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(Editor's Note: The following arti-
cle, which poses the problems involved
in the post-war relationship of Ameri-
can universities to students returning
from armed service, is reprinted from
the Saturday Review of Literature,
Feb. 27, 1943.)
W ITH the college year drawing
towards its close and the pros-
pect of academic halls being given
over to training for military pur-
poses, the nation is confronted with
a situation which will not be settled
when the guns of war are silenced.
For we will have then a large body
of young men who were snatched
from the pursuit of learning When
they had barely escaped from the
adolescent stage, and who will come
back to the universities, if they
come back at all, men who have
faced death and who in gazing on
the bright face of danger have
undoubtedly found themselves sud-
denly aware of values in life which
otherwise it might have taken them
years of living to grasp. They will
no longer be boys whose studies
were to be pursued either for the
acquisition of a liberal education or
as the means to business or a ,pro-
fession but youth hardened in the
school of suffering, impatient of
fripperies, demanding and entitled
to their place in the world for
which they have sacrificed the nor-
mal happiness of young years.
If they are to resume their col-
lege education at all, it will have
to be in universities which recog-
nize the transmutation through
which they will have passed,
whose courses will be adjusted to
minds matured by the urgency of
a transcendent experience, which
can offer them light and leading
in meeting the enormous prob-
lems for which their efforts were
spent, and can make college seem
a step toward the consummation
of that world- for - which they
fought.
T HE GENERATION which saw
the bright hopes of the Ver-
sailles Peace fade into discord and
strife, saw too the sapping of the
ardor of the young men who had
helped to bring it about. The lit-
erature of disillusionment which
represents the best writing talent
of the younger generation of Amer-
ica after the First World War was
no mere belated development of the'
trend toward realism already no-
ticeable in the country before the
outbreak of the conflict, or post-;
poned response to the French nat-
uralism which had been spreading
outside the confines of its own
land, but the sharp realization of
the maladjustments and cankers of
its -civilization on the part of a
youth which had gone to battle ac-
quiescent in the common belief that
American life was wholly good.,
They had come back from the war
cherishing the vision they had-
nursed of a land that was gracious,
bountiful; and harmonious, and
their sharpened sight had discov-
ered it full' -of imperfections and
sores.
They came back bringing with
them a fund of Idealism which, if
It could have been canalized,
might have prevented the exces-
ses of the twenties-and the trage-
dy of the depression , and which,
what with the Inevitable let-
down which followed upon their
release from service, and the re-
laxation of the national morale,
found itself frustrated and was
drained .off Into bitterness a-
gainst the social America, to
which they had returned.
The writers were articulate and
able to e*press their discontent,;
but there were thousands and thou-
sands of their fellows who passed
through the same'psychological ex-
perience without having the cath-
arsis of writing.
T HERE will be thousands and
thousands and thousands more
of American youth this time when
the guns cease to fire who will have
achieved a premature maturity in
the crucible of war, who will have
lived with dreams while they were
away, and who will return to a
world which. having saved it, it will
be theirs to shape. And vast num-
bers of them will be hardly more
than boys whose education was ar-
rested at the threshold of learning,
and who will bring to the resump-
tion of their studies an intensity
of emotional experience which must
inevitably make college living and
college work pallid and flat.
What an enormous opportunity
and what a fearsome task! If
the universities can so shape
their curricula that these men,
can turn their idealism, their dis-
cipline, their release into peace-
ful living into directed effort to
consolidate those values for
which the war was fought, if
they can see a continuum in their
lives, the years of sacrifice lead-
ing to unmolested opportunity
for the fulfillment of their hopes,
they will still be able to find in
their universities that intellectual
excitement which is the best that
the college has to give.
They will be the lawgivers and
the engineers and the political sci-
entists, the teachers and the minis-
ters of the future and if their mor-
ale can be maintained at high pitch
during the difficult years of ad-
justment to peace and their spirit
communicated to their fellows out-
side the college walls, they may go
far indeed toward building a brave
new world. But it will be up to the
universities to' feed them the food
that men demand and not the pap
which might suffice for untried
lads. 4. L.
