Only one further step was required to reach the stage described by Scott Buchanan in 1932 (America as Americans See It, ed. F. J. Ringel, New York, 1932) when the spirit of American thought came to be dominated by (1) Russian Jewish immigrants who found intellectual American life "thin," (2) middle and far western American students who substituted romantic idealism for their Protestant faith and went mentally bankrupt in eastern schools, and (3) eastern students who went to Europe for thrills or Ph.D.'s and came home in a state of shock.
David H. Stewert











