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fly" Graduate Pracfic NASHVILLE, TENN., July 26 Recent years have witnessed a marked increase in "so-called graduate work by institutions not qualified to give it," Dr. Edgar W Knight, Kenan professor of the history of education in' the University of North Carolina, asserted in an address here last night. Speaking before the faculty and students of George Peabody College for Teachers, Dr. Knight declared that the "increasing tendency to fill positions in the public schools with degrees rather than with well educated and cultivated men and women is a serious threat to public education in this country. "So long as free enterprise and competition and laissez-faire are allowed to go unchecked in education, the public schools cannot hope for protection against non-standard academic degrees, from which the people should be protected just as they are from impure foods and dangerous drugs," declared Dr. Knight who was introduced by President Henry Hill of Peabody College. He said that "a thorough examination of the condi- tions in graduate work is long overdue," and he praised the efforts of a committee of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, of which Dean W. W. Pierson of the Graduate School of the University of North Carlina is chairman, "which is trying to bring some order out of the obvious chaos in graduate work in the Southern states. "The famous Flexner study of medical education in the early part of this century worked healthy reforms in that field by turning the searchlight on and driving out spurious practices," he said. "Studies of legal and engineering education brought about reforms. There is hope in the work of a committee on graduate instruc tion, set up by the Southern Association. "Feverish promotional ambitions of teacher-educational institutions, which are generally in keen compe tition for students, and the close relationship between advanced degrees and increase in salaries for teachers help to explain this extraordinary phenomenon. But a disturbing result of this activity is that holders of good degrees in professional education from reputable institutions are more and more confused with holders of less reputable degrees. Gresham's low in economics, that bad money drives out good money and that the worst form of currency forces all other kinds of cur rency from circulation, is a rule-that can operate as viciously in the educational as in the economic world," he said. The possession of a master's degree, for example, Dr. Knight said, "has rapidly become a requirement primarily for increased salaries of teachers and man agers of the public schools, but the source of this de gree is not always a serious concern to those who give it or to those who get it or to those who engage its holders for work in the schools. Nor is the content of the degree inquired into by those who give it, get it, or by employers. The mere possession of the degree of whatever kind is sufficient to command an increased salary, whether the degree is had from a member of (See KNIGHT, page 8) ,mmm iii. -" .,..tarMMmto J ;-vv, 1 : Y' At, "fy j 'hi , ' V I f)! , j IIlk' Volume XIX Chapel Hill, N. C. Thursday, July 26, 1951 NUMBER 13 Medical Center Plans Progressing "Captain J. Elliott. Cooper, USN. who has commanded the Naval ROTC here for the last two years, left yesterday for a new assignment on the West Coast. Cooper Leaves NROTC Unit For Sea Duty Captain J. Elliott Cooper, USN, who has commanded the Naval ROTC here for the last two years, left yesterday for a new assign ment on the West Coast. His successor, Captain John S. Keating, USN, has already arrived in Chapel Hill and assumed his new duties. He comes here from the Great Lakes (111.) Naval Training Station where he has served as commander for the last three vears. Tantain Coooer will go to the Naval Base at Coronado, Calif., where he will report to the com mander. Amphibious Training Command, Pacific Fleet. He is srheduled to assume a sea com mand ' of the amphibious force upon completion of this temporary duty. Captain Keating, native of Wo hnrrv Mass.. was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy iA 1923, and in 1930 received a master of science degree in Marine . Engi neering from Columbia University. During World War II, he com manded the destroyer, Nicholson, the Fleet Sonar School at Key West, and Destroyer Squadron 17. In 1945 he commanded the destroyer squadron which escort ed President Roosevelt to Yalta and was then designated to trans port King Ibn Saud of Saudi Ara bia to meet the President at a port in the Suez Canal. From 1945 to 1947 he was charged with training and organ izing the new Chinese National ist Navy at Tsingtao, China. In 1947 he commanded the light cruiser Manchester and in 1948 was ordered as Commander, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes. 111. Captain Keating is married to the former Miss Anne Burns of WTaterbury, Conn., and they have (See COOPER, page 8) N.C. College Will Expand Grad School Trustees of the University and North Carolina College for Ne groes have agreed to support a plan for the Durham scnooi to give graduate courses leading to the degree of Ph.D. in education. The two boards will join in asking the State to make the ne cessary appropriations for the proposed expansion at N. C. Col lege. The agreement is the result of several weeks of study by com mutes from the two boards ot trustees. If the clan goes through, the Durham college will be the only Negro institution in the nation conferring the Ph.D. degree. The agreement provides that the trustees of the two institu tions will ask, from the Counci of State, an emergency appropria tion of $114,000 for the present fiscal year and $157,000 for the next fiscal year. Under the plan agreed upon, the N. C. College will be able to provide facilities and training for the large number of Negro stu dents who otherwise would be obliged to seek their Ph.D. de grees at out-of-state institutions or at the University here. (About 400 Negro students are presently taking courses in edu cation in out-cf-state institutions with the help of funds which the State supplies.) :" f ' s i ' i f : ZK7 . V V II :o:'.':o:v:c. .,.c,w.'