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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
FRIDAY, MAY 9, 195Z
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PREXY CANDIDATES:
Sen. Kefauver Has Popular
Appeal; Lack
A COONSKIN cap out of Tennessee, otf
first a joke to professional Democratic
politicians, has assumed a political symbol-
ism which may sweep Estes Kefauver into
the position of the Democratic Party's stand-
ard bearer in the coming presidential elec-
tions.
With the exception of a minor defeat
to Senator Russell in Monday's Florida
primary, in a popularity contest involving
no delegates, Sen. Kefauver, the man un-
der the cap, has shown tremendous popu-
larity at the polls which the professionals
cannot ignore.
Strangely enough, Kefauver was a mem-
ber of Congress for over 10 years before the
public recognized him. Then he was cata-
pulted into the political limelight with the
aid of the greatest free publicity medium-
TV. As head of the Senate's Crime Investi-
gating Committee, he was watched by tens
of millions of people who admired him for
bringipg organized crime into the open.
* * *
A FEW MONTHS later, Kefauver decided
to toss his now famous hat into the ring.
He realized that he had several tremen-
dous political assets besides his new-found
reputation: certain intangibles such as an
honest face, a charming wife, four chil-
dren and a simple, diplomatic, compro-
mising approach.
His other political asset is a rather nebu-
lous and slightly ambiguous platform which
alienates no one and leaves room open for
as many compromises as might be necessary
for the nomination.
Kefauver has straddled the fence on many
issues, especially FEPC, which he favors if
operated on a voluntary basis. This stand
has so far avoided the wrath of both the
North and South.
He has shot barbs at President Truman;
yet his voting record in the House and the
Senate has shown him to be a party man--
'Boss' Support
supporting both the FDRI and Truman Ad-
ministrations.
His vague platform can probably best
be filled in by his Congressional voting
record. Kefauver supported all Adminis-
tration tax and economic measures, ex-
cept in 1947 when he voted for a four
billion dollar cut; led the fight for expan-
sion of TVA; supported the administration
in all its social legislation endeavors ex-
cept compulsory health insurance; and
voted for peacetime UMT and selective!
service.
Possibly the least known area of Kefauv-
er's program is his foreign policy. Here he
is possibly the most international of all can-
didates, having, supported the Truman-
Acheson program down the line. Of late, he
has been highly sensitive to the fact that he
is a member of the Atlantic Union organi-
zation, an extremely internationally-minded
group-a point on which he is avoiding com-
ment.
The main source of opposition to Kefauv-
er are the corrupt Democratic machines, en-
trenched in many of the country's major
cities. He caused them too much trouble
during last year's investigations and it is
likely that if elected, his attorney general
will prosecute them.
The political bosses still remember his
defiance of Crump in campaigning for the.
Senate. He struck them another blow
Monday by winning 27 delegates in the
Ohio primary in opposition to the regular
party men who wanted an uncommitted
delegation.
But being practical men, they also realize
that Kefauver is the only presidential hope-
ful who can throw back charges of corrup-
tion in GOP faces and perhaps maintain the
party in power. The professional may soon
get wise, jump on the bandwagon and make
the party's slogan, "Estes is Bestes."
-Jerry Helman
Psychiatrists
& Congressmen
A MEMBER OF that officious human
brood with the "profound insight into
the obvious" has solemnly suggested that the
nation's congressmen ought to submit to
compulsory psychoanalysis.
Prof. Douglas M. Kelley of the Univer-
sity of California has this to say for his
proposal: "It would seem reasonable to
assume that in any large nation some of
its political representatives, especially
those who are elected term after term
after they are aged, must develop some of
the many varieties of cortical deteriora-
tion or psychiatric illness.
"Since these men have power of life or
death for many of our citizens, it would
seem reasonable that the citizenry might ask
for reassurance of their mental capacity. It
would seem reasonable to suggest that a
individuals, not necessarily only elected re-
presentatives, should receive periodical ex-
aminations."
Since there are, needless to say, a goodly
number of rather strange individuals wield-
ing power in Washington, this proposal is
commendable. But in screening incumbents
and candidates for office, several difficulties
would confront the ambitious - and they
would have to be ambitious-psychiatrists.
1-There probably is not a man in
Washington who would submit to an in-
telligence test.
