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No. 3 December 1956 Published monthly by the University for the information of its faculty and staff. TO Non-Profit Org. Dozens Eminent "They most certainly do," of Scholars emphasized Dr. Preston. " "You might even add an Engaged In additional significant value - to my first five, namely, Educational Survey the extension of their find- to needs elsewhere. In the two of ings past years, dozens distinguished educators " "The benefits and from all over the have been investi- challenges country analyzing, of the study are to and the on behalf of The going gating, assessing University be felt far beyond our own Educational Survey. Dr. Malcolm Preston Talks gates. And in that process, What are the values that such outsiders bring to such with I',. Hayward Keniston of the good name of the Uni- an appraisal? the University of Michigan, one will be the consultants. versity very widely of Survey broadcast and its ties We put the question to Dr. Malcolm Preston, Co-Director with sister institutions knotted more than ever before." of the Survey and Professor of Psychology. securely "They are many," he replied. "Five important ones, at A list of consultants has been published in the Second least. First, the outsider is free of the insider's constraints. Annual Report, 1955-1956 of the Educational Survey. He is unaffected by special loyalties or particular identifi- The Almanac is proud to print the names of the dis- cations. He can much more easily, therefore, maintain an tinguished participants from outside the University during objective attitude. Secondly, I think, the outsiders as a the years 1954-55 and 1955-56 along with a list of "com- specially chosen group bring a wider range of talent and mitments for participation by outsiders during 1956-57." knowledge to their tasks than can be available in any Participants for the first two years (listed one university." alphabetically under various projects without regard to the extent of "Would you say that this objectivity and range are their services) are as follows: likelier to produce the kind of judgment that ultimately results in action?" Education for Women "Yes, I would," said Dr. Preston. "Our own judgments Sarah Blanding, President, Vassar College would certainly be respected-and, indeed, are. But the Margaret Corwin, Former Dean, New Jersey College for outside authority carries a special additional weight by Women (now Douglass College) reason of his detachment, and it is this that weight gives Katherine E. McBride, President, Bryn Mawr College his judgment a greater possibility of acceptance as a basis of action." Engineering "How do our own Faculty react to the outsider?" Robert L. Pigford, Chairman, Department of Chemical of Delaware "The reaction has been splendid, of course, and con- Engineering, University stitutes an important fourth value. For actually, the C. Richard Soderberg, Dean of Engineering, Massachu- eminence and competence of the outsider has increased setts Institute of Technology the respect with which our Faculty have received the Benjamin R. Teare, Jr., Dean of Engineering, Carnegie work of the Survey. And finally, the outsider has frequently Institute of Technology been helpful-both with inspiration and information-to Faculty members working with problems in his own field." Law We wondered whether the consultants themselves Thomas Finletter, Lawyer and alumnus, New York profited from their relationship with the Survey. (Continued on page two) THE ALMANAC 2 Social Work Educational Survey (Continued) C. Wilson Anderson, Director, Family and Children's Lon Fuller, Harvard Law School Service, Minneapolis North New York Eveline Burns, New York School of Social Work Whitney Seymour, Lawyer, F. F. Fauri, Dean, School of Social Work, John Stewart, Department of Government, Barnard University and Columbia of Michigan College University Arthur E. Fink, Dean, School of Social Work, Jacob Viner, Department of Economics and Sociology, of North Princeton University Carolina University. Norman Lurie, Deputy Secretary of Welfare, Medicine Commonwealth of Pennsylvania George Berry, Dean, Medical School, Harvard John McDowell, Executive Director, National University Federation of Settlements, New York City Detlev Bronk, Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research Ernest F. Witte, Council on Social Work Education, Robin Carl Buerki, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit New York City Stanley E. Dorst, Dean, Medical School, University Helen R. Wright, Dean, School of Social Service of Cincinnati Administration, University of Chicago Wallace Osgood Fenn, Professor of Physiology, Donald R. Young, General Director, University of Rochester Russell Sage Foundation Alan Gregg, Vice-President, Rockefeller Foundation Statistics Vernon V. Lippard, Dean, School of Medicine, William G. Cochrane, Professor, Department