Snell to Lecture On Influence Of Philosophers
"The Greek origins of European thought: Euripides and Socrates" will be the topic of a lecture by Dr. Bruno Snell, visiting Humanities Series lecturer, tonight at 8:00 in Fraser Theater.
In the lecture, Dr. Snell will explain his theory that Euripides and Socrates, as contemporaries, did actually communicate with each other.
The 68-year-old German has studied at universities in Germany England, and Scotland, and has taught and lectured in many European countries.
Lawrence, Kansas
DR. SNELL, emeritus professor of classical philology at the University of Hamburg, is currently Sather Professor of Classical literature at the University of California.
ALTHOUGH HE favors Greek drama over other aspects of ancient literature, he likes his subject in its entirety, and is ready and eager to discuss the classics with anyone who is interested.
Over the years, he has mastered seven languages, both ancient and modern, and has published six books and many articles in periodicals and journals.
Last night, Dr. Snell spoke to members of the Philosophy Club and their guests at an informal gathering at the Faculty Club. His topic was "The Seven Sages," of sixth century B.C. Greece, who were, Snell said, "a group of people who impressed themselves upon the people of that time by their intellectual achievement."
"Later on," he said, "they became known for their sayings inscribed on the walls of the temple at Adelphi."
The idea that things can be judged by deeper insight that goes beyond appearances, found its origin in the wisdom of the seven sages. Prof. Snell said.
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1964
FOR THE FIRST time recorded in history, an attempt was made to define intangibles, such as, happiness and virtue, and tangibles, such as, beauty, beyond their accepted definitions, he added.
Happiness, the sages discovered, can be something deeper than material possessions. Judgments of beauty, for the first time, penetrated outer appearances, as Snell demonstrated with a line from a poem of that period: "The most beautiful thing is that which one loves."
This concept of seeking more essential things through deeper thought has been of great influence on later thinking, Snell said.
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IN THE AREAS of science and politics, the sages were also active. Water, they decided, was the oldest thing, and subsequently, the origin of everything.
Solon, one of the sages, drafted one of the first constitutions and sets of laws, made and regulated by man, rather than a God, he stated.
PEOPLE FORMED groups within the society, and the important thing, Snell said, was that "people chose to belong to certain groups." "Friends united for similar political aims. For the first time," Snell said, "political groups were bound together, not by family ties, but by personal convictions."
The sixth century B.C. was an age of invention and discovery, Snell said. Plows were invented, facilitating agriculture on a larger scale. Coins were minted, and a new commercial society with a flourishing trade developed.
Behind these reforms and innovations, he added, was the insight of each of the seven sages. And in each of their proverbs was permanently preserved some facet of truth, taught by experience, or discerned by inquisitive eyes.
These early Greek developments were the origins of modern political, philosophic, scientific and ethical thought, he concluded.
61st Year. No. 85
Reports reaching here and Paris said the revolt was staged by about 150 to 200 troops of the small Gabon army. The rebels seized the major buildings in Libreville, the national radio and the presidential palace.
Gabon is one of the most prosperous countries in black Africa, with an economy based on exports of timber and minerals including oil, iron ore, uranium and manganese. It is a former French colony.
It is the center of activities of the noted humanitarian, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, whose mission hospital is at Lambarene in the interior.
MBENE APPEALED for "technical assistance" personnel to remain calm. He said an unidentified number of political prisoners had been freed.
RUMBLINGS of discontent have been growing against the 61-year-old President M'Ba, who had run the country almost single-handedly since it gained independence from France on July 30, 1960.
On Jan. 21 he dissolved the 60-member Gabon national assembly for "reasons of economy." He ordered elections for a new and smaller assembly of 47 members for Feb. 23.
Gabon Army Takes Control In West Coast Africa Coup
BRAZZAVILLE. Congo Republic
AN ANNOUNCEMENT signed by the "revolutionary committee" broadcast from Libreville said the government had been dissolved and "public liberties restored."
The only party running for election was M'Ba's own party—the Gabonese democratic bloc. This would have made Gabon a one-party land, a pattern which has
BRAZZAVILLE, Congo Republic—(UPI)—The army revolted and seized power in the neighboring west African state of Gabon, a broadcast over the national radio at the capital of Libreville said today.
President Leon M'Ba, one of Africa's "strongman" leaders, has been forced to resign, the broadcast added.
The coup in which the military seized power was the fourth in a series of mutinies and revolts against African "strongman" leadership in less than a month.
It was signed by an officer identified only as Lt. Mbene. Earlier reports here said a Lt. Ondeno signed it, and it was not clear whether there were two coup leaders.
The announcement said elections scheduled for Sunday had been cancelled. It said M'Ba had been arrested and was a prisoner in his palace which was encircled by troops.
preceded it in other African nations such as Ghana and Algeria, among others.
BUT THE REAL reason for dissolving the Gabon national assembly was believed to have been MBa's anger that it did not pass by a sufficiently large majority a law that would have forced the chief opposition leader, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, out of politics.