2-It would be ridiculous to suppose that
men can be classified in rigid categories
such as: insane, frustrated, psychotic, nor-
mal, abnormal, rabid, harmless, useless. The
standards would indeed be difficult to as-
certain.
3-The danger always exists that the psy-
chiatrists might fall prey to honorables who
regard mink coats an inexpensive price to
pay for classification in the higher echelons
of normality.
4-There just aren't that many psy-
chiatrists.
5-This is obviously, some would protest,
another step toward socialism.
In view of these insurmountable diffi-
culties, the only thing that might be said
for the plan is that it would prove to be
of great academic interest as a social study.
Who knows? Perhaps it might be discov-
ered, thagt a congressman who collects
stamps consistently votes against foreign
aid, another's loquaciousness stems from
a morbid oral period. Others might be
voting in accordance with an early Oedi-
pus Complex. And it would be interesting
to know how many are authoritarian per-
sonalities, afflicted with an Inferiority
Complex, or mirror a Narcissus Complex.
The latter should be quite common.
-Cal Samra
Aitr Defense-
'We Haven't
Any
"Congratulations -Where's The Rest Ok It?"
Xettep4 TO THE EDITOR
The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of
general interest, and will publish all letters which are signed by thke writer
and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in length, defamatory or
libelous letters, and letters which for any reason are not in good taste will
be condensed, edited or withheld from publication at the discretion of the
editors.
DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
ON THE
Washington Merry-Go-Round
WITH DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON-One of the personal par-
adoxes of the steel dispute which only
three or four people know, is that President
Truman and CIO chief Phil Murray for
many years were not on too good personal
terms.
The public has the Impression that they
were intimate friends and that it was
partly because of this intimacy that the
White House went to bat for the Steel-
workers. However, though the CIO has
thrown powerful political support to Tru-
man, Truman's and Murray's personal re-
lations for a long time were cool.
The coolness dates back to the 1944 Demo-
cratic Convention in Chicago when Murray
was a strong supporter of Henry Wallace for
the vice-presidency. As such he opposed Tru-
man, and was not in sympathy with the way
Sen. Sam Jackson of Indiana abruptly gav-7
eled the convention to a close in order to
stop a bandwagon rush for Wallace.
That night Murray received a call from
some of the big Democratic bosses, includ-
ing Ed Flynn of the Bronx and the late Ed
Kelly of Chicago. They reported that they
had been trying to stop Sen. Harry S. Tru-
man in his determination to be vice-presi-
dent, but weren't successful. They asked
Murray if he would talk to Truman.
Murray, who had a room in the Black-
Fleeson
HOUSTON-Here in Texas a fledgling two-
party system is trying to break out of
the tough constricting shell of an antiquat-
ed presidential primary which puts a prem-
ium on monopolistic organization control.
For no clearly defined reason, General
Eisenhower is the symbol which makes it
possible for Texans to forsake the party
of their fathers withean abandon new in
the South where the GOP has been a
small private club, and Democrats voted
for a yellow dog if he carried their banner.
Eisenhower supporters dramatized their
efforts and lent them an irresistibly comic
appeal by their week-end putsch at the Fort
Worth home of Henry Zweifel, GOP nation-
al committeeman and state campaign man-
ager for Senator Taft.
The Texas showdowns-Taft vs. Eisen-
hower, shivers Dixiecrats vs. Administration
loyalists-will come at the national conven-
tions where credentials committees pass
on the competing delegations. But there is
one more Texas hurdle-state conventions.
Whatever the state conventions do,
however, the losing sides will bolt and
send their people to Chicago. No delega-
tion the size of Texas is insignificant. But
the Democrats expect no such narrow
presidential contest as the Republicans
face in zhe Taft-Eisenhower balloting.
In the GOP convention, a delegation like
Texas could be decisive.
Senator Taft's supporters are openly bit-
ter about their conventions being "mobbed
by people who aren't Republicans at all." It
stone Hotel where Senator Truman also liv-
ed; picked up the phone, asked if he could
come down and see him.
"I'll come up and see you," replied Tru-
man. And he did.
Almost bursting into the room a minute
or two later, the Senator from Missouri
didn't wait for Murray to open the con-
versation.
"I know what you want," he said, "and.
I'm not going to do it."
He went on to say that he knew the CIO
chieftain wanted him to withdraw, that
he wasn't going to do so, and left.
That ended that. During the years that
followed, Murray was not invited to the
White House personally as he was by FDR.
