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VOL. LXIX, No. 2S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1959 FIVE CENTS
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Educators Fail
To Plan Future
Hatcher Cites Need for New Means
To Imprgve U.S. Higher Learning
By KATHLEEN MOORE
"We are making no adequate provisions for the expansion" of
education in the near future, University President Harlan Hatcher
commented yesterday.
As opening speaker for the summer lecture series, "Modern Man
Looks Forward," President Hatcher told listeners the increasing
complexity of modern life and its emphasis on progress demanded
increased quality and quantity the present American educational
system was unprepared to cope with properly.
The "Oxford and Cambridge tradition" of small numbers of
students gathered around a don no longer works, he maintained.
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a "constant upgrading of the ed-
ucational system" with the addi-
tion of more graduate programs
and increased enrollments in all
levels of education.
Much Outdated
Among the educational patterns
which the President called out-
dated was the "inharmonious
semester system" which wastes
teaching ability, student learning
power and the efficient use of fa-
cilities. He predicted the future
adoption of a four-term year
throughout the country.
The present educational pat-
tern in the public schools and
colleges also came under Presi-
dent Hatcher's fire. He saw "no
rhyme, reason or logic" to the
present four-year college schedule
and said education in the next 10
years would take a "good, hard
look at this little dogmatic pat-
tern we've fallen into."
Moving to constructive sugges-
tions, he said one solution to the
need for more and better educa-
tion has been offered by Beards-
ley Ruml who advocates the in-
stitution of larger classes. This
method, President Hatcher said,
is practicable for in many courses
a "great professor with a class of.
500 is more effective than another
professor with five."
Provides for Jobs
The Russian system of higher
education provides for a two-year
lag between high school and col-
lege in which students are ex-
pected to prove their capabilities
in extension and night school
courses while holding jobs.
The idea is "due to cause much
excitement in the world," he pre-
dicted, and the University is "do-
ing a little bit of it in a different
manner in our Dearborn Center"
which opens in the fall.
The future of the University
itself focuses on plans for main-
tenance of quality, President
Hatcher emphasized, with con-
trolled enrollment growth only
coming if academic standards
and top faculty can be retained.
A "strong and distinguished un-
dergraduate program" with a rel-
atively small freshman class of
about 3,000 and the expansion
and improvement of graduate
and professional schools, which
now account for nearly 40 per
cent of the student body, are
University goals for the foresee-
able future, President Hatcher
told the audience.
ENROLLMENT:
First Day
Figures
Show Lag
The opening-day tally showed
University summer session enroll-
ments slightly lower than last
year's, but the final totals are ex-
pected to exceed last year's 12,109
by about five per cent.
A total of 7,880, as compared to
8,062 last year, attended their first
classes Monday, Merlin Miller, as-
sistant director of the Office of
Registration and Records, revealed.
Broken down, the figures show
6,759 enrolled on campus, 176 in
Flint College and approximately
945 at other state centers. Similar
totals last year showed 6,959 in
Ann Arbor, 203 in Flint College
and 900 at other centers.
Faculty Same
The size of' the faculty for the
summer will be about the same as
in the past, ,necessitating a slight
increase in class loads, N. Edd
Miller, associate director of the
summer session, said.
Among the faculty members will
be 85 visiting professors teaching
classes on campus, 13 teaching at
extension centers in Flint, Grand
Rapids, Saginaw, Detroit, Traverse
City and Alpena and eight at the
National Music Camp at Inter-
lochen.
Graduate education courses will
be the most popular, Miller pre-
dicted, due to the large number of
teachers returning to work on ad-
vanced degrees.
The University is offering a
number of new programs this sum-
mer, including a foreign languages
institute for approximately 100
students financed through a provi-
sion of the National Defense Edu-
cation Act of 1958.
Mathematics Program
Other innovations, pr e sen ted
with the aid of grants from the
National Science Foundation, in-
clude courses for mathematics
teachers and teachers of arith-
metic.
