Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burst the chains. This three-volume monument by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead expressed the fundamental concepts of mathematics in terms of still simpler concepts of logic, and showed that mathematics may be viewed as a game of manipulating symbols according to rules. Since mathematicians can adopt any rules they want, the truths proved in mathematics can have no necessary connection with the world outside of mathematics...
...nights has been allotted to Harvard undergraduates. A Cliffe cannot invite a non-Harvard guest, even if she is willing to pay for his meal. Senior residents of smaller dormitories said that if their dining rooms become said that if their dining become overcrowded, they may also have to adopt this policy...
Fischer also recommends that the large universities adopt Swarthmore's system of experts from outside the college giving course examinations. He said this would provide a greater cohesion between faculty and students and would tend to reward those professors whose students performed well...
Martin Meyerson, acting chancellor of the University of California's Berkeley Campus, said yesterday that his office is studying the regulations of 16 universities--including Harvard--in an effort to adopt a "simple set of rules" for Berkeley. The results of the study will be made public later this week...
...success, has a new chairman-Gardner Ackley-and two relatively new members who have yet to prove themselves in their posts. As the President's first line of economic advice, the Council will bear heavy responsibility in the coming months for deciding what methods to adopt to keep the economy moving upward...