Word: contained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their teachers and guardians. What do the young think, believe, and read? Who are their heroes? What are their ambitions? How do they see themselves and their time? These are some of the questions TIME'S correspondents asked; the masses of answers-plus the correspondents' interpretation-contain many clashing shades of opinion, but nevertheless reveal a remarkably clear area of agreement on the state of the nation's youth...
What was the origin of life on earth? Most biologists believe that it developed in a thin soup of organic compounds dissolved in an ancient sea. Today the seas contain no such stuff; if any is formed, it is at once destroyed by living organisms. But in the days before there were such organisms, molecules of sugars, proteins, etc. might have existed indefinitely. When two of them came in contact, they might join to form a larger molecule. Eventually, so goes the theory, a large, complicated molecule was formed that could grow by absorbing neighboring molecules and could also reproduce...
Professor Seymour Harris writes about the financial plight of universities, pointing out the ways in which income has fallen and costs have risen. Two contributors discuss student withdrawal from politics and threats to academic freedom respectively. Both articles contain interesting information, but are not too sharp on analysis. Professor William T. LaPrade's article on hysteria--the political, not the psychological, kind--reiterates the stand of the American Association of University Professors on the right to teach, but does not contain much new material...
Shirley Laird '53, managing editor of the Yearbook said the new register would contain pictures and captions of all Annex freshmen. Copies will be ready by December and are available for members of men's colleges as well as 'Cliffe students. Cost per copy will be around fifty cents...
...volumes are part of an eight volume selection from T.R.'s correspondence, which is being edited by Professor Elting E. Morison '32, M.I.T. historian, and published by the Harvard University Press. The first two volumes, which contain letters written between 1868 and 1898, were published earlier this year...