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Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
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RED TAPE:
Inefficiency Increases
Eastern Fuel Shortage
ANOTHER one of those tales about red tape
came out of Washington this week, the saga
of the workings of the President's Committee to
Investigate the Problem of Supplying Additional
Means of Transportation to Satisfy Petroleum
Requirements of the Eastern Seabord.
Described by Richard L. Stokes writing in the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch as "a rival of Dickens
Circumlocution Office," the workings of the
PCIPSAMTSPRES in tackling the problem of
the conversion and construction of wooden tug-
boats and barges for the shipment of oil is an
epic example of the overlapping of authority and
duplication of effort.
Between April 1942 and the end of the year,
no less' thani 14 government agencies went
through a series of examinations, conferences,
re-examinations, decisions and counter-deci-
sions until by Dec. 31, 1942 according to the
recent report of the Truman Committee the
620 proposed barges and tugboats with an indi-
vidual capacity of 6,000 barrels, had been
whittled down to four barges with a capacity
of 15,000 barrels each.
The immediate adoption of the President's
plan, together with a trans-Florida pipeline,
would have moved 150,000 barrels of oil and gaso-
line a day from Texas to the Atlantic coast.
Instead, however, department after department
added its share to the general confusion, each
with its own personal recommendation to add
and then be ironed out, until Donald Nelson was
forced to take the matter into his own hands.
HE TRUMAN report described the situation
thus, "There has been unnecessary confusion
and delay in carrying out a program essential
to the national welfare. The delay prior to the
recommendations of the President's committee Is
most regrettable. That occurring after the mat-
ter had been studied by the committee and after
its recommendations had been approved by the
President is inexcusable. The length and fre-
quent conferences which took place among the
various agencies produced many arguments but
few decisions"
"There was simply too much talk and not
enough action!"
Of course this report ca easily be taken as
just one more attack against bureaucracy, but
it is more than that for involved in the failure of
the PCIPSAMTSPRES to secure effective action
are the lives' and health of all the inhabitants
of the eastern seaboard.
N AN AREA where little or no gas is available
for other than essential driving, an area where
many homes are underheated, where a shipment
of supplies 'tothe North African Front had left
the inhabitants for a time with no available
petroleum at all, it is not encouraging to read:
"If the barge program had been carried out
expeditiously, the shortages of both fuel oil
and gasoline in the East coast region, par-
ticularly in .its southern and western area,
would have been much less severe."
Although to a large degree through the work
of Ferdinand Eberstadt, as vice-chairman of the
I'd Rather
Be Right
BySAMUEL GRAFTON
NEW YORK, March 26.- Continuing on the
curious story of what has happened to American
isolationism, we may set down this point:
1. Isolation finds, increasingly, that it can
do business with Mr. Roosevelt.
I would not have believed it myself at first
glance. But the record is there.
Isolation formed the strongest, most vocal area
of support for Mr. Roosevelt on the question of
our curious political behavior in North Africa.
There were laudatory speeches on the floor by
Fish, by Wheeler, by Clark of Missouri. There
were solemnly approving editorials in the New
York Daily News.
THEY NEVER USED HIS NAME BEFORE
Isolation joined with administration forces to
give a verbal slugging to Wendell Willkie when
he returned from his world trip, demanding
American support of democratic movements in
all countries.
Isolation, outraged by the Hill-Hatch-Ball-
Burton resolution in favor of a United Nations
organization, suspected at first that the Presi-
dent was behind it. It was beside itself with
incredulous joy when it discovered that the
President was not behind it. Individual iso-
lationist or ex-isolationist commentators have
been burbling their happiness at the Roosevelt-
Connally brush-off of the four Senators.
(There is a wholly new note in the mail I re-
ceive from isolationist sources. On the question
of appeasing Franco, for example, these letter-
writers now ask: "Don't you suppose that the
President knows better than you do?"-which he
may, indeed. The interesting point is that these
people now invoke that name.)
Isolation, in point of fact, endorses the whole
of the policy of conciliation of Franco, as it
endorsed collaboration with Darlan. It is not
only ready but ecstatically eager to extend such
endorsement in any future instances of ap-
peasement as they may come along.
