West Point Debate The Official Organ of the Students of The University of the South 19 SEWANEE, "VoTlXXI, No. TENNESSEE, MARCH 17, 1954 New Series No. 1,139 Preliminary Is Held Red Gross Masque Sets Sewanee Debate Council Plans Drive Opera Date Hosts Annual Tournament Sewanee played host last weekend to the members of District VI of the Sewanee Goal Comic Production 8th annual West Point Preliminary Tournament of Debate. Ml ar- rangements for die meet were handled by Jonas E. White and the Se- Set At Scheduled Soon wanee Debate Council, which was represented in the tournament by Cliff Davis and Lewis Lee. The winning teams of the tournament were - Sewanee chapter of the American Purple Masque this week swings into the University of Florida, the Univer-* the final stages of rehearsals, prepara- Red Cross will open its 1954 drive for sity of South Carolina, Wake Fore; and development of the comic State funds with a kick-off meeting on Mon- (N. C.) College and Memphis ,, The Village Barber, to be pro- College, in that order, with the Uni- day. March 22, in the Thompson Union duced Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Theater. The featured speaker will be versity of Alabama selected as first March 25, 26 and 27. Clarence Wells, Red Cross field rep- alternate. Each one of the eight dis- singspiel, or comic opera with resentative from Nashville, who will talk The tricts sends four representatives to the dialgue, centers around the village bar- national contest to held the of on the achievements of the national be week ber and physician, who has invented April 18 at West Point, N. Y. District organization during the past year and TOMMY ROBERTSON what he considers to be a foolproof VI will actually have five teams ap- its plans for the year coming. A brief cure for all ailments. The barber is report of the Sewanee chapter's activi- pearing, since the University of Miam 1953 will be submitted by played by Boone Massey. This prescrip- automatically returns as last year*! ties during Alumnus Ends ; the i s of I Other in the tourna- W. Porter Ware, chairman of the local winner. teams involved accidents. chapter. Following the meeting there ment were David Lipscomb College Others in the cast are Mrs. Hugh Carson Newman College, Appalachian will be a film outlining the achieve- Navy Training Davisson, Mrs. Paul Walker, Eg- ments on a national scale during the Wade State Teachers College, Alabama State Recently graduated from the U. S. bert, Joe McAllister, Koch, preceding year. Present at the assem- Harvey College and Tennessee Tech. Naval School, Pre-Flight, at Pensacola, Sandy Viner, Paul Walker and Jack bly will be the fifty teams who will The outstanding Florida team was Fla., was Naval Aviation Cadet Thomas Wright. Arnold Rose will play the composed of Sands, Orlando, ; Larry (..!ifit during this campaign. E. Robertson, son of Thomas M. Rob- piano accompaniment. Fla., and Bob Chevins, Miami, Fla., The total minimum goal for the Se- ertson of McEwen, Tenn. The composer of the opera was Josef and was coached by Dallas C. Dickey. wanee chapter has been set at $880 by He attended the University of th< Schenk, who was an Austrian. He wa CAPT. W. F. KLINE national organization. This duo had a perfect record of five the Of this South before entering the Naval Avia< well acquainted with Mozart and Beet' unanimous wins, but were closely fol- amount the local chapter will keep tion Cadet Training Program through hoven. Schenk was quoted as saying lowed by George Williams, Columbia, $550 and the National Red Cross will the Naval Air Station at Memphis. that had Beethoven lived longer, he S. C, and John Altman, Charleston, receive the remainder. This amount is He is now assigned to the U. S. Capt. Kline would undoubtedly have achieved of the University of half S. C, South Ca- about of the minimum goal for Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Whiting highest goal in his art. Schenk w rolina, coached by Dr. G. Christophi the 1953 campaign which was $1,614, of Field, Milton, Fla., where he is engaged about a dozen singspieJs, of which the sen. Other top debaters were Kay which the local unit retained $1,195. in primary flight training. best known is The Village Barber. The Arant and Carwile LeRoy, Wake For- Quits Post This amount was not reached and be- # opera will be presented complete with est, coach Miss Carol Oldham; Jack cause of this fact, several of the chap- Capt. Wendell F. Kline, USN (ret.) very minor alterations. Some of t McNeil and Collins Kilburn, Memph: ters regular activities were curtailed. resigned last week from his position as songs have been transposed, since te State, coach Miss Evelyn Kempe, an Most of the work handled by the lo- Art Exhibit vice-president for