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EMINENT GUESTS LEADKENYONS SYMPOSIUMCan the “language’ of science be made more accessible to creative intellects in non-scientific disciplines? Do the natural sciences operate without regard to ethics, morals, or traditional values? If so, does the great accumulation of scientific knowledge imperil the existing order? These will be among the questions attempted to be answered by the members of Kenyon’s Symposium on Communication between the Arts and Sciences, on the 27th and 28th of this month. HP ^ LrProfessor Charles Ritcheson has assembled a distinguished group of experts in the arts and sciences. British writer Sir Charles P.Snow, a member of the panel, has treated the problem in The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, a book which has been cussed and discussed by members of the faculty and the Freshman Class.sadtf1;IIRepresenting the scientific point of view will be Alan T. Waterman, director of the National Science Foundation, and Edward Teller, professor of physics-at-large at the University of California and associate director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. Dr. Teller’s role in the development of thermonuclear weapons places him in a position to discuss the moral aspects of science.The humanities will be represented by Brand Blanshard, chairman of the Yale University department of philosophy until his retirement last June, and James S. Ackerman, professor of fine arts at Harvard and a distinguished art historian. Moderatorof the panel will be Philip Wien-.er, editor of the Journal of ihe History of Ideas. ]There wiU also be nine Associates of the Symposium who wiU lead discussions of the papers presented by the members of the panel. Two of these. Professors Daniel Finkbeiner and Raymond English are members of the Kenyon faculty. Another associate, | John Crowe Ransom, is no stranger to this campus, having served here for many years as professor of English and as editor of the Kenyon Review. Two others, Colin Pittendrigh, professor of biology at Princeton, and The i Reverend Albert T. Mollegan, professor of New Testament language and literature at the Virginia Theological Seminary,!Ihave spoken here during the past year. Dr. Pittendrigh will be remembered for his fascinating lecture on “biological clocks,” last December. The rest of the associates are: Harold G. Cassidy, professor of chemistry at Yale; Milton Babbit, director of the Electronic Music Center at Columbia and Princeton Universities; Sidney Kaplan, professor of fine arts at Ohio State University; and Stephen R. Graubard, lecturer in history at Harvard, and editor of Daedalus.arLt• *utlnf;cV 1£VSir Charles P. SnowNiemeyer Ter meIn a Poignantby Barry Gorden, PresSurprise, uncertainty, rejection, in a sense, compassion: at least some who enthusislically launched Keny Friday night in Philo must have relt;to Notre Dame political scientist Gt sonal, at times verging on the my; and the West.Those who were prepared to find in the avowedly rightist specialist in Russian Studies a second coming of that aggressive and slippery master of conservative dialectics, Mr. Stanton Evans, were jolted by the old-fashioned semi-platonic idealism of the Bible-quoting Niemeyer who inveighed, in characteristic phraseology, against Communist “perversions of truth”; against that“scourging rod” of our civilization whose “evil shadow darkens even the light of our days,” and bemoaned our “forgotten knowledge of truth once known.A%*sA MAPP'a.scMUSICIn addition, the program will feature a recital by the classical guitarist Ray de la Torre, andan Exhibition of Contemporary | the future and the pasl. Sculpture opening October 20.Framed by a map of Europe at the time of the Crusades, a chance j juxtaposition which took on a real poignancy as the night wore on, the short, stocky Don brought Plato and Aristotle, as well as his favorite Isaiah, and even bestseller novelist Allen Drury into play against a highly colored version of modern Soviet ideology. The principal features of Prof. Niemeyer’s admittedly subjective! c( rendering of the Communist view- w point were:(1) The utter perversion of all I human values implied in the CP's struggle between what he calledlra]##(2) The culmination of this This symposium is the sixth struggle in the total destruction presented at Kenyon College | everything pertaining to ihesince 1946. Speakers at past con- present age; ferences have been Lionel Trill-aing, Barbara Ward, Amos Wilder, Douglas Bush, Marston Morse, Robert Frost, John Courtney Murray, August Heckscher, Hans Morgenthau, and the late Senator Robert Taft.(3) Out of this great epochal conflict will arise the first society in which man can really be himself — for Niemeyer's other -wordly eyes, this meant Gray s cool sequester'd vale of life/' aalt;Ld(IbtiOl01RwSViIVtes(
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Fri, Oct 06, 1961
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