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...University of Washington has been in commons and bitter uproar for two months over the ban on talks by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and the subsequent cancelling of two lectures and two scientific conferences. The faculty senate has condemned President Henry Schmitz' veto of lectures by the atomic scientist, students have petitioned, and Schmitz himself has refused to discuss his reasons for the ban. Efforts by some members of the faculty to find a compromise have now partially succeeded--with a two-sided statement expressing faith in the president as a supporter of academic freedom and disagreement with the decision...
...nonsense approach and her relentless slicing away of extraneous issues in solving such epic equations as whether a contestant is a rabbit poacher or a gravedigger by trade. Says Moderator John Daly admiringly: "Dottie follows a logical, syllogistic construction: she is more of a technician and a scientist in her approach." The only other quizzer to come close to equaling her eager beaverability is Florence Rinard of Twenty Questions. Cinemactress June Lockhart of Who Said That? has been described as a "walking encyclopedia," but she lacks the determined Kilgallen pounce...
Ichthyologist Carl Hubbs, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has been writing the history of California's climate as far back as 2000 B.C. Five years ago, studying water temperatures off Lower California, he camped at Santo Tomas, and with a true scientist's curiosity about things that did not directly concern him, he dug into an ancient Indian camp site and turned up the shell of a cryptochiton, a large, limpet-like mollusk...
Most liberal arts colleges have for years recognized the importance of speech training in college education. Many engineering and technical schools, realizing the scientist's difficulty in making himself understood, have also required speech courses of all students. Harvard's own speech program is shoddy in comparison. While good written expression is given the utmost concern here, general teaching of clear, concise speech habits is almost neglected. The University offers only three courses in public speaking. One of these cannot be taken for credit; another is limited to fifteen members. None of these courses, all taught under the English Department...
...Alexander Fleming looked at a little glass dish in which he had been growing some staphylococci (the germs that flourish in boils) and saw that the culture was "spoiled." A kind of claim-jumping mold had moved in and started its own colonies among the staph. A less observant scientist, or one more fussy about keeping a tidy laboratory, would have thrown out the adulterated growth. But Fleming's keen blue eye noticed a peculiarity: around each patch of mold growth was a bare ring where the staph had not been overgrown or crowded out but had nevertheless been...