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subjects from two other categories,groups A and B, one subject of whichmust be from Group A. The cours(..~in Group A are concerned chiefly withbasic psychological processes. l'sy-chology of languages and conirnunii-cation (14.77) and Psychology ofLearning (14.79), offered in previousyears, are included here. -owever,two other courses have beeii alded tothis group: psychology of percepticn(14.81), the study of the basic sensoryphenomena, and motivation (14.32),the study of behavior pattern pro-Clsses.

Group B, composed entirely of newsubjects, empliasizes the npplicationof bas-c psychological processes tosocial groups. Theories of personal-ity (14.84) is a survey of major theo-ries of personality. Social psychology(14.85) analyzes the problems of so-cial behavior (14.85, however, is notbeing offered for the second semes-ter). Behavior in groups (14.86) is astudy of the behavior of individuals

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Dave Brubeck GroupTo Play Here Soon

The Dave Braubckl Quartet Nvill givea jazz concert here duriiag the mid-semester vacation period. The Quar-tet, in its only winter Boston areaappearance, will be at Kresge Audi-torium Monday, February 3 at 8:30p.ml. under the sponsorship of theMIT Choral Society.

In addition to Brubeck at the pi-ano, the Quartet features Paul Des-

enond on alto sex, Joe Morello ondruums, and Norman Bates on stringbass.

Later this winter the Brubeckgroup vvll be on tour in Europe.Their music, which has been describ-ed as "complicated and cerebral",has had a marked influence on youngjazz musicians in this country.

A Yaajor revision in the number and character of courses in psyclhology isundervay, according to Professor Davis Howes of the Department of Eco-nomics and Social Science. He has announced an increase in the psychologycurriculum--field nine of the undergraduate program in Humanities and S;cialSciences--from four to ten courses. The change, he said, has resulted fromheightened student interest and enlarged teaching facilities.

Thiee of the new courses offered next term--14.81, 14.82, and 14.08--a:'enot listed in the Spring Term Class Schedule.

The psychology department now consists of three major categories. Thefirst comsists solely of introductory psychology (14.70), which has been offeredin the past as a prerequisite for the other psychology subjects. Although it isstill a prerequisite, it has been changed this .year, now being taught as alecture course by the entire psychology staff.

Hawing completed (14.70), the psychology student may select any two

Dorimitory Council is moving rapidly to its final report on the Open Hous2situat:on. The four-month study which it is now completing was requested bya Corporation Committee at a dinner with dormitory leaders on October 6,1957. At that time, Dwight Arnold '27, head of the committee, said that OpenHouse conditions were "unsatisfactory" and asked for the investigation.

The main recommendatfons of Dormeon's report were decided on at ameeting last Monday night- The report is in the final stages of being written,and will be,nmade public this coming Tuesday, January 13. A preliminaryIarogress report was sent to the Executive Committee of the Corporation onJanuary 3 by Dormcon Secretary Gerry Stephenson '59. The report stated the

In his first public speech since ac-cepting the position of Sptecial As-sistant to the President for Science-and Techinologry last November, Dr.Jr-nes R. Killian, Jr. said Tuesdaynight that the United States is stilltechnologically superior to the SovietUnion; however, he wvarned that ourefforts must be accelerated if the po-sition is to be maintainud. "She has

lot passed us yet, but she has astronq will to do so," t·e cautioned.

Addressing the 'Wornen's NationalPress Club, Dr. Killian slimm ed ulpthe technological race: "T], e UnitedStates today is techinologica-lly strongand growinig str-onger. I do not be-lieve that we 'have lost our techuo-logical leadership, nor that we are!predestined to lose it in the future--pr'ovided," he added, "we, increaseJour technological zest and aud::city,and do not fail to remnedy our wveak-nossos. We possess enormous strengthiin capital assets, in productivity, inlabor skills, and in scientific re-s:,-urces. We must," he einphasi.zed,"lmaintain a rate of advance that villinsure our position of advantage."

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£ollowlng areas which will be discussed1. The worth and practicability of

in the report.Open House as a whole.

