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...integrating the three separate departments, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning into a single School of Desing. He brought Gropius to the school in 1937, when Gropius was one of the world's most famous architects and educators, the man who developed multiple dwellings and expanded a new concept of functional beauty in the Bauhaus at Dessau, Germany, from...
Over 300 scientists last night came to hear two Harvard men and a University of Chicago professor speak on the question. "Is the concept of Science different in Biology from what it is in the Physical Sciences?" In this symposium, the first meeting of the Boston Society of Biologists held at M.I.T., President Conant spoke for the chemist, Dr. Philipp G. Frank, lecturer on Physics and Mathematics, represented his fields and Dr. Paul Weiss, professor of Zoology at the University of Chicago, took the biologist's viewpoint...
...speakers agreed that there was need for biologists who set forth theories that come out of biological observations alone and that did not immediately draw upon the standing physico-chemical web of concepts. Historical examples were drawn to show that a "boldness and courage of this sort" had been fruitful in stimulating more research. Eventually the unrelated concepts had fit into a scheme that was made consistent with schemes in other fields, the speakers commented. Genetic theory was given as an example of this sort of bold concept that was not at first built on existing physico-chemical bases...
Some excerpts from the cover stories: "Modern man has become accustomed to machines with superhuman muscles, but machines with superhuman brains are still a little frightening." "The Pentagon ... is simple in concept and organization, infinitely complex in detail; a marvel of systematic sense when the system is mastered, a mire of confusion when...
...Nazi cynicism and brutishness, and the background of its sources of support contribute little to Fischer's broad thesis save the services of a none-too-satisfactory illustration. There is nothing, for instance, in the tragic gyrations of Vlasov's army that leads one to the all-important concept of Inertness. Nor did Fischer have to explain the expatriates' every motion to prove that, as a result of confusion rampant in the Kremlin during the invasion's initial stages, authority collapsed, taking with it all semblance of organization, resistance, and loyalty. Nothing more than enumeration of the many defections during...