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...criticism of modern education is that outside of the physical and mathematical sciences, it tends to become more and more cowardly in its finding of facts and less and less courageous in the exploitation of such facts as it finds. Whereas the physical scientist boldly builds his breathtaking, ever-broadening structures upon precisely exact measurements extending far within the ten-thousandth of an inch, our social and political scientists tend constantly to broaden their basic concepts out of all semblance to necessary foundational depth ... In its progressively and ever more involved search for truth, socalled, the mind of our typical...
Over all of the realms, Elizabeth II will reign but not govern; as a constitutional monarch, her political rights were classically defined by Political Scientist Walter Bagehot in 1867, as three: "to be consulted, to encourage, to warn." In addition, as Sir Winston Churchill remarked, "she is also heir to all our united strength and loyalty . . . Thus we go forward, moving together in freedom and hope, spread across the oceans and under every sky and climate though...
...other men slated for degrees are still unknown, but usually reliable sources have mentioned five men as likely choices. They are: Grayson L. Kirk, political scientist and new president of Columbia University; General Matthew B. Ridgway, recently nominated Army Chief of Staff and retiring Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe; Willard L. Sperry, who is retiring after 31 years as Dean of the Divinity School; Winthrop Aldrich '07, banker and new Ambassador to the Court of St. James; and Paul H. Buck, retiring Provost of the University...
...commission, and found them "true." Shiniest button on the Reds' false front was Cambridge University's Professor Needham, whose summary of achievements fills 5½ in. in the British Who's Who, and who reads and writes Chinese (he was once attached as a scientist to the British embassy in Chungking). But Needham himself has admitted that the commission operated unscientifically...
Doctor Skinner and I are pleased with the feature article describing our work which you printed on Thursday, April 16th. This article written by Mr. Sutton represents a high standard of cooperation between reporter and scientist in the difficult communication of scientific data to the layman. News handling of this sort will bridge the threatening gulf between the technical scientist and the interested citizen. Ogden R. Lindsley...