Word: basics
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...would expect substantial student interest in "the more openly political organizations." Nevertheless I believe that the greater interest shown in political clubs results from the personal ambitions of their members and not from desire to perform service for the Harvard community. This aim to to perform services should be basic to the Student Council, but is not important to "more openly political organizations"--until they decide to solicit votes for professional politicians or even student politicos...
...basic sciences--$14.5 million. About a dozen new professorships in the medical sciences will be created, and present departmental staffs will be augmented. Research exploration in such fields as the neurosciences, genetics, and biophysics will be supported...
...matter: how nerves are deadened by anesthesia. The discovery that such anesthetics as procaine and the Indian poison curare combine easily with the receptor protein, blocking the biochemical reaction, could lead to better anesthetics and more efficient drugs for treating disorders of the human nervous system. "One of the basic functions of human life is coming closer to being understood," said Dr. Nachmansohn...
...study reportedly stemmed from concern by committee members that the government, through its grants, might be distorting the basic functions of the institutions. The report also criticized the universities themselves for the division between teaching and research...
...Whether the quantity and quality of basic research...will be adequate or inadequate," the report added, "depends primarily upon the Government of the United States...