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May, 1961
WOLVERINE OBSERVER
Page Five
ANNA VITA is caressed by an
adoring BEN E. JOHNSON as he
declares his love for her in this
tender, electrifying scene from the
provocative interracial drama “AN
NA’S SIN,” a George Morris pre
sentation, and Atlantis Films, Inc.
Release.
“ANNA’S SIN” deals with a moving
I.P. REPORTS
NEW YORK, N. Y.—(I.P.)— * 1 2 3 4 The
recommendation made by President
John F. Kennedy’s Task Force on
Education that the disclaimer
clause of the National Defense Edu
cation Act he eliminated and that
the Act be renewed recently re
ceived support from the Barnard
College Trustees. Announcement!
of the Trustees’ action was made by
resident Millicent C. McIntosh, fol
lowing the issue of the Task Force
report. Barnard has repeatedly re
fused to participate in the National
Defense Education Act because of
the objectionable “affidavit of dis
belief” required of all students ac
cepting federal loan funds. Last
year, two elected undergraduate
groups, Student Council and Repre
sentative Assembly, also adopted
resolutions opposing the loyalty
and disclaimer oaths of the NDEA.
DURHAM, N. C.—(I.P.)—D u k e
University recently announced
plans for the establishment of a
distinguished professorship in Rus
sian Affairs, made possible through
a substantial unrestricted gift from
Miss Doris Duke, daughter of the
founder of the University.
In announcing the gift, President
Deryl Hart said, “The decision to
establish this special chair was
based upon the need to encourage
at this time a wider understanding
of history, ideology, economic fea
tures, and political structure of
Soviet Russia and the Soviet Em
pire.
“The problems involved in Ameri
can relationships with Soviet Rus
sia in the critical years ahead,” Dr.
Hart added, “place a particular
responsibility on universities such
as Duke, which have the needed
orientation and necessary facilities
to encourage research and training
in foreign and international affairs.
“These obligations are recognized
in the utilization of the generous
gift from Miss Duke to establish
the distinguished professorship. It
is hoped that other benefactions
will make possible the creation of
additional professorships in inter
national affairs.”
PRINCETON, N. J.—(I.P.)—A
new Special Program in East Asian
Studies designed for students who
wish to gain a sound understanding
of the languages, historic contribu
tions and contemporary problems
of one or more Asiatic nations, will
be introduced at Princeton Univer
sity next fall.
Under this program selected stu
dents may spend a year in the
Orient living with the people of
love affair in Rome between a dis
tinguished American Negro actor
and a lovely Italian girl. The pic
ture, probably the most outspoken
interracial story to date, portrays
for the first time on the American
screen, a full-fledged romance be
tween a Negro male and white fe
male, with the Negro winning the
girl.
the nation selected, studying their
culture and learning to speak their
language as well as studying it.
This year abroad, arranged in most
cases at the end of the sophomore;
year, will not be counted as one of
the undergraduate’s four years at
Princeton.
The heart of the program, ac
cording to Dean of the College,
Jeremiah S. Finch, who presented
the recommendations to the faculty
on behalf of the Committee on the
Course of Study, is the five-year
innovation. Most large programs of
Asian studies have few undergrad
uate majors, and those they attract
often miss much of what their col
lege has to offer in Western
studies, the faculty report states.
Such undergraduate studies service
graduate programs — normally a
two-year M.A.
Instead of following this pattern
the Princeton five-year program
seeks to further the integration of
Asian studies with the liberal arts
curriculum as it now stands. It
shortens the over-all doctoral pro
gram while intensifying and deep
ening undergraduate training.
To be eligible for admission to
the program a student must have
satisfactorily completed the re
quirements for admission to one of
the University’s cooperating de
partments and a two-semester
course in one of the languages of
East Asia. He must also have
gained some understanding of
Asian history, thought, culture, or
institutions normally gained
through an introductory course in
Asian studies. The language se
lected will ordinarily determine the
area of specialization in the prepa
ration of his senior thesis.
The program will be under the
general supervision of the Commit
tee on Interdepartmental Programs
in Oriental Studies whose members,
from the Departments of Art and
Archaeology, Economics, History,
Oriental Studies, Politics, Religion,
Sociology, and the Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International
Affairs, will be appointed by Presi
dent Robert F. Goheen.
When the Board of Trustees ap
proved the five-year plan, it also,
on recommendation of the faculty,
changed the format of the Uni
versity’s Special Program in Near
Eastern Studies to make it parallel
by adding the year abroad.
Answers to “It Pays to Increase
Your Word Power”
By WILFRED FUNK
(1) restive (res’tiv) — A: relaxed.
B: deceitful. C: restless. D:
grasping.
(2) craven (kra’ven)—A: dishon
est. B: cowardly. C: dark. D:
slavish.
(3) deferential (def er en’shal) —
A: marked by disagreement. B:
deduced by inference. C: ques
tionable. D: respectful.
(4) inchoate (inko’it or in’koate)
—A: in an elementary stage. B:
unable to express oneself clear
ly. C: weak. D: chaotic.
(5) usurious (uzhoor’ius) — A:
crafty. B: pertaining to mar
riage. C: openhanded. D: per
taining to high interest for the
use of money.
(6) discursive (diskur’siv) — A:
coarse. B: complaining. C: ram
bling. D: profane.
(7) grandiose (gran’di os) -— A:
optimistic. B: impressive. C:
generous. D: handsome.
(8) inviolate (invi’olate) — A:
calm. B: excited. C: brutal. D:
pure.
(9) implicit (im plis’it)—A: pri
vate. B: understood. C: incred
ible. : definitely promised.
(10) athwart (a-thwort’) — A:
crosswise. B: flattened out. C:
just ahead, D: following.
(11) gargantuan (gar gan’ tu an)
—A: awkward. B: savage. C: gi
gantic. D: resounding.
(12) portentous (porten’tus)—A:
ominous. B: lacking in humor.
C: important. D: extremely
heavy.
(13) secular (sek’uler) — A: en
suing. B: wicked. C: carefully
chosen. D: worldly.
(14) extraneous (eks tra’ne us) —
A: exaggerated. B: external or
foreign. C: circumstantial. D:
false.
(15) dogmatic (dogmat’ik) — A:
angry. B: powerful. C: vicious.
D: vicious. D: excessively opin
ionated.
(16) furtive (fur’tiv)—A: steal
thy. B: nervous. C: jerky. D:
quick.
(17) copious (ko’pi-us)—A: sad. B:
drenched. C: abundant. D: stout.
(18) sentient (sen’shent; -shi ent)
—A: unusually wise. B: capable
of feeling. C: brief. D: old.
(19) insatiable (in sa’shi a b’l; -sha
b’l)—A: hungry. B: exhausted.
C: thirsty. D: greedy.
(20) stentorian (stento’ri an)—A:
infuriated. B: dictatorial. C:
loud. D: grim.
Adjectives, precisely used, add
color and force to your speech and
writing. Check the word or phrase
below nearest in meaning to the
key word. Answers are on the next
page.
DEVOTED TO THE STUDY
OF HELLENISM
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(I.P.)—-
Fulfillment of plans for an inter
university world center devoted to
the study of the classical Greek
tradition will be made possible by a
recently announced $5,000,000 Old
Dominion Foundation grant. The
property and activities at the Cen
ter, to be named the Center for
Hellenic Studies, will be adminis
tered by the Trustees for Harvard
University near Dumbarton Oaks.
The grant will supply the neces
sary financial support for staffing
the Center and for providing fel
lowship and publication assistance
to advance teaching and research
concerned with classical Greek cul
ture and the Hellenic tradition. In
residence at the Center will be a
small number of younger classical
scholars, chosen by a group of Sen
ior Fellows drawn from the fac
ulties of leading universities. While
the Senior Fellows will continue to
discharge their regular duties at
their respective universities, they
will meet frequently with the
Juniors and will in essence consti
tute a senior faculty of the Center.
The Center is not envisaged as
a large one; there are expected to
be about six to eight Junior Fel
lows, and a somewhat smaller num
ber of Seniors. In addition to the
resident Junior Fellows and the
non-resident Senior Fellows there
will be a resident Director of the
Center and, from time to time, one
or two resident senior scholars on
annual appointment to share with
the Senior Fellows their function as
a faculty of the Center.
The group of Junior Fellows will
be small and as currently planned
will number about six young, dis
tinguished post-doctoral scholars
who are in the process of preparing
studies on humanistic subjects re
lated to Hellenism or perhaps oc
casionally including one or two
younger men completing their
doctoral dissertations.
The periodic meetings of this
small group of Senior and Junior
Fellows are considered one of the
most important features of the
Center. Thus the Center is expected
to become a group of older and
younger scholars held together by a
common interest in Hellenism.
Normally the term of a fellowship
will be for one year, but with the
possibility of renewal for a second
year. Old Dominion Foundation,
which was established by Paul Mel
lon in 1941, has as one of its main
interests the promotion of the
humanities and liberal education.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(I.P.)—
Federal financial aid is critically
needed to help the nation’s colleges
and universities educate increasing
numbers of young men and women,
the American Association of Land-
Grant Colleges and State Univer
sities declared in a statement re
leased here. The Association, in a
series of resolutions passed by its
governing Senate:
—Asked Congress to enact legis
lation providing direct financial aid
to states for college and university
buildings under a plan requiring
matching funds from the states;
plus a direct “academic facilities
loan” program for those unable or
unwilling to join in the grants pro
gram.
—Called for continuation of the
present Colelge Housing Loan Pro
gram, and asked that a long-range
program would be set up under
which new funds would become
available.
