Friday. May 3. I963

SCARLET AND BLACK

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Sociologist Explains (allege, Career Relation

By John “’olf
S 55 B Ass't News Editor

"The better the collcee a stu

dent attends. the less likely that

i enter his intended pros

on," claimed Dr James Dar

yis or the University or Chicago

Davis made this remark during

a talk in' the Science Lecture
Room last Tuesday evening.

Davis. who was on campus as
an American Sociological Society
vrsr mg scholar. lectured on the
relation between college and
careers.

Davis belongs to the stall‘ oi
the National Opinion Research
Center at [he Univchily' of
Chicago. which has obtained
irom

ncll not included) in 1001.
The graduates questioned are
being followcd up to determine
what 00ch college had on their
careers and. more specifically.i
what etiect the quality oi the}
college had ‘
iiciorc giving his concur ‘
sions. whi h lie adiuitted were
IIDL neres..arily ctirrcct. Davis
noted that certain per onal l
rat s. grade point aver go in
college. null [acuity encau acc-
ment were the main iactors in
the final decision on a -ccr.
Sul‘ll iacto as family liac -
ground. religion. and size oi
home town were iound to have
little iniluerice. i

Concentrating the major pors‘

lenCc and letters when they wcrctmore.

.tlblc to

encouragement. Davis noted that lie become rich
persons who stated that thcirl Davis noted that careers were
intercst was in the iieid oi sci- determined Just as much. it not
on what the person did
college ircshmcn checked that‘inot wdnt as what he or she did
they wanted the chance to he w nt. This possibly stems iiom
original and creative and to ho.d dain tor other sources or
work in the world otlr-alues.
idcas Most were uninterested in To illustrate how iaeulty cn-
hcing leaders. icouragement helps determine a
Ot tllc people who claimed alstuden career, Dario l‘itCr’l tige
prctcience to a science eaiccr.rrrrcs tor students who had plum
most said they liked to wot-kitted to i’ollliw a science car-ect-
\ iill things rather than peopleiupcn entering college Oi stile
.and that they had no pnl'ticularldcnts encouraged only by science
desire to be oi seivice to otlieriprolcssors. 72th iollowed a sci-
pcrsons tence career. while at those on-
Thc questionnaire also showedicouragcd only by teachers in
that the majority oi studentsla‘wm" “C‘di only 4”" ”mam“

. in science.
interested in a career in lotiorsl

completed questionnaires
about 34.000 students who grad»
135 colleges

unted from

TODAY
4:00 pm.

7:30 pm.
7:30 pm.

300 pm.

0:00 p.m.

TOMORRO‘V
10:00 a.m.

‘tion of his talk on the factors

(Gl'inrlof personal values and iaculty

what. when ‘it'ywherei' :

WRITERS CONFERENCE: Jack Play—
wrighti. ARI-I Auditorium,

Movie: “Front Here to Eternity." ARH Auditorium.
Disney Film' “The African Lion.“ Science Lectur
Room.

Concert: Shirley Verrctte.Caiter. Soprano. Roberts
Theatre,

to 11:00 pm.

Gelller.

North Campus Open Rooms.

Tennis: Grinnell vs. Lawrence.

12.30 Noon River Trip

2:00 1') in,

2:00 pm.
8:00 pm.
10:00 p.m.

SUNDAY
11:30 a.m.

5:00 pm,
4:30 p n\..
5:00 pm.

3200 p.m.
MONDAY
11:00 am.

2:00 i) in.
TUESDAY
3'00 1) m.
3:00 p in.
7:00 1mm,

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WEDNESDAY
1:00 p in.
3:00 i).tn.
7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
8:00 p.111.

9:45
FRIDAY
11:00
3:00

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pm.

am.
pm.
1).m.

\VRITERS CONFERENCE Panel Discussion
James Wright. Jack Gelbcr. Mr. Donalloc and M
Libe man. ARH Auditorium.

Movie: (Disney Film) "Th: African Lion.” Science
Lecture Room,

Concert Shirley Verrett-Cartcr. Soprano. Roberts

ARH Auditorium.
Housenarties: Gates. West No is. and S. Younker.
College Church. Herrick Chapel. Dr. Dirk Baay
Department oi Modern Foreign Languages. “Can
Christianity Sui ch'7”

Free Hot eba Riding. College Stables.
Coed swimming. College Pool.

South Campus Open Roms

spring Fashion Show. Barber Plaza.

Lecture: Dr Arnold J. Toynbee. Visiting Heath
Protessor oi History. - n Approach through Class»
ical Education." Her iCk Chapel.

