Millett Named to Education Commission
Designed to investigate financial problems of American universities, a commission on financing higher education has been formed with John D. Millett, visiting professor of public administration, named as executive director.
Grants of $400,000 from the Rockefeller foundation and $50.-
000	from the Carnegie corporation
of New York will finance the commission, established by the Association of American Universities.
The commission was conceived, said Professor Millett, becasue of an acute financial crisis in institutions of higher education.
‘‘Returns on investments of privately endowed institutions have-decreased since the war,” Professor Millett said, “and costs of
maintenance, administration, and instruction have been steadily rising.’'
Universities have been obliged to take on new burdens since the war, he continued, including the largest number of students in history.
“An increasing proportion of the population between the ages of 18 and 22 appear to be going to college,” he said, “which will
probably offset the decline in enrollments of students using the Ol BUI.”
Overtaxed physical facilities
must be expanded to take care of their increased load, said Professor Millett, but the reluctance of state legislatures to appropriate more funds for expansion because of state budget limitations and the decreasing number of private
gifts being made available to universities makes expansion in most cases impossible.
The commission will examine such proposed solutions to th$ problem as federal aid to education institutions.
Professor Millett, now professor of public administration at Columbia, plans to visit England next year and investigate the English grant system.
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Summer News
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THE VELERO IV, SC'3 ocean-going laboratory, will be used in the attempts to establish a new deep sea diving record with the Benthascope Saturday- Otis Barton,
noted diver, will try to reach a depth of 6000 feet.
Barton to Attempt New Diving Record
Otis Barton, who has been having no end of trouble with his diving bell during preliminaiy tests run at San Pedro, will shoot the works on Saturday.
Having ironed out all the obvious wrinkles from workings of is deep-sea yo-yo, Barton will tempt a descent 6000 feet into he depths off Santa Cruz island rom a barge to be towed by the elero IV. SC’s floating marine aboratory. If his dive is success-
ful he will set a new undersea mark.
Together with Dr. William Beebe, Oceanographer Barton set the present record of 3028 feet off Bermuda in a bathysphere of his own design in 1934. In his bentho-scope, which he describes as a vast improvement over the bathysphere, Barton will carry motion picture cameras for photographing inhabitants of the subsea world he plans to visit.
Hindman Goes East o Teach Germans
Dr. Wilbert L. Hindman, head
SC’s department of political
lence, left for the East this week
a special educational assign-
nt for the War department—an
ignment designed to show ocracy at work.
or the next year he will be charge of the Army’s new re-ntation program in democracy 20 German graduate students ^social science at the University Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich, er groups will attend Harvard, cuse, Chicago and Bryn r.
he Germans have been seiec‘-y the American Military Gov-ent to come to this country study and travel. When they rn to Germany, say AMG of-ls, they will be able to spread ocratic ideas among their trymen.
On a year’s leave of absence from SC, Dr. Hindman will conduct lectures, conferences, and field trips for the group at Michigan. Next summer, he will take his students on a two or three-months tour of the United States. They will meet with business, labor, and civic leaders in many ci-ties.
While at Michigan, Dr. Hindman will participate in the Institute for Social Research, which he was specially invited to attend as one of the leaders in the field of political science education in the nation. He is a member of the American Political Science association.
Late this month, he will be on the program of a conference on research methods in political ije-havior sponsored by the Institute and the Social Science Research council ■•••
India Freedom Fete Scheduled
Second anniversary of the independence of India will be commemorated with a two-day cultural program staged by the Student Association of ‘India—Kamal Faruki, president—on c a m p u Saturday and Sunday.
An exhibit of maps, pictures, and handicraft articles illustrating India’s culture, industry, and government will be shown Saturday at the Casa de Rosas, Hoover and Adams. India Consul-General K. Kripalani and SC officials will be presented as speakers.
Dances and songs typical of India will be performed by students from that country to highlight a public . program Sunday evening at 8 in' Bovard.
The association is comprised of more than 70 students from India attending Southern ^California colleges.
