren Sturgis McCulloch 
 
 One Word After Another 
 
 James Edward McDade 
 New Roads 
 
 John Patrick McGoorty 
 
 The Contribution of the Irish Race to America's Inde- 
 pendence 
 
 Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin 
 Lincoln as a World Figure 
 
 Raymond Forrest McNally 
 Echoes from Eire 
 
 William A. McSwain 
 A Senator Long Debates 
 
 George Herbert Mead 
 The Function of Philosophy 
 
 Henry C. A. Mead 
 Hawaiian Reminiscences 
 
 Charles P, Megan 
 Torts 
 
 In Chancery 
 
 Dr. Bridge's Will (Presidential Address) 
 Dry Law 
 
 To Have and to Hold 
 Murder in the Tower 
 Six Scenes in Search of a Subject 
 Dives Avoids a Tax I 
 
 Charles Phillip Miller, Jr. 
 
 Laennec, Inventor of the Stethoscope 
 
 John Stocker Miller, Jr. 
 Poetry 
 
 Beveridge Harshaw Moore 
 
 Some Random Musings on the Philosophy of Medi- 
 cine 
 
 Two Sides of the Question (Opponent James Persons 
 Simonds) 
 
 The Study of Anatomy — Now and Then 
 
 Old Mizzou 
 
 La douce France 
 
 Idle Thoughts of a Busy Fellow. Apologies to Jerome K. 
 Jerome 
 
 Betwixt the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 
 
 [ ^35 1 
 
 March 12, 1945 
 February 15, 1926 
 
 March II, 1927 
 February 13, 1928 
 January 23, 1939 
 January 17, 1944 
 December 7, 1925 
 April 6, 1936 
 
 February 23, 1925 
 December 21, 1925 
 October 8, 1928 
 February 23,^931 
 January 28, 1935 
 May I, 1939 
 February 23, 1942 
 February 21, 1944 
 
 April 12, 1937 
 April 13, 1925 
 
 November 30, 1925 
 
 March 5, 1928 
 March 18, 1929 
 November 18, 1929 
 November 23, 1931 
 
 February 4, 1935 
 January 4, 1943 
 
 \
 
 Robert Arthur Mowat 
 
 Burns and the Scotland of His Day 
 
 Newman and Carlyle. A Study in Contrasts 
 
 Jonathan Swift and His Times 
 
 Tennyson, and His Influence on English Thought and 
 
 Culture 
 Life and Letters in Scotland in the Eighteenth Century 
 
 Clarence W. Muehlberger 
 The Gentle Art of Poisoning 
 
 Edwin Allston Munger 
 As Told by the Survivors 
 
 Royal Freeman Munger 
 Finance Since the World War 
 
 Harold William Norman 
 The Rose of Sharon 
 In Search of Education 
 
 John Nuveen, Jr. 
 
 Pilgrims, Pirates, and Parasites 
 Jesse James was a Piker 
 The Road to Fortune 
 John Barleycorn, Esquire 
 Plaint of a Bureaucrat 
 
 David Sidney Oakes 
 
 Escape by Sea 
 
 One Sixth of a Dozen 
 
 Casper William Oooms 
 
 D. H. Lawrence: Censored and Unsung 
 
 Review of "Magnus Merriman" by Eric Linklater 
 
 Hugo Grotius 
 
 Prophets With and Without Honor 
 
 A Post Mortem of Political Prognoses 
 
 American Dreyfus 
 
 Hugh Robert Orr 
 My Apology for Living 
 
 Jesse Myron Owen 
 
 A Landmark in Early Irish Literature: The Tain Bo 
 
 Cualange 
 A Study in Divided Loyalty 
 John Woolman and Quakerism in American Colonies 
 
 George Packard 
 
 Some Prejudices and Impressions of an American Lawyer 
 
 in London 
 Some Further Samples of the Drama of Today 
 Eugene O'Neill and Some of His Plays 
 Fourteen Hundred Miles in the Sahara 
 
 [ 136 ] 
 
 February 15, 1937 
 February 13, 1939 
 October 13, 1941 
 
 January 24, 1944 
 May 7, 1945 
 
 April 23, 1945 
 
 November 25, 1929 
 
 March 2, 1931 
 
 March 9, 1942 
 May 8, 1944 
 
 March 3, 1930 
 January 23, 1943 
 May 3, 1937 
 January 26, 1942 
 December 11, 1944 
 
 December 15, 1941 
 March 6, 1944 
 
 January 19, 1931 
 May 7, 1934 
 May II, 1936 
 January 6, 1941 
 March 15, 1943 
 April 9, 1945 
 
