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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1*5 7 "Better fifty Than a ye«r» of cycle of Europe QCltsi iicknt Cathay" Vol. LXXXI, No. 21 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, APRIL 20, 1955 By Subscription Attorney Discusses Courts, Cases In Cit Lab Session Bates Students Sail Addressing the Citizenship Lab- The third type includes cases in- >ratory last Thursday, Attorney volving disputes which originate in Vincent L. McKusick of Portland the highest court itself. For Summer Abroad discussed the membership, proce- Speaker Dispels Misconception dure and role of the U. S. Supreme "It is a popular misconception," Zerby Conducts Court. the speaker observed, "that the A trustee and graduate of Bates, Court hears all cases falling into Extensive Tour lie emphasized the "unique con- these three categories" He point- tinuity" which the Court possesses ed out that last year the Court Through Europe liy virtue of its life appointments. heard only 107 of 1.500 such cases. "Summer in Europe" is once Note* Three Types Of Cases "The Court has complete discre- more beckoning students to join Three types of cases may come tion," he added. Dr. and Mrs. Rayborn L. Zerby before the Supreme Court, Mc- Many believe the Court has be- on the continent. Kusick explained. Questions of come lazy in recent years. "This Fourteen American colleges will constitutional interpretation, first- is unjustified," the Harvard Law be represented in the group of ap- ly, may be referred to the highest graduate stated. Critics would do proximately 45 students who will tribunal by state courts. The most better to chastise the tribunal for tour Western Europe from July to noted of these would be the recent its choice of cases. September. segregation case. Decisions Receive Scrutiny Fourteen Bates Travelers Cases which involve federal Turning to the Court's role in Bates students traveling with ciuestions or in which there is a statesmanship, McKusick asserted this group include Margaret Bart- diversity of citizenship constitute that "there is no other group of lett, lone Birks, Judith Clark, the second type of Supreme Court nine men whose intellectual output Lloyd Condit, Nancy Glcnnon, cases. "The tidelands oil dispute is undergoes such close scrutiny as Richard Hathaway, Roger Lucas, an example," McKusick noted. the Supreme Court." Making plans for their summer abroad, Mrs. Rayborn L. Margaret Sharpe, Bernard Staples, Linnea Swanson, Barbara Uretsky, Because of the extreme impor- Zerby and prospective cosmopolitans scan articles for Selective Service Marilyn Webb, Helen Wilbur, tance of its cases, the Court is re- European points of interest. (Photo by Bryant) The Selective Service Qual- sponsible for moral leadership, the and Nancy Wilkes. ification Test will be given to- attorney added. Embarking from Quebec on morrow in Pettigrew. July 4, the voyagers will spend Dissension Weakens Practice nine or ten days crossing to All men who have applied to Three Professors Travel Although dissents are not had in Southampton on the S.S. Colum- take this test and have re- themselves, McKusick claimed, bia. ceived admission cards before "the Court has perhaps weakened the examination time should During Sabbatical Leaves Ship Offers Orientation its unity and prestige" by too report at 8:30 a. m., or imme- Three Bates professors, Lena semester. Her tentative plans in- much dissension. This ship, chartered by the diately following the comple- M. Walmsley, Brooks Quimby, clude visits to Italy and the Rivi- Council on Student Travel, pro- tion of a 7:40 class. Since Justices Black and Doug- and Raymond L. Kendall will be era. vides an intensive orientation pro- The examination will begin las entertain considerably more absent from campus for one semes- Walmsley Tours Europe gram on board including lectures at approximately 9 a. m. and liberal views than the other seven ter next year when they take their After a two or three-week stay on European political, economic, will last for exactly three members of the present court, sabbatical leaves. in Paris, the head of the women's social, and artistic backgrounds. hours. All men who take the they have acquired a reputation as Professor Walmsley will travel physical education department Language classes and travel coun- test will be excused from their chief dissenters. with a personal friend in the Medi- plans to tour Switzerland and seling round out the program. classes from 8:35 until 12:15. (Continued on page