He went there only with other labor leaders.
And It was not until about a year ago that
he was called in for a personal, confidential
talk with the President.
* * *
JITTERY GILLETTE
Sen. Guy Gillette of Iowa, jittery chair-
man of the Senate elections subcommittee,
has made out a subpoena for several other
newspapermen to be grilled on news leaks,
but apparently hasn't the nerve to serve
them.
Especially he hasn't the nerve to serve
live-wire Clark Mollenhoff of the Des Moines
Register-Tribune, who wrote exactly the
same story on Gillette's committee as did
Eddie Milne of the Providence Journal. In
fact, the editor's note appearing at the top
of the Providence Journal and the Register-
Tribune stated that the stories were the
same.
However, Gillette has threatened Milne
with jail unless he reveals his source, yet he
hasn't served a subpoena on Mollenhoff,
though one is all signed and ready.
Reason: Rhode Island is a long way from
the voters of Iowa, while Mollenhoff writes
for the biggest circulating paper in Iowa.
Incidentally, Mollenhoff isn't ducking the
subpoena. He's around the capitol every day,
ready to accept service. Gillette just doesn't
have the guts.
* * *
KOWTOWING TO McCARTHY
Meanwhile, the entire incident of heckling
newsmen regarding their news sources in-
dicates the extent to which Gillette has been
under the thumb of Senator McCarthy, the
manrhe is supposednto probe. What Milne
and Mollenhoff wrote about the Gillette
Committee was that its own staff had re-
commended hearings on five of the charges
Senator Benton preferred against McCarthy.
McCarthy, who didn't like this publicity,
and who is close to Gillette, is credited with
persuading him to crack down on the press.
This crackdown came as a complete sur-
prise to Senator Hayden of Arizona,
chairman of the Rules Committee, and
he cautioned Gillette about it. Other
members of Gillette's committee were
sore. They are also peeved over the fact
that, after the Senate voted unanimuosly
60-0 on April 10 to continue with the
McCarthy investigation, a month has now
passed and Gillette has done nothing.
His only move has been to cater to Mc-
Carthy's close friend, Senator Welker of
By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP
W ASHINGTON-At Eniwetok, in Septem-
ber, the United States will explode the
world's first hydrogen bomb-unless the
Soviet Union gets ahead of us. Contrary to
preliminary reports, the new Eniwetok bomb
will be a true prototype of the terrible super
bomb of almost, limitless power.
It is far from certain, however, that the
Soviet Union will not get ahead of us. Be-
fore his arrest Klaus Fuchs had transmit-
ted to Russia all current information on
the hydrogen bomb problem. The Ameri-
can effort to build a hydrogen bomb was
kept in low gear until the outbreak of
the Korean War. An all out Soviet effort
presumably began much earlier.
But, on the one hand, we do not now have
an effective air defense. And on the basis
of present plans and appropriations, we are
unlikely to have an effective defense in the
foreseeable future. On the other hand, im-
proved air warning systems and truly revp-
lutionary new guided missiles have recently
been developed. And these will make it pos-
sible to defend the United States in the air
--if we choose to pay the considerable price.
The Chief of Air Staff, Gen. Hoyt S. Van-
denberg, has told the country that, as of
now, thirty per cent of any attacking force
could be destroyed on the way to its target.
Construction of the basic radar screen
or "radar fence," which was begun after
the aggression in Korea, is not yet com-
plete. We are also gravely deficient in the
other part of an effective air defense sys-
tem-fighter aircraft production.
Still speaking as of now, this is probably
not so hair-raising as the naked facts had
first seemed. According to the best estimates,
the Soviets currently possess about 700 TU-
4 bombers-their improvement of the cap-
tured B-29-plus a very small number of the
big B-36 light bomber shown on May Day
a year ago.
Hence the TU-4s are the immediate
problem. They are believed not to be
equipped with good radar bombsights.
Their operational radius is only about1
2,500 miles. So far as is known, the TU-4
squadrons have not been trained in the
tricky technique of air-refueling, which
would extend this limited radius. Thus,
any Soviet air attack on the United States
would have to be planned as a one-way
mission; and because of the bomb-sight
problem, would probably have to be
launched by day and in good weather.
Furthermore, as time goes by, the Soviet
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New Mexico Department of Publi
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require a Bachelor's degree in appro
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For further information, details, ap
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call the Bureau of Appointments, 352
Administration Building, ext. 371.
