Richard Elwell Banta

While a student (1921-1925),[6] he contributed articles and illustrations to The Chicago Daily News, College Humor, and Weird Tales.

[2] After starting advertising, publishing, and book-selling businesses, Banta worked for the college under President Frank H. Sparks from 1937 to 1955.

He saw nothing beneath the surface faults; he never succeeded in coming even near to transcribing the speech, or understanding the motives of Midwesterners; he was pretentious and he was a bit spiteful."

(p. 142), "Oliver [Johnson] probably knew a great deal about early school, while Eggleston, writing 'The Hoosier Schoolmaster', was experienced only as a door-to-door Bible salesman at the time he wrote.

(p. 504, referring to a piece by Oliver Johnson) and Theodore Dreiser: "[Corbin Patrick] delivered this appraisal of Indiana's problem child of letters: it is probably the perfect expression of the mingled respect and distaste with which the average literate Hoosier regarded the subject [Theodore Dreiser] during his life."