THE CARDINAL UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE'S OFFICIAL WEEKLY PUBLICATION
VOL. XXV
Houchens Announces Schedule
For Senior Gown Fittings
John ~1. Houchens, Registrar, announced that Mr. R. E. Harr
of the Collegiate Cap and Gown Company will be here to make
measurements for the academic costumes for graduating seniors
on Wednesday and Thursday, April 7 and 8.
It is of the utmost importance
that all candidates for degrees
and certificates see Mr. Harr, ac­cording
to Houchens. The schedule
will be as follows:
For Medical School students;
Wednesday, April 7, 2:00-4:00
p.m. in the Dental School Lib­rary.
For Bachelor of Arts, Gradu­ate,
Kent School and School of
Business students Thursday,
April 8; 8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in
the nook in front of Room 100 in
the Administration Building.
For Bachelor of Science, Law
and Speed School students;
Thursday, April 8: 1:30--4:00
p.m. in the nook in front of
Room 100 in the Administration
Building.
For DAE and Night Law stu­dents;
Thursday, April 8, 6:30-
8:30 p.m. in the nook in front
of Room 100 in the Administra­tion
Building.
For Music School students;
special arrangements will be
made and you will be notified.
All arrangements and obliga­tions
for the costumes will be
between the student and the co­pany.
No money is required at
the time of measurement. Stu­dents
will pay when they receive
their outfits just before the bac­calaureate
service.
The rental prices of the outfits
are as follows: for Associate de­grees
and certificates (Cap and
Gown), $2.50; for Bachelors de­grees
(Cap and Gown), $2.50; for
masters degrees (Cap, Gown and
Hood), $6; for M.D. degree (Cap,
gown and Hood), $7; for D.M.D.
degree (Cap, Gown, and Hood),
$7; for Ph.D. pegree (Cap, Gown,
and Hood), $7.
For anyone receiving a bache­lors
degree who has a previous de­gree,
the cost will be increased
by $2.50 which is the charge for
the hood.
The cost of the outfits is not
chargeable to the Veterans Ad­ministration.
Glueck . Will Address Convo;
Second In Religiof!s Series ·
An official University convoca­tion
at 10:00 a.m. next Tuesday,
March 30, in the Playhouse, will
feature Dr. Nelson Glueck, Presi­dent
of the Hebrew Union Col­lege
- Jewish Institute of Re­ligion,
Cincinnati and New York,
as guest lecturer. Dr. Glueck will
be the second in a series entitled
the William R. Belknap Lectures
on Religion and the Modern Uni­versity.
The fund for these speak­ers
was donated by Mr. Belknap's
daughter, Mrs. George Gray.
Born in Cincinnati in 1900, Dr.
Glueck attended the University of
Cincinnati, received the degree of
Bachelor of Hebrew Letters at
the Hebrew Union College, and
was ordained as rabbi in 1923.
The following year he was in
attendance at the University of
Berlin and Heidelburg, receiving
in 1926 the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy at the University of
Jena, Germany.
In 1928 Dr. Glueck was ap­pointed
the Morgenthau Fellow
at the American School of Re­search
in Jerusalem. Returning
to Cincinnati, he was awarded
the degree of Doctor of Laws at
the University of Cincinnati in
1936 and received the Cincinnati
Fine Arts award in 1940. The de­gree
of Doctor of Hebrew Letters
was bestowed upon him in 1947
by the Jewish Theological Semi­nary
and Institute of Religion,
New York City.
A member of the Central Con­ference
of American Rabbis, the
Arch a eo logic a I Institute of
America, the American Oriental
Society, Sigma Xi and Phi Beta
Kappa, Dr. Glueck has uncovered
more than 1000 ancient sites in
Palestine and Transjordan, and
thus has brought new understand­ing
of the Bible.
A frequent contributor to re­ligious
'and scientific periodicals,
Dr. Glueck has published several
books. Among them are Expla­nations
in Eastern Palestine. in
four volumes, The River Jordan
and The Other Side of the Jor-dan.
These last two volumes have
been translated into Hebrew.
THURSDAY. MARCH 25. 1954
TrUde For West Europe
Is Plea of Silvercruys
U.S. Imports Are Not Equal To Exports
"Western Europe needs trade, not aid"-and the United States is
in a position to take the lead in increasing trade by lowering tar­iffs,
said Baron Silvercruys, the Belgian Ambassador to the U.S.,
in an address to ·an official convocation in the Playhouse last week.
Listing other means by which
trade could be increased, the Am­bassador
said ·that "European eco­nomic
stability depends upon eco­nomic
stability in the United
States" and therefore a "steady
and progressive reduction of rates
is needed to get sound trade con­ditions."
