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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 30, 1955
Architecture Trends Called 'Intellectual, Instinctive'
“There are two major approaches to architecture, the intellectual and the instinctive.” Brock Hamacher, architecture instructor, told the Graduate Club last night. “At this time in history both trends are running concurrently.”
Mr. Hamacher defined the real essence of architecture as an enclosure of space and described architects as "genii trying to pull us out of the mire."
"Greek architecture is the classic example of the intellectual approach to architecture," he said.
Intellectual architecture is characterized by its dogma, geometrical forms and required rules, he explained.
Instinctive architecture, using the slogan, "form follows function," is more organic, more personal, Mr. Hamacher said. "Your intuition carries you forward to develop the enclosure."
"Leaves, vines, fruit, and trees influence forms" and are tied into the design, he added. The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright exemplifies the philosophy of this trend in America. He ties in his buildings to their surroundings with the idea of "living in nature."
The intellectual outlook is better expressed by "looking out on nature," Mr. Hamacher said. The three major classic exponents
Greek Student Speaks On Turk-Greco Issue
Views about the conflicting issue in Cyprus will be heard at a meeting of the International Commission of the YMCA and YWCA at 7:30 p.m. today in the Student Union Pine Room.
Speaking to the group about the Cyprus issue will be Evangelos Kalambokidis, Greek graduate student. A discussion session will follow the speech.
Students and faculty are invited to the meeting.
are Mies van der Rohe, a Dutch German; Walter Gropius, a German, and Le Corbusier, a Frenchman. The first two are now connected with American universities.
Mr. Hamacher said at the turn of the century Eclecticism reigned, "with a reign of terror." Buildings were constructed in all the styles of the past, or in combinations of them. It was at that time that the present forms of the two approaches to architecture began to develop.
No Student Pays Full Cost Of Education, Survey Shows
NEW YORK (I.P.)—No student or his family ever pays the full cost of his college education.
If he attends a state university for example, the taxpayers of the state foot a good part of the bill.
If he attends an independent, privately supported college or a university, its friends past and present pay a good part of his expenses, by way of accumulated gifts for capital or for current operating use.
These facts, long known to presidents and boards of trustees responsible for the conduct of colleges and universities, are underscored by the results of a survey conducted during 1954 by the Council for Financial Aid to Education. In analyzing all data from the survey, including operating costs and student fees, the Council divided the 753 responding colleges and universities into nine logical categories
During the five year period 1948-49 to 1953-54, institutions in all nine of these groups increased their average charges for student tuition and fees. Among 184 nondenominational, independent, liberal arts colleges the average rise was 24 per cent, from $441 to $549. On the other hand, between 1947-48 and 1952-53 the average cost, among this group, of operations per full-time student rose by 46 per cent, from $726 to $1,060. The cost per student to the institution, above his payments, rose by an even steeper 98 per cent, from $201 to $397.
This same trend holds among the other eight groups of colleges and universities which took part in the CFAE survey last year. In each category tuition and fees were
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increased, but the cost of operations per student outrun these increases; and, in all except one category, the cost per student, above his payments, went up by a still higher percentage. The highest average cost of operations per student was $1,065, among the 80 reporting professional and technological schools.
Privately supported colleges and universities attach increasing importance to the annual giving by alumni. The amount varies, of course, from institution to institution. Seattle Pacific College reports that it has to raise $100 a year a student from sources other than the tuition of $320 paid by each student. Yale College has to provide $1,050 a year for each student, above his tuition payments. So the amounts that graduates of these—and other—colleges may feel moved to repay over the years range between $400 (Seattle Pacific) and $4,200 (Yale).
Yale To Change Study Program
Completes MP Course
2nd Lt. Thomas L. Richmond, '55, has completed the military police officers basic course at Camp Gordon, Ga. Lt. Richmond majored in political science and was commissioned in the Military Police Corps immediately after graduation.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (I.P.)—A major change in the study program of Yale undergraduates in the arts and sciences will start next year.
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The first basic change in Yale's study program since 1946 is aimed at reviving the interest of students in academic work.
The plan would require sophomores at Yale to continue the work started in their freshman year, and would organize the curriculum into three basic areas of natural sciences and mathematics, history, and social sciences, and the arts, instead of along the departmental lines. The other plan recommended elimination of standard courses, and substitution of seminars organized on the basis of extensive reading lists.
The basic features of the new course of study approved by the faculty are:
The student in his sophomore year will begin to work in an area of concentration where it is hoped he will find his major work for the final two years and at the same time will complete the program by which students are introduced to the basic fields.
Students in their last two years and a limited number of sophomores will be eligible for participation in a new-interdepartmental honors program which will emphasize seminars and comprehensive examinations rather than formal courses.
For students planning to enter Yale, the faculty committee tried to outline as specifically as possible the most desirable college preparatory program; recommended a system of credits whereby students might use work done in secondary school to hurdle college distributional requirements and progress immediately to advanced courses, and drew up a plan to offer college credit for work done in secondary school to students whose performance in the freshman year showed promise of their entrance records.
4 Engineers Chosen As 'Men Of Marvin'
Four engineering students were honored in the November issue of the Kansas Engineering School magazine.
Chosen as "Men of Marvin" were Lee Breckenridge, Norton senior; Jack Abercrombie, Beloit junior; John Kane, Bartlesville, Okla., senior; and Jim Adams, Lawrence senior.
The students were chosen by the Kansas Engineer governing board. In each issue of the magazine in November, January, March, and May, four students will be chosen for the honor.
Halley's comet was last seen by Sir Edmund Halley in 1682 and he predicted its reappearance in 1758, having calculated that it would take 76 years for it to travel its orbit.
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Mouse Records May Provide Sex Determination Basis
Mouse records someday may provide a basis for human sex determination. That's the opinion of Dr. J. A. Weir, associate professor of zoology, whose IBM machines have kept mouse records for the past five years.
For a research project supported by the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. Weir has accumulated 2,000 mice in his Snow Hall laboratory. Each animal has a card stating its number, pedigree and other vital statistics. Each mouse also may be identified by a toe-clipping system.
Dr. Weir is studying the role of heredity in disease resistance.
Dr. Weir has narrowed his problem to an examination of sperm development. From crosses, it was determined that mothers had no influence on the proportion of males and females. This led to an investigation of the father, with the finding that the two kinds of sperm do not occur in equal numbers, as has always been assumed.
What started out as a problem in explaining why some strains of mice and people are hardier than others has developed two other problems. One concerns the inheritance of white blood cells, and the other—unequal numbers of males and females born.
The new project came about because a strain of mice bred by Dr. Weir to have a high degree of alkalinity in the blood produced more males, and a strain of low-alkaline mice produced more females.
The popular theory that pre-natal deaths account for unusual sex ratios will be exploded if Dr. Weir can prove his finding.
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The booklet traces the history of the Board of Health from 1885 to 1952. It's the fifth contribution of the center toward its long range goal of presenting an administrative history of every major state agency.
Miss Pfister now is employed by the department of public health at Harvard University, and is studying the public health progress of other countries.
Miss Harriet Pfister, former research assistant at the University Governmental Research Center, is the author of "Kansas State Board of Health," the latest publication in governmental research series.
Students Discuss Role Of Ministers
Students representing five religious denominations discussed the place of the minister in the different denominations at a meeting of pre-theological students last night in the Student Union.
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The meeting was followed by a social hour.
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