Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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MAJORS IN PHILOSOPHY James B. Olmstead C. Douglas Waters George R. Baker Is Proffer Stale of Mind Loading the Dice? (What follows below is an excerpt and is not intended to he perfectly understood as it stands alone. Much of what is said was the result of several pages leading up to it and this should be noted.) .... the existence of God, as defined above, will be confirmed or disconfirmed by empirical evidence, espe- cially evidence whether men with the proper state of mind and proper attitude of worship” do gain a benefit from, and feel a personal relationship with, a great power [Note: In requiring that men possess the proper state of mind, etc., in order to experience Got! we are not logically loading the dice by considering the proper state of mind” to be such that whenever one does not experience God he is assumed not to possess it. Instead the phrase has an independent, objective meaning, i.e. . . .]. We have seen the difficulty in submitting such evidence to scientific tests. How, then, can we secure such evidence? The way is not by examining others to sec if such evidence can be found in their lives, this being scientifically difficult, but to adopt, oneself, the proper State of mind and attitude and see directly if the consequences implied by th pro- position God exists do occur. This being so it would seem that only a man who tries religion is qualified to pronounce concerning the existence of God, for only such a man has taken the steps necessary to finding the evidence. The philosopher who refuses to try religion until it has been verified has automatically barred him- self from the one possible source of evidence, i.e., experiencing God, which must be done in one's own life, and is no longer qualified to pronounce concerning the existence of God. by JACK SANFORD MAJORS IN SPEECH Better Conversation Needed Today by DON GRAY, fidited for the Reveille It would seem that from the beginning of recorded time there has been a great deal of emphasis upon the spoken word. It's importance has been ex- pressed in the old time curriculum of educational institutions, where Rhetoric held a high place. Debate has long been an important method of solving prob- lems, or at least an important method for getting people to see two sides to a given problem. In all forms of activities which stress a democratic form of solv- ing problems anti controversial questions, discussion methods have long I seen employed. These, of course, arc all highly special- ized forms of the speech activity. Forms that re- quire a great deal of practice; perhaps more than the average person is willing or able to give. There is however a form of the speech activity that is seldom thought of. It has somewhere escaped the recognition that it warrants. It seems to us, pictured on this page, that it is sufficienetly important that it lie brought out and examined. I hat is, every-day conversation. We believe that it is important that an acute awareness of this prevail, and we also suggest that it may be, in part, a solution to much of the trouble that we find existant in our affairs today. Robert G. Davis Donald W. Gray Philip S. Tedcsco

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1 Top left — Ted Phillips; Top middle — John McCutchcon, Ann Martin; Top right — John Young, Bob Carr, Hill Schnccbcck; Middle left — Murcne. Lloyd Hood, Bob Emerson; Middle center — Floy Kilmer and George Pollard; Middle right — Mike Bloy and Toni; Lower left — Ray Reid; Lower center — Jim Bates, Jack Sanford; l.ower right — Saul Sanders, Boh Collinge.

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Elliot F. Ellis Richard S. Hochlcr MAJORS IN PRE-MED Plastic Evolution and Its by DAVID W. KRAEMER There are several stages in parasite-host relationships ranging from one in which the parasite is extremely harmful to one in which the para- site and the host live together in mutual benefit. The evolution of parasite-host relationships can be assumed to proceed from that of an injurious relations to a symbiotic relation, for it is to the advantage of the parasite to become innocuous to the host, or perhaps even aid the host. The mechanism guiding this evolutionary trend to beneficial para- sitism has a genetic basis since it is brought about by gene mutations. The environment, through natural selection, determines which of these mutations shall survive. In this evolutionary scheme the host is the selective or environmental agent, and it is only logical that the or- ganism will be selected for benignity. By a similar mechanism there is an evolution of the host. Here it is the parasite that is the selective agent by choosing hosts which have higher resistance. This coevolution of parasites and hosts is readily seen upon exami- nation of the history of many diseases. Among the most impressive are syphilis, leprosy, and tuberculosis. When syphilis first appeared it was a terrible disease with an exceedingly high death toll. Gradually its pathogenicity has become reduced until now it kills very few in its early stages; most deaths caused by it are due to delayed effects. The reduction in its pathogenicity can be at- tributed to the evolution of hosts which have a higher resistance to the disease and the evo- lution of the parasite in the path toward com- mensalism and symbiosis. Likewise, the sever- ity of the disease tuberculosis has fallen con- siderably, and leprosy has also shown reduced pathogenicity until now mortality caused by leprosy is at a negligible level. Richard E. Gifford John C. Young J. Philip Jayme Saul L. Sanders William K. Haas Page 24