TBH & BK

Fortnight ago, Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, put Science and Industry in their places in a speech to U. S. life insurance presidents (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week Scientist Millikan, speaking before a Manhattan meeting of Phi Beta Kappa alumni, related Science and the Humanities. Himself a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi (science honor society), he suggested that since modern science owes its beginnings to oldtime scholars of the humanities, the two branches of knowledge should come in closer contact today through a union of Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic society, and Tau Beta Pi, engineering honor fraternity. "Science and humanism must be linked together in our thinking. ... In that marriage, I suggest that Phi Beta Kappa as the older society be given the rights of the male; that is, the giving of the name to the family." Famed Tau Beta Pi members include: Robert Andrews Millikan,* Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Leo Hendrick Baekeland (bakelite),* President Harold Sherburne Boardman of University of Maine, the late George Washington Goethals (builder of Panama Canal),* the late Charles Proteus Steinmetz,* John Hays Hammond,/- Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of Cornell's engineering college,* the late Elmer Ambrose Sperry./- Architect Irving Kane Pond, Bridge Builder Ralph Modjeski,* President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories,*President Charles Russ Richards of Lehigh University, Irving Langmuir of General Electric.

* Honorary members. /-Members with Distinction, new title used since 1925 instead of Honorary Member.

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