IT LIKES THIS, FINE
Isolation specifically endorsed Mr. Roosevelt's
no-second-front policy of last year. Though on
most questions it seems to regard the President
as not quite bright enough to shut the windows
when it rains, it leaned heavily, during that one
special argument, on the plea that "the President
knows best."
2. Isolation, pure and simple, is no longer an
issue in American public life.*
The biggest outstanding issue of American for-
eign policy is Russia.
The choices are whether to enter into a formal
treaty of alliance with Russia, as Britain has
done, and wishes us to do; or else to hold out
against Russian influence by encouraging every
element of conservatism, monarchism, semi-fas-
cism or even outright (but not Hitler) fascism
disoverable in Europe.
American isolation has made itself the party
of that second choice. The weird, new collabora-
tion between isolation and the administration
occurs along the line at which America's foreign
policy follows that second alternative.
3. Isolation is no longer opposed to collabor-
ation, per se. It applauded collaboration with
. . Darlan. It would not 'object to a treaty with
BOOKS
IT IS always difficult to review a first novel,
for the talent displayed in such a work often
transcends the estimate of the work itself. This
is certainly true of November. Storm. There is
no doubt that McCormick is a writer of genuine
talent and extraordinary promise. At the same
time, it is equally evident that November Storm
is a good novel but not an outstanding one.
A story of the Great Lakes, "November
Storm" appeals primarily to masculine taste.
The plot is engrossing and deceptively simple
-for it serves as a framework for the com-
plicated and extensive pattern ,of the book.
That McCormick has been able to weave the
diverse elements of the book into such a direct
and orderly whole is convincing evidence of
his craftsmanship. Characterization, always
his forte, Is, again, the substance of "November
Storm." The Weasel Sean, and Burgee are
superbly drawn, while the brief appearance
of Anchor's wife is one of the high points of
the book-unforgettable, a bit of brilliantly
incisive writing. Even Stella Forester, the
least successful of McCormick's characters,
is not unconvincing.
The structure of the novel is handled with
somewhat less skill. On the whole, it is excel-
lent, and in certain sections achieves a scope
and vigor suggestive of Dos Passos. However,
there are two principal weaknesses. The first-
and it is not a serious flaw-is a certain uneven-
ness of tempo, especially in the early part of the
novel. The plot gains momentum rather slug-
gishly; the description of the poker hand, in the
first chapter, is, in particular, unnecessarily long.
However, once the novel gets under way, it picks
up pace rapidly, and sustains interest thereafter.
Secondly, I feel obligated to criticize the author's
handling of the Great Lakes material. Here is
presented a rich source of material which he
presents insufficiently, at best. A similar reproof
can be directed toward the Conrad-like sea sym
bolism, which McCormick obviously intended as
an important correlative, but which he did not
clearly enough point up.
THE MATURITY of both the philosophy and
the writing style in November Storm is par-
ticularly impressive. McCormick has an un-
canny flair for precise expression, an ability to
discern and accurately state the furtive, yet
undeniable undertones of existence. When Sean,
inspired by the fog, suddenly remembers his
parents, "it seemed as if their period of forget-
fulness had been a breaking of faith somehow."
As in the characterization of Anchor's wife, this
is keen, accurate expression. - And later in the
novel, in Sean's discussion of Whitey with Stella,
McCormick writes with a truth and frankness
unusual in a young author. This maturity is as
clqarly apparent in his writing style. It is, as is
to be expected, somewhat uneven. However, it
is never gauche. He writes excellently and often
magnificently.
Most important of all, his prose has an in-
stinctive ease, an unmistakable originality.
This, together with his mature intellect and
sensitivity, signifies genuine and substantial
"promise".
November Storm is a robust and highly enter-
taining novel and, as such, well worth reading.
As the first work of a writer who seems to pos-
sess in abundance those qualities which lead to
a permanent place in the literary scene, it as-
sumes an even greater significance.
DAILY OFFI.C:IAL BUILLETI,,N.
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Tentative lists of May. 1943, graduates
have been posted in Room 4, U Hall.,
Please check the list, and notify counter
clerk of any discrepancies.
