-Lee Sheppeard-
Ideal One Thing Practice Another
The weekly magazine School and Society reports signs of a "Gentleman's Agreement" within scientific, academic circles. The writer, F. L. Marcuse, tells the following story:
"An opening for an instructor existed (in psychology) and applications and credentials were received from a number of candidates. One letter of recommendation from the chairman of a department in a prominent university, read as follows:
"Such an incident," says Marcuse, is not unique." The person who wrote the letter, defending himself, said later, "Be damned if you do and be damned if you don't. . . I have been told in the past month by two department chairmen that they did not want me to recommend a Jew to them—orally, of course."
"... is also an excellent candidate for the position. He is an outstanding effective teacher, organizing his lectures and demonstrations extremely well . . . He is, indeed, a first-rate man. His handicap is that he is Jewish, which isn't his fault, but he is a generally polite and pleasant person and has few if any of the characteristics ascribed to his race.'
Marcuse concludes that "psychologists and social scientists more than others are in a position to realize that though they personally may be against discrimination . . . their practice may still abet it."
Enrollment Down
College enrollment this year will be down about 275,000, according to the United States Office of Education. It's estimated there will be about 2.3 million college students in 1951-52.
The decrease is far less than educators feared last spring. It is caused by the diminishing number of veterans and the increasing number of college-age draftees.
But the New York Times points out that many reservists and draftees returning to civilian life may be expected to enroll in colleges sometime this year.
And if a new G.I. educational bill is passed (it's now up before congress), college enrollments will show a marked increase. The Times feels the enrollment drop will not seriously affect the overall college picture.
"But," says the Times, "it will add greatly to the financial strain that so many of the colleges—particularly the small, independent liberal arts institutions—are now undergoing. Large numbers of these colleges will be forced to operate on a deficit, and they may also be forced to lower their academic standards."
(Last February it was reported in the Collegiate Press Review that 750 small colleges are on the financial "sick list.")
Joe Taylor
taylor made
We didn't understand why the senior law students carried canes until we remembered the old saying, "Justice is blind."
The safety council's release telling that a large number of auto accidents are caused by repeaters leads us to comment that the reckless driving problem cannot be solved in a single sentence.
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More Progress In 4 Years
Dear Sir:
May I add a word or two in modification of the Kansan's fine summary of the talk on Basic India?
My point really was not that the British government had gone too far in introducing modern agricultural methods to rural India, but that political and other preoccupations had debarred them from adequate industrial and agricultural planning.
Foreign rulers cannot help being guided by their limited interests, and in the best of circumstances the limitations of their own national experience and initiative are a deferent factor. India, with its tremendous need for industrial progress, found itself fettered by a government which lacked the will, the imagination, and also that identification with the people that only a national government can bring.
The foreign government, moreover, did not possess the technical resources and advanced ideas which. for instance, a great and continental country like the U.S.A. has evolved on fields and farms, comparable to India both in extent and in the complexity of varying conditions.
India, therefore, has swung more rapidly towards planned industrialization in the last four years and achieved more progress than she did in the last fifty years before attainment of freedom. Partly this is due to new knowledge and contact with a wider world, and partly to the fact that India is now free to develop her resources and raise the standard of agrarian communities.
As to caste, there are hardly any advocates excepting a few atavists and Hindu reactionaries; on the other side is the national government itself, and the millions who are pledged to obliterate that evil system.
But your reporter, if I may say so, has illumined the basic point. Whether in the domain of industrial recovery or of far-reaching social legislation, a country can only make genuine progress in terms of its own background of historical experience and culture, and in free cooperation with an international world.
Amiya Chakravarty
News From Other Campuses
Bartenders at the famous University of Wisconsin Rathskeller have been warned, says the DAILY CAR-DINAL, that they will be held personally responsible for selling beer to persons under 18. The warning came about after two young men were arrested on charges of procuring beer for a minor.
The MICHIGAN STATE NEWS tells of the housing problem of the Delta Gamma sorority. Because their new house was not ready, the DG's have been living in quonset huts. Most of the girls' comments centered around having their shower more than two blocks away, meeting and saying goodbye to their dates at the union, and eating all their meals out.
