VOL. 2, NO. 6 1956

The President's Report The Ivy League: Origin Summarized and Development For the benefit of Almanac readers, the President's Re- The sociology and anthropology of the Ivy League- port for 1955, published a few days ago, is summarized complete with charcoal slacks, button-down collars, riots, in this issue. Written around the theme that the Univer- jolly-ups, wonkies, fertility rites, and unzippered superior- sity is in a stage of transition (expressed in the title ity-recently received dazzling documentation in the pages Tradition and Transition), the Report consists of four of Holiday magazine. the evolution of the main sections devoted to University, But what about the facts as distinct from the fantasies the progress of the Educational Survey, the year's principal and of the flannel-suited financial and a look at the future. sophistications laureates of the developments, Chosen Pupil? In Part I, "Heritage," Dr. Harnwell reminds us that Dr. William The Ivy League (more properly Ivy Group) was offi- Benjamin Franklin and our first Provost, born in November, 1945, date of the first Smith, "initiated in the Colonies the first cially "Ivy Group comprehensive Agreement." This agreement affirmed the observance at college curriculum to include modern languages, physics, the institutions in it mathematics, and economics, in addition to the classics... eight participating (Brown, Columbia, Thus were established at an date what have since Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, early and Yale) of certain common practices in regard to aca- been guide-posts in the evolution of the University's edu- as well as to meet the demic standards, eligibility requirements, and the adminis- cational policy-to anticipate tration of financial aid. It to football, limit- educational needs of the and to achieve a balance applied only country, ing the total number of games but making no stipulations between education designed to serve cultural ends and the selection of for needs." respecting opponents. Its administration education intended vocational was placed in the hands of Deans and Athletic Directors. President In Part II, "The Educational Survey," the In 1952, the was revised. Presidential examines certain of our tradition in the of May, agreement aspects light control of athletic policy was emphasized, spring practice the thorough study of its institutional development now was banned, and in All-Star and conducted under the direction of Dr. participation Bowl games being joint Joseph was prohibited. Ivy Group schools were required to play H. Willits, former Director of Social Sciences of the other team in the at least once five Rockefeller Foundation and former Dean of the Wharton every "league" every School, and Dr. Malcolm G. Preston, Professor of Psy- years. chology. The re-assessment of that tradition is being The agreement now in force was defined in February, made "in a spirit of critical objectivity" in an effort to 1954. Its major addition was the round-robin schedule in clarify our educational aims, to distinguish between mat- football which will begin with the 1956 season, seven spots ters central and peripheral, essential and specialized, and on each Ivy schedule being assigned to Ivy opponents. The appropriate and novel, to the end that the funds of the agreement was also extended to these eight other sports: University shall be spent wisely for the development of basketball, fencing, golf, lacrosse, soccer, squash, tennis, the student, the maintenance of a Faculty of the highest and wrestling. calibre, and the good of the public. The Ivy Agreement formally authorizes three commit- In Part III, "Financial Highlights of the Year," Dr. tees: The Presidents' Policy Committee, The Committee Harnwell notes that the University ended the academic on Eligibility, and The Committee on Administration. year, June 30, 1955, with a budget that was within $14,000 Chairmanships rotate on an annual basis. (Continued on page six) (Continued on page two)

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Ivy League (Continued from page one) existed, in fact, before the League was officially born," Robert Pitt, Dean of Admissions, "but the athletic of the of says The Policy Committee, consisting presidents overtones which are in the admissions the institutions, meets once a in obviously present eight Ivy year, usually and fields have served to further December, in New York The are well at- scholarship promote City. meetings common interests and mutual trust. now we are tended, and are not since each mem- Right deputies permitted in the that are inherent in the ber is to for his institution. engaged studying problems expected speak authoritatively number of who want and will The Committee receives and acts and recom- increasing young people upon reports want to come to our several institutions. We believe that mendations from the other committees of the Ivy Group. all of us will benefit our combined and that It also considers matters of which to be of by thinking policy appear the extension of the to this area has been concern and refers these to the committee Ivy Group spirit joint appropriate a success." for recommendations. "Since the characters of the several great institutions, their traditions, and their special interests vary Medical Schools Group: Dr. Norman H. Topping, Vice- considerably," says Dr. Harnwell, "the