development. His ors are scarce, said Brinley Rhys. All Carolyn Regan and Dorothy Sail, Ala resignation becomes effective March 31. a few of the more elaborate passag bama, coach Miss Annabel Hagood. and veterans and Kline has served the university in Opened Here have been somewhat amplified. The The debaters arrived Friday after- problems of members of the community. that capacity for several yeas, since his Village Barber is a genuine work of noon and were registered by Mr. Wh: Another of the chapter's services is to An exhibit of over 40 Japanese prints retirement from the navy. His posi- art, said Mr. Rhys, but it is a type and Tommy Thagard before having sponsor the Junior Red Cross, under from the Mary A. Ainsworth bequest tion, up until last year when the title that would appeal to almost an; dinner in Gailor Hall. By 7:30 of prints given to Oberln (0.) Colli was changed, was known as vice-presi- the chairmanship of Mrs. George B. regardless of his tastes, and the a contestants, coaches, debate chaii in 1950 opened at the Sewanee , dent for endowment. His office was Myers. This group provides a Christ- and students had assembled in the Phy- Gallery March 9. The prints here responsible for all the money-raising mas program at the nearby Murfrees- Price of admission will be one dollar sics Lecture Room where a welcome present the work of 26 Japanese a programs for the university except one horo Veterans Hospital and sends pack- for adults, and 75 cents for students. was extended by the Vice-ChanceUor. ists from the seventeenth, eighteenth handled alumni secretary. Mrs. Maryon Moise is in charge o fund by ages to needy people overseas with Dr. McCrady spoke briefly on the value and nineteenth centuries and will depict He was graduated from the U. S. costumes. Prim Wood heads the prop later life, 1 funds and material supplied of debate as a preparation for by the actors, domestic scenes and landscapes Naval Academy and served in the air erties department and Barry Winn will and expressed the University's con- The Ajnsworth print collection, to- arm of the navy until his retirement be in charge of lighting. cern that it would be maintained as a Another operation under the spon- talling about 1,300 examples has been several years after World War II. * part of the Sewanee tradition. The sorship of the local celebrated for many years as one o No successor to his position has been chapter is the schedule of debates was then announced the finest in the United States, and i bloodmobile, which has been to announced by the administration. Sewa- and the teams retired to various ( one of the most representative of thi nee for the past several years, and Ward Plans rooms to begin the first half of the aspect of Far Eastern art. Miss Ains- which will be continued this year. The tournament. Three rounds of debates worth died in 1950 and bequeathed her 1954 campaign will be under the di- were held Friday night and three collei her alrr Ober New Lecture Books Arrive rection of Maj. Saturday morning. Five of the eleven Ned V. Longsworth, lin College. Dr. Clarence Ward, PMS&T Dr. Clarence Ward, visiting professo: teams competed in all six round! at the Sewanee Military Acad- cently retired professor of fine a six wa emy. of fine arts from the John Hay Whit' while each of the remaining At Book Store The exact time of the visit has Oberlin who is on this year's Sewanee ney Foundation, opened his second se' awarded a bye in one round. When not yet been ascertained, but it is un- faculty through the John Hay Whitney Ward, D.D., chairman of mester series of public lectures on Feb Friday night's debates were completed, Rev. V. O. der Foundation's of visiting pro consideration by the chapter and program of directors of St. Luke's 18 with a lecture on "Early Americai the contestants, coaches and members the board the Nashville Regional Blood Service fessors, borrowed the exhibit for Se the book Homes and Householders in the North- (Continued on page 4) Book Store, announces that and it is expected to store has an abundant supply of as- be around the em Colonies," followed on March - first of sorted children's books available for May. Last year the bloodmo- with "Early Towns and Plantations it Stanford Student younger set. bile obtained over 250 pints of blood the South." immediate purchase by the and an Glass Is Editor The book store now offers prompt even greater amount is antici- March 18 his topic will be "Early Requests Annual service on all individual orders for any pated this year. Ware commented that Churches and Church Goers"; April 1, Also, within ten to 14 Of This Issue Jefferson the Classic letter has been received here off- book in print. this figure is, in many cases, greater "Thomas and Re- A "Leonardo da Vinci, ering to buy a 1953 Cap and Gown days a complete stock of Anchor Books 'ban that contributed by chapters serv- This week's edition of the Purple vival"; April 15, will be available for purchase. This was edited by Charlie Glass, the Genius"; April 29, "Michelangelo, Giant Frank Oxarart, whose address is now ing larger areas of m; population. 