P lqe Four SCARLET AND BLACK Friday. April I9. I963 Inl‘erchange Beiween Hislorians Toyiiliee, Voegeliii Quilted; By John W011" Asst, News Editor A [File "philosophy of history" has never existed but is Di‘QSV 0,, to handle but are less ilkC-‘l ently being formulated, claimed Dr. Eric Voegelin during an in» tcrchange with Prol, Arnold Toynbce last Monday in Herrick chapel. , Also commenting on the nae, lure of a philosophy of history, ,rezility that is going on in tllelllic realm of conscmusncss ncccs-t Toynbec stated that the prob lem in the development of such{ a philosophy is discovering the. “relation between phenomenal and the mind which is aware oil them." , What comprises an historical time unit7 was another question, Toynbee answered that there! are diilerent units for lot politics, for example. ii-outd'in the subconscious. Iprobably require dilTel'ent units, formin may be thc ciiusc ot 0n the same subject, noted that larger units a Toyiibce rc haid. 1y to cause distortion in answer to another ques tion, Vocgclin said that the term “challenge and iesponse," which was coined by Toynbcc, was a usetul suinmai-y oi “the world." Commenting on the “pattern“ that is evident in history, Toyl-le bee said that although such a pattern is discernible. it will nonetheless be impossible to predict the luture because of the change in human life. To justity the idea or a pattern, dilierentlToynbee explained that psycholsA'al'iables that purposes. Growth of religion and ogists have tound a unilorinityltrolled, This ilni» the otherwise pai‘adUXical “pair ‘tci-n." Vocgelin wasn't sure that th .unilormily at the subconscious llerel would be of any help to :historians since it doesn't lend litselt to further analysis Toyn bee concurred and noted that, lto bring the subconscious into, fsarily means that something isl lest in the tr nslcr ‘ Can ns determine who , ther tin indivldt ls control Dancers (left to right) the pattern ol history! was thc,iilltl Betsy Slil'litzile rehearse Jfinal question In answer, Voegc-leolicert. Pel'i‘ornlanc lin claimed that no individual is able to control the pattern sim- night‘s concert. Léslie Silver, Marty Burke, for this weekend's Ol'cliesis will be 211 8 in“. tonight and to- morrow in Roberts. Ditliyl'ztmb will be open fitillowing to- ,ply because there are too many can't be con. A Grinnell College audieneel Monday was told that since the. human mind cannot take in that universe as a whole, man's. patchwork mental picture oi the universe must be a mis— leading picture of the indivisible reality. The speaker was Arnold J.] Teynbee. visiting Heath profes- sor of history. in the iii-st of a series of tour lectures on “The Philosophy ol History.” Mr. Toynbee said: "Owing to this imperleoted. ness of our intellectual powers, we cannot avoid partitioning. our mental map of the uni- verse into disciplines, “Human affairs are merely one discipline, Yet human af— fall's cannot be undci-stoodprop- erly except as an inseparable, part of the indivisible universe which includes all the nonchu- man phenomena too. Man, like other living creatures, is in- separable trom his total en- vironment, and is unintelligible it not studied in his environ— mental setting" Using “The lndivisibility and Unpredictability of Human At— fairs” as his topic, Dr, Toynbee, pointed out that the study ot human altairs is broken down, into a number or sub-disciplines such as psychology, anthropol— ogy, sociology, history, etc. I “We cannot avoid dividingl human affairs up into compare, merits and concentrating on some single compartment," he‘ said, “but we must never let ourselves take the dividing .silcli events Show that. lines between the seriously, “The partitioning into disv cipiines has been haphazard and unsysteinatic. But even if it were rationalized it would still be an obstacle to understand. ing.” Although he argued that we should study the universe as a whole all of the time, the his disciplines _torian conceded that, as human beings the humanities have the tirst call on us, “The proper study of manv kind is man," he said, “in the sense that the first business on our agenda is to live with olli’~ selves and with each other If we lail in this, we cannot suc- ceed in anything else Human affairs matter supremely to us, because they are our affairs " Asserting that “challenge and response" is a more realistic rormula than "cause and ettect" when dealing in human attairs, the historian said that in hu- man allairs, unlike astronomy, the iuturc is unpredictable be» cause at every encounter there is not a pie—dctcrmined result, but a treedom of choice—that is unpredictable by natui , Al'ter citing scrcral “unc peoted events in human, his tol'y," Dr. Toynbcc said that in hu- man attairs, we cannot predict the iuturc. “On the other hand," he said, when we look back over our records oi the past, we do tind regularities and recurrences in tact a pattern. 