No. 4 January 1966
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Volume 12, Number 4 January 1966 Harnwell Presents Annual Message UNIVERSITIES ARE MUCH WANTED, but other small percentage must satisfy needs too little understood, Dr. Gaylord P. for graduate and professional education, Faculty Profile: Harnwell wrote in his President's An- for research and "the transfer of its fruits nual Message to alumni and friends of to society's use." While a major univer- Nichols Honored the University. sity belongs in both groups, Dr. Ham- DR. ROY F. NICHOLS is the new President The report was published in the well wrote, its distinctive place is with of the American Historical Association. December issue of The Pennsylvania the latter. This is the latest of a long list of honors Gazette, alumni magazine of the Uni- "It is important that universities stand that have come to the Pulitzer Prize versity. with the best colleges in maintaining winning professor of history, who is also "Higher education, with all the pub- normative undergraduate programs; it is vice-provost and dean of the Graduate licity it has received in this new age of even more important that this function School of Arts and Sciences. learning, could do with more inter- not detract from the university's dis- A publication of the American Council preters," Dr. Harnwell commented. charge of its unique, essential post- of Education has described Dr. Nichols "Everything a university does involves baccalaureate responsibilities," he con- as the "graduate dean par excellence- communication between people," he tinued. an active teacher, author and adminis- wrote. "At its heart is a competent, "Education is a cooperative process," trator" who has "won the respect and enthusiastic faculty interacting with a he feels, "but the main participant is the confidence of faculty and administrators." student body selected for its ability, student. It is he who comes to learn; if promise, and motivation. Around this core are still other people, for the aca- demic community must work closely with those who support its endeavors and those who put the results to use. "Only by maintaining broad channels of access to its neighbors, its alumni, busi- ness, industry, and government at all levels can a university provide the essen- tial flow of new men, new ideas, and new techniques into a society that needs 4 them." "To many Americans," he continued, "the difference between a university and a college is chiefly one of size; and the of for Vice-Provost Nichols pressure today's youth population President Harnwell educational opportunity beyond the high Included in his bibliography of twelve school has compounded the confusion. he has little will to do so, the process is books is The Disruption of American The fused image of these two quite dif- futile. For the ablest and most intent Democracy, awarded the Pulitzer Prize ferent kinds of institutions does justice students, a library, a laboratory, or a in 1949, and his latest volume, Blueprints to neither." museum can almost be teacher enough. for Leviathan: American Style, pub- While more than 2,000 institutions of A gifted faculty can whet the appetite lished in 1963. higher education exist in the United for learning, but teaching is no substi- An expert on the Civil War, Dr. States, only a small percentage can pre- tute for study and thinking. of Nichols is an internationally-known his- pare undergraduates expressly for grad- "What, then, is the role university (continued on page 4) uate and professional curricula and an- (continued on page 5) THE ALMANAC Counseling Service Reports UniversityBy Dr. John E. Free The largest number of students have good secondary school records and who Director come for assistance with educational may need help in adjusting to the de- problems. Academic work is not proceed- mands of their new, more highly com- The University Counseling Service ing as well as potential indicates, or as petitive environment. provides the student with an opportunity the student thinks it should, and the situ- Many students have come to the Serv- to explore those areas of concern which ation often involves solving underlying ice for the purpose of clarifying voca- may be inhibiting his, or her, best per- concerns which are interfering with tional plans with resultant clarity in formance at the University and prevent- study. Many students of good potential educational planning. Many of those who ing fulfillment of maximum potential. have been helped to avoid failure and have come for vocational counseling have This involves discussing the situation in elimination from the University. had educational or personal problems a confidential setting, and may also in- Students who are not making satisfac- which have been brought out and dealt clude student-counselor study of the in- with in the course of the contacts. Those dividual's abilities, achievement, interests, who come for vocational counseling ex- and personality characteristics in order to pecting basically to take tests and have help him achieve more adequate self- the tests (or the counselor) tell them understanding. what they should do are generally not The student is given the opportunity satisfied with the results. to consider all alternatives which may The initial interviews in vocational present themselves, as well as to obtain counseling are usually only the beginning the necessary information to evaluate of a process of exploration and self-study these alternatives and make a choice from which may have to continue for some among them. The emphasis is upon as- time. Unless the student is willing to put sisting the student to become increasingly continuing time and effort into this proc- self-directive. Decisions are not made for ess, he will get limited benefit from the him nor is he "advised" what to do; contacts. rather, he is assisted in learning to make Last year at the Service, which oper- decisions for himself. ates under Vice-Provost A. Leo Levin, The majority of contacts have been Dr. John E. Free 450 students had 1,500 interviews with with freshmen and sophomores, indicat- tory academic progress should be identi- the three full-time and two part-time ing the need for faculty members to iden- fied as early as possible. In addition, counseling psychologists on the staff. tify and refer students who require as- there may be some students of high po- Faculty members should suggest that sistance in these crucial first years of col- tential whose work, though passing, is students call Extension 7021 in advance lege. An increasing number of juniors, not as high as they feel it should be and for an appointment. The Service is seniors, and graduate students are also who become discouraged. This is espec- located on the third floor of Eisenlohr using the Service. ially true of freshmen who have had Hall, 3812 Walnut Street. UNIVERSITY COUNCIL NEWS In a report to the December meeting ing consultative search committees: Dean Chaired by Dr. Peter J. Freyd, associate of the University Council, President of the Graduate School of Arts and Sci- professor of mathematics, the subcommit- Harnwell announced that the university ences; Director of Libraries; Dean of tee has been instructed to determine pres- appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1965- the School of Social Work; and the Uni- ent practices in regard to the conflict 66 has been approved by Governor versity Press. problem, and to make some preliminary Scranton in the amount of $7,400,000. Curtis Reitz, professor of law and recommendations on the issues raised. After Dr. Harnwell's presentation, the chairman of the Committee on Faculty Council also heard reports from Provost Affairs, said his committee is serving as a Goddard, Dr. Wishner, chairman house for nomi- Julius clearing honorary degree PEACE CORPS of the steering committee, Chaplain Stan- nations, and is now accepting nomina- volunteers have been ley E. Johnson, and from six council tions for honorary degrees to be awarded Twenty-five trained for Peace service at the committees. at the May commencement. This com- Corps of to serve in Dr. Goddard announced that faculty mittee is also considering the proposed University Pennsylvania the state of India. salaries for 1965-66 received "A" ratings faculty handbook now being prepared, Punjab, from the American Association of Uni- and the long range salary structure and Leonard C. Dill, Jr., a member of the versity Professors in all grades. He noted promotion policy of the University. staff of the Office of the University's that medical areas are not included in For the committee on research; Dr. President, served as director of the pro- these ratings, and that the AAUP will John N. Hobstetter, professor of metal- ject. He said the host country of India report separately on the medical areas. lurgical engineering, reported that a sub- has requested volunteers to work as He also announced that recommenda- committee is considering the question of assistant managers for retail merchandis- tions have been received from the follow- conflict of interest in University research. ing in state consumers' cooperative stores. JANUARY, 1966 3 Eadweard and the U. of P Muybridge A $25,000 BET on a horse and the Uni- versitv played key roles in the develop- ment of motion pictures. The $25,000 bet was made by Leland Stanford, Governor of California in 1872. He wagered that a horse lifted The picture every hoof from the ground at the same that won a time at certain full gait speeds. Stanford $25,000 bet. employed Eadweard Muybridge, an Englishman, to take photographs to win the bet. Muybridge devised a scheme to photograph a horse in continuous motion use of twenty-four cameras, the ,hutters of which were operated by threads stretched across the track.