THE CARDINAL
VOL. XXIX, NO. 17 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE, LOUISVILLE 8, KENTUCKY Thursday, Feb. 20, 1958
Student Preview
'"'~--u-~' Photo
Peggy Karem (1) and Don Logsdon look over Arthur Goodheart's speech.
Barbershop Contest
Deadline This Friday e./
The Annl!al Barbershop and Beautys'hop Quartet contest will
take place Wednesday, March 5, at 8 p.m. in the Playhouse. So
far, eleven campus organizations have entered.
Co-commission heads of the
Ways and Means Commission, the first and second place groups,
Beverly Hester and Ron Howard, both men's and women's.
lnt'nl Center
HostsllNATO
have announced that the follow­ing
groups have entered the
event: Chi Omega, Pi Beta Phi,
Delta Zeta, Phi Chi, Sigma Kap­pa,
Phi Kappa Tau, Lambda Chi ·
Alpha, Zeta Tau Alpha, Pi Kappa
Phi, Kappa Delta, and Navy
R.o.T.c. Atnbassadors Other organizations interested
in entering quartets are urged to
register in the office of the Deans
of Men and Women. The deadline
for entries is 1 p.m. Friday, Feb.
' 21. A $5 entry fee must accom­pany
the entry, which will be re­funded
if the quartet performs.
National Rules
Since the singing is done under
the rules of the SPEBSQSA, an
organization for the furthering of
barbershop singing in America,
the judges and time keepers are
representatives of this group.
Raymond Graft, president of the
o~ganization, is in charge of the
judging and entertainment, which
wili consist of community singing
and ""'ther barbershop quartets.
Judges Criteria
Judging will be based on ar­rangement,
voice expression, har-mony
accuracy, balance a n d
blend, and stage presence. Each
quartet will receive points on a
rating scale for ~ts performance.'
Each quartet will sing two
songs. There will be trophies for
Delegates from 11 N.A.T.O. Na­tions
will meet here this weekend.
Eleven of the fifteen membei' na­tions
of the North Atlentic Treaty
Organization will discuss here at
the University of Louisville Amer­ica's
relations with the countries
of Western Europe.
The conference is designed to
analyze areas of mutual interest
as military strategy and language
barriers, among N.A.T.O nations.
This conference is sponsored by
the University of Louisville Inter­national
Center.
The Ohio 1Valley Conference on
West European-Americ;an Rela­tions
is the first of its kind in this
country to be sponsored by a pri­vate
institution. The countries that
will be represented will be the
United States, Britain, France,
Canada, Belgium, Italy, the Neth­erlands,
Portugal, Greece, Turkey,
and Western Germany. The other
membercountries not represented
are Denmark, Iceland, Luxem­bourg,
and Norway.
The conference will open with
a dinner session on the "North
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Lecturer!
Kerst Visits
Physics Dept.
I>r. Donald W. Kerst, project
leader of the John Jay Hopkins
Laboratory for Pure and applied
science o f General Dynamics
Corporation's General Atomic Di­vision,
will be a visiting lecturer
at rthe University of Louisville
from Wednesday, February 26,
through Friday, February 28.
Dr. Kerst, w h o previously
served at the University of Illinois
as technical director of the Mid­westem
Research Association, will
visit under the auspic;s of the
American Institute of Physics and
the American Association of Phy­sics
Teachers as part of a broad,
nationwide program to stimulate
interest in physics.
The American Institute of Phys­ics
is a federation of the five
principal societies in the field of
physics research and teaching, in­cluding
the American Physical
Society, Optical Society of Amer­ica,
Acoustical Society of Amer­ica,
Society of Rheology, and the
American Association of Physics
Teachers.
While at the University of Lou­isville,
Dr. Keist is ·expected to
give lectures, talk with students,
and assist faculty members with
curriculum and research problems
in physics.
