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395 Summer Graduates Part Of A Record Graduation Class Of 1,719, University Of Dayton

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The University of Dayton's third and final diploma service for the 1966-67 school year will be held Sunday, July 30, with 395, including 92 graduate students, receiving their diplomas. The service will be held in the UD Fieldhouse at 2:15 p.m. The 395 graduates will bring to 1,719 the number of men and women who have received diplomas for the 1966-67 school year. This is a record graduation class at the University.

Basic Improvement Grant Awarded To The University Of Dayton

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News release announcing the Allied Health Profession Educational Improvement Program has presented the University of Dayton's College of Arts and Sciences a Basic Improvement Grant to be applied to Medical Technology and Dietetics curriculums.

"Write Me A Murder" In Rehearsal By The Dayton Players

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News release announcing the University of Dayton Players, under the direction of Professor Raymond Mullins, are practicing "Write Me a Murder" to be presented sonn in the Boll Theater.

Rev. George B. Barrett, S.M. Named Director Of Bergamo

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News release announcing the University of Dayton's Vice President Rev. George B. Barrett, S.M. has been named Director of Bergamo, the Pope John XXIII Center of Christian Renewal.

Miss Francis Share Receives Five Graduate Fellowships

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News release announcing Miss Frances Share of the University of Dayton has been offered five graduate fellowships to further her studies in the field of Biology.

Engineer Refresher Course To Be Conducted At The University Of Dayton

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News release announcing the University of Dayton Special Sessions Department and the Dayton Society of Professional Engineers will sponsor an Engineering Refresher Course as an intensive review of engineering fundamentals.

Seven Tuition Grants-In-Aid To Be Awarded To Police Administration

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News release announcing six policemen and one policewoman, from the Police Administration program, will receive tuition grants-in-aid from the University of Dayton.

Dayton Civic Ballet To Perform At The University Of Dayton

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News release announcing the Dayton Civic Ballet will perform in the Ballroom at the University of Dayton.

Seventh Summer Sequential Institute At The University Of Dayton

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News release announcing the seventh summer sequential institute for high school mathematics teachers is being conducted at the University of Dayton.

Seventh Annual "Business Systems And Data Processing" Workshop At The University Of Dayton

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News release announcing the seventh annual "Business Systems and Data Processing" workshop, designed for business education teachers, will be offered by the University of Dayton.

Incoming Freshmen Receive Scholarships For The University Of Dayton

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News release announcing the incoming freshmen at the University of Dayton who have earned competitive, Marianist or Dayton Area Scholarships.

Six To Participate In General Chapter Convention

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News release announcing six member of the Society of Mary, Cincinnati Province, will participate in the General Chapter convention of the society in Friburg, Switzerland.

Consumer Education Workshop Conducted At The University Of Dayton

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News release announcing the University of Dayton will conduct a Consumer Education Workshop aimed toward welfare workers, staff workers from charitable organizations of all faiths, teachers and ministers from low income areas and staff people from the Office of Economic Opportunity.

Eighth Annual Concert Under The Stars To Conclude

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News release announcing the eighth annual Concert Under the Stars will conclude with the Dayton Municipal Band.

Continental Cuisine Polish Dinner To Repeat

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News release announcing another Polish Dinner will be put on by the University of Dayton's Continental Cuisine Club including a full polish menu and song and dance.

Rev. Joseph H. Zeinz Elected Director Of The Service Bureau For Teachers Of The American Classical League

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News release announcing professor of the classics, Rev. Joseph H. Zeinz, has been elected Director of the Service Bureau for Teachers of the American Classical League.

Two Noted Guest Lecturers And A Tagalog Teacher To Come To The University Of Dayton

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News release announcing Dr. Samuel Shepherd will lecture at UD's summer institute in the History of the Negro in the United States. Mr. Norman Grahl will speak to members of the educational media institute. Mr. Rafael Papa will teach Tagalog to members of the Spanish institute.

Faculty For Seventh Annual Business Systems And Data Processing Workshop Announced

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News release announcing faculty members chosen for the seventh annual Business Systems and Data Processing Workshop which is designed for business education teachers and administrators on the high school or college level.

Exhibit Of Nature Scene Paintings Displayed In John F. Kennedy Memorial This Month

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News release announcing Rev. Lawrence J. Tebbe's nature scene paintings are being displayed in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Union at the University of Dayton this month.

The Alcoa Company Awards The University Of Dayton With Money To Establish A Scholarship

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News release announcing the University of Dayton has been awarded with $1,000 by the ALCOA Company to establish a mechanical engineering scholarship for the 1967-68 school year.

Overcoming The Obstacles To Counselling Research, Marion F. Belka S.M.

