Comparative Studies

CO-DIRECTORS for the College's newly-announced Center for Comparative Studies will be Prof. Francis W. Gramlich, Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, and Prof. Laurence I. Radway, former chairman of the Department of Government. The Center's purpose is to broaden the scope of the curriculum and to give students a better understanding of non-Western cultures.

Both Radway and Gramlich are on leave this year. The former is serving in the National War College in Washington, D. C., while the latter is doing research at the C. C. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland.

Pending their return to Hanover, President Dickey has appointed Prof. Henry W. Ehrmann of the Government Department as chairman of the Comparative Studies Planning Group. Other members of the Group are Professors W. Lee Baldwin (economics), Robert Landen (history), Lawrence Harvey (Romance languages), Kalman H. Silvert (government), Gresham Sykes (sociology), and Thomas Vance (English).

Plans for the next four years call for faculty members from various departments to be freed from about half of their teaching loads to participate in the work of the Center and thus gain increased awareness of the values, philosophies, arts, and institutions of non-Western societies. They in turn will be better able to bring into their courses the comparative approach to make their students aware of the history and values of the non-Western world. The program is being supported by a $675,000 Ford Foun- dation grant.