organization does President in Charge of Medical Affairs, reminds us that not attempt to bring about uniformity, but simply provides only five of the members of the Ivy Group have schools of an appropriate mechanism for common action in those medicine-Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Cornell, in ad- areas where such a course appears to be advantageous. dition to Pennsylvania. These five, with Johns Hopkins, The meetings also provide an opportunity for informal Rochester, and Western Reserve, have formed what is discussion of matters of concern to only one or two institu- called the Council of Teaching Hospitals, its membership tions as well as of problems common to all." consisting of the hospital administrators and the deans of the schools of medicine. Annual are The has been three two-day meetings Committee on Eligibility meeting held to discuss in times a since 1946. to B. Peters, primarily problems arising the teaching year According George and their to medical education, but Dean of Men, "it keeps all matters pertaining to eligibility hospitals relationship communication the schools is between ses- questions under constant review, and from time to time among lively sions as well. The is scheduled to meet at Penn- recommends changes to the Presidents' Policy Committee. group in 1958. It's our job, too, to devise the rules necessary for the sylvania effective administration of eligibility policy. All of us in the Group keep complete files of information about all Coaches Group Authorized candidates for freshman and teams-and these varsity Football Coaches' The football coaches files are available on to member. The infor- Group: actually request any meet authorization of the assemble mation includes admission records, course aca- by Ivy presidents. They grades, in in too) to discuss such sub- demic academic connections-if and May (sometimes January, standing, prior any, as officials, coaches, facilities, uniforms, financial aid." jects dressing rules, films, scouting, and the like, and make their recom- The Committee on Administration (composed of the mendations to the Committee on Administration (Athletic Athletic Directors of the member schools) meets four times Directors). Steve Sebo, head football coach, reminded a year in six full days of session and on as many other your reporter that the Ivy League is the only league in the occasions, says University Athletic Director Jeremiah country whose members will play every other member Ford, II, "as presidential directive, local filibuster, or annually when the program matures in the fall. demand." Mr. Ford, this committee emergency year's Directors Robert Paul, cur- chairman, likens the and athletic Sports Information Group: Ivy Group presidents rent chairman of this committee, tells The Almanac that directors to the "statesmen and ward politicians respec- it meets twice a year for exchange of opinion and infor- of the Our responsibility is to fashion the tively League. mation on two principal subjects: first, public relations formulas that make the Ivy ideal work." Among the aspects of the Ivy League athletic program; and second, problems regularly confronting the committee are: sched- such problems as the coverage of intercollegiate athletic ules for all nine Ivy sports, budgets, NCAA and ECAC events in newspapers, articles for magazines, films for tele- affiliations, trophies, length of sports seasons, facilities, vision, and the publishing of football programs. control of the activities of coaches and players, and cov- erage by radio and television. Mr. Ford adds: "And we Public Relations Group: This is an informal organiza- are not uninterested in gate receipts!" tion composed of directors of news and publicity. "Our semi-annual meetings," says Henry Herbert, "give us an Other Ivy Groups opportunity to talk about problems of mutual interest. We often add to the value of these meetings by inviting rep- other and committees also function Many Ivy groups resentatives of the host institution's faculty, adminis- on behalf of the jointly League membership. Though tration, and student body to participate in the discussions." most of them lack formal authorization, they have grown up in response to a great variety of needs; in one way or The Ivy League Alumni Secretaries: According to another all of them have won Administration sanction. Leonard Dill, "We meet informally several times a year at the District and National Sessions of the American them are the Among following: Alumni Council. Then, every year or so, we gather to- Officers of Admission and Financial Aid (sometimes re- gether somewhat more formally in a workshop session ferred to in inner circles as "The Order of The Misunder- where we get down to the nuts and bolts of our business. stood"): This group meets at least once a year. 