THE MICHIGAN DAILY
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1953
E-OLD QUESTION:
What Is Man And What Is His Destiny?
Rats Used to Formulate
Theories About Humans
'IIEflSr
MARY ANN THOMAS
tinued, but these questions are ba-
basic religious questions sic to the problem of the student's
serted, is to think of himself as
a creator, not as a creature. "Man
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always the same: What is man
what is his destiny?" Prof.
id C. Brauer said Sunday in
first lecture of the annual
is I Believe" series.
eld in connection with Reli-
s Emphasis Week, the lecture
s is sponsored by the Student
gious Association and the
ipus Religion Council.
eaking on "What of the Fu-
?" the dean of the Federated
ological Faculty of the Univer-
of Chicago explained that al-
gh the problems are the same,
appear different because each
ration interprets them accord-
to its owh ways of life.
ich questions do not often
er the college student because
s full of exhuberance, he con-
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place in the university and his I must first see himself as he is, a
future job.
'An Age of Revolution'
"We are in an age of revolution
and insecurity," the young Luth-
eran minister warned. "When we
have so much material plenty, the
problem of finding ultimate secur-
ity becomes more acute, especially
when we base our whole security
on material plenty."
The problem of the future is that
man is tempted to locate his se-
curity in the wrong places, he
added. Some people denounce
materialism and call for a return
to spiritual values, but we can't
really do that unless we learn to
live with material advances.
It is not easy to live in the con-
dition of modern America and re-
sist the temptation to place God
on our side, right or wrong, he
admitted. Another temptation is
our tendency to base our accepti-
bility to God on our material suc-
cess. We think we can "lay down
the rules of the game," Prof.
Brauer said.
Man Must Understand Himself
The major sin of' man, he as-
sinner, and then he must accept
himself as he is. This is not to
overlook the joy and goodness of
life," he explained, "but to put it
in its proper place."
Religion must be convincing to
people, the professor warned, and
whatever religion the person grasps
must be relevant to the time and
society of the individual.
Whatever answer to the prob-
lem of finding security in life is
proposed, Prof. Brauer said, must
come to the people where they
are giving them a "vision of life
that takes into account both the
joy and the suffering."
Can't Find Security in Intellect
In none of these places-mor-
ality, intellect, materialism - can
one find security, he warned. "The
By MARILYN WOOD
Interest in human learning stim-
ulated an experiment which used
specific behaviors of rats to formu-
late theories about human beings.
This experiment, conducted by
Prof. E. Rae Harcum of the Engin-
eering College, is featured in the
Dec. 5 issue of Life Magazine.
He was concerned with how ani-
mals learn and what principles
may apply to both animals and hu-
mans.
"If-we find out something about
how rats learn- then we can gen=
eralize to some extent about how
humans learn," Dr. Harcum said.
Both Animals and Mammals
"Rats and humans both are ani-
mals and mammals. Much of
what applies to rats will apply to
humans," he generalized. "The
human mind is much more Intel-
ligant, however," he continued.
Three groups of rats were used
in the experiment. Two of the
groups were raised in special re-
stricted cages for tone year, which
is one-third of the life span of a
rat.
One cage allowed the rats to
move only horizontally and the
other allowed only vertical move-
ment.
A third group of rats was used
as a control group. They had
been raised under normal labora-
tory conditions.
These rats, which were bred and
raised especially for this experi-
ment, were placed in a maze for
observation by Prof. Harcum.
Elaborate Maze
The maze was an elaborate com-
bination of wire mesh alleys
masked with white cheesecloth and
hung by wires from the ceiling of
a white room void of features and
shadows.
Prof.Harcum dressed in white
robes to blend with the back-
ground when in the experiment
room.
He wanted to see if original hab-
its of the rats would persist when
they were turned loose in the
maze.
The psychologist put food at a
certain place in the maze and then
recorded the number of errors
made by the rats each time they
tried to get to it.
Original Habits
He found that the rats which
were raised in special cages tended
to move according to their ori-
ginal habits even when they were
allowed freedom of movement.