Robert L. Williams,
Assistant Registrar
Seniors, receiving their teaching certifi-
cates this year, who are interested in
teaching in the Detroit Public School
System, are asked to call at the Bureau
of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall.
Bureau of Appointments and,
Occupational Information,
Retirement Dinner for Professor J. Ral-
eigh Nelson: The deadline for reserva-I
tions for this dinner is April 1, and those
who received invitations'oor who are friends,
inadvertently omitted from the invitation
list are reminded that no reservations can
be placed after that date.
Alpha Lambda Delta: Any woman who
is a member of the class of 1945 and who
made a half A, half B average both semes-
ters of her freshman year is eligiblemfor
membership in Alpha Lambda Delta,
freshman women's honorary scholastic so-
-iety. If you are interested in becoming
a member, please call Shelby Dietrich at.
2-5618 as soon as possible.
Lectures
University Lectures: A Symposium on
Traumatic Shock will be conducted by
Dr. Carl J. Wiggers, Professor of Physiol-
ogy, Medical School, Western Reserve Uni-
versity; Dr. Roy D. McClure, Surgeon-in-
Chief, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit; Dr.
Frederick A. Coller, Chairman of the De-
partment of Surgery, University of Mieh-
gan; with Dr. Cyrus C. Sturgis, Chair-
man of the Department of Internal Medi-
cine, presiding; under the auspices of the
Medical School andof the Michigan Acad-
emy of Science, Arts, and Letters, today at
4:15 p.gi. in the Kellogg Auditorium. The
public is invited.
University Lecture: Colonel Edgar Ers-
kine Hume, Medical Corps, U.S. Army,
will lecture on the subject, "The Health
Activities of the U.S. Army in Wartime,"
under the auspices of the Medical, Dental,
Public Health and Pharmacy Schools, on
Tuesday, March 30, at 4:15 p.m. in the
Kellogg Foundation Institute Auditorium.
The public is invited.
Biological Chemistry Lecture: Dr. Gene-
vieve Stearns, Research Associate Pro-
fessor of Pediatrics at the University of
Iowa, will lecture at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday,
March 30, in the Rackham Amphitheatre.
Topic: "The Relation of Changes in Body
Composition to Food Requirements and
Utilization during Growth."
Academic Notices
L.S.A. Faculty Members in Charge of
Large Courses: If you are in charge of a
course in which the enrollment exceeds,
say, 100 students, please send me imme-
diately the name and number of the
course, and the approximate enrollment.
As far as possible, final examinations in
the larger courses will be scheduled dur-
ing the first four days of finals.
D. L. Rich
Freshman 'ealth Lectures (Men):
Spring term freshman men and other
men, who have not passed, the required
health lectures may attend theml in' Room
25 Angell Hall'at either 5:00 or 7:30 p,.m.
Lecture No. 1-Aprl 1; No. 2-April 2;
No. 3-April 8; No. 4-April 9;' .,,No.-5-
April 15; No. 6-April 16.F
Warren 4., Forsythe, M. D.
Notice to Students 'Taking Freshman
Hygiee Lectures:.
FINAL EXAMINATION
SEATING AnRANGExMZNT
All students seated In rows' A through K
at the lectures, take their.final examina-
tion in Natural Science Auditorium. All
those whose seats are +back of, row K take
their examinations, In room 165 of the
Chemistry .Building.
Final Etaminations:
Section I .................March 29
Section II................March . 30:
Margaret Bell, M. D.
Medical Adviser -for Women
Psychology 40 will meet today in Room
2042 N. S.
The History language examination for
M.A. candidates will be given in, Room B
Haven Hall -at 4:00 p.m. today.. Students
intending to take this examination please
report immediately to the History Office,
119 Haven Hall.
History 12, Lecture Section 11, mid-
semester will be given .at 2:00- p.m. today.,
The sections of DeVries and Slosson in,
1025 Angell.. Hall; all others in Natural
Science Auditorium.
Students preparing to enter the Hop-
wood contests, shoulO make their requests
for records -from' the Registrar's Office by
April 1.
