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Hiken titled his winning entry, "Is Pipe Smoking a Mystery to You?" Boyd won the second place prize of $100 with "Plato on Leavitt & Peirce, one of his more recent dialogues." Two third prizes of $50 each went to Deborah R. Pavan '61 and Robert Reardon '62.
Sir Charles Snow's Rede Lecture, "The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution," reached an enormous audience on both sides of the Atlantic. This was partly because of Snow's reputation as a novelist and distinguished civil servant, but more because the lecture said things that were on everybody's...
The first two of the three lectures were a novelistic account of the "closed politics" in the historic feud between Sir Henry Tizard and F. A. Lindemann, Churchill's scientific adviser before and through the Second World War. The tale was told, as you might expect, superbly. Snow is a...
Most of his listeners would agree that Snow made his point. I would question, though, his assumption that such secret politics are in any way bizarre or peculiar to our own age. It seemed to me that what he was describing--committee maneuvers, the politics of hierarchy, and "court politics...
This is not to say that no problem exists, no conflict between expert and voter; obviously advances in technology have given all secret scientific decisions a kind of grisly finality, and the problem of trusting those who make them has assumed greater poignance than it had before. Snow, however, does...