Wednesday; March 5, 1958 < THE ‘COLLEGE NEWS: Page Three Allport, Harvard Psychologist, Speaks On Problem of Uniqueness, Uniformity The fourth in the series of lec- tures on the subject “Goals and Philosophy of Higher Education”, sponsored by the William J. Cooper -Foundation, was held last Sunday night at the Friends Meeting Héuse, Swarthmore College. The speaker, Gordon Allport, Professor of Psychology at Harvard Univer- sity, chose as his topic “Unique- ness and Uniformity, The Dilemma of the Educator and the Psycholo- gist”’, Dr. Allport began his lecture by making a distinction between edu- cation and higher education. His differentiation was between prim- ary.and secondary and college ed- ucation. After stating that the goal of higher education is the transmission of culture, Dr. All- . port said that the function of high- er education is to inspect and crit- icize, to improve and increase cul- ture. When it was discovered that people who went to college had more self-assurance and prestige than those who did not do so, more people went to college. Colleges then in some instances ceased to serve their higher purpose of in- tellectual development and began to teach more subjects of a “prac- tical” nature. In that case, higher education is the. placed in jeopardy. The aim of the college today is to foster self development, Dr, All- port continued. Their emphasis is no longer on culture, but on,the individual student. The striving should not be for mass education but for that of single individuals. In discussing methods of educa- tion Dr. Allport asserted the poor results of the practice of teaching by compulsion. The main disadvan- tage is that it closes the mind to new ideas. The only possible achievement is at best inert knowl- edge. The main needs of students in higher education, according. to Dr. Allport, are precision, disci- pline and efficiency. One of the most important aims of education is nourishing the “growing edge” all along the edu- cational career of the student. In answering his own proposed question regarding the méans by which the college may lead stu- dents into the creative elite, Dr. Allport went into the means of “sorting” out students. Since child- ren differ, however, and are more complex than adults in regard to intelligence, interests and -other factors, there are many unfavor- able consequences to _ classified “sorting.” Dr. Allport believes that education stops short of doing its job if the self of the individual is not brought into view. The unmotivated, the student who is sent to college, the gifted student and the authoritarian stu- dent are four classifications of stu- dents discussed by Dr. Allport in regard to the “sorting” plan. ‘Dr. Allport concluded his lecture by stating that no college should try to be all things to all appli- cants and that the goal should. be a general education and the ap- preciation of ideas. Basketball Last Wednesday, February 26th, Bryn Mawr met Chestnut Hill for two games on our home court. The varsity got off to an early lead and stayed ahead all the way for a victory of 85-25. Barbara Reid was the high-scorer with a total of sixteen points, Her foul shot percentage was remarkable as she scored. fourteen times out of fifteen attempts. It is a real plea- sure to record such an average as Bryn Mawr has often lost as many as fifteen or twenty points on foul shots missed. The junior varsity game ended in a 24-24 tie. Bryn Mawr had led all the way with Debbie Smith the high-scorer of eleven points. In the closing sec- onds of the game a Chestnut Hill forward proved the importance of making free shots good by putting in two foul shots to tie the game. - It was wa 1088 THE COCA-COLA COmPany, sad... when that great ship went down and the last thing to leave the sinking ship was 'a bottle of Coca-Cola. That’s because all hands stuck to Coke to the end. Now there’s » |popularity! That’s the kind of loyalty the sparkling lift, the good taste of Coke engenders. Man the lifeboats, have a Coke! SIGN OF GOOD TASTE Bottled under authority of The Coca-Cola Company by Report on Summer Jobs Continues; Employment. Runs Gamut From Art To Touring Foreign Students Ed. note. This is the second in a series which has expanded to three articles concerning the op- portunities for summer employ- ment. by Miriam. Beames Marty Fuller.’58 spent a month of her summer as a chaperone for a bus load of foreign exchange students under the American Field Service...Although she found the trip exhausting, Marty had a mar- velous time touring the South with with her thirty-five charges, whom she considers “terrific individuals,” much more mature than American high schoo] seniors. The trip was planned so that the buses spent two nights and one day in each community, with a chairman (usually a member of Rotary, or a school teacher, but at the University of Virginia the head of the Foreign Relations De- partment) to plan the day’s acti- vities and final\ accommodations wtih families at every stop. The students saw monuments’ at Gettysburg, visited the Cumber- land Caverns, toured a steel mill in Birmingham (where they had a police escort with sirens), watched a donkey baseball game, held con- ferences, including ‘a discussion on segregation, and ended up in Washington, where Marty took the French students