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Henry D. Aiken '40' associate professor of Philosophy, and Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, also addressed a crowd of approximately 400 people on the topic "The Moral Responsibility of the Scientist." Harlow Shapley, director of the College observatory, was moderator...
Aiken said, "If every scientist in the world would refuse to engage in research leading to the production of destructive arms, I would favor the plan...
This variegated collection owes its origin to Louis Agassiz, the renowned Harvard scientist, who migrated from Italy in 1847 and brought his zoological specimens with him. He first stored them in a shanty by the Charles, near the present site of Anderson Bridge, but by 1860 had collected enough funds from the Massachusetts Assembly, the University, and friends to build on wing of the present University Museum. The Zoological Museum, which has occupied that wing ever since, has ranked among the top zoological exhibits in the world. Fifteen rooms of stuffed and skeletoned animals comprise the public display; most...
Three professors will discuss "The Moral Responsibility of the Scientist" at 8:40 p.m. tonight in the second Law School Forum of the year at the Rindge Tech auditorium...
Important issues in the discussion tonight will be: the extent of political activity in which a scientist should engage; his duty as a mediator between the government and an uniformed public; what position he should take in educating the youth to an awareness of the scientific forces operating in the world today...