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Vol. LXXXIII Gambier, Ohio April 11, 1957 No. 10 FREEDOM' GETS A WORKOUT WITH KENYON ACTING AS HOST Program, College Make Weatherman Adverse; Impression On Guests; College Rolls Out Time To Tell Result Carpet For Visitors The concepts of freedom were The rain was beating and crying tossed about by 1 3 speakers and ap- about the April mud of Kenyon proximately 150 guests at the Con- during the Conference on the ference on the Essentials of Free- Essentials of Freedom. The wind dom this past week. In Rosse Hall, drove dead branches and bark to the official conference meeting t IK the college pathways and hurried ground; Peirce Hall, the formal those attending the conference along social headquarters, the huge tent their way. Although the bitterest outside Rosse Hall, "coffee break" of Gambier weather prevailed, the headquarters, and dormitories, fac- j warm display Kenyon presented ulty homes, and other locales, - V 1 offset the contesting blasts. people talked and thought about what "freedom" really meant. A great deal has been said, After the participants, spectators, filmed, and written concerning the and administrators of the confer- nature of the essential freedoms

four-da- and the ence wound up the y meet- portion each segment of ing with the Sunday noon meal, it society is required to sacrifice to was certain that the speeches, formal maintain those freedoms. But what

Ken-yo- was and informal discussion, and n the conference per se? As the had made an impression. introductory session indicated, this conference was a memorial and The 1 3 speakers, who came from fulfillment of the ideals many walks of life, left with their Remodeled Rosse Hall Scene of Conference of the late Dr. Chalmers. points modified and enriched by Our sixteenth president points of their colleagues on the Chamber Group organized the Kenyon Industrialists, Economist conferences and platform and the somewhat stifled Plays Sunday this year's meeting was to be the greatest of his under- discussion. The spectators left The Oxford String of Receive Honorary Degrees Quartet takings. Apart from the ideals, with mixed ideas about freedom Miami University will be featured Three American industrialists and a British economist were awarded opinions, objectives, and accom- after being subjected to a large at the sixth and final concert of the degrees by the this as Con- plishments of the stream of ideas about it. Most were honorary college past Saturday part of the gathering, this 1956-5- 7 season this Sunday at 2:30 ference on the Essentials of Freedom. Recipients of the doctor of laws is a little of the scene as it ap- unsure yet as to just what they had p. m. in the Great Hall. degree were Frank Abrams, Crawford Greenewalt, Charles F. Kettering peared during the 1957 production. heard. The next week, month, and According to Dr. Paul Schwartz, and Barbara Ward. year will determine whether they SPEAKER GIVES head of the Department of Music, Rosse Hall Festive will digest what they have heard The awarding of the honorary this will be the first performance by Elderly dowager Rosse Hall in into a more understandable and ap- degrees took place by special action BOOST TO FUND this chamber music organization on plicable of freedom. of faculties since very rarely her new spring dress served as concept the Dean Finkbeiner announced this the Kenyon campus. Their ap- hostess at all of the sessions; there does the college confer degrees Al-brec- past week that Dr. Earl C. ht, pearance is in response to numerous leading men and women in all fields For additional coverage of the other than at commencement. One the March 26 assembly requests for a string quartet, he said. of endeavor converged to hear Conference on the Essentials of of the few exceptions was the degree speaker, had generously given his The group will perform a quartet declarations and reaffirmations of Freedom by the Collegian's of doctors of laws awarded to honorarium for the lecture to the by Haydn, the Third Quartet by various principles of importance to special conference staff on Henry Andrew Carnegie in April, 1906 on Hungarian Refugee Fund. Quincey Porter, and Schwartz's essential freedom. New Rosse Hall Steck, Dick Freidman, Melvyn Staunton Memorial Day. Dr. Albrecht, director of the "Quartet in Two Movements." Baron, Shannon and pho- with her dusky rose carpet, the an- Wayne Mr. Abrams is a former chair- Ohio Department of Mental Hy- Members of the chamber group Dave see nex headquarters, and the canvas en-trancew- ay tographer Canowitz, man of the board of directors of the giene and Correction, told the stu- are Elizabeth Walker and Adon contained body pages 3 and 4. the main Standard Oil Company of New dent body that some of the scope and Foster, violins ; Joseph Bein, viola, of conference activities. Peirce Hall Jersey and has also served as direc- importance of the work the state of and Elizabeth Potteiger, 'cello. of turned in a marvelous performance, The administrators, most tor and chairman of the Ford Ohio is carrying in the fields by preparing the finest meals in her whom have not left and will not Foundation's Fund for the Advance- handled by his department. He history. Sherry, turkey, steak, and until Kenyon has ended its year in of Education. Since 1952 he stated that the three main areas Architecture ment coffee are a June, a relief as gallons of free but breathed sigh of has served as a trustee of the were the mental hospitals, the pris- few of the culinary wonders of the the last guest was guided safely foundation itself. His citation for ons, and the reformatories for juv- Talk Set Fri. past week. The library and book- out of Gambier and the frightening by Acting enile delinquents. Students can get an informative the degree, presented books writ- de- and con- shop set about reviving piles of paper work began to President Bailey, commended Mr. Well armed with statistics and interesting appraisal of ten by conference guests and Ken-yonite- s, crease, rather than increase as they Abrams for his influence under certainly dedicated to his work, the temporary architecture Friday, April have 12 at 8 Hall and conspicuously displayed over the last few months. which, "the might of American speaker emphasized that there are p. m. in Philo when C. assistant these writings about their shelves. The busiest man of all and the industry has been marshalled to the opportunities for college graduates Pierre Zoelly, film-televisi- Col- A on company estab- guiding genius behind the whole! of higher education." from almost every field in his de- professor of architecture in the support lished its headquarters in Philo affair can take credit for a job partment. lege of Engineering at the Ohio

well-don- Official Hall; there WSOU conducted e; du miraculously but his jobi Greenewalt Pont Dean Finkbeiner has indicated State University, will speak "Of interviews with various i conference is not finished yet. Professor Ray- - Mr. Greenwalt has been presi- that there would be some definite Joints." speakers and personalities. This mond English, who has directed the dent, chairman of the executive information in the near future in Professor Zoelly, a native of was the physical plant: silence signs fortunes of the conference since the committee and a member of the regard to the placement of a Hun- Zurich, Switzerland, is in charge of in Ascension, cocktails and fresh death of Dr. Gordon K. Chalmers finance committee of the E. I. du garian student here. senior design and theory courses in flowers in Peirce, free carbonated will devote a portion of his time Pont de Nemours and Co. since architecture at the Columbus school. in mix in Lewis and Norton, Kenyon during the next six months to edit- 1948. He is the tenth president of Deadline Nearing For He is also a successful architect ing, the organization but only the second his own right and has designed and freedom displays about the summarizing and modifying Auto Registration the conference journal of speeches in its history of more than 150 residences in , Ohio campus, and no wire barriers College Registrar S. R. McGowan and discussion for publication. years who was not a du Pont. Mr. and Connecticut, plus a ranch house barring the lawns. has reminded all students who owrt Greenewalt was cited because of his in New Mexico and a vacation The cars that the current student car Confrence In Brief efforts to "advance the cause of edu- house in Canada. A Vacation? as of 15. All With the Rt. Rev. Henry W. cation, not only in the large public permits expire April Graduating in 1946 from the Any conference consists of people, automobile be Hobson, bishop of the Diocese of university of your own state, but in registrations must Federal Institute of Technology in and glancing about Gambier a few renewed at the Registrar's office no Southern Ohio, acting as moderator, scores of small, private institutions Zurich, the speaker won an ex- - days ago would have revealed many later than Monday, April 15. (Continued on page six) (Continued on page sir) (Continued on page six) (Continued on page four) APRIL 11, 1957 KENYON COLLEGIAN PAGE TWO

