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Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, June 28, 1962
HOWDY
from
PARIS, FRANCE
By J. DONALD DELIZ
The Tempo of Paris
I’m lavishing in the good old
Paris life! It isn’t that it’s “easy
living”, but the fact that no one
seems to be too much in a hurry
that is what is so appealing. The
French essayist, Montaigne, said,
“cherish the trifle”, and that is
what the French seem to do. The
people savor life and enjoy every
action.
Here I sit in a cafe on the left
bank called “Les Deux Maggots”,
the two maggots. Many students
come here- because it is near the
Sorbonne. Odd names like these
seem to appeal to the French.
You can sit in a cafe like this
either inside or on the terrace.
That is what they call the part
that is on the sidewalk. I have
been sitting here for two hours
with one cup of coffee and no
one sefems to want to rush me.
One can sit for hours at a
sidewalk cafe drinking a cup of
coffee, lemonade, or orangeade.
But be careful, for they call
these beverages by the English
name. Instead of ade, the Eng
lish say, Squash. So it’s Orange
Squash or Lemon Squash. It
sounds like a SBISA vegetable
plate or something.
One charming thing that one
gets to watch while sipping cof
fee, or lemon squash, is the pass
ing fashion parade of the co-eds.
The Sorbonne is coed and one
can easily make friends with the
groups of lady students who sit
at ' nearby tables ordering re
freshments. Especially with the
comment about COKES. It gets
them everytime. That is, by now,
a universal drink, but in France
they serve it at room tempera
ture, instead of ice cold. This is
a nice comment to begin a new
friendship with a French girl.
How come they don’t serve Cokes
ice cold here, mademoiselle ?
(Equivalent to Baby back in Ag-
gieland)
They will tell you how ice even
in water stops the digestive proc
esses. However, this is a good
start and soon you’ll be talking
about something much to your
advantage.
Parisians savor life and enjoy
every little action—just as Mon
taigne says, they cherish the
trifle, or little things, in life.
There is their bread, for instance,
it has unique taste. Why? Well,
they say it’s the water and the
climate that makes the special
flavor. It is very special. People
have tried to copy the recipe,
but it never tastes the same as
it does in Paris.
I have seen people line up in
front of a bakery, attracted by
the aroma, waiting for the bread
to be baked. Then, they buy
small rolls and walk down the
street eating them, as we would
candy or ice-cream.
Last evening I watched the
shoppers in a small neighbor
hood grocery. The trend toward
Supermarkets is present, but
they are slow in catching on, for
the French love the intimacy of
the small neighborhood store
where you can argue and com
plain to the proprietor.
People coming home from work
were buying the bread and wine
for supper. Wine is sold almost
like milk. You take your own
bottle to the merchant to be
filled or you leave a deposit for
the one he lends you.
The bread to be sold in the
grocery stores is baked in long
thin loaves. They are too long
to be wrapped, so the purchaser
points at where he is going to
hold it. A piece of paper is giv
en to him and he carries it home
that way. I saw many people
carrying a wine bottle in one
hand and a long skinny loaf of
bread in the other. The bread
seemed almost like a cane or
staff, but then they used to call
bread the staff of life.
Around five in the evening,
Paris hums with the slow paced
tempo of people getting home
from work and preparing to sa
vor the sweet summer hours at
home and in cafes. That’s the
Paris I’m reporting from.
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Fits Classic Description
BETHLEHEM, Pa. bP)—Out
wardly, Dr. Lawrence Henry Gip
son fits the classic description of
•the unassuming little man who
is lost in a crowd or is kept wait
ing by haughty clerks.
But the mild, almost shy man
ner is misleading. And although
the man is no bigger than a
jockey, he is a giant of learning.
He won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize
in arts and letters.
Gipson is a hearty 81, seem
ingly forever on the go. More
than ever since he won the prize,
he is something of a popular
hero, cheered by austere profes
sors, regarded affectionately by
students.
He writes history in the grand
manner. His project is a sweep
ing, multivolume series called
“The British Empire Before the
American Revolution.” It was
for the 10th volume of the series,
"The Triumphant Empire: Thun
der Clouds Gather in the West,
1763-1766,” that the prize was
given to him. He has two more
volumes to go, taking perhaps
five or six years to complete.
Hardly ever missing a day,
Gipson puts in a six-day week,
commuting 70 miles from neigh
boring Montgomery County to
the Lehigh University Campus.
He has been doing this for 22
years.
He’s usually up at 6 a.m., and
after a good breakfast he’s off
for work, arriving here about
9:30. Until late in the day he is
immersed in the past, poring over
books, old manuscripts and let
ters.
Saturday apart, he gets back
home about 7 p.m. On Saturday
it is 8:30. His daily commuting,
each way, is done on two trains,
a bus and a taxi on the home
end.
Once home Gipson, an ardent
gardener, loses no time getting
into something suitable for cul
tivating flowers and trimming
hedges. So long as light remains
he keeps at it. Dinner comes last,
and only after the dishes are
washed do the Gipsons—childless
in their big house—say that day
is done.
Gipson’s other hobbies range
from good music to hiking.
“I never ride when I can walk,”
he says. And that goes for the
four flights of stairs to his work
rooms in the university library.