Lecture: Lenox Quartet

Baseball- Grinnell vs. Coe

Track: Griiinell vs Cornell

inter-group Relations P am Sneaker. Ted E.
Sennet. YMCA Public At'iairs Committee. “Current
Dimensions 0[ llltersGroup Relations." iollovied by
The Freedom Singer . Sponsored bv the Board oi
Religion and the Sociology and Anthropolgy Cole
lodiiim, ARH Auditorium.

AAUP Meeting, Yuunker Lounge.

Golf: Grinncll. Cornell and St. Ambrose, >
Freshman VVclnen’s Orientation. ARH Auditorium
ISEA Meeting. Loose Lounge.

Student. Recital: Garcia Vntlizllzln. Piano: Susan Jur-
Check. Voice: Ann Hoganson and Sheila Kogan,
Piano duo. Arena Theatre.

Vespers, Herrick Chapel.

Friars Chapel. Herrick Chapel.

Baseball: Grinnell vs Knox.

Drama Production: “Long Day’s Journey
Night." by Eugene O‘Neil. Roberts Theatre

lllto

.ihe discussed

(llcln't. like to make progress
slowly and didn't. have a dCSH‘E

Historian Arnold J. Toynhee.
Monday morning told a Grmnell
1College audience that today n'e‘
have so much information that
it is mi ing it dittrcult tor usl
.to have knowledge and under!
standing
. “This is not a paradox," the
Heath Visiting professor oi his-
ltory at Crinnell College said as
“The Problem oi
(Quantity' in an open lecture at
Herrick Chapel. “There has been
a stupendous increase in the
amount or what there is to be
known. but no corresponding in
crease in the capacity at the
human mind to know it.

“The measure or capacity
tor knowledge and understand-
illg is the amount or thinking
that a single mind can do in‘
single iiictime." Toynhec
said. “This is so because all
thought takes place in some
individual mind. There are no
such things as collective minke
ing. collective knowledge or
understanding."

a

Pointing out that medical Sci“
once has increased the expecta-

Davis presented his own cutie
clusion based on the question—
naire. He contended that each

this absolute increase in
ridual capacity is not the rele—
vant tact.

“The relevant iact is the ratio
between the individuals capac-
ity and the amount of what

_there is to be known." he said.
“‘and in our time. this has in-

creased out of all proportion to
the increase in the individuals
capactty."

Admitting that no satrsiactory‘

solution oi this intellectual prob-
lem is yet in \ight. the historian
decried both ~tearn work and
"reducing the quantity to mane
ageahlc pro nl'tiuns" as invalid
and incit'cctire.

“Tedin uor. he s 'd. "has
done wonders in practical enter—
prises and is already iacilitat—
ing the material operations that
are subsidiary to thinking.
knowing. and undestandin the
organization or library services.
photo. ats. microfilm making oi
viewers. computer etc.

“But team uork is inapplic—
able to mental work itscli. All
architect can build with the
hands oi 10.000 masons. but an
ellitor cannot think with the

 

tion oi eiteetive length of woi \—
ing hie, Dr. Toyiihee said that

iiiiuds at ten contributors. The
thinking done by them can

 

 

 

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nexr time you are downtown.

Delicious Sodas. Mulls. and Shakes.

incliw,

vcolicge. regardless oi quztliiv,
“‘craatcs a set or blinders“ in
that ii provides the student no
way or deter-mining his positron
on a national . ale. to the first
two yedls or college. when a
.student is questioning his tent'
.tu-e career plans, he has 0
his rank in class and laculi
lencorire cment on which to base
his ausuers

This circumstance
lnate. claimed Davis Since the
pooi’t‘st student in a superhir
tschool may have more potential
ltll'dn the best student in an ni-
‘fcrlol‘ college, the undecided stu—
‘dent can easily get the wrong
lnpinlon or his abilities A good
.student could giaduatc with a
low a good
college and be swayed not to
tollow his intended career.

y

is tint'ol-tu-

grade point ironi

iExcessi Facts Impair Know/edge
t

Dilly be their own, and the ree
suit will he not a single piece
of collective mental work but
a collection or separate indi»
vidual mindS’ pieces.

‘ “Can we discard mneetcnths
.of knowledge as having no Sig»
‘nificance or value. and conccn-
trate on the manageable one«
‘tenlh"

“This uas the oldefztsllioned
way oi study- ig history. l-listor-
ians used to concentrate on the
kind of thing that makes head-
.lines in our presenteda ne
.papers 7 battles. ievolutions.
"lnt’ths and deaths ol eminent
‘their. presidential electrons. dates
‘of beginnings and ends of reigns.

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