JLejjtav-e-M Collegian Letters to The Collegian jTT Kenyon By Parsimmons 5( Since 1856 TO THE EDITOR: Box 127 One thing consistent about the Wesleyan University A great deal has been said both college lectures is the small under Middletown, Conn. n print and among the faculty and Harley Henry graduate turnout. To a certain ex- EDITOR Dear Sir: students about the spirit behind and un- on In an age possessing the power of tent this apathy the student EDITOR Terry Moody below the student body of Kenyon ASSISTANT thinkable destruction, it must be the body's part could be blamed on the Anderson of this College. It has been mentioned NEWS EDITOR JohnM. primary concern of every citizen poor quality of some of the lectures. establish international un- that we are somewhat unique with Larry Schneider country to Yet, even at the better features of SPORTS EDITOR derstanding, and to abolish the ever-prese- nt our housing facilities: 'Segregating' calendar over half of the Sayles of war. The United this year's BUSINESS MANAGER George possibility the Freshmen from the Sophomores lead the student body was missing. States today is in a position to the proximity Winesdorfer this and upperclassmen, ADVERTISING MANAGER John way towards peace, and it must meet What makes these facts so di- our of fraternal organizations to one -- n feel that . . . , k A Ac-- ti Tim grave responsibility. We are the reasons behind tt the stinguished present foreign policy, founded as it is another, and the closeness of Gage, George Grella, John them. Some people refuse to cross Parsons, Micky Reingold, Hugh on the struggle to maintain military housing of the Kenyon faculty to Gene Beecher, Lamar towards, rather departmental lines, refuse to step Hodges, George Scott, John Kleinbard, supremacy, is leading us the student body. This is true. Gelbspan. from, war. The outcome of into another experience and broaden Hill, Walter Taylor, Bill Whisner, Ross than away However, there is lacking on the Canowitz. every arms race in history has been war, their outlook. The majority, how- PHOTOGRAPHY: Chuck Finzley, Dave same which pervades this one is carrying us headlong in 'Hill' the spirit Russell Hooser, Wesley Mac Adams, Galen and ever, simply do not care. Perhaps BUSINESS STAFF: Van direction. The accumulation of the freshmen dorms. the same this is Kenyon's great Middle Class. Yanagihara, Dave Gury, Walter Taylor. military strength implies the threat of A freshman finds, being housed 7-42- 41. is B-1- p too deep to 7. Telephone GAbriel pro-tprtin- The problem start Office located in Ascension Hall, using that strength as a means for College either in Norton or Lewis Hall, advertising by Natoinal Advertising Services, Inc. It is unthinkable formulating solutions. After all, Represented for national o nur interests. Rep., 420 Madison Ave., N. Y. that he makes friends easily due to Publishers intend to unleash the d to a a i that we fully who would listen plea for subscriptions andor inquiries for But what Subscriptions are S3.50 a year. Send requests for of our atomic weapons the conditions of living. Box 308, Gamb.er, Oh.o. structive powers admission's policy? But the advertising rates to: Business Manager, Kenyon Collegian, stricter even our most curauu. i about those friendship after he on diuci task of finding the missing sheep even if we do not intend this, and our enters the Sophomore class? One remains. At one lecture this semes- threat is a bluff, it is naive to suppose can not be foolish enough to think bluff will not eventually be ter only eight undergraduates ap- that this that it will be exactly the same, but SPOKESMAN called. When it is called, we will be this is hardly an exception. THE be peared; mr.llp,l our threats, and the difference is shocking and tn mrrv out Fortunately the faculty usually fills the use of arms will cease to be a blurt yond that, pitiful. up Philo or helps to keep the speech Wesleyan Commentary It will be a necessity. Our race for Some years ago, a social group of the inevitably building looking populated. The letter printed elsewhere on this page was received by military supremacy draws us Sophomores was started, two from communica- to the use of military power. Collegian office recently; the editors decided to publish the each division, who had been to- has repeatedly TICK-ERTAPE- examining Our military policy FROM THE OIL STOCK : await student reaction to the Wesleyan proposal. In as friends in their freshman tion and f-- , ;!,,) tn achieve its obiectives. China gether remarks to be noted. Evidently the On the balcony of a the letter we find several important and northern Indo-Chin- a have both be year. They called themselves the Black House an old man armed with 2 great eastern students have discovered an existing problem, and come communist in spite of such "Ivy Club" and their purpose was the has smiles and watches Rome burn. this profound realization have published a letter. Unfortunately policy; military action in Korea the perpetuation of the friendship and solved nothing. Communism has con Blind Polyphemus keeps running flowery phrases, when totaled seem to equal the cries of unknowing they had known as freshmen. They tinued to spread without regard for mili in and out, not knowing where to Two-third- s of their ideas assult the readers with dissolutioned youths. growth of fear about met perhaps once a month for a tary alliances. The his stones, handing the old win arms rat-rac- e, and if we do succeed in the throw a dilemma: we can't the us, reflected in the nervous plunge into dinner and card session, an oc will be man contradictory messages written tit antic struggle the land of the free and the home of the brave accelerated military production, is an in- casional drink and a more than oc As the in invisible ink. All are responsible devoured by an avenging force. They say: stop making guns! dex of this expansion. We must come casional reminiscence about the first ideals realization that our military policy to Noman. Behind the old man article on Professor Morganthau's speech elsewhere points out, to the days at Kenyon. The group withered cannot halt this advance. The appeal of stands the crookedly grinning Belial, are futile gestures without the support of power. Nor can our national of its type has Communism is ideological. On this away, and nothing power. This is the tragic lesson of with his wife, Pat, and his Grendal-like- , interest be pursued by abandoning front we have failed to meet the com- replaced it. Why? our own con- sixty-nine-head- ed dog, Check- the pacifist '30s. It may be true that we have forgotten munist challenge. Do we feel that we Today, the situation is much the As if it were to offer the ers. Belial holds up a banner: "In victions; but it is these purposes that must be regained. have no strong alternative same with an even larger enroll- and of Africa and Asia? We if is a we'll lead a revelation, these students remind us that politically new nations is to '60 there '60 great demo- ment. It an unusual practice submit that there is much in the dow--n to Destruction." idealoeicallv. ground is being lost to Communist elements. Perhaps, and enjoy the you the Path cratic ideals of the United States to in- party around the Hill new ideals can be offered to Asia and Africa, but Thousands, fleeing the burning city, as they suggested, spire these new nations. But instead of company of those who were your blunders which frequently bow in reverence as they pass be haven't they overlooked the grave diplomatic showing to the world the strength of first acquaintances and as such the of promises stands them a military neath the balcony. With his big become inherent i nour policy? Our unfulfillment our way of life, we show ones you remember the most clearly conditions and situations policy deeply in conflict with the very toe, the old man throws golf balls blatentlv in view when we investigate world (or should) of college. I should mills in India, electricty ideals upon which this country is found- Par examplum Aswan Dam in Egypt, steel (by nto the crowd. ed. Can we talk to the Arabs about say that the majority of groups Our opponents offered more than hollow in the Far East and Africa. and freedom while still sup- that I mean fraternities) at Kenyon BO-PEE- are very wonderful to LITTLE P: Most unde- vaunting promises to Asia and Africa. Ideals porting the absolute monarch King never bother to even spend fifteen meal. Ideals do not grow food, make military outlook we rgraduates know of the Student the mass of men following a full Saud? With our minutes in another division. I have by themselves. Ideals cease to view the nations of Asia and Council Committee. steel or electrictiy, or build a firm rapid economy heard remarks that they feel they Investigating ideals Africa as homes of human beings to the are difficult to swallow on an empty stomach. And the Catholic Unfortunately few know of whom nur moral standards apply. This are 'leeching.' That word only ap- and Roumania did not stop Russian might in 1945; Council's other achievements pro of Poland, Hungary, very way of thinking will lose the re plies to people who are not wanted. W"e nor have these ideals ejected Russian power since. sncrt friendship, and cooperation of Sometimes when one attempts to bably because there aren't any. us first to save the world by regarding for us. would like to in this article, The students of Wesleyan tell these nations enter a division to see a friend, he propose on our alleged allies for partic We have just witnessed another co over- - and the situation as a whole, nad then turn is either told that he is not and succeeding ones, some of policy based on military openly "Democracy" may be a fine term to throw at Arabia, but their lossal failure undertakings for the Council, out ulars. ot wanted, or avoided conspicuously. mistake toward force. Let us not repeat the mistakes curve-bal- l oil" is even better! Let us not repeat our side the realm of or judicial of "no Britain and France in the Middle East. This destroys the spirit of the small police East; had the U. S. backed the Anglo-Frenc- h Britian and France in the Middle Such action will cripple us in the ideo- college and more than that binds work. would now be checked; and by in im- the action, revolutionary Nassar logical struggle, and place us someone closer, to the point of ex This writer would like to see pri onlv Common Sense, but also carried mediate danger of the total war which power Tnm Paine not wrote clusion from outside to the Council investigate the social pr- afford. groups, m; view the we cannot like a gun. It is ratner easy to sit m an ivy-iv- id ogram of the College; we would To our militaristic foreign policy is people with whom he must live for with the assuredness the pacificists of politics possess, the Council to find just what world situation now to be added the Eisenhower doctrine the next three years. Fraternalism out to judgment on the present policy of and but we are not here pass committing us to military involvement is a good thing, and yet it deters are the Dean's social policies threats in the Middle East. If you wish to pass a judgment in the Middle East. Expression of pub- ideas. would like to know ho' impending from the larger sense of collegian- - We or the Collegian, both, or at least one, will be lic opinion received by mail in Wash- functioning write either your senator ism (if one may coin a word to the social committee is analysis and j. a. ington has been eight to one against would highly appreciative of your personal opinion. fit and what it is planning; we such involvement. We feel it our re- the phrase.) like to see the Council take up some Because of sheer volume, and the limited amount of space in this sponsibility as citizens of the United The revival of partying around to this manifestation of of the many problems that confront newspaper, we could not hope to present any sort of "complete" picture States to add the 'Hill' is something not easily opinion. As students we have the unique the social life at Kenyon. of the conference. We have endeavored, on the other hand, to offer achieved, and yet could be the most opportunity to do so. If you feel as we only and some personal ob- rewarding thing in Kenyon. But The Student Council is the some of the important points, some sidelights, do: organization at Kenyon that has servations. One began to wonder during the four days whether it 1) Write individual letters to your don't let's stop at the party angle the of a legislative-execut- ive might have been better to have had a real vacation rather than attend the senator, expressing your views. Inter fraternity competition in all potentialities undergrad- conference. Looking back, one regrets the lack of discussion to bring 2) Urge your student government to things is good for the spirit, but group for the draft a petition against our policy start b- to the surface and broaden the scope of the speeches, slander is not. (q.v. the rushing uates. Certainly it should important points be sent to in the Middle East, to eing some of t'ie achieved through a pre- season) . concerned with the disappointing complacency the meetings the President. a legisl- ) problems and duties that carious balance of unanimity among the speakers, and the ostentations Committee o Wesleyan Students (NAME WITHHELD ON RHQUl-ST- ative body is concerned with. ss S. Chairman open-handedne- displayed in many places by the college. Certainly John Mann, EJ. Note: We applaud this writ five) the four days were not the whole conference, however. As Dean Roach Editor's Note: Student Comment? er's effort to bring to the surfac (Continued on page remarked during the last session, those who attended will have to spend one oj the chronic disabilities of some time digesting what went on. At least the conference has given The People's Bank the Kenyon social atmosphere. More we the majority of the people who attended, something students with interest such as his Dorothy's Lunch us, and hope Gambier, Ohio to think about. The real result will depend now on how adequate our could help to correct the conditions Member of Federal Deposit digestion is. We cannot afford, whether we attended the conference which we noted on the last issue's Insurance Corp. Gambier or not, to let some of its questions go unanswered. W. H. editorial page. 11, 1957 APRIL KENYON COLLEGIAN PAGE THREE

