Pennsylvania Ranks Fourth $4,000,000 Gift Will Assist New In Guggenheim Fellowships Nine University of Pennsylvania fac- The top 17 colleges, ranked in order Ph.D. Program ulty members are among 294 scholars, of Guggenheim Fellowships received, The University of Pennsylvania has scientists and artists awarded Guggen- were: received a $4,000,000 grant from the heim Fellowships for 1967. Berkeley, 20; Columbia, 15; Harvard, Ford Foundation to help support doc- Pennsylvania ranked fourth in the 14; Pennsylvania, 9; Yale, 9; Wisconsin, toral candidates in the humanities and nation in the number of Fellowships re- 8; UCLA, 7; Brown and New York social sciences, it was announced April ceived, compared to ranking third last University, 6 each; Cornell, MIT, 9. The grant becomes effective in Sep- year with 13 Guggenheim Fellowship Princeton and Stanford, 5 each; the tember. recipients. Universities of California (Riverside), Dr. Michael H. Jameson, dean of the The names of recipients were made Massachusetts, Michigan and Minne- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at public in April. Chosen from among sota, 4 each. Pennsylvania, said the grant should dras- 2,006 applicants, they received awards The John Simon Guggenheim Me- tically reduce the proportion of graduate totaling $2,196,100. morial Foundation was established in students (about 50 per cent nationally) University recipients and their pro- 1925 by the late U.S. Senator Simon who terminate their studies before re- posed projects are: Guggenheim and by Mrs. Guggenheim ceiving the doctoral degree. -Dr. Walter D. Bonner, Jr., pro- in memory of a son, John Simon Guggen- Goal of the program is to make pos- fessor of physical biochemistry and plant heim, who died as a young man in 1922. sible the attainment of the doctor of physiology: oxidation and reduction proc- Mrs. Guggenheim is president emeritus philosophy degree in the humanities and esses in higher plants. of the Foundation. This is the 43rd an- social sciences during a regular four-year -Dr. Richard Brilliant, professor nual series of awards made by the Foun- program, rather than the longer period of art: the sculpture and coinage of the dation, which has now given 7,421 grants frequently involved. Roman empire, 37-68 A.D. totaling $30,800,000. Pennsylvania's $4,000,000 grant is -Dr. George H. Crumb, assistant (continued on page 2) (continued on page 3) professor of music: music composition. -Dr. Theodore Hornberger, pro- fessor of English: Puritanism and science in Old and New England, 1560-1760. of Curtain Is Down -Dr. Irving B. Kravis, professor Rung economics: protectionism and economic growth. -Dr. Leigh Lisker, professor of O)y Spice Rack Drama linguistics: the phonetic reality behind The controversy over classified re- board's regular two-day spring meeting. the phonetic distinctions based on voicing. search at the University has ended. The President Harnwell's recommendation -Dr. Lee D. Peachey, associate final act of the drama came when was the sole topic of the special session. professor of biochemistry and biophysics: the Trustees approved by resolution a The board also voiced its support of the mechanisms of muscle contraction at recommendation by President Harnwell the president's recommendation that it the sub-cellular level. that the Project Spice Rack and Project would be undesirable for the transfer to -Michael Ponce de Leon, lecturer Summit contracts be terminated or trans- be made to the University City Science on fine arts: creative printmaking. ferred as soon as practicable. Center, in view of the "widespread mis- -Dr. Anthony N. Zahareas, asso- 'Wilfred D. Gillen, chairman of the apprehension that the University exer- ciate professor of romance languages: a Trustees, announced the resolution at a cises control of the Science Center." study of Ramon del Valle-Inclan's esper- news conference following a special President Harnwell's recommendation, pentos. plenary session the first afternoon of the (continued on page 2)

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Will Percy Tannenbaum Spice Rack Be Moved Named Professor (continued from page 1) proposal to postpone a transferral of the the Trustees'. resolution stated, was in contracts to the Science Center. The mo- Dr. Percy H. Tannenbaum, director accord with the University's established tion was a substitution for an earlier of the University of Wisconsin's Mass policy on sponsored research, which was proposal asking that "University sponsor- Communications Research Center, has adopted in November, 1965. ship of Projects Spice Rack and Summit, been named professor of communications The decisive factor in the Trustees' either directly or through the Science at Pennsylvania's Annenberg School decision, it was pointed out, was the Center, or any other affiliated organiza- of Communications, according to Dr. appropriateness of this type of research tion should be completely terminated by George Gerbner, dean of The Annen- for the University. In the words of Dr. ." berg School. Harnwell at the Trustees' meeting: The new proposal on transferral, which