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■7 THE PEN MARCH 1967 What College Catalogues Won’t Tell A Young lady trying to pick a college for herself - or won dering, perhaps, about what some nearby men’s college is like -can refer to any of several valuable guidebooks. She can also talk with counselors, ques tion alumni, pore over cata logues. All this will tell her quite a bit about what she wants to know. There’s one thing, however, that It won’t tell her. It won’t tell her what students them selves think - what they are saying privately about their own colleges and others. Pity, too. For these young people hold some of the most color fully outspoken opinions to be found anywhere. Their views may not always be right, Ixit because they are undeniably a part of the college scene. It would clearly be a mistake to Ignore them. To help close this collegiate Information gap, McCall’s not long ago decided to seek out those students who presumably are best Informed not only a- bout their own campuses but about others as well - the edl- tors-ln-chlef of college news papers. With the help of the national student magazine Mod erator, detailed questionnaires were mailed to student editors, lx)th men and women, all over the country. In return for the frankest opinions they could offer, we promised them Im munity from Identification; we didn’t even ask them to sign their names. (Even so, one student later warned us. In re plying to our queries, “Don’t try to analyze my handwrit ing.” It was signed, with im pressive candor: “Chicken.”) The result Is the most tno- rough study of college reputa tions ever carried out among students. In all, 97 editors replied, and while no claim can be made to statistical validity, some Interesting overall pat terns did emerge. First, It was clear that stu dent editors do, as we suspect ed, see well beyond their own campuses; they know a good deal about what’s up at Insti tutions all over the country. Collectively, their answers cit ed colleges and universities in all fifty states - and ei'en In clude!, 'Dr gj-jd measure or tad, the Electoral College (whose meml)ers, one respon dent said, have the least voice In running things) and the Uni versity of Guam (where, in an other student’s view, the coeds’ sarongs put them among the best-dressed anywhere). Second, certain names tended to recur In the replies - most Europe Offers Job Opportunities For Students Job opportunities In Europe this summor . , . Work this summer in the forests of Ger many, on construction In Aus tria, on farms In Germany, Sweden and Denmark, on road coii j'ructlon In Norway, In In dustries In France and Ger many. Well there are these Jobs available as well as jobs In Ireland, Switzerland, England, France, Italy, and Holland are oi)en by the consent of the gov ernments of these countries to American university students coming to Europe the next sum mer. For some years students made their way across the At lantic to take part In the actual life of the people of these coun- tr es. The success of this pro ject has caused a great deal of enthusiastic Interest and sup port bcth In America and Europ'j Every year, the program has been expanded to Include many more students and jobs. Al ready, many students have made application for next summer jobs. Amerlcan-European Stu dent Service (on a non-pjo- fitable basis) Is offering these Jobs to students for Germany, Scandinavia, England, Ausikia, Switzerland, France, ItalyJand Spain. The Jobs conslsf of forestry work, child care work (females only), farm work, ho tel work fllmlted number avail able), construction work, and some other more qualified jobs requiring more specialized training. The purpose of this program is to afford the student an op portunity to get into real liv ing contact with the people and customs of Europe. In this way, a concrete effort can be made to learn something of the cul ture of Europe. In return for his or her work, the student will receive his or her room and t)oard, plus a wage. How ever, students should keep in mind that they will be work ing on the European economy and wages will naturally be scaled accordingly. The work ing conditions (hours, safety, regulations, legal protection, work permits) will l>e strictly controlled by the labor mljils- ters of the countries Involved, In most cases, the employ- yc3 have requested especially for American students. Hence, they are particularly interest ed in the student and want to make the work as interesting as possible. They are all Informed of the intent of the program, and will help the student all they can in deriving the most from his trip to Europe, Please write for further In- notably