Dr. Kerst joined General Atom­ic
in 1957 as project leader of $10
million, four year program on con­trolled
fusion research, jointly
sponsored by the Texas Atomic
Energy Research Foundation, an
organization formed by the pri­vate
electric utility companies
operating in Texas. The aim of
the program is the understanding
and production of heavy hydro-lContinued
on page 3)
Educator Points Out
Teaching Weaknesses
American Educational System Victin1
Of Not Giving Students Fun(lamentals
Arthur Lehman Goodhart, mas­ter
of University College at Ox­ford
told University of Louisville
students at a convocation last
Wednesday that "too many
(3,000,000) young people in this
country go to colleges and uni­versities."
Dr. Goodhart said that too few
of the British young people seek
higher education. He stated that
while American universities put
their emphasis on quantity, the
corresponding British institutions
put their emphasis on quality. He
pointed this out to be one of the
major weaknesses of the Ameri­can
educational system.
Knowledge for knowledge's sake
has been the theme of American
education according to Dr. Good­hart.
"The purpose of our uni­versities
should be to teach
enough facts and how to use them
and a method of thought. Uni­versities
should teach the student
to ask 'Why?' and not merely
'How?' If we merely learn how,
we are not advancing on the past.
When ask why, then you are aim­ing
to the future."
The lack of fundamentals in
American education has been
brought glaringly to the front
with news events in the past two
years. The crucial blow was
struck just last year when Russia
put the Sputnik in its orbit. Only
then was the American public
awakened to the work being done
in the Russran schools.
Sputnik was not of practical
significance as much as it was a
symbol, said Dr. Goodhart. "We
had been warned that the Rus­sians
had made gn~at advances
in education. Once again the
American people had underrated
them.
"In ten or fifteen years we will
have a serious problem; we must
pool the knowledge of the west
in order to compete or even surge
ahead. The real danger is not that
bombs may fall on us, which is
extremely unlikely. but that Rus­sian
education may eclipse us in
other fields. They will become
our competitors in every field.
"How have the Russians done
it? I would pick the answer in
the field of sports. Twenty years
ago no one heard of the Russian
athletes except the horsemen. The
Russians studied the fundamental
principles ami trained very hard
in adapting American techniques.
This same principle was applied
to the educational system. They
assumed that the mind can be
trained the same as the body.
"Now we must reconsider the
problem of education in our
country. A child cannot forsee
the future. We must give them
the fundamentals and there is
no other way than to require
them to do the work.
(Continued on page 7)
Scholar Cross Spoke
For -Religious Week
Religious Emphasis Week draws
to a close this Friday. This year
the Religious Council took as its
theme, the Dead Sea Schrolls. On
Tuesday evening and Wednesday
morning Dr. Frank Cross, Jr., of
Harvard Divinity School, a noted
authority on the subject, spoke to
DR. FRANK CROSS, JR.
the public and student body on
the religious aspects of t h e
schrolls.
This was followed by the an­nual
religious emphasis luncheon
held this year at the Baptist Stu-dent
Union Building, with a ques­tion
answer session afterwards.
This lecture series is sponsored
by Mrs. Mary Belknap Gray in
memory of William Belknap.
Lectures of this type are for the
liberal religious thougl!t of today.
Other activities during the week
included film strips on the "Major
Religions of the World." These
were presented at noon on Mon­day
and will be presented to~
morrow in the Natural Science
Building, Room 109. Tuesdays
events included a travelogue of
the Bible Lands and a conference
of "Love, Courtship and Mar­riage."
· Dr. Cross, a native of Ross,
California, holds degrees from
Maryville College and McCormic
Theological Seminary. He was the
holder of a Rayner Fellowship at
J otlns Hopkins University and
was awarded a Ph.D. there in
1950. He is now an associate Pro­fessor
of the Old Testament at
Harvard Divinity School an~ one
of the best known authorities on
the Dead Sea Schrolls.
In 1953 Dr. Cross spent con­siderable
time in Hashemite King­dom
of the Jordan on the Arab
side of Jerusalem examining the
Schrolls. He is now planning to
publish some sixty-five manu­scripts
which were found in cave
four of the Dead Sea area.