Word: contently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knowledge is interesting; but to Mrs. Carlson, it means little that two Harvard Medical School researchers studied porphyria patients to find out whether a major change in the porphyrin content of their skin takes place before or after exposure to sunlight. Dr. J. W. Burnett and Dr. M. A. Pathak examined two victims and three healthy subjects, both after long confinement indoors and after exposure to the sun. In the people with porphyria, output of porphyrin compounds rose sharply after exposure to the light; the others showed no change. Sunlight, the doctors concluded, increases the concentration of porphyrin...
Webster is still not terribly strong, but Sister Jacqueline's talent for attracting top scholars is pushing it that way. Troubled that most elementary teachers get too much training in method and too little in subject content, she set up a new series of courses to turn out specialists in mathematics and French. She asked Robert B. Davis, professor of mathematics at Syracuse University, to direct her math project at precisely the same time that Physicist Zacharias was trying to lure Davis to M.I.T. Sister Jacqueline won, and Davis goes to Webster College every other week on a flying...
Begun last year as a way of adding a program of serious intellectual content to traditional class reunions, Alumnae College is a day long symposium whose theme this year is "Desegregation...
...distinction of its college history: a freshman year which began auspiciously with a fine, successful riot, and a junior year which included one of the best riots of the century. But the other years were also, in their own way, exciting ones for President James Bryant Content's second Harvard class, and the world into which '38 graduated continued to provide another kind of excitement, though more formidable and grim...
...steady population growth will prevent that. But the leveling off of demand means stiffer competition all around. Apartment buildings have sprung up so fast in such metropolitan areas as New York, Denver and Chicago that builders are forced to offer special inducements to prospective tenants and must be content with higher vacancy rates than in the past; apartments in Manhattan luxury buildings are going begging and some landlords are offering concessions of up to six months' free rent on a three-year lease...