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As Radcliffe's fifth President, Mary I. Bunting pointed out in her Inaugural Address a year later, "The cartoonists did not precisely call the shots. They did not portray a white-coated figure shoving aside microscope and test-tube cultures to examine the culture on a woman's campus, a...
In order to measure the value of such tactics, Roeder and Treat studied 402 floodlit meetings between moths and bats. They noted which moths made evasive maneuvers and which were caught. "The selective advantage of evasive action," they concluded dryly, "was 40%, meaning that for every 100 reacting moths that...
Letters to the Administration have largely condemned the statement, according to William Bentinck-Smith, assistant to the President. Few have come from alumni, he said; rather, they have been sent mainly by citizens "deeply involved with the counter evolution."
Darwin's discovery of evolution, Freud's of the unconscious, and the manipulation of conditioned reflexes by social and psychological "engineering," he believes, have all tended to reduce man to the status of object rather than subject. "Yet the most pertinent question-who controls psychological conditioning and social...
In his senior year. Birch organized a secret "Fellowship Group" and set out to suppress a mildly liberal trend at Mercer. He and twelve colleagues collected examples of "heresy" uttered by faculty members (example: a reference to evolution), whipped up support among Georgia's Baptist clergy, finally forced the...