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other by mail and phone to thrash out the problems which are constantly arising on our individual campuses." Intelligence Course Offered Political Science 651, a new course in "Basic Ivy League Glee Clubs: Mr. Dill and Robert Godsall, graduate Methods and International Communications," Instructor in Music and Director of the University's Glee Intelligence boasts a number of features. It is the first Club, are Pennsylvania's representatives to this group, unique university course to the of overt intelli- which was formed a year ago. The Music Department's anywhere apply techniques interest in such an organization is obvious, but, as Mr. gence research and analysis, as long practiced by official of all countries, to tasks in such Dill points out, "the alumni have every bit as large a stake agencies major scholarly because we are the ones who are called on to put over fields as economics, politics, and international relations. These have been to esti- the performances in whatever city they're presented." techniques particularly developed mate "the strengths, weaknesses, and probable courses of Ivy League Alumni Magazine Group: Mr. Dill was the action" of foreign countries. Thus, they are well adapted prime mover behind the organization of this group, an to serve the academic, governmental, and business com- instrumentality by which a national advertiser can obtain munity in the evaluation of world affairs. identical in each of the space Ivy League magazines Among other important objectives of P.S. 651 are the one order and one our cir- through billing. "Individually, following: an increase in the exchange of accurate infor- culations are limited," says Mr. Dill, "but combined we mation between nations, a reduction of international traffic have 180,000, which with that of the compares favorably in false and injurious propaganda, and encouragement of Yorker, whose class we ourselves. How New into put better understanding among all peoples. Some attention is be from the fact that last useful this group may judged is also being paid to existing abuses of the process, secret alone The Gazette received 82 year Pennsylvania pages intelligence operations, counter-intelligence or "security" of national it." advertising through activities, and political, economic, and psychological war- fare. Ivy League Conference for Directors of Residence and Dining Halls: This group has been functioning since 1948, The course is being conducted by the husband-wife and, according to Dean Peters discusses such subjects as team of Dr. George Bell Dyer and Dr. Charlotte Leavitt costs of operation, costs and types of equipment, new con- Dyer, a teaching "first" at the University. Both of the struction, personnel policies and problems, counselling, and Dyers, members of the Institute of Cooperative Research, trends in facilities. have had distinguished careers in U. S. Army Intelli- gence. Their private collection of "unclassified" source Alexander, editor of the in- John Daily Pennsylvanian, materials on U. S. and foreign intelligence, housed in the us that "there is a movement afoot to the forms organize Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies located on their editors and business of the Dyer undergraduate managers Ivy Bucks County farm, provides a rich base for the course. for annual discussions of League newspapers production The Institute provides mimeographed documents and and costs." Mr. Alexander adds: "The will good among audio-visual aids for the use of students and gives them the Ivy dailies has shown itself in many ways. News items access to the thousands of books and additional materials assistance is to which are are exchanged, given papers deposited there. taking the inevitable surveys, and out-of-town correspond- The course was begun last fall with six students, one ents are always given office privileges." of whom was graduated in February. Eight students are now enrolled. Ivy Group's Future What of the future of the Ivy Group? The program, In says Dr. Harnwell, "is still in a state of evolution. general, the principles of the Group appear to have been Biological Abstracts Celebrates well received by other educational institutions and to have had a considerable effect upon athletic policies and 30th Anniversary the eight institutions which initially took practices beyond Biological Abstracts, an and service the lead in re-assessing the role of intercollegiate athletics abstracting indexing of the world's biological literature, celebrated its 30th in colleges and universities. It is apparent that the Ivy anniversary on February 17th with a scientific symposium Group and its Policy Committee provide a device for ex- in the University Museum. tending the joint work which has been done in the athletic An Abstracts has field. But since all eight of us have well-developed policies independent organization, Biological been housed at the since it was established in which operate satisfactorily in other areas, it does not ap- University will to 1926 under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. pear likely that the Ivy Group as such proceed action in other directions unless, of course, Some idea of its achievement may be had from the fact any joint that it has abstracts of more than 750,000 circumstances arise clearly advantages of published orig- indicating the inal articles on research in the medical sciences, such development." agricul- ture, food technology, and other fields vital to the study of animal and plant life. Among the symposium speakers were G. Miles Conrad, The Ages of Man Director of Biological Abstracts, Dr. D. H. Wenrich, Pro- "At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the fessor Emeritus of Zoology, and Dr. David R. Goddard, wit; and at forty, the judgment."-Franklin. 