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)

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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.

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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. The famous $25,000 photo is reproduced at the left. After succeeding in projecting a series of photographs so as to give the impres- sion of continuous motion, Muybridge continued his experiments. He attempted to interest Thomas Edison in a STUDENT SURVEY SEND NEWS ITEMS TO project to combine the use of Edison's talking ALMANAC Most Pennsylvania undergraduates machine and the moving photograph. plan on further graduate study, accord- Faculty and staff of the Uni- Edison rejected the idea. But Provost ing to a recent survey of the University's versity are invited to submit William Pepper and others at the Uni- Office of Fellowship Information and news items for publication in versity were interested in the scientific Study Programs Abroad. the "Among Other Things" potential of Muvbridge's work. Under column, or elsewhere in the the auspices of the University, in 1884 Over 75 per cent of the seniors in the Almanac. Muybridge began experiments for which College of Arts and Sciences, class of he developed an elect ro-magnetic latch 1965, said they planned to enter graduate The Almanac is interested and a turning mechanism. As a result of school this fall. The percentage of seniors in any news of faculty or staff immediate in publications, speeches, ap- this work, the University of Pennsyl- planning graduate study vania is sometimes credited as the birth- other schools was as follows: 57 per cent pointments, honors, travels, place of the movies. of graduates in the Wharton School; 51 etc. Muybridge's work at the University cent in the schools; and If possible, send suggested per engineering continued for two years and was pub- 34 cent in the College of Liberal news items in per duplicate, typed, lished in an eleven volume work contain- Arts for Women. and double-spaced. Copies of ing 100,000 photographic plates. It was articles or other publications Thirty-nine per cent of the senior men entitled Locomotion would be welcomed for Animal (1887). said they would work on a Ph.D. or possi- named Edward, bilities of or review Although Muybridge M.A. degree and 24 per cent said they quotation his name to Eadweard, and in the Almanac. changed would seek degrees in medicine. Half of many of his activities were as unconven- material should be sent the Wharton respondents said they Any tional as his adopted name and his in- to the editor of the would go to law school, while three- Almanac, ventive genius. He was acquitted of Herbert at fourths of the engineering students said Dr. S. Denenberg, murdering his wife's lover in 1875, W-147 Hall. they planned to continue their study in Dietrich pleading the unwritten law. engineering. (continued on page 4)

Series of Eadweard Muybridge photos from the University's extensive collection.

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Williams Named Senate Chairman DR. NED B. WILLIAMS, professor and chairman of microbiology in the School of Dental Medicine, is the new chairman of the University Senate. He succeeds Dr. Julius Wishner, professor of psychol- ogy. In 1938 Dr. Williams completed his dental education at the University's School of Dental Medicine. He received a Ph.D. in March 1947 from the Uni- versity of Chicago. He is also a graduate of Swarthmore College. He joined the faculty in 1947, and was named chairman of the microbiology department in 1949. His research has been concerned primarily with studies of selected bacterial populations which are residents of the oral cavity. Dr. Williams has served as President of the International Association for Dental Research and is active in the af- fairs of the American Society for Micro- biology. He is a former member of the American Board of and has Microbiology Dr. Ned B. Williams, the new Senate Chairman acted as a consultant to the United States Public Health Service, the United States Navy, and the American Dental Associ- DR. ROY F. NICHOLS rough-and-tumble athlete and bully. He ation. (continued from page 7) was dominated by ambition for Dr. Williams lettered in lacrosse and power and uncontrolled hates; he would torian, writer, lecturer, and story teller. soccer