Dr. Tannenbaum is a recognized "The University's resources are lim- was tabled, was substituted so close to scholar in the social psychological aspects ited and in order that its faculty and the time that the Senate Advis- meeting of communications, and principal investi- students make the most effective use Committee had not time may ory had to con- of national and cross-cultural stud- of them for the educational sider it and gator primary pur- make its recommendations. ies. He is co-author with Charles E. pose for which the University exists, we In the case of the earlier resolution, the Osgood and George J. Suci of the book should not undertake peripheral technical Committee was Advisory "unanimously "The Measurement of Meaning," and work which can as well be done others, of the that the resolution offered by opinion author or co-author of over 60 studies and which shows little promise of contri- by the petitioners should not be passed." including "The Principle of Congruity buting materially to the corpus of funda- The committee gave several reasons: the in the Measurement of Attitude Change," mental knowledge. On this basis, these resolution was redundant in calling for "Identification as a Factor of Emotional contracts in are more the rescission of the Rack question appropri- Project Spice Experience Through Films," "Consis- ate to or industrial labor- renewal, the of the government, relationship faculty tency of Syntactic Structure as a Factor atories, or to one of the cor- to the Science Center is discussed non-profit being in Journalistic Style," and "The Logic con- porations set up for the purpose of by the University Council's Committee of Semantic Differentiation." ducting problem-solving investigations." on Research, and a judgment by the Dr. Tannenbaum, 39, received a bach- In an epilogue, a Defense Department Senate on a specific contract would pull elor of science in 1948 from spokesman the following day told the Senate policy from the principle of free degree McGill He earned a master Evening Bulletin that Spice Rack and publishability toward judgment on the University. science Summit would not be transferred to the basis of the content of research. of degree in journalism (1951) and a doctor of in University City Science Center. "We do philosophy degree communications both from the not know where they will go at this (1953), time," he said. Reavis Cox Named University of Illinois. The stage was set for the final resolu- To tion of the controversy when the Univer- Kresge Chair sity Senate on April 13 urged the rescis- Dr. Reavis Cox has been named Sebas- sion of the Project Spice Rack contract tian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing in Krendel Appointment renewal "with all possible speed, without the Wharton School. A member of the Ezra S. Krendel, professor of statistics related marketing department since 1935, he is waiting upon any developments and operations research at the Wharton with to Rack." The the author of numerous articles and books regard Project Spice School of Finance and Commerce, has 109-47 vote endorsed a March 22 resolu- in marketing, and has served as a con- been appointed director of the School's tion by the Steering Committee of the sultant to many business enterprises, Management Science Center. Senate. trade organizations, and government Subsequently, the Senate met again agencies. Dr. Russell L. Ackoff, professor of , one day before the Trustees, The Kresge Foundation of Detroit statistics and operations research and and, by a vote of 232 to 207, tabled a awarded the Wharton School $600,000 formerly director of the Management Science Center, been in January to endow a professorship in has named chair- man of GUGGENHEIMS marketing. the Center's board of advisors. (continued from page 1) Dr. Cox served The Journal of Mar- Professor Krendel was associated with The Foundation's Fellowships are keting as managing editor (1941-42) and The Franklin Institute Research Labor- awarded to persons of the highest ca- as editor-in-chief (1943-44). He was atories, Philadelphia, from 1949 through pacity for scholarly and scientific re- vice-president in 1945 and 1951-52 and 1966. During that period, he served suc- search, as shown by their previous con- president in 1959-60 of the American cessively as senior research engineer, lab- tributions to knowledge, and to persons Marketing Association. oratory manager of the Engineering Psy- of outstanding and demonstrated creative At various times, he has been a member chology Laboratory, technical director of ability in the fine arts. The grants are of technical advisory committees to the the Operations Research Division, and made to assist the Fellows to further Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Board consultant and senior advisor. He their accomplishment in their fields by of Governors of the Federal Reserve founded both the Engineering Psychol- carrying on the work which they have System, and a consultant to the U. S. ogy Laboratory and the Operations Re- proposed to the Foundation. Treasury Department. search Division.

