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...MIT’s reputation. “Especially because Duke lacrosse scandal happened [last spring],” he said. “I pointed out that this wasn’t exactly the best publicity that MIT would want.” MIT junior Lawrence F. Bronk, one of SEX-C’s creators, told MIT’s student newspaper that the proposal began as “a joke,” but now serves as a lesson of what can happen when people don’t participate in their residential affairs. The meeting...
Died. Dr. Detlev Bronk, 78, former president of both Johns Hopkins and Rockefeller Universities and founding father of American biophysics; after a brief illness; in Manhattan. An advocate of curriculum reform, in the early 1950s Bronk inaugurated the Hopkins Plan, under which qualified undergraduates were allowed to take courses at the university's graduate school. He transformed the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research into a university by adding a graduate program that gave no grades and conferred only doctorates. He staffed it with a brilliant faculty that outnumbered the student body by 2 to 1 when he retired...
Remaining Small. Under retiring President Detlev ("Del") W. Bronk, 70, the research center became a university as well. To inject "the vitality of youth that students bring," Physiologist Bronk set up a small graduate school in 1954, a year after he became president; in 1965 he had Rockefeller retitled from an institute to a university. Resisting the expansionist impulse, Bronk has insisted that R.U. remain small in order to concentrate on "areas where we can really excel." As a result, R.U. "appoints" no more than 30 new students a year out of the 170 candidates recommended for admission by scholars...
...Angels. Across the flats of southern California hustles a big mean hog. Ape bars, twin exhausts, chrome on everything except the rubber, this Harley is doing a ton and still hot to trot. At the stomper sits Heavenly Blues (Peter Fonda), a cool fool dragging a black leather jacket, bronk boots, hair as long as a girl's, and a German Iron Cross. With his free hand, H.B. picks his nose and then thoughtfully scratches his crotch. On the stingy seat, wearing a grab-me sweater, sits his sheep (Nancy Sinatra). Behind them 20 other double-straddled sickles varoom...
...Harvard alumni received medals. Others were Detlev W. Bronk, S.D. '53; Aaron Copland, D. Mus. '60; Walt Disney '28 (hon.), M.A. (hon.) '38; T. S. Eliot '10; Walter Lippman '10; Ralph McGill, LL. D. '60; Reinhold Niebuhr, S.T.D. '44; Carl Sandburg, Litt. D. '40; Dr. Helen B. Taussig S.D. '59; and Dr. Paul Dudley White...