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DIED. Derek Ernest Denny-Brown, 79, New Zealand-born neurologist, who as a professor at Harvard and chief neurologist at Boston City Hospital made pioneering contributions to research on the human nervous system, including the first description of degenerative changes in nerves that result in cases of widespread cancer, and the theory that an insufficient supply of blood to the brain can lead to strokes; of cancer; in Cambridge, Mass...
...chancellor of the sprawling State University of New York during the early 1970s, Ernest Boyer often met with angry students who demanded the abolition of required courses. Boyer disagreed. But he also took seriously complaints that "general education" courses (courses supposed to be broad enough to benefit all students) were often little more than rehashes by junior faculty members of their recent Ph.D. dissertations. He still does. "Students have not abandoned general education," Boyer concludes, "general education has abandoned them...
NONFICTION: Ernest Hemingway...
CLAIMING THAT "America has been caught with its defenses down," Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.) has asked Congress to reinstitute the military draft. Few give his bill much of a chance of reaching President Reagan's desk, but Hollings has succeeded in stirring the blood of some Capitol Hill hawks. Bolstered by the president's hesitance to eliminate the existing registration program, draft fans believe that the atmosphere in Washington will accommodate a renewal of compulsary service, if not this year, then perhaps next. As we have stated many times in the past, a military draft...
...Robert P. Bergman, associate professor of Fine Arts: David Dressler, lecturer on Biochemistry and Biology: Melvin Joel Konner, associate professor of Biological Anthropology: Joel Porte. professor of English and American Literature: Raymond Siever, professor of Geology; Paul Starr, assistant professor of Sociology: Tison Street, associate professor of Music; and Ernest E. Williams, professor of Biology...