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R
ECENTLY I RECEIVED
from a well–
known magazine dealing with
mechanical interests a two-page reprint from their mag–
azine.
It
contained the words of a graduation address
delivered at a very large university by the retired Presi–
dent Emeritus of that university.
The editor of the magazine said, in a box printed below the
text of the address, "We're printing (these words) because they
make sense and needed
to
be said."
"These words" were designed to reassure a generation of
college graduates who have lost faith in "The Establishment"
and see no hope for the future. The Establishment, of course,
is the world as it has been set in order by the generations before
them.
The speaker said he was not going to tell those of the older
generation, present at the ceremony, how bright these young
graduates are. Nor was he going to say the older generation had
made a mess of things, and now had to look to this younger
generation as the hope of mankind. He proposed to reverse the
process.
He asked the graduating class to Iook to those seated to
their right and their left. He wanted to reintroduce the grad–
uates to some of the most remarkable people who ever lived.
He wanted
to
share with the graduates sorne facts about the two
generations - their parents and t heir grandparents.
By their hard work, he said, they have increased the life
expectancy of the younger generation by approximately 50%.
They have shortened the working day by a third and more than
doubled per capita output. They have given the younger genera–
tion a more healthy world than they found. No longer need
people fear epidemics of typhus, flu, diphtheria, smallpox,
measles, mumps, or scarlet fever - and T.B. is almost non–
existent. They have given the younger generation better schools,
greater opportunities for success.
And, he pursued,
"Because
they were materialistic," these
graduates would work fewer hours, travel more, have more leisure
time. They have made higher education available to millions,
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What our Readers
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Personal from the Editor
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Can Our Cities Be Saved?
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Half Mil/ion Perish in
Pakistan
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What Caused the
Great Depression?
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Advance News
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15
Sex,
Love and Marriage
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17
Our Vanishing Forests
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21
What Do Rudolph's
Red Nose and Eggnog Hove
to
do with Christmas?
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28
What You Can Do
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33
The Solution
to
the
Language Barrier
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35
Obscenity
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The New
"Freedom"
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39
TV Log
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Radio Log
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A dramatic skyline view of New
York City and its environs. New
York is one of 83 world dties
having more than one million in·
habitants. Fifteen cities have reached
the three million mark. In the listing
of entities called cities, Tokyo is
classified as larger than New York.
They rank numbers one and two in
popuJation among the world's great
metropolirnn areas. Hmvever, if the
urban-agglomeration concept is ap·
plied, New York's "metropolitan
area" has a populauon total of
around twelve million inhabitants,
making it the world's largest urban
sprawl.