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Engineers have long known that the turbofan is the most efficient engine for subsonic aircraft. Rolls-Royce pioneered turbofan development, turned out a prototype of its famed Conway by-pass engine in 1950. But U.S. enginemakers, under pressure from the military to produce regular jet engines that are more efficient at supersonic speeds, lagged behind...
...Tower panel with 75-watt lighting will be compared with another using 150-watt bulbs "to see whether the effect is any different," according to John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House...
...Conway denied a report by a local radio station that the 150-watt bulbs were a fire hazard...
...Conway objects to examination questions which "put the student in a box." "Frederick the Great was neither a great general nor a great politician; but he was a great king. Discuss." Often, he said, this sort of question leads the student to recount a set of specialized facts, discouraging any ideas except the lecturer's and leading the student to rely too heavily on the standard of academic expertise...
Assuming that Harvard students are intelligent enough to form their own conclusions, Conway attempts to make his exam questions "open-ended"--"Discuss Frederick the Great." This approach, he maintains, allows students to discuss their own ideas without restrictions, and shows them that the non-expert can hold valuable opinions...