those of the Ivy League colleges and such celebrated in stitutions as Berkeley, Antioch, and UCLA, What’s more, they recur In connection with ti,' same general traits of campus chkiacter, s;ig,jesting that in most cases a college’s reputa tion is fairly consistent. At the same time, some interest ing puzzles turned up, Vassar, for example, is said to attract both the brightest women and the dullest; Harvard is said to have some of the most liberal men and the most conventional yet U is also the institution where the most respondents wou'd jjnd a son of their own; and No'thwestern, which is, ac cording to the survey, the best place to send a daughter, doesn’t rate lirst in any other cate gory. Third, the students weren’t all reluctant to say exactly what was oa iheir minds, not just about colleges but also about our questionnaire. Wrote one: “This Is without doubt the most ab.surd and tnane waste of time I have ever experienced. Please do i/t pester us with such junk in the future.” (The same student, however, took pains to answer every question.) And another commented: “Your questionnaire encourageda spirit of independent thinking here, which is quite unusual in an ad.ni.iistratlon - oppressed student body such as ours,” It was clear that the student editors were being lx)th whim sical and serious at the same tLTic!, and equally clear that their aii.swers don’t necessarily reprosent any profound truths al)Out the nat 1 on’s colleges. They merely reflect something of the reputations of those col leges (“Stereotypes” might be a clos ;r word), and McCall’s offejs Liiem here in that spirit. All the same, we’ve got a feel ing that we’d better be ready to duel;. -The Editors, format! 3C1 and application forms to; American - Eurqjean Stu dent-Service, Box 34 733, FL 9490 Vaduz, Liechtenstein (Europe), Dean’s List (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) E.; Wanjohi, Maru Raph; Wil liamson, Patricia A, JUNIORS: Bailey, Linda Anne; Bailey, Phyllis Ann;Cut- Jilns, Gwendolyn O.; Davis, Charles E,; Evans, Norma; Ful ler, Ruth; Horton, Shirley; Mc Rae, Annie Margaret; Sanders, Sandra V. SOPHOMORES: Austin, Hil da; Booker, Janice; Demesne, Ruby B.; Harris, Faye; Mar shall, Phyllis; Mathewson, Wil liam H.; Scarborough, Danny L.; Singletary, Vinez; Winters, Donna. FRESHMEN; Canady, Edna m ^etures Series In The Letters At N.C. State University RECRUITER --Atty. A, Melvin Miller, a 1952 graduate of St. Augustine’s College, and now a member of a Recruiting Team for the Federal Housing Administration, is shown talking about job opportunities with two St. Augustine’s Col lege coeds. L^t to right —Misses Norman Evans, Annette Dillard and Atty. Miller. Marie; Cuffee, Lionel A,; Ford, Carolyn Faye; Foster, Patri cia F,; Goffigan, Lydia J.; Har rison, Eunice; Hardy, Velinda; Hunt, Douglas Lorence; John son, Wilbert; Jones, Nina Ma rie; Joshua, Victor; Powell, Pamela; Richardson, Jeanette; Small, Sandra L,; Stuphln, Anna Marie; Thomas, Robbie J.; Wood, Joan LaVerne; Yates, Dorothy; Young, Randall, A Tour (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2) Titian, The Adoration of the Child, Pordenone, St. Prosdo- cimus and St, Peter; Jacopino di Framnesco, Mary Magdelene Washing Crist’s Feet; Jacob Jordeans, The Holy Family, Peter Paul Ruebens, The Holy Family with Saint Anne; also Gideon Overcoming the Mldl- anites; Lucas Cranach the Younger, Portrait of £uther and Melanchton; Hendrick Terbrugghen, David and the Singers. SECOND FLOOR Rembrandt V an Rijn, Esther’s Feats: Gerard Seghars, St. Pet er Denying Christ, Aertgen Claeszoon, Nativity; Jan Steen, The Worship of the Golden Calf; Francisco Didler Nome, The Marlyrdom of -i Saint; Jacopo Bassano, The Adoration of the Shepherds, Bartolome Murillo, Esau Selling His Birthright; Jusepe Rivera, St. John the Bap tist; Bernart van Orley, The As cension; Luis Borrasse, Christ Before Pilate; George Pencz, Portrait of Martin Luther; Ber- linghiero. Madonna and Chile; Raphael, St. Jerome Punishing the Heretic Sablnian; Andrea delSarto, The Virgin and Child with St. John. THIRD FLOOR Jean Leclerk, Angel Freeing St. Peter from Prison; Pierre Mignard, (Christ and the Woman of Samaria; (statue) St. James the Great as a Pilgrim; Italian Piedmont School, The Progres sion of the Magi; Italian Pied mont School, Adoration of the Shepherds; (statue) Mosan (Liege?), early 12th century. South German, Crucified Christ; c, 1740-80, King Bal thasar, The Friends (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2) ductor, Antal Dorati, has brought the ensemble to a new level of excellence. All of the concert perform ances are to be given in the William Neal Reynolds Coli