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PAN-AMERICAN GEOLOGIST 
of the groups subscribed support for a period of years. Plans 
were matured for permanent and ample endowment. Editors and 
managers were drafted from the five representative institutions. 
The selection of the editor-in-chief was made mainly because of 
his one-time connection with two of the universities, and his close 
and long association with the founders of the old magazine. Un¬ 
der auspicious environment and conditions the new magazine 
comes back not alone to a former field of endeavor and usefulness 
but to a wider one. Hope is that the trust imposed will amply 
fulfill expectations. 
One untoward incident arises to rufifle the otherwise perfect 
placidity of the geological waters attending the new enterprise 
at its launching. Attention to it would not be called to the matter 
were it not for the fact that generous college men, irrespective 
of their Alma Maters, are placed thereby in the false position of 
disloyalty to their home institutions. Iowa State University, to 
which the great Calvin devoted the best years of his life, will not 
be represented. As originally planned,^ the Iowa University was 
to have editorial representation on the same basis as all the others. 
In view of the circumstances that it was to be a memorial to 
Professor Calvin, his life-associate, the then President Macbride, 
desired that the entire University should share in the plan, and 
with this suggestion there was hearty concurrence. When it 
came to effecting the final arrangements. President Macbride hav¬ 
ing in the meanwhile been made President Emeritus, objection 
to the making of the magazine a Calvin memorial was made on 
the part of the University, and also intimation of refusal to take 
part unless control of the journal was granted. Effacement of 
the memory of its great men is nothing new for Iowa University. 
It has happened repeatedly before. The present instance only 
follows in the wake of the exercise of a similar policy on part of 
the Iowa Geological Survey. It is a very great pity that petty 
personal or fancied grievance should be permitted to outweigh 
the remembrance of a University’s grandest personage in all its 
history. So the seeming disloyalty of college men of the,State of 
' Iowa finds full explanation. 
In general policy the Pan-American Geologist will not be mater¬ 
ially different from what its predecessor was in a former period. 
As in days gone by it serves to continue the role of an open forum. 
