SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1951 ""HE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SUNAYDEEMBR , 151 HEMICIGN DIL Late Vacation Darkens Outlook for Holiday Jobs MEETS PUPIL'S NEEDS: Hopkins Tries Liberal Education Plan By MIKE SCHERER The Christmas vacation job sit- uation this year seems to be glum for most University students. With only two working days left after classes are dismissed Fri- day, Dec. 21 until Christmas, many Irish Writer, Bowen To Talk Here Monday Elizabeth Bowen, noted Irish- English writer, will speak at 4:10 p.m. tomorrow in the Rackham Lecture Hall. Under the auspices of the Eng- lish department, Miss Bowen will talk on "The Writer's Role in the Atomic Age." "The Heat of the Day" is Miss Bowen's latest novel. She has also * * * are finding jobs difficult to se- cure. * * * MOST SERIOUSLY affected by7 the late vacation are students who, had planned to work in retail stores during the Christmas shop- ping rush. In Ann Arbor, very few posi- tions will be available for stu- dents who do not go home for vacation, according to Mrs. Bet- ty Gauss of the University Stu- dent Placement Service. Last year there were hardly any vacation jobs available for stu- dents through the University Placement Service, Mrs. Gauss said. What few there were con- sisted mainly in shovelling the heavy Christmas week snows. December job placements were lower than any during the year of 1950, she said. This is ex- plained mainly by the decline of activity here during vacation. "This year we expect little or nothing in the line of jobs for stu- dents." She advised students who want to work during vacation not to stay in town. THE MOST fertile local field of vaaction jobs for students has been the U.S. Post Office. The Ann Arbor post office will employ 100 students, mostly on night shift, to help with the Christmas mail rush. The Post Office was flooded with applications, and the quota was easily filled by Nov. 25. The main source of home town jobs for University students this vacation will probably be taking first-of-the-year inventories and helping handle the barrage of post-Christmas gift exchanges. * * * ALTHOUGH STUDENT opinion varied on whether it was better to work or just relax during vacation. there was little disagreement that the late vacation was undesirable. Pete Reed, '54, wasn't worried about the lack of vacation jobs. Because of income tax, he couldn't earn any more money until after Jan. 1 anyway. A second lieutenant in the Army Reserve, Robert B. McGhee, '52E, came up with an all-inclusive solu- tion for students who couldn't find vacation work. He said,"The greatest opportun- ity for a good paying, interesting, secure job for Christmas may be secured at your local U.S. Army Recruiting office." By DIANE DECKER When President D. W. Bronk of John Hopkins University took over office this fall, he brought with him a complete new plan for un- dergraduate education. Convinced that American col- lege students were being caught up in a system of mass production and impersonality, Bronk backed his conviction with action and re- vised the academic pattern to fo- cus on the needs of the individual. Accordingly, a student at Hop- kins is now his own pilot. If he is interested in English and has no aptitude for mathematics, the Hopkins student plans his sched- ule so that his interests are best fulfilled. *1 * * "THE HOPKINS plan is a very interesting experiment," according U IN to Prof. Algo D. Henderson of the education school. "However, such a program would be extremely hard to put into effect at a larger university." He pointed out that John Hopkins is rather unique among U.S. colleges. Although it has a well - known undergraduate school, its students are "aiming for the works." They expect to come out of the university with an advanced degree, as authori- ties in their particular field. In order to make a program of student selectivity effective in most schools, Prof. Henderson believes that "the college must be able to provide extremely good counsel- ling service, and most institutes just cannot afford it. John Hopkins authorities don't intend to stop here with their overthrow of the time-hallowed premises of education. Moving to- ward a goal of a single school with no differentiation between grad- uate and undergraduate work, they have taken some big steps in that direction. In line with their "free educa- tion" program, they have thrown open the doors of the university graduate school to undergraduates. Hopkins does not plan to do away with its A.B. degree, but it does consider every student a future Ph.D. 3 i 3 1 1 1 I i I i : :I SANTA SAYS this Christmas!" "Everyone' s asking for STATIONERY Ramsay-Canfield has a large selection of stationery and note paper in all sizes and colors to please everyone on your Christmas list. 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