seum on the campus of North Carolina State University. All programs start at 8 p. m. Season membership in the Friends of the College, Inc, Is as follows: $7,00 for a single member ship, Tickets may be purchas ed from Dr, Elmer C. Schwert- man. The Lectures Committee of tht prdahl-Cloyd Union at North Carolina State University has planned an outstanding lecture series to run from March 2 to March 13. The first three of these lectures, delivered by Mr, Maynard Mack, Mr. Tom Wolfe and Mr. John Dos Passos re spectively, have been given and very well received. The last in the series, an address by the American literary critic, Mr. Alfred Kazin, will take place this evening, Mr, Mack on March 2 de livered a well planned and suc cinctly phrase lecture on Wil liam Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra, His remarks cent ered around several clusters of Images that weave a complex mesh around the drama and that in many ways defy defini tion, His purpose seemed to be to point out the many de lightful ambiguities about the play that make it so much like the human drama that is con tinually performed on the vast stage that is our world, Mr, Mack has a distinguished academic career as both schol ar and teacher. He received his A, B, and Ph, D. degrees from Yale and has tieen a mem ber of the Yale English faculty since 1936, Currently he is Chairman of the Department and Sterling Professor of Eng lish, As a scholar, his honors include appointment as a Gug genheim Fellow (1942 and 19- 64), a Ford Faculty Fellow (19- 52), and a Fulbright Senior Re search scholar at the Universi ty of London (1959), As a teacher and lecturer, he has been appointed Walker- Ames lecturer at the University o^ Washington (1956), Alexander lecturer at the University of Toronto (1963), and Elizabeth Beckman lecturer at the Uni versity of California at Berke ley (1964). Mr, Mack’s scholarship in cludes in addition to numerous articles several significant books on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Co author of Pope and His Con temporaries In 1950, he has since published Studies in the Literature of the Augustan Age, and The Manuscript of the Es - say on Man, More recently, he has authored Jacobean Theater and King Lear In Our Time. He brings to the Con temporary Scenes Lectures a wide range of Interest and ac complishment. Mr. Maynard Mack was fol lowed at the lecturn by the very aesthetic modern novelist, Mr. Tom Wolfe. Mr. Wolfe appear ed in what is typical garb for him: a white linen suit, black shirt, white silk tie, large stick pin, and puffed silk handker chief. As he usually does, Mr. Wolfe spoke on one aspect of modern pop-culture. Utilizing anecdotes from his personal life and the lives of many con temporary artists, poets, writ ers, and revolutionaries, he constructed a portrait of mod ern society continually playing a set of games which, taken to gether, constitute life. Al together he hit on the law game, the politics game (Did you rea lize that Ronald Regan was a luxury item In contemporary politics?) the art game, and the riot game which he says Is being taken over by the buttondown collar. Mustang fra ternity group, Mr. Wolfe was most entertaining, but unfortu nately, a majority of his lis teners were concentrating so hard on being entertained that the real point of his lecture went virtually unnoticed. This major praise was that we must recognize that a number of the activities we take so seriously are in actuality frivolous games for which only our in-group recognizes the rules, and that a true assessment of modern society can come about only when enough spoU-sports In terrupt the game and expose the hidden cards, Thomas Wolfe suddenly ap peared on the American literary scene in 1965 with his l>est- seller. The Kandy - Kolored Tangerine - Flake Streamline Baby, After receiving his A, B, degree from Yale, he work ed as a newspaper reporter and cartoonist for the ^ringfleld (Mass.) Union, the Washing ton, and the New York Herald Tribune. Wolfe’s first magazine ar ticle appeared in the fall of 1963. His book. The Kandy- Kolored Tangerine - Flake Streamline Baby is a collec tion of his best magazine arti cles. His workhas been select ed for Best Magazine Articles, 1966 and 1967, a signal honor for the young author. The flamboyant writer is the winner oftwo Washington News paper Guild Awards for foreign news coverage and for humor. Mr. Wolfe is currently writing on two new .works, one of which is a novel. On March 10 Mr. John Dos Passos, novelist - playwright, delivered a series of readings from his most famous works prefaced by remarks on those aspects of American life that made up his literary