RSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1958

4U' PROFESSORS

AID IN RESEARCH:

Museum Presents Slides of Ancient Guatemala City

By MARSHA JO DEMOREST
Scenes from an expedition which p
uncovered an ancient Guatemalian
city are now on view at the Uni-
versity Museum of Natural History.
Four University faculty members
took part in the expedition to.
Tical, a seat of Mayan civiliza-
tion. They flew in early in Janu-p
U'Faculty s
Fellowships
Announced
Fellowships for summer research
in lieu of teaching were announcedr
recently for 18 faculty members by
Dean Ralph A. Sawyer of theC
Graduate School.
Size of the grants varies with
the individual faculty members't
salaries.t
Prof. William P. Alston of ther
philosophy department will bec
working on "The Meaning and thet
Use of Linguistic Units." Another
project on Linguistics, "The Appli-
cation of Linguistics to the Study
of Poetry" by Hubert M. English,
Jr., of the English department.
Super To Study Arnold
"A Critical Edition of Mathew
Arnold's Complete Prose Works"
will be undertaken by Prof. Robertj
H. Super of the English depart-s
ment.
Michel J. Benamou of the
French department has been givenf
a grant to study "The French In-
fluence on the Works of Wallace
Stevens," while the research of
Floyd F. Gray of the French de-
partment will be on "Le Montaignel
de Thibaudet."
Another language instructor,
Mary C. Chrichton of the German
department, will do research on
"The Horse as a Symbolic Motif in
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer."
,l- Other Grants Given
Research in the area of science
includes "Metabolism of Mucic
Acid in Escherochia ol," by Prof.
Harold J. Blumenthal of the Bac-
teriology department. Prof. H.
Wagner Jr. of the botany depart-t
ment receives a grant for "Com-
parative Phylogeny of Reticulate1
Venation."
Title of research by Prof. Jere E.
Goyan of the pharmacy school isl
"The Elimination of Undesirable{
Isomers from Barbiturates of
Therapeutic Importance."
I4 the field of sociology, Prof.
Gerhard E. Lenski of the sociology
department will study "Religion in{
the Metropolitan Community" and1
Prof. David W. Varley of the so-
ciology department will work on
"Regional Difference Among Met-
ropolitan Areas."
Sahlins Earns Fellowship
Prof. Marshall Sahlins of the
anthropology department will
study "Maolan Ethnology." Prof.
Richard L. Sears of the architec-
ture college will do drawings of
Roman ruins and monuments.
I . Mathematical research will be
undertaken by Walter F. Davison
of the mathematics department.
His research will be on "Rela-
tivistic Stochastic Processes on
Differentiable Manifolds."
Prof. Allen Shields of the math-
ematics department has a grant
to work "On Exponential Poly-
nomials." Title of research by
Prof. Hadley J. Smith of the en-
gineering mechanics department is
"Solutions of the Navier-Stokes
Equations for Stable and Unstable
Swirling Laminar Flows."
Frank S. Stilliris of the music
school has been given a grant to
.' work on "Translation of Com-
mentary,, Francesco Gasparini,
"L'Armnic Practico al Cembalo."
William J. Weichlein of music
school will study "Manuscript
Materials in the Schatz Collection
at the Library of Congress."

Red Dancers
To Tour U.S.
Russian dancers will tour the
United Stgtes under a cultural
agreement recently signed with
the Soviet Union.
The Moiseyev folk dance troup
of the Soviet Union will visit the
United States in late winter or
early spring as the first major
exchange under the agreement.
According to Prof. Alexander N.
Kuznetsov, first vice-chairman of
the Soviet National Committee
for Cultural Relations with For-
eign Countries, the United States
will choose later this year between
two other Soviet companies.
He said the choice will be be-
tween the 200-man Red -Banner
song and dance ensemble of the
Soviet Army and the Berezka folk
dance troup, composed of 6 girls.
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ary, 1956, and stayed until June
of that year.
Representing the University
were Prof. Theodore H. Hubbell,
curator of insects and director of
the Museum of Natural History,
Prof. Irving J. Cantrall, Prof.
Lawrence G. Stuart, and Paul
Basch, all of the zoology depart-
ment.
Edward Shaock, on leave from
the Carnegie Institute, is recon-
structing the city under a Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania contract
with Guatemala.
Guatemala will gain a national
park from the city'and the mem-
bers of the expedition gained a
valuable' research opportunity.
According to Prof. Stuart, a
traveler in Guatemala for 25 years,
Tical was once quite large, and has
many more temples and buildings
in it which have not been dis-
covered yet.
Only Work Six Months
In order to have enough water
to mix the mortar used to build
the walls, the men can work on
reconstruction of the buildings
only in the wet season from May
to October.
The area normally receives
about 70 inches, of rain a year-
almost all of it in the wet season.
The two story Tical Temple is
a pyramid made of limestone.
Steps outside lead to the top.
In the area are several tomb-
stone-shaped plaques, called sta-
las, which were erected at definite
sites to record dates.
Vegetation Covered City
The men stayed in Guatemala
for six months hunting for animals
and insects, as they tore down the
vegetation covering the city.
The University men found 20,-
000 insects and snakes, snails, a
howling monkey which could be
heard for miles, orchids, figs, and
a large tropical tree called Ory-
stryia princeps.
Before the men began to collect
specimens they built their, camp
out of the native materials of
wood, leaves and grass.
Slept on Hammocks
They brought with them a water
distiller, cooking, sleeping, exca-
vating and collecting equipment.
On trips into the jungle, the men
slept on hammocks to keep off
the ground.
The natives, decendants of the
Mayan Indians, taught the ,mem-
bers of the expedition to eat arma-
dillos, native pheasants and liz-
ards. The members of the expedi-
tion found these to be very tasty
foods, according to' Prof. Stuart.
Slides of what they found and
did on the expedition may be seen
through an automatically-operated
viewer in the University Natural
History Museum lobby. Thirty,
slides in color with their explana-
tions are shown.
The museum is open from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday
and from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday,

MAYAN TEMPLE-Overgrown with vegetation, the temple at
Tical is one of the enduring relice of the departed Mayan civiliza-
tion of Guatemala. Four University faculty members participated
in a research expedition to the old city, searching for animals.
U' Elementary School Begins
Accelerated Math Curriculum

An accelerated program in
mathematics went into operation
Monday at the University ele-
mentary school.
Students in the second semester
of the eighth grade began the
study of algebra, a subject usually
not offered until high school.
They will continue studying
algebra and plane geometry for
one and one-half years, completing
in that time the work generally
done in two years of high school
mathematics.

duction to analytic geometry and
calculus will be offered.
At the same time the regular
curriculum will be continued. Both
programs will give students good
mathematical preparation, accord-
ing to mathematics department
spokesmen.
The program is designed to de-
termine the value of accelerated
mathematical curricula and to
provide for student differences in
individual ability.
Student accomplishment in the
accelerated program will be mea-
sured against that of a control
group. Students in the program
are participating by individual
choice.

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