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Wednesday, October 15, 1952

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Divisions in Geography, Language, and Religion
Create Problems in Government Construction

Continued from Page 1

controlled India, the autonomy of
many ruling princes was respect-
ed.

The basic reason for the separ-
ation of Pakistan from India is the
difference in the religions of the
two peoples. Islam is the religion
of 84 percent of the Pakistan peo-

ple, while the majority of the In-
dians are Hindus. Muslims, Mr.
Ali affirmed are monotheistic:
They ibelieve that “there is no
god but God”. To the Muslims,
Moses, Jesus and Mohammed were
sent as mortal prophets of God to
preach the Islam religion. Moham-
med was not the founder of Islam,
but was simply God’s last prophet
on earth. Muslims believe that
religion has gone through an evo-
lution—from Judaism to Christian-
ity to Islam. Therefore, many of
the basic tenets of Islam are sim-
ilar to those of Judaism and
Christianity. The Islam religion
is important in regard to politics
because Muslims strongly believe
that “all men are born and creat-
ed equal’.

Hinduism °

Hinduism, in contrast, although
it is a very old religion, has re-
mained static. It has not evolved
from its ancient form as Islam
has. Hindus believe in more than
one god and do not believe in the
equality of men. Muslims have a
respect for other religions but Hin-
dus do not. This is because of the
Hindu belief in transmigration of
the sou? They believe that no one
nftay rise from the caste in which
he is,born in this life. If he: lives
wellf.a man will rise to a higher
caste in the next life. All other re-
ligions which believe in only one
life on earth are considered impure
by the Hindus. ‘Because of this,
the minority of Muslims would be
subjugated by the Hindus in a unit-
ed democratic Indian government.
The English did give equality to all
religions, but with Indian self-
government, the 100 million Mus-
lims decided that they must have
a country of their own in which to
live freely.

There were many problems in
constructing this new country, Mr.
Ali continued. Pakistan has two
geographical units, 1000 miles
apart. This had to happen because
of the difficulties of transplanting
such a large group of people. Also,
a completely new system of gov-
ernment had to be formed, where-
as the Indians could “step into the
shoes of the English government”.
The problem of dealing with eight
million Muslim refugees from all
parts of the world who came to
their “promised land” was *nor-
mous. Only by a strong belief in
God’s help, and by capable, devot-
ed men who were “able to provide
inspiring leadership” has Pakistan
survived through the hardships of
these last five years, declared Mr.
Ali.

Five Languages

The language difficulty is also
immense. In Pakistan, there exist
five different local languages, each
with a different script, plus the
national language. English, since
it is considered to be almost a uni-
versal language, is now the official
language of Pakistan. Most edu-
cated Pakistani people know three
languages—their local language,
the national language, and English.

There is need for friendship be-
tween Muslims, Jews and Christ-
ians, because of the similarity of
the three religions, Mr. Ali assert-
ed. It is not true that material
poverty breeds communism, since
many countries of comparatively
high standards of living—Czecho-
slovakia and Yugoslavia, for ex-
ample—have become communistic.
“Spiritual poverty”, however, does



cause communism. The people of
Pakistan are very religious and
believe in one world where all na-
tions can live in harmony. They
do not like the communists.

“So long as we agree to disagree”
Mr. Ali concluded, “to live and let
live, there is no reason why we
cannot have a free world.”

Observer

In they file, a little sleepy, a lit-
tle weary—but the last cigarette
is the most essential of all. Off
come shoes, coats are shed and
form woolen pools about the wear-
er. In the half-light of the smok-
er at two-fifteen, shadows under
eyes and along cheekbones are
startlingly prominent, and faces
thrown bas-relief — happy,
rueful, worried, tired. Never at
any other time is the world of the
male animal so near and yet so
far.

Should I have laughed at the
story he told? Did I listen too
much? Did I sparkle too brightly?
Even more important, what’s his
room-mate saying to him?

.. . So we went to the movies,
and I don’t care if he does think
I’m immature, I love Martin and
Lewis and roared at every joke.

