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It is a great power of comfort to me that dear father, before he died, knew that I intended devoting myself to God, and I have two most beautiful letters, which I prize more than I can tell you, from him on that subject. I will show you them when we meet. and now I have I know something to tell you which will give you great pleasure. Mr. Howard came from Baltimore yesterda Saturday and brought me a letter from Ellen, in which she tells me she is going to be confirmed and wants me to come and be confirmed with her. I will do it most gladly and I hope with more devotion and thankfulness give myself to God for this great blessing and mercy to me. The Bishop was sick and did not come this sunday I told you he was expected, and now I am going to be confirmed with Ellen. I know dear sister this will give you the greatest pleasure. oh pray that God may keep us his through all the trials dangers and temptations of the world and at last bring us all to meet with father and each other in Heaven. - it is so dark I can hardly see, and my eyes hurt me and I must stop. - I send you back the letter as Mother thinks in Ellens weak state it might agitate her too much to see it, and I am afraid to keep it till she can, for fear as we are moving about so much it might get lost. - Ellen is better, her chills are not so violent. - Mother joins me in best love to Mr. Turner and the children and believe me ever your fond sister Alice Key. [cancellation] Washington D.C. Apr 12 Mrs Daniel Turner Woodly near Warenton North Carolina ��� https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/5759821e15c86d2c65d683cda79390cc.pdf 251284c4abd08a5ed2633c282dcda687 PDF Text Text 1 Washington Tuesday April 11. -43 Your letter, dear sister, I was delighted to recieve and thank you a thousand times for enclosing the letter from dear father to you. it comforted me and I hope improved me much, though sometimes I feel hopeless of ever meeting father in heaven, yet the hope I have at times, and the comfortable assurance that our Savior has given us ”my grace is sufficient for thee,” is to me the greatest consolation. For without his grace I know and feel that the temptations that surround me will overcome me, but I try to place all my trust in him, to ask him to give me his holy spirit, and strength to follow its promptings. It is a great power of comfort to me that dear father, before he died, knew that I intended devoting myself to God, and I have two most beautiful letters, which I prize more than I can tell you, from him on that subject. I will show you them when we meet. and now I have I know something to tell you which will give you great pleasure. Mr. Howard came from Baltimore yesterda Saturday and brought me a letter from Ellen, in which 2 she tells me she is going to be confirmed and wants me to come and be confirmed with her. I will do it most gladly and I hope with more devotion and thankfulness give myself to God for this great blessing and mercy to me. The Bishop was sick and did not come this sunday I told you he was expected, and now I am going to be confirmed w ith E llen. I k now d ear s ister t his w ill g ive y ou t he greatest pleasure. oh pray that God may keep us his through all the trials dangers and temptations of the world and at last bring us all to meet with father and each other in Heaven. - it is so dark I can hardly see, and my eyes hurt me and I must stop. - I send you back the letter as Mother thinks in Ellens weak state it might agitate her too much to see it, and I am afraid to keep it till she can, for fear as we are moving about so much it might get lost. - Ellen is better, her chills are not so violent. - Mother joins me in best love to Mr. Turner and the children and believe me ever your fond sister Alice Key. 3 [cancellation] Washington D.C. Apr 12 Mrs Daniel Turner Woodly near Warenton North Carolina �This document would not be possible without the editorial contributions of the following people: Whitney Bixby � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Society of the Descendants of Francis Scott Key Records Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SDFSK Description An account of the resource The Society of the Descendants of Francis Scott Key Records contain correspondence, publications, and administrative and financial records relating to the Society, Francis Scott Key, and St. John's College. 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It is a great power of comfort to me that dear father, before he died, knew that I intended devoting myself to God, and I have two most beautiful letters, which I prize more than I can tell you, from him on that subject. I will show you them when we meet. and now I have I know something to tell you which will give you great pleasure. Mr. Howard came from Baltimore yesterda Saturday and brought me a letter from Ellen, in which she tells me she is going to be confirmed and wants me to come and be confirmed with her. I will do it most gladly and I hope with more devotion and thankfulness give myself to God for this great blessing and mercy to me. The Bishop was sick and did not come this sunday I told you he was expected, and now I am going to be confirmed with Ellen. I know dear sister this will give you the greatest pleasure. oh pray that God may keep us his through all the trials dangers and temptations of the world and at last bring us all to meet with father and each other in Heaven. - it is so dark I can hardly see, and my eyes hurt me and I must stop. - I send you back the letter as Mother thinks in Ellens weak state it might agitate her too much to see it, and I am afraid to keep it till she can, for fear as we are moving about so much it might get lost. - Ellen is better, her chills are not so violent. - Mother joins me in best love to Mr. Turner and the children and believe me ever your fond sister Alice Key. [cancellation] Washington D.C. Apr 12 Mrs Daniel Turner Woodly near Warenton North Carolina Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Subject The topic of the resource Key family Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SDFSK_4_5 Francis Scott Key https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/8c3ae76d0b90c8806656bfc56718f7f5.pdf 9ca9d6d8afadd35cf14f9ebeb7528ffb PDF Text Text t. John's Collegian ____-: voL. xxv - No. 21 ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1943 Price : 1 Oc ~-----:---------------- The Cartesian Diver sorne old textbooks of physics I . th n used to t ease me in my f ath er ' s atkcase there was described a simple ~o . 'h a wonderful expenment wit but C . laboratory gadget called the artesian D'ver. The soul of the experiment :s a little glass man floating im:ersed in a jam of water with a tight India rubber cover. If you pressed the over and compressed the contents of ~be jar. the · little man changed his specific gravity and gracefully floated down to the bottom of the jar. If you removed the pressure, he quickly came back to t he top, bumping his bead against the rubber cover. On rainy afternoons I used to collect a fruit jar from the kitchen, a small pillbox and a piece of rubber from my father's office, and sat fascinated with the graces and wonders of nature in this small closed universe. Later I disdiscovered that the principle was useful in submarine navigation; later also I found out w ho Descartes was. Still later I met Jacob Klein, last Friday night's lectu rer. This must be the reason I am invited to report the lecture. The lecture was a voyage in a glass submarine to see the wonders of the deep. Come into my System, said the Skipper, and w e shall see. We all stepped in, and when the hatches were shot, we went down, down, watching the pressure gauges . In the first d ive the Skipper announced the formula for submersion: If you describe, explain. or analyze anything w ith a system, you will have lo describe, explain, and · analyze that system; whe re one thing was, you will have a system or systems. Look at all the dials and valves around you and you can see that this is so. Now look ouc through the walls of this System, and in the distance you will see the Great Volca no rising majestically and magically from the floor of the sea. This is Plotinus, the borne of all Systems. From its single cone there emaate twin Forms, Being and Intellect ; rom them Soul. from Soul Nature, d from Nature the forms of eleents, plants, animals, and men. If you ask about Matter, the answer is Never Mind, and if you ask Where's Mind, the answer is No matter. Seeking gold you find nous, and only nous. If you ask How to get out of here, the answer is that as an bypostasis you must become ecstatic, because you have lost your form-matter composition, and the only way to be yourself is to be an ectasis. There are two ways to be ecstatic, one by the aspiration of an a~tificial lung, and the other by moving from one System to another. All these systems are to .be found in caves in the sides of the Great Volcano, and Leibniz will be your guide. Each cave is a monad, and we can see the Monads as we sink lower and come nearer. Now we are inside one and we see ourselves in our good ship System mirrored in the sides of a crystal cave. No, those are mirrors, not windows, and we are having perceptions. No, those are not other subs, they are ourselves as matter, though not really matter, but notes in the music of the monads . No, we can't get out, we just think we are conducting an orchestra. But, Mr. Skipper, we were once only half submerged; what, please. is the water. Oh that, why it' s only the System of Systems within which we dialectically float or sink. You sink or swim with Hegel who has the chart. Good ships like Plato and Aristole, can keep afloat if they are only partly submerged, and good subs can always surface when they want to by pumping out water. No, you mustn't shoot the torpedoes at the good ships Plato and Aristole ; that's what Plotinus did and you see he is now a volca no. But why do they keep afloat? Because they have lots of ballast. necessity, matter, irrationals and they never heard of Descartes. But Platonists and Aristotelians have had shipwrecks. Yes, but I. the shipwrecked sailor of the sub, Bid you set sail. Here you are, put the cross-hairs of the periscope on the flagships ; take bearings; trim ballast ; we' re going places. Heigh-ho, heigh-ho! -SCOTT BUCHANAN. Mr. Martin On Law Like the prodigal son, Jam es Martin returned to repent and confess, by delivering a lecture on " Law, A Lost Art" , and the introduction which the Dean gave him was nothing short of being the fatted calf. Unfortunately, however, (if we may be allowed to mix our metaphors) , Mr. Martin had to return to the lion' s den after the feast. Law, Mr. Martin said, has been lost, not only as an art, but almost altogether. Instead, a kind of liberty or license has taken its place. Apparently, this springs from a common human conviction that man has an ultimate end but that this end is vague and cannot be known unless one indulge in metaphysical and theological discussions. Since this is obviously too dangerous, one of the a~knowledged means towards this end, namely liberty, is treated as though it were the end in itself. There is a general failure to see that liberty itself is supported by other means, and that it is therefore absurd to destroy these by an abuse of liberty. These are the means all of whichand especially law-have become lost in the mad struggle for a perverted kind of freedom : Manners, which supports and makes ,possible Law ; Law which supports and is the cornerstone of Justice ; Justice which supports and is the basis of Liberty. Thus these four terms constitute a kind of hierarchy ; each of the lo w er terms is necessary for all the higher ones to exist. Good manners are needed for good la\-. ; good law makes fo r t ru e justice, and justice makes man trul y free . For each of these provides paradigms enabling man to climb up the ladder, which he would be unable to do without such paradigms because of his free will. Like the four virtues, these four terms can be considered as means between extremes. Thus good manners are obviously the means between absence of manners and the absurd rigidity of a righteous code of manners. Similarly, good law is the means between a situation in which there is a �Page 2 ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN multitude of particularized laws, and one in which there are so few and so general laws that when applied to particular cases they are bound to be often harsh and even unjust. Justice, again, must neither be merely a general sentiment for the "fair" course, nor must it puritanical, close-mouthed, and predominantly punitive. Finally. liberty must neither be license, nor such that (as in "free enterprise") it gives liberty only to some and restricts everyone else's freedom. But nowadays, in our anxiety to have freedom, we fail to see that we must have the other three conditions. First; rather, we introduce too much freedom into manners, law, and justice and by that very process make it impossible to have true liberty. There is now an utter absence of formality in all of these. Especially in law, we seem to be getting away from all formal proc~dures, and are substituting "talking it over", and arbitration for any due process of law. We scorn, and rightly, the many absurdities which overly formal procedure often leads too, but in doing so we have also fogrotten the things which this formalism stood for . It is true that hypocritical "good" manners are shameful. but must we assume that all good manners are hypocritical? Apparently, this assumption is made generally today, and in our desire to get away from hypocrisy, we have swung to the other extreme and have forsaken all manners. The analogous process bas taken place with respect to law and justice. Instead of climbing up the ladder and reaching liberty after having first got the other three, we have started from the top; we have assumed a kind of liberty and thus have destroyed the other three. To regain them , and a true kind of liberty, we must again start at the bottom and have proper manners, law, and justice. Mr. Martin illustrated bis main point, that formalism in law is nowhere to be found today, with many amusing examples from Washington bureaucracy. We thought that there were too many of them. and that the otherwise fine lecture lost somewhat by their excessive number. We hate to say this, for · lecturers with tl~e rhetorical grace and charm of Mr. Martin's caliber are a rare gift for us who listen. Indeed, if here too we must choose between extremes we greatly prefer Mr. Martin's end of it. I Art Exhibition recent history of the Soviet Three divisions may be made: In spite of what has been rumored 1. 19 1 7 - 19 21 : The period f about to the contrary, the committee the Revolution to the end of· for the second Spring Art Show will Civil War which is often termed open its exhibition of work by stuthe War of the Interventions . dents next week, on Saturday, May involved the U. S., England, 8th. The exhibition will be held in pan, etc. the Junior Common Room. 2. 1921-1923: In this period, It is not too late. If the commitSoviet government escaped coll tee bas not visited you personally and from the forces of hunger and . inquired as to whether you dabble in tervention. However, no econo the plastic arts, do not hesitate to see policy was definitely formula them and present your work. Entries The Right Wing finally persu for the Spring Show may be subLenin (1922-23) to adapt the mitted to the office of the Assistant Economic policy. Dean or directly to the committee. 3. 1 9 2 3-19 2 9 : The assumpt' Said committee consists of members of complete control by Stalin w· Landau, Atterbury, Maikoffske, Ertethe destruction of the left opp gun, Mason. These people will accept tion under Trotsky and the ri anything from a large marble group to under Kaminiev. It was in a small pen-and-ink. The committee period when Stalin felt that by · reserves the right to judge which entroducing foreign capital, engin tries shall be exhibited. There are no fees and no prizes. However, the comand techniques, Russia mi strengthen her new industry, b mittee acts as agent in the event of sale of work, provided the student wishes to sell and someone else wishes to buy. A formal opening for faculty and friends of the college will take place in the afternoon. In the evening the gallery. nee Common Room, will be open to the student body and their dates of the evening. The exhibition will be open during the dance Saturday evening and everyone is urged to come. The Spring Show will also remain open for two weeks. War Meeting I A week ago Sunday night, Nicholas Nabokov provided the audience of the Revolution: War and Peace Meeting with a highly informative and exciting lecture. Although he said he had originally thought of talking of Russia's post war demands, he felt a discussion of that country's outlook on cartels would reveal the problems involving Russia and the other United Nations at the peace table. In the United States we waver between two contrary conceptions of Russia and Stalin; either Russia is the hungry bear with the monstrous unshaven Stalin hovering over us or she is the savior of Europe with a suddenly dean-shaven Stalin bravely carrying on the struggle for civiliza tion. As a background for the discussion, Mr. Nabokov gave a summary of the be "tempo" of the plan. Alt h few co·m panies took advantage tboug plan this policy might again be of cbe ' used· t 934 the second five-year P1an In b gun. The project was shrouded e . . secrecy but the sphere of action 111 d to be Siberia which may well seellle . ' . . h E t indicate Russia s interest in t e as as lllarket. a In regard to. the problem as to whether Russia is or can act as .a cartel. she is oth~r than a cartel m the sense that she is a government of the eople through the elected c~ambers of ~he Great Soviet. If .Russia were to become more democratic and reac~ the communistic stage out of the national socialistic, industry would then operate without profit through the electorate which, in turn, operates for the peoPll der w- pie. What Russia will want after the ..,ar is suggested in the Soviet Eco" nornic Journal which stated that Rusia is interested in who owns Central ing and transportation. Lenin spo s Europe industry. The feeling is strong of this dangerous policy as "copu tion with capitalism" and Tro that no such industry should ever be swore Russia would become allowed to become the backbo.ne ?f . h mterJan d f or t h e western worId military power. Therefore, .Russia will . . ' robably suggest that this industry be Between 6~-6 8 con~essions " nationalized and that private capital removed without remuneration and given to various foreign conce~ ~hese compa?ies netted only 25 miJ. at an international administration hon dollars m 19 2 6 and much I ith Russia participating supervise. in 1929. These investments w In conclusion, Mr. Nabokov atsmall because: 1) The contracts w empted a guess at the present opinions short-term; 2) The government stip1 f a Russian citizen on these problated that products must be so ems: within a definite time and within 1) Russia must have threeU.S.S.R. and very little exportati quarters of the say on the re-organiwas permitted; 3) Cartels made mon zation of Europe. through the exchange rubels but rega 2) Altho ugh Russia's future may lations made this extremely diflicah be in freeing Eastern countries, her while similar red tape made impor· security must be made in Europe tation of machinery also a task; 4) and that Russian citizens should the general policy of the Russian therefore be willing to fight to pregovernment was uncertain. vent a recurrance of the present sitWith the aforementioned in mim nation. the cartels tried to harvest money 11 3) A belief in Federal Union in quickly as possible with the least et· Europe which should preferably be pense resulting in the use of bad tech- Socialistic. nicians and machines. Meanwhile tbr concessions were doing "economi' espionage" by reporting the natull of soil, economic conditions and the Cartels continued to monopolize the general potentialities of the country · unday evening discussions. This week another regime were but there. r. Martin returned • to outline the In 19 2 9, Stalin stopped concessi natomy of these international organiand the first 5-year plan came in ations which are imposing their ecobeing. Strangely enough it opened omic force without regard for the the doors for foreign capital. A' olitical sovereignty of national states. state or concern that wished to inv be texts he explicated were the full could do so on the concession poli ge advertisements of the Standard but under government supervision a ii Company's offer to allow any II Page 3 company use of their synthetic rubber patents royalty free, a court decision against two important concerns dealing in tanning chemicals and the setting up of a mythical corporation in Connecticut with factories in occupied countries. The relationship of w.ar to cartels is not any more disturbing than a drought or bad flood. A fighting front is just a wall behind which intercorporation effort is made to dispose of markets and resources of the fighting nations. The sole concern of the Not altruism or desire for advertis- members of the cartel is their profit. ing was the motive of Standard in Legal codes of an unfriendly country giving use of patents to possible com- can be avoided by shifting headquartpetitors. Mr. Martin recalled some in- ers. teresting statistics which would indiSuper-national, armed with the cate that more than the peace-time technological methods needed throughneed of synthetic rubber is already out the world and independent of being produced in plant~ that after the existing restraints cartels are a chalwar will probably be turned over to lenging problem of great dimension. Standard or allied concerns. So one Perhaps we should be less concerned giant corporation offered patents not with post-war planning than with profitably usable in exchange for the finding out what has already been right to use processes not under their planned for us and adjusting our lives control. which any party entering the to it. deal would have to relinquish withDONALD S. KAPLAN out charge. Mr. Martin's interpretation of the offer differed from some newspaper accounts which further said that the patents to be relinquished by The annual Easter Egg Roll last Standard were not theirs but the FedSunday established itself as a St. John's eral Governments. In any case the mo- tradition-by running for two contivation is questionable. secutive years. Doubts that the second A slightly more involved skeleton time might prove anticlimatic seemed of an English company with subsidia- to have been pretty well dispelled by ries in South America who control an enthusiastic faculty. Not only did the production of a product needed for they find their eggs but they also rolled tanning and also control through the them up the greater portion of the government of one South American front green Mr. Stanley being acklowlcountry the export quotas to the U. S. edged victor in this invigorating conwas the next evidence submitted. Only test of high-powered intellectuals. recently has the government interThe faculty were giver\ various first fered to prevent the English concern sentences of Great Books and had to from regulating prices in this countQ" find an egg with a picture correspondwhich they have done because of their' ing to that particular book and they monoply. enjoyed varying success. Mr. Barr was The most interesting point was Mr. among the first to find his egg ( 'GulMartin's analysis of a trend of before- liver's Travels') but the Dean had the-war activity and continued accord- trouble with 'Tom Jones' and had to ing to recent reports from Europe be given several broad hints. The . about the use of plants seized by Ger- Sco:(ields compiled the best team record many. Control is not placed in the with two eggs apiece (Leonardo, hands of Germans but production is Rousseau and Locke, Aquinas). Apso converted while the original man- proximately ten children ran amuck agement is in charge that sub-assembly throughout the entire proceedings, parts are made which need for com- pausing only to listen to the resonant pletion articles made in Germany strains of a .recorded quartet playing proper. A set of production and man- Rondos by Susato, a XVlth Century agement habits are set up which will Dutch composer. All in all the roll likely persist after the war and give was a success from the weather to the Germany one of her economic objec- children's candies. tives--:an integral part in European economy-whether she wins the military battle or not. Thus cartels serve THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN is the not only to rationalize competition by official news organ of St. John's College, published every Friday during the acadividing markets, fixing ,prices and demic year. Entered as second class sharing profits but are also forces in matter October 15, 1919, at the Post O:fh.::e at Annapolis, Maryland, under the economic warfare among nations.· Act of Mar<!h 3, 1879. Eggs �ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN Page 4 J\rts , We had hoped that when we would appear in print again it would be with a number of happy surprises about Spring and new life in events artistic local. Nothing like this bas happened, nor does it look as though it were going to happen. Happily we have retired for the past few weeks. Our best friends and severest critics ( they are not the same people) tell us we should do so more often. There are nine films coming to Annapolis next week and we can't find any excuse for telling you to see any of them , with the possible exception of The Moon• Is Down. This (at the Circle next Wednesday) is the film versio n of the Steinbeck play and novel. It wasn ' t exactly great shakes in either place, theatres or bookstores. However, it has received a great deal of popular critical space and stands as. one of the most sincere dialectics on the question of whether the invader of a country that quietly opposes is not his own conquerer. Cedric Hardwicke and Dorris Bowden are only two of the excellent featured players. At the National in Washington John Golden' s The Home Front completes its first test run and will soon find itself in New York. It is apparently a very funny play about a war-wife with a baby. On Monday The Eve of St. Mark , by Maxwell Anderson, begins a two-week run. Having left Germany with the candle completely out, Anderson now tells the story of Bataan-its heroes, their loves and families . Virtue and integrity, on all levels, is demonstrated to win, and death scenes are conducted in majestic blank verse. At the Little Theatre in Baltimore there is a revival of Algiers. This has Boyer, LaMarr and Sigrid Gurie (remember ). An excellent film . College Meeting Last n ight M r. Barr related system to matter by giving an analysis of the theory and practice of vandalism . He ably pointed out that the college is not in the business of replacing furniture. Advise to Pinkneyans : behold the Seniors and similar to them strive to · acquire an understanding of the functions of a common room. Threat to all: system of punishments rather than mere cost of replacement might become Its rhetoric is persuasive necessary. under circumstances. Mr. Barr is going to continue being bothered next week. I Calendar St. John's College Fri., April 30 - Sat., May 8, Friday, April 30: 8:30 A. M. 7 :00-7 :45 P. M. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. Chapel Service Chorus Rehearsal · Bible . Class Formal Lecture - Con- Great Hall Humphreys H McDowell 21 Great Hall stitutional Representative GovemmentMortimer Adler Saturday, May 1: 830 A. M. 9:30 A. M.-12:00 M. Chapel Service Athletics Great Hall Gymnasium Recorded Concert Humphreys Woodward Sunday, May 2: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. Revolution: War and Peac~. Series II, No. I 0. C a r t e l s and World Law-Stringfellow Barr H Han Monday, May 3: 8:30 A. M. 7:00-7:45 P. M. Chapel Service Chorus Reheasal Great Hall Humphreys Hall Chapel Sevice Recoded Music Bible Class Town Meeting - Great Hall Humphreys Hall McDowell 21 Great Hall Tuesday, May 4: 8:30 A. M . 5 :00-6 :00 P. M. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. Tax Policy and Inflation -Randolph P a u I. General Counsel to the U. S. Treasury. Wednesday, May 5: 8:30 A. M. 7:30 P . M. Chapel Service Cotillion Board ing Meet- Great Hall Paca Social Room Thursday, May 6: Chapel Service College Meeting Great Hall Great Hall Chapel Service Chorus Rehearsal Bible Class Formal Lecture On Truth-Leonard Eslick Great Hall Humphreys Hall McDowell 21 Great Hall 8 :30 A. M. 9 :30 A. M.-12 :00 M. 4:00 P. M. Chapel Service Athletics Formal Opening of Art Show by invitation Great Hall Gymnasium Junior Commons 8:30 A. M.-1:00 P. M. Movie-The Cat and the Canary-an informal dance Iglehart Hall 8:30 A. M. 7:30 P. M. Friday, May 7: 8:30 A. M. 7 :00 - 7 :4 5 P. M. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. 8 :00 P. M. Saturday, May 8: � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Collegian Description An account of the resource The Collegian began as a student newspaper; became a college community literary publication in 1952 and continued until 1969; became a student newspaper again in 1969; discontinued publication from 1980 until 1989 when it again became a student literary publication.<br /><br />Click on <a title="The Collegian" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=26">Items in The Collegian Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Collegian Vol. XXV No. 21 Title A name given to the resource St. John's Collegian, April 30, 1943 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-04-30 Description An account of the resource Vol. XXV, No. 21 of the St. John's Collegian. Published on April 30, 1943. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Student publication The Collegian https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/b0150d46cb8500d793774a2df736f4bc.pdf cf8ac9561b01367372dadf66d157be79 PDF Text Text t. John's Collegian ~V - N o. ~2 Vol. XX ,_, ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1943 ---- War Meeting If you haven't heard it already the . ke about the Sunday night meetings 0 ~ . "Whose turn to talk about cartels 5 ~ '. conight? " In an unconscious way is tt f h cbaC makes an accurate mot, or. t e uescion of cartels has been examined qb' year by people who could least int is 'b · ' accurately be descn ed as. po r1ttca l h ~s. ns lawyers, economists and phtl~na • . sopbers, who spoke .without ov~r·" basizing the truth m any one m... r111Pretation . That t h' d anger h as 1s ll been avoided ts to ere d'1t o f t h e group ttrP . . in charge of the meetings. le isn't difficult to imagine the aburdicies which could have been put orth co stop our thinking about the roblem of collectivization of industries on an international scale on any cber than one level. An economist lone could say: the maldistribution of ecbnological skills and potential out- · ets for them has resulted in th' situaion which cartels are aiming to cure. Their method is objectionable to anyne wanting economic democracy, bmfore cartels must be stopped. A awyer could plea for good laws which ould make it possible to prosecute e offending corporations who are unairly competing with smaller groups. ombining the bad features of the adercisements and learned articles in the urrent periodicals one would think m hac the gro wth of cartels is due to the winging of the pendulum of history ·om natio nalism to internationalism . bat we are becoming international inded with the aid of those wonderol maps published in 1;ime, Life, and ortune, because after all the isolationsts in this country never realized that ou could fly over the North Pole to akutsk like Wendell Willkie. But the discussions we've heard this ear have been sane and the speakers idn't ride every Gallup poll, and Pegr colu mn to Utopia as did some adio discussions. Mr. Barr continued in this spmt 5 st week making no bones about the ct that he's made the point many ·mes before about federation, but it pplies to cartels and deserves to be ard again . Short of federation of the nations of the world there is no solution to the ;roblem of the cartels taking over the governments of the world, unless it be Hitler's plan of conquering the world and enforcing peace by machine guns. When institutions cease to meet the needs of the people who brought them into being, new institutions which serve the needs are made. To allow cartels to fall into power because of our inaction is as bad as allowing Hitler to conquer. Cartels are organizations linking together a large community of humans that are not governed by their political governments. The system of national sovereignty. a farce to many small states. is largely irrelevant to the economic problems of our times, as was Feudalism to the needs of its age when trade developed because of the opening of the Mediterranean to the Christian world. Price: 1Oc ceeds the supply of good available for civilians, is terrifying according to Mr. Paul. Forty-five billions must be absorbed by additional taxes and saved to prevent inflation in 19 4 3. A potential pressure of forty-five billion dollars ha~gs over our system of price ceilings and can easily make the black market a reality. In this context the Ruml plan or any other pay as go scheme is relatively insignificant as it will only increase tax collections two billion at the maximum. "I approve of simplifying the tax collection and putting it on a current basis, but months have been wasted by discussing how we will collect taxes instead of from whom." Collecting taxes at the source by wage deductions is effective and reduces purchasing power. Used badly, however, it is a potential danger to our political system . What must be decided is where can the money be collected: from what income groups can we collect an Thinly disguised as a town meeting increased tax load. two dozen Anna_politans walked up the The incomes of over five thousand a steps of McDowell to room 24 Tuesyear and under are not a threat to inday night, sat down like the seniors. flation. but for morale purposes adand expressed much confusion. Not a justments should be made to reduce seminal book of our civilization but disparity is his personal opin ion. taxes and inflation was the topic with What kind of taxes do we want? Randolph Evernghim Paul. general Sales, increased income rates. spendcounsel to the Treasury Department , ings or compulsory savings? The as speaker. Treasury is opposed to a sales tax beBreaking many tender hearts by cause it is regressive: takes greater perstating that the "pay as you go" tax centage of poorer man's income than plan is very unimportant to the prob- richer. Paul has long advocated a tax lem of preventing inflation, Mr. Paul on spending which would not have the outlined the difficulties of absorbing objectionable features of being regresthe excess purchasing power made sive or too complicated. At the end of .available by increased civilian income the year the amount of money on hand and decreased civilian supplies. In and capital expenditures would be com194 4 one hundred billion dollars will puted. after making an allo w ance of be spent for military goods by the about one thousand dollars for necesgovernment; about thirty-five billions sary expenses, that total would be subwill be collected by taxes. the rest by tracted from the amount of income reborrowing in the form of War Bonds ceived in the year and the difference, and other government securities. all of the amount of money spent for nonwhich increase the national debt. necessities, taxed. Of course this England and Canada pay .fifty-seven would reduce the national standard of per cent of their current expenditures living, but in war time that is ~eces­ from taxation. much more than our sary for income groups above the subthirty-four per cent. We are leaving sistence level. the debt . to be paid later. A rarely understood objection to the The amount of money left in cir- Ruml plan-Beardsley Ruml of St. culation which is not being saved or John's board of visitors and governors taxed and is left to buy goods that ex- and Macys-was explained by Mr. Town Meeting �Page 2 ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN Paul. • The point was that it would create a redistribution of our wealth from the lower income groups to the h igher by cancelling taxes on incomes that can not bear an increase in tax rate while the lower groups would be required to pay more taxes. When the Dean. Amherst, '16 , doubted that anyone would save any money by the cancelling of past taxes to go on a current basis, Mr. Paul, Amherst, '11 , thought the Dean had " poor conceptualisms." Mr. Alexander Meikle john , Amherst President from 1912 to '24 , was present but didn ' t comment. Mr. Paul appeared to enjoy the quizzing by small town financiers , even w hen they disagreed before they knew of what they dissented. Calendar St. John's College Friday, May 7: 8 :30 A. M . 2 : O0- 3 : 1 5 P . M. 7 :00-7 :45 P. M. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. . 8:00 P. M. 8:30 A. M. 9 : 3 O A. M. -1 2 : 0 0 M. 4:00 P. M. 8 :30 P. M.-1 :00 A. M. Arts Whether or no the story can be told now doesn ' t matter. R. K . 0 . is tellIt is the story of ing it anyway. Amelia Earheart Putnam , w it h Rosaland Russell as a reasonably accurate Fred MacMurray is the facs imile. navigator, and Herbert Marshall ( that old dog) an airplane designer. Love and Japanese bases get all mixed up , and Miss Russell sails into th e sunset. It is called Flight for F reeidom . At long last The Human Comedy is here to bring additional spring in to our already over-crowded lives. We leave M r. Saro yan' s latest in lo ve wi th everybody . . especiall y the beaut iful people with the light com ing out of them . ( You know who we mean? ) Mickey Rooney is one of these. Mr. Saro yan would have us believe. We would like to see him blacked-out. This picture is full of what those who should know better call " moments. " Also Frank Morgan. We thought it would never happen . but at last Frankenstein meets the Wolf-Man (in the picture of the same n ame ). Things. we guarantee. happen. This is sensational. Chapel Service Military Athletics Chorus Rehearsal Bible Class Formal Lecture On T r u t h - Leonard Eslick Great Hall Gymnasium Humphreys Hau McDowell 21 Great Hall Chapel Service Athletics Formal Opening of Art Show-by invitation Movie-The Cat and the Canary-and informal dance Recorded Concert Great Hall Gymnasium Junior Commo Revolution: War and Peace. Series II, No. 11 Woodward Hall Chapel Service Military Athletics Chorus Rehearsal Great Hall Gymnasium Humpheys Hall Chapel Service Military Athletics Recorded Music Bible Class Great Hall Gymnasium Humphreys Hall McDowell 21 Chapel Service Military Athletics Cotillion Board Meeting Great Hall Gymnasium Paca Social R Chapel Service Military Athletics College Meeting Great Hall Gymnisaum Great Hall Chapel Service Military Athletics Chorus Rehearsal Bible Class Formal Lecture-Palestrina ' s M issa Brevis St. John' s College Community Chorus Great Hall Gymnasium Humphreys Hall McDowell 21 Great Hall Chapel Service Athletics Faculty Meeting Great Hall Gymnasium McDowell 24 Saturday, May 8: Spring Show Artists in the college community will exhibit at the spring show opening this Saturday in the Junior Common Room. At 4 :00 guests of the sp onsors will see for the first time pastels. guaches, mobiles and collages by St. Johnnies who have forsaken liberal arts for fine. After that the exhibition will be thrown open to the pu8lic for two weeks . when anyone can come to buy or gander. Fri., May 7 •3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Iglehart Hall Humphreys Han Sunday, May 9· 8:00 P. M. Monday, May 10: 8 :30 A. M. 2 : O0- 3 : 15 P. M . 7 : 0 0 - 7 : 4 5 P . M. Tuesday, May 11: 8 :30 A. M. 2:00-3:15 P. M. 5 :00-6 :00 P. M. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. Wednesday, May 12: 8 :30 A. M . 2 : O0- 3 : 15 P . M. 7 :30 P. M . Thursday, May 13: 8 :30 A. M . 2 0 O- 3 : 1 5 P . M . 7 :30 P. M . Friday, May 14 : 8 :30 A. M. 2 : O0 -3 : 15 P . M. 7 : 0 0 - 7 :4 5 P . M . 7 :00-8 :00 P . M. 8 :00 P. M . Sci turday, May - 5 : 1 8 :30 A. M. 9·30 A. M . -12:00 M. 10 :30 A. M. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Collegian Description An account of the resource The Collegian began as a student newspaper; became a college community literary publication in 1952 and continued until 1969; became a student newspaper again in 1969; discontinued publication from 1980 until 1989 when it again became a student literary publication.<br /><br />Click on <a title="The Collegian" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=26">Items in The Collegian Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 2 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Collegian Vol. XXV No. 22 Title A name given to the resource St. John's Collegian, May 07, 1943 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-05-07 Description An account of the resource Vol. XXV, No. 22 of the St. John's Collegian. Published on May 07, 1943. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Student publication The Collegian https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/a537cf1ac3c46525ced83783207c17be.pdf 2453687ced503ee84efc5397a19144fa PDF Text Text St. John's Collegian ~ Vol. XXV-No. 23 ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MAY 15 , 1943 Art Show a design m linoleums, with its bright Exhibition, which reds and greens and studied flatness . . Other works in the group are less opened form aII Y at a tea given by its accomplished. Carl Hammen ' s cars onsors last Saturday afternoon, inP k f h . . . toon of Mr.. Bingley must be viewed eludes wor s o t e same sens1t1v1ty . h close at hand; his amusing Cat has and accomp Iis ment as those which . f likewise of occasional interest. Not made it the su b Ject o general remark . N ew artists have been so Alexander Morse's studies for an oil. last year. . Here the subject is subordinated to the called upon , smce many contributqrs have left college for the services, but medium. The paint is applied w1'th . . rhe committee o f JU d ges has not vigor, and we look forward to the Irw1'n changed its standards in selecting, from massk of the finished work. T , . . uc er s portrait of Mrs. Gorman, among the many canvasses submitted, . . rhe excep t 10na I wor k s on ex h'b.it m t h e 1 though • .unfortunately proportioned ' 1 . , . captures its subject s repose and lightJun10r C ommon R oom. . h . . ness of spirit in calm and subtle colIt 1s to t eu umque taste that we . ors-the only serious piece of imitaowe -the promment p 1ace given Mr. . John's works m pastel and pen and tion in the show. Gene Thornton' s ink. most noteworthy of the composi- ~ketch for a cigarette advertisement is rions. These pieces betray a consid- m the manner of John Steuart Curry, erable familiarity with the rules of unlike Harry Rockey ' s courageous cr,mposition and an acquaintance with l:mdscape, which is in no way imita. several tren d s m contemporary art. ti ve. James Huber' s head is lifted · in Th& Spring More remark able still is their use· of the an attitude of scorn. Robert Mueller' s human bod y, which the artist presents construction may be included under . . . not so muc h natura I1st1caII y, particu- whimsy. 'Giving body to the exhibition are four Chinese prints, sent by larly in the dimension of perspective, Sui Chi as a gift to the mother colas toward t he projection of feelings lege, and a small case of models by which cannot achieve expression in Peter Kellogg-Smith. other media. Tatiana is the best of his work and deserves praise for the The comm.ittee has included three works by Jack Landau, who, as dineatness of its execution, which successfully approximates that of such rector of the show, is in large part responsible for what has been done. works as P icasso' s Guernica. Less del ightful, to be sure, than Mr. His sets for Lear, though heavy with John's contributions are the . two excitement as stage design, are somewatercolors by Roger Tilton . Their what turgid in their present form. mellence res ides chiefly in the techni- His collage, however, is slight, percal accomplishment w ith which the feet and delightful. artist p resents h is co nv en t ional sub jects. If w e consider them as exercises in the techniques of watercolor, the proriety w ith which the weight and body of the subjects is ignored ~ay become more apparent. Next to these in mastery of their medium are Robert Arner' s little studies in landscape and still life. The landscape, together with its frame , is, though pretending to be no more than a Pattern in colors and textures, undoubtedly the finest piece in the exhibit; the still life would serve best as Price : 1 Oc ------,..------------- B. B. War Meeting In an attempt to remedy the lack of perspective democracies have in understanding totalitarian states, because of biased sources of information and .the lack of convertability between their standard of values and our own, Alaxander Sachs journeyed to Annapolis where, ' till ten minutes unto midnight Sunday, he analyzed the most controversial political question of our community, Russia' s Foreign Policy. ~ith the premise that the citizens of democracies are poorly informed because of bad reporting and desire for inside information instead of insight, Mr. Sachs had to review the history of the Soviet Union as a foreign state on the basis of information ignored by the public and interpreted 1 the Ii.ght 'n of a four-fold frame of reference. The first d1'mens1·0 n o f th e f rame is t h e · Soviet dialectic that permi'ts reve rsal of p 0 I'icy an d apparent contradictions with the expl ana t 10n t h at t h e new step ' is the higher position of the previous level; the new position is a synthesi·s of the preceeding analysi·s. Plane two is the Apocalyptic or Messxani'c wt. th · the leaders of the revolut 1on 1 Russ ia ' ·n envisioning a world-wide breakdown of capitalism and the new state in Rus sia being just a transition to ~ decay of the stat e comp Iet eIY· T o some, I'k e 1 Trotsky, a mission to create a world revolution was necessary. When Stalin seemingly contraverted this polic y, it was explained by the Sovx di"alectt'c ·et as an exploitation of the new conditions. The rift between Stalin and Trotsky is serious but not nearly as significant as Westerners made it. John Dewey, as. an American liberal who investigated the problem , is least able to understand the Marxian phase of Stalin 's original policy of insulating Russ ia while the rest of the world fought and made a chaos out of which Communism could lead the world to a socialist order. - The West denies such logic. M r. Sach opined that Stalin does believe in a World Rev olution and signed a pact with Hitler to keep Russia out of the path of conflict while the remainder of the world struggled. The third understanding needed to understand the trend of Russia' s policy is their negation of civilization and the values understood by the West. Czarist Russia had laws and courts that the West w as famil iar with , bu t the new Soviet lacks the concept of personal integrity with individual rights that the Western world values. �Page 2 ST. JOHN ' S COLLEGIAN Like Einstein, Mr. Sachs has a fourth dimension of time that binds the other three: Time as the factor needed to prepare Russia to carry on the world revolution outlined by Marx. This plane includes the period from the end of World War I to date. Hate for the Allies was en gendered by their attempts at civil war against the new Bolshevik gov ernment. But during what he cal!s an " eclipse of sense" in. the inter-war period the United States built up the Russian heavy industries of the first five-year plan by lending money to German industrialists. The Allies committed the collossal blunder of attem p ting to re-build Europe while ignoring Russia and Germany. Ironically we considered Russia untouchable and at the same time built up her industries through Germany. While attempting collective sernrity-all nations agreeing to guarantee the security of the others by treaties-from 193 3 on, the Popular Front program of collaborating with fellow travelers and liberals to insure peace was looked on by Americans as a fight against Fascism Mr. Sachs considers the cooperation as only a phase of aggressive defense tactics made by . St aIm t o f orce H'tl er wes t war d an d 1 . R · not agamst uss1a. The purge in totalitarian states is · . · not to eI1mmate potentta I fif t h co Iumnists as M r. Joseph D avies naivel y wrote. Purges are a form of internal discipline to regulate all aspects of the individual personality in conformance with the creed of the state. In ' 3 8 Stalin saw that France and England were not united and a reversal of policy was needed to utilize the new circumstance. The West could not be galvanized against Hitler, maybe Hitler could be persuaded to forget Russia as an opponen t. " St ali n not Hitler was the courting member of the pair." ln a democracy because of private property opposing opinions can be presented and lead to the truth ; in a totalitarian state there is not private property and dissent can not be made in the form of newspapers, leaflets and radio broadcasts. The majority is not right, it is just a way of closing debate and after the majority' s opinion is followed , revision can be made and the min ority may become the majority. .... As illustrations of the ruthless at- tempts to subjugate every element of society to the state' s end Mr. Sachs pointed to the closing of the astronomy section of the Moscow Academy for allegedly not pursuing the antiGod propaganda work by utilizing astronomy. Today the problem of Russia is to choose whether to exclude herself from the West or reintegrate her standards with ours in a Western order. As for the current controversy about the Polish-Russian border, it is not new. After the treaty with Hitler Stalin decided to rewrite the treaty of Versailles by annexing the Baltic states and parts of Poland useful as insulating defense zones. Our problem is to understand the nature of the differences between Russia and ourselves, to recapture our self-confidence about our capacities to produce the materials and policies neeeded to make the Machiavellian politics of today resulting in chaos into an orderly program of federalism with assu rance of peace and progress. DONALD KAPLAN. M r. Es Iick on Truth The founding fathers who, m 1776 , drew up the Decla • ati"on of In.. d d b h epen ence, were una as ed advocates of absolute truth. They recognized · · · t h e propos1t1on as se If -evidently true that life , liberty and t he pu rsuit of happiness are inalienable rights bestowed upon men by their Creator. Perhaps it is not immediately selfevident that these are true and natural rights. It may requ ire a dialectical process of some sort to establish that they proceed from first principles. In an y event, the founders were emphatic in asserting that they are true -not mere opinion. N ot so the modern posit ivists. In the case of Dewey, " absolute principies are intolerant of dissent" hence unscientific, undemocratic, and illiberal. But were not the founding fathers partisans of liberty, too, as are the present-day pragmatists and positivists who tremble at the tyranny of truth? We find that not only do the above-mentioned moderns deny the absolute nature of truth, but positivistic liberalism is at once one with totalitarianism in agreeing on the total depravity of man, and in denying his essential rationality. Nomin . empiricism can be traced back to doctrine of Protagoras that man is measure of all things. Another s ment of th is sophistical position is proposition that knowledge is Per tion . Plato states in the Theat that fr~m this it follows " that thert no one self-existent thing, but ,,. thing is becoming and in relation; being must be altogether abolished, though from habit and ignorance are compelled even in this discu · to retain the use of the term." what appears, is, then modern sci as regarded by the positivists, is v similar to the activity of the prisoa ers in Plato' s cave, who, viewing passing shadows try to predict future by judging the order of t procession. Mr. Eslick po inted out that re tivism may have had the effect of · troducing moral skepticism into m ern liberalism. From moral skep · ism to totalitarianism the distance not very far. If moral truths do 0 · · · · exist, an d one man •s op1mon ts as go h er , s, then, as Th rasymacb as anot argued, justice becomes the interest the stronger. Modern sophistic liberalism is u dermining our democracy. If we to be free men we must rediscover truth. Mr. Eslick proposes that seek this truth-w h ich is needed restorc and nourish freedom-in Aristotelian- Thomistic tradition. ~1 · · t rut i f oun d tn th"ts sys t em ts c · th k f Mari·t; t .emporary m e wor s 0 • Gilson , Simon, Adler, Lewis Hammond. Another serious consequence relativism is the denial of real cau efficacy. Without this there can no truth-at least about the why h" tffimgs. . f d . h . . e cacy ts · oun m t e wntmgs William of Ockham and David Hum .t to w h om causa l t y d"d no t seem to 1 d . d f d t but to ar' enve rom sense a a, . . .. from our frequently expenencmg s1m1 lar phenomena and habitually regar ing it as causally connected. K saw that this removed the foundaci ---- ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN tbe empiricists, he denied its exist. che real world. The Kantian 10 erict 'fold of sense " an d t h e magic · ''JDant n show of contemporary philosolanter are outrageous fictions of bad . . P~~ hysics. Anstotle and the ph1l111etaP . bers of the middle ages-the true :::iricists and pragmatists-never d ubted that w e experience causal ;,acy- whicb we may call reality. A. aspect of being as such is the com11 ·cation of being or causal action. JllOn 1 fbe formul a of St. Thomas: causa jmportat influxum quemdam ad ess~ ,,usati. The being of the cause passes into cbe being of the effect. Truth for St. Thomas is the real adequacion of thing and intellect. Our bad Cartesian habit of proceeding frolll chought to thing, has led us inco cbe error of believing that this involves us in a process of comparing the · · representation o f a t h'mg, wit h t h e cbing apart from representation. Not only is this impossible, but it is preposterous to suppose that this is what St. Thomas intended. One explanati'on of thi s formula is that truth in " the intellect begt ns with the conform' " ity of fact bet ween being and intellect as in the case of the eye where there is a conformity of fact between the ey:e and ;; perceiv- d color. Because know Ie •dge is founded on a real relation or • ade,.uation, there is no question of its " relacion to reality. By not comprehending an adequate concept of abstraction, two otherwise diametrically opposed traditionsnominalistic empiricism and Platonic realism-have alike fallen into error. The positivists on the one hand, have us living each in his own private relative world. There is no common cbmcteristic of these many worlds, and universals are merely confused sense i'mages. For P lato on the other band, genu ine science is of the forms alonP, In neither case is a science of sensible objects possible. Aristotle and St. Thomas hold that a science of the real Id . "bl b f w_ or ts posst e Y means 0 . abstraction. Herein lies the chief d1ffe~ence between Platonic and Ariscotehan philosophy. Tbe nature of abstraction needs from Newtonian physics, but in larification . We may define abstracattempt to restore it. he retained postulate of Hume about the expe ion as the reduction of material difencing of causality. While he rescu trences to continuity. A continuum defined_ as that which has ordered the science of physics from the had potentiality for division and specification . Potentiality then , gives intelli· g1'b'I'tty to matter. Th e essentta I na1 ture of the universal is continuity. The categories and the inti.ma species are the opposite poles of determina. Th . t1on. e genus functions as intelligible matter in relation to the differentia as defining form . The categories afford us a measure of the sameness and difference of things. Abstractions give us truth about the real world because we derive them from it. They are not empty as the positivists maintain, nor do they reside in a Platonic blue heaven. Like all truths, moral truths are founded upon being, but in a unique way· The good is being in relation to desire. Man's conscious desire is a righ't or natural desire when the object desired is a good required to perfeet his nature. Hence moral truth is Page .3 the new summer term, orals and don rags may have to be combined into one se:;-;ion. This has never been done before and is not desirable, as the two are distinct and should be kept apart, but may be necessary, and if so will beznnounced. Although there are no provmons for exams in the Republic they may be needed by imperfect tutors to correctly diagnose the condition of the student's intellectual soul. The techniques are listening to the student' s dialectic as test dives into his soul, and oral tests that show reactions different from the written exams with specific questions for a student to run away with as he chooses. Learning is the aim of the process, not graduation or the accumulation of credits towards a degree. All forms of tests check previous judgments made on other occasions and help the tutor not only to aid the founded upon our conception of the student but also .to improve his own nature of man. Thus knowledge pre- teaching. supposes psychological and metaphysiThe Dean advised us to keep the cal orders of truth. coming examinations in this context, Extreme nominalistic empiricism to eliminate passing or failing as criand extreme rationalism must both teria, and to consider instead learning share the guilt of the present error of and not learning. They help the in totalitarianism-the former for de- struction committee revise the program stroying any absolute criterion of and plan new material for tutorials. · mora I JU d gments ; t h e Iatter f or en- Past language examinations showed . gendering the myth that the state is an that the weight of traditional lanorganism greater than the individual. guage studying and methods has not Without truth there cannot be freebeen removed by the language t utordom . Moral and political truths deials. Students persist in grammar pend upon philosophical knowledge. school habits of memorizing forms of Man can attain to truth and freedom verbs in a manner that would insure through philosophical knowledge if he Plato' s continual revolution in his IY a rattona I amma I· If we try sepulcher. · · · ts tru to gain freedom by avoiding the auThis year the annual advice given thority of reason , we shall have to h h . f h b at the end of the year to departing vaaccept f e aut onty o t e ayonet. · · ·1 cationers can not be given. They were Nigger m woo d p1 e : Major : The deniel of absolute truth is told to go home, have fun , forget all you learned th is year and come back t o skeptical cyn icism. take an examination next year. Now Minor : Skeptical cynicism is evil. too much of what was thrown at you C I · Th d · I f b I t tr:~~ ::•;;i~. e ema o a so u e will be thrown back to the tutors so try to forget as much as Y nossible beVERNE SCHWAB. fore taking any examination. Go to M an exam as you go to a medical examination, and you may do well by The Dean concluded his talks . on the seeing a movie the night before. parts of the program by discussing examinations last night at college meetTHE ST . .JOHN ' S CO LLEGIAN is t he ing. Before stating the purpose of the official news organ of St . .John's College, published every Friday during the acaoral and written tests we are about to demic year. Entered as second clas s take he said that, because of the jam- matter October 15. 