Conrad Aiken was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1889, and was graduated from Harvard in 1912. His books include several volumes of poems, “Earth Triumphant,” “Turns and Movies,” “The Jig of Forslin,” “Nocturne of Remembered Spring,” “The Charnel Rose,” “The House of Dust,” and “Punch: The Immortal Liar,” and one volume of critical essays, “Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry.”
Anonymous, the author of the essay on “Medicine,” is an American physician who has gained distinction in the field of medical research, but who for obvious reasons desires to have his name withheld.
Katharine Anthony was born in Arkansas, and was educated at the Universities of Tennessee, Chicago, and Heidelberg. She has done research and editorial work for the Russell Sage Foundation, National Consumers’ League, The National Board, Y. W. C. A., and other national reform organizations, and is the author of “Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia,” “Margaret Fuller: A Psychological Biography,” and other books.
O. S. Beyer, Jr., was graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology as a mechanical engineer in 1907, and did graduate work in railway and industrial economics in the Universities of Pennsylvania and New York. After some experience as an engineering assistant and general foreman on various railways, and as research engineer in the University of Illinois, he helped organize the U. S. Army School of Military Aeronautics during the War, and later took charge of the Department of Airplanes. He was subsequently requested by the U. S. Army Ordnance Department to organize and operate schools for training ordnance specialists and officers, and in order to conduct this work, he was commissioned Captain. After the termination of the War, he helped promote, and subsequently assumed charge in the capacity of Chief, Arsenal Orders Section, of the significant industrial developments carried forward in the Army arsenals. He has contributed numerous articles to technical periodicals and proceedings of engineering and other societies.
Ernest Boyd is an Irish critic and journalist, who has lived in this country for some years, and is now on the staff of the New York Evening Post. He was educated in France, Germany, and Switzerland for the British Consular Service, which he entered in 1913. After having served in the United States, Spain, and Denmark, he resigned from official life in order to take up the more congenial work of literature and journalism. He has edited Standish O’Grady’s “Selected Essays” for Every Irishman’s Library and translated Heinrich Mann’s “Der Untertan” for the European Library, and is the author of three volumes dealing with modern Anglo-Irish Literature: “Ireland’s Literary Renaissance,” “The Contemporary Drama of Ireland,” and “Appreciations and Depreciations.”
Clarence Britten was born in Pella, Iowa, in 1887, and was graduated from Harvard in 1912 as of 1910. He was Instructor of English in the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, in the Department of University Extension, State of Massachusetts, and in the University of Wisconsin. He has been editor of the Canadian Journal of Music, and from 1918 to 1920 was an editor of the Dial.
Van Wyck Brooks was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1886, and was graduated from Harvard in 1907, as of 1908. He was instructor in English in Leland Stanford University from 1911 to 1913, and is now associate editor of the Freeman. Among his books are “America’s Coming-of-Age,” “Letters and Leadership,” and “The Ordeal of Mark Twain.”
Harold Chapman Brown was born in Springfield, Mass., in 1879, and was educated at Williams and Harvard, from which he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1905. He was instructor in philosophy in Columbia University until 1914, and since then has been an instructor in Leland Stanford University. During the War he was with the American Red Cross, Home Service, at Camp Fremont. He has contributed numerous articles on philosophy to technical journals, and is co-author of “Creative Intelligence.”
Zechariah Chafee, Jr., was born in Providence, R. I., in 1885, and was educated at Brown University and the Harvard Law School. After several years’ practice of the law in Providence, and executive work in connection with various manufacturing industries, he became Assistant Professor of Law in Harvard University in 1916, and Professor of Law in 1919. He is the author of “Cases on Negotiable Instruments,” “Freedom of Speech,” and various articles in law reviews and other periodicals.
Frank M. Colby was born in Washington, D. C., in 1865, and was graduated from Columbia in 1888. He was Professor of Economics in New York University from 1895 to 1900, and has been editor of the “New International Encyclopedia” since 1900, and of the “New International Year Book” since 1907. He is the author of “Outlines of General History,” “Imaginary Obligations,” “Constrained Attitudes,” and “The Margin of Hesitation.”