1916

This is the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE before the summer vacation, and it will be up to the decision of the class officers whether it will be continued or discontinued in favor of Newsletters only, thus leaving this valuable space to younger classes which crowd into the back pages of this section as Time pushes us gradually towards the front of the book.

Bob English, Jack's son (one of them), is a singing member of the Klamath Falls Chapter of S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A., Inc. He sang in their "parade" April 2. I am indebted to Clint Greenwood for news of our distinguished classmate, Prof. Edward C. Kirkland, who, as you all know, followed a distinguished bit of service in World War I with a long period of distinguished service as professor of history at Bowdoin. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1955-56, and plans to use his fellowship in a study of attitudes and policies of the business community in the United States from iB6O to 1900. The fellowships are awarded to persons "who have demonstrated high capacity for original scholarly research and artistic creation." Ed is now in his 25th year of teaching at Bowdoin, and will continue on the faculty for the four years remaining before reaching retirement age. He will do no more teaching, but will continue work on two projected books, and will also give a series of six lectures at Cornel], to be published later in book form. In 1956-57 he will go to England as Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge.

Ed has been Frank Munsey Professor of History at Bowdoin since 1931. He has won numerous honors, such as the presidency of the American Association of University Professors, membership in the Senate of United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, and the advisory committee of Columbia University's American Academic Freedom Project. He has been a special lecturer at Wisconsin University, University College in London. He is a past president of the Economic History Association, vice president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, and a member of the Council of the American Historical Association. Books he has authored include A History of American Economic Life, ThePeacemakers of 1864, Brunswick's Gilded Age and Men, Cities and Transportation, described as a monumental study of transportation in New England from 1820 to 1900. How much can one man do in a lifetime? And Ed is not through yet.

Another '16er who continues to win honors in his chosen field is Ros Magill, who as legal representative of Prof. George Winchester Stone Jr. '30, of the George Washington University, brought a test case before the Tax Court of the United States, to determine whether the recipients of grants from philanthropic organizations for fellowships in research and study are exempt from paying income tax on them. Professor Stone had received a grant of $1,000 from the Guggenheim Foundation for research in dramatic productions in London from 1600 to 1800. The Commissioner of International Revenue has ruled that such grants were income and not gifts, and Ros Magill has succeeded in having the Tax Court reverse this ruling. The entire Tax Court reviewed the case; this is a sixteen-judge court and only five of them dissented from the decision. The importance of this legal victory for Magill and the principle he advocated can hardly be overestimated in its bearing on independent cultural research by men magnificently equipped for it in every way except financially. It is an interesting fact that one of the Tax Court Judges is Clarence Opper '18. I do not know how Clarence stood on the question, but he is a "brain" in his own right.

The Winchester Post of the American Legion recently held a concert which featured the Reading, Mass., chapter of the S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A., Inc. This concert, as I understand it, was to raise funds in memory of members of the Post who lost their lives in the service of the country, and among those listed was Dick's son John Parkhurst, who was one of those making the supreme sacrifice.

By the time you read this, the Alumni Fund will be nearing its end for 1955. If you have not already sent in your contribution, or if it is not what your self-respect demands of you, do your part now. There will never be another 1955.

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