Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After visiting the universities at Kiev and Moscow, Bergson finds them "still centering their economic education on Marx." The curriculum is primarily ideological, and tends to train secondary school teachers rather than economic planners. Partly as a result of this, Bergson maintains that "planning continues to be technically on a primitive plane...
Physics concentrators at the University of Moscow outnumber their Harvard counterparts ten to one, according to John H. Van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy...
...Vleck, a member of the five-man Harvard team sent to the universities of Moscow and Leningrad in February 1959, praised Soviet work in physics, stating that it had equaled the American level for the past ten years...
Reports on Russian science by him and Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, confirm the growing dominance of physics and mathematics in Russian education. Out of Moscow's 18,300 undergraduates, more than 2000 are physics majors--the "big men" on Russian campuses...
...surprisingly different. They point to the comparative lack of the big, roundish, dark "seas" that are so common on its known face. The area newly pictured shows only one really big sea, which the Russians named the Sea of Dreams. A smaller sea they named the Sea of Moscow, and to several craters they gave the names of Communist or Russian scientist heroes. (Discoverers of lunar features have long been privileged to name them as they please, and it seems likely that nearly every major feature on the moon's far side will have a Russian name...