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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1960
National Library Week
Professor Wonders Why Talks
Attended When Books Offered
Editor's note: National Library
went is oemR onserven April j-h
with the theme, "Open Wonderful
New Worlds Wake Up and Read.1'
Articles on books and reading are
being distributed by various media
In cn-operaUon with the sponsor
ing National Book Committee, Inc.
The following artirle on "How to
Learn History," was written by
Garrett Mattlngly, author, lecturer
and professor oi r.uropean nmtory
at Columbia University. .
By MAHGARETT
MATTINGLY
(Distributed by UPI)
For a good many years now
I have been giving lectures
about history four times a
week to groups of mostly
graduate students. I often
wonder why anybody comes.
Even more often I wonder
whether their coming has
anything to do with their
wanting to learn about his
tory. It's not that I, think I am
much less competent than
average. I even dare to won
der, now and then, why peo
ple keep -on attending the lec
tures of my colleagues, many
of whom are very competent
indeed. On the whole, the
history department I belong
to has a good opinion of it
self, but none of us, I am
sure, believes for a moment
that we play in the same
league as the team across the
way.
Across the way, on the si
lent shelves of the library,
waiting to teach history to
anyone who asks them, are
all the best historians since
history began from Herodotus
to S. E. Morison.
Story Told Straight
There are the men who saw
it happen and tell the story
straight, like Joinville and
Ernie Pyle. There are the dip
lomats, the wranglers, chat
tering endlessly in print about
what they heard and said and
did to make up for all those
self-imposed spells of diplo
matic silence.
There are propagandists of
glory like Caesar with his
tricky air of soldierly blunt
ness, and statesmen explain
ing what they tried to do, and
why things didn't quite work
out. There are speeches and
letters and state papers,
Oliver Cromwell's, Abraham
Lincoln's, Winston Chur
chill's, which are the warm,
living pulse of history, and
there are the philosophic com
mentators, Hegel and Toyn
bee and the rest, eager to ex
plain what everybody ought
to think about it all.
Also, inconspicuous in the
library is the best the local
talent has to offer, droplets
brought to the ocean of his
tory, little handfuls of facts
it has taken each of us a life
time to gather, tiny phials of
what we hope is wisdom,
painfully distilled.
Of course we don t wink of
competing with the great
team across the way. Our
main job is to introduce them,
to persuade our students that
history is not a collection of
neatly labeled facts, pat
judgments and cant phrases,
but all that man remembers
and guesses of his rich, in
finitely modulated, many tex
tured past, and that the clues
to that past are mostly be
tween the covers of books.
Magnificent Library
We try to teach students to
stop listening and start read
ing. There is a story about
one of the great teachers of
my youth. Archibald Carey
Coolidge is said to have be
gun one of his seminars by
saying, "Gentlemen, I can
not teach you anything about
history. But we have a mag
nificent library here. And
you can go to that library and
read, and read and read, and
browse, and browse and
browse." Whereupon one stu
dent who had crossed the
continent to join that seminar
arose indignantly and went
down to South Station and
bought himself a ticket home.
He had not come 3,000 miles
to be told to read.
I have always hoped,
though, that, if he was really
interested in history and not
just in getting some letters
behind his name, he remem
bered that expensive bit of
advice and came to realize
that it was worth what it cost
him.
Even in the middling li
brary of a middling town he
could have found a faculty
many times better than any
university ever assembled,
and enough history for a life
time of study. History has to
be learned from books.
Lent Described as Appointed
Period tor Spiritual Exercise
By THE VERY REV
BASIL S. GREGORY
Rector. St. Constaniin Greek
Orthodox Church Chicago
Written for UPI
Lent is an appointed period
for spiritual exercise, which
looks for a carthasis of our
soul and body, a new growth
in faith, a return to Christ
and living with Him accord
ing to His saving command
ments. It was the practice of the
ancient church to instruct the
catechumens, the newly-converted
persons to Christian
ity, during Lent, in order
that they may be ready for
baptism on Holy Saturday and
thus be able, in the newness
of their life, to greet the risen
Christ on Easter Sunday.
Neew of Preparation
Also, during Lent, the early
church emphasized the need
of preparation to all Chris
tians, in order that they might
more worthily meet the risen
Lord, and reestablish their
life in the life of Christ.
For this reason, as Chris
tians, we are called upon dur
ing Lent, to repent and work
for our growth in spirit and
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church tells us that we can
accomplish this by medita
tion of our Lord's life and
sacrifice and imitation of his
example, but also by a period
of self-examination and spir
itual rebirth and rehabilita
tion. Spiritual Valuation
This is accomplished much
easier if we are able to trans
fer our human attention from
material need and desire to a
spiritual evaluation of life
and eternity.
This is the purpose of Lent
today; to guide us back to
Christ by living in Christ, or
as in the words of St. Peter,
"Grow in grace and in the
knowledge of our Lord and
saviour Jesus Christ?'
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