Morgenthau and Marshall: State Is Not the final war. In the face of destruction new international forms must Stereotype vs. Archetype: evolve: the question is no longer that of freedom, but of survival. Optional In Individual's Freedom The Mad Squire from Mt. Brig. Gen. Marshall spoke on freedom and military policy. He True freedom cannot exist outside of society. The individual is not Holyoke pursued this same theme: that power and freedom are not opposed, confronted with the state as an option, for his choosing. Outside the order but that freedom rests on power. Liberty, he reminded a nation intent Peter Viereck is a poet. He is of the state the individual has no meaning, nor has the state meaning un- on balancing budgets, must be won in battle. Is history static, he asked, also a modern man speaking out less the inner spirit of the individual is free. The state and the individual do men learn nothing? Americans are complacent, they do not see against machines and Madison do not oppose one another. While freedom cannot be absolute, it does rest that strength is needed. Americans cry they are safe while they forget Evenue manipulators, marauders of on absolute awareness and discipline, e. g., purpose, duty, obligation. This that struggle is man's lot, that this life is service, that only fools insist privacy and infectors of inner lib- holds for the state no less than for the individual. Society, government, on security. Americans have not nourished democracy, they have bloated erty. He is conservative. But he the state, and the churches, the schools, the families as well as the it on the standard of living. Americans do not have the moral fibre to is definitely a modern man because individual all partake of these disciplines and thus all partake of freedom sacrifice their standard of living. Illusions are embraced and hardness he wants us to respect the past, not equally and together. The inner liberty of the spirit and the external ignored. America has been called upon to contend in the power contest to live in it. freedom of the individual exist within a system of power, for only but Americans are afraid to enter it. Americans believe that because we power can withstand idle fortune or tormented barbarians. Power itself He has written a book, "The Un- are free, that because we can outproduce everyone else that we will win adjusted is amoral, its consequences acquire morality or immorality from the Man," which was the basis out. But at Omaha beach, Gen. Marshall recalled, we were found wanting, for his men who use it, from the ends it serves. The problem of power and speech. He pores over the and few won the is only the un-adjustedn- and held bridgehead. Fighting a choice of soul of modern finds ess freedom were discussed by Professor Hans J. Morgenthau of the man, and will, men in battle must will to fight, but American does not now have University of Chicago and Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall of the Detroit the key to the survival that will. In Korea Americans stood fast and fought firm; there had Sews. of inner liberty. Mr. Viereck told been an improvement since World War II. But they stood fast and that the stereotypers of our age Professor Morgenthau recalled the of paradox political liberty: died because they willed it. But the Americans at home did not, and have drawn men out of themselves freedom for the majority is not always freedom for the and minority, do not, care. h. s. and superimposed on that lurid the dictatorial majority and the obstructionist minority both claim the spectre called mass-ma- n an aura of same freedom. Liberty, Mr. Morgenthau asserted, rests on political Is Each In the Cell Of Himself adjustment norms which have prov- order and on political justice, for only in a state so constituted can the en deathly not only to inner liberty, claims of minoritarian freedom and equalitarian freedom be reconciled. Almost Convinced Of Freedom? liberty of the private life and con- The minoritarian holds that an overriding is and The Conference on the Essentials of Freedom is over. The creative concept principle true science, but to creative activity. should have power, and that this power must be entrusted to the wise thinkers and scholars, the teachers, the alumni, the businessmen have The creative person must, accord- few; the result is an aristocracy or a tyranny. The democratic idea retired where perhaps, as Auden wrote, "each in the cell of himself is ing to Viereck, prove his inner lib- challenges this concept on two points: first, it questions the claim to almost convinced of his freedom." The ostensible aim of the conference erty by remaining 'unadjusted' to perfectibility, and second it questions the claim to incorruptibility. was bold: to reformulate in its various manifestations the idea of freedom the "ephermeral" norms of his own Democracy opposes these claims by saying that all men are rational and as it appears to us today. The originators of this particular conference age. The universality of a poet's that all men, therefore, have some measure of political wisdom. Power felt and thought deeply about the dangerous sloganization in our time expression depends on the poet's is thus given to all. Democracy checks ill used power by a pluralistic of favorite abstractions such as freedom. They felt the need for a committment to all ages in the judg-me- n society. revaluation of the meaning of freedom by the coming-togethe- r chiefly of history; freedom from the of intellectual conservatives of various bent who might be able to The liberal doctrine of democracy forestalls rule by the mere majority collective chaos of the cult of ad- penetrate to the roots of freedom and out of the pregnant meaning of for the majority like the few is neither perfect nor incorruptible. justment is the spur t o creative freedom drive home the necessity and suggest some of the means of Liberalism wards off majority dictatorship with principles which justify achievement which would other- conserving it. majority rule but which are not established by the majority, e. g., the wise be stifled. The mass morass Western traditions of constitionalism and law. Even so, democracy is Alas, the apparent purpose of the conference as a whole was lost. of modern machines which orient subject to the original paradox: the majority assumes it holds all political Bold intentions and several brilliant and provacative speeches failed to1 our lives is not the home of the truth, and can enforce truth in the same manner as the aristocracies of dispel the atmosphere of casual chit-cha- t and warm-hearte- d complacency poet's liberty; his mansion is within. old. Modern totalitarianism is by and large the result of party election; throughout. We heard some unusual and highly sensitive critics of Mr. Viereck intoned that inner Hitler came into power legally by constitutional means. Liberalism politics and society and watched the implications of what they had said liberty dallies not with sterotypes

