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CLEVELAND, O.—Case Institute of Technology will award college credit to high school students on the sole basis of a grade achieved on the Advanced Placement Examinations of the College Entrance Examination Board, according to an announcement by Dean of Instruction Karl B. McEachron Jr.
Under the new policy adopted by the Case faculty for Advanced Placement, a student enrolled in such a program in high school can take an examination prepared by the CEEB which may determine his college standing in certain courses.
Upon application, Case will grant a full year's credit in several freshman subjects to students who demonstrate proficiency by receiving an acceptable score on the examinations. Credit will be given for first year chemistry, composition, mathematics and physics provided the potential student has received a creditable score.
MADISON, Wis.—The University of Wisconsin faculty recently voted to retain its present physical education requirements but to provide periodic tests that will exempt from the compulsory features of the program those students who reach the desired level of proficiency.
The faculty action was in line with a majority recommendation from a special faculty Committee on Physical Education which undertook a year-long study of the requirements. Wisconsin men must take a year of physical education, women two years, unless they are excused for medical or other specified reasons. A minority report from the special committee recommended that physical education be compulsory for only six to eight weeks with only those needing remedial work required to continue.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—What our colleges and universities need is less "lecturing" by professors and more "self-motivated" study by students, according to Dr. Richard F. Reath of the Occidental College political science department.
"There are few principles better known theoretically, but less observed in practice, than that self-motivation will unleash the potential in every student," Dr. Reath said. Instead of drawing out student potential, "professors have fallen into the habit of doing the work students should be done."
He suggested one reason for this may be that it is "easier for the professor to give a lecture than to exercise the imagination and ingenuity required to motivate students." Another may be that "students and faculty alike are prisoners of our training, which has been greatly influenced by the German method of professor oriented classes."
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The Distinction
Democracy:
A government of the masses.
Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.
Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is communistic—negating property rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
Republic:
Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure.
Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.
Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.
(Quoted from a United States Army "Citizenship" training manual withdrawn by FDR in 1938 in Human Events, Oct. 20, 1961, p. 627.)
Worth Repeating
One can hardly resist the fantasy of shuffling the elements or some of the schools. Birmingham-Southern could learn from some of Brooklyn College's intellectually bellicose kids, just as Brooklyn could profit from BSC's relaxed rhythms. Wisconsin's hurly-burly of farmer's sons and storekeeper's daughters might dilute Harvard's tendency toward preciousness. There should be an infusion of Claremont's rugged optimism about higher education in boards of trustees all around the country.-David Boroff
The best American designs have the solid, powerful, tidy, everything-in-place, nothing-superfluous quality of an old sailing ship . . . Another American look is the "Detroit" look. These designers have turned to the development of motorized jewelry, which has not only obscured the fundamental form of the automobile, but has begun to infect other types of products. To see what I mean, visit your local appliance dealer; many of the refrigerators and washing machines give you the feeling that you can drive them away.— Henry Dreyfuss
Audrey Hepburn plays a vivid role in her characterization of Holly Golighly in Martin Jurow and Richard Shepard's production of "Breakfast at Tiffany's," now playing at the Granada theatre through Friday.
At the Movies
By Steve Clark
Holly is a frustrated girl who lives in an exquisite apartment with a feline she calls "Cat." She lives luxuriously because of girls from male admirers who give her "50 dollars for the powder room."
GEORGE PEPPARD, Miss Hepburn's co-star, plays a hack writer, Paul Varjack, who lives on the subsidies of wealthy women. His one novel, "Nine Lives," was a bust and he has written nothing in six years.
Holly was not always a New York social charmer. She was a farm girl at the age of 14 trying to raise a family that wasn't hers and a brother she adored, Fred.
Varjack meets Holly when he moves into the same apartment house. At their first meeting the two are attracted to each other, but Holly is afraid of a serious relationship. She feigns a wild, restless person who refuses to believe that people can marry and be happy. She tries to explain to Varjack that "people don't belong to people."
In her search for a millionaire circumstance betrays her every time. She is prepared to fly to Brazil for a "proposed" marriage with whom she terms "the next president of Brazil."
This does not materialize when she becomes involved in a vicious scandal because of a man she used to visit in prison for 100 dollars per visit.
WHEN SHE AND PAUL become implicated they realize that "people do belong to people."
Tuesday, Jan. 9, 1962 University Daily Kansan Page 3
Providing background for the exquisitely photographed production on location in New York City is Henry Mancini's "Moon River."
At dramatic intervals throughout the pictures the music fades in with this romantic theme.
The picture changes moods rapidly from ones of seriousness to humor. Mike Rooney demonstrates his versatility as an actor in the role of a Japanese apartment house manager, Mr. Yunioshi, who can not stand the slightest noise.
ROONEY PLAYS the role with "buck teeth" and all. He is a nervous individual who gets "shook" easily. In one segment he steps out of his apartment to reprimand Holly in Japanese for her noise. He turns around to head into his apartment and runs into the door.
