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...schedule. An average of three afternoons a week for three years must be spent doing largely uninteresting labwork. Dividends, however, are paid on this effort. The Chem concentrator upon graduation can not only go on to further study, but can also command a good starting salary as a research specialist...
Pease is retiring and Hammond is replacing him. Post, the only man ever to make summa cum laude in three subjects, is also retiring. Bloch, the medieval Latin specialist, will be on leave for the fall term, and Dow will be on leave for the spring term...
Jaeger, Finely, and Green are all well-known. There are also some very good young men, such as Elder, a specialist in Catullus' works...
Actually the College offers one of the finest preparations in the country to a man who wants to go on to advanced, particularly theoretical, work or research in this field. Many graduate students in Physics claim that, while technical colleges are fine for specialization along the way, the non-specialist professor--or research-aspirant can do no better than Harvard...
After asking advice from eminent friends, Boyer decided that a creative scientist must be "an all-round man, not a narrow specialist . . . This type of man is the one best able to leap barriers between fields, to borrow techniques, to synthesize new concepts." Besides many-sidedness, the productive researcher should have "the ability to see the relationship between apparently unrelated facts, the ability to appreciate the significance of the unobvious." He should have "intense curiosity combined with intense skepticism." His motivating force should be "the esthetic satisfaction he obtains in bringing order out of chaos...