The revolt seemed to reflect swelling opposition to such authoritarian method.
KU Student Found Dead
Richard Harley Smith, 28, KU graduate student, was found dead from a gunshot wound, in the bedroom of his home at 704 Forrest Ave., yesterday at 1:00 p.m., Lawrence police said.
William Cox, chief of Lawrence police, said Smith was hit in the head with a slug from the 25-caliber pistol. It is not known yet whether the death was an accident or a suicide.
COX SAID A 25-CALIBER automatic pistol was found by Smith's right hand. An ejected shell from the pistol was found near the body. A 22-caliber unloaded pistol was found on the bedroom floor.
Police said Mrs. Smith found the body when she returned from grocery shopping at 1:00 p.m.She had taken the children, ages 3 and $ _{1 \frac{1}{2}} $ with her.
Smith was a KU graduate student in history. The family moved to their home in Lawrence January 27. Previously Smith had worked for a telephone company in Little Rock, Arkansas, police said.
Smith did his undergraduate work at Hendrix College in Conway Arkansas. He was graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in June of 1963.
He was born October 12, 1935, in Plainfield, N.J. The body was taken to Cooper-Warren Mortuary at the request of his wife.
Weather
Skies will be clear to partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday, according to the weather bureau. The low for tonight will be in the upper 20's, turning colder tomorrow.
Frozen Funds May Be Thawed
Also, the "stop week" resolution tabled at the last ASC meeting for consideration by the University calendar committee will be discussed.
Dick King, Kansas City sophomore, will make the election announcements.
As a result of a conference more than a week ago, with Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, Jerry Harper, Lawrence senior, and chairman of P-t-P, agreed to give the required financial report at the ASC meeting tonight
The controversy over the frozen People-to-People funds may be resolved at tonight's All Student Council meeting.
If the report is given, and the necessary motion and vote passed, then P-t-P can have access to approximately $1,400, frozen since Jan. 7, John Stuckey, ASC chairman, said.
Stuckey, Pittsburgh senior, added that financial reports from all organizations under ASC control are due at this ASC meeting.
Petitions may be picked up at the Dean of Men's office.
WEEKEND RELAXATION—Two members of the KU-Y Folk Singing Group, Marty Knight, Shawnee Mission junior, and Jerry Hammons, Sterling senior, while away a Sunday afternoon
just "a pickin' and a singin'" at the Kansas Union. In warmer weather the group usually meets at the Campanile to TGIF at the end of a long week of studies. (Photo by Charlie Corcoran)
The previous military revolts in Africa in the last month, all put down with the help of British troops, occurred between Jan. 20 and 25 in Uganda. Tanganyika and Kenya. These differed from the Gabon revolt, however, in that they were principally mutinies by elements of the armies involved in attempts to win more pay and power for Africans.
BUT THE GABON revolt also fitted into a pattern of African violence in recent months that has included a revolution in Zanzibar, border fighting between Ethiopia and Somalia, slaying of missionaries in the former Belgian Congo whose capital is Leopoldville, and demonstrations in a number of former French colonies, such as Gabon.
In Gabon, which remains a member of the French community set up by President Charles de Gaulle when former colonies became independent, the revolt also was led by youthful army officers—judging by the rank of lieutenant announced in various broadcasts.
GABON IS situated on the west coast of Equatorial Africa, just below the bulge that juts out toward South America. It is bounded by Cameroun on the North and the former French Congo on the south and east.
It is about the size of Colorado covering 102,000 square miles, and with a population of only 450,000. The country is almost entirely covered by dense tropical forests. Little more than one per cent of the inhabitants are Europeans.
Exam Change Eyed for 1965
Fewer class days and three-hour examination periods are two of the proposed changes for the university calendar of 1965-66 which will be discussed at a meeting of the College faculty at 4:30 p.m. today in Bailey Auditorium.
Changes in the schedule of final examinations have been under investigation by the Administrative Committee of the University for several months. Recently, in planning the calendar, members of the Administrative Committee met with James K. Hitt, registrar and chairman of the Calendar Committee. The results of this meeting will be submitted to the University Senate for action at the Senate's March 3 meeting.
UNDER THE present calendar there are 92 class and six final examination days in the fall semester and 88 class and six final examination days in the spring semester.
Some faculty members have indicated a growing demand for longer and fewer examinations per day, and there seems to be a good educational basis for this demand. the Administrative Committee reported.
Four alternatives, the committee said, are possible for providing the additional exam time:
- Summer vacation shortened.
- SHORTER CHRISTMAS and spring vacations.
- Extension of final exams into the unused days between semesters and just before commencement.
- Reduction of the number of class days in the semester.
The last alternative has been recommended as the best, on the theory that by allowing a longer exam period, the final examination itself can be a teaching device as well as an evaluation of the student's progress, the committee report said.
Specific changes will provide for 86 class days and 11 exam days in the fall semester of 1965, and 84 class days and 10 exam days in the spring semester of 1966. Three exams would be given on most days, and only two on others.