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President Conant, glooms Porter Sargent, started out as Harvard's head "with the naivete and boldness of a scientist," but soon "sacred cows were jostled'' and today Conant has subsided "to the dead level of mass alumni opinion." Sprightly, 66-year-old Porter Sargent criticizes President Conant most severely for keeping as head of Harvard's sociology department Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin, whom he calls a pseudo-scientist, a defeatist and a reactionary. "Harvard is maintaining him in a position of influence where he is misguiding and frustrating American youth. . . . The sociology department is the White Russian...
...years: he has taught Chemistry 5 every year since 1912, when he came to Harvard after 20 years of teaching at Bryn Mawr. One of the first two graduate students who studied with him was James B. Conant '14, who also worked under him during the war. As a scientist, he was outstanding--his work in unsaturated organic compounds is internationally known and respected--but it was as a teacher and a man that the unique quality of his personality made itself most felt...
...explanation of why scientists remarry more quickly than others is obvious (TIME, May 9). Scientists are the most helpless of men. Twenty-five years lived in the faculty end of a university town leave no doubts in my mind. So-when his wife is gone-by death or desire-the scientist gets him a new one-or he can't work...
...Health: "If there is one thing that Taurus likes better than a big juicy steak it is the money with which to buy another one. . . ." Vocation: "Taurus is the sign governing the throat and vocal organs. ... It gives a deep, low voice, with soft, mellow tones. . . ." For a scientist's findings on astrology, see TIME, May 16. Let TIME readers who are interested in astrological parallels reread TIME'S story on broad-faced Orson Welles...
Astrologists claim that mysterious vibrations from distant stars influence human characteristics and abilities. Like every other scientist in good academic standing, Psychologist Paul Randolph Farnsworth of Stanford University views this claim with extreme skepticism. Last week he reported a statistical check of the horoscope makers on one specific point...