Lectures
The Department of Bacteriology an
nounces a lecture by Dr. A. A. Miles of
the National Institute of Medical Re
search, London, England, Fri., May 9
4:15 p.m., 1520 E. Medical Bldg. Dr
Miles will speak on The Initiation o
the infectious Process.
Academic Notices
Registration for Directed Teaching in
Elementary Education for both semes
ters of the academic year 1952-1953 wi
be held in Room 2509 'University Ele
mentary School, May 12-16.
Astronomical Colloquium. Sat., May
10, 2 p.m., the McMath-Hulbert Ob-
servatory. Doctors Orren C. Moler an
Helen W. Dodson will speak on Re
cent Studies of the Solar Spectrnm a
the McMath-Hulbert Observatory." Fo
those who have not been on a tour o
the installations, the Observatory will
be open beginning at noon.
Psychology Colloquium: Fri., May 9
4:15 p.m., Room 3-G, Union. Dr. Gcorg
Katona will speak on: "Rational Man
and Rational Behavior."
Seminar in Transonic Flow: Friday
May 9, at 4 p.m., in Room 1508 E.E. Prof
0. Laporte will discuss certain results
obtained in the shock tube that per.
tained transonic flow. Time permitting,
Mr. J. Kline will begin with work of W.
Vincenti on the transonic flow passed a
wedge.
Doctoral Examination for John Lothar
George, Zoology; thesis: "The Birds on
a Southern Michigan Farm," Fri., May
9, 9 a.m., 2089 Natural Science Bldg.
Chairman, H. W. Hann.
Doctoral Examination for Richard
Blaine Barrar, Mathematics; thesis:
"Some Estimates for the Solutions of
Linear Parayolic Equations," Fri., May
9, 2 p.m., 277 W.. Engineering Bldg.
Chairman, E. H. Rothe.
Doctoral Examination for Warren
Lounsbury smith, Economics; thesis:
"Alternative Monetary Interest Theor-
ies: A Comparison and Evaluation,"
Fri., May 9, 3 p.m., 105 Economics Bldg.
Chairman, R. A. Musgrave.
Doctoral Examination for William Jo-
seph L. Felts, Anatomy; thesis: "The
Prenatal Development of the Human
Femur," Fri., May 9, 3 p.m., 3502 E.
Preliminary Examinations for Do-
torate in Linguistics. The next group of
examinations will be given as follows.
The examination in Comparative Gram-
mar will be given on Fri., May 16 2-5
orp.m., In Room 303, Romance Languages.
A The examinations in Linguistic Science
f- and in the Structure and History of
n the English Language will be given on
Sat., May 17, 9-12 a.m., in Room 1011,
AngelI Hall. The examination in the
:e Structure and History of the Spanish
r .Language will be given on Sat., May
s. 24, 8-12 a.m., in Room 212, Romance
- Languages.
ly
g
tSn Concerts
a student Recital. John Mueller, orga-
aprsna program at 4:5
f Sunday afternoon, |May 11, in Hill Au-
ditorium, in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the Master of Music
degree. A pupil of Robert Noehren, Mr.
i Mueller will play works by Louis and
Francois Couperin, Bach, and Alain.
The program will be open to the pub-
lic.
s Student Recital: Ruth Orr, Soprano,
- will appear in recital at 8:30 Sunday
e evening, May 11, in the Architecture
e Auditorium, in partial fulfillment of
threquirements for the degree of
-Bachelor of Music. Miss Orr is a pupil
r of Arthur Hackett, and her proram,
s including works by Dvorak, Debussy,
u Delius and Santoliquido, will be open
to the public.
- Student Recital: Frederick Donald
- Truesdell, pianist, will be heard in a
- recital at 8:30 Monday evening, May 12,
l in the Rackham Assembly Hall, play-
d ing Liszt's Sonata in B minor, and
- Samuel Barber's Sonata in E-flat m-
r or, Op. 26. Mr. Truesdell is a pupil of
g Helen Titus and his program will be,
open to the public, being presented in
partial fulfillment of the requirements
s for the Master of Music degree.
e
Events Today
e
n Cancellation. The "Dances of India"
performance of vashi and Veena sched-
"uiled for tonight in Hill Auditorium is
. postponed. Refunds on tickets may be
, secured at the International Center.