For instance, the rats trained to
move horizontally had difficulty,
even after 40 days of testing, in
finding food when they had to go
up and down to get it, Prof. Har-
cum discovered.
He interprets that "animals,
when put in an unfamiliar environ-
ment, tend to explore."
Experimentation showed that
the restricted rats did less ex-
ploring and seemed to be more
stereotyped in behavior. Prof.
Harcum inferred that they had a
greater fear because in restriction
they had been unable to become
familiar with similar elements.
More Emotional
"They were more emotional in
new situations," Dr. Harcum hypo-
thesized.
His general conclusion is "when
an animal faces an unfamiliar
situation evidence seems to indi-
cate that there is an emotional
disturbance involved or else it
shows a lack of intellectual de-
velopment."
Either or both of these conclu-
sions might be true, Prof. Harcum
says.
Applies to Humans
"This same conclusion can be
applied to human beings, but only
to the same degree that a rat is
similar to a human," he remarked.
Prof. Harcum began this re-
search in 1953 as his doctoral
thesis. The exeperimental appar-
atus, which was located in Mason
Hall, is now dismantled.
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PROF. JERALD C. BRAUER
... "This I Believe" speaker
Christian religion alone says man
can find his security in a faithful,
understanding God."
We are going to be sick, we are
going to die, he commented, but
the "Christian faith asserts that
no natter what happens we can
never be separated from the love
of- God."
"This means a form of hope and
certainty," he concluded. "This is
the new reality in which one must
find himself."
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"Welding in Railroad Maintenance,"
also "Why Attend Camp David?" Dec.
7, 7:30 p.m., 311 West Engineering.
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and Christmas party, today, 8:00 p.m.,
Rumpus Room, League.
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THE GIFT HORSE
Today's column is about Christmas gift suggestions, and I
suppose you think I'll begin by suggesting Philip Morris. Well,
the joke's on you. I'll do no such thing. Why should I? Anyone
with two brains to knock together knows that Philip Morris
makes an absolutely smashing Christmas gift. Only a poor
afflicted soul with atrophied taste buds needs to be told about the
new Philip Morris; its bracing flavor; its freshness, lightness,
pleasantness, gentleness; its truth, its beauty, its brotherliness
in this discordant world of ours. So why should I waste time
telling you what you already know?
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Let us, instead, turn to less obvious gift suggestions. Here's
one I bet you never thought of:
Christmas is the best time of year, but it is also the beginning
of winter. How about a gift that reminds one that though winter
has come, spring is not far behind? I refer, of course, to Easter
chicks. (Similarly, on Easter one can give Christmas chicks.)
Next, we take up the problem, common to all undergraduates,
of trying to buy gifts when you have no money. To this dilemma
I say-Faugh! It is not the price of the gift that counts; it is the
sentiment behind it.
Take, for example, the case of Outerbridge Sigafoos. Outer-
bridge, a sophomore, finding himself without funds last Christ-
mas, gave his girl a bottle of good clear water and a nice smooth
rock, attaching this touching message to the gift:
Here's some water
And here's a rock,
I love you, daughter,
Around the'clock.
And the whole delightful gift cost Outerbridge less than a
penny!
I am compelled to report, however, that Outerbridge's girl did
not receive these offerings in the spirit in which they were
tendered. In fact, she flew into a fit of pique, smashed the bottle
on the rock and stabbed Outerbridge with the jagged edge. But
the experience was not without value for Outerbridge. First, he
discovered that the girl was not his type at all. Second, he learned
how to make a tourniquet.
But I digress. Let's examine now a common complaint of
Christmas shoppers: "What do you get for someone who has
everything?"
To this I reply, "Does he?" Does he, for instance, have a
unicycle? A sled dog? A serf ? A burnoose? A hairball? A bung
starter? (The bung starter, incidentally, was invented by two
enormously talented men, Fred Bung and Otho Starter. Their
partnership thrived from the very start, and there is no telling
to what heights they might have risen had they not split up
over a silly argument. It seems that Bung was a firm believer in
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