Former Members

The Chit Chat Club’s records go back to its founding in 1874. Although the following list of former members and their essays is not complete, it is assumed that it is a nearly complete list of our former members, and includes the titles of over 900 of the estimated 1,500 essays which were written to be presented at our meetings. The Club will be posting as many of these essays as we can find digital copies of over the next few years. If an essay has been posted, clicking on the title should take you to that essay. If you want to read an essay that is listed, but not yet posted, please send us an email to [email protected] requesting that that particular essay be posted, and then that essay will move to the top of our To Do List.

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Arthur Rodgers  (1874)

  • Trade-Unions
  • Confucius
  • Heredity
  • Japanese Literature
    1889
  • The Interstate Commerce Act
    1887
  • The Century’s Progress in the United States
  • Novels and Poetry of Bulwer Lytton
  • The Poetry of Keats
    1879
  • George’s “Progress and Poverty”
    1880
  • Calderon de la Barca
  • California Legends
  • Chinese Literature
    7/1893
  • The Hawaiian Republic
    1895
  • Commercial Education for California
    1897

John Chase Hall  (1874)

  • Political Economy of Adam Smith
    1882
  • The Intellectual Culture of California
  • The New Constitution
    1879
  • The Monroe Doctrine
    1880
  • Montaigne
  • Recent Silver Legislation
    1890
  • The Divine Comedy
    1890
  • The Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton
  • Lord Macaulay
  • Taine’s History of English Literature

Charles Henry Phelps  (1874)

  • The Poetry of the Pacific
  • The Eastern Question
  • On Literature
    1878
  • The French Revolution
    1880
  • The Irish Question
    1880
  • Writings of E C Stedman

Gordon Blanding  (1874)

  • Edmund Burke as a Statesman
  • George Eliot
    1877
  • Intellectual Culture
    1882
  • Lord Byron
  • John C Calhoun

George W Haight  (1875)

  • Michael Angelo
  • An International Code
  • Liberty Not License
    1878
  • Riparian Rights
  • Postal System and Government Control of Telegraphs
    1880
  • Insanity and its Relations to Crime
    1880
  • Presidential Address
    1884
  • The Utility of Forestry
  • Crime and Criminals
    1887
  • Origin and Force of Religious Ideas
    1889
  • The Veto in the Republic
    1890
  • Prehistoric Man
    4/1893
  • The Legal and Political Status of Women
    1895

Eli I Hutchinson  (1875)

  • Speculation as Affecting the Rate of Interest
  • Legal Restraint upon Ownership of Land
  • Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
    1880
  • Recent American Psychical Research
  • The Chinese Question
  • William Lloyd Garrison
    1890

Cameron H King  (1875)

  • Governmental Ownership of Railroads and Telegraphs
  • Municipal Ownership of Water

Calvin E Whitney  (1875)

  • The Double Standard
  • Ruskin’s “Munera Pulveris”
  • Robert Burns
    1880
  • Some Elements of San Francisco’s Growth

Joseph HasBrouck  (1877)

  • Ruskin’s Works
  • Women in American Law
  • The Author of “Friends in Council”
    1879
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
    1880
  • The Protection of the State
    1887
  • Japanese Mythology
  • The Restraint of Trusts and Other Combinations of Capital
    1889
  • Country Roads
    7/11/1892
  • Chancellor Kent
    1894
  • James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier’s Poet
    1896
  • Eugene Field
    1898

Charles A Murdock  (1877)

  • Crime and Treatment of Criminals
  • Decennial Reflections
  • Dowden’s Shakespeare
  • The Moral Element in Political Economy
    1879
  • The Book of Job
    1880
  • The Policy of Protection
    1884
  • On the Chit-Chat Club
    1884
  • Laissez-Faire
    1886
  • Literature Response to Toast
    1887
  • Literature of the Year
    1889
  • Ibsen and his Dramas
    1890
  • Sense and Nonsense
    1891
  • Methods of Crime Prevention
    5/1893
  • Kidd’s Social Evolution
    1894
  • Great Books of the Year
    1895
  • Religion in Business
  • Labor Organizations
    1901
  • Religion in Business
    7/1907
  • The Social Unrest — John Graham Brooks
    9/1909

Frank W Sumner  (1877)

  • The National Banking System of the United States
  • Compte de Paris’ History of the Civil War
  • Irrigation in California
    1880
  • Reform in Municipal Government
    1880

Milton B Clapp  (1877)

  • Laurence Sterne
    1880
  • Ideal Theories of Life and Government
  • Walter Savage Landor
  • The Labor Question
    1889
  • Tolstoi
    1890
  • The Classics in Ancient and Modern Times
    1895

Prof John M Stillman  (1878)

  • Milton in His Time and Ours
    1879
  • Influence of Science on Modern Thought
    1880
  • The Sugar Industry
    9/1893
  • Sonya Kovalevsky
    1895
  • Omar Khayyam and His Interpreters
    1897
  • Some Problems of Co-Education
    5/1902
  • Freedom of Teaching and Learning at the German and American Universities
    1/1908
  • Paracelsus
    1/1910

John L Beard  (1878)

  • Horace
    1879
  • Sugar Production
  • The Future Industries of California
    1880
  • Lieutenant Derby

Frank Prentice Deering  (1878)

  • Our System of Naturalization
    1879
  • On Literature
    1879
  • Arnold’s “Light of Asia”
    1880
  • The Egyptian Question
  • Chit-Chat Club
    1883
  • Tegner’s Fridthjof’s Saga
    1886
  • Our Opportunities
  • The United States; A Nation Among Nations (Oration 15th Annual Dinner)
  • Discovery of America (Oration 18th annual dinner)
  • The Behring Sea Controversy
    1891
  • The New Charter and Municipal Reform
    1894
  • William Watson the Poet
    1897
  • Literary History of America
    1901
  • The New Poets of California
    1903
  • The Progress of Equal Suffrage
    11/1907
  • An American Merchant Marine
    12/1909

