EDITORIAL
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Editorial 1
Feature 2, 3
Interviews 4
Literature 10, 11, 12
Personalities 5
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor - in - Chief
Pete H. Banus
Assistant Executive Editor — David Q. Austin
News Editor — Lois Goodman
Associate Editors — Deree Mayberry, Clubs; John Elliott,
Literature; Harold D. Pearson, Sports; Mason
Hudspeth, Religion; Mary F. Philbeck, Person
alities; Betty Staton, Activities.
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Doris Vance, Richard Plyler, Mac Hill, Nancy
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Advisory Board
Dr. Robert Elliott Mr. Pi’ancis Dedmon Mr. Julian Hamrick
SOMETHING TO NOTE
Waterville, Me.—(I. P.)—A new approach to the perennial
problem of freshman adjustment was recently tackled at Colby
College iwt hthe help of Professor Theodore M. Green of Yale
University. Dr. Greene, a philosophy professor, deplored the
“typical freshman indoctrination” to college in an address here
las spring and suggested at that time a Freshman Convocation.
“We fail to use imagination to get inside the minds of the
newly arrived freshman,” he charged. “We tend either
to lecture at them or to shake their hands and pump them
full of ice cream. There ought to be a time for the beginning
of the kind of mature conversation which . . . four years of
college ought to mean.”
The Convocation, held last month, in Dr. Greene’s words
was “to give the freshman an opportunity to find himself
as an individual and, in so doing, to adjust himself and accept
the responsibilities of college life.” In his tlu-ee-day visit, Di'.
Greene addressed an All-College assembly, spoke informally at
classes, before fraternities, conducted Chapel and was featured
in the Freshman Convocation meeting and panel discussion.
TRAI N FOR SERVICE
By PHILIP L. ELLIOTT
All over the country parents are lamenting the fact that their
children do not know what they want to do in life. The
children are confused also, because they do not know what
vocation to prepare for. As a result the parents are not in
terested in sending their children to college, and the children
are not interested in going until this all-important question is
settled.
I suppose this is a legitimate worry. However the signific
ance is not as great as the worry would indicate. As a matter
of fact there may be more danger in knowing too eai'ly what
you want to do than not. There are two primary dangers: One
is too great specilization; and the other is selecting your voca
tion from economic and practical considerations instead of
giving enough attention to what Emerson called “the calling in
your character.”
At this point is our great confusion. We confuse animal
training with education. You can train a monkey, but you can’t
educate him. He learns what to do and how, but he can never
understand what he does or its relation to the sum total of
things. We confuse propaganda with education. Propaganda is
teaching people to think what you want them to think. To
educate a person means that you train him how to think to the
end that he may be able to do his task not only skillfully, but
justly and without prejudice or malice, irrespective of personal
consequences.
The bait most often held out to waiting youth by advertisers
and some schools is “if you will enroll for certain courses in
residence or by mail you may one day sit in your boss’s chair.”
This utilitarianism has led us into our craze for specializa
tion. These words from Emerson are very applicable here. “The
state of our society is one in which the members have suffered
amputation from the trunk, and strut about, so many walking
monsters—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never
a man.” Add to this Mulcater’s and Montaigne’s admonition:
“It is not a mind, it is not a body we erect, but it is a man,
and we must not make two parts of him.”
In other words in the choice of our vocation we may be so
busy becoming doctors, lawyers, preachers, and farmers, that we
overlook the Man who practices medicine, law, or preaches, or
Again the craze for specialization may lead us to try to take
shortcuts. There are no shortcuts to real scholarship and
greatness. It is individual transformation and dislikes being
“Wisdom was never learned at any knees.
Be those knees a father’s and that father a king.”
p slowly like the dawn over an un-
A gi-eat man remarked to me recently, “A man’s evaluation
of his profession is manifested by the extent to which he will
go to prepare for it.”
The foundation of general and cultural education is vital
to the quality of the vocational superstructure you build on it.
AIR FORCE CAREER
On April 26th, an Air Force Aviation Cadet Selection Team
was at Gardner-Webb. They counseled the students on Air
Force opportunities, training, and requirements. They gave
assistance to any students interested in planning their military
service or career in the U. S. Air Force.
Capt. Robert E. Coates, the team president, advised that one
of the best opportunities open in the Air Force today is the
Aviation Cadet training program. For those who are interested
in Aviation and in being an officer and leader in the U. S. Air
Force, the Cadet program is the traditional source of Air Force
leadership.
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