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Is This What the World Needs?
Just as generations before us have searched, we today are
looking for a panacea for the world s ills. Discussion groups,
lecturers, publications continually settle upon the question,
“what, exactly does this old world need to wipe today’s sorrow
from its soul ?”
When Dr. George Taylor, Far Eastern expert from the Uni
versity of Washington, was asked a question like this one dur
ing a coffee-hour on the Oregon campus, he said he thought
maybe a spiritual revival was what we needed.
But what, exactly, is a spiritual revival?
Billy Graham, the Billy Sunday of today, has repeatedly said
that we must have a religious revival of the world. Is the key
in his type of religious revival which has attracted such large
crowds across the country ?
The return to religion has been the subject of several books
and magazine articles in recent months.
And now, in this Religious Emphasis Week on the campus,
representatives of four faiths have been asked to come to the
editorial page and help answer that question—just whs.t is a
spiritual revival?
Director Dave Seaman of Wesley foundation on the camp
us gives his answer today from a Methodist s viewpoint. Be
fore the week is finished, we’ll hear from a Catholic, a Jew,
and a Congregationalist—all leaders in their religions.
Maybe, by the end of this week and these articles, we’ll no
longer be asking “what, exactly, is a spiritual revival.” Direc
tor Seaman and three others will have told us.
A Junior Jump to College
Pacific University has come up with a plan—possibly a good
■ one, and certainly one that bears consideration.
A limited number of outstanding juniors in high school will
be permitted to enter college during summer and fall to obtain
at least one year’s education there before the draft grabs them
up. ....
The plan is an outgrowth of the military training program
for 18-year olds now awaiting congressional action.
There are a number of crinks to be worked out.
Such as—will the high schools agree to let some of their
superior juniors make the direct jump to the college level?
And there are other considerations:
We wonder whether it is advisable for a student to inter
rupt his education at the end of high school or at the end of one
year of college. Many argue that the “natural break is at the
end of high school.
However, in light of present world conditions, the student
today, perhaps should cram in as much education as he can
before he goes into the service. No one can predict what course
the student will take when he gets out of the service—and the
more education he has behind him the better.
Moreover (and incidental to the above), schools following
this plan will be able to keep registration up and the enforced
firing of some faculty members due to decreased enrollment
will not become necessary.
We wonder how the high schools will respond.
And we wonder whether the students will accept the idea.
But we are sure that this University, along with others,
should givt! consideration to the merits and demerits of ad
mitting superior high school Juniors—and decide whether it
is appropriate for Oregon.—T.K.
THE DAILY 'E* ...
goes to both Athletic Director Leo Harris for arranging
high class halftime entertainment at the basketball games
in Mac Court and to John Warren’s scrappy Web foots
for defeating Idaho twice.
THE OREGON LEMON ...
to vociferous fans who booed and cat-called opposing
players as tliev approached the foul line in the weekend
srames.
Spiritual Revival—Discovery of Self
(This is the fitst of four articles written for Re
ligious Emphasis Week by church leaders in an
swer to the question: “What is a Spiritual Re
vival?”)
By DAVID SEAMAN
Director Wesley Foundation
In our modern society man has discovered
that he’s quite a guy. He can build anything
from a Golden Gate Bridge to a mechanical
heart. He can contrive a thousand ways to
make a dollar. He can get just about any
thing he wants. He is sufficient.
“Sufficient” means enough and when a man
has enough he doesn’t need anything more.
In this state of mind man negates the rele
vancy of a God, a loyalty to powers greater
than himself, and of course he is not interest
ed in anything as ethereal as the “spiritual.”
However, there is a chink in man’s modern
armor. He hasn’t quite mastered the art of
getting along with himself. So he buys a mil
lion copies of “Peace of Mind,” And he does
n’t get along too well with others like him
self so he reads avidly “How to Win Friends.”
