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...Perry Miller, professor of American Literature; W. V. Quine, professor of Philosophy; Susanne K. Langer of Connecticut; Lewis Mumford; Sidney Hook of N.Y.U.; Ernest Nagel of Columbia; I. I. Rabi, Nobel-prize winning physicist of Columbia; Detlev W. Bronk, president of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; John E. Burchard, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, co-sponsor of the conference...
...sometimes fear," M.I.T.'s liberal arts dean, John Ely Burchard, says of engineering students, "lest in the necessary pursuit of their education they shall not have time to develop a sense of proportion about the whole society." In recognition of this fear M.I.T. will inaugurate a five-year study program next year whereby students may simultaneously earn both a science and a liberal arts degree...
When Winston Churchill accepted an invitation to speak at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949, a Harvardman asked John Ely Burchard, now M.I.T.'s dean of humanities and social studies: "How did you persuade Winston to speak to those steam fitters of yours?" As Burchard well knew, there was a mite of truth in the joke, in spite of mighty efforts already made to broaden the humanities curriculum. Was the nation's top technical school still giving its students too narrow an education? Last week the M.I.T. faculty formally approved a new experiment that may eventually answer...
...fact is, says Dean Burchard. that schools like M.I.T. have long faced a dilemma. The traditional four years is simply no longer enough to give the nation's future engineers and scientists a proper technical training as well as a balanced education. Last week, M.I.T. had high hopes that it may at last be getting near a solution...
...Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Roswell Burchard ("Roddy") Perkins, 27, the youngest presidential appointee of the Eisenhower Administration. Perkins, who went to Washington from New York last fall as an adviser on social security matters to HEW Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby, was spotted for a comer on his record in the 1952 campaign when he headed "Youth for Eisenhower" in four eastern states. At Harvard (Class of '47) "Roddy" Perkins played end on the football team, later edited the Harvard Law Review. He wrote in his class book: "I look upon the future with considerable optimism...