while a student at Swarthmore. brook no opposition among retainers or He holds honorary degrees from nine This, together with his knowledge of the associates. He was the friend of specu- colleges and universities, and is a former oral cavity, makes him an expert from lators and adventurers and represented president of the Association of Graduate head to toe. the exploiting forces of the West." Schools. In 1964, he was elected chair- man of the executive committee of the Opportunities for Pennsylvania Council of Graduate Schools in the MUYBRIDGE AND MOVIES students to study for a year or more at British universities are afforded United States. (continued from page 3) by the Thouron-University of Besides the Pulitzer Prize, he has been He believed in photographing both Pennsylvania Exchange Program. awarded the Haney Medal for literary animals and humans in the nude, and is A newly printed booklet entitled, excellence, from the Franklin Inn Club; perhaps the only author in history to The Thouron Scholar, has recently the Silver Medal award of the Philadel- include 11 nude photographs of himself been distributed to all fully-affili- phia Club of Advertising Women, and on the title page of his book. Indeed, he ated members of the University the Athenaeum Literary Award of 1961. left a unique mark on and with his pub- faculty and staff in order that they He was profiled in the New York Times lications. His activities were not always may become better acquainted with of December 30. fully appreciated by his staid fellow this program. Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., de- Philadelphians of the nineteenth century. The Committee on Student Fin- cribed The Disruption of American De- University Archives hold many thou- ancial Aid which is charged with mocracy as "a masterly job of writing his- sands of Muybridge's photographs. The the responsibility of selecting Uni- tory, objective in its premises, exhaustive great pioneer of motion picture pho- versity of Pennsylvania Thouron in its research, sure in its organization, tography died in 1904. Scholars invites all members of the keen and lively in its characterization, Pennsylvania community to recom- and impressive in its total effect." APPOINTMENTS: mend candidates who they feel Dr. Nichols' "keen and lively charac- Wharton School of Finance and Com- would carry out the, objectives of terizations" are apparent everywhere in merce: Dr. Ernest Dale, visiting pro- this program as set forth in the his books and lectures. For example, in fessor of industry; Dr. Linda P. booklet. Please send the names of the Disruption of American Democracy Fletcher, assistant professor of insur- such candidates to James B. Yar- he writes: "Jesse D. Bright, a paunchy ance; Dr. David C. Schwartz, assist- nail, Office of Fellowship Informa- and ungrammatical speculator and polit- ant professor of political science; and Dr. tion and Study Programs Abroad. ical manipulator, hailed from southern Allen J. Scott, assistant professor of Indiana and had started his career as a geography and regional science.

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Harnwell Reports (continued from page 1) Pennsylvania in which virtually no ap- plicant had to be turned away for solely WHICH DEPARTMENT faculty members?" Dr. Harnwell asked. financial reasons. GETS THE GRANT? "They are the guides to sources of in- "We believe," he noted, "that among formation, the interrelators of fields of our scholarship-holders at Pennsylvania 1. "Mechanisms of Viral interest, the critics and counselors, the are many who could not afford to be Eclipse and Assembly" reconcilers of divergent views and evi- resident students at 'low-tuition' institu- a. Astronomy dence, the encouragers and inspirers of tions where financial aid is more strin- b. Microbiology students who are seeking answers, old gently limited." This is because a private 2. "Drug Therapy in and new, to the great questions in their university can subsidize a needy student's Depression" chosen fields of study. required living expenses. a. Economics "These are functions that depend less Discussing the role of research, Dr. b. Psychiatry on the age of the faculty than on its Harnwell observed that "Increasingly, 3. "Regulation of Mammary talents. They are personal and human university research programs are well Circulation" functions, gaining