-Lee Sheppeard
Needed-A Log And Mark Hopkins
The ideal college was once defined as Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. That is a far cry from the college built around a giant stadium where paid athletes perform for cheering alumni.
The ideal of producing vigorous thinkers has taken a severe drubbing from the ideal of producing spectacular victories, and the college has sometimes seemed to lose its soul even as the team has been winning its goal.
Moreover, the William and Mary faculty points out, bigtime athletics can be undertaken only at a staggering financial cost. While money for this purpose is usually forthcoming, colleges frequently find it impossible to finance the essential improvements which relate to the basic purposes of education.
The adventure of learning and the challenge of playing sheepskin and pigskin, both have their place in a balanced undergraduate life.
The faculty of William and Mary, second oldest college in the United States, in a unanimously adopted report, states that "the insidious influence of the athletic program has eaten at the most vital element of academic life."
But sport remains sport only when it remains subordinate to education; when it becomes big business, American youth had better look for another Mark Hopkins at the end of another log.
Their stinging indictment, following the recent athletic scandal at that institution, puts them in some degree of opposition to the college's board of visitors which has called for teams that can win games and thus compete successfully "on a sound financial basis."
If it is true that it would be hard to pay some college faculties without the gate receipts from football and other major sports, it is even truer that a good faculty is largely wasted on an institution that would allow education to become a football to be kicked around between games.
—Christian Science Monitor.
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Harold R. Underwood, local druggist and grand commander of the Blatz-Bookborn circle of the Royal American Bisons, has recently returned from the Bisons' national convention.
As a matter of fact, he continued, he doesn't recall a thing from the time he met a beautiful blonde in the hotel bar the evening before the meeting started until three days later when he woke up with a sick headache. When he asked where he was, the bartender told him he was in a honky-tonk about 125 miles from the convention site. He also found that his billfold was missing.
Underwood, whose expenses as an official delegate were paid by the local circle,says that he was so soused that he never even got near the convention hall.
Grand Commander Underwood says that he will submit his $2,347 expense bill for the three day meeting to the Bisons at the next regular meeting.
by Bibler
"Sav. would you run down an' tell th' janitor we're short one desk-chair?"
Over-Ambitious Mothers Cruel To Hollywood Kids
Hollywood — (U.P.)— Director Roy Rowland said today if he had his way they'd take most movie mothers out and shoot 'em.
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Rowland speaks from experience. He's interviewed more kids with star-struck mothers than he likes to think about.
“It’s a pathetic sight,” he sighed.
“These poor little kids don't give a darn about being movie stars. They'd rather be out playing baseball or skating around the block.
"The way some women scheme to get their children parts is actually a crime," Rowland growled. "They're cruel to their kids, too. Sometimes even brutal."
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"But their mothers drag 'em in— all scrubbed and curled and pale-faced. The children are actually brow-beaten. If they don't give out with the answers their mothers have been coaching 'em on the mothers glare daggers at 'em.
"I can spot the type a mile off. The kids all have the same phony smile. Their mothers have taught 'em to crinkle up their eyes and wrinkle their noses—real cute-like. And then
"And if they don't do it right they get pinched or spanked or maybe even kicked. There ought to be a law."
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"Lots of them broke down and cried in my arms," he said. "They told me they didn't want to be in the movies. A few are natural hams. They love the spotlight. Unfortunately . . . that's not the kind we want."
Rowland said not all movie mamas are female scrooges. He's bumped into three or four, with sense enough to stay in the background and let their kids do the talking.
"We want kids who act natural. But after these blankety-blank mothers get through with 'em there's darn few left."
"But most of them are impossible."
he went on. "There ought to be a
school to teach women how to treat their talented children."
And the sooner the better, as far as Rowland's concerned. Because for Stanley Kramer's "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T" he has to direct scenes with 500 kids. That means he'll be talking to hundreds and hundreds of mamas.
To the Kansan:
Letters:
I agree with Herr Sontheimer that Europeans are music conscious, too! I do hope, however, that our friend doesn't make the mistake of underestimating America's contribution to the world of art.
Many Europeans have found America truly a land of opportunity—a place where their talents would receive due appreciation and where fame and fortune were readily obtained.
