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Shouldn't a fair write-up have included such noteworthy facts? "Not rich in ... great teachers?" Did you ever hear of the following, to name a few of our great ones: Bode (education) ; Goddard (psychology) ; Osburn (entomology) ; McPherson, Evans, and Henderson (chemistry) ; Hayes (economics) ; French (engineering drawing) ; Leighton (philosophy) ; Hagerty and Stillman (sociology) ; Transeau (botany) ; Spencer (political science) ; Hatcher and Graves (English) ; Alpheus Smith and Blake (physics) ; Ketcham (phonetics) ; Hockett (history) ; Hudson (bacteriology) ; Boiling (classical languages) ? Don't believe us that they're great—consult Who's Who or some impartial educators who should know. We'll be glad to supply the names of others.
As for the student body, if, as you reported, half of our students work their way through, how much time and money do you suppose they have for dances, necking, and 3.2 beer, which anyway are old, but incidental pastimes on any college campus? How much more constructive it might have been to mention that our Student Senate is a model which self-governing organizations all over the country have copied, ditto our fine and unusual fraternity system?
Granted, you're no house organ for any institutions or individuals which you may meet, and that you owe the citizens of Ohio and our far-flung graduate body (42,000, thousands of whom are your readers) no obligation to make them feel good by "constructive" writing. But it might be argued that you owe your subjects a fair break, and it certainly is argued that you owe your readers an honest and workmanlike job of reporting.
Our kick is that you withheld many significant facts from your readers and that you exaggerated out of all proportion the nonessentials here, overlooked or ignored the qualities that entitle Ohio State to respected membership in the American Association of Universities.
JOHN B. FULLEN
Alumni Secretary
The Ohio State University Association
Columbus, Ohio
> TIME had no intention of belittling Ohio State, was impressed by the many and varied services which Alumnus Fullen considers "non-essentials."—ED.
Sirs:
The sons and daughters of the poor farmers, salesmen, teachers, storekeepers, railroaders and small town doctors, so painstakingly enumerated in your article on Service Stations, feel sort of grapes of wrathy. The article reminded us of the report of some dowager (lorgnette and all) who had ventured across the tracks on a slumming expedition. . . .
You have so impressed me with my mediocrity that I am enclosing my renewal subscription. I, too, want to become omniscient.
STEWART A. HOOVER
Columbus, Ohio
Sirs:
During my five years at Ohio State Hennick's did not, as you state in your Jan. 22 issue, sell beer. Do they now? . . .
EDGAR LESHER
Ann Arbor, Mich.
> No. To Hennick's, TIME'S apologies.
—ED.
Sirs:
TIME marches sidewards.
CARMINE F. ORSINI
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Sirs:
TIME marches backwards.
AL TRIZZINO
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Sirs: