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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1953
Only The Young Can Cope With The
yy Strange Silence /y In Modern Education
(Ed. Note: Following is the
complete text of Dr. George D.
Grice’s address to the Newberry
College graduating class of 1953.
Dr. Grice is President of the Col
lege of Charleston.)
The Strange Silence
I should like to be understood
as addressing personally and col
lectively each and every member
of The Class of ’53 before me. The
old people out there may listen
If they are not too bored—but if
the strange silence in higher edu
cation is to be broken you young
people will be the effective agents.
The old people represented by
President Kinard and myself are
rather hopeless in effecting the
needed changes.
I entertain a suspicion that my
presence here today is an accident
—or at least the result of a de
plorable fortuituous circumstances
which laid low on the flat of his
f>ack the distinguished president
of this respected institution. I
knew that my good friend. Presi
dent Kinard, had the courage to
tackle a buzz saw, but I thought
he had more intelligence than to
dispute the right-of-way with a
product of General Motors. While
he was recuperating his commit
tee extended the invitation to me
and I promptly accepted while he
■was hors de combat and I am
happy to be here.
I have been attending com-
mencements for 43 years. The im
portant people are the graduates
who are eagerly waiting to grasp
that “skin” you love to touch
"the sheepskin.”
Speeches on these occasions are
little noted nor long remembered.
It is not what I say here that
counts—it is what you, the Senior
Class of 1953 of Newberry College
—do that will make a difference in
South Carolina in the years ahead.
I^est I forget it, let me- congratu
late you sincerely on having com
pleted successfully the course of
study and wish you God-speed in
the power and the glory and in the
trials and tribulations of the life
jmd challenge that will be yours
In years ahead. And what is this
life ahead of you?
“Whirl is King—having driven
out Zeus”—“Whirl is King . . .”
—spelled w-h-i-r-1, in case you do
not understand my Gullah accent.
Walter Lippman noted this quota
tion from Aristophanes hi the in-
the introduction to his book—“Pre
face to Morals.” Or to put it dif
ferently (the story of sign over
Whirlaway’s stable in Lexington.
Kentucky).
But, my young friends, you do
not have to spin like a top to
keep up with the whirl—you do
not have to drive out Zeus—and
you do not have to bet on the
horse races in order to admire
Whirlaway’s descendants. The
choice is yours, your choice is free
to be made by you and that is my
plea to you today—to analyze the
strange silence and to do some
thing about it.
The strange silence is the ab
sence of interest in or discussion
of quality in higher education in
South Carolina now in June, 1953.
This strange condition was fore
cast before the turn of the century
in that strange City Columbia, S.
C. by a stranger poet—J. Gordon
Coogler, when he wrote: “Alas, for
S. C., her poets are fewer. She
never was much for “literaturer.”
Since 1900, S. C. has seen a trend
to quality, an upgrading, if you
please, in many areas of human
endeavor—roads, agricultural pro
ducts, manufactured goods.
Roads—I do not have to docu
ment the improvement, the quality
or the upgrading—the advertise
ment that the S. C. Highway Com
mission places at the entrance on
all roads from other states is
enough; it reads: “See the best
state over the best roads!”
Agriculture—Contoured, fertiliz
ed, diversified — cattle pastures
where scrub grew. Bo mechanized
that if Lady Godiva rode a plowing
mule in South Carolina, the rural
population would stop to stare at
the mule and not at the Lady. Ro
tation of crops, agricultural agents
—but I need hot labor the point of
up-grading hor of quality—you
know the story.
Manufactured goods — from a
limited number of rough cotton
products to an unlimited number
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of finely finished products is the
enviable record of the textile in
dustry. Some products are so fine
ly finished that they have to be
censored. I refer to the Slick
Chicks of The Springs Mills in
Lancaster. From the one cotton
fiber we have upgraded our prod
ucts to include many fibers natur
al and synthetic. I need not labor
this point either.
But what about education in
South Carolina. Have we improv
ed the quality—or upgraded the
product? Let’s take a look at the
record and the problems that we
refuse to face, much less solve.
(1) The high-school graduate.
He is more numerous—yes—but is
he any better. No, I do not think
that he is as well-prepared as he
was 20, 30, or 40 years ago. I am
not talking about the upper 5%—
The upper five percent will edu
cate themselves in spite of poor
teachers or no teachers at all.