 November 17, 1924 
 
 February 14, 1927 
 February 27, 1928 
 February 8, 1932 
 
 January 19, 1925 
 November 14, 1927 
 January 14, 1929 
 October 14, 1929
 
 Some Problems of a Desultory Drama Lover 
 "O, There be players that I have seen play" 
 Jean Nicolet and his Discovery of Lake Michigan 
 A Lawyer Looks at Life 
 A Puritan Pioneer of Liberty 
 The Story of Tecumsch 
 My Fifty Years at the Chicago Bar 
 Some Mediaeval Dust in the Eyes of the Blindfolded 
 Goddess 
 
 George Arthur Paddock 
 
 The Dividends of Crime 
 
 William Ferdinand Petersen 
 Hippocrates — One of the Forgotten Men 
 We Owe a Cock to Asclepios 
 
 HoLMAN Dean Pettibone 
 
 Purse Strings 
 Professions Incorporated 
 
 Douglass Pillinger 
 Within Four Walls 
 
 Irving Kane Pond 
 
 Education for Art and Life (Ladies' Night address) 
 
 Lm a Member of the Cruise 
 
 On Believing and Leaving 
 
 Toward an American Architecture 
 
 Hold Your Horses, the Elephants are Coming! 
 
 What is Modern Architecture? 
 
 Just One Thing after Another 
 
 Do Children Think? 
 
 RoscoE Pound 
 
 Another Side of British Criminal Justice 
 
 George Griffith Powers 
 
 Uncle Americus 
 The Daring Dane 
 The Great Hauling 
 Gabriel Takes a Wife 
 Lowdown on Cousin George 
 
 Ernst Wilfred Puttkammer 
 
 The Most Commonplace Thing in the World 
 
 Traveller's Tales 
 
 A Glimpse of the Sahara (Illustrated) 
 
 Letters from the A. E. F. 
 
 More Letters from the A. E. F. 
 
 Ibn Battuta 
 
 The Princes of Thurn and Taxis 
 
 The Marshals of France 
 
 The Marshals of Napoleon (Presidential Address) 
 
 November 24, 1930 
 November 7, 1932 
 November 5, 1934 
 November 4, 1935 
 October 18, 1937 
 November 4, 1940 
 November 17, 1941 
 
 October 25, 1943 
 December 19, 1932 
 
 November 20, 1933 
 March 19, 1945 
 
 November 10, 1924 
 April 7, 1930 
 
 January 5, 1942 
 
 March 30, 1925 
 October 18, 1926 
 October 15, 1928 
 February 3, 1930 
 November 16, 1931 
 February 27, 1933 
 October 22, 1934 
 October 17, 1938 
 
 April 20, 1928 
 
 February 22, 1932 
 March 18, 1935 
 March 13, 1939 
 March 17, 194I 
 April 12, 1943 
 
 December 15, 1924 
 April 25, 1927 
 October 22, 1928 
 April 18, 1932 
 October 17, 1932 
 October 16, 1933 
 October 19, 1936 
 November 28, 1938 
 October 8, 1939 
 
 137
 
 A Famous Family of Old Augsburg (Ladies' Night 
 
 address) 
 A Man-made Colossus 
 The Most Commonplace Thing in the World (Repeated 
 
 by Request) 
 
 Anan Raymond 
 
 Through a Glass Darkly 
 
 Gold 
 
 The Four Horsemen 
 
 A Logistic Parallel 
 
 Charles Bert Reed 
 
 The First Sestina 
 
 Le Bel Cavalier 
 
 The Case of Lady Godiva (What Really Happened) 
 
 A Profession Incorporated (With apologies to Mr. Petti- 
 bone) 
 
 Forest Phantasms 
 
 Sieur de St. Denis, and Jallot his Valet de Chambre 
 
 A Predatory Prince 
 
 The Lamps of Style 
 
 The Gossip of the Pines 
 
 The Haunted Cedar (written before the author's death 
 and read by a fellow member) 
 
 Curtis Williford Reese 
 
 Humanism 
 
 A Humanistic Philosophy of Life 
 
 Max Rheinstein 
 
 Inside Germany, 1914-1918 
 Birth of a Nation 
 
 William L. Richardson 
 
 Book Review 
 
 A Group of Immortals 
 
 One Hundred Years Ago 
 
 West Meets East 
 
 On Giving Oneself Away 
 
 Samuel M. Rinaker 
 An English University 
 
 Carl Otto Rinder 
 
 Hew to the Viands, Let the Vitamins Fall Where They 
 
 May 
 So They Went West 
 
 Sidney L. Robin 
 
 Incunabula of the Illiterate 
 Harry Franklin Robinson 
 
 Lafcadio Hearn, Rover, Interpreter of Life and 
 Literature 
 
 [ 138 ] 
 