1919, at the I ost Ofil.~e at Annapolis, Maryland, under thP. ming of schedules brought about by Act of March 3, 1879. College eeting �ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN Page 4 Arts It IS Mr. Calendar easy and safe to conclude that William Saroyan' s springtime is displayed to its best advantage on the stage as opposed to the screen . ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE At the Circle today and on Friday, May 14: 8:30 A. M. 2 : 0 0 - 3 d 5 P. M. · Sunday at the Capitol is The Human 7 : OO- 7 : 4 5 P. M. Comedy-a long film at least. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. about everybody good. The hero and Fri., May 14-Sat., May 22, 1 incessant It's all everybody IS (well, one of the heroes) spends a half-hour with the Chapel Service Military Athletics Chorus Rehearsal Bible Class Formal Lecture--Palestrina' s M issa Brevis -St. John's College Community Chorus Great Hall Gymnasium Humphreys Ban McDowell 21 Great Hall Chapel Service Athletics Faculty Meeting Great Hall Gymnasium McDowell 24 Recorded Concert Revolution: War and Peace. Series II, No. 12 Humphreys Hall w ·oodward Hall Chapel Service Military Athletics Chorus Rehearsal Great Hall Gymnasium Humphreys Hall Chapel Service Military Athletics Recorded Music Bible Class Great Hall Gymnasium Humphreys Hall McDowell 21 Chapel Service Military Athletics Cotillion Board Meeting Great Hall Gymnuisam Paca Social Roo Chapel Siervice Military Athletics College Meeting Great Hall Gymnasium Great Hall Chapel Service Military Athletics Chorus Rehearsal Bible Class Formal Lecture - The Periodic TableAnthony Standen Great Hall Gymnasium Humphreys Hall McDowell 21 Great Hall Chapel Service Senior Ball Great Hall Iglehart Hall rich girl he is about to marry telling her that life is good and he loves. not Saturday, May 15: . her but everybody. 8 :30 A. M. 9:30-12:00 M. 10 :30 A. M. There is a mad fruit grower who regrets the fact that his trees are not ripe so that the kids can swipe the fruit. Against all this is the fact that we so seldom come across any good dialogue in movies (Diction Sunday, 'May 16: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 8:00 P . M. being one of the six constituent parts) , that more of the film seems better than it is than is. All of the scenes with Mickey Rooney in them luckily have someone else around who can act. To start things off with a bang next week. the management of the Circle is presenting White Savage, "thrills untamed," exclamation point. You know who's in this-Sa bu. A lot of old Technicolor film being reused plus a Monday, May 17: 8:30 A. M. 2:00-3:10 P. M. 7 : O0 - 7 : 4 5 P. M. Tuesday, May 18: 8:30 A. M. 2:00~3:15P.M. 5 :00-6 :00 P. M. 7 :00 -8 :00 P. M. spare earthquake. Elissa Landi, one of our favorite actresses about the time of The Sign of the Cross (guess that pretty well Wednesday, May 19: 8 :30 A. M . 2:00-3:15 P. M. 7:30 P. M. settles us for eternity) has returned of late to the idiom of the film in Cor- Th ursday, May 20: regidor, at the Republic on Sunday. 8 :30 A. M. With her returns Otto Kruger, also 2:00-3 : 15P. M . late. Corregidor is about Corregidor, as Wake Island was about Wake Island. Island. Corregidor reminds us of Wake Wake Island reminds us of Wake Island. Corregidor reminds us .. into the mist of memory. The Eve of St. Mark persists at 7 :30 P. M. Friday, May 21: 8:30 A. M. 2 :00-3 :.15 P. M . 7 :00-7 :45 P . M. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. 8:00 P . M. the National for the rest of the week. Starting on Monday is The Merry Makers, vaudeville with 12-Big Acts1 2. More information available but unprintable. Saturday, May 22: 8 :30 A. M. 10 :00 P . M .. -2 :00 A. M. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 1696 - 1943 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES TUESDAY, MAY TWENTY-FIFTH NINETEEN HUNDRED FORTY-THREE �EST NULLA VIA INVIA VIRTUTI Members of the College that have entered the Service of their Country during the Academic Session 1942-1943 FACULTY Kent Campbell Robert Taylor Everett, Jr. J ournet Gordon Kahn John Otto Neustadt Program ACADEMIC PROCESSION FROM McDOWELL HALL INVOCATION The Reverend Joseph Winfree Smith READING ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND A WARDS The President of the College ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS Alexander Meiklejohn Lecturer of the College CONFERRING OF DEGREES BENEDICTION CLASS OF Alexander Scott Abbott Burton Armstrong Carl Benjamin Blaker Monte Ferris Bourjaily, Jr. Douglas Buchanan Walter Lawson Cooley Ernest Christopher Friess, Jr. John Louis Hedeman 1943 CLASS OF Earl Secord Bauder, Jr. Nicholas Daniel Bonadies Robert Fredric Garland Bunting Richard Clark Lindsay Edmonds Clendaniel David Dobreer Henry Raymond Freeman, III Edward Ury Godschalk Carl Schlee Hammen Richard Edward Holle Joseph Francis Hollywood, Jr. William Hayward Horsey Richard Henry Hutchings, IV Richard Ernest Huyck Casimir Thaddeus Krol 1944 CLASS OF Rogers Garland Albritton Joseph Patrick Blocher Robert Thomas Bonham Harold Milbourne Boulden Theodore Willes Clark Robert Orval Davis Alvin Epstein Duane Thomas Kaye Furbush Clarence Westcott Gallup, Jr. William Michael Goldsmith Dquglas Laird Guy Earl Judson Hendrickson Chester Peter Hewitt Christian Arneson Hovde Harold Julius Hyden Donald Stewart Kaplan Michael Christopher Keane Donald Hartley Kellogg-Smith Arthur David Kelso, Jr. Lawrence Leslie Levin George E. Long William McCormick Lundberg 1945 Alexander Meiklejohn Lecturer of the College The President of the College The Reverend Joseph Winfree Smith ACADEMIC PROCESSION TO McDOWELL HALL Reception and Luncheon in Randall Hall for Graduates and their Guests, the Faculty and their Famiiies, the St. John's Staff, and the Junior Class. Bernard Mann Peebies Willard Edward Stainback Raymond Neikirk Wdlburn Robert Hunter Edward Kramer Claude Spencer Leffel. Jr. Francis S. Mason, Jr. Alexander Leonard Slafkosky Ollie Hammond Thompson, Jr. Thomas Orville Usilton John Weber, Jr. Charles Russell Levering Samuel Wesley Marvin, Jr. Thaddeus Edmund Prout James Maurice Raley John Calvin Smedley Robert Perry Snower John Clarence Somers, Jr. John Trimble Spencer William Gideon Spohn, Jr. Irwin Robert Tucker Martin Zacharia V ogelhu t Robert Arthur Wilcox Andrew S. Witwer, Jr. Warren Seymour Zeik Henry Resolved Mack John Duncan Mack Charles Ferris Maikoffske Michael Joseph Manley Frank B. Marshall, Jr. Orsell Montgomery Meredith, Jr. Alexander Beauregard Morse Edward Wingate Mullinix Charles Arthur Nelson Elmer Thomas Owings Walter Cabot Paine Morris Albert Parslow Benjamin Franklin Pumphrey, Jr. William Edward Schaefer, Jr. Allen Polk Schoolfield, Jr. Robert Julian Scolnik Edward Parkinson Taylor Stephen Wayne Terry, Jr. Robert Treat Thompson Gene Perkins Thornton Roger Tilton �CLASS OF Robert Lord Arner Chester John Bricko Philip Albert Camponeschi John Hurst Childs George Howell Daffer Milton A. Dauber Allen Zimmerman Harvey Earl Bennette Henson, Jr. William Crawford Hill Irving Brooks Jackson Samuel Newton Kirkham, Jr. Clarence J. Kramer John James Lobell 1946 Thomas Delmar Lyne Eugene Thomas McNamara John Richard Maguire Basil Etherton Moore, Jr, Leonard Eugene Mudd William Noel Ogden Daniel Safford Parker Charles Allen Lyles Patterson Harry Charles Rockey, Jr. James Thomas Taylor, Jr. Henry Theodore Wensel. Jr. John Williams, Jr. John Scott W/oodward Candidates for Degrees BACHELOR OF ARTS Rite BURTON ARMSTRONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scarborough, New York CARL BENJAMIN BLAKER . . . . . . . . . . . . . Macedon Center, New York WALTER LAWSON COOLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aberdeen PAUL EHRLICH . . . . . . . . . '. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York, New York GLENN ALLEN FEARNOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Williamsport ROBERT HUNTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mobile, Alabama OGDEN WORTHINGTON KELLOGG-SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chestertown EDWARD KRAMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Montclair, New Jersey FRANCIS SCARLETT MASON, JR...... Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania ADRIAN CURTIUS MAYER . . . . . . . . . ·. . . . . . . . . . Ossining, New Yark ALEXANDER LEONARD SLAFKOSKY . . . . . . . . . Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Cum Laude ERNEST CHRISTOPHER FRIESS, JR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oakley OLLIE HAMMOND THOMI;>SON, JR• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hurlock Magna cum Laude JOHN Lours HEDEMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baltimore CLAUDE SPENCER LEFFEL, JR• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Woodbine �Honors and Prizes To the members of the Freshman, Sophomore, or Junior Class who has written the best annual essay, the John Martin Green Prize of $10.00 .......... WARREN SEYMOUR ZEIK To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best final essay, a prize of $27.50. Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CLAUDE SPENCER LEFFEL, JR. To the senior who has the highest standing, a gold medal. Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource St. John's College Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-05-25 Description An account of the resource Commencement Exercises. 1696-1943 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Commencement Exercises from 1942 {1942-06-09} Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Title A name given to the resource Commencement Program, 1943 Commencement https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/64b2006d90d62ee484b774e2d44fe5d2.pdf 902af80826a32bc2c75d9e68451467cd PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE IN ANNAPOLIS REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT Supplementary Bulletin ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND JULY, 1943 Founded as King William's School, 1696 Chartered as St. John's College, 1874 �ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE IN ANNAPOLIS REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT Supplementary Bulletin ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND JULY, 1943 Founded as King William's School, 1696 Chartered as St. John's College, 1874 �BOARD OF VISITORS AND GOVERNORS THOMAS PARRAN, ]R., Chairman STRINGFELLOW BARR M. Ro BERT RICHARD F. CLEVELAND, CLARENCE AMOS F. HUTCHINS EDWIN wARFIELD, JR. PAULL. BANFIELD ROBERT '. Vice-Chairman Secretary FRANCIS PICKENS MILLER, 0. BONNELL HUTCHINS w. STRYKER HAROLD F. LINDER ScoTT BucHANAN HERVEY ALLEN WILLIAM J. FRENCH �REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT TO THE BOARD OF VISITORS AND GOVERNORS: The most urgent problems which St. John's College has faced during the past year are of course, as in the case of all American colleges, the problems posed by war. The most important adjustments to the War which St. John's has made have been to furnish instruction for four terms a year instead of three and to admit students from the second year of high schoo!. The addition of a summer term is of course purely a War measure. Temporarily, it means that the next academic "session" of three terms will begin on July 8th instead of in September. The change in requirements for admission, most members of the Board will recall, has been on the College agenda since 193 7, when the College introduced the St. John's Program. I am taking the liberty of recalling this fact to the minds of Board members because I think it worth recording, at the end of the first six 'years of the St. John's Program, that the College has now taken the last major step which could be predicted, six years ago. While the admission of younger students may well prove the least important of these steps, it is not without interest as a milestone and it is not without considerable practical importance if the College is to render to the community the highest possible degree of service. It would seem desirable to record briefly the series of steps that brought us to the point we have now reached. First, the Board of Visitors and Governors, convinced that a drastic reform in American undergraduate education was overdue, took council and decided on the main lines which that reform might best follow. I believe it is important to recall that the Board had the daring to postpone dealing with the College's grave financial problems until they had dealt first with the nature and aims of genuine liberal education. Once they had determined upon their purpose and upon the type of curriculum that could achieve their purpose, they showed even more unusual daring. They authorized a major educational reform of the College with no money in sight to carry it out. When the reform had been effected, they and the College administration then sought and found men and women who would help financially. None of these men and women, in my judg1 �ment, would have underwritten such a reform in advance either at St. John's or at any other college. It was because the College chose to risk its very existence, in order to achieve its proper purpose, that it found faith and support. Remembering those anxious early years, members of the Board may find a nostalgic interest in the recently published Report from the Committee on the Re-Statement of the Nature and Aims of Liberal Education to the Commission on Liberal Education of the Association of American Colleges. Having agreed on the proper educational aims of the College, and the broad lines of the curriculum that could achieve such aims, the Board chose a new administration which would be responsible for working out with the faculty the actual teaching practice of the College. So far as the administration's mandate would permit, the existing faculty was utilized. It was obvious that we who would do the daily teaching of the College would have in large measure the arduous task of re-educating ourselves. For we were ourselves the products of the very system whose breakdown had brought us together in this enterprise. It is doubtful whether any other faculty in this country can have worked as ours has had to during these past six years. Moreover, for the first half of that period the College could offer none of us financial security a month ahead. But we early discovered the exhilaration and workmanlike satisfaction that inhered in the curriculum we had determined to teach, and by the end of the first five-year period the College faculty had attained a strength that nobody could have predicted in 193 7. Meanwhile, the Board had completely reorganized itself in the light of the educational purpose of the College and achieved approximately its present membership. The College then set to work to shoulder the mortgage on its property which the present administration had inherited, in addition to meeting the deficits which its reorganization would inevitably impose upon it during the period of transition. The mortgage was reorganized in such fashion as to provide full repayment to the creditors of the College while giving the College sufficient time to find the means for annual amortization. But the College's material needs did not stop with inherited cash debts. The physical plant was in desperate need of repair and improvement. However, finding money for these purposes proved, quite naturally, much easier than finding money for inherited debt; and much was accomplished before wartime shortages postponed resumption of our building program. All the tasks thus far listed were predictable enough in 1937. But two major internal reforms were not foreseen and yet have proven 2 �of great significance to the College community. By the beginning of its second year, the curriculum met in head-on collision with the existing system of intercollegiate athletics. After all, intercollegiate athletics, as conducted just before the present War, had grown up during a period when the American undergraduate curriculum was in rapid decay. Indeed, there is a quite genuine sense in which it had arisen in order to fill a growing vacuum. The hardest solution of the problem seemed to be the only real solution: the College abolished intercollegiate competition and was richly rewarded by the extraordinary development of its intramural sports. Members of the Board have doubtless been reading predictions that, following this War, our colleges will not willingly restore the incubus of intercollegiate athletics as our generation came to know it. They may readily underestimate now the anger and mystification which St. John's caused in 1939 by making a clean break with the whole impossible business and developing an athletic system of its own that would fortify, instead of disrupting and confusing, the College's educational function. The second internal reform which none of us foresaw was the shift from a social system dominated by national fraternities to one in which the entire student body, which is socially, economically, geographically, religiously, and even intellectually an unusually heterogeneous group, has been welded by common study and play into something very much resembling one fraternity. Incidentally, it is a "fraternity" which would welcome chapters on other college campuses! It was in the light of these successive reforms that the College faced last winter the new problems posed by the War. Its faculty had lost some of its ablest members to the armed forces, to government administration, or to war research. The drafting of men of eighteen would mean that few of its students would return next session. Indeed, half of them were already in the armed forces, under orders to continue at college until called out. From one end of the country to the other, discussion raged as to whether liberal education for men must be suspended for the duration of the War. The College faced three possibilities, as perhaps every other men's college m America did. First, it could apply for a contract with the Army or Navy to teach technical courses. None of the faculty was interested in this alternative, although the nature of the St. John's curriculum meant that perhaps no other liberal arts faculty in the country contained so large a proportion of experienced teachers in mathematics and physics. The simple fact was that the armed forces were being 3 �besieged by colleges which saw in war contracts their one means of financial survival. Given that state of affairs, the faculty of St. John's felt there would be many other and more useful ways of helping the war effort. Secondly, St. John's could suspend instruction until peace had been won and its faculty and students could again assemble and resume where they had left off. This would have worked a hardship on very few students and would in my judgment have been a defensible move. But the difficulties of reassembling a specially trained faculty at the perhaps indeterminate "end" of a global war cast doubt on the wisdom of the proposal. There remained only one alternative. In December 1942, the faculty by unanimous action decided in effect that their duty lay in continuing their work during those years of their students' lives immediately preceding military service. The Board will recall that they had already had teaching experience with younger students. It was evident that from the point of view of liberal education, the graduate of the average high school was not sufficiently better prepared than the lad with only two years of high school to make the shift imprudent, and in many cases there had been recognizable deterioration within the last two years. Members of the Board will recall that the Board's action in January, in ratifying this decision by the faculty, was likewise unanimous; and they may likewise recall the two principal reasons advanced in debate. First, it was pointed out that if we were justified in the daring steps we took in 1937, from a conviction that the American college of liberal arts was no longer meeting its obligations and that it badly needed to re-state the nature and aims of liberal education, surely it was even more necessary to stick to the job now, when leaders throughout the country were recognizing that liberal education for young men was in effect suspended, and that this suspension endangered the postwar period. Secondly, it was pointed out that both the Army and Navy were complaining bitterly of the lack in college graduates of disciplines which St. John's was furnishing in eminent degree, and that the College therefore owed it to the war effort to give this type of training to as many young men as it could handle. St. John's has not been alone in urging that the American school and college system be permanently shortened and strengthened. The President of Fordham University has argued cogently for six years of grammar school, three years of high school, and three years of college, although he doubtless assumes that this time would be spent in genuine studies and not in wandering through the mazes of the 4 �elective system, both in college and high school. We who teach at St. John's heartily wish that other colleges would boldly take lads young enough for them to get a liberal education before military service; that they would do so, not hesitantly, shamefacedly, and in view of various personal circumstances, but in order that the colleges might meet their responsibilities to our country in an hour of great need. Obviously, this would "lessen entrance requirements," at least as to time served in classrooms; and precisely to that extent it would "lower standards." In actual practice it could of course infinitely raise the educational standards of the American people. If the liberal arts colleges of this country could not teach more in the same space of time than is now learned in the last two years of the American high school, then our colleges are in worse shape than even their severest critics suppose. We wish other colleges would face this grave national problem. We even believe with the President of Fordham that they might indeed learn consistently to graduate men younger than they now do, and we believe that they might collaborate with the schools to do a better job in less time. But our experience of the past six years suggests that they would need to do one thing first. They would have to re-define their educational purpose. Fortunately, there are at the moment hundreds of academic committees throughout the country striving to do just that. The elective system that has grown up in our country during the past decades will not support the shift. It has inevitably bred a country-club atmosphere and innumerable "college activities" to fill the vacuum it leaves and it is not an atmosphere into which responsible parents should want to introduce younger students-or perhaps any students. If our colleges would assume the task of educating boys before military service, they would , first have to construct again a curriculum that could occupy such a boy's time and attention, a curriculum that could challeng~ his capacities and develop his sense of responsibility. I invite the Board's vigilant attention during the coming years to one important -consequence of the earlier matriculation. It was with this consequence in mind that the College planned in 1937 to make the shift "some day," six years before the brutal necessities of war defined that phrase practically. It is this: the College's present entrance requirements substitute two years of solid study, in such subjects as language and mathematics, for four years of wandering in a diluted and padded curriculum. This should bring us better prepared students, less confused by what are known at St. John's 5 �as "high school habits." And better prepared students will demand better teaching. For decades now the professor who teaches undergraduates has fallen back on two alibis for the meager results he has usually achieved. First, he does not admit responsibility for the student's general intellectual growth, since he is concerned only with knowledge in a given "field." Secondly, the professor truthfully reports that not much can be done anyhow with the graduate of the average secondary school: he is not prepared for college work. In 193 7, by abolishing the elective system, we teachers at St. John's surrendered the first alibi; and to that surrender I should ascribe much of the teaching strength the College has developed. In the process, the faculty have rid themselves of an intellectual agoraphobia that has made it increasingly difficult in our times to teach the liberal arts. In the pursuit of ideas, no teacher at St. John's can decline a hurdle on the grounds that it would take him out of his field. This has proven important. The men who wrote the great books which our students read did not dwell in fields. In short, better subject matter has challenged our capacities as teachers, not only to teach but to learn. Now more relevantly prepared students will challenge those capacities again. We have said what we want our students to understand before they come to us. We have qiscouraged their wasting and misusing time in irrelevant preparation. By defining their responsibilities more clearly, we have again defined our own more clearly. We know from daily experience that to define a teaching responsibility is a most important first step towards meeting it. Since we are determined to meet ours, we believe that earlier matriculation may carry even more important consequences than salvaging liberal education from the blackout of a total war. STRINGFELLOW BARR Annapolis, Maryland, July, 1943. 6 �A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARTICLES ON THE ST. JOHN'S PROGRAM EDUCATION BY BooKs, by Mark Van Doren, The Nation, December 6. 1933. ST. JoHN's REVIVAL, Time Magazine, July 19, 1937. EXPERIMENT, by Charter Heslep, Washington Daily News, July 28, 1937. A CoLLEGE EDUCATION FROM 117 BooKs, by· Louis M. Lyons, The Boston Sunday Globe, September 13, 1937. BACK TO FUNDAMENTALS IN EDUCATION, by Stringfellow Barr, Talks, October, 1937. Reported from an address given over the Columbia Broadcasting System. EDUCATION BY "BooK LEARNING," by Thomas R. Henry, The Washington Star, December 5, 1937. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING, by W. A. P. Martin, The Commonweal, December 31, 1937. A CRISIS IN LIBERAL EDUCATION, by Scott Buchanan, The Amherst Graduates' Quarterly, February, 1938. Reprints available. CONCERNING THE NEW PROGRAM AT ST. JoHN's, by R. Catesby Taliaferro, The Maryland Club Woman, February, 1938. THE ST. JoHN's COLLEGE PROGRAM, by Richard F. Cleveland, The Daily Record, Baltimore, Md., March 23, 1938. ST. JoHN's ExPERIMENT TO RECLAIM A LosT HERITAGE, by George Bull, S. J., America, April 23, 1938. ARISTOTLE IN ANNAPOLIS, by Donald Slesinger, Survey Graphic, June, 1938. A COLLEGE REBELS, by Stringfellow Barr, The Key Reporter, Phi .Beta Kappa News Magazine, Autumn, 1938. BACK To THE CLASSICS, by Philip S. Marden, The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, October, 1938. ALL QurnT AT ST. JoHN's, by Francis Beirne, "Our Educational Correspondent,'' The Baltimore Evening Sun, October 4, 1938. THE ST. JoHN's PROGRAM, by Stringfellow Barr, The Virginia Spectator, December, 1938. THE ST. JoHN's PROGRAM, in Today and Tomorrow, by Walter Lippmann, appearing in 165 newspapers. December 27, 1938. Reprints available. JoHN DoE GoEs TO ST. JoHN's, by Stringfellow Barr, Progressive Education, January, 1939. Reprints available. FROM ST. JoHN's TO MARK HOPKINS, by C. J. Wilgus, The Journal of Higher Education, January, 1939. EDUCATORS STRIVE FOR "FREE MIND,'' by Hedley Donovan, The 'Washington Post, January 15, 1939. A Series of Four Articles on The St. John's Program by Lee McCardell, The Baltimore Evening Sun, January 23, 24, 25, and 26, 1939. THE CRISIS IN CoNTEMPORARY EDUCATION, by Mortimer J. Adler, The Social Frontier, February, 1939. HUTCHINS OF CHICAGO, Part I, "The Daring Young Man,'' and Part II, "The Flying Trapeze,'' by Milton S. Mayer, Harpers Magazine, March and April, 1939. 7 �REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT: Supplement to the Bulletin, by Stringfellow Barr, April, 1939. Reprints available. SocRATES CROSSES THE DELAWARE: St. John's College and the Great Books, by Milton S. Mayer, Harpers Magazine, June, 1939. Reprints available. DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION, by Dorothy Thompson, Ladies' Home Journal, August, 1939. THE ART OF LIBERATION, by Stringfellow Barr, Free America, September and October, 1939. Reprints available. BACK To FrnsT PRINCIPLES, by Scott Buchanan, Survey Graphic, October, 1939. TowARDS A D1sc1PLINED MIND, Address by Stringfellow Barr, Proceedings of the Head Mistresses Association of the East, November 10-11, 1939. THE ENDS AND MEANS OF GENERAL EDUCATION, Address by Stringfellow Barr, Proceedings of the Fifty-Third Annual Convention of the Middle States Ass'n of Colleges and Secondary Schools, November 24-25, 1939. Reprints available. THE TRAINING OF A FREE MIND, by Stringfellow Barr, Catholic Digest (Condensed from Fre e America), December, 1939. THE CLASSICAL REVIVAL AT ST. JoHN's, by John S. Kieffer, The Classical Journal, December, 1939. How CAN WE BE TAUGHT To THINK, L "Back to First Principles," by Scott Buchanan, in Democracy's Challenge to Education, Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. A PLAN FOR AMERICA, by E. B. White, Harpers Magazine, February, 1940, pages 331-332. THE CLASSICS: At St. John's They Come Into Their Own Once More, Life Magazine, February 5, 1940. REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT: Supplement to the Bulletin, by Stringfellow Barr, April, 1940. Reprints available. A CoLLEGE IN SECESSION, by Stringfellow Barr, Atlantic Monthly, July, 1941. Reprints available. How CAN OuR SCHOOLS MEET THE WAR EMERGENCY? Radio Debate, Town Meeting of the Air Program, January, 1942, between Wm. F. Russell, Stringfellow Barr, James B. Edmonson. Reprints available. THE WAR AND THE CoLLEGES: Two Radio Addresses, by Stringfellow Barr, May, 1942. Reprints available. REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT: Supplement to the Bulletin, by Stringfellow Barr, July, 1942. Reprints available. THE ROLE OF THE COLLEGE IN AMERICAN LIFE, by Scott Buchanan, Learning and Living, November, 1942. How CAN EDUCATION KEEP PACE WITH WAR NEEDS? Radio debate on Town Meeting of the Air Program, November, 1943, between John W. Studebaker, Stringfellow Barr, and Mary B. Gilson. Reprints available. SusPENDING EDUCATION, Radio address by Stringfellow Barr, February 4, 1943. Copies available. CRISIS AND REFORM IN EDUCATION, by Walter Lippmann, New York Herald-Tribune, February 14, 1943. CLICK AND PICK vs. THE ATLANTIC, by James Harry Price, The Churchman, Christmas, 1942. THE ST. JoHN's PROGRAM, by Stringfellow Barr, Swedish Encyclopedia of Education, Spring, 1943. THE ST. ]oHN's PROGRAM, by Stringfellow Barr, Encyclopedia of Modern Education, Spring, 1943. Two YEARS OF HIGH ScHooL, THEN CoLLEGE, by Stringfellow Barr, Secondary Education, April, 1943. 1 8 �THE COLLEGE OF THE FUTURE, by Stringfellow Barr, New York Times, Magazine Section, May 8, 1943. CLAssrcs OF THE WESTERN WoRLD, with forewords by John Erskine and Everett Dean Martin, American Library Association, 1934. One of the book lists out of which the St. John's Program grew, this pamphlet contains valuable secondary bibliographical material. It was first published in 1927 by the American Library Association for the use of adult classes. How TO READ A BooK OR THE ART OF GETTING A LIBERAL EDUCATION. By Mortimer J. Adler, Simon & Schuster, 1940. A book expounding the techniques by which adult groups or individuals can come to terms with the great books. How TO READ A PAGE, by I. A. Richards, W. W. Norton, 1942. Still more detailed techniques of reading. 9 �Copies of this Report may be had on request. Address: The Registrar, St. John's College. Annapolis, Maryland. �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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That defeat increased "'\ the readiness amo~g many~ermans to get rid of Hitler who had sacrificed the Sixth Army instead of allowing it to retreat while there was time. The sudden surge in the number of Germans, especially among the military, who were willing and eager to overthrow Hitler coincided, however, with the Allied demand for "Unconditional Surrender". Roosevelt had pronounced it at a press conference at the end of his meeting with Churchill at Casablance, and Churchill had supported it. Stalin shrouded himself in ambiguity, encouraging some Germans to think that they might get a better deal out of the Russians than out of the Western powers. The Anglo-Americans were adamant and Unconditional Surrender meant capitulation in the West and East -at a time when their invasion and liberation of Western Europ~ was still in the distant future. This was not a propitious circumstance for the opposition to the Nazis inside Germany. The lecture addressed itself to the question how harmful the demand for Unconditiontl Surrender was and came to the tentative conclusion: not very - apart from the touch of rhetorical vaingloriousness. It may have helped to hold the co;f{ion of the Big Three together and that was needed to keep 1\ Stalin sweet and fighting. The Russians were bearing the brunt of the 'W!lr in Europe, and his demand for a second front in Western Europe was not met until June 1944. The lecture dealt with the activities of the German resistance to the Nazis in 1943, which included several abortive attempts to assassinate Hitler and equally . abortive efforts to come to some 1li-f·kt~( agreement with the Allies. c~ ended with other forms of resistance: The activities of the Munich students known as "The White Rose" and of people who helped those persecuted and endangered by the regime activities undertaken at great risk and with considerable loes of life. 1 ~ • �DER DEUTSCHE WIDERSTAND JM WENDEJAHR 1943 s e~Je.-- R0 h WJ VOV) @ee~ Erlauben Sie mir eingangs eine autobiographische Ortsangabe. 1943 sass ich in London in einer Abteilung des Foreign Office, die sich vor allem mit der Analyse der deutschen Medienproduktion befasste: Zeitungen, Agenturmeldungen, Radio. Wir wussten natOrlich, dal3 Goebbels und sein Apparat nicht die Wahrheit sprachen. Trotzdem konnte man aus ihren Ausserungen ganz nOtzliche SchlOsse ziehen, wenn man das Zeug Tag fOr Tag las und auf Nuancen und Veranderungen achtete. Da kam plotzlich eines Tages etwas ganz Anderes, kein Goebbelsprodukt. Es war ein maschinegeschriebener anonymer Bericht ·Ober ein Ereignis in MOnchen, wo eine Gruppe Studenten Flugblatter gegen das Regime verbreitet hatte und dafOr vom Volksgerichtshof zum Tade verurteilt warden war. Es war das erste, was ich vom deutschen Widerstand las. Von Stund' an liess mich das Thema nicht mehr los. Von wem der Bericht stammte erfuhr ich erst sehr viel spater, nach dem Kriege. Es war Helmuth James von Moltke, von dem ich damals noch gar nichts wusste. Seine englischen Freunde hielten dicht. Im Laufe der Zeit sah ich mehr und mehr und immer wieder, wie oft die Religion oder der Glaube ein Bestandteil der Fahigkeit zum Widerstand war. Spater versuchte ich, etwas darOber zu schreiben - nicht so sehr Ober den Kirchenkampf und Ober das Verhalten der kirchlichen Organisationen und ihrer Haupter als Ober die Rolle des Glaubens im Leben derer, die dem Massenwahn \': �•2• nicht verfielen: Bei der Arbeit an diesem Thema stiess ich immer wieder ~uf Helmuth Moltke - nicht weil er sich so viel daruber geaussert hatte • das tat er nur ganz gelegentlich, dann aber Oberzeugend; vielmehr weil er danach handelte und weil so viel von dem Anderen was ich fand, vom Widerstand der Frommen, Verbindungen mit seiner Person hatte. Die Menschen, die den Ansturm der Holle als solchen erkannten und, umgeben vom Bosen nach dem Guten strebten, sich darum mOhten, bereit waren, etwas dafOr zu riskieren - erstaunlich viele von ihnen -t: schienen mit Moltke in BerOhrung gekommen zu sein. Vielleict)\kam das daher, dass er sich so rOhrig umgetan hatte. In diesen MOhen fanden diese Menschen - wie mir in vielen Fallen schien - so etwas wie Gnade, etwas, was sich ihnen q_ffenbarte und ihnen half. Diese Offenbarung - ich bin nicht ganz sicher, ob man es so nennen kann - aber wie sonst? - war etwas, was sie entdeckten oder wiederentdeckten, was ihnen wirklich oder wirklicher wurde. Es war nicht Todeszellenfrommigkeit, nicht nur Hinwendung zum alten Gott nach den ErschOtterungen des Krieges, dieses Krieges, der ja vor 1939 schon als unerklarter BOrgerkrieg in Deutschland begonnet" lta.,-tf {.,. Obrigens spielt auch das hinein, das BOrgerkriegsartige, in die Tragik des e ausseren Krieges und seiner Zwange. ~ Krieg war ja nach Nationen und Koalitit'onen von Nationen organisiert. Da schlug man sich nach Nationalitaten tot, weil nur so die Nation, die Adolf Hitler zum Fuhrer hatte und die ihm bis zu seinem Selbstmord folgte, bezwungen warden konnte. Dass er und sein System seine eigenen Feinde im lnneren auch totschlug wusste man. Aber das Kollektiv Deutschland, Nazideutschland musste niedergezwungen werden, um nicht nur die anderen Lander von dieser Bedrohung zu befreien, sondern auch die unterdrOckten und verfolgten Menschen in Deutschland. Das VerlassenheitsgefOhl mancher Gagner des Regimes, das GefOhl im Ausland missverstanden und nicht gewOrdigt zu sein, ist ein Teil der Tragik dieser �•3• Konstellation, der Tragik des Krieges. Mir scheint, es gab wirklich nur eine Moglichkeit, die zu beenden: den Krieg zu verlieren und .s.o. Hitler und seine Helfershelfer los zu werden - es sei denn, dass es gelang, ihn und sein System - mitten im Krieg - durch inneren Aufstand zu beseitigen. Der Versuch wurde, nach etlichen folgenlosen Anlaufen, gemacht und er misslang. Zu viel stand ihm entgegen, vor allem der Krieg und die patriotische Befangenheit des Volkes und der Wehrmacht. Es war den Nationalsozialisten gelungen, Deutschland und den Nationalsozialismus zu verketten. Und es war fOr Deutsche schwer, zu sehen dass diese Ketten nur auf dem Wege der nationalen Katastrophe gelost werden konnten. Manche - vielleicht sogar viele - sahen es, durften oder wollten es sich aber nicht eingestehen. Und so wurde weitergekampft bis Hitler tot war, von eigener Hand. Es gab Verschworer gegen ihn, die ihn toten wollten um die Wehrmacht von dem ihm personlich geleisteten Eid zu befreien. Ware diese Befreiung der Gefahr einer neuen Dolchstosslegende entgangen? Waren die Deutschen, genug Deutsche, so weit, sich wirklich hinter die Gegner dieses Fuhrers und seines Regimes zu stellen und die Folgen in Kauf zu nehmen? Ein "ehrenhafter" Friede war schon 1943 kaum mehr zu erwarten. So waren die Verschworer auf sich gestellt, auf sich und ihr Gewissen. -.. '<=:::::: ~:;> t:ai Weshalb nenne ich 1943 das "Wendejahr" ? Winston Churchill nannte den vierten Band seiner Geschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs, der sich mit diesem Zeitabschnitt befaBt, " The Hinge of Fate ". In El Alamein, Stalingrad und Tunis ~ wendete sich der Krieg von standigen aliierten Niederlagen zu Siegen. Im Mai war " Afrika von den Achsenmachten befreit. Im Juli landeten die Aliierten in Sizilien und Mussolini wurde gestOrzt. Auch im Krieg zur See hatte sich das Blatt gewendet. Der Luftkrieg war massiv geworden und die Alliierten hatten da jetzt die Oberhand. �. 4• Aber auBenpolitisch war auch eine tiefere, langsamere Wende im Gange. Im Juni 1941 hatte Hitlers Angriff auf die Sowjetunion das schwere Jahr seit dem Fall Frankreichs beendet, in dem England .a1Jfiln - wenn auch gestOtzt auf sein Weltreich - dem Herren Europas Widerstand leistete. Ein halbes Jahr danach hatte der japanische Angriff auf Pearl Harbor Amerika in den Krieg gebracht. Hitlers Kriegserklarung machte es Roosevelt leichter, sein Volk in den Krieg gegen Deutschland zu fOhren, ja diesem europaischen Krieg sogar den Vorrang vor dem Krieg im Pazifik zu geben. Aber das ungeheure amerikanische Kriegspotential brauchte Zeit um zum Tragen zu kommen. Die von Stalin seit 1942 geforderte zweite Front liess bis Juni 1944 auf sich warten. Sie ging von England aus und hatte mit Eisenhower einen amerikanischen Oberbefehlshaber. Er hatte schon in Nordafrika den Oberbefehl gefOhrt, obwohl die Briten in Afrika noch die Hauptlast des Krieges trugen. Aber die Gewichte verschoben sich zugunsten Amerikas. Churchill hatt1'# keinen leichten Stand gegenOber dem Obermachtig werdenden Bundesgenossen im Westen, der dazu noch geneigt war, mit dem Bundesgenossen im Osten ein argloseres Verhaltnis zu pflegen als der britische Premierminister. Russland hatte seit 1941 die Hauptlast des Krieges in Europa getragen - jedenfalls zu Lande - und trug sie weiter. Churchill war ein langgedienter Kommunistengegner, hatte aber, als Hitler die Sowjetuninon angriff, so fort den neuen Bundesgenossen begrOsst, der nun einen patriotischen Krieg gegen Deutschland fOhrte. Stalin liess es sich 1943 angelegen sein, besonders dem Ausland gegenOber die ideologische, die kommunistische Komponente zurOcktreten zu !assen. Die Komintern wurde aufgelost. Im Juli 1943 wurde in Russland das "Nationalkomitee 'Freies Deutschland' " gegrOndet, im September der Sund Deutscher Offiziere. Eins seiner Veroffentlichungsblatter, das nach England gelangte, trug stolz die Farben schwarz - weiss - rot. Auch die Wortwahl der �•5 • Rhetorik war bemOht, das Ausland den Kommunismus vergessen zu lassen. Stalins Werben um die Deutschen machte dem Westen natOrlich etwa~ Sorge. Deutsche FOhler in ostlicher Richtung gab es sowohl seitens des Regimes als auch seiner Gagner. Letztere waren in unserem Zusammenhang besonders heikel. Es war nicht klar, ob sie den Zweck hatten, mit den anscheinend oder angeblich weniger auf "bedingunsloser Kapitulation" bestehenden Russsen handelseinig zu werden, oder den Zweck, diese Moglichkeit oder Drohung als Druckmittel auf den Westen zu benutzen. Aber wahrend Stalin bestrebt war, die Furcht var einer Ausbreitung des Kommunismus zu zerstreuen, stellte er doch ganz handfeste GebietsansprOche. Russland brauchte nach diesem Krieg Sicherheit. Bevor das Jahr 1943 um war, thatten die Westaliierten der Verschiebung Polens nach Westen zugestimmt. /\ ~ Ausserdem hatte Stalin schon im Mai die Reaktion der Exilpolen in London auf die Leichenfunde in Katyn zum Anlass genommen, die Beziehungen zu ihnen abzubrechen. In einer neuen Churchillbiographie von einem jungen englischen Historiker warden die Zugestandnisse an Stalin 1943, 1944 und 1945 als Appeasement bezeichnet. Der Autor hatte in einem frOheren Werk die Appeasement-Politik Chamberlains gegenOber Hitler ~erteidigt. Churchills Entschluss, den Kampf gegen Hitlerdeutschland nach dem Fall Frankreichs weiterzufOhren, k@isi!W er. Dieser Kampf konnte nur in einer erhofften spateren Bundesgenossenschaft, einer "Grand Alliance" mit Amerika und Russland zum Erfolg fOhren und musste die Abhangigkeit Englands von diesen Bundesgenossen bedeuten. Was an dem Buch auffallt, ist der kOhle Abstand von den Vorgangen in Hitlers Deutschland und Hitlers Europa. 2 �. 6• Diese aber waren es, die die GemOter erregten und den Krieg gegen Hitler, bis zum bitteren Ende, notig erscheinen liessen. Und das Ende .w.ar bitter. Englands materielle Stellung in der Welt ging dabei drauf. Die Bitterkeit zeigt sich bei manchen Englandern noch jetzt in Feindseligkeiten gegenUber Deutschland. Aber war diese Entwicklung, wenn man dem Hitlerismus nicht freien Laut lassen wollte, zu vermeiden ? Schwerlich. Nicht all.a Opfer und Einbussen waren vorauszusehen, aber doch mehr als "Slut, Schweiss und Tranen", die Churchill Ab 0~~J gleich bei der Obernahme seines Amtes erwahnte. Es war ein schwerer Kampf gegen das · .filn.e. Deutschland, mit dem sich immerhin die Masse des deutschen Volkes und seiner FOhrerschaft identifizierte. Dabei konnte man durchaus die Existenz eines "anderen" Deutschland ~nerkennen, und viele taten das auch, aber diese Anerkennung war vermischt mit Enttauschung und Misstrauen. Warum geschah nichts gegen diesen Tyrannen ? Warum waren die Reprasentanten seiner Gegner nicht bereit, die Gewinne seiner Politik fahren zu !assen ? Gut, sie waren Patrioten und litten, wie viele Deutsche, an dem Trauma von Versailles und wollten wieder die deutschen Grenzen von 1937 oder 1938 oder 1914; aber sahen sie nicht, dass diese nach allem, was geschehen war, nicht mehr in Frage kamen ? Sie wollten eine Zusage guter Bedingungen tor ein neues Deutschland nach der Beseitigung Hitlers. Aber sie klangen immer wieder so als ob eine solche Zusage eine Bedingung ihres Handelns war. Dagegen sah Helmuth Moltke schon 1939 den Verlust des Krieges voraus (und hielt ihn sogar tor notig).2. Er sagte schon 1940 zu George Kennan (damals an der amerikanischen Botschaft in Berlin), das wUrde wahrscheinlich den Verlust seiner Heimat, Schlesien, bedeuten.4 Im Herbst 1941 hatte er heftige Auseinandersetzungen mit einem Verwandten, der deutscher Botschafter in Warschau gewesen war, Uber die notigen Gebietsverzichte. Nie konne man verzichten, sagte der Diplomat und hielt es fUr unpatriotisch, auch nur daran zu denken.5' �-7- Natarlich waren die Gagner des Regimes in einer ZwickmOhle. Wann sie Zuwachs werben wollten, mussten sie diesem Hoffnungen machen und vielleicht war die Hoffnung auf die Befreiung vom Unrechtsstaat nicht genug. Die Generationen erfahrener Manner hielten. dachte~in Kategorien, die sie fOr realpolitisch Ab~J. , -- Die jungen Leute von der Weissen Rose hingegen wollten vor allem das Gewissen der Deutschen aufrOtteln. Und dator waren sie bereit, ihr Leben zu riskieren -manche mehr, manche weniger. Christoph Probst war verheiratet und hatte drei kleine Kinder. Aber sowohl von Hans als auch ~ von Sophie Scholl sind AussprOche Oberliefert, die ihre Bereitschaft zeigen. So sagte Hans nach ~iner bekannt gewordenen Hinrichtung von einer Anzahl von Sozialisten und 6 Kommunisten, es sei an der Zeit, dass auch Christen etwas taten; und Sophie sagte: "/is fallen so viele Menschen 1Qr dieses Regime, es wird Zeit, dass jemand 1 dagegen fallt." Dass sie mit diesem "Jemand" sich selbst meinte, sich jedenfalls nicht ausschloss, und dass auch sie an eine Wiederverchristlichung Deutschlands dachte, scheint mir ganz klar aus ihrem Traum in der Nacht vor der Hinrichtung hervorzugehen, den sie ihrer Zellengenossin erzahlte. In dem Traum trug sie ein Kind in einem langen weissen Kleid zur Taufe. Der Weg zur Kirche fOhrte einen steilen Berg hinauf. Aber sie trug das Kind fest und sicher. Da tat sich plotzlich vor ihr eine Gletscherspalte auf. Sophie konnte das Kind gerade noch an die gesicherte gegenOberliegende Seite legen, dann stOrzte sie in die Tiete.f? Fur so wichtig hatte Roland Freisler diesen Fall gehalten, dass er selbst nach MOnchen geeilt war um die jungen Leute abzuurteilen. Nur vier Tage vergingen z'fbschen der Festnahme der ersten drei und dem Fallbeil, das ihr Leben beendete. Alexander Schmorell suchte zu entkommen, wurde aber verraten und gefasst. Professor Hubers Verleger bat um Aufschub von dessen Hinrichtung, �•8• damit sein Autor noch sein Buch Ober Leibniz fertig schreiben konnte. Der Antrag wurde abgeschlagen. Willi Graf musste bis Oktober auf seine Hinrichtung warten, da die Gestapo - vergeblich - versuchte, noch weitere Namen von ihm zu erfahren. Die Guillotine, die ihrem Leben ein Ende setzte, war eine von den etwa 19 Guillotinen, die Moltke in einem langen Bericht Ober die Zustande in Deutschland erwahnte, den er zur gleichen Zeit wie seinen Bericht Ober die Weisse Rose bemOht war, aus Schweden zu seinem Freund Lionel Curtis in England gelangen zu !assen. Dieser Brief blieb in Schweden stecken und nur ein - etwas verzerrter Bruchteil, memoriert von dem amerikanischen Generalsekretar des Vereins Christlicher Junger Manner, gelangte zum Bischof von Chichester, der ihn an Curtis weiterleitete: Aber der Bericht Ober die Weisse Rose und ihr letztes Flugblatt nahmen einen anderen Weg und kamen durch. Nach einer eingehenden Schilderung des Falles, seines Hintergrundes, der Vorfalle, der drei Studenten, der Formalitaten vor ihrer Hinrichtung, den Nachwirkungen oder Nachwehen und der Verhaftung von Professor Huber, kam ein Abschnitt Ober die nahere Zukunft und ein letzter Ober mogliche Hilfe aus der Aussenwelt. Zur Frage des "Was Nun ?"stand in dem Bericht folgendes: In Deutschland mOsse die Sache verbreitet und weitergefOhrt werden. Das sei schwierig und gefahrlich. Die Aufforderung des Flugblatts, aus der Partei und ihren Organisationen auszutreten, sei allerdings unklug und solle herausediert werden: sie wOrde zu viele Menschenleben kosten und es den Machthabern zu leicht machen, ihre Gegner zu erkennen und auszuschalten; besser sei es, von innen heraus zu arbeiten und die Machthaber unsicher zu machen, auf wen sie sich nun verlassen konnen. �. 9• Varn Ausland konne Hilfe dadurch geleistet werden, dass man der Sache zur Publizitat verhelfe, die Namen der Beteiligten immer wieder nenne, var allem im Radio. Aber noch Wichtigeres sei moglich: "Dieser Fall" ( ich zitiere und Obersetze ) "ist frei van Spionage, Kommunismus, Defaitismus, usw. Es ist ein klarer Fall inneren Aufstands auf Grund sittlicher Prinzipien, die eines Tages die inner-europaischen Beziehungen leiten mOssen. Es ware ein enorme Hllfe, wenn diese Tatsache einen Widerhall van draussen fande, wenn auch nur eine Andeutung gegeben wOrde, dass es Krafte in Deutschland gibt, mit denen es nicht nur moglich sondern notig ist, nach dem Krieg zusammenzuarbeiten. Andererseits wOrde grosser Schaden angerichtet, wenn diese Vorgange nur als Symptom eines ~erfalls in Deutschland registriert wOrden, Anzeichen dafOr, dass die Lage van 1918 wieder herannaht. Das wOrde namlich das Urteil des Volksgerichtshofes rOckwirkend rechtfertigen .... Es ist somit ein Fall, dessen Behandlung im neutralen und feindlichen Ausland viel Gutes und viel Schadliches bewirken 10 kann." Soweit der anonyme Moltke. Die BBC verlas das beigelegte letzte Flugblatt und die Royal Air Force warf viele Exemplare, mit einer Rahmenerklarung, Ober Deutschland ab. Als ich viele Jahre spater in den inzwischen freigegebenen Akten des Foreign Office wieder auf diesen Bericht stiess, war er, wenn ich mich recht entsinne, in der Kategorie mit lauter Material Ober Zersetzungserscheinungen und deutsche Versuche, die Einheit der fiiierten Koalition zu sprengen und einen /\ milden Frieden zu erreichen. Dass dem anonymen Autor hochstens das Letzte angelastet werden konnte, ergibt sich daraus, dass er Uber Zusammenarbeit nacil dem Krieg sprach. NatOrlich warder Wunsch nach der Anerkennung des "Anderen Deutschland" schon wahrend des Krieges auch dabei. �• 10 • Jedoch bevor das Jahr um war, machte Moltke doch einen Versuch, einen verzweifelten Versuch - ob von Canaris, ob von den Kreisauern gedeckt, weiss man nicht - den Angloamerikanern tor den Fall einer Invasion in ausreichender Starke und mit mehr Durchschlagskraft als der des Feldzugs in ltalien, eine deutsche Offnung im Westen in Aussicht zu stellen, die zu einer schnellen Besetzung ganz Deutschlands fOhren wOrde und mit einem Schlage auch das Volk von dieser Losung Oberzeugen und die Gefahr einer neuen Dolchstosslegende vermeiden wOrde. Nicht von ihm selbst, sondern von zwei exildeutschen Kontaktmannern nach seiner Abreise aus Istanbul im Dezember, fOr den amerikanischen Geheimdienst (OSS) formuliert, fOhrte dieses Memorandum zu langen Auseinandersetzungen unter den Amerikanern, die man jetzt in den ~ ~ Vierteljahrsheften for Zeitgeschichte nachlesen kann. Moltke selbst wurde nach diesem Vorstoss, den er bei einer Dienstreise in die TOrkei machte, verhaftet und ausser Gefecht gesetzt. Es wurde nichts aus dem Plan, der, obwohl aus anderer Feder stammend, seine Ansichten zum grossen Teil richtig wiedergeben mag. Er hatte mit Hans Wilbrandt und Alexander ROstow, dem Hauptautor der Denkschrift, eingehende Gesprache gefOhrt. Er hatte selbst vor seiner Abreise an Alexander Kirk, den ihm wohlbekannten ehemaligen amerikanischen Geschaftstrager in Berlin und jetzt in Kairo, einen Brief geschrieben, als er ihn nicht, wie erhofft, in Istanbul antraf. In dem Brief erwahnt er auch das entmutigende Beispiel ltalien, das im September kapituliert hatte und zum Kriegsschauplatz wurde. Das war nicht gerade ein gutes Omen fOr innere Veranderungen in Deutschland. Es mOsse klar gemacht warden, wie sich eine Wiederholung vermeiden Hesse. Dazu brauche man eine gemeinsame politische Zielsetzung, ohne die es keine wirksame militarische Zusammenarbeit geben konne. Was diese angehe, konne sowohl vom militarischen wie auch vom politischen Standpunkt aus nur eine solche in Frage �• 11 • kommen, die die Lage mit einem Schlage verwandle. Und dafOr sei Geduld notig, man mOsse warten, warten und nochmals warten bis eine Streitkraft vorhanden 12. sei, die, mit deutscher Hilfe, unwiderstehlich sein wOrde. Die lBesorgnis Ober den ~amen Foldzug in ltalien und d~ Notwendigkeit abzuwarten bis genOgende 9~ t(trl.lft'f!?<J Kraft tor ein 6Adef'sa™g'-9s Vorgehen in Frankreich da sei, kommt Obrigens auch in ....... =efttJ.an'freye vor.t31n dem Memorandum steht dazu noch, dass eine solche schnelle Entscheidung und Besetzung Deutschlands durch die Westmachte taktvoll "die Aliiierten" genannt - von der dadurch freigesetzten "wahren Stimme" 1't Deutschlands als eine Art westliches Tauroggen begrOsst werden wOrde. Der Bericht stiess trotz seiner diplomatischen Formulierung auf Skepsis und ~blehnung. Trotzdem er eingangs die Annahme der zu Anfang des Jahres proklamierten Forderung der. bedingungslosen Kapitulation beteuerte, beinhaltete er eben doch Bedingungen. Die Grossen Drei hatten sich jedoch eben erst in Teheran Ober die gemeinsame FortfOhrung des Krieges und einige Gesichtspunkte der Nachkriegsregelung geeinigt. Die Westmachte konnten off/iziell auf einen solchen Vorschlag nicht eingehen und Prasident Roosevelt, zu dem das Dokument gar nicht durchdrang, Mitte das auch nicht gewollt. Sagar die Englander wollten lieber Deutschland mit russischer Beteiligung besetzen. Aber anscheinend erfuhren englische und russische diplomatische Vertreter erst im Mai 1944 von diesem oder einem ahnlichen Vorschlag. All das bedeutet, meine ich, nicht, dass man Peter Hoffmann in seinem Buch Ober die Bruder Stauffenberg voll zustimmen kann, wenn er den Schluss zieht, vor allem aus der Verzogerung der Mitteilung an die Englander und Russen, dass "die Missachtung der Moglichkeit, Hunderttausende von Menschenleben zu retten, nicht durch den Zwang der Kriegskoalition zu erklaren" ist-"(,..f?J+.;-=s:-se~~fDas Argument der Moglichkeit, Hunderttausende zu retten, war von einem sehr 16 engagierten aber nicht einflussreichen BefOrworter des Plans erwahnt warden. Die �• 12 • Auseinandersetzung daruber zog sich Ober Monate hin und war von sehr unterschiedlicher Qualitat. Moltkes alter Freund, der Journalist Wallace Deuel, der mittlerweile far das OSS arbeitete, war auch daran beteiligt. Er legte seine Hand fOr Moltke ins Feuer, hatte aber Zweifel an der DurchfOhrbarkeit des Plans, besonders was die Moglichkeit und Wirksamkeit der in Aussicht gestellten deutschen Mitwirkung anging~rNatOrlich war auch die Reaktion der Sowjetunion, selbst unter der Annahme der DurchfOhrbarkeit, ein wichtiger Punkt. Der Plan schlug vor, die Ostfront etwa an der Linie Tilsit-Lemberg zu halten. So ist vielleicht Peter Hoffmanns Wort von der "Mlssachtung" der vorgeschlagenen Moglichkeit etwas zu streng, und vielleicht unterschatzt er auch den Zwang der Kriegskoalition. Er bestand ja nicht nur in dem anglo-amerikanisch -russischen Versprechen der ~ofortigen gegenseitigen Benachrichtigung Ober deutsche Kontaktaufnahmen, dessen Bruch den stets argwohnischen Stalin zu wer weiss was fOr Sonderabmachungen mit den Deutschen veranlassen konnte solche Erwagungfen auf russischer - Anzeichen fOr .u.nd deutscher Seite waren schon da. Worin bestand der Zwang der Koalition? Doch auch in der Oberzeugung, dass Deutschland total besiegt warden musste, ohne Abmachungen und Konzessionen und solche Bedingungen wie sie in dem fraglichen Dokument trotz seiner verbalen Akzeptanz der "bedingungslosen Kapitulation" enthalten waren. Es kam, wenn nicht auf "bedingte Kapitulation" dann zumindest auf eine "gesteuerte Niederlage" hinaus. Der Hinweis des Memorandums auf eine Gefahr der Bolschewisierung Deutschlands wirkte, von deutscher Seite kommend, eher wie ein rotes Tuch, wie ein weiterer Versuch die Koalition zu spalten. Trotz gewisser Bedenken gegenOber der Sowjetunion und Stalins Absichten, musste Deutschland mit seiner Hilfe besiegt werden. In den Demokratieo war ein Abgehen von der Koalition zu dem Zeitpunkt undenkbar. Hitlers Pakt mit Stalin, der Auftakt zu diesem Krieg, war nur moglich weil weder Deutschland noch Russland Demokratien waren. Solche politischen Schaltungen konnen nur Diktatoren vornehmen. ' ,, ,, .