Word: conant
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...ambassador was apparently more concerned with tanks than textbooks. They attempt in a rather general way to reassert the virtues of independent research and rigorous instruction. The third essay is written especially for the book, but it cannot be accused of originality, since it consists almost entirely of rehabilitated Conant programs, most of which have been better stated elsewhere...
...title essay is a superb example of intellectual propaganda in that it is aimed at convincing an intelligent audience without the labor of produing a potent argument. Dr. Conant's difficulty is not that he has no reason for supporting intellectual freedom and research in the University, but that he fails to answer the arguments of his opponents...
...author tells us that the Russians have abandoned complete freedom in favor of a "unifying philosophy" which all must accept. This proves, by implication, that freedom is a good thing, since Russian education is a bad thing. But Dr. Conant never discusses the possibility that the fault is not in the unifying philosophy per se, but rather in the universal acceptance of a philosophy incapable of encompassing experience, dialectical materialism. The premise is apparently that no philosophy can unify, a premise certainly needing defense...
Dean Bundy, chairman of the committee, in describing the report at yesterday's faculty meeting, said the committee was aware of recent criticism of the formula adopted by former President Conant on the advice of the famous "Committee of Eight." This plan established a fixed number of permanent positions on the faculty, distributed among the various departments by a rigid formula based on the situation...
...hottest spots in Washington is Eger (pronounced Eager) Vaughan Murphree, 57, an industrial research expert with little specific knowledge of missiles but an impressive record for getting results in engineering projects. No stranger to atomic weapons, Murphree was a World War II member of James B. Conant's scientific research and development committee, under which the Manhattan Project was launched to build the Abomb. Later Murphree supervised the design of a heavy-water plant in British Columbia and served as chairman of a group that helped develop centrifugal separation of uranium isotopes. Since World War II he has been...