Evening star., 1952-01-09
College Heads 70 HeaI
Dulles al Tonight's
Association Dinner

John Foster Dulles, Republican
foreign policy adviser to the State
Department, is among the speak
erS at tonight's dinner of the AS
sociation of American Colleges, to
be held at Z o'clock in the Hotel
Statler.
About 600 college presidents and
100 education board secretaries
and college deans will be on hand
for the event, part of the 38th
annual meeting of the associa-
tion, which started yesterday. The
American Conference of Academic
Deans is holding it's eighth an
nual meeting at the same time.
Another address tonight will be
made by Leroy E. Kimball, presi-
dent of the Association of Ameri-
can Colleges.
Earlier in the day, Senator Ke-
fauver, Democrat, of Tennessee,
was to address a luncheon.
Symposium Today.
Other events today were to be
a symposium entitled, "The Col
leges and Public Service" with
the following participants: DR.
George R. Stuart, president of
Birmingham Southern College;
DR.. Clarence R. Decker, president
OF the University of Kansas CITY:
DR.. Hunter Guthrie, president of
Georgetown University, and DR..
Arthur S. Adams. president of the
American Council on Education.
A commission on Christian
higher education was to be con-
Quoted by John A. Flynn. It will
include Bishop James H. Grifiths,
chancellor of the Military Ordi-
nariate; Clyde A. Miner, president
OF Guilford College, and chairman
OF the Research Committee: Raw
mond F. McLain, general direc-
tor, Commission on Christian
Higher Education, National Coun-
Gil OF the Churches of Christ in
the U. s. A., and Frederick G.
Hochwalt, secretary general, Ma
tlonal Catholic Educational Asso-
citation.
Accrediting Group Meets.
Yesterday the National Com
mission on Accrediting called for
the six regional accrediting groups
set up by colleges and universities
themselves to supercede the 300
odd agencies which the commits
sion claims interfere with the cul-
tural and professional goals of
educational institutions.
DR.. Cloyd H. Marvin, president
OF George Washington Univer-
slty and secretary of the commits
sion, told the college heads the
accrediting agencies insistence on
common standards" restricts the
work of faculties and usurps the
authority of the boards of trus-
tees.
Usually, DR.. Marvin declared,
their methods are outmoded and
call for too much duplication.
Charges made by the agencies
often put huge burdens on COL
leges, he continued, and the
money spent could be used to bet
ter purpose.
Recommendations Cited.
The regional accrediting groups
the commission recommends to
take over all accrediting on ian
lnStitution-wide basis" are:
The New England and Middle
States Association of Colleges and
Second Schools; the Southern and
North Central Associations of Col
leges and Secondary Schools; the
Western Association of Colleges
and Universities, and the North
western Association of Secondary
and Higher Schools.
If the American college is to
give spiritual and moral direction,
1t must take stand, it was con-
tended last night by the Rev.
John j. Cavanaugh, president of
the University of Notre Dame.
Another speaker was DR.. Frank
lin Clark Fry, president of the
United Lutheran Church in
America. He said equality and
respect for man belong to the
spiritual essence of democracy and
are fed by distinctly religious
convictions.