Vol. XLIV
Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1952
No. 23
Modern Education Failures Criticized by Philosopher
Average College Graduate Content T/,p<-p Cnllene With TV Wrestlers, Says Maher
Guys Aint So Ignorant
The failure of today’s education- | we need more faith and contem-
al svstem to provide an intelligent plation.
In effect, Santayana combines philosophy and religion. Although skeptical, he believed in faith. To
audience was criticized yesterday in a discussion of the philosophy of George Santayana.
Dr. Fred Mayer, professor of philosophy, university of Redlands, reiterated Santayana’s evaluation of American education in the third of the Philosophy Forum lecture series held in Bowne hall.
“After four years of college the average graduate is content with the Saturday Evening Post. Gorgeous George,'and television. The educational process has failed to carry out Santayana’s belief that the university should aid in lessening the distance between idea and actuality,” Mayer said.
Santayana believes that the temptation of technology, speed, and material success of modern times causes the mind to rely too much on fact. The “genteel academic orthodoxy” of the education system makes knowledge an end in itself, he said.
Prolessor Mayer said Santayana believed the individual should learn how to reflect and should keep conscious of a continual desire to learn.
Man is not a machine, Mayer explained, and he cannot learn to reflect plain facts. Santayana claimed men should reflect and philosophize from their learning. His philosophy must have a passion because only then is it true. “Philosophy in its highest sense is a work of art.”
Santayana’s ideas can be keynoted, Mayer said, by “detachment.” Detachment is an aid to sanity. Santayana said it is “easier to love mankind with an attitude of detachment.”
Detachment keeps the individual away from colltctiveism and aflow’s him to think in a manner that is free from an immediate social environment. Detachment allows the individual to think in terms of ethics rather than mater-al away from collectivism and Mayer and Santayana see a return to ethics as a need of today.
Santayana would like to have seen the need for ethics and need for the constant desire to learn satisfied. In realizing these two needs, a humility would appear. Santayana believed th»t “in humility there is strength; in humility there is teachability.” No institution is eternal, Mayer said; a teachable mind realizes this and can adapt, keeping the learning concerned with the present .
“We must live in the present,” Santayana once said. He believed the Athens in the age of Pericles had found the ideal way of life. They did not look back, his teachings say, to other ages: they had faith in their reason and education. Their learning was associated with the now and was different from that taught in the Harvard he attended and in Oxford, which he described as a “paradise of obsolete philosopsers.” He believed
him, Mayer said, religion was like poetry and philosophy like art. Both should be regarded in the heights of the mind and not relegated to a factual level.
Train Ticket Sales Soar; Expect 1000
The sale of tickets on the Rooters’ Special to Stanford has doubled the number sold during the first week of last year’s sales.
“From all indications, nearly a 1000 students will make the trip via the Southern Pacific special,” said George Moran, city passenger agent for Southern Pacific.
If this estimate is correct, two trams will be filled exclusively with SC rooters, instead of one as originally scheduled.
The sale of rooters football tickets, going for $1.75 ends Friday. Tickets will be sold after Friday for $3.50. The number of these tickets sold will indirectly determine the number of trains used.
To date 700 rooters’ tickets have been sold, said Ticket Manager John Morley. Identification cards must be presented when tickets are purchased at the Service or ticket office.
Train tickets are $17.60 round trip. The train will leave Los Angeles at 8:16 a. m. Nov. 7, and arrive at Palo Alto at 7 p. m. It will leave at 8:16 a. m. Sunday, and reach Los Angeles at 7:30 p. m.
Bus arrangements can also be made through Moran for transportation from hotels to the game for groups of 30 or more at less than $1 a person. The bus will pick students up at their hotel, and return them there after the game.
Several campus organizations have joined together in an effort to reserve an entire train for themselves. The response to these efforts has been good, but Moran reported that they had not succeeded in filling a whole train yet.
Various hotels in the San Francisco area are giving special rates to rooters. Hotels are filling up fast, and Moran suggested that reservations be made immediately to assure occomodations.
College ingenuity has often been scorned.
