1953–54 Volume 78 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

A Corner With Phi Authors
Recent Additions to the David D. Banta
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•kfinancing Higher Education in the United
States by JOHN D. MILLETT, DePauw '33. Columbia
University Press. 1952.
Here is a careful analysis of the over-all
administrative and financial conditions and requirements
of higher education today. John D.
Millett, the author, was executive director of the
Commission on Financing Higher Education,
which devoted three years of intensive study to
the major problems now facing the colleges,
universities and professional schools of this
country. Dr. Millett here summarizes and interprets
the research staff's findings. Financing
Higher Education in the United States is a
book that every educator needs; everyone who
cares about the future of higher education in
the U. S. also needs to know this book.
The book has five parts: The Objectives of
Higher Education, Costs and Administration,
Sources of Income, Possibilities for Future
Financing, and The Task Ahead. In the first
part. Dr. Millett gives the facts about programs,
student bodies, and the organizational structure
of higher education. He evaluates the scope
and the development of pur colleges and universities
to date.
Costs and Administration, the second part, is
a comprehensive, factual; and revealing picture
of the cost trends in higher education. Factors
in educational costs, administrative costs, special
cost problems, internal organization and management,
cooperation among institutions, capital
plant needs, and expectations are all discussed.
The third part. Sources of Income, describes
and interprets current operating income, including
student fees, endowment income, state
and local government support, private benefactions,
federal government support, and general
income. In this section, Dr. Millett reviews
past experience with these various sources of
support.
In Possibilities for Future Financing, Part IV,
Dr. Millett focuses on how income for higher
education may be increased in the future. He
analyzes the income needs of higher education,
and discusses in detail the probable futiue of
student charges, state and federal government
support, and private benefactions.
Finally, Dr. Millett assesses the total picture
of the financing and the status of higher education
in United States.
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Careful, sound, authoritative, unusually perceptive,
challenging, this book is a tool for the
use of everyone who must make the decisions
about the future of higher education.
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"kNature and Needs of Higher Education by
JOHN D. MILLETT, DePauw '33. Columbia University
Press. 1952.
This brief book sweepingly surveys the whole
field of education in the American democracy,
outlining its character and pointing out its problems.
It centers particularly on the crucial issues
that face administrators in securing financial
support for changing times and policies. The
suggestions offered for difficulties are discussed
practically. Concliisions are firm and clear-cut.
The Commission on Financing Higher Education,
after three years of intensive study, offers
its final report in brief compass in Nature and
Needs of Higher Education. Eight college and
university administrators and four laymen who
are trustees of various institutions made up this
distinguished group. In unanimous agreement,
this Commission set forth a program of action
needed to preserve and strengthen higher education
as the bulwark of our free society.
A sample of the forthright conclusions is: "But
the great financial need of higher education
cannot be met by whatever economies may be
effected internally by colleges and universities.
Nor should it be met by federal subsidy: our
opposition to this we have emphatically recorded."
Nature and Needs of Higher Education
tells how these important educators believe
that our institutions of higher learning
may be financed in the future.
Sound, authoritative, concise, here is a
summary of higher education in the United
States that every thinking person will want.
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•kCurtain Time (Four one act plays) by
C. H. KEENEY, Oregon '22. Exposition Press,
New York, 1953.13.
Brother Keeney, a successful West Coast
author, has turned his hand to playwriting, and
the result is a collection of four plays that are
particularly well suited to production by aipateur
groups and theatrical companies who must
operate on a small budget. Mr. Keeney, who
resides in Whittier, Calif., has concentrated on
topics that have a proved audience appeal.
Old "Skin"-Flint, the first play in "Curtain
Time," deals with the machinations of a