Ford Focuses U. of P. Raises Tuition $200 Tuition at the University of Pennsyl- a new course unit total of $120. On vania will be increased effective with Tuition in the University's graduate Fringes President and schools also will be in- By Dr. Fred C. Ford the 1966-67 academic year, professional Director of Personnel Gaylord P. Harnwell announced Febru- creased. 2. In a letter mailed to students and par- IN The Outer Fringe published in 1965 ary Tuition for full-time undergraduates ents, President Harnwell reported that Dr. Mark H. Ingraham of the Univer- will increase $200 annually, from the "Rising educational costs associated with sity of Wisconsin presents his report on of $1,570 to a new total of the maintenance of the University of the first comprehensive study of faculty present figure With the fee, under- in benefits, other than retirement and in- $1,770. general Pennsylvania's leadership position tuition and fees will total American higher education make manda- surance plans, provided by institutions of graduate $1,950 annually. tory an increase in student tuition for the higher education. The study was under- Summer School tuition will rise $20 1966-67 academic year. taken for the Commission on Faculty and course unit as of the 1966 session to on Staff Benefits of the Association of Amer- per (continued page 6) ican Colleges with the collaboration of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity As- sociation and the assistance of the Amer- ican Association of University Professors. The report is based not only on the in- formation furnished by 757 colleges and universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, but also on the judgments of their administrative officers. Dr. Ingraham has a fresh and highly readable style. He brings to his report a long and broad personal experience as a teacher and administrator and is frank in his appraisal of the role of the benefits program in general and of the individual elements in the program. Following a chapter by chapter presentation of specific benefits, ranging from housing to park- ing, he undertakes in a concluding section to present his personal ranking of some of the more valuable staff benefits. The categories are listed in order of his esti- mate of their decreasing importance: Category I 1. A reasonable retirement policy and provisions for post-retirement an- THE PENNSYLVANIA SEWING CIRCLE? No, the dedication of the nuities including Social Security. new Graduate School of Education building. At the ribbon cutting ceremony are 2. Time for continued scholarly ac- Dr. Maurice J. Stratton, President of the Education Alumni Association; A. J. tivities including leaves for re- Caruso, executive director of the General State Authority of the Commonwealth of search or education, and aid for Pennsylvania; President Harnwell; Dr. John R. Rackley, the Commonwealth's scholarly work in the summer. superintendent of public instruction; and Dr. Morris S. Viteles, dean of the Gradu- (continued on page 5) ate School of Education and professor of psychology. 2 THE ALMANAC Dr. Robert D. Dripps Honored by Chair in His Name Friends of Dr. Robert D. Dripps, physician, teacher and research scientist, have endowed a professorship in his hon- or at the School of Medicine, where he is chairman of the Department of Anes- thesia. The establishment of the chair-to be known as the Robert Dunning Dripps Professorship of Anesthesia-was recent- announced President Harnwell. ly by Dr. Robert D. Dripps Dr. Harnwell said the income from the endowment would be used to support "a perpetual succession of distinguished teacher-scientists" in anesthesia. The first appointment to the chair has not yet been made, he added. The Dripps Professorship, capitalized at $500,000, is the seventh new chair to be established at the University in the course of its current $93,000,000 Devel- opment Program. Donors of the endowment include Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lincoln McNeil. Mr. McNeil is the founder of McNeil Lab- oratories, Inc., Fort Washington, Pa. Speaking on behalf of the donors, Mr. McNeil said: "Having known Dr. Dripps since his childhood and having also been in a position to observe the progress of medical science over many decades, I Professor, Classify Thyseif find it wonderfully appropriate that LAW: "A professor whose imitation of Socrates makes him worthy of hemlock." the advances in anesthesia that have Humpty S. Dumpty. been made under Dr. Dripps' leader- VETERINARY SCHOOL: "The best informed professor on campus. He ship will be continued into the long gets his information right from the horse's mouth." Humpty S. Dumpty. future in association with his name. DEMOGRAPHY: "A professor who teaches what a web we weave "We are especially happy to be able tangled when first we practice to conceive." Adapted from Don Herold. to recognize Dr. Dripps in so perma- HISTORY: nent a way while he is still in the "A professor who specializes in