James S Bunnell  (1878)

  • The Advent of the Railroad
    1879
  • Civil Service Reform
    1880
  • Ventilation
  • The Jews
  • The Rule of the Newspaper
    1886
  • Thoreau
    1890
  • Manuel Training
    5/9/1892
  • Edmondo de Amicio on Spain
    1894
  • Old World Impressions
    1896
  • Why Community Experiments Have Failed
    1898
  • Kidd’s ‘Principles of Western Civilization’
    7/1902

Charles H Shinn  (1879)

  • Thomas Carlyle
    1880
  • On Literature
    1880
  • Puritans and Quakers in America
    1880
  • Poem for the Evening – Life Thoughts
    1881
  • The Era of Revolt and Reorganization
  • The Pre-Raphaelite School
    1887
  • Utopias - Past, Present, and Future
    1889
  • Poem of the Evening – Opportunity - 18th Annual Dinner Poem
  • Evil Literature
  • Forests and Forestry
    1891

Prof Josiah Royce  (1879)

  • Shelley and the Revolution
    1879
  • Pessimism in Modern Thought
    1880
  • The Aim and General Utility of Philosophical Studies

Joseph Hutchinson  (1880)

  • Equality
    1881
  • American Shipping
  • Recent American Psychical Research
    1887
  • E. R. Sill
    1889
  • Certain Phrases of the Law of Negligence
  • William Lloyd Garrison
    1890
  • Corrupt Practices Acts
    3/1893
  • Dangers of Codification
    1895
  • Edward Lear: a Study in Nonsense
    1897
  • Introduction to 23rd Annual Meeting
    1897
  • The Poems of William Vaughn Moody
    10/1902
  • Education, Higher and Lower
    3/1907
  • Joseph Mazzini
    4/1909

Samuel B Wiggin  (1881)

  • Nihilism
  • On Literature
    1881
  • Poem of the Evening
    1882
  • A Banquet at Peterhof
    1883
  • Grant and Ward
    1885

Joseph LeConte 

  • Science, the Modern Magician
    1877
  • The Higher Utilities of Science
    1881
  • On Science
    1881
  • New Worlds in Time – Response to a Toast
    1892
  • Conservation of Energy
    1894

Horace Davis  (1882)

  • Balance of Power in American Constitutions
  • Surnames
  • The Sonnets of Shakespeare
  • English Domestic Politics
  • Japanese Agriculture
    1887
  • Higher Education of Women
    1889
  • The Classic and the Romantic
    1890
  • Shakespeare and Copyright
    1892
  • California Breadstuffs
    1894
  • The Romance of King Arthur
    1895
  • Medieval Literature
    1895
  • Individualism as a Factor in Society
    1897
  • Marriage
    12/1901
  • An Informal Talk on Egypt
    8/1907
  • The Oregon Trail
    12/1908

Alexander F Morrison  (1883)

  • The Ownership of Railroads
  • The Ownership of Land
  • Materialism
    1887
  • Ballot Reform
    1889
  • The Australian Commonwealth
    12/14/1891
  • Trial By Jury
    8/1893
  • The Monroe Doctrine
    1896
  • Thomas Jefferson
    1897
  • The Women of Shakespeare
    1898
  • Alexander Hamilton
    4/1902
  • Utopia
    9/1906
  • Trusts
    11/1908
  • The Recall of Judges
    1911

Donald Y Campbell  (1883)

  • Bellamy’s “Looking Backward”
    1890
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • The Abbe de Lamennais
  • College Athletics
    3/14/1892
  • The Unemployed and the Industrial Army
    1894
  • Max Nordau; His Literary Criticisms
    1896
  • Recent Developments in Trusts
    1901
  • The Peace Conference at the Hague
    1903
  • Increase of Power in the President of the United States
    8/1908
  • A Glance at Bushido
    9/1910

Samuel O Putnam  (1883)

  • The Problem of Modern Civilization
    1890
  • Swedenborg
  • Appearances
  • Across the Plains in 1850
    4/11/1892

Fred Beecher Perkins  (1883)

  • On Literature – Response to Toast
    1884
  • A New Analysis of Wit and Humor
  • Freedom – Oration 13th Annual Dinner
  • Genius
  • Reform and Reforms - a Classification and Estimate
    1890
  • The Criterion of Historical Research
  • The Qualifications of Voters
    1890

William H Mills  (1884)

  • The Restraining and Remedial Value of Punishment for Crime
  • The American Question
    1887
  • Land; Its Value and Ownership
    1890
  • Large Land-Holdings in California and the Remedy
    1/11/1892
  • John Wesley’s Views of the Development Theory
    6/1893
  • Japanese Competition
    1896
  • The Purpose of the Nation in the Present War
    1898
  • The Passion Play of Oberammergau
    1900
  • The Isthmian Canal
    9/1902

Andrew McF. Davis  (1884)

  • The French as Colonists in America
  • The Higher Education of Women
  • Japanese Agriculture
  • Balance of Power in American Consitutions
  • Shakespeare and Copyright
    12/92
  • Individualism as a Factor in Society
    1898

Thomas F Barry  (1884)

  • Trades Unions
  • Municipal Reforms
    1886
  • Nordau’s “Conventional Lies of Our Civilization”
    1890
  • Railroad Commissions; their Uses and Abuses
    6/13/1892
  • Scenes at Sacramento - Experience of the National Guard
    1894
  • Lecky’s Democracy and Liberty
    1896

Arthur R Briggs  (1885)

  • The Silver Question - Oration 12th Annual Dinner
    1886
  • Public Schools and their Relation to Politics
    1887

Joseph C Rowell  (1885)

  • Chit-Chat Club of the 17th Century
  • The Sonnet in America
    1887
  • California Literature
    1889

Willard B Harrington  (1886)

