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...pluralistic society. Instead, the Doty Committee turns to a vague ideal of flexibility. The Generally Educated man who has taken its new courses is not prepared for participating in a democracy so much as processing his own perceptions. He learns what it is like to put on the biologist's thinking cap or the musician's or the anthropologist's. If he comes out of school dedicated to an ideal it is something he has picked up on his own time. In his courses he deals with analyzing problems...
...Today's biologist is bringing together the disciplines of the chemist, physicist, mathematician and many others, achieving thereby the unifying concepts of the cellular activity. We are entering a new world," Berry said, "as one can see brilliantly exemplified at the Brigham...
...Marine Biologist Rachel Carson is mentioned only once in the U.S. Government's report on the use of pesticides. But its authors, sponsored by Presidential Science Adviser Jerome B. Wiesner, leave little doubt that it was Miss Carson who put them to work. Before her book Silent Spring appeared, they point out, "people were generally unaware of the toxicity of pesticides." Now the public is so worked up that the report issued last week seems at least partly designed to encourage legislation that will control, but not prevent, the use of valuable chemicals...
...Because a Harvard degree includes just sixteen courses, the scientist cannot take introductory courses in all the fields that look interesting. The creation of concentration in Biochemical Sciences, and in Physics and Chemistry, offers pragmatic evidence of scientists' need to know more than what the departments circumscribe. A elementary biologist with Math. 1 at hand, for example, might want to look at elementary thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to see what they offer by way of models of ecosystems. Such courses could perform some of the three Gen Ed issues as well: A course for physicists might teach evolutionary and genetic...
Where faculty freedom flourishes, professors who get fired are usually guilty of some act so flagrant that the president believes he can make the ouster stick. In 1960, University of Illinois President David D. Henry fired Biologist Leo F. Koch after Koch wrote a letter to the campus newspaper backing premarital sex among students. Said Koch: "With modern contraceptives and medical advice readily available at the nearest drugstore, or at least a family physician, there is no valid reason why sexual intercourse should not be condoned among those sufficiently mature to engage in it without social consequences and without violating...