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Our Silent Generation'
A FAMOUS EDUCATOR SAYS:
Arid The Seekers Of I ruth
"A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth re
mains forei'er. The sun rises and the sun goes down, and Jiastens to
the plate where it rises." Ecclesiastes.
A college generation goes, and another takes its place, and in the
eyes of those who sit in the ivied halls and observe and judge the college
generations, there are new trends as well as new faces, but nothing really
new exists under the sun. A student will shout whence stumbles upon
a new idea, and his professor will smile at him and share the ecstasy of
the new idea with hini, at the same time knowing the idea is as old as
time. .
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Achieving Your Personal Identify
Student generations stumble
along, lour years at the time, most
of their members remaining silent
and faceless at the back of the
ciowd, some of them, the boister
ous, noisy, troublemaking ones,
leading and drawing attention and
praise and criticism. But still the
majority str.ys in the, back of the
crowd, silent an tt faceless and ex
tremely careful.
Because we are careful we have
been given the title, : "the silent
generation. ' the cautious college
men and women, the ones without
cteativity and passion and ability
and courage. And it all is true. We
aie silent and careful, dull and
pasMonless. fumbling and coward
ly. " '
We dress alike, not so much to
copv others or because we fear soc
ial disapproval, but because it is
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Night Editor
Manley Springs
easy to dress like otheVs. Vc read
alike, daring not to Tead too much
or to read an unknown author. We
play recordings of West Coast mu
sicians and join in friendly musi
cal arguments, some of us, about
Beethoven and Bach.
We are dull, unimaginative and
scared. -; i .
We call otheru-psetido-intellect
auls when we don't understanid or ;
don't agree 'with them. Ve ai-gue
for man's right to ay what he
pleases, but when Dr. W. C. George
writes about : his belief in'tlieibi- ,
ological inferiority of the., Negro,
we call him names and demand
that he be shut up. "
Ve believe in democracy and
the flag, but when there is a camp
us election less than half of ns
vote, and we cheer Russians in
newsi eels.
We have our own bank ac
counts and charge accounts be
cause we are mature students, but
we also put masks over our faces
and pull panty raids and set fire
to the police station.
We give other people less than
half a chance to express themselves,
and when they do anyway we want
to crucify them on-thje spot.
.We hate leadership and we
spend a lot. of our time devising
methods of escaping studying. Wre ?
sign a pledge of honor and then
spend four years not noticing oth
er people who cheat. . -
If there ever was a generation
which appeared well on its way to
being lost, we are it. But, as Ec
clesiastes states, the earth remains
forever. '
.
Forever there will be the student
who doesn't wear a1 three-button
suit and read the newsmagazines,
f orever there will be the student
who studies because there is a
certain fire within him, and vvlio
. loves music and books because tlte
strain and words feed the fire.
Forever there will be tlic stu
dent who cherishes his own be
liefs and also believes others have
equal rights to their own opin
ions, even if they be diametrical
ly opposed to his.
Forever there will. be the student
who will do all these things and
still not be ashamed of himself.
These people are in short sup
ply. We need more of them. : But
they will always be around, short
supply or not.
The generation stumbles on
- ward toward tile diploma, some of
its members to hell, some to heav
en. And some will run along hj
front of the generation, shouting
.questions, asking Why?-;
On these seekers the sun- .will
shine as thev toil.
Harold Taylor
Last sum..er, President Har
old Taylor of Sarah Lawrence
College delivered an address at
the National Student Associa
tion's congress in Chicago. Por
tions of that speech are re
printed here. They affect all
students, here and elsewhere.
What kind of private instruc
tion can teach young men and
women to be free, to be inde
pendent, to want to think and
act for themselves?
. ' t In a way, it is a question of
teaching people to find them
selves, to establish their own
identity, an identity which is
theirs and no one else's; it' i a
question- of - teach jng-pep4'te;-j
know what they believe, about
, - ' I themselves . and ' their world, "
v -about other people, to know who
they are. to know what there is
.in life, what they want from
l v life and what they wanff to give
to it. All this is 'involved; in the
- struggle for personal indepen
dence. I would like to suggest that
this is what colleges and uni
versities are for, to enable the
young to find a personal identi
ty, to help them to achieve a
personal independence.
I would like to suggest that
this is what students are in col
lege to do, and that if they" are
not doing that, they are failing
to achieve a true education ....
A student is a person who is
learning to fulfill his powers
and to find ways of using them
in the service of mankind.
The student at his best has a
purity of motive which is the
mark of his true function. lie
f wants to know the truth, to know'.
what is good, not merely for his
own or for other peoples' ad
vantage, but in order to achieve
his maturity as a student.
He is granted the priceless
advantage of looking openly at
the world to diicover its sec
rets. He is given the rare privilege
of withholding his assent to the
claims the world makes for its
own particular brand of truth,
and he can decide what he thinks
on the basis of the evidence, not
on the basis of pressure, because
this is infact what it means to be
a student, and what the world
asks the student to be.
It remains only to say that
you have the trust and confidence
of the American public. You are
looked to abroad for leadership
and help ... I count it a privi
lege to be able to say to you that
people like myself believe in
you more than in almost any
thing else.
Dr. George: We Can't Gamble
On; Integration Of !ThejRia:es
- Dr. W. C George ....
I Dr. George, a UNC Medical
"School professor, believes that
Negroes are biologically infer
ior to whites. Here, in the last
" segment of a speech he de
livered recently, Dr. George
'concludes his support of his
argument. While The Daily Tar
Heel violently disagrees with
what Dr. George believes, it
feels his remarks are worth
reading.