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Public Relations), Dr. E. Digby Baltzell (Director of Kanazawa: East and West Meet Foreign Students), Dr. Wallace E. Davies (Assistant Pro- fessor of Dr. D. Lincoln Harter Pro- "And just what is the Kanazawa Project?" History), (Assistant fessor of Political Science), Dr. E. Dale Saunders (Lec- We were talking with Dr. F. Hilary Conroy, Assistant turer in Mr. John W. Professor of Far Eastern Japanese), Alexander (Editor of History. the Daily Pennsylvanian), Mr. Sheldon Bonovitz (Under- "You might call it a reciprocal trade of culture, knowl- graduate Council), Mrs. Joanne S. Chertok (International edge, and friendship between Kanazawa University in Relations Club), Miss Phyllis J. Loften (Pennsylvania Japan and the University of Pennsylvania. A genuinely News), Miss Helen Schubert (President, Women's Student of and West." happy meeting East Government Association), Mr. Hajime Seki (Japanese How did it begin and how did we get into it? Students' Luncheon Club), Miss Jean Wang (National "The project originated with Dr. Shozo Toda, president Students' Association), and Dr. F. Hilary Conroy, Chair- of Kanazawa, who suggested its merits to the American man (Assistant Professor of Far Eastern History). Embassy in . His request went from there to the United States Information Agency, which, in turn, ex- tended the invitation to us. Our University Adminis- tration and the History Department both thought that such a cultural relations program was desirable-and a com- Gymnasium, Pool Open mittee was formed to facilitate the relationship." Mr. We asked Dr. Conroy to spell out the terms of our George Munger, Director of the Department of "reciprocal trade of culture" with Kanazawa. Physical Education, cordially re-invites the Faculty and "It will take the form of of news letters, stu- Staff to avail themselves of the recreational facilities in exchanges Hutchinson and Hall. dent publications, tape-recorded messages, books, and Gymnasium Weightman eventually of personnel as well. I'm sure it will be a Men may use Hutchinson Gymnasium and Pool Mon- mutually enriching experience. Kanazawa can enhance day through Friday between the hours of 10:00 A.M. not only our scholarship, but also our understanding and 5:30 P.M., and on Saturday mornings until noon. of some of the forces that influence world affairs. For our Besides swimming, Mr. Munger's program offers basket- part, by exporting a bit of Pennsylvania to Kanazawa, we ball, volleyball, and badminton, wrestling and gymnastics; hope to convey a breath of the atmosphere in which we rowing in the tanks; golfing in the driving net, using the bar live and work." bells, and working on the punching bags. "We don't promise to condition you for taking on the English Chan- Principal Exports nel or Marciano," Mr. "but we think What were the we were Rocky says Munger, precisely principal exports you'll hammer away at your desk chores with more vim readying? and vigor for having spent a little time with us." "The Committee is developing a tape-recording in which various activities of our campus are discussed in Japanese The nominal fee includes the full use of the facilities, by Japanese students enrolled here. The recording will and also a gym suit, towels, and a locker in the special also carry salutations from University officials along with Faculty locker room. Fees are paid at the Registration a transcript of a Japanese language class in action. We Office, 144 Hutchinson Gymnasium. are also collecting film strips, particularly those concern- Women and Staff are invited to use activities in the Medical School. And Dr. Davies of Faculty Weightman ing Hall Gymnasium for swimming, volleyball, badminton, the American Civilization program is preparing a library basketball, and The Hall 150 books for archery, dancing. Weightman of about exchange." Pool is open for mixed swimming every Thursday evening Maybe, we thought, the titles of such a library would from 5:00 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. Nominal fees are also interest scholars in the neighborhood as well as those in charged women, payable at the office in the Physical Edu- Nippon. cation Department for Women at the south end of Weight- "Well, here are five for a starter," said Dr. Conroy. man Hall. "Walter Webb's The Great Frontier, George F. Kennan's American Diplomacy, 1900-1950, Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, Henry Steele Commager's The American Mind, and, of course, Roy Nichols' The Civil War." Kanazawa University is located in a town of the same "Primitives" Exhibit Continues name on the west coast of Honshu, looking across the Sea of Japan toward Korea. It is ten years old, but is The University Museum is continuing "Primitives," its already well known for its medical school. President Toda unique exhibition of Southwest Pacific art and folk craft, is, in fact, a physician. through the month of March. The lavish displays abound in Museum "firsts." Among them are the first American Committee Members showing of Dutch New Guinean art from the Tropical The members of the University of Pennsylvania- Museum of Amsterdam, the first display of the University Kanazawa University Affiliation Committee are as fol- Museum's new collection from New Britain and Melville lows: Mr. Donald K. Angell (Vice-President-Assistant Island (Australia), and the first of a series of exhibits to the President), Mr. Donald T. Sheehan (Director of bringing major foreign collections to Philadelphia.

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Visiting European professors-here for a year's observation of the Wharton School-gather around a figure of Joseph Wharton with Dean C. Arthur Kulp and Vice-Dean Willis W,nn (left and right of statuette). Others (left to right) are Eugene deFacq, Belgium; Knut A. Bleicher, Germany; Dr. Adolph Matz, project director; Anthonie Wattel, The Netherlands; Gerard M. Sebus, The Netherlands; Odd Dyrhorg, Norway; Robert I. Sourdain, , and Paul deNefle, Be.'giu,n. Not shown are Heltnut A. Paul, Germany, and John Stavrakas, Greece.

Harnwell Circles the Globe Research Projects Solicited President Harnwell is now in India on a globe-girdling Douglas Root Dickson, Secretary of the Committee on trip during which he is to visit several institutions with Scholarships and Student Aid, wishes to remind all mem- which the University is cooperating in educational projects. bers of the undergraduate faculties that the Committee is He left Idlewild Airport, New York, on February 24th and soliciting suggestions for undergraduate research projects will return to his College Hall desk on March 26th. for next year. The first objective on his month-long trip was the Uni- The undergraduate research scholarships are work op- versity of Karachi in . There a nine-man staff portunities which provide juniors and seniors with pay- from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce has ments for four hundred hours' work during the school set up an Institute of Public and Business Administration. year on projects in their major fields. The projects must Arriving in Karachi on February 26th, Dr. Harnwell par- benefit the student as well as his major department. They ticipated in official dedicatory ceremonies with Horace are assigned in the upperclass scholarship competition on A. Hildreth, U. S. Ambassador to Pakistan; Syed Amjad the basis of the student's past academic performance, suit- Au, Minister of Finance in Pakistan; Fazlul Huq, Min- ability for the particular project, and financial need. Cur- ister of Education there; and Dr. A. B. A. Haleem, Vice- rently twenty-two such research projects are in operation, Chancellor of the University of Karachi. and it is hoped that at least a similar number may be In Lahore, Pakistan, a week later, Dr. Harnwell visited available next year. the University of Punjab. Now in New Delhi, Dr. Harnwell is preparing an ad- dress to be delivered at the National Physical Laboratory. He is also meeting with Indian leaders in scientific edu- Poor Richard Advises cational, and other fields. "Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; reveng- After a brief stop at Bangkok, Thailand, the President ing one makes you but even with him; forgiving it sets you will fly to Japan, arriving in Tokyo on March 10th. Be- above him."-Benjamin Franklin. tween that date and March 17th he will make trips by rail to Kanazawa University and Osaka. At Kanazawa (see story on p. 4) he will give a public lecture on the peace- ful uses of atomic energy. The Founder In addition to visiting several institutions with which Speaks the University now enjoys educational relationships, Dr. "Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom Harnwell will also visit with and address University of fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and Pennsylvania alumni groups in a number of cities, including men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinborough."- Bangkok, Tokyo, Honolulu, and San Francisco. Benjamin Franklin.

