Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1948 — Page 38

PAGE'S’ Dean of American Educators Dr. William Lowe Bryan Sees Bright Hope For Future, but Is Fearful of War

By RICHARD LEWIS Rg The elderly dean of American educators looked into the blaze of golden sunlight streaming through the windows of his living room. He spoke of hunger and history, of atomic war and a dark age. ii” Outside, students moved in easy going groups through light and shadow, churning up. the red and russet leaves on campus walks. There are 14,000 students now at Indiana University. certain times. Yet I see no reason “When, I was a senior, there for it. were 200-21 in my class,” said| “Let me tell you why I say Dr. William Lowe Bryan. “That this." was quite a long time ago.” “ He leaned back into the shadIndiana's president emeritus ow of the chair, so that now the leaned forward in his. chair to/amber light illuminated the car-| speak of something that has been pet at his feet. There was stillin his mind for a long time. His ness in the spacious living room| cheeks were ruddy in the late|/With its severe, polished furniture. sunlight. . “There are two chapters in the Over.the Years North and. South) From wer of a lo te |America. That sounds like a he Rub he 10 ar te Joug 1 of|Proad statement, but you will) * Indians University and placed ft See it in perspective of the rise of In the first chapter, the Euro- | American civilization n‘the Mid-Pean touched these shores. As| dle West. he penetrated the wilderness, he| “It is part of a vast movement lost touch with his own civiliza-| that anyone can see,” he said. “It(tion . .. with the great music, the| represents the second chapter in|literature and the science. American civilization, a move-| “He forgot itin a way. Then he ment so strong that only one|became hostile to it. He rejected | thing can stop it in this country|it.” --a devastating war.” No Time For Culture Dr, Bryan, spoke of the future| Occupied by the necessity of beset with the possibility of a|wresting a living from the AmeriBW Sark ge it such a war can forests, men had no time for No Reason to Despair “So many of our modern poets write only of despair,” he said.|a classroom lecture voice. “I|ing to the institutions of higher politicians “That must be ‘expected in un-|have been told and it should be|learning.

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GRAND OLD MAN—Dean of American Educators, Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president emeritus of Indiana University, believes |e man's hunger for learning is civilizations guarantee of survival in |@

the cultural heritage of the Old |verified that in 1876 in this state, “In 1850, this state approved | {the Republicanf and “Democrats free public schools by a majority . “Example,” he said sharply in passed a resolution to give noth- of only two per cent. In 1870, high »

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ot re 7 Leh Sut. 3.7 ne eee td a head pt ct, 2 Ean SL, cel | readin ue with the remark that if you odue|crortd 32 or A pamting he still bright with the last amber a t I course there, That cate a boy, you spoil him. at the State Fair. His flare of the sunset. joren bet 1 Bulldi name was Willam M, Chase and| “Once thé tide started, it began history of the conflict between W One "€ _ 'he became on the | to rush,” he said. “By 1900 nearly Athens, the democracy, and “In 1880, the high school $ of the greatest ery county seat had a high Sparta, the autocracy, has a re. pupils attended in one building inAmEGIN piinters, he ge & Indianapolis. Up and down Indi- + You see, the tide had tion in the world today. ana, the politicians were cam. Started back, to the heritage of": Jodisua, today we can count| “I tell you the evidence is that paigning against a state sup-|the past. Wherever there was algg 0) students if we include our the primary hungers are here, in ported university in 1885, {man with a hunger to know more, |oxtension centers which are part us, those natural hungers for “That was chapter one. |to create something artistic, there oe tp University. You see how/complete enlightenment, And “It would be impossible to say Went the tide. >

- t of the whatever happens, they cannot when chapter two began. These "It came by littles. A few weit {Ti8. Unitersity s,8 yar be extinguished. cHapters in our history overlap. |!0 Vienna to study. It was the| «Now that we are in the midst “These things cannot die, and

In the deepest back woods, there resurgence of the hunger men] chapter in I am filled with hope for the could be found at any period of 8Ways have felt for learning. our history: ‘only a. terribly de- future.” Ume a poet or a scholar, and Those hungers that had made structive war can halt this tidal In the fading light, the white. today there are still the un-|clence and art in the old world wave of education haired mentor slowly, nodded. ed. were still alive here, “We have the Great Books ¢ “Whatever comes to us,” he “But gver here in Nineveh in Dr. Bryan “paused, Brittle courses. I am told that in Rich- said.

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