  • The Surplus Revenue Question
    1887
  • The Observations of Malthus on Population as Verified in the U.S.
    1889
  • Pension Legislation As Affecting Morals and Finance
    1889
  • Arthur Young’s Travels in France
    1890
  • The Political Significance of the Year
    1893
  • Journalism in the United States
    1/1893
  • Merchants
    1894
  • The Gold Standard in California
    1895
  • The Wars of the United States
    1898
  • Raising of Revenue
    1898
  • Edward Fitzgerald
    1901
  • Boston in 1850-1860 and Earlier
    1903
  • Some Observations on the American Stage
    10/1906

Sheldon G Kellogg  (1889)

  • Abigail Adams
    11/1887
  • James Russell Lowell
    12/1890
  • William H. Seward
    10/10/1892
  • Hawaiian Republic and Its Future
    1894
  • Emerson as a Lecturer
  • Race Problems
  • The Results of War in the Orient
  • he Hawaiian Republic and its Future
    1895
  • Achievements of 1893 in International Relations
  • Edmond Burke
    1897
  • The Strength and Weakness of the Nation as Revealed by the War
    1898
  • What the United States is Doing in the Phillipines
    1/1902
  • The Sherman Anti-Trust Law
    10/1902
  • William E Gladstone
    4/1904
  • Recent Art Progress in the United States
    6/1906
  • he Sherman Anti-Trust Law
    10/1902
  • Theodore Roosevelt
    3/1908
  • William Pitt Fassfender
    4/1908
  • “Chinese” Gordon: The 19th Century Knight Errant
    3/1910
  • Camillo Cavour
    5/1910
  • Frederick Ferdinand Low
    10/1916

William Greer Harrison  (1889)

  • Eras of Civilization
    1889
  • American Character and Characteristics- 16th Annual Dinner
    1890
  • Ireland, Ancient and Modern
    8/8/92
  • Samuel Pepys and his Times
    1894
  • The Drama
    1896
  • God’s Atonement to Man
    1901
  • Ireland and the Land Bill
    1903
  • The Highlands of Ireland
    12/1906
  • Before the Gringos Came, and After
    1/1908

James D Phelan  (1889)

  • The Old World Judged by the New
    1890
  • The Columbian Exposition of 1893
    1891
  • Has Woman Any Vocation Outside the Family?
    1893
  • Signs—Political
    1894
  • Why the Charter Should Be Approved
    1896
  • The Perils Arising from Congested Communities
    1898

Henry Gibbons Jr.  (1890)

  • Tea, Coffee, and Tobacco
    1890
  • Is Long Life Worth the Effort to Attain It?
    2/1893
  • Recent Improvements in Medicine
    1895
  • The Propagation of Disease
    1897
  • The Quaker Experiment in Government in Pennsylvania
    1901
  • Infection and Contagion
    1903
  • Laughter and Its Influence
    4/1907
  • Why We are Right or Left Handed
    7/1909

Gerritt L Lansing  (1891)

  • Immigration and Naturalization
    2/8/1892
  • The Railroad’s Right to a Reasonable Rate
    1893

Albert Gerberding  (1892)

  • Utility of Bank Commissions
    9/11/1892
  • The Currency of the United States
    1894
  • Beets
    1896

Eli T Sheppard  (1892)

  • Our Diplomatic and Consular Service
    1894
  • The Corean War
    1894
  • The Pacific Ocean in the Twentieth Century
    1897
  • Ideals of American Diplomacy
    2/1903
  • American Race Problems
    1901
  • “Chinese Gordan”: 19th Century Errant
    1910
  • Frederick Ferdinand Lowe – Financier, Statesman, Diplomatist
    1916
  • Theodore Roosevelt
    3/1908
  • Chinese Gordon, the Nineteenth Century Knight-Errant
    3/1910
  • Prince Ito, the Maker of Modern Japan
    4/1910

O L Elliott  (1893)

  • Possibility of the Millennium
    10/1893
  • Can the Public Protect Itself Against Strikes?
    1894
  • An Old-Time Journalist
    1896
  • Kit-Kat Club 1st Talk at 23rd Meeting
    1897
  • Is Life Worth Living
    1898
  • Are All Men Liars
    2/1908
  • The College Scrap-Heap
    2/1910

Alfred Holman  (1893)

  • The Oregon Country
    1893
  • Changing Society (Oration 20th Annual Dinner)
    1894
  • The Geographical Limits of the Higher Races
    1897

Horatio Stebbins  (1893)

  • The Parliament of Religions — Response to a Toast
    1893
  • War — Response to a Toast
  • Progress of Intellectual Development and Emancipation of Human Thought – Response

Frank J Symmes  (1897)

  • Clubs, and How to Use Them
    1897
  • The Kalevala and the Finns
    6/1902
  • Our Immigration in Light of History
    1906
  • Labor Problems
    1/1907
  • The Pacific Ocean During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
    5/1909

Louis T Hengstler  (1899)

  • Anarchism
    2/1902
  • A Substituted Offering
    5/1906
  • Carrying Civilization Into Africa as Seen by Peter Moor
    9/1908
  • Chesteron, a Twentieth-Century Knight-Errant in Quest of Things That Matter
    10/1910

Alexander G Eells  (1898)

  • John Marshall
    1901
  • Art for Man’s Sake
    1903
  • Comments on the Christian Science Controversy
    10/1907
  • Wendell Phillips and the Anti-Slavery Agitation
    11/1909

Fairfax H Wheelan  (1898)

  • Industrial Betterment
    1901
  • Our Women in the Days of Peril
    7/1906
  • Prolongation of the Recent Chit-Chat Spat in Misfit Civilizations
    10/1908

Prof Clyde A Duniway  (1899)

  • International Conferences
    9/1907
  • Migration from Illinois to Oregon in the Fifties
    9/9/40
  • British American Impressions, Historical and Personal
    12/14/43
  • Tom Paine, Rebel Pamphleteer
    7/10/43

Louis Lisser  (1900)

  • Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and His Works
    1903
  • Social Reform Legislation in Germany
    2/1907
  • Edward Grieg
    8/1909