Twenty years ago we spent $18,-
! 000,000 on public education in
South Carolina. This year we will
spend 80 millions. Why not quali
fy? I do not pretend to know the
whole answer—but a little history
of how we ran off the educational
track might be pertinent. Up to
about 1916 all colleges had pre
paratory departments. Rise of The
Southern Association and 1 keeping
high school students in college for
four years. Both kept the faith
for about 20 years then each
began to sell the other down the
river. The High Schools cheap
ened and weakened the high
school diploma and the colleges ac
cepted sub-standard freshmen and
instituted a qollegiate dishonesty
called “Remedial Courses” all in
the name of numbers and patriot
ism.
In addition to the lack of in
terest in competent freshmen and
in the quality of college instruc
tion, what other strange silences
should disturb you young people?
(1) The gradual elimination of
the private independent and
church-related college by the
steam-roller of state taxation and
competition. Need I document
this point for you? The recent
legislative authorization of four
and a half million dollars in a
building program plus—plus bor
rowing by bond issue on future
tuition fees an unspecified amount
of money. Yet two state colleges
last year had unoccupied dormi
tory quarters. Despite these facts,
the State Legislature steadfastly
refuses (L should say the Senate)
to define the function of the State
Colleges and will not require each
state institution to stick to its
last. All the state colleges are
all things to all men.
(2) The Sales Tax: Last year
Wofford College ran a $20,000 de
ficit and paid $17,500 in sales
taxes. Multiply this figure by 16
other private colleges and we are
contributing about a half-million
dollars from our measley budgets
to public education and to our
competitors—The State Colleges.
In regard to the Federal Govern
ment, their inflationary policies
(now happily being checked)
have halved our income from en
dowments. I should like to ana
lyze the R.O.T.C. for you, but time
does not permit. Read what Presi
dent Dodds of Princeton said re
cently and see if we are not guilty
of “playing soldier” when Korea’s
trench warfare need the toughest
of the tough in training. In my
judgment education and military
does not mix. Let’s do one at a
time and do it well.
So much for paying my respects
to The Strange Silence regarding
State and Federal iniquities —
What else? Oh yes. Football! I
can, I think, sum it up in asking
a question: “What happened to
the big game hunter in Africa?”
The answer:
“He disagreed with something
that ate him.”
The colleges are in that exact
position. We have been eaten,
nay devoured by the Collossus
football—but we have only mildly
disagreed with “something that
ate us.”
If I' were in the legislature I
would vote for a rider on the State
appropriations to colleges that any
state college guilty of subsidizing,
in permitting to be subsidized an
athlete, would forfeit its appropria
tion. Why? Because by subsidy,
above board or underhanded, those
responsible are guilty, in my opin
ion, of compounding a felony and
contributing to the corruption of
youth, and of education. Suppose
that we had put all the enthusiasm
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1 REMEMBER”
BY THE OLD TIMERS
From E. C. Wyatt, Elkins, W.
Va.: I remember when a paper
bag was called a poke; when a
baby chick was called a biddy;
and when the old timers use to go
into the deep woods and get a
large knot, shape it up, bore a
hole through the center for a han
dle and use it to drive fence posts
or wedges in logs and split them
into fence rails. The wooden
wedges were called “gluts.” They
were usually made from dogwood
and well seasoned before using.
They were usually made during the
early winter months.
From Sirs. W. W. Thompson,
Bell, California: I remember when
I was a child my Dad had a cotton
gin. My brother and I had to feed
the sucker that took the cotton
from the wagon to the press. One
day my brother stuck his head in it
and it sucked his hat up and got
into the gin teeth. Dad had to stop
the gin and it cost him a lot of
valuable time.
From Mrs. Ellen Gustafson,
Omaha, Neb.: I remember as a
child when we use to carry in snow
in winter time to melt for our
baths which we took In the kitchen.
Those were indeed happy c! ys.
From Mrs. Clara Scheid, Ft. Re
covery, Ohio: I remember when we
bought crackers by the barrel,
made 30 gallons of kraut for our
family of four, and dug dandelions
out of our yard for 10 cents a day.
(Address contributions for the eolnmn
to Th* Old Timer, Community Press
Serslcs, Frankfort, Kentucky.)
and the money into quality of in
struction that we have wasted on
football. Why haven’t we done
so? Because we have not gradu
ated all seniors in South Carolina
since 1920, but we have graduated
Sophomores who stayed sopho
mores in adult life and never got
over the rah-rah stage. You know
the people I mean. They are the
ones who staged the panty-ralds
on womens colleges this spring.
The same crowd that took Prince
ton apart. Am I opposed to foot
ball? I love it. I want It taken
away from the gambles, the brib
ers and the subsidizers—yes and
from the alumni—and given back
to the students. It is one of the
few tough contact games left; but
I want to get rid of the evil of the
oval and have it played by stu
dents—not professionals.
