Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 8 January 1964 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1964

Only Few Colleges Adhere To Origin

By BYRQN K. TRIPPET President, Wabash College Written for the Indianapolis Times and Distributed by UPI Although there are mote than

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2,000 colleges and universities in America, fewer than a dozen of these continue to adhere to the original moaei of the American college. And Wabash College is

one of the few. The purpose of a liberal arts collges is simple: It is to provide educational opportunity for young men to develop a continuing and enlarging interest in the life of the mind and its associated virtues and so far as student Experiences are concerned, to do this within the context of the traditional aims and contemporary methods of the liberal arts and sciences. „ The rapid rise in college enrollments, the expansion of tax

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support for education to a massive scale, the prodigious extension t>f university facilities—these and other important influences are destined to change the face of American higher education drastically in the next 10 years. Precisely what these changes will be it is impossible to predict. But the pressures toward increasing uniformity among colleges and universities will certainly be great.

In the process many private colleges of necessity will become only quasi-privhte in 1 character and purpose. Almost tainly there also will be farther erosion of the conservative tradition of liberal arts. In view of these likely future developments, the perpetuation of d istinctive private non-tax supported liberal arts colleges becomes increasingly important. It becomes important not merely for the colleges them-

selves and the limited public which they may serve. It becomes important also for universities, particularly taxsupported universities, who can, if they choose, maintain within their diverse services, liberal arts programs of excellence, pie friction and competition provided for such institutions by sturdy pillars of strength such as Wabash, will strengthen the cause of liberal education generally and the society of free individuals which it historically

has nurtured. Today, perhaps more than ever before, colleges are needed which can encourage and assist young people to study the past with all its accomplishments and failures; colleges which seek to provide the kind of knowledge which can clarify the confusion of an age of apparently perpetual crisis; colleges where the students with the help of thoughtful teachers can gain new insights into themselves and, if they will, glimpse a new sense of direction for their lives; colleges which can cultivate habits of mind and traits of character which, come what may, will stick with them. The end of liberal education is not know - how, nor even knowledge. It is the liberally educated man, a man who from his study of science, history, and other forms of human inquiry has come to the realization that the problem of man is man. Liberal education has as its single aim the humane man. It may well have as its by-product a culture devoted to freedom. Waggish Reply On Federal Spending By DICK WEST United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — Rep. Morris K. Udall, one of Arizona’s wittiest Democrats, recently was asked by a constituent to explain his position on federal spending. He sat down and composed a waggish reply, which prudence kept him from mailing but which he nevertheless decided to share with his colleagues by putting it in the Congressional Record. ? — If, wrote Udall, his constituent was referring to “the billions of dollars wasted on outmoded naval shipyards and surplus air bases in Georgia, Texas and New York,” then he was against federal spending. But if the constituent had in ■mind the funds used to maintain the “Arizona defense installations so vital to our nation’s security,” then he was for it. If federal spending meant “the $2 billion wasted each year in wheat and corn price supports which rob Midwestern farmers of their freedoms and saddle taxpayers with outrageous costs or storage,” Udall opposed it. other hand, if it meant

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“those sound farm programs which insure our hardy Arizona cotton farmers a fair price for their fiber,” he was in favor of it. Udall continued in this vein at quite some length. It was all very amusing. Also familiar. In fact, it sounded amazingly like the reply given by Rep. D. R. (Billy) Mathews, D-Fla., when constituents ask for his views on whisky. If they are speaking of the devil’s brew that wrecks homes, softens the brain, causes liver malfunctions and otherwise leads to the ruination of man, Matthews is against it. But if they are speaking of the cup that cheers, that soothes jangled nerves, elevates the spirit, promotes good-fel-lowship and otherwise rwkes life more pleasant, Matthews is for it. At first, I suspected Udall of stealing Matthews’ material. Investigation disclosed, however, that it didn’t belong to Matthews. He got it from Rep. William L. Springer, R-111. and Spring, I’m told, got it from another congressman about 10 years ago. All of which brings up the issue of what constitutes plagiarism. My views on that are as follows: If by plagiarists you mean those sneaky, unprincipled columnists who steal stuff from me and brazenly use it under their own bylines, I’m against it. But if you mean alert, honest columnists like myself who rescue deserving bon mots that might otherwise be lost in the backwaters of literature, I’m for it 100 per cent. o < Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee 0 0 Leaky Brick Wall In brick veneer construction on a house’s exterior, a small space is left between the bricks and the house sheathing. If the brick Staks, water will get into this space and may get past the sheathing and spoil the inside plaster. The best treatment is to find the leaks in the wall and repair them, but until this is done, drill small holes through the brick mortar joints at the base of the wall. These holes should slant up, so that the water behind the wall will drain outside.