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FORD GRANT expected to teach, the arrangements will (continued from page 1) vary from department to department. New Equipment part of a total of $41,500,000 in grants During the fourth year, Dr. Jameson said, "We the of stu- by the Ford Foundation for the graduate expect majority Used In Bass's schools of the University of California dents to concentrate on the dissertation, at Berkeley, the Universities of Chicago, free by this time of courses and examina- Michigan, and Wisconsin, and Cornell, tions." Underwater Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale He estimates the cost of bringing the Dig An "underwater telephone booth" to Universities. These institutions were re- 744 students at Pennsylvania to the afford a breather to divers engaged in cently referred to as "the ten 'pace- Ph.D. in four years of full-time study archaeological exploration on the bed of universities that award the during the seven-year period will be up- setting' major- the sea is the latest piece of equipment of Ph.D.s in the social sciences and wards of $12,800,000. While the Ford ity introduced by Dr. George F. Bass, as- humanities." Foundation grant will supply $4,000,000 sistant of classical archaeology The such a of this support, the balance of the financ- professor English department began at the University Museum and noted last ing must come from the University's own program September using University underwater and outside resources. That income and endowed fellowships, as well archaeologist. program Dr. Bass left New York April 1 on served as a model for the Pennsylvania as such other sources as National Defense the first leg of another trip back to proposal to the Ford Foundation. Education Act (NDEA) fellowships. explorations off the coast of Turkey. In "During the first year the student con- Dr. Jameson estimates the University 130 feet of water, near the mainland centrates on course work," Dr. Jameson will have to supply some $5,570,000 of Turkish city of Bodrum, Dr. Bass will said. "In the second he will assist a pro- its own funds toward the program. explore the site of a Late Roman ship fessor in planning courses and examina- Stipends will be based upon the NDEA sunk about 1,500 years ago and now tions and in the grading of papers. In fellowship allotments, Dr. Jameson said. partly covered with mud. the third he will be responsible for a These provide $2,400 the first year, mov- The "telephone booth," so named be- class, and during the fourth year he will ing to $2,800 annually. A dependency cause it will be connected a devote full time to his dissertation." allowance is also provided, for students by telephone cable to the mainland ceiiter of opera- Graduate departments, besides English, who are eligible. The figures are based tions, was by Michael and Susan which will participate in the program at on year-round study, rather than nine designed Womer Katzev, members of the expedi- Pennsylvania are these in the humanities months annually, so that students will tion staff. -American civilization, ancient history, progress rapidly to the degree. Katzev is a research associate in the anthropology, classical archaeology, clas- "There are several reasons why about Museum's Mediterranean section, where sical studies, folklore, German, history of half of all doctoral candidates in the his wife works as an assistant. art, linguistics, philosophy, religious social sciences and humanities do not The dome, four feet in diam- romance languages, and Slavic complete their studies," Dr. Jameson acrylic thought, rests on a and Baltic studies-and social sciences- said. "The planning of progress toward eter, is a half-inch thick and steel collar, of like thickness, weighing demography, economic history, economics, the Ph.D. varies widely from department 500 Fresh air into the history, history and philosophy of science, to department. In some cases the concep- pounds. pumped from a on a near- international relations, political science, tion of what a Ph.D. should be may be plastic dome compressor island will be maintained at the and sociology. out of date-while the dissertation in by pres- the sea water. Pennsylvania's grant from the Founda- these fields traditionally is expected to be sure of surrounding on metal the dome will tion is based upon 186 new students en- published in book form, this may no Mounted legs, accommodate two or three divers stand- tering the four-year doctoral program longer be sensible. But most important, in water to their chests with heads annually the first four years, being sup- there has been a scarcity of funds to sup- ing up in the fresh air This ported continuously through to the doc- port graduate students in the humanities and shoulders space. remove their masks torate by the University's own resources and social sciences. The discrepancy be- will let them diving before to their as well as by Ford Foundation and other tween the number of students recom- and converse returning is support. New doctoral candidates enter- mended by departments for support and underwater tasks. The contraption inches from the of the dome ing in 1971 will be supported without the number for which funds have been about 37 top the aid of the Ford grant. available has remained large. to the bottom of the steel collar support- Thus, Dean Jameson projects an op- "The program we are about to embark ing it. innovations in timum figure of 186 doctoral candidates upon is not just a series of fellowships. It is only one of several enrolled in the program during 1967-68, It is a planned approach to the doctorate, equipment Dr. Bass will employ on his 372 in 1968-69, 558 in 1969-70, 744 in using all the financial resources available. underwater "dig" this year from -71, 558 in 1971-72, 372 in 1972-73, The Ford Foundation grant will guaran- until the end of August. Other new and 186 in 1973-74. It is possible that tee this support to the participating stu- equipment will include a submersible fewer than 186 persons will be enrolled dents." decompression chamber and a suction hose the first year, but more later. The program, Dr. Jameson pointed (for removal of sand covering the ship- About two-thirds of the doctoral candi- out, will not mean the end of part-time wreck) on a monorail track running on dates in the program will hold teaching study toward the doctorate at Pennsyl- the sea bed around the wreck. Also or research assistantships during their vania. "As an urban institution, we will included will be the Museum's sonar- second and third years. While all English continue to have a number of part-time equipped two-man submarine, the Ash- department students in the program are graduate students," he said. erah, a 16-foot craft.

