Wyzanski Urges Free Association as Phi Beta Kappa Elects 41 Members

Forty-one students joined the ranks of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Chapter at ceremonies in Sanders Theatre Monday morning. The recipients, including members of six different classes, heard speeches by Judge Charles E. Wyzanski '27, Dean-elect Bender, and the reading of a poem written for the occasion by Mark Van Doren. Chapter President Ralph Lowell '12 presided at the meeting.

Judge Wyzanski delivered the keynote address on the subject, "How Much Freedom of Association." He traced the constitutional history of free association, finding it an important although not inalienable right during the period of this country's rise.

During the early years of Americas's development, individual initiative and enterprise were more important than group action, he said, but modern society demands group action as the intellectual and social spearheads of development.

Dean Bender spoke to the Phi Beta Kappa recipients, urging that honor grades are not the only criterion of success, but admitting that his experience had proved there was all apparent inverse ratio between brains and brawn.

Mark Van Doren read his poem, "The Case Is New," followed by prayers by Reverend William H. P. Hatch '98. The meeting was followed by a luncheon for members of the Society in the Warburg Room of the Fogg Museum.

New Members

The following are the members of the Classes of '40 through '48 who joined the chapter at the Monday ceremonies in Sanders Theatre:

Class of 1940

James MacKinnon Gillespie, Andover.

Class of 1944

Francis Bontecou Held, Columbus, Ohio; Paul Walton Jones, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Class of 1945

Jean-Paul Barricelli. Cleveland; Stanley Vergil Baum, Shaker Heights, Ohio; Wilbur Arnold Cowett, Springfield; Reger Lamont Creighton, Belmont; Sumner Lee Feidberg, Newton; Irvin Milton Horowitz, Elizabeth, N. J.; James Murray Howe IV, Clearwater, Fla; Hugh Montgomery, Windsor Locks, Conn.; Whitson Makamic Overdash, Jr., Springfield, Tenn.; Armand Schwab, Jr., New York City; Charles William Stuart Talt, Roxbury; James Walter Warwick, Toledo, Ohio.

Class of 1946

Warner Bement Berthoff, Worthington. Ohio; Warren Bruce Cheston, Rochestor, N. Y.; Stuart Hamilton Cleveland, Hallowell, Mc.; Robert Paul Davis, Dorchester; Christopher Dean, Boston; Marc George Dreyfus, Brooklyn; Robinson Oscar Everett, Durham, N. C.; Edward Alvin Ward Franklin, New York City; Victor Mainard Kimel. Allston; Richard Gordon Kleindienst, Winslow, Ariz.; Richard Reinhold Niebuhr, Hamden, Conn.; Philip Maurice Stern, New Orleans; John Wermer, New York City

Class of 1948

Donald Watson Blackett, Newtonville; Richard William Kislik, New York City; John Hood Ryther, Watertown; Jules Martin Weiss, Kew Gardens, N. Y.; George Austin Willenbrink, Louisville.