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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dinks" are ludicrous beanies that rarely fit and are greatly unbecoming to the freshman. Regulation number four tries to justify the wearing of the caps: "The purpose...is to instill the true spirit of Pennsylvania into the Class...
Wharton has, for a long time, served as Penn's focal point, both in sheer number and in outlook; and it is in the business school that the next major changes initiated by the Survey will probably take place. In the past five years, however, more emphasis has been placed on the College of Arts and Sciences. This fall, for the first time, freshmen in the College outnumber Wharton matriculatants, and Admissions Director Robert H. Pitt II predicts that the balance of the entire University will eventually shift toward Arts and Sciences...
...University's admissions program has expanded its scope and thoroughness. For decades, Penn was little more than a state college, drawing a huge proportion of its enrollment from Philadelphia and surrounding areas. In relatively recent time, commuters made up 40 per cent of the undergraduate population. Now they number only 17 per cent of the student body, and the decline is due to more than the construction of new dormitories. The University now draws men from a wider geographical range than ever before, thanks to its expended and still growing Admissions Traveling Program. George B. Peters, Dean of Men, will...
...fraternities have done this voluntarily; with the great improvement this practice has brought about, we hope it will grow and expand," Peters says. Still, for all its committees and representatives, the Dean's office likes to posture itself as a benevolent despot. Peters explains, "There is a certain number of necessary rules. We try to interfere as little as possible with student affairs...
...Soviet groups of 12, selected on the basis of geographical distribution and profession, are currently visiting the United States. One group, including a large number of agricultural students, is touring the Middle West. The contingent now in Cambridge will remain here a week and then visit Penn Yann, N.Y., Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City before returning to the U.S.S.R...