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Farrell Is Comptroller Fels Institute Is the Host of Charles F. Farrell, business manager of the School of Medicine, has been Revolution Conference named comptroller of the University, Technological effective April 17. The University's Fels Institute of of Scientific Analysis in Planning and He succeeds William M. Hannah, Local and State Government is hosting Evaluating Complex Governmental Pro- conference on Urban Govern- who has resigned for another position. a four-day grams"; Herman G. Berkman, professor ment in the Decade Ahead: The Tech- of planning, Graduate School of Public Two assistant comptrollers have been nological Revolution in Management, Administration, New York University: transferred to the business and financial through . "Scope of Scientific Techniques and In- staff. are William vice-president's They The conference, which commemorates formation Technology in Metropolitan J. Murdock and Adrian L. Smeltzer. the 30th anniversary of the Institute's Area Analysis." Named as assistant comptrollers are founding, features the presentation of Joel M. Kibbee, manager, State and J. Harold Dumm, who has been internal a number of papers by eminent public Local Urban Systems, System Develop- auditor, and James W. Heflin, formerly executives and scholars. Under arrange- ment Corporation: "Scope of Large-Scale director of management services. ment with the Institute and the Amer- Computer-Based Systems in Government- ican Academy of Political and Social al Functions"; Edward F. R. Hearle, Science, the papers will be published as assistant director, Office of Regional Eco- Conflict of Interest an Academy monograph, entitled "Gov- nomic Development, U. S. Department erning Urban Society: New Scientific of Commerce: Scope of Management Approaches." Information Systems in Governmental Study Underway The conference will build upon the Administration"; John G. Kemeny, pro- A joint subcommittee of the Commit- foundation provided by the monograph fessor of philosophy, and chairman, de- tee on Faculty Affairs and Committee on (to be provided all registrants prior to partment of mathematics and astronomy, Research of the University Council is the Conference) and provides more inten- Dartmouth College: "Impacts on Urban studying the problem of conflict of inter- sive coverage of the new capabilities Society of Foreseeable Developments in est as it relates to University faculty afforded by advancements in scientific Science and Technology-The Computer members. analysis and technology. The Confer- Revolution." ence's is the Sources of possible conflict identified emphasis upon challenges John Diebold, president, Diebold As- these to execu- for inquiry are: (1) conflict of interest developments pose public sociates; "Impacts on Urban Govern- tives and educators concerned with in research, (2) external employment of mental Functions of Foreseeable Devel- a more desirable environment. in Science and faculty members, (3) the holding of man- achieving opments Technology"; and their include: E. agerial or significant financial relation- Speakers topics Matthias Lukens, deputy executive Robert C. Wood, of the director, ships in outside, private concerns, (4) Undersecretary Port of New York Authority: of and Urban De- University employment of more than one Department Housing "Emerging Executive and Organiza- "Needs and for member of a family as a faculty member, velopment: Prospects tional Responses to Scientific and Tech- the Effectiveness of Govern- (5) the nature of and time devoted to Increasing nological Development"; and Carl F. Action to Achieve Urban Goals;" extramural work, and (6) circumstances mental Stover, executive director, National Insti- Center for Re- which tend to encourage extramural re- C. West Churchman, tute of Public Affairs, "The Roles of Univer- 'search and consultation as against per- search and Management Science, Public Officials and Educators in Real- of California, "Potentials the forming the same functions within the sity Berkeley: izing Potentials of New Scientific Aids for University. Urban Society." The subcommittee plans to make rec- Raker Is Named ommendations on these areas to the par- Sheppard Professor NEW SCIENCE ent committees in the spring of 1968. Dr. Charles W. Raker, chief and pro- LABORATORY Faculty members having suggestions fessor of veterinary surgery, School of A new science laboratory for prepara- which may help the subcommittee in its Veterinary Medicine, has been named to tion of elementary and secondary school work are invited to contact the chairman, the newly created professorship honoring teachers in physics, chemistry, biology and Dr. Vilfred Malenbaum, professor of Lawrence Baker Sheppard. earth sciences was dedicated at the Uni- economics. The other members are Dr. Mr. Sheppard, whom the professorship versity's Graduate School of Education Herman Beerman, professor of dermatol- honors, is owner of Hanover Shoe Farms April 12. ogy; Dr. Reavis Cox, professor of mar- in Adams County, Pa., the world's larg- Alumni Annual Giving funds were keting; Dr. Lee C. Eagleton, professor est center for the breeding of standard- used to equip the laboratory, which can of chemical engineering; Dr. Robert J. breds. seat 48 students-half at fully equipped Johnson, professor of anatomy; and Dr. Dr. Raker received his veterinary de- laboratory benches and half at tables. Vincent H. Whitney, professor of sociol- gree from Pennsylvania in 1942. He Among the facilities are an electrically ogy. During the fall this subcommittee joined the Veterinary School's faculty as controlled greenhouse, two aquaria, a sys- prepared a report which became Univer- assistant professor in 1950. In 1957, he tem for storage of partially completed sity policy regarding the conflict of inter- was made a full professor and chief of experiments, and a "demonstration bench" est in Government-sponsored research. surgery. for the student-teachers.

