Philo Melvin Buck

professor, author, b. Morristown, N.J. The son of a missionary family, he spent his youth in India. He attended Gettysburg College (1893-1895) and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan Univ. (A.B., 1897; A.M., 1898) and Harvard Univ. (A.M., 1900). He taught English in the St. Louis, Mo., high schools (1900-1910). Except for service in the army during World War I (1917-1919), he was a faculty member at the Univ. of Nebraska (1910-1925), and was dean of the college of arts and science (1919-1924). In 1926 he came to the Univ. of Wisconsin to establish a department of comparative literature, and was professor of comparative literature until his retirement in 1947. He was the author of several books including Literary Criticism (1930), Social Forces in Modern Literature (1913), and Directions in Contemporary Literature (1942). He was exchange professor at Baroda College, Bombay, India (1922-1923), and was widely popular as a lecturer over radio station WHA in Madison. Who's Who in Amer., 25 (1948); Madison Wis. State Journal, Dec. 10, 1950; Dir. Amer. Scholars (1942); N.Y. Times, Dec. 10, 1950.1