200 Harvard Men Contributed To Fourteenth Edition of Brittanica--14 Prominent Faculty Members Among Group

Two hundred Harvard men, more contributors than from any other college, have written articles for the fourteenth edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, according to a recent survey. In all there are 3,700 contributors to the 20-volume thesaurus of knowledge. American contributors number 1,250 and of these 16 per cent., or 200 authorities hold degrees from Harvard.

The earliest contributor to be a graduate was Edward Everett Hale, Class of 1811, later president of the College, who in 1852 wrote a 40,000 word article on "George Washington" for the eighth edition. The first edition appearing in 1768 describes Cambridge as "a town, about three miles west of Boston; remarkable for a university consisting of three colleges." Since 1870 when 75 Americans contributed, of whom 21 were Harvard men, the influence of this continent has increased so that now the Encyclopedia business is owned by Sears Roebuck and Company, although the offices of the editor-in-chief are still in London. F. H. Hopper '83 is the American editor.

Fourteen prominent members of the Faculty appearing as contributors are: J. H. Beale '82, G. D. Birkhoff '05, W. B. Cannon '96, T. N. Carver, hon., Sheldon Cheney Gr. '13, E. F. Gay '08, A. B. Hart '80, W. E. Hocking '01, A. Lawrence Lowell '77, K. B. Murdock '16, Roscoe Pound LL.D. '20, the late J. H. Ropes '89, F. W. Taussig '79, A. N. Whitehead, hon.

Harvard men prominent in other fields of endeavor who wrote are: Gamaliel Bradford '86, Van Wyck Brooks '08, W. R. Castle '00, Simon Flexner '06, W. S. Gifford '05, Walter Hampden '00, Charles Evans Hughes LL.D. '10, Walter Lippmann '10, Kenneth MacGowan '11, Benton Mackaye '00, Andrew W. Mellon hon. '26, Ogden L. Mills '05, D. S. Muzzey '93, General Pershing LL.D. '20, William Lyon Phelps A.M. '91, Owen D. Young LL.D. '24.