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Show 'Individual Influenced5 Says Hoyle Varying and different views of "Individualism in the 20th Century" Cen-tury" were told to the symposium sympo-sium audience Wednesday afternoon, after-noon, by Dr. Fred Hoyle and Mark Van Doren. The symposium was in honor of the inauguration of President James C. Fletcher and brought these two men together to present pre-sent the opinions of men of both letters and science. Dr. Fred Hoyle, a learned scholar of astronomy and Plu-mian Plu-mian Professor at Cambridge University, began the seminar after being introduced by Dr. Daniel J. Dykstra. Hoyle began by defining the term individual, as "a chap who goes his own way without much worrying about it." But he found that this didn't quite exemplify the true meaning, because no man can ignore his environment. "No man," he continued, "bears the closest resemblance to what he would have been if he were to have been cut off from his environment at birth." And because of all the people we meet while we are growing, the world has become more versatile. ver-satile. His question then was that in the 20th Century, has man reached the highest point of versatility possible? And yet with this versatility, "we feel that some other form of social behavior may be better. He then stated that both China and America feel that things could be better. But that if there was an ideal way, "it would have been found long ago." With this search for a better way, also comes the restless and status seeking society, and the only way to get anything done is to move with the big organization. organiza-tion. And with this big organization comes the loss of the individual. "I don't k n o w," said Hoyle, "where the answer lies, or if there is an answer," to this menace men-ace on the individual." |