 March 29, 1943 
 February 19, 1945 
 
 April 30, 1945 
 
 April 15, 1935 
 April II, 1938 
 April 29, 1940 
 April 16, 1945 
 
 January 12, 1925 
 March 15, 1926 
 May 21, 1928 
 
 April 21, 1930 
 November 2, 1931 
 January 22, 1934 
 February 10, 1936 
 December 6, 1937 
 October 16, 1939 
 
 October 20, 1941 
 
 March 7, 1927 
 April I, 1929 
 
 April 14, 1941 
 October 23, 1944 
 
 November 24, 1924 
 May 17, 1926 
 October 24, 1927 
 October 28, 1929 
 October 20, 1930 
 
 April 20, 1925 
 
 January 30, 1933 
 February 24, 194I 
 
 May 5, 1 94 1 
 May 16, 1927
 
 Stephen Crane 
 The Master of Gunston Hall 
 I Will be Heard 
 Precursors of Mark Twain 
 Mr. Dooley 
 
 Carl B. Roden 
 
 Francis Parkman 
 Chicago (Presidential Address) 
 The Epic of the Prairie Schooner 
 Overland Stage and Pony Express 
 Informal Talk on Recent Book Trends 
 
 Erwin W. Roemer 
 
 Wit and Humor of Judge Joseph E. Gary 
 A Notorious Illinois Trial 
 
 Lessing Rosenthal 
 
 Milton's "Areopagitica" and the Liberty of Licensed 
 Printing 
 
 Hermann Irving Schlesinger 
 
 The Production and Use of Scientific Talking Pictures 
 
 Frederic William Schlutz 
 Ye Goode Olde Tyme 
 
 Bernadotte Everly Schmitt 
 
 Interviewing the Authors of the War 
 
 The War — Twenty Years After 
 
 Going West to the East (Ladies' Night address) 
 
 From Versailles to Munich, 191 8-1938 
 
 Roosevelt-Churchill Declaration and the Terms of Peace 
 
 Arthur Pearson Scott 
 
 The White Man's Burden (Illustrated by still and mov- 
 ing pictures taken in African Jungles) 
 
 Louis Martin Sears 
 A Unique Gift 
 
 Trevor K. Serviss 
 Willingly to School 
 
 George Steele Seymour 
 My Friend, Hamlin Garland 
 
 Victor Louis Sherman 
 Water 
 
 Rudyard Kipling 
 
 Louis Becke, Authority of South Sea Lore 
 Hyperbolically Speaking 
 
 Andrew Rothwell Sherriff 
 
 What Chance Individualism 
 Primer of Justice and the Law 
 
 January 26, 1931 
 March 13, 1933 
 November 26, 1934 
 February 28, 1938 
 April 19, 1943 
 
 May 19, 1924 
 October 11, 1926 
 January 7, 1929 
 May 19, 1930 
 November 23, 1936 
 
 November 10, 1941 
 February 5, 1945 
 
 October 6, 1930 
 
 March 25, 1935 
 
 February 6, 1933 
 
 March 17, 1930 
 November 12, 1934 
 March 30, 1936 
 November 14, 1938 
 November 3, 1941 
 
 February 22, 1926 
 
 October 26, 1936 
 
 January 31, 1938 
 
 November 6, 1944 
 
 November 28, 1932 
 January 24, 1938 
 March 23, 1942 
 January 22, 1945 
 
 December 17, 1928 
 January 5, 1931 
 
 139
 
 Earle Astor Shilton 
 Old Timer 
 
 Leaders and Wheelers 
 Little Audrey Comes to Town 
 Blight 
 
 God's Country (Ladies' Night Address) 
 Gentleman Farmer (Presidential Address) 
 
 Paul Shorey 
 
 Sureness and Cocksureness 
 
 Evolution — A Conservative's Apology (Ladies' Night 
 
 Address) 
 Should We Teach Them Hard or Easy Poetry? 
 Soaking the Rich in Ancient Athens (Ladies' Night 
 
 Address) 
 
 James Persons Simonds 
 
 Progress 
 
 Before San Jacinto — and after 
 
 Synesius and Sidonius; Two Bishops of the Fifth Century 
 
 After San Jacinto 
 
 Archibald Whittier Smalley 
 The Tools of Thought 
 A Poet of the Ages (Vergil) 
 Changes in Words 
 Chicago's Site 
 
