Wylie, Philip:

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[Typed Manuscript, with Revisions:] "Sic Transit Veritas." The corrected and revised manuscript for an article Wylie wrote for the University of Kansas magazine, THE JAYHAWKER, entitled "Sic Transit Veritas," in which he deals with the general unpreparedness of students for certain aspects of life after graduation. The student, he asserts, " is only half educated. When he graduates he hopes he know enough to earn a living. He hardly imagines that he must also earn a life... The graduate knows everything but himself, everything, that is, but humanity...." He ponders their preparedness for potential changes the future may hold, touching on themes which were leitmotifs in his fiction: "Are courses being offered in wilderness survival? Or will Boy Scouts alone inherit such habitable nooks of earth as may one day be left free of radio-activity... In five generations... the American people have squandered five inches of topsoil which requires five thousand years for deposit. America is becoming a 'have not' nation in many categories. Thus it may be asked if 'education' has taught conservation and how to do with less...." Wylie was, at the time, on the staff of THE MIAMI HERALD. Best known now for his novels GLADIATOR (1930), WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1933, cowritten with Edwin Balmer, and its sequel), and THE PARADISE CRATER (1945), Wylie enjoyed some wider public celebrity for his 1942 nonfiction collection, GENERATION OF VIPERS. While fair copy souvenir typescripts signed by him are a

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