—Voted its opposition to estab
lishment of new Federal degree
granting institutions, and to any
national policy that might encour
age the setting up of research cen
ters apart from universities.
—Also opposed proposals which
would give parents or self-support
ing students direct tax deductions
for tuition and fees paid colleges.
This is “unsound from the stand
point of fiscal and educational
policy,” the educators said.
—Asked that more information
as to possible benefits be secured
and studied before possible estab
lishment of a Federal scholarship
program. The Association also
called for increased support for
graduate students; for placing Fed
eral research grants on a basis that
will assure continuity to staffs
working in the Federal interest;
for expansion for scientific re
search programs of the Federal
government, and for renewal of
the $20,000 top limit to any one
institution participating in the stu
dent loan program.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—(I.P.)—A
research psychologist declared re
cently that “programmed learning”
—known by its critics as “machine
teaching”—breaks open the bottle
neck of the student-teacher ratio
which is of such “critical dimen
sions in education today.” There is
no doubt, he said, that programmed
learning is effective.
Dr. Donald A. Cook, research
psychologist at the National In
stitute of Mental Health, outlines
his views in a recent issue of the
Columbia University Graduate
Faculties Newsleter. He states that
traditional humanists, examining
the new concept, express concern
“which seems to blend the prophecy
that ‘it won’t work’ with the fear
that it will.’ Nobody expects the
teachers to be replaced, the article
said, yet there is uncertainty as to
how their roles may be altered in
the new situation.
“The evidence so far,” declared
Dr. Cook, “is that effective pro
gramming makes for more creative
students, and the teacher may
rightly suspect that his status
giving control over his subject may
be challenged.” The sober evalua
tion of the limits and optimal con
ditions governing the place of pro
grammed learning awaits careful
research, the expert said.
The report enumerates the ad
vantages of the program that have
become clear since its inception:
1. Programmed learning allows
the student to know where he
stands at all times, and quickly
enough for the appraisal to effect
the'behavior that produced it.
2. The cycle can occur dozens—
or even one hundred or more—
times an hour in which teaching
and testing are blended into one
process. The teacher, freed from
drudgery, can offer the student in
dividual attention.
3. The student proceeds accord
ing to his own ability. The dull stu
dent is not embarrassed and the
gifted student is not held back. If
a student is ill, he doesn’t fall be
hind, and if he moves to another
school, he takes his program with
him.
4. If the machine records errors
a teacher can inspect the student’s
record before conferring with him,
and can thus know the particular
difficulty.
In some machine models, the
article points out, the response can
not be altered while other special
ized versions will not advance the
program if an answer is incorrect.
The most advanced devices will
shunt the student into special reme
dial programs if he lists a wrong
answer. Some machines keep an
automatic tally of right and wrong
responses.
“If a given section of a program
generates errors for many students,
there is something wrong with the
programs,” Dr. Cook contends. “It
can be corrected by rewriting the
frames or inserting additional
frames to ‘thin out’ the material.
Thus the very device which pro
vides feedback to the student also
provides feedback to the instruc
tor.”
AMES, la. — (I.P.) — Electronic
devices will be used at Iowa State
University in a “direct attack” on
the problem of poor spoken Eng
lish, Dr. Albert L. Walker said. The
electronics approach will start in
1962. It will allow the students to
correct errors in their spoken Eng
lish through repetition of the right
forms and through reading aloud.
“This emphasis on spoken Eng
lish seems sound, in view of the
fact that most troubles with Eng
lish go back to a social environ
ment which has made bad speech
habits into a facet of personality,”
Dr. Walker explained.
Iowa State has tried out “non-
collegiate,” or high school level
corrective courses in Freshman
English, and has discarded them
as “ineffective.’ It also has abolish
ed the practice of putting students
who are poor in English into “low”
sections, and finds they do better
when they try the regular course
in the company of classmates who
are better prepared.
However, there is evidence that
many entering students in agricul
ture, Who seem to have low apti
tude for English courses, “have a
long-run potential not reflected in
entering tests. Therefore, although
a relatively small number of poorly
prepared students will not improve
under any method of instruction,
new ways of motivating and teach
ing the others must be tried out.”
POINTS TO PONDER
John Ciardi:
Literature is one of the central
continuing experiences of the race.
It is no cultural ornament. Through
literature, the voices of mankind’s
most searching imaginations re
main alive to all time. One needs
to hear Job lift his question into
the wind; it is, after all, every
man’s question at some time. One
needs to stand by Oedipus and to
hold the knife of his own most ter
rible resolution. One needs to come
out of his own Hell with Dante
and to hear that voice of joy hail
ing the sight of his own stars re-
turned-to.
No man is even half-civilized un
til those voices have sounded with
in him. A savage, after all, is sim
ply a human organism that has not
received enough news from the
human race. Literature is one most
fundamental part of that news.
—Saturday Review
Seneca :
When a man does not know what
harbor he is making for, no wind
is the right wind.
(The Reader’s Digest)