Friday, Seplember 27, I963

SCARLET AND BLACK

Tom Phillips

Forum For Descent

The academic year 1963164 hulls its way into
tull steam here at Grinncll college, and with 1t
the annual assault on Truth; this pioiect can
only he termed one oi the most ambitious evei
taken err in the g1oves oi aeademe,eompa1ahie
only to events such at Notre Dames dc emphasis
oi ioothall or Eton’s revolutionary Modified 1‘1an

ing plan.

Students, as well as Faculty and Administra-
tive personnel lake part actively in the “Tluth
Piogi-"am, :is it is iondiy known. Some oi the
outstanding events oi the year involving the
entire college community are: the Junior Lib-
eral Arts Examination, the Inter-Semester Vora—
cious Reading Period, and, of course, the Inter—
Diseiplinary Seminar on Everything.

Since this is a topic so vital and so dear to
the hearts oi all t1 ue Grinnellians, I thought per.
haps many people would be interested in the
intimate ins and outs oi oui Quest. item the
lips of those men most intimately i111olted with
it So, last week I conducted a hypothetical in-
teiview at the Summit as it were. with The
Truth Chairmen, rroiessors Crunch and Craws
stick of the Philosophy Department, A partial
summary toilows:

Me: Gentlemen. I am very interested in what
you ich your final goals to be

Crawslick: Truth. That’s our goal.
Crunch: Perhaps this should be elaborated.

Me: Yes, per aps.

Crunch: Well, what we are reaching tor is a
world view that will incorporate the theories
of all noted philosophers and thinkers through—
out the history or civilization. Collatine them,
you see, complementing one view with another,
perhaps opposite view, and then fusing the
'Synthesis oi the two with a third. perhaps still
contradictory philosophy. Our bibliography con—
tains more than 300,000 volumes and articles at
1M5 date. and as He watch it. grow, we feel we
are watching an evolution oi great. import, to~
ward a tinal compromise that may at least one

lighten the world.

Me: I see. Proiessor Crawstiek, many noted
philosophers and thinkers. especially in our Mod—

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ei-n Eta, havc put ioiu aid the theory that Truth
is not something that can he ohiecti1ely knuvt 11,1
but that it e.11sts only tiitlitn the individual
mind. What would you say to this type oi zlrgliv
mont"

Crowstich; in a word, Truth.

Crawstiek: Ah yes, Kierkegaard, Existentialrt
is1n, Suhjcctivism. Let me say this, that no mat»;
ter how much we may disagree with this Soi‘l‘
oi thinking, we are neglecting none oi the.
theories put iortli along this line: we can't afford
to. Kierkegaard. Camus. even Sartre are being
collated and givcn equal weight with all the}
others. The dialectic. you see, can only come to;
its iull iruition through the synthesis oi anti—l

theses.

Me; Thanh you. Dr. Crunch, do you lielierel
in Codi ‘ l

Crunch I don’t know yet. Prodigious lllouglil

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stages. l
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Me: How many years do you expect it to1
take boloic wc can hope ior 'idclinite answer‘

on this question” 1

Crunch: There is much to be done At a Cons;
servative estimate, I would say ten years beiorcl
we can ofier even a tentative statement,

MC‘ Di' Crawstiek, May 1 ask you what sub»;
divisions you have created 111thin the wide)“
scope of your work?

Crawstiek: Certainly. The Nature oi Man, the
Order or Things, the Order oi Nature, the Mean
ing oi Meaning, the Nature oi Order. the Order
or Order, the Nature oi Things, the Language3
oi Man, the Meaning of Language, the Modes of
Order, the Order oi Man. the Man oi Order, the
Judgment GI Value, the Place oi Art, the Order
oi Language, the Nature oi Learning and the
Man oi Nature.

Me: Thank you very much. One last question7
When you gentlemen at last arrive at a cons
cliision, do you expect that it will eliange the
lives of all men?

Crunch: Well, I don’t. know about that
Ci'awstick: It certainly will change our lives.
Crunch' Hah’dhal‘iahahaha, Vl’e'll retire}

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