Briefly Noted
"Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting of resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace by equals can last The world can be at peace only if its life is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquillity of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right."
So spoke Woodrow Wilson before the U. S. Senate Jan. 22, 1917. The quotation is on pages 184-5 in The Puritan Ethic inUnited States Foreign Policy, edited by David L. Larson '52 (D. Van Nostrand Company, 1966, $2.75, paperback). On page 210 Lyndon B. Johnson is quoted as having said in a speech at Johns Hopkins University April 26, 1965, "We know that air attacks alone will not accomplish all of these purposes [e.g. slow down aggression and increase the confidence of the South Viet-Namese]. But it is our best and prayerful judgment that they are a necessary part of the surest road to peace."
Mr. Larson's purpose was to collect essays to be used as "a critique, a commentary, and a possible remedy for some of the psychological or intellectual weaknesses of the United States foreign policy." In addition to Wilson and Johnson, contributors are Dean Acheson, Edward Hallett Carr, John Foster Dulles, J. William Fulbright, George F. Kennan, John F. Kennedy, David L. Larson, Walter Lippmann, Hans J. Morgenthau, Reinhold Niebuhr, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dean Rusk, and Kenneth W. Thompson.
At the third international conference on the education of professional physicists held in London July 1965, representatives from 25 countries discussed the differences in outlook in their countries and the relations between science and industry as they bear on university training. Sanborn C. Brown '35, Professor of Physics at M. I. T., ana Norman Clarke, Secretary of the International Commission on Physics Education, have edited The Education of a Physicist containing accounts of what took place. It costs $7.50, 185 pages, is published by the M. I. T. Press.
The Trumpeter of Krakow written by the late Professor Eric P. Kelly '06 in 1928 continues to sell well in the new revised edition published by Macmillan, which has also brought out a reissue of At the Sign of theGolden Compass. The London publishers Chatto and Windus brought out a British edition of The Trumpeter last autumn. Mrs. Kelly is presently living in Arizona.
Ralph E. Badger '13 is one of several authors of The Complete Guide to InvestmentAnalysis (McGraw-Hill, 477 pages plus index, 71 illustrations, $14.50), which is largely devoted to the development of working techniques for analyzing the value-determining factors in investment media. The growth of large investment companies and pension funds and the greater emphasis on equity investments by other institutional investors have had an important impact on investment techniques. In brief, here is what a modern investor must know if he hopes to compete successfully in the market as a purchaser of securities.
John C. Lilly '40M is a linguist with a difference. He has devoted himself to studying the language of dolphins and teaching them to understand and respond to human speech. In The Mind of the Dolphin (Doubleday, 336 pages, 32 photographs, $5.95) Dr. Lilly describes a "dolphin telephone" set up between two soundproof tanks. When one dolphin talked, the other listened. A dolphin-research specialist, Margaret Howe, spent two and a half months with a young dolphin named Peter in a specially designed tank. Peter learned to count and to understand the principles of numbers. Peter grew so fond of Margaret that he became jealous when men came to watch the experiment. The book is a sequel to Man and Dolphin, which Dr. Lilly published in 1961.
"What is it? And why?" ask bright young-sters about almost anything: man and his future, ultrasonic sound killing bacteria, algae, a closed ecological system, pseudopolyhedrons. How may educators best stimulate creative ability, scientific thought, and thoroughness and unite them with clarity of presentation and dramatic value? Robert A. Farmer '60 has the answers. With co-author Robert Williams Sawyer, he has written New Ideas for Science Fair Projects, which discusses the nature of research and the scientific approach in chemistry, mathematics, physiology, biology, physics, and medicine. Twenty-two outstanding fair projects and reports by award-winning students are presented. The volume may prove useful at almost any level and age because eager minds will be better able to discover what oceans, mountains, fields, and outer space can mean when sufficient data are collated and analyzed in classrooms and laboratories. The illustrated book of 155 pages (Arco Publishing Co., Inc., New York, $3.95) is a must for all serious participants and would-be participants in local, regional, and national science fairs.
How do you like your murders? Cold and calculating or hot and juicy? You have a rich choice in Murder in Mind, an anthology of mystery stories edited by Lawrence Treat '24, a member of the Board of Directors of the Mystery Writers of America and an MWA award winner. The mystery story, he believes, is "rugged, artful, and limitless both in its subject matter and its potential for development." The 17 authors represented are David Ely, Henry Slesar, James A. Kirch, Lawrence Treat, James Michael Ullman, De Forbes, C. M. MacLeod, Joe Gores, James McKimmey, Walter Snow, James Reach, Richard M. Gordon, Fred S. Tobey, Baynard Kendrick, Bruce Graeme, Ann Loring, and Ellery Queen.
A helpful book for the Connecticut River Valley and Northeast New England is Inbred Yankees: The Story of the Kenersonand Ryder Families and Their New EnglandAncestors, with Personal Reminiscences. The author is Edward Hibbard Kenerson '03 whose father, grandfather, and great-grand-father were residents of Peacham, Vt. Though located mainly in New Hampshire, the Ryder family had one member, a prominent attorney, Herbert Daniel Ryder, Dartmouth 1876 (1850-1923) who settled in Bellows Falls. The Vermont Historical Society publishes the book at $12.
Dr. Kenneth N. Ogle, A.M. '27, Ph.D. '30, is the author of a 372-page volume with 191 illustrations, Oculomotor Imbalance inBinocular Vision and Fixation Disparity, published by Lea & Febiger of Philadelphia. Dr. Ogle is senior consultant in biophysics in the Mayo Clinic, and Professor of Biophysics in the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Minnesota at Rochester.
