Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Donham praises President Conant's heavy concentration in chemistry as an undergraduate. As a result, President Conant passed his Ph.D. in two years. Agreed, this was excellent training for a professional chemist. But the reason that James B. Conant devoted several years to the study of poison gas rather than something more productive can be blamed on the many men throughout the world with the same idea as Dean Donham--the idea that it is not the duty of colleges to help men think their way through a difficult world by a process of mental development and broad acquaintanceship...
...R.A.F. may soon be eating Arizona carrots in preference to all other carrots on earth. The British Ministry of Foods last week impatiently cabled to University of Arizona Nutrition Chemist Margaret Cammack Smith for more details on her discovery that "Arizona carrots contain three to ten times as much carotene as the average carrot*-a discovery, said the Ministry, "of extreme interest and value...
...Chemist Smith is now trying to find whether Arizona's winter growing season, soil or sunshine is responsible...
Died. Dr. Thomas Herbert Norton, 90, chemist who studied European chemical industries while he was U.S. consul at Chemnitz, Germany (1906-14), returned home to compile the famed "Dyestuff Census," on which the beginnings of the domestic dye industry were founded during World War I when German dyestuffs were unavailable; in White Plains...
...requirements are not expected to hit many students, except those who are fanatics in their field. The chemist who spends four years in Mallinckrodt, never penetrating the recesses of Emerson, will be wiped out. Harvard men will continue to learn a little bit of everything, and so spread the gospel of liberal education after graduation...