A WORD OF INTRODUCTION
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Some Unnatural History At Selborne......................................... Robert Price
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Two Poems...................................................................................... Norman Chaney
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Mr. Barron’s Silted Wharf............................................................. John H. Laubach
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Goethe — Discoverer Of The Ice*Age............................................. 22 Dorothy Cameron The Laser: A New Optical Research Tool...............................27 Philip E. Barnhart Albert Camus: Two Answers ToAbsurdity.......................................40 William T. Hamilton Goethe And Pirandello........................................................................ 46 Paul L. Frank The Making Of A Poet........................................................................ 52 John K. Coulter
Except for heavier teaching loads, there is nothing, at the moment, that the scholarly community is calling for less than another scholarly periodical. Indeed, the cries echoing in some quarters for a moratorium on scholarly publication—lest we suf focate beneath the weight and pressure of printed matter issuing continuously from every corner of the intellectual community— remind us, if reminding we need, how very far behind we are in our periodical reading. But this publication, whose maiden issue you now possess, will serve, we think, several important needs. First, The Ouerbein Miscellany will give to those members of the faculty, hitherto unpublished, an opportunity to get into print in a publication whose editorial board promises to brood, if necessary, over their manuscripts: rejection slips will be de livered with charity; no cold and impersonal return mail envel opes will mysteriously appear on the desks of our contributors. Therefore, we shall happily accept a fragment of a thesis or of a dissertation, reworked into an article; or an idea, gestating in class notes for years, but never until now licked into shape. Second, we believe that this publication can expose, in the nakedness of print, various disciplines of the Otterbein faculty to one another. Therefore, we solicit contributions from every department of the college in the hope that every effort for the creation of mutual intellectual sympathy and understanding, rather than mere mutual tolerance, will serve us all in the trans formation of our students into gentlemen—the practical end, according to Cardinal Newman, of an institution like Otterbein College. The realization of an Otterbein College faculty publication is the result of the efforts of many people. To Dr. Robert Price we are especially grateful for his gentle urgings along the way toward publication. Indeed, for the contributions of Dr. Robert Price and Dr. Paul Frank, both of whom have enviable publica tions credits—we are grateful: their experience in the business of scholarly writing has given our modest publication stature; their example, we trust, will encourage other published members of the faculty to contribute their articles to future numbers of the publication. We should like also to thank Mr. Craig Gifford for his advice on the mechanics of publication and his staff for preparing copy for the printer. Finally, we should like to express our gratitude to Dean James V. Miller and especially to President Lynn W. Turner, without whose encouragement and consent we could not have engaged in this new venture. 3