coffee-break- sought in the nineteenth century to prevent this situation by opposing slurred over and forgotten in s and over-shortene- d question-period- s but archetypes, historical and tradi- the state and the subject; power was mistrusted and freedom was held (frequently due to the absence of questions). Is it the sign tional forms where the most lasting to increase as state power decreases. But in this century new groups of a sophisticated or merely impervious convocation of men and women ideals of conscience and conduct outside of the state arose: the entreprenurs and labor. These need con- who seemed to have nurtured at any rate a disingenuous facility for reign unimpeded by the cult of the centrations of power threatened the individual and the state was now outward harmony in the face of direct challenge? Where were the hour. Viereck pleaded for the called on to protect the individual. The problem of power became guts of freedom when August Heckscher and Barbara Ward declared private life and was broadly ap- three-pronge- d: there is the individual, there is private power, and there the sterility of the American Dream? Was there no Mammon-o- n plauded by an audience variously is public power. Only when all three balance can political order and wheels to challenge back and confirm the terror lurking in the minds adjusted to either aridity or art. justice be secured. of those 'elite of the spirit' Mr. Heckscher referred to, the terror of the M. B. growing gap between thinking and feeling men and the mass-produce- d Among nations political order and justice are also needed but the mind ? need reflects the absence of order and justice in international politics. Heckscher Sees Both