29 titles, and Renaissance." Stern Hall 403, Stanford, California, stock will include some One aging editor. He will be followed of the of the more important of the new titles will be stocked as published. this capacity next week by Harrison The lectures are given in St. Luke's sends the request asking that any stu- activities necessarily curtailed last The book store will offer to the uni- by Watts, Purple copy editor. Auditorium beginning at 8:00 p.m. dent willing to sell one contact him. year's lack of funds is the swimming versity and community a special sale and lifesaving classes conducted dur- of art books, art portfolios, etc., in the very near future. The merchandise wg the summer months. Ware ex- has already been ordered and if con- pressed the hope that this operation Summer Tours Available To Students sumer demand warrants, will be im- especially could be reinstated in the With each succeeding year, ever City, which has just announced its comprehensive view of European in mediately re-ordered. Announcement wider vistas are opened to the intend- program of tours of 1954, there are dustry and management through visit of the art sale will be made in the ing traveler. The 70 major interna- trips to suit all tastes and budgets. and discussions with leading industrial' tional airlines of LATA (International Foreign .Assignment for students of ists, bankers, labor leaders, political The book store is open from 9:45 and from 2:00 pm. German Air Transport Association) have re- jounalism and current affairs is led figures and others in England, Scan- a.m. to 11:45 a.m., Film through Fri- cently agreed to extend tourist air by Dr. Earl English, Dean of the dinavia, Germany, France, Italy, Swit- to 5:00 pjn., Mondaya link services around the world, making it School of Journalism, University of zerland and Holland. Other tours To Be Shown possible for the piggy-bank traveler Missouri, and offers an exciting pro- Spain and Italy; explore the little now to emulate Jules Verne, within gram of first-hand contacts with top known territory of North Africa with Captain From Koepenick, a German the bounds both of time and fortune. ranking political leaders, editors, over- seventeen days in French and Span- Entry nlrn, will be presented by the Cinema Sopherim these new vistas are not limited seas correspondents, officials of the ish Morocco; circle the Arctic North Guild But on Tuesday, March 23. Sweden and Fin- to spots on a favored world route—to United Nations and other international from the tundras of Deadline Changed Based on a stage hit by Carl Zuck- the Acropolis in Athens, Jerusalem, through land to the fjords and mountains of "layer, submissions for mem- Captain From Koepenick is a Holy City of three religions, the teem- Western Europe. The Salzburg Festi- Norway. Another tour contrasts the Deadline for ^lightful bership in Sopherim, Sewanee chapter satire about an ex-soldier ing life of the Cairo Bazaars, Bom- val, the glories of historic Rome and civilizations of Western Europe and ho cannot Upsilon literary society has get work. He borrows a bay, Delhi and the Taj Mahal, Singa- renaissance Florence, the experimental the Near East, including Egypt, Jor- gma n iform and a company of soldiers and been changed to March 21, it was an- pore and the islands of the Pacific. and living drama in London, the ballet dan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Turkey ^es a today. town by the authority of the exotic lies nearer nounced The dramatic and in Paris highlight the Art-Theatre- and Greece. uniform. submitting Morocco with names as Students interested in at hand—in Music tour. Fashion affords an inval- Prices range upward from $695. De- The film poetry, short stories or critical works is an attack on Prussian evocative as Fez and Marrakech—or programs uable behind-the-scenes introduction tailed information on these onsideration by the chapter have ylitarism. In 1932 it received the north of the Arctic Circle among the ew to the sources of fashion creation with and also on low-cost transportation by been urged to give their manuscripts York critics' award of "Best For- tundras, fjords and mountains of the visits to the leading French and Italian sea and air may be obtained from Trav- any member of Sopherim sometime *>gn Film of the Year". A pre-Hitler lands of the midnight sun. el & Study, Inc., 110 East 57 St., New this week. Manuscript readings will be gic-comedy, it is well acted, original Through the pioneering efforts of ind next Monday night. pungent. Travel & Study Inc. of New York Industrial Tout offers York 22, N. Y. held —