Harry M Sherman  (1900)

  • A Little More About Heredity
    8/1902
  • A Problem and a Story
    7/1908
  • Under the Microscope of the Carnegie Foundation
    7/1910

Bradford Leavitt  (1901)

  • The New Universe
    1903
  • Mohamed and the Present Advance of Islam
    11/1906
  • The Earliest Individual in History and the Oldest Book in the World
    2/1909

N P Chipman  (1901)

  • The Supreme Court Decisions in the Insular Cases
    1901
  • The Veto of the President: Its Limitations
    1903

Whitman Symmes  (1903)

  • A Business Man’s View of the Philippines
    1903
  • Our Immigration in the Light of History
    12/1907

Prof Henry Morse Stephens  (1907)

  • The Modern Method of Writing and Studying History
    4/1908
  • Impressions of Europe After Sixteen Years of America
    8/1910

Douglass W Montgomery  (1909)

  • The Influence of the Study of Medicine on Rabelais
    1915
  • Some Observations on Wine by the Poet Horace
    1939
  • The Heathen Chinee
    8/11/41

Dr William Palmer Lucas  (1921)

  • The Youth Movement
    4/8/1939
  • What Makes Propaganda Go
    4/13/42
  • Personality and Fitness Evaluations
    10/11/43
  • Dynamic Personalities and Their Influence in Directing the Course of Civilization
    1947
  • San Francisco’s Cultural Patterns as the Background for a World Capital
    11/12/45

Chester H Rowell  (1922)

  • War and America
    1939
  • The Immediate Problems of Aid to Britain
    6/9/41
  • The War Up to Date
    4/12/43
  • The Presidential Campaign of 1944
    9/11/44

William Edward Colby  (1922)

  • Chinese Poetry
    1940
  • Science and Warfare
    6/8/42
  • Some Post-War Problems
    1944
  • The Social, Political, and Moral Aspects of Atomic Fission
    3/11/46

Bishop Edward L Parson  (1922)

  • Lo! The Poor Liberal
    1939
  • Civil Liberties in War-time
    1/12/41
  • The Churches and the Post-War World
    11/8/1943
  • Freedom. What Is It? How Do We Get It?
    1945
  • Reminiscences of Long Ago
    1947
  • Reflections on the Church and State Problems
    11/14/49
  • An Octogenarian in a World in Revolution
    1/14/52
  • Greek Tragedies and Modern Life
    6/14/54

Judge William Denman  (1927)

  • Comments on the Attitude of Two Presidents on War with Germany
    12/8/41
  • Perry’s Invasion of Japan
    8/14/44
  • Andy Furuseth, Abe Lincoln’s World’s Seaman
    1948
  • Minorities Groups in the United States
    6/12/50
  • Attack on the Judiciary and the Bemeaning of the Federal Courts
    9/8/52

Prof Raymond G Gettell  (1927)

  • The US as a World Power
    1929
  • American Political Thought
    11/11/40
  • Shipping in Wartime
    10/12/42
  • The State as Land, Water and Air
    5/8/43
  • 1776-1946; Some Trends in American Political Thought
    7/8/46
  • Some Influences of the Physical Sciences on Political Ideas
    6/14/48

Prof Edwin Angell Cottrell  (1928)

  • National Defense 1917-1941
    3/10/41
  • T.R. to F.D.R.
    2/8/43
  • Problems of the Carribean
    3/12/45
  • Regional Government
    8/11/47

Prof Walter Morris Hart  (1935)

  • Hitler and Macbeth
    2/12/40
  • High Comedy in the Odyssey
    3/9/42
  • Shakespeare and Civilization
    3/8/44
  • Delight of Battle—Homer and Ernie Pyle
    9/10/45
  • Macbeth the Poet
    6/9/47
  • Shakespeare’s Use of Verse and Prose
    5/9/49
  • Essay on Chit Chat
    5/14/51
  • Matthew Arnold and Sophocles
    12/14/53
  • Oedipus
    1956
  • Oedipus and Jocasta
    5/1958

Dr Chauncey D Leake  (1936)

  • Science Implies Freedom
    12/9/40
  • Ethicogenesis
    1942
  • The Psychology of Poison Gas
    8/10/42
  • Academic and Other Freedoms
    12/12/44
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    7/21/52
  • Tissue Culture Cadences
    1954
  • What Gives Moods, Belra Viar
    7/58
  • Organizational Levels of Living
    10/63
  • Why Search and Research?
    6/1966
  • Sterling
    2/1971
  • An Irreverent Reverend: Charles Lutwidge Dodson or Lewis Carroll
    10/13/75

Prof Edgar E Robinson  (1939)

  • The Presidential Vote
    10/14/40
  • What IS History
    9/14/42
  • Shall We Have Universities?
    4/10/44
  • They Voted for Roosevelt
    6/10/46
  • Rise and Fall of American Political Parties
    5/10/48
  • Some Reflections on the Presidency and Some Presidents
    8/14/50
  • On Politics and History
    4/14/52
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    8/9/54
  • Woodrow Wilson
    2/1957
  • Carpe Diem
    3/59
  • Herbert Hoover and the Presidency
    11/60
  • Who Determines Our Foreign Policy
    12/63
  • Is the American Presidency Obsolete?
    9/65

Dr Langley Porter  (1940)

  • Foodstuffs and Society
    8/12/40
  • Early Days of the Chit Chat Club
    1941
  • Timeless Rome in the 1920’s
    9/13/43
  • Some Happenings in 16th Century Rome
    7/9/45
  • The Modern Doctor and His Job
    3/10/47
  • Background of Delinquency
    2/14/49
  • Louis Pasteur
    1/8/51
  • Man Alive
    3/1954

Prof M W Haskell  (1940)

  • Mathematics for the Millions
    1/13/41
  • Albert Schweitzer on Civilization
    12/14/42
  • What to do with Germany
    10/9/44
  • Reminiscences of Student Life in Germany
    1/13/47

