TUESDAY, AUGUST 30. 1960 Says Only Half-Job By Mass Education Mead Done Mass Education the pouring of facts into the student's head accomplishes only half the job of teaching, says Dr. Douglass S. Mead who has retired from the faculty with the rank of professor emeritus after 40 years of teaching. "A course that is any good ought to do something, to the stu dent," Mead says. "It takes more than facts. Mass education does not teach the student how to use these facts 'The personal relationship between the student and the teacher is very valuable," the veteran professor said as he warned that he is afraid it is In danger of being lost. Mead, who has watched the University and the student body grow since 1920, says he thinks today's students are better than they use to be. "I sometimes dig out my old exams," he said. "but I couldn't give them now; they're too easy." Mead taught 36 different courses during his four decades at the University everything from freshman English to Ger manic philology. His favorite courses have been Old English, Sam Johnson, and the history of English language, which he taught for 35 years. He helped to initiate the grad uate program in English and for 25 years assigned the graduate theses. He has personally super vised 56 of them. Ile founded Belles Lettres, an undergraduate cultural club, in 1944 and is responsible for estab lishing a campus chapter of Sig ma Tau Delta, English scholastic honorary fraternity in 1956. Calendar Change-- (Continued from page one) spring the abolition of the 3- day Thanksgiving vacation from the fall semester. The recom- mendation was voted down. Dr. Benjamin A. Willsler, head of the committee. said his com mittee was not notified of the change in the spring semester calendar. Butlers Jewelry DIAMONDS a WATCHES Watch and Jewelry Repairing 111 E. 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Funded by a grant of $50,000 from the Ford Foundation, the Summer Institute on Effective Teaching is designed to give en gineering teachers an opportunity to study and practice successful teaching procedures. • If this pilot program proves successful, the Institute will be continued for two more years with enrollment expanded to 100 per year, Lancaster said. Forestry Symposium About 100 men from state, fed eral and private agencies are attending the forestry symposium on campus assaying the uses of herbicides. Starlite Drive-in Theatre ROUTE 515 BETWEEN STATE COLLEGE and BELLEFONTE LAST TIME • TONIGHT Show Time 8:17i "DAIRY OF A HIGH SCHOOL BRIDE" Anita Sar,,l - ('brig Rohinan a "GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW" Jody Fair - Martin Braddock BEGINS WED., Aug. 31 thru SAT., Sept. 3 "IT STARTED IN NAPLES" —in Color— , Clark Gable - Sophia Loren_ "STALAG 17" WiWant Holden - Don Taylor "MURDER INC." 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