Motion Pictures, auspices of Univer-
sity Museums. "Monarch Butterfly
Story," and "The Story of the Bees."
7:30 p.m., Kellogg Auditorium. No ad-
mission charge,
if Department of Astronomy. visitors',
- Night, 8 p.m. Dr. Freeman D. Miller will
, speak on "Photographing the Sky." Af-
ter the lecture in 3017 Angell Hall, the]
f Students' Observatory on the fifth floor
will be open for telescopic observation
of Saturn and the Moon, if the sky is]
clear, or for inspection of the telescopes
and planetarium, if the sky is cloudy.
Children are welcome, but must be ac-
- companied by adults,
I SRA Coffee Hour, Lane Hall,4:15-5:30
p.m. All students welcome.
-
Socieded Hispanica. Picnic, 4:45 p.m.,
y Fresh Air Camp. Meet at campus f lag-
pole. Reservations can be made at the
Romance Language Building. Spanish
foods and entertainment.
Hillel. Friday evening services at New
i Hillel Foundation, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday
morning services, 9 o'clock.
Civil Liberties Committee Party. 8
p.m., Women's Athletic Building, Square
dancing, social dancing, entertainment,
and refreshments. All invited.
Northern Oratorical League Contest,;
'8 p.m., Rackham Lecture Hall. Adiis-
sion free. Speakers are students from
sthe Universities of Michigan, Northwes-
tern, Iowa, Western Reserve, Minnesota,'
and wisconsin.]
Newman Club. Open House Party,
7 to 12 midnight, Clubroom of Saint
Mary's Chapel, William & Thompsonl
Sts. All Catholic students and their
r friends are invited.
Wesleyan Guild. Scavenger Hunt, 8
p.m. Meet in the lounge.
1 .t
International Committee of SL will1
meet at 3:30 p.m., at the SL Bldg. Ev-
eryone interested is invited.
Coming Events
Sociology Department Student-Facul-
ty Committee. Dr. vernon Fox, Deputy;
Warden in Charge of Individual Treat-
ment during the recent prison distur-
bance at the State Prison of Southern
Michigan, will speak on "Prison Man-1
agement and Riot Control," Mon., Mayt
12, 7:30 p.m.. Natural Science Auditor-
ium. Everyone interested is invited.
Hillel. Sunday Evening Supper Club,
Shaffer's Reply.. ..
To the Editor:
ACCORDING T O Thursday's
Daily, Mr. Dave Brown, a
member of the Joint Judic, made
the following statement before the
SL:
"The average student is well
aware that any student coming be-
fore a University body s'hould give
reasonable co-operation."
In answer to Mr. Brown, I would
like to quote from my appeal,
which includes part of my testi-
mony; which Mr. Brown seems so
eager to keep hidden.
"When I appeared before the
Joint Judiciary Council, Mrs. Bet-
ty Ohlheiser, its chairman, ex-
plained to me what she consider-
ed misconduct.
"'We naturally assume that all
statements made here will be true
representation of the facts. Mis-
representation will be considered
misconduct and will be punished
accordingly....
"Furthermore, Mr. Irving Stenn,
a member of the Joint Judiciary
Council, instructed me as follows:
"'Please answer Betty's ques-
tion with yes or no or 'I don't care
to answer . ..
Since neither he nor any other
member of the Joint Judiciary
Council warned me that by carry-
ing out Mr. Stenn's instruction, I
would be liable to disciplinary ac-
tion, I felt perfectly justified in
exercising my discretion as to
whether or not I should answer
each question.
Since, therefore, I was specifi-
cally notified that misrepresenta-
tion would be considered miscon-
duct (and I was not accused of
misrepresentation) and since I was
not specifically told that a refusal
to answer questions would be con-
sidered misconduct, and further-
more since I was specifically in-
structed by a member of the Coun-
cil to answer the questions in the
manner in which I did, I fail to
see why I should be found guilty
of 'conduct of unbecoming a stu-
dent.' "
When one considers how this
whole McPhaul dinner investiga-
tion was handled-like the fact
-that it took the University six
weeks to decide that a regulation
had been broken and then it could
not even make its charge stick--
one can only conclude that the
waste basket charge of "conduct
unbecoming a student" was level-
ed against certain individuals for
avengeful purposes. It is indeed a
sad commentary of the times that
an institution of, such prestige as
the University of Michigan feels'
compelled to stoop to such tactics
in order to save its face.
