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What Are We Here For?
At this mid-year point at Oregon, it is interesting to stop for
a minute, and ask, “What are we here for?" Certainly most of
us have no complete and definite conception of what we are
‘ here for, even though we may feel we are pretty sure.
Many will disagree, saying simply that we're here for an
! education (a possible answer). But what’s an education?
It’s not memorizing the first act of Macbeth, the formula
for determining* marginal profit, the circumference of the
Neanderthal man’s skull, the dynasties in the history of
* China, and the number of members of the English parliament.
If it is, then none of us are going to be educated within a few
months after our graduation.
It’s not absorbing various ideas and trends of history, al
though that’s a start.
It’s not taking in what others have to offer, in bull sessions,
but that has its contribution to education.
We’re not here just for a four-year play, although the lighter
■ side of college also helps to provide an education, in a broad
sense of the word.
Well, what is education?
It’s not an easy word to define, and there are probably al
most as many definitions of it as there are persons wishing to
define it. But education, to us, means that a person has seen
enough, done enough, and absorbed enough that he has some
idea of what he is doing, why he is doing it, and what is gener
ally going on in the world.
Everybody gets an education. Going to college doesn’t give
it to you; it only helps make one’s education a little fuller, a
little more complete. And, for all practical purposes, it may not
even do that for some.
But it can help a person to know something more about what
he is doing. Because, although “The great end of life is not
. knowledge but action,” as Thomas Henry Huxley observed,
the end isn’t action for the sake of action. The educated man
acts with a reasoned purpose—he has some idea of what he is
doing and why.
There is no such thing as the perfectly educated man. If
there were, he would be a deity, and we haven’t seen any
deities walking around campus. But a person can do his best
to become more educated, a process that doesn’t end until
death.
That doesn’t mean getting his head crammed more and more
full (which means more and more empty) of facts. As William
Cowper wrote, “Knowledge is proud that he has learn’d so
much; / Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
So whether or not we can know for sure what we are really
here for, it is possible to benefit from the fact that we are here.
The chance for more “education” is worthwhile enough to snap
up. In the flowery words of William Ellery Channing, “The
hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain/ If learning’s altar
vanish from the plain.”
The Folger's Generation
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“This is the last time I assign committee reports—The one today just
dismissed class to have coffee.”
CAMPUS BRIEFS
• The Student Union dance
recorded music publicity commit
tee Will meet today at 4 p. m. in
SU 336, according to Stewart
Johnson, chairman.
• Dr. Robin Overstreet, pedia
trician, will speak on "Develop
ments in Poliomyelitis” tonight
at 7:30 in the Student Union. Dr.
Overstreet is being sponsored by
the International Council for Ex
ceptional Children.
• Students may apply now for
positions on the Emerald advertis
ing staff, according to Valera Vi
erra, advertising manager. Appli
cations may be obtained at the
Emerald advertising office in the
quonset next to Deady hall.
0 Deadline for submitting news
for the Campus Merry-go-Round
has been set at 5 p. m. Wednesday,
Emerald Living Organizations Ed
itor Mary Egan has announced.
Living organizations are asked to
bring typewritten copies of news
for the column to the Emerald
shack. News of pinnings, engage
ments and newly-elected house of
ficers may be included in the re
leases, she said.
• Members of Kwama, sopho
more women's service honorary,
will meet in the Student Union at
6:30 this evening, Janet Gustaf
son, president, has announced.
• Leo Harris, director of ath
letics, commerided students Mon
day for the fine spirit, yelling and
sportsmanship at the Oregon-Uni
versity of Washington games last
weekend. He also praised the ral
ly board for ita work.
Campus Calendar
11:45 Traffic Ct 110 SU
Noon Theater Exec 112 SU
Deseret Cl 113 SU
Soc Staff 114 SU
Art Gal 313 SU
1:00 Sr Cl Asbly 138 CW
6:00 Tarffic Ct Din 110 SU
6:30 Kwama 113 SU
6:45 Yng Repubs 114 SU
7:00 IVCF 334 SU
Christian Sci Ger 1st fl
ICEC Dadsrm
Verissimo Stresses
Pan-American Unity
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are deteriorating. His people, he
said have the old resentment that
poor people have toward rich
people. The Communists have
made many people believe that the
United States is trying to keep
Brazilian industry from develop
ing, while it exploits the country.
An out of balanco monetary ex
change which make American
goods in Brazil extremely expen
sive (ex. a low-priced American
car costs up to $15,000) haa ad
ded bitterness, he said. Verissimo
criticized his government, ex
plaining that many American
loans never reach the people due
to political influence.
Prejudices Hinder Relations
Americans who go to Brazil
with a superior attitude, and Bra
zilians who come to the United
States "with a pocket-full of ready
made conclusions looking for sit
uations to fit their conclusions"
do not help mutual understanding,
the speaker cautioned.
Verissimo jibed at money-consc
ious Americans and their expres
sions — “Time is money, like a
million doll ars," and "crime
OSC Invites UO
To Post-game Event
Oregon students are invited to
attend the Oregon State college
AWS carnival Friday night fol
lowing the Oregon-Oregon State
basketball game in Corvallis, ac
cording to Jeannette File, Oregon
State AWS publicity chairman.
The carnival, following the
theme “Mother Goose Midway,”
is scheduled to begin at 9:30 p. m.
Friday in the Oregon State arm
ory.
Booths built by various Oregon
State women's living organiza
tions will represent such story
book characters as “Humpty
Dumpty," “Jack Be Nimble" and
"Old Mother Hubbard." Games
and prizes will be offered at the
booths.
General admission to the event
will be 30 cents and tickets may
be purchased at the door, Miss
Elle said.
doesn't pay.” "Wc consider mon
ey vile,” he said "but don't get
me wrong, we like it too.”
Americana don't understand our
political instability and revolu
tions he said, explaining that Bra
zil will never have political sta
bility until it obtains economic
stability.
The speaker chided Americans
for their tendency to glamorize
life. “You call gardeners, tree sur
geons; men who kill rats, exter
minating engineers; and those
who take care of the dead, mor
ticians.
When asked for the Brazilian
reaction to Senator McCarthy,
Verissimo replied: "Very bad,
very unfavorable, we consider him
un-American.
Population Still
Moving to West
iJPi—People still seem to be fol
lowing Horace Greeley's advice to
"Go west, young man.”
Greeley gave this advice during
the last century—but the people
ure still coming west, according
to a new study by the census
bureau.
The pattern of population shift
ing west during the past three
years is much the same as that
between 1940 and 1950, the bureau
reported. The southern states, the
Northeast and the Dakotas are
still losing population.
Nevada, said the bureau, shows
the biggest percentage gain in the
past three years, growing from
160,000 to 199.999. Its percentage
gain in population was more than
24 per cent.
Second in gain was Arizona,
with more than a 20 per cent in
crease.
California's percentage, accord
ing to the census takers, was over
14 per cent; Oregon, slightly over
7 per cent, and Washington, al
most 6 per cent.
Oregon’s population as of last
July was listed as 1,630,000, while
Washington's was 2,520,000.
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