almost as much from planned enterprises of groups of scholars, a. Law youth and enthusiasm as from experience scientists, and graduate students, diverse b. Transportation and sagacity." in their skills and backgrounds, united in c. Physiology an effort to a schedule Defending the use of teaching fellows, accomplish specific 4. "Measurement of Rates of of toward that are President Harnwell contended that a steps goals significant. Gas Uptake by Human Red "In a research is also a university is the training ground for sore- university, way Cells" of teaching." ly needed college instructors. When they a. Foreign Policy Research the decade, he continued, move on to assistant professorial levels, During past Institute and a number of other ur- their competence is not questioned. Pennsylvania b. Political Science ban universities have found a "Among our teaching fellows are some growing c. mission in communities. The Physiology of the most freshly versed, most con- surrounding benefits of research and the talents of 5. "Extended Circulatory tagiously enthusiastic teachers in the Uni- those who conduct it are Arrest and Deep Hypo- versity. I would judge their net effect being applied to urban thermia" on the quality of undergraduate instruc- society's problems. "This subtracts from a uni- a. Law tion to be a positive one." nothing resources for and re- b. Surgery The roles of tuition and financial aid versity's teaching search; it them ex- in the cost of an education also strengthens through meeting ercise. For the human and ANSWERS: were dealt with in the annual physical report. environment of the metropolis is the ideal 1. Microbiology. Principal Inves- "Tuition does not, as is sometimes in- for exploration of, and tigator: Dr. Harold S. Gins- a commer- laboratory experi- genuously thought, represent mental approach to, the real problems berg, professor and chairman cial transaction by which an education is with which much research in the social of microbiology medicine. A purchased. Rather, it is the payment of sciences is concerned. Success here brings $29,964 grant. such proportion of the cost of running readily assessable results." 2. Investi- an institution as may be fairly borne by Psychiatry. Principal "Universities as the sources of skilled Dr. James H. an individual member of the student com- gator: Ewing, men and the incubators of their ideas," In no case does associate professor of psychol- munity. it cover the he continued, "have a in the fore- actual cost of his education: place ogy. A $77,241 grant. the largest front of the we have witnessed a stake in stu- changes 3. Physiology. Principal Investi- community, having the and those about to come. Of dent's eventual usefulness, also contri- necessity, gator: Dr. Monica Reynolds, they themselves are to the most butes toward his subject associate professor of physiologi- preparation. rapid, of all. In the far-reaching changes cal animal biology. A $25,000 "As there is no close correlation be- excitement of their world, kaleidoscopic grant. tween a student's intellectual capacity they must look well to the breadth and and his family's financial at 4. Physiology. Dr. Robert E. capacity, depth of understanding of their mission least one-third of those whom we admit Forster, professor and chair- by the society they serve, that they may at man of Division Pennsylvania need help in meeting the be well guided and supported in that physiology, tuition. of Graduate Medicine. An The University then serves as purpose." the $18,983 channel through which scholarships, Concerning the progress of the Uni- grant. loans, and job opportunities are made versity's $93,000,000 Development Pro- 5. Harrison Department of Surgi- available to the student. As in the in- gram for new buildings, scholarships, cal Research. Principal Investi- stance of the graduated income tax, an and professorships, Dr. Harnwell re- gators: Dr. Jonathan E. essential social function is thus supported ported that $40,118,576 in gifts and Rhoads, Barton Professor of its in by beneficiaries proportion to their pledges had been received from 2,290 Surgery (sponsor), and Dr. ability to pay." alumni and friends by November 30, the Sidney K. Wolfson, Jr., as- The current freshman class, President first anniversary of the campaign's an- sociate surgical resident. Harnwell pointed out, is the first at nouncement.