This scorn could easily have turned to admiration of those who choose to scorn had witnessed an incident in the Engineering parking lot yesterday.
A student was seen driving on the lot in a very self-confident Manner, past the ever alert guard to whom he said a cheery “good morning.”
He parked in the far corner of the lot, then reached over and carefully removed the “University parking permit” from his windshield. This had been thoughtfully applied with scotch tape.
Walking a few steps to the street, he then handed the permit to another student.
Sorority Mothers To Meet Tuesday
A friendship brunch to be held Tuesday at 10:45 a.m. in the Town and Gown foyer, will start the year for the Intersorority Mothers club, said Mrs. Thomas Clements, president.
Right Church; Wrong Pew
The School of Dentistry is eager to formally dedicate its new $1,-215,000 dental clinic and this eagerness seemingly brushed off onto the Daily Trojan staff.
Although the dentistry council and dentistry students want students and alumni to visit their plant and get acquainted with them, they informed the DT that wre told the public of their open house a little too soon.
Yesterday’s DT carried a story on the dedication festivities planned with the open house, but 'reported the event for this Friday. The dedication day ceremonies will occur Oct. 24 as scheduled.
John Crockett, president of the dentistry' school, wants students to become acquainted with the newest addition to the greater university campus.
The clinic will be open for inspection during homecoming week festivities and there will be student-guided tours on dedication day.
All this, however, occurs next wreek.
Fall Enrollment Totals 15,894; Shows Drop
Whether the fall enrollment will exceed that of last spring is still in doubt today as preliminary figures from the Registrar’s office show a total of 15,894 students recorded thus far, a decrease from last semester which totaled 17,670 students.
Bill O. Duniway, of the department of development stressed that the figures are still incomplete. He said no totals have been received yet from the Aeronautics division, Civic Center, and Special Education services.
Enrollment Assumptions Assuming that enrollment in these three divisions will be about the same as last spring, the total enrollment should pass 17,000. This, of course, is considerably less than the 19,143 mark recorded last year at this time.
There are 10,084 students enrolled in day classes and 5810 recorded in University college. The UC figure does not include those students enrolled during the day also. Mrs. Florence Pollman, assistant to Dean Carl Hancey, stated that the total enrollment in night clases is approximately 9000.
University college is the only division to have an increased enrollment over last spring. The ma-tricula then numbered only 5471 students.
Fewer Vets Day class enrollment has dropped 196 from the spring semester. The drop is due mainly to the decrease in veterans in school.
Although the enrollment drop may be minor, it is possible that there will be a major drop in income. “Despite the raise in tuition, we may find that more students are carrying fewer units this semester,” Duniway said.
SENATE ON HC
RECEIVES REPORT WEEK TONICHT
Committee Chairmen Approval on Agenda
by Charlie Barnett ASSC senators get the low-down on homecoming, last week’s elections, presidential appointments, and the World Student Service fund tonight. The Senate meets at 7 in 418 SU.
Homecoming Chairman Ken Flower will tell the Senate
--| about homecoming week activities
WENDELL CASEY . . . president
JIM LUCOSTIC ... to report
World News Roundup
Veterans'
Notice
Saturday is the last 'day for Veterans attending school under the provisions of Public Law 346 to complete the following: 1. purchase books and supplies
2. Pay excess charges S. Apply, for cash Purchase refund.
C. S. Jameson Assistant Registrar for Veterans Affairs.
SC Medical Men To Participate In Heart Symposium
Six members of the School.of Medicine faculty will take part in the 22nd annual Symposium on Heart Disease opening tonight at the Wilshire Ebell theater.
Dr. George C. Griffith is program chairman for the three-day conclave, which is being spon-% sored by the Los Angeles Heart association.
Research papers will be presented by the following faculty members:
Sim Dimitroff and M. C. Thorn-er, “Oral Diuretics in the Treatment of Congestive Failure;” Stephen Elek, “Clinical Value of Vector Cardiography;” David Lev-enson, “Five-Year Study of Increasing Bacterial Resistance to the Antibodies in Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis;” and C. J. Berne, “Surgical Treatment of Acute Vascular Occlusion.”
