Junior Women's Club pre-
ents "How to Succeed in
Josiness Without Really Try
ing" See page 3.
Volumn XLIX
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, October 27, 1967
Oslo Scholars report on their
summer in Norway.
See page 4.
Number 1
^arine Chaplain Favors Wing^Tsit Chan To Speuk
Involvement In Vietnam Asia November 2nd & 3rd
Commander John J. O’Connor of pieces of misinformation which has
Jhe United States Marine’s Chap
lain Corps was the speaker at as
sembly October 25. His topic was
the Vietnamese war and the United
States’ involvement in it. Com-
jnander O’Connor has previously
served in the war in Vietnam and
has just recently returned from
Vietnam after making a second
»isit there.
* Commander O’Connor explained
to the audience that he did not
wish to brainwash them, but merely
to express his own opinions. He
stated that only a fraction of the
American population has been to
Vietnam, and even a smaller frac
tion has read enough to talk mean
ingfully about the situation there,
^he general public is often badly
misinformed according to Father
O’Connor. Stories of American
Marines burning down whole vil
lages for the sheer joy of destruc
tion simply are not true. In fact
U. S. troops have been extremely
Jareful to avoid harming Viet
namese civilians. The Vietnamese
themselves have told Commander
O'Connor that we are “too moral”,
that we are trying to spare the
lives of all Vietnamese citizens,
which just simply cannot be done
in time of war.
The Vietnamese were amazed
when Commander O’Connor asked
them whether they thought Ameri
can forces should be in Vietnam
er not. They told him that if the
United States removed troops any
thing from selective assassination
to wholesale massacre might result.
V One of the most destructive
come to the American public is in
the form of a misquotation from
former President Dwight Eiscn-
hour. It has been stated that he
said that free elections were not
held in Vietnam in 1956, because
if they had been that Ho Chi Minh
would have won 80% of the votes.
What Eisenhour said, actually, was
that if elections had been held in
1953 Ho Chi Minh would have re
ceived 80% of the votes against the
French government’s puppet.
In conclusion. Commander O’Con
nor urged the students to have
their own opinions about the war
in Vietnam but to reach them
carefully and not let themselves be
duped by misinformation.
Frosh Produce
Pretty Rooms
Salem’s freshmen swept, dusted,
and tidied their rooms all day on
Wednesday, October 18, because
judging for the Freshman Room
Contest, sponsored by IRS, would
take place at 6 :30 that night.
The judges. Miss Paula L. Kozicki,
John W. Sanders, Dr. Charles L.
Rioe, Mrs. Mary Melvin, Miss
Mary Dameron, Hewson Michie,
Sidney Kelly, and Mrs. Laura C.
Nicholson, traveled from room to
room in each dorm as they inspect
ed the freshman rooms, trying to
overlook mishaps such as curtains
falling and a closet door swinging
op6n to reveal that all of the con-
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Dr. Wing-tsit Chan, an authority
on Chinese thought and culture, will
be on the campus of Salem College
on November 2 and 3 as a Rond-
thaler and a Danforth Visiting Lec
turer. Dr. Chan is Gillespie Pro
fessor of Philosophy at Chatham
College, Pittsburgh, and first oc
cupant of that endowed chair.
Dr. Chan will speak in Hanes
Auditorium on November 2 at 8
p.m. on “Dominant Themes of Chi
nese Thought.” On November 3,
Dr. Chan will speak at assembly at
11 a.m. on “Forces at Work in
Asia.”
Dr. Chan was born in Canton,
China, and became an American
citizen in 1951.. .Mter graduating
from Lingnan University, Canton,
in 1924 he came to study at Harv
ard University, from which he re
ceived a Master’s Degree in 1927
and a doctorate in 1929 as Dean of
the Faculty and Professor of Phil
osophy. He was a visiting professor
at the University in Hawaii in 1935-
36 and stayed on as Professor of
Chinese Philosophy and Institutions
until 1942. In 1940-42 he was chair
man of the philosophy department.
In 1942 Dr. Chan came to Dart
mouth College in New Hampshire
and the following year was appoint
ed Professor of Chinese Culture
and Philosophy. In 1950-51 he was
chairman of the Divison of the Hu
manities. Until 1966 he was co-dir
ector of the Comparative Studies
Center at Dartmouth.
He returned to China in 1948-49
under a Guggenheim Fellowship,
and received a Rockefeller Foun
verhart Prints The Salemite,
ids Editors, Helpers 18 Years
By Vicky Hanks
The printer’s devil is not dead.
!”“Nor is he in Argentina. He is
L^ght here in Winston-Salem busily
I printing The Salemite.
1 Actually, as Bill Everhart, our
friendly, jovial printer at the Sun
f Printing Co. says, “a printer’s devil
IS really the printer’s helper, and
, Joes what the printer tells him to
i^o.”
■Bi Bill was born in Salem, on De-
f^^ember 6, 1920, and went to public
school here. “I first became in
terested in printing when I was
about 14 years old, and had four
years of training at Reynolds High
School.”