... What happens when you
double with a female fatale? So I
don’t know the torchy words to
“It’s a Sin to Lie”, so what?

. . . Gash, I’ll never see him
again—he asked me whether I’d
have beer or hard cider — and I
said coke.

... It was such fun... TI really
didn’t know how to act, but at first
I winked so much—to be cute, you
know—but I decided he’d think I
had a permanent twitch, for pete’s
sake!

.. . Not only was he six-three,
not only did he smoke a pipe, but
girls—he wore a tartan cummer-
bund—I can’t bear it!

.. . Well, we Had a Talk for the
third time in a week—I don’t know,
I just don’t know. I keep wanting
to break, but...

. . . Huh! Not only did she bird
dog—she brought in the quarry,
darn it!

. .. Isn’t tt wonderful—l’m go-
ing out with him next Saturday—
oh, I do like college.

into



MUSIC—
DANCING—
PEOPLE—

Just plain fun! Come to
the Rock Dance Saturday
night after Junior Show.







MARRIAGE
Louise B. Dengler,
Frank Jennings.

ex-’53, te

ENGAGEMENT
Virginia ‘Weltmer ’54 to Robert
Castle.



Attention all baby-sitters!
The Bureau of Recommenda-
tions announces a slight change
in baby-sitting rates. The night
charge, after the children are in
bed, will be fifty cents an hour
instead of the former standard
rate of forty cents an hour.
After midnight, the rates will
be sixty cents an hour instead
of fifty. The day rate remains
the same as before, sixty cents.
You may register for baby-sit-
ting or other odd jobs with Mrs.
Sullivan any day between nine
and four o'clock.











Attention Solons:
Law Exams Soon

The Law School Admission Test
required of applicants for admis-
sion to a number of leading Amer-
ican law schools, will be given at
more than 100 centers throughout
the United States on the mornings
of November 15, 1952, February
21, April 25, and August 8, 1953.
During 1951-52 over 6800 appli-
cants took this test, and their
scores were sent to over 100 law
schools.

A candidate must make separate
applications for admission to each
law school of his choice and should
inquire of each whether it wishes
him to take the Law School Ad-
mission Test and when. Since
many law schools select their
freshman classes in the spring pre-
ceding their entrance, candidates
for admission to next year’s class-
es are advised ordinarily to take
either the November or the Febru-
ary test, if possible.

The Law School Admission Test,
prepared and administered by Ed-
ucational Testing Service, features
objective questions measuring ver-
bal aptitudes and reasoning ability
rather than acquired information.
It cannot be “crammed” for. Sam-
ple questions and information re-
garding registration for and ad-
ministration of the test are given
in a Bulletin of Information.

Bulletins and applications for
the test should be obtained four to
six weeks in advance of the desir-
ed testing date from Law School
Admission Test, Educational Test-
ing Service, P. O. Box 592, Prince-
ton, N. J. Completed applications
must be received at least ten days
before the desired testing date in
order to allow ETS time to com-
plete the necessary testing ar-
rangements for each candidate.



Bard’s Eye View

by Beth Davis, ’54

The lethargy creeps o’er your
bones

You hear voices in muted tones,

You laugh and then you wonder
why,

You laugh and would much rather
cry

You could be sick, you could be
ailing,

You're sure your courses you'll be
failing

But don’t despair, just fight off
sleep

Or else you'll be off the deep

End.



Egyptians Desire Peace,
Stresses Madam Hussein

Continued from Page 2

stantly progressing in Egypt. In
fact, the girls are likely to work
harder in school because they can
choose whether to get a higher ed-
ucation, while it is compulsory for
boys. Education is compulsory for
all children up to a certain age,
but due to the shortage of schools
this ideal is now impossible in
practice. This is another goal of
the new government.

Nagib has stressed that Egypt
seeks war with no one and would
like to be friendly with the United
States and the rest of the West-
ern Powers as long as her nation-
ality is not infringed upon.

‘Egypt is now building up its
government and its army. Thus
it can defend its own nationality
and the international importance
of the Suez Canal.