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New Dental Division Insurance Counseling Service Recently Created A Division of Advanced Dental Edu- Provided For Faculty A'nd Staff cation has been created at the Univer- Harold E. Manley, business and finan- for distribution as dividends to partici- of Dental Medicine. sity's School cial vice president of the University, pants in the program as their individual Director of the new Division will be announces that the Trustees have auth- loss records warrant. Dr. Stanley C. Harris, professor and orized the Insurance Company of North To help reduce the cost of accidents chairman of pharmacology at the dental America to open an Insurance Counsel- and insurance premiums, new emphasis school, Dr. Burket said. As of March ling Service for faculty and employees of will be placed on 24-hour-a-day safety I, the new Division took over the post- the University. involving both on-the-job and off-the-job graduate training program in most dental The office at 3725 Chestnut St. will accidents. This will include highway specialties from the School of Medicine's be under the direction of Mr. William safety and such specialized hazards as Division of Graduate Medicine. Doolittle (EV 2-2800 or University ex- those encountered in the home and on tension 5850). vacation. The Division will provide formal Property-casualty insurance coverages This effort to assist University person- training for dentists who wish to special- only, including automobile, homeowners, nel in sound insurance ize in endodontics, crown and bridge obtaining personal boat owners, personal and professional li- protection was developed with the Insur- prosthesis, oral surgery, orthodontics, per- ability, will be available to employees ance Company of North America by Dr. iodontics and periodontal prosthesis, and on an individual basis. These coverages Dan M. McGill, professor and chairman will give certificates of completion. may be purchased through the conven- of the insurance department of the ience of payroll deduction and payments Wharton School and chairman of the Crumb Receives Grant may be spread out over the entire year University's personnel benefits committee, at no extra cost to the employee. Partic- and by Rodney F. Pyfer, University in- Dr. H. Crumb, assistant pro- George ipation in the program is purely voluntary surance manager in the Treasurer's of- fessor of music, is one of the four Amer- and employees are invited to seek insur- fice. Cooperating insurance brokers are ican composers named to receive $2,500 ance advice without obligation. Hutchinson, Rivinus & Company; High- grants of the National Institute of Arts Under the program, if loss experience am, Neilson, Whitridge & Reid; and and Letters this year. is favorable the savings will be available Van Pelt and Company. The awards, announced by Institute President George F. Kennan, will be pre- sented at the annual joint ceremonial of the Institute and its affiliate, the Amer- ican Academy of Arts and Letters, in New York 24. City May APPOINTMENTS: emeritus of anthropology and curator of Crumb, whose "Variazioni" for social at the Dr. Dr. William W. Brickman, anthropology University was introduced in 1965 pro- Museum, has been large orchestra fessor of education, has been invited to appointed Mary the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Helen Marks Visiting Professor at Chat- by serve on an international research project under Max Rudolph, was represented on ham College, Pittsburgh, for the 1967-68 analyzing the accessibility of higher edu- the 21 of the University academic year. April program cation. The project is directed by Profes- of "New Voices in Amer- Dr. John Francis Lubin, associate Pennsylvania's sor Lamberto Borghi, director of the ican Music" series with a 1966 work, of and director of Institute of Education at the University professor industry "Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965." activities, has been of Florence, . University computing Dr. Crumb, who the appointed editor-in-chief of Computing joined University Dr. Hansruedi Luginbuhi, associ- in 1965, is currently at work on Reviews, the review journal of the Asso- faculty ate professor of pathology, School of an orchestral piece commissioned by the ciation for Computing Machinery. Veterinary Medicine, has been elected a of J. Warren Haas, director of librar- University Chicago. corresponding member of the German ies at Pennsylvania, has been appointed Society of Neuropathologists and Neuro- to the American Council of Leaned anatomists. Dr. Luginbuhi thus becomes AWARD TO WEST Societies' committee of scholars, librari- one of the few American members of the Dr. MT. West, instructor in ans, and to James Society. university presidents propose pharmacology, has received one of eleven programs to meet the urgent and long- Lederle Medical Faculty Awards made Dr. Herbert Herman, assistant pro- term needs of American research libraries. fessor of has this year in the United States. He will metallurgical engineering, Dr. Edward B. Shils, associate pro- been editor of a new review receive $20,000 for a two-year period. appointed fessor of industry, is chief consultant of series in materials science: Advances in His primary research interest is in the the Philadelphia Board of Education's Materials Research-published by Inter- coronary circulation and how it is af- Manpower Utilization Study to deter- science-Wiley. The first volume came fected by drugs in both heart diseased mine more rational guidelines for the out during April. persons and tho:e without any heart staffing of city schools. trouble. Dr. A. Irving Hallowell, professor (continued on page 7)

