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...omniscient man, or, perhaps preferably into a man who can talk well at cocktail parties. It won't. For one thing, there is no General Education at Harvard today; there is just a collection of courses with which the Committee is experimenting, using current Harvard students as voluntary guinea pigs. For another, although many of the present G. E. offerings are excellent, they are still only courses, many of which were in existence long before the General Education plan was known, and they have to a large or small degree the failings of all courses...
...many tycoons at one time as he did last week at the Waldorf-Astoria. The bosses of Du Pont, General Motors Corp., General Electric Co., U.S. and Bethlehem Steel, Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Corp., the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and many another great industry came to eat breast of guinea hen with Forbes (at his expense) and get illuminated scrolls naming them "Today's 50 Foremost Business Leaders...
...Greene's "laboratory" is a guinea pig's eye. Delicately, he plants various types of foreign tissue in the pigs' eyes. Some "take" and grow. Sometimes the transplanted tissue becomes cancerous. Sometimes it develops the characteristics of functioning organs. Cancer specialists, who used to be skeptical, have begun to take a lively interest in Dr. Greene's work. Last week the doctor talked about it before a distinguished audience at the American Cancer Society's annual meeting in Manhattan...
Cancer tissue, as researchers have long known, can easily be transplanted from one mammalian species to another. When Dr. Greene grafted human cancer tissue on a guinea pig's eye (a nourishing and easy-to-watch site for experiment), the transplanted cancer thrived in its new environment. But his efforts to transplant normal adult human tissue to the guinea pig's eye failed...
That gave the doctor an idea. Under the microscope, one type of normal animal tissue-embryonic-closely resembles cancer. Dr. Greene planted some embryonic tissue in guinea pigs' eyes. It worked. In a guinea pig's eye, transplanted embryonic breast tissue gave milk, tissue from the testes produced sperm...