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THE DAILY NEBRASJCAN
Wednesday, April 13, 199
Dear Editor:
Norman W. Lundberg, in a letter to the editor of The Daily
Nebraskan" of Wednesday, April 6, expressed his opinion relative
to recent changes in the basis for scholarship honors. He should
be gratified to learn how nearly correct his logic is. He states two
reasons which he thinks may have been the basis for the change,
neither of which, in his judgment, is sufficient. His first suggested
reason was to make the Honors List more exclusive. This was not
the reason, although the list may be shortened as a result of the
changes. The second suggested reason was the ease in computing
eligible students. This reason comes more nearly accounting for
the change.
The University Senate was informed by the Registrars Office
that the task of preparing the lists for Honor Convocation had
become so great that it was almost impossible to accomplish it and
that the suggested changes would help. Sufficient data were avail
able to show that no great change would result in the number
of students recognized from any college. Space will not permit
the presentation of this data and an analysis of the same. A few
of the most salient facts are: In no one of the senior classes of
1948-1949 in the six colleges, Agriculture, Arts and Science, Business
Administration, Engineering, Pharmacy and Teachers, is the per
centage of students with grades above 7.00 less than ten per cent
of the class in that college. Mr. Lundberg had misgivings about
the Engineers in which College approximately seventeen per cent
of the Seniors have grades above 7.00.
C. W. Smith, Chairman,
Honors Convocation Committee
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European Recovery Program
passage appeared to be certain in
the House of Representatives
Tuesday. The total amount re
quested by President Truman
would, by all indications, not be
trimmed in any way. All efforts
that have been tried so far to
cut the amount have been beaten
off and Speaker Rayburn pre
dicted other efforts will receive
the same treatment.
TRUMAN again asked for
speedy ratification of the North
Atlantic Treaty as he sent the pact
to the Senate. But Congress was
asking for more details concern
ing the cost of arming member
nations. Truma.i carefully side
stepped this phase of the pact, but
it is believed that he will give a
full report on it sometime in the
future.
DOUBLING of the old-age pen
sions under the social security sys
tem was urged by the CIO Tues
day. Led by President Philip Mur
ray, the CIO said the present pro
visions were shockingly inade
quate.
EXCESSIVE overwork and fa
tigue were given as the causes
for the hospitalization of former
Secretary of Defense Forrestal in
Maryland. His son gave reporters
the details. The 57-year-old offi
cial retired at the end of last
mcnth.
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An effort to find a way of life
which will give meaning and
beauty and direction to living . . .
the combination of science with
idealism to let hope walk with
the mind.
This is how humanism was de
fined by Albert Haydon, head of
Chicago University's department
of comparative religion, at a con
vocation Tuesday.
"The humanist," the white
haired author and lecturer said,
"feels perfectly at home in his
universe. Memories of his long
ancestry linger in his muscles and
in his cell6. The same stuff that
makes up his body and brain is
that which makes up the farthest
universe.
"WE (THE humanists) are
bearers of the planet's life . . . re
sponsible bearers . . . creators of
the future. While science is push
ing back the circle of encroaching
darkness, the humanist prefers to
work and live in the light rather
than speculate about the un
known." It is humanism, Haydon said,
that will unify the four currents
of the old Christian church, the
influence of Renaissance idealism,
political democracy and the sci-
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ences. When the church separated
from culture at the end of the
13th century, Haydon explained,
culture was left without a sense
of responsibility toward the com
mon human cause.
"The tragedy of the Western
world," the speaker said, "is that
these four currents were never
brought together so that we have
a single culture. The result is that
every phase of our culture has
gone its way without responsibil
ity to the human ideal.
"The humanist makes an effort
to build a way of life that will
unify these currents. He asks,
'What do we know?' and on the
basis of knowledge builds his in
terpretation oi the world."
SCIENCE does three things,
Haydon said. It gives an inter
pretation of the universe, of man's
history in the universe, of the his
tory of culture and an understand
ing of human nature.
"Science," he continued, "is
not only knowledge but nwer . . .
to purify and cleanse the earth,
to probe into the intricacies of
the human mind and heart, to re
lease the possibilities which make
for harmony."
Finally, he said, science is
method. The objective of science,
he explained, is to present a dem
ocratic way of meeting any prob
lem. "The humanist," Haydon said,
"must maintain a scientific atti
tude. He can't be arrogant in re
gard to other points of view. He
puts full responsibility in man . . .
has f.iith in man creating a good
society in which man can live."
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