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The Boston Sunday Globe June 11, 19G7 Behind the Campus TurmoiU-I Vietnam Is the Common Denominator P', i t' 4 few have any perspective. They really seem to think that Lyndon Johnson invented politics and that politics Is bad." David Riesman, the distinguished sociologist at Harvard, says the students are in the forefront of what he calls "a revolution of immediacy," and he speaks of their "fight against restraints." Contrary to the popular impression of students as long haired demonstrators, unreasoning rebels, or pot-smoking hippies, I found them bright, curious, involved and interested. They are, almost without exception, more liberal than their parents. If one word could be used to describe them alL it would be The students share another trait: they dislike dogma, and distrust cant and cliche. They particularly resent attempts to categorize their generation.

No one said it better than Meg Power, a brilliant senior at Radcliffe: "Yes we are a kind of of worlds a cosmopolitan, sophisticated kind of world I like us. I'm proud of us. Whenever I travel and meet University, Morehouse College, and Clark College at Atlanta, Franklin and Marshall College at Lancaster, Pa Harvard University and Radcliffe College at Cambridge. On every campus, an attempt was made to talk to representative students, not only those who are leading, but those who are listening and, more important, those who are doing neither. Although there is no such thing as an "average" or "typical" student, a striking unanimity of feeling was apparent all across the country.

The difference between the coed at Berkeley and her more cloistered collegiate sister at Agnes Scott Is only one cf degree. The differences expressed by faculty members who talkd about the students are also slight. Probably the single most important fact about the students today lies in their number. As Dr. Graham Blaine, a Harvard psychiatrist, said: "There are so many of them, and they have a sense of power." Before long, they will be exerting that power.

More than half the U.S. population today is under 30, From the political side alone, one figure holds obvious and immediate significance: within the next eight years the number of Americans in their 20's is expected to increase by 43 percent to 36.7 million. That is two million more than the total number of citizens whose votes made John F. Kennedy President There is a "crumbling of they will say, a challenging, a testing, a desire to experiment and to abolish earlier standards. This feeling is found on every campus.

It can be measured in a number of ways from the Berkeley students placing pressure on the administration to appoint a popular lecturer to a permanent place on the faculty, to 75 percent of Kansas coeds voting to end all rules governing closing hours during their last two years, to Agnes Scott students asking for "pass-fail" courses (which a student may take without receiving any grade other than passing or failing). "They have absolutely no memory," said Barney Frank, of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. "Very other college students I feel something for them. We speak the same language, we wear the same clothes. I think to some extent we think alike.

I think we're a highly responsible, highly publicly-oriented generations, and I like it "We like being political and being cool and we're having a grand time doing both. I think we're going to be a success." At the same time, her generation today is in the midst of sharp changes. Graduates of only three years ago who have remained on the campus as teachers or young ad- ministrators frankly say they are astonished at the degree of difference since then. Virtually everyone attributes the changes to one thing Vietnam. "We have had a very bad Spring as far as psychiatric casualties are concerned," says Harvard's Dr.

Blaine, "and we think it's related to Vietnam." Copyrtrht 1967, Th Wuhlnt-ton Star Syndicate. On Monday's Editorial Page, the Vietnam war literally is splitting cam-pus' apart American children of fate. Their destiny this time rests in the hands of Lyndon B. Johnson and Ho Chi Minh. For them, Vietnam is the common denominator and unifying theme.

If their wishes were served today there would be no war in Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson would not be President of the United States, Red China would be admitted to the United Nations, American politicians would stop talking about "fighting Communism" anywhere in the world, the old slogans, and shibboleths would be sent to the junk heap, marijuana would be legalized, social rules and customs would be changed. life itself would be freer. They are confident it would be better. Indeed, they intend to make it so. These are conclusions reached after a month of traveling across the United States and talking to several hundred students and professors, activists and administrators, deans and presidents, at nine colleges and universities, large, small, public, private, coed, men's, women's.

The schools were: University of California at Berkeley, the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Agnes Scott College at Decatur, Emory Everyone' complaining Soot "the new generation," but ftul understand what thm protests are all about. Pulit' scr Prize-winning reporter Hayntt Johnson just completed coast-to-coast camput tour to find out. Hit conclusions arc warm and understanding, though tome adults may still be unconvinced. This is the first of his reports. By HATNES JOHNSON These are the children of affluence, their teachers say them on college campuses from California to Massachusetts.

They are also the first television generation, now come to maturity; the postwar generation, now come of age; the militant civil rights marchers of the past, now able to vote. They are the generation of pot, the generation of the pill. Their music is electronic, their humor psychedelic. They are an activist generation with a political consciousness shaped by the New Frontier and shattered during the Great Society. And today as they graduate from college, facing the uncertainty of war for the fourth time in this century they are (yU f.

nv -v X5 ass. ir.S ACTIVISTS ON THE LINE and the ratio or young-to-om is increasing, as are the number of those going to college. Mil MM mm Fine Arts Prints Curator Eleanor Sayre 'Digger', 'Extremely Thorough' Mm can know museum person everything." By EDGAR J. DRISCOLL JR. Sheer chance brought her into the field.