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Wishner, Retiring Senate Chairman, Gives Talk On 'Voices For Sale' (The following address by Dr. Julius is based on success in selling-it hardly that respect is dependent in the first place Wishner, professor of psychology and matters what. We have come to accept on the assumption by his listener of the 1966-67 chairman of the University Sen- this as an honorable-even an honored independence of his voice. ate, was presented at April 13 meeting calling. But what price "honor"? In Right or wrong, wise or foolish, pro- of the Senate.) the end, it is a bought voice-at least found or shallow, the voice of the pro- It falls to the chairman at the end of when speaking publicly. And who is fessor is regarded as independent, un- his term to make a few remarks. I know there left naive enough to believe the bought even by the most powerful forces, from experience that it is everyone's hope emanations from such voices? by church, political party, yes, even by that the remarks will be mercifully brief, It is interesting that what stamps a agencies of the government. and if not, at least uplifting of our spirits. voice as bought in the sense meant here Recent revelations of the descent of In an effort to be brief, I shall follow is not that it is delivering words written governmental buyers of voices to some of the example of Cicero, and not attempt by others, for the same is true of the our campuses have imperiled both the at this time to summarize the accomplish- actor. But whereas we are inclined to image and the substance of this inde- ments of the Senate in the recent period. view, the actor as a delicate instrument to pendence. But, in truth, it is always I shall not speak of our mundane efforts be played by the playwright and the di- under attack. And it remains a fact to increase communication among all rector, which, together with the actor's that however imperfect professors are, University elements through the distri- own creative efforts, can contribute to having long ago renounced their vows bution of the minutes of each meeting of a finely wrought artistic experience, we of celibacy and only recently their vows the University Council; nor shall I speak don't generally regard the readers of of poverty-however imperfect they are, of the contributions of the Senate in the commercials in the same way. Perhaps there are relatively few whose voices formation of the University-State Rela- it has to do with the content of what they have been bought, and I consider it a safe tions Committee or of our subsequent are reading and with the degree to which guess that their voices are bought very attempts to implement the recommenda- the reading reaches the point of becoming much less frequently than that of any tions of that Committee; nor shall I an art form. At his finest, the actor is other major group in our society whose speak of the Senate's reaffirmation of the presenting words that stimulate thought voices are worth buying. ideals of our culture, and honest the reader of com- highest academic feeling; A Small Pat embodied in its forward-looking research mercials merely wants you to buy his The professor can give himself a little policy, a policy already serving as a guid- product, provoking whatever anxieties he pat on the back for this, but a little ing beacon for many other university must to reach his goal, with little respect only one. He is, after all, supported faculties; nor shall I speak of the dozens for truth, "codes of honest broadcasting" by society for this or of ways in which the Senate and its to the contrary notwithstanding. This is precisely purpose, wittingly no. Our society has found it useful to officers have tried to express the aspira- perhaps why we consider it particularly create and a sector that is, or tions of this faculty for a progressive pathetic when a fine actor is driven to protect should be, ever skeptical of university ever at the frontier of intel- read such commercials. His added skill certainty, a dissonant voice for the richer lectual life. in feigning sincerity makes his voice one providing of the whole. of the less attractive sounds of our cul- harmony Voices in Our Culture It is inevitable in a free society that ture. His voice is now bought. I shall speak instead of voices in our this sector will come under frequent A scholarly treatise on these voices and culture, of those for sale and those not, attack from a of quarters. But on many others (e.g., attorneys, readers variety and particularly, of the voice of the if the has foresworn his vows of ghost-written speeches, etc.) seems like professor and of his to of university professor, duty an attractive task to but I fear celibacy and poverty, he has, whether his voice attempt, keep independent. there is not time for it here, so let me he likes it or not, assumed the respon- Consider, if will, a of the you sample on to the voice of the sibility to keep his voice free and inde- voices in our current Babel. Some of pass quickly pro- fessor. pendent-and this responsibility he can- the most frequently heard are the bought not abandon-not even with the most voices, some more expensive than others. The Professor's Voice artful and disarming confessions of the To sell one's voice is not necessarily dis- 'What does it contain-this voice? common human failings of cowardice and honorable by modern standards, as, for Truth? Wisdom? Clever