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LEMENTS DONATES BOOKS:
Course Inspires Founding of Library

-Daily-Stephanie Roumell
EARLY AMRICANA - Clements Library offers some of the best
facilities in the country for the study of early American history.

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By STEPHANIE ROUMELL
While attending the University,
as an engineer major shortly be-
fore the turn of the twentieth cen-
tury, William L. Clements, who,
founded Clements Library, elected
a course in American literature in
which the historical approach was
stressed-.
The course proved an inspira-
tion to Clements - although he1
went on to become a Bay City
industrialist and a University Re-
gent as well, he also devoted a
large part of his energy to collect-
ing books on early American his-
tory from all over the United
States and from England.
In the early 1920'3-he presented
the University with 12,000 books
and manuscripts on early Ameri-
cana, and he built the Clements
Library which opened in 1923 to
house them in.
Topmost Library
The library has since been sup-
ported by the University and it
has grown to be one of the na-
tion's topmost early American his-
tory libraries.
The scope of the library's col-
lection ranges from Columbus's
discovery to about 1830.
In addition to books, maps, and
newspapers reflecting the political
and military history of that time,
the libraryr contains sermons and
religious writings, travel descrip-
tion, and fine arts books-pri-r
marily music and some craft.
"Continual effort has been made
represent every aspect of early
American -life," Director Howard
H. Peckham said.
All of the books are published in
the period they depict, he con-
tinued. "We try to obtain accounts
of events written by one who got
his information from someone
present or at least who lived at
the time of the event."
No ModernBooks
"Therefore we have no modern
book about the American Revolu-
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tion simply because' the author
wasn't there."
The library contains 38,000
books and even a greater number
of manuscripts and maps, but
Clements is a noncirculating li-
brary.
Its readers are graduate stu-
dents who were interviewed before'
getting permission to use the li-
braries valuable, sources.
"Libraries of this sort have suf-
fered from scholarly cleptomania,"
Director Peckham explained. "By
interviewing the respective read-
ers, we find out about them.
"We also learn exactly what
they are studying and help them
find what they need.
Rare Book Room
The rare book room, though
comfortly furnished to suggest an
English gentlemen's library (as
does the rest of the main floor), is
actually a bank vault in disguise.
The doors are of steel paneled.
over with English oak, and at
night, steel shades pull down over
the windows.
"About ,100 to 150 students a
year use Clements Library," Di-
rector Peckham noted, "but they
seldom make single visits. About
a third of these readers come from
other universities in the States
and abroad."
The collection grows by about
250 books a year, he said. And the
biggest effort to preserve the col-
lection comes now-humidity must
be poured into the rooms to com-
bat dryness from steam heat that
may cause books to become brittle.
To Seminar
Ont Morals
A discussion on "What Basis (If
Any) for Morality" will take place
at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Honors
Lounge of the Undergraduate Li-
brary.
The seminar, a part of the
Reading and Discussion program,
will feature Professors Marston
Bates and Lawrence Slobodkin of
the zoology department.
Series Offers
Play Today
"I Am a Camera," the fifth in
the playbill series of the Depart-
ment of Speech, will be presented
at 4:10 p.m. today in Trueblood
Auditorium.
The play, by John Van Druten,
is based on a short story, "Sally
Bowles," by Christopher Isher-
wood, which appears in his volume
of short stories, "The Berlin
Stories."

