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Little can be said against the value of technical tools in economic analysis. Nor can the social scientist neglect the importance of a sound grasp of the study's principles and problems. But the stubborn fact persists that government and history concentrators criticize Economics A as more a menace than a means toward providing an admittedly desirable background. The graph-conscious approach, while clear to the average science major, sears a little above the head of the future historian or politician...
Clearly it is unfair to condemn the course hastily as of little or no value, for students uniformly testify that some of the light seeps through. But they are also quite uniform in their wistful comments on what might have been. Fortunately the problem of the confused social scientist grappling with a technical subject is not new. The Report on General Education clearly recognized it, and brought about the highly satisfactory reforms of the three Natural Science courses...
Other bouquets went to the Rev. Dr. William Howard Melish of Brooklyn, chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, to members of N.C.A.S.F. and half a dozen allied groups. Among them: retired Harvard Professor Ralph Barton Perry, ex-Ambassador to Russia Joe Davies, Atom Scientist Albert Einstein, onetime California Attorney General Bob Kenny (now national vice-chairman of the Progressive Citizens of America...
...more popular. Its 288-page anniversary issue proudly called the roll of such contributors as Henry George, Charles Darwin, William James, Havelock Ellis, John Dewey, Thomas A. Edison, Charles Kettering. By shrewdly aiming at the home mechanic who yearns for a speaking acquaintance with atomic physics, and the scientist who yearns for a handcraft hobby, PSM had become the giant in its oddly assorted field...
...South American scientist had ever been awarded such honors in the U.S. In Manhattan last week, Argentina's Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay was made an honorary fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. In Boca Raton, Fla., the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association gave him its first award for distinguished research. Eminent U.S. scientists acclaimed the shy Argentine "the world's greatest living physiologist...