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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Poole and Hopkins scientists are tailoring their show strictly for people who don't mind missing mugging Miltie. "There is a strong feeling among our faculty," says Poole, "that scientific advances have been so rapid in the past 20 years that people are confused. They don't know how these advances apply to them, or what they mean." To show what they mean, Poole uses a bag of tricks and props, from jars of Puffed Wheat (to demonstrate how electrons act), to a line of cocked mousetraps (to demonstrate a chain reaction...
Continuous creation? To many people the very idea seems startling or even shocking. Hoyle and his colleagues do not consider it so. It should not be more difficult to accept, they argue, than the common belief that the universe was created all at once in the distant past. In their own words, the hydrogen "just appears." Where it comes from they do not know, or if it comes from "anywhere" in the ordinary sense. Perhaps, they admit, man will never know. In any case, they leave to the theologians the capitalized word Creation to explain the genesis of the whole...
...Wilson's small crop of evaluations (Axel's Castle, The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow) is the hardiest, the most varied and the one with the best chance of preservation. His new book, Classics and Commercials, is made up entirely of pieces written over the past ten years. No U.S. critic now writing could gather so rich a harvest...
...hundred eighty one students took advantage of the School's lending program during the past year...
...past, professors have seldom left either of the two universities to accept a similar appointment at the other. The best-known transfer occurred 25 years ago when George P. Baker '87, professor of English, left Cambridge for New Haven after Yale accepted the gift of a School of Drama which President Lowell had refused...