Word: sinnott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sinnott, 18, smashed seats, uprooted radiators and unhinged doors in a Los Angeles theater, to prove that he deserved a part in a new Superman film...
Said grey, spindly Director Edmund W. Sinnott: "Science is modern, popular and dominant. It needs no special pleaders.... It cannot help being tempted to a certain arrogance and a conviction that the keys of truth are in its hands alone. [But] logic and reason are no monopoly of science. . . . Science regards a human being not as a soul which may be saved or lost but as an exquisitely constructed physicochemical mechanism. ... To many thoughtful minds the gains of science are secondary and superficial things...
Weird Mysteries. As head of Sheffield (he is also president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science), Dr. Sinnott presides over a school that grew out of a dank laboratory, 15 feet below the ground because the architect was fearful of "the black arts, explosions . . . and weird-like mysteries" of chemistry. The cellar lab was built for Professor Benjamin Silliman, the father of scientific teaching in the U.S.-whose name was frequently honored at Sheffield's centennial last week...
...Whole Men." When Botanist Sinnott took over famed Sheffield School two years ago, it became a graduate school only. But he is partly responsible for Yale's recent decision to require undergraduate liberal arts students to take broad courses in the goals and methods of science; and to require science majors to study the humanities...
Yale's scientific program is designed to put in practice the warning Dr. Sinnott gave his fellow scientists last week: "The sciences must be taught not as a privileged and superior discipline but as parts of a great whole and against the background of all human knowledge. Only whole men can save the world today...