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Gardner, John Berdan '51, McElroy, Charles Aloysius, Jr., 51, Post, Michael St. Anthony '49. Putnam, Augustas Lowell '49 (Captain), Soally, Freadis Paul, Jr, Braisted, Richard Chekker '51 (Manager...
Died. John Milton Berdan, 75, longtime Yale professor of English (1903-41); of cerebral thrombosis; in New Haven, Conn. Credited with influencing many well-known writers (Sinclair Lewis, Stephen Vincent Benet, Thornton Wilder) through his popular "Daily Themes" course, Berdan was consulted by Yalemen Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden before they founded TIME...
With fellow Professors Billy Phelps and Johnny Berdan (also retired), who are his whist cronies, Keller has long been one of Yale's greatest teachers. In his famed anthropology and S.O.S. (Science of Society) courses, he has taught some 16,000 Yale men. Honest as an old shoe, gruff Dr. Keller shocked his classes with his hard-bitten views on politics, religion, charity, sentimental humanitarianism...
Short, jut-jawed, gimlet-eyed, Professor Berdan always marches into class with a huge armful of books. Flinging them down, he scrawls an almost unintelligible message on the blackboard (e.g., "Vivify by range of appeal"), then proceeds, with illustrations and gestures, to make his meaning clear to the dullest students. To nip stilted, labored styles in the bud, he opens each year's course by shouting fiercely, "The less work you do in this course, the better." Students like to mimic his lecturing methods. Once, at a Yale Lit dinner, a student representing Professor Berdan came in with...
Fabulously absentminded, Johnny Berdan's behavior caused his friends to form "A Committee for Johnny's Health," which made it its business to see that he wore a hat and coat in cold weather. On one occasion, when Johnny and his wife left hurriedly for Europe, New Haven police phoned him in Manhattan to tell him that he had left his house with the front door and a safe wide open. In his house he has kept from time to time Siamese cats, a snake, a large turtle, a dog, white mice, a complete stock of Italian furniture...