 Henry Justin Smith 
 
 Ten Thousand Feet Above Loop Level 
 
 Will M. Sparks 
 
 The Rappites 
 
 Samuel Cecil Stanton 
 Eight Days in a Ship on Fire 
 
 Merritt Starr 
 
 Shakespeare and the Renaissance 
 
 Lewis Abyram Stebbins 
 A. D. 2250 
 
 "If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again?" 
 The Grange 
 Russia in 1937 
 The Hillman Case 
 A Good Man and A Bad'Man Meet 
 An Unpublished Chapter in the History of the American 
 
 National Red Cross 
 The Shades 
 Can We Win the Peace? 
 
 Richard Corwine Stevenson 
 Some Notes on Words and Music 
 
 November 13, 1933 
 November 16, 1936 
 November 7, 1938 
 November 13, 1939 
 March 31, 194I 
 October 9, 1944 
 
 November 16, 1925 
 
 January 30, 1928 
 February 2, 1931 
 
 October 30, 1933 
 
 May 4, 1925 
 May 9, 1932 
 October 10, 1932 
 March 20, 1939 
 
 January 24, 1927 
 October 12, 1931 
 October 29, 1934 
 October 24, 1938 
 
 January 18, 1926 
 
 March 10, 1941 
 
 November 29, 1926 
 
 April 6, 1925 
 
 April 4, 1927 
 March 7, 1932 
 December 17, 1934 
 February 21, 1938 
 December 19, 1938 
 October 21, 1940 
 
 April 6, 1942 
 October 12, 1942 
 November 8, 1943 
 
 March 27, 1944 
 
 140
 
 Joseph Stolz 
 
 Judaism, the Background of Christianity — with Special 
 
 Reference to George Foot Moore's "Judaism in the 
 
 First Century." 
 Some Jewish Classics 
 
 William Benson Story 
 The Problem of the Railroads 
 The Building of a Railroad 
 
 Robert Cable Teare 
 The Merchant Ethic 
 
 Frederick Cleveland Test 
 
 Vagrant Bands 
 
 The Tale of a Trek 
 
 Historic Halts 
 
 Hedgeway Rambles (Illustrated) 
 
 Apocryphal Adventure 
 
 Spring Quarterly Meeting 
 
 An Oregon Trail Blazer 
 
 James Westfall Thompson 
 Cain 
 
 Hell und Dunkel 
 
 Shakespeare and the Politics of his Time 
 The Roman Empire and America Today 
 The Origin and Development of the Book 
 The Libraries and Book Trade of Ancient Rome 
 
 Samuel Edmund Thorne 
 An Oxford Scholar 
 
 Louis Leon Thurstone 
 Three Theories of Intelligence 
 
 Arthur James Todd 
 
 Three Wise Men of the East (Ladies' Night Address) 
 The Secularization of Domestic Relations: Nineteen 
 
 Centuries of Church versus Sex 
 Our Vanishing Family 
 A New Critique of Cant 
 A Bundle of Myrrh 
 
 Albert Harris Tolman 
 
 Earnest and Jest in Shakespearean Scholarship, 1709- 
 
 1747 
 Problems and Humors of the Grammar Class 
 
 Charles Henderson True 
 
 Adventures in Transportation: Extracts from the Biog- 
 raphy of Jonathan K. Peagreene, Esq. 
 Tales from the Mills 
 
 April 23, 1928 
 April 22, 1929 
 
 November 2, 1936 
 February 19, 1940 
 
 February 9, 1931 
 
 January 21, 1929 
 January 9, 1933 
 November 6, 1933 
 February 18, 1935 
 January 17, 1938 
 February 5, 1940 
 February 15, 1943 
 
 October 26, 1925 
 November 7, 1927 
 November 12, 1928 
 October 21, 1929 
 November 3, 1930 
 April 23, 1934 
 
 January 13, 194I 
 
 February 12, 1945 
 
 January 31, 1927 
 
 January 16, 1928 
 May 5, 1930 
 March 28, 1932 
 February 11, 1935 
 
 December 8, 1924 
 December 12, 1927 
 
 February 7, 1927 
 February 24, 1930 
 
 [ 141 ]
 
 George Burwell Utley 
 Fifty Years of Librarianship 
 Some Literary Lights of Old Hartford 
 Walter Loomis Newberry: Pioneer 
 An American Collector and His Bag (Inaugural Address) 
 Thomas Hooker — Liberal Puritan 
 