to the French em- bassy and met the President on the White House lawn. Apart from keeping track of their students, the chaperones help introduce the “American Field Service’s exchange program to new communities with speeches by the students or exhibitions of ther native dances; they also handle the trip’s budget. Although there is no salary, the chaperones’ expenses are fully paid. A chaperon must be twenty-one, have had some experience with people, and know about the Amer- ican Field Service program in general. In Marty’s case, the trip provided an excellent follow-up to her previous summer’s experience as a worker in a boys’ club in a London slum. Advertising Art : Although she had already found a job through her father, Cathy Lucas ’61 decided to find out if there is room for young artists in advertising agencies, She proceed- Are you a clock watcher? Make sure the clock you watch has the right time. Have your timepiece checked at Bryn Maw | Walter J. Cook ed by visiting those in Charlotte, N, Cy, (where she lives), and tak- ing with her a folio of her work. The results were encouraging: her only experience had been teaching sketching in a camp, but one agency was willing to hire her. Cathy feels that many agencies will take young people if they are artistic and willing to work for several summers; the field is open, and there is demand for new talent, willing to work up from appren- ticeship. Starting at the bottom of the ladder, Cathy worked a forty-hour week at a dollar an hour, earning about $470 in almost three months. Her first work was “drawing straight lines with a ruler”, keep- ing files, and other miscellaneous office jobs, but gradually she learn- ed to use the tools of the trade (inking pens, slide rules), was al- lowed to ink in letters and then work up ad lay-outs from a rough sketch. By the end of the summer she could occasionally produce the final art and retouch photographs. Though much of the work was ted- ious, Cathy found the variety of tasks interesting, and the atmos- phere most congenial. Money Via Sweaters For the sheer excitement of earning MONEY fast, Dede Shef- field ’58 beat everybody else by making $495 plus a sweater in four days. It all started when she visited a sweater showing at Aiken, S. C., and found that the maker wanted an agent to sell them in Fisher’s Island and South- ampton during the summer. Dede wrote, landed the job, and soon received trunks containing “two hundred sweaters (cashmeres hand decorated with antique lace, Victorian piano covers, and other oddments gathered all over the world). The sweaters were to sell at $150, of which Dede retained a $45 commission; all the details of advertising, finding a room, and exhibiting the merchandise were left up to her. As a result of poor publicity, she only sold thirteen sweaters, but intends to resume her job next summer with greater suc- cess. Chem Technicians As Chemistry majors, Margaret Hall and Ginger Fonda (both ’59) found jobs as chemical technicians —Margaret with the U. S. Naval TYPEWRITERS Sold — Rented — Repaired All Makes Suburban Typewriter Co. 39 E. Lancaster Ave. Ardmore MI 2-1378 a | t re c a“ vi ey, ST tae political science. @ Workshop courses with experts from the industry. @ Apprentice training in New York boo publishing houses. @ M.A. Degree @ Limited to thirty students. o. 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But there were two positive results of the summer: she decided definitely to teach rather than be- come a chemist, and she earned an above-average salary. Ginger, on the other hand, en- joyed testing Fizzies for their as- corbic acid and carbon dioxide content and considered the exper- ience valuable to a chem major. The main difference between her job and Margaret’s was that she worked in a small, friendly lab with ultra-modern equipment, had time to learn about the other lab workers’ experiments, and under- stood the whole process of produc- ing a Fizzie. e Alliance. by Gail Beckman Some girls talking to the Alli- ance candidates the other night commented that they had not heard enough about the confer- ences at other colleges. These are some of those to which we have been invited, Each Sunday night at 8:15 in March, a lecture on the Goals of Higher Education is given at Swarthmore. Also in the neighborhood is Penn’s conference featuring Sen- ators Clark and Case on March 14 and 15. One of the most stim- ulating conferences scheduled is the ICG’s Conference on Govern- ment in which students themselves get experience in parliamentary procedure and bill preparation; it ig on April 17-19 in Harrisburg. Finally, if you can spare the time to go to Dartmouth, you can at- tend their conference on science and government from April 15-16. For further details about these, consult Martha Bridge in Rhoads. Engagements Jeannette Paul ’60 to Herbert Kean. Sandra Stoeger to John William Sullivan. Elizabeth ‘Cox Cooper.’ Diana Russell ’57 to Richard Rehmeyer. 60 to James TAYLOR'S ’ In Ardmore CHARCOAL BROILED SNACKS ‘N’ STEAKS Lancaster Ave. Below Cricket Ave. Open Late Ample Parking ADVENTURE! EDUCATION! Bassa TRAVEL! SUMMER 1958! * Join_a- “American-directed, tour the Soviet Union. Choose six Bea ohne dates . once frm For further information contact: DR. JUSTUS ROSENBERG Swarthmore College ~~ Swarthmore, Pa.