James O. Henry, M.A., Editor, Chairman of the Department of History, Biola College China Reds Work While They Study Chinese educational authorities are pushing ahead with a “work- while-you-study” curriculum, al though from the reports it apparent ly took a lot of convincing for some students and professors to believe that it is a good plan.
part in building and strengthening socialism in Poland.” The Minister of Education has the right to dismiss faculty members for flagrant dere liction of duties, including the duty to build the “ socialist spirit” among students. These d e v e l o pm e n t s should serve as a warning to those in America who are fond of Gov ernmental controls of education. Resettling of Soviet Jews Seen A large-scale movement of Soviet Jew to Birobizdahn in Siberia may be proposed to the Communist party Congress, according to the Ameri can Jewish Committee. The Com mittee, which has had access to in formation on developments con cerning Jews behind the Iron Cur tain, has received information from its Paris office indicating that such a proposal will be made. The pro spective plan is concerned primarily with the adoption of a Seven-Year Plan for 1959-65 which provides for further economic development of Soviet Asia. Birobizdahn was established by the Soviet Union in 1928, as a so- called autonomous Jewish State, a Soviet alternative to Palestine for those Jews wishing a homeland. However, th e n u m b e r of Jews migrating to this area was never more than a small fraction of the total number in the Soviet Union. According to the report, “what is involved in the situation is the re appearance in Soviet life of a Jew ish settlement, vast official Soviet Ghetto.” New Technique in Surgery The lowering of a patient’s tem perature to 41 degrees Fahr nheit — only 9 degrees above the freez ing point of water — was described recently by Duke University Sur geons. Dr. W . C. Sealy, head of thorcaic surgery at Duke, said 41 degrees was the lowest point to which a patient’s temperature had ever been reduced for surgery. The work at Duke was described in a paper prepared by a group of Duke doctors for the Society of University Surgeons. The technique used at Duke calls for forcing, with a special blood-
According to the plan, students, instead of spending all their time in classrooms and laboratories, period ically put down their books and go to work in factories or on farms. At the same time men and women in industry and agriculture get time off from their jobs to go to part-time schools at the place where they are employed. This is “ part of a drive by the Chinese Communist party to combine brain work with manual labor and produce a new type of working class intellectual” accord ing to a Reuters dispatch. Officials of Peiping University said students of physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and geography were spending three months of the year doing manual labor. Students in the arts do four months. The rest of the year is devoted to study. New Law Worries Polish Educators A n l passed by the Sejm (Parliament) replaces the rigid regulations i m p o s e d d u r i n g the Stalinist days in Poland. Those regulations put the u n i v e r s i t i e s under the complete control of the Communist party and the Govern ment. Everything was state con trolled — the curriculum, appoint ments, dismissals, even the content of the lectures. The most important faculty member was not the rector but rather the party liaison man. After Poland discarded Stalinism in 1956, those regulations fell into disuse. Compulsory courses in Rus sian and Marxism were dropped, an d th e Universities g e n e r a l l y achieved a degree of expression that surprised visitors from other Com munist lands. The Government decided that a new law had to replace the discard ed one. Under the new law it is the duty of the University and its faculty members to take “ an active
heat exchanger, the patient’s body temperature to 50 degrees or more below the normal 98.6 degrees. At such temperatures, the heart stops beating and the body requires al most no oxygen. Seminarians Get Personality Test “ The average candidate for the ministry has hyst ical, schizoid etc.,” personality traits, but they are “ compatible with adequate or superior functioning” in that call ing, according to a report recently issued. The Academy of Religious and Mental Health distributed the report to its 3,000 members in 45 nations recently. They included about 10% of the psychiatrists in the United States. The study was written by Dr. Gothard Booth, a psychiatrist who has administered psychological tests over nine years to 350 candidates for the Protestant Episcopal min istry at General Theological Semin ary in New York. The Rev. George C. Anderson, director of the academy and an Episcopal clergyman with training in abnormal psychology, said that all men “ suffer from various types of neuroses.” If handled properly, he added, “ these can help a clergy man or a person of another calling to be more successful.” Dr. Booth tested ministerial candidates under a program that since 1949 has re quired candidates for the Episcopal ministry to undergo psychological tests. The testing is in three parts: A written self-evaluation by the candidate, projective personality tests such as the Rorschach test and an interview in which the candi date and the examiner discuss the results.
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