education. Mr. Dos Passos, an elderly affable gentleman, held the audi ence completely in his spell, partly by virtue of the affec tionate esteem in which he is held by the American reading public, and partly because of the very illuminating manner in which he read his own words. Sitting- In the audience, one got the impression that he genuine ly enjoyed his writings and that A Student’s - Eye View Of American Campus WANT YOUR SON TO BECOME PRESIDENT? ENROLL HIM IN HARVARD, YALE, WEST POINT — OR SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE, COLLEGE EDITORS AGREE NEW YORK, Feb. 19 - The editors of 97 college news papers advised parents today that if they want their sons to grow up to t)e President they should enroll them in Harvard, Yale, West PoLit — or South west Texas State College. The college editors ranked Southwest Texas State among the highest as a training ground for Presidents In a poll publish ed in the current issue of Mc Call’s, just released. The Tex as campus where Lyndon B. Johnson earned his diploma drew more votes than either Yale or West Point, coming In second only to Harvard, A l»y who wants to marry a rich girl should attend Har vard, Princeton or Yale, the collegiate editors decided, and a girl is “most likely’ to find a husband at Michigan State, Ohio State or UCLA, ‘‘The best wives” are pro duced by Vassar, Smith, Well esley or Northwestern while “the best husbands” are to be found at Harvard, Princeton or Yale, the editors told McCall’s, The first choice of most edi tors as the place they would send a daughter was North western -- even though it rank ed first in no other category, “The greatest freedom In sex,” the editors agreed, ex ists at Berkeley, Antioch of Yellow SprLng.i, Ohio, Harvard and UCLA while “the most at tractive girls” matriculate at UCLA, the University of Tex as and the University of Mississippi. Radcliffe, New York Univer sity and Bennington, It was agreed, graduate “the least at tractive girls’' and the Univer sity of Miami, Michigan State, Long Island University and Vas sar are where “the dullest girls” are. Vassar, however, also was said to attract the brightest cocds -- along with Radcliffe, Smith and Barnard. Harvard, the editors said, draws both “the most liberal men” and “the most stereotyped” and was ranked as “the Institution where the most respondents would send a son of their own,” MoCall's noted. “The most promiscuous” men and women head for Berke ley, the student editors agreed, with promiscuous women also attending Vassar and Radcliffe and promiscuous men Harvard and NYU. As for drinking, most of It Is done at the University of Virginia, the University of Wis consin, Miami University of Ohio and the University of Colo rado, the poll showed. The Rev. Billy Graham’s alma mater. Bob Jones Univer sity of South Carolina, was ranked “the most square” col lege. Next in line were Har vard and St, John’s of Annapo lis. A young man who wants to be a millionaire should aim for Harvard, Yale or Princeton, In that order, the editors said; If he wants to be “a great athlete” the campuses for him are Notre Dame, Michigan State or the University of Alabama. Distinguished statesmen are produced by Harvard, Yale, Georgetown and Princeton, in the view of the editors, and distinguished scientists come out of MIT, Caltech or Berke ley, One young editor, asked where the best-dressed coeds were to be found, voted for the University of Guam, consid ering, he explained, that the coeds wear sarongs, “It was clear,” commented McCall’s, “that the student edi tors were l>eing both whimsical and serious at the same time, and equally clear that their an swers don’t necessarily repre sent any profound truths. They merely reflect something of the reputations of those colleges ('stereotypes’ might lie a closer word),” QUESTIONS: What college would you recommend for a boy who wants to l>ecome; A lead er In industry. ANSWER; Massachusetts In stitute of Technology, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania. Q - A creative artist? - A. New York University, Pratt In stitute (New York City), Uni versity of California (Berke ley), Oberlin, Q - A millionaire? - A. Har vard, Yale, Princeton. Q - A distinguished scien tist? - A. - MIT, Caltech, Berkeley. Q - A distinguished states man? - A - Columbia, Har vard, University of Chicago, Q - A great athlete? - A - Notre Dame, Michigan State, University of Alabama, Q - President of the Unit ed States? - A - Harvard, Southwest Texas State, Yale, West Point, Q - What college would you recommend for a boy who hopes to; Marry a rich girl? - Har vard, Princeton, Y'ale. Q - Get the best all-around education? - A - UCLA, Berk ley, Harvard, any large coed ucational state university. Q - Make lasting friendships? - A - Harvard, Berkley or wherever else you happen to be enrolled. Q - Make socially or fi nancially useful friendships? - A - Harvard, Yale, Princeton. Q - Live with the greatest physical comfort? - A - Uni versity of Miami, University of Hawaii, Princeton, Harvard. Q - Live with the least phy sical comfort? - West Point, University of Chicago, Univer sity of Montana, Goddard (Ver mont). Q - At what college is the greatest freedom In sex found? - A - Berkeley, Antioch, Har vard, UCLA, Q - What college is the most far out? - A - Berkeley, An tioch, Parson College (Iowa). Q - Wliat college is the most square? - A - Bob Jones Uni versity (South Carolina), Har vard, St, John’s (Annapolis), Q - What college gets: The most attractive girls? - A - UCLA, University of Texas, University of Mississippi, Q - The least attractive girls? - A - Radcliffe, NYU, Bennington, Q - The most attractive boys? -A - Princeton, Y'ale, Harvard, the military academies, Q - The least attractive boys? -A - MIT, Berkeley, Penn State, Oberlin, Q - The brightest girls? - A - Radcliffe, Vassar, Smith, Barnard. Q - The dullest girls? - Uni versity of Miami, Michigan State, Long Island University, Vassar. Q - The brightest boys? -A - Harvard, MIT, Caltech. Q - The dullest boys? - A - Parsons, West Point, Penn State. Q - At what college Is a girl mo.st likely to find a hus- land? - A - Michigan State, Ohio State, UCLA, Q - Where is she least like ly to find one? - A - Any Catholic women’s college. Q - Which college is: Most liberal - A - Berkeley, An tioch, University of Chicago, Harvard. Q - Most conservative? - A - Brigham Young University (Salt Lake City), West Point, Bob Jones. Q - What college produces the best wives? - A - Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Northwest ern. Q - What college produces the best husbands? - A - Har vard, Princeton, Yale. Q - On what campus do you find: The sloppiest - looking boys? - A - Berkeley, Antioch, Q - The sloppiest-looking girls? - A - Berkeley, Rad- cllffe, Antioch, Q - The best-dressed boys? -A - Harvard, Yale, Prince ton. Q - The best-dressed girls? - A - Vassar, Sweet Briar (Virginia), Northwestern, Q - The most drinking? - - University of Virginia, Univer sity of Wisconsin, Miami Uni versity (Ohio), University of Colorado. Q - The most promiscuous men? - A - Berkeley, Harvard, NYU, Q - The most promiscuous women? - A - Berkeley, Vas sar, Radcliffe. Q - Where do students have the greatest voice in running their campus? - A - Berkeley, Antioch, NYU, Harvard, UCLA, Q - Where do they have the smallest voice? - A - West Point, St. John’s, Bob Jones. Q - At what college do stu dents develop most fully as in dividuals? - A - Berkeley, UCLA, the Big Ten schools. Q - At which college do stu dents become most stereotyped and conventional? - A - Har vard, Yale, the other Ivy League schools. Q - On which campus isaper- son most likely to lose his religious faith? - A - Berke ley, University of Chicago, any church-supported school. Q - Where would you send your own daughter? - A - North western, Wellesley, her own choice. Q - Where would you send your own son? - A - Harvard, own choice. Notre Dame, his An Historian Take A Look At U. S. Power And Vietnam (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) cases whatsoever.” themselves-nations find almost Insuperable difficulties in the application of power. We have for years been alarmed at the power of Soviet Russia, but for all her immense power she cannot Impose her will on Yugoslavia; she cannot even Impose her will on tiny Al bania, which persistently snubs her and defies her. We ourselves have almost limitless power, but, In Santo Domingo we paid a high price for our self-indulgence. Of all limitations on pow er In foreign relations, the most effective 1 confine myself to modern history - appear tobe rooted in nationalism. All the might of Britlan was Insufficient to Impose British will on Ireland In the I8th and I9th centuries; all of the might of Austria could not subdue the state of Northern Italy to her will In the 19th century; and In our own day France discovered that she could not have her way with any of her provinces In North Africa, and withdrew from them-without loss of face, I may add. We have ourselves found it advisable to come to terms with little Panama these last years. Because governments must of necessity use power, it does not follow that they are capa ble of using It everywhere, or using It absolutely. Our whole history, and our political philo sophy, Is a monument to the Ijellef that power Is limited, and that