phrases? In- weakness in the face of temptation. example, the radio announcer. He as- genious analyses? Artistic creations? At For the professor has been granted sumes no responsibility for what he says its best, of course, it contains all of these. indefinite tenure of office and the price when he reads a commercial message. There is unmistakable evidence of the he must pay for this security is heavy. If his words are assessed at all for truth, increasing respect for the voice of the He is charged with the duty to think wisdom, cleverness, or artistry, it is done professor in our culture, not merely in things through, to arrive at the best and so only on one of the amusing detours on the area of his technical expertness, but most articulate or artistic formulations the way to the ultimate judgment, which in general areas of thought. I believe (continued on next page)

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VOICES (continued) bert J. Spiro, professor of political stitutes of Health. He will be working he can manage. Finally, he must lay his science, was published March 27 by in the laboratory of Dr. R. H. Pritchard findings before his peers and the public Prentice-Hall Spectrum Books. The at the University of Leicester, England, for merciless examination, analysis and study compares the political and economic on problems related to bacterial genetics, criticism. Society has learned that this development of African nations and for a year beginning this summer. nations in other of the process can enrich the life of all material- emerging parts Dr. Walter D. Bonner, professor of ly and spiritually. But this process be- world. physical biochemistry and plant physiol- comes void and meaningless if it turns Dr. Henry J. Abraham, professor ogy, The Johnson Foundation, has been out that the professor's voice was bought. of political science, has just had published awarded an Overseas Fellowship for the Fortunately, this is rarely true. When it his Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights 1967-68 academic year at Churchill Col- is, it breaks our hearts. and Liberties in the United States, by the lege, Cambridge, England. Having begun with an oratorical trick Oxford University Press. Dr. MacEdward Leach, emeritus from a generally imitative culture, let Dr. Abraham delivered a paper on professor of English and folklore, has me conclude with a passage from a genu- "Comparative Judicial Processes" at the been awarded a senior fellowship by the inely independent, even defiant, voice of meeting of the Southwestern Social Sci- National Endowment on the Arts and the 18th Century, Robert Burns:* ence Association in Dallas, Texas, in Humanities to re-edit Francis J. Child's March. English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Prentice-Hall has Cases in "For a' that, an' a' that, published Labor Relations: An Arbitration TRAVELERS & SPEAKERS: Our toils obscure, an' a' that, Experi- ence, by Dr. John R. Abersold, pro- Dr. Edward Korostoff, professor of The rank is but the guinea's stamp, fessor of industry, and Dr. Wayne E. metallurgical engineering and assistant The man's the gowd for a' that." Howard, assistant professor of industry. director of the Laboratory for Research And further on he wrote: on the Structure of Matter, has had sev- AWARDS: eral speaking engagements during the "Ye see birkie ca'd 'a lord,' yon Dr. E. Digby Baltzell, professor of current semester. In February, he spoke "Nha struts, an' stares, an' a' that? sociology, has been awarded a post- on "Three Faces of Biomaterials" at the Tho' hundreds at his word, worship doctoral fellowship for cross-disciplinary Engineers' Day at the Drexel Institute He's but a cuif for a' that, study for the 1967-68 academic year by of Technology, and participated at a For a' that, an' a' that, the Society for Religion in Higher Edu- session on progress in biomaterials at the ribband, star, an' a' that, His cation. Dr. Baltzell will study the "soci- 96th annual AIME meeting in Los The man o' mind, independent ology of religion" at Princeton Theolog- Angeles. In March, he was senior author He looks an' at a' that. laughs ical Seminary. of two papers presented at the 45th gen- A prince can mak a belted knight, Dr. Loren C. Eiseley, University eral meeting of the International Associa- Research in A marquis, duke, an' a' that! Professor of Anthropology and the His- tion for Dental Washington, But an honest man's aboon his might- tory of Science, was the recipient of an D.C. Guid faith, he mauna fa' that!' honorary degree (L.H.D.) from Kal- Dr. George F. Dales, associate pro- For a' that, an' a' that, amazoo College, Kalamazoo, Mich., at fessor of South Asian archaeology, Uni- Their dignities, an' a' that, the College's celebration of Scholar's versity Museum, recently returned from The pith o' sense an' pride o' worth Day February 16. an archaeological prospecting tour of Thailand and An- Are higher rank than a' that." Dr. Eiseley has also been appointed to Ceylon, Afghanistan. other Pennsylvania faculty member, Dr. And finally a verse expressing an ultimate serve on the American Association for Vimala S. Begley, assistant professor ideal of the independent voice, brought the Advancement of Science's commit- tee on Public of of South Asian archaeology, is currently to its greatest expression by Schiller and Understanding Science. a search for a pre-Buddhist Beethoven. As Burns said it: On March 2 he delivered an address at conducting Amherst College on "The Hidden site in Ceylon. let us that come "Then pray it may Teacher." Dr. Morse