\ -----.. *V ~ .la-. �- 13 - Das Wendejahr 1943 hatte mit der fast gleichzeitigen Bekanntgabe des Endes des Kampfes in Stalingrad und der Proklamation der Forderung bedingungsloser Kapitulation Deutschlands, ltaliens und Japans auf der Konferenz Matr~ von Casablanca begonnen. Im febraaf waren zwei Attentatsversuche auf Hitler misslungen. Im April gelang dem SD eine empfindliche Schwachung der Abwehr. Im Mai kapitulierten die deutschen und italienischen Truppen in Nordafrika. Im Juli landeten die Aliierten in Sizilien. Mussolini wurde vom Faschistischen Grossrat ~Ee~ ol0 Jalit'o~ · gestOrzt und ~erhaftet - sp~ffer aber Wieder von Deutschen befreit. Im September /' landeten die Angloamerikaner in SOditalien und die neue italienische Regierung unter Marschall Badoglio kapitulierte und bot den Aliierten ihre Hilfe an. Die geutschen intervenierten und kampften zah. An der diplomatischen Front endete dann das Jahr 1943 mit der interalliierten Aussenministerkonferenz in Moskau und dem Treffen von Stalin, Churchill und Roosevelt in Teheran. Auf diesen Konferenzen wurde das weitere gemeinsame Vorgehen gegen den gemeinsamen Feind beschlossen. Das etwa war der Rahmen, in dem sich der lnnerdeutsche Widerstand gegen das Hitlerregime 1943 abspielte. Bevor das Jahr begann, hatte Dietrich Bonhoeffer eine Bestandsaufnahme nach 10 Jahren 1942/43 nationalsozialistischer Herrschaft gemacht, die er zur Jahreswende Hans von Dohnanyi, Hans Oster und Eberhard Bethge Oberreichte. Darin ausserte sich Bonhoeffer zur Frage Attentat und Staatsstreich wie folgt: die Dummheit sei getahrlicher als die Bosheit, die man bekampfen kann. Menschen konnten dumm gemacht werden, konnten sich dumm machen !assen. �• 14 • Es sei Macbtentfaltung, die den Menschen die innere Selbstandigkeit raube, sie erlagen dann Schlagwortern und Parolen und wOrden zum willenlosen Instrument und zu allem Bosen tahig, und zugleich unfahig, es als Boses zu erkennen. Und nun kommt der springende Punkt: es war fOr Bonhoeffer ganz deutlich, dass nicht ein Akt der Belehruog sondero alleio ein Akt der Befreiung die Dummheit Oberwinden konne. " Dabei wird man sich", schrieb er, "damit abfinden mOssen, dass eine echte innere Befreiung in den allermeisten Fallen erst moglich wird, nachdem die aussere Befreiung vorausgegangen ist." Diese war es, die er mit seineo Freunden und Vertrauteo anstrebte. Was er dann Ober Klugheit schreibt, gehort vielleicht nicht so direkt zur Frage Widerstand, ist aber doch relevant und · fOr einen Lutheraoer - erstaunlich. Die Missachtung der g6ttlichen Gesetze sei nicht nur unrecht, schreibt er, sondern unklug, und er findet es, besonders nach den Erfahrungen der letzten zehn Jahre verstandlich, "warum die aristotelisch-thomistische Ethik die Klugheit zu einer der Kardinaltugenden erhob." "Klugheit und Dummheit", tahrt er fort," sind nicht ethisch indifferent, wie uns eine neuprotestantische Gesinnungsethik hat lehren wollen." Und dann: " Es i.S1 einfach in der Welt so eingerichtet, dass die grundsatzliche Achtung der letzten Gesetze und Rechte des Lebens zugleich der Selbsterhaltung am dienlichsten ist, und dass diese Gesetze sich nur eine ganz kurze, einmalige, im Einzelfall notwendige Oberschreitung gefallen !assen, wahrend sie den, der aus der Not ein Prinzip macht, und also neben ihnen ein eigenes Gesetz aufrichtet, fnJher oder spater - aber mit unwiderstehlicher Gewalt erschlagen. n �- 15 - Dass die verantwortliche Tat, die Befreiungstat, das irdische Leben kosten konnte, wusste er, wussten sie alle, die Widerstand leisteten. "Der Tod kann uns nicht mehr sehr Oberraschen", schreibt er. "Unseren Wunsch, er moge uns nicht zufallig, jah, abseits vom Wesentlichen, sondern in der FOlle des Lebens und in der Gesamtheit des Einsatzes treffen, wagen wir uns seit den Erfahrungen des Krieges kaum mehr einzugestehen. Nicht die ausseren Umstande, sondern wir selbst warden es sein, die unseren Tod zu dem machen, was er sein kann, zum Tod in freiwilliger Einwilligung." 1'6 Helmuth James von Moltke glaubte wohl weniger an eine solche Befreiungstat. Er meinte, dass nur ein klare militarische Niederlage zur Befreiung fOhren konne - Befreiung nicht nur von Hitler, sondern von dem, was Hitler moglich gemacht hatte, einschliesslich des Militarismus, der • seit dem "grossen Moltke", dem Feldmarschall Bismarcks • eine gesunde politische Entwicklung in Deutschland erschwert hatte. Ein Miltarputsch und Staatsstreich, wie ihn die Verschworer im Sinne hatten, konnte kaum die Grundlage eines gesunden Staatswesens abgeben. Wie Moltke von einer Dienstreise in Schweden an seinen englischen Freund Lionel Curtis schrieb, hielt er es fOr einen Fehler der deutschen Opposition, dass sie sich auf eine Aktion der Generale verliess. Diese Hoffnung war, wie er meinte, von vornherein aussichtslos. Der wichtigste Grund war ein soziologischer: "Wir brauchen eine Revolution," schrieb er, "nicht einen Staatsstreich; und eine solche Revolution wird den Generalen niemals denselben Spielraum und dieselbe Stellung geben, wie sie ihnen von den Nazis eingeraumt warden sind und noch eingeraumt werden." -11 �• 16 • Diese Ansicht spielte sicher eine Rolle in der Auseinandersetzung zwischen der Gruppe van Goerdeler und Beck (tar den Moltke grosse Hochachtung hatte) und dam Kreisauer Kreis. Spannungen gab es monatelang. Anfang Januar 1943 gab es eine Begegnung zwischen den "Alten" oder, wie Moltke sie nannte, "Exzellenzen", Goerdeler, Beck, Popitz, Hassell, Jessen und dem Vermittler, Fritz van der Schulenburg, einerseits, und den "Jungen" vom Kreisauer Kreis: Moltke, Yorck, Gerstenmaier und Trott. Goerdeler wollte die jungen Manner nicht recht ernst nehmen und versuchte, die Differenzen bezOglich der geplanten Wirtschaftsund Sozialpolitik zu verschleiern. Moltke hielt Goerdelers Programm tor eine "Kerenski -Losung", d.h., eine unhaltbare Zwischenlosung, die zum Kommunismus fOhren musste. Selbst Hassell fand Goerdeler "eine Art Reaktionar".w ·- Was immer die auseinandergehenden Ansichten innerhalb des Widerstandes gewesen sein mogen - im Marz kam es dann zu zwei Attentatsversuchen, die missglOckten. Kann man die Versuche als ein Zeichen nehmen, dass die Ende Januar in Casablanca van Roosevelt formulierte und von Churchill unterstOtzte Forderung der "bedingungslosen Kapitulation" sich nicht so lahmend auf den deutschen Widerstand auswirkte wie van manchen angenommen wird? Stalingrad war ein Signal zum Handeln. Wie stark war die Behinderung durch die neue Formel - die eigentlich nur das formulierte, was !angst stillschweigende Annahme gewesen war? Schon 1941 hatte Churchill angeordnet, dass jeglichen deutschen Annaherungen durch Schweigen zu begegnen war. Seitdem waren nur noch mehr GrOnde hinzugekommen, vor allem die Notwendigkeit, die Koalition mit Sowjetrussland und Amerika zusammenzuhalten. Sachlich hatte die Forderung ausserdem das tor sich, dass man damit eine Wiederholung des Trauerspiels von Wilson's 14 Punkten und Versailles vermied. Rhetorisch war sie vielleicht weniger glOcklich. Aber Goebbels hat wenig daraus gemacht - Historiker des deutschen Widerstands hingegen mehr. 2.1 �- 17 - Im Juni fand die dritte und letzte Konferenz der Kreisauer in Kreisau statt. Die Hauptgesprachsgegenstande waren Aussen - und Wirtschaftspolitik, sowie die Bestrafung van "Rechtsschandern". Diese Vokabel wurde benutzt, wail es sich bei den Naziverbrechen nicht nur um Kriegsverbrechen sondern um prazedenzlose Schandungen des gottlichen und Naturrechts handelte, denen schwer mit Paragraphen beizukommen war. Die Bestrafung dieser Rechtsschander sollte einerseits in deklaratorischer Achtung bestehen, andererseits van Deutschen oder van einem internationalen Gericht mir deutscher Beteiligung vorgenommen werden. In den folgenden Wochen wurden die besprochenen EntwOrfe waiter Z'L diskutiert und in dokumentarischer Form festgelegt. Ausserdem suchte man nach Qeeigneten Personen, die in der Obergangszeit als "Landesverweser" fungieren konnten. Parallel hiermit intensivierten sich im Sommer wieder die Planungen der auf einen Staatsstreich hinarbeitenden Verschworer. Bis im Herbst Claus Stauffenberg zu dieser Gruppe stiess - bei dem sich Axel van dem Bussche als Attentater meldete - war Henning von Tresckow der militarische Motor der Verschworung. Aber Attentat und Staatsstreich waren ja nicht die einzige Art des Widerstands. Planung fur die Zeit nach dem Umsturz oder der Niederlage gehorte auch dazu - ebenfalls der Kampf gegen die Grausamkeiten des Regimes. In seinem schon erwahnten Bericht Ober die deutschen Zustande, der seinen englischen Freund nie erreichte, schrieb Moltke auch etwas Ober die Opposition gegen das Regime, jene Manner, van denen man, wie er einer englischen Schlagzeile entnahm, "so viel hart und so wenig merkt." Er erwahnte die grossen Verluste der Regimegegner, ihre stillen Erfolge bei der Sabotage mancher nationalsozialistscher Massnahmen, ihre Rettungsaktionen tar einzelne Menschen. �• 18 • Zwei dauerhafte Erfolge der Opposition hebt er besonders hervor: die Mobilisierung der Kirchen und die Wegbereitung far ein dezentralisiertes 2..~ Deutschland. In der Tat geharten zu den Kreisauern nicht nur Kirchenmanner beider Konfessionen wie auch Sozialisten, die dem Christentum positiv gegenOberstanden, sondern Moltke war von Anfang an bemOht, die deutsche Glaubensspaltung politisch zu OberbrOcken und die Hierarchen politisch zu 2A: aktivieren. Mit dem katholischen Bischof von Berlin besprach er seit 1941 regelmaBig, wie man den Unrechtsmassnahmen der Regierung und Partei am besten entgegentreten konnte und 1943 gelang es, den Bischof Preysing mit dem evangelischen Bischof von WOrttembergJ~m weithin aner:kanAten Oberhaupt des'fticM glsiohgesehalteten Teils der protestantischen - Kirche,~ zusammenzubringen, und beide, Preysing und Wurm, protestierten gegen Verfolgung und Tatung . unschuldiger 2..t;;° Menschengruppen. Auch ein Hirtenbrief der Fuldaer Bischofskonferenz Ober die Zehn Gebote erregte das Missfallen des Sicherheitsdienstes wegen seiner politischen Relevanz. Da stand namlich zum 5. Gebot zu lesen: "Tatung ist an sich schlecht, auch wenn sie angeblich im lnteresse des Gemeinwohls verObt wurde: an schuld - und wehrlosen Geistesschwachen und Kranken, an unheilbar Siechen und tOdlich Verletzten, an erblich belasteten und lebensuntOchtigen Neugeborenen, an unschuldigen Geiseln und entwaffneten Kriegs - und Strafgefangenen, an Menschen fremder Rassen und Abstammung." Der SD beanstandete auch, dass sich der Kommentar zum 6. und 9. Gebot mit der Heiligkeit der Ehe befasste, auch der rassischen Mischehe.2.'T Moltke selbst war besonders rege in der VerhOtung von Geiselerschiessungen und verhandelte hierOber nicht nur mit Generalen sondern 2£ auch mit den zustandigen SS-Gewaltigen in Holland und Danemark. Ausserdem 2b �• 19 • mag er seine Unterredungen mit den Generalen Falkenhausen und StOlpnagel elie... . auch zu Sondierungen anderer Art, z.B. betreffend-6ef Moglichkeit einer Offnung nach Westen, benutzt haben~ Sowohl in Holland als auch in Skandinavien besprach er sich mit Reprasentanten des Widerstands, der in Norwegen stark von der Kirche getragen war. Es gelang ihm auch dem bereits unter Hausarrest stehenden norwegischen Bischof Berggrav gegen noch peinlichere Repressalien zu helfen. Moltke war auch in Kontakt mit schwedischen Oekumenikern und andere Kreisauer, besonders Trott und Gerstenmaier, mit dem Vorlaufigen Weltkirchenrat in Genf, besonders dessen Generalsekretar A.W. Visser 't Hooft, der eine grosse . Hllfe war. 30 ·- 1945, zwei Jahre nach dem Bericht Ober die Weisse Rose, begannen wir in London Akten aus den befreiten Gebieten und aus dem besetzten Deutschland zu n J)a>. ~efi.vv1 cJ.Q._s 'S'c'e., \1€..N~~/' l~q;t- ~c'~ ~~w'21 sehen, auch Papiere aus Konzentrationslagern. ~ie waren niederschmetterndl benre-{b-<J Die Lager waren van den Aliierten Oberrannt und befreit warden. Auch die ersten Bilder kamen nun nach England. Da bekam ich ein Bunde! Akten - Photokopien - aus der Reichskanzlei: Eingaben an Heinrich Lammers, Chef der Reichskanzlei. Besonders erinnerlich ist mir ein Konvolut, das sich mit der - talschlich - so genannten etVi€.fr1. "Euthanasia" befasste. Da war ein Pastor Braune, der dagegen tlEinspruch erhob. Und da war, auf komisch kariertem Papier, ein Protest von ~ ~ei~~htenberg. Es war wie eine Enklave des Himmels in der Holle. Von den Predigten des Bischofs Galen hatten wir schon wahrend des Krieges gehort. Sie wurden sogar in England veroffentlicht. Aber hier waren weniger prominente Manner, die offenbar ihr Leben auf's Spiel setzten um das Leben anderer zu retten. Viel spater erfuhr ich Naheres Ober sie. �- 20 - Am 5. November 1943 war der Domprobst Bernhard Lichtenberg nach VerbOssung seiner zweijahrigen Gefangnisstrafe auf dem Weg nach Dachau gestorben. Er hatte, unter anderem, offentlich in Abendandachten in der Hedwigskathedrale in Berlin zum Gebet fOr "die verfolgten nichtarischen Christen und tor die Juden" aufgerufen. Obwohl er das schon lange getan hatte - schon im November 1938 hatte er, wie er selbst in der Gerichtsverhandlung angab, damit begonnen - war er nie van einem Gemeindemitglied denunziert warden. Das taten dann zwei rheinische Studentinnen, die wahrend einer dieser Andachten in der 3l Kirche waren. Der Bericht Ober Lichtenbergs Gestapoverhor hatte Moltke bei einem seiner Besuche bei Bischof Preysing so beeindruckt, dass er ein StOck . . . .. 1· h B ne fe . d ~avon in einem seiner tag 1c en wurde freigegeben - 3 . S'et~ ·1·1e rt e.2-Lie ht en b ergs an~ z1 Le1c he . er war, schwer herzkrank, eines "natOrlichen" Tades gestorben. Sein Bischof, Konrad Preysing, sprach bei seiner Beerdigung, zu der Tausende kamen. Es war die letzte offentliche Kundgebung der Katholiken Berlins. 33 Man muss sich immer wieder vergegenwartigen - und jOngere Generationen konnen es sich kaum vorstellen - in was fOr einem Staat diese Menschen lebten. Das Gerichtsurteil gegen Lichtenberg mag das beleuchten. Die einschlagigen Paragraphen waren Kanzelmissbrauch und Vergehen gegen das HeimtOckegesetz. In der UrteilsbegrOndung steht dazu: " lndem der Angeklagte in seinem Gebet ausdrOcklich tor die Juden und die Gefangenen in den Konzentrationslagern eintrat, befasste er sich offentlich mit den gegen die genannten Personengruppen eingeleiteten staatlichen Massnahmen; denn der Grund dafOr, dass er sie in seine FOrbitte aufnahm, lag nach seiner eigenen Einlassung allein darin, dass er �• 21 • sie um ihrer Rassenzugehorigkeit oder ihrer Weltanschauung willen fOr von den staatlichen Behorden verfolgt ansah. Er hat also in AusObung seines Berufes in einer Kirche vor mehreren Personen Angelegenheiten des Staates zum Gegenstand seiner VerkOndigung gemacht. Dies geschah in einer den offentlichen Frieden getahrdenden Weise. Sowohl die Regelung der Judenfrage wie auch die Bekampfung staatsfeindlicher Elemente durch Anordnung der Vorbeugungshaft in Konzentrationslagern sind Massnahmen des nationalsozialistischen Staates, an denen die gesamte deutsche Bevolkerung Anteil nimmt ..... Dass sich gegen seine Abendandachten bisher niemand beschwert hatte, ..... zeigt nur, wie sehr seine Zuhorer durch ihn schon beeinflusst waren."31 Nun war er also tot. Und inzwischen hatten diese staatlichen Massnahmen sich auf das ganze besetzte Europa ausgedehnt mit dem Erfolg millionenfachen Mord es. In Deutschland war man an die Trennung der sogenannten Mischehen gegangen, deren jOdische oder, wie es damals hiess, "nichtarische" Partner bisher von der Deportation ausgenommen waren. Das tohrte im FrOhjahr 1943 zu der Demonstration Berliner Ehefrauen, denen es wirklich gelang, ihre schon verhafteten Manner noch mal freizukriegen. Der Anlass zur Verhaftung van Hans von Dohnanyi und Dietrich Bonhoeffer Anfang April 1943 war ein Versuch, der auch gelang, einige Juden, als Abwehragenten getarnt, ins neutrale Ausland zu retten. Hans Oster wurde bei dieser Gelegenheit auch kaltgestellt und war tartan in seiner verschworerischen 35" Aktionstahigkeit stark beeintrachtigt. Es war der erste Einbruch des SD in die Abwehr, in der sich ja, angefangen bei Admiral Wilhelm Canaris selbst, eine rege Tatigkeit gegen das Regime entfaltet hatte. ---J:: i'\.j·~-~ �~ Ii ~J 6 ~.::::; • 22 • "'d ..!:::,( =(, ti' -::.., ~,~;­ ':> ~..:;- Da haben wir ein Spektrum von Widerstand, von dem nur _ein Teil zu dem gehOrte, was dann am 20. Juli 1944 in dem Versuch des Attentats und Staatsstreichs gipfelte. Alie diese Manner - und Frauen, wie z.B. Margarete ~ -~ ~ .... ~ ~ un.el ~e-~ ic.id(q,e,{i <'k'.e- tW. ~~ h.s f..14' bc"Jf5~ <~,1z-p.&llc>~ ~~ t>er ~ /!}._ "t'l-l.~ ~ lh~ij l<e)lSommer vom Hilfswerk des Sischoflichen Ordinariats in Berlin/\ und junge Leute wie die Studenten und SchOler der Weissen Rose, all diese - wie man sagt Deutschen setzten ihr Leben ein - und viele verloren es. In Hava Sellers bewegendem Film Ober den deutschen Widerstand, "The Restless Conscience", "Das ruhelose Gewissen", wird ein Teil von Henning von Tresckow's Ausspruch vom 21. Juli 1944 zitiert. lch mochte den fehlenden Teil ~itieren: > " Wenn Gott einst Abraham verheissen hat, er werde Sodom nicht verderben, wenn auch nur zehn Gerechte darin seien, so hoffe ich, dass Gott auch Deutschland um unsertwillen nicht vernichten wird." 3G Ob Tresckow Deutschland 1945, 1949, 1989, oder heute, wohl als "vernichtet" ansehen wOrde? Es handelt sich aber -tor mich- nicht nur um Deutschland. Gewiss, der Widerstand war eine Manifestation des "Anderen Deutschland", und das war nach dem Krieg eine gute Sache, auch fOr diplomatische Werbung im Ausland. Aber nicht darum geht es und nicht nur um Deutschland. Es geht um das, was Helmuth Moltke einmal "das Bild des Menscheo" nannte~f Die Unmenschlichkeit, die die Menschheit in Hitlers Tausendjahrigem Reich erlebte, war vor allem, aber nicht nur, eine Angelegenheit der Deutschenjt>def-\lielleicht-=SO:llto iGt-r= Sagen "de1 61~eutseneA ", eenHie- �- 23 - ~ci+le-5-Se~t~BM~ffi--fi:Hff~~~~ Man sah, was Menschen moglich war. Nach den zwolf Jahren waren es die Beispiele der Menschlichkeit, der Mitmenschlichkeit, die einen wieder Vertrauen zu den Menschen, auch deutschen, fassen liessen. Staatswesen sind pervertierbar. Mehr Menschen sind schwach als base. Wohl denen, die in einem guten Staatswesen leben. Die Deutschen hatten es von 1933 bis 1945 schwer. Nur starke GemOter konnten den Versuchungen und Drohungen des Dritten Reiches widerstehen. DafDr, dass es sie gab, muss man sehr dankbar sein. �Anmerkungen 1. Beate Ruhm von Oppen, Religioh and Resistance to Nazism, Princeton 1971. 2. John Charmley, Churohills biography. 3. The end of glorys a political London 1993. Jtlrgen Heideking und Christof Mauch, Das Herman-Dossiers Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, die deutsche Emigration in Istanbul und der amerikanische ~eheimdienst Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Vierteljahrshefte ftlr Zeitgeschichte (40) 1992, So 574, Anmo 360 4. George F. Kennan, Memoirs 1925-1950, Boston 1967, s. 121; Memoiren eines Diplomaten, Stuttgart 1968, s. 127. deutsch "' 5 0 Beate Ruhm von Oppen,\H~., Helmuth James von Moltke, Briefe an Freya 1939-1945, 6. Mttnchen 1988, Brief vom 13.11.41, Hermann Vinke, Das kurze Leben der Sophie Scholl. s. 317. Ravensburg 1980, So 125. Anm~ 6), s. 7o Vinke, Sophie Scholl (s. 146. 80 Vinke, Sophie Scholl (s. Anm. 6), S. 157. 9 0 Text der "Kurzfassung" mit Begleitbrief des Bischofs in Ger van Roon, German Resistance to Hitler: Count Moltke and the Kreisau Circle, translated by Peter Ludlow, London 1971, So 364-367; Originaltext in Henrik Lindgren, Adam von Trotts Reisen nach Schweden 1942-1944, Vierteljahrshefte ftlr Zeitgeschichte (18), 1970, So 274-291; wiederabgedruckt in Michael Balfour / Julian Frisby, Helmuth von Moltke: A leader against Hitler, London 1972, So 215-224; deutsch in Freya von Moltke / Michael Balfour/ Julian Frisby, Helmuth James von Moltke 1907-1945: Anwalt der Zukunft, Stuttgart 1975, S. 212-2200 10. Wilhelm Ernst Winterhager (Hg.), Der Kreisauer Kreis: Portr~t einer Widerstandsgruppe. Begleitband zu einer Ausstellung der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1985, 11. 12 0 IH-eieiekisg /Ma.Yob' Herman-Dossier (s. Anm. s. 234 f. 3), s. 567-623. ldleia9ki:a-g / Mau.eh,t Herman-Dossier ( s. Anmo 3), So 584 f o �s. 130 Moltke, Briefe (s. Anm. 5), 7.1.44, 14. Herman ... Dossier ... ~ ( s. Anmo 3), S. 590. 15. Peter Hoffmann, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg und seine Brttder, Stuttgart 1992, s. 587. 360. 160 ~id.eking/ M.an-cnJ,Herman-Dossier (s. Anm. 3), s. 588. 170 Herman-Dossier (s. Anmo 3}, So 615-6190 180 Eberhard Bethge (Hgo), Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Widerstand und Ergebungo Briefe und Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft, Neuausgabe, Mttnchen 1970, 190 s. 16-200 Helmuth James von Moltke, Bericht aus Deutschland im Jabre 1943. Letzte Briefe aus dem Gef~ngnis Tegel 1945. Berlin 1971, S 0 1946. 200 Moltke, Briefe (so Anm. 3), Brief vom 9olo43, So 450 f; Eugen Gerstenmaier, Streit und Friede hat seine Zeito Ein Lebensbericht, Berlin 1981, s. 169 f; Die Hassell-Tagebtlcher 1938-1944. Ulrich von Hassell, Aufzeichnungen vom Anderen Deutschland. Nach der Handschrift revidierte und erweiterte Ausgabe unter Mitarbeit von Klaus Peter Reiss herausgegeben von Friedrich Freiherr von Gaertringen, Berlin 1988, So 3470 21. Ihr sch~rfster deutscher Kritiker ist Lothar Kettenacker in seinem Beitrag tiber "Die britische Haltung zum deutschen Widerstand wl!hrend des Zweiten Weltkriegs" in Lothar Kettenacker (Hgo), Das "Andere Deutschland" im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Emigration und Widerstand in internationaler Perspektive, Stuttgart 1977, So 49-740 22. Ger van Roon, Neuordefnung im Widerstando Der Kreisauer Kreis innerhalb der deutschen Widerstahdsbewegung, Mtlnchen 1967, S 0 550-571, und Roman Bleistein (P.g.), Dossier: Kreisauer Kreis. Dokumente aus dem Widerstand gegen den ~ationalsozialismus. Aus dem Nachlass von Lothar K~nig SoJ., Frankfurt am Main 1987, So 239-299 und 337-3530 23 0 Moltke, Bericbt (so Anm. 19), So 38 f. 24. Moltke, Briefe (s. Anm. 5), 25. Ludwig Volk (Hg.), Akten deutscher Bischtlfe Uber die Lage der Kirche 1933-1945. 938-943; Band 6~ s. 12-14. Band 5, Mainz 1983, s. 675-678, 817-819, Mainz 1985, So 19ff, 2lff, 25, 42, 62-65, �99 r, 128, 145, 192, 202, 207, 215-220, 267-270, 283, 285, 291 r., 293, 332, 4290 Fftr Wurms Engagement s. Heinrich Hermelink (Hg.), Kirche im Kampf, Tttbingen 1950, s. 654 ff, 659r., sovie Gerhard ScQ~fer (Hg.), Landesbischof Wurm und der nationalsozialistis9he Staat 1940-1945. Eine Dokumentation. Stuttgart 1968, s. 149 ff., 160 ff., 163 f., 165 fo 26. So "Protokoll der Plenarkonferenz des deutschen Episkopats, Fulda, 17o-19o August 1943 11 in Volk, Bischofsakten (s. Anm. 25), Band 6, 133-146, und "Hirtenwort des deutschen Episkopats vom 19.8.43 - am 29.8.43 verlesen", s. 178-184, sowie "Hirtenwort ttber die Zehn Gebote vom 19.s.43 - verlesen am 12.9.43 11 , s. 197205. Siehe auch zwei Entwtirfe von Eingaben des deutschen Episkopats vom ~2./23o August 1943 gegen die Aufl6sung der Mischehen und d~"Evakuierung der Nichtarier", f 0 216 ff.· und 22or. Ftir die"Handreichung an die Pfarrer und Altesten zum fttnften Gebot der letzten altpreussischen Bekenntnissynode vom ft 16.-17. Oktober 1943 So Eberhard Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Theologe, Christ, Zsitgenosse. Mtinchen 1967, So 795-797. Heinz Boberach (Hg.), Berichte des SD und der Gestapo Uber Kirchen 'und Kirchenvolk in Deutschland 1934-1944. Main~l971, Nr. 264, s. 850-855, besonders 853 Fo 280 Moltke, Briefe (so Anm. 5), Brief vom 5.6.43, s. 484-486, vom 7.6.43, s. 488, vom 12.9.43, s. 537, vom 4.-5.10.43, s. 550-552. 29. Moltke, Briefe (s. Anm. 5), Brief vom 5.-8.6.43, So 488-491. 30. Fttr die umfassende Darstellung der Auslandskontakte des deutschen Widerstands siehe Klemens von Klemperer, German resistance against Hitler: the search for allies abroad 1938-1945. Oxford 1992. Das Buch ist dem Andenken der beiden 6kumenischen Haupthelfer, George Bell und W.A. Visser 1 t Hoof~gewidmet. 310 Alfons Erb, Bernhard Lichtenberg, Domprobst von St. Hedwig zu Berlin. 5o Aufl., Berlin 1968, 5), s. 80. 32. Moltke, Briefe (s. Anm. Brief vom 14.11.41, 33. Erb, Lichtenberg (s. Anm. 31), s. 136-138. 34. Erb, Lichtenberg (s. Anmo 31), s. 104-105. 350 Bethge, Bonhoeffer (s. Anmo 26), So 878-885. s. 319-323. �36. Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Offiziera gegan Hitler. Neue, durchgesehene und erweiterte Ausgabe von Walter Bussmann. Nach der Edition von Gero von So Gaevernitz. 37. ~erlin 1984, So 129.- Bo Balfour/ Frisby, Moltke (Anm. 9), s. 184-186; deutsch in Moltke/ Balfour/ Frisby (Anmo 9), So 184-187 (unvollstlindig). � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Language A language of the resource German English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context lec Ruhm von Oppen 1993-07-19 FaFi-Ruhm von OppenB026 Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/3b5bc63bb0823e9b33a972829480cd46.pdf 030d5f750ae26fb15e69fb1db932fe8d PDF Text Text Calendar Arts It is easy and safe to conclude that Mr. William Saroyan's vantage on the stage as opposed t o the At the Circle today and on Sunday at the Capitol is The Human Comedy-a long film at least. about everybody good. The hero and ST. JOHN'S. COLLEGE Fri., May 14-Sat., May 22, l It's all everybody is 2 : 0 0 - 3 d 5 P. M. · fruit grower who regrets the fact that 7 :00-7 :45 P. M. 7:00-8:00 P. M. 8 :00 P. M. Great Hali Gymnasium Humphreys liiJi McDowell 21 Great Hall Facio virtutem voluptatibus verbisque Great Hall Gymnasium McDowell 24 The busy B's of the faculty continued to hold the spotlight on the lecture platform last week, with Mr. Bingley speaking on "Arithmetic." Actually. Mr. Bingley did not confiae himself to that art, but had something 10 say on at least the foundations and principles of all mathematics. Saturday, May 15: 8:30 A. M. 9:30-12:00 M. his trees are not ripe so that the kids 1 O: 3 0 A. M. can swipe the fruit . Sunday, May 16 Against all this is the fact that we so seldom come across any good dialogue in movies (Diction · . 3 :00- 5 :OO P. M. 8:00 P. M. being one of the six constituent parts), that more of the film seems better than it is than is. All of the scenes with Mickey Rooney in them luckily have someone else around who can act. To start things off with a bang next week, the management of the Circle is presenting White Savage , " thrills untamed, " exclamation point. You know who 's in this-Sahu. A lot of old Technicolor film being reused plus a Recorded Concert Revolution: War and Peace. Series II, No. 12 Monday, May 17: 8 :30 A. M. 2:00-3:10 P. M. 7 :00-7 :45 P . M. Chapel Service Military Athletics Chorus Rehearsal Tuesday, May 18: 8:30 A. M. 2 : 0 0 ~ 3 : l 5 P . M. 5 :00-6 :00 P. M . 7 :00 - 8 :00 P. M. Chapel Service Military Athletics Recorded Music Bible Class Wednesday, May 19: actresses about the time of The Sign of the Cross ( guess that pretty well 8:30 A. M. 2:00 - 3:15 P. M. 7:30 P. M. settles us for eternity ) has returned of late to the idiom of the film in Car- 8 :30 A. M . With her returns Otto Kruger, also late. Corregidor is about Corregidor, 2:00 - 3 : 15 P. M . 7:30 P. M. as Wake Island was about Wake Island. island. Corregidoc reminds us of Wake Wake Island reminds us of Wake Island. Corregidoc reminds us . . into the mist of memory. The Eve of St. Mark persists at Chapel Siervice Military Athletics College Meeting Friday, May 21: 8:30 A. M. 2 :00 - 3 :.15 P. M. 7 :00-7 :45 P . M. 7:00-8:00 P . M . 8:00 P. M. the National for the rest of the week. Starting on Monday is The Merry Makers , vaudeville with 12-Big ActsI 2. More information available but unprintable. Chapel Service Military Athletics Cotillion Board Meeting Thursday, May 20 : regidor, at the Republic on Sunday. Chapel Service Military Athletics Chorus Rehearsal Bible Class Formal Lecture - The Periodic TableAnthony Standen Saturday, May 22: 8: 3 0 A. M . 10:00 P. M ..-2:00 A. M. Trivium and quadrivium each have language of their own , arithmetic Humphreys Hall (or algebra, the distinction between w ·oodward Hall the two was never quite made; the Cartesian Mephistopheles was undoubtedly present), being the language of the latter. And it is easily seen bow superior mathematical language is to all other kinds : for they are amGreat Hall biguous and denote ideas only imperGymnasium Humphreys Hall fectly, while it symbolizes (or even is; this question was hotly disputed in the question period) nothing but clear and distinct ideas. Great Hall Gymnasium One reason why words signify so Humphreys Hall poorly, is that they have impositions McDowell 21 md intentions, while mathematical symbols do not. "Pentasyllabic is pentasyllabic" is a perfectly true senGreat Hall tence, and not a mere identity, but to Gymnuisam unravel it requires a lot of unnecessary Paca Social R labor, merely because the author did not choose to make his intention, and therefo re that of the words, immediately apparent. What is needed then is a quasi-Cartesian revolution of language. Great Hall Gymnasium After thus establishing a safe basis Great Hall fo r mathematical discussion, Mr. Bingley proceeded to show us some glimpses of arithmetical grammar. Great Hall From the generation of integers. and Gymnasium from certain fundamental laws , as well Humphreys Hall as the law of contradiction, it is posMcDowell 2 1 sible to construct the entire edifice of Great Hall arithmetic. The lecturer rather emphatically denied that mathematics is nothing but something to be applied to the physical world. Nevertheless, it is clear that it can, and has been, apGreat Hall plied most successfully even though Iglehart Hall 3 spare earthquake. Elissa Landi. one of our favorite 3+4 == 0 Chapel Service Military Athletics Chorus Rehearsal Bible Class F ormal Lecture--Palestcina' s M issa Brevis -St. John's College Community Chorus rich girl he is about to marry telling There is a mad ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1943 Chapel Service Athletics Faculty Meeting 8 :30 A. M. heroes) spends a half-hour with the her but everybody. No. 1 Price: 1 Oc Friday, May 14: (well, one of the her that life is good and he loves, not St. J.ohn's Coll eg1an VoLfvI- incessant springtime is displayed to its best adscreen. • ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN Page 4 Chapel Service Senior Ball that is not its main function. Why it is possible t o do this, did not become The President delivered a lecture quite clear, h owever. The question period was rather that may be characterized-even stiglively, if esoteric. The most inter- matized- as a trifle too trivial. The concern was largely to point out the inesting position to arise was this: dispensability of grammar to predicaMathematics is pursued merely for tion; this would seem almost to be pleasure, like music. Its laws are obvious. His second point was chat completely arbitrary, although they grammar must never fo rget its purmust forever conform with the law of pose, which is the facilitation of predicontradiction. For if not, mathecation; this seems hardly less commatics would obviously have to cease prehensible. existing, and the pleasures involved in In any event, then, it appears that it as well. And why is it possible to treat the physical universe mache- the parts of speech are reflection of macically? That, it appears, is a kind the Aristotelian categories; the gramof grand accident, for things happen to mar, or the use of those parts, is the have mathematical structures. We refl.t>ction of the employment of the wish Mr. Comenetz could have joined categories, or logic. In somewhat the the discussion. same way that the Homeric gods utilize mortals, so we words, with gramWe cannot help but finish with a mar as the tool. Grammar, then, puzzle which perhaps will shed some stands to ideas in the relationship of light on the question of whether means to ends. words are really poorer signifiers than mathematical symbols. We are able to The danger, of course, is clear; it relate this through courtesy of the is that of substitution of means for ends. Periodically this occurs, and Dean. when it does, distrustful of the gram"Let all words be divided into two matical structure that has apparently classes, namely into antonyms and lose direct reference to ideas, or to heteronyms. Let autonyms be de- reality (the exact connection, or disfined as those words which signify tinction, was not belabored), civilizachem selves (such as "word," "penta- tions eventually discard the old strucsyllabic"), and heteronyms as those ture or discover a new interpretation. words signifying something other than This actually occurred . during the themselves. The question then is: Is Renaissance, when the dormant vitality "heteronym" an antonym or a of the Greeks effected a comeback. But heteronym? if the generations of scholasticists beBut he who treats the trivium thus tween the Greeks and the Renaissance quadrivially can expect no mercy. had not preserved the letter, the spirit PETER WOLFF. had .-lso been lost. The least satisfactory, as well as the most important, point was thl! particular matter of the reflection in grammatical predicates of material Mr. Richard F. Cleveland, member predication. In what sense, and by of the firm of Semmes, Bowen ~ means of what faculty, neither the Semmes, will lecture tonight on Law. truth nor the relevancy of the propoA ~ember of the Board of Visitors sition was asserted; though obviously grammar must imply material prediand Governors since 1930, Mr. Clevecation. What Mr. Barr called the land is the son of Grover Cleveland. "fundamental mystery of reading" He is a graduate of Princeton Uni- turns out a'tually to be the fundaversity and Harvard Law School. mental mystery of predication. For Barr On Grammar Lecturer Tonight �Page 2 ST. after all written words are but symbols of spoken ones; and then the mystery turns out to be memory, itself indeed at least as great a mystery, but anyhow a different one. This means that in the structure of grammar is implicit logic. . Different grammars are commonly indicative of a common logic. The example was given of air and naval warfare; the maneuvers of the latters are translated into the terms of the former. A translation from one grammar to another does, then, not consist of a mere substitution of identities. The important thing is that similar ideas (for they cannot be the same) be conveyed, that the logic be preserved. Finally, the value of grammar to civilization. It is impracticable, if not impossible, for each generation to recreate all the culture, to regenerate all ideas. Therefore are necessary formulae , which will preserve the ideas that they may be later interpreted and utilized. Institutions, long buried in mere convention , may re-appear with :i new meaning. Commitment to rote and systematization has the property that it is seldom completely devoid of enlightenment (viz : insight) . Grammar has, finally, the purposes of seeing that something true may be said, and that some one, :mmtime, can understand it. Which might have been given as a ddinition. H.T.W. War Meeting COLLEGIAN He made clear that by Liberal Arts he meant the men who represent and practise them. They were the leaders -in better times, spiritual,-now, physical as well ; but in these men, the detrimental effects of comfortable living would normally appear first. Norway, said Mr. Pans-Grunt, has had a long tradition of social reformers, of intellectuals, poets, and writers. The government was one of the most efficient and democratic in the world. The intelligentsia of the present upbeld the traditions of past generations, and refused valiantly to accept anything which was contrary to their old conceptions of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. The remainder of the talk was mainly an enumeration of the methods used by the Germans either to convert the people of Norway to their principles, or to suppress them · w ith ruthless force. Needless to say, they were all unsuccessful. There were two more items in this speech worthy of mention. First, the recitation of a poem written by a Norwegian as early as 19 3 6, calling on all the world to realize the danger which was about to descend on them. This may be considered wishy-washy emotional appear, but it was anything but that ; in fact I want to go as far as to call it the high point of the speech. The second was his mention of the inability of the Germans to understand the psychology of others-one of the chief factors in the eventual defeat of the Reich. In this, the first of a series of SunHowever, w e must attach this quesday evening talks on the Progress of tion: How much did he actually say, the War, we had with us Mr. Olav and hdw much of it was propaganda? Paus-Grunt, former professor at the His accounts of the German beUniversity of Oslo, now w ith the Nor- baviour in regard to the teachers showwegian Government in Exile and at- ed very clearly that the teachers and tached to the OWi. His subject was : intelligentsia were being mistreated, but The L iberal Arts in Norway Under it neither proved a point nor caused an y controversy. I even venture so the Nazis. Mr. Paus-Grunt started by men- far as to say that Mr. Paus-Grunt tioning an important fact-as far as was getting off the subject. I also Americans are concerned-namely, the wonder what the intelligentsia would difficulty which the American public do without the common people ; the has in appreciating the hardships of fact that they were not mentioned at other countries, especially if they are all indicated that they did not seem so small and so distant as is the case important to him . He seems to have with Norway. The same time, he did forgotten that a revolt's success denot let us forget, that in spite of w hat pends on the co-operation of the is happening to them, the people of masses, and not necessarily on the Norway continue to fight the invaders. leadership of the intelligentsia alone. ST. And the question of its Prop~ content? Many citizens of sman tions are captivated by a narr 0 ,, of patriotism which makes country seem the be-all and end.all democratic, efficient, and all-ar capable government. For all this, Mr. Pans-Grunt helped to clarify the position and stitutions of a country which is k . . n to Amencans only through the llled' of Hollywood films . C. BRUGGMA'M>.·. ••11 Student Employment Bureau Even before Mr. Comenetz officially the ban on pleasure, r 'IV • was generally supported, spiritu•U • at least, by the Freshman converts Platonism, there was asserted a Prop sition about all work and no play a its consequence. The validity of proposition has hardly ever been qa tioned seriously. To do so wo presuppose a new statement of the ture of man, which is undesira since we have not yet begun to cover from the last attempt by D cartes and its resulting chaos. proposition stand as true. . . . . . Smce the propos1uon ts true, a smce the College does. not wish top~ duce dull boys, evidently a certait amount of pleasure should be sought . d' . . 1 b not m iscnmmate y, Y all mem f h C 0 II N 0 t e ege. ow some pleasu · d b ·· are game only y means of an UIJ· t' 1 tl f f d · · ta ou ay o un s, I.e.-mov1 dances, books. These funds may gotten by the pleasure seeker eitba ~College Meeting . 'fbnrsday night it was announced ~n Meeting th at M r. Kaplan will college . . f new Bible class and, if a su tart a umber of students is mtereste d , · · ' . fic1ent n ·u also lead a group for the study be 1\11 h . d f Hebrew. M r. Bue anan pomte 0 bat the t wo greatest influences on 0 ot t n thought have been the Greek w~~r . . . Through be Judaic trad1t1ons. ao d t . ·cal acciden ts the study of the btStOCI , bas been stressed to the d1sadfof!Jler vanta ge of the latter. . The Dean be. . that an undrst andmg of It would 1tves . . h' k bring about a revolution m our t m jog. .Mr. Buchanan also commented on th e attendance rules, pointing out that b rhey are by no means arbitrary, ut designed to aid the learning process. Sports Diary MONDA Y-Pinkney-Paca touched off the season w ith a rousing but loosely played 10-9 battle. Paca' s downfall came on an error. a walk, and Barton's solid hit to right in the twelfth inning. Tom Robertson, the Paca pitcher, limited the winners to eight hits, but sloppy fielding turned the tide. Paca blew an eight-run lead in the sixth. committing seven errors, which, combined with four hits, in. eluding D'1c k V an D er V oort ,s h omer, . · put Pmkney b ac k m t h e game. N p· k , h h ewton, m ney s ur1 er, was t e . lh h h II d winner, at oug e a owe numerous h' H h ff h. b h its. owe ver, e o set t is y s ow· · · 1 d'd contro I' givmg up on IY 1 mg sp en two walks, one of which was inten- tional. Dan Barber and Robertson led the Paca-Carroll nine, evenly di.. . . v1d1ng six safeties. Israel and J obn from a benefactor or an employer. U Wakefield paced the Pinkney attack from an employer, problems may w'tb 3 d h' · I • • • 1 an 2 Its, respective y. arise, I.e.-Who is a potenual em· TUESDAY- Ch ase- S tone, rap1'di y ployer? How do I meet her? Am becoming a big threat to t he defending I qualified fo r the so rt of employmenl champ1ons , W est p·In k ney, overran . she has to offer? The Student Em· Randall to the tune of 13 to 6 . Pilployment Bureau offers the answers to ing up an eleven-run lead in the first ·th these and many other puzzling ques- lour 1nmngs, t h e F res h men, w 1 thei' r · . tions in the minds of prospective em· twirler, Van Sant, loosened up and ployees from among the Studenl allowed fou r tallies to cross the plate Body. Also , for the small sum of in the final five frames. Ross, of the three dollars (paid to Messrs. Rocktf winners, lead t he day with a double and Bruggmann, current operators of nd a triple, while Scot Desjardins the Bureau) , the employee potential· lammed out 3 for 5 . ities of any student may becollll WEDNESDAY -West Pinkney, actualized. R. C. JOHN ' S COLLEGIAN slammed out 22 hits and buried Randall under a deluge of 25 runs. The Upperclassmen inanaged, somehow, to cross the plate four times. Leon Israel slammed his second double of the season and Perry uncorked a long homer. "Ham" Durning, one of the league's top pitchers, won his initial game of the season. Page 3 Ian Robertson ' s home run along the right-field line, to lead Pinkney 4-0. But the defending champions, aided by a multitude of errors, managed to score seven times in the last of the third and added three more in the fourth . This was a lead the Pinkney nine never forfeited ; and, behind " Ham" Durning, they coasted to an 11-8 triumph. The versatile second baseman, Scot Desjardins, continued his 3 for 5 days, and . added in with some fine plays at se.:ond and short. Leon Israel drove 3 hits , including a double, while Barton and Congrove played good ball. THURSDAY - This day saw anothe~ one-sided slugfest, with ChaseStone adding to Paca-Carroll' s woes with a crushing 22-4 victory. Van Sant won his second game of the season , and was ably supported afield and at the plate. Bill Ross drove his secThe Chase-Stone team; however, is end double of the year, while Dick still a very potent threat t o P inkney's Maury cashed in with a homer and a high hopes of another championsh ip. triple. Desjardins again had a 3 for WEDNESDA y Randall came 5 day, and played beautiful ball at . h b k ng t ac to win it s second victory second base. in a row, routing a m akeshift ChaseFRIDAY-The battle for last place Stone aggregation, 20-7. The uppe rwas on , and Paca-Carroll won it with classmen, aided by many errors and ease, dropping a game to Randall, with t imely hits, managed to sew the game a score that sounded like football. Of up in the opening innings, allo wi ng the forty-five runs that came across, E ric N ussbaum t o coast to h is second Randall scored 28 , while Paca had to triumph. Ben P erry, Wensel, and be satisfied with the remaining 17. Eric Cochran each had a home run to pace Nussbaum was the winning flinger, the Randall attack. George Van Sant while George Smith, who tried to help was the losing hurler, the def eat being out with two homers. was charged his first of the season. with the loss, his second so far. This game was also sparked by some brilTHURSDAY-Chase-Stone, play . ' 1tant p Iays b y t h e p aca sh ortstop, p at 1ng for the tb1"rd consecut1've day' Welch. slammed out 23 hits to crush PacaCarroll again, 25-13. Maury and UESDAY Th b 1 f fi T e att e or rst Robertson each had four hits for the place·, and Chase-Stone's hurler, Dick winners, the former driving a long Maury, started off in fine form , fantriple along the right-field line. Scot ning five of the first six men to face Desjardins, of the winners, and Dan him. And to add insult to injury, the Freshman drove in four runs in the Barber of Paca had 3 hits each. third, three being accounted for on R. ===== === =========='== ==== ======== =I.=== SOFTBALL RECORDS To Thurs., July 29 SOFTBALL STANDINGS ~· L~ West Pinkney --------- --- - - -- -- - Chase-Stone -- - - - ------ - - ------Randall - - - -- - - ---- - - - ------- -Paca-Carroll - - -- - - --- - --------- 3 2 0 2 2 4 P ct. 1.000 . 600 . 500 . 000 G .B. H. 9 AVE . FIVE LEADING BATTERS A .B. [srael, West Pinkney __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _____ _ ____ _ Barbet, Paca-Carroll -------------- - - -- Desjardins, Chase-Stone __ ________ ______ T . Robertson, Paca-Carroll _ __ __ _ ____ _ __ _ [. Robertson, Chase-Stone __ __ _ _ ____ _ __ _ _ 15 2l 22 15 25 Ut for more blood, and priming up HOME RUNS-Smith, Paca; Perry, Randall, 2. or the big tussle with Chase-Stone, Chase-Stone, 2. DOUBLES-Israel, Pinkney, 3 . I Vi 3 Vi . 600 .5 71 . 54 5 .53 3 .480 TRIPLES-Maury, 12 12 8 12 �ST. Arts COLLEGIAN IQueen N. B. llAB Elizabeth was a man and bpt up the farce for political reasons. Off- The atoms of Democritus, Shortly after the invention of the hand, we don't believe it. And Newton's particles of light m otion-picture, the Editors of the COLAre sands upon the Red Sea sho LEGIAN dared us to have our say *A phenomenon which we have Where Israel's tents shine brig~ about the frivolous and fine arts in often n oticed. WILLIAM BLA~ print. We t ook up the dare. Since that time the fil m industry has blossomed and grown into something big CALENDAR and beautiful. We haven't. we have suffered much at the hands of the popular artists. Our motto persists: "It is sensible and to be present is enough to separate the future. If it come to happen that there is no eraser then certainly there is no cause why there should be."* This is the reason. Lady of Burlesque (at the Capitol today and t omorrow ) doesn't aspire to the heights of realism but that's just as well. It is amusing and interesting. Based on Gypsy Rose Lee's G-String Murder, the film only confounds confu sion. N o one is certain, not even the police, about who got murdered and by whom. But then, we weren't particularly interested. Barbara Stanwyck, back in her old medium. is remarkable, to say the least. The Constant Nymph arrives on Sunday at the Circle. This provides the serious m oment for the week. Charles Boyer continues to struggle with the language but with handsome results. In spite of this, The Constant Nymph we endorse heartily. In addition to Mr. Boyer, there is Joan F ontaine and Charles Coburn, both of whom are excellent. And Dame May Whitty bangs around for a minute or two. The less said about what's playing at the Republic, the better. The theatre itself, however, is also very cool. 1\t the National in Washington is Junior Miss, playing at summer stock prices. It is called "the gayest comedy of all," but don't believe it. Be&ides-this reminds us of the old one that goe~: , "I know a joke, let's write a play." In Baltimore there is more to choose from. At the Maryland, Fred Stone plays Father in Y ou Can't Take It W itb You this week. At the Hilltop Theatre a new play by Bryan and G dd ard ca II ed L ess Majesty will be JO produced. The thesis of this is that t. John's Collegian VoJ.LvI-No. 2· ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1943 lus Oritur To lectu re on Law at this college \\'itbout Thomistic convictions is to Fri., July 30 - Sat., Aug. 7, 1 taunt that (faded) purple caret which symbolizes blood fiowp Friday, July 30: ·ng from an accursed house. That l 3 :00 -5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus chis can be done sincerely and know5:00 P. M. V esper Service Great Hall jngly last Friday's lecturer ably dem. h 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. Music Seminar Humphreys IiaD onstrated. Mr. Ric ard Cleveland, · 1 d 7:0 0 P. M. Bible Class McDowell 22 racticing Baltimore awyer an memP . . 8:00 P. M. Formal Lecture-Law Great Hall ber of the Boar d o f V mtors and Gov-Richard Cleveland ernors since 1930 , possesses a stout heart coupled with the Anglo-Saxon Saturday, July 31: trait of taking the painfully obvious . 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. Athletics Back Campus for granted. 1n the question -period 2:00 P. M. Boat Club Meeting McDowell 21 bis sensitivity for this axiom of good 2:00 P. M. caste at times clogged progress in mu First Aid Class McDowell 24 cual understanding, and mildly offendSunday, August l: td cbe metaphysically inclined, but his 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. . Recorded Concert McDowell Plaza practical expenence 1ent much weight co the replies he offered. Monday, August 2: Mr. Cleveland defined the Law as 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus cbe body of rules which govern men 5:00 P. M. Vesper Service Great Hall and which are enforced by the courts. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. Recorded Concert McDowell Plaza The genesis and significance of these rules were treated in matter-of-fact Tuesday, August 3: fashion : The need for law is preci3 :00 -5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus pirated by controversies which arise 7:00 P. M. McDowell 22 Bible Class as soon as human communities develop Wednesday, August 4: beyond the tribal level,-when commme and wealth (especially in the 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. R ecorded Concert M cDowell Plaza form of property) assume more importance in the culture of those peo7:00 P. M. McDowell 23 Year Book Meeting Humphreys Hall pies invol ved. Its coming implies some 8:00 P. M. Meeting of the Madrigal sort of order or pattern for society. Group The highly developed Roman law was Thursday, August 5: cited as a very successful attempt to 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus meet the legal problem. In fact , the in5:00P.M. Vesper Service Great Hall ftuence of this system upon the sue7:30 P. M. College Meeting Great Hall ceeding nations of the European continent effected the different perspective Friday, August 6: from which Europeans view legal re3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Back Campus Athletics lations, as contrasted with the English, 5:00 P. M. Vesper Service Great Hall and later the American , tradition. 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. Humphreys Hall Music Seminar A brief summary of the developMcDowell 22 Bible Class <:OO P. M. ment of the English Law began with 8:00 P. M. Great Hall Formal Lecture-to be the creation of the office of the travelannounced ing justice in 118 7 by Henry II for tbe purpose of settling controversies. Saturday, August 7: (Today the legal emphasis is preven10 :30 A. M.-12 :00 M. Back Camp us Athletics tion of disagreement.) Soon a strict .THE S'T. JOII,N'S COLLEGIAN is the official news organ of St. John's Coll Procedure bad crystallized. Those litipublished every Friday during the academic year. Entered as second class ma gants not versed in his verbis had ~.cio~~~. 15. 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, under the Act of :Ma friends appear for them, though at ST. JOH N'S COLLEGE Price: l Oc first these substitutes were allowed only to plead as "mouthpieces" in a strictly literal sense. Gradually attornies added personality to words. The Common Law, still the basis of the English legal system, came into being as judges' notes of decisions in specific cases. Mr. Cleveland found here a fundamental though not insoluble antinomy in legal thinking, for statute law, passed by properly constituted legislative bodies, is more general in form, stands perhaps in relation to the empiric mosaic of specific decisions as algebra to arithmetic. In 1287 King Edward decided that the Bar should The lecturer's love for his profession was quite in evidence in bis concluding remarks. He quickly sketched the professions as those vocations, requiring special knowledge and training, which transcend commercial motivation when practiced on their proper level. The professions are self-disciplined and most intimately concerned with the profoundest human problems. STEPHEN BERGEN. __ assume self-government and discipline. Sixteen years later all matriculating lawyers were required to swear the Oath, pledging honesty, aloofness from chat St. John's tradition was fully revived and reinstated in the minds of men. At the same time was observed · t h e marnage o f t h'is very el' 'bl e b ach 1g1 elor with the Film Club, another St. John's standby, and the honeymoon so far is proceeding without interruptions or eruptions of importance. This eligibility consists, very rigbtly, in the social importance of the group upon our campus. It bas up to now had complete control of all college activities in which chose members of the fairer sex were involved, which activities without doubt are important even to liberal artists. In other words, the Cotillion Club always puts on the dances, and shall happily continue to do so despite adverse conditions this year. These will be probably all movie dances, which consist of a popular but good movie such as "The Cat and the Canary," "The La.dy Vanishes," starting around 10 :00 and lasting till about 1 1 : 3 0. Then dancing starts, till two, to records in a half of the gym. The other half is filled with tables covered with red-checked table cloths, which give a feeling of a Greenwich Village Tavern; on the tables are whiskey bottles with candles in them which remind one of pirates- the combination is wonderful and invigorating. Mr. ~orman is always waging a terrifie game of bridge in the center table, while Ed Cochran rushes around trying to find someone to run the pbonograph so he can have just one dance deceit, and maintenance of clients' rights. In the main the early legal history of the United States was traced out by a people with a firm belief in democratic institutions. Hence the more extensive scope of statute law here than in England. This tendency was strongly related to the evolution of English parliamentary power in the l 7t.h and 18th centuries. The 19th century did not realize much innovation in legal matters but was a time of consolidation and more complete adaptation of the English Common Law to the peculiar conditions of our country. The last section of the lecture was the most controversial: Mr. Cleveland on natural law. The thesis that lawyers are the high priests of the status quo was developed in conjunction with a discussion of stability versus change in law. Lawyers are sought for advice on the existing legal situation :-hence the need for stability , lest particular legal knowledge become useless because continually outdated. However, the principle of equity is a saving factor in preventing stability from degenerating into inertia. Natural law is only approximated in particular legal for mations, and (for Mr. Cleveland) is vaguely some sort of Aristotelian mean between two extremes. Cotillion Club Tb e t b eory o f remcarnatton, as ap· · l' d C ou·11·ion Cl u b s, seems to be P 1e to · 'fi quite ven abl e; for several days ago � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Student publication The Collegian https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/855a264e7366b6e70096ec4a370f0e23.pdf 8a54ff9c983f413616b5dc0bbf08f2ba PDF Text Text ST. Arts JOHN'S COLLEGIAN IQueen N. B. llAB Elizabeth was a man and kept up the far ce for political reasons. Off- T he atoms of D emocritus, Sho rtly after the invent ion of the hand, we don't believe it. And N ewton's p articles of light m otion-picture, the E ditors of the COLAre sands upon the Red Sea sho L EGIAN dared us to have our say *A phenomenon which we have Where Israel's tents shine brig~ about the frivolous and fine arts in often n oticed. WILLIAM BLA J) rint. We t ook up the dare. Since that time the fil m industry has blossomed and grown into something big CALENDAR and beautiful. We haven't. We have suffered much at the hands of the pop ular artists. O ur motto persists: "It is sensible and to be present is enough to separate the future. If it come to happen that there is no eraser then certainly there is no cause why there sh ould be."