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...Oslo to accept his 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 79, saintly medical missionary of French Equatorial Africa, stood in a shiny old black suit and eloquently pointed a way to peace for distinguished listeners, including Norway's King Haakon VII. His message: man can abolish war only through a revival of the same ethical spirit which lifted Europe from the Dark Ages. Said Schweitzer: "Man has become a superman . . . because he not only disposes of innate physical forces, but because he is in command, thanks to the conquests of science and technique, of latent forces in nature...
When the Student Council tentatively voted last week to abolish the Senior Class Day Committee, it behaved much like the quack doctor who decided to cut off his patient's toe because of a sore toe. Recognizing the evil in the election procedure for the Permanent Class and Class Day Committees is meritable, but the Council should make a more thorough examination of the problem before its final decision tonight...
Fifty years ago President Wilson wanted to abolish the club system as undemocratic. At that time one third of the upperclassmen were excluded from membership. Gradually the clubs have relaxed their restrictions and under administration pressure agreed to take a larger percentage of the college. This fall for the first time in the 100-year history of the clubs, every undergraduate who wanted a bid got and accepted...
...widespread support, the US should back them. Certain limitations such as the Vandenberg resolutions, in 1948 which would have outlawed the veto on questions of membership or the peaceful settlement of disputes, are desirable and would have a reasonable chance of passage in the senate. And a decision to abolish the veto would probably not affect the United States, for this country has always had enough supporters on the Security Council never to need the device. The USSR, on the other hand, would find its policies seriously impeded...
...Theater. "Human society is suffering and drying up for lack of a creed," he soon found himself saying. "The theater will take the place of the church . . . That's what I learned working with the Russians last summer. We've got to go further than they went. Abolish the proscenium arch...