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for honors students, he continuede
but "meant for a cross-section of
the students admitted to Wayne
State."
Students at Monteith take four
courses-three semesters in social
science and natural science, one
year in humanities, and a senior
colloquium. .
No English Composition
No courses in English composi-
tion will be offered-instead, stu-
dents will be required to write a
number of term papers, and teach-
ers will assess them in terms of
content and style of writing.
"As the student progresses, we
insist he become more intellec-
tually mature, and carry more in-
dependent work," Coral said.-
Freshman courses include four
meetings per week, while the senior
course will meet only once every
two weeks. Seniors will do difficult
reading, visit occasionally with
their teachers, and come to class
to discuss their reading.
"We're to be a small college,
perhaps 1,000 students," he pointed,
out. "We want to maintain small
college atmosphere within a com-
plex, urban university."
Initiated by a Ford Foundation
grant last December, Monteith is
on a five-year experimental pro-
gram-"then we'll take stock and
see where we should go," Coral
said.
Exciting Faculty
"We have one of the most ex-
citing young faculties in the coun-
try," Chancellor Durward Varner
said, reporting on the first eight
weeks' operation at Michigan
State-Oakland.
Oakland is directed towards
liberal education, on the assump-
tion that modern higher educa-
tion is far too specialized, Varner
asserted.
The, curriculum is generally
aimed at expanding the students'
'knowledge of the eastern as well
as the western world.
"No student rules have been
written yet," Varner noted. "We're
assuming the student body is com-
posed of ladies and gentlemen."
Few Cut Class
Although students are not re-
quired to attend classes, very few
have been cut in the first eight
weeks, Varner said.
Varner noted that MSU-O stu-
dents will take no more than four
courses during a semester, to avoid
"fragmentation of learning."
Intramural athletics will be one
of the few "student activities."
Fraternities and sororities are not
allowed on the campus.
One "foreign studies" course will
be required of students, he con-
tinued, covering such areas as the
Far East, the Middle East and
Latin America.
Four hundred full time students
-"not the intellectual elite but a
highly motivated group"-enrolled
this fall.
Never All for All
Admitting MSU -O may be
"limited" in its approach, Varner
maintained "We're fresh and crisp,
and will never be all things for all
people," as some state institutions
attempt to be.
"This will be no educational su-
permarket. What we do attempt to
do, we will do well," he declared.
The University's Dearborn Cen-
ter arose out of a need for better
men in business administration
and engineering in southeastern
Michigan, Vice-President and Di-
rector of the Center William Stir-
ton told the audience.
Ford Motor Co. 'agreed to sup-
port the Center and provide the

property near Henry Ford's famed
Fairlane estate in Dearborn.
Strong Liberal Arts Program
We wouldn't be interested in a
program purely along those lines,"
Stirton related, "and so we in-
sisted on a strong and active pro-
gram in the liberal arts."
The Center's greatest asset, Stir-
ton said, is its environment-the
heart of a vast business complex.
"Our outside work assignments
can't be duplicated anywhere," he
claimed.
ThedCenter already operates a
work-study shift for students in
engineering and business adminis-
tration. A similar program will be
possible in the liberal arts when
the program opens next fall, Stir-
ton indicated.
"There are no limitations on the
kinds of programs, except in our
vision and our energy," he said.
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respond to the bright minds of the
younger generation" are needed
both as instructors and counselors,
he said. Terminal examinations
test the outcome for which honors
students are always preparing.
"The budget for an honors pro-I
gram need not be excessive," Prof.
Cohen said. "In fact, the real ques-
tion is not whether we can afford
the program, but whether we can
afford not to have one."
Honors administrators should
be in a position to change tradi-
tional rules and cut red tape bind-
ing ordinary students, he sug-
gested. Also, there should be more
built-in methods of evaluating the
means used in attaining the end
pursued, such as the Honors Cen-
ter at the University of Oregon.
Called 'Tonic'
Prof. Jean Protheroe of the
English department at Hope Col-
lege called honors programs a
"tonic for tired teachers." Hope,
which has an experimental course
for freshmen on the "study of
man" bases the course on the as-
sumption that communication is
response.
"Students don't prepare an-
swers for class-but questions, and
are thus more aware of the main
idea and stimulated to discuss and
challenge," Prof. Protheroe said.
The freshmen formulate opin-
ions in 2,000-word papers due each
week and at the end of the se-
mester must submit a 5,000-word
theme on how the ideas of a
famous person reflected the age in
which he lived.
"This requires intensive read-
ing about the subject and general
research about the age," she ex-
plained. "We' eventually hope to
expand to a two-year course."
Viser Asserts
Dean John E. Viser of Grand
Rapids Junior College asserted
there is a place for honors pro-
grams in junior and community
colleges.
"I favor recognition of superior
students in junior college because
honors programs more adequately
challenge our able students, publi-
cation of such programs helps
good academic work gain status,
and teachers find themselves ex-
perimenting with new ideas-gen-

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erally improving their teaching
methods," he said.
Faculty organization is one of
the major problems that must be
resolved before an honors pro-
gram can be established, Dean
Viser said. Another problem is
early identification of gifted stu-
dents.
Suggests Solution
"This may be solved by what
we call the high school enrichment
program, whereby high school
students sit in on our junior col-
lege courses," he suggested.
Prof. Frank Copley, head of the
University high school advisory
committee, views advanced place-
ment in a different light.
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