* T his is the reason. ST. JOH N'S COLL E GE At the National in Washington is Junio r Miss, playing at summer stock prices. It is called "the gayest comedy of all," but don't believe it. Be&ides-this reminds us of the old one that goe~: . "I know a joke, let's write a play." Sat., Aug. 7, I Fridiay, July 30 : 3 :0 0 - 5 :00 P. M. 5: 00 P. M. 6 :30- 8 :0 0 P. M. 7 :00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. Lady of Burlesque (at the Capitol t oday and tomorro w) doesn't aspire to the heights of realism but that's just Saturday, July 31: as well. It is amusing and interesting. 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. Based on Gypsy Rose Lee's G-String 2:00 P. M. Murder, the film only confounds con 2:00 P. M. fu sion. N o one is certain, not even the p olice, abo ut who got murdered Sunday, August 1 : and by whom. But then, we weren't 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. particularly interested. Barbara Stanwyck, back in her old medium, is re- Monday, August 2: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. markable, to say the least. 5:00 P. M. T he Constant Nymph arrives on 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. Sunday at the Circle. This provides the serious m oment for the week. Tuesday, August 3: Charles Boyer continues to struggle 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. with the language but with handsome 7:00 P. M. results. In spite of this, The Constant Nymph we endorse h eartily. In Wednesday, Augu st 4: addition to Mr. Boyer, there is Joan 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. F ontaine and Charles Coburn, both of 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. whom are excellent. And Dame May 7:00 P . M. Whitty hangs around for a minute or 8 :00 P. M. two. The less said about what's playing at the Republic, the better. The theatre itself, however, is also very cool. Fri., July 30 - Athletics Vespe r Service M usic Seminar Bible Class F ormal Lecture-Law -Richard Cleveland Back C ampus G reat H all Humphreys Hall McDowell 22 G reat Hall Athletics Boat Club Meeting First Aid Class Back C ampus McDowell 21 M cD owell 24 Recorded Concert McDowell Plaza Athletics Vesper Service Recorded Concert Back Campus Great Hall McDowell Plaza Athletics Bible Class Back Campus McDowell 22 Athletics R ecorded Concert Year Book M eetin g Meeting of the Madrigal Group Back Campus McDowell Plaza McDowell 23 Humphreys Hall Athletics Vesper Service College Meeting Back Cam pus Great Hall Great Hall Athletics Vesper Service Music Seminar Bible Class Formal Lecture- to be announced Back Camp us Great Hall Humphreys Hall McDo well 22 Great Hall Thursday, August 5: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5:00 P. M. 7:30 P. M. Friday, August 6: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5:00 P. M. 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. <:OO P. M. 8:00 P. M. In Baltimore there is more to choose from. At the Maryland, Fred Stone Saturday, August 7: plays Father in Y ou Can't Take It Back Campus Athletics With You this week. At the Hill- 10 :30 A. M.-12 :00 M. top Theatre a new play by Bryan and THE S'T. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN is the official news organ of St. Goddard called Less Majesty will be publi shed every Friday during the academic year. Entered as second class lll produced. The thesis of this is that ?,cio:;~. 15, 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, under the Act of :M t. John's Collegian VoJ.LVI-No. 2· ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1943 lus Oritur first these substitutes were allowed only to plead as "mouthpieces" in a strictly literal sense. Gradually at tornies added personality to words. The Common Law, still the basis of the English legal system, came into being as judges' notes of decisions in specific cases. Mr. Cleveland found here a fundamental though not insoluble antinomy in legal thinking, for statute law, passed by properly constituted legislative bodies, is more general in form, stands perhaps in relation to the empiric mosaic of specific decisions as algebra to arithmetic. In I 2 8 7 King Edward decided that the Bar should assume self -government and discipline. Sixteen years later all matriculating lawyers were required to swear the Oath, pledging honesty, aloofness from To lecture on Law at this college \\'itbout Thomistic convictions is to taunt that (faded) purple caret which symbolizes blood tlowp jng from an accursed house. That this can be done sincerely and knowingly last Friday's lecturer ably demonstrated. Mr. Richard Cleveland, practicing Baltimore lawyer and member of the Board of Visitors and Governors since 193 0, possesses a stout heart coupled with the Anglo-Saxon trait of taking the painfully obvious for gra nted. In the question-period bis sensitivity for this axiom of good taste at times clogged progress in mutual understanding, and mildly offended the metaphysically inclined, but his practical experience lent much weight to the replies he offered. deceit, Mr. Cleveland defined the Law as the body of rules which govern men and wh ich are enforced by the courts. The genesis and significance of these rules were treated in matter-of-fact fashion : The need for law is precipitated by controversies which arise as soon as human communities develop beyond the tribal level,- when commerce and wealth (especially in the form of property) assume more importance in the culture of those peoples involved. Its coming implies some sort of order or pattern for society. The highly developed Roman law was cited as a very successful attempt to meet the legal problem. In fact , the inftuence of this system upon the sueceeding nations of the European continent effected t he different perspective from which Europeans view legal relations. as contrasted with the English, and la ter the American, tradition. A brief summary of the development of the English Law began with the creation of the office of the traveling justice in 118 7 by Henry II for the pu rpose of settling controversies. (Today the legal emphasis is preoention of disag reement. ) Soon a strict Ptocedure had crystallized. Those liti13 nts not versed in his verbis had friends appear for them, though at and maintenance of clients' rights. In the main the early legal history of the United States was traced out by a people with a firm belief in democratic institutions. Hence the more extensive scope of statute law here than in England. This tendency was strongly related to the evolution of English parliamentary power in the l 7t.h and 18th centuries. The 19th century did not realize much innovation in legal matters but was a time of consolidation and more complete adaptation of the English Common Law to the peculiar conditions of our country. The last section of the lecture was the most controversial: Mr. Cleveland on natural law. The thesis that lawyers are the high priests of the status qu o was developed in con junction with a discussion of stability versus change in law. Lawyers are sought for advice on the existing legal situation :- hence the need for stability , lest particular legal knowledge become useless because continually outdated. However, the principle of equity is a saving factor in preventing stability from degenerating into inertia. Natural law is only approximated in particular legal for mations. and (for Mr. Cleveland) is vaguely some sort of Aristotelian mean between two extremes. Price: I Oc The lecturer's love for his profession was quite in evidence in bis concluding remarks. He quickly sketched the professions as those vocations, requiring special knowledge and training, which transcend commercial motivation when practiced on their proper level. The professions are self-disciplined and most intimately concerned with the profoundest human problems. STEPHEN BERGEN. __ Cotillion Club The theory of reincarnation, as ap plied to Cotillion Clubs, seems to be quite verifiable; for several days ago that St. John's tradition was fully revived and reinstated in the minds of men. At the same time was observed the marriage of this very eligible bachelor with the Film Club, another St. John's standby, and the honeymoon so far is proceeding without interruptions or eruptions of importance. This eligibility consists. very rightly. in the social importance of the group upon our campus. It bas up to now had complete control of all college activities in which those members of the fairer sex were involved, which activities without doubt are important even to liberal artists. In other words, the Cotillion Club always puts on the dances, and shall happily continue to do so despite adverse conditions this year. These will be probably all movie dances, which consist of a popular but good movie such as "The Cat a11d the Canary," " The LaAi.y Vanishes ," starting around 1 0 : 0 0 and lasting till about 11 : 3 0. Then dancing starts, till two, to records in a half of the gym . The other half is filled with tables covered with red-checked table cloths. which give a feeling of a Greenwich Village Tavern ; on the tables are whiskey bottles with candles in them which remind one of pirates- the combination is wonderful and invigorating. Mr. Gorman is always waging a terrific game of bridge in the center t able, while Ed Cochran rushes around trying to find someone to run the phonograph so he can have just one dance �• Page 2 ST. with his date. Johnny Gilbert, the College's Number One Wolf, gallops from couple to couple, sweeping all the girls completely off their collective feet, while the big, tall, dark and handsome gentlemen grit their collective teeth in envy. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN hamson, respectively. The list of pros pective victims includes Miss Liticia Dickinson and Messrs. Weiss, Kilorin, T. Campbell, Ross, Novak, Williams, Manning. Di Grandi, Cantor, McKay and Cosgrove. Jack Landau will design and supervise the production. Sheinkman will manage the stage with the help of Fross and Sharp and Jameson; Chenowith is in charge of lighting and lightning, and Tom Fulton will handle the finances of the storm, which is scheduled to attain its climax on the night of Friday, August structure was propped. Thirdly, was repair and improvement of t lege property. Fourthly, "the inc· of intercollegiate athletics" was ro Fifthly, the tribes of fraternit ies dispersed. \l ST. fbe Dean opened this week's col- eeting with the announcement 1cge ~e would send to each student cbat f qu estions dealing with labora2 set o . problems. These questions are But the war came to St. Joh iorY of the crucial ones which each Which brings up that all-important and this year the president' s r ' question of women. In former years uses only one staple per copy. 'W sollld:nt should ask himself in performsto . d . . . . an expenment an In wnttng an it has been the custom of all but a few came, and the faculty and student 0 ' g f h' ob servat10ns · intelligent r~port o ts brave freshmen to kind of sidle in to dwindled away; so now St. John the dances and get their bearings as and conclus1ons. meet Plato without that danger to what is going on. As soon as The main business of the meeting "deterioration within the last t1r these are found, dates start pouring in. talks by the Dean and Tom Fulyears" of high school- "better 35 But as this year the freshmen consti- 20. w on cooperatives. The Dean, in his pared, less confused students." p ton . tute a very large majority of the stufor the indoctrination. This, Afr. eech. tried to define the place whtch sp · · dent body, they will each and every 1 Barr reports, is "the last major 1 cooperatives h ave m a commumty l'k e one have to bring a lovely Helen to Spartans aren ' t brave-they are well that ~ould have been ~redicted six y ours. T he college has two primary each dance. If they do, (and as far as functions : one educational, and one ago. Two other Items should trained. the economics goes, the admission will They do not face a danger-they ig- noted. The rumor about more fresh, being best described ·by the general term be per couple only one thin dime, the man in the fall is confirmed. An( "business." The educational function nor it. tenth part of a dollar), we will turn Uniformed outside and in, "Aye, Aye, significantly, Mr. Barr does not ref1r is under the supervision of the adout to have a swell bunch of dances, to "young men" ready for liberal edt. 111inistration which is a government Sir" which everyone will enjoy intensely, Flows electric through their wire-file. cation, but simply to "lads." instituted for the purpose of ensuring and look forward to with unmitigated (This "Aye, Aye," Spartan current's Copies of the report are to be bad, cbe best possible fulfilment of this delight. They will occur every month but expect no prophecies; Exodus ii function . The economic function of quick with amps, or so, and will surely become the cul- But voltage comes from truth and God not mentioned. the college involves the business office mination of the weeks' work in Euclid as well as such organizations as the alone.) digms. bookstore, coffee shop, athletic store, Their duty's easily tough; Speaking of women, we must men- Their mind is dumbly keen; Cotillion Club, etc. These latter action the bride in this above -bespoken Their scruple, truly false. tivities are at present under the direct marriage. She is the Film Club, an or..- Understanding little in their lives, supervision of the administration. At Thesisganization which deals in good movies, They give up life without Athenian chis point cooperatives become relevant. Dinner is the cruellest hour, mixi111 The aims of a cooperative organizaand who will display her charms every tremble. Appetites and desires, stirring Saturday night, at the again very ecotion are twofold: political and ecoWARREN S. ZEIK. Dull salads with fleshy hands. nomical price of 1Oc. The first presennomic. The political implications of a Antithesistation will be that this Saturday of cooperative are that each member of P ASS THE LEMON PLEASE "A Carnival in Fland en," one of the the organization has a voice in the seMr. Barr has again examined the The grave's a fine and private plaa lection of officers and in the determinafinest pictures ever made, and just exciting and risque enough to bring Genes is of the new program in his But none, I think, do food there chase. tion of the plans of the group. Pracf.t. Johnnies bouncing away from their report to the Board of Visitors and (A phenomenon I have often noticed.) tically, this would mean that if, for mmple, the F ilm Club were organized Saturday evening studying. The year's Governors, and has again presented Naked as born do I remain. on a cooperative basis, each member program will include such films as our invitation and credentials to the PASS THE would have a vote in the election of the Russian classic, Alexander Nevsky, great general public. Our infancy is Unreal city Marlene Dietrich's most important over; we are now adolescent, and this Under the white heat of a summu its officers and in the choice of films. A night, cooperative organization is _ desirable film, The Blue Angel, and the greatest is the time to recall our conception. There were giants in the earth in Muscle- bound. the neo-Hegelian, because it stimulates an interest in the American documentary film, The those days. and the issues of the world Well -milked, pockets full of vitimins. commu nal life of the college and beR.ivec. So, gen tlemen of St. John's, we lay were so few and so clear- New Pro- S. 0. B. Detroit, no questions an· cause it allows the students to perform swered, functions which until now were fulbefo re you our program-it is up to gram vs. Old Program; St. John's vs. Education, Barr. Buchanan, Hutchins, Asked me in demotic French filled by the administration and by you to make a go of it. Meiklejohn vs. everyone else. The About Phlebas, le Phenicien. various undergraduate organizations. C. VD logos was with them and was made PASS The eco nomic advantages of a cooperaflesh. Daring young man on flying trapeZI tive are that the members are able to First. there was the failure of liberal Imposes New Order in B. V.D.'s. Procure certain goods and services at In spit of a deplorable shortage of education and the country club col- Synthesischeaper prices and that, in case of bewitching goddesses, The Tempest lege: Barr and Buchanan, products of Here we go round the tomato plan t Profit, it may be shared by the memcon~ i nues to rage at regular intervals that failure and prophets of dooms, Tomato plant tomato plant bers. on t'1c third floor of Humphreys, un- stepped into St. John's College. Sec- Here we go round the tomato plan t Mr. Buchanan pointed out that the der the practical and theoretical direc- ondly, there was the failure of finance: 0 Lo rd thou pluckest me out. idea of cooperatives is nothing new at tion of Mr. Nabokov and Mr. Abra- By subtle machinations this sagging THE QUADRIVIUM. the co!lege. Two years ago, Mr. Bor- Anchors Aweigh 1 A Neo-Hegelian Looks At The Salad Bowel Barr To The Board K.W.P. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN sodi, an economist, made a survey of St. John's, with a view to putting the whole life of the community on a cooperative basis. One of the ideas which he proposed and which is about to be put into practice is the granting of a charter by the college to any group which wants to organize its activities on a cooperative basis. The Dean concluded by mentioning that a community; in planning its activities, gets a knowledge which deepens and supplements the liberal arts. Mr. Fulton, after some general remarks, announced that some members of the college bad found it good to organize the Student Employment Bureau cooperatively. He read' a proposed constitution for this organization, which could also serve as a basis for other coops on the campus. Mr. Fulton then announced that there would be a meeting of all persons interested in the Student Employment Cooperative, as well as in coops in general, this Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in Room 24, McDowell Hall. He concluded by expressing his hope that other undergraduate organizations at St. John's would follow the lead of the Student Employment Co-operative. The preamble to the constitution of the S. E. C. reads as follows: "Whereas it is desirable in any com- · munity to organize all communal activities for the common good, and whereas such participation is most fully realized by action on a cooperative basis, we do hereby propose that the Student Employment Bureau be organized cooperatively in accordance with the following articles." Page 3 classy Pinkney nine. The freshmen, well -stocked with "ringers," bowed by a score of 13-3. to the pitching taJents of Tom Cosgrove. The hitting was generally weak, errors accounting for most of the runs. Chase-S tone, valiantly and desperately fighting to stay in running for the title, were ~ the verge of elimination after their second loss to Pink ney on Monday, 11-5. Tom Cosgrove hurled an eight-hitter to win his second game in as many days. He was admirably supported afield and at the plate, the winners collecting about l hits off the combined efforts of Dick Harris and Maury. The latter, however, tried to lift his team from the doldrums by sending a tremendous drive to deep centerfield with two men on, good for four bases. Bill Chenoweth and Tony Hammond also had home runs. S Chase-Stone came bounding back 3fter this defeat at Pinkney's hands to plaster Paca-Carroll in tm worst beating of the season, 3 6 to 8. George Smith was victim of the attack, his pitching having no effect on the thundering Chase-Stone bats. Ian Robertson and Dick Maury shared the hurling duties for the winners. The battle for the championship may be over this afternoon, for a victory for West Pinkney would automatically eliminate both Randall and Chase-Stone. Paca-Carroll, of course, is already out. I. R. Music Department Sports The powerful Pinkney softball team continued on its merry way towards the championship, defeating the upperclassmen of Randall and the frosh of Chase and Paca, as the season rolled into its second week. Ham Durning easily held Randall in check as his mates pounded out a 21-5 victory. Bob Novak made his debut as a left-fielder in this game and promptly hit two home runs to pace the attack, along with Van der Voort who hit his second four -bagger. Paca put up another classic fight but couldn't hold its own against the On July 14 the first meeting of the madrigal group was held. This group is composed of members of the regular St. John's chorus, who decided that they would like to spend the summer evenings singing English madrigals and other light music. The hope of Mr. Nabakov, the director, is that with a small group of voices he c~n build a good nucleus for the regular chorus which will begin next fall. At present the madrigal group is rehearsing four Psalms of Heinrich Schutz, a sixteenth century composer, and an English madrigal by John Dowland entitled Weep Ye No Moc-e Sad Foun tains. �ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN Arts We are happy to see that the col- ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE lege has stepped in where angels fear to tread and is providing the commu- Friday, August 6: nity with the kind of passive enter3 :00-5 :00 P. M. tainment everyone has been urging 5 :00 P. M. whether they knew it or not. Some6 :30- 8 :00 P. M. where else in this COLLEGIAN there is 6 :30- 8 :00 P. M. a more sustained exposition of the 8:00 P. M. plans for the year but our immediate c~ncern is the first of these Saturday mghts. Tomorrow evening at nine in the Great Hall, the Film Club, under Saturday, August 7: the angelic eye of the administration 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. will present the French film classic 9:00 P. M. Carnival in Flanders. (You may gather from the build-up that the Film Club is interested only in great films when they're possible.) Not only is Sunday, August 8: this one of the best films that will be 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. in the vicinity in the near future but 8:00 P. M. it's one of the best that has been made in the last decade. The number of such films is smaller than you think. CarniMonday, August 9: val in Flanders is about "sly things 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. in a medieval French town." This 5:00 P. M. means that the women come out and 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. welcome the invading army while their men hide. The town goes unscathed, Tuesday, August 10: but little else. It was directed by Julian 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Duvivier and bas had a sea of light 5:00 P. M. and serious criticism. On top of all 8:00 P. M. this it won the International Film 7 :00-8 :30 P. M. Award for whatever year it was made in. CALENDAR t. John's C llegia n Vol.LVi-N 3 o. Athletics V esper Service Music Seminar Bible Class Formal Lecture - . Rhetoric Mark Van Doren ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1943 Back Campus Great Hall Humphreys liaJJ Mt· Mark Van Doren, who is a McDowell 22 lectured last Friday as a cautious Great · Hall poet, . aJtlateur on Rhetoric; understandably, tbe lecturer. was aw.ed by the ~ystery of the trivrnm, which he described as a sort of sub-cell~r to all human knowledge, and which seems t o be a Athletics Back Campus srrange mirrored cave where grammar, The Film Club PreGreat Hall rhetoric, and logic reflect each other sen ts: "Carnival in and become Nine. Flanders" That rhetoric has no meaning by itself ~us t be a primary p ostulate; the inseparable three can be considered as Recorded Concert McDowell Plan a triangl e, a revolving triangle indisStudent Employment McDowell 24 tinguisbable from a circle; thus to see Co-operative one art at the apex is a distortion of the essential unity of the trivium. (If this becomes precariously theological, Athletics Back Campus we might recall Mr. Mortimer Adler's Vesper Service Back Campus opinion that the trivium is "not a Recorded Concert McDowell Plaza sirnple symmetry, as no trinity could be." ) A history of three eras, Greek, Ro Athletics Back Campus man-Pre -Renaissance, Modern, · could Vesper Service Great Hall be written in trivial terms: we suffer Bible Class McDowell 22 from an excess of inadequate, un Meeting of the MadriHumphreys Hall braced grammars. The Greeks, though gal Group inclined t o place dialectic at the top, bad su rer grammatical and rhetorical Wednesday, August 11: For almost a half-dollar you can suppo rts. The Romans forgot dialec3 :00-5 :00 P. M. see some very bad movies in town all Athletics Back Campus tic and reduced rhetoric to oratory, and 5 :00 P. M. next week. There is The Youngest Vesper Service Great Hall McDowell Plaza from there on in, the collapse was com7 :00-8 :00 P. M. Profession at the Circle with only the Recorded Concert plete. Rhetoric comes to signify tricks double entendte in the title to recomof speech, platitudes, vulgar propamend it, and that's not very original. Thursday, August 12: ganda, advertising; and with it the 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Deanna Durbin will be held for some Athletics Back Campus orato rical art of making statements is 5:00 P. M. time along with Joseph Cotton and Vesper Service Great Hall dragged down until ~en the making 7:30 P. M. others somewhere. Also promiscuously College Meeting Great Hall of mo ral judgments is despised. Left selected short subjects. · only with grammar, which can then Friday, August 13: We are happy to report that we Back Campus manip ulate nothing but itself, we see 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics have at last come across an epic-making Great Hall a proliferation of grammars with no 5:00 P. M. Vesper Service double-bill program. The place is the Humphreys Hall reci,Procal arts and therefore no rela6 :30-8 :00 P. M. Music Seminar Little in Washington and the bill is McDowell 22 tions. The Roman rhetorical revolu 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. Bible Class The Go/em with Harry Baur and Great Hall tion antedated Descartes considerably. 8:00 P. M. Formal Lecture- to be Julian Huxley's Monkey into Man. We Mr. Van Doren made his notion of announced could wax eloquent about this arrangerhetoric to include p oetry, and went ment of bedfellows. Both films should beyond that to define rhetoric as the Saturday, August 14: be seen. The Golem, directed by DuBack Campus whole of everything that gets said, the 10 :30 A. M.-12 :00 M. Athletics vivier (see Carnival in Flanders) is ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~J mmp~u and fin~ rnuh of the thue based on a Hebrew myth about a rabbi trivial arts. In nature, rhetoric is ST. St. John's who made a clay man and brought him publi;'i!f everyj~H_rs ~OL_LEGIAN is th~ official news organ ofsecond class Colle what nature says to be understood; in October 1 n ay urmg the academic year. Entered as ms • . 5, 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, under the Act of :Ma music, rhetoric is the harmony of the to life. 3 1879 Euclid IV, 5 formal pattern of notes; in religion, rhetoric is the body of myths that are impossible to dispense with wholly and t o explain; in hist ory, and here the difficulty of including all three un der rhetoric is somewhat resolved, rhetoric is life" itself, or poetry. Rheto ric is the final art, o r madness, an art peculiarly human, what man does when he is m ost himself; it is most highly personal, perfected it is gemus. The grammar of man makes the tragic hero recognizable. Logic could make him predictable, but he is more than recognizable and m o re than predictable; he is a w o rk of art, a person, a product of rhetoric. Mr. Van D oren began by saying that the trivium is mysterious because it is so closely identified with man himself. The identification of the man and his art would seem to be complete in the case of rhetoric, which then becomes that which makes the individual to be what he is- that ambiguous and distressing word "personality." Thus the epigram, "the style is the man," gets fresh significance. Mr. Adler also gave a definition: "rhetoric is not truth, not correctness, but style." By which he meant "elegance an deffectiveness." In a particular consideration of certain Shakesperean plays and their several styles, Coriolanus appears as a bundle of oratorical statements lacking the pers onal. consequently not a good play. Hamlet is so intensely personal as to defy criticism, which is successful only with mediocre art. The Tempest is one of the most beautiful. not one of the most powerful, of plays; in it Shakespeare practices the art of making statements n ot of representing life. Like all the later plays, it is more an arrangement of symbols that were sensed vaguely in the plays of his ' prime. Ill the question period, marked by the recovery of that which was lost, Mr. Buchanan suggeded th~ the trivium exists inside poetry, the name of the circle inclosing the triangle. Mr. Van Doren' s "rhetoric" is as poetic in Price: 1 Oc conception as was the form of the lecture itself, which was distinguished by such startling metaphors as "the bloody bones of H amJet" and courageous phrases as "the fascination of Socrates is possibly more important than his profundity." This rhetoric may be poetry, which in turn may be that "universal rhetoric," which, after Mr. Adler's lecture, was played with quite rhapsodically. R. M. Co-op Meeting The St. John's Student Employment Bureau Co -operative was launched at a heated three-hour meeting last Sunday evening. Launched without champagne, to be sure, but not without fireworks. At this meeting, attended by a group of 18 hot and cold followers of the College Co-op movement begun at last week's College meeting, the constitution of the organization was officially adopted by a 15-2 vote, more than the two - thirds majority by the constitution. Accepted article by article, rather than as a whole, the constitution with a few changes remains substantially the one read before the College assembly. All was not rosy-hued, however. His Majesty's loyal opposition, led by Messrs. Wakefield and Hammel, although declaring themselves in favor of co-operation on the campus, eloquently refused to go on record as en dorsing "co -operatives as supplanting the present economic system," a connotation they read into the preamble. The bone of contention was the phrase "action on a co-operative basis," which seemed to imply all sorts of nasty social upheavals all the way from un-Americanism to communism. The bogey. argued Wakefield wasn't that the phrase would be misunderstood on the campus but that others reading it would jump to wicked conclu~ons. Th~ pucip~aud a ninuyminute discussion reminiscent of some of the attacks made on one M. Adler within the same four walls. The � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Except that 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. it lacks Technicolor and Vivien Leigh, 5 :00 P. M. it is just like Gone With the Wind. 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. There are at least forty-eight or nine 7:00 P. M. greats of the stage and screen and six 8 :00 P. M. famous bands- count 'em. We found it rather difficult to follow what plot there was because we kept looking for the complication and it never occurred. Saturday, August 14: Aside from that, there were fleeting 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. images of some fine actors saying some Sunday, August 15: pretty awful things. It all takes place 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. in the Stage Door Canteen in New York, and the heroine's name, origin- Monday, August 16: ally enough, is Eileen. Best of all are 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. the bits by Ed Wynn, George Jessel, 5:00 P. M. Gypsy Rose Lee, Ray Bolger and a 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. few other entertainers of that order. Bolger's song and dance ~s certainly Tuesday, August 17: worth packing a picnic-lunch for and 3 :00-5 :00 P. M . going to the Circle. It is the best sam5 :00 P. M. ple of contemporary dance on the 7:00 P. M. screen since the early Astaire-Rogers films. Some dialogue writer dealt Wednesday, August 18: Katherine Cornell a foul blow by 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. making her quote Shakespeare in the 5:00 P. M. middle of a canteen-handout. There 7 :00 -8 :0 0 P . M. is not only not enough of too few good things. but too much of too Thursday, August 19: many poor things, or something. 3 :00-5 :00 P . M. Pressure of current events has kept 5:00 P. M. us from keeping up with the Secret 7:00 P. M. Service in Darkest Africa, at the Republic every Saturday. The last we 7:30 P. M. saw was Chapter three which ended with a fire that obviously killed every- Friday, August 20: one. But Chapter seven is coming up 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. tomorrow and that doesn't prove any5 :0 0 P . M. thing except that we were fooled . Al6 : 3 0- 8 : OO P. M. m Gene Autry. 7:00 P. M. 9:30 P. M. Note In a frantic attempt to beat the 1944 Year Book to the deadline, HornShafer f1 Company have cleaned their type and are ready to present a ham sandwich without the bread in about a month. We elucidate to this extent: the 1943 Year Book will be ready for distribution before the end of the present urm. Th~~ rtrictly an uppe~ Classmen 's dish. Freshmen must wait to make history. THE EDITORS. CALENDAR Fri., Aug. 13-Sat., Aug. 21, l St. John's Collegian ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1943 Isle of Beauty, Fare Thee Athletics Vesper Service Music Seminar Bible Class Formal LectureGeometry- J acob Klein Back Campus Great Hall Humphreys Hall McDowell 22 Great Hall Athletics Back Campus Recorded Concert McDowell Plaza pleasure. Back Campus Great Hall McDowell Plaza The Tem pest is full of difficulties r director. designer. and actor. In fo elethe absence of the more obvious eats m of dramatic interest-excitement,_ Athletics Vesper Service Recorded Concert Well! The King William Players' presentation of The Tempest on Friday night seems to have pleased everyone. This is not, I thin k. merely a way of saying tbat the audience was friendly. The production had all the merits that could reasonably be expected and eoougb more to cause real surprise and tors, practitioners of the architectonic art, the Prospero and the Ariel behind this insubstantial pageant. Student Employment Co-operative R. S. At the second meeting of · the Student Employment membership the group elected the following five perMr. W. Kyle Smith began college sons to the Board of Directors : meeting with an announcement regardRobert Campbell-Junior. ing arrangements for students who Thomas Cosgrove-Sophomore. wish to remain on the campus during Thomas Fulton-Sophomore. vacatien . · One dormitory will be kept Robert Novak-Sophomore. open and the charge will be one dollar Ch'ao-Li Chi-Freshman. a week. Students who remain will The Board met for the first time be asked to work around the Collast Sunday afternoon. Fulton was lege and will be paid; about fifteen elected Chairman; Novak, Secretary, jobs will be available. The dining The folhall will be closed but arrangements and Campf:?ell, Treasurer. lowing rates of pay were decided may be made (if the coffee shop' s ration points stretch) so that students upon: will be able to have breakfast and 1. Minding babies: a. During the day until 6 lunch there. All applications for rep. m.-.35 hour. maining must be made by September b. After 6 p. m.-.3 0 hour. 1 to the Assistant Dean. 2. Manual labor: In the remaining period, Mr. Hama. Light-.50 hour. mond spoke on athletics. He reb. Heavy-.60 hour. quested that people using the tennis 3. Clerical work-.75 hour. courts wear tennis shoes or play bare4 . Chauffeuring-.50 hour. foot, for shoes have been used to the 5. Tutoring-$1.00 hour. discomfort of those players who would 6. Driving lessons-. 7 5 hour. like to have decent courts. Dormitory 7. Guiding--1.00 hour. team managers will be chosen by their College Meeting 5uspense. intensity-a spell must be cast. On Friday night, in spite of the mechanical plot, the emphatic sym.Athletics Back Campus bolism, and the dull farce, a rich and Vesper Service Great Hall strange life was lived before us unBible Class McDowe1! 22 der the sta rs and against the trees of tbe back campus. The brilliant, many-colored vision, born out of the Athletics Back Campus darkness and dying into it. the mournVesper Service Great Hall Recorded Concert McDowell Plaza ful cadences of Prospero's voice and bis motions away from the earth, the chHm of the lovers. the sadness of the monster, and the shrill wildness of the Athletics Back Campus fool, all emphasized in the poem a Vesper Service Great Hall respective teams and will meet with Dormitory Managers Senior Common mysterious loss and renunciation. The the staff and athletic director to deart that raised the storm is abjured in Meeting Room the calm that follows-Prospero cide on the athletic awards. College Meeting Great Hall breaks his staff a·nd drowns his book. Regarding these awards there are Ariel finds the freedom so long desired three types given: plaques, medals, and in the severing of every tie and is blazers. Plaques are given to the winAthletics Back Campus dispersed in air. The island with its ning team. Vesper Service Great Hall Medals are given to all members of Music Seminar Humphreys Hall music is already a memory. And the the winning team who have played world itself and all which it inherit Bible Class McDowell 22 two-thirds of the games. In swimThe King William PlayMcDowell Plaza shall dissolve and leave not a rack be- ming and track, the medals are awardhind. The curiously ambiguous and ers present The poignant words of the epilogue as ed to the holders of the first three Tempest No medals are spoken by Prospero, not only asked for places in events. awarded in individual sports. the audience's applause. but poin'ted the ~Murday, August 21: Blazers are awarded to the champmoral of the play: romance at its best 10:3 0-12 : 0 0 M. Athletics Back Campus ion team. is close to tragedy. I 0 : 3 0 A. M. Faculty Meeting McDowell 24 The point system is as follows: Ten 9 :30 P. M. Movie--The Scarlet McDowell Plaza It is evidence of the coherence of points. 1 place; 8 for 2nd place, 4 for Pimpernel-and Inthe production that one is not moved 3rd place, 3 for last place. In swimformal Dance to particular praise. But that is to ming an·d track, the high point win=~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1~Y iliu pra~e iliould go w ~I who ner receives a blazer. · In individual THE ST. JOHN'S OOLLEGIAN is the official news organ of St. John's CoIIe for the occasion practised the arts of sports, the blazers are awarded to the published every Friday during the academic year. Entered as second class JD 81 the theater, and especially to the direc- to urnament winner. October 15. 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, under the Act of Mar 3, 1879. Price: 1 Oc Membership fees were set at $3.00 per year, payable in advance or in three installments of $1. 0 0 per term, to be paid at the beginning of each term. In addition to this fee all members who earn over $50.00 per year shall pay 5 % of all earnings over that amount to th£ Bureau until the year has elaps~d. Any non-member shall remit 10% of his earnings to the Bureau. However. non-members will not receive jobs unless there are more jobs than the Bureau can fill from its membership. Further, it was decided that, should a member fail to fulfill a job contracted for, he shall be disbarred for at least one week from all other Bureau jobs. Last night the Board of Directors met again to consider applications for Managership . Messrs. Pfeiff er and Weiss were elected. �ST. Page 2 JOHN'S COLLEGIAN The Sacrifice of Iphigenia Then with a prayer the father bade them lift her Like priests that lay a kid upon the altar And have it over. Bade them lift the drooping head, the flowing garments, And check the cry upon the lovely lips Whose sound might bring a curse upon the hoursBy force forbid and mufile them. Her robe was saffron like the first fresh flower of spring: But all her saffron Slid in pools upon the ground As she lay upon their arms. Then one last glance she cast at each of them Who slew her, A little dart that etched upon. their hearts The pity of it, A memory they'd not forget Of her fresh beauty, the 5Wtet sound of her voice, As she would form the eucharist that ended their libations, In her father's house where they so often feasted, Her charity holding, as a libation cup its wine, Her offering of grace. And what came after that I did not see or hear: But the prophecies were fulfilled. - from Aeschylus' Agamemnon. Translated by C. P. The Lobster-Quadrille. The Knave insisted that it was because the a remedy for that. Just then the Dormouse offered to cool febrile temples with chances at mah-jong and But the Cheshire-cat said no use, it was just too, too sad and sombre. Of course, I have all this by THE DUCHESS. coca-cola ran out. The White Knight sighed and said be had fan-tan. herself." hearsay. (The Red Queen was absent, but there was Reeling and Writhing for sport.) The end, he remarked, always justifying the means, seems to have been forgotten; the Hatter agreed that he ::idn't know but what that was true, and pushed the argument a little further by reciting with baroque subtilty of emphasis certain phrases from Anatole France, an ancient French celibate: "A woman is a work of art and the most marvelous that man's industry has ever produced. She is an enchanting artifice, resulting from the conjunction oi all the mechanical arts and all the liberal arts; she is their common production, and she i~ the comm on good. Her duty is to show Ghoul This morning, when not a creature was stunng, not even an air raid warden. the powers being decided to cu re us all of our slug-a-bed habits, pulled the appropriate switches, and had an air raid. Some minor campus heroics were performed by those who staggered blindly about turning out the lights. Mr. Plunder arrived in an arm -band to find all his staff of air raid wardens, but one, asleep, or perhaps dreaming fitfully. Several civilian defense people accumulated by the gym which remained locked. If editorial comment is appropriate, and if we are not washing dirty laundry in public, we might say all was not well. But then, too, the whims of authority are both incomprehensible and morbid. Sometime later, the all-clear blew, and the dawn, like a frightened nurse's aide crept down the street. And Annapolis and the Collegian went to bed. War Meeting lf anyone believes with Pl ato philosophers should administer the fairs of state, that person w ould been cured of the opinion had heard the Dean on "War as p maker" last Sunday night. W e ordit, ary mortals felt in the presence of noble contagion-as powerful and · triguing as the worst of diseases. 111 111 felt like the Polar explorer stan · on an arctic plateau on a su nny da everything so white and clear and luminated (and a little cold, too) a yet so unknown, such a mystery 1 it seemed hazardous, but infinitdy worth - while to explore. Outward!. 'I at least, the Dean seemed to stand an emotional vacuum; he an intellectual argument with "Mr. Hitler"-among other people ( such thing as a fight to the finish) . Mr. Buchanan started with a p diction and a crack. He predicted hardest period of the war was n starting both for those worki ng all fighting- including the men in w~ ington "whichever they are doin1 Then we were given clear and cone· definitions: "peace is the tranqu ility order" (St. Augustine) which w finally moulded into "a common I based on knowledge- reflection a choice-and consent." Conver war is "a breakdown of peace" ( · can hardly be improved upon) or "1 failure in knowledge" or simply reign of "ignorance." It w as m perfectly clear there could be no id logical war since ideas are " instrumen of knowledge" and obviously can flourish in a "breakdown of knoll edge." The question then arises as t o w. kind of war this is-is it to gain knowledge which has broken dow~ Clearly not; and part of the trag is that some kinds of knowledg geography, technology, etc.-are ing used (or rather misused) in waging of war. The rest of the e. ning was spent in the Dean's an alyz and defending his analysis ( not, course the opinions of his analysis) five different views of what kind war this is. Some people thi nk t is a bad man, like Hitler, or a nation , like Germany or Japan, wb1 is incurably diabolical and theref the only remedy is vengeance brou ;......--- ST. . . logical conclusion by extermina• . Others. thm k t h at certam nahave broken international law ver that is) and must be (wbate to a world court (still to be ht bro~S ted) : such people wish an ex·115utu 1 . of the arm of the law. • pans• 0 0 , A chird group ha~ a ~aith that God s of se ttling atfatrs IS war and that waY. what to the Medievals was trialwar 1s mbat : the settling of a necessary by-co ftict by God's will. A fourth con the Pacifists, start out with regroup. . . g to accept that there Is such a fos1n . b' gas war; they choose to meet evil I Ill . h suffe ring on the theory that the "II tvil-doer will see his wrong and rct ' these people have faith 10 the pttl · trsuasibility of all men. The Dean palled this position "perhaps the high' est way," whether rea l' . or not 1st1c (''naivite is not necessarily foolishness") as persuasion, if p ossible, is no doubt preferable to extermination. The fifth and last way of looking at ibe war which Mr. Buchanan described is the liberal's view that this fight is cbe defense of a faith as, for example, democracy. The danger here is that faith become idolatry, and these peopie think they have the faith - with somewhat inadequate reasons. Such a wu usually turns into a crusade "to make the world safe for democracy" or "to perpetuate the American Way." Significantly enough the Dean did not tell us what kind of a war this is. Also, bis five possibilities did not seem exhaustive: for example, there are some who think this is an imperialist war, started not by the will of individual capitalists, but by the inevitability of an economic system; or that tbis wa r- like all wars- is nature's way of eliminating excess population, apart from and outside of the will of God. to JLS The discussion was not very The Dean told how he was getting terribly concerned about "all tbis." We are indebted to Mr. Klein for having said "that" was good. Afterwards someone's girl friend found tbat "it had been very interestingthough slightly confusing." Mrs. Gorman said, "I don't use reason in these things-just plain woman's intuition is enough." And the Dean roared with laughter. K. E. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN A Summer's Tale Page 3 Backcampus What has been passed on to us, we pass on to you, unto the seventh generation. Mr. Gorman, who is interested in exciting fnrther discussion about the Hebraic tradition around the campus, told a profound little story which he heard from a continental friend. Last w eek, theatricals practically killed intramurals on the Backcampus (this, not only by getting a third of the school involved but by Elfenbein's constant blasting over the mike, "Sam, wanted on set"). And beside all this, there was the shouting of Messrs. Nabokov and Ambrabamson The time is vaguely contemporary; instructing Sharp's grotto which way the scene, an unknown Russian town. to sway in the first scene. A Hebrew parent is reading his newsNevertheless, two games were playpaper at the breakfast, possibly lunch, ed on the last two Fridays. In a table. A small item reported from a game filled with errors, Pinkney defeatdistant Russian town catches his eye ed Paca -Carroll 18-6. The followand, saying nothing, he hands the paper ing week in one of the best games of across the table to his son, pointing the season, Pinkney beat Randall in to the article. The son reads that a the ninth inning when Israel and Jewish boy has killed his father. He Powder hit home runs. The final hands the paper back saying, "Such score was 20-17. things happen." A heavy silence for And now to the big news of the a few minutes. Then the father: week- Randall and Pinkney played "Some ideas you got." · again on Tuesday. After the close Some call it revelation, some call it game that preceded, excitement was anintuition, we think so. ticipated. In an upset, Randall beat Pinkney by the score of 1 6-8 (the first defeat Pinkney has had this season). Now that Pinkney has bee~ defeated Mr. Max Dehn is offering an extra- perhaps there will be a little more excurricular course in Projective Geome- citement through competition in intry to all those, even Sophomores, tramurals. knowing something about conic secToday Pinkney plays Paca-Carroll. tions. The class will meet W ednesTo be perfectly honest, though, we da ys at 7: 3 0 P. M., in McDowell. don't want to discourage Paca, we don't expect any devastating reversals. Announcement Circulation Department The COLLEGIAN has sent cards to St. Johnnies who are no longer here, offering subscriptions. Responses are coming in slowly, but those received have been very enthusiastic. The feelings conveyed by most of the letters is one of resignation to a job to be done with a good deal of nostalgia for St. John's. The Mount Saint Mary's contingent informs us that they have formed a seminar and are now planning to read Science and Hypothesis by Poincare. The circulation department would like to take this opportunity (since this is the first issue to be mailed out) to ask those receiving the COLLEGIAN to report changes of addresses. Note: Subscriptions are $ 2 for four terms; $1 for two terms. All those interested should contact John Gilbert. To the amazement and gratification of everyone concerned the first round and quarter-finals of the tennis matches came off as scheduled despite the last minute rush involved, and the semifinals are now in progress. The ping-pong tournament is moving along slowly and the athletic department hopes that the shortage of ping -pong balls will be relieved soon. so that the series can be continued. Track Meet A trackmeet will be held this Saturday, August 28. The track events will be 100, 220, and 440 yard dashes, relays, the 60-100-200 yard medley and a marathon around the College property boundaries: the field events, the high jump and broad jump, discus, javelin, and shotput, the soft ball throw, and tug-of-war. �COLLEGIAN ST. Page 4 CALENDAR Arts Since every other department has ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE made mention of The Tempest, we feel obliged to whisper our comment to the wind. Everyone, including ourselves, was surprised and delighted that con· Friday, August 27: 3 : 00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus centrated effort yielded what it did as 5 :00 P. M. Great Hall Vesper Service it did. We have certain reservations 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. Music Seminar Humphreys Hau about the whole affair, but then we' re 7 : 00 P . M. Bible Class McDowell 22 told that we' re prejudiced. Now that Great Hall 8 : 00 P. M. Formal Lecture-Music the house divided bas pulled itself to- Nicholas Nabokov gether again, we wish to thank the administration. There is a whole long list of movies Saturday, August 28: coming to town, and we wish we could 10 : 30 A. M.-12 :00 M. Athletics Back Campus be encouraging. Among them are Above Suspicion and Heaven Can Sunday, August 29: Wait. What these films deal with is 7 : 00-8 :00 P. M. Recorded Concert McDowell Piazi a problem for everyone concerned. Above Suspicion is about Nazis and stuff. Included are Joan Crawford, Monday, August 30: Back Campus 3 : 00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics whose absence has not been noticeable, Vesper Service Great Hall 5 :00 P. M. and Fred MacMurry, whose presence Recorded Concert 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. McDowell Plau bas been . This takes place in Ger many. Then again, we feel about Don Ameche the same way he does about Tuesday, August 31: Heaven. The Leopard Man (at the Athletics Back Campus 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Republic next Wednesday) just about Great Hall Vesper Service 5 :00 P. M. exhausts the animal kingdom .as far as McDowell 22 Bible Class 7 :00 P. M. death and transfiguration goes. Our Meeting of the Madrigal Humphreys Hall 7 :00 - 8 :30 P. M. suggestion for the final gasp of this Group series is a picture titled The Spiny Ant-Eater Woman. We could get exWednesday, September l: cited about that. Athletics 3 :00-5 :00 P. M . Back Campus On Monday at the Maryland in BalVesper Service 5 :00 P. M. Great Hall timore, Elmer Rice's latest play, A M cD owe 11 Pl u.1 Recorded Concert 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. New Life, opens . The cast is headed by Betty Field (one Mrs. Rice). Nothing anyone has said has been able Thursday, September 2: Back Campus Athletics 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. to deter Arsenic and Old Lace from Great Hall Vesper Service 5 :00 P. M. survival. On it goes, for weeks and Great Hall College Meeting 7:30 P. M. weeks, at the National in Washington. At Loew 's Columbia in Washington is Walt Disney's version of De- Friday, September 3: Seversky' s Victory Through Air 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Back Campus Athletics Power. An interest in men and maGreat Hall Vesper Service 5 :00 P. M. chines and production should lead you Humphreys Hall Music Seminar 6 :30-8:00 P. M . here. T he quarter-page ad fo r this McDowell 22 Bible Class 7 :00 P. M. picture has , in large print, a phrase that Great Hall Formal Lecture- to be 8 :00 P. M. puzzles us. It goes, "Never before! announced never again!" At the Little in Washington is I Was A Spy with Madeleine Carroll Saturday, September 4: Back Camp us Athletics and Conrad Veidt. This was directed 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. Great Hall The Film Club Presents 8 :30 P. M. by Victor Saville and can have no pos- Alexander Nevsky sible interest to students of the film medium , or anyone else for that matter. At the Little in Baltimore is _THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN is the official news organ of St. John's Co They Died With Theic Boots On- published every Friday during the academic year. Entered as second class Errol Flynn-also of minimal interest. October 15. 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, under the Act of 3, 1879. t. John's Collegian VoJ.LV!