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Succeeding chapters describe informatively and entertainingly Conant's 12 years in the White House. There are those who believe him one of the great political figures of the 20th century. This little, unbending college president and scientist was a true maker of history. He found the spirit of the country low and immediately transformed it into the likeness of his own sprightly soul. Despite his unusual success as head of the government he remained an educator first and always. One of his initial moves was the inauguration of a night-school for legislators "to save the English language from humiliation...
...Colorado, the fur flew. The cause of the commotion was a grey, chunky, 75-year-old woman, who stumped up & down the state, making three speeches a day, buttonholing businessmen, doctors, politicians, writing letters morning & night. Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, "the greatest living woman scientist" (according to Dr. Simon Flexner, late famed director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research), was out to reduce Colorado's shockingly high death rate from disease...
...either fade from the scene altogether or yield to the pressure of what they confess is an inevitable trend. Odds are on the chance that all men now in College may graduate as a Bachelor of Arts, or at least as a Bachelor of Science who is a scientist . . . . but, regardless of the outcome, the modern student would be as much the loser if he did not hear the classicist's defense of Latin or Greek as the soul of education as if he chose to ignore Plato's theories of government...
Atomic energy brought the social scientist face to face with the natural scientist as guests of the University over the weekend, with 109 savants primarily from the Boston area, gathering to tussle with the problem of government control. One tangible outcome was the appointment of a permanent committee of nine as continue the investigation...
...pointed out that under the McMain Bill passed just before the adjournment of Congress, President Truman is authorized to appoint the head of the Commission. Higinbothem asserted that Truman is unable to find a leading scientist to assume the responsibility...