An American-Style University for Iran: Dr. Harnwell's Report During the past summer President Gaylord P. Harnwell and three other members of the University's administrative staff and faculty travelled to Iran under auspices of the U. S. State Department to advise educators and government officials there in planning the establishment of a new university modelled along American lines. Upon his return The Almanac requested comment from him on the activities of his committee in this matter. His report follows: Currently thousands of students from Iran are attending institutions of higher learning in Europe and the United States as part of their nation's effort to leap the centuries University Senate Meets Nov. 30 and achieve a distinguished position among the growing The University Senate's first meeting of the Fall Term nations of the Middle East and of the world. will be held in Ballantyne Auditorium (Room W-l), As these young men and women complete their training Dietrich Hall, beginning at 1 P.M. on Wednesday, Novem- abroad, they understandably show some reluctance to ber 30. return to their native land where current conditions are After an opening statement by Professor Arthur P. less attractive and opportunities somewhat restricted. The Whitaker, Chairman of the Senate, President Gaylord P. Iranian Government, aware that its most valuable national Harnwell will address the meeting. product is thus being exported, is seeking to provide edu- Brief talks, followed by an opportunity for questions cational opportunities within Iran itself to match those of from the floor, will then be given by Mr. Harold Taubin, the West. Director of the University Planning Office, and Mr. Harold Recognition of this problem by the Teheran government E. Manley, University Comptroller. Mr. Taubin will sketch led to discussions with our State Department in the belief expansion plans of the University, which involve such that we might help them identify the characteristics of the topics as the West Philadelphia Corporation and problems educational system which was drawing away so many of of faculty parking and housing. Mr. Manley's talk will deal their able people, and to transplant it under favorable with the University's current financial report, copies of circumstances to Iranian soil. which were recently sent by him, with a covering letter, to Transplanting practices and customs is not an easy all members of the University Senate. matter, but the possibility of success was deemed sufficient With the aid of various committees of the Senate, its to justify a preliminary effort, and the State Department Advisory Committee is developing other subjects of general then asked the University of Pennsylvania to study the University interest for discussion at this or subsequent feasibility of this program, and, if practicable, to assemble meetings. a 'do-it-yourself' kit for the establishment in Iran of a university of the American type. The opportunity thus presented had many aspects of Faculties Join in Exploring interest. One was that we shared the Iranian Government's conviction that the ultimate success of an emerging democ- Governmental Relationships racy depends upon the quality of its educational system. An interdisciplinary project to explore the nexus between Another was that an American university was probably values and governmental decisions, using nation-states the only type of institution which could effectively deal and local governments in metropolitan areas as the units with the assignment. Finally, the circumstances called for of analysis, is now being undertaken on the University the collective exercise of academic judgment, rather than campus, it was announced recently by Dr. John Perry simply serving as an academic employment agency for Horlacher, Chairman of the Political Science Department. persons to act under State Department direction, as has Support for the project comes from the Ford Founda- generally been the request to universities in the past. tion, which in 1959 gave the University a $50,000 grant As a result a small party from the University went to for a five-year program of research in Public Affairs, (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 2)

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Tuition Increases Announced The University announced on that effec- tive with the opening of the 1961 Summer School and the academic year 1961-1962, student tuition will be increased NEW FACES of 1960 in virtually all schools and departments. For the majority of full-time students in the undergradu- ate, graduate and professional schools, the annual tuition Dr. Julius A. Jahn, appointed is being increased by $200. The general fee in all schools Professor of Social Research. He is a of the of remains unchanged. graduate University and of the University With the increase, the tuition in all the undergraduate of Washington, where he received schools will be $1450. The general fee in these schools is his doctorate in 1949. He taught $150. In the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and sociology at Washington from 1946 other divisions, the new tuition will from to 1952, becoming Assistant Pro- graduate range fessor in 1949. From 1952 to 1954 $1400 to $1500. The general fee in them is $100. With he was Associate Professor of