Page Four ) Leggefl' (Continued from Page 3) Africa have set up stresses and strains in the whole world that ‘ er the realism nor the idealism ot western civilization leems able to deal with. In 1940 and before, we and our English cousins were concerned with managing the world; now we are concerned both with under- standing it and trying to keep it right side up, and the double task is confounded by the prob- lem of defining w at “right side up” means. For you stu- dents. rim prohlem ot living in the combustion raging lhrough our social and philosophic struc- You are cordi ture is made more agonizing by the expectation of some at your elders that you will be a m- ilathetic and respectlul w ile hey appear to pour more oil on the conflagration. There was a time when young people like you might be sailing their own ships around the world or push. ing wagon trains across the Wild frontier or otherwise commit- ting themselves to the welfare of the society around them. Now we appear only to invoke your moral strivings and ask you to stand sentinel over a moral system that must impress you as highly‘lnadequale. if not dead or dying. From many points of view, the situation is unteir. But trom ally invited to Poynter’s—a store-full of fashions you’ll love—by all the famous names you know -— Lanz, Jonathan Logan, and California Cirl-—-Country Set, John Meyer of Norwich, White Stag, Pendleton — and many, many more — Welcome to Grinnell— and to Poynter’s Ask about a charge accouni because — its best dressed girl: in retinal buy iheir clothes ai _ POYNTER'S bsncoumr CENTER SCARLET AND BLACK all points or view, it is inevi- table, the continuing problem of man, the human condition since Pandora opened the hon or, it you prefer, since Adam and Eve were escorted out oi the Garden at Eden by the Archangel Michael. The prob- lem is to face it, and there are several choices about how. rang- ing trom detachment to involve. ment, the two elements of re- sponse that detine the way we let life atteot us. By detach- ment 1 mean the philosophic attribute, the ability to step aside and watch the world go by, with quiet terror or with wry comment or with pi~o5onnd scorn. By involvement I mean commitment, what might be called an emotional and inlel» lcctual stake in what is going on, in what happens or in what should happen it you want a somewhat colloquial ex- ample oi the two terms as i am using them, take your own presence at a football game. Somewhere during the course 0! the niternuon it is almost In- evitable that you will sit hack, divorce yourseli emotionally from the tightly packed hu- manity around you, sweep you ayes over the faceless crow and grow philosophical. How can so many peo le spend I lovely Saturday aternoon put, ting themselves through the agony of crowds to watch tweip ty