10-28-1960

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Hope College — Holland, Michigan

Mom & Dad's Day To Be November 12 S a t u r d a y , November 12th, marks the day of Hope's last football game of the 1960 season, but it is also the day of another annual tradition at Hope College — Mom and Dad's Day. Invitations are mailed to the parents of all present Hope students, to invite them to see how their sons and daughters live, work and enjoy themselves while away from home and preparing for a career in life. The first event on the day's agenda will be the football game with Olivet at Riverview Park at 1:30 in the afternoon. Following the game there will be open house in all the dorms and other buildings on campus.

Correspondence, Carol Douma, Karen Waltman, and Carol Fuge.

A buffet supper for the students and their parents will be served in Phelps Hall from 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. Tickets f o r the supper will be on sale two weeks prior to November 12th. An evening variety program will feature student performers.

Meeting to Consider College Teaching As A Profession

Reformation Day Services To Be Held Here Monday, October 31, Reformation Day services will be held in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The 8:00 A.M. chapel service will be led by Reverend Allen B. Cook, College Pastor, who will speak on "The U n i t y In Our Diversity". There will be special organ and choir music. At 8:00 P.M. the Holland and Zeeland Reformed Classis will sponsor a service. The featured speaker will be Dr. Harold Englund, President of Western Seminary. The special music for this annual service will be provided by the Western Seminary Choir.

Mark Twain Here via Smith Something new in entertainment will be presented to the Hope student body at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in the chapel, when George William S m i t h , Professor of Speech, Radio and Television at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, will appear in "An Evening With Mark Twain." This program is especially significant right now. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to all as M a r k T w a i n , died in 1910. He completed his auto-

There will be two performances, at 6:30 and 7:30 and admission is free. This year's general chairman for Parents' Day are J a n e t Riemersma and Jim Hanenburg. they are assisted by the following committees:

Publicity, Barbara Blunt. Football Game, Fred Colvin and Jack Siebers. Buffet Supper, David Van Dam and Barbara Ver Meer. Variety Program, Carol Bonthuis and Kurt Van Genderen.

On Wednesday afternoon, November 2, Prof. Edward Wolters and Dr. John Hollenbach will meet with all Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors interested in exploring the possibility of col lege teaching as a career, in chapel 16 at 4:30 p,m. As the enrollments in college and universities climb rapidly, the demand f o r qualified new teachers is also increasing. So also are opportunities for graduate study and graduate scholarships and fellowships. Many students decide too late that college teaching is their desired goal, and are not ready to take advantage of these opportunities. The purpose of this meeting will be to describe the basic educational qualifications f o r college teaching, the desirable undergraduate program, and the approach to application f o r admission and scholarships. All interested urged to attend.

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Number of Foreign Students In United States Increases Engineering, which claimed 11,279 of the students, continued to be the most popular field of study. The humanities, with 9,246, was again second. Far, M i d d l e , and Near Eastern, along with Latin Americans, striving for their countries' industrialization, again were concentrated in engineering. The largest groups attracted by the humanities were from Europe, North America, and Africa. The number of self-supporting foreign students has been decreasing rapidly in recent years, but statistics on sources of financial support showed t h a t again this year the single largest group of students — 38.3% — were studying on their own funds. This is almost a

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4% decrease f r o m last year's percentage. The next largest group of students — 27.7% were aided by the growing number of scholarships offered by private organizations. U.S. government grants, which supported 5.5% of the total foreign student population this year as opposed to 4.8% last year, crept ahead of foreign government grants, which this year supported 4.6%. More than half the U.S. government grants were reported by Far Eastern students. More than 25% of the foreign students who studied here this year were again concentrated in California and New York, with California — 13.3% — leading New York with 12.5%.

: Professor Smith as he appears in " A n Evening With Mark Twain" (above) and as he looks in his capacity as Professor ( r i g h t ) .

biography shortly before his death and in his will he told his executors to withhold publication for fifty years. The Autobiography of Mark Twain, as edited by Charles Neider, came off the presses recently. This is, therefore, a Mark Twain year. Professor S m i t h has been playing the part of Mark Twain for some time. Recently, under the auspices of the Mark Twain Research Foundation, he took part in the dedication of the Mark Twain Birthplace Shrine near Perry, Missouri. On t h a t occasion Governor James T. Blair, Jr., of Missouri, gave the dedicatory address and Professor Smith, as Mark Twain, responded. Everything Professor Smith says in his lecture is from Mark Twain's writings. This is a good opportunity to b r u s h up on k n o w l e d g e of an American writer, who, according to one A critic, ". . . now occupies a niche little lower than that of Lincoln himself."

Explaining National Defense Loans The National Defense Student Loan Program was authorized by congress as the National Defense Education Act of 1958. This act provides for the creation, at American colleges and universities, of loan funds from which needy undergraduate and graduate students may borrow on reasonable terms for the purpose of completing their higher education. How Funds Are Established Congress appropriates funds for the purpose of the National Defense Student Loan Program. Funds are alloted among the States and the outlying areas of the United States in the proportion of total full-time college enrollment in the .State or outlying area to^ t o t a l full-time United States college enrollment. Within each State or outlying area, these funds are distributed among all participating colleges and universities on the basis of institutional requests. A participating college or university is required to the creation of its National Defense Student Loan Fund a sum equal to at least one-ninth of the amount contributed by the Federal Government. These joint contributions thus constitute the Loan Fund at this institution, and the responsibility f o r its administration therea f t e r rests with the institution. Within conditions prescribed by the act and by regulations issued by the U.S. Commissioner of Education, the institution itself selects student recipients, arranges the loans, and is responsible for their collection. Eligibility Since each participating institution is responsible for determining the eligibility of a candidate for a loan, a prospective borrower must apply for loan

assistance at the financial aid office of the college of his choice. The law requires t h a t each borrower be a full-time undergraduate or graduate student, that he be in need of the amount of his loan to pursue his courses of study, and that he be, in the opinion of his institution, capable of maintaining good standing in his chosen courses of study. The law further provides that s p e c i a l consideration in the selection of loan recipients be given to students with a super-

ior academic background who express a desire to teach in elementary or secondary schools, or whose academic background indicates a superior capacity or preparation in science, mathematics, engineering, or a modern foreign language. Terms of Loan The student must sign a note for his loan. He may borrow a maximum of $5,000 during his college career but not more than $1,000 in any 1 year. The repayment period of the loan begins 1 year a f t e r he completes (Cont'd on Page 4)

First Recital of the Year Is Given By the String Quartet The Hope College Faculty String Quartet will present its first recital of this school year on Sunday, October 30, at 4:00 in the Music Building Auditorium. The program will consist of the "Allegro di Molto" from Joseph Haydn's Divertimento a tre, for horn, violin, and 'cello; String Quartet No. 2 (1957), by t h e contemporary American

composer-critic Virgil Thomson; and the Horn Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 407, by Mozart. Members of the Quartet are Morrette Rider and Wanda Nigh Rider, violins; Charles King, viola; and Peter Kleynenberg, 'cello. Hornist Albert Schaberg will join the group in the Haydn and the Mozart. Everyone is cordially invited to attend.

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The quartet features Morrette Rider, violin; W a n d a Nigh Rider, violin; Peter Kleynenberg, cello; Charles King, viola.


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