.vawv ex t Obstetrical Clinic Bids Asked For Today; Cost Estimated $300,000 Plans for the University's new four-year medical school and teaching-hospital moved ahead this week with the an nouncement of several new construction projects tor the Medi cal Center. The University will open bids or the construction of the ob- DR. C. H. BURNETT New Med Dept. To Be Headed By Dr. Burnett In the N. C. College expansion plans the trustees feel that em phasis should be given to grad uate work in education. In other fields, there exists now no "press ing demands ' by North Carolina Negroes, but demands can be forseen now in English, French. and history. (See N.C. COLLEGE, page 8) Dr. Charles Hoyt Burnett, pro fessor and chairman of the De partment of Internal Medicine, Southwestern Medical School of the University of Texas, has ac cepted appointment as professor and head of the Department of Internal Medicine in the medical school here. The announcement was made this week by President Gordon Gray and Chancellor Robert U House. Dr. and Mrs. Burnett and their two children will move to Chape Hill next month, and he will as sume his duties here at the open ing of the fall term. "This is one of the major ap pointments as we enter the ini tial stages of our four-year medi cal school." Dean W. Reece Ber rvhill and Dr. Henry T. Clark, Jr., administrator of the Division of Health Affairs, said m com (See BUNETT, page 8) stetrical section of the new teach ing hospital of the medical school here today. Cost of the construc- ;ion is expected to be approxi mately $300,000. , This section of the hospital will consist of the present third (top) iloor of the Infirmary ana a new iourth floor with corridor connec tions with the main hospital. At a meeting in Raleigh last week, the Advisory Budget -Com mission, approved the construc tion of a south wing to the Uni versity medical school building at an estimated cost of $350,000. Contract for the wing at the north end of the building has al ready been let for $325,000. The two wings will extend west from the present building toward the Pittsboro highway forming a court. Game Protectors Attending School Fifteen successful applicants selected from a field of 90 would-be wildlife protectors are now undergoing a three weeks training course here un der the direction of the Insti tute of Government. The pre-service training pro gram which is now being given is a part of the new policy of the Wildlife Commission. For merly the protectors were giv- pn rnrrmetitive exam for the vacancies which occurred. Following the pre - service school, all wildlife protectors now employed will be given one week advanced training as a follow-up of last year's train ing school. The contract for the dental school building, to be erected south of the medical school build ing with which it will be connect ed by a corridor, has been let for $823,000. The teaching hospital now un der construction is expected to be completed and ready for open ing bv Anril 1 of next year. Dr. Robert R. Cadmus, director, stated recently. If the present construction time-table is adhered to, the hos pital will have been in operation for about six months when the medical school, which now pro vides onlv two years of training, begins to operate on the standard four-year basis in the fall of next year. Work on the addition to Ven able Hall, the chemistry building, has been slowed down because of difficulty in laying the foun dations. Mases of rock have been encountered at some places on the site; at other places the con tractor has run into the opposite kind of trouble soft, spongy soil. UNC Is Rated 2nd In Survey Of Colleges The University ranks sppnnrt tn Johns Hopkins in the number of its liberal art departments se lected as "among the best dennrt- ments in the country," according to a rating survey made by 49 colleges and universities com posing the Southern University omerence. The results of th snrvuv wViirVi did not include professional or technological departments, were recently announced by Dean Lo gan Wilson of Tulane University at iew uneans. 1 iaa Logan is chairman of the special confer ence committee which made the survey. The survey covered the am. demic vear of lf)4!).Rn nnH iho rating was based on graduate i i f . worK, Dotn research and crea- (See UNC, page 4) Enrollment Enrollment for the second term of summer school will be about 80 per cent of the 3.548 figure for the first six weeks. Dean Guy B. Phillips, director of the summer session, has es timated. Several institutes and short courses are scheduled to begin this week as features of the second term program, he said. Among them are the Manage ment Institute for Young Busi nessmen, an Institute in CPA Problems, the High School Ra dio Institute, and weekly insti tutes for public health nurses and house parents of child care agencies.
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