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...Russian." At Florida's Melbourne High School, one lad recently gave a sample, in a scholarship essay, of the levels that high school research can reach: "Subjection of the eyed river fish Astyanex Mexicanus to total darkness produces hyperplasia and reduction in the relative number of pituitary basophiles." Caltech's awed President Lee A. DuBridge reports that most of his 1952 freshmen "would have flunked dismally in competition with our freshmen of today-except, of course, if the freshman of ten years ago could have gone to the high school of today...
Geologist Egon T. Degens of Caltech has all but destroyed this romantic notion. Taking samples from the interiors of two porous nonmetallic meteorites -the sort that are supposed to contain traces of "exo-life"-he ground the material and boiled it, first in water, then in alcohol, then for ten hours in dilute sulphuric acid. After that, he simmered his sample for 22 hours in hydrochloric acid. The well cooked extract contained a rich assortment of chemicals characteristic of living organisms, including amino acids and simple sugars...
...Flexibility. In contrast, the groundswell trend in U.S. education is not only greater opportunity, but also less narrow specialization. Russian universities cannot match the efforts of M.I.T. and Caltech aimed at preventing graduates from becoming technologically obsolete almost overnight. At M.I.T., for example, the entire curriculum is being broadened to emphasize underlying principles, a systems approach, and even humanities. The goal: men who can roll with the future...
...lure is Lowell's topflight faculty and such courses as calculus, advanced biology, five foreign languages, outstanding English composition. While 21% of San Francisco high school students as a whole go on to four-year colleges, the average for Lowell is 49%. Lowell graduates consistently win honors at Caltech, Stanford, M.I.T. and Harvard...
Autocrat Lovett shaped Rice for 34 years, gave way in 1946 to an impressive successor, Caltech Physicist William V. Houston (pronounced How-ston v. the city of Hew-ston). No backslapping money raiser, Researcher Houston had a dream financial setup going for him. Though it may some day require students to pay tuition, Rice grows fatter on oil income by the year. It never even badgers alumni for cash. When emergencies arise, Rice simply turns to its rich friends and trustees...