Word: kellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sumner himself chose Keller as his successor. He also left his pupil 52 big drawers jammed with 156,000 pages of notes. Keller spent 17 years organizing them and in 1927 produced an immense work in four volumes, Science of Society, which he credited mainly to Sumner. Once, when Connecticut's ex-Governor Wilbur L. Cross intimated at a public meeting that there was more Keller than Sumner in the book, Keller leaped to his feet to denounce the idea. But last week the William Graham Sumner Club (old Sumner and Keller pupils) decided that bluff Bert Keller...
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...
Like Sumner, Keller applied Darwinian theories on evolution and natural selection to man-made institutions, constantly inveighed against pampering weaklings either among men or their institutions. Scorning the word "sociology" as smacking of uplift, Keller and Sumner called their subject societology. Greatest Keller precept, which no Keller student ever forgot, was a ruthless respect for facts and contempt for "thobbery" (i.e., wishful thinking...
Brooking no newfangled teaching notions, Professor Keller for 42 years invariably opened every class with a ten-minute written quiz, even after other Yale teachers had dropped the practice. Generations of his students have had to memorize head measurements, maxillary angles, etc. Possessor of a phenomenal memory, he greeted old grads by recalling their seat numbers and their grades in his courses. He paid no attention to the college rule allowing students on the "dean's list" unlimited cuts; rule or no rule, absentees from his classes got zero. He was not at all disturbed by being deaf. Said...
...final class filed inlast week, Professor Keller gruffly put his last quiz. Question: "It has been stated that the Crow Indians have no religion; what is the evidence?" Quiz and lecture over, the professor bristled and harrumphed: "You have been a good class to conclude with and so we will conclude our relations at this point." (A storm of applause.) Professor Keller peered around the room, cleared his throat: ". . . Some of you and some of your fathers have done some awfully asinine things. . . ." (Deafening applause.) Muttering a farewell, "Non dum emeritus, sed emeriturus, saluto," Professor Keller picked up his books...