Off-campus programs for Uni-
versity students are being offered
at the natural resources school's
Camp Filibert Roth in Iron
County, the Institute for Human
Adjustment's Fresh Air Camp for
boys and the music school's Inter-
lochen Music Camp.
Sessions will also be held at the
geology camp in Boulder, Colo.,
the Biological Station in Cheboy-1
gan, Camp Cusino in Shingleton,
Camp Davis in Wyoming and the
Speech Improvement Camp in
Northport.I
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Substantial Change
icreases
Salaries
nsider Measure;
Ps Not Predicted
By THOMAS HAYDEN
The University's proposed $33.4 million operating appro-
priation swept through the state Senate yesterday, and was
routed to the House of Representatives where approval is pre-
dicted sometime next week.
The bill authorizes a three million dollarincrease in Uni-
versity operating funds for the 1959 fiscal year - enough to
substantially improve faculty salaries.
By a 30-2 vote, the Senate okayed the appropriation
as part of a $100.9 million budget for higher education,
$13 million more than last--
REPORTS TO PRESIDENT-Secretary of State Christian Herter reported to President Dwight D.
Eisenhower on the Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference before his address to the nation by tele-
vision last night.f
Berlin Key to Peace-Herter
By The Associated Press'
WASHINGTON - The House,
fiying in the face of a veto threat,
yesterday sent President Dwight
D. Eisenhower a $1,375,000,000
housing bill his aides call too
costly.
A 241-177 roll call vote com-
pleted congressional action on the
compromise measure.
CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Dominican
Republic-A Cuban-supported in-
vasion force on the Dominican
north coast has been liquidated,
the government announced yester-
day.
Generalissimo Rafael L. Trujillo,
the 68-year-old strong man who
has ruled this country for 29 years,
personally directed operations in
the central part of the country,
-' it said.
The government thus gave its
version for the first time concern-
ing reports from Dominican exiles
in Cuba and Venezuela that a
rebel invasion force was seeking
overthrow of the Trujillo regime.
These reports said rebels last week
captured Constanza, about 180
lmiles northwest of Ciudad Tru-
jillo, and then withdrew.
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BATON ROUGE, La.-Attorney
Joe Arthur Sims said last night
Mrs. Earl Long has left Louisiana
and her departure opened the way
to freedom for Gov. Earl Long
from a mental hospital Friday.
a The Governor's wife signed the
application, for Long's committal
to Southeast Louisiana State Hos-
pital at Mandeville. Sims, Long's
attorney, filed an application for a
writ of habeas corpus demanding
the Governor's release.
Institute New
Library Hours
For Summer
The summer schedule of hours
for the Undergraduate and Gen-
eral Libraries went into effect
Monday and will continue until
Aug. 15.
Both libraries.will be open from
8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through
Thursdays, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Fridays and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Saturdays, Roberta C. Keniston,
librarian of the Undergraduate
Library., announced. Both librar-
ies will be closed on Sundays.
The audio room on the second
floor of the Undergraduate will
open at 2 n m Mnndiays thrmi
WASHINGTON (P) - Secretary'
of State Christian A. Herter called
on Moscow last night to give up
its dream of taking over West Ber-
lin if it wants to negotiate a peace-
ful settlement of the German prob-
lem.
"The United States 'will never'
compromise the freedom of the
brave people of West Berlin who
have placed their faith in our pro-
tection," Herter said in a radio-
television report to the nation.
Adkins Speech
Set Tomorrow
At 'U' Institute
Bertha S. Adkins, undersecre-
tary of health, education and wel-
fare, will address the National
Leadership Training Institute
dinner here tomorrow.
She will replace Secretary Ar-
thur S. Flemming as the principal
speaker at the Institute, which
will be held at the University to-
day through Friday to prepare
for the 1961 White House Con-
ference on Aging.
