Word: aikens
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Four new General Education courses will join the steadily expanding G.E. roster. Two are for Freshmen and Sophomores only: Associate Professor Henry D. Aiken's Humanities 5, "ideas of Man and the World in Western Thought" whose Great Books lean more toward philosophy than those of the other Humanities courses; and a course in biology with no scientific prerequisities. Natural Science...
WGBH, the Lowell Institute station, will broadcast a recorded speech entitled. "John Dewey, Great Philosopher and Great American" by Henry D. Aiken '40, associate professor of Philosophy, between 6:15 and 6:30 p.m. tonight...
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Truman's message provoked an immediate outburst in the Senate by Texas' Tom Connally. "This project would be built on foreign territory," he snorted. "I am very much opposed to it and my people are opposed to it." Vermont's George Aiken, a seaway supporter, declared that Connally should resign as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee if he planned to block a vote. Connally kept right on snorting: "For five months of the year [the seaway] would be frozen up as hard as the mind of the Senator from Vermont...
...Aiken scoffs at speculations that this "mechanical brain" will over approach the overall capabilities of the human brain, but believes that the computer will alleviate mental drudgery in the future, just as power-driven machinery relieved physical labors after the Industrial Revolution...