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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peters calls Penn, with its conformists and non-conformists, fraternity members and dormitory inhabitants, and foreign and domestic students, "the most complex of the Ivy schools." But certain aspects of the administration's wide-eyed reaction to the off-the-beaten-path undergraduates suggests Penn is not so catholic as...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Pennsylvania Balances Actuality Against Hope of Valued Learning | 10/30/1959 | See Source »

Members of the administration become highly annoyed at the suggestion that Penn, for all its efforts, is still the school of the Ivy look and the organization man. "The 'Ivy League look' is the business--an awful phrase," Pitt maintains. "In fact, Dean Bender of Harvard wrote the Ivy admissions...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Pennsylvania Balances Actuality Against Hope of Valued Learning | 10/30/1959 | See Source »

Penn has a complex system for regulating undergraduate affairs, which operates under the aegis of Dean Peters. As simply as possible, the organization is as follows: a University Committee on Student Affairs sets policy for the Dean. The Dean's office is responsible to the vice-president for Student Affairs...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Pennsylvania Balances Actuality Against Hope of Valued Learning | 10/30/1959 | See Source »

The hand of the administration reaches even into the traditional hangout of freedom, the fraternity. Dean Peters last year introduced the novel idea of having a resident adviser in the various frat houses. "Ten fraternities have done this voluntarily; with the great improvement this practice has brought about, we hope...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Pennsylvania Balances Actuality Against Hope of Valued Learning | 10/30/1959 | See Source »

"Dinks" are one symptom of an acute childishness that affects the student body. These inane freshman beanies do not speak well for a University with a public credo of individualism and dignity. Hypocrisy shows forth in different attitudes toward this custom. Dean Peters describes the requirement--all freshmen must wear...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Pennsylvania Balances Actuality Against Hope of Valued Learning | 10/30/1959 | See Source »

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