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. 17 Education Conference The Reviewer A Conference and Founder's Day Roving Convocation, commemorating the Uni- M.L.S. "WHY PROFESSOR EDEL- By Mildred Glushakow, versity's 50 years of achievement in edu- WEISS HAS LITTLE TIME Almanac Research Assistant cation, and taking as its theme, "Great FOR JUNIOR": "The fact, plain Concerns in Education," will take place however, is that in the "DIVERSE CAMPUSES": The any university January 21 and 22 at the University. teachers are also title is from a Wall Street Journal story best and most successful National and international leaders in the men who are known, or on their way dated December 22, on a new trend in the world of education will participate to becoming known, for their publica- student selection. 'We don't want the in symposia and address the conference, tions." This is among the several "plain the well- on January 21. Dr. Roy F. Nichols, well-rounded boy so much as facts" Robert in presented by Langbaum vice-provost and dean of the Graduate rounded student body" says Henry S. the or a discussion of "publish perish" School of Arts and Sciences, will address Coleman, a Columbia University admis- in the November 14 issue of the policy the Founder's Day Convocation on Janu- sions official. Mr. Coleman and many New York Times Magazine . . . In the ary 22. others are quoted on this new selection November 28 issue, when challenged by The program also includes the dedica- trend, including William Klemperer, a letter to the editor, the author modifies tion of the new-Graduate School of Edu- Harvard professor of chemistry: "Many the fact" as follows: "I am con- "plain cation building, 3700 Walnut Street. faculty members can't see turning down vinced that most of them [the author's Among the principal speakers at the an A student who is only an A student readers] will find that, in spite of the conference will be Sir John Newsom, in order to take a B student who is also there is correlation exceptions, significant joint managing director of Longman's, a good piccolo player." Another choice between successful and scholar- teaching Green & Co., Ltd., the British publishing quote: Sometimes I think if an appli- and not the between the s/lip opposition house, and chairman of the Central Ad- cant walked in wearing a Goldwater but- two activities the critics of projected by visory Council for Education which pro- ton, I'd grab him just to get somebody the publication requirements." By going duced the controversial Newsom Report different" declares Frederick A. Harga- from a fact" to a cor- "plain "significant on Public Education in Great Britain; don, dean of admissions at Swarthmore. relation" the author at least demonstrates and Dr. Jean Piaget, director of the Uni- Mr. Coleman, of Columbia, quoted the value of for ideas publication testing versity of Geneva's Rousseau Institute of above, also said: "It's definitely easier and conclusions. At the same time, by Educational Sciences. Sir John and Dr. for a Negro than for a white student to the article as well as the writing "reply" Piaget will be awarded honorary doctoral get into Columbia." The article makes to the letter to the editor, the author degrees at the Founder's Day Convoca- no comment on what must be the most two this gets publications. (Perhaps tion, which will begin at 10:30 a.m. in preferred of all applicants-A Negro ;llnianac will him credit quotation give Irvine Auditorium. student from the south, who voted for for a third publication; and he can al- Goldwater. the fact," now a ways modify "plain NURSING NEWS: "significant correlation," to perhaps Last month, the School of "ON PURVEYING BOOKS": For ,,some correlation" and get credit for a Nursing sponsored a conference on for a brilliant and provocative article on the fourth.) The author does present an "Planning the Improvement of Patient Care: Eve- business of books, with critical commen- interesting defense of the "publish or ning and Supervision." Partici- tary on booksellers and bookbuyers, in- perish" ideal by focusing on the changing Night pants included Clara H. Jordan and cluding the campus bookstore, read the position of the university, "from the Elizabeth Rockafellow, instructors in article by William Jovanovich in the periphery to the center of American life." Autumn 1965 issue of American Scholar If the reader would like to know what the school of nursing; Florence Chapin, assistant of He raises such questions as why "no "Junior Thinks of Professor Edelweiss," professor nursing; Dr. Robert L. associate managers of university-owned stores are he is invited to read the November 28 Mayock, pro- fessor of clinical medicine; Dr. G. of faculty privileges," and analytically letters to the editor section of the New Jay associate of laments over the "ridiculously small York Times Magazine. Anyon, professor industry; number of Americans who buy new Doris Guerin, assistant director of books, who read serious books, and who "TOWARD A NEW RENAIS- nursing services at the Graduate Hospi- tal; and Julia director of talk about books with other readers." He SANCE," An Essay on the Place of Talmadge, hopes that "the publishers can help us Humanistic Studies: This is a forceful nursing services at HUP. increasingly to distinguish between in- plea for humanistic studies that do not GRANT: tellectual substance and the mere con- merely imitate the sciences, by George veyance of words: he can, in short, im- Boas in the October issue of Liberal The Department of Sociology has re- prove communications by guarding its Education. Boas aptly describes the role ceived a special grant from the Division definition. There is more to purveying of the humanist-scientist: ". . . to see of Chronic Diseases, Bureau of State books than is dreamt in a narrow phi- how frequently misers or hypocrites or Services, Department of Health, Educa- losophv, if one assumes that serious books heroes, sluts and saints, villains and tion and Welfare, to train Ph.D. candi- encourage the reader to march to a dif- nobles appear in the English novel and list dates in sociology in research related to ferent drummer and to dissent from the the information in columns, provin that social factors associated with degenera- common opinion." The faculty author 37.60 per cent of Dickens characters are tive diseases. Dr. Otto Pollak, pro- and publisher-this reviewer might add- virtuous and 62.40 per cent are vicious, fessor of sociology, is the director of could well adhere to this same advice calculate the probable error. . the new training program.