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Lincoln Didn’t Realize
Morrill Act’s Importance
Tourist Get Double Thr ^
When Johnson’s In Sen^
By TEX EASLEY
Associated Press Service Service
To Abraham Lincoln, July 2,
1862, must have seemed like any
other day in that dark Civil War
summer.
He signed a paper pardoning
a private of the 25th New York
Volunteers who v^as serving a
prison sentence for desertion.
He called for 300,000 more vol
unteers from the North in the
light of the recent disastrous re
treats by Union troops.
He wrote a letter tinged with
exasperation to General George
McClellan, ultracaptious c o m -
mander of the Army of the Po
tomac. “The idea of sending you
fifty thousand, or any other con
siderable force promptly,” he
said, “is simply absurd.”
The day’s most far-reaching
event, however, was not a war
time measure. It was the sign
ing by President Lincoln of a
congressional bill that created
America’s Land-Grant system of
higher education.
The legislation provided that
federal grants of land should be
made to all the states, says the
National Geographic Society.
Sale of the land was to provide
funds for founding at least one
college in each state “to teach
such branches of learning as are
related to agriculture and the
mechanic arts.” Not excluded
were other scientific and classi
cal subjects. Study of military
tactics was specifically added.
The military provision eased
the bill’s passage at a time when
the Union’s green troops pain
fully showed lack of training.
Since then, the colleges’ Reserve
Training Coips has proved its
value again and again in na
tional emergencies.
But the major contributions of
the Land-Grant institutions have
been made in the peaceful arts
of economics, science, and cul
ture. By speeding and broaden
ing the country’s development,
they played an impressive part
in the United States’ attainment
of wealth, strength, and influ
ence.
Americans were still pioneers
at Civil War’s end. As the West
was occupied, the state colleges
and universities taught efficient
ways to farm and raise live
stock, to improve engineering
and industrial skills. Their ex
tension courses brought training
and education to millions who
representative who proposed the
bill and shepherded it through
Congress — could have foreseen
the extraordinary future of their
educational project.
The two men shared, however,
a common faith in the value of
providing knowledge to an ener
getic people opening up a new
continent. While still a congress
man in 1859, Lincoln gave a talk
at a Wisconsin state fair empha
sizing “book-learning” as the
key to agricultural success.
“Knowledge of botany assists
in dealing with the vegetable
world,” he said. “Chemistry as
sists in the analysis of soils . . .
and in numerous other ways.
The mechanical branches of na
tural philosophy are ready help
in almost everything; but espe
cially in reference to implements
in machinery.”
Like Lincoln, Morrill was a
self-taught man whose respect
for learning was all the greater
because of his own lack of for
mal education. The son of a
blacksmith, he acquired a small
fortune as a village storekeeper
before striking out on a 35-year
career in Congress. As repre
sentative and senator, Morrill
gained laurels in Washington for
his grasp of finance, his efforts
in behalf of the Library of Con
gress, the beautification of the
capital, and, eventually, for his
Land-Grant Act.
CADET SLOUCH
fay Jim Earle
WASHINGTON <A>> — The
thousands of tourists who file in
and out of the Senate galleries,
indicate by their whisperings
and gestures that they get a dou
ble thrill if Vice President Lyn
don B. Johnson is in the cham
ber.
During debate on the House-
passed bill to establish a com
mercial communications satellite,
Johnson, who much of the time is
out of the city or otherwise un
able to attend 'Senate sessions,
was very much on hand.
So, • with the summer tourist
tide reaching record proportions
the Senate for a time proved a
double tourist attraction. Not
only did the sightseers get to see
the vice president in his x’ole as
presiding officer of the Senate
but they also heard debate on a
subject of interest and impor
tance. On the Senate floor were
scale models of satellites orbit
ing the earth and lines indicating
how the audio and picture sig
nals would be bounced back to
earth.
Texas’ Senior Sen. Ralph Yar-
boi’ough, Democrat, joined with
Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., in
attacking the bill as it was pre
sented to the senate. They op
posed provisions to give private
companies authority to operate
the satellite system and urged
creation of a government-owned
corporation to direct its opera
tions.
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would never see a campus.
At the same time, the publicly
supported Land-Grant schools of
fered students everywhere a
chance to gain cultural and basic
scientific knowledge once re
served for the well-to-do.
Today, 68 Land-Grant univer
sities and colleges are scattered
across the nation—with one or
more in each of the 50 States
and Puerto Rico, says National
Geographic. Among them are
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, Cornell, and Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, many of
the state universities, and most
agricultural and mechanical col
leges.
Though representing only
about 5 percent of all United
States institutions of higher
learning, they enroll some 20
percent of all students, and con
fer nearly 40 percent of the doc
toral degrees.
Twenty-five of America’s 42
living Nobel Prize winners at
tended Land - Grant colleges.
They earned the awards by con
tributions to literature and
peace, and for advancement of
pure science and new techniques
in chemistry, physics, and medi
cine. Land-Grant research led to
the discovery of streptomycin
for treatment of tuberculosis, to
development of the television
tube, control of deadly botulism
in the canning industry, and the
production of disease-resistant
bread wheats.
Neither Abraham Lincoln nor
Justin Morrill — the Vermont
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