power should be limit ed, That is, in a sense, what the Revolution itself was about a repudiation of the British claim, set forth in the Declara tory Act, that Parliament had the right “to bind the colonies and people of America In all The American position was, quite simply, that no govern ment had all power. That is part of the meaning of our written constitutions - docu ments which enumerate with greatest care the powers which governmenFs may exercise. That Is at the heart of our ela borate system of checks and the power of government. That is what the Bills of Rights, state and Federal, are about - llmiations on govern ment. And as Americans have re quired, and provided, restraint on the domestic scene, so they are pledged to restraint in the international arena. Almost of all of our traditions here em phasize limitations on power. The first major principle of American foreign policy was set forth by no other than Wash ington in the neutrality procla mation which announced that we were not required to take sides in European wari not to enter conflicts not of our own choosing. The second and more funda mental principle was the Mon roe Doctrine which was like wise a policy of restraint; Eu rope was to stay out of the affairs of these Western conti nents, and we would. In turn, stay out of the “Internal af fairs” of Europe. Our thlr! maj 3r foreign policy, the Open Door, was likewise designed as a restraint, primarily on Euro pean powers looking hungrily at China, but by implication on ourselves as well. In the great watershed of the Nineties we did find ourselves somewhat to our own surprise, a world power. We waged a war with Spain that nolxjdy much wanted, and In a fit of absent- mindedness acquired Cuba and Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii We fought a three year war with the ^lliplnos which everyone has pretty well forgotten.,. But at the same time we repudiated imperial ism. >. We were not ready to govern Cuba and very sensibly gave lite Island back the Cubans. We did a good j Ob In the Philip pines but were eager to get out, and did so. We Incor porated Hawaii Into the Union and Puerto Rico into the politi cal system, and we go before the world with clean hands, as it were. We do not have “colonies.” The fact is that we are not very good at the “dominion ov er palm and pine” sort of thing and avoid it almost by instinct. And a very good instinct it is. After 1914 we were inextri cably involved in the affairs of Europe - and beyond. But it was President Wilson who called for “peaci without vic tory’ - something to remember now. When we had helped win the first World War we did not use victory as a basis for pow er either in the Old World or in Asia. Indeed, we withdrew far too hastily from our obli gations and allowed the League of Nations to sicken and decay. Although we used something like total power in the second World War, once victory had been achieved we contented our selves with trying to put the broken fragments of the war - torn world together again. We used aid, we used influence, we used military power, bi(t we did not use the ultimate power of the nuclear weapon, no ■ did we in fact attempt to order the af fairs of Asia. It has remained for the statesman of this decade to in sist that we are an Asian pow er, and have the same kind of responsibility tor Asia that we have for Western Europe, It is my feeling that we do 'lot have resources, material, intellectual, or moral, to be at once an American power, a European power, and an Asian power. Justice Holmes used to say that the first lesson a judge had to learn was that he was not God, It is a lesson every man has to learn and a lesson every nation has to learn. It is not our duty to keep peace throughout the globe, to put down aggression wherever it starts up, to stop the ad vance of communism or other Ism which we may not approve of. It is primarily the re sponsibility of the United Na tions to keep the peace, to set tle disputes, to discourage ag gression, and If that organiza tion Is not strong enough to do the job we should perhaps bend our major energies to giv ing her the necessary authority and the tools. One explanation of our ob- session with communism and more particularly, now with “Communist aggression” InA- sia is to be found, I think, in a deep and persistent trait of the American mind: the be lief in Old World corruption and New World innocence. The men who won the independence of America from the mother country were convinced that the Old World was abandoned to tyranny, misery, ignorance, in justice and vice and the New World was innocent of these sins.,,. The notion of an International such