HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN
UARIETTA INSTITUTES PROG
WHICH INGINEERING Ka BECOME
MORE CULTURAL
lihri.etta 0
T. 1 ,- A now plan where
by pre-engineering graduates of
Marietta College will be accepted
for Masters level work at Columbia
University upon the recommendation
of their department head and the
Dean of the College was announced
here recently by President Bay
Irvine.
The new program, known as the 4-2
Combined Plan, was discussed at a
meeting of Combined Plan cal-logos
on Columbia's campus last year. Dean
Merrill R. Patterson of Marietti:
attended the sessions and said at
that time it was agrecq that the
pan be presented for approval to
V. - .e Columbia University Committee
on Instruction.
Dr. Patterson revealed that under
the now setup the student will
attord Marietta for four Years and
then receive either a BS or BA degree.
After successfully completing two
years at Columbia he will receive
hip Masters in Engineering. Under
the 3-2 plan a student spends three,
years at lariett6 and two at either
Columbia, Pennsylvania, or Case
Institute of Technology in order
that he may receiv3 a BA and a BS
in Engineering.
Frank H, Lee, chairman of Columbia's
Ccmbjned Plan Committee, in writing
to President Irvine stated: "We feel
surer that this action most clearly
expresses the satisfaction of our
faculty at the results being obtained
under the 3-2 arrangement."
According to Dr. William H. Davis,
head of the Marietta College physics
department, the Binary program gives
the student the chance to acquire
the "broad cultural outlook and basic
scientific knowledge which engineering
schools now feel is necessary for a
good engineer."
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RUS',IAN WILL BE TLUGHT LT GRINNELL
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la.- I.P. 1, course in
Russian will be instituted at
Grinnell College this fall, President
Howard R. Bowen announced hero
recently.
Edmund Heier, formerly a teaching
fellow at the University of Hichigan,
will initiate the course and will
also teach German. His Grinnell
appointment as an instructor in the
modern foreign languages department
will be effective this month.
President Bowen, in announcing the
addition of Russian to the Grinnell
curriculum, pointed out that only
about 4,000 Lmericans arc currently
studying Russian, in less than 200
colleges and ally a handful of high
schools, despite great demand for
translators and other experts in the
language. By contrast, English is
being taught to at least five
million Russians.
"Education in language is essential
to our understanding of foreign
ways of life," he said. "Our
international responsibility demands
thorough knowledge of foretn
institutions and literature. We
expect that tit° addition of Russian
at Grinnell will not only strengthen
our liberal arts offering but .lso
contribute tc the needs' of national
security."
TMLESLEY ADOPTS LONGER PERIODS
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College has announcod that bc:gianing
this fall there will be no Saturday
or Uednesday morning classes. This
plan, submitted to the college by a
student committee, will permit the
student to devote longer periods of
concentrated tine to her individual
Studies.
Under the adopted system, students
will have two one hour sessions in
a course, rather than the previous
fifty minute classes a week.
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