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Just over a week ago, President Truman regretfully accepted Lilienthal's resignation. This loss leaves the AEC looking for a chairman to carry it through what will probably be a tremendous period of expansion. We are now committed to an atomic armament race until some sort of an international control is created. This means increased production and hopped-up bombs; rumors of a six-times-more-powerful-than-Nagasaki weapon have been indirectly confirmed by the forthcoming Eniwetok tests. Electric generators run by atomic piles are well off the drawing boards; so are propulsion units for ships and even aircraft...
...Harvard's view of business education is the notion that "one must learn to do by doing." Years ago in 1908, when the School first opened, its leaders decided to minimize the study of facts, rules, and routines, and that's the way things have stayed ever since. Meanwhile, what started as a modest, small-scale "problem method of instruction" has evolved through the years into the School's famous "case system...
...weeks ago, a Virginia power commission received two requests for permission to build power plants. One was from a private company which wanted to build a dam; the other was from a public company that was planning a steam generating plant. Both groups are planning to serve the same area...
...Student Council sub-committee on food took a guided inspection tour of the Kirkland House control kitchen yesterday noon. This was one of the field trips taken since the Council investigation of the Dining Hall situation was instigated two weeks ago...
Ralph Sutton came cast from St. Louis two years ago for a short New York contract, and just stayed. His unique approach to ragtime piano and his remarkable repertoire have kept him popular. Customers at Condon's, once wont to chat through intermission piano and save their attention for the antics of Bruins, now treat the band with a conversational scorn but restrain themselves to gentle hell taps while Sutton experiments between sets...