 The Irresponsible Ramblings of a Peripatetic Stevenson 
 Collector 
 
 Frank Gibson Ward 
 
 Outliving War • 
 
 Benjamin Wham 
 
 The Trend of the Law; or a Portrait of God 
 
 The Mysterious, Insidious, Doctor Fu Manchu, or Lo! 
 
 the Poor Landlord 
 The Wonderland of Finance Regulation 
 Railroads and the National Transportation Policy 
 The Strange Case of the Sewer which Flowed Up Hill 
 Bedtime Stories 
 
 Herbert Clarkson Whitehead 
 
 A Trilogy of Essays in Outline: Institutions, Their 
 Functions and Instruments; the Near and the Remote 
 Aspects of Liberty; Publicists, their Characteristics 
 and Functions 
 
 Edward Byers W^ilcox 
 
 Mysticism in Modern Science 
 
 Review of "Poems from 1924 to 1933" by Archibald 
 
 McLeish 
 Anneke Jans 
 
 Payson Sibley Wild 
 
 What Really Happened (The Case of Xanthippe) 
 
 Rutihus 
 
 How Old is Horace ? (Ladies' Night Address) 
 
 Ulmus Susurrans (The Whispering Elm) 
 
 Seargent Peabody Wild 
 
 Travails Outside the Fourth Estate 
 
 Henry Percy Williams 
 Short Story: Decoration Day 
 
 De Witt Cosgrove Wing 
 
 The Modern Iconoclast 
 The Newer Nutrition 
 
 Henry Milton Wolf 
 
 And Who was Townsend Harris? (Inaugural Address) 
 
 Victor Yarros 
 
 Lost, Strayed, or Stolen: Philosophy Today 
 A Lay Sermon Obiter on Music 
 
 [ 142 ] 
 
 March i, 1926 
 April II, 1932 
 April 8, 1935 
 October 7, 1935 
 April 15, 1940 
 
 April 17, 1944 
 March 8, 1926 
 
 May 7, 1928 
 
 November 21, 1932 
 December 7, 1936 
 November 18, 1940 
 November i, 1943 
 October 16, 1944 
 
 November 22, 1926 
 
 May 8, 1933 
 
 May 7, 1934 
 April 7, 1941 
 
 May 21, 1928 
 May 2, 1932 
 April 29, 1935 
 April 17, 1939 
 
 December 8, 1930 
 
 November 8, 1926 
 
 March 23, 1925 
 April 26, 1926 
 
 October 8, 1934 
 
 November 9, 1925 
 May 9, 1927
 
 Education: Some Radical Reactionary Heresies 
 Letters and Literary Standards in Bourgeoisia 
 The Trials and Pleasure of Editorial Writing 
 The Present Crisis in Fiction and Belles Lettres 
 The Paradox of Human Hypocrisy, Conscious and 
 
 Unconscious 
 Investing in Ideas, or the Books that have Guided Me 
 
 (Read by George Packard) 
 
 Charles Yeomans 
 Lesser Lights of the Sea 
 Gloria in Peristalsis 
 Arctic Knight Errant 
 Clergyman in Conflict 
 
 John Maxcy Zane 
 
 Oratory is No More 
 
 Ernest Bloomfield Zeisler 
 
 Causality 
 
 Pure Reason 
 
 The New Deal In Logic 
 
 Evariste Galois 
 
 Nietzsche and the Nazis 
 
 Robinson Crusoe Resartus 
 
 Erwin Paul Zeisler 
 
 Some Psychoanalytical Poems 
 A Study in Brown and Scarlet 
 
 SiGMUND Zeisler 
 
 Reminiscences of the Anarchists' Case (Published by 
 
 the Club in January, 1927 
 A Chapter from a Forthcoming Book, "The Life of 
 
 Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler." 
 Another Chapter from a Forthcoming Book, "The Life 
 
 of Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler." 
 
 November 5, 1928 
 November 4, 1929 
 April 3, 1933 
 October 15, 1934 
 
 March 21, 1938 
 
 December 9, 1940 
 
 March 26, 1928 
 March 6, 1933 
 December 21, 1936 
 November 9, 1942 
 
 April 19, 1937 
 
 May 16, 1932 
 May 14, 1934 
 May 10, 1937 
 May 8, 1939 
 January 27, 194I 
 April 24, 1944 
 
 December 20, 1937 
 October 26, 1942 
 
 May 3, 1926 
 October 29, 1928 
 January 6, 1930 
 
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