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" is a captivating picture. The viewer can never tell what might happen next and remains in suspense as Holly and Paul search for the real meaning of life.
The setting, the skyscrapers of New York, is appealing, the photography is acute, the plot suspenseful, the music magnificent. The combination of these make "Breakfast at Tiffany's" one of the year's top motion pictures, and one you won't want to miss.
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By Martina Eissenstat Assistant Instructor of English
FIFTY GREAT POETS, edited by Milton Crane. Bantam Classics, 95 cents.
"Fifty Great Poets" fills a need in anthologies. Most anthologies become specialized by either period or country. There is modern poetry, Elizabethan, Victorian, American, classical and so on. "Fifty Great Poets" cuts across this specialization and presents poets as diverse as Homer and Lorca, Burns and Baudelaire. In one convenient inexpensive volume one can thumb through the complete "Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale" by Chaucer, Book I of the "Iliad" by Homer, Book I of the "Aeneid" by Virgil and "The Song of Songs."
The latter is probably the most welcome addition to the book, for its presence emphasizes the most notable effect the book has: a reaffirmation of the tremendous scope of poetry. From perhaps the greatest love poem in the world which appears in the Bible, one can flip to the modern bitterly ironic poem "The Ruined Maid" by the skeptic Thomas Hardy or the religious "God's Grandeur" by the poet-priest Gerald Manley Hopkins or to the seventeenth century "The Collar" by the metaphysical poet George Herbert.
IF THE EMPHASIS IN SELECTION can be said to be on anything, it is on romance or poems of a lighter sort. The general impression one gets is that poems are written about the lighter aspects of life. In addition to "The Song of Songs" (chosen instead of say "Ecclesiastes" or the "Book of Job"), there are love poems of Catullus and Ovid, and the lush, sensual "Hero and Leander" by Marlowe. The Chaucer section contains the boistrous Wife of Bath's description of her escapades, instead of the "Pardoner's Tale" or "The Prioress's." Notably the Spenser choices are the marriage poem "Epithalamion" and the love sonnets "Amoretti" instead of sections from "The Faerie Queene."
One noticeable advantage of the book is the attempt to represent as many complete poems or divisions of poems as possible within the limited scope. One noticeable omission—Early Anglo Saxon or early medieval poetry such as "Beowulf" and "Sir Gawain and the Greene Knight"; by these omissions we do not have any example of the romance or of alliterative verse. (A possible explanation for this omission might possibly be that the authors of these early epics are unknown, but even so without "Beowulf" the book does not somehow seem completely representative of what poetry can be.
THE TRANSLATIONS are particularly delightful. Although they may not always be the best translations (Rolpe Humphries translations of the Latin rank high in modern translations), they are unique in that almost every one of the translations has been done by some major poet. Rilke is translated by Stephen Spender, Catullus by Thomas Campion, Ben Jonson, Coleridge, Swift, Cowley and Walter Savage Landor. Dryden translates Vergil, and along with Milton, and Pope, Horace and Arnold—Christopher Marlowe translates Ovid. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Elza Pound take a crack at Heine. Some noted translators are represented—Rolfe Humphries translates Loreca, and Gilbert Highet, many of the classical poets. I do not think Chaucer needs to be translated in order to be enjoyed, but the editor compensates by giving at least one short section of Chaucer in the original.
The book is a good buy.
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By Calder M. Pickett Professor of Journalism
GREAT PRESIDENTIAL DECISIONS, edited by Richard B. Morris. Premier (Fawcett), 95 cents.
Richard B. Morris, in assembling this volume of state documents, took care to present not just speeches and statements of literary and statesmanship value but speeches that, in some way, changed the course of history. So there is a running story of the presidency and what it has meant to the men who have occupied that office.
The story starts with Washington's decision to put down the whiskey insurrection, and it continues with Washington's enunciation of American position-to-be in the world—the famous farewell address.
We see in these pages why certain presidents are numbered today among the greats, because they took actions that made them leaders, instead of followers, of public opinion. Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory though he doubted his constitutional right to do so. Jackson beat down the nullifiers and ended the National Bank. Polk sent us to war against Mexico. Lincoln acted to preserve the union and to free the slaves. McKinley called for a declaration of war against Spain (though his reluctance to do so was obvious). Roosevelt busted the trusts.
WILSON'S STATE PAPERS ARE THOSE WHICH SENT US to war, enunciated the Fourteen Points, and fought for the League of Nations. Franklin D. Roosevelt set the nation upon a new course in economic affairs, Truman launched containment of communism, and Eisenhower set down the need for world disarmament.
There are negative documents, too—Buchanan's decision to admit Kansas as a slave state and his considered opinion that he could not halt secession. Taft is here as the president who supported a high tariff. This is an important volume that should be in the library of every University student interested in history and its meanings—and that should include all of them.