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...advance. In its 248 pages, 23 articles, 179 illustrations were innumerable facts about the world's second largest metropolis, two striking conclusions. The conclusions: 1) many do not enjoy living there, although almost no one would want to move away; 2) "The transfer to Washington of the basic ideas concerning the economy has reduced the New York financier to the status of a highly paid clerk. ... It is scarcely a heroic role. And it is scarcely a role upon which to sustain-let alone increase-the power of a great city. If New York had never played a more...
This week California's Stanford University holds a centennial celebration to commemorate one of the greatest events in the history of science: the discovery that cells are the basic units of all living tissue. Until this principle was established it was no more possible for biology to progress than for chemistry to progress without knowledge of the atom...
...tail. For in the U. S. S. R., according to the New York Times'?, Harold Denny, "any theory that implies hereditary superiority is anathema." Yet no Soviet anathema has fallen on Darwinism, whose theories (of natural selection and survival of the fittest) are premised on hereditary superiority. The basic researches of Mendel and Morgan, which the students explicitly to-helled, have less to do with superiority than with the actual mechanisms of heredity...
...worst thing about the situation is that it seems to represent the fruit of what Mr. Conant once called his "basic policy." Just what the basis of this policy is we are not quite sure. If it is solicitude for the tribulations of young faculty men which has led him to accept the Committee of Eight's suggestion that the rank of assistant professor be eliminated, did the President have to move with speed that was never anticipated by that Committee? If budgetary difficulties complicate the situation, why does he not adopt the Committee's suggestions for a more flexible...
...adoption of a "militant creed directed to a specific goal," as Germany has done, he found, would lead to he abandonment of "almost all of those basic concepts of the integrity of human life--liberty and individuality. To me there is no escape from the dilemma...