Rt. W. Cowden
All those planning to write the prelim-
inary examinations for the Pla P. in Eng-
lish, please,.get in .,touch wit mebefore
April 1.
Norman E. Nelson
English 47 will meet in 3231 A.H. Mon-,
day night, 8-10.
E. S. Everett
Riding Classes: Women students inter-
ested in elementary or intermediate rid-
ing classes may register in Office 15, Bar-
bour Gymnasium, before Monday, March
29.
Concerts
May Festival Tickets:' The over-the-
counter sale of Season Tickets (6 con-
certs)afor the Golden Jublee 'May Festi-
val, at $8.80-$7.70-$6.60" each-will begin
Monday morning, March 29, at 9:00 o'clock,
at the offices of the Uhiversity Musical
Society in Burton Memorial Tower.
The performers are as follows: Fritz
Kreisler; Vladimir Horowitz; and the fol-
lowing artists.from the Metropolitan Op-
era Association: Lily Pons; Stella Roman,
Astrid Varnay,' Keratin 'Thorborg, Fred-
erick Jagel, Salvatore Baccaloni, and Alex-
ander Kipnis. The- Philadelphia Orches-
tra, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor, and Saul
Caston, ',Associate Conductor; University
Choral Union, Hardin Van Deursen, Con-
ductor; Festival Youth Chorus, Marguer-
Exhibition, College of- Architecturm and
Design: Alpha Alpha Gamma, honor so-
ciety for wonen in architecture, decor-
ative design, and landscape architecture,
is showing photographs in architecture,
sculpture, and decorative design by prac-
ticing members of the society. Third
floor exhibition room, Architecture Build-
Ing. Open daily 9:00, to 5:00, except Sun-
day, through March 31. Open -to the
public.
Exhibit: Museum of Art and Archaeol-
ogy, Newberry Hall. Photographs of Tu-
nisia by George R. Swain, Official Pho-
tographer to the University of 'Michigan
Expedition to North Africa in 1925. Tunis,
Medjez-el-Bab, Tozeur, Tebessa, Stax,
Matmata country.
Exhibition: The Botanical section 'of
the Michigan Academy of Science, Litera-
ture and the Arts has arranged a photo-
graphic display 'of botanists. This exhibit
will be open to the public Friday and
Saturday mornings, March 26 and Z7. A
large number of these prints have been,
contributedtbythe Botany Department of
Michigan- State College.. Together with
this exhibit Dr. Eugene S. McCartney's
collection of squirrel figurines will be on
display.
Exhibition: Professor Shu-chi Chang,
of the Fine' Arts Department 1i the Na-
tional Central University in Chungking,
will present an exhibition of contem-
porary Chinese painting and demonstrate
his own painting daily until March' 31.
Open to. the, public daily, 1:-00-6,'00 P.M..
In the Grand Rapids Room of the Michi-
gan' League. -No admission charge.
EventsToday
The Angell Hail Observatory will be
open to the public from 8:00 to 10:00
this evening in case the sky is clear or
nearly so. The planets; Jupiter and Sat-
urn, and star. clusters will be shown
through the telescopes. The Observatory
will be closed if it is a cloudy evening.
Children must be accompanied by adults.
The Chinese Students Club, in coopera-
tion with the Interclub Board, Is pre-
senting a China Night at the International
Center tonight at 8:00. The program will
consist of a picture, "We Fly for China",
showing the training of Chinese pilots In
American camps and a demonstration of
Professor Chang Shu-chi's manner of
painting. Anyone interested may attend.
No charge.
All house athletic managers or exercise
managers will meet today at 5:00 p.m.
in the Dance Studio at Barbour Gym-
nasium. Bring participation sheets" for
the previous two weeks. If the manager
is unable to be present, please send a sub-
stitute.
Presbyterian Student Guild will-have a
special Lenten Bible Class tonight. 8:00-
9:00, led by Mr. Lampe, on the subject,
"The Parables of Jesus." Roller skating
party afterwards. Leave from the church
at 9:00 p.m.
Wesley Foundation: Bible Class tonight
at 7:30 with Dr. C. W. Brashares lesider.
Subject for discussion, "Acts." Party at
9:00 p.m.
Coming Events
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