Asks For Imports Increase
Leading up to this, Baron Sil­vercruys
said that the vastly ex­panded
export trade from the U.S.
is not equaled by imports into the
U.S., which is the only way to
support the good done by exports.
"To help the economic, military,
and political unity in the Western
European countries, some adjust­ment
must be made," he said.
"Imports must be increased
into the U. S. in order to sustain
imports into other countries, for
an economic change for the worse
in Western Europe would greatly
hamper the common cause-mili­tary
strength. If military strength
increases while economic strength
decreases, we won't be any strong­er;
... we must increase economic
strength too."
"Intertwined with the whole
tariff problem," · he said, "is the
barring of contracts to foreign
firms ... "which "deprives the U.S.
of budgetary savings and deprives
Europe of badly needed dollars
... " needed to buy U. S. food­stuffs.
Baron Silvercruys went on to
say that an increase in private
U.S. investments abroad would
greatly help the economic prob­lems
of the free world also.
The Ambassador, who was the
guest of the International Center
on campus, stated that an adjust­ment
n the placement of "off-shore"
procurement orders was
Davidson States
Utilities Tunnel
To Cover Campus
The monstrous ditch presently
being dug across the campus is a
part of the University's improve­ment
program. The ditch has been
termed by President Davidson
"the tunnel to end all tunnels."
When completed it will mea­sure
6 ft. by 6 ft. and "will cover
the entire campus."
The tunnel will house water and
air conditioning pipes and phone
and electric wiring. Facilities for
these utilities are now separate.
Their unification will render un­necessary
the constant digging of
smaller ditches, for which the
campus is notorious.
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FORMS FOR the concrete walls
have been built for the tunnel be­ing
constructed across the cam­pus.
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ON THE RIGHT, is a picture
taken from Brigman Hall. show­ing
a 'steam' shovel digging 'the
big ditch.'
-(Photos by Spitzer.
necessary to help both the United
States and Western Europe.
"Acquisition of basic materials
by the U.S. depends in varying
degr~es on foreign sources even in
peacetime," he continued.
Long Range Plan Needed
The United States has made ef­forts
to build stockpiles of these
vital materials, he said, but a long
range plan is needed. Long-term
contracts for exchange of surplus
of agricultural goods now for fu­ture
delivery of basic materials by
the Western European countries
will help to decrease U.S. agricuL
tural surpluses, provide for these
basic materials, and help the Uni-·
ted States' allies.
Baron Silvercruys mentioned
the North Alantic Treaty and the
proposed European Defense Com­munity,
which Belgium has rati­fied,
as examples of the efforts
toward unity by the free world.
"Belguim realizes that unity
and integration is the only effec­tive
solution to the problems that
face the world today," he said,
and it is nearing the day when
Europe will unify politically, too.
U S Help Appreciated
These advances have been made
possible through the help of the
United States and this help is
definitely appreciated by Free
Europe, said the Ambassador.
Quoting Abraham Lincoln, the
Belgian Ambassador said, "The
house divided against itself can­not
stand," but he went on to say,
"We have the will and the capac­ity
to solve our problems; ... in
strength of unity will be the hope
of peace."
Cardinal Needs Reporters
Reporters and other workers
are needed by The Cardinal. De­pendable
persons seriously inter­ested
in journalism have been
asked to contact the editors.
There will be a meeting of all
staff members, including new re­porters,
and persons enrolled in
the Journalism Workshop, next
Thursday at 4 p.m. in The Cardi­nal
office in the basement of the
Cafeteria.
NO. 22
Dean Williams
Leaves To Fill
Egyptian Post
Dean Howell Williams of the
Kent School of Social Work will
go to Egypt next month where he
will serve as an educational ad­visor
to the Egyptian Government.
Dr. Williams, on a year's leave
of absence from the University,
will leave early next week for
DEAN HOWELL WILLIAMS
Washington D. C. where he will
receive a two weeks orientation
course before departing for Egypt.
He is stationed in Cairo. His wife
and daughter will accompany him
to Egypt.
Dean Williams is being sent by
the United States Foreign Opera­tions
Administration and will
work with the Egyptian Ministers
of Education and Social Welfare.
Among the undertakings awaiting
his aid are the reorganization of
social work training and the es­tablishment
of a national school of
social work.
Dean Williams has been with
the University of Louisville since
1947, having previously served on
the faculty of the University of
Southern California.
Miss Mathilda Mathisen will
take over the deanship of Kent
School during Dr. William's ab­sensce.
Professor Mathisen who
now heads the Medical Social
work Department of Kent School
is the senior faculty member of
Kent School and has acted as dean
on previous absences of Dr. Willi­ams.