e ; ‘ ; or) ; ‘ 4 be * a *. THE COLLEGENEWS aioe = = Page 5 = - ———— ; < f ca. 3 : bs ‘ . : ¥ ee T , — i BREASTED - | Angient. World? Ou of ‘the deeps assisting: him to plan a purposeful, cuni- a alarm. As one incident; Dr. Chew “CONTINUED FROM THE THIRD PAGE water, with a land. bridge between Italy and “Africa,. and one between: Spain and Africa, and was the niost important geographical and geological - Far back ay in the. glacial age, perhaps “amillion LB years’ ‘ago, there was the white race ifeature of. stone ‘age life. . ‘which occupied the greater part of ‘the territory in fhe southern half of the northwest quadrant. It is to the blonde Nordits, the Shortheads of the * Alps, and the Longheads who fringed |. the Mediterranean, that we owe our East of .the quad- rant were the yellow peoples; south, the banks )of Africa: yet neither has entered the-main stream of develop- ‘ ment leading to the present. , | Almost a million years ago the Ice Age dampened the ardour of: the early Europeans and stopped the advance Only in the southeast »present civilization. of civilization ‘corner of the Mediterranean was: the life undisturbed. Hunters wandered back the” then watered pasture of ‘the Sahara, and and . forth through gradually began to settle in the fertile Jands of the Nile Valley. the Sahara hospitable desgrt and gave to the new Eventually became an immense, in- settlements a concentrated occupation in narrow confines, and conpleté pro- tection, Thus the Nile became a so- cial laboratory as the ice descended on the north, and there the wandering life of the hunter gave away to the settled life of the agricultural. With thedomestication of animals, the use of. writing and monéy, and the rise of “Africa nation. governnrent, : martheast ‘transformed into a civilized *This importance in the human career. In terms of the individual the hunting chieftain became in fifty centuries a civilized architect, a master of* build- ing; in terms of world history it sig- nified the” emergence of civilization development for the first time, and was.an énlight- | ening comment tpon the possibilities and capacities of the human. race. Gigantic monuments rose in place of the tangled jungles of the Nile, thoughy Egypt had no other place. to take as an example. Almost contemporaneously, ‘a com- mercial civilization was growing on the edge of ‘the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Babylonian -civilization@was an important force in lifting Europé from darkness. It “was inevitable that the fundamental - elements of civilization, existing in the culture nucléus “which occupied territory on either side of the Isthnius of Suez, sould pass into Asia ‘. Minog-and cross Europe to the Atlan- tic, ote Modern Debt ‘to Ancients. _ Some people may wonder what this ‘history of Eastery civilization: has to *do with us in the present day. It is of utmost dmaportance because Sieteta! idealistic fuadamantals Atlantic. Our everyday Oryiental Moreover, emergence ila: the life: is based and the ~East on inventions the qm- wee owe to of certain intangible, perishable, ifiner values, attitude _ toward’ human life, our social. ideals. In. Egypt the inner values Of .human froin__the “material for social justice our emerged cry conduct battle,, and’ the was flung down the ages. There is an impressive unity in the — r human career. This may be best illus- trated by the discovery in the bed of | the” upper Somme of some: of the earliest implements: side bir-sitle witl] | the explosive shells of the World War. These finds. covered the whole range of the world’s human history, “make possible tf) mast tremen= ans generalizatiotis ever made ory ‘the synthesis of human development. / The .flow of. time from ‘the creature ngt yet man to modern history may b¢ seen through discov erfes in the Orient, and for this reasot “these are six~/expedi-' tions in the Ancient East now/devoted to tracing’ the earl eee of the ~-huniam.career... + ees ne ‘~The recovery—ot the Old “Wortd. whett meft looked -hack-om Greece’ and Rome, was one of the powerful forces in the transition from the Middle Ages ‘to Modern Times. Wha should hap- pen to the Modern World under the ,Cheops; the smelter of metals, conie was] «3 is of the utmost} customs. |. come the voices of Sennacherib; the cleverly wrought flint implements, and the gutturals of the incipient human speech, ‘Modern man has not yet perceived the full ‘splendor, of ,the world which has gone before him, but the few who have séen ‘the light of knowledge are’ Colifronted by a vision of the ancient man looking forward to the splendid adventure of the ages. , Professor Breasted will speak again in. the Goodhart auditorium on Fri- day, Apri) 19, at 8.15 on’“The Scien- tific Responsibility of America” in the Near East.” INCENTIVE TO- STUDY “SONTINUED FROM FOURTH PAGER and acquire a relative, importance. He thus, derkolishes: the theory that students are “distracted from theie work by -out- side activities, and sets up the contrary theory that as long as no higher motive comes into play, these dower ones .are better than’ nothing. : Some of the suggestions advanced “by Mr. Crawford in conclusion are: 1,. glhat certain . motivating factors, suchas. economic—-Status,--professional background. or. interests, definiteness of orientation, should be uged, together with measures of capacity Such as scholastic aptitude ratings? as supplementary cri- teria in the selective admission of stu- dents. " 2, Extra-curriculum activities should not be arbitrarily banned; as achievement in both academic and extra-curricular fields are not incompatible. _ : 3. 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