-No. 6 ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1943 Price : 1Oc ::--------- ~~~~---:--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nabokov On Music ?Jr. Nabokov' s lecture Friday night d co be interesting but it did not prove 11 . . . ·d in fulfi mg its title. The succe• irccurer proceeded to discuss what Greeks called harmo~ic or_ the musi_cal ience instead of d1scussmg the hbsc 1 art of music as the title implied. rra At rbe beginning of the lecture, Mr. Nabokov coyed around with the librral art of music in speaking of the Muses and their function, by quoting Cicero on the liberal arts, and by hinting vaguel y at the music in scientific easuremen ts , a notion whose origin 111 is generally ascribed around here to the tpe musical pie as well; Descartes considered music as a vibrational phenomenon. This was a natural consequence from the researches of Galileo. In the Cartesian theory a third proportional was. added to the relation of string and number-physical sound . Descartes also developed the theory of overtones and their function in harmonic. ''The World's Jazz Crazy, Lawdy, So Am I" Sunday evening, from seven to eight, for the first time in this community , a recorded jazz concert will be given. The program will consist altogether of records showing the important developments in the history of jazz between the years of 19 0 0 and 19 3 0. The recordings will be played in the following chronological order: The World' s Jazz Crazy-Trixie Smith. Vocal Blues, accompaniment b y L. Armstrong, cornet ; ' 'Big " Green, trombone ; Buster Bailey. clarinet. Rameau brought the harmonic theory to the stage where it remained for nearly two centuries. He used the overtones in basing his harmony on triads formed on each note in the scale. This was a complete movement away from the Greek notion of fixed Th e New Boll Weevil Blues-Ma scale positions. His ideas of cadences, of notes having a function in a scale, Rainey. Vocal Blues, accompaniment Dean. At this point the lecturer proposed and of harmony based on these were unknown. Backwater Blues-Bessie Smith. the follo wing three divisions for the all developed by Rameau. Vocal Blues, accompaniment by Jam es Jrcture : rational music, physical music, In doing this Rameau still mainthe relation of the two to musical tained a relation to ratios found in P. Johnson, piano. - Naked Dance-Jelly Roll Morton. poetry or the fine art of music. the physical world. The introduction Piano solo . Rational music began with the of equal temperament destroyed the Ory' s Creole Trombone-Louis Pythagorean discovery of the conson- relation . In this system , the ratios inArmstrong's Hot Five. L. Armstrong. ance of two sounding strings in a length volve 'the use of the incommensurable cornet; Kid Ory, trombone; Johnny ratio of small whole numbers. Plato square root of 12 which has no obDodds. clarinet ; Lil Hardin , piano; rbborated the theory as applied to vious physical counterpart. Johnny St. Cyr, banjo. scales and introduced it into his cosThe musical poetry of the eighteenth Canal Street Blues- King Oliver' s mology . To illustrate this the lecturer and nineteenth centuries was written Creole Jazz Band . King Oliver, Lou is md the passage from the Timaeus which de als with the creation of the on a theory combining Rameau ' s work Armstrong. Johnny Dodds, Lil Harwith equal temperament. The lecturer din . scole and its incorporation into the implied that to write music on such a Heebie Jeebies-The Hot Five. :osmos. During his reading Mr. Muskrat Ramble-The Hot Five. basis was as deplorable as it was great. Nabokov did an explication de texte Dark Town Strutters' Ball-McArnold Schoenberg and his folusing the blackboard and the sonolowers have now developed a bar- Kensie-Condon Rhythm Kings. Tcschmeter. maker, clarinet ; Muggsy Spanier. corThe next point w as the Mediaeval monic which bears about the same ren rt. levelopment of the science in Boethius. lation to the physical world as nonPass The Jug-Frank Melrose. ~t this time harmonic was still re- Euclidean geomeuy. The art of writStompin ' ' Em Down-Alex Hill . htcd to the universe and rela ted to it ing music has been reduced by the P iano solo. in sound as well as number. For atonalists to a series of logical or, betJazz Me Blues-Bix Beiderbecke 's Boethius the re was a physical music of ter still. inferential operations. Gang. Beiderbeck , cornet. the spheres which was imperce,ptible Pine Top's Boog.:e-Pine Top owing to the purity of the concords. In concluding ic must be said again Smith . Piano solo. Not so fo r Kepler for whom the music that the lecturer was speaking of the Goad Morning Blues-Leadbell y. of the sp heres Jay just in the ratios of science of music not the liberal art of the orbits. music. This is regrettable, for there After Kepler. the notion of rational is a definite lack of clarity as to, the be a primary one. distinctions between the h armonic, who revolutionized poetic, and liberal aspects of music. his finger into the H. H. S. Vocal Blues with guitar. Everybody Loves M 1J Baby-Mezzrow-Ladnier Quintet. Mezzrow, clarinet ; Ladnier, trumpet. Dr. Jazz- Jelly Roll Morton' s Red Hot Peppers. Morton , Ory , Dodds. Ertegun, Campbell . � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Student publication The Collegian https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/bfc3d4f5d41ee0a3a32ec52dae047fd6.pdf c99cdff15b0fcec1936e014aaa30108d PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN CALENDAR Arts We are happy to see that the col- ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE lege has stepped in where angels fear to tread and is providing the commu - Friday, August 6: ni ty w ith the kind of passive enter3 :00-5 :00 P. M. tainment everyone bas been urging 5 : 00 P. M. whether they knew it or not. Some6 :30-8 :00 P. M. where else in this COLLEGIAN there is 6 : 30-8 :00 P. M. a more sustained exposition of the 8 : 00 P . M. plans for the year but our immediate c~n c ern is the first of these Saturday mghts. Tomorrow evening at nine in the Great Hall, the Film Club, under Saturday, August 7: the angelic eye of the administration 10 : 3 0 A. M. - 1 2 : 0 0 M. w ill present the French film classic 9:00 P. M. Carnival in Flanders. (You may gather from the build-up that the Film Club is interested only in great films when they ' re possible. ) Not only is Sunday, August 8: this one of the best films that will be 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. in the vicinity in the near future but 8:00 P. M. it's one of the best that has been made in the last decade. The number of such fil ms is smaller than you think. CarniMonday, August 9: val in Flanders is about " sly things 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. in a medieval French town." This 5:00 P. M. means that the women come out and 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. welcome the invading army while their men bide. The town goes unscathed, Tuesday, August 10: but little else. It was directed by Julian 3 :00-5 :00 P. M . Duvivier and has had a sea of light 5:00 P. M. and serious criticism. On top of all 8:00 P. M. this it won the International Film 7:00-8 :30 P . M. Award for whatever year it was made in. For almost a half-dollar you can see some very bad movies in town all next w eek. There is The Youngest Profession at the Circle with only the double entendre in the title to recomm end it. and that's not very original. Deanna Durbin will be held for some t ime along with Joseph Cotton and others somewhere. Also promiscuously selected short subjects. W e are happy to report that we h av e at last come across an epic-making doubl e-bill program. The place is the Little in Washingt on and the bill is The Golem with Harry Baur and Ju lian H uxley's Monkey into Man. We could w ax eloquent about this arrangemen t of bedfellows . Both films should be seen. The Golem, directed by Duvivier (see Carnival in Flanders) is based on a Hebrew myth about a rabbi who made a clay man and brought him to life. • t. John's Coll eg1a Vot.Lvl-No. 3 Athletics Vesper Service Music Seminar Bible Class Formal Lecture - ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1943 Back Campus Gteat Hall Humphreys li;Jt Mr· Mark Van D o ren, who is a McDowell 22 lectured last Friday as a cautious . Great Hall paet, . Jlllaceur on Rhetoric; understandably, Rhetoric Mark tbe lecturer. was aw.ed by the ~ystery Van Doren of cbe trivium, which he descnbed as a sort of sub-cellar to all human koowledge, and which seems to be a Athletics Back Campus srrange mirrored cave where grammar, The Film Club PreGreat Hall rhetoric, and logic reflect each other sen ts : "Carnival in and become Nine. Flanders,, That rhetoric has no meaning by itself must be a primary postulate; the inseparable three can be considered as Recorded Concert McDowell Pla:a a triangle, a revolving triangle indisStudent Employment McDowell 24 tinguishable from a circle; thus t o see Co-operative one art at the apex is a distortion of the essential unity of the trivium. (If this becomes precariously theological, Athletics Back Cam pus we migh t recall Mr. Mortimer Adler's Vesper Service Back Campus Recorded Concert McDowell Plaza opinion that the trivium is "not a simple symmetry, as no trinity could be." ) A hisro ry of three eras, Greek, RoAthletics Back Camp us man-Pre-Renaissance, Modern,· could Vesper Service Great Hall be writ ten in trivial terms: we suffer Bible Class McDowell 22 from an excess of inadequate, unMeeting of the MadriHumphreys Hall braced grammars. The Greeks, though gal Group inclined to place dialectic at the top , bad surer grammatical and rhetorical Wednesday, August 11: supports. The Romans forgot dialec3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus tic and reduced rhetoric to oratory, and 5 :00 P. M. Vesper Service Great Hall from there on in, the collapse was com7 :00-8 :00 P. M. Recorded Concert McDowell Plaza plete. Rhetoric comes to signify tricks of speech, platitudes, vulgar propaThursday, August 12: ganda, advertising ; and with it the 3 :00-5 :00 P. M . Athletics Back Campus orato rical art of making statements is 5 :00 P. M . Vesper Service Great Hall dragged down until ;ven the making 7:30 P . M. College Meeting Great Hall of mo ral judgments is despised. Left only with grammar, which can then Friday, August 13: man ipulate nothing but itself, we see 3 :00 - 5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus 3 proliferation of grammars with no 5:00 P. M. Vesper Service Great Hall recip rocal arts and therefore no rela6 :30-8 :00 P. M. Music Seminar Humphreys Hall tions. The Roman rhetorical revolu6 :30-8 :00 P . M . Bible Class McDowell 22 tion antedated Descartes considerably. 8:00 P. M. Formal Lecture- to be Great Hall Mr. Van Doren made his notion of announced rhetoric to include poetry, and went beyond that to define rhetoric as the Saturday, August 14: Back Campus whole of everything that gets said, the 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. Athletics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~mp~~ and fin~ rnuh of the thue trivial arts. In nature, rhetoric is .THE ST. joH_N'S OOL_LEGIAN is the official news organ of St John's Coll b~~~b!.ed15ev1Vi9Fnta£h d~rmtgOtftihe academic y~ar. Entered as secdnd class Jll& what nature says to be understood; in 3, . ' • a e os ce at Annapohs, Maryland, under the Act of M music, rhetoric is the harmony of the 1879 Euclid IV, 5 formal pattern of notes; in religion, rhetoric is the body of myths that are impossible to dispense with wholly and t o _ explain; in histo ry, and here the difficulty of including all three under rhetoric is somewhat resolved, rheto ric is life" itself. or poetry. Rhetori c is the final art, or madness, an art peculiarly human, what man does when he is most himself; it is most highly personal, perfected it is genius. The grammar of man makes the tragic hero recognizable. Logic could make him predictable, but he is more than recognizable and m o re than predictable; he is a work of art, a person, a product of rhetoric. Mr. Van Doren began by saying that the trivium is mysterious because it is so closely identified with man himself. The identification of the man and his art would seem to be complete in the case of rhetoric, which then becomes that which makes the individual to be what he is- that ambiguous and dist ressing w ord " personality." Thus the epigram , " the style is the man," gets fresh significance. Mr. Adler also gave a definition : "rhetoric is not truth, not correctness, but style ." By which he meant " elegance an deffectiveness ." In a particular consideration of certain Shakesperean plays and their severa! st yles, Coriolanus appears as a bundle of oratorical statements lacking the personal, consequently not a good pla y. Hamlet is so intensely personal as to defy criticism , which is successful only with mediocre art. T he T empes t is one of the most bea utiful. not one of the most powerful, of plays ; in it Shakespeare practices the art of making statements not of representing life. Like all the later plays, it is more an arrangement of symbols that were sensed vaguely in the plays of his "prime. In. the question period, marked by the recovery of that which was lost, M r. Buchanan suggnud th~ the triv ium exists inside poetry, the name of the circle inclosing the triangle. Mr. Van Doren' s " rhetoric" is as poetic in Price: 1 Oc conception as was the form of the lectu re itself, which was distinguished by such startling metaphors as "the bloody bones of H amJet" and courageous phrases as "the fascination of Socrates is possibly more important than his profundity." This rhetoric may be poetry, which in turn may be that "universal rhetoric," which, after Mr. Adler's lecture, was played with quite rhapsodically. R. M. Co-op Meeting The St. John 's Student Employment Bureau Co-operative was launched at a heated three -hour meeting last Sunday evening. Launched without champagne, to be sure, but not without fireworks . At this meeting. attended by a group of 18 hot and cold followers of the College Co-op movement begun at last week' s College meet ing, th e constitution of the organization was officially adopted by a 15-2 vote, more than the two-thirds majority by the constitution. Accepted article by article, rather than as a whole, the constitution with a few changes remains substantially the one read before the College assembly. All w as not rosy-hued, however. H is M ajesty' s loyal opposition, led by M ess rs. Wakefield and Hammel, although declaring themselves in favor of co-operation on the campus, eloq uentl y refused to go on record as endo rsing " co-operatives as supplanting the present economic system," a connotation they read into the preamble. The bone of contention was the phrase " action on a co-operative basis.'' which seemed to imply all sorts of nasty social upheavals all the way from un-Americanism to communism . The bogey , argued Wakefield w as n't th at the phrase w ould be misunderstood on the campus but that others reading it would jump to wicked cond u s~ ns . Th~ pucip~aud a n~cty­ minute discussion reminiscent of some of the attacks made on one M. Adler within the same four walls. The �Page 2 ST. JOHN'S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~--~~--~~- others refused to be yoked to what one termed the "tyranny of words," and on the grounds that all generalities are susceptible to misunderstanding and non-understanding by those who see through the glass darkly voted 13-5 to retain the original phrase as it stood. But the Wakefield-Hammel filibustering team remained adamant to the bitter end, to the consternation of the sweating chairman and the indubitable joy of the gods of strife. COLLEGIAN ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN Letter to the Editor Page 3 ing the phrase "co-operative basis'• deck, he found no one in sight and Backcampus "basis of co-operation," the sting On Sunday, Aug. 8, a promising Backcampus is a column on the few and hardy souls who then noticed that the hook which held Those taken out of the phrase but the t experiment was launched at St. John's about indoor sports cross the dark and stormy the log line trailing astern was slowly backcampus, meaning remains. d ed ro College; the first meeting of the ar 1ea ding to the Library last straightening out. Realing what was played outdoors and outdoor sports sees d .h Ambiguity is not a thing to Student Employment Co-operative was wa d' y night were rewarde wit on the other end, he grabbed the line played indoors, and vicas-versa. We "' dnes a strived for nor is clarity to be avoj held. The meeting which was open vve story of the Sowitas-Goht V as and found the missing man balf- may find it necessary to confine our acb An error has been made; it is nor to the entire College community, inI e b her builder and co-owner, drowned on the other end. The rest tivities to that region in front of Mr. terested in attending, accomplished its late to rectify it. Let us do so lest cold ~}under. She was built in a of the trip to Madera was relatiyely Barr's vetch field and back of the boat prime purpose of temporary organiza- antagonists of the St. John's Prog FranzA strian town just after the last uneventful. house. If anything of interest occurs s111all u tion but was not free from controversy. find another outlet for their Wrath After a short stay at Madera, the in the other regions, do not hesitate to lest the proponents of the Prog wat· d In the Preamble to the Constitution When the keel was laid, Plunder an comrad.es set out on the lonely stretch notify us since we understand that the discover a grave error in judg111 across the Atlantic. For twenty days administration and others have great of the Student Employment Co-operaconcerning the workings of the p b.15 t hree Partners had plenty of money, There were numerous points of ortive the following statement is found: • Jlation had hit and the mark had they sailed the same course, the same plans for the region which we (as a gram. der raised and some apparent bad manbut in h. d . . "Whereas it is desirable in any comfew more zeros be IO it IO swell, the same wind, and with the poor freshman) have as yet been unners, but on the whole, notwithstand3dde d a B 1 h munity to organize all communal ac· Ii. be fore1g n exchange. Neverthe ess t e same three companions. Conditions able to cover. • ing the heat of the discussion, the Well, even within our confines some tivities for the common good, and c s started and they felt that reached the point that two members of boat wa ' . b meeting was a healthy display of whereas this is best accomplished by Saturday ll or high water ,it must e the crew had a serious fight as to exciting things happened. The Tempest come be democratic action; and since one of the participation of all concerned, and . bed. One of Plunder ~ compan- whether coffee or hot chocolate would Dawn arose from her couch, and fin1s d incentives to organizing on a cowe find it difficult, and indeed, \It • was put in charge of propagan a he had for breakfast. whereas such participation is most fulmiracle of miracles, two whole teams operative basis is to insure participa. G do not wish to do so, to ignore ti. w~ ly realized by action on a co-operative Then came the storm clouds which appeared, Chase and Randall (wiping and supply and sent IOto ermany to tion, the results v.rere more than heartbasis _ ____ ,, Because of the last part King William Players' production 'f be could get any support from covered the whole sky. The cyclone out tradition and sleep). A tight and ening and show promises of awakened b k hoke with a heavy wind which made well-fought _ game wbich vascellated We peeked behino see' of the Preamble, a lively si'xty-minute The Tempset. be Sp orts people there. • He came ac political intelligence. h stage-or all three stages-and tried t c debate took place in which this writer . pounds lighter wit the report rain and spray indistinguishable. The back and forth for all nine innings in . . t find out things. (We were advised bi sixty At the dose of the meeting, a com- tcok part. chat people weren't g~vIOg money o boat bobbed up and down like a tin which Morehouse hit the single that a member of the stage-crew that tbii mittee of four. A. Hyman, T. Fulton, such causes, but he did get some re- ·cJn but like the tin can stayed afloat. brought in the deciding runs. Since As a general rule, is action on a coseeking after knowledge was not on!! Plunder spent eighteen hours in the our games do not take on epic proS. Sheinkman, S. Bergen, to apply to operative basis the best means to real~on se from tradesmen who gave such . unethical but also unhealthy.) Vir engine room pouring oil into the portions, it might do well to mention the College administration for a char- ize the common good? Even if such a things as sails and paIOt. . learned; I. the play will begin at nin1. ter sanctioning the operation of the method of organization were the most Next they started showIOg school motor to keep the boat on the move. that Tony Hammond hit a triple and thirty on Friday next week; 2. tbr Randall, having read Employment Bureau Co-operative. effective one in the case of one particuchildren through the almost compl.eted During the storm , which lasted three a home run. price of admission will be thirty -ninr The committee has obtained the charter lar part of the St. John's community, boat. This money and the contnbu- days, there was a constant display of Homer ages and ages ago and having cents for St. Johnnie and dates; l. and will call a meeting of the members is it right or wise to state that such tions of interested parents enabled them lightening. become interested in co-operatives there will be at least fifteen spotligbb The storm ended in a deluge of rain showed fine team spirit. Could it be of the Co-operative for the election of a method is the best way anywhere, to complete the boat, the time of conused; 4. there will be all sorts of sur. a Board of Directors after which the Jnyrime? struction being fourteen months. . during which everyone took a bath and that the battle between private enterpnsmg scenic effects (they hope). Committee will disband. All memOn the day she was launched, their then the rain passed over leaving one- prise and co-operatives will be settled St. John's College is an institution All this and Shakespeare, too. bers of the College are urged to attend misunderstood by the world at large minister of propaganda persuaded two half of the sky clear and the other dark. in other columns? The play is directed by Messa. local bands to come and, of course, the Allowing the boat to take care of herBy the bye, the score was 12-10, and further the discussion of the Co- through no fault of its own. The Abramson and Nabokov, special ef. crowd was charged a nominal fee for self everyone went to sleep. with Chase-Stone on top. operative program. Dean and the President have often fects by Mr. Standen, designs by Jacl admission. Next the boat was sailed A while later, they met a friendly Tuesday came and Paca went crazy complained of the lack of and the conLandau. We cannot urge too much across the Lake of Constance and freighter which gave them some can- with the heat (lab. should tell us more fusion in the use of contemporary that you attend. This is a rare oppor· shipped to Hamburg, and from there ned food and water. They entered about these facts of life. Dead cats terms in describing the program. If tunity to see a good play. Extra-cur· sailed to Dover. New York having covered 5,862 nau- don't do it) and beat Randall 17-9. the Dean or the President could howricular activities of this order suffer The next stop was South Hampton, tical miles in two months sailing time. George Smith (also inspired) pitched ever find terms by which they might greatly at St. John's, and the few where they hoped to exhibit the boat As regards this story, this is Sowitas- and the Randallites made practically no clarify the Program, they would inThen Doctor Obnubile bent brave souls that persist deserve our and thus get enough money to buy gas Goht ("As Far As It Goes")· hits in the last four innings. his -h~adin bitter reflection. "Since deed use them. The term "co-opera - co-operation. and potatoes for the trip. Although tive basis" is one which leads to conRandall and Chase-Stone played wealth and civilization admit of as disappointed in this respect, Plunder Croup fusion or lack of meaning through again on Wednesday. The uppermany causes of wars as pov.£rty and THE EDITORS. met two Austrians from the crew of modern use or misuse. "The Great Due to increased time being spent classmen, being quite awake midweek barbarism. since the folly and wickedrhe Lcv'.:ithan who promised to take Russian Experiment," "The Grange ness of men are incurable. there re..----------------11 up a collrction amon~ the other mem- on the production of "The Tempest," afterno ons, won by the score of 9 - 6. Movement," "The Neighborhood A there will be no meeting of the Madri- Home runs were made by Wensel and mains but one good action to be done. THE KING WILLIAM PLAYERS hers of the crew. In this manner, they ~ P,"-all these widely diverse orgal group on Tuesday, August 17. Marshall; Nussbaum (R), Van Sant present The wise man will collect enough dyfinished the provisioning of the ship ganizations are brought to mind by (C -S) , Powder (C-S) were the namite to blow up this planet. When THE TEMPEST and set out for Madera. the word "co-operative." pitchers. its fragments fly through space an imThe trip south was through heavy McDowell Plaza The truth indeed may be that there perceptible amelioration will be actail winds and wet weather; the wetDue to sinus and ear infections FRIDAY, AUGUST 20th complished in the universe and a satis- is no way to avoid confusing terms Announcements ness did not only apply to the weather probably caused by swimming in ColNine-thirty P. M. when describing the St. John's profaction will be given to the universal but also to the clothes, bunks and lege Creek , the Dean has announced The athletic department has officialconscience. Moreover, this universal gram; but there is most assuredly a Admission food. One night Plunder awoke and that swimming has been suspended un- ly announced that the first round of way to avoid misunderstanding in this conscience does not exist. $.39 realized from the sound of the waves til future notice. This, of course, can- the tennis singles tournament must be case and I would think that it would $.83 ind the way the boat was acting that ceh the swim meet scheduled for Satur- finished by the 15th of August. ANA TOLE FRANCE. be wise to do so. Merely by chang'--~~~~~~~~~. •he was not on her course. Going on day. Finals are yet to be scheduled. Our Own Plan For The Post-Viar World Madrigal Swimming Sports ~::: ---======--- �Page 4 ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN Arts There are fewer movies coming into Annapolis this week than usual but ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE that's all for the best. Most sensational of all is Stage Door Canteen, called "the biggest thing to hit the Friday, August 13: screen." And that it is. Except that 3 :00 - 5 :00 P. M. it lacks Technicolor and Vivien Leigh, 5 :00 P. M. it is just like Gone With the Wind. 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. There are at least forty-eight or nine 7:00 P. M. greats of the stage and screen and six 8 :00 P. M. famous bands- count 'em. We found it rather difficult to follow what plot there was because we kept looking for the complication and it never occurred. Saturday, August 14: Aside from that, there were fleeting 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. images of some fine actors saying some Sunday, August 15: pretty awful things. It all takes place 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. in the Stage Door Canteen in New York, and the heroine's name, origin- Monday, August 16: ally enough, is Eileen. Best of all are 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. the bits by Ed Wynn, George Jessel, 5:00 P. M. Gypsy Rose Lee, Ray Bolger and a 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. few other entertainers of that order. Bolger' s song and dance js certainly Tuesday, August 17: worth packing a picnic-lunch for and 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. going to the Circle. It is the best sam5 :00 P. M. ple of contemporary dance on the 7:00 P. M. screen since the early Astaire-Rogers films. Some dialogue writer dealt Wednesday, August 18: Katherine Cornell a foul blow by 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. making her quote Shakespeare in the 5:00 P. M. middle of a canteen-handout. There 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. is not only not enough of too few good things. but too much of too Thursday, August 19: many poor things, or something. 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Pressure of current events has kept 5:00 P. M. us from keeping up with the Secret 7:00 P. M. Service in Darkest Africa, at the Republic every Saturday. The last we 7:30 P. M. saw was Chapter three which ended with a fire that obviously killed every- Friday, August 20: one. But Chapter seven is coming up 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. tomorrow and that doesn't prove any5 :00 P. M. thing except that we were fooled. Al6 :30-8 :00 P. M. so Gene Autry. 7:00 P. M. 9 :30 P. M. Note CALENDAR Fri., Aug. 13-Sat., Aug . .21, l St. John's Collegian ANNAPOLIS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1943 Athletics Vesper Service Music Seminar Bible Class Formal LectureGeometry- J a cob Klein Back Campus Great Hall Humphreys Ball McDowell 22 Great Hall Athletics Back Campus Recorded Concert McDowell Plaza Isle of Beauty, Fare Thee Well! 'fhe King William Players' presentation of The Tempest on Friday night seems to have pleased everyone. T.his is not, I think, merel y a way of saytng that the audience was friendly . The production bad all the merits that could reasonably be expected and enough more to cause real surprise and pleasure. tors, practitioners of the architectonic art, the Prospero and the Ariel behind this insubstantial pageant. Student Employment Co-operative R. S. At the second meeting of · the Student Employment membership the group elected the following five perMr. W. Kyle Smith began college sons to the Board of Directors : meeting with an announcement regardRobert Campbell-Junior. ing arrangements for students who Thomas Cosgrove-Sophomore. wish to remain on the campus during Thomas Fulton-Sophomore. vacatien . One dormitory will be kept Robert Novak-Sophomore. open and the charge will be one dollar Ch' ao-Li Chi-Freshman. a week. Students who remain will The Board met for the first time be asked to work around the Collast Sunday afternoon. Fulton was lege and will be paid ; about fifteen elected Chairman; Novak, Secretary, jobs will be available. The dining The folhall will be closed but arrangements and CampQell, Treasurer. may be made (if the coffee shop's ra- lowing rates of pay were decided upon: ti on points stretch) so that students 1. Minding babies: will be able to have breakfast and a. During the day until 6 lunch there. All applications for rep. m.-.35 hour. maining must be made by September b. After 6 p. m.-.30 hour. 1 to the Assistant Dean. 2. Manual labor: In the remaining period, Mr. Hama. Light-.50 hour. mond spoke on athletics. He reb. Heavy-.60 hour. quested that people using the tennis 3. Clerical work-.75 hour. courts wear tennis shoes or play bare4 . Chauffeuring-.50 hour. foot , for shoes have been used to the 5. Tutoring-$1.00 hour. discomfort of those players who would 6. Driving lessons-. 7 5 hour. like to have decent courts. Dormitory 7. Guiding--1.00 hour. team managers will be chosen by their College Meeting The Tempest is full of difficulties for director, designer, and actor. In Athletics Back Campus the absence of the more obvious eleVesper Service Great Hall ments of dramatic interest-excitement,. Recorded Concert McDowell Plaza suspense, intensity-a spell must be cast. On Friday night, in spite of the mechanical plot, the emphatic symAthletics Back Ca:npus bolism, and the dull farce, a rich and Vesper Service Great Hall strange life was lived before us unBible Class McDowe1! 22 der the stars and against the trees of the back campus. The brilliant, many-colored vision, born out of the Athletics Back Campus darkness and dying into it. the mournVesper Service Great Hall Recorded Concert McDowell Plaza ful cadences of Prospero' s voice and his motions ·away from the earth, the charm of the lovers. the sadness of the monster, and the shrill wildness of the Athletics Back Campus fool, all emphasized in the poem a Vesper Service Great Hall respective teams and will meet with Dormitory Managers Senior Common mysterious loss and renunciation. The the staff and athletic director to dean that raised the storm is abjured in Meeting Room the calm that follows-Prospero cide on the athletic awards. College Meeting Great Hall Regarding these awards there are breaks his staff a'nd drowns his book. Ariel finds the freedom so long desired three types given: plaques, medals, and in the severing of every tie and is blazers. Plaques are given to the winAthletics Back Campus dispersed in air. The island with its ning team. Vesper Service Great Hall Medals are given to all members of Music Seminar Humphreys Hall music is already a memory. And the the w inning team who have played world itself and all which it inherit Bible Class McDowell 22 two-thirds of the games. In swimThe King William PlayMcDowell Plaza shall dissolve and leave not a rack be- ming and track, the medals are awardhind. The curiously ambiguous and ers present The poignant words of the epilogue as ed to the holders of the first three Tempest No medals are spoken by Prospero, not only asked for places in events. awarded in individual sports. the audience's applause, but pointed the S·aturday, August 21: Blazers are awarded to the champmoral of the play: romance at its best 10: 3 0-12 : 0 0 M. Athletics Back Campus ion team. is close to tragedy. 10: 3 0 A. M. Faculty Meeting McDowell 24 The point system is as follows: Ten 9:30 P. M. Movie--The Scarlet McDowell Plaza It is evidence of the coherence of points, 1 place; 8 for 2nd place, 4 for Pimpernel-and Inthe production that one is not moved 3rd place, 3 for last place. In swimformal Dance to particular praise. But that is to ming an·d track , the high point win=~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~iliu pn~e ilio~d go~ ~I who ner receives a blazer. · In individual THE ST. JOHN'S OOLLEGIAN is the official news organ of St. John's Colle foe the occasion practised the arts of sports, the blazers are awarded to the published every Friday during the academic year. Entered as second class tn&I the theater. and especially to the directournament winner. October 15, 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, under the Act of :Ma In a frantic attempt to beat the 1944 Year Book to the deadline, HornShafer 8 Company have cleaned their type and are ready to present a ham sandwich without the bread in about a month. We elucidate to this extent: the 1943 Year Book will be ready for distribution before the end of the present term. This is strictly an upperclassmen's dish. Freshmen must wait to make history. THE EDITORS. 3, 1879. Price: 1 Oc Membership fees were set at $3.00 per year, payable in advance or in three installments of $1.00 per term, to be paid at the beginning of each term. In addition to this fee all members who earn over $50.00 per year shall pay 5 % of all earnings over that amount to th" Bureau until the year has elapsed. Any non-member shall remit 10% of his earnings to the Bureau. However, non -members will not receive jobs unless there are more jobs than the Bureau can fill from its membership. Further. it was decided that, should a member fail to fulfill a job contracted for , he shall be disbarred for at least one week from all other Bureau jobs. Last night the Board of Directors met again to consider applications for Managership. Messrs. Pfeiffer and Weiss were elected. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Everyone, including ourselves, was surprised and delighted that con- Fridiay, August 27: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus centrated effort yielded what it did as 5 :00 P. M. Vesper Service Great Hall it did. We have certain reservations 6 :30-8 :00 P . M. Music Seminar Humphreys Ha11 about the whole affair. but then we' re 7 : 00 P . M. Bible Class McDowell 22 told that we' re prejudiced. Now that 8 : 00 P. M. Formal Lecture- Music Great Hall the house divided has pulled itself to- Nicholas Nabokov gether again, we wish to thank the administration. There is a whole long list of movies Saturday, August 28: coming to town, and we wish we could 10 : 30 A. M.-12:00 M. Athletics Back Campus be encouraging. Among them are Above Suspicion and Heaven Can Sunday, August 29: Wait. What these films deal with is 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. Recorded Concert McDowell Plaza a problem for everyone concerned. Above Suspicion is about Nazis and stuff. Included are Joan Crawford, Monday, August 30: Athletics Back Campus whose absence has not been noticeable, 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Vesper Service Great Hall and Fred MacMurry, whose presence 5: 00 P. M. Recorded Concert McDowell Plaza bas been. This takes place in Ger7 :00-8 :00 P. M. many. Then again, we feel about Don Ameche the same way he does about Tuesday, August 31: Heaven. The Leopard Man (at the Athletics 3 :00 - 5 :00 P. M. Back Campus Republic next Wednesday) just about 5:00 P. M. Vesper Service Great Hall exhausts the animal kingdom as far as 7 :00 P . M . Bible Class McDowell 22 death and transfiguration goes . Our Meeting of the Madrigal 7 :00 - 8 :30 P. M. Humphreys Hill suggestion for the final gasp of this Group series is a picture titled The Spiny Ant-Eater Woman. We could get exWed11esday, September l: cited about that. 3 :00-5 :00 P. M . Athletics Back Campus On Monday at the Maryland in BalVesper Service Great Hall 5 :00 P. M. timore, Elmer Rice's latest play, A Recorded Concert McDowell Pbu 7 :00 - 8 :00 P. M. New Life, opens. The cast is headed by Betty Field (one Mrs. Rice). Nothing anyone has said has been able Thursday, September 2: to deter Arsenic and Old Lace from Athletics Back Campus 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Great Hall survival. On it goes, for weeks and 5 :00 P. M. Vesper Service Great Hall weeks, at the National in Washington . College Meeting 7:30 P. M. At Loew's Columbia in Washington is Walt Disney's version of De- Friday, September 3: Seversky' s Victory Through Air Back Campus 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Power. An interest in men and maGreat Hall 5 :00 P. M. Vesper Service chines and production should lead you Humphreys Hill 6 :30-8 :00 P. M . Music Seminar here. The quarter-page ad for this McDowell 22 7:00 P. M. Bible Class picture bas, in large print, a phrase that Great Hall Formal Lecture-to be 8 :00 P. M . puzzles us. It goes, "Never before! announced never again!" At the Little in Washington is I Was A Spy with Madeleine Carroll Saturday, September 4: Back Cam pus Athletics and Conrad Veidt. This was directed 10:30 A. M . -12:00 M. Great Hall The Film Club Presents 8:30 P. M. by Victor Saville and can have no pos- Alexander Nevsky sible interest to students of the film medium, or anyone else for that matter. At the Little in Baltimore is THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN is the official news organ of St. John's Co They Died With Thei-r Boots On- published every Friday during the academic year. Entered as second class Errol Flynn-also of minimal interest. ~.cio~~~. 15, 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, under the Act of John's Collegian VoJ.Lvl-No. 6 ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 194 3 Price : 1Oc ~ -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nabokov On Music Mr· Nabokov's lecture Friday night ved co be intere5ting but it did not pro td in fulfilling its title. The 111 cct Jtcturer proceeded to discuss what t)le Greeks called ha rmo~ic or_ the musi_al c . ce instead of d1scussmg the hbsc1cn . h . . .d rril art of music as t e tit 1e imp 11e . '1! rhe beginning of the lecture, Mr. Nibokov toyed around with the libml art of music in speaking of the Muses and their function, by quoting Cicero on the liberal arts, and by hintg vaguel y at the music in scientific 10 usuremen ts, a notion whose origin 11 ~generally ascribed around here to the Dun. At this point the lecturer proposed the follow ing three divisions for the )tcrure: ratio nal music, physical music, tbe relation of the two to musical pomy or the fine art of music. Rational music began with the Pythagorea n discovery of the consonance of two sounding strings in a length ratio of small w hole numbers. Plato ~iborated the theory as applied to sc;iles and introduced it into his cosmology. To illustrate this the lecturer rud the passage from the Timaeus which deals with the creation of the sc;ile and its incorporation into the :osmos. During his reading Mr. Nabokov did an explication de texte using the blackboard and the sonometer. The next point w as the Mediaeval levelopment of the science in Boethius. At this time harmonic was still rehted to the unive rse and related to it in sound as well as number. For Boetbius there was a physical music of the spheres which was imperceptible owing to the purity of the concords. musical pie as well ; Descartes considered music as a vibrational phenomenon. This was a natural consequence from the researches of Galileo. In the Cartesian theory a third proportional was added to the relation of string and number-physical sound . Descartes also developed the theory of overtones and their function in harmonic. Rameau brought the harmonic theory to the stage where it remained for nearly two centuries. He used the overtones in basing his harmony on triads formed on each note in the scale. This was a complete movement away from the Greek notion of fixed scale positions. His ideas of cadences , of notes having a function in a scale, and of harmony based on these were all developed by Rameau . In doing this Rameau still maintained a relation to ratios found in the physical world. The introduction of equal temperament destroyed the relation. In this system , the ratios involve 'the use of the incommensurable square root of 12 which has no obvious physical counterpart. The musical poetry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was written on a theory combining Rameau's work with equal temperament. The lecturer implied that co write music on such a basis was as deplorable as it was great. Arnold Schoenberg and his followers have now developed a harmonic which bears about the same relation to the physical world as nonEuclidean geometq. The art of writ- ing music has been reduced by the atonalists to a series of logical or, better still, inferential operations. In concluding it must be said again Not so fo r Kepler for whom the music that the lecturer was speaking of the "The World's Jazz Crazy, Lawdy, So Am I" Sunday evening, from seven to eight, for the first time in this community , a recorded jazz concert will be given . The program will consist altogether of records showing the important developments in the history of jazz between the years of 1900 and 1930. The recordings will be played in the following chronological order : The World' s Jazz Crazy- Trixie Smith. Vocal Blues , accompaniment b y L. Armstrong. cornet; .. Big" Green , trombone: Buster Bailey, clarinet. Th e N ew Boll Weevil Blues-Ma Rainey . . Vocal Blues, accompaniment unknown. Backwater Blues-Bessie Smith. Vocal Blues, accompaniment by James P. Johnson, piano. - Naked Dance-Jelly Roll Morton. Piano solo. Ory 's Creole Trombone-Louis Armstrong's Hot Five. L. Armstrong, cornet ; Kid Ory, trombone; Johnny Dodds, clarinet; Lil Hardin , piano ; Johnny St. Cyr, banjo. Canal Street Blues-King Oliver' s Creole Jazz Band. King Oliver. Lou is Armstrong. Johnny Dodds, Lil Hardin . Heebie Jeebies- Tbe Hot Five. Muskrat Ramble-The Hot Five. Dark Town Strutters' Ball-McKensie-Condon Rhythm Kings. Teschmaker, clarinet ; Muggsy Spanier, corn et . Pass The Jug-Frank Melrose. Stompin ' ' Em Down-Alex Hill. Piano :; olo. Jazz Me Blues-Bix Beiderbecke' s Gang. Beiderbeck, cornet. Pine Top 's Boog;e-Pine Top Smith. Piano solo. Good Moening Blues-Leadbelly. of the spheres lay just in the ratios of science of music not the liberal art of Vocal Blues with guitar. the orbits. music: This is regrettable, for there Everybody Loves My BabyAfter Kepler. the notion of rational is a definite lack of clarity as tq the be a primary one. distinctions who between the harmonic, revolutionized poetic. and liberal aspects of music. his finger into the H. H. S. Mezz- row-Ladnier Quintet. Mezzrow, clarinet : Ladnier, trumpet. Dr. Jazz-Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hol Peppers. Morton , Ory, Dodds. Ertegun, Campbell. �Page 2 ST. A Healthy Outlook , COLLEGIAN into our future moves in the war and even perhaps after the war. Our policy today towards Italy is perhaps a test o.f the facts presented by Mr. Smith. Some people consider the dilemma to be one concerning nazism and communism. Such people believe that'if we are too destructive in Italy a revolution will arise that will be communisric. Th I II f ese peop e natura Y ear and abhor communism. If this is the dilemma we perhaps are faced with a . grave problem srnce Italy is the seat of Catholicism. If we consider this to . be the dilemma we must be sure of our facts about communism and also the . h . d type o f wor Id w h 1c mc1u es our . country that we want not only to live in but also to create. The fourth in a series of war talks was given last Sunday night by the Assistant Dean, Mr. William Kyle Smith. The title of the talk was " Dilemmas in Foreign Policy." The method of Mr. Smith's presentation was similar to what some students of St. John's College consider to be the method of the scientist; that is, he presented a collection of facts and quotations and nothing izlse. Throughout the entire talk, Mr. Smith tried his best not to stick his neck out. All that he apparently wanted to do was to present such facts that might be relevant to the questio!;J of a dilemma in foreign policy. This also implies that a dilemma in foreign policy may not This brings us to the very bounced exist. The question of whether one around term ''Common Good" which exists or not was left entirely up to the audience. On the surface this the Dean has been fostering ever since his first formal lecture this term. I might lead one to believe that the talk say bounced around because too few of was rather dul'I and of little importus actually realize the import and sigance since no definite conclusions were nificance of the term. Mr. Smith reached. If one is solely interested in stated that his talk was really a footwar talks that will arrive at definite note to Mr. Buchanan's talk of the conclusions, Mr. Smith's presentation week before which by necessity of the could be considered as dull and of litDean's beliefs included the Common tle importance. Good. Since today America is at war, and In considering a foreign policy of we as individuals are definitely a part of the war whether we want to be or any country, one must also consider not, the attitude or feeling of the the organization or department that audience is of prime importance. I deals with foreign policy. If we conmention this point because most of us sider our State Department to have this v--- in . "white" . . , ol''ed Lend-Lease an d Revolution °' I the proper words, classified stealing . . cordrng to colours m an at tempt . throw some light on our ow n si tion ( Cp. Aristotle, De Ani ma, B II, Chapter 7). Black stealing: Forcefully hr ing in for the purpose of theft, burglary in general. Red stealing: I next Wednesday at i order that we may gain some insight the war from the point of view of what we are actually doing in the war rather than why we got into the war and what we are going to do after the war not however forgetting the importance of the latter factors. This seems to be a healthy outlook. L. W. R. Idiced Last Saturday the Athletic Department staged the first track meet of the year. Although no world records were shattered, the performances were in the main satisfactory considering the amount of practice that had preceeded the meet. The first event was the 100-yard dash. It was in two heats, the first won by Hoxby, of Paca-Carroll; the second by Bob Novak, of West Pinkney. The final, in which the first three men in each heat participated, was won by Harris, with Nova-t<. second, and Hoxby, third. Winning k time was 11. 8 seconds. The first two As a remedy , the Dean suggested places in the next event,· the 12 _ tbat we obey social .conventio~s and pound shot put , were taken by two co(llply with old-fash10ned notions of West Pinkneyites, Bill Chenoweth and property. He proposed the followil11! " rules of 1ife" : Keep your belongings m order. Don't borrow without explicit permission. Return shops, black market, etc.). borrowed property promptly. Don't collect useless articles, it leads to revoBlue stealing, motivated by Un derstand all your external sire for an object, or by spite possessio ns as means to your essential owner. possessio n, the mind. Or, as Plato White stealing, put it. and Mr. Buchanan quoted it: is responsible for most of our troubl "Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who hau nt th is place, give me beauty This is a sort of lend-lease in the inward soul; and may the outin which somebody who wa rd and inward man be at one. May away something out I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, of his heart or for some other unlik~ I have such a quantity of reason, suddenly regrets his action a temperate man and he only recovers his former property wit ran bear and carry." the knowledge of the new proprietor To which we think it not irrelevant or he may suffer from amnesia and m to add Phacdrus' reply: . "Ask the "thieves," without recovering it, !ame for me, for fr:ends should have all the situation may be such that nob things in common .;' knows who stole what from whom. P.W. (Had this been said a week ago, w1 To which the editors think it not might have raised some objections co1 irrelevant to add Socrates' reply : cerning the poetic fitness of the mcu "Let us go." phors, but now we think it better 1 until COLLEGIAN Track Meet We do seeing red. ) bt Mr· Bu chanan went on to define tY as something either necessary roper P ur life or for the performance of for yo . nctions, or for the improvement our f u 'cber or both. Carele~sness about of ei roperty, he said, confuses us and our p · · · the community; it resu I ts m genera I 'n 1 the midst of pl'enty and vertY pOd to the destruct ion of the comlta s . d ..d 1 d Ul. 111011 and the rn iv)~ ua hgoo . .t1!llately we may r~a ize t at ~e are rn·n chaotic commumsm A lve d 1 · vo on who has something stolen from p.e(llrs in a community thus becomes a b1 ·ind of conspirator. For profit Therefore all that we can hope the impression that we are discussing And again, we may simply be prej• to do today is to gather all the reliable facts possible and read between the lines. This is exactly what Mr. Smith tried to do, and no more. Since we have just about finished the Sicilian campaign, it is very apropos to consider our foreign policy in operationss. JOHN'S not wish. however, to appear to The Dean's theme at thi s College Meeting was one that h>~ "" discussed at similar occasions last by Mr. Barr : Property, its relatr' d · · fl men an Its rn uence on their rela to each other. This subject takes particular interest with the anno . Q ment that nineteen cases of d' pearing property have been repo b f h . rtfd 0 bme1'.1 e.rs ft eh commumty since eg1001ng o t e term. T he h f d'd h · w o ortunate 1 l n~t esitate to y don ' t realize how little we actually function we must know something · M S · h know about the facts of this war. a b out it. r. m1t presented by First of all our pre-existi·ng know!- quotations what some consider the edge; that is the history of America State Department to be, its function and the countries that we are allied and relation to the President, Congress, By the presentation of with as well as our enemies is very and people. inadequate. Secondly, ~e fail to real- these facts, we can get into position to decide whether or not a dilemma exize that a censorship completely exercised really exists. And even if this ists. in the State Department and its censorship did not exist the difficulty relationships. This aroused some disof getting the exact facts or the real cussion from the audience; although truth even though one is at the scene of the interest was more in the individual acrion is very great. The war itself, membership of the State Department rather than in the Department as a and the facts and battles pertaining to .re Throughout the entl talk one got wait the war are unfortunately of this nature. -- ST. Correction Williams. Third was Ed Cochran , of Randall. Chenoweth's best throw was 27 8 inches. feet Johnny Wakefield, of Pinkney, took the next race, the 220 dash, with a time of 28 seconds. Harris was second and Chenoweth third. Three Pinkney men took all the places in the discus, Van Doren winning with a throw of 70 feet 3 inches, with Harvey second and AI Goldstein third. Wakefield won another in the 440yard dash, his time being 1 minute. Goldstein was second, and although Jim Ray came in third he was disq ualified, so Tom Robertson , of Paca, took third place. Dick Maury, of Page 3 relay, high and broad jumps, and the marathon, and tug of war. Although Pinkney has made a majority of the points, it has by no means clinched the meet. Neither has the individual championship, for which the award is an official college blazer, been yet decided. Chenoweth is leading so f ar with I 5 points, but Harvey, Harris and Wakefield are not far behind with 13, 11 and 10 points, respectively. It should b e remembered that winners and placers in all events receive medals, and also that second place 1n ' the meet counts 8 points towards the school championship, and third place 6 poin~: So it is hoped that the en- tbusiasm that was evident last Saturday will not have abated when this week-end rolls around. C. V. D. Backcampus While your reporter was away hitting the high spots in the big city, plenty of chalk and dust was kicked up on the ba.ckcampus. Not daring to write up anything we had not seen (a phenomenon which we have often noticed) we asked a fellow reporter to do the job. Leaving the realms of material we know nothing about. we shall try to repcrt this, the next to the last week of the softball season. On Friday, Pinkney won the championship by beating Paca-Carroll with the score of 25-5. On Monday, Randall won from P.aca-Carroll by the forfeit score 0 f 9 O Chase-Stone. took the softball throw - • with a toss of about a mile, with HarTuesday came and Pinkmy conris coming in second and Chenoweth tinned winning by defeating Chasethird. Stone 13-1 L stopping a 6-run rally by the losers in the ninth inning. Pinkney won the 440 relay through the fast running of Harvey in the second lap and Chase's trouble in passing the baton. Paca was second and the other two teams were disqualified . The winning time was 5 5 seconds, which was quite good for an unpractised team. by a subconscious feelin g tbi In the printing of The Sacr.i.fice of The last event of the day, the javewhite is the colour of innocense. fur lph~genia two typographical errors lin throw, was won b·y Harvey, with ere thermore, we find it rather difficult I W made: a throw of about 110 feet. Chenoweth was second and Hoxby third. understand how some of the obje I, line 6-read hours as The meet was cut short at this point mentioned as having been because of the lack of time, but the missing, such as watches, mon ey a 3, line 7-read form as following events will be run off next I . I fountain pens, could have been Saturday morning: 8 80 relay, medley Next week will decide whether Chase-Stone or Randall will place second in softball. The tennis finals will take place next week with Dick Maury and Klaus Epstein as opponents. The tennis doubles are moving along very slowly and it is hoped that the participants realize the term is coming to an end. . Somehow or other the athletic department has gotten rope for a tug-ofwar in the track meet. Eight men are required on a team. This should pull ::: large crowd. �ST. Page 4 JOHN'S COLLEGIAN Arts CALENDAR Tomorrow night the Film Club ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE Fri., Sept. 3-S·at., Sept. 11, 1 (still under the benevolent wing of the - -- - -- - -- - -- - - - -- - - - - - -- - -- - - -College) will present the second pro- Friday, September 3: Athletics gram of the year. It is the Russian 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Back Cam pus Vesper Service Great Hall classic Alexander Nevsky. Of the im5 : 0 0 P · M. 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. Music Seminar Humphreys .Halt portant names associated with this 6 : 30-8 :00 P. M. Bible Class McDowell 22 picture, the two that mean most to 8 : 00 P. M. Formal Lecture AsGreat Hall American audiences are Eisenstein and tronomy-Peter C. Prokofief. Nevsky is a simple record Wolff of an important date in Russian history , April 5th, 1242, when an in- Saturday, September 4: Athletics Back Cam pus vading German army was again de- I 0 · 3 0 A. M. -12 : 0 0 M. 9:30 P. M. The Film Club Pr.esents: Great Hall The principles involved are feated. Alexander Nevsky freedom and justice. The battle is Homeric , and the people represented Sunday, September 5: 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. Recorded Jazz Concert McDowell Plaza are epic heroes. The score of the film 8 :00 P. M. Progress of the War. Woodward Hall is coordinated perfectly with the acRussia Peacemakertion. It is, for the record, one of the Nicolas Nabokov best movie-scores written. The symbolic manipulation is disciplined Monday, September 6: 3-:00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Camp us except where a contradition with Soviet 5 :00 P. M. Vesper Service Great Hall ideology is too great. Nevsky has the 7 : 00-8 :00 P. M . Recorded Concert McDowell Plaza cinematic quality that most American products lack. The only recent film Tuesday, September 7: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Camp us we know of that has followed its pat5:00 P. M. Vesper Service Great Hall tern is The Ox-Bow Incident. But 7 :00-8 :3 0 P. M. Bible Class McDowell 22 Nevsky is important for other reasons 7 :00-8 :3 0 P. M. Meeting of the Madrigal Humphreys Hall than those apparent to the student of Group the film idiom. It is important beWednesday, September 8: cause it is a work of art. 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Camp us On Sunday at the Circle the latest 5 :00 P . M. Vesper Service Great Hall Fred Astaire picture is on display. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. Recorded Concert McDowell P laza This one is known as The Sky's the 7:30 P. M. Class in Projective McDowell 21 Limit , which sounds gay but isn't. Geometry Mr. Astaire has at last cotne down the 8:00 P. M . Reading of Blake and Bookstore line to Joan Leslie in the litcle Paul Donne Jones that his producers are dancing with him. She has demonstrated her Thursday, September 9: Athletics Back Camp us skill already. 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5 :00 P. M. Vesper Service Great Hall On Wednesday at the Circle (indeed 7:00 P. M. Dormitory Managers' Senior Com mon our home next week) is the film verMeeting Room sion of Lillian Hellman's anti-Nazi 7:30 P. M. College Meeting Great Hall \Vatch On the Rhine. As a play. it is the best of its kind and one of the best in a long time. Most of the cast in the film is the original stage cast. T his means the presence of Paul Lukas. The Hollywood addition of Bette Davis is not regrettable. As on Broad• way , it is directed by Herman Shumlin. Friday, September 10: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5 :00 P. M. 6 :30 - 8 :00 P. M. 