In spite of the grave dangers
suggested by science, there are
people who insist that we should
go ahead with integration. Some
of them say that amalgamation
Mill not occur. We cannot afford
to gamble the future of our na
tion and our race on that as
f sumption.
,If we bring together in social
relations children and teenage
people of both sexes and both
races and break down their sense
of racjal integrity we may ex
pec f a progressive increase in
our mixed blood 'population. This .
has oecurPcd in some coutries
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Today ministers tell us that
they know Clod's will on all sorts
of worldy matters that they know
little about, and they tell us .
what is the Christian thing to do,
when a careful, critical consid
eration of the facts leads to the
conclusion that the thing is evil,
not good. They preach sociologi
cal sermons that willnot stand
the test of analysis, they pass
resolutions, they quote the Gold
en Iule.
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They seem not to realize that
quoting the Golden Rule does
not answer the question, What is
the right and moral thing to do?
It merely raises the question.
The admonition "Do unto others
as you would have them do' to "
you," applies not -only to our
relations with Negroes. It ap
plies also to our children and to'
our children's children ; through .
future generations. Do you think
that the Golden Rule requires or
pjprmtf4 hat ,we' make, racial hy
5 bridst o bur posterity? I hardly
think so
It is undoubtedly true ' ' that
many good men of the church
believe that they are doing right
in promoting integration of the
races, blinded as they are by
shiboleths and virtuous sounding
phrases. But, for reasons that I
have given, evil results are in
dicated if they succeed in their
purpose . ...
It is not enough merely to as
sert that something is ethical, the
Christian thing to do and God's
will. There is no reason to as
sume that God's will is more
clearly revealed to integrational
ists than to other men, nor is
there any reason why they should
be exempted from proving the
merit of the program they advo
cate. This they have not done...
I do not claim to be an angel
of God, my friends, but I be
lieve that we should resist those
people who are telling us to sac-
rifice our children "on the alter
of integration. .
L'il Abner
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Reply To George: i
Just One Race'
Anthony Wolff
This maj' be considered as an open letter to '
Dr. W. C. George, regarding the statements which 1
he has made recently and in the past, and some !
of which were printed recently in The Daily Tar '
Heel.
It amazes me that a man of Dr. George's years
and his education, not to mention his supposed de
votion to the methods and ethics of science, should
persist in this reiteration of unscienific and in
human ideologies.
What is even more amazing and deplorable is
that Dr. George seems to feel it his duty to air
his opinions far and wide.
In the address delivered at Dartmouth last fall.
Dr. George began by perpetuating a myth which
has become so firmly ingrained in some people that
they still accept it as true. The myth says: "We have
I' worked out a system of social customs and laws.
" and 'personal "and group understandings, that have
enabled two greatly different peoples to live to
gether in peace, mutuaL tolerance and helpfulness
Under this 'System' we' haVcf 'developed increasing
good, friendly and cordial race relations."
' -: -This is, insultingly condescending, as well as
palpably untrue.
;.It should be unnecesary for mc to go through
Dr George's ".speech and pick it apart its basic
fallacy is obvious. As Dr. George himself noted
(missing the "obvious implication), he is no more
warmly received here than he is at Dartmouth.
So I am not writing this in an effort to con
vert Dr. George to what is rapidly becoming rec
ognized even in the Southern regions as empirical
ly true. Nor am I writing it to prove to this camp
us that which it evidently knows and which, if it
does not know already, it cannot now learn.
- Rather, I am writing this because Dr. George
has conspicuously presented his opinion in- situa
tions where his name has been linked with ftie
name of this university; as this newspaper travels
farther than does the doctor, this seems to be ihe
best way of letting people know that Dr. George's
buncombe is not .the only opinion in Chapel Hill
and letting the world know, too, that those who do
entertain the misconceptions which constitute Dr.
George's despicible creed usually have the decency
and common sense to keep it to themselves.
And I am writing this because there is an at
tractive possibility that some enlightened institution
in Alabama or Mississippi, hearing of the opinions
which Dr. George insists on mouthing, 1 will per
suade him to join its staff in its losing "war against
its own conscience and humanity.
I have only one request to make of Dr. George:
You seem to feel that the purely accidental as
signment of minor physical characteristics is a suf
ficient basis for segregation.. In view of thi
would you please consider making another, far mrc
basic, distinction: There really ought to be one
classification for you and your "Patriots" (what a
lying misnomer that is!), and another for men and
the others who think as I do.
I consider you, sir, neither patriotic nor Ameri
can nor Christian. If consider you I must, I do so
as an insult to this university and this country, and
to the only "race" which matters in this context
the human race.
( In short, my real reason for writing this is that
for the first time in a long time I am deeply
angry. To life a fitting line from E. E. Cummings.
"There is some s. I will not eat."
Television Previev:
Another Van Daren
On Channel 2 at 8:30 this evening, Ralph Meek
er and Julie London star in a play called "A Time
To Live." With these two heading the cast, it is
quite possible that the play will rise above the
level of most "adult westerns."
Edward R. Murrow visits Michael Todd and his
wife, Elizabeth Taylor, as well as Mark Van Doren.
Todd is responsible for "Around The World In 80
Days" and is quite a figure in the entertainment
world; his wife is in need of little editorial com
ment; Mark Van Doren, aside from siring the re
cently famous Charles of the same name, is a
Pulitzer Prize winning poet and a respected critic
and prose writer. ANTHONY WOLFF.