Peckham, professor of (As come it will for a' that) Dr. B. L. Gwatkin, research English, has lectured during the current That Sense and Worth o'er a' the earth Ralph assistant professor of reproductive physi- academic year at the University of Wyo- Shall bear the gree an' a' that! School of Veterinary Medicine, has ming, Beaver College, Pennsylvania State For a' that, an' a' that, ology, been the 1967 I. C. Rubin Award University, and the State University of It's for a' that, given coming yet for the in the New York at Buffalo. That man to man the world o'er outstanding paper published 1966 volume of Fertility and Sterility. Dr. Anthony Zahareas, associate Shall brithers be for a' that." The paper was entitled "The Effect of professor of romance languages, recently *From "Is There For Honest Poverty" Viruses on Early Mammalian Develop- took part in a round-table discussion at ment." The award was presented April Bryn Mawr College dealing with the Among other things... 16 at the annual meeting of the Amer- Spanish writer Valle Inclan, in honor of ican Fertility Society in Washington, the centenary of his birth. (continued from page 5) D.C. Dr. Otis H. Green, professor of AUTHORS: Dr. Thomas H. Wood, professor of romance languages, lectured at Indiana Patterns of African Development: physics, has received a special research University in February on "Spanish Five Comparisons, edited by Dr. Her- fellowship award from the National In- Cultural Expansion in the 16th Century"

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Barbara, California. church administrators at a conference on Dr. Haresh C. Shah, assistant pro- leadership development and administra- fessor of civil engineering, has presented tive effectiveness in religious organiza- papers at two different conferences so tions. far this year, with another scheduled for Dr. Webber's most recent article, "In- and "The Concept of Kingship in Spain July. novation and Conflict in Industrial En- in the 16th Century." He was followed In March, Dr. Shah spoke on the gineering," will appear in the May issue at the same institution in March by Dr. "Principle of Maximum Entropy and of The Journal of Industrial Engineer- Arnold G. Reichenberger, professor its Application in Reliability Estimation ing. of romance languages, whose topic was of Aircraft Structures" at the 8th Struc- James B. Yarnall, director of the "The Classical Tradition in Spanish Lit- tures, Dynamics, and Materials Confer- University's Office of Fellowship Infor- erature of the Golden Age." ence of the AIAA/ASME in Palm mation and Study Programs Abroad, left Dr. Howard E. Mitchell, professor Springs, Calif. On April 27, he spoke April 11 for a three-week trip to Eng- and director of the Human Resources on the "Use of Decision Statistics and land, where he conferred with the Program, participated in a two-day work- Bayes' Theorem in Formula Selection" British Thouron Selection Committee at shop, "The Health Status of the Negro at the 3rd General Electric Seminar, its final selection meetings. He also Today and for the Future," at Howard held at Drexel Institute of Technology visited a number of universities in Eng- University, Washington, D.C., March In July, he will speak on "The Use land and Scotland to explain and pub- 13-14. The workshop was part of the of Entropy in Reliability of Measure- licize the Thouron British-American Ex- University's centennial year program. ments" at the 6th Reliability and Main- change Program. On March 15-18, Dr. Mitchell was tainability Conference in Cocoa Beach, Dr. E. Sculley Bradley, professor a featured speaker at a Conference on Florida. of English, gave four lectures at Long Higher Education and the Challenge of Dr. Jerre Mangione, associate pro- Island University in March and April the Urban Crisis, held at Morgan State fessor of English, spoke on "Authors in on 'Literary Survivals"-a study of the College, Baltimore, as part of that insti- the Flesh" at the annual School and continuing popular interest in the works tution's centennial observance. While at College Conference at Barnard College of Hawthorne, Whitman, Mark Twain, Morgan State, Dr. Mitchell also ad- in February. The lecture will be pub- and Dreiser. dressed the annual meeting and installa- lished in the spring bulletin of the Con- tion of new members of Psi-Chi. ference. Dr. Glenn R. Morrow, Adam Sey- Dr. Ross A. Webber, assistant pro- The -Jlmanac is published monthly bert Emeritus Professor of Moral and fessor of industry, has recently given sev- during the academic year by the Uni- Intellectual Philosophy, delivered the first eral talks around the country. In Feb- versity for the information of its of the winter term's Isenberg Memorial ruary he was keynote speaker at the faculty and staff. Lectures at Michigan State University Annual Credit Conference of the Cin- Suggested news items should be February 5, "An Interpretation of Soc- cinnati Association of Credit Managers; sent to: rates' Dream in Plato's Theaetetus." in March, he spoke on new developments HARRY KING, 4cting Editor Dr. John O'M. Bockris, professor in behavioral science for the Annual News Bureau of chemistry, delivered a paper on "Optic- Franklin Science Conference at Franklin 3439 Walnut St al Methods of Surfaces of Examining and Marshall College; and in April, he University of Pennsylvania Electrodes" at the Gordon Conference on conducted a seminar at the University of Printing Office Electrochemistry in February at Santa Chicago on managing executive time for

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