Chester
Suspect
Three-year-old Sondra Young, sole survivor of the Chester jnass murder, talked with the sheriff yesterday and the officer promptly ordered the arrest of a local theater owrner as a suspect.
Edmund Blair, 37, operator of a theater located next door to a grocery operated by slain Gard Young, 43, was taken into‘custody near Reno. At the time Blair was arrested, Plumas County Sheriff Melvin H. Schooler was out in an auto with Sondra to retrace the route her father had driven last Friday when he .and the three children were beaten to death by someone who stole $7100 from the grocer’s body.
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Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson last night charged that Republican “character assassins and slanderers” have been welcomed into the “leadership” of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidential campaign. At the same time he
Slaying
Nabbed
accused Fisenhower of following the “Kremlin” line in contending that prosperity under Democratic administrations has been solely a result of war or threats of war.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, in Deep Texas, last night pictured the Democratic leadership as men who “shrug off moral laws as platitudes.” Speaking from the steps of the historic Alamo, the GOP presidential nominee climaxed a day-long aerial tour of Texas by posing what he called “cornerstones” upon w'hich he thought the United States could best build its future.
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The State department yesterday bluntly rejected Russian charges that an unarmed American B-29 Superfort was over Soviet territory when it was shot down by Red fighters north of Japan last w7eek.
Churchill Says Third World War Unlikely'
Daily Trojan ...
. . . staff meets today at noon in the DT city room. All reporters and copyreaders are required to attend.
25 Coeds to Compete for Queen Finals Tonight
Twenty-five lovely coeds, victorious in quarter-final Helen of Troy judging last week, tomorrow will parade before five judges who will narrow the field down to 10 queen finalists. The contestants will appear in groups of six be-
HOMfcCOMUMG ROYAL IT of 1950 were (left to right) Jeanette Vett, Annabelle Laugharn, Queen Donna Ogier, Donna Freedman, and
ginning at 7 p.m. in the International lounge. The triumphant ten in tomorrow evening’s contest will compete for the grand prize Oct. 22, according to Homecoming Queen Chairman Al Casten.
The judges, three faculty members and two alumni, will base their selections on appearance, personality, poise, and taste in dress.
“More emphasis in appearance and personality will be given during the semi-finals,” aCsten said. “During the earlier rounds, judging was based an equal 25 per cent split for each of the four beauty factors. Tomorrow, however, appearance and personality will be allotted 35 per cent each, with 15 per cent for opise and 10 per cent for dress.”
Homecoming queen semi-finalists will appear at these times: Bobbette Bentley, De Ette Bates; Shirley Blalock, Jan Anderson, Carol Cameron, and Shirley Conroy, 7.
Kay Cantonwine, Barbara Davison, Shirley Egland, Mailyn Freed, Marlene Grossman, and Barbara Hasse, 7:30.
Norma Jean Hobin, Connie Hurst, Joyce Keppler, Theresa Law’son, Ann Mabee, and Phyllis Merkel, 8.
Sydne Moore, Virginia Morris, Patti Tremellen, Emily Troster, Karen Turnbow\ Betty Welch, and Tinka Wing, 8:30.
by United Press
LONDON, Oct. 14—Prime Minister Winston Churchill tonight said he thinks a new world wTar is “unlikely.”
Churhill expressed his belief in a toast he proposed to Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, w'ho wras guest of honor at a dinner of the “Pilgrims' society.
“We all hate and fear war,” Churchill told the dinner guests. “Let me tell you why in my opinion—and it is only my opinion— a third world war is unlikely.
“It is because among other reasons it would be entirely different in .certain vital aspects from any other war that has ever taken place.”
Churchill said “both sides know it would begin with horrors of a kind and on a scale never dreamed of before by human beings.”
“It would begin by both sides in Europe suffering in the very first stage exactly what they dreaded the most,” he said.
The prime minister said a new world war also would differ from previous such conflicts because the main decisions probably would come in the first month or even the first week.
“The quarrel might continue for an indefinite period but after the first month it would be a broken-back war in which no great armies could be moved over long distances by land.”
