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...Officer lists as his other main achievements at Harvard the General Education program, the University professorships, the Graduate Center, and the fellowships for advanced training in journalism, public administration, and business. Conant himself feels that the two biggest changes in the College since he has been president are those wrought by the House plan and also by what he calls "the silent revolution"--the gradual invasion of Harvard's domain by Radcliffe. He notes, "If anyone had told me in 1933 that I would see the day when Radcliffe girls would be in almost every Harvard class. I would have...
...storm nevertheless wrought its havoc last weekend. Worse-it threatens to become a seasonal catastrophe. Let us therefore remember that eternal vigilance is the price of maintaining the glorious status quo. Herbert J. Spiro...
...machines had been set up so as to deprive the men of virtually all human contact with one another; lonely, they fell into melancholy and hypochondria. Mayo prescribed four daily rest periods when the workers could relax, brought in a nurse to whom they could complain. The change wrought by these two relatively minor steps was startling. Turnover immediately diminished; production for the first time reached the established quotas...
...short answer is that they have wrought no miracles. Atomic medicine has cured no disease that cannot be cured without it. But in five years there has been time to explore only a fraction of the new frontier-and meanwhile there have come discoveries in three directions that are worth cheering about...
...even if the money were forthcoming, the materials would be tough to get hold of. Where, off-hand, could the University pick up 9 1/2 miles of wrought-iron pipe (the necessary amount for a 190- by 85-foot rink)? New refrigerating processes make it likely that the University could buy up an old refrigerating plant of some commercial rink which is converting, but in spite of this lucky break, the pipe situation still is unsolved. Nine and one-half miles is an awful lot of pipe; especially with government restrictions on materials...