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An illustration from the President's Report heading the chapter on Heritage

President's Report (Continued from page one) tion of the best in educational philosophy and performance we must look with concern to the attraction of in balance, "closer than at time within recent particular being any to our program of the ablest and most promising of the years. Reduction of the anticipated deficit to this minimal scholars, teachers, and students of the future." was about a continued close con- Regard- figure brought through ing the future size of the student body, "we have as yet trol of current expense and salary and wage items, through set neither a nor a limit. As a basis for and the goal planning, improved operating procedures, through receipt however, each of the University's twenty-one schools is of additional income over and above that which had been to determine its The actual deficit was covered an seeking optimum enrollment-the size expected. by appropri- at which its present or prospective teaching and adminis- ation from unrestricted endowment income. From this trative staffs and facilities can be most effective same source it was also to $148,000 to physical possible apply and of high educational quality." the accumulated deficit for the preceding year. This progress," Dr. Harnwell states, "would not have been Our educational pattern may undergo changes in the possible without the understanding and cooperation of the years ahead. "The Educational Survey may well point the Faculty and Administrative Staff and I express to them way to the better integration of sequential curricula re- my grateful appreciation." ducing the number of hours of formal education required for professional training ... thus enabling us to accommo- Dr. Harnwell makes the point that "while an improved date a number of students.... In this direc- economic status is not the exclusive answer to the de- large general tion, the College, the Wharton School, and the College velopment of a good faculty" (he cites library, laboratory, for Women are to credit for advanced and other facilities with a sense of institutional mis- taking steps grant along work by students before matriculation at the University." sion), it is nevertheless a matter of "paramount urgency." He adds: "We are taking a number of steps to raise our Future physical developments include "a virtual face- salary scale and to extend and strengthen supplementary lifting for the campus, as represented by the closing of benefits." Woodland Avenue between 34th and 37th Streets, and the development of the area bounded by 32nd, 34th, Chestnut, The President reports that the close of the fiscal year and Walnut Streets, for which the University is currently "saw gifts, grants, and bequests to the University exceed negotiating with the Redevelopment Authority of the City those of any previous year, the grand total being $4,755,- of Philadelphia." 385." Annual Giving produced $335,679, a substantial gain over the previous year's figure of $272,065. The Dr. Harnwell classifies the sources of University in- newly formed Benjamin Franklin Associates (membership come in six categories. The first is tuition, "and it is prob- requires an unrestricted gift of $1,000 or more annually) ably inevitable that a considerable increase in tuition may contributed more than $100,000 in the period described be anticipated during the next fifteen to twenty years." 31, 1955, 189 Associates contributed (as of December Some modest increase may be expected from the second $220,000). The Development Fund (largely for physical source, endowment. plant) was increased by $1,698,184, pushing the total to $11,235,364. Other gifts and grants totalled $2,262,398, The third source, represented by gifts from alumni and and bequests accounted for an additional $459,124. other interested individuals, may be increased "several fold, if stimulated." In Part IV, "Framework of The Future," Dr. Harnwell properly states that "our growth must be in conformity with a tradi- The fourth source, government aid, may "well increase