two) terranean area during the second Great Britain. The itinerary includes eight days She intends to observe various in Britain, four in Amsterdam, a sports and health programs in voyage down the Rhine from Chase Lecture Series Features high schools and colleges. If possi- Cologne to Wiesbaden, a week at ble, Professor Walmsley will visit (Continued on page three) the offices of the World Health Jess Smith In Piano Recital Organization in Geneva. Briwa, Drake Take Over Miller Receives PhD Jess Smith, well-known young mittee, mezzo in B flat minor, and the Helen H. Briwa and Paula R. For Dissertation On American pianist, will present a re- Smith's program includes the Rhapsody in G minor by Brahms. Drake will administer the women's cital in the Chapel Tuesday eve- Haydn's Sonato in B flat major. Following selections from the physical education department dur- Plato's Economics ning at 8 under the auspices He will also present the Cappric- Allegro and Allegro di Molto from ing the semester, while Miss Drake Recently James V. Miller, as- of the George Colby Chase Com- cio in F sharp minor, the Inter- Fantasia in C major by Schumann will assume the position of WAA sistant professor of religion, re- and Visions and Prophecies by adviser. ceived his Ph. D. from Boston Bloch. Smith will conclude the 1'rofcssor Quimby, who takes l'niversity. His thesis was a dis- Third In Chase Series program with the Ballade in A his leave next semester, plans to sertation entitled "An Inquiry flat major, the Nocturne in B flat travel through the middle-Atlantic into Plato's Treatment of Wealth." major, and the Scherzo in B flat and Southern states to observe Receives Degrees minor by Chopin. speech departments and programs Professor Miller received his At the College of l'uget Sound at the University of West Virgin- A.B. from Indiana Central Col- in Tacoma, Wash., he stud- ia, the l'niversity of Virginia, and lege in 1942, and his B.D. from ied under Prof. D. Robert Smith Pennsylvania State College. and was graduated as a music ma- the Bonebrakc Theological Semi- Quimby Edits .Forensic Book nary in 1945. jor. In the summer of 1950 he He also plans to edit the Golden Studied at the Los Angeles Con- He chose the topic of his thesis Book of Delta Sigma Rho, which because he thought critics grossly servatory under Mine. Kosiana commemorates the 50th anniver- Lhcvinna. misinterpreted Plato and his ideas. sary of that forensic organization. Plato has been accused of demon- Smith Continues Studies Around the first of January, Pro- strating totalitarian theories. Later at the Julliard School of fessor Quimby hopes to visit the Critics Fail Music in New York City, Smith speech departments of the met- Professor Miller believes that continued his work under Mine. ropolitan New York colleges. He the critics fail "because they do Lhevinna and Josef Raieff. Despite may coach the international debat- not consider the unity of his his recent concert appearances, he ing team before it sails for Eng- (Plato's) thinking, or because they still studies privately in New York land. dismiss his ethics, psychology, and under Muriel Kcrr and Alton Kendall Considers Travel Jones. social theory as peripheral." Professor Kendall is uncertain The' George Colby Chase lec- He stated that writing a thesis about his plans, but is considering "takes more endurance than geni- ture scries, in its attempt to pro- a trip through the South or South- vide top-flight intellectual pro- us. A Ph.D. doesn't make a person west during the second semester. a better teacher; it is a "way-post grams for the campus, has pre- He will work in secondary schools sented poet-historian Peter Viereck in the process of becoming educat- Jess Smith, former student of Prof. D. Robert Smith, pre- there. Dean Harry W. Rowe has ed." and the Indian dancers, the Lau- not yet announced plans for re- sents Tuesday night recital. (Photo by Bryant) bins, earlier in the year. The degree will be conferred on placing Kendall and Quimby. June 5. >st TWO THE BATES STUDENT, APRIL 20, 1955 Debaters Get High Ratings, Taylor Praises 'Bates Bobettes' B Elections, Gives M.I.T. Wins Tournament Council Advice Bates College entered the semi- In eight preliminary debates, finals in debate at the New Eng- Bates defeated Smith, Boston Uni- Speaking at the Stu-C recogni- land Forensic Tourny with the sec- versity, University of Connecticut, tion banquet last Thursday evening ond highest number of total judg- Albertus Magnus and Emerson. in Commons, Council President ing points. M.I.T.