Prof John B Condliffe  (1940)

  • War Aims
    2/10/41
  • The Changing East
    1/11/43
  • The Business of Peace
    1944
  • Organizing International Economic Collaboration
    12/1945
  • The International Consequences of Scientific Research
    12/1945
  • The Progress of Creation
    1947
  • Economics of Polarity
    12/13/48
  • The Unbalance of Our World
    3/13/50
  • Palestine and the Near East
    11/10/52
  • The International Consequences of Scientific Research
    12/13/54
  • The Suez Canal
    12/1956
  • The Maoris of New Zealand
    1956
  • On Giving Advice
    1/59
  • The Magic of Science
    10/61
  • The Great Illusion
    9/62
  • The Political Economy of Science
    4/13/1964
  • From Adam Smith to Keynes and After (also given Bohemian Grove)
    1964
  • The Guideline Economy
    3/66
  • Auri Sacra Fames
    6/1968
  • The Parameters of Education
    10/1971
  • Defunct Economists
    5/13/74

Prof D Elton Trueblood  (1941)

  • The Relation between Philosophy and Biology
    10/13/41
  • The Truth About Education
    5/10/43
  • Retirement at Forty-Five
    6/11/45

Prof C Donald Shane  (1941)

  • Time and Tide
    9/8/41
  • Some Comments on the Manhattan Project by an Eye Witness
    2/11/45
  • The Scientist and Society
    1/1948
  • In the Beginning
    12/12/49
  • Comment on “Worlds in Collision”
    3/10/52
  • The Musician of Bath
    5/1954
  • Tom Fraser and the Building of Lick Observatory
    6/1955
  • The Horsemen in Greenland
    9/58
  • Seeing and Sites
    1/61
  • Wineland the Good
    4/63
  • Worlds Without End?
    11/65
  • The Mars Experience
    4/9/73

Osgood Murdock  (1942)

  • How Fare Our Farmers
    7/1942
  • Who’s Boss? Management Now and Tomorrow
    1944
  • How Fervid the Church
    4/1946
  • The Business Man in Post War America
    2/1948
  • Salesmen and Society
    1/1950
  • On Being Elected
    10/13/52
  • Chit Chat’s 80th Birthday
    9/13/54
  • How Far the Sabine Farm
    1956

Prof George J Pierce  (1944)

  • Botany Mother of Science
    1945
  • Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
    1947
  • Responsibility and No Power!
    6/13/49
  • Salt
    12/10/50

Prof Joel H Hildebrand  (1945)

  • The Scientist and the War
    12/10/45
  • How Not to Control the Atom Bomb
    10/13/47
  • Prospecting for Pictures
    11/58
  • Citizens Committee on Elementary Education
    9/60
  • Finding Order in Chaos
    4/62
  • The Use of Models in Physical Science
    11/1964

Dr Salvadore Pablo Lucia  (1945)

  • Fact and Fancy in the Spirit of Wine
    9/9/46
  • The Theriaca
    9/13/48
  • The Physician as a Sociologist
    11/13/50
  • On Tasting Wines
    2/9/53
  • Some Biological Implications of Medical Research
    4/11/1955
  • The Biologist Looks at the Aging Process
    5/59
  • Is Behavior Genetically Conditioned?
    3/61
  • Biologic Potential of Aldehydes
    3/63
  • Fiddle Strings - Odds and Ends
    5/65

Judge Ben C Duniway  (1945)

  • Migration from Illinois to Oregon in the Fifties
    9/9/40
  • British-American Impressions, Historical and Personal
    11/9/42
  • Brave New World
    10/14/46
  • Family Disintegration and the Law
    10/11/48
  • To Be Or Not To Be - Some Thoughts on the Revival of Price Control
    10/9/50
  • Loyalty Oaths
    1/12/53
  • Where There’s A Will
    3/1955
  • Welfare Planning in the Bay Area
    3/1957
  • Current Controversy about the Supreme Court
    4/59
  • Metropolis 1980
    2/61
  • The Problem of Extended Law
    12/1964
  • Student Revolt from the Standpoint of a College Trustee
    12/1966
  • Leadership in Higher Education - The Role of the Trustees
    4/1969
  • Activism
    12/1971
  • Constitutional Crisis - Do We Have One?
    2/12/1973
  • Seven Years on Prisons
    12/9/74
  • Sauce for the Gander
    11/14/77
  • Who is Crippling Whom?
    11/12/79
  • The Barker’s Children
    3/8/82
  • Never More
    10/8/84

Prof Merrill K Bennett  (1945)

  • Some Impressions of Italy under Fascism
    1945
  • Population and Food Supply: The Current Scare
    11/8/48
  • Food and Agriculture in the Soviet Union
    2/13/50

Murray Richards  (1948)

  • World Federal Government: How Melancholy the Knight
    4/11/49
  • Don’t Sass the Upper Class
    4/9/51
  • Honesty as a Foreign Policy
    9/14/53
  • Like A Cigarette Should
    4/1957
  • Some Metamorphoses of an Avatar
    3/60
  • Albigensian and Other Heresies
    10/62
  • “That There Is a There There”
    2/65
  • The Exhausting Life of the First Duke of Castries
    12/10/79

Joseph T O’Connor  (1948)

  • Some Aspects of Legal Ethics
    8/8/49
  • Some Thoughts on Insanity as a Defense in Criminal Cases
    9/10/51
  • Justice Holmes, the Huxleys and Moral Codes
    1/11/54

Prof Harold C Bradley  (1948)

  • Tioga - Today and Tomorrow
    1/10/49
  • Resource Management Come to Mineral Creek
    12/11/50
  • Dinosaur Appraisal - Illustrated
    4/13/53
  • Lost Valley
    1955
  • Testimony Before Congress (Sierra Club)
    4/1957
  • Shrine of Ages
    6/1957
  • Rambles - Here and There
    10/1959
  • Thailand Trivia
    5/1961
  • Utopia
    5/1963
  • Practical Problems With A Family of Boys
    10/1965
  • “Nowhere”- 400 Years Later
    1967
  • “…from whence cometh my help…” Psalm 121
    2/1970

