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...current issue of the Alumni Bulletin is featured an article written by J.M. Crowther, scientific correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. The author visited Harvard last spring and gave a course of six public lectures on "The History of American Science...
Entