WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1960
Parkinson Comments
On 'Commitology'
"Commitology", a
with the life cycle o
committee is not a str
C. Northcote Parkinso
this semester's Lectur
Parkinson kept h
nearly an hour with his
morous comments on
bureaucracy, committee
cocktail party. He desc
effect of his theories, no
ai "Parkinson's Laws,"
parable to "finding a
chovie in strawberry icz i
thing of a surprise.
Parkinson said he
ideas for his first theor
administrators make v
each other, and that v
pands to fill the time
—during World War
he served as major in
ish army.
lie presented these t leories in
a paper distinguished by many
mathematical formulae (mathe
matics is a status symbol he said—
it shows the subject is a serious
and scientific work and equations
break up the page) which was
published by the London Econ
omist
He then turned his attention to
further observations of bureauc
racy. An administrator has two
duties, he said.
He spends his mornings push
ing paper around (from an in
basket to an out-basket with a
possible detour through a LBW,
let the blighter wait, basket); his
afternoons he spends in commit
tee
A committee starts out with
5 members (only 3 are needed
to elect a chairman and a sec
retary, but one must start with
5) and grows until it reaches
the "co-efficient of inefficiency"
=---between 23 and 90 members,
he said.
Another problem he investi
gated, Parkinson added, was that
of the cocktail party. A cocktail
party, scientifically considered,
he said, is an opportunity for dis
covering who is important, sig
nificant, dynamic, and vital.
WEL KROSSWORD
ACROSS 5. What 2 Down
may be (pi.)
1. Breakfast-table
eye catcher 6. Half a pack of
Kools
I'. Llama's cousin 7. It's curvacious
13. She sounds anti 8. "Take me to
14. Mental process
your
15. Naturally he's 9. Trim
gull-ible
10. Thin Man's dog
16. What to buy
Kools by 11. What Menthol
17. Gush, In a Magic is
hurry 12. Blyth, Arbor,
18. Buys a car etc.
19. Shrunken con- 21. As they say in
tinent N. Africa:
"--..anyone?"
20 Canes Canyon
22. Start of Ws
-24. Raison d' tentialism
26 Latin wife
27 Mr. K's team
28. It's nothing
29 Man with a
burning desire
81. A Kool so
refreshing
83. What Diamond
Jim turned on
in his sink?
86. Snake that's
almost a dance
41. Lacks a code
43. Full of fun
44. Names (Latin)
43. Band on hip,
elbow out
46. Builds
47. Time for a
change
DOWN
1. Drains
2. Gag man
$. Leaves unpro•
'meted
d. Roman road
of Ka)
By PAT DYER
new biological "science" which deals
the committee, has revealed that a
cture, but an organic growth, quipped
last night in the first presentation of
• Series.
apacity audience amused for
s near-
dry, hu
modern
and the
ibed the
known
as COM
arp an
'—some-
Three Students
'Get Fellowshipsi
Three University students have'
been granted Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowships to begin
study toward advanced degrees in
their fields next year.
The students are Alan C. Elms,
senior in psychology from La Cen
ter, Kentucky; Joseph C. Flay,
senior in philosophy from Read
ing; and Everett A. Van Dorn of
Stow, Ohio, who was graduated
in arts and letters in 1958.
gigot Ms
es—that
ork for
ork ex
vailable
i 1 when
he Brit-
Because of the serious shortage
of college teachers, the fellow
ships are designed to recognize
and assist outstanding students
who wish to enter college teach
ing They are supported during
their first year of graduate study
at universities of their choice. In
some cases, such as that of Van
Dorn, support may be extended
for an additional year.
COLLEGIAN CLASSIFIEDS
BUY, SELL, TRADE, TELL
CHESS TOURNAMENT
i
Anyone Can Enter I
7 TONIGHT HUB Cardroom
23. ___-face (ro
vers_' of opin•
ton)
24. Period in
ceramics
25. Difficult to dig
80. Swimming
82. Willie's shib
boleth:
ICooler
33. Temple
(archaic)
84. What Latin
lovers like
85. "_____ up to the
Menthol Magic
of ICoola"
87. Tel
88. Little Miriam
89. Little Barbara
40. Plant that
Bounds like
Cockney greet
ing
42. Vegas
43. Storage place
for cookies
YOU NEE
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
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TIM to Lead
Spring Week
Float Parade
Town Independent Men's
Council has decided to spon
sor and build the lead float
for the Spring Week parade.
The float will not be eli
gible for a prize, but will serve
as transportation for the Spring
Week Queen finalists. Leonides
will be asked to help with the
float.
Alpha Phi Omega, men's serv
ice fraternity, reported to TIM
that they are taking a survey of
townspeople in order to find
streets suitable for TIM weekend
parking.
In other business, TIM voted to
hold their Spring Dance at 9 p m.
March 12 in the Hetzel Union ball
,room.
The AIM band will play for the
dance, and free dance tickets will
be distributed by TIM starting
next week.
Frank Burkett was appointed
by the council to be TIM'S can
didate for Alpha Phi Omega's
Ugly Man Contest on March 23.
All members volunteered for
office duty so that now the TIM
office will be open from 8 a m. to
5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
WRA intramurals Begin
Women's Recreation Association
intramurals in bowling and bask
etball begin this week.
Schedules for these tourna
ments, which will continue for the
next month were distributed yes
terday at the WRA meeting.
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CIGARMTTBS
No Student Tickets Left
For Tonight's Concert
No student tickets remain for the Benno Moiseiwitsch
Artists Series concert at 8:30 tonight in Schwab Auditorium.
However, 12 non-student tickets are left.
Moiseiwitsch will open the program with "Impromptu
in A Flat Major" by Schubert and
"Carnaval, Opus 9" by Schumann.
Following intermission he will
play "Prelude in B Minor," "Pre
lude in G Major" and "Moment
Musicale," all by Rachmaninoff.
He will also play 'West Finnish
Dance" by Palmgren, "Fairy Tale
in E Minor" by Medtner and
"Etude in F Sharp Major" by
Stravinsky.
The program will close with
three Chopin selections: "Barcar
olle," "Nocturne G Major" and
"Scherzo B Flat Minor."
Although born in Odessa ,where
he won the Rubinstein Prize at
the Imperial Academy of Music
when he was nine years old, Moi
seiwitsch has made his home in
England for more than 50 years.
He has been awarded British
music's highest honor, a Certifi
cate of Honary Life Membership
in the Royal Philharmonic So
ciety.
Collegian Candidates
Candidates on the Daily Col
legian news staff will meet at
6'30 tonight in 2 Carnegie.
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