Soci- few exceptions, the new tuition in the professional schools ology at Washington State College, will be $1300, with a general fee of $100. In announcing and since 1954 has been a research the increases President Harnwell said that consideration of associate with the Community Serv- at and the trend of student ice Society of New York, and since 1957 a research educational costs Pennsylvania in at institutions had made it evident statistician the New York Department of Mental charges comparable Hygiene. that "the forward movement which has characterized the John S. Griffith, appointed Pro- University in recent years can be maintained only by fur- fessor of Chemistry. Mr. Griffith ther improvements in the economic status of the faculty comes to the University from Cam- and the addition of teachers and staff for new programs of bridge University, where he took his B.A. at in 1949, study and other direct services for students." Trinity College winning a First Class with Distinc- tion in Mathematics. He has since been in in FACULTIES (Continued from Page 1) engaged research theoreti- cal chemistry, physics and bio- Governmental and Political Processes, and Public Policies. physics, at Cambridge, at Oxford The Provost appointed a committee composed of Professor University and at the Admiralty Vincent H. Whitney, Professor Thomas C. Cochran, Pro- Research Laboratory. He is the fessor Charles C. Price, Dean Willis J. Winn, and Professor author of numerous publications on Horlacher to administer the transition metals and other aspects of his specialized field. grant. Dr. Bruce K. Goodwin, and appointed The committee, after soliciting receiving project Instructor in the Department of proposals from the entire University faculty, approved a Earth Sciences. He joined the faculty proposal which embodies and merges the ideas of three after receiving his Ph.D. at Lehigh in persons who have agreed to be responsible for its under- University 1959. His undergrad- L. uate work was done at the University taking-Professors Philip Jacob, William C. Wheaton, of and is that the and Pennsylvania that for his and James 0. Coke. It believed concepts Master's at Lehigh. He has been approaches traditionally employed in international studies engaged in field investigation of the may have much to contribute to the study of local govern- structural and stratigraphic relations ment units and that a similar cross-fertilization in the of the metamorphic rocks of north- of local of to eastern Vermont, and prepared his application government patterns analysis doctoral dissertation on the international relations be fruitful. geology may of that region. He is married and has two children. The immediate objective of the program would be to Allen S. Keller, appointed Instruc- test the applicability of different methods of behavioral tor in the Department of Earth analysis to the study of the general problem, for the Sciences. Mr. Keller, who was grad- ultimate development of better understanding of the value uated from the University of Utah which or contribute toward effective in 1951 and received his master's factors impede coop- there in 1952, to receive the eration autonomous units. expects among relatively governmental doctorate from Columbia University Teams of graduate students interested in the two areas in June, 1961. His field experience of focus will work with faculty members. It is expected includes four years as a field party that interested in chief for a petroleum corporation in professors Sociology, Anthropology, Venezuela. His and will in doctoral dissertation History, Psychology City Planning participate deals with, major structural features the program, which is in no sense intended to be a strictly of the Rocky Mountains in south- Political Science venture. eastern Idaho. He is married and has two children.

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HARNWELL (Continued from Page]) report contained a general statement of the educational of an American of an familiarize itself in the limited purposes type university, analysis Iran in the early summer to of its structure, a draft of legislation to bring it into being; time available with the current educational scene there, statutes to its and ensure the be taken to guide operation dynamic and to endeavor to formulate the steps to bring balance of the relationships within an academic commu- about an institution somewhat similar to our own, in a and such matters as site, of consisted of nity, practical design campus suitable location in that country. The party and buildings, and financing plans. Dr. Jonathan E. Rhoads, recently Provost and presently Before we left, our had won formal E. report approval by Chairman of the Department of Surgery; Dr. Philip the Iranian Government and steps were being taken to Jacob, Professor of Political Science and recently Chairman an site for the The Committee; John acquire appropriate campus. completed of the University's Educational Policy report bears upon its cover the Golden Bowl discovered C. Hetherston, Secretary of the University, and myself. our at Hasanlu, a number of by archaeological expedition symbolizing Before leaving we consulted with persons the plurality and breadth of the academic interests that are familiar with Iran, its educational situation, its history a