Robert M Searls  (1948)

  • A Lawyer’s View of the Courts
    1940
  • Major Strategy against Japan
    6/8/42
  • Oil For the Lamps of Arabia
    6/12/43
  • Russian–American Relations
    1946
  • Some Philosophical Reflections on Law
    4/48
  • Some Comments on Legal Philosophy
    4/12/48
  • What Effect on Our Economics if Gold Should Be Restored to Free Circulation
    4/50
  • A Lyric Poet in an Iron Age
    2/11/52

Judge Robert McWilliams  (1948)

  • Law in 2000 BC
    10/10/49
  • A Very Short History of Trial by Jury
    11/12/51
  • The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination
    4/12/54

Rev R McMinto  (1949)

  • Raffles: East Indian Pioneer
    5/9/50
  • Coronation Curiosities
    5/12/52
  • Ultima Thule
    2/59
  • Taize: Footnote on Catholic-Protestant Relations
    12/60
  • The Genius of Bad Poetry
    5/64
  • Arms and the Man
    5/66

Edgar M Kahn  (1950)

  • Bret Harte in California - A Character Study
    9/11/50
  • Andrew S. Hallidie, a Forgotten San Francisco Personality
    6/9/52
  • From My Library Shelves
    10/11/54
  • Some Aspects of Robert Louis Stevenson
    1956
  • Reflections of Loyalty
    10/1958
  • Reflections on Living One’s Life
    5/1960
  • A Tourist in Spite of Himself
    5/1962
  • Mr Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
    1/1964
  • Europe in Retrospect
    1/1966
  • Judah P Benjamin - A Struggle Against Adversity
    3/1968
  • Portsmouth Plaza - San Francisco’s Most Hallowed Ground
    11/1969

John R May  (1950)

  • Private Philanthropy and Rigor Mortis
    2/12/51
  • Congressman Cox Investigates the Foundation
    5/53
  • Malice in Wonderland
    9/55
  • Hoopa
    11/59
  • Jim Crow - Whose Problem?
    9/1961
  • A Republic In Terror
    9/64
  • Foundations and Government: The Third Round
  • “...out of void of darkness without sound...”
    9/1969

Dean Lloyd Luckmann  (1950)

  • Democracy’s College
    6/11/51
  • Can We Really Educate Via Television
    3/9/53
  • Ten Years With and Without the U.N.
    11/8/54
  • Courage as A Means to Peace
    2/1957
  • Emotion of the Educative Process
    6/59
  • A New Children’s Crusade?
    4/61
  • Mater and Magister
    11/61
  • On Banning the First Use of Nuclear Weapons
    11/63
  • Never Trust Anyone Over 30
    4/66

William B Kuder  (1950)

  • Was Tojo Murdered? Legal Bases of War Crimes Trials
    10/8/51
  • Power - Electrical and Political
    2/8/54
  • Aristotle Poetics
    10/1956
  • Plato’s Republic
    12/58
  • Bacon and Descartes - Induction and Deduction
    10/1960
  • Deep Springs and Summerhill
    1/1963
  • The Great American Intertie
    3/1965
  • The Bent Twig
    12/1967
  • The Ties That Bind
    9/1970
  • Chit Chat Club — The First Quarter Century
    11/13/72
  • On Essays
    6/10/74
  • Centennial Chit Chat
    11/11/74
  • Gods, Heroes and Monsters
    4/9/79
  • The Bible: Fact or Fiction?
    4/13/81
  • Adventure and Satire
    12/83
  • Austen-Trollope
    4/7/86

Prof Harold H Fisher  (1952)

  • Some Impressions of Italy Under Fascism
  • What Is Old in New Russia?
    6/8/53
  • Politics and Technology
    1955
  • The Case of the Eccentric Earl
    3/58
  • This Is Your Life
    5/60
  • Conquest of Violence
    2/63

Ira B Joralemon  (1953)

  • The Haves and Have Nots
  • No Longer Backward; the Problem of Native Labor
    1956
  • Salting
    4/1958
  • What’s In A Name or the Irresistible Mean
    4/1960
  • Forever Hungry
    11/62
  • An Old Stamp Album
    12/1964
  • The Cows of India
    1/1967
  • The Itch of Youth
    2/1969
  • The Price
    3/1971

Frank H Sloss  (1954)

  • Opera for Opera Sake
    1955
  • What Pharoah’s Daughter Started
    2/1958
  • The Rocky Road to the Courthouse
    5/1958
  • Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair
    1/1960
  • Gilbert and Sullivan in Retrospect
    12/1961
  • “Seek Not to Question”
    2/1964
  • Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing
    2/1966
  • Rings (Wagner and Tolkien)
    12/1970
  • Locus Sigilli
    10/9/72
  • Forgotten Men
    4/8/74
  • Stellar (Bio of Arctic Explorer with Bering)
    5/10/76
  • A Piece of Paper
    4/10/78
  • Exploring the Cosmos With Lewis and Clark
    5/12/80
  • Step by Step From Stem to Stern
    10/11/82
  • It Ain’t Necessarily So
    9/9/85

Dr. Frank Gerbode  (1956)

  • Barbizonia
    2/60
  • Cold Heart
    1/62
  • Crisis at the University of California
    1/1965
  • Animals and Man
    10/9/1967
  • Medical Manpower in Our Changing Times
    11/1970
  • Traveling Behind the Iron Curtain
    4/10/72
  • The Barking Dog
    1/14/74
  • In Pursuit of Aphrodite
    1/12/76
  • International Training of Surgeons
    2/13/78
  • Heredity and Environment
    4/14/80
  • Who Done It?
    1/10/83

Rev. C. Julian Bartlett  (1960)

