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THE SALEMITE
October 7
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Much has been said about sophomorism.
Here the term has been used loosely, with a
touch of humor, and furthermore — always
when speaking of someone else. Naturally.
We don’t have sophomoric sophomores at
Salem. Or do we?
To decide that we’ll have to decide first just
exactly what sophomoric means to us. Webs
ter gives us this definition—“Of, pertaining to,
resembling, or characteristic of a sophomore
—.” Now that doesn’t sound .so bad. Sopho
mores are rather lovable creatures, dressed in
black, scowling, and militaristically grinding
Freshman noses into the bricks on Salem
Square. But he adds “—hence, immature;
shallow; bombastic; superficial.” That doesn’t
sound so good.
Let’s take the first one—“immature.” The
physical sense of the word is not important.
King Ijear (whom you will soon take up in
Sophomore Lit.), an old man, was being very
immature in hastily mi.sjudging the worth of
his daughters. A student who makes snap
judgments of the worth of college regulations
is also being immature. Lear had his day of
reckoning, and so will such a student.
Then there is the business of being “shallow”
or “superficial.” A student who is shallow is
one who has skimmed the .surface of her as
signments and has cared little for the deeper
meaning. She gets the overall idea which
sometimes leads to a red-penciled “too general”
comment on a corrected paper, but which
floesn’t bother her too much, because, after
all,'she passed, didn’t she? But, beware— “A
little learning is a dang’rous thing; drink
deep, or taste not—” said Pope.
•. The danger that follows in the wake of
shallowness is that of being “bombastic.”
Who’s bombastic? The student who is seen
eloquently expounding on the theory of evo
lution the first mention of which she had
heard in class only that day. It may sound
wonderfully authoritative, but she is likely to
be embarrassed if some more well-informed
soul ventures to tell her that Darwin didn’t
mean men came from monkeys, as such.
Well, what do you think? Do we have any
such creatures at Salem? In any case. I’ll
never tell. But—a word to the wise—
For those who read this.
And for those who don’t
Be Sophomores, and we’ll love you;
Be Sophomoric—we won’t.
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By Jo Smitherman
Tuesday was a day of tragedies.
The New York Yankees lost the
pennant to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Down in the basement of Strong
all sorts of jobs were being done—
jobs tliat needed to be done be
tween noon and two o’clock and
jobs that (jidn’t involve the glaring
TV set.
When the Brooks finally “shut
out them Yanks” a roar went up
from the kitchen and echoed across
the campus. Dr. Africa, confined
in an American history class, had
a hard time keeping his mind on
the Spanish exploration of the new
world. He had his fingers crossed
that the new world champs would
be the Bums from Brooklyn. Oh,
■well.
There was a foreboding of the
second Tuesday tragedy in chapel.
The vicious glares of the sopho
mores (as the sweet freshmen
marched around to sign the honor
book) hinted that Rat Week was
less than an hour away. Despite
what the freshmen may think, the
class of 1958 ought to be recom
mended for a well-organized initia
tion that sparkled with originality
and what looked like real fun.
The songs that are dominating,
the late night request shows these
days (“Love and Marriage,” “The
Impatient Years,” and “Our Town)”
were written by Sammy Cahn for
the televization of Thornton Wild
er’s ‘Our Town.” Frank Sinatra
did the singing on TV and capital-,
ized on the soaring record sales. i
Thornton Wilder endeared him
self to our campus more firmly,
though, when the Pierrettes’ chose
The Skin of Our Teeth for their
fall production. Wilder’s wierdness
was given an airing on NBC tele
vision last month; Mary Martin
starred. Those who know the play
wait on edge to see who will be
Sabina.
* ♦ *
The first faculty recital (Heide-
mann-Jacobowsky) drew a prize
crowd. Most of them commented
favorably on the performance, the
shiny new marshall dresses, and the
purple-tinted programs. The pro
gram innovation (the print and
tinted edge were the color of poke-
berry juice) matched the glow that
Susie Glaser’s purplish dress added
to the black-and-white perform-
Speaking of music, Mrs. Brown
in Memorial Hall says her son
Tommy (whom most of us know
from last year) is in the army now
and would like to hear some Salem
news “straight from the horses’
mouths”, (my expression, not
Tommy’s). His address: Pvt. Tho
mas G. Brown, USS325S928, Co. A,
502nd Abn. Inf., Fort Jackson, S. C.
Anne Miles was reminiscing
today the time she answered one
of Dr. Lewis’ questions. He roared,
“Dignity! Dignity! Does anybody
care about the origin of the word?
Does anybody know the origin ?”
Anne (once she contemplated a
Latin major) chirped, “Dignus, —a,
—um. To be worthy of.” Today
she could only mimic his reaction,
Here And There
By Emma McCotter
United States; The biggest thing
in the news is that concerning the
condition of President Eisenhower,
The American people have been
optimistic that he would run again
next year. His recent heart attack
has swung the balance toward the
strong probability that he would
not.
Right now there is no man in
either U. S. party who approaches
him in stature. He has given the
Republican Party what it has
lacked for twenty years—a way of
expressing its principles in terms
that appeal to the people.
The anti-Eisenhower Republicans
will no doubt ride again; but it is
hard, in the face of the objective
record of the last three years, to
believe they will be going any
where.
In view of the fact that Eisen
hower "is unable to be the Repub
lican’s candidate, the following men
have been suggested as possible
nominees; Vice-President Richard
Nixon, Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Only time will tell just what the
outcome will be.
New York: Here the U. N. has
convened for its tenth session.
