Show Founders' Day Oration Discusses War Aims Editor's In view of the fact that 80 many students of the university did not have an opportunity to the Founders' Day exorcises held February in Kingsbury the Chronicle is reprinting the oration by Shelby Arrigona dealing with education in war whole function of all education is to create a declared Bernhard Reich minister of education and culture for the people of on and and wherever the Nazi powers have usurped control they have done everything possible to accomplish this One of their principle acts has been the suppression and final elimination of for the Nazis are afraid of people who Wherever they have encountered resistance to their plans they have resorted to imprisonment and even the death of professors and students March marks the occupying of by the Immediately all Czech higher educational buildings were closed for at least three and those students who could not or had not secured manual labor within hours were shipped off to Germany to forced Poland felt defeat by the Nazi regime on Polish lands are to be changed into intellectual said the Poles do not need any university or One of the oldest universities in the at founded in was the first to Within two months professors were deported to concentration where 15 of world famous in scientific research died because of torture and ill treatment two went mad and the rest when released several months later were so broken in health and spirit that they will never again be of service nor of any value to the scientific American education has also felt the blows of the present war convulsive college and professional training of David Jones was terminated abruptly when the genial student body was The lure of a secretarial position with a salary higher than that of most beginning teachers took away Doris elementary Multiply these by many thousands and the answer is the present serious decline in college and university The present prevailing question I continue with And the best answer that I have ever read is contained in a letter from Lee Miller to his son there's a war It is a smart man's It isn't going to be won with plain Brains are going to win this yourself in physical Toughen yourself But you'll be smart not to count on your muscles alone carrying the load for math for Maybe it's but bear in mind that the navigator of a plane or warship or the man in charge of a gun crew afloat or ashore is as good as a goner without a mastery of If you want to become an bear in mind that an officer's job is not just leading his men into action where the necessities of diction may be of small but may involve also a great deal of necessary correspondence and paper Do you share these Are you as were the founders of this in the midst of to envision the future and work toward its |