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              report cites educational efficiency by george keiser e)xcepting only the severe loss which the university suffered ihe illness and subsequent death of its president the year 1959-60 continued the progress which has gratifyingly marked our recent history states the new annual report prepared by several members of the administrative staff the report summarizes the progress made during president whitaker's final year which adds further lustre to his reputation as an outstanding leader a discussion of recent univer sity attention to educational effi ciency introduces the 11th report to members of the university com munity new educational ideas meth ods devices and plans are gener ated internally by the intellectual ferment and enterprise of an alert faculty it is the obligation of a progressive university to eval uate test and adopt the promising new while conserving and strengthening the best of the es tablished old the pertinent qualities of this ? efficiency are described as the improvement of instruction and research through these evolution ary changes the more effective use of faculty and facilities better teaching and more inspired learn ing economy of operation . . ." studies by the university com mittee on educational policy and the student life committee and faculty panels discussion on var ious phases of educational effi ciency are cited as evidence of its growing importance these de liberations if not conclusive cer tainly proved fruitful in the gen ? eration and communication of ideas and in the stimulation of wide interest . . ." turning to last semester's in spection by the mddle states as sociaton of colleges and second ary schools the report notes newly reaccredited we take con fidence from the fact that friendly but searchingly critical extra mural colleagues have checked our bearings and have found us on course and proceeding at least satisfactorily the 22-man msa team called attention to the devotion of the board of trustees and their un derstanding of lehigh's problems and opportunities the conserva tive management of the univer sity's finances so that the univer sity is in excellent shape finan cially the well-controlled fund raising function the steady im provement in and the present high quality of students being admitted and the excellent level of instruc tion they found weaknesses . . . for example undesirable crowding and lack of space in several depart sec msa page 4 lehigh university brown and white vol 72 — no 18 ¦ bethlehem pa tuesday december 2 1960 un 6-0331 seven arcadia posts and two constitutional amendments will be decided in three days of balloting beginning monday twenty-one candidates are run ning for the seven positions which will be decided by the hare system of proportional representation . . . none of the 21 candidates are incumbents eight arcadia seats liave already been given to repre sentatives of the major campus or ganizations one of the new amendments pro lioses expanding these eight posi ? tions to 11 with addition of repre sentatives from the freshman sophomore and junior classes present rules regarding these ap pointments to be made by the re spective class cabinets remain the game except for the waiving of the one semester attendance regu lation in the case of the freshman representative the other amendment proposes changing titles of arcadia officers such that the phrase of the stu dent body is appended to the presidential and vice-presidential positions rather than of arcadia asst in charge of ir commerce secretary speaks in uc thursday bradley fisk assistant u.s secretary of commerce for intei-na tional affairs will speak here next thursday on export expansion by the united states the lecture will be sponsored by the college of business adminis tration the economics seminar and lambda mv sigma national mar keting society and will be presented in room 308 of the university cen ter at 1:30 p.m fisk who has been associated with the department of commerce since his retirement from private business in 1955 has held out standing business positions for the u.s government all over the world during his first appointment in the department as a member of the staff of the office of international trade fairs fisk managed see fisk page 8 balloting places will be open from nine a.m until four p.m in the university center christmas saucon hall and packard lab a polling place will be open from nine a.m until noon in drown hall class gift drive begins 90 seniors pledge on ist day the 1961 memorial gift program began wednesday night with a strong thrust forward when 90 members of the gift committee pledged up to 50 a year for 20 years to the university because of this first night pledge — the largest number of subscrip tions in recent history — richard shiilman chairman says he is confi dent that the goal of 550 pledges will be reached and surpassed another first for the class of 61 is the adoption of a mutual shares plan previously seniors invested in endowment-life insurance policies made payable to the university under the new plan annual payments will be invested in the drey fus fund a mutual fund with assets of more than 135 million at a dinner for gift committee members wednesday vice presi dent neville speaking on behalf of the administration and trustees warmly endorsed the mutual fund program he told the seniors they are beneficiaries of the original founders friends and lehigh alumni you owe a debt of gratitude he said which you will be asked to express neville spoke of the packers the packards and graces and liter ally thousands of other alumni who have contributed that is what makes lehigh great neville outlined the qualitative and quantitative problems facing higher education in america he said that today 30 per cent of all college-aged students are attend ing college in 10 years he said see campaign page 9 grace paintings valued at 121,000 nineteen paintingsj valued at 121,000 from the estate of the late mrs marion brown grace are on exhibition in the faculty lounge of the university center the collection was given to the university through a bequest of mrs grace the wife of ihe late eugene g grace 1889 graduate of lehigh univer sity who was president and chairman of the beth lehem steel corp and a trustee of the university after the death of grace last summer the paintings were transferred to the university prof francis j quirk head of the department of fine arts termed the acquisition a fine collec tion it is a remarkable addition to the art collections at lehigh where unlike museums paintings are ar ranged in pleasurable places where people may come and go freely said prof quirk art at lehigh is enjoyed as part of the life of a community the im pact of the grace collection as well as other art collections have been received with considerable pleasure and acclaim he added represented in the collection are corot twi light "; abraham cooper sportsman in a land scape charles francis daubigny on the oise t s wallace over the fence and the kill j c cazin dunes near the villaee of neufchatel pad see grace page 5 portrait of albany ... by joshua reynolds richard shulman dr harvey a neville complete turnover in arcadia no incumbents seeking posts i 1961 | breakthru in class giving