self-determinati- Increased freedom given to nations in the form of national on It would seem that the conservative thinker is trying to win both Ideologies At Fault does not fulfill the need nor create harmony but fosters the mass-produce- d mind and the efficient producer of the mass-min- d to The inability of either liberalism chaotic multiplicity. Small nations which can exercise no effective power the cause of the good life in all its creative and spiritual significance. or conservatism, in the nineteenth subject their freedom to nations which can exercise power over them. Somehow the conservative intellectuals face the danger of becoming fair-haire- and twentieth centuries, to provide They cry freedom but forget that freedom means responsibility. Within the d boys for the merely economic conservatives whose fruitless an ideology of freedom to which the the state constitutionalism rests on certain moral assumptions, a "higher prejudices against government controls is only equalled by their radical western nations could be faithful law" provides the foundation for the plural elements of the democratic belief in material dynamics. It is precisely the system of dynamic mater- has aggravated the failure of the society. The elements of power clash but the principles of constitution ialism which Barbara Ward chose to talk about in relation to freedom modern state's attempt to cope with unite them. Professor Morgenthau held though with some vauge-nes- s and the non-materi- al wants of men. Miss Ward was sorry that Americans new conditions. "It is, at bottom," that political power can be exercised within a state by different were unable to come to grips with the growing educational crisis. This said August Heckscher, "a crisis of elements and that in the consequent clash of elements political liberty, returns us to the problem of the freedom of the educated man in a philosophy and faith." Both liber- and thereby order and justice, is secured not primarily because faction society which admires the technocrat and in turn has a basic distrust alism and conservatism lacked neutralizes faction but because all adhere to an absolute standard, the for the liberally educated man and the creative artist. More and more one-sidedne- ss anti-intellectuali- was their sm depth; their liberal principles which, again, justify the majority but transcend its thinkers come back to this alarming prospect of a mysterious failure. ". . . the conservative tra- sphere of activity. But when nation faces nation there are no agreed whereby the meaning of freedom is only understood by dition discounts too cynically the upon moral considerations holding them together. Moral precepts an elite of the spirit and mind which is disdained by the majority of the individual's capacity for disinter- supported by force are laws ; but in international relations there are no people as well as being forever barred from the instruments of power. estedness and magnanimity. The continually held moral standards, and thus no effective system of inter- It is a precious irony that the American conservatives of late, while liberal tradition treats the individual self-intere- national law. When st rightly understood motivates foreign crying for spiritual values in a materialist society, seem relatively reluctant too abstractly, a calculating automa- policy be secured. Thus, among nations external internal freedom may ever-expandin- g to criticize the structure of the consumer-good- s market. ton cut off from the social context." freedom can start a may lead to disaster even the smallest country In Mr. Randall's speech the dynamo of the production world seems to war its own This abstract individual, con- while a nation with the greatest power who understands at its best. represent the American genius In Miss Ward's speech the ceived interests, losses will bring, will use its power with an almost irresponsible who can see what war irresponsible nature of the dynamo in stimulating a multitude of new to exercise of by optimism by the liberals, was em- forstall the irresonsible, even revolutionary power desires for consumer goods is shown to retard desire for capital the self-intereste- order, and phatically rational and d; others. domestic felicity, political far-reachi- In this way it will secure in such ng fields as education. This implies improvements and the society in which he political justice. The United Nations cannot. the rank and order of the values which we live under. It implies a was abstractly placed naturally foremost national Strange In the use of violence nations have hitherto had a rational choice: judgment of our pasttime, making money. harmonized conflicting interests. indeed the of was not when Barbara Ward violent or peaceful means could be used to achieve national objectives. that spirit controversy present Government was neglected since judgment on a fundamental fact of the American way of But atomic weapons and hydrogen warfare have abrogated the traditional pronounced society could do so well by itself. is life. Earlier speakers had discussed among other things the free spirits use of power. The choice, to use violence or not, no longer rational The individual, in a society con- total which were needed to maintain the idea of freedom through posterity. but irrational ; for the use of atomic weapons means acceptance of ceived along the lines of the free Miss Ward was the only one to suggest that an understanding of "Free destruction. Objectives can no longer be gained ; only destruction. Thus, market economy, was at one ex- if Choice and the Good Society" involved a modification of free capitalism atomic war is excluded and prevented, all war is excluded. The treme and the state at the other. for the sake of that good society, because there are, perhaps, some large countries of the earth, American and Russia, are held together itself No diversity ranged between. And in society, which are under the control of the dynamo, namely by one community: the community of terror. The nation state now matters then, too, the state was replaced by and be. becomes obsolete as a rational instrument, for any small state can begin education, should not (Continued on page 6) 11, COLLEGIAN APRIL 1957 fAGE FOUR KENYON Rossiter: Freedom Rests PLAY SET TAYLOR On Individual's Control those who know FOR APRIL 24-2- 7 "Idle men may talk of liberty as a handsome gift; best have noted and paid the price on the cover, relentless, purposeful, With their third and final pro- self-discipline- Clinton Rossiter closed prudent ." With these words, duction of the season, the Hill his discussion of the Free Man and the free society in wnicn he Players will be doing a "first," and concerened himself with the problem of isolating and analyzing the also following a precedent. various factors which constitute the individual and social liberty that The "first" is the premier per- we have come to know in Western civilization. formance of Peter Taylor's "Ten- V to Mr. Rossiter cannot be defined, but it may nessee Day in St. Louis," which will Freedom, according which compose it, and these 24-2- be by a study of the elements be offered April 7 in the understood best when considered in the separate and yet Speech Building. elements my be understood individual and social freedom. The totality The precedent is one established interdependent concepts of is a mass of "disciplines, conditions, last year of staging one original that we know as freedom complex play each season. The 1956 pro- and obligations." duction was Irving Kreutz's "Teddy Freedom of the individual may be separated into two types the one Bear, Teddy Bear." negative and the other positive. This quality of personal freedom is an Playwrite Taylor is regarded