2. The public relations problem rel-ative' to both the Institute and theoutside community.

3. Uninvited women in dormitories,and the problem of keeping dormitoryentrances locked.

4. Communications with guests indornm rooms, and the problem of datesign-in lists.

5. The "closed-door" versus the"open-door" policy.

6. Actual extent of Open I{0uszhours.

The recommiendations will not b2presented to the administration untilTuesday, at which time The Tech willprint thenm. However, a few generalrecommendations have been madepublic:

1. Regarding Open H~ouse as a

whole, the "adlvantages outweigh thedisadvantages."

2. Dormcon recommends a uniformpolicy, in both East and West Campus,concerning uninvited guests and prow-lers in dorms.

3. An open door policy during dateswxill not be recommended.

Meetings 'Faking Place NowThe decisions of Dormcon were pre-

sented to the individual House Corn-mittees at confidential meetingsWednesday. Yesterday' night, the In-stitute Committee was scheduled todiscuss the question, without hearingthe specific recommendations. DeanRule, who met with Executive Corn-mittee yesterday afternoon, was in-vited to Inscormi to discuss studentgovernment responsibility in general,and Open House in particular.

Dermcon will have another meetin-this Monday, at which the final draftof the report will. be decided on. Thedeans, administration, and corporationwill receive th~e report the next day.

Professor Norbert W1iener of theMIathematics Department suffered aniild heart attack Tuesdavy whiledriving home from the Institute. qisphysician, Dr. Lloyd G. Potter, Jr.,said Wednesday that Professor Wien-er "is doing perfectly Nvell" at MountAuburn Hospital and should be re-leqsad from the hospital by the endof the week.

Accordling to Mrs. Wienrer, Pro-lessor Wiener was driving home atalout six p.m. Tuesday when he feltill and entered the Smith House, anearby restaurant. From there hew:as taken to the hospital.

Dr. Potter indicated that Profes-sor Wiener might he back in theclassroom next wveek but Mrs. Wienersaid Wednesday that "it is too soonto be sure."

Professor Norbert Wiener

Six talented MIT students will ap-pear on WNBZ-TV, Channel 4, at

12:39 p.m. Sunday in a talent showsponsored by the Berkely School ofMluslc.

Jon \Weisbuch '59, of Public Rela-tions Committee is planning the pro-

gram in cooperation wvith the school,

w-hich presents talent from differentschools in the area each Sunday.

Featured on the prograin is Gus

Solomnons w'9, who is famous for hisperformance in Tech Show. Mr. Solo-

mons will (to a dance routine with ajazz b, chground.

W¥arren Moon, a tenor who also

playied a featured role in last year's

Tech Show; will sing "Nlattinata", an

aria by Leon Cavallo.

Louis Andrea-Ruiz will play the

classic Sp~anish guitar -a minuet by

the South American composer-, Sots.

M¥any people will irecall the per-

for-manee of Geralld Litton '60 with

tCe MIT orchestra in wvhich he played

Grieg's Piano Concerto in 1956 andLiszt's Piano Concerto in 1957. He

wvill play "The Ritual Fire Dance"

by de Falla on Sunday's program.

Shelah Lerner '61 will play theharp. Miss Lerner was the only per-

formei·r who x;-as available for coni-

ment before pr~'sstirne. She lc.mentcd

that WVBZ has no harp and PDublic

Reclations Comninittea has not explain-

ed how MIT's harp can be moved

froin Kresge- to WBZ's studios. Di£-ficulties may arise.

Finally, the Logarythm:s will to-,

off the prog-ram \with their smoothsinging.

Members of the faculty of the Der-

kely School will pick the nmst tal-ented member of the group who will

receive a $25.00 bond. lie will then

:'cappear on the next week's program.Hle niay advance to the finals in the

competition where it is possible towin a total Of $600 in bonds.

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Dirks Is Natned ForOne Of 32 RhodesScholarship s It US

Leslie C. Dirks, Course 2t, has thedistinction of beinpr one o- the thiir-ty-two Rhodes schlolars el-ooea fromithe United States this year.

The hionor ineans a F, rant for 2years, (renewable to three]) wvhichiwill give Dirks an opportun.:ty to (lowliat few of his fellow countryruthhave a chance to do--study at En-gland's Oxford University. Di rks,who is captain of the fencing teamaand attending ATIT on a Sloan sohoi-areship, conms from- New Ulm, A11:n-nsosta. For two years now% he hiaslived off campus.