University of Dayton Review

The author of this article, Brother Marion F. Belka, S.M., is Vice President of St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, and President of the National Catholic Guidance Conference.

From Frazier To Dale Cooper: The 'Behavioral Engineering' Of Human Learning, Nathaniel J. Pallone

University of Dayton Review

Among the varied contributions made by B.F. Skinner in a long and distinguished career is the renascence of interest among educators in self-instructional devices issuing from the application of the principles of Skinnerian operant conditioning to human learning situations. Professor Skinner received the A.B. from Hamilton in 1926, the M.A. in 1930, and the Ph.D. in 1931 from Harvard. Between 1936 and 1945, he served as a member of the University of Minnesota faculty, becoming chairman of the department of psychology at Indiana University in 1945 and professor of psychology at Harvard in 1948. His principal books include The Behavior …

Ralph Barton Perry, The Moralist As Critic, Ira S. Steinberg

University of Dayton Review

Ralph Barton Perry took his undergraduate work at Princeton and his graduate work at Harvard, where he was awarded the doctorate in the field of philosophy in 1899. During the first decade of the present century, he gained recognition as a leader of the New Realism, perhaps the most significant product of which was his "Ego-centric Predicament," published in the Journal of Philosophy in 1910. His most prominent publications were Present Philosophical Tendencies, 1912; General Theory of Value, 1926; The Thought and Character of William James, two volumes, 1935, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize; Puritanism and Democracy, 1944; …

Maria Montessori, John R. O'Donnell

University of Dayton Review

Dr. Maria Montessori was born in Italy in 1870. At the age of 24 she became the first woman to receive a medical degree from the University of Rome. As assistant physician in the psychiatric clinic of the University of Rome, she became interested in the learning ability of mentally and physically atypical children. Her interest in this field was furthered by her reading of the success of Dr. Edward Sequin, a French physician, who was doing extensive work with the education of [people with learning disabilities].

Dr. Montessori founded the Orthophrenic School in Rome in 1898 and carried on …

A Tribute To Brother Louis J. Faerber, S.M., On The Occasion Of His Departure From The University Of Dayton To Assume The Post Of Educational Supervisor Of The New York Province Of The Society Of Mary, Joseph J. Panzer S.M.

University of Dayton Review

In analyzing the full, rich, varied career of a successful person, is it possible to point the finger unerringly at his greatest single achievement? In the case of the man whom we are honoring tonight, it is not at all improbable that history will one day indicate that the comprehensive Self-Survey of the University which he inspired and directed in 1956-57 was his finest accomplishment. For on the strengths and weaknesses revealed by that searching appraisal, and on the sound recommendations that followed, the University has based the planning and decision-making that have made it the greater, the more mature, …

Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel: Unity And Creativity, Lawrence J. Sorohan

University of Dayton Review

Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel (1782-1852), the son of a clergyman, was born in Oberweissbach, Thuringia, Germany. He was educated at Jena following an apprenticeship in forestry. Later he worked with an architect before teaching. He visited Pestalozzi's school at Yverdon in 1805 and again in 1808. He opened his first school in 1816. In 1826 The Education of Man was published; it is considered to be his most important work. Froebel first used the name “kindergarten” for his school in 1840.

The author of this article, Lawrence J. Sorohan, is a former member of the faculty of the University of Dayton. …

Edward Chace Tolman's Sign-Gestalt Theory Of Learning, M. Michel Keenan I.H.M

University of Dayton Review

Edward Chace Tolman was born in West Newton, Massachusetts, on April 14, 1886. He studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1915. He afterward taught at Northwestern University until 1918, then at the University of California, Berkeley, until retirement in 1954. His major work is Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men (1932). The entire bibliography of his writings is found in a 1951 publication entitled Collected Papers in Psychology. Another biography and bibliography of Tolman is found in the American Psychologist volume 13: 155-158, (1958). Tolman died in Berkeley, California, on November …

Thinking Critically And Teaching Critical Thinking, George S. Maccia

University of Dayton Review

At the outset I wish to acknowledge that the argument employed in this paper is derived from The Idea of a Social Science by Peter Winch. Extensions relate to what I believe is the significance of the argument for critical thinking and teaching critical thinking. I shall set forth the argument and its significance as answers to the following questions:

1. What does it mean to say that one follows a rule?
2. What does it mean to say that one knows a rule?
3. What is the context for critical thinking?
4. What are some criteria of critical thinking?
5. What might we do …

The Marian Philatelist, Whole No. 31, A. S. Horn, W. J. Hoffman

The Marian Philatelist

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Operation Motivate Program Is A Successful Venture

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News release announcing the six-week program, Operation Motivate, has been deemed a success in the first three weeks.