as important concept in that it demonstrates the necessity not only of the one of this country's most distin- positive types which are often passed over. Mr. Rossiter names four guished young writers. His novel, major areas which must be considered if we would understand the co- "A Woman of Means," was praised nditions of personal freedom. These are independence, privacy, power by the New York Herald Tribune and opportunity. If the individual will be truly free, he will need for its "vividness of characteriza- more than freedom from internal coercion, fear, and his own passions. tion," and its "sense of the depth He will need what Mr. Rossiter terms power and opportunity the and complication of event." positive freedoms. This is to say that the free man must be capable of The author returned to Kenyon directing himself toward goals which he himself has set. Opportunity last semester after a year in Eng- Dr. Clinton Rossiter Speaks At Conference for "work and rest and love and play" is certainly an important aspect land, France and Italy. In of our freedom. he was invited to lecture at Oxford's What must a man do to be free? Mr. Rossiter's answer is that he annual Conference on American self-disciplin- must practice e. Freedom is in no case presented to a man Studies; in Paris he did research, is a gift complete in itself; it is rather given to him in the form of with the aid of a Fulbright grant, poetential which he himself must realize by coming to think and act in statesmen and other on Confederate in 4 accordance with certain disciplines. First, a man must have faith Southerners who settled in Paris 7 freedom itself. He must see that freedom for one's self becomes after the Civil War. He expects to meaningful only when it is seen in the light of the freedom of others. use this material in another play. Next, a man must acquire knowledge, both of himself and the world "Expatriate" Southerners about him. He must act in the last analysis, upon what he has learned. The action of the forthcoming "The free man has learned many things how to work and play, ho play takes place during a single to love truth and honor it, how to know and good and cherish it, how day in the life of the wealthy Tolli-ve- r to live bravely and die content." Freedom in any case is not a result family in St. Louis. The time of the automatic development in every man. It is only to be earned bv is the mid-- 1 930's, and the theme faith, knowledge, effort, purpose, and in the end virtue. The man who may perhaps be described as the has attained autonomy in the sense that he recognizes the necessity of effect of a transitional period and an observing certain moral principles is free for he has transcended personal, alien iileti on a group of "expat- selfish motives. These then are the which work for freedom riate" Southerners. disciplines in the individual. A series of crises affecting all members of the Tolliver household V The liberty which we have examined alone has no meaning awav r results, at the play's end, in a re- from society, says Mr. Rossiter. "The very idea of the free man implies valuation of inherited convictions ) the presence all about him of other men." Then we must consider the and a profound change in the ambi- social conditions which are most condusive to the preservation of i- tions and expectations of several n ndividual freedom; we must determine what will be relationship of the characters. individual to the state and to society. The play is a four-ac- t drama with The answer, Mr. Rossiter says, is widespread faith in freedom, roles for six men and five women. A-- " education, discussion and criticism, economic health, and public morality. Rehearsals have already started Education must prepare men to stand against majority or group coercion. under the direction of James An economic health sufficient to allow leisure, education and culture is Michael. --J a requisite. Finally, the free society like the free man must be moral Mr. Taylor describes his play as Editor Barry Bingham Talks Of A Responsible Press Laws and institutions must reflect the moral consciousness that was so a "comedy," and so it is in the much a part of individual liberty. "life-affirming- classic sense of ." Red Carpet tribute to the planning of Professor Cast: (Continued from page one) English. Thus the free man and the free society are independent; society William Leif Ancker interesting and noted people. As The people and places are the provides an atmosphere favorable to liberty, and on the hand the is to be Lucy Mrs. Ellen Darling expected, all age groups material components of the meet- individual holds the responsibility of doing his utmost to ensure the James Robert Clawson were represented, but a large por- ing, but the spirit of the conference continuation of such an atmosphere. We must inevitably arrive at the Jim Dan Cobb tion of our guests were elderly yet needs to be realization that the individual, the free man, owes his duty, obedience Lanny Dave McCoy clearly seen. The mem- life whirled as rapidly as if the and loyalty to Auntie Bet Mrs. Ruth Scudder ories of President Chalmers envel- the state. If he reaps the benefit of government services Flo Dear Mrs. Mary McGowan undergraduates were attending. oped the entire affair, while abstruse and constitutional protection if he benefits from the community, he Bert Earl Craig Chance impressions were collected values floated about Rosse Hall. must pay a price in return taxes, military service, faith knowledge, Helen Mrs. Eleanor Bartels in informal surroundings dealing These two factors combined with effort, purpose, and virtue; honor to the laws of the state and its basic Nancy Mrs. Pokey Ray with the conference . . . here are a the principles. Senator Caswell Dean Burgess propinquity of the guests led to few: A Michigan newspaper editor a fuller understanding a and more In the end, Mr. Rossiter says the free citizen possess a sense of and Kenyon graduate remarked "I informal idealogical intercourse. The loyalty which is not "orthodoxy, not ritualism and certainly not chauvi- thought this would be a four-da- y very fact that these men women WORLEY'S and nism." This loyalty is a devoted attachment to constitutionalism as the rest, but I'm really working." An had for a definite come to- is MEN'S WEAR period protector of freedom, a love of truth and justice. In the end it Ohio banker's wife said "This is gether in Gambier is to justify, if loyalty to freedom itself. 120 S. Main one of finest St the places I've ever any justification is necessary, the Mount Vernon, Ohio Mr. Rossiter's task this been . . . obviously was a monumental one. For to" Professor Thomas convening of the conference. In Cook stated reason his treatment in places has been of necessity somewhat supe- gladly that this gather- speaking of the whole it would be rficial. ing was a marvelous More than once during his address, the effect of his text was conference well said that the places, people and from reduced by speed and brevity. Points were made could have Ringwalt's the viewpoint of the sessions, spirit exemplify the essential of which addresses well borne more discussion on several aspects such as doctrine of GIFTS FURNISHINGS both and discussions; it freedom so long it the sought, and is natural was serious yet not sober; and a rights. The speaker can hardly be blamed. Mount Vernon, Ohio fitting that a fine liberal institution In the last analysis, the 2-50- would its we must of Dial EX 45 Producer Gale Giles give finest for such a agree with the central thesis address, of Stage Manager Al Holliday conference. J. A. that responsibility for freedom rests primarily in the hands the individual. This was a recurrent theme of the conference. "e can

