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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.



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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
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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)
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Experiment Station and Ginger
with the Emerson Drug Company.
Both wérked for thirteen weeks
and earned between $700 and $800.

(Margaret, who worked in a large,
un-air-conditioned lab analyzing
metal samples for the percentage
of one element, found her eight
hour day (with only a half hour
for lunch) grueling, and considers
that it would be grim no matter
how much the student likes chem-
istry. 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-
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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.

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