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CONFERENCE: The Third Indo-European Conference will be held under the auspices and with the support of the University, the Na- tional Science Foundation, and the CRITIC: American Council of Learned Societies, in the of 1966, at the For critical commentary on all matters spring University. Dr. M. literary and artistic, tune into WCAU- Henry Hoenigswald, profes- sor of will act as chairman. TV's 11 o'clock report for roving critic, linguistics, Dr. Charles Lee, professor of English. Dr. Alfred Senn, professor and chair- man of Slavic and literature, As indispensible as the weatherman and language sportscaster, Dr. Lee is one of the chan- and Dr. George Cardona, assistant of nel 10 regulars. professor South Asia regional studies, will act as co-chairmen. One network executive indicated that the advent of Dr. Lee has caused com- NEWSMAKER: peting television channels to closely scru- tinize their Ph.D. ratios, and another Time Magazine's legal section of professional critic indicated that Dr. December 10 featured a story about Lee's performance has been "dazzling, Anthony G. Amsterdam, professor of witty, provocative, radiant, sparkling, law. Although Professor Amsterdam did Dr. William T. Fitts whimsical, epigrammatic, and pungent." not make the cover this time, the story All agree that Dr. Lee says "Well, might lead the reader to conclude he TRAVELERS: John" as professionally as Dr. Tom is so destined. Dr. William T. Fitts, Jr., professor Brookshier. The public no doubt must The story noted that the civil rights of surgery, has just returned from a one wonder why WCAU uses a doctor as revolution has "spawned a new breed of month stay as visiting professor of sur- a literary critic. "'Well, John . . young law professors-awesome activists gery for the Honolulu Integrated Sur- in the courtroom as well as the class- gical Residency Program of Queen's, St. room." And it continued "None is Francis and Kuakini Hospitals. more awesome or more activist than Anthony G. Amsterdam." The story Dr. Fitts, upon his return, said the goes on to describe his work as a civil standards of surgery in Hawaii were ex- rights lawyer, and describes all of his cellent. He also said that Hawaii, with extra-curricular talents: "He is a part- its extraordinary mixture of races, pro- time poet, playwright and novelist; he vided an interesting place to observe the is equally versed in poker, tennis, two effect of race on surgical disease. foreign languages (French, Spanish), While in Hawaii, Dr. Fitts lectured and he has mastered the arts of advocacy on various surgical subjects. from the Supreme Court to the police courts of lississippi." Another recent traveler to Hawaii After of Amsterdam's feats, was Dr. Raymond C. Saalbach, direc- reading his will tor of admissions of the Wharton Gradu- colleagues undoubtedly conclude: "A of ate Division. Dr. Saalbach was one of 22 typical University Pennsylvania professor." university administrators invited to at- Lee of "Facenda and Lee" tend a Far Eastern Workshop to study the higher educational systems of certain AUTHOR: Asiatic countries. The Workshop was "Because Strausz-Hupé sees the designed to improve the selection of for- United States with and eign students by American universities. European eyes Europe with American eyes, he has much Dr. Charles S. Harris, assistant to say that is new and exciting." These professor of psychology, was an invited are the words of a New York Times speaker at the Conference on Perceptual reviewer describing In My Time (New Development held in Chicago . . . Dr. York: W. W. Norton & Co.), an auto- Lester W. Burket, dean of the school biography of Dr. Robert Strausz- of dental medicine, and' Dr. Ned B. Hupé, professor of political science and Williams, chairman and professor of Director of the Foreign Policy Research microbiology in the dental school, t- Institute. The autobiography ends in tended the First National Conference on 1947, and the reviewer notes "many Research and Education in Washington, readers will eagerly await its continua- sponsored by the American Dental Asso- tion." Ti,ne Magazine also reviewed ciation and others. Dr. David R. God- the book favorably in its December 24 dard, provost, was one of the speakers. issue. Prof. Anthony G. Amsterdam