colonial of the West with an ancient much that was uniting university and its culture, and from them we learned but resurging country of the East. helpful. We also sought, before our departure, to formulate an outline of the nature of an American university for use as a framework upon which our report and recommenda- University Presents Noted tions could be based. In Teheran we were welcomed most hospitably by the Lecturers in Franklin Series Overseas Mission of the ICA and introduced to members Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, Professor of Physics and of the ministries of Education and Health and the many Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, specialists and technicians representing our State Depart- was the initial speaker in the University's ment and other American agencies. Iran's principal uni- Benjamin Franklin Lecture Series for 1960-61. He ad- versity, in Teheran, is built upon the early French pattern dressed a capacity audience in the auditorium of the of autonomous faculties and didactic instruction, which University Museum on the topic, "Speaking to One is presently characterized largely by part-time participation Another." on the part of both faculties and students. The series, devoted to the general theme, "Major Issues In the southern mountains not far from the ancient of the Sixties," will continue on December 8, when Eero dynastic center of Persepolis we visited the city of Shiraz, Saarinen, noted architect and designer of the University's long a cultural center, in which are the tombs of Saadi and new women's dormitories at 33rd and Walnut Sts., speaks Hafiz and an atmosphere particularly congenial to foster- on "Problems Facing Architecture." ing the rebirth of an educational movement. We concurred with our hosts' proposal that the new university be located here, feeling that the availability of an appropriate site not Wharton Sponsors Major far from the center of the city, the removal from the political metropolis of the capital, and the long intellectual Industrial Relations Parley tradition of the Province of Fars all indicated the propriety More than 450 experts in the field of labor-management of such a choice. relations, representing all parts of the United States and We spent some days in Isfahan, the city of Shah Abbas several foreign countries, were guests of the University and the flowering of the Safavid Dynasty. We also explored last week at a one-day conference on "Industrial Relations the northwestern province of Azerbaijan, the city of Tabriz in the -Problems and Prospects." just north of Lake Urmia, near the site of our Museum's The conference took place Friday under the joint aus- expedition at Hasanlu. The provincial universities in these pices of the Labor Relations Council of the Wharton cities are somewhat similar to the University of Teheran School, the American Arbitration Association, the Cham- and currently serve general educational purposes as well ber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia, the Industrial as their communities' specific professional training needs. Relations Association o' Philadelphia, and the Industrial Iran as a whole compares with the eastern half of the Relations Research Association. Sessions were divided United States in size. The mountainous regions resemble between the University Museum and Houston Hall. our southwestern states. The eastern desert and the western portions along the Persian Gulf are torrid, desolate areas, while the northern rim abutting upon the Russian border Faculty Club Notes and the Caspian Sea is a lush tropical agricultural region. Officers of the Faculty Club, recently elected for the The present universities are on the central high arid academic year 1960-61, are: Orin E. Burley, President; plateau, in rapidly growing urban centers supported in John Perry Horlacher, Vice President; G. Malcolm Laws, large measure by a petroleum economy, but still strongly Jr., Secretary, and William Richard Gordon, Treasurer. influenced by ancient nomadic and tribal traditions. We Burley, Laws and Gordon were made members of the found in Iran many persons with extensive western expe- club's Board of Directors after that body, under the rience, discriminating judgment of their generation's edu- authority of Section 7.01 of the By-Laws, amended Sec- cational needs, and a devotion to the welfare of their tion 3.02 of the By-Laws to increase the size of the Board country which augurs well for the successful adoption of from 10 to 13 members. new methods and ideas. The Club will be open on Thanksgiving Day, and will Our formulation of the requisite components of an serve the usual pre-game "brunch" from 11:30 A.M. to American university met with broad acceptance by the 2 P.M. Dinner will be served from 2:30 to 7:30 P.M. people in ministries and educational institutions, and with For the benefit of members who have early evening their help we expanded and refined these proposals to fit classes, the Club is now serving dinner daily beginning at more closely the realities of the present situation. Our 5 P.M. and continuing until 7:30 P.M.

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Dr. Ravdin, during a trip abroad in the late summer, Other penetrated the Iron Curtain to address a Polish medical Among Things group in Warsaw.