Bill explained that after high
: school he went on to an apprentice
ship, where he received more train
ing and experience. He added that
his first job was with the H. T.
Hearn Engraving Company in
Winston-Salem, and that he con-
■ sidered working with them a re
warding experience. He says that
after finishing apprenticeship, one
becomes a journeyman, “which is an
accomplished artist in, a sense.”
After working for a few years.
Bill went into the Navy for two
and a half years. When he got out
of the Navy, Bill worked for the
Bahnson Co. installing air con
ditioners for another two and a
half years.
“I’ve been working with The
for 18 years, and
have known all the editors.” Bill
added that he has enjoyed every
year with The Salemite.
At Sun Printing Co. Bill makes
np forms, sets type, sets headlines,
funs printing presses and works
with the setting of The Salemite.
Bill Everhart, man behind The Salemite, proofreads pages for the
current issue.
Bill muses, “I’ve done everything in
a print shop, except run the lino
type”
Bill and his wife Peggy live in
Winston-Salem with their three
children, a chihuahua, Chiquita, and
an “alleycat” called Moose. Bill
says that his little girl Jocelyn, who
is ten, just loves school. She plays
school at home and wants to be a
Dr. Wing-tsit Chan, Rondthaler and Danforth Visiting Lecturer, will
speak on Chinese thought and forces present in Asia.
dation grant for research in India
and Japan in 1955-56. He also spent
1963-64 in Asia doing research un
der grants from the Rockefeller
Foundation, Social Science Re
search Council, and American Phil
osophical Society.
Professor Chan was chairman of
the Council of Christian Higher Ed
ucation for China in 1933-34. He
represented China at several inter
national conferences. He was on the
steering committee for the Eastern-
Western Conferences in 1959 and
1964.
Dr. Chan is also a very talented
author. Two of his recent books
are Reflections On Things at Hand,
The Neo-Confucian Anthology and
Chinese Philosophy, 1959-63: Main
land China Publications.
He has contributed chapters on
Chinese life and thought for 21
books on philosophy and religion,
and has published over seventy art
icles on China. He has also served
on the board of editors for “Phil
osophy East and West”, and is
editor for Chinese philosophy of
the forthcoming Encyclopedia of
Philosophy. He is also a contributor
to the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Professor Chan is a charter mem
ber of the American Association
for the Study of Religion, formed
in 1958-59, a member of the board
of directors for the American As
sociation of Teachers ofChinese and
the Association of Asian Studies,
an honorary fellow of the Institute
of Oriental Studies of the Univer
sity of Hong Kong, an honorary
member of the Research of New
Asia College in Hong Kong, and
honorary corresponding associate of
the Asiatic Research Center of
Korea University. He is consultant
to the Six - College program in
Pennsylvania, the State University
of New York, and other college
groups. In addition to his post at
Chatham College, Dr. Chan is Ad
junct Professor of Chinese Thought
at Columbia University.
Eves Talks About Math
To Class Of Salemites
teacher or librarian.”
William Everhart HI, “Windy,”
as he is called by family and
friends, is 16 and attends Parkland
High School. Bill says, “He plays
the trumpet real well and wants to
be in a band, but he has a great
talent for drawing and I’d like to
see him in commercial art.” The
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Dr. Howard Eves, at Salem on
the Piedmont University Center
Visiting Scholars Program, spoke
to math studenst Tuesday morning,
October 24. Dr. Eves is Professor
of Mathematics at the University
of Maine. He received his Masters
Degree at Harvard University,
taught at Princeton University, and
then received his Ph.D. from Ore
gon State. He is a leading editor
and author of widely used text
books, including the, geometry book
used here last year. He has also .
authored mathematics articles in
Encyclopedia Americana, Collier’s
Encyclopedia, and The World Book
Encyclopedia.
The topic of Dr. Eves’ lecture was
“The Three Crises”, From the
Greek to present times, the foun
dations of math have undergone
three “soul-shaking” crises . The
first of these was in the 5th cen
tury B.C. The Pathagoreans had
built up a theory of proportion that
stated that any segments have a
common unit of measure. When
someone discovered segments with
out this common unit, the whole
Pathagorean philosophy was upset.
It wasn’t until one hundred years
later that Eudoxius was able to
resolve the problem.
The second crises occurred at the
end of the 17th century following
the discovery of calculus by Newton
and Liebniz. The foundations were
shaky; and paradoxes arose when
mathematicians, not realizing the
limitations of the calculus, applied
it where it shouldn’t be used. Help
came when limits were defined in
1821. A deeper problem arose when
the foundation of math was dis
cussed and found to be an intuitive
concept of the number system.
The third crisis evolved out of
the second when mathematicians
started with a set theory to make
the foundations deeper. All math
is consistent if set theory is, but at
the turn of this century, paradoxes
were found in set theory. No res
olution has so far been acceptable
to everyone. Mathematicians have
solved the problem by restricting
set theory and cutting off the par
adoxical part. Dr. Eves stated that
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