Leslie Dirks; says ]dis field is most-ly physics, but he thinks that a per-son cannot say he has an educe~ionwvithout humanities. IHe says thatCourse 21, of -which Dirks will beone of the first graduiates this June,has been a very interesting experi-nllent in education.

.MIT's latest Rhodes scholar saidthat the application and interviewsfor the scholarship where much thesame as those for any- other scholar-ship and very similar to the Wood-row Wilison Fellowships.

Wheni asked what he thought Ox-ford would be like, Dirk~s said thatit seeims to be tin entirely differentconcept in education. The school isn'tvery large,, with about 3000 students.Dirks stay the grading system a ma-jor diffelence betweeni A1T and Ox-ford. I-le said that .'t Oxford a per--son may compleAte almost Iris entireeducation with only a. few prepara-tory exams; and theix to obtain hisdegree, the student may do 306 hoursof witnexaminations, --s vwell ashis orals. Dirk~s said lie liked theidea because grades aire oft-en decep-tive.

Harvard Raises Tuition

Harvard University has just an-nounced increases in tuition, alongwith simultaneous increases in thesalaries of professors, effective inSaptenber 1958. Tuition will beraised froom $1000 to 81250 in theundergraduate school and from

S8,0 to $i000 in the graduate:choo!.

President Nathan Pusey said asie announced the rises, "Outstand-:ng teachers must be decently paid.These increases certainly do not goCar enough. They are part of alarger long-range program."

Prrof. Norbert Wieneir Is VictimOf Heart Attack, But' Doing Well'

8750,000 To MITFor Research OnEconomics Of IndiaThe Center for Internationial Stud-

i~s has received a g0rant of $750,000from the Ford Foundation for a pro-gram of applied research on socialand economic development in India,it was announced today.

"The progranm will concentrate oncritical problends related to the eco-nomic growthl of India," said Di%. MtxMillikcan, dire.ctor of the C~nte;'. "Itwvill attemript to collect the data andmake the analyses on which effec-tive development pL-znning must bebased."

Examiples of sonne of the kinds ofresearc h the joint India-MIT pro-gram will undertake, aceordin2 toDi. Mfillikan, might include analyseso i the regional pattern of invest-meimt and income change in India,the economic interchange among In-dia's widely different sections, theright kinds of choices of technologyfor investment in particular, sections,and the relations between the growthor big business and small business.

"While the India study wvill focuson econcriic problems," said Dr. Mlil-likan, "none-economic probleins willalso be considered whenever they arerelevant to economic ones.

Top MIT Talent Will Be On TV;Tech Showmen, Singers IncludedMumrford Foresees Man f Future,

AsSpeciafistDevoidO Of Personality"Can modern man survive his tech-

nology ?" asked Lewis Mumford, visit-ino Bemis Professor of Architecture, f'

the Little Theatre Wednesday, "Oris he a highly trained conformistdoomed to extinction in the world heis building for himself?" : T'

The basic problem, Prof. 3lureford ;-:bnelirvs, boils dowvn to "Can man de- ipart frorot a strictly animal life andstill survive?" The trouble began.17!5039 years ago when the Mesopota- :'miens and the Egyptians discovered -power and its implications. These V.~-races saw% the personal advantages .j'that could be gained through the ~?: power of weapons, the power of con-trolland the power of exterinina-Ition. Titus 'technological mischief" fwas introduced, and today nian faces . :Possible annihilation from "techno- (logical mischief " ,

Prof.._Numfoxd foresees a change Professor Lewis Mumforal. speaking on "Can (i~a the basic personality of iman. His. modern man suryviv his technology?", pre- ].toric man has always been a crea- dicts that the man of the future wi}{ i-

little more than "an agen? in the reprcdu¢- (Continued orn page 3) lion cycle of the machine. " 1

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over superficial changes in the marking system and willconsider just why it is that we have the curn at all. Why,for instance, doesn't the Institute operate like Oxford,whose only grade is a pass or flunk on a final examination?The purpose of our marking system is twofold: to provideincentive to learn and to act as some index of the student'sprogress. At Oxford, the incentive to learn is assumedactive in every student; here it is not (although MIT pub-lications occasionally boast to the contrary). Among manyof us a ''thirst for knowledge" has been supplanted by anawakening to the fact that quizzes must be passed in orderto get a good job and to stay out of the army. Perhaps de-emphasizing the cum only serves to make us forget thisfact. On the other hand, it may not, because even if thecum and term rating are not visible on the term report,every MIT man has a slide rule and knows how to use it.