remlnescence was a plea sant experience for the author as well as his readers, Mr. Dos Passos’ career as a writer began after World War I and has continued with un- dlmlnlshed vigor ever since. His first novels. One Man’s Initiation 0920) and Three Sol diers (1921), were strongly pa- clfistic accounts of the impact of war upon representative A- mericans, and Indicated the markedly critical and satirical tone which was to characterize his future work. In this early fiction and in Manhattan Transfer Q925) also began an experimentation with technique which reached its fullest expression in the kaleid oscopic pages of his most cele brated work, the trilogy USA (1930-36). One of the most influential novels of the cen tury, USA ranks with Joyce’s Ulysses in respect to its im pact upon the technique of the novel, John Dos Passos’ concern with the large political and so - ciological issues of our times has contained to manifest it self in his later novels (Dis trict of Columbia, 1954, and The Great Columbia, 1954, and Tite Great Days, 1962, for Instance) and in his studies of American history (The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson, 1954, The Men Who Made The Nation, 1957, and The Shackles of Pow er, 1966, among others). His most recent work is an autobiographical study. The Best Times, which moved Time magazine to define him as “an essential historian . , , con sistent In the old - fashioned, cranky Yankee way of distrust ing ail Ideologies of resisting all managerial systems that claim to Improve man’s lot at the price of any particle of his freedom,” The lecture this evening will l>e delivered by Mr, Alfred Kazin. He has further established himself by two autobiographi- ca! works; A Walker in the City, describing his boyhood in Brooklyn, and Growhig Up in the Thirties, describing his activities in that radical dec ade. Since 1963, he has been a Distinguished Professor of English at prestigious Stony Brook a branch of the State University of New York, In 1949 he was the recipient of the literature award of the Na tional Institute of Arts and Let ters. Mir. Kazin’s Importance to literary criticism lies not only in thp scholarllness and Intel- llgenice of his criticism, but In the rare degree of personal commitment one senses In his writing. However high Its Intel- lectiial level, his criticism is never aloof, never consciously Olympian, His current appearance will l)e Alfred Kazin’s third on the N, C. State campus. Address ing townspeople, faculty, and students during his earlier vi sits here, he has exhibited those qualities of perception, breadth and lucidity that have made him one of the critics other critics listen to. His comprehensive study. On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern Amer ican Prose Literature (1942), announced the emergence of a young and formidable critic. Mr. Kazin’s critical reputa tion grew with the editing of such anthologies as F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Man and His Wprk, The Viking Portable William Blake, The Stature of Theodore Dreiser, The Open Forum, Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Modern Anthology, and Con temporaries. Perhaps one of the most in teresting things about this lec ture series has been to notice the different types of persons that have surrounded each of the lectureres in the coffee hour that follows each presentation. Mr. Mack was Immediately ap prehended and questioned by the young Ph, D. candidate-looking types that filled part oftheaud- ^ ience, Mr. Wolfe attracted all ' of the wild looking undergrad uates, and Mr. Dos Passos was met by the elderly old guard all seeming very proud of this gentleman who in the years that followed the first World War was quite a liberal. Communist conspiracy, which a good many Americans still cling to, fits nearly ihto sljiblxJleth of Old World wickedness and New World virtue. And so, too, our habit of throwing a mantle of morality over our own wars. We do tend, i)er- haps more than other nations, to transform our wars Into cru sades, The Mexican War was part of manifest destiny. The Spanlsh-Amerlcan War was a crusade to free Cuba from Spanish tyranny. The first World War was a crusade to make the world safe for de mocracy. The second World War did indeed have moral pur poses, more clearly, 1 think, then almost any war of modern times. Our current involvement in Vietnam is cast. Increasingly, into a moral mold, it is, quite sinlply, a war to halt Commun ist aggression. . . . Closely associated with the notion of New World virtue Is the somewhat more actlvlslt no tion of New World mission.
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