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true significantly in the years ahead." This is especially and Center with respect to State aid. The possibility of local govern- Speech Hearing ment support "might be investigated, and in fact the Mayor Formed in Medical School of the City of Philadelphia has set up a commission to survey the higher educational needs of the area and to Funds granted from the Office of Vocational Rehabili- define the City's responsibilities to its citizens." No tation of the U. S. Department of Health, Welfare, and established pattern of federal aid to private education Education are now providing for a demonstration pro- exists at present, "but such may well appear during the gram of speech and aural rehabilitation in the Depart- next two decades." ment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of the Uni- versity's Medical School and Hospital. This program, The foundations provide the fifth source and the Uni- established under the auspices of the University's Rehabili- versity "should obtain its proportionate share of support tation Commission, is designed to expand service, teach- from this source." ing, and research in speech and aural rehabilitation both in the Medical School and in the Department of Psychol- The sixth source, industry contributions, currently con- As it the is a small of the ogy. expands, program expected to coordinate stitutes only proportion University budget, the services of the State Cleft Palate Clinic (located in "but if the present trend continues, and particularly if the Children's of the United Cere- accentuated, this source increase fold Hospital Philadelphia), it is could many bral Palsy Center at Chestnut Hill, and the Speech Clinic without approaching such large proportions as to involve Division of the Psychological Clinic of the University; any incursion of industrial or commercial influence upon and it is further planned to utilize these centers for clin- the University's independence." ical practica courses for students in training. In "A Final Word," Dr. Harnwell declares that "as we Dr. Frank P. Bakes, Associate Professor of Psychol- go forward in this period of transition, we shall endeavor ogy, has been named Chief Investigator and Speech Pathol- to avoid the fallacy of thinking of the academic community ogist, and has been assigned to the Medical School on a in abstraction from the rest of the world, and rather seek half-time basis to assist in the program. to render service by looking close to life as it is lived Martin C. Schultz, has the staff at the around us." Ph.D., joined Medical School as Audiologist and Co-Director of the Speech and Hearing Center. In addition to his adminis- trative and clinical duties, Dr. Schultz will participate in the training program for speech and hearing therapists, and conduct research in audiology. Star Twinklings Studied The members of the Rehabilitation Commission are as Were Emerson writing today, he might change his follows: Dr. Paul C. Colonna, Chairman (Orthopedic famous line to, "Hitch your jet to a star." Surgery); Dr. Kenneth P. Appel (Psychiatry; Dr. George N. Austin (Neurosurgery); Dr. Robert Brotemarkle (Psy- The Astronomy and Electrical Engineering Depart- Dr. William J. Erdman, II ments, aided a $23,000 research contract with the Air chology); (Physical Medicine by and Rehabilitation); Dr. George D. Gammon (Neurol- Force, are studying whether the twinklings of the stars Dr. L. Hollander Dean reveal data about the and direction of ogy); Joseph (Medicine); Wesley significant speed G. Hutchinson (Auxiliary Medical Services); Dr. John P. certain high-altitude winds. Hubbard (Public Health and Preventive Medicine); Dean Conducting the studies are Assistant Professor William Theresa I. Lynch (Nursing); Dr. John J. Murohy (Uro.- Blitzstein, half-time in the Moore School and half-time logic Surgery); Dr. Charles H. Patton (Dentistry); Dr. P. Dr. P. Schenck in the Department of Astronomy, and Dr. William Henry Royster (Surgery); Harry (Oto- Protheroe, Instructor in Dr. Blitzstein is a laryngology); Dr. William Dunbar, Secretary (Physical Astronomy. Medicine and Rehabilitation). Ex-Officio members: Dr. specialist in the development of electronic instruments for the stars. Dr. Protheroe, Norman H. Topping (Vice-President in Charge of Medi- observing formerly of Ohio State cal Affairs); Dr. John McK. Mitchell (Dean of the School University, has already demonstrated certain relationships of Medicine); Miss Elizabeth C. Hos- between the and the winds at about 40,000 Berrang (Director, twinidings pital of the University of Pennsylvania); and Dr. George feet. Morris Piersol (Dean of the Graduate School of Medicine). The new studies will seek to answer such questions as these: Where in the atmosphere does the turbulence occur that makes starlight twinkle? Is this turbulence area fixed Wanted: Amateur Violinist or or moving? How is it related to wind velocity and direc- tion? Can a deeper knowledge of "scintillation" help to Other Instrumentalist explain the directions of the jet stream, a wind current of super-hurricane force that radically influences high-altitude Faculty member, pianist, desires to play sonatas and aviation? other chamber music with instrumentalist: e.g., violinist, cellist, clarinetist, flutist, etc. If interested, please call The observations are being made in the University's Ervin Miller, Finance Dept., Extension 634, or at home, student observatory atop the Physical Sciences Building. EVergreen 2-3995.