CONGRATULATIONS: To Dr. 1. S. Ravdin, Vice Two New Appointments at GSM President of the University for Medical Affairs, upon his Two major new appointments in the Graduate School election last month as President of the American College of Medicine of the University were announced recently of Surgeons ... And to Dr. Thorsten Sellin, of the Depart- by Dr. Paul Nemir, Jr., Dean. ment of Sociology, who was awarded an honorary doc- Dr. Henry J. Tumen was appointed Chairman of the torate by the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, prior Department of Medicine and Professor of Medicine in the to returning here from a year spent abroad as a Fulbright School, while Dr. S. Leon Israel was appointed Chairman lecturer at Cambridge University. In September Dr. Sellin of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. presided over the Fourth International Congress of Crim- Prior to his new appointment, Dr. Tumen had been inology at The Hague, and was an official delegate of the Professor of Clinical Gastroenter- United States to the Second Conference ology at GSM. He is also gastro- on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, . enterologist at Albert Einstein in . Medical Center, this city, and con- sultant in at Walter Dr. Helen Huus, of the School of Education, wins kudos I gastroenterology Reed Army Hospital, Washington, on two counts: her recent appointment as General Chair- D. C. man of Schoolmen's Week, succeeding Dr. Frederick C. Dr. Tumen is a native of Phila- Gruber, who has the and the of resigned post, publication delphia and did both his undergrad- her book, The Education of Children and Youth in uate and work at the the of Press... Another graduate Norway, by University Pittsburgh University of Pennsylvania, taking faculty author this month, also of the School of Educa- [ his medical doctorate here in 1925. tion, is Dr. Roderic D. Matthews, who has completed He has been a member of the revision of Evaluative Criteria for its 1960 edition American Board of Internal Medicine since 1952 and of OUR SPEAKERS: Dr. Loren C. Eiseley, Provost, was the Committee on Training and Education of the American the guest panelist on the October 20 program of the weekly Gastroenterological Association since 1958, as well as "College of the Air" presented by Franklin and Marshall holding membership in numerous medical societies. He is College over WGAL-TV, Lancaster, during a discussion the author of more than 80 articles and chapters in text- of his most recent book, The Firmament of Time ... Dr. books, dealing with various phases of gastroenterology. Robert C. Smith, Professor of the History of Art, lectured Dr. Israel has been Professor of Gynecology and Obstet- on Medieval and Renaissance Portuguese Architecture rics at GSM, and is also attending and Art at the opening of an exhibit in these fields at the gynecologist and obstetrician at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, on October Pennsylvania Hospital and at Grad- 16 . . . Dr. Alvin Z. Rubenstein spoke October 12 on uate Hospital. He also is a native "Soviet Penetration of the Underdeveloped World" in a of Philadelphia and received his A.B. program series sponsored by the World Affairs Council degree at this University in 1926, of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Board of Education, his M.D. at its School of Medicine and on October 19 on "Soviet Education" at Rutgers in 1930. From 1933 to 1935 he did ... Dr. Richard D. Lambert graduate work in obstetrics and University presented papers of recently at the Conference on Urbanization in India, held gynecology at the Universities at Berkeley, Calif., and at UNESCO's Conference on and Budapest. Industrialization and Technological Change at the Univer- He is a Director of the American sity of Chicago... Dr. John R. Abersold talked on "Man- Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology; in Collective before the associate editor of "Obstetrics & Gynecology," official agement Prerogatives Bargaining" and Philadelphia Printing Industries at the Downtown Club on organ of the American College of Obstetricians Gyne- 25, and on "How Not to Handle Grievances" cologists, and of "Fertility and Sterility," official organ of October also before the Philadelphia Foremen's Club on . the American Society for the Study of Sterility. He is consultant in his specialties to the Bureau of Medicine and COMINGS AND GOINGS: Dr. I. Parker Bursk, of Surgery, Department of the Navy. the Statistics Department of the Wharton School, set up and over the business of the programs presided meetings THE ALMANAC Section on Training of the American Statistical Associa- tion at Stanford University in August as the section's Published monthly during the academic year by the chairman-elect . . . Dr. E. Douglass Burdick, also of the University for the information of its Statistics Department, spent the summer in for faculty and staff the I.C.A. as a member of a team trying to stimulate The Editors are assisted by an Advisory Com- research in problems of economic development ... Assist- mittee representing the Faculty, Administration, and ant Professor John DeCani returned in September from Personnel of the University. Bergen, Norway, where he had been a Fulbright lecturer Editor Frederic G. Hyde for the past year at the Norwegian School of Economics Address five weeks the Development Building Dr. Arthur I. Bloomfield spent during Printed at the University of Pennsylvania summer in Seoul, Korea, as a financial adviser on behalf Publications, Forms, and of I.C.A. Dept. of Printing