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GRANTS: Dr. Dan M. McGill, Frederick H. Ecker Professor of Life Insurance, has received a $59,600 grant to investigate the "Extent of Funding Under Private Welfare Plans." Dr. McGill, also re- EXHIBIT: SPEAKERS: search director of the Pension Research The University Printing Office re- At the Eighth Annual Conference of Council, chairman of the board of the Insurance ceived three awards in National Printing the Inter-Institutional Cooperation In S. S. Huebner Foundation for Education, and chairman of the Week competition in the Delaware Val- Higher Education: Philadelphia Tn- depart- Goddard, ment of insurance, is a recognized author- The prize winning items and others State Region, Dr. David R. ley. took in a discussion of ity on private pensions. will be on display at the Charles Patter- provost, part panel "Special Needs for Inter-Institutional son Van Pelt Library until January 24. Dr. Dietmar Schildwaechter, asso- Cooperation in New Jersey, Delaware Dr. Althea K. ciate in preventive medicine, participated and Pennsylvania." member AUTHORS: Hottel, trustee and President, Interna- as a cytology workshop faculty at the at the 13th annual scientific of A History of Ophthalmology tional Federation of University Women, meeting is the title of the American Society of Cytology. University of Pennsylvania also took part in the conference. a new book Dr. Daniel M. Albert, by LAURELS: assistant instructor in ophthalmology, and Dr. Matthew T. Moore, professor of Dr. Harold G. Scheie, professor of Division of Graduate Dr. Emily H. Mudd, professor of neuropathology, and director ophthalmology. Published by Charles C. Medicine, addressed the staff members family study in psychology Thomas Co., the history goes from of the National Institute of Mental of the Marriage Council, was honored Franklin's bifocals to the present, and Health and the St. Elizabeths Hospital as "Woman of the Year" at the fifth of the Women's focuses with 20/20 vision and insight on on "Cerebral Lobotomy- Indications annual presentation some two centuries of history. and Present Status" at St. Elizabeths Division, American Friends Of The Hospital, Washington, D. C. on Novem- Hebrew University, on November 18. Dr. Roland M. Frye, professor of ber 4, 1965 . . . Dr. Andre von Dr. Mudd was cited as "one of the fore- in her field." English, is the author of a new anthology Gronicka, chairman and professor of most authorities for use in college study of the Bible as the German department, was speaker at literature. The book is entitled The the luncheon of the Pennsylvania Chap- The Almanac is published monthly Bible: Selections from the King James ter of the American Association of during the academic year by the Teachers of Slavic and East European Version for Study as Literature (Hough- University for the information of its ton Miflin). Languages held at Rosemont College. faculty and staff. Dr. Peter J. Freyd, associate profes- Dr. Herbert S. Denenberg, Editor Dr. Morse Peckham, professor of sor of mathematics, was one of eighteen W-147 Dietrich Hall English literature, is the author of Man's research mathematicians participating in Behavior, and Rage for Chaos: Biology, the "Advanced Science Seminar in Horn- University of Pennsylvania the Arts, published by Chilton Books of ological Algebra" at Bowdoin College Printing 0/lice Philadelphia. which took place last summer.

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