And in spite of his intellectual fortification he
is still suspicious of his neighbor’s motives,
continues to be “practical” in business, still
puts his faith in bigger and more armaments
and wonders “what in hell is wrong with the
world?”
He is a blind man. All about him are evi
dences of another world, a world of beauty
and sensitiveness, a world of the spirit. It’s an
indefinable something' that is hard to meas
ure or account for, so he tries to ignore it by
becoming too busy to deal with it, or too
drunk to remember it, or too stupid to under
stand it. '
He is only half a man, being blind. His spir
itual half needs resensitizing. He needs to an
swer simple questions such as ‘why? . He
needs to rediscover that he acts from mo
tives not divorced from his emotions, his
likes and dislikes, his fears and prejudices.
Man needs to break down and admit that he
is a human being, endowed by a creator with
that creator's image, a spirit, a driving, pow
erful, uncompromising force which can make
him a superman or an ulcerated idiot. He will
choose.
If he had the courage of his convictions of
his better moments man would break with the
herd and become his real self. If he became
his real self he would discover values, and
the comprehension of these values would lift
him out of his meagerness and he would be
come God’s man.
If he became God’s man he would find a
leader and a companion in the Carpenter^
Nazareth. Together, man and this Christ
would venture forth to new adventure with
confidence in the ultimate realities and mean
ings of the universe. Man would experience a
new birth of freedom; he would indeed be
come a “living soul.” This would be his spiri
tual revival.
Sky’s The Limit
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1 Cousin Sam Draws Word Picture
I Of University of Oregon for Yo-Yo
By Sam Fidman
Dear Cousin Yo-Yo,
I was most happy to receive
your letter last week. I certain
ly have the time to answer your
request. First, however, I’d like
to inquire about the crops. I un
derstand there was plenty of
rain, and so took it pretty much
for granted that the corn grew
tall.
Now, in regards to your re
quest for information concerning
the University of Oregon; I pre
fer not to advise you definitely
whether to enroll herp next au
tumn. It might be better if I de
scribed what it is like here, and
then let you decide for yourself.
Physically, I believe that you
would like the University. There
are lots of new brick buildings,
and more on the way. The setting
is quite beautiful, as the campus
nestles in the fringe area of the
Willamette valley. Frotn the ath
letic fields you can apprecite
the rare setting, with forested
hills and buttes forming inspir
ing backdrops.
Another aspect that you should
like Is the attitude of most pro
fessors here. The school is ju6t
the right size so that you can re
ceive individual aid from the in
structors, and I have yet to en
counter one who was too busy to
talk over your problems, whether
they are of the classroom or per
sonal nature.
However, dear Yo-Yo,.there are
a few drawbacks.
Here is a brief rundown: by
the time you are an upperclass
man, and “of age,” you will not
be able to take a glass of beer
anywhere near the campus. Also,
when you arrive as a freshman,
you are forced to live in a Uni
versity dormitory,' and you can
only look at freshman girls (this
may not last); they are restrict
ed to quarters except for week
ends, and since the trend is away
from individual liberty of the
student, there is no reason to feel
certain that weekend restrictions
won’t be imposed.
You might wonder, Yo-Y,o,
whether all this has happened
with the blessing of the students.
It has not, of that I am sure.
Lots of minds are tenderly em
braced around the possibility of
military service, hence are crip
pled in fighting against the pris
on bars which are being erected
about us.
I think there should be some
forum composed of interested stu
dents, and administration moguls,
whereby the opinion and reaction
of the students could be brought
into the picture. That would be
like letting the students have a
part in what is supposed to be
their university. By interested,
Yo-Yo, I do not mean those who
are interested in “petitioning,” a
“small” device I shall tell you
about another time.
If you go into the service be
fore starting college, you will
come back with a horde of “G.I.s”
and I know that you will not tol
erate totalitarian legislation. You
will kick hell out of those restric
tions, and they'll be changed—or
you will go off to a “free’ uni
versity. Write soon, Yo-Yo, and
let me know what you decide.
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