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Although the italics are ours, the distinction should be clear: The Council's course, outside the concentrator's field, would subtract from the scientist's already limited number of "free" courses, while the original plan would have placed the course within his field, thereby counting for concentration. Even many science concentrators feel that courses in humanities and social sciences are more in keeping with the purposes of General Education than additional courses in science...
...Council's other major recommendation, already condemned by most Natural Science lecturers, is clearly impractical. It would increase weekly section meetings of the elementary Natural Science courses to two--one for technical information, taught by a scientist, and one for discussion led by a non-scientist. How a non-scientist can lead a discussion on science, how administrative complications can be surmounted, how discussion can be split from technical understanding--these basic questions the Council's report leaves untouched...
They agreed that the introduction of two sections, one devoted to technical knowledge and the other to philosophy, would not work. "You can't separate the discussion of the philosophical from the technical aspects, and I can't see how anyone could expect a non-scientist to teach the philosophy of science," said Leonard K. Nash '39, associate professor of Chemistry and Nat. Sci. 4 lecturer...
...beloved institute. A lingering gall-bladder infection sent him to the hospital. Blood began to escape from his aorta, the main artery. Shortly after midnight he muttered a few sentences in German. The night nurse could not understand, and the last words of the modern world's greatest scientist were lost. At 1:15 a.m. Albert Einstein, 76, died in his sleep...
...Years. Almost overnight, the Swiss patent clerk became the world's most famous scientist. Universities competed for him, and in 1912 he became a professor at the famed Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. In 1915 Einstein expanded his theory into the General Theory of Relativity...