Grad School Test
Time Draws Near

The Graduate Record Examina-
tions, required of applicants for
admission to a number of gradu-
ate schools, will be administered
at examination centers throughout
the country four times in the com-
ing year, Education Testing Serv-
ice has announced. During 1951-52
nearly 8,000 students took the
GRE in partial fulfillment of ad-
mission requirements of graduate
schools which prescribed it.

This fall candidates may take
the GRE on Friday and Saturday.
November 7 and 8. In 1953, the
dates are January 30 and 31, Apri!
17 and 18, July 10 and 11. ETS
advises each applicant to inquire
of the graduate school of his
choice which of the examinations
he should take and on which dates.
Applicants for graduate school
fellowships should ordinarily take
the designated examinations in the
fall administration.

Test of Scholastic Ability

The GRE tests offered in these
nationwide programs include a
test of general scholastic ability,
tests of general achievement in six
broad fields of undergraduate
study, and advanced level tests of
achievement in various subject
matter fields. According to ETS,
candidates are permitted several
options among these tests.

Application forms and a Bulle-
tin of Information, which pro.
vides details of registration anc
administration as well as sampic
questions, may be obtained :.
college advisers or directly from
Educational Testing Service, P.O.
Box 592, Princeton, N. J., or P.O.
Box 9896, Los Feliz Station, Los
Angeles 27, California. A com-
pleted application must reach the
ETS office at least two weeks be-
fore the date of the administra-
tion for which the candidate is ap-
plying.

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Ambassador Delineates
Islamic Customs at Tea
Continued from Page 1

practices of his religion and those
of Christianity and Judaism.

He explained the Islam concep-
tion of worship. The Muslim con-
cept is that each man should and
ean worship God in his way. To
increase his circle of acquaint-
ances of members of his own re-
ligion, however, he is supposed to
go to a meeting of the people of
his neighborhood every Friday.
This same philosophy is i
through to a meeting of all the
peopie vf an area once a year, and
also the trip to Mecea, which every
Muslim who can should undertake
in order to get tv know other
people of his religion from other
lands. In this way, a sense of
brotherhood is created.

Month-long Fast

Mr. Mohammed Ali also told
about the fast which all followers
of Islam keep for one month every
year. This is a very strict fast
which forbids th&eating of any-
thing from sunrise to sunset for
an entire month. The purposes of
the fast are threefold: it is a
health measure to discourage over-
eating; it develops self-control;
and it teaches the wealthy to un-
derstand the suffering of the poo.
who are starving.

Much to the disappointment of
those attending the tea, the am-
bassador and several members ot
the delegation had to leave at 4:00.
Mr. Mohammed Ali, while always
maintaining his dignity, impresseu
everyone who spoke with him ac
the tea by his warmness and gen-
uine interest in their questions. He
expressed his thanks from the stu-
dents of Dacca. He had been con-
aected with the university several
years ago when he established the
medical school there. Many mem-
bers of the group were able to stay
on, though; and everyone went to
the Quita Woodward Room to look
at the objects displayed there and
find out their purposes and meth-
ods of construction. ;

Surrealism Plus

After an informal discussion of
these objects with the various Pak-
istanis, Mr. Salman Ahmad Ali
told about the art of Pakistan. He
emphasized the fact that Pakistan
art is somewhat of a combination
of surrealism and impressionism.
One school of painters uses only
lines, expressing shade by the
proximity of the lines. Another
school shows more of the Western
influence, and the leading expon-
ent of this school makes use of
broad, black strokes of a dry
brush technique, with occasional
color for emphasis.

There is no three-dimensional
representation of the human form
as such in Pakistan art because
the original Arabs were pagans
and worshipped idols. When Mo-
hammed preached his religion, he
had to combat this idol worship;
and therefore, the representation
of the human form was _ looked
down upon. The work displayed in
the Quita Woodward Room was ail
either cottage industry or the work
of skilled artisans. After a ques-
tion and answer period, the Pak-
istan weekend closed officially.



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