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. Saturday, September 11: Athletics Vesper Service Music Seminar Bible Class Formal Lecture - Dialectic-William Gorman Back Campus Great Hall Humphreys Hall McDowell 2 2 Great Hall At the Little in Washington they 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M . are showing a short Signal Corps film 9:30 P. M. titled Report From the Aleutians. It is touted as the best Signal Corp job so far. We have received only rumors about it. but on the basis of these THE ST. JOHN'S OOLLEGIA.N is the official news organ of St. John's College. would urge the College to exhibit it published every Friday during the academic year. Entered as second class niat~ October 15. 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, under the Act of :Mar here. 3, 1879. t. John's Collegian VoJ.lVI--No. 7 ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. 1943 Nabokov on Russia M Nicolas Nabokov spoke last r. Sunday night on the topic Russia Peacemaker. He began by telling of an odyssey he had made which cast some light on Russian foreign policy; the reluctance to make statements he encountered amongst Russian officials demonstrated that relations between Russia and the United States are bad. This is perhaps evident by the number of articles written in American papers on the subject this past weekend. To illustrate the sort of foreign policy the Russians desire, the speaker roid a story about the delegation to the peace meeting at Brest-Litovsk. When the discovery was made that all groups were represented except the · peasants a passmg stranger was summoned, asked if be wert oea$<&Dt ~nd membe r of the Party, and was made the delegate. At the celebration given by the Germans, the Peasants' Delegate was asked his preference for red or white wine. To which he replied that be liked his wine strong. perialistic designs, it is possible that she may consider it desirable to bring about federation with the border states, Lithuania, Estonia, and Lata via. These states are economically insecu re and are ruled by a landed gentry (in some cases alien) and it is evident that a desire for federation exists to some degree. As was stated earlier, Russia is cautious of American participation in the solution of these problems , for that which is called "Christian civilization might be Standard Oil. " The speaker noted that contrary to the opinion prevalent in this country there is no change in the Soviet artitude toward religion. The Primate Metropolitan has asserted that the Church was rightly persecuted because of its alliance with reactionary forces . Kal1"n1'n has stated th.e pr1"nc1'ple of tolerance involved in Russia ' s religious policy; religion is superstition. Some of the older generation still cling to religion , but the younger generation under a good educational system will turn away from it. Meanwhile, the religious groups are tolerated as a cul tural entity since the church has lost reactionary connotations. Therefore, priests are being appointed to recon - Price: 1Oc sible if we are not on our guard that w e will find ourselves the outside party to a British-Russian pact to supervise post- war Europe. F. K. Tribute of Verse For the past two weeks on Wednesd ay evenings, there has met a group in the Bookshop for the purpose of reading poetry and plays. There is planned for next term a reading of James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound. to be followed by readings from Chaucer (in the Middle English ) by Richard Scofield. As an introduction to Donne's poetry The Triple Foole was read and indeed it might serve as an apology for all who read poetry aloud. I AM two fooles, I know , For loving, and for saying so In whining Poetry; But where' s that wiseman, that would not be I, If she would not deny? Then as th' earths inward narrow crooked lanes • Do purge sea waters fretful salt away. 1 thought , if I could draw my paines. Through Rimes vexation, I should them allay. verse. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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These states are economically insecure and are ruled by a landed gentry (in some cases alien) and it is evident that a desire for federation exists to some degree. F. K. Na bokov on Russia _M.r. Nicolas Nabokov spoke last Sunday night on the topic Russia Peacemaker. He began by telling of an dyssey he had made which cast some ~gbt on Russian foreign policy; the reluctance to make statements he encountered amongst Russian officials demonstrated that relations between Russia and the United States are bad. This is perhaps evident by the number of articles written in American p~pers on the subject this past weekend. To illustrate the sort of foreign policy the Russians desire, the speaker cold a story about the delegation to the peace meeting at Brest-Litovsk. When the discovery was made that all As was stated earlier, Russia is cautious of American participation in the solution of these problems, for that which is called "Christian civilization might be Standard Oil." The speaker noted that contrary to the opinion prevalent in this country there is no change in the Soviet attitude toward religion. The Primate Metropolitan has asserted that the Church was rightly persecuted because of its the delegate. At the celebration given by the Germ ans. the Peasants' Delegate was asked his preference for red or white wine. To which he replied religious groups are tolerated as a culthat he liked his wine strong. tural entity since the church bas lost A cha racteristic of Soviet diplomacy reactionary connotations. Therefore, would seem to be the preservation of priests are being appointed to reconalternate policies; for instance, the 1939 pact with Hitler. The policy struction councils. sible if we are not on our guard that we will find ourselves the outside party to a British-Russian pact to supervise post-war Europe. Tribute of Verse For the past two weeks on Wedn~sday evenings, there has met a group in the Bookshop for the purpose of reading poetry and plays. There is planned for next term a reading of James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound, to be followed by readings from Chaucer (in the Middle English) by Richard Scofield. As an introduction to Donne's poetry The Triple Foole was read and indeed it might serve as an apology for all who read poetry aloud. But where's that wiseman, that would not be I, If she would not deny? Then as th'earths inward narrow crooked lanes • Do purge sea waters fretful salt away, I thought, if I could draw my paines. Through Rimes vexation. I should them allay. Russia likes to think of herself as has al ways been a shifting one from Griefe brought to numbers cannot be favoring Germany right after the last the great world power (because she so fierce, war to collective security under the made and beat an alliance)· In this For. be tames it, that fetters it, in guiding hand of Litvinov at the connection she is fond of rememberverse. League. ing the Russian prowess of 1812. Underlying Russia's foreign policy Also acclaimed are Lhe heroes that have But when I have done so, has been the desire to keep out of war. turned their eyes to the East. This Some man, his art and voice to show, In drder to prevent further conflicts would seem to indicate that Rassia's Doth Set and sing my paine, in Europe, Russia hopes that strong interests are also in that direction. She And by delight~ng many, frees againe national states will arise, economically has built up an immense industry be- Griefe, which verse did restraine. Weak. The Soviet Union is not in- yond the Urals which she intends to To Love, and Griefe tribute of Verse terested in communizing Europe, but use to supply such industrially 1mbelongs, Would like to see a Pan-European or- poverisbed countries as China and But not of such as pleases when 'tis ganizatio n (with Britain and Russia India. read, included ) controlling European indusThere are people in our State De- Both are increased by such songs : try to prevent the growth of a war in- partment who feel that there is no !--or both their triumphs so are pub~ustry. Russia probably does not de- possibility of a permanent agreement lished. sire our participation in this organiza- with the Stalin regime. Meanwhile, And I. which was two fooles. do so tion, fo r she feels we do not under- the British lib.eral element is rather engrow three; stand the European problem. thusiastic about close relations with Who are a little wise, the best fooles Althou gh Russia does not have im- Russia after the war. It is quite posbee. �Page 2 ST. Mr. Wolff on Astronomy to introduce the equant and modify his hypothesis of uniform angular velocity. Mr. Peter Wolff made his debut on At this point, for Mr. Wolff and the St. John' s lectern last Friday eveCopernicus, Ptolemaic astronomy ning, an occasion for much rejoicing. breaks down. To which may be added: if like re The Copernican Revolution w as a sults occur if and when the newly inturn in the right direction, but it, to~. augurated custom is resumed, the College won't have to seek far for had some shortcomings. The sun replaces the earth at the center of things, lecturers. Astronomy occupies a unique posi- and we no longer have the equant. tion with respect to the other liberal Copernicus goes mad with circular moarts in that it is the only one that tion, and we find in his system deals with things outside the mind. epicycles on epicycles on circles and Yet, its position in the quadrivium quasi-circles. ~ircular. ~otion is ~ven indicates that it is involved with used to explam rectilinear motion. Th e . to I ema1c system 1s still able to P · · · mathematics. This ambiguous aspect of astronomy presents our problem : explam the appearances much more achow can we attain to a knowledge of cu rately. As far as formal causation sensible things which are not them- is concerned (and that is all with selves intelligible? We shall return to W:hich he concerns himself) , Coperthis question later and try to answer it. nicus does not represent an improveThe problem of astronomy for the ment over his predecessors. Greeks was to find a formal cause of celestial motion which would explain or " save" the apparent motion. Efficient causes were not sought after because they thought heavenly bodies could not be considered in the same way one regards terrestrial things. Furthermore, for Timaeus at least, it is more becoming to men that they accept a likely story of the motion of heavenly bodies and ask for nothing more. The astronomical system of Ptolemy can be briefly stated this way: it seems to be a reasonable assumption that the earth is absolutely motionless ; the motion of the planets is observed to have a cyclical quality, so the paths described by them must be circles. They had archetypal reasons for this. The circle is the perfect geometrical figure. The planets, not subject to generation and corruption, have a certain perfection about them. It is only proper that perfect bodies should move in perfect paths which are always the same with themselves. One further assumption was made by Ptolemy. Given any celestial motion the angular velocity about the center of the circle must be uniform . The apparent motion which we must explain is very irregular. Station points and retrograde motion make it necessary for us to have recourse to epicycles, eccentric circles, and combinations of both of them to save the appearances. Finally Ptolemy has ST. COLLEGIAN coming , shortly after Kepler, Copernicus , retains the heliocentric assumption. He gives the earth and planets elliptical orbits which are consonant with his story of efficient The fact that the earth causality. moves. together with the elliptical orbits of all planets enables Kepler to give a very accurate explanation of the appearances. Finally, Newton , applying Galileo's mechanics to things celestial (a very important step) and adding his three laws of motion and the inverse square law of universal gravitation. deduces from this data alone the Keplerian system which employed elliptical orbits . After Newton, astronomy is no longer cinematic-it becomes efficiently dynamic. Astronomy is the birth of, and really becomes mathematical physics. But the problem of mathematical physics is the old problem of astronomy shifted to the field of efficient causation. What tben are we doing when we do mathematical physics? the last scholium at the very end of bis Principia, Newton makes tbis statement: " But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena ; and I frame no hypotheses ; for whatever it not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis ; and hypotheses. whether metaphysical or physical. whether occult qualities or mechanical , have no place in experi- In COLLEGIAN As tronom~ is neither of these We practice the liberal art of ont· ronornY when each illuminates the -.rb'r· NoW you are prepared to plunge incbe whirlpool of mathematical ~ysics with astronomy as your inrdlectual life preserver. VERNE SCHWAB. , !. 6-3, 6-0, 6-1. In the first six or seven games of the first set Maury was playing too ca~efully, and Epstein very well. but after that Maury seemed to lose his caution, started to come Which brings Mr. Wolff back to up to the net, and hit quite well from problem . If Newton's three laws the baselines, and Epstein was not the law of universal gravita tion able to handle these harder and better not hypothetical they must be placed drives. In the last set, the sertorical propositions. In 0 first game of which went to duce many words he seems to be saying that i. times and was finally won by Epstein, does not tell likely stories, but t Maury hit his stride and played very ones. This cannot be true since good tennis , making several service aces cognition is not on the level of and many placement aces. The match sensibles . Newton's philosophy (Note : Having noted a dearth of was interesting, however, though onebased on the assumption that nae ure autiful stories for beautifuJ little sided, because of Epstein' s gameness in constructed mathematically. E we must say that nature is ma tbellla children. such as those nurtured by playing hard to the very last point. rhr facul ty, the Quadrivium is using ' cal. But this is not the same as ing that nature is simple for maiay ibt free press to alleviate this shortma tics since the mathematical scien age.) The time has come, the administra are very often not simple. BED- TIME STORY tion said, Newton' s second point is that par. Chap One ticular propositions are to be nudt To talk of many things. · d · D . One dark (pause) sultry (pause) genera I by m uctlon. esptte any . . Thus we have : . B ght a little young girl (a good litt h mg aeon may have said, induct' ni ' I. Mr. Kyle-Smith announcing in the sciences seems for Mr. WIOI dr girl) was boo~ng it through the to b h .t · oul fores t, clutchmg a parcel-posted that e a 1 or miss process. If 11 admit that nature is mathematical • copy of Croce to her bosom . "The (a) there is still time for students · . ' ml.ght b e urge d t h at m d uct1on is ail will come through tonight!" she to tell him that they intend to stay legitimate process. This isn't true bi. id, gritting her teeth for effect. at College during vacation; cause we still have to discover the wa uddenly out of the darkness came a ( b) the building selected for the ig bad wolf in a low register. The remainders is Stone; in which it is mathematical. . olf approached the girl (who was M r. W olff wou Id procee d m ( c) it is the obligation of the reb. S" IOI a bit afraid because, after all, this · · sciences m t is manner : m ce semj. mainders to make arrangements with ble things are not knowable, we m only a story and you know how the potential vacationists of that try to approach their true matheman ories are) and said, " Carry your g• ma'am?" " Sir," she responded! building concerning habitation ; cal nature by making hypotheses 11 ( d) those who have had their lugto what it is. In the laboratory, ~ Chap Two gage stored and wish ot use it should means of crucial experiments. we llf Chap Two : (Walks through.) let Miss Alexander know prior to the to verify the propositions we have de· thirteenth. · Chap Three duced· or any which are deducible from II. Mr. Buchanan who, after slapthe hypotheses. There is no probltm (Not for children) ping us on the back by stating that we of induction because hypotheses arr Chap Four worked this term and that the college first principles and necessarily universal. (Enter various shapes off-stage and, is as healthy and happy as it bas ever This is the method of the philosop a quaint device, disappear. been , gave us his tri- (now quadri-) Kant. Enter Lord Peter Wimsey in an old annual Regulae Buchanenses Pro VacaBut do we have a genuine scie8'e ool tie and k ilt. tione: physics or are we merely playing wim Enter four pall-bearers and drag out ( l) Don't study. ideas? We have had to admit body.) nature is in some way mathematical. ( 2) Postpone all wrestling matches Finis. At this point Mr. Wolff goes one sttp with Great Books until October 1. further than Kant and says that id QUADRIVIUM. (3) Do some manual work if possible. have intentionality. This step gives genuine science (and also Platonism) ( 4 ) Enjoy yourself. In conclusion, Mr. Wolff bas so . ( 5 ) T ry hard to understand your On Tuesday the finals of the tennis advice for us before we embark on parents and friends. sea of science (in the good s rnamen t were played, the particiPlato) . Consider astronomy as a I ts being Dick Maury and Klaus Commentary: Add 1 ~ 2: Vacation is a maturein. Maury won rather easily exeral art, the episteme of which for the first set; the score was ing process. Education is constituted mathematics ; the techne mental philosophy. In this Phil phy particular propositions are ferred from the phenomena, and a wards rendered general by inducti Glory Be To God For Da ppled Things I College Meeting Tennis Page 3 by what you have left after you have forgotten everything you have learned. Add 5 : Freshmen might observe an extraordinary change in their relationships with parents and friends. Granted that they may be quite uneducated, you must understand them in order to gnothi seauton. III. Mr. Barr, returning to his favorite theme: garments, himself wearing pants. a hair-cut, and a shirt (white!) with collar ends reaching skyward rather less energetically than usual. Since we are not the young lady from Natchez, nor the man with the unclean spirits in St. Ma rk (but, supposedly, he with the spirits driven out, "clothed, and in his right mind" ) , and since most people for some odd reason dislike trampesque attire. we should therefore realize the evil of T -shirts in the Circle, and never offend unconsciously. Thus, beginning with the new term let us be in our right mind and clothed- impossible in the summerand let us also remember that in all matters Miss A. reigns supreme in the dining hall and the tutors in the class room . Mr. Barr, a connoiseur of fine and fine Ersatz clothes, finds a uniform of blazers and grey flannels most inexpensive and serviceable. They can, he claims, be admirably supplemented with cravats (and. we may add, with red wool socks) . As this won't really be a uniform unless worn by one and all. he approached Strange ~ White with these matters and was told : C' est la guerre. But they are going to try anyway ; they've got a decent stock of flannels and are bunting for synthetic blazers (a p rio ri synthetid). Finally we were informed that the following attitude ts unintelligent: To do all things ordered, and to avoid all things not ordered. We were told this quae athletics, post-lecture question periods (they can start you running under your own steam) , Sunday night War Meetings, recorded co ncerts and Vesper Services. G. B. �ST. Page 4 Arts ( The time has come when we enter upon our work with a light chest but a heavy head-due to a cold. Two solid weeks of cool, long, autumn days is a prospect most enj oyable and an opportunity to gather some new idioms. "In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear!") JOHN'S COLLEGIAN more. In Washington, at the National, there is A New Life and followed by Dark Eyes. At the Little is Raimu in My Wife and I; at the Pix, a revival of Fantasia. At the Hotel Statler, Hildegarde is singing. This is nice and expensive. Last Friday afternoon the store entertained. Mr. Joseph rin read T. S. Eliot' s Murder iq Cathedral to a small but appr audience. All the symbols Wert rect, cakes and ices, coffee spoolla. At the drop of a hat we would pubMr. Killorin has a remark able lish a " New York Directory," places to rest and study. We offer a few that has been exhibited before. suggestions: Oklahoma! at the St. two -hour performance was cons' Jam es (try t o get tickets , just try) ; I Y direct and forceful. T he d' Pearl Primus dancing at Cafe Society; ties that are always encounterfd also Jimmy Savo at the other Society; reading a play and in reading The Skin of Our Teeth even without were overcome by skill and o We are pleased to find that there Bankhead; Merman in Something; standing. It was intelligible are a few people who disagree with us and there' s always Life With Father. moving. about one of the current films. It is Watch On The Rhine and it will be playing either at the Circle or the Capitol. depending on which day you f ri., Sept. 10-Wed., Sept. 15, 1 ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE choose. At the Republic there is a quaint affair called Hi Diddle Diddle with Friday, September 10: Adolphe Menjou and Martha Scott. Back Campus Athletics 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. This sort of thing can lead almost Great Hall Vesper Service 5 :00 P. M. anywhere but usually doesn't. A Humphreys Hal Music Seminar 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. short called Steelhead Fighters is McDowell 22 Bible Class 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. there, too , and although we venture no Great Hall Formal Lecture- Dia8:00 P. M. opinions concerning it, looks worth lectic-William investigating. The remaining proGorman grams, for next week and the following, are distinguished only by their Saturday, September 11: Back Campus Athletics 10:30 A . M.-12:00 M. mediocrity. Iglehart Hall Movie-My Little 9:30 P. M. The Cotillion Board has been dealt Chickadee-and Ina foul blow by a movie distributor. fo rmal Dance name of Bell -Howard. and it's any - CALENDAR bod y' s guess as to what will come out of the projector on Saturday night at the Gym. Originally it was to have been Seven Sinners as the movie part of the second Movie-Dance of the term. This has Dietrich and we could say all sort of things. But it may be W. C. Fields in My Little Chickadee or anyone of about eight hundred other films. Fields has an int ricate comic technique worth study. Dietrich has a technique. So far we're nowhere. Neither is the Cotillion Board. Sunday, September 12: 4 :00 P. M. t. John's Collegian Reading Recital: Mordecai Sheinkman. piano; Allen Gold stein, flute ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1943 Dialectic Last Friday evening we joined Mr. Buchanan on a voyage through three orlds. They are all inhabited by us, for once, as if we wer~ ingredients of a piccure, we were permitted to step out and view ourselves and our relarion to other parts and the whole. First on this magical excursion we reach a world of constant motion and ftux:. Its people live an exciting life seeing everythi ng in terms of ends and means. They madly gather means to achieve progress, disdaining every thing once established as bothersome, useless, and outmoded. Each one sees himself as capable of obtaining new knowledge ; and since the. essence of science has become progress, know!edge itself has ceased to be something stable in itself. It has become the always new-fo rever giving the illusion tbac no w man has the power and conuol over nature. But the final end of all means . the end which for the individual in th is world seems to justify tbe means employed, is the emotion whhich they have created in him . And so moved by the illusion of power he deems himself successful and happy. It is a world of rituals; but they have lost their real power and Humphreys Hall significance. They ha ve ceased to be final ends good in themselves . Instead they have become in this utilitarian :ut able to transform all into symbols, and make nature subject to our understanding, as well as explanation by means of hypothesis and experiment and deepen the measurement, and help to invade and try to dominate nature intellectually. The world of empirical investigation will keep us sane and happy and the use of this grammar will give us only a symbolic possession of the world. Passing on to the next world we become aware that symbols by themselves'. being unsatisfactory and only substitutes for ideas and reason, often lose their function as 'such; but even if they maintain the!r function they are apt to throw us into irrelevancies and unhappiness. Still they are useful and necessary and powerful enough to lead us where they are. going, and by necessity they are always going somewhere. And when such an emotion is created within us, the symbols which are a mirroring of the unchanging and eternal. will l~ad us to it, and being less powerful than " Ideas,'' being only shadows of reality, reality will grasp us with an irresistable force. Their power indeed is so great that even if we have fallen away from an idea, we still know its presence. We have travelled from utilities to symbols and ideas and have saved not only the appearance but also the essence of idea on which a true super- se[·Up. pe rs OJlal ends, and exerting an structure can be built. emotional appeal they have become We could have followed the road "mo tions of pleasure." Back Cam pus of downward d ialectic starting with Athletics 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Great Hall Leaving this world of individual eternai ideas as premisses. We would Vesper Service 5:00 P. M •• McDowell Plaza measures, we enter next upon the world then, employing demonstrative science, Recorded Concert 7 :00-8 :00 P. M . o symbols. I n as far as symbols must start from self-evident premisses and f Tuesday, September 14: be reco gnized as shadows or tracings of end with the probabilities of fact and Back Campus things, sym bol ic relations become the appearance, endangering our whole subAthletics 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Great Hall Vesper Service effects which signify the causes, , so that jective structure. 5 :00 P. M . McDowell 22 the emplo yin g of symbols to penetrate Bible Class 7:00-8:30 P. M. The dangers which we encounter are Humphreys HaD the nature of things becomes a reversal the temptations either to grasp the Meeting of the Madrigal 7 :00-8 :30 P . M . Group of the utilitarian sequence of cause and third world without passing through effect. Since our aim in this world the world of symbols; i. e., our trust Wednesday, September 15 : shall be its clarification (which ulti- in anglic intuition of ideas, or to ac1 2 Noon Vacation Begins mate!y will lead to the true state of cept the formal as the truth and to ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~nnure), ~ will be nKHsary to use trust in the univocality of symbols. THE ST. JOHN'S OOLLEGIAN is th e official news organ of St. John's 1 Ymbol ic devices such as proportionRealizing that symbols are incompublished every Friday during the academi c year . Enter ed aR serond classf October 15 . 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, under thl" Act o ality and measurement by which we are men.rnrable with ideas and themselves Monday, September 13. If you are going to be in this vicin ity for the next couple of weeks you may like to know what's available in the way of lively art . The answer is very brief but we' ll expand it At Fo rd' s in Baltimore there is still Arsenic and Old Lace followed , originally enough . by Junior Miss . That just about takes care of Balti- 3, 1879 . Price : 1Oc can never become ideas, as tangents to a circle can never have the property of a curve, the aim of the liberal arts remains to be a faith in the elastic tension between intellect and imagination; that, symbols and ideas-which is a continuance of this mag ical jou rney before returning back each into his frame, Even though by the way of symbols we seem to be able to grasp ideas. or rather be grasped by them, there still remains the question of the faithfulness of symbols to nature. If there is not, then even in the third world, man will be unable to comprehend nature in its true state and then our journey is either unsuccessful or incomplete. E. N. Film Club To bring new freshmen up to date -the Film Club is an organization dedicated to the proposition that good entertain me nt is a necessary and integral part of student life. In order to fulfill partially this requirement, the Film Club presents those films which it considers to be best examples of the motion picture medium. The first film of this term. which will be shown on Saturday night at 8: 3 0 in Iglehart Hall, is Grand lllu sion. This picture was produced in France in the middle th irties. It is the story of three French soldie rs in German prison camps du ring the last war. Several themes are emplo yed : The breakdown of P russi an nobility, the relation of men to one anothe r un der the conditions of war and their psychological reactions, finall y, the irresolution of the illusion and disillusion in the whole historical situation. The cast is headed by E rich von St ro heim and Jean G ab in ; the film is d irected by J ean Reno ir. 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Last Friday afcernoon the store entertained. Mr. J oseph rin read T. S. Eliot's Murder iii Cathedral to a small but appr . audience. All the symbols Were rect, cakes and ices, coffee spoo11a, At the drop of a bat we would publish a "New York Directory," places Mr. Killorin has a remarkable to rest and study. We offer a few that has been exhibited before. suggestions: Oklahoma! at the St. two -hour performance was cons· Jam es (try t o get tickets, just try) ; ly direct and forceful. The di Pearl Primus dancing at Cafe Society; ties that are always encountered also Jimmy Savo at the other Society; reading a play and in reading The Skin of Our Teeth even without were overcome by skill and u We are pleased to find that there Bankhead; Merman in Something; standing. It was intelligible are a few people who disagree with us and there's always Life With Father. moving. about one of the current films. It is Watch On The Rhine and it will be playing either at the Circle or the Capitol, depending on which day you f ri., Sept. 10-Wed., Sept. 15, 1 S.T. JOHN'S COLLEGE choose. At the Republic there is a quaint affair called Hi Diddle Diddle with Friday, September 10: Adolphe Menjou and Martha Scott. 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus This sort of thing can lead almost Great H all Vesper Service 5 :00 P. M. anywhere but usually doesn't. A 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. Music Seminar Humphreys Hill short called Steelhead Fighters is Bible Class McDowell 22 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. there, too, and although we venture no Great Hall 8:00 P. M. Formal Lecture-Diaopinions concerning it, looks worth lectic-William investigating. The remaining proGorman grams, for next week and the following, are distinguished only by their Saturday, September 11: mediocrity. 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M . Athletics Back Campus Iglehart Hall Movie-My Little 9:30 P. M. The Cotillion Board has been dealt Chickadee-and In a foul blow by a movie distributor. formai Dance name of Bell-Howard, and it's any - CALENDAR body's guess as to what will come out of the projector on Saturday night at the Gym . Originally it was to have been Seven Sinners as the movie part of the second Movie -Dance of the term. This has Dietrich and we could say all sort of things. But it may be W. C. Fields in My Little Chickadee or anyone of about eight hundred other films . Fields has an intricate comic technique worth study. Dietrich has a technique. So far we're Neither is the Cotillion nowhere. Board. Sunday, September 12: 4:00 P. M. Recital: Mordecai Sheinkman, piano; Allen Goldstein, flute Athletics Vesper Service Recorded Concert Tuesday, September 14: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5 :00 P. M. 7 :00-8 :30 P. M. 7 :00-8 :30 P. M. Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class Meeting of the Madrigal Group ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 8, 194 3 r.,ast Friday evening we joined Mr. B chanan on a voyage through three w:rlds. They are all inhabited by us, but for once, as if we wer~ ingredients of a pict ure, we were permitted to step and view ourselves and our nlacioll to other parts and the whole. First on this magical excursion we reach a world of constant motion and ftux. Its people live an exci~ing life seeing everything in terms of ends and Tbey madly gather means to achieve progress, disdaining everycbing once established as bothersome, useless, and outmoded. Each one sees himself as capable of obtaining new knowledge; and since the. essence of science has become progress, knowledge itself b as ceased to be something suble in itself. It bas become the always new-forever giving the illusion ibac now man has the power and control over nature. But the final end of all means, the end which for the individual in this world seems to justify tbe means employed, is the emotion wbbich the y have created . in him. And so moved by the illusion of power he deems himself successful and happ y. It is a world of rituals; but tbey have lost their real power and Humphreys Hill significance. They have ceased to be Monday, September 13. 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5 :00 P. M.. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. t. John's Collegian Reading 001 fina l en ds good in themselves. Instead they have become in this utilitarian set-up. perso ~al ends, and exerting an emotional appeal they have become "motions of pleasure. " Back Cam pus Great Hall Leaving this world of individual McDowell Plau measu res, we enter next upon the world o symbols. In as far as symbols must f be recognized as shadows or tracings of Back Campus things, symbolic relations become the Great Hall effects which signify the causes, · so that McDowell 22 the employing of symbols to penetrate Humphreys Hall the nat ure of things becomes a reversal of the utilitarian sequence of cause and effect. Since our aim in this world shall be its clarification (which ulti- If you are going to be in this vicinity for the next couple of weeks you may like to know what's available in the way of lively art. The answer is very brief but we'll expand Wednesday, September 15: 2~ =~ = i~ B=e= i =~ it. At Ford's in Baltimore there is =1= N=o=o n ~~~~~~~~~=V~a=ca t=on~ g=n s ~~~~~~~~~~ still Arsenic and Old Lace followed, THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN is the official news organ of St. John's Co originally enough, by Junior Miss. published every Friday during the academic year. Entered as serond classf October 15. 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, under tht> Act 0 That just about takes care of Balti- 3, 1879 . mntly will lead to the true state of nature) . it will be necessary to use •Ymbolic devices such as proportion- ar lly and measurement by which we are able to transform all into symbols, and make nature subject to our understanding, as well as explanation by means of hypothesis and experiment and deepen the measurement, and help to invade and try to dominate nature intellectually. The world of empirical investigation will keep us sane and happy and the use of this grammar will give us only a symbolic possession of the world. Passing on to the next world we become aware that symbols by themselves ~ being unsatisfactory and only substitutes for ideas and reason, often lose their function as 'such; but even if they maintain their function they are apt to throw us into irrelevancies and unhappiness. Still they are useful and necessary and powerful enough to lead us where they are. going. and by necessity they are always going somewhere. And when such an emotion is created within us, the symbols which are a mirroring of the unchanging and eternal, will lead us to it, and being less powerful than "Ideas," being only shadows of reality, reality will grasp us with an irresistable force. Their power indeed is so great that even if we have fallen away from an idea, we still know its presence. We have travelled from utilities to symbols and ideas and have saved not Price : I Oc can never become ideas, as tangents to a circle can never have the property of a curve, the aim of the liberal arts remains to be a faith in the elastic tension between intellect and imagination; that, symbols and ideas-which is a continuance of this magical journey before returning back each into his frame, Even though by the way of symbols we seem to be able to grasp ideas. or rather be grasped by them, there still remains the question of the faithfulness of symbols to nature. If there is not, then even in the third world, man will be unable to comprehend nature in its true state and then our journey is either unsuccessful or incomplete. E. N. Film Club To bring . new freshmen up to date - the Film Club is an organization dedicated to the proposition that good entertainment is a necessary and integral part of student life. In order to fulfill partially this requirement, the Film Club presents those films which it considers to be best examples of the motion picture medium. The first film of this term, which will be shown on Saturday night at : in Iglehart Hall, is Grand Illu8 30 sion. This picture was produced in France in the middle thirties . It is the story of three French soldiers in German prison camps during the last war. Several themes are employed : The breakdown of P russian nobility, the relation of men to one another under the conditions of war and their psychological reactions. finally. the irresolution of the illusion and disillusion in the whole historical situation. The cast is headed by Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin; the film is directed by Jean Reno ir. only the appearance but also the essence of idea on which a true superstructure can be built. We could have followed the road of downward dialectic starting with eternat ideas as premisses. We would then, employing demonstrative science, start from self-evident premisses and end with the probabilities of fact and appearance, endangering our whole subjective structure. The dangers which we encounter are the temptations either to grasp the third world without passing through the world of symbols; i. e. , our trust in anglic intuition of ideas. or to acAlong with the higher cost of livcept the formal as the truth and to ing the admission prices have gone up trust in the univocality of symbols. Realizing that symbols are incom- to $. 25 for members of the College mensurable with ideas and themselves community and $.40 for town patrons. �Page 2 ST Freshman Discussion • I · C Tl1e S t. J o h n s nstruct10n om. · · f fi ve mem b ers unm1ttee cons1stmg o . d er t b e ch aumans h'tp o f M r. B u.: h S . . anan h eId 1ts customary emmar on · mcommg F res h men IO · · . t h e P rogram f or the Library, last Sunday evening. 11.1 B J d h · N r. uc )anan opene t e meetIOg with the explanation that the primary funct ion of the Committee is that of directing the large-scale educational P olicies of the college thromrh the discussion and suggestion o f the individual members, men who do not necessarily represent the divergent specializations in subject, but rather a cross-section of the educational viewpoints. He then introduced Mr. Kieffer, Mr. Seo- JOHN'S COLLEGIAN inherently not entirety coordinated with the rest of the Program. It must b.e t h e stu d enc , s tas k to eff ect some . . w h at o f a coor d'111at1on m h'ts own . d . "B e acute 1y aware, ,, sat d M r. ' mm ., . . ,, t h at t h e 1a b oratory is a very ,, 1em, . . strange t h'mg. I t is man coor d'matmg bis hands and his body with bis th ou.glJts One starts at the outset · with a thought already formulated, one to b e proven no matter h ow outwar d ly absurd. Every laboratory fulfills its task if this coordination I speak of is realized." "Th e average un d ergra d uate 1· 1stens t o an average o f fif teen Jectures per 1 · weeK, " .sa1·d M r. B arr. "Th'1~ .1s gen· era II y h is on I y means o f o b tammg m· · strucuon IO a dd' · 1t1on to t h e l a b oratory. field, Mr. Klein, Mr. Barr, and Mr. At St. John's the undergraduate listens Gorman, who delivered brief <lisserta- to one lecture a week by a man trying tions on the five principle phases of the to state as we II as h e can a d'ffi. cu l t su b 1 St. John's program. ject in which he has an intense inter· Mr. Kieffer stated that the logos, the ~st and in which be is somewhat of an unifying instrument of man and the rnthority, either professionally or universe, is given the spotlight more w oca tionally ." in the Language Tutorial than in any h He then attacked those lecturers w o other section of the Program. An un- travel about the country " stimulating derstanding of the existence and <level- people.,, " This is all fine and well if opment of the logos is a major objective of this Tutorial. Such a compre- the stimulated is given the opportunity to work the stimulation off. But hension enables one to obtain a far 1 ,: t::;o often tbs is not th e case. The deeper meaning of every other aspect J.bund:ince of present-day lectures of the Program. causes altogether too many of the There are three principle definitions of the logos given in modern times. The first pertain's to the sentence. in eluding the parts of speech, the second to narration-sentences which "say something beyond themselves." The hearers to become more interested in their own anatomy than in the ideas being put forward by the lecturer, should there be any." The strict rationing of the lecture at St. John' s prevents this condition. third considers propositions, the study l\'1r. Gorman concluded with a deof systems of formal logic. This last ~ r ription of the Seminar's place in the is perhaps the most vital to the St. St. John..,s Program. " The seminar John's student, although all three are probably originated in America with continually stressed in the Language .al. the Red Indians and their sp-called Tutorl 'Pow -Wows.' Thence comes the St. Mr. Scofield' s explanation of the · h Mathema tics Tutorial emphasized its John's . seminar.'' _The Semmar, e ~tated. 1s the m ost important part of . general relevance and utility and its the Program. Here there ts freedom . . quality of inducing in the student exfrom the dnlJ that charactenzes to . act thinking in everything in "ex some extent the Tutonals and Labora. . plicit and unambigu ous terms." tory. It is the most fhttermg to the "Looseness, irrelevance, and self-disstudent and the most thoroughly play are virtually eliminated in favor human of the five phases of the Proof serene and lucid reasoning." The gram. "The end is the sane improve5atisfaction gained from the study of ment of the intellecrnal outlook of the · · h' · " l' mat h ematics 10 t IS way is comp I- student-the development of the arts rated, .-subtle and rich." of thinking and speaking." Mr. Klein opened with the statement that the St. John's Laboratory is S. B. . ST. Dialectic on Mr. Gorni JOHN'S .d·. as good conversation, or oc. . all y sop h' . 1st1c argumentat10n, . 1011 . d out to b e pnman.1Y somethmg .n fact, . 111 rtte d;fferent f rom L og1c. 1 ftrY rged as a1toget h er d'fferent f rom · 1 rtllle f h . . 1 othe r arts o t e tnvmm. iJ>e ber than b emg an art, It turne d out . . sooner had the series of lectu res on R the · intelligent use and applialb Liberal Arts been completed, th•n 10 . n of the other three arts, and hence e has become necessary to talk about "L cario 'll k . 1 "" thing of a ski or nack. again to new Freshmen. This 50flle h f f · . · 1 st point was most clearly t ere ore rom a certam pomt of ,, Tbts a · · · a peculiarly .bad time t.o spea k of•!ft brought out 10 t h e question penod , an d tL. last lecture 10 that senes with \V "" 91051 severely attac k ed as we II . The • the last term came to such a fitting .... Jnickers see med to be a f ra1·d th a t . · -especially in view of the length... Dialectic h ad Iost its emment stature time elapsed since then. W e are by becorn tng a k nae k . F rom t h e b o d y ct . course, referring to the lecture ' "' of the 1 ecture, h owever, th ere can b e no · " Dialectic, " delivered by Mr. Goe'".. doubt that M r. Gor man was no t 1n.. ' · -one of the most solid and provoa, ding to degra d e D 1a Iect1c. If any. . f The begmmng o the new finds the college comm un i•y • some se.nse starting over again at point where it was in June-for school year is again beginning. I · COLLEGIAN Page 3 College Meeting Latin Group The Dean ouened college meetin g with the announcement that Mr. Kap1an , s Bible class will be open to the F new reshmen group. AlJ students interested will meet Mr. Kaplan Wednesday at 7. A large group of students under the guidance of John Kieffer have met and formed a Latin group. It was decided that the purpose of the group would be the reading and discussion of Latin texts. Beginning with ~ome short poems by Catullus, the group plans to read selections from both classic and medieval Latin. The group meets on Tuesday nights at seven o'clock in McDowell 24. All students inter~sted are invited to attend the next meeting. Mr. Nabokov announced the music department plans: (I) Lecture C oncerts- Jpseph Szigetti, violinist, w1'll pl ay on N ov. 26 a program t h at wt·11 . pro b abl Y me l u d e sonatas b y B ac b and Mozart. Later in the season the Budapest Q uar t et w1·11 per f orm; (2) Supplement1'ng these co n cer t s w1·11 b e a series given by the orchestra and chorus · The chorus ho pes t o perf orm the St · J o h n ' s P asswn. If t h e ore h es· Mortimer, Mortimer--give it back! Notice to New Freshmen The St. John's Student Employ110 developed last thing. Dialectic emerged all the more rta proves to be a small and capable ment Co-operative, brilliantl y o~ account of the dia - group Mr. Nabokov plans to do such term, from its predecessor. The Student 't works as the B ran d en b urg C oncert1. Employment Bureau, exists in order to · At this point we f~el tem pted (rctic concernmg 1 . 1 1 say a few words about lecture review. · Student wishing to join the chorus or furnish employment for such students Prospective employers ing in gene~:al. Any reviewer (who i P. W. orchestra should note the College Cal- as desire it. also at the same time a stu dent an~ endar for the scheduled tryouts; ( 3) ~ontact the managers of the Co-op. learning listener) is always confront~ Of the next section of Mr. Nabokov's who then assign the jobs available to wi' th the fact that there are two w··. talk , there are only fragments left che members of the organization. The • f reportmg a I ec t ure. The revi' ew• · some interestt' ng thi'ngs with large lacunas in the text. We jobs are generally odd jobs- washing o • may either take notes studiously 3 ut th is story. Good! Second, it print as discovered: F olk so ng group windows, gardening, minding babiesbut from time to time steady employas it were, take down the very wor s no .implications , no message one smokes dances walks . ment is available-driving lessons, of the lecturer. or he may simp ly list Third, it is true. Do not say, "It Hears usual songs, you know work in clothing stores, tutoring. The to what is being said, like any one d11. ould be amus in g if it were true. It Gym party eh membership fee is $1.00 per term, to and then write about the lectu re as ~ rrue. And fourth , the Freshmen Dance be p z.i d at the beginning of the term. wh ole. This. on the other hand, w be able to understand it. ill \Ve will sing in the middle. Further information may be had from fairly impossible to do if he copia This is a story about two boys from 'With dances? the Managers: Harry Pfeiffer, 203 'J own as much as he can. This reviiw aginaw, Mich. One boy , name of Virginia Reels and Maypoles Randall, or Peter Weiss, 307 Ran er happens to think that it is m Jim , is rather a likeable, easy-going People in Washington do it. dall, or from the members of the Board 'mportant to see and understand a I« y, but usually in bis cups by ten On the week-ends? of Director: Thomas Fulton, Robert ·ure as a unit and whole, and to re- nd asleep by tw elve . The other boy No Modesty:__ Novak, Robert Campbell, Thomas port it in that fashion. named Pete. Now, as a rule, Pete Peasant costumes and vodka. Cosgrove, or Ch' ao-Li Chi. Now. since this particular lecture b a fairl y sensible boy, but he is liable Mr. Barr discussed the problems ROBERT CAMPBELL , been given some time ago we find · 0 be a little unpredi.ctable when un- faced by Mr. McCourt as SuperinTreasurer. impossible to give any details of it r the influence . tendant of Buildings and Grounds 1n ' tive discussions we have hea rd for long time. A Ta le rather are left with these fe w hope, relevant-observations. most fruitful way in which t Di.alecti·c 1 to remember th .s t;; e. third art of the trivium is I k b h f L · nown y t e name o og1 c. f h d.ff b L · act, t e 1 erence etween og1c a I . . h · · Dia ectic is t e most IOterestmg pi h' . F . · f; . em 10 t 1s cannect10n. or it 1s •11 1 h d d' ly easy to reac an un erstan ing , L . . Th. b b' v -what og1c 1s. is may e ac 11 f . b d' h k or mstance y rea mg sue a wor Aristotle' s Organon, which invt I gates the form (in the Prior Ana · tics). the content (in th< P oster [ Analytics) , etc., of Logic. D ialect I however, besides being simpl y .all, but yet. we The di'scuss these days of labor and material shortIt was requested that students not encourage the use of College grounds by outsiders as the grading problem is aggravated. From this Mr. Barr proceeded to discuss the College' s blueprints for the future. A new heating plant will be installed (to relieve the strain on the "Flemish-lace" pipes) as by the end of the war Mr. Barr believes we will all be quite cold. New la.b oratories will be built adjoining the defense shops, new dormitories, an auditorium, and in line with these W Jim was standing beside a ell, ages. hie swaying to and fro, talking to a ird pe rson , with a glass of beer in e hand and the corner of the table It seems that Pete got I . I which seemed to him a good lie sne·aked up behind Jim, and bit him in the arse. in turn" aroun d with a very angry ed d indignant l~ok, slapped Pete across face with the back of his hand , and 'd, "If there' s anything I can't stand, t'sit. " WILLIAM E. HARRIS. Backcampus Much relieved at Mr. Barr's request that sports be confined to our region of operation and delighted that vodka will be served, we look forward to a season of great activity. The touch-football season has already begun and three games have been played. Although these could hardly b~ characterized as vigorous, they served as good practice games. On Friday, Chase-Stone played Paca and beat them 26-6. The freshman East plans a number of advantageous changes Pinkney team played in the next two in our present buildings. games and lost them to West Pinkney F. K. ( 20 - 0) and Chase-Stone (50-0). �ST. Page 4 JOHN'S COLLEGIAN Claudia changes hands on Sunday and winds up at the Capitol for three days. Since it has been viewed sufficiently already, we need not go into the plot. Dorothy McGuire is a fresh young thing and pretty to watch. ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE Friday, October 8: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5 :45. P. M. 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. The big news of the month is the arrival, finally, of The Phantom of the Those involved are Nelson Opera. Eddy (no, not as Phantom) and Saturday, October 9: Claude Rains. Mr. Rains wears a 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. mask modeme and swings from the 2:00 P. M. 8:30 P. M. chandelier. Current opm10n about this is that it should be pretty terrific since it not only has sound but glori- Sunday, October 10: 8:00 P. M. ous Technicolor, too. Then, again, there are scenes in .the sewers and how can a picture with a sewer go wrong? There is at hand a local revival of fairly recent American films. They ' M d O b · on _ ·OO cto M are 1t H appenedo ne N. h t, L ost H ontg . ay, p er 3 00 5 zon, and "You Can't Take It With ;45 M. · · 5 You. It is absolutely impossible to 7:00 P. M. see all the movies one might want to see next week. We could ring bells or throw baseballs at the best selections Tuesday, October 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. but that's impractical. We suggest you 5 :45 P. M. end it all with It Happened One Night 7 :00-8 :30 P. M. and the final Final chapter of Secret 7:00 P. M. Service in Darkest Africa. ll P: At the National in Washington is the Army's latest show, The Army Play by P.fay. This is a series of oneact plays, all Army made. At the Pix there is a perfect festival of revived Chaplin films. At Baltimore's Maryland Theatre, Gypsy Rose Lee's latest literary effort, The Naked Genius, winds up its preBroadway run. The cast includes Joan Blondell and Georgia Southern. Ir's about burlesque, as if you didn't know. This is followed by Eddie Dowling in Manhatten Nocturne. At Ford's this week is Porgy and Bess; next week a new play by Rose Franken (remember Claudia!) called Outrageous Fortune. This is exactly what it is. THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN is the official news organ of St. John's Col lege, published every Friday during the ac:otdemic year. Entered as second class matter October 15, 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, undel' the Act of March 3, 1879. t. John's Collegia n CALENDAR Arts : Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class Tryouts for Chorus Formal Lecture-Man's Essence-Mortimer Adler Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 HumJ>hreys H~u Great Hall Athletics Boat Club Meeting The Film Club Presents: Grand Illusion Back Campus McDowell 21 Iglehart Hall Progress of the War.Cartels and Government - Joseph Borkin, Department of Justice Woodward Athletics Vesper Service First Meeting of the Chorus Back Campus Great Hall Humphreys H~ Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class Latin Club Meeting Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 McDowell 24 Hall 12: Wednesday, October 13: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5:45 P. M. 7:30 P. M. 8" :00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. 9:00 P. M. Athletics Vesper Service Tryouts for the Orchestra Poetry Reading-Joyce and Eliot First Meeting of the Orchestra Class in Projective Geometry Athletics Vesper Service College Meeting McDowell 21 Back Campus Great Hall Great Hall Friday, October 15: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5 :45 P. M. 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class Formal Lecture-St. Augustine's Conf essions-Mark Van Doren Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 Great Hall Faculty Meeting Athletics Boat Club Meeting McDowell 24 Back Campus McDowell 21 Saturday, October 16: 10:30 A. M. 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. 2:00 P. M. War Meeting The war meeting Sunday night was very thought provoking affair; there ~as a certain frankness, on the part of the speaker and his interrogators, which was commendable considering cbe delicacy and even hypocrisy with which one might have treated such a coucby problem. It was a bad sign, however. that those to whom the topic bad ceased to be touchy were present at cbe gathering, but some who needed setcing straight on the issue, were conspicuously missing. The fran kness of which I spoke was present in the Dean's introduction of Mr. Borkin. He said that most of cbe college who had not been present during the cartel talks last year knew very little about them, unless, he said, "They had been reading PM, and other 'Yellow Sheets'." Mr. Borkin explained cartels by outlining the rise in the world-with special reference to Germany, "the Back Campus land of the cartel." 