Page Teri THE MICHIGAN-DAILY Friday, October 9, 1970 Page Ten THE MICHIGANDAILY Friday, October 9, 1970 4 GUEST LECTURER: Commager links U.S.',history to classical ideals and values SDS defense asks I1- - - r By ROSE SUE BERSTEIN Over 300 persons heard Henry Steele Commager, noted historian and professor of history at Am- hert College, speak yesterday on "The Uses of History." "There is no one philosophy of history," he said, "but a particular use each people selects for its own history." Whereas Europeans could look to medieval man for inspiration, Americans had no such obvious predecessors and turned instead to the classical tradition, he added. Commager noted the strong at- tachment the founding fathers had to ancient history. "Our founding fathers," he said, "knew the ancient world better than the modern world." They drew upon classical antecedents for their governing institutions, developing Republicanism from R o m e, and Federalism from Daily Official Bulletin (Continued from Page 5) Film Series: "Boris Godunov", Multi- purpose Room, Undergraduate Library, 7 and 9 p.m. General Notices Doctoral Language Test: College En- trance Exam Board tests (CEEB) given in French, German, Russian, Spanish, Oct. 13, 7 p.m., in Rackham Lecture Hall. Registration required by Oct. 12. Rm. 1014 Rackham. F o r m s available from Language Secretary. Admission to the examination open only to those who have registered and received ad- missions ticket. Bring I.D. or Social Security Card. All students in School of Education (Undergraduate): Preclassification for Winter Term 1971 is in, progress andj will run to Nov. 25 Pick up material in 2000 School of Education Building. Ear- ly registration will take place December 7-18. Students who advance classify and do not early register will lose reserve places and must reclassify at Waterman Gym in January. ' Representatives from Law School of Notre Dame Univ. will be avail. to talk to students interested in attending law school, Oct. 15. Make appointments at Preprofessional Desk, 1223 Angell Hail. Greece; they imitated persons of antiquity; they emulated classical morals, he continued. No other country has so com- pletely sought to embrace the classic ideals of government, he said. He noted Plato's concept of philosopher-kings as an example. Goethe and Gibbons, he said, were given no political power, but Ad- ams, Jefferson, and Madison, too cerebral to have ruled any other country, succeeded each other as President. And, he added, "per- haps they should be revived." Of the Founding Fathers, he said, "only Tom Paine wouldn't have been comfortable in a toga." He likened Ben Franklin to Solon, Aaron Burr to Catiline, and cited "their scorn of luxury, austerity, preference for rural life, and Ci- ceronian eloquence" as reminis- cent of classical culture. Still, Commager noted, three paradoxes appear in studying the1 classical influence on early Amer- ica. "America played no role in t h e (archeological or intellectual) re- discovery of the ancient world," he said. Rather, they borrowed and exploited ancient history for justi- fication of their conduct, for plea- sure, and for consolation. Then, Commager continued, "It seems extraordinary that America should return to such a universal experience in forming a new na- tion, a unique, particular artific- ian contrivance." And, he added, America w a s dedicated to change, - to revolu- tion - not to the timeless class- ical scheme of stability, order and reason. Revolutionary American had two historical philosophies, he c o n- tinued, the classical, retrospective view of John Adams, and the pro- gressive, prospective view of Thomas Jefferson. Adams insisted upon an elabor- ate series of checks and balances so as to enable the United States to escape its destiny, the tendency I : , k i t 'i E E L f k of government to become tyranni- cal. Jefferson, Commager said, maintained that history is n o t exhaustive, and that a unique country could arise. "No people were more clearly indebted, to the past than our Founding Fathers. Still, they were able to emancipate themselves,' Commager concluded. "They were creatures of the past, but they triumphed over it." Inj unction Sought for smissaof charge By MARK DILLEN ing as attorney for the defense, Legal arguments for the dism~is-I immediately launched into the sal of charges marked last night's first of a series of planned mo- session of the trial of Students for thn for dsial-hich ocssied a Democratic Society before the the entire three-hour session. Central Student Judiciary (CSJ). A ruling on the motion for dis'- missal was delayed until the next The trial arose from charges by session next Wednesday. the Engineering Placement Coi- Mogill's motion argued that the mittee and the Engineering Coun- cs gis ihr eda cil that members of SDS violated should be dropped because trial the Student Government Council "disruption" regulation during the against him constituted "double lock-in of a DuPont recruiter Jan. jeopardy," since Feldman was con- 29 in West Engineering Bldg. victed on 9ivil charge of "conten- -tion" stemming from the same in- The regulation, which forbids cident. "acts that destroy property, in- Feldman Csconvicted Apri terfere with free movement or 23, in District Court and is cur- cause disruption of needed condi- rently on six months probation tions of work," carries a possible after serving a ten day sentence. fine of $250 and a four month Adsitn day setencei suspension of privileges if a stu- In addition, Mcgill cited civil dent organization is found in vio- law which says that a trial cannot lation. If individuals are charged be held in a case after a final and convicted, they may receive decision has been reached in a fines up to $50 court of law on the same charges. Three individuals, Richard Feld- "But this law works both ways," PRESENTS L'Orchestre National Francais 4i t i JEAN MARTINON, Conductor in HILL AUDITORIUM MONDAY, OCT. 12, 8:30 PROGRAM: SYMPHONY NO. 4 ... Schumann "TILL EULENSPEIGEL" . R. Strauss MUSIC FROM "CYDALISE" . . 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