of Bio- Yale University Statistics, The Johns Hopkins University Robert Loeb, Professor of Medicine, Columbia- Tjalling C. Koopmans, Cowles Foundation for Research Presbyterian Medical Center, New York and Economics, Department of Economics, John Morton, University of Rochester Medical School Yale University Edward L. Turner, American Medical Society, Training and Education of Teachers Chicago, Illinois Judson Chaplin, Harvard School of Education Social Sciences Henry Chauncey, Director, Educational Testing Service, Princeton Robert C. Angell, University of Michigan, Sociology Merrill K. Bennett, Professor, Leland Stanford William H. Cornog, former President, Central High School, New University Philadelphia-now Superintendent, Melvin G. deChazeau, Professor of Business Economics Trier Township High School, Winnetka, Illinois and Graduate School of Business and Public Robert J. Havighurst, University of Chicago Policy, Fred Harvard School of Education Administration, Cornell University Keppel, Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr., Social Psychologist, Commitments for participation by outsiders during Russell Sage Foundation 1956-57 Milton Friedman, Department of Economics, University College of Liberal Arts of Chicago Robert B. MacLeod, Professor of Psychology, John Gillin, Research Professor, Institute for Research Cornell University and Social Science, University of North Carolina Dentistry Ernest S. Griffith, Director, Legislative Reference Willard Fleming, Dean, School of Dentistry, Service, Library of Congress University of California Robert B. MacLeod, Department of Psychology, Education for Business, Government and Social Affairs Cornell University Waldo E. Fisher, Professor of Industry (retired), Donald G. Marquis, Chairman, Department of Wharton School Psychology, University of Michigan E. Cyril James, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Alpheus T. Mason, Department of Politics, McGill University Princeton University Ralph A. Young, Director, Division, Research and George P. Murdock, Department of Anthropology, Statistics, Federal Reserve Board Yale University John Orchard, Professor of Economic Geography, Sidney Painter, Department of History, Johns Hopkins School of Business, Columbia University Personnel Dexter Perkins, John L. Senior in Faculty Professorship Richard Shryock, Professor of the History of Medicine, American Civilization, Cornell University The Johns J. of Economics and Hopkins University Joseph Spengler, Department Graduate School Arts and Sciences Business Administration, Duke University of Harold of Politics, Princeton Hayward Keniston, Romance Languages, former Dean Sprout, Department of the of University College, University Michigan George J. Stigler, Faculty of Political Science, Humanities Columbia University Hayward Keniston, Romance Languages, former Dean Samuel Stouffer, Graduate School of Business of the College, University of Michigan Administration, George F. Baker Foundation, Veterinary Medicine Harvard University Henrik .j. Stafseth, Professor of Microbiology (retired), Jacob Viner, Department of Economics and Sociology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Princeton University Michigan State University 3 DECEMBER 1956 Provost Smith's Revolution In Current Education 200 Years Old My Reading The University of Pennsylvania takes pride this year As an unregenerate Maine-iac for over fifty years, I in observing the 200th anniversary of the remarkable col- thoroughly enjoy Ruth Moore's fiction. lege curriculum instituted here in 1756 by the University's first Provost, Dr. William Smith. at the If her Fair Wind Home, a historical novel, failed to Prepared request come alive, Speak to the Winds is, of the Trustees of that day it revolutionized higher in- quite (Morrow, 1956) struction in this For the first time on these shores like Spoonhandle and The Weir, life itself. Over a hundred- country. one follows the fortunes of the folk, from a college offered courses in modern languages, physics, year span, Bay mathematics, and economics in addition to traditional the time the first Gilman and MacKechnie opened the on remote and Chin Island courses in Bible study, church history, theology, and the quarries rugged to the period classics. and in the of difficult readjustment that plagues many such small Virtually every college university communities the United States owes something of its own program to the today. Through tragedy and comedy of liberalization of first realized at a fierce vendetta set off on a night of wild winter storm by learning Pennsylvania. a oration in the church, move As Charles and Beard it in The Rise of burlesque village Elbridge Mary put and his mother, "Little Sarah" Gilman, Liseo MacGimsey, American Civilization, Provost Smith's "Plan" stands and that summer exotic,
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