12                                   Ge7ze R. Hawes

in the 1930's, out of admiration for the early alumnus who had
become one of the great Founding Fathers and the chief archi¬
tect of the American economy. Painstaking research in progress
since 1955 has completed the manuscript for ten of the volumes.
Reviewers of the seven volumes issued thus far have said that
the series, "seems certain to become one of the century's major
works of scholarly editing," and that it contains, "an historical
record at once illuminating and overpowering."

The spirit behind the Columbia Press continues un-aging
today, though seasoned by more than seventy \ears in his work.
Through those \'ears the patrician gentleman has seen scholars
become more worldly, and the world become more scholarly.
.Most of his titles still serve erudite readers. But an increasing num¬
ber of his publications educate general readers in an age of clearly
increased importance of learning. As in the beginning, his greatest
delight lies in the book well wTOught by a brilliant scholarly mind,
and the greatest wonder he works is continually freeing this
thought, through the power of print, from its limited here-and-
now to benefit whom it will, anywhere, and forever.