Discipline Defended
stir dissention. Had the This editorial is intended to restate the valid ing but up trouble and it would arguments presented in a letter to the editor letter been less personal and emotional better. Further- by Keith Fort last week concerning disciplinary have served its purpose much knowl- action against students, and to give the adminis- more it was not based upon a complete presentation of the few tration's side of the story. edge of the facts, and its facts given was deliberately slanted to create a First let us say that we agree on some of the false impression of the situation. in the article and disagree on points presented The student body is under the impression that letter to the others, but we feel that the open a system of universal probation has been insti- publication was dean—written specifically for — tuted and that any incident of improper conduct its form could do noth- in very bad taste, and in will result in dismissal. This is a false impres-
sion! It is true, though, that certain offenses which in the past have resulted only in proba- tion will now be punished by expulsion. We agree with the dean that the punishment should be determined by the seriousness of the offense, Contribution but it is not fair to punish the entire student body for the trouble caused by a small group of AH! WILDERNESS, OR A TIMELY TOME habitual offenders. Any individual student guilty of a breach of conduct should expect and should ON TEMPORAL TOPICS be given a personal warning before any drastic
action is taken. He should be put on probation
I think that I shall never see and given a second chance. Students at Sewa- A Sewanee drive that's completely free nee study hard and should be allowed to relax
Of yawning holes and gaping chasms— without fear of ezputsion if they overindulge oc- The kind that give car owners spasms. casionally. But this does not give them the privilege to become violently drunk and commit Now—fluid drive and Fordamatic some of the offenses that have occurred in the Power steering, no radio static, Air conditioning and heat control Are all great comforts for the soul. Some Pertinent Suggestions where we stand. He should explain his aims— The following are several begun immediately to repair Sewanee's roads. Overdrive and fender guards. although they should be apparent to every stu- gestions which have come to The need for this has been pointed out several Backup lights and chromium bars, dent without being told. which we would like to pass ) the adminis- times in the editorial columns of the Purple Built in jacks and bug deflectors i In this letter it was admitted that on one oc- Keep souls often from the wreckers. the past weeks and is the subject of a poem casion students decided to 'party' that they when The present lighting system in the library is which appears elsewhere on this page. "were guilty of trespassing, destroying property, deplorably inadequate. It is impossible to read But—Oh, the torture cars go through and almost resisting arrest". This is the very at one of the tables if the reading lamp is in- (Not to mention owners, too) We would like to recommend the gradual sys- type of incident to which the dean is trying to operative (which is often the case), and even From Fertile Acres to Proctors' Hail- tematic replacement of all the old furniture L put a stop. It has become more and more ap- so, the overhead lights are not bright enough to Perhaps car and owner should both wear the permanent dormitories—to begin i mmed late- parent that the students are no longer governed prevent eyestrain. We would like to suggest the a pall! ly.' Most of the furniture in these dorms has by the "old idea of conduct . . . whereby a stu- installation of two rows of flourescent fixtures in
If ever Ford and General Motors seen many years of hard use and mjuch of il dent did the right thing because it was the right the place of the present single row of incan- Wont to test their growing quotas, condition. realize thing to do". Otherwise the above mentioned descent lights. Another improvement would be is in poor We that the ex- Let them haste to air Arcadia incident (and many, many similar incidents) the replacement of the globes in the reading pense would prohibit replacing all of the furni- If (hey desire a higher ratia. would never have happened. lights beside the easy chairs. Also the addition ture immediately, but it should be possible The old idea of conduct was based upon the of rubber tips to the legs of the chairs in the carry out this program over a period of two Oh