Thursday, December 14, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Condemners of collegians forget the good days
By Dick West
WASHINGTON—(UPI)Many of us older heads are slightly scandalized by the conduct of today's college students.
We read about the "new morality," the drug-taking, the frenetic dances, the rebellion against authority, etc., and we feel concern.
What we tend to forget is that college students have always been a bit on the wild side. They were kicking up their heels in your day
and mine, and they did so in grandmother's time as well.
A reminder of this was handed to me this week by Ray Geiger, editor of the Farmer's Almanac, who stopped by to show me a copy of his 1968 edition.
Geiger also had with him a curiosity he had picked up in his travels. It was the program for "The annual public literary entertainment" given by the Philomathian Society of Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., on April 9, 1888.
I gave the program a quick perusal and it left me gasping. On a serious riotous evening almost 80 years ago, here is what those madecap students did:
- Drank in a quartet's rendition of "The North Wind."
- Consumed an oration on "Mind and Muscle," an essay on "True Culture" and a declaration on "Arnold the Traitor."
"I don't wish to shock you," Geiger said, rolling his eyes, "but get a load of this."
- Bolted down a debate on "Has the favor shown American statesmen been such as to encourage young men of talent to qualify themselves for high political position?"
"The Watcher" and another oration on "The Sovereignty of the People."
- Capped it all off with a double quartet's rendition of "The Moon is Brightly Beaming."
- Knocked off a vocal solo of
"Boy!" I exclaimed. "You've got to hand it to them. They were a bunch of real swingers in those days."
"Right," said Geiger. "They certainly knew how to live it up."
I said, "Imagine starting off the evening with a quartet and ending it with a double. It's a wonder they were still on their feet."
students eventually became solid, upright citizens."
Students will be given a guided tour of the Haskell campus and will meet some of the students.
"Iincredible," said Geiger, "And yet, I daresay that most of those
People-to-People sets local tour
A tour of the Reuter Organ Co. and Haskell Indian Institute is planned by People-to-People for 1:15 p.m. Friday. The bus leaves from in front of the Kansas Union.
"Probably so," I agreed. "It makes you feel a little better about the college kids of today. They may turn out all right after all."
Van Biber elected
Any foreign or American may go on the tour by signing up in the P-to-P office in the Kansas Union.
Tom Van Biber, Kansas City, Mo., senior, has been elected national secretary of the Mu Epsilon Nu, a fraternity for men majoring in education. He was elected at the national conference in Peru, Neb.
At the Reuter Organ Co., one of the largest makers of pipe organs, students will be given a tour of the plant and shown how a pipe organ is constructed.
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For example, Picturephone $ ^{ \circ} $ see while-you-talk service, already in limited use, might well be offered in full color and three dimensions. With it, you could "attend" classes and never leave the dorm.
By the turn of the century, chances are you won't recognize the familiar telephone. Based on services already in use or on the drawing boards, you can expect some pretty far-out developments.
Electronic switching equipment, already in trial use, will call you back when a busy line you have called is free, or transfer calls to another phone while you're away.
Money handling will be revolutionized. You won't need to write checks or pay cash for most purchases. A telephone call to your bank's computer will take care of the payment. The same telephone system could even figure tough calculus problems.
Your doctor will be able to draw on the entire sum of medical knowledge for help in diagnosing your ailment. Sensors attached to your body could send your symptoms to a distant computer for analysis and a summary of everything the doctor needs to know about your particular problem. It's possible right now to send electrocardiograms via telephone.
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