The faculty has evidently rceognizcl that a coldly cal-culated three-significant-figure cum often has the effect ofmis-directing the student in his choice of goals. But perhapsthe answer to this is not merely to soften the blow, as itwere, but to seek new and less arbitrary yardsticks formeasuring the student's worth.

To the Editor of The Tech:

Your December 20 article entitled "Cohen at Odds withArticle on Housemasters" exhibits a lack of literary judg-ment and is illustrative of why The Terh has a poor repu-tation on campus. Even though it is customary to labeleditorials as such when they appear on the front page, TheTech persists in editorializing under the headlines of a newsstory. Such was the case in the article cited. As a conse-quence, The Tech occasionally provides an all-too-widc-spread source of misinformaticn.

It is characteristic of the halfheartedness of the paperthat you did not print an interview with Dean Rule toobtain information for the article; rather, you print ad-mittedly second-hand information and editorialize on it.This is quite an effecrtive procedure to keep from admittingthat the December 17 article on Housemasters containeda number of fallacies.

As for the statement that "Cohen did not indicate howvhe had obtained Dean Rule's views," the Chairman of TheTech was advised, at the time of receipt of my letter, thatI had talked to the Dean before refuting statements madein your paper. Incidentally, the Dean is quite accessible andhis views may be obtained without flashing a The Teihpresscard.

It is most unfortunate and to the detriment of MIT thatwe possess a newspaper that publishes by default rather thanby inspiration.

Yours truly,Lewis Cohen '58

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I Cum, I Saw, I Conqueredne" Faculty Commnittee on Academic Performance will

decide January 19, whether the cum shall be dropped fromthe term report. This proposal is the result of action takenby the Student Committee on Educational Policy, a sub-committee of Institute Committee. SCEP's proposal was toeliminate the cum from the termn report. The need for somany significant figures in the cum is also contested.

Even if the changes now under consideration go intoeffect it is probable that they will only amount to a partialsolution to the problem of evaluating the student's per-formance, while maintaining a proper emphasis on knowl-edge and not on grades. As the marking system presentlystands, good quiz grades are undeniably the underclass-man's primary goal, and it is inevitable that some will sacri-fice true learning for a good mark. The Associated Tutorsis an example of this type of attitude. The student is givena quick stuffing of material thought to be on the quiz andgiven a lesson in quizmanship. Unfortunately this type ofrote learning is not permanent by any means.

There is need for a marking system that will provide thenecessary quarterly rank for selective service purposes andprovide some competition and incentive, but not the threedigit precision, all-mighty cum.

A system which would pass these requirements is an A,C, F marking system, a top grade, a passing grade, and afailing grade. With this system it would be possible tomaintain a proper balance of student evaluation and cumde-emphasis. For ranking purposes, the student body couldbe divided into top quarter, middle half, bottom quarter,or top quarter, top-middle quarter, and bottom half, or evenfour quarters.

It is to be hoped that the faculty will do more than talk

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1958 The Tech

ELECTIONS

Nomination petitions are nowavailable in the Secretariate Office,Litchfield Lounge, Walker Memorial,for the following positions: Under-graduate Association President andVice President, Class Officers andofficers of the Commuters' Associa-tion. Petitions for the first two willbe due by 4 p.m. on February 14 inLitchfield; the election will be Febru-ary 25. Petitions for the other posi-tions should be in by February 21(same time and place as before),and these elections will be March 4.

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Report forms may be obtainedfrom any Post Office or ImmigrationOffice during the month of January.

EC HIousecomm ToAlter Constitution,Create ExecComm

Revisions in the East Campus Con-stitution were proposed at the EastCampus meeting Wednesday evening.The voting will take place in thenext meeting.

An Executive Committee, to pro-vide greater efficiency between meet-ings, and to conduct elections, wasproposed. The Committee would becomposed of the Chairman, Secre-tary and Treasurer.