About one thousand participants
are expected to attend the meet-
ing which follows the University's
own 12th annual conference on
aging.
He discussed the diplomatic
deadlock with Russia after sixI
weeks of Big Four Foreign Minis-
ters' talks at Geneva on Germany's
future.
Will Shun Conference
President Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Herter said, will continue to shun
any summit conference with So-
viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
until some degree of progress is
recorded in lower-level talks.
"Regretfully no such progress
has yet been registered at Geneva,"
Herter said. Aiming his words
directly at Moscow, the Secretary
said the critical question is wheth-
er Russia willpersist in a deter-
mination to 'annex West Berlin'
with its 21 million free Germans.
If so, he said, no agreement is
possible with the Kremlin."
"However, if the Soviets do not
hold to this annexationist design,
we should be able to reach agree-
ment on Berlin consistent with the
honor and interest of all our coun-
tries," he said.
Made Appeal
Herter appealed to Khrushchev
to give "serious second thought"
to Western proposals for unifying
Germany. Moscow has turned
these down, he said, with "upside-
down talk" without even consider-
ing them as a basis for discussion.
Herter blamed Khrushchev for
turning the Geneva talks into a
futile exercise by his frequent
speeches reiterating Soviet threats
against the West.
"While the foreign ministers
were negotiating," he said, "the
baneful influence of statements
outside the conference by Khrush-
chev was clearly felt.
'U', R
URussian
Series Set
"The Challenge of Soviet Ex-
pansion" will be the theme of a
series of six lectures to be pre-
sented during the summer ses-
sion.
Sponsored by the Committee on
the Program on Russian Studies
and the Summer Session, the
series will open with James P.
Grant, deputy director for pro-
gram and planning of the Inter-
national Cooperation Administra-
tion.
Grant, a former chief of the
ICA mission in Ceylon, will talk
on "The Impact of Soviet Foreign
Aid on United States Policy" on
July 2.
To Speak Here
Joseph S. Berliner of Syracuse
University's economic department,
will discuss "The Characteristics
of the Soviet Aid Program" July
9. He is the author of "Soviet
Economic Aid."
Robert R. Bowie, director of
Harvard's Center for Inter-
tional Affairs will speak on
"America's Responsibilities to the
Soviet Challenge" July 16. He is
former chairman of the United
States State Department's Policy
Planning Staff.
"Sense and Nonsense About
Dr. Zhivago" will be the subject
of a supplementary lecture de-
livered by Prof. Gleb Struve of
the University of California's Rus-
sian department. He is the author
of "Soviet Russian Literature,
1917-1950."
Connecticut congressman Ches-
ter Bowles, former governor of
Connecticut and former ambassa-
dor to India will speak on "The
Future of the East-West Conflict"
July 23. He is author of "Am-
bassador's Report."
"The Political and Economic
Strength of the Soviet Union," a
speech by Harry Schwartz, will
conclude the series July 29.
Schwartz is Soviet affairs special-
ist for The New York Times and
author of "Russia's Soviet Econ-
omy."
year.
Lansing observers and corres-
pondents forecast similar action
in the House next week.
Aid to Salaries
Vice-President and Dean of
Faculties Marvin L. Niehuss said
the appropriation would be a
"shot in the arm" for faculty sal-
aries.
"Substantial adjustments for
teaching faculty and also non-
academic salary areas" would be.
provided, he predicted.
Staff salaries had been labelled
"high priority" by University offi-
cials, particularly since job offers
to faculty from industry and oth-
er schools have mounted steadily
over the past months.
Request Cut
The proposed sum would con-
tribute little or no improvement
in non-salary areas, Niehuss said.
The University had originally re-
quested a total budget of $39.2
million.
Restrictions in plant, equip-
ment, and grounds maintenance
would have to be continued, Nie-
huss said, as under the Univer-
sity's present austerity budget of
$30 million.