-Ed Shaffer
t ,,
Heartening Judic' . .
To the Editor:
PUBLIC congratulations are in
order for the members of the
Joint Judiciary Council for the
clear headed handling of an emo-
tionally charged and difficult case.
The substance of their decision
in the McPhaul case as briefly re-_
ported in Sunday's Daily should
be reassuring to all who are sin-
cerely interested in freedom of ex-
pression. The right of students to'
freely attend closed meetings in
the Union has not, to my know-
ledge, been challenged before and
should not be challenged again.,
Congratulations are also em-
phatically in order for the mem-
bers of the Sub-committee on Dis-
cipline on this point. As members
of the University faculty they
were and are open to far more
serious pressure and criticism
from the non-thinkers among us
than are the student members of
the Judiciary. The manner in
which they fulfilled their obliga-
tions to the student body is heart-
ening.
The basis of the decision penal-
izing five of the persons who at-
tended the McPhaul dinner, is
difficult for an outsider to evalu-
ate. The use of an assumed name
to secure the Union facilities was
at the least juvenile and at the
worst, no better than forgery. As
members of the University the
least we can expect from our fel-
lows is that they will use their
right names.f
As for the others, unless the
transcript of testimony is made
public, evaluation is impossible.
And even then, written words
often fail to convey completely
the context in which those wordsa
were spoken.
It has been long standing Judi-
ciary policy to consider misrepre-
sentations of material matters as
conduct unbecoming a student
and punishable as such. This is
nothing new and is essential of the
Judiciary is to be able to conduct
its investigations effectively. In-
cluded in this category are state-
ments to the effect that the party
being questioned does not know
certain facts. when, in context, it
1 among them, the protection of
students from undue interference
by University authorities.
Both the student and faculty
participants in the University dis-
ciplinary process have shown
themselves worthy of the in-
creased confidence of the student
body which has developed since
the creation two years ago of the
Joint Judiciary Council.
-Al Blumrosen
Anyone for Tennis? ...
To the Editor:
WE WISH to object to what we
regard as Professor Warren E.
Blake's rather unenlightened at-
titude toward the presentation of
a doctoral dissertation on the sub-
ject, "An Experimental Study to
Determine the Effectiveness of
Two Different Methods of Teach-
ing Tennis." He, of all people,
should be better acquainted with
the histories andrelative merits
of these two games.
Consider tennis-truly a noble
sport, one of the most difficult
ball games to learn, and with a
history stretching directly to Clas-
sical Times. Did not Homer's
Nausicaa, princess of Phaeacia,
play a kindred game with her
maidens? (cf. Odyssey, vi 115).
And might not Chaucer have been
alluding to tennis in the words
"But. canstow playen racket to
and fro"? And Shakespeare's ref-
erence to the game must not be
forgotten. Recall Henry V's reply
to the tennis-ball-bearing mes-
sengers from the Dauphin:
When we have matched our
rackets to these balls,
We will, in France, by God's
grace, play a set
Shall strike his father's crown
into the hazard.
Tell him he hath made a match
with such a wrangler
That all the courts of France
will be disturb'd with
chases.
Football, on the other hand, has
a long, but not nearly so elegant
past. In spite of the fact that it
originated in ancient Greece, foot-
ball was proscribed by Edward II
in consequence of "the great
noise in the city caused by hust-
ling over large balls," Sir Thomas
Elyot (1531) speaks of the game
as being "nothyng but beastely
fury and extreme violence, where-
fore proceedeth hurte and conse-
quently rancour and malice, to re-
mayne with hym that be wounded,
wherefore it is to be put in per-
petual silence." In Stubbes' An-
atomie of Abuses sfootball is re-
ferred to as "a divilishe pastime,
and hereof groweth envy, rancour
and malice, and sometimes brawl-
ing, murther, homicide and great
effusion of blood, as experience
daily teacheth."
This thesis then, is a signifi-
cant contribution toward the pres-
ervation of a minor, but genteelly
superior sport.
-Gilbert J. Sloan
-Leonard B. Bruner
NOTHING IS more welcome than
to hold the lofty and serene
positions well fortified by learning.
You may look down upon others
and see them wandering all abroad
and going astray in their search
for the path of life, see the con-
test among them of intellect, the
rivalry of birth, the striving night
and day with surpassing effort to
struggle up to the summit of pow-
er and be masters of the world,
-Lucretius
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