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...therefore a noteworthy event when in the fall of 1962 Franklin Ford, the new Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, appointed the eminent chemist Paul M. Doty to chair a committee to reexamine the Gen Ed program. Ford's action was a sign that the evolution of the college over the past 20 years has thrown General Education into disarray and again brought into question the purposes of undergraduate education at Harvard...
...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...
...made for many sharper, less brotherly elbows. Besides, as automation displaces many straight clerical jobs, there is growing demand for skilled, creative people?and a growing willingness to take them as they are. There is a thriving washroom and cocktail-party folklore about corporate togetherness (the oil company chemist who is instructed to buy only company gasoline, the assistant vice president being told what car he should or should not drive). At the same time, businesses are becoming sensitive and corporations...
...those who have opted out of civilization. Brenan wrote pieces in the manner of Rimbaud's Illuminations, and when other boys were crunching candy, he, with no more fuss or sense of sin, munched hashish. With characteristic simplicity, he had written for the stuff to a London chemist, who obligingly supplied the young collector of herbs...
...boards are hundreds of new buildings, including a twelve-story hospital. Science and medicine will dominate, with more than ten times the space allotted to "sciences of the spirit." Theology gets short shrift, says one architect, because "they'll never discover anything world-shaking." Beams Nobel-winning Chemist Otto Hahn: "Now the university will start to grow again...