It was proposed that Hall Chair-men belong to at least one standingsubcommittee. Also it was suggestedthat the Actions Committee be ab-olished. The Athletic, Lounge, andSocial Committees would submit theirbudgets to the Treasurer by the endof October, who in his turn wouldsubmit the overall budget for ap-proval of the Housecomm by the sec-ond week of November.

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Harrison its US Overconfidence"The dangerous position of the

Western world is made worse by theoverconfidence of American technol-ogy', said Dean George R. Harrisonyesterday morning to mnembers of theAmerican College Public RelationsAssociation.

Dean Harrison, speaking toA.C.P.R.A. members attending theannual New England Conventionhera, warned also of "the tenderiza-tion of the American moral fiber bythe acids of success, and the resultingslow but marked degeneration of ourpublic school educational system,which has been intensified by deteri-oration in the attractiveness of ca-reers in public school education."

"We have in addition to face theadded complexities of the great tech-

nical advances made behind the IronCurtain," continued Dean Harrison."Further compounding the situation,the world seems about to have thepossibility of climbing to a greatnew plateau of energy availability,which could result in a hundredfoldimprovement in the standard of liv-ing of all the world's peoples."

"The newly available energy fromsuch atomic nuclei as uranium andthorium, if applied to peaceful ends,"he declared, "can improve our stand-ard of living many fold. But harness-ing for peaceful purposes of the en-ergy released in the fusion processcan for the first time make it pos-sible for every person in the world tohave enough to eat, even though thepopulation density grows to a dozentimes what it is at present."

Milii ictures Exhibited In Library;Photographer Is M I Graduate

Gjon Mill '27, who came to MIT thirty-five years ago as an undernourishedstudent speaking broken English, will return next week as a world-famousphotographer. The first one-man exhibit of his pictures opend at the HaydenMemorial Library Wednesday, to remain through January 26.

3Mili was born in Albania in 1904 but lived in Roumania during most ofhis boyhood. Because he wanted to be an engineer and because he had relativesin the Boston area, he came to the United States in 1923 to enroll at MIT.

He had studied English in high school and had a working knowledge of thelanguage, but he was very shy.

1'Iili's special interest was lighting and, with the expectation of going intomotion pictures as a career, he took all the courses pertaining to light andphotography that he could. Ile used a carea only incidentally, in connectionwith his laboratory work.

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John Reiter (right) discusses the route of signals from thewave guide through the IF stages of a microwa e receiver.

"This was the kind of challenge I was looking for"Here's what John A. Reiter, Jr., B.S.

in Electronics, Arizona State College,'54, says about the biggest project so farin his Bell System career.

"This was the kind of challenge I waslooking for-a chance to assist in plan-ning a microwave radio relay systembetw\een Phoenix and Flagstaff, Arizona.Five intermediate relay stations would beneeded, and I began by planning thetoswer locations on 'line of sight' pathsafter a study of topographical maps.Then I made field studies using altimeternleasuremenlts, and conducted path-losstests to determine how high each towershould be. This wvas the trickiest part ofthe job. It called for detecting the pres-ence of reflecting surfaces along the

John Beiter is building his career withTelephone and Telegraph Company. Fcareer op)portunitie. for yooL. Talk wivisewer when he visits your campus. ATelephone booklet on file in your Plawrite for a c)ley of "Challenge andCollege Enplloy-ment Supervisor, Almeric'Feclgraph Conlpany. 195 Broadway, N

transmission route, and determiningmeasures necessary to avoid their effects.

"Not the least part of the job wasestimating the cost of each of the fiverelay stations. All told. the system willcost more than $500,000. When con-struction is finished in December of thisyear, I'll be' responsible for technicalconsiderations in connecting the radiorelay and telephone carrier equipment.

"This assignment is an example of thechallenges a technical man can find inthe telephone company. You take the jobfrom start to finish-from basic fieldstudies to the final adjustments-withfull responsibility. To technical men whowant to get ahead, that's the ultimatein responsibility."

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After graduating from NIT inwork for Westinghouse Electric Com-pany. There he gradually became moreinterested in photography.