Everywhere the 500 delegates from
60 countries talked up “the Geneva
spirit that appeared to be abating
tensions.
They have also elected their new
assembly president. He is Jose
Maza of Chile who has been a
U. N. parliamentarian of ten years’
standing.
The main item on the agenda,
which grew out of the meeting at
the summit, is Eisenhower’s pro
posal for a U. N. center for joint
developrnent of the peaceful uses
of atomic energy.
Russia: Looking forward to the
Geneva Conference in October, the
Kremlin has been working on the
job of setting a scene of the Com
munist world as one beaming with
good will, disbanding armies, re
leasing prisoners, withdrawing from
foreign bases, sending cultural mis
sions abroad and beckoning busi
nessmen to its markets.
Since this was such a hard job
for Khrushchev and Bulganin they
have both gone on a vacation. The
Party boss went to Yalta and the
Premier to Sochi in Caucasus.
Germany: Even though all Ger
many rejoiced at the news of the
Russian release of German war
prisoners after ten years, Adenauer
had his problems. He knows that
the Russian move was done in
order to get him to recognize and
deal with the East German satel
lite.
However, the Chancellor has
stated that any nation that recog
nizes the so-called East German
Republic would be considered un
friendly. He has urged his three
Western allies to take steps against
the violation of Allied transit rights
under the agreement which ended
the Berlin blockade.
Also, Adenauer has sent his'For
eign Minister to Washington with
the urgent appeal that the Western
powers stick to their insistence on
German reunification.
Great Britain: In answer to the
request. Great Britain has accepted
Malta as an integral part of the
United Kingdom. The British, after
careful consideration, decided that
it was the least a mother country
could do,
Israel: Finally, after many years
of hopeful drilling, Israel has
struck oil. This means that Israel
will save at least $50 million in oil
imports a year, weaken the Arab
states blockade and diminish the
country’s dependence on the West.
This is a means to economic in
dependence.
However, it also means that it is
going to be no easier for U S
Secretary of State Dulles to per-^
suade Israel to cede some of the
desert to the Arabs in return for
a peace treaty.
Argentina: An unknown has be
come President of this recently re
bellious country. He is Major Gen
eral Eduardo Lonardi, 59, a career
officer. He is reportedly a middle-
road conservative without party af-
| hlation, nationalistic in the Argen-
I tine army tradition, but not rabidly
SO.
Most of his problems will be
political ones. His toughest task
is like y to be dealing with the
sullen labor-confederation members
who won substantial gains under
Peron and hated to see him go.
By Lotiise Barron
Vienna—The famous opera house was cov
ered with scaffolds and men working, Qur
hotel was in the Eussian section of the city
but not a soldier was to be seen anywhere'
Our room was a corner one overlooking the
half-finished installation of a trolley ling
Night came, and we ventured forth to find the
excitement we knew we should feel.
We took a taxi—a luxury we allowed our-
.(selves occasionally, and. pointed out our desti
nation, an advertisement in our “all the in
formation a tourist needs” book. Much to
our dismay, our driver told us—in sign lang.
uage and Austrian—that the restaurant of the
man who wrote the “Third Man Theme” was
closed on Sunday nights. We were visualizing
a meal in the hotel dining room when the
driver finally made us understand that he
would take us to just the place. Thus began
a long drive to the suburbs of the city during
which we smoked two cigarettes and squirmed
considerably in the back seat of that ancient
limousine. We need not have worried. Our
destination was a street of small wine gardens
well stocked with tourists. We had heard of
such places—students and young people went
there to drink Viennese wine, to sing Viennese
music, and to fall in love in the Viennese way,
Determined to find some of this atmosphere,
we chose the most out of the way place we
could find.
Kegardless of our anticipations, we entered
a small empty room—occupied for the greater
part by vacant wooden benches lined up be
side bare wooden tables. The musicians were
there an aecordian player and a violmist
talking at one table; the Viennese people were
'there a man of about fifty, a young girl, the
proprietress and her son; there were no tour
ists ; but no “atmosphere” descended upon us.
Disappointed, we stayed because we were em
barrassed to walk out. And we were’ hungry,
too.
V e had not said two English words before
we were invited to the table of the man and
the young girl. Glancing at each other with
that we’re in Europe and this is a once in a
lifetime experience” look, we accepted. From
then on the ‘old Viennese boy” as he insisted
upon calling himself took over.
He had learned English in America, (be
entered the country illegally after finding
Mexico impossible to enter because of a revo
lution.) He put his knowledge of our langu
age to the best possible use.
AVe learned about his Vienna. The musi
cians played for us at his request. They sang
in Austrian and he sang in English to show
us the Viennese feeling — that happiness is
inoie important than money, that Viennese love
and kindness come from the heart — from
within , that a Viennese kiss is like Viennese
wine. He went on and on talking, singingi
and drinking to our happiness and good for
tune until we were saturated with “atmos
phere”. The ^ girl, his second wife, spoke no
English but joined in the singing. The pro
prietress and her son sat down and “the old
iennese boy acted as an interpreter.
^ AVe soon found out that he was a taxi
Driver, eedless to say, that’s how we got back
to our hotel. Enroute, many buildings and
p aces of interest were pointed out and ex-
^ _ including detailed historical back
ground. When we arrived our heads wfere
reeling with facts.
Our friend made much of telling us good
bye kissed our hands and bowed, and re
quired reassurance that he - had made us
happy and that we “felt” Vienna. AVe did,
Md the feeling” didn’t wear off for days-
we telt we had done something different.