The Women's Recreation association at Oregon State has announced a program entitled "Life Goes to an Amazonian Review." Its purpose, according to the DAILY BAROMETER, is to acquaint new students with the activities of the women's physical education department.
The five CCNY basketball players involved last spring in the point-fixing racket have applied for readmission, announces THE CAMPUS. No action will be taken until the court cases involving the former students have been settled.
An instructor in home economics at the University of Oklahoma says that the coeds on that campus are wearing longer skirts than fashion dictates. In an article in the OKLA-HOMA DAILY, she explains that this is probably the result of reports that Paris fashions included longer skirts. This was true but until now the Parisian styles have been several inches shorter.
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A book designed to give high school seniors an understanding of the courses at the University of Nebraska has recently been published, announces the DAILY NEBRASKAN. Entitled "Look at Your Career," it presents a factual survey of the types of training available at the university.
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News Roundup
Tuesday, Oct. 9, 1951
Egypt Scraps Treaty Orders British Out
London—(U.P.)Britain planned a last-ditch effort today to save its Suez canal bastion amid mounting indications that its entire Middle East defense system might cave in.
Winston Churchill warned today that Egypt's decision to scrap the 1936 treaty and eject British troops from the Suez base was "even more grave and injurious" than Britain's evacuation last week from its oil empire in Iran.
The foreign office said there is still time to negotiate differences before the Egyptian parliament acts. Egyptian officials said contrarily the door to further negotiations has been slammed shut.
Iran Pledges No Red Deal
New York—(U.P.)-Hossein Fatemi, vice premier of Iran, pledged today that his country's oil will not fall into Soviet hands because of the dispute which Britain has brought to the United Nations. Fatemi said in an exclusive interview: "Britain has sought to spread false propaganda that Iran will fall or be pushed into the Soviet orbit if her demands are not satisfied. I do not think the National Front Movement (the Government party) will go along with any 'international movement.' We are not going to marry whoever says hello to us."
Reds Halt U.S. Advance
Eighth Army Headquarters, Korea—(U.P.)—Reds battled attacking U.S. troops to a standstill on two vital ridgelines in East-Central Korea today.
The heaviest fighting was above Yanggu on the East-Central front, where U.S. troops were trying to break through the enemy's "little Siegfried line." Other troops charged stubborn North Korean Reds with fixed bayonets on "Kim Il Sung Ridge," named for the North Korean premier and commander in chief.
Chiang Warns Of Red Threat
Taipeh, Formosa—(U.R.)-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek said tonight that more than 71 million Chinese on the mainland had lost their lives or had been made homeless during the last year under Communist rule.
The Nationalist leader, delivering a message to the Chinese people on the 40th anniversary of National Independence, warned that the Chinese Communists on orders from Moscow were about to move into Indo-China.
Royal Pair Begins Tour
Quebec City—(U.P.)—Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh today formally began their royal tour of the ten Canadian provinces.
The Princess and the Duke, the first British royalty to visit this hub of French Canada in 12 years, began their 35-day state visit at historic Wolfe's cove. The Princess faced a heavy schedule of 11 major appearances before leaving tonight for Ottawa.
Law Raids Slot Machines
The mop-up of gambling devices in Kansas continued unabated. Law officers staged the latest raids at Hutchinson Monday. They seized 25 machines in 17 public places.
In announcing the raids Attorney General Harold Fatzer reiterated his promise to stamp out the operation of gambling devices in the state. "The raids were made on machines in public places," he said. "If either of the anti-slot machine bills introduced in the 1951 legislature had been passed we would have been rid of them much sooner."
Barkley Urges Party Stand
Los Angeles—(U.P.)—Vice-president Alben W. Barkley addressing Democrats Monday from 11 Western states at a $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner, urged them to stand squarely on the "magnificent record of performance" of the Truman administration.
Some party members assumed that his statements, in which he used the word, "we," meant that he and President Truman would be the Democratic candidates again in 1952. But in Chicago this morning Barkley said he did not mean to imply that.
"When I said that 'we' would stand on our record, I meant the Democratic party," Barkley said.