He said that “the torments which would fall in an increasing
measure upon the wiiole civilian population of the globe would be indescribable” and added:
“There is this fact also to be remembered—that governments, dependent upon long distance communications by land, might well find they had quite soon lost their power to dominate events.”
Marilyn me* ki_ . uiai year wiss Ogier and her attendants saw Southern California defeat Notre Dame, 9-7.
Graduate Student Drowns in Surf
Jack B. White, 27, a graduate student in accounting, was drowned Sunday at San Onofre, near San Clemente, the sheriff’s office reported.
Officers said White apparently was struck on fhe head by his surf board and knocked out.
White received his A.B. degree in general business at Stanford in 1949 and later enrolled at SC for his graduate work.
Club to Hear Cancer Talk
A film and discussion on cancer diagnosis and prevention will be presented by Dr. Ian Macdonald, associate clinical professor, of surgery, School of Medicine, before the Medical Faculty Wives club Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the YWCA.
Dr. Macdonald recently received the distinguished service award of the American Cancer society for his work on cancer control in California.
Plans for the freshman tea to be held Oct. 30 and the medical school benefit dance to be held at the Statler hotel Dec. 13 will be discussed.
Hostesses for the evening are the Mmes. Paul Starr and Edward Evans, said Mrs. Gordon E Goodhart, hospitality chairman.
Adlai Rooters To Join in Welcome Rally
SC students for Stevenson will join other Democratic organizations in welcoming Presidential,
Candidate Adlai Stevenson, on his arrival at the International Airport at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. The Trojan caravan will depart for j the airport at 2 from the Student !
Union.
At the conclusion of welcoming i festivities, students will take part j in a motor cavalcade from the j airport to Stevenson’s hotel headquarters.
A torchlight parade will pre-! cede the Governor to the Shrine j auditorium at 6:30. Over 400 stu-dents from campuses all over the student organizations
Southland will oecunv a large1 The Studont Ln,on bloc of sea is at tne Shrine when Stevenson speaks at 9 p.m.
Students are instructed to report to the left door of the Shrine auditorium at 6:45 for special student seating.
TV Too
A rally-party will be held during and after the Stevenson address, which is elected to end at 9:30. The student lounge festivities will begin at 8 and will offer television coverage to those who are unable to gain admittance to the Shrine.
At least a dozen Democratic | political' figures, including Anson Ford, Democratic national
in the first standing committee
report.
Jim Lucostic. elections commissioner, and George Gonzales, elections investigating committee chairman, will give reports on the freshman class and foreign students elections held last week.
With the acceptance of the elections reports, Don Davis, freshman president, and Satindar Kumar Verma, foreign students representatives, will officially become Senate members.
Approval
President Wendell Casey will ask for Senate approval of chairman for the forum, Greater University Student Organizations, and Student Union committees.
The purpose of the ASSC Forum committee is to initiate forums, lectures and panel discussions on current questions of interest to students. It also coordinates into the university calendar any forums, lectures or panels planned by recognized campus
committee
is in charge of allotment of SU rooms for ASSC functions, the maintenance of a room directory and upkeep of ASSC offices. Supervisor 1 The Greater University committee supervises publication of j the Student Handbook, sponsors I the Annual High School day, and sponsors projects to encourage the growth and development of j the General Alumni association from the student level.
| It’s purpose also includes spon-: soring projects which will create i greater interest in student government and all-U activities, and John I initiatin§ any special projects which will create a greater uni-
versity.
The Committee on Student
committeeman; Clyde Doyle, congressman and member of the i lne ^ornmitlee on student or-house un-American activities 1 Sanizatlons makes recommenda-committee; Cecil King and Chet
Holifield, congressman, and City Councilman Edward Roybal will greet Students for Stevenson at the Student Lounge rally at the conclusion of the Shrine meeting.
Meeting
The regular Students for Stevenson will be held tomorrow noon at noon in the International Lounge.
An appeal for more precinct chairmen was also made yesterday by Bob Deacson, vice-chair-man of the 63rd assembly district Democratic campaign.
