Inge Six SCARLET AND BLACK Friday. Septemoer to. was Former Parking lot Attendant' Emphasizes Discipline, Ima ' The following is the text of Dr. Glenn Leggett’s Convocation ad- aress —— minus reminiscences. Students. (acuity colleagues. irlenda or the college. 1 am delighted to tie here 5 evening. to have the privilege or parking to you tor the tirst tiine as the resident at the college, and to enjoy hat i hope will begin a long series oi 'Iensanl meetings with you students. 'Meeuns" is n word 1 use in its happi- tt sense. when its purpose is under. landingr not argument. an interpreta- on which i ltnow the more experienced rnong you will talre to mean "he talks. e listen.” But you are also aware that irony is not a useiul attribute in eollege residents, and you will understand why am already in training to give it up. so et nie assume that this iirst meeting is e beginning of understanding. Certainly rent this vantage point you students oolt remarkably bright. and some oi you oh even goodnatiireo, suggesting dual ties which 1 interpret -— espeeirlly the utter a as hoperul signs or a lruittul had happy academic year. "Opening Noise" so much tor wllat the inhabitants oi at ooselescent institution called a bare er shop used to reier to as “opening noise." Let me say something aoeut my- Ielt. unlike most ol you. I come to Grin nell irom a long way oil. irom the re- Wild)! ci lized frontier town at Seattle. ashington. where the water meets the evergreens and the evergreens meet the log and where it takes two years to grow hair a stalk or lowa corn out only u fife teen-minute drive to catch a trout. in cattle l served the University or Wash- ngton as its provost Though two or hree peeple thought the title reterred to a substituie pnrklng lot attendant. find three or tour olllers to the eamous cop who paimlled the midnight bent on Greek stow. most people knew the prar v05! us a kind of “illbetweener.” Ell nea- oernie executive who represented the deans [D the Diesldent and KM President in the deans. whose duties involved 2Vr erylhinz {mm lisienlnls' to the deans In their budgetary prayersV whlch were perr slslent Mid alwlys lamentable. to htlplns them, look alter the academic care and reading at students. some of whom — quite unlike you i am sure ~ took to lh I books as I eat take: to Water and thought education had something to do with drowning themselves in the sweet Perinme oi oifrcnmims experiences. All mld he|ng provost was the kind of EXT Perlence suarinlucd to develop slmui- taneously the outlines or rigidity and mention. or rrnnknass and dissen. blingi more all, as one tweet retiring dlean once told me. or low animal cilnr n ng. Nu Vow Explicit Though I can assure you i expect now to conduct myselt on a higher level, 1 do not want to be overly serious or does trinaire or even very explicit about der scribing now l intend to aehave with you students this year. This would eliminate all the suspense tor you and most or the excitement tor me this year. and I think we owe each other the delightful ayonies ot a ycnl's courishlo. I do not want to sound illpoant You students are the most important ingredient in this thing we call a Grinnell education, but the whole process involves a richly endowed facul- ty, R lovely campus, and a tradition or ever one hundred years or emphasis on natural quality, ouiet style, and intelleo tual discipline. what maker Grinnell u... usual is the way these parts all go to» gether. and is to the lite and visibility Whai A Revolling Development! I Thought Preston’s Had Women’s Cloihes As Well As Men’s — PPESTON'S MARrIN "Many" cHulicH or this unlduencss that the raeully. the trustees. and 1 have dedicated ourselves. We want you to become the living sym- bol or it. This means that we are more concerned with what you will become than with what you are now. That there ls an implication oi bluntness about this statement, 1 am aware, out i assume you are no to it philosophically and won't take it personally, You are accustomed to being on the recelvlni end or the shavlan lament that youth is too preeious a time to waste on young people. and I know you are secretly amused t the middle-aged sigh that provides i con- text. low Regard tar World What 1 mean by emphasizing our can» cern ior what you will heoome. however. it aornething else. ln aplte or their sell. deiensive position — which you Are all osyehelecists enough to understand _— members or my generation have really no very high regard tor the world you are already beginning to inherit. it ‘ neither oeaeeable nor well-organized. and it cerr tainly isn't. very clean. Much oi the world is ill the mercy ot terrorists: vulgarlans dominate much oi its cut. ture, and assorted hypocrites and rascals rlonl happily threugh its swampy pollu. tions. Tile world has only two hopes: God's mercy and you; ellch depends on the other. and you must be more rcspon. sinie anti sclolined human beings than we: or the sludge oi cynicism. or the erosion oi disorganization. or maybe even a loud bang will end things iorever. Bea tore i'm carried away turthcr by my own rhetoric. let me say orieny in t it isn’t a very attractive world you a walking into. and you have some welHaunded rlghts to be ctltical or it. and also or what we who are in it call the middle-aged generation and what you call. with a capital E. the Establishment, or to bring things closer to home, the Administrnlion. with a capital A. Not Call to Revolution I hone you will not interpret all this as a call to revolution or as a sign that this particular member or the Establish- merit now seeks to loin your councils oi strategy tor plotting rebellion against his middlesfiged colleagues. i am too emnr tionally and intellectually committed to my own generation to behave in that way. or as you mlght out it ungraciously. too old and tired and probably useless i am much more concerned about how we can he our better selves in our natural diiierences. We are each too complicated to he understood completely by another — or at least we should be e but we are all involved in the anguishes and yoys ol' the impertect human condition. and ac cordlngly. can appreciate one another and regard one another most or the time with gentle nierey. Within such a con. text. we can be critical or one another. and even lose our tempers occasionally. and still be constructive. still on the right edge or the lacglnrvng oi under standing. Sounds Sermonistic i sound serinonislic out the quality ls natural to college ore dents and you will HAMMAN'S APPAREL Welcome Students Your Headquarters tor Name Brand Merchandise SPORTSWEAR Janrxen _. Helen Harper Paddle 8r Saddle Prim 8t Pram KNITWEAR 8t SWEATERS Jonnren _ Huddlespin Helen Harper — Lernpl COATS It CAR COATS Deni Jenn — Deny Rose — lumen BLOUSES It SKIRTS Terry -— Frlfxl of Calif. Macshore — Russlogs Joni-zen SHOP HAMMAN’S FIRST DR. GLENN LEGGITT. Gill-mall's new ptesideni. a: he spoke with soil; Photo by with you studentr. . . I no NOT want to loo overly ierieiir or doelrinal or even very explicii about describing how I inland to behave sax Photo by Bob hodierne of doughnuts and cookies 923 Fraud