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It 15 We Umflscnior women which recognizes congcmhsness and Will are the‘high scholarship, leadership and distinctive tcatures of I‘ltll‘ltai‘l‘senyipe nature, but it also has its stlb~ conscious sidc, governed not by rational choice, but by ii-ra»; tional cniotion :bers are tapped ”In any individual human lJe-i ' ing there is a perpetual strugJ gle tor mastery between these two elements in him, and be. tween individuals there are not only conrlicts or feeling but ale 0 so ditterences oi opinion andcor S ReVISed conllicts oi will. ' "Wills in contlict sometimes cancel each other out, and then A the issue is decided by thcchacc torces of the unconscious. The will Kunconscious is a part of human iii-st timt: Saturday, April 27, nature like consciousness anddn inoie than 300 communities will But. unlike these, it is un- .acruss the nalion. der the rule of natural law OII the kind that governs non3f"lsectiolis Beth tcsts are non- icu ai- si ua ion. is on y 111‘ . , , retrospect that we can see thatlmmpcm’l’e’ Applmms “ 1“) some things in human allairs, ‘00“ “‘9 1°"é'er '9“ do "01 "Ccd have iollowed a pattern. The to take the new one. ‘pi-csuniption is that the lumen: scious did have the deciding; ,to reconcile a patterned past with an unpredictable future?” ”Perhaps the clue lies in the In keeping with Grinnell trae every spring llewiand Corps Placement be administered for the Test the iorincr exe tour to eight The new test will be given at room in these mega ‘mo a,ln. and should be taken ,by all new Peace Corps appli— lcants for one or the 4,000 open- ings in 44 countries Training ,Library Conlesl ‘ . ‘Closes Tomorrow 1235:?“ “‘ “y “d A” l . . The deadline lor the Collegel To be eligible ‘0 take the «am, candidates must ‘Personal Ll ~ai-y contest is til-I either ‘morrow. This contest. sponsored have submitted a questionnaire by “Ml-V} Worth "77' ‘5 0p“"‘to the Peace Corps or must to all seniors. i .. . ._ The contest, to determine what‘bung ‘1 C°"‘P1°l°d quesm‘mm‘e senior student has the mostim “‘6 195‘ SW With [hem complete personal library. oileisl Lcsmnmim and ,he 10% .a first prize ol $25 worth of‘ Q' ’ books For iurthei- iniormationl“°"_°f ”19 “am 5““ “my be consult Maurice Boatinan (assoejOblamed from the campusPeace ciate librarian), lCoips liaison otticer. GOOD FOOD REASONABLE PRICES Dine in a relaxing atmosphere in the MONROE HOTEL CAFE "Open to 2 A.M." dition, new Mortar Board mCmr‘ much shorter— lNew Morlar Board Members Rea/it --A Patch War/t Picture; Tip—Top-Tap throughout a Sunday dinner— ‘hour. After dinner has begun, ,this year's Mortar Board mem— bers, dressed in academic cap -and gown, will enter the dining ‘hall and circle the room, search— ing tor the prospective mem- ‘bers, Eventually. each new inicmber will he spied and tap. lpcd. Tapping occurs when an ‘active Mortar Board member removes her academic cap and places it on the head of a jun- lior woman, Each junior wom~ {an who is tapped will be in— lvited to join the table where the active Mortar Board n'lel'i'i< ,bers and their advisers are seated. , Until she is tapped, no jun- l ior woman knows that site i has been elected to member- ship in Mortar Board. Following dinner, a reception livill be held in Main Lounge ,‘in honor or the new inembeis. Then, tor three consecutive days, they will wear academic caps and gowns- on campus ,‘lrom morning until dinnei‘~tilile. ‘lFoi'mal initiation of those tap- ,ped will occur in one week. At that time. oitlces will be as- ‘signed to the new members, Present Motar Board mem- bers arc Lynda Bl‘ayman.Fran- ces Hollal-ch Peg Martin. Carol ‘Mlllcl', Nancy Lee Norton, Myl'» ‘na Sumption, site Toengcs and Carolyn Vest Advisers to Mar— tar Board are MISS Evelyn Gardner, Mrs. Grant 0. Gale, Mrs. John R, Kletllsclimidt and Mrs, Andrew P. Debicki. This year, national Mortar Board is ‘Celebi'atillg its forty»fifth anni~ .vei-saiy. l iCoop Cages Crew ‘as Budgel‘Group , Susan Coop, new South cam- i‘pus social chairman. has an. tnounecd the members or the ‘woinen‘s social budget commit— itee for next yCai'. ‘ l Members are Anne Hart, Ann lMillc-r, Dudi i-lolcher, Barbara Piaget; Becky Rcetz. and Prue lNoui-sc. Also working on the lcomniittee are Margie Ehrig, lreprcscntative from the lash- iion board; Marilyn A. Nelson, IAWS Board treasurer, Mai-y "Hcrman. Quadrangle music ,‘cliaii-inan; Mrs, Robert Hare- iman, adviser; and the Quadran- ‘gle kitchenette chairman, who is iyet to be chosen. For next year. the committee ,u-ill organ e the Quad Open lHouse, Women’s chk, and oth— lcr social activities.