And high degrees of intelligence, enthusiasm, perser-verance and devotion served her in good stead. Last week these and other qualities helped put E' Axson Sayre of Cambridge at the top of the heap in the internatonal print world. She was named curator of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. As such, she is the first woman to head the department in the museum's 97-year-old history. It houses 300,000 original THANK YOU MORTON'S HAS NEVER BEEN SO BUSY Miss Sayre, who succeeds retiring Henry P.

Rossiter as curator, has long been admired out on Huntington av. for her complete devotion to every aspect of the museum, as well as to her own department. She is also known as "a digger," who is "extremely thorough" in what ever she undertakes. As curator, Miss Sayre will head a staff of six in the print and drawing department. She aims to do "what every curator wants to do.

That is to improve the quality of his collections and to buy great works of art." Pointing out that the Boston Museum has the only great print in the world whose doors are wide open to all comers, Miss Sayre said that when it opened in the 19th century it averaged only four visitors a week. Now more than IS persons a day come to it with one problem BUT THIS IS STILL AN EMERGENCY CASH RAISING SALE our creditors are still demanding more car all the fresh, sparkling spring ummer fashions now in stock and the hundreds arriving daily are being priced-slashed to make our dilemma your chance of a lifetime! or another. Who are they? Scholars, students, collectors, connois seurs or teachers, of course. drawings and books. Indeed, the print collection is considered the most important in this country and one of the greatest print collection of the world.

The graddaughter of President Woodrow Wilson and the daughter of retired diplomat Francis B. Sayre, the museum's new curator first joined its staff 22 years ago. This was after working at the Yale University Art Gallery, the Lyman Allyn Museum in Connecticut and the Rhode Island School of Design. She was appointed assistant curator in the Print Department in 1960. A Bryn Mawr graduate, Miss Sayre says she got into the print field by "sheer rVinnro An orf mainf in An attractive, shy woman with clear brown eyes and a slim, trim figure, Miss Sayre says she had no idea at the time that prints were "so broad and marvelous a field.

Sonner or alter it involves everything everyone thought, said wrote or did from the 15th century right up to now," she added enthusiastically. An internationally known expert on Goya's graphic work, Miss Sayre explains that her interest in the 18th and early 19th century Spanish master came be chance too. She thinks it wasPhilip Hofer of Harvard who got her interested. Delving into Goya's graphics, she found, in characteristic fashion, that "there was a great deal to know about him that wasn't known and needed to be known. So I learned." In the course of her learning, she received two fellowships from the American Philosophical Society and from the Ford Foundation for research in Europe.

And, so expert did she become that in 1959, while looking through a folio of English sporting prints in the museum, she discovered the earliest known drawing by Goya (1748-1828). Four years later, her careful detective work helped to authenticate a rare Goya miniature which the museum later purchased. At present, Miss Sayre is preparing the first complete study of the master's drawings, to be published as a series of articles. She has found there are more than 700 extan Time is of the essence for 6uch a book, she feels. Why? "Because there are a lot of false Goya drawings about Some are early copies.

Some are outright forgeries. They keep floating around. In fact there is one that I have been shown four different times, but it keeps marking the rounds." They fetch high prices too. So far the highest price she has seen for a forged Goya drawing is 16,000. "I think we get fooled at times, too" she says.

"No But very Often they are lay men who have found things in the attic or inherited some thing from Aunt Minnie and want to know what they have. "You know, 97 percent of these are of little value, but I never really fail to get ex cited when they open the package. There's always that three percent chance," syas the warm and friendly print and drawing expert. In addition to giving ad' QllEflllSlHi or SHiS mm vice, the print department also is called on for a good deal of research on all sorts of subjects from all sorts of quarters; arranges loans for V. MI.JU.

college, she was looking around for a Summer job in a museum and was interviewed by the late famed Paul J. Sachs of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, where she completed her graduate work. "He told me he thought he could use me in the Print Department and asked me if I thought I'd like that," she recalled, seated in the living room of her charming little clapboard house at the end of Sibley cU in Cambridge. 1 said yes, wich was an absolute lie, since all I was used to were those nasty old steel engravings. Two weeks lateter I was hooked for lift." exhibitions all around the country; finds suitable illustrations for various publications; and stages its own prints and drawing shows.

"As a matter of fact, we hold more exhibition of our own material than any other department in the museum," Miss Sayre says with pardonable pride. Nor will the pace slacken under her capable hands. Of that you can be sure. I WW I I 1 lUll.tf rMntlllUI ft'j- ma t-ii 1 I III EImLi amis- DOOR BUSTER SPECIAL! RAINCOATS. $7 LARGE SELECTION FUR TRIMMED UHTRIfllED WHITER COATS MOW 54 OFF MORE Tr4 3 mm mm If 1 111 1 iiii i-j fwmsm 1 ELEANOR SAYRE, the Boston Museum's new curator of the department of print! and drawings, checks a new book out on Goya.

Sht it an interna tfoniity known expert on tha Spanish matter, i.