Not So Negligible
As a good example we might take Charlie Chaplin. Born in London, emigrating to the United States, he earned a fabulous amount of money but never became a citizen. Now the intellectuals claim him, and he is deemed a comic genius, in direct line of descent from the Commedia dell'arte, the twentieth-century counterpart of Arlequin and Grimaldi. In France he is the beloved "Charlot," elsewhere "Carling," "Carlos," "Carlitos," etc. But lest we forget, it was in the United States, through the medium of the American cinema, that he gained world-wide fame and wealth.
I believe Herr Sontheimer will find upon reading Gilbert Seldes "Seven Lively Arts" that America's contribution to world art is not so negligible as some may think.
News From Other Campuses
Joseph W. Kindl Graduate student
SAE's Donate Blood At GW Dean Defines "Off Limits"
Twenty members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at George Washington university donated blood to the Red Cross in a group contribution. The action was taken in memory of a fraternity brother killed in Korea.
"Off limits" at Mississippi Southern college is defined by the dean of women as being "the sort of place of which you know your parents wouldn't approve. She added, "Be careful. Don't just follow the crowd. Stop and think about the situation."
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Strikers Tie Up New York, Boston.
AFL longshoremen quit unloading three ships in Boston without explanation today spreading the strike from New York to Boston.
New York—(U.P.)-Rebel longshoremen were making good today on their threat to tie up the port of New York, including vital cargo for the nation's armed forces overseas. Only a few piers along the East river showed any signs of loading activity.
The rest of the nation's biggest port, including Army bases in Brooklyn and Staten Island, was idled by the wildcat walkout of members of the International Longshoremen's association (AFL).
Ignores Protests On Clark
Washington—(U.P).President Truman is ignoring protests of his nomination of Gen. Mark W Clark to be the nation's first ambassador to the Vatican.
White House sources said Mr. Truman, a devout Baptist, had steeled himself in advance against the Protestant outcries that echoed Sunday from church offices and pulpits. They said the only question in Mr. Truman's mind now is whether the four-star general can be named at once under a recess appointment or whether the appointment must be delayed until Congress returns in January.
To Talk Truce Tonight
UN Advance Base, Munsan, Korea—(U.P.)-The United Nations today speedily ratified "ground rules" for resumption of Korean armistice negotiations and said it was ready to begin the talks at 8 p.m. (CST) today.
The "ground rules" were incorporated in an eight-point agreement signed only three hours earlier by UN and Communist liaison officers at Panmunjom, where the truce talks are to be reopened.
Set Off Baby Atom Bomb
Las Vegas, Nev.—(U.P)—An atomic blast so small it was barely audible 30 miles away signaled the start today of the nation's first atomic combat maneuvers.
In contrast to earlier tests at the Frenchman Flat proving grounds, which rolled out shock and light waves for up to 500 miles, the detonation atop a 100-foot steel tower early today produced only a "faint rumbling."
Earthquakes Rock Formosa
Taipeh, Formosa—(U.P.)—The island of Formosa was rocked by 33 violent earthquakes in little more than 16 hours today. Landslides and broken dams paralyzed transport and communications along a 200-mile stretch of the east coast.
At least 118 persons were killed according to the first report, 100 of them in Jualien county and 18, in a coal mine explosion believed caused by one of the first earthquakes. Government officials feared the final toll may exceed 1,000.
UN Tanks Blast Kumsong
Eighth Army Headquarters, Korea—(U.P.)—Big American M-46 tanks smashed into Kumsong today for the second time in three days and blasted it into a flaming inferno with a four-hour bombardment.
UN infantry drove unopposed within 600 yards of the blazing rubbled city and cleared all but a few diehard Chinese Reds from a two-mile ridgeline a mile southeast of the city. The Reds withdrew to the easternmost peak at nightfall.
British Jets Patrol Suez
Cairo, Egypt—U.P.)British jet fighters threw a 24-hour protective curtain over the Suez Canal zone today and tank-supported troops moved to the edge of Suez City as reinforcements poured in by sea and air.
Vaughan Helps Cut Red Tape
Washington—(U.P.)-Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, President Truman's military aide, said today he has received gifts for helping cut government red tape but "if a man is honest, no amount will buy him."