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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
f viii 1
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."
[3]
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
[ II ]
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
[ 1-- ]
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."
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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.
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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
[39]
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, 0 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 ]
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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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