| Show The Chronicle editors have asked a good a journalism faculty member from Arizona State University at to write today's opinion Edward H. prominent free-lance and photographer is the advisor of the Arizona State the AS student one of most impressive and colorful figures at the recent Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association Conference titled his column the In the springtime on any campus what is the all-pervading subject of student No You're wrong Its This is the season of traditional misty-eyed memory Dear old alma mammy The best years of our lives Where will we all be twenty-five years from I there is a slackening of such Perhaps the present genera- of collegians were brought too abruptly at too early an age face to face with the hard realities It's a little difficult to wallow in a cozy cocoon of dreamy youth when the L whole world is engaged in a grimly real series of cold and hot A college education today is no longer an idyl thing of boyish gay close and lazy summers at the Its a down-to-earth You get that you amass that knowledge so you can get a job and A college degree today is as much a necessity for making a decent living as a high school diploma was 25 years Today's college teacher is constantly under the fill the insatiable maw of industry with and mature That's the I'm of of the hectic race in which the Free World is engaged to catch up with the Communist World in things atomic and As a journalist I'm deeply concerned over the outcome of that and as a I like life and freedom just as much as the next Yet at the risk of sounding like a square pedagogue in a hound role I'd like to sentimentalize a bit for the ivy-clad days of long Away back then there was a certain value attached to things Long-haired people were not those who audiences by fracturing themselves over rock roll They were the the They were the leaders of campus thought of the thought of their I'll grant the long-hairs of some generations did pretty poor Under their leadership the world was inundated in and the The laurels of the generations of 50 years 25 years 15 years consist of two world wars and innumerable like the rape of the Spanish Civil and the Korean police if we have a bigger if our armed forces are stronger than anyone's the balance of power in the world will be But what kind of world is it when neighbors live in such mutual hostility and No matter how strong we become no matter how productive we are industrially and what have be accomplished while such basic problems remain these answers aren't coming from Throughout history human progress has been measured in contributions of great human misery in contributions of The they all had bigger and they left the world in a bigger But Paul of Thomas Francis of Ralph Waldo William Bach The list goes on and on These men's works are not now embalmed in history Their thinking live on because their effort was to lead men in paths of beauty and the was the greatest He so simplified eternal verities that even a little child could purely I When the bombs are all where do we turn for the What saves the world for your kids and If an answer it will have to come from a from a in this season for its time to sing a sigh a little for mankind's And resolve henceforth to spend at least as much and national income to develop a generation of philosophers as to beget |
