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Cops to Kids. Corfam is already one of the most tested and complex chem ical substances ever created. Porous, scuff-resistant, water-repellent, shape-retaining - the properties are an ad writ er's dream - it is basically a combina tion of polyester and polyurethane made into sheets resembling leather by an incredibly intricate process. Before put ting its shoes on the market, Du Pont passed out 19,000 pairs to human test ers who ranged from the Newburgh police force, through its own salesmen and secretaries, to kindergarten kids...
...girl at the Barnard bells desk greeted the night's chaos with disinterest. She had her Chem 1 problems to do. "Besides," she said, "it's only Halloween...
...reasonable hour when concentrators in the Humanities arise and CRIMSON editors stagger to bed, the offerings grow luxuriant. Professor Lord will give special attention to ritual songs, myth, ballad, and folktale in Comp. Lit. 110, "Introduction to Folklore." And while Chem. 20 hurtles onward, Chinese 30, open to freshmen, will cover the more important texts in Chinese thought...
...sciences come back strong now with new Bio. 115, Astro. 1 ("Stars"), Chem. 1 ("Black Magic") and Chem. 11 ("Black Magic for Magicians...
...COHEN comments: I could not concur more heartily in Professor Wald's hope that the attitudes of General Education are invading the departments. But the evidence is that Gen Ed has yet to establish a beachhead in the Introductory course offerings in mathematics, physics, and (excepting possibly Chem. 2) chemistry. Whatever the reasons for the absence of the Gen Ed spirit (e.g., the importance of graduate students, the highly formal substance of a field), funneling non-concentrators into an introductory course might bring about explicit discussion of the "relevance" of the field, and at the very least would assure...