There you are, my fine young
friends! Those are your problems.
If you think it is important to
break the Strange Silence and at
tempt to solve these problems,
instead of being ostriches witii
our heads in the hole, then speak
up as mature citizens of South
Carolina. Run for the State Sen
ate and break the road blocks
there. Talk, protest, organize—if
you believe in your birthright as a
citizen of this fine old state.
In any event—keep graduating
—not stagnating—be a Senior and
a graduate and not an eternal
sophomore.
Is Whirl King and Zeus gone?
Do we need to preserve The
Strange Silence? I do not believe
it and I have confidence that you
do not. God Speed and God bless
you.
PROSPERITY
NEWS
The college contingent from
Prosperity who have arrived for
the summer includes Miss Drucie
Connelly, Columbia College; Miss
Anne Bedenbaugh and Miss Joan
Hawkins, Winthrop College; Miss
Pat Wise, University of Ga.; Bur
ton Lewis, Clemson College; Miss
Phyllis Wise, University of S. C.;
Msses Beth Pugh, Clara Pugh and
Linda Hancock, Erskine College.
Thirty-one seniors will leave
Monday morning, June 8, for a
week’s educational tour. The group
will visit Williamsburg, Va., Wash
ington, D. C., Endless Caverns,
and Natural Bridge, Va. Supt.
and Mrs. C. E. Hendrix, Mrs. £•
A. Young will chaperone the group.
Mr. and Mrs. James Luther are
spending the summer with Mr.
Luther’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. D. Luther. Mr. Luther taught
last year In Calhoun Falls and Mrs.
Luther in Columbia.
Mrs. Frank McMillan, Jr. of
Latta is spending the week with
her mother, Mrri. Lillian W. Har
mon. Frank McMillan, III, who
is attending Dental College in
Louisville, Ky. will arrive Fri
day and go to Latta with his moth
er.
Mrs. George S. Wise of Co
lumbia spent Sunday with Mrs.
J. Frank Browne.
Miss Bertha Ruff of tb i Wood
ruff school faculty is spending
the summer at her home here.
Miss Elaine Busschaert of Now
York City is the guest of Mrs. Ray
F. Hook. ,
Mrs. C. S. Mills will leave Sun
day for a three weeks’ visit with
her children, Mr. and Mrs. W.
L. Campbell and Mr. and Mrs. W.
A. Camp in Greenville.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Sykes and
their two small sons, Johnny, Jr.,
and Steve left last Friday for
Lakeland, Fla., where Mr. Sykes
will play baseball for the summer.
STILL. CHAMP . . . Heavyweight
champion Rocky Marciano shows
manager A1 Weill punch which
dropped challenger Joe Walcott
in first round of championship
fight in Chicago.
Mrs. Joe Webster and her lit
tle daughter, Lois of Florence
spent the weekend with her moth
er, Mrs. Byrd Gibson and Mr.
Gibson.
Mrs. Tenny of Washington, D.
C. spent last Tuesday with Mrs.
Frances Spotts.
Mrs. J. Walter Hamm and Mrs.
Bill Leaphart attended a reunion
of their class at Winthrop College
Saturday.
Mrs. S. S. Bierley and Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Bennet of Ports
mouth, Ohio are visiting in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Pat E.
Wise. They came to be present
for the graduation of their niece
and cousin Miss Phyllis Wise at
the University of S. C.
Miss Katherine Counts, a mem
ber of the Greensbor^, N. C.
School faculty arrived Sunday to
spend her vacation with her moth
er and sister, Mrs. E. O. Counts
and Miss Ethel Counts.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Beden
baugh of Easley spent the week
end with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Maxcy Bedenbaugh and Mrs.
J. A. Counts.
Miss Myrtice Counts, who is
teaching In the Laurens school
system is spending her vacation
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.
A. Counts.
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Morris of
Newberry spent the weekend with
Mrs. Morris’ father, N. H. Vaughn
and family.
Sunday guests of Mrs. Gurdpn
W. Counts were Mrs. A. K. Ept-
ing, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reagin
and their son, Earl of Greenwood.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Foster,
who ar eteaching in the Columbia
City school system are spending
the summer with Mrs. Foster’s
mother, and aunt, Mrs. J. I*.
Counts and Mrs. Annie Hunter.
John Glass of Newberry Col
lege spent the weekend with Gor
don W. Counts.
B. T. Young attended the gradu
ation exercises of his grandson,
A. J. Richards, Jr. at Presbyter
ian College, Monday morning.
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