Democrats who live in the 63rd and 65th assembly districts are urged to contact the district headquarters at 3655 South Vermont avenue, PArkway 0596 for work.
tions to the Senate on the matter of granting recognition and permission to operate on campus to new student organizations.
Recognized Students for Stevenson, the Young Republicans of California ! Trojan club, and the Students | against Propositions 5 and 6 are the student political organizations who have already been recognized this year.
Bill Van Alstyne, independent men’s representative, will report to the Senate on the World Student Service Fund conference held at Pacific Palisades Oct. 3-5. This organization has a general purpose of sponsoring universities throughout the world. Van Alstyne and Senator-at-Large Radmilla Gogo attended as SC representatives.
Alumni Planning Activities ForHomecomingCelebration
Homecoming will not be confined to student activities but will include many functions that have been designed strictly for alumni participation.
Beside attending the student-planned homecoming events, the alumni have planned special functions which it
hoped, will attract many SC
Business Ed Club Elects Officers
Andy Casparian w'as elected president * of Pi Omega Pi, national. business education fraternity, at a recent meeting.
Other officers are Arthur Coop-ersmith, vice-president; Joyce Keppeler, secretary; Lola Lassop, social secretary; Ed Hayworth, treasurer.
Dr. Albert Fries, head of the business education department, replaces Dorothy Collette, professor of management, as sponsor of the fraternity.
Sailing Club Sails Today
The SC Sailing club will begin another year of sporting and social events today at noon with a meeting in 115 PE.
Activities planned for the year are the SC invitational meet, intercollegiate regatta, annual club dance, and a weekend trip to Catalina. Arrangements also are being made for the purchase of a small dinghy fleet to be used in the minor races.
Commandant for the coming year will be elected at the meeting, and interested students are invited to attend.
Official
Notice
Certification of current enrollment on form C242 Is due at Selective Service offices by Oct. 20. Those who are required to file this form, and have not done so, should call at the Military Records window in the Office of the Registrar.
H. W. Patmore
Trojans 'Burn Over Incident; Same Source?
In an effort to continue his chain of unfortunate events, old man trouble struck again at Troytown in the form of a fire which destroyed a homecoming banner.
With the missing helmet incident still unsolved. Jack Davis, homecoming dance chairman, said the mischief might have come from the same source.
Davis explained that a group of 18 coeds were bugy working on a 30 ft. banner to announce the homecoming dance. It was left in the patio of EVK Hall overnight and was to be hung across University avenue.
The next morning the banner was completely burned. The case is being investigated.
SC Sophomore Dies of Polio
Closed funeral services will be held this morning at 10:30 for Bill Robertson, who died of polio in the home of his parents Sunday night, at Harvey Williams mortuary in San Anselmo.
Robertson, a sophomore majoring in accounting at SC, became ill late last week and flew home to San Anselmo. While at SC, he was pledged to Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
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graduates.
Three alumni functions are scheduled for Oct. 22, the opening day of homecoming.
A commerce alumni luncheon will be held at nOon in the Biltmore ballroom. Education alumns will attend a dinner at 6:30 p.m. at Town and Gown while a banquet is scheduled for architect graduates at 7 m Harris halL
An engineering banquet is slated for Oct. 23 at 6:30 p.m. in Town and Gown.
On Oct. 24, dental alumni will j inspect the new dental clinidfc present various awards, and complete their reunion with a ban-1 quet at noon in Toivn and' Gown.
At 4 that afternoon, Robert I Kingsley, dean of the School of ! Law, and his faculty, will be wel-! corned by law alums.
That evening, beginning at 6:30, a series of class reunions j will be staged at the Bihmore j Hotel with dinner and dancing | following at 9.
The final day of homecoming will find alumni participating in a physical education picnic banquet in the f’.E. building patio at 11:30 a.m. A medicine banquet will be held at the University Club at 7 p.m.
Howard Edgerton, general chairman of alumni homecoming, points out that alumni will turn out en masse for the functions which are synonymous with homecoming.
“Realizing that “Troyditions Abound Where Trojans are Found,” Edgerton explained, “Trojans of years gone by would not consider their reunion complete without the dance, parade, Trolios, and the football game.”