  • The Fourth “R” - A Plea for Total Education
    3/1962
  • A Christian’s View of the Racial Crisis
    6/1964
  • Ethics and Power - the Shaping of Decision
    11/1966
  • Changing Religion in a Changing Society
    3/1969
  • To Melt or Not to Melt - That’s Not the Question
    3/12/1973
  • “Somewhere West of Laramie”
    3/10/80
  • Have You Tried the Preria Spring Lately?
    6/82
  • Evolution in Light of Religion
  • Compulsory Military Service
    1/8/45
  • A Free and Responsible Press
    4/14/47
  • Some Notes on U.S. Foreign Policy
    3/12/51
  • How Free Is the Press?
    6/8/53
  • Ars Piscatoria
    1955
  • John Peter Zenger
    10/1959

Dr J B Saunders  (1960)

  • 30,000 Years, More or Less
    2/62
  • Above and Beyond the Greasy Grey
    3/64
  • Miiba Minga - Many Thorns
    9/66
  • Progress
    1977
  • Why?
    4/82
  • A Sarga
    1985
  • Heads or Tails or High-Brows, Low-Brows and Egg-heads
    1986

Henry Evers  (1967)

  • The Gold Bug
    4/1968
  • Cryptology
    1968
  • Jack London - Man Overboard
    11/1970
  • Francisco Solano
    1973
  • The Bear Flag Revolt
    10/14/74
  • Polo Anyone?
    1/8/79
  • Two Bits a Ride
    4/83
  • Another Game?
    11/11/85
  • An Auricular Problem on What Did You Say?
    1990
  • The Millenium Problem
    2000

Willard F Hamilton 

  • Rare and Well Done
    9/76
  • Remember the Hummingbird...And Other Fables
    1978
  • Shepherds Loaves, and Fishes
    9/8/80
  • Dealer’s Choice
    2/14/83
  • The Man in the Orange Coat
    3/11/85

Prof Thomas H Jukes 

  • Lean and Flashy Songs
    11/10/75
  • A Wandering Vine
    1/9/78
  • In Solemn Silence
    2/11/80
  • Followers of Procrustes
    5/10/82
  • Devil In Deerskins
    12/10/84
  • The Purple Land: A Visit to Argentina
    4/86
  • The Friendly Arctic
    8/87
  • The Hidden Hunger
    9/11/89
  • The George Miller Committee Hearings
    9/6/90
  • Know Then Thyself
    9/9/91
  • Agenbite of Inwit
    9/13/93
  • The Search For Life
    9/11/95

Prof. Al Jonsen  (1974)

  • Fetuses, Physicians and Felons: An Exploration of the Ethical Dative
    3/8/76
  • Pirates, Priests, Presidents and Professors
    1977
  • The Cloning of Coblentz
    1982
  • He Doesn’t Eat Here
    1984
  • Mens et Mensa: A Philosophico-Theological Reflection
    5/11/86
  • The Ethics of Divine Politicians
    1987
  • Cell Wars
    2001
  • The Wittiest Ethicist
    2004
  • A Wisdom Gay and Sociable
    12/13/06
  • A Damnable Paradoxe
    4/13/09
  • The Spotless Mind
    1/9/12

Richmond Prescott, M.D.  (1974)

  • Test entry 2
    342093480
  • Prince Lockheed
    March 1977
  • A Hogshead of Sense
    May 8, 1978
  • The Best Offense
    June 9, 1980
  • Einthoven, Enthoven, and Entitlement
    January 11, 1982
  • Whiteness
    October 1983
  • The Principle of Self Interest Rightly Understood: DeToqueville Revisited
    February 10, 1986
  • Antis
    May 9, 1988
  • Story Telling: Nothing But the Truth
    November 4, 1990
  • Hillary, Jackson Hole and the Newly Independent States
    October 11, 1993
  • Two Angry Men
    October 12, 1995
  • Absurdity and Meaning
    March 9, 1998
  • Capital Punishment
    November 8, 1999
  • The Self Shelf
    October 10, 2003
  • Outraged Lamentations
    December 12, 2005
  • Why Poetry?
    2008
  • Homo Economicus
    October 11, 2010

Judge Joseph Sneed  (1974)

  • Not With My Crowd You Don’t
    6/14/76
  • Not Good Behavior
    9/11/78
  • Light In the Dark
    1/12/81
  • Some Roots of Dallas
    5/83
  • Would You Vote for Alcibiades or Talleyrand?
    10/11/85
  • The Bonaparte Who Was A Poet
    2/22/88
  • The Children of Promise
    3/13/95
  • The Supreme Court: Past, Present and Future
    1/96
  • Rivalis
    10/97
  • God and Caesar - A Recent Confrontation
    4/12/99
  • A Story of the Sneeds
    1/02

Elmer P Wheaton 

  • Back to the Ocean
    6/11/79
  • The Quest for the Spice of Life
    3/81
  • Chicken Liken
    11/83
  • A Needle to the Star
    3/10/86
  • The World’s Oldest Industry
    6/15/88
  • The Apocalyptical 21st Century
    12/8/90
  • 500 Years of Baja California History
    4/12/93
  • Father Eusabio Francisco Kino
    11/12/95

Judge Charles Renfrew 

  • Exploration – On Richard F Burton
    1979
  • A More Fatal Disease than Cholera, Typhoid Fever, and the Rest Put Together
    12/14/81
  • Tis Not the Drinking that is to Blame, but the Excess
    1984
  • Well O’er the Water, Well O’er the Sea
    1985

Theodore Eliot 

  • Does Life Begin at 40?
    1987
  • 406, 56, And All That
    3/90
  • Melting Pot or Salad Bowl?
    9/14/92

Stephen L Swig 

  • You Have the Right to Remain Silent
    2/9/87
  • I Think I Shall Never See
    5/8/89
  • A Life of Fiber
    3/9/92