Since this time Mili has emergedas the outstanding stroboscopic pho-tographer-especially in the multipleflash technique by which a wholeseries of movements are recorded onone film. He has broadend his inter-ests, however, and in recent years hasbeen greatly concerned with photog-raphy as an art medium.

aHlf of the exhibition will consistof pictures made by Mill during thetwenty years of his career as a pho-tographer. The other half will be com-prised of pictures made for a pho-tographic essay on MIT.

SYMPHONY CONCERT

John Corley conducts the MITSymphony Orchestra in a programof Borodin, Gossec, and Sibelius, inKresge at 8:30 p.m. this Saturdaynight. Admission is free.

MUMFORD SPEECH(Co-ntinued from page 1)

ture of great adaptiveness. He hasalways been willing-indeed, ofteneager-to try anything and almosteverything at least once. The bestexample of this is his habitat. Manmakes his home in climatic condi-tions ranging from the perpetualsnow of the sub-arctic to the constantheat of the tropics with no naturalprotection but the resourcefulness ofhis wits.

New MantThe post-historic man, however,

wvill be a highly trained specialist,devoid of feeling, and socially indis-tinguishable from his fellows, if thespeaker's projection is accurate. Post-historic man will be little more thanan agent in the reproductive cycle ofthe machine.

Mankind is in the transition periodtoday. The Biblical golden calf whichmen built and worshiped has beenreplaced today by the American gold-plated Cadillac. Man is devoting allhis efforts to reach a technologywhere machines do all the work, butby accepting the machine's productshe is also accepting its terms, and isdrawing further and further fromthe expression of self.

The danger today lies not in tech-nology's "Goofniks" but in its suc-cesses. Will the future be described"Science discovers, technology ap-plies, man conforms?"

3-Day Meeting OfCollege PR RepsTo Conclude TodayDiscussions of current scientific

events and their implications for col-leges and universities are being fea-tured at the New England districtconvention of the American CollegePublic Relations Association, now be-ing held here at Tech. Probably 150college public relations officers fromsix New England states are attend-ing the three-day series of meetings.

Four asepcts of recent develop-ments vital to the field of scienceeducation were presented to the dele-gates Thursday morning by Dr. El-bert P. Little, executive director ofthe Physical Science Study Commit-tee; Dr. H. Guyford Stever, associ-ate dean of the M.I.T. School of En-gineering; Dr. George R. Harrison,dean of the M.I.T. School of Science;(see article this page) and Alexan-der G. Korol, author of the recentlypublished book, "Soviet Educationfor Science and Technology."

Following this theme, Dr. Fred L.Whipple, director of the SmithsonianAstrophysical Observatory, spoke onsome new aspects of the relationshipsbetween science and the press. Pre-ceding his talk Thursday evening,there was a reception and banquet,where the annual district citation waspresented to Mr. Ralph Lowell ofBoston.

Yesterday's highlights of the con-vention included: a -visit to MIT'snew IBM 704 computer, arranged es-pecially for representatives of 26 col-leges which use the computer throughthe New England Colleges and Uni-versities Cooperative Program, aclinic at WGBH-TV studios for dis-cussing educational 'rTV activities,and a talk by James R. Jordan, na-tional president of A.C.P.R.A., on"The People vs. Educational PublicRelations: Court of Public Opinion,1965." Today's program includes adiscussion of current issues in edu-cation and related publicity problemsheld in Kresge by Terry Ferrer, Ed-ucation Editor of the New York Her-ald Tribune.

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its relative might, Dr. Killian felt thattwo major requirements must be met.There must be "a sustained effort tomodernize and invigorate science edu-cation," and a greater attentiveness tolong-range objectives with a betterbalance between basic research andapplied research and development.There must be more continuity of ef-fort in all research rather than thechanging levels of support and policywhich have slowed progress in thepast.

"If we are to mnaintain leadershipin this century of science," Dr. Killianstressed, "we must be sure that wedevote an adequate amount of ourenergy and resources to the cultiva-tion of talent and quality and intel-lectual accomplishment. In cur driveto make and acquire things, we havebeen giving too little attention todeveloping men and ideas."

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in group situations from a psycholog-ical viewpoint, while mass communi-cation (14.87) is concerned with crowdbehavior and social movements (14.87is not being offered in the year '57-'58).