never Cod-give- afford to think of freedom as a n in We maintain a complete en- right, natural Licking Laundry & men regardless of graving and service department Village Inn personal merit and morality. We must not overlook Dry Cleaners the tendancy in man to alienate the freedom that he has. It has always Lillian & been easier Allen Jewelers 7 N. Main St. Mount Vernon James Trittipo to sit back, relax, and let others think for us. Mr. Rossiter rightly points out that is 2-6- liberty commodity 7 E. Gambier St. Phone EX 976 Proprietors no gift. It is an expensive

self-disciplin- S- the price of which is primarily e. W. - APRIL 11. 1957 KENYON COLLEGIAN PAGE FIVE

Saturday Untested Golf Team LORD NINE OPENS AT Opens Season Friday JOCK JOTTINGS The Kenyon golf team will open HOME AGAINST SCOTS its nine-gam- e season against Wit- Coach Skip Falkenstine's Lord nine will its Larry Schneider open 1957 season this tenberg this Friday in Springfield. Saturday on Field House Field against the College of Wooster. Game Coaches Eric Graham and Frank time is 2:30 p. m. O'Brien will be building around At the recent winter sports banquet, plaudits went to a fine Falkenstine has been working his charges since March 1 for the a nucleus of five returning letter-men- : group of senior athletes being honored for their last time at Ken-yo- n. coming season, though he has not been too successful with obtaining Don Bill Gold awards for earning three varsity letters went to Dick captain Bronco, good weather for outdoor practice. Wallace, Bill Swing, Tom Wilson Arkless, Ted FitzSimons, Stan Krok, and Skip Kurrus for swim- (.314) should justify that judg- Biggest Pitching Corps in Years and Tom Nordstrom. ming; to Dan Bumstead and Ron Kendrick for basketball, and in ment. Brown, who was the third The Lords are fortunate this year Newcomers who have shown wrestling to Eb Crawford and Dave Katz. The latter pair incidental- highest hitter (.300) on the 1956 in and best n having their biggest promise in pre-seaso- workouts are ly merited a sort of special award since it was through their efforts squad, won a starting berth at sec- pitching staff in several years. Vet- John Hartong, who could be the that Kenyon first organized a wrestling team. The fruit of their ond late last season and looks pretty erans Mickey Reingold and John top man on the squad if he is able labors can be seen in the fine showing the Lord wrestlers made secure there, but may get some com- Richards will probably be the main- to survive the downs period; and in the recent Ohio Conference meet and the growth and popularity petition from Boobie Jones. stays while Skip will also be count- Will Reed, a freshman. Hartong of wrestling here during the last three years. . . . Lanny Ritter, Bennington, who can also play ing heavily on Jerry Looker. Looker, played golf here before freshman freestyler, was awarded the Wyant trophy for being the second, will hold third, but Looker going into who played in the infield most of the Army in 1954. outstanding fuzzie on the swimming team. . . . Named as captains can play there also. Donahue has last season, turned in a couple of Other members of the team are of the winter teams next season were Dan Ray and Tom Wilson the edge in fielding around the good relief jobs near the tail end of Fred Bergold, Cox, Earl Craig, in swimming; Ted "Pop" Moody in basketball, and Bob Gove in first sack but is having trouble find- Jim the '56 slate and had the staff's low- Henry Curtis, Joe Everly, Hank wrestling. . . . The main purpose of the banquet, of course, was ing his batting eye after a layoff est ERA. He will get a chance to try Harrison, and Bill Waechter. All to honor the eight seniors and as Coaches Edwards and Falkenstine of four years. Davidson looks like his at a year. hand starting role this - but Harrison and Bergold are pointed out, "the Admissions Department will have to go some the Kpst- hiUmo fircf cnrVpr ortA if Reincold had the best record on the , , , . ... . hp Hnpcn r nush lnnihnp hp freshmen. Everly was a member to replace athletes of their caliber." ' tii squad last season with a 3-- 3 mark , . of the Galion High School golf 1 , , , counted on heavily for pinch hitting A Suggestion to the Board and should do considerably better team for four years and Waechter services. This writer has often wondered why the so-call- ed "sports" of ping-pon- g as a sophomore. Richards was used played two years on the Cleveland Four Strong Competitors and pool are kept on the intramural agenda. Surely they are mostly in relief last season but will Heights squad. In Outfield contests in which the ability of one "athlete" can accumulate many points also be bidding for a starting berth. Need Practice Time In the outer garden, two veterans for his division towards the Stiles Trophy, while in other sports one Two other promising freshman Because of bad weather condi- and two newcomers are scrambling individual can not possibly produce a championship team if he is the hurlers fill out what can be regarded tions, the team, according to Coach for positions. Beside Wilcox, Dick only outstanding player. Interest in these games is not so intense that as the "first line" of the Kenyon Graham, has had little opportunity Fisher, Charlie Adams and Marty if they were dropped from the program there would be much of a mound corps. Al Frost has, in to get out on the Mount Vernon Berg are bidding for a post. Berg, protest. By doing this this the intramural program would be less complex Falkenstine's estimation, "everything Country Club Course, the scene of who has been the number one re- and there would not be a tendency for a division to pad its point total a good pitcher needs," but wants a all its home matches. Several serve outfielder for the last two in events which are far from being the result of a team effort. We hope little experience to get his feet on members of the squad have been years, seems to be the leading con- the intramural board can keep this suggestion in mind in its future the ground. Willie Roane, a big unable to practice at all before the tender for either the left or center meetings. burly right-hande- r, might turn out vacation so the first few meets will field slots. Falkenstine calls Fisher LACROSSE POPULARITY GROWS to be another Mike Garcia but is be gone before the squad can hit "our best fielding outfielder" but In the past, the coming of Spring has meant only the as yet unproven. Filling out the its stride. the Akron freshman needs more ex- beginning of baseball and track practice in most Ohio pitching staff are Bard Robert, Tom This Tuesday the team will host perience. Adams, who saw action high schools and colleges. But since lacrosse began at Carroll, and Bill Whisner. Ohio Wesleyan, and Mount Union as a relief hurler during the past Kenyon in the early 1940's, Bill Stiles' efforts have built Whiteman Probable Backstop the following Tuesday. two years, was moved to the out- it into a major sport during the last nine years and it is Choice field because of his hitting, and the being adopted in more and more institutions around the As things stand now, Len White-man- , change seems to have been a good IBM Loans da Vinci state. Through Bill's promotion of the sport and the who patiently rode the bench one. success he has had with the Kenyon team, Lacrosse has behind now Detroit Tiger farm Exhibit For Rosse John McCurdy, who was out last been taken up by Oberlin, Denison, Ohio State and, more hand Bob Rowe, will get the nod A in- season because of a broken ankle, pictorial exhibition of the recently, Ohio Wesleyan and Akron University. The behind the plate. Whiteman had and drawings of Leonardo is currently injured and may not ventions popularity which the stick game has attained is reflected a good season of summer ball last da Rosse Hall play till mid season. If he can Vinci graced during in the large number of men who have turned out for it on year and should be capable of hand- the also over come his academic diffi- conference through the courtesy the various campuses. At Oberlin there are 70 men on the ling the catching chores. He stands of the fine arts department of the culties, John has a chance for the varsity and 30 on the freshman team. Akron has some a tough challenge in stepping into International Business Machines center field spot. Also available for 80 athletes out for the game although lacrosse is only Rowe's shoes but most self-style- d outfield duty are Jeff Levy, Dan Corp. in its second year up there. Perhaps the best news to experts are betting that if he comes Smith, and Bob Slavin. Of these The Leonardo showing was pecu- lacrosse followers was the announcement that Massilon through at the plate he will fill three Slavin is the only returnee liarly appropriate to the theme of School, football powerhouse, has the catching bill nicely. High the perennial state from the 1956 squad. the conference. As a painter, a taken up the game in lieu of the abolishment of spring On hand to catch also is Captain scientist and inventor, da Vinci football practice. It will not be long, according to Pat Wilcox who will hold down exemplifies the free man who Coach Stiles, until many other high schools, particularly the right field slot if he doesn't don WANTED ! dedicates his freedom to the central Mc-Kinle- y, will some of the other football powers such as Canton the "tools of ignorance." Pat concerns of humanity. OR will be adopting the sport also. Many colleges be operating as die Lords clean up STUDENT RESIDENT around the country are conducting lacrosse on either a hitter and attempting to break the GAMBIER Left Overs AS REPRESENTATIVE OF club or intramural basis to keep athletes in shape, but this slump he suffered as a junior after (Continued from page two) writer hopes to see the sport grow on its own merit, good freshman and sophomore Smith-Steven- s The only suggestion we would

off-seas- rather than a mere means to keep on athletes in seasons at the plate. Tailoring Company like to make to the divisions, before shape. Infield Strong they enter the Play Contest next With Chubby Holmes holding 1894 North High Street year, is that they are more selective GOOD SHOW, OLD MAN! down shortstop, Ray Brown at sec- Columbus 1, Ohio in their choice of plays. Before The above phrase is perhaps the most fitting comment for the six ond, Ron Bennington at third, and choosing a play, they should consid- Kenyon swimmers who swam in the NCAA championships at the either Jim Davison or Brian Dona- er the talent, time, interest and University of North Carolina, March 28-3- 0. The sports pages of the hue at first, the Lords infield seems SHARP'S general potentialities of the mem- course, about Michigan's great team pretty strong. Holmes looks like of their division; in nation's papers had a lot to say, of CARDS GIFTS bership other victory over Yale and some of the fine times that were turned in. But the best ball player on the team FLOWERS words, they should try to fit the

