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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1951
Thought for the Day
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
—Montaigne.
The Editorial Page-
It's In The Living Brotherhood Week Begins Feb.18
By ROY A. ROBERTS President, The Kansas City Star
1t takes a big volume of living and just a small pamphlet of words to make brotherhood a reality in these United States or anywhere else.
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal."
The word "charity" here means "love." It means observance of the Golden Rule; it means the same regard for the rights of the other 'allow that you expect for your own'; it means respect for the individual, for his dignity, feelings and convictions, whatever his race, color or creed.
This country has the climate that is and should be highly favorable to the growth of genuine brotherhood. It is in fact the American way of life. The principle of tolerance and individual rights is bound up in American democracy. It became the impetus of the earliest migrations across the Atlantic. It entered the Mayflower Compact, the Virginia Bill of Rights, the Federal Constitution and was stated or implied in every document that had to do with the founding and the development of this republic.
The real test of brotherhood for any person is in the simple question, How am I living it? What, if anything, does it mean in my daily business and contacts with others? Is it merely a fine sounding word or a way of life?
In the face of such a grand tradition, prejudice, hatred and intolerance are completely alien to the real American character. They have cropped out at numerous times and doubtless will be appearing hereafter. But they are a minority sentiment, a grating discordant note in the prevailing harmony of the American theme.
Nowhere else in the world should it be easier to live brotherhood than in the nation that is founded on the essence of it. At times the work of it has been slow, but at no time has the power o fit ever been lost. At an hour in the world's history when freedom and democracy are challenged by the denial and the slavery of totalitarianism it behooves every American to stand up and be counted in the living of the brotherhood that he preaches.
Yesteryears
No Smoking, Period
(From the Sept. 23, 1914 issue of the UDK)
A motion providing for a strict enforcement of the rule prohibiting smoking of any kind on the steps
and approaches to University buildings and cigaret smoking on the campus, as well as a rigid enforcement of all disciplinary action, was the most important action of the Student Council in its first meeting of the year last night.
The population of Miami, Fla. jumped from 1,681 in 1900 to 246,983 in 1950.
Little Man On Campus
TEST
"Sure you remember—It was the experiment I said you wouldn't need to remember or take notes on."
Western Concept Of Freedom Stems From Grecian Thought
Dear Editor:
There is a slightly disturbing quality to the two invitations which you recently offered to Mr. Dan Gallin. First, in order to clarify certain ambiguities in a longer letter he had written, you inform him that this is a semantic age and ask him to try "in 50 words or less" to tell us what freedom is. When he responds, you ask him to try in a 100 words.
The definition that he offered you in 50 words had two major points, defining freedom as: (1) "possibility of self-development" and (2) "will to assume responsibility for one's self."
Neither of these terms are exactly self-explanatory, but both of them are certainly intelligible. The first is an idea of freedom which has been with western thought for some time now. The "Republic" of Plato gives an elaborate and acute discussion of it. It is one of those recurring ideas which has kept its essential form through many metamorphises and is present in our society in such diverse writers as Fromm and Laski.
"By liberty I mean the eager maintenance of that atmosphere in which men have the opportunity to be their best selves," writes Laski. This same concept is developed by John Stuart Mill, and is inherent throughout the philosophy of John Dewey. The second
idea is equally traditional and means simply that man is not free unless he can assume a moral responsibility for his action—it implies the right to live in such a world that your acts do have moral significance, and the right to apply the critical conscience to the values of society. Anybody with a university education should be able to make perfectly good sense of Mr. Gallin's remarks.
While he hardly combined the elaborate and the specific, he did fairly well within your proposed limits. You know perfectly well that freedom is not a problem to be explicated in either 50 words or in 100. This leaves me wondering how to interpret your remarks. Either you mean them as a serious criticism or you are trying to be clever. If the former, they are hardly profound criticism or anything much more than a rather juvenile and emotive snort; if the latter, they strike me as being in rather bad taste.
When John Bannigan edited your newspaper, he discussed issues for what they were, and accepted the letters of his contributors as being a fair part of that discussion. The sort of editing that condescends to its contributors in this way seems neither intelligent nor fain.
William Righter,
Graduate student
But what is freedom?
Editor's note: Yes. But what is freedom'
Colleges Over Nation Report Enrollment Drop
By UNITED PRESS
University and college enrollment for the spring semester has declined, but many schools reported today that the draft so far has had less effect than anticipated.
College registrars queried by United Press said some decline in February enrollment is normal.
Most schools reported this year's decline greater than normal, and attributed it mainly to the draft and to military enlistments by students who wanted to join the service of their preference instead of being drafted without a choice. Another factor was the graduation of World War II veterans.
Some of the decline was attributed to the greater availability of jobs as a result of the defense program.
Most schools reported no increase in tuition fees or reduction in facilities or curriculums. Some schools, however, planned tuition increases next fall.
A spot check showed the following trends:
St. Louis university—Total enrollment had not been compiled, but
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tentative figures showed it was lagging almost nine per cent. About 8,500 students were expected for the spring term, compared with 9,217 last term. A tuition increase of $25 goes into effect in September.
Washington university — Enrollment declined seven per cent, less than the usual eight per cent drop in spring enrollment. Chancellor Arthur B. Comptom said the best contribution students could make would be to "stay in college as long as possible."
University of Wisconsin—Registrar Kenneth Little said enrollment dropped a normal seven per cent and that 'enlistments didn't have as much effect as we had expected.
New York university—Enrollment was down an estimated six per cent, with no hike in tuition and no cuts in the staff. About 27,000 of the school's students are adults, veterans, foreigners and girls, and thus are draft exempt.
Yale-Draft effects were reported "negligible" so far, and were expected to continue that way until June at least. Only 23 under-graduates had enlisted. No "material" reduction in the faculty was reported, but Yale has not been replacing junior instructors who quit.
Columbia university—A spokesman said "we'd be among the last to feel the effect of the draft because most of our students are adults."
University of Chicago—Preliminary enrollment figures showed a 13 per cent drop, slightly more than normal. A spokesman attributed some of the decrease to the draft and to the upsurge in employment opportunities.
Northwestern—Figures were not available for the main, Evanson, Ill., campus, but the downtown campus in Chicago, including the College of Commerce and night classes, reported a 33 per cent decline.
Duke—Officials said there was "no effect at all so far," and that "the announced policy of letting students stay to the end of the year, and still choose their branch of military service has calmed fears."
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