4t'he extreme conservatism of the English, and their inGreat Hall Humphreys Hal ability to see beyond the ends of their noses, resulted in the German dye carrel (1. G. Farben) which transBook Shop planted the chemical · industry out of Humphreys Hal Britain into Germany. Thursday, October 14: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5:45 P. M. 7:30 P. M. v;;lL VI-No. 9 The big controversial issue of the evening was on the question of malice aforethought on the part of Germany in reference to cartels. Mr. Borkin said that he differed with the other cartel experts, who have discussed the question at St. John's, believing that Cartels did not rise from the nature of internation al business and economic accidents, but that they were an important part of Germany's "program for war," having been carried on consistently by Germany since 1870. Wben questioned further on this issue, the speaker clarified himself, adding that the Germany he was talking about Was the ruling class, junkers and such, not that of the average person. (Has anyone ever seen a junker?) Price: 1 Oc The problem of combatting the cartel menace which, it was stated, would lead to a form of fascism for this country, and the world was very weakly put forth. The cumpulsory license act as in Britain, reciprocal trade treaties and government research laboratories to open the technology of cartels to the small manufacturer, all were considered. The first two do not provide any means for equalizing the tremendous power of capital, that now resides in the hands of the cartels, and the last only covers a small part of the evil of the system. Communism or socialism as solutiop.s to the problem were disregarded at an early hour, without any controversy. The sad fact brought to light during Mr. Borkin's talk was one that has now become a self-evident propGsition to many people. Namely, industrialists, who have a choice between the good of their country and their foreign obligations, always choose to fulfill the latter to the detriment of the former. The realization of this situation leads me to wonder whether cartels were allowed to rise unopposed because of shortsightedness and conservatism; or whether there was something as rotten in England and Am~r­ ica as in Germany. There is a great deal of evidence pointing towards the conclusion that powerful factions in both the great democracies gave aid and comfort "to the German program for war." The question now to be asked is who make up these factions. A very serious and important question was raised as to the suitability of the present patent system. Must we only reward inental fertility, by patents which is in effect giving monopoly as a reward, and is a taxation of the consuming public. Until the world gets an answer to this, the patent system remains. economic potential to defeat whatever mo~e coalitions of foreign industries ~ight make to rebuild their empires msofar as we let our industry Germanize itself, we cannot effectively combat the menacing cartel system. E. V. T. Boat Races Last Sunday afternoon, twelve St. Johnnies marched down ·to the Naval Academy to meet a group of Academy men in an informal race. The day was cold and cloudy but nevertheless the breeze made good sailing weather. Using six Academy boats (since our dinghies are quite unlike those used by the Academy) the St. Johnnies sailed well but handled the boats clumsily at the docks. Lack of experience and unfamiliarity with the type of boat used contributed to our defeat. However, the boats handled by Johnnie Gilbert and Sam Bird came in second; the one sailed by McKay and Chenoweth, third. THE LINE-UP Since almost everyone has heard by one means or another that there is to be a football game this Saturday between the Faculty and the Waiters. the Quadrivium (not to be either confused or connected with the Athletic Department), feels that the following would be the most successful starting line-up: L.E. LT. LG. C. R.G. R.T. R.E. LH. R.H. F.B. Q.B. " Dutch" Van Doren "Bronco" Nabokov "Buster" Bingley "Doc" Klein "Bricko Stringfellow" Barr "Strangler" Keiffer "Legs" Hammond "Wild Bill" Gorman "Whipsie" Smith "Fireballs" Adler "Bobo" Buchanan The concluding thoughts of the meeting were that if we eliminate A review of Mr. Adler's lecture will monopolies at home, we will have the appear in the next issue. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE Friday, October 8.: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5 :45. P. M. 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. The big news of the month is the arrival, finally, of The Phantom of the Opera. Those involved are Nelson Eddy (no, not as Phantom) and Saturday, October 9: Claude Rains. Mr. Rains wears a 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. mask modeme and swings from the 2:00 P. M. 8:30 P. M. chandelier. Current opinion about this is that it should be pretty terrific since it not only has sound but glori- Sunday, October 10: 8:00 P. M. ous Technicolor, too. Then, again, there are scenes in .the sewers and how can a picture with a sewer go wrong? There is at hand a local revival of fairly recent American films. They' . h L H . are I t H ap~~ne d 0 ne N tg t, ost o~t, zon, and You Cant Take It With You. It is absolutely impossible to see all the movies one might want to see next week. We could ring bells or throw baseballs at the best selections but that's impractical. We suggest you end it all with It Happened One Night and the final Final chapter of Secret Service in Darkest Africa. At the National in Washington is the Army's latest show, The Army Play by p.fay. This is a series of oneact plays, all Army made. At the Pix there is a perfect festival of revived Chaplin films. At Baltimore's Maryland Theatre, Gypsy Rose Lee's latest literary effort, The Naked Genius, winds up its preBroadway run. The cast includes Joan Blondell and Georgia Southern. It's about burlesque, as if you didn't know. This is followed by Eddie Dowling in Manhatten Nocturne. At Ford's this week is Porgy and Bess; next week a new play by Rose Franken (remember Claudia!) called Outrageous Fortune. This is exactly what it is. "' THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN is the official news organ of St. John's ColJeg·e, published every Friday during the academic year. Entered as second class matter October 15, 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, under the Act of March 3, 1879. S John's Collegia n t. CALENDAR Arts M d O b ll on ay, cto er : 3 :OO-S :OO P. M. :4 P. M. 5 5 7 : 0 0 p. M. Tuesday, October 12: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5 :45 P. M. 7 :00-8 :30 P. M. 7:00 P. M. Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class Tryouts for Chorus Formal Lecture- Man's Essence- Mortimer Adler Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 Humphreys Ii~ Great Hall Athletics Boat Club Meeting The Film Club Presents: Grand Illusion Back Campus McDowell 21 Iglehart Hall Progress of the War.Cartels and Government - Joseph Borkin, Department of Justice Woodward Athletics Vesper Service First Meeting of the Chorus Back Campus Great Hall Humphreys H~ Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class Latin Club Meeting Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 McDowell 24 Wednesday, October 13: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5 :45 P. M. 7:30 P. M. 8" :00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. 9:00 P. M. Athletics Vesper Service Tryouts for the Orchestra Poetry Reading- Joyce and Eliot First Meeting of the Orchestra Class in Projective Geometry Hall Athletics .vesper Service College Meeting McDowell 21 Back Cam pus Great Hall Great Hall Friday, October 15: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5 :45 P. M. 6 :30 -8 :00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class Formal Lecture- St. Augustine's Confessions- Mark Van Doren Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 Great Hall Faculty Meeting Athletics Boat Club Meeting McDowell 24 Back Campus McDowell 21 Saturday, October 16: 10:30 A. M. 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. 2:00 P. M. War Meeting The war meeting Sunday night was yerY thought provoking affair; there ~as a certain frankness, on the part of cbe speaker and his interrogators, wbich was commendable considering cbe delicacy and even hypocrisy with which one might have treated such a couchy problem. It was a bad sign, however, that those to whom the topic bad ceased to be touchy were present 31 rhe gathering. but some who needed seccing st raight on the issue, were conspicuousl y missing. The fran kness of which I spoke was present in the Dean's introduction of Mr. Bo rkin. He said that most of cbe college who had not been present during the cartel talks last year knew very little about them, unless, he said, "They had been reading PM, and ocher 'Yellow Sheets'." Mr. Borkin explained cartels by outlining the rise in the world- with special reference to Germany, "the Back Campus land of the cartel." -t'he extreme conservatism of the English, and their inGreat Hall Humphreys Hill ability to see beyond the ends of their noses, resulted in the German dye cartel (I. G. Farben) which transBook Shop planted the chemical · industry out of Humphreys Hal Bntain into Germany. Thu rs day, October 14: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5:45 P. M . 7:30 P. M. WLVl-No. 9 The big controversial issue of the evening was on the question of malice aforethought on the part of Germany in reference to cartels. Mr. Borkin uid that he differed with the other cartel experts, who have discussed the qumion at St. John's, believing that Cartels did not rise from the nature of international business and economic •ccidents, but that they were an important part of Germany's "program foe war," having been carried on consistently by Germany since 1870. Wben qu estioned further on this issue, the speaker clarified himself, adding that the Germany he was talking about Was the ruling class, junkers and such, not that of the average person. (Has •nyone ever seen a junker?) Price: I Oc The problem of combatting the carrel menace which, it was stated, would lead to a form of fascism for this country, and the world was very weakly put forth. The cumpulsory license act as in Britain, reciprocal trade treaties and government research laboratories to open the technology of cartels to the small manufacturer, all were considered. The first two do not provide any means for equalizing the tremendous power of capital, that now resides in the hands of the cartels, and the last only covers a small part of the evil of the system. Communism or socialism as solutio!ls to the problem were disregarded at an early hour, without any controversy. The sad fact brought to light dur~ ing Mr. Borkin's talk was one that bas now become a self-evident propGsition to many people. Namely, industrialists, who have a choice between the good of their country and their foreign obligations, always choose to fulfill the latter to the detriment of the former. The realization of this situation leads me to wonder whether cartels were allowed to rise unopposed because of shortsightedness and conservatism ; or whether there was something as rocten in England and Am~r­ ica as in Germany. There is a great deal of evidence pointing towards the conclusion that powerful factions in both the great democracies gave aid and comfort "to the German program for war." The question now to be asked is who make up these factions. A very serious and important question was raised as to the suitability of the present patent system. Must we only reward inental fertility, by patents which is in effect giving monopoly as a reward, and is a taxation of the consuming public. Until the world gets an answer to this, the patent system remains. economic potential to defeat whatever industries ~ight make to rebuild their empires insofar as we let our industry Germanize itself, we cannot effectively coinbat the menacing cartel system. mo~e coalitions of foreign E. V. T. Boat Races Last Sunday afternoon, twelve St. Johnnies marched down ·to the Naval Academy to meet a group of Academy men in an informal race. The day was cold and cloudy but nevertheless the breeze made good sailing weather. Using six Academy boats (since our dinghies are quite unlike those used by the Academy) the St. Johnnies sailed well but handled the boars clumsily at the docks. Lack of experience and unfamiliarity with the type of boat used contributed to our defeat. However, the boats handled by Johnnie Gilbert and Sam Bird came in second; the one sailed by McKay and Chenoweth, third. THE LINE-UP Since almost everyone has heard by one means or another that there is to be a football game this Saturday between the Faculty and the Waiters, the Quadrivium (not to be either confused or connected with the Athletic Department), feels that the foll owing would be the most successful starting line-up: L.E. LT. L.G. c. R.G. R.T. R.E. L.H. R.H. F.B. Q.B. " Durch" Van Doren "Bronco" Nabokov "Buster" Bingley "Doc" Klein "Bricko Stringfellow" Barr "Strangler" Keiffer "Legs" Hammond "Wild Bill" Gorman "Whipsie" Smith "Fireballs" Adler "Bobo" Buchanan The concluding thoughts of the meeting were that if we eliminate A review of Mr. Adler's lecture will monopolies at home, we will have the appear in the next issue. �ST. Page 2 JOHN'S COLLEGIAN Arts Calendar ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE An international ring of dangerous people (w ith whom we are sometimes accused of being in leagu~) whose Friday, October 15: 3 : 00-5 : 00 P . M. headquarters are beh ind the F rench 5 :45 P. M. monument subm itted their bi-centenial 6 : 30-8 : 00 P. M. report to us the other dawn . This 7 : 00 P. M . one was devoted to studen t att endance 8 : 00 P. M. at Film Club funct ions. We were ad v ised to take chis report with a gra in of salt but substituted instead an aspirin. It was one of those dawns. Anyway, w e gather that the student Saturday, October 16: body isn't quite on the ball , as the man 10:30 A . M. in the song says. The Film Club, 10:30 A. M , -12 :00 M. states the committee for the Propaga2 : 00 P . M . tion of Passivities, tries to supply good Sunday, October 17: entertainment where and when it is 8 : 00 P. M. needed. It may be that there' s some Monday, October 18: subversive cultur e-spreading going on, 10:30 A . M. but chat's unimportant. We have been persuaded t hat the selection of programs was m ade on the basis of entertainment value and motion-picture art. This already puts the Club above the local exhibitors in relation to the common good. ( At least the Passivities committee thinks this is a defendable point.) On the whole we were grieved to find chat St. Johnnies weren ' t responding properly. Goo d fit ms are rare ; great fil ms are . , h rarer. A quarter 1sn t muc to pay. for a peek. Perhaps we shouldn' t mention at th is junctu re that nex t Saturday n ight the Film Club will present Rene Clair's A Nous la Liberte. On Sunday, at the Circle, Holy M atrimony h appens. . All of this is between Mont y Woolle y and G racie Fields . There is proper d ialogue, oddly enough , and these t w o actors h andle themselves as only t w o actors can. On the same day at the Republic, W It D isney's de Sever ky's Victory Through Air Power begins. This is a provocative use of the fi lm medium in addition to being an important co n tribution to current war speculation . Let's Face It h as suffered th e fate all self-respecting mus ical comedies are doomed to these days. It h as been made into a mov ie oddly enough. Bob Hope substitutes for Danny Kaye. and although Mr. Hope ranks pretty h igh -well. There are Betty Hutton's pyrotechnics also. Fri., Oct. 15 - Sat., Oct. 23, 1 Athletics Vesper Services Bible Class Meeting of the Chorus Formal Lecture-St. Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 Humphreys Ii~! Great Hall St. John's Collegian Vol.LvI-No. 10 ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY: OCTOBER 22, 1943 Man's Essence rwo weeks ago Mortimer Adler ave bis first lecture of the year. It Augustine's Confesg cbe first Freshman lecture that we wu . sions-Mark Van bave bad in some time ; this is not Doren cant as a criticism , for the problem ~ che possibility, meaningfulness and ;onsequences of a definition of man is Faculty Meeting McDowell 24 always before us and cons_istently rele Athletics Back Campus unt co ma ny of the thrngs we do. Boat Club Meeting McDowell 21 The formal problem: The demonProgress of the War Woodward Hall scrability of a definition , is discussed in ibe Posterior Analytics and it might have been useful (since we have not Meeting of Board of President's Oflici read this w ork) , to state the ArisVisitors and Goviocelian method of solution to a pro~ ernors lem of this kin d and how it would be 3 : 00 - 5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus ipplied to the part icular problem at Vesper Service 5:45 P. M. Great Hall 7:00 P. M. Meeting of the Chorus Humphreys Hall band. When one makes the statement, 7:30 P . M . Dormitory Managers Senior Com mon "Man is a rational animal. " there are Meeting Room immediately t w o questions which one Tuesday, October 19: must answer : ( 1) Is a definition of Athletics 3 :00 - 5 :OO P. M. Back Campus man really possible? and, if so, ( 2) Is Vesper Service 5 45 Great Hall ibis definition real or nominal? Now : P. M. Bible Class 7 : 00-8 :00 P . M . McDowell 22 since an y definition is a statement of Latin Club Meeting McDowell 2 4 7 :00 P . M. ibe essential nature of a thing. if man is definable he must be an essentially Wednesday, October 20: discrete entity and not the highest 3 :00-5 :00 P. M . Athletics Back Campus member of the continuum of animals, 5:45 P. M. Vesper Service Great Hall for although this continuum as a whole 6 :45P.M. Class in Projective McDowell 21 can be defined essentially, yet any Geometry member cann ot be so defined. but only Th ursday, October 21: distingu ished accidentally. 3 :00- 5 :OO P . M. Athletics Back Camp us It has lo ng been an accepted truth 5 : 45 p M Vesper Service Great Hall that there exists such a being as man, · · College Meeting 7 3 Great Hall : O p · M. ind so if man is discrete and hence definable we know that the definition will Friday, October 22: he real and not nom inal. Then the 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus problem becomes one of proving that Vesper Service Great Hall 5 :45 P . M . rbe objec tor w ho says tha t the differMcDowell 22 Bible Class 6 :30-8 :00 P . M . Humphreys Hall ence betw een man and animal is one Meeting of the Chorus 7 : 00 P . M . of degree and not of kind is in error. Formal Lecture-LookGreat Hall 8 : 00 P. M . Th ings may be different in kind in ing-Glass Molecules two ways: accidentally and essentially. -Anthony Standen lf A represents man ; B. brut,e. and T S<J turday, October 23: 1 trait, then accidental difference in kind 10 : 30 A. M . Athletics Back Campus may be shown thus : " 8 :3o p . M . The Film Club presents Iglehart Hall A - T,; - T no T L 2 - A Nous La Liberte B - T - no T - T =====================================================-====- where man l~cks trait 2T 1 and brute THE ST . JOHN'S OOLLEGIA.N is the official n.ews organ of St. licks trait T .,. Here there is presence published every Friday during the academic year. Entered as second class rnat October 15, 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis Maryland ·u1.der tht> Act of Marti ind absence ~n both sides and conse3, 1879. ' ' quently T and T are accidental difJ- 2 1 Price : 1Oc ferences in degree. Using the same representation, and letting T 1 represent rationality, essential d ifference in kind may be represented thus : A T T T 3 2 1 no T B - T - T - products of macbinofaccure, whereas animals use no tools. The patterns which man follows are not determined instinctively, but vary, and hence we may infer a power in man which is lacking in animals. where A is better than B, possessing an additional trait, and where the form cannot be reduced to one of difference in degree. Hence, if man is to be definable , there must be an essential difference in kind between him and brutes. When one says that only men are political it may be objected that this is true of animals. However, there are three political actions of man for which animals have no counterpart : · ( l) man changes his form of government and this no specie of animal does , It has often been argued that the socalled anomalo us or borderline cases between animal and man ( idiot, chimpanzee ) . prove that a continuum Ho wever. ex ists between . the two . this argument is self-contrad ictory. If x is the case and the extremes are A and B, differing in degree in the continuum . then there is no .problem , for x is merely placed between two mem- ( 2) man alone is historical. and. (3 ) only man makes peace, and the laws w hich determine it. To show that o nly men k no w we can use the follo w ing comparisons : Onl y me n speak and can become libera! art ists . The champanzee has a vocabulary but neither syntax nor grammar. Its expressions are ones of emotions only; its symbols refer only hers of the continuum according as it exceeds one and falls short of the other by what ever criterion the members of that continuum are ordered . The problem arises only when A and B differ in kind and then x must be classified with A or B, stand by itself, or else be put in another group altogether. The essence of a thing determines its powers and the powers determine its operations or effects . If this is true. then by observing the operations or effeces we should be able to determine the powers and hence the essence. Furthe.r more , if man has, b y the possibilities of this type of argument. an essenti al quality not possessed b y brutes. there will be an essential dif ference in kind and hence a definition will be possible. There are three things which a man does which no other animal does to an y degree: Art, Politics, Knowing. The art of animals is always the same and hence we may infer that it proceeds from instinct simply. However, human making is v ariable, and only in this case can it be called an art. Moreover. only men make things which are useless. and these things are to present objects and it has no conventionality . From man ' s nature follow his most important political consequences : I. Freedom. This implies the use of jµstice which is an operation of reason. If there is no difference in k ind between man and brutes, then killing of animals is murder. Hence societ y is unjust. II. Equalit y . Since all men are the same in essence. and since, moreove.r, their powers follow from their essence, hence all men are equal. Men and children have inequalit y in habit only and thus their relation is unequal and just. Aga in. all men ha ve a right to vote, but due to differences in habi t all do not deserve the highest offices . Finally, all men have the same end and deserve equality of op porcunit y in achieving that end and so all men deserve the sam e possibilities of Liberal Education . The Liberal Arts are ne~ded because man is a rational - animal. because human reason depends upon sense. The life of reason is a social life, the needs of which are met b y reason. These essential consequences must never be forgotten, for upon them depends the hope for peace. R. CAMPBELL. 3 2 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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M. monument submitted their bi-centenial 6 :3 0-8 :00 P. M. report to us the other da w n. This 7 : 00 P. M. one was devoted to student attendance 8 :00 P. M. at Film Club functions. We were advised to take this report with a grain of salt but substituted instead an aspirin. It was one of those dawns. Anyway, we gather that the student Saturday, October 16: body isn't quite on the ball, as the man 10:30 A. M. in the song says. The Film Club, 10:30 A. M . -12:00 M. states the committee for the Propaga2:00 P. M. tion of Passivities, tries to supply good Sunday, October 17: entertainment where and when it is 8:00 P. M. needed. It may be that there's some Monday, October 18: subversive culture-spreading going on, 10:30 A. M. but that's unimportant. We have been persuaded that the selection of programs was made on the basis of entertainment value and motion-picture art. This already puts the Club above the local exhibitors in relation to the common good. (At least the Passivities committee thinks this is On the Whole a defendable point. ) we were grieved to find that St. Johnnies weren't responding properly. Goo d fil ms are rare ; great fil ms are . , h rarer. A quarter 1sn t muc to pay, for a peek. Perhaps we shouldn't mention at this juncture that next Saturday night the Film Club will present Rene Clair's A Nous la Liberte. On Sunday, at the Circle, Holy Matrimony happens. All of this is between Mont y Woolley and G racie Fields. There is proper d ialogue, odd1y enough, and these two actors ha ndle themselves as only two actors can. On the same day at the Republic, W It D isney's de Seversky' V ictory Through Air Power begins. This is a provocative use of the film med ium in addition to being an important contribution to current war speculation . Let's Face It has suffered the fate all self-respecting musical comedies are doomed to these days. It has been made into a movie oddly enough. Bob Hope substitutes for Danny Kaye, and although Mr. Hope ranks pretty high -well. There are Betty Hutton's pyrotechnics also. t. John's Collegian Calendar Arts Fri., Oct. 15 - Athletics Vesper Services Bible Class Meeting of the Chorus Formal Lecture-St. Sat., Oct. 23, l Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 Humphreys liaiJ Great Hall Augustine's Confessions- Mark Van _, Doren Faculty Meeting AthletiCs Boat Club Meeting McDowell 24 Back Campus McDowell 21 Progress of the War Woodward Hal) Meeting of Board of Visitors and Governors Athletics Vesper Service Meeting of the Chorus Dormitory Managers Meeting President's Oflici Vot.Lv1-N o. I 0 Man's Essence 'f"wo weeks ago Mortimer Adler 1 ·v· bis first lecture of the year. It •• • • che firs t Freshman lecture that we was · bad in some time; this is not have . . . f h rant as a cnt1etsm, or t e problem ~ cbe possibility, meaningfulness and ;onsequences of a definition of man is · 1 1 iways be f ore us an d consistent y re e:ant co many of the things we do. The form al pro bl em: Th e d emon· · · d' d · sirability of a cl efi ntt1on, ts 1scusse m ibe Posterior Analytics and it might have been useful (since we have not rud this work), to state the Aris. elian met h o d o f so I u t ton to a pro'h. 101 !em of th is k ind and how it would be ipplied to the particular problem at band. When one makes the statement, "Man is a rat ional animal." there are immediately two questions which one Tuesday, October 19: must answer : (I) Is a definition of Athletics 3 :00- 5 :OO P. M. Back Campus m~n reall y possible? and, if so, (2) Is Vesper Service 5 45 Great Hall ihis definition real or nominal? Now : P. M. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. Bible Class McDowell 22 since an y definition is a statement of Latin Club Meeting McDowell 24 7 : 0 0 P. M. ibe essential nature of a thing. if man is definable he must be an essentially Wednesday, October 20: discrete entit y and not the highest 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus member of the continuum of animals, Vesper Service 5:45P.M. Great Hall for althou gh this continuum as a whole 6:45 P. M. Class in Projective McDowell 21 can be defined essentially, yet any Geometry member cannot be so defined. but only Thu rsday, October 21: distingu ished accidentally. 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus It has long been an accepted truth 5 :45 P. M. Vesper Service Great Hall thJI the re exists such a being as man, 7 :30 P. M. College Meeting Great Hall ind so if man is discrete and hence deFriday, October 22: 6nable we know that the definition will be real and not nominal. Then the 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics Back Campus problem becomes one of proving that 5:45 P. M . Vesper Service Great Hall rbe objecto r w ho says char the differ6 : 3 0- 8 : 0 0 P. M. Bible Class McDowell 22 7:00 P . M. Humphreys Hall tnce bet ween man and animal is one Meeting of the Chorus of degree and not of kind is in error. 8:00 P. M. Formal Lecture-LookGreat Hall Things may be different in kind in ing-Glass Molecules two ways: accidentally and essentially. -Anthony Standen lf A. rep resents man ; B, brut.e. and T SJturday, October 23: 1 trait. then accidental difference in kind 10:30 A . M. Athletics Back Campus may be shown thus: ~ 8 : 30 P . M. The Film Club presents Iglehart Hall A - T :; - T no TL 2 - A Nous La Liberte B - T - no T - T 2 where man l~cks trait T and brute 1 _THE ST. JOH_N'S OOLLEGIAN is the official news organ of St. John's Colle&\ lacks trait T ., . Here there is presence published every Friday during the academic year. Entered as second class rnat October 15, 1919, at the Post Office at .Annapolis Maryland u1.der tht> Act of :Marek ind absence ~n both sides and conse3, 1879. t ' quently T and T are accidental dif3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5 :45 P. M. 7:00 P. M. 7:30 P. M . Back Campus Great Hall Humphreys Hall Senior Common Room ====================================================='===- 2 1 Price: l Oc ferences in degree. Using the same representation, and letting T 1 repre. . sent rat1ona 1tty, essential difference m k"m d may b e represented thus: A T _ T _ T 2 3 1 _ B - T _ T _ no T 3 2 1 products of machinofacture, whereas animals use no tools. The patterns which man follows are not determined . . msttnctively, but vary, and hence we may infer a power in man which is lacking in animals. where A is better than B, possessing an When one says that only men are additional trait, and where the form political it may be objected that this cannot be reduced to one of difference is true of animals. However, there are in degree. Hence, if man is to be de- three political actions of man for finable, there must be an essential dif- which animals have no counterpart : ference in kind between him and · ( 1) man changes his form of governbrutes. ment and this no specie of animal does , It has often been argued that the so- ( 2) man alone is historical. and. (3) called anomalous or borderline cases only man makes peace, and the laws between ani"mal and man (i'di'ot, which determine it. chimpanzee). prove that a continuum exists between the two. However, this argument is self-contradictory. If x is the case and the extremes are A and B, differing in degree in the continuum, then there is no .problem , for x is merely placed between two memhers of the continuum according as it exceeds one and falls short of the other by what ever criterion the members of that continuum are ordered. The problem arises only when A and B differ in kind and then x must be classified with A or B, stand by itself, or else be put in another group altogether. The essence of a thing determines its powers and the powers determin~ its operations or effects. If this is true. then by observing the operations or effects we should be able to determine the powers and hence the essence. Furthe.rmore, if man has, by the possibilities of this type of argument. an essential quality not possessed by brutes, there will be an essential difference in kind and hence a definition will be possible. There are three things which a man does which no other animal does to any degree: Art. Politics, Knowing. The art of animals is always the same and hence we may infer that it proceeds from instinct simply. However, human making is variable, and only in this case can it be called an art. Moreover. only men make things which are useless, and these things are To show that only men know we can use the following comparisons: Onl y men speak and can become liberal artists . The champanzee has a vocabulary but neither syntax nor grammar. Its expressions are ones of emotions only ; its symbols refer only to present objects and it has no conventionality. From man's nature follow his most important political consequences : I, Freedom. This implies the use of jµsrice which is an operation of reason. If there is no difference in kind between man and brutes, then killing of animals is murder. Hence society is unjust. II. Equality. Since all men are the same in essence. and since, moreover, their powers follow from their essence, hence all men are equal. Men and children have inequality in habit only and thus their relation is unequal and just. Again, all men have a right to vote , but due to differences in habit all do not deserve the highest offices. Finally , all men have the same end and deserve equality of opportunity in achieving that end and so all men deserve the same possibilities of Liberal Education . The Liberal Arts are ne~ded because man is a rational-animal. because human reason depends upon sense. The life of reason is a social life, the needs of which are met by reason. These essential consequences must never be forgotten, for upon them depends the hope for peace. R. CAMPBELL. �Page 2 ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN sions (as the Bible) requires the clos- wanted to be as certain about t est attention. unseen as that seven plus three II! Mr. Van Doren announced that his Any personal book rouses two ten. " He divides and sub-divides lecture on St. Augustine's Confessions questions: why was it written; and problems with the tendency to qu . was the first in a series of three on to whom was it written. Augustine and . perfect · It mtg ht b e said · Secundum Marcum Augustine, the Essays of Montaigne, was especially aware of the second and Pascal's Pensees-three personal question. "It is to God's mercy I books. These works represent three speak- not to man's scorn," he reauthors' attempts to render the truth pli' es. C ertam that he is not telling · as each one of them saw it through his G~d anything He does not know, and own life and thought. St. Augustine also conscious that men hear, perhaps spoke of the "disease of curiousity" h is final conclusion is that his book is while Montaigne will call curiousity a disease and yet have a good time be- about all men or any man. And I resolved in thy sight, though ing a skeptic as he seems to escape into "the coolness of variety;" Pascal be- not tumultuously to snatch away, yet ing certain that the part cannot know fairly to withdraw the service of my the whole will believe nran cannot. tongue from those marts of lip-labour : know the universe. Each book will that young students ( no students in seem to be unique. St. Augustine will thy Law, nor in thy peace, but in lying differ in form and assumptions . Discovering that he does not know himself, he comes to believe that he knows God better than himself. (One finds that the maxim of Socrates-know thyself-is not easy to interpert.) Augustine has the passion to discover a truth he feels the world has missed ; Montaigne will set forth for what he thinks Augustine has missed; Pascal. although admiring and quoting Mon taigne rather than Augustine, perhaps 1s involved in an Augustinian search. Consequently, there is no need to speak when we pray, that is, with spoken words, unless perhaps for the sake of indicat~ng, as the priests do, what is in our minds, not in orc!er that God may hear but that men may hear. and, through being reminded, may by their consent be lifted up to God. It is interesting to remember that Augustine wrote while his civilization was being destroyed-the sacking of Rome rook place shortly afterwards. It might be said that the intellectual tradition from the Greeks and Hebrews was saved by him . In all the turmoil of bis time we find Augustine's main interest not the death of <'iv1liz.1tion or society but the death of the human soul when it falls from God. The Confessions is a passionate book-"a fire without any hearth or ashes-not trying to destroy anything except the ha rdness w hich exists outside his faith." Although not difficcultly written and seemingly not requiring previous training. the Confes- . . dotages, and law skirmishes), should . no longer buy at my mouth the engines f h · d or t eir own ma ness. The speaker reminded us that Augustine would not like praise for his rhetoric. Augustine confesses that rhetoric is a thing which he has loved too much. The Liberal Arts are for this world but not for its Lord; the truth exists independent of any man' s knowledge or investigation. In the end St. Augustine says he has had no joy from learning. Augustine that be revealed himself order to deny hi mse If an d d en1ed h' · . self m order to reveal himself a di\. order to reveal us. ' n II For we are not now quarterin f g ai. . t h e regions o heaven, or taking the di. tances of the stars, or devising ~he. hinges of the earth should ;:: I u. ts I myself that remembe r, I tlit mmd. Th: memory 0 ~ Augustin e lllut ~ave een a vast cavern filled With ob. J~Ct~d· The detai~s of t~e book are I Th v1v1 as to be impossible to f " . orgll e many levels of his Conf · k h . ess10, ma e t e reader see him as a gr~ psychologist. ST. ~- College Meeting rhe beginning of College Meetthe following things and Jll8 s were announced as available at rrson . . P resent ume: Plenty of Jobs for dJt p d rnexnbers of the Student Employol t Cooperative and those who wish 111 ·n. P. Weiss in 3 0 7 Randall every 10 JOI ' betwee n 1 :30 and 2 and 6 :30 and M ive them out ; Ioc k ers m t h e gym . 7 co g . . contain athletlc cIot h es w b en not m 10 use,. Mr. Edward McGill, of the Pea. bOdY Conservatory to give piano lesfor a fee of $1.00 per hour. sons In the remaining time, the Dean tas faced with the unpleasant task of orting to the comm unity that both rtP . . . ·cs domestic and its f ore1gn rel auons 1 suffering from an increasing lack ire of order. W ith respect to the latter, Sc. John 's is no exception to the traditional towngown situation: the fact cbJC a student is supposed by other people to be concerned with the highrsc matters of humanity gives him a cercain license in his behaviour outside of bis scholastic community. In abusing that license he is guilty of a double offence : His bad behaviour as such and his contempt for the people who have put their confidence in him. As a resu lt, the respect and toleration which the y had for him turn into disgust and hatred. Althou gh our relations to the town h a pass , bn~ surel y not come to sue chi Dean 's words can only be taken as 1 warning that they may unless something changes . He has recenrly had t · t h'ts fnen d · 1n oppo r unity o renew ~~st night '? JOHN'S COLLEGIAN do that as long as we do not take an excessive advantage of the special privileges granted to• us as students. But although the Dean would rather see us in class, and Mr. Basil would rather not see us at all, neither of them will hesitate to come to our dormitories if necessary. If we may add a personal op inion at this point, the situation as it now stands seems to put the St. John's student in the kind of position he likes least to be_.in. He is the ward of a benevolent guardian who takes it upon himself to defend him against the people he offends and gives him a mild :;panking from time to time. People in similar situations are usually either children or mentally deficient. If there is any manner in which a young man between the ages of 15. and 25 does not want to be considered, these are .:ertainly two. The best way to avoid this risk seems to be to follo w the Dean ' s advice and keep out of police headquarters in town and a " non-graveyard" schedule on the campus . In asking us to do this , he is not so much concerned w ith protecting our morals and health, as our liberty. For the benefit of those who aren't up to John Stuart Mill yet, here is a line from the Republic about the man who takes liberty in the wrong sense : " His life has neither law nor order; and this distracted existence he terms joy and bliss and freedom. " P. W. Page 3 with two wins and no losses at the end of the first week; the victories being at the expense of East Pinkney and Chase-Stone, 2 5-0 and 3 1-12, respectively. These latter two teams met on Wednesday, Chase winning. 13-0, only because Maury and Harris wandered out of lab and scored the two touchdowns in the last four minutes of play. Friday' s game, East Pinkney vs. West Pinkney, was called off on account of the wet weather, which also kept the tutors at the Brice House and the waiters in the Dining Hall on Saturday. This game will be played one week from tomorrow. On Monday, Ease Pinkney upset West Pinkney in a surprise victory, 19 to 18. Trailing by two touchdowns at the half, the new freshmen scored twice in the third period to take the game. One of the more exciting pla ys of the game came in the opening quarter when Paul Evans · fumbled the ball on his goal line and Bill Mathews kicked it over and fell on it for a score. Soccer practice started Tuesday, with an aggregation of Chase-Stone and Randall beating Paca-Carroll, 3-1. The athletic department has officially decided on a second round of football instead of the one round originally scheduled. How , 0 God, didst thou md, heaven and earth? Verily, neither;. the heaven, nor on the earth didst Thot make the heaven and earth: no, llfr yet in the air, or waters, seeing thft also belong unto the heaven and 1 earth. Nor yet in the whole worU didst Thou make that whole world because there was no place w here 11 make it, before it was made that i Although Augustine seems to bemight have being. lieve he has made a sufficient sacrifice of his rhetoric, one might ask whether In those great final chapters who . the author of this book which is filled Augustine mounts beyond memory, hi Ci rculation Dept. with Roman ingenuity has given up book becomes philosophy and tbeo~ Each member of the College Comrhetoric or has now turned that art ogy. Most autobiographies begi n wich munity is receiving an extra copy of to the service of his God. At any details and end with details which an Backcampus the COLLEGIAN this week so that he rate. w e can be sure that the literary inferior to the earlier sections. Al ship with the police commissioner, and Paca-Carroll, of all teams. held first may send it on to anyone who might virtues were never ends to this man though Augustine would not have us there is an increasing number of complace in the touch-football standings be interested in subscribing. who repudiated poetry. Always sus- deny the earlier sections of the Confesplaints due to the discrepancy bepeering that the words of hymns are sions , one finds a progress tow ards I t~·een the hours at which our dormimore important than the music, he new kind of vividness-perhaps pro tories become alive and those at which found poetry to be grief-he had no gress toward the invisible; AugustiDI the peop le who live near them want theory of tragedy. Grief when it is becomes more and more intense as Ix to go to sleep . four terms ( $2.00) Please enter m y subscript ion fo r our own loss can become a scourge be- approaches the abstract. In the fatu Latel y he has also been asked by two terms ( $1.00 ) cause of an earthly affection. books we find an intellect or perba~ parents whether their sons really have Enclosed find$ _ _ _ _ _ __ Augustine repudiated rhetoric, art, the inte~lect s.eeking its own ends ..Tix to stay up till two • clock in the morn0 poetry ; and yet his book is more per- Confess10ns ts an autobiography in 1 ing, and been somewhat at a J~ss to Name _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ fect than any other autobiography. " It very complete sense-the story of 1 explain that every one .of them is kept Address.___________ _ _ ___ - -- - - - - - - is the story of an artist slaying him- transition of animal to man. awake by the noise the others make. self in order to live forever." In the last books we find the reil Of co urse the three B' s (Buchanan, Signed _ _ _ _ _ _______ __ _ _ _ __ Augustine casts aside bis intellect questions-the others . are dark pr~ Basil and Bloomsbury Square) can aleven though it takes him to his con- liminaries. Perhaps the subject of 1 w~ys get together and-with a sufMake checks or money orders payable to clusions; an d yet he has no self-con- Confessions is really Happiness wbi fiC!ent amount of persuasion on the .JOflN GILBERT . Circulation Manager sciousness about the use of intellect. would be joy in Truth. Part of one and understanding and coSt. John's College, Annapolis, Md. His search is intense; his curiousity operation on the part of the other two seems absolutely quenchless. "I A. f. --fix th ings up. That is, they can D D ~ I �ST. Page 4 JOHN'S COLLEGIAN Arts On Saturday night at CALENDAR s :30 in the ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- ~ G ym the Film Club comes up with b 2 Friday, Octo er 2 another French film, A Nous la Liberte 3 :00-5 :OO P. M. (English titles included), as the sec5:45 P. M. ond program of the term. It was di6 :3 0-8 :00 P. M. rected by Rene Clair and ranks close to 7:00 P. M. the masterpiece of the silent days, The 8:0.0 P. M. ltatian Straw Hat. (Some sober authorities around here tell us that this is not only Clair's best, but the best film ever made.) The story con- Sa.tu rday, October 23: cerns two friends who escape from 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. prison and their succeeding adventures. 8: 3 0 P. M. The directorial technique renders word, gesture and incident significant toward a completely human comedy. Today and tomorrow are your last chances to • see Holy Matrimony in town. This is the kind of film that almost restores your faith in Southern California. Monty Woolley and Gracie Fields are surrounded by an ex ceptionally good supporting cast; the screen play is well written; the whole thing ends up by being "a most enjoyable affair." This is not only the best that's been at the local theatres for a long time, but from the lo oks of things, the best that will be. On Sunday at the Republic we will publicly rescind most of the kind words we have ever d.i rected toward Paramount, M-G-M, R.K.O and any other members of the unholy alliance known as the film industry. Come down and watch us, at dawn, picket the place. The reason for our slight tiff is The Duke of West Point, a belabored and rather vulgar episode that is riding the crest of the war-films wave. We don't expect Mr. Louis Hayward ~ Accent (after Cagney, yo u can have him) and even Mr. Durkee will like us. On Wednesday, the congested area will be the order at the Circle. It's to be Warner's Thank Your Lucky Stars . Nothing's too good or too much in this uninhibited bond rally where the idea is to dazzle by sheer quantity. le is wishful thinking to suppose that it would be possible to see Oklahoma! this or next week at the National in Washington. There is hope, however. since mail orders are being taken at Ford's for the run there following Washington. Why all this noise? The most important theatre event we know of in a long, long time. Athletics Vesper Service Bible C lass Meeting of the Chorus Formal Lecture-Looking -Glass Molecules -Anth on y Standen Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 Humphreys lian Great Hall Athletics The Film Club Presents - A Nous La Liberte Back Campus Iglehart H all Reading of Chaucer by Richard ScofieldRefreshments the College Community is invited Progress of the WarSpeaker to be announced 8 :00 P. M. 7:00 P. M. Athletics Vesper Service Meeting of the Chorus Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class Latin Club Meeting Wednesday, October 27: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M . 5:45P.M. 6:45 P. M. 8 :00 P. M. Thursday, October 28: ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, 1:)CTOBER 2.9, 194 3 problems for Lucretians pA.RT I-THE PROBLEM OF It seems that light is a funny thing. It travels in w aves, but all kinds of cbeJ!l· Up, down, left, right, slantwise- in planes at all angles to each ocher. Tuesday, October 26: 3 :00 -5 :00 P. M. 5:45P.M. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. 7:00 P. M. No. 11 Book Store Mondc;iy, October 25: 3 :00 -5 :00 P. M. 5:45P.M. J, hn's Collegian o OPTICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS Sunday, October 24: 4 :00 P. M . v;i.LVI- • Athletics Vesper Service Class in Projective Geometry Meeting of the Orchestra The first part of Mr. Standen's leccure was on the atomic structure of matter, into molecules . Each molecule has a definite and prescribed structure. which can be represented by Woodward Hall cbe odels chat w ere shown, during the 111 lecture. Each molecule of the same substance b as the same structure, mechanicall y. But geometrically speakBack Campus 10g, two of t he same substance can be Great Hall backward , or looking-glass wise, to Humphreys Hill ucb othe r. Thus although equal and similar. the y are not superposable. not affect the plane of polarization at all. All these organic compounds, optically active substances. which are found in living matter have one bundred per cent left- or right-band m olecules. All of one kind rotate only to the right, of another " only to tbe left. lihe same compound never appears in two forms, one right and one left. I suppose that the implication is clear. If life started merely as chance combinations of molecules, which combinations had certain chemical .processes, these chem ical processes could presumably take place as easily in an equally mixed group . And purely from the physical or chemical point of view, it would be irrelevant whether the molecul es were right- or left: handed , for apart from the peculiar property of one-way rotation, there is apparentl y no difference in the properties of a natural and synthesized organic compounds. And if contained, it should make no difference in the now existing natural and synthesized. For, (This is a consequence of the threedimensionality of matter. Plane figures can be turned over, if backwards, and w ill then fit. But not solid say the atomises , there is only matter ones. Try it ! ) and motion-no qualities at all. Yet To return to light, polarized light here is a property, adhering only in Back Campus bas its wave motion in only one plane, living matter, which is generated in Great Hall or within a v ery small angle of planes. other living matter only by something McDowell 2 1 Thus, if light polarized in one plane already living. The origin of the first meets a body which polarizes in living matter is , or nearly so, inexHumphreys Hall 1no1her plane, it is blacked-out- plicable on the mechanist hypotbesisstopped. accidental collocations of matter in Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 McDowell 24 The problem, however, is the propBack Campus Athletics 3 :00 -5 :00 P. M. erty charac te ristic of, and only of, G reat Hall Vesper Service 5:45P.M. mtain organic materials- cane sugar. G reat Hall College Meeting 7:30 P. M. nicotine, lactic acid, etc.,-of changing the plane of polarized light ; i. e.. Friday, October 29: of rotating it either to. the right or to Back Campus Athletics 3 :00 -5 :00 P. M. the left. These are called optically acGreat Hall Vesper Se rvice 5:45 P. M. tive compounds. An optically active McDowell 22 Bible Class 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. Humphreys Hall compound is distinguished from other Meeting of the Chorus 7 :00 P. M. compounds of the same atomic structure Great Hall Formal Lecture Ed8 :00 P. M. in that they possess only right-hand ward Kasner The or only left-hand molecules, so that the Golden Mean plane of polarization of the light is Saturday, October 30: ictually turned through, say, ninety Back Campus Athletics 10-30 A. M.-12 :00 M. degrees as it passes through the ma==T=H=E=S=T=.=J OH=N='=S=O=O=L=LE=G=U=N=~=ili=e=o=ffi=c=~=l=n=ew=s=o=r=g=a=n=~==l=J=~=~=s=C=. ~~L w~re~. wbm ilie cig~~md == = S ~ published every Friday during the academic year. Entered as second class ~ Ind left- band are equally mixed, as in October 15, 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, under thl' Act of "' 3, 1879. l\'nthesized organ ic compounds, they do motion forming combinations which themselves form combinations. etc. Optically active compounds can, however, be synthesized. This is done by cr ystallizing various substances and mechanically isolating the asymmetrical molecules. This, however, a very complex and difficult process, must have been done by someone before the first life appeared. But it is done only by men. intelligently and by art. and by organic substances, because of their nature, in that they reproduce only the same kind. Therefore there must have been some intelligent being before all ma~ci~ l~~g rub~afil~. And ili~ all men know by the name, etc. The various solutions proposed all Price: 1Oc break down, m consideration of the fact that no, or hardly any, no important, properties accrue to matter through the unique way in which it is able to rotate the plane of polarization of light. If one could be found , then the law of chance might have yielded the first right-hand rotating piece of matter, which, because of its advantages, would perpetuate its kind. But the odds are infinitely greater than astronomical. le should be emphasized the genuinely scientific. non-partisan spirit in which the lecture was given. Mr. Standen professes himself no expert on the subject; . merely observations on a subject which he had investigated and which, as be says, any modern Lucretius must consider before building life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on matter and motion. And although we feel that these considerations are not quite adequate to demonstrate that life must have originated through the intervention of an intelligent Being, it will certainly keep the atomises quiet for a while, until they may be able to think their way out of the dilemma. Let's all hope they don't, because nobody really likes atomists anyhow, do they? H. T. W. Lecturer Tonight Edward Kasner was born in New York City in 18 7 8. He was graduated from the College of the City of New York and received bis Ph.D. in 1899 from Columbia University. After study at the University of Gottingen be joined the faculty of Columbia, where he has been professor of mathematics since 1910 and Adrain Professor of Mathematics since 193 7 · He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the National Research Council. and has published six books on mathematics, including Prn~~Probhms~Goomett~ He~ co-author with James Newman Mathematics and the Imaginat ion . of � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Student publication The Collegian https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/19d2818a17f276c21a2f11f316a97303.pdf 35aa33277002c3321badd0bc4fb0a992 PDF Text Text • • John's Coll eg1an VoJ.LYI-N o. 11 ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, 1)CTOBER 29, 1943 not affect the plane of polarization at all. pART 1-THE PROBLEM OF All these organic compounds, opoPTICALL Y ACTIVE tically active substances. which are COMPOUNDS found in living matter have one bun dred per cent left- or right-hand molele seems that light is a funny thing. cules. All of one kind rotate only to It cravels in waves, but a~l kinds of the right, of another ·only to the left. cbeJtl· Up, down, left, nght, slantlihe same compound never appears in wise-in planes at all angles to each two forms , one right and one left. oiber. I suppose that the implication is The first part of Mr. Standen' s lecclear. If life started merely as chance iure was on the atomic structure of combinations of molecules, which ccer, into molecules. Each mole1113 combinations had certain chemical .procule bas a definite and prescribed cesses , these chemical processes could structure, which can be represented by presumably take 'p lace as easily in an the models that were shown. during the And purely equally mixed group. lee1ure. Each molecule of the same from the physical or chemical point of substance bas the same structure, meview, it would be irrelevant whether cbanicall y. But geometrically speakthe molecules were right- or left10g. rwo of the same substance can be handed. for apart from the peculiar b~ckward , or looking-glass wise, to property of one-way rotation, there ucb othe r. Thus although equal and is apparently no difference in the propsimilar. they are not superposable. erties of a natural and synthesized (This is a consequence of the threeorganic compounds. And if contained, d1mensio nality of matter. Plane it should make no difference in the now 6gures can be turned over, if backexisting natural and synthesized. For, wards. and will then fit. But not solid say the atomists, there is only matter ones. Try it!) and motion-no qualities at all. Yet To retu rn to light, polarized light here is a property, adhering only in has its wave motion in only one plane. living matter, which is generated in or within a very small angle of planes. other living matter only by something Thus, if light polarized in one plane already living. The origin of the first meets a body which polarizes in living matter is, or nearly so, inexrnother plane, it is blacked-out- plicable on the mechanist hypotbesis!lopped. accidental collocations of matter in The problem. however, is the prop- motion forming combinations which trty cha racteris tic of, and only of, themselves form combinations. etc. certain organic materials-cane sugar. Optically active compounds can, oicotine, lactic acid, etc.,-of chang- however. be synthesized. This is done iog rhe plan e of polarized light ; i. e. by crystallizing various substances and of rotating it either to the right or to mechanically isolating the asymmetri the left. These are called optically ac- cal molecules. This, however, a very iive com pounds. An optically active complex and difficult process. must compound is distinguished from other have been done by someone before the compounds of the same atomic structure first life appeared. But it is done only in that they possess only right-hand by men. intelligently and by art, and or only left-hand molecules. so that the by organic substances, because of their plane of polarization of the light is nature, in that they reproduce only the ~ctually turned through , say, ninety same kind. Therefore there must have degrees as it passes through the ma- been some intelligent being before all !trial, whereas, when the right-hand material living substances. And this illd left-hand are equally mixed, as in all men know by the name, etc. l'nthesized organic compounds, they do The various solutions proposed all problems for Lucretians Price: 1 Oc break down, m consideration of the fact that no, or hardly any, no important, properties accrue to matter through the unique way in which it is able to rotate the plane of polarization of light. If one could be found , then the law of chance might have yielded the first right-band rotating piece of matter, which, because of its advantages, would perpetuate its kind. But the odds are infinitely greater than astronomical. It should be emphasized the genuinely scientific, non-partisan spirit in which the lecture was given. Mr. Standen professes himself no expert on the subject; merely observations on a subject which he bad investigated and which, as he says, any modern Lucretius must consider before building life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on matter and motion. And although we feel that these considerations are not quite adequate to demonstrate that life must have originated through the intervention of an intelligent Being, it will certainly keep the atomists quiet for a while, until they may be able to think their way out of the dilemma. Let's all hope they don't, because nobody really likes atomists anyhow, do they? H. T. W. Lecturer Tonight Edward Kasner was born in New York City in 18 7 8. He was graduated from the College of the City of New York and received his Ph.D. in 1899 from Columbia University. After study at the University of Gottingen he joined the faculty of Columbia, where he has been professor of mathematics since 1910 and Adrain Professor of Mathematics since 193 7 · He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the National Research Council, and has published six ,books on mathematics, including Present Problems of Geometry. He is co-author with James Newman of Mathematics and the Imagination. �s ·1 Page 2 • Navy V-12 With new examinations for the the Navy V -1 2 p rogram coming up next m onth it would seem that new candidates must be interested and con cerned about the in terio.r of this flower of opportunity, Mr. Smith gave the exterior and f ormal appearances at college meeting but it is h oped that this article will give some understanding of the interior and personal observations of the program. N o effort will be made t o save the appearances or validate the observations, this is a report t o the reader of personal considerations and all judgments are to be made by him. In July, 1943, the Navy undertook the education of the enlisted reserves and certain selected candidates for preofficer training. For the job of education the Navy turned to the American colleges; they understood that colleges were places of education. For the military side of the program the Navy picked many of its officers and enlisted personnel who were specialists in their field (organization, education , athletics, etc.) . The Navy desired to train men to do a ce rtain job, hence the colleges became small Naval Academies devoted to the task of making specialists in military science and the professions. Two problems arise at this point, are military programs and education · compat1'bl e, an d d o co II eges give the · m d'iv1"d ua 1 t h e ch ance to get an ed uca .on 7. • The latter quest1'on has been ti raised, and cultured by many persons in the past years. The answer from my personal observations, is a loud "N o, ,, h ence we turn t o the f ormer roblem and proceed thus to the obp servations. Education has a fertile soil in leisure, military programs arc based on action, thus the two are in conflict with each other. A way out of this conflict is to make· a judgment of priority. This the Navy did and the educational program was deemed more important than the military. Hence the Navy gives an affirmative answer to the question. Even after subordinating the military to the aca demic we still have found the conflict unresolved. ln detail the V -12 program is as follows. in certain courses and at some colleges this schedule may vary : JOHN'S ST . COLLEGIAN 0558-Warning Bell 0600-Setting up Drill 0620-Warning Bell 0713-Warning Bell 0 715-Breakfast Formation (Muster and Inspection) College Meeting Innocents At Home an Abroad 0 5 5 0-Reveille /.