teaching about things that never written men prime of his career, with many years happened, by who weren't there." Adapted from anonymous of productive work ahead." source. RELIGIOUS Dr. Dripps, a member of the teaching THOUGHT: "A professor who teaches the management of staff since 1938 and department chair- our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal affairs." Adapted from Ambrose Bierce. man since 1951, heads a large-scale re- search program. His work is credited HISTORY OF ART: "A professor who is fascinated not by art, but the noise with having made advances in reducing made by those who are in the art field." Adaptation. the hazards of anesthesia, preventing and DIVINITY: "A professor who attempts to explain the unknowable in terms treating surgical collapse, and lessening of the not worth knowing." Adapted from H. L. Mencken. discomfort. post-anesthesia PHILOSOPHY: "There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not He is chief of the of Anes- Department philosophers." Henry David Thoreau. thesia of the Hospital, senior civilian con- ENGLISH: "To be able to between a and sultant in anesthesia to the distinguish badly- well-written book Surgeon is not a of literature can do that General of the U.S. Army, chairman of enough; professor occasionally." George Moore. the Subcommittee on Anesthesia of the National Research Council, and former HISTORY: "History repeats itself; historians repeat each other." Philip president of the Association of University Guedalla. Anesthetists, among other positions. ENGLISH: "Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure Dr. Dripps was born in Philadelphia and very dead." Sinclair Lewis. and lives in Haverford. FEBRUARY, 1966 3 Almanac Polls Faculty on U.S. Policy in Vietnam by Dr. Herbert S. Denenberg "In Vietnam, should the United States and but our Editor, The Almanac (A) stop fighting now negotiate keep troops there, out our and then or A of members to an Almanac (B) pull troops, negotiate, majority faculty responding until we can on our own on the Vietnam war indicated that dis- (C) keep fighting negotiate poll they "basically terms?" with the U. S. Government's in Vietnam. agree" policy This was Louis Harris for a re- indicated basic with the admin- question designed by poll Twenty-eight agreement in the December 6, l%5 The istration's 34 indicated basic Seven ported Philadelphia Inquirer. policy; disagreement. Almanac was as follows: their answers so as to elimination from the response qualified require Respondents tabulation. (A) Stop fighting now and negotiate28 Over 50 per cent of the 132 faculty members polled re- (B) Pull out our troops and negotiate10 sponded. The graduate faculties of six departments partici- (C) Keep fighting, negotiate on our own terms 19 pated -chemistry, classical studies, history, history of art, Compared to Harris' results, the University respondents mathematics and political science. were less likely to answer "keep fighting, negotiate on our Faculty names were taken from a 1965-66 Graduate Studies terms." The comparative results: Bulletin. Like the man who discovered he had been writing Percentage prose all his life, the Almanac discovered it had taken a single Na?!. stage cluster sample where clusters are selected rather than University Avg. drawn. Six were selected, and then all randomly departments (A) Stop fighting now and negotiate 50 13 members of their were sent a brief mail graduate faculty (B) Pull out our troops and negotiate 18 4 questionnaire. (C) Keep fighting, negotiate on our terms 32 71 Since this was not a probability sample, it is not valid to Many respondents found that the Harris question was am- generalize from this sample to University faculty opinion gen- biguous and failed to present other important options. For ex- erally. However, due to the response of over 50 per cent, it ample, these alternatives were also suggested: "keep fighting affords strong evidence of the views of some of the departments until we can negotiate" (deleting "on our own terms") ; "keep represented. fighting until we can negotiate without preconditions on either By the mail questionnaire, the faculty was asked: side": and "keep fighting until we can negotiate on reasonable "Do you basically agree or with the Adminis- disagree terms." Seven respondents posed such additional alternatives. tration's in Vietnam?" policy The Almanac was delighted to learn that the respondents Those were who polled, answered as follows: were critical of both questions, one drafted by expert Louis Qualified No Harris and the other by an amateur. Of course, the question Agree Disagree Answer Response relating to "basic agreement" or "disagreement" also drew Chemistry 10 9 8 criticism. Several respondents indicated the issue was too com- Classical Studies 0 2 6 plicated to indicate "basic" agreement or disagreement, and History 3 10 12 that the question as posed did not indicate the nuances involved History of Art 4 2 5 in the issue.