how car and owner buck and knock pride and self-respect of the students who con- library would help considerably in the reduc- Upon this mountain made of rock; sidered themselves "Sewanee Gentlemen", and tion of noise and would not be very Does it take n Regent's meeting acted as such. But let's face facts—today the To crush the grovel we are needing? "Sewanee Gentleman" has almost completely Work on the construction of stone walks in disappeared. A 1951 Ford— Broken in body and spirit. And in the absence of a code of front of Hunter, and between Walsh and the conduct laid down by this tradition some other chapel has been held up for several weeks due A bbo's form of control must be instituted by the ad- to bad weather, but now that favorable weather ministration. If it is too harsh and uncompro- is again upon us, we would like to see these Serapb ook mising, then it is the fault of the students, not jobs finished soon. the dean. To understand man's dilemma under pagar Parking in the drive at Gailor has become a Several alternate solutions to this problem of ism we have only to remember an old adage it inconvenient definite problem. Not only is about dogs: A dog, it is said, is the only animal Sewanee Men improper conduct were tried before the present for guests to enter and leave the dining hall that has found his god. He worships the man dogmatic system was introduced. None of them but the parking has caused the grass on the who will feed and caress him; he avoids—or worked. The fraternities showed themselves in- A. You know, when I went to Chattanooga the small circle in front of the building to be beaten bites—the man who would kick and beat capable of controlling their members (or they other day and walked in a store, the first thing like down and killed. If the local law-enforcement In manner the heroes of the Iliad relied did not desire to try). Students turned their the clerk said to me was "How are things on upon the favor of friendly goddess; officer does not attempt to remedy the situa- god and the backs and laughed at incidents that would Mountain?" and he had never seen me be- em- at the same time they recognized their en> tion, we would like to suggest that the enforce- m—much less a female guest ment of this rule be turned over to the disci- B. When I was in Nashville the other week- on the mountain. Let us endeavor to see things as they pline committee and stiff punishments meted end the same thing happened to me. How can In the eyes of the administration the situa- and then inquire whether we ought to compl they tell that we are Sewanee boys? tion has become bad enough to warrant this so- Whether to see life as it is will give us much c C. You wear coat and tie, don't you. Who else called "military solation, I do not know; but the consolat prep school discipline" (which A necessary factor in the attainment of stu- which is drawn from truth, if there be, is it really distasteful any is not) —no matter how it dent attention in class is that he be comfort- A. Let's be serious. I think there's a little solid and durable: that which may be derived parties. to may be to both The only way have able during the lecture. (Also it makes it easier more to it than that. from error, must be, like its original, fallaci< it removed is to prove to the administration that to sleep.) The repair of the defective cane- and fugitive. C. Well, if you had gone down there in a tee we are capable of controlling ourselves and bottom chairs in Walsh Hall would be a great Dr. Johnson shirt and levis they wouldn't have said it. acting like gentlemen. improvement and we are certain it would be B. Would you go to Chattanooga in tee shirt change tradition or the appreciated by the student body. Freedom consists not in refusing to recogn and levis? change the attitude of anything above us, but in respecting something C. No. the people who are really responsible the stu- which is above us; for, by respecting it. w A. See the point? dents! CG raise ourselves to it, and by our very acknowl C. But Sewanee didn't teach to wear me a edgment make manifest that we bear withi coat and tie. If I had never gone to Sewanee ourselves what is higher, and are worthy I I still would never have gone to Chattanooga Tommy Williams Charles Glas: be on a level with it. I have, on my journey. looking like a scrounge. Editor Issue Editor often met merchants from the north of Germany, A. Other people would. And do. Look at the who Charles Glass Boone Massey Sandy D'Ai fancied they were my equals, if they rudely way some of them go to the Eagle. seated themselves next to me at table. They Managing Editor Asst. Business Manager Business Manager B. Do many seniors do it? Isn't it usually the were, by this method, nothng of the kind; bu 1