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Polish-born Count Alfred, a U. S. resident since the War, during which he was on the Russian general staff, is the founder of the new science of General Semantics (lately popularized, superficially, by Stuart Chase). His Science and Sanity, published in 1933, is its most profound and practical textbook. A renowned engineer and mathematician, Korzybski is respected by scientists also for his contributions to psychiatry, psychology and other sciences...
Lewis and Clark were explorers who had a lot to do with the development of the western part of this country. Lewis Carroll has had an equally profound effect on imaginative fairy tale writing through his "Alice in Wonderland." To this latter Lewis has come a new Clark to make up what may become a second, a literary "Lewis and Clark," whose fairy tale explorations may be linked together just as naturally as the two early American pioneers. This new Clark is Harry Clark, a research associate in physics at Harvard. Last week Harry Clark's first children's story...
...provide the spiritual uplift for which chapel is intended, only the best men from outside and from within the university can be chosen. All cannot be as profound and as stimulating as Dean Matthews, nor as interesting as Professor Hopper. But in proportion as better choices continue to be made, so will the University community, which is always ready to recognize merit as it is to ignore mediocrity, respond with greater chapel attendance...
...believe it is a very excellent idea to have the Noble lectures especially for university men". Dean Matthews said, referring to Dean Sperry's reversal of the usual practice. "They lectures I gave ten years ago were so very profound and highbrow...
...snakes, frogs, toads, turtles, alligators, gophers, Gila monsters. Some months ago Rochester's psychology department chairman, Dr. Leonard Carmichael, left to become president of Tufts College. He was replaced by trim, twinkly, soft-spoken Elmer Augustine Kurtz Culler, formerly of the University of Illinois, who has made profound studies of the "conditioned response" and whose specialty is the mechanism of hearing in mammals. By last week Dr. Culler had finished installing his battery of gadgets and he was able to show Rochester newshawks how he determines the threshold of hearing in a dog, cat or guinea...