£ college meeting last night the annou nced that the p re-medical (The following excerpts are fro ])tan scheduled for today, will be held Ietter receive d m t h e community fr . . Ill r alll• week at 3 P. M. The reason for a St. Johnni~ in the service. We~ ibt change 1s t h at, at t b e present time, · · .., •ttf vite members of the College to sub y schools are on vacation. The similar letters for possible publicati lilt 111in ,·nation will last for about tw o 011. "Some four and a half months aao I came to Fort Sill and was ass1'gn..a _ to the Pack Artillery. You asked 7 5 8-Warning Bell O if it was tough. I can give you lllt 0800-0850-Classes or Study answer now- 'Yes.' When I 085 8-Warning Bell j joined D-26, I asked the members ti 0 9 0 0-0 9 5 0-Classes, Drill, or StudJ the old platoon if they thought that 0 9 5 8-'Warning Bell the Mule Pack bad built them lip 1000-1050-Classcs, Drill. or Study physically. Their answer was: 'Nol 1058-Warning Bell I can understand that now. This out 1100 -1150-Classes, Drill, or Study fit drives you far beyond the me1t 1208-Warning Bell l 'keeping in good physical shape' poin 1210-Formation for Lunch "We took several marches under tht 1318-Warning Bell burning noon-day sun and after fifteea 1320 -1350-Assembly, Military Cere- miles our numbers became materially monies, or C.O. mreduced. Of course, it wasn't just tht leading of a mule. It was every step spection Our helmets were scorching bot from 13 5 8-Warning Bell 1400 - 1450-Classes, Drill, or Study the blazing sun which slowly baked 1458-Warning Bell our backs. The waves of dust clog rd 1500 -1550-Classes, Drill. or Study our nostrils and lips. The sweat po!r. 15 5 8-Warning Bell ing from our brows became mudd I 600 - 1650-Classes, Drill or Study and oozed under our chins and dow! 1650 - 1800-Athletics our backs. Our wrists and the backs 1815-19 15-Dinner of our bands were caked with mud 2000-0600-Quiet hours I never dropped completely out, but I was frequently dragging low. The pre-medical and pre-dental "After this kind of march it wa courses offered by the V-12 program fun marching at night or in the ead are the best in the system. This is morning. Once we got going and bit due to the fact that sciences and our stride we did not like to stop for langu ;.g~s are being well taught on the anything because we would nearly bum operational level. If one enters the up when we did so. While we marchprogram in some other classification- it ed at five ~iles an hour I breathed likt is found chat mathematics , sciences and a furnace on forced draft. I was cool languages are . more .desirable than for- w b t"le movmg. b ut w h en I stopped, Dlf . . . mal courses m philosophy and km- egs espeoa II y wou Id h eat up tern'fic . 1 dred subjects. for one finds these to be aII y. A n d t h en w h en we got to .L. 1111 standard textbook courses. sta bl es we wou Id h ave to massage t1i.. 11 The Navy bas attempted to keep real mules for an hour. meaning to the term officer and gentle"It's a damned good outfit to bl man with a belief that this implies lib- . from. In fact, tomorrow I am lea• erally educated men . If the colleges j ing at noon for Santa Ana as an Air have been unable to take advantage of I Cader_ ___ ,, this opportunity, not only is it necessary for the Navy to lament, but also the whole community (whatever the war may show that to be), for a chance The mus~c department an noun~ will have been lost to educate men so the resumption of recorded con~ that they might indeed have had the which will be presented on T ues ~ W ed nes d ay an d S u nd ay a ftern oons right to call themselves guardians. d 0 Humphreys Hall. For time sche B. F . P . con<>ult the (' ollege Calendar. 0728-Warning Bell 0730-Breakfast n: I I M D usic epartment I tfJtll be> bt . . ors and will requue a fee of one dolM' S I .. payable to iss trange. t is im- rtant to let Miss Strange know plan to take the test. The Dean stated that he thought it tlllPortant for all who are interested i~ There is 11cdicine to take the test. 10 requirem ent of pre-medical training JS rhe aim of the exam is to detect · rbether or not t h em d'iv1'd ual has any S1tdical abilit y. The reason for this diange in the test is that the ordinary paol of students are not in the collrges. but in the various services. the 111 cdical schools are having a hard time stlect:ng their students, and are at the present rime very overcrowded and understaffed. How does one decide whether or not 10 take the test? Anyone who is beaded towards medicine ought to take it. also tbose who a(e seriously considiring entering this profession. The Dean suggested that those under 16 not ta ke t h e test an d. t h at those over · 17 ca ke it. Here at St. John's there is a very dffinite stand as to pre-medical train· · ing. M ost o f t h e eIecttve co 11 eges give · courses m t h'is 1·me b ut neg Iect l'b era I l 1 ocatwn. d · A ut h onttes m t h e A meri· · · cin Assoc iation of Medical Schools bm stated that although a well-roundtd education is what they desire, they b been f orce d to con fi ne t h eu re· m u1remenrs to those subj"ects which they rel competent to J'udge • You will find that most of the peo pie here are very interested in the ~ether you medical profession. They feel that it b more important to first make a man then make a doctor, and not to make 1 partial man and then a partial doc!or. They make a liberal education the founda tion for not only the medicine but also the other two professions bw and theology. It seems that th: biter of these three bas gone to the bottom of the list and that it ought to be at the top , since the highest principles of living are involved. You will n<l the Dran willing to talk to JOHN'S COLLEGIAN you at any time about the test and about the profession. Finally, Mr. Buchanan read a clipping cut from a Buffalo paper. It seems that Martin Andrews, ex-St. Johnnie in the Air Corps, while on a bombing mission over Germany, dropped a St. J ohn's catalogue. He als o initialed some of his bom bs with his father's initials. These were drop ped near his father's birthplace in Norway. It is rumored that the names of Barr, Buchanan, and Klein have also been written on the bombs. Let's hope that there is someone in that noble land able to read English. Page 3 L. E.-Morehouse Q.B.-1. Robertson R.H.-Haines L.H.-Ross F.B.-Cbandler Reserves: Campbell, Ray, Harvey, Miss A., Henry Backcampus 1. SPECULATION: After Satu~day' s game one of the mem bers of the West Pinkney team stated that in his opinion there were too many "stars" on bis dorm's team. It is our guess, if it is a guess, that team spirit has not winged its way inS B. B. to the WP hearts. The team hasn't shown any real fight or co-operation on the playing field with the excepThis is the official line-up for the ti on of the loyal few. 2. FACTS: Tutor-Waiter game on Saturday, OctoWest Pinkney bas lost all three of its ber 27, at 3 :30 P. M. football games played so far and seems TUTORS well on the way to more defeats. R .E.-Hammond In the game on Friday of last week. R.G.-Garis Ben Perry and Randall defeated WP C. -Cochran 18-9 by virtue of Perry's 70-yard L. G.-Buchannan touchdown run. This was the reL.E.-Eslick sult of good blocking and team play Q.B.-Gorman by Randall (which was also responsiR. H.-Standen ble for the other two touchdowns) . L.H.-W. Harper The surprise team of the year. PacaF.B.-W. K. Smith Carroll. continued in grand style, winReserves-Hyman, Darkey, Wolfe. nin g its third straight game from WP W. Smith, Archie. on Saturday, 18-0 . Although WP WAITERS was laden with passers , their offense R.E.-Chenowetb just didn't work, and in regard to deR.G. -Connor fense, t he less said the better. How~ C. -Pumphrey ever, the game was fairly well-played L. G.-Pfeiffer by the Paeans; White and Robertson duplicating t he old Frank to Kelly combin ation for tw o t ouchdowns. Of course the winners also scored on the W elch sleeper play, which is now a announces: standard f eature of P C repertoire. Chase-Stone w on two games on Wednesday-one on a forfeit 1-0 from W est Pinkney, and the other from East Pinkney, 1 5 -0. 3 . JUDGMENT: and The athletic staff, by a vote of 5 to l, rejected the petition of the soccer players. The tennis shoes ~ill be comme il faut. Game The Cotillion Board HALLOWE'EN DANCE PARTY Saturday, 9:30 P. M. m the basement of Mathematics Club McDOWELL A mathematics club has been formed which will meet this Tuesday evenmg at eight under the sponsorship of Mr. Dehn and Mr. Bingley. $.70 Drag $.80 Stag �ST. Page 4 Arts We find ourselves with little or nothing to say about the films of the coming week at the local houses . This is by no means a deplorable situation in that we possibly could get to bed earlier and also make room for certain more pertinent remarks. Alas, the hand that rocks the cradle forbids and to press we go ____ without. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN CALENDAR ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE Sat., Nov. G, 1 Friday, October 29: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5:45 P. M. 6 :3 0-8 :00 P. M. 7:00 P. M.· 8:00 P. M. Dismissed without even a whimper are such things as Dr. Gillespie's Crim- Saturday, October 30: ;nal Case, I Dood It, Silver Spurs, and 1 0 : 3 0 A. M. -1 2 : 0 O M. 3 :30 P. M. Chance of a Lifetime. In a moment of clouded vision we feel obliged to advise yo to see Sahara. (By that it is 9 :30 P. M.-1 :30 A. M. simply meant that you could do worse.) As everybody damn well knows, this bas got Humphrey Bogart and no wo- Monday, November 1: men in it. Sahara is the motion pic3 :00-5 :00 P. M. ture industry's bow to the tank corps. 4 :00-6 :00 P. M. Five sandstorms daily at the Circle ' 5 :45 P: M. starting Sunday. 7 :00 P. M. At the Republic on Sunday tbe pic7:30 P. M. ture is called The Fallen Sparrow. John Garfield does much in this to Tuesday, November 2: assert bis ability as an actor again. 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Opposite him is Maureen O'Hara. 5 :45 P. M. On Tuesday, November 2nd, Artur 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. Rubinstein appears as guest soloist 7:00 P. M. with the National Symphony Orchestra 8:00 P. M. at the Lyric Theatre in Baltimore. The Baltimore Museum of Art con- Wednesday, November 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. cert series starts next Wednesday night 5 :45 P. M. with a recital by Lilly Schwarz, pian ist. and two members of tbe Coolidge -6 :45 P. M. Quartet. Program as yet unannounced. 8 :00 P. M. Baltimore's most sensational bid for attention next week is Oklahoma! which starts at Ford's Theatre on Monday. This is of course a road company but it stacks up fairly well as compared to the New York group. Oklahoma! is a musical perversion of mild melodrama called Green Grow the L.~lacs. Its failings are none. except perhaps that it doesn't just go on. Its virtues are an excellent score by. Richard Rodgers; a happy book and lyrics by Hammerstein II; dances by Agnes deMille; and fine direction by Mamoulian. Since most of the evening consists of music and dancing, it is well to comment that the deMille choreography. though not restricted to the music I-comedy stage, is here inte- Fri., Oct. 29 Athletics Veesper Service Bible Class Meeting of the Chorus Formal Lecture The Golden Section- Edward Kasner Back Cam pus Great Hall McDowell 22 Humphreys liaU Great Hall Athletics Touch Football Game between Faclllty and Waiters Hallo we' en Dance Back Campus Back Campu~ Athletics Recorded Concert Vesper Service Meeting of the Chorus Meeting of Dormitory Managers Back Camp us Humphreys Hall Great Hall Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class Latin Club Meeting Mathematics Club Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 32 McDowell 24 McDowell 21 Athletics Vesper Service Class in Projective Geometry Meeting of the Orchestra Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 21 McDowell Base. ment Humphrey~ .Hall Senior Com mon Room 3: Humphreys Hall Thursday, November 4: 3 :00 -5 :00 P. M. 4 :00-6 :00 P. M. 5 :45 P. M. 7:30 P. M. Athletics Recorded Concert Vesper Service College Meeting Back Camp us Humphreys Hall Great Hall Great Hall Friday, November 5: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5 :45 P. M. 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. 7:00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class Meeting of the Chorus Formal LectureProposition and Judgment- Leonard Eslick Back Camp us Great Hall McDowell 22 Humphreys Hall Great Hall Athletics Back Ca.np us Saturday, November 6: 10:30-12:00 M. grated perfectly with the play. We THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN is the official news organ of St. John's Coll thank the Theatre Guild, they have published every Friday during the academic year. Entered as second class 11~& outdone themselves. October 15, 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, under tht> Act. of li•11 3, 1 R79. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Alas, the hand that rocks the cradle forbids and to press we go ____ without. JOHN 1 S COLLEGIAN ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE Fri., Oct. 29 ·- Sat., Nov. G 1 , --........... Friday, October 29: 3 : 00-5 : 00 P. M. 5 :45 P. M . 6 :30-8 :00 P. M. 7 : 00 P. M. 8 : 00 P. M . Athletics V eesper Service Bible Class Meeting of the Chorus Formal Lecture The Back Cam pus Great Hall McDowell 22 Humphreys Bau Great Hall Golden Section- Edward Kasner Dismissed without even a whimper are such things as Dr. Gillespie's Crim- Sa t urday, Octobe r 30: inal Case, I Dood It, Silver Spurs, and 10 :30 A. M.-12 :00 M. 3 : 30 P. M. Chance of a Lifetime. In a moment of clouded vis ion we feel obliged to advise yo to see Sahara. (By that it is 9 :3 0 P. M . - l : 30 A. M . simply meant that you could do worse.) As everybody damn well knows, this bas got Humphrey Bogart and no w oMonday, November l: men in it. Sahara is the motion pic3 ;00-5 : 00 P. M . tu re indust ry' s bow to the tank corps. 4 :0 0 -6 :00 P . M. Five sandstorms daily at the Circle ' 5 :45 P .- M. starting Sunday. 7 :00 P . M . At th e Rep ublic on Sunday -the p ic7 ; 30 P . M . tu re is called The Fallen Sparrow. John Garfield does much in this to Tuesday, November 2: assert bis ability as an actor again. 3 :00-5 :00 P. M . Opposite him is Maureen O'Hara. 5 :45 P. M. On Tuesday. November 2nd, Artur 7 :0 0-8 :00 P . M . Rub instein appears as guest soloist 7 :00 P. M. w ith the National Symphony Orchestra 8: 00 P. M. at the Lyric Theatre in Baltimore. The Baltimore Museum of Art con- Wednesday , November cert series starts next Wednesday night 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5 :45P.M. w ith a recital by Lilly Schwarz, pianist. and t wo members of the Coolidge · 6 :45 P . M . Quartet. Program as yet unannounced. 8: 00 P. M. Balt imore' s most sensational bid for atte nt ion next week is Oklahoma! w h ich starts at Ford' s Theatre on Mond ay . This is of course a road comp an y but it stacks up fairly well as com pared to the Ne w York group . Oklahoma! is a musical perversion of m ild melodrama called Green Grow the L~lacs. Its failin gs a re none. except p erh aps that it doesn ' t just go on. Its v irt ues are an excellent score by, R ichard Rodgers ; a happy book and lyrics by Hamme rstein II ; dances by Agnes deMille; and fine direction by Mamouli an . Since most of the evening consists of music and dancing, it is well t o comment that the deMille choreograph y, though not restricted to the music::il-comedy stage, is here inte- t. John's Collegian CALENDAR Athletics Touch Football Game between Faculty and Waiters Hallo w e' en Dance Back Campus Back Campu~ McDo well Base. ment Athletics Recorded Concert Vesper Service Meeting of the Chorus Meeting of Dormitory Managers Back Campus Humphreys Hau Great Hall Humph re y; HaU Senior Com mon Room Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class Latin Club Meeting Mathematics Club Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 McDowell 24 McDowell 21 vi.Lvi-No. 13 ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER '12,. i943 Formal Dance 'fhe Cotill ion Board announces berewith t h a t ' after· much deliberation, . . ms that rt may be . possible to 11 see a Christmas Formal Dance on bive ... But this year · the pece...ber 11 . dent body is smaller than in former s!U . . . s and the adm1ss1on pnce w1'11 b e y!Jf· riiber high. It appears that a $3.00 ricket, bought in advance, would be uflicient for a movie dance in Mc~owell. which will certainly come off November 2 7, the Saturday after 00 Thanksgiving, and the Formal· in Decelllber. It is q uite urgent that we find oat bow man y people would subscribe chis amount, because if less than 6 0 · do so, the amount will become proportionately larger as the number recedes from 6 0, and, of course, less as the number is g reater than 60: we are ifraid that the subscriptions will have 10 be in by ne xt Wednesday or Thursday, as there are problems. Backcampus · Soccer, although scheduled to o.p en two weeks ago, has been held up owing to a number of things ; weather and laziness being the general causes. The first "game" did come off Wednesday, and, although EP did win on a forfeit from WP, it showed at least some interest from some source . Touch-football headed into the second round , with Chase-Stone taking an undisputed lead of 3 wins, no losses, having previously beaten Paca-Carroll, and_ Randall (26-6, Saturday) and West Pinkney (6-0, Tuesday) . The game Saturday was close for tw o perriods, but Chase-Stone scored three times in the last half to win. Dick Harris' pass to Maury in the third quarter gave C-S their victory over West Pinkney on Tuesday. Both teams were at full-strength, which explains the 6 - 0 score. For most of us Wednesday' s luncheon in honor of Ned Lathrop was -the first opportunity we bad had to hear about the g: nesis of the athletic department. Lt. Lathrop spoke about the restrictions under which the Athletic Department operated on an inter-collegiate basis. He told how in To continue these gory financial de11ils, although $3 . 00 may seem extortionate at fi rst, on second thought 3: $.40 cents comes out of this for a sinAthletics Back Campus gle admiss ion to the Movie Dance, $.30 Vesper Service Great Hall for tax, which really does no good to Class in Projective McDowell 21 1aybody except perhaps the governGeometry ment ; so fin ally the admission price 193 7 be was given the job of organlZlng the system of intramural Meeting of the OrcbesHumphreys Hall comes out to $ 2. 3 0. athletics which w e have today. He tra But the fo rmals are always very ex:reminded us of the many difficulties Thursday, November 4: citing and interesting, which is really which arose not only because of bis not tbe word ; in short, everybody bas 3 : 00-5 :00 P . M . Athletics Back Campus leaving, but because of the inroads of 4 :00-6 :00 P. M . Humphreys Hall 1 good time. The fun is worth the selective service on the more athletic Recorded Concert price, we believe. And it will be, if 5 :45 P. M . Vesper Service Great Hall members of the college. Both he and It is, the only formal for a long time 7 :3 0 P . M. College Meeting Great Hall Mr. Barr tried to give us some idea to come . . If the response is not sufFriday, Novembe r 5: of the future plans of the Athletic !cien tly great, th e Board will have to Department, particularly in regard to 3 :0 0 - 5 :0 0 P. M. Ath letics Back Campus nuke plans along less elaborate lines. 5 :45 P . M . individual sports. Here the emphasis Vesper Service Great Hall However, it w ould certainly be good is to be placed on those sports which 6 :3 0-8 :00 P . M. McDo well 22 Bible Class to have one formal. 7 :00 P . M. can be taken up and carried ·on . after Humphreys Hall Meeting of the Chorus The mo vie will be, unless Bell and leaving the college . For the full real8 :00 P . M . Great Hall Formal LectureHowell stab us i~ the back again. The ization of the program it will be necesProposition and Secret Agent, an early Hitchcock and sary to make some additions to the Judgment- Leonard certainly one of bis best. This will gym, such as squash and handball Eslick be in the Great Hall; the dance, to courts . and a swimming pool. All of S<:lturday, November 6: records, downstairs . tbis is a matter of time, but it is l 0 : 3 0 -12 : 00 M . Athletics Ending in the usual manntr, we add comforting at least to know that it THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN is the official news organ of St. John's Coll, that any suggestions to the members of ha~ been planned .out in some definite published every Friday during the academic year. Entered as second class ~~a way. October 15, 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, under the Act of in& lbe Cotillicin will be welcome. · - grated perfectly with the play. We thank the Theatre Guild, they have outd one t hemselves. 3, 1R79. Price: 1 Oc Innocents at Home and Abroad "I reported here at MIT on Oct. 1st, and after lugging my barrack bag~ through several miles of buildings and various plots of campus, I arrived at my present quarters. The room I am in is small so that I ~m fortunate enough to occupy it alone. This, however, throws a great weight of cleaning and polishing upon me w h ich · nearly overshadows the novelty of so much extra space. I .bad become used to living in rooms not much bigger than this one which anywhere from eight to three called home. " MIT seems to live up to every thing I'd heard of it. To get to classes we wade through rooms of machinery and by others with chemical gumbo of very complicated appearance: The course here· is going to be rather stiff and I look forward to it with varying amounts of apprehension. MIT is no place in which an ex-liberal artist can find peace and refuge. It seems a madhouse of physics where everyone mispronounces Greek letters and believes in «nything that has a formula attached ____ .'' Th N e ew A ge 0 f Pl . astlcs Of The Limits of the Hyperbole Sauntering by our mailbox, we fell into the possession of certain partisan pamphlets that reflect the state, if not ·the place, of the Republic. Along with the Lonergan Case, the recapture of Veliki Luki, and other straws in the wind, we feel that at last Anarchy has been put in its place by Letters to The New York Times Opposing Mandatory Joint Income Tax Retutns by Married Couples Living Togethet, Blueprint for World Trade (Standard Oil of N. J.) , and Forever This (Petpetual Peace Plan) . We quote briefly and at random while doodling on the flyleaf of The Phenomenology of Mit1d . �ST. Pagel JOHN'S COLLEGIAN "The American has traditionally roamed the face of the earth, bringing ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE back new things to make life better and happier for our citizens. Volunteer Friday, November 12: Peace Protectors Corps members shall 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Machine be armed with a pistol. 5:45 P. M . guns shall be kept locked and be avail6 :45-8 :00 P. M . able only for use when decided upon 7:00 P. M. by the Officers. This would be to 8 :00 P. M. quell a riot, or to subdue an uprising of one nature or another. Moreover, it is immoral as well as unmoral, for it allots a premium, which in borderline cases would prove decisive, to liv- Saturday, November. 13: ing in sin instead of wedlock-and 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. generally encourages childless marriage 8:30 P. M. and divorce. As wide dissemination is desired, the contents may be freely Sunday, November 14: used with or without attribution." 2 :00-4 :00 P. M. Arts 8:00 P. M. Despite various technical difficulties that have to be endured along with Monday, November 15: the Film Club, we urge you to see 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. their third program of the present 4 :00-6 :00 P. M. term. The film is Harvest, directed by 5:45 P. M. Marcel Pagnol. with a score by Arthur 7:00 P. M. Honegger. Hatvest is a powerful and noble story of man's relation to the Tuesday, November 16: land. With utter simplicity, it tells of 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5:45 P. M. the regeneration of a. village in Pro7 :00-8 :00 P. M. vence by a man and his woman. The 7:00 P. M. industrial revolution notwithstanding. 8:00 P. M. We don't nre what people say (this includes the Boston Watch and Wednesday, November 17: Ward) about The Lady Takes a 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Chance, but how Wintertime and 5:45 P . M. Princess O' Rourke ever got by the 6:45P.M. Hays' office, we'd like to know. Wintertime is about January 15th in 8:00 P. M. northern Canada. Princess O' Rourke is about President Roosevelt and Olivia Thursday, November 18: de Haviland. and we don't believe it. 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. (Circle.) The Seventh Victim takes 4 :00-6 :00 P. M. 5:45 P. M. us from out of the gas works into the 7:30 P. M. cellars again. Hysteria~:; St. John's Collegian CALENDAR Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class Meeting of the Chorus Formal Lecture-The Back Campua Great Hall McDowell 22 Humphreys Rall Great Hall Reduction of God to Tbeology-J. Winfree Smith Athletics Film Club Presents- Back Campus Iglehart Hall H arvest Recorded Concert Charles Beard's Republic Stringfellow Barr Humphreys Hall Woodward Hall Athletics Recorded Concert Vesper Service Meeting of the Chorus Back Campus Humphreys Hall Great Hall Humphreys Hall VOC-LVl-No.15 , . ANNAPOLIS. MD .. NOV. 26. 1943. De Rerum Natura ~era ''aterialism, said Mr. Adler in IY• the whole tning bis lecture, is on opsound doctnne. Th is po~nt b ecame . ' . a bundantly clear when he proceeded ; classify most of the views concern0 ing rnatter held by great thinkers, ranging all the way from Lucretius' atom ism to Barkeley' s immaterialism, under the common heading of materialism. The purpose of his lecture, ht seated. was to make us better materialists, and to show that the materialism based on modern science which many of us displayed during the qaescion period of his last lecture, was not the right kind. For scie9ce bas no metaphysical implications, and scientific evidences are compatible with any philosophy. The first part of the lecture was devoted to a historical review of the principal doctrines of matters. Passing over the earliest explanations of the problem of motion and change, such as Thales' who believed that water was its principle and Anaximander for Back Campus Athletics whom it was The Boundless, we come Great Hall Vesper Service co the two opposite views out of which McDowell 21 Class in Projective atomism arose: Heraclitus held that flux Geometry is the exclusive character of the physiHumphreys Hall cal world, whereas Parmenides preachMeeting of the Orchestra ed that our senses deceive us, since everything must be the One and the Back Campus Athletics Permanent and there is no change. Humphreys Hall Recorded Concert Democritus. a mechanistic atomise. Vesper Service Great Hall ind later Lucretius, thought they sueGreat Hall College Meeting ceeded in reconciling these extremes by having change entirely on the level of Friday, November 19: the combinat ion and dispersion of ultiBack Campus 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics mate particles, which particles are in5:45 P. M. Great Hall Vesper Service sensible, unchanging, and differing exMcDowell 22 6:45-8:00 P. M . Bible Class The ff umphreys Hall clusively in size and shape. Meeting of the Chorus 7:09 P. M . Lucretian atom,· defined as "solid sinFormal Lecture-MaGreat Hall 8:00 P. M. gleness," is a Parmenidean One. But terialism-Mortimer the mechanistic · atomise is confronted Adler with the following paradox: AlSaturday, November 20: though he starts out to explain sensibilAthletics Back Campus 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. ity and motion, he winds up with ulti===================== ========= Coll ~~ ronnh~nh ~ring rnh~L He ===1 THE ST. JOHN'S OOLLEGIA.N is the official news organ of St. John's published every · Friday during the academic year. Entered as se('ond class ma Qnnot explain sense perception and October 15, 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, 1!1.nder the .A.ct of M <onsequently thought satisfactorily since As he spoke, I became aware of the green bile. the stubble of the wheat field, and the bush. Cut him off for more than a day from human society and he would deflate. I decided that if the shaking of his head could be stopped, some fragments of my life might be collected, and I fixed my attention with careful subtlety to that end. *(Respectfully submitted to the readers of the poet.) 3, 1879. Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class (Freshman) Latin Club Meeting Mathematics Club Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 McDowell 24 McDowell 21 ' . IGatde the sense organs also there is Price: 1 0 cents nothing but atoms and the void. Furthermore, as Berkeley shows, if · matter has no quality at all, it follows that it lacks all determination, loses quantity also, and becomes the nearest thing to nothing. Thus the first materialist position is untenable because it cannot explain itself or knowledge in general. It does, however, lead to the realization that matter is the most abstract, unthinkable, and unintelligible thing, the most difficult to grasp next to God. tion, as we think it is, how does it explain sensation and knowledge? It tries to do it by placing in the sense organ a form common, but not identical with, the form of the object perceived, But this "intentional" form , -which is not so very different from the material efB.uvia or "little idols" by which Lucretius attempts to explain sensation,-is in the sense organ in a way different from' that in which the form is in the object ; if this were not the case an eye seeing red The second pos1t1on, which is would actually be red, since besouled Locke's, puts forth a material sub- matter as matter is no different from stance and a spiritual substance. But inanimate matter. it fails to explain intercourse between If we can really satisfy the exactthem and any materialistic doctrine ing demands of epistemology in terms which cannot give a good account of of the third position, we can come to knowledge is inadequate, since the ma- rest in the true doctrine. But if we terialist is not a skeptic but claims to fail. we must move on in our search have knowledge. for the explanation of change and perhaps recognize that Berkeley is The third position is Plato's, ri.ght 1 assertmg t h at there is only ·n · Aristotle's, Plotinus' and that of many sensation, but not matter, and that Christians: According to it, matter the joke is on us when we call Paris a co-princ;ple in the existence, and menides the " sublime joker. " the knowledge of all physical things. P . w. It is the receptacle of the forms and in itself it only differs from nothing in its can-be-ness (commonly referred As every feature must have an added to as potentiality). Potency and act, indeterminateness and determinateness attraction , so does the Thanksgiving become the two explanatory principles. Dance have its afternoon football In search of an account of change, we game-one which promises to be one discover that in every material thing of the closest of the season. there is something entirely determinate, Official facts are as follows : Reawhich can never change: The form. son : playoff for the touch-football It is only because the other constituent ·championship; Opponents: Paca-Carof material things is the principle of :roll and Chase-Stone ; Time and indeterminacy that motion is possible. Place: 3 :00 P. M. on the Backcampus on November 2 7. If Aristotle is right about the difBut the championship game will ferent kinds of change, then something have to go some. however, to beat the which does not have primary potentussle last Saturday morning between tiality (corruption and generation) Randall and Chase-Stone. The freshcannot have secondary potentiality men scored two touchdowns in the (change of place and alteration). This first half on passes from Harris to is another refutation of Lucretius who Maury, while Randall went over on a does ·not admit primary potentiality. run by Manning. Then a desperate Aristotle, however, as Mr. Adler redefense by C-S prevented Randall from ported regretfully, makes the same scoring and spoiling the freshmen's 12 mistake in assigning secondary poten- to 7 lead, which was the final score. tiality only to heavenly bodies. This game almost closed the door on If this is the right materialist posi- some of the players, exhaustion and Backcampus • � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Iglehart Hall St. John 's College �PROGRAM SONATA INC MINOR, Opus 30, No.2 Allegro con brio Adagio cantabile Scherzo Finale Beethoven II CHACO NNE Bach (for violi n alone) Ill SONATINA IN D MAJOR Allegro molto Andante Allegro vivace Schubert INTERMISSION IV SONATA IN G MAJOR (1917 ) Allegro vivo Fantasque et Ieger Finale v MASQUES from " Romeo and Juliet " *"SNOW" (Norwegian Song) *RUSSIAN DANCE from "Petrouschka" * Columbia Records Prokofieff -Grunes Lie-Szigeti Strauin sky -Dushkin � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Playbills & Programs Description An account of the resource Playbills and programs from various St. John's College events. 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Performance by Joseph Szigeti assisted by Andor Foldes (piano) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/c51776b0910f1f7505e4d4faf47d47f8.pdf 09cb442d0b8706761534a684df666e22 PDF Text Text ST. Pagel JOHN'S COLLEGIAN CALENDAR "The American has traditionally roamed the face of the earth, bringing ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE Fri., Nov. 12 - Sat., Nov. 19 back new things to make life better and ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~' happier for our citizens. Volunteer Friday, November 12: Peace Protectors Corps members shall Athletics 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Back Campua be armed with a pistol. Machine Vesper Service 5:45 P. M . Great Hall guns shall be kept locked and be availBible Class 6 :45-8 :00 P. M. McDowell 22 able only for use when decided upon Meeting of the Chorus 7:00 P. M. Humphreys Ball by the Officers. This would be to Formal Lecture-The Great Hall 8 :00 P. M. quell a riot, or to subdue an uprising Reduction of God to of one nature or another. Moreover, Tbeology-J. Winit is immoral as well as unmoral, for free Smith it allots a premium, which in borderline cases would prove decisive, to liv- Saturday, November. 13: ing in sin instead of wedlock-and 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. Athletics Back Campus generally encourages childless marriage 8:30 P. M . Film Club PresentsIglehart Hall and divorce. As wide dissemination H arvest is desired, the contents may be freely Sunday, November 14: used with or without attribution." 2 :00-4 :00 P. M. Recorded Concert Humphreys Hall 8:00 P. M. Charles Beard's Republic Woodward Hin Stringfellow Barr Despite various technical difficulties Arts that have to be endured along with Monday, November 15: the Film Club, we urge you to see 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. their third program of the present 4 :00-6 :00 P. M. term. The film is Harvest, directed by 5:45 P. M. Marcel Pagnol. with a score by Arthur 7:00 P. M. Honegger. Harvest is a powerful and noble story of man's relation to the Tuesday, November 16: land. With utter simplicity, it tells of 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5:45 P. M. the regeneration of a. village in Pro7 :00-8 :00 P. M. vence by a man and his woman. The 7:00 P. M. industrial revolution notwithstanding. 8:00 P. M. We don't care what people say (this includes the Boston Watch and Wednesday, November 17: Ward) about The Lady Takes a 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Chance, but bow Wintertime and 5:45 P. M. Princess O' Rourke ever got by the 6:45 P. M. Hays' office, we'd like to know. Wintertime is about January 15th in 8:00 P. M. northern Canada. Ptincess O' Rourke is about President Roosevelt and Olivia Thursday, November 18: de Haviland. and we don't believe it. 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. (Circle.) The Seventh Victim takes 4 :00-6 :00 P. M. 5:45 P. M. us from out of the gas works into the 7:30 P. M. cellars again. Hysteria::~ Athletics Recorded Concert Vesper Service Meeting of the Chorus Back Campus Humphreys Hall Great Hall Humphreys Hill St. John's Collegian V0C-LVI - , No. 15 ANNAPOLIS, MD., NOV. 26. 1943. De Rerum Natura ~era Materialism, said Mr. Adler in tning bis lecture, is on the whole op . . a sound doctnne. Th'ts pomt b ecame abundantly clear when he proceeded to classify most of the views concerning matter held by great thinkers, ranging all the way from Lucretius' atornism to Barkeley' s immaterialism, under the common heading of materialism. The purpose of bis lecture, ht stated, was to make us better materialists. and to show that the materialism based on modern science which many of us displayed during the question period of his last lecture, was not the right kind. For sciepce bas no metaphysical implications, and scientific evidences are compatible with ny 1 philosophy. The first part of the lecture was devored to a historical review of the principal doctrines of matters. Passing over the earliest explanations of the problem of motion and change, such as Thales' who believed that water was its principle and Anaximander for Back Campus Athletics whom it was The Boundless, we come Great Hall Vesper Service to the two opposite views out of which McDowell 21 Class in Projective 1tomism arose: Heraclitus held that flux ~ the exclusive character of the physiGeometry Humphreys Hall cal world, w hereas Parmenides preachMeeting of the Orchestra ed that our senses deceive us, since rverything must be the One and the Back Campus Athletics Permanent and there is no change. Humphreys Hall Recorded Concert Democritus, a mechanistic atomise, Great Hall Vesper Service ind later Lucretius, thought they sucGreat Hall College Meeting ceeded in reconciling these extremes by having change entirely on the level of Friday, November 19: the combination and dispersion of ultiBack Campus 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. Athletics mate particles, which particles are inGreat Hall 5:45 P. M. Vesper Service sensible, unchanging, and differing exMcDowell 22 6 :45-8 :00 P. M. Bible Class The Humphreys Hall clusivdy in size and shape. 7:0!) P. M. Meeting of the Chorus Lucretian atom ,· defined as "solid sinFormal Lecture-MaGreat Hall 8:00 P. M. gleness," is a Parmenidean One. But terialism-Mortimer the mechanistic · atomist is confronted Adler with the following paradox: AlSaturday, November 20: though he starts out to explain sensibilAthletics 10:30 A. M.-12:00 M. ity and motion, he winds up with ulti~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~==~~1 ~~ ronnkuencs baring nekhe~ He Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class (Freshman) Latin Club Meeting Mathematics Club Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 McDowell 24 McDowell 21 As he spoke. I became aware of the green bile. the stubble of the wheat field. and the bush. Cut him off for more than a day from human society and he would deflate. I decided that if the shaking of his head could be stopped, some fragments of my life might be collected, and I fixed my attention with careful subtlety to that end. THE ST. JOHN'S OOLLEGIA.N is the official news organ of St. John's Co *(Respectfully submitted to the published every · Friday during the academic year. Entered as ge('ond class October 15, 1919, at the Post Office at Annapolis, Maryland, 11.nder thl' Act of readers of the poet. ) 3 , 1879. Price: 10 cents ' nothing but atoms and the void. Furthermore, as Berkeley shows, if · matter has no quality at all, it follows that it lacks all determination, loses quantity also, and becomes the nearest thing to nothing. Thus the first materialist position is untenable because it cannot explain itself or knowledge in general. It does, however, lead to the realization that matter is the most abstract, unthinkable, and unintelligible thing, the most difficult to grasp next to God. tion, as we think it is, how does it explain sensation and know]edge? It tries to do it by placing in the sense organ a form common, but not identical with, the form of the object perceived, But this "intentional" form , -which is not so very different from the material efBuvia or " litcle idols" by which Lucretius attempts to explain sensation,-is in the sense organ in a way different from' t hat in which the form is in the object ; if this were not the case an eye seeing red The second pos1t1on, which is Locke's, puts forth a material substance and a spiritual substance. But it fails to explain intercourse between them and any materialistic doctrine which cannot give a good account of knowledge is inadequate, since the materialist is not a skeptic but claims to have knowledge. would actually be red, since besouled matter as matter is no different from inanimate matter. If we can really satisfy the exacting demands of epistemology in terms of the third position, we can come to rest in the true doctrine. But if we fail. we must move on in our search for the explanation of change and perhaps recognize that Berkeley is ri'ght 1 assertmg t h at t h ere is only 'n · sensation, but not matter, and that the joke is on us when we call Parmenides the " sublime joker. " The third position is Plato's, Aristotle's, Plotinus' and that of many Christians: According to it, matter is a co-princ~ple in the existence, and the knowledge of all physical things. It is the receptacle of the forms and in itself it only differs from nothing in its can-be-ness (commonly refeued to as potentiality) . Potency and act, indeterminateness and determinateness become the two explanatory principles. In search of an account of change, we discover that in every material thing there is something entirely determinate, which can never change: The form. It is only because the other constituent of material things is the principle of indeterminacy that motion is possible. If Aristotle is right about the different kinds of change, then something which does not have primary potentiality (corruption and generation) cannot have secondary potentiality (change of place and alteration). This is another refutation of Lucretius who does ·not admit primary potentiality. Aristotle, however, as Mr. Adler reported regretfully, makes the same cannot explain sense perception and mistake in assigning secondary potenCOnsequently thought satisfactorily since tiality only to heavenly bodies. . IGltdt the sense organs also there is P. w. Backcampus As every feature must have an added attraction, so does the Thanksgiving Dance have its afternoon football game-one which promises to be one of the closest of the season. Official faces are as follows: Reason: playoff for the touch-football championship; Opponents: Paca-Car:roll and Chase-Stone ; Time and Place: 3: 00 P. M. on the Backcampus on November 27. But the championship game will have to go some. however, to beat the tussle last Saturday morning between Randall and Chase-Stone. The freshmen scored two touchdowns in the first half on passes from Harris to Maury, while Randall went over on a run by Manning. Then a desperate defense by C-S prevented Randall from scoring and spoiling the freshmen's 12 to 7 lead. which was the final score. This game almost closed the door on If this is the right materialist posi- some of the players, exhaustion and • �Page ST. 'J, JOHN'S COLLEGIAN severe body-blocking causing most of the casualties. ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE Randall clinched third pla~e in · the final scandings, when they defeated .Friday, November 26: WP 7-6 on Friday afternoon. Dick " }:00:5 :00 ·P. M. Powder ran the length of the field for: 5 ;45 P. M. · touchdown after intercepting a . 6:45-8:00 P. M. Randall pa~s on his own goal line. 7:'00 P~ M: ' But Perry's touchdown and Camp~ · 8 :O'O P~ M." · · bell's extra-point gave the upp~rclaSs- '. men the lead and the game: Saturday, Noverriber '27: 1 .,I Arts Saturday 's session of passiv ity (a nod to the Cotillioq Board) consists of Secret Agent, a thriller of the old school which will seem tame in comparison to Tartu's exploits, and a rec ord-dance, once again in the cellars of McDowell where there will be candle-light and open fires. The m'ovie, by the way, will not be shown in the depths but rather in the Gym. Secret Agent has served as the pattern for a lot of good red-light-green-light spy films. · Any attempt to keep face and smile at the good and frown at the bad is completely frustrated by the prospects of the local theatres. Red Skelron. like a shiny tin penny, has turned up again. this cime Whistling in Brooklyn. That is "-somewhat" of justice anyway. Then again on \Vednesday there's Sweet Rosie O ' Grady, featuring the sweetheart of the trucking industry, Betty Grable. At the Republic, Unknown Guest-completely. Currently at the National in Washington is Uncle Harty with LeGallienne and Schildkraut. Beginning on Monday for a cwo-week run is The Patriots. This is Sidney Kingley's prize-winning play all about Jefferson and Hamilton and that important, formative period. The cast is headed b y W alter H ampden and Julie H aydo n. Although the issues with which these Federalists were concerned are nor as sharply stated as we would like and the entire cast is weighted down with tons of wig and costumes, it is an apt and intelligent play. For Whom the Bells ToU is residing at the Mayfair in Baltimore for a short time. We have been told (along w ith the rest of the American public) over and over again, that it will not be possihle to see this for anything less than $1.10 until 1945. 1o:30 A. M.-1'2 ':o'o· 'M . · 9:30 P. M. Sunday, November 28: 2 :00-4 :00 P '. M. Monday, November 29: CALENDAR · F.ri., ~ov. 26 - Ath!etics Vesp'er _ Service Bible Class ·' Meetin~ of the Chorus · Violin . Recital by · Szi'geti Athletics Movie-Secret Agent Informal Dance immediately following movie ---- Sat., Dec. 4, I ...... Back Campus .Great Hall McDowell 22 Humphreys ll~ll Iglehart Hall Back Campus Iglehart Hall Coffee Shop Recorded Concert Athletics Recorded Concert Vesper Service Meeting of the Chorus Back Campus Humphreys Hall Great Hall Humphreys Hall Athletics Vesper Service Bible Class (Freshman) Latin Club Mathematics Club 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 4 :00-6 :00 P. M. 5:45 P. M . . 7:00 P. M. Humphreys Hall Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 McDowell 24 McDowell 21 Athletics Vesper Service Projective Geometry Class Boar Designing Class Meeting of the Orchestra Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 21 Tuesday, November 30: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M . . .5 :45 P. M. 7 :00-8 :00 P. M. . 7 :00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. Wednesday, De~ember 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 5 :45 P. M. 6:45 P. M. 7:30 P. M. 8 :00 P. M. · 1: McDowell 22 Humphreys Hall Thursday, December 2: 3 :00-5 :00 P. M. 4 :00-6 :00 P. M. 5:45 P. M. 7:30 P. M. Athletics Recorded Concert Vesper Service College Meeting Back Campus Humphreys Hall Great Hall Great Hall Athletics Vesper Service Bible cia·ss Meeting 9f the .Chorus Formal Lecture-Vesalius-Owsei Temkin . Back Campus Great Hall McDowell 22 Humphreys Hall Great Hall Athletics Faculty ;Meeting Demonstration of Aviation Models Movie and Lecture on the Ptinciples of Flight Back Campus McDowell 24 Back Campus Friday, December 3: 3 :00-5 ;00 P. M. 5 :45 P. M. 6 :45-8 :00 P. ·M. 7:00 P. M. 8 :00 P. M . -Saturday, December 4: 10 :30 A. M .-12 :00 M. 10 :30 A. M . 5 :00 P. M; 8 :00 P . M. Iglehart Hall THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGIAN is the : official news organ ·of St John·s Collel't published every Friday during the academi~ year. Entered as seC'o.nd class mat&lf October 15. 1919, at the Post Office at AnnApolis, Maryland 11.nder th,.. Act of Mareb 3, 1879. . ' ,. , t. John's Collegia n Vof.l VI No. 16 Szigeti ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1943 Price: 1 Oc The lack of pretence on Schubert's gram music for which one felt no The Bach Chaconne for unaccom- part, the utter simplicity with which apologies were being made. Anied viol in is an immense composi- he carries out his intentions serve only Petroushka' s Dance was infused p . cion. A sen.es o f towenng cl' 1maxes to increase the stature of the work. with a vitality and intensity one rarely threaten to negate one another and. to The piece must be played with a style finds in the orchestral performance of destroy the unity of the work. It closely akin to that of Mozart, but one the Stravinsky work. requires a master architect and crafts- which makes a difficult distinction beThe first encore was the entire StemJllan to realize i ts dimensions and to tween the two. Which stylistic mas- penyu Suite of Joseph Achron dediharness its immensities. Mr. Szigeti tery might be pointed out as one of the cated t~ Mr. Szigeti and written shortwas just such a master. We may chief characteristics of Mr. Szigeti' s art ly before the composer' s death last iruthfully say that we have never been -an unfailing ability to distinguish April. The first two movements are that which is Bach from that which is richly Hebraic, not unlike the corcloser to Bach. Preceeding the Chaconne Mr. Szi- Beethoven or Schubert, or Debussy. responding sections of Ernest Bloch' s geti and Mr. Foldes opened the recital An encore to the Schubert, Mr. Szi- Baal Shem Suite for violin. One with the Seventh Violin and Piano geti played that composer's Rondo would like, in fact, to substitute the Sonata of Beethoven. The initial from the D Major for piano in a tran- last movement of the Stempenyu for movement lacked assurance on the part scription for violin. We still heard that of the Bloch, which seems a weak of che violinist and a rapport be- Schubert-we are, in fact, still hearing finale to a piece whose first two move1ween violin and piano. It must sure- Schubert. ments tell us in more pungent terms !)' have been due to the obvious fact After the intermission, Mr. Szigeti what the first two movements of the that thi~ w as the beginning. There performed Debussy's last composition, Achron say to a less convincing dewas no such failing in the remainder the G Minor Violin and Piano Sonata. gree. The Achron Finale, subtitled of the program. The second move- This is a weird work and a difficult Stempenyu Dances, is an incredible ment, considered by many to be the one to grasp. The word transparent thing. It was incredibly played. The high point of the piece, seemed to us comes to mind when attempting to de- syncopated left and right hand pizzimerely hollo w Beethoven idiom whose scribe this piece-or for that matter, cati made .one think of Darius Mil~ pretentiousness suffered in contrast any of Debussy. Is it lasting music baud, the composer who seems alone 11ith fbe spont en iety and infectious or merely novel, and if so, must novel- among serious writers to have captured humor of t he Scherzo that followed. ty wear off in time, or can it resolve the essence of the jazz rhythm in a The Scherzo had a brevity which the into something that will endure? It sufficiently compact form. Both Adagio might well have considered. is too early for us to say. We are too Achron and Milhaud have unashamedThe well intentioned finale was repe- close to it. This particular piece still ly explored the medium and come out titious to excess and even the artists' has for us a freshness and charm not with some very exntmg - pieces of perceptive t raversal of the movement often found in the music of our cen- music. We heard one of them in the could not succeed in clarifying an ap- tury. As for the performance it was Achron Finale. Whether Benny parently inborn confusion. Debussy alone that we were listening Goodman had any thing to do with Beethoven will do rh is occasionally. to. it we don't know, but Mr. Szigeti Ir is easy to be fooled by it, but once The violinist then concluded the playeq more than the notes Friday recognized, one feels the great works scheduled program with three short evening. that much more. It is almost as easy modern works. First was the "MasThe next encore was a transcription to be fooled by a Szigeti performance ques" of Prokofiev from the opera of Debussy's piano prelude, "The when the wo rk is not one of the high- Romeo and Juliet. The peculiar Maid with the Flaxen Hair." The ~r caliber. This is not often, but in, whimsy of the idiom was always eviarrangement does not seem a satisfactor instance, the Adagio of the 'Beet- dent, but again went no further than tory one. The transcriber has broken h oven, his playing seemed almost a being idiom. We wanted to chuckle, the thread of the theme, elusive enough ~•ttery. but we found nothing to chuckle at. in the original. and passed it from vioFollowing the Chaconne, Mr. Szi- There were little more than "effects" lin to piano and back again , such that ~eti played the first Sonatina for vio- in the sounds that the violin produced.- a necessary consistancy of color is delin of Franz Schubert. It is difficult Prokofiev can do much better than stroyed. Mr. Szigeti again deceived us. to conceive of a more perfect transition this. Debussy w rote nothing as lovely as 1001 the Bach than to this. We could The "Snow" of Lie, with the dou- this. rdly have been more gently released hie stopped harmonics in the violin Next came Fritz Kriesler' s Variations om the heights-but this, too, is was wholly enchanting. Here was on a Theme of Corelli. The comear music. Here is pure · delight. " etfect" put to use in a piece t f pro- poser treats a noble theme with re~ I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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