Niehuss praised the Senate's
"recognition of the need" for an
Institute of Science and Tech-1
nology. for which $500,000 would
be appropriated.
One other University segment
tentatively benefitted by $130,000
yesterday as the Senate sent on
Bonus
LANSING (A) -- Cash crisis
or no cash crisis, House mem-
bers voted themselves a 50
per cent pay increase yester-
day.
If the Senate approves, law-
makers will collect $6,000 a
yearstarting in January, 1961,
"We're not adequately paid
for the services we render,"
Rep. Joseph 1. Jackson (D-
Highland Park), who led the
move, said.
to the House a mental health. ap-
propriation of $70.8 million and
a public health appropriation of
$16.1 million.
Add to Bill
Grouped as a line item in the
mental health bill which passed
the Senate 29-2 were the Neuro-
psychiatric Institute, Children's
Hospital, and Mental Health Re-
search.
In floor action the three units
received a budget raise to $2,000,-
000 compared to the $1,870,000
listed in the bill.
T h e S e n a t e Appropriations
committee is still considering the
sum to be distributed for capital
outlay to the state's schools and
colleges.
The group may report out an
appropriation of between $10-15
million, observers speculate with
the University receiving perhaps
$2-5 million for new building.
AT LYDIA MENDELSSOHN:
'Boy Friend' To Open Playbill Tonight
The speech department's play-
:> 'bill, Summer '59, opens at 8 p.m.
today with a production of "The
Boy Friend."
Sandy Wilson's spoof on the
cliches and boop-boop-a-doop
r x spirit of musical comedies in the
roaring twenties will be produced
each evening through Saturday
at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
In contrast to the light-hearted
gaiety of "The Boy Friend," the
speech department's second play
will be John Osborne's "Look
Back in Anger," a portrayal of
youth's disillusionment with the
ugliness of the world today. It is
scheduled for presentation at 8
p.m. July 8 to 11.
"The Rivals," Richard Brinsley
Sheridan's comedy of manners
and double identity, will appear
next in the series of four plays
and an opera, going before audi-
ences July 15 to 18. Jean Anou-
hilh's cynical farce, "Waltz of the
}.Toreadors," follows on July 29
to Aug. 1.
Completing the summer playbill
will be a production of Verdi's
"Rigoletto," presented jointly by
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PROF. JOHN BRUBACHER
... discusses liberal arts
Liberal Arts
Study Urged,
Practical studies and a liberal
education should go "hand in
hand" in universities, Prof. John
Brubacher of the Center of High-
er Education said yesterday.
Speaking at the first annual
Institute on College and Univer-
sity Administration, Prof. Bru-
bacher rejected the idea that
liberal and practical studies be
sealed from each other to prevent
one from contaminating the
other.
"Each can benefit the other,"
he asserted.
He suggested practical studies
should be taught in as liberal a
spirit as possible, adding that
professional and technological
studies might have a great deal
to gain from this approach.
Asks Emphasis
"Liberal studies, too, can be
enriched by being given concrete
and specific emphasis," he ex-
plained. "It is doubtful that con-
cepts can be learned meaning-
fully' withoutreference to the
concrete realities of life."
He stressed that a student
learns the liberal arts "not only
by example but by exercise," the
exercise giving a feeling for the
subject matter involved.
Prof. Brubacher pointed out
that a student -need not become
.expert in the practice of an art
,to enrich his liberal education.
Narrowness Bad
"He should aim at becoming a
good artist, but not too good. To
become expert is too likely to
lead to narrow specialization
which endangers general or lib-
eral education."
However, this is no justifica-
tion for the "gentleman's C,"
Prof. Brubacher said.
"For one thing, it contradicts
Aristotle's claim that the good
life is the intellectual life. While
there are limits at which the stu-
dent should stop in building com-
petence in the fine technological
arts, there are none in developing
excellence in the liberal arts.
Prof. Brubacher argued that
specialization in the liberal arts.
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