Coach Edwards and his now and if he his 3-47- you won't find any mention of Kenyon since right duplicates Public Sq. Phone 45 work to the group. We would like small aggregation were no match either as a team or as individuals for 1956 performance at the plate to suggest among others, the one the nation's in the swimming world. But that shouldn't matter. act plays of Yeats, Shaw, Chekhov-an- , giant from a small school. ..And we can whole heartedly say that the Kenyon The is that Ted FitzSimons, Skip Kurrus, Dan Ray, Pirandello. important thing men who competed this year justly deserved to have a crack at the Tom Wilson, and Dave Borman swam well and turned in good per- However, this year's play con- "big boys" because of their me performance not only this year but in formances even though they did not see their names in headlines or test was very successful, though most the last four years. The fact that the six did turn in good performances were able the big teams. Edwards reported that he was of the college payed little attention to upset some of should be enough to make any student proud of the men who have given very pleased with the trip and the swimming. FitzSimons placed eighth to it. The winning play was much of their time and energy to build Kenyon into a power in its 440-yar- d in the 220-yar- d Dan Ray turned in his best time in the Archon's production of exerpts freestyle, own class and make its presence fell to other college swimmers if not freestyle, and Tom Wilson shaved 25 seconds off his time in the gruelling from Act II of Beckett's Waiting the general sports-minde- d public. W.H. 1500-met- er freestyle. The experience of swimming in such a meet far for Godot. outweighs any false delusions Kenyon might have had about being that we were representing not only national heros, and it is important BARNCORD Compliments of LEMASTERS Kenyon but the Ohio Conference. A school the size of Kenyon can Shoe Repair never hope to much national prominance against the big powers for gain 37 Public Square Hayes' Grocery swim such a meet should in the swimming world, but the chance to in Mount Vernon, Ohio REPP TIES never be denied swimmers of good caliber even though they may come COLLEGIAN APRIL 11, 1957 PAGE SIX KENYON Degrees At Conference Program Honorary People and Places Make News (Continued from page one) (Continued from page one) the conference was keynoted by Paul throughout the land."

F. thi-country- Hoffman, a Kenyon trustee, U. S. Charles Kettering, one of 's delegate to the United Nations, and foremost industrialists an; chairman of the Fund for the Re- a member of the board of trustee; public, the organization which un at several other Ohio colleges, is ; derwrote a large share of the con- director of the General Motor ference's expenses. August Heck-sche- r, Corporation and a pioneer research, director of the Twentieth er in the automotive industry Century Fund and president of the "Whether we shall live longer anc Woodrow Wilson Foundation, fol- more happily," his citation read, lowed with his appraisal of the "is still the unsolved problem, b:.-progre- ss "Crisis of Freedom." has been made and yo i I Moderator for the Friday morn- have helped to make it." i f i ing session was Dr. Thomas I. Cook, Conference Speaker professor of political science at Miss Ward, who is in private life Johns Hopkins University. Speakers Lady R. G. A. Jackson, is an editc; , were poet and critic Dr. Peter Vier-eck- of the Economist and the author o: Pulitizer Prize winner in poetry Faith and Freedom and other noli and professor of Russian History ble works in the political, economic V at Mt. Holyoke College; and Dr. and historical fields. I. Rabi, Nobel Prize winner 4T- - Isidor in physics and former chairman of Heckscher the general advisory committee to (Continued from page one) the AEC. Viereck spoke on the the national parliament, whic freedom of the artists, "The Stub- found itself unable to fulfill th born Grit in the Machine," and task of governing. "The individu; Rabi on the freedom of the scientist. became excessively individualisti. Hauge Unable To Attend and the only way he could be cor. With Kenyon trustee Kenyon C. trolled was by a government wh::: Bolton, president of Cleveland Air- became excessively busy." ways, Inc., as moderator, the Friday In foreign affairs the failure o: afternoon session was addressed by liberalism was even more traa Clarence B. Randall, specia.l assist- Liberalism identified itself with t ant to the President for foreign tionalism since parliaments v,t:-- . economic policy and retired chair- strongest where nationalism flon: man of Inland Steel Co. Mr. Ran- ished. The nation became th dall spoke on "Freedom and Free supreme good; "the free man, Enterprise," and then read Dr. in jeopardy." The liberals crejte. Gabriel Hauge's paper on "Freedom nations where they didn't etfc

self-determinati- and the Economic Role of Govern- on was the cry. ment." Dr. Hauge was unable to Basically incapable of apprexi;' make plane connections for Colum- ing the spirit of compromise, son - V Ml bus because of inclement weather liberals hesitated as Marxism sl': V in Washington, D. C, and could verted the social order and for th ity V not present his speech in person. Marxist, of course, there was r-possibil- J. Donald Adams, contributing of compromising v: editor of Book the bourgeoise.

Review acted as moderator for the The conservative also failed m:-erabl- y. f t Saturday morning meeting featur- He was "born to pessit ing Dr. Clinton Rossiter, professor ism," "without faith," "paralyze: of government at by fear;" he "grumbled and cor. speaking on "The Free Man in the plained." His was not the error c Free Society"; and Barry Bingham, extreme abstraction, but of the Is ill. editor of the Louisville Courier- - of humanistic virtues. ourmil presenting his paper on What we lack is faith in re.

Free-Pres- s. , V. i "The Responsibilities of a freedom. This is a moral, rath " than a political problem. Th: K7 Following the honors convoca- "suburbs," the "extension of leisc: tion Saturday afternoon, Barbara time," and the "abundance f Ward (Lady Jackson) editor of the goods" have submerged man inste; Economist spoke on "Free Choice of liberating him. An egalitarir

and the Good Society," with the Rt. lowest-denominato- r education ir. Rev. Nelson M. Burroughs, bishop creases the gap between "the snu.

of the Diocese of Ohio, as moder- highly-educate- d elite" and ti ator. masses who are led by their no.

Mor-gentha- u, si V; Saturday evening, Hans J. by the ever-read- y manipulate:' 0 professor of political "The group life we witness toe; science at the University of Chicago is not that of free spirits combimr. ' discussed the "Dilemmas of Free- for purposeful ends. It is nth rr dom," with William M. McGovern, the coming together of men ar.. n beir.-los- professor of government at North- t 4 AS women desperately afraid of .T western acting as moderator. The in the massess." second speaker for the evening was I lowcver, there is always ir S. L. t Brig. Gen. A. Marshall, editor- hope of salvation and if it come-i- ial writer and military critic for the will be an "elite of the spirit, 4 Detroit Sens, whose subject was new Puritanism, tempered by kiu "Freedom and Military Policy." so says Mr. Heckscher. , Clergy Close Final Session Speakers for the Sunday morning Architect session were the Rev. John C. (Continued from page one)

Unit'-State- S. s s Murray, J., editor of Theological change scholarship to the s v-- k-master'- Studies, who spoke on "The Free- in 1950. He received dom of the Christian in the Free- degree in architecture U$

dom of the Church;" and the Rt. Carnegie Tech and since 1 95 -- Rev. Stephen F. Bayne, bishop of been at O. S. U. the Diocese of Olympia (Washing- Before coming to this count;1 ton), whose subject was "Freedom ZocTly executed five residence 1 '; In the top photo, Lady Jackson (Barbara Ward) receives her hood from Registrar S. R. McGowan while Act- and Personality in the Christian the area around Tessin in

ing President Frank E. Bailey reads the during -- citation the Honors Convocation. In the middle photo, left Tradition." The Very Rev. Corwin southern part of Switzerland. to right, Professors Haywood and Trescott follow Charles F. Kettering and Lady Jackson in the academic W. Roach, dean of Bcxley Hall, chemical laboratory, and small lw11' procession preceeding the convocation. In the lower photo, Louis M. Lyons interviews Russell Kirk in WOSU-TV'- s Philo studio. was the moderator. ing development.