In addition to introductory psy-chology and the subjects of GroupsA and B, there is offered an advancedpsychology seminar (1488), which isintended as a critical survey and dis-cussion of contemporary problems inexperimental psychology.

It may be noted that organizationand communication in groups (14.73)has been dropped from field nine andis now restricted to field eight: laborrelations.

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however, and the mnargin remainedbetween five and ten for the rest ofthe game. Late in the second periodTech put on a full court press, butit was ineffective in stopping theMiddlebury scoring.

Middlebury's shooting percentagewas 46%, as against MIT's 38%; onthe boards they also tallied, takingover 60% of the rebounds.

High Tech scorer was substituteHugh Morrow '60 who hit for 21.Also in double figures was Lee Coo-per '59 with 15.

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MIT has been ranked second inthe New England Intercollegiate Soc-cer League, which consists of twentyteams in the New England area. TheBeaver team was only a small per-centage behind first place Springfield,the only squad to top Tech this pastseason.

In the League Player selections"Eddie" Changkasiri '58, and "Man-my" Penna '60 were named right full-back and right inside on the League'ssecond squad. "Petey" Villavicencio'60 was awarded an honorable men-tion in the center forward position.

Besides the fine record of sevenwins, one tie, and one loss this sea-son, the placement of Techmen on theleague team was a fine tribute to thehard work of a cosmopolitan squad,and their rookie coach, Charlie Bat-telrman. There has been some specu-lation as to the validity of the leagueselections. Last place Coast GuardAcademy, who lost all of their ninegames, placed two men on the LeagueFirst Squad, while MIT, second place

in the league standings was aarvalde(only two men on the Second Squad.Trinity College, in the eighth posi-tion, had three men on the first team.

Looking ahead it seemrns safe to saythat MIT is on the verge of anotheroutstanding season on the soccer fieldwith a strong sophomore line return-ing, as well as several fine prospectsfrom the Freshman squad and thneJunior class.

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At the hands of record breakingHarvard, MIT lost their fourth meetby a score of 74-12. During the eve-ning, Halrvard managed to set a newrecord for the Butterfly event as wellas establish two othelrs elsewhere.Noteworthy for MIT were Neil Di-vine '59, Bulrnell West '60, Ed Getch-ell '59, Capt. Bill Vee-k '58, ClarenceKe.mper '60, and John Windle '60.

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8:15 p.rnm.Hockey--MIT vs. Bowdoir.

2:00 p.m.Wrestling-MIT vs. U. of Mass.

2:00 p.m.Frosh Wrestling vs. Roxbury

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Hoopsters Downed Fresh Win 1stTrailing decisively most of the game, the MIT hoopsters dropped their fourth stlraight game to a sharp shooting

Middlebury five Thursday night before vacation. Behind from the opening seconds, at times by as much as twentypoints, the Tech quintet pulled to within five of their opposition in a last quarter drive to end the game 81-75 inMiddlebury's favor.

Tech was weakened by the absence of Walt Humann '59 and Hcrman Burton '60. Middlebury made the first point,then went behind 2-1 for the last time in the game. They held the Cardinal and Grey in the single column figures untilthey scored 22 with half of the first period gone. The margin increased steadily until the halftime gun sounded withTech behind 28-44.

A second half MIT drive closed the gap to 4 with nine minutes left, with the score 55-59. Tech got no closer,

ENGINEERS-IANICAL - ELECTRICAL . CIVILMIT Second In NE Soccer League;

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Frosh Cagers DefeatGovernor Dummer

Piling up a twenty-three-point leadin the opening half, MIT's yearlinghoopsters went on to notch their firstvictory of the season by downingGovernor Dummer 57-50, Wednesdayafternoon in the Rockwell Cage.

The Beavers' domniation of thecontest at the outset was-chiefly dueto the visitors' inexperience, as thiswas their opening game. Led by play-maker Brian White, Al Gaston, andJohn Crissman, the winners openedup a 39-16 halftime spread.

In the final half, however, the Gov-ernors lost some of their nervous-ness to cut into the Engineer lead,but the Cardinal and Gray held on towin.

The Techmen travel to Exeter thisSaturday where they'll play the homesquad at 2:30.

MIT SCORING

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