Prof John McCosker 

  • Goethe’s Final Words
    11/9/81
  • From the Tidepool to the Stars
    9/10/84
  • The Sausalito Hum
    4/13/87
  • Sharks: Myths and Maneaters
    10/9/89

Mason Willrich 

  • Is a Safety Catch Enough?
    3/84
  • Murder in Acre
    2/13/89
  • North America on the Fast Track
    5/13/91

Judge Ed Stern 

  • A Question of Conscience and Ethical Considerations in Relation Thereto
    4/13/92

Wade Dickinson  (1978)

  • A Leader Great And Small
    6/83
  • The Second Half...Computers
    12/9/85
  • Blind Man’s Bluff
    10/99

Prof Kevin Starr  (1980)

  • Frank Norris and the Composition of McTeague
    October 1981
  • Seeing Is Believing
    April 1984
  • The Relationship Between Popular and Sophisticated Culture: A Personal View
    June 14, 2016

William R. Reilly  (1980)

  • A Greed for History
    September 14, 1981
  • Trying to Make a Dollar out of 16 Cents
    May 9, 1984
  • So long, and thanks for all the fish
    January 14, 1985
  • Epicurean Delights
    1989
  • What A Difference a Dollar Makes
    November 13, 1989
  • “Plain Living and High Thinking”
    January 1992
  • First Emperor of China
    1992
  • Sugar Plums - Majalos
    October 14, 1996
  • A New Future
    January 11, 1999
  • Chit Chat Club History Updated
    2000
  • Presidential Powers
    June 12, 2006
  • Horace Davis
    March 9, 2009

Prof Andrew Jameson  (2010)

  • The Codus Sinaiticus and the Monastery of St. Catherine
    1995
  • Islam
    1/11/04
  • Samuel Pepys: His Diary and His Library [Not submitted due to illness and health]
    4/9/13

Michel Laguerre 

  • Business and Corruption: Framing the Haitian Military Question
    1994
  • The Informal City: The Implosion of Urban America
    1996
  • Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology
    2000

Darrell Solomon  (1985)

  • An Elegant Theory
    5/13/85
  • Food For Thought
    1987
  • Tocsin
    9/28/90
  • “One Day Earlier”
    1/14/91
  • A Dagger of the Mind
    4/10/95

Monsignor Stephen Otellini 

  • Views from Africa
    1994
  • Nowhere Man
    6/10/96
  • The Pride of Rome - Considerations on the Pantheon
    9/14/98
  • The Honest Spy
    2/12/01
  • Revisiting the Revision
    3/10/03

Judge John T Noonan  (1987)

  • Bribery
    1987
  • The Founder of the Other Chit Chat Club
    2/90
  • True Confessions
    1992
  • The Mermaid on the Dolphin’s Back
    1996
  • The Gladstone Club
    1/8/01
  • “The Bird of Loudest Lay” - A Detective Story
    12/08
  • “You May Have The Body”
    5/9/11

Rev. R. Calvert Rutherford  (1992)

  • Triumph of Belief Over Reality - The Strange Story of Santiago de Compostela
    1993
  • The Inventors of Romantic Love: The Troubadors of Occitania
    1996
  • Saved By an Earthquake
    2/9/98
  • A Celebration of Life
    2000
  • India: The Land of Extremes
    9/10/01
  • From Frances to Perry
    10/11/04
  • All States Are Not Created Equal
    2/12/07
  • An Historical Crime
    1/12/09
  • Walls
    9/12/11
  • The Pursuit of Happiness
    11/13

James Morse  (1995)

  • Are All Men Created Equal?
    4/11/1988
  • Gettysburg - What If?
    1992
  • Capitalism
    3/11/98
  • The New Millenium
    1/10/2000
  • We Need A Good War
    2004
  • Inflation Causes and Effects
    1/08/07
  • Abraham Lincoln, What If?
    6/8/2009

Judge William Schwarzer  (1995)

  • Bosnia - Cauldron or Crucible
    December 1995
  • Smoke and Mirrors
    May 1997
  • In Search of Equality
    March 1999
  • Follow the Money
    June 11, 2001
  • NATO and the Trans-Atlantic Divide
    July 2003
  • The Crime of Punishment - Thoughts on Criminal Justice
    January 2006
  • The Rise of the Supreme Court
    October 2007
  • Mr. Polk’s War
    December 14, 2009
  • The Most Hated Man in England
    February 13, 2012
  • A Thumbnail History of Islam
    March 12, 2013
  • Understanding Sharia: The Sacred Law of Islam
    March 11, 2014
  • A Lost Chance
    January 13, 2015

Tom Benet  (1999)

  • Poetry — An Elusive Task
    February 12, 2001
  • Where Did the Thunder Go?
    May 14, 2001
  • The Curse of the Wiki
    March 2006
  • Science 101
    September 8, 2008
  • Thank you! Thank you!
    February 15, 2011
  • An Enormous Dog
    October 8, 2013
  • The Way of Words
    December 8, 2015

Albert J. Horn  (2001)

  • The President and the Emperor
    9/8/03
  • Should We or Should We Not? On Estate Taxes
    4/10/06
  • Betrayal
    2008
  • E Pluribus Unum
    4/11/2011

Theodore Kitt  (2002)

  • A San Francisco Renaissance Man: The Willis Polk Story
    2005
  • Michael O’Shaughnessy - Biography of a Chit Chat Club Member
    9/09

Andy McLaughlin, Ph.D.  (2003)

  • An Examination of the American Character
    3/05
  • Thoughts on Formation of the State of Iraq
    2/08
  • Wet-Dry, Silver-Lead
    6/14/2010

Gray Patton, M.D.  (2003)

  • The Gene in the Bottle
    4/11/05
  • By the Light of the Moon
    2007
  • Fish out of Water
    3/8/10

David M. Hartley  (2011)

  • Dewey Beats Truman: That’s One for the Books
    February 12, 2013
  • The Shot Heard ‘round the World
    September 8, 2015
  • Secrete Cities of the Manhattan Project
    February 13, 2018