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of Political Science and Director of the Foreign Policy Other Research Institute; and The Strategy of Limited Warfare, Among Things by Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Associate, Foreign Policy Re- search Institute, and others . . . Vice-Provost Sculley vast Inner Sanctum File: Our triumvirate of are Bradley's two-volume anthology, The American Tra- provosts dition in Literature boasts a word count managing to keep their hand in, as the saying goes, while (Norton) equal they conduct the educational affairs of the University. Pro- to that of twenty full-length novels. It is being considered vost Jonathan Rhoads has reserved two mornings a week as a possible premium or alternate selection by the Book- to operate in the University Hospital and will continue to of-the-Month Club ... Other titles: Patriotism on Parade teach-though on a limited scale. Vice-Provost Roy (Harvard University Press) by Dr. Wallace E. Davies, Nichols is holding forth in the Graduate School with His- Assistant Professor of The Secret of Democracy 663, "The of American to History; tory Beginnings Democracy (Vanguard), translated by Dr. Otto E. Albrecht, Assistant 1845." And Vice-Provost Sculley Bradley is this term pre- over two courses, 197 in the Professor of Romance Languages; and a Spanish edition siding English College of Dental Formulas and Aids to ("American Literature Since 1865"), and English 687 in Dental Practice (Edi- the Graduate School ("American Drama from 1890 to torial Mundi, Argentina), by Dr. Louis I. Grossman, Pro- the Present"). fessor of Oral Medicine. Clippings: Dwight MacDonald's New Yorker profile Catching Up With the News: Members of the Physics of the Ford Foundation will be published in book form late Department and the Moore School are constructing ap- next month under the title, The Ford Foundation: The paratus for the 3 Bev Proton Synchroton to be erected at Men and The Millions -An Unauthorized Biography Princeton University under authority of the Atomic Energy (Reynal) ... The Faculty Tea Club renews it invitation Commission. The is to be used Penn to all women at the to become members. facility jointly by eligible University and Princeton for research in nuclear The Club meets every second and fourth Tuesday from high energy physics October to May in Memorial Hall, 3601 Locust Street, at Dr. Lester Klimm, Professor of Geography, is the three o'clock. Dues: $3 . . . Construction of the new seventh recipient of the Henry Grier Bryant Gold Medal Law School Dormitory will begin in the summer. Target of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. Dr. Klimm date for occupancy has been set for the fall of 1957 was head geographer in the Topographic Branch of the Dr. Edwin C. Bolles, Assistant Professor of English, re- Service World War Rev. John Donne Army's Military Intelligence during minds stylistic purists that the immortal II . . . Word Study, a publication of G. & C. Merriam once wrote a line of verse consisting of five prepositions. notes in its issue that You can check same asbestos and Company, February Benjamin (wear gloves proceed Franklin was an early advocate of spelling reform. His at your own peril > in his "Elegy to His Mistress on Going in fact, influenced Noah Webster and account for to Bed." writings, such changes in American spelling as "jail" for British Names: Dr. Robert D. Dripps, Professor and Chairman "goal," "humor" for "humour," "plow" for "plough.". of the Department of Anesthesiology, has been elected In connection with spelling, Dr. Edgar L. Potts, Assistant president of the Association of University Anesthetists. Professor of English, has a new rhyme to add to the old Dr. Dripps is also civilian consultant in Anesthesiology "i-e, e-i" doggerel: "Put i before e/ Except after c/ Or to the Surgeon General, U. S. Army . . . Dr. Mark W. when sounded like a/ As in neighbor and weigh." Dr. A11am, Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, re- Potts' addition runs: "But seize and seizure! And also cently returned from Mexico as international consultant leisure/ Weird, Height, Either/ Forfeit and neither/ to the National School of Veterinary Medicine there Species, foreign, and financier/ Deity, counterfeit you must Dr. Theophilus E. M. Boll, Associate Professor of Eng- fear!" lish, talked on "The Poet in Charles Dickens" at the recent Dickens Fellowship Dinner Celebration of Dickens' birth- day ... The February issue of Scientific American carried an article entitled "Charles Darwin," by Dr. Loren Eiseley, THE ALMANAC and Chairman of Professor Anthropology. Published monthly during the academic year by the Anecdote Annex: From Bennett Cerf's column in the University for the information of its Saturday Review comes a story about a professor at faculty and staff who "has nourished a to Colorado State College long yen The Editor is assisted by an Advisory Committee teach a course dealing with the lives and works of great and the Administration, and Per- talented authors who were of birth. What representing Faculty, illegitimate sonnel of the University. stymied him was an appropriate name for his lectures. Letters, items of news, and articles of interest to thinks he has the licked. The course will He now problem the faculty and staff are earnestly solicited. be labelled Some Misconceptions in English Literature.". Editor Charles Lee the of Frederick Book Shelf: Among April publications Managing Editor Bruce Montgomery A. Praeger, Inc., are Air Power in The Nuclear Age, a Address Public Relations Office symposium edited by Dr. Robert Strausz-Hupé, Professor