Educator Dies
Funeral services will be held today in Pierce Bros. Inglewood mortuary for Prof. Arthur Chapin Coonradt, 63, father of Lecturer Fred C. Coonradt of the journalism department.
Professor Coonradt, who died Monday in SC hospital of a heart ailment, has been chairman of the mechanical engineering department of New York university for many years. He has been on leave from the university since 1946 because of illness.
Prior to joining the faculty at NYU he had been an instructor at Oregon State college.
Besides his son, Fred, he leaves his widow, Mrs. Ann Coonradt; and a grandson, Peter Frederick.
Summer News
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Daring Trojans In Sea Rescue
Two Trojans—James Connolly, 503 Genesee avenue and Jay Ohlund, 2506 Silver Lake boulevard—were instrumental in rescuing six persons whose boat had capsized and sunk eight miles southwest of Newport Beach Saturday.
Connolly and Ohlund, who have been spending the
summer fishing in Catalina wat-
Trefftzs Joins
U. of W. Staff
Dr. Kenneth L. Trefftzs, head of the School of Commerce’s department of finance, will be a member of the faculty of the Pacific Coast Banking school at the University of Washington, Seattle, Aug. 22 to Sept. 3, it was announced yesterday.
The Pacific Coast Banking school, founded 10 years ago, will be attended by 150 West Coast bankers. Leading banks in the Los Angeles area will be represented.
Dr. Trefftzs will remain at the University of Washington for the academic year on special leave from SC. He will be a visiting professor of banking, investments, and corporate finance in the School of Business on the Seattle campus.
Dr. Trefftzs is a graduate of the Univesrity of Illinois. He received a bachelor of science degree in accounting there in 1936.
Dates for Graduate Language Tests Stated
Schedule for August Ph.D. language tests.
FRENCH Wednesday, Aug. 24, 1:30 p.m. 209 Doheny.
GERMAN
Thursday, Aug. 25, 3:15 p.m. German office, Bridge hall. SPANISH Friday, Aug. 26, 2:30 p.m. 209 Doheny.
ers,. were having trouble with Connolly’s small boat, La Mouette.
They had started toward the mainland with the coughing motorboat when they saw the 40-foot boat, Doreen, turn to give chase to a shark. In the turn, the boat capsized and started sinking immediately.
Connolly and Ohlund got their small, crippled boat alongside as quickly as they could and started picking up the Doreen’s passengers. Three men, two women, and a 6-year-old boy were taken from the water as the $10,000 albacore and swordfish boat was sinking.
F. H. Easton, owner of the Doreen and one of those rescued, said he could not account for the boat’s capsizing.
Book Painting Talk Slated
Curiosity aroused by the hide-and-seek paintings on book edges will be satisfied by Dr. Carl J. Weber today at 3:15 in the university library’s art and lecture roonf.
“A Curious Art in Book Decoration: The Mysteries of Fore-Edge Painting,” is Dr. Weber’s topic. He is Roberts professor of English literature at Colby college at Waterville, Me.
The lecture is the seventh aund concluding talk scheduled this summer by the English department under the guidance of Dr. William H. Davenport, professor of English literature.
Trojan Handbook Coes to Press
Trojans coming to SC this fall should have many questions about student life answered through the medium of the new student handbook, now in the hands of the printers.
This year’s edition of the “Freshman Bible” will be the
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largest and most complete handbook yet published at SC, its editor, Art Williams, reports.
A new increased page size should classify the 59th annual edition of Trojan student lore as more of a deskbook than handbook. It will contain 72 pages, and is designed to fit in a notebook.
The new publication was designed for campus-wise Trojans as well as freshmen, Williams said.
“New, up-to-date directories and reference material should prove valuable throughout the school year,” he said.
The handbook is published under auspices of the Greater University committee, and it is staffed entirely by students. This year the LAS council and the University Recreation association abandoned plans for separate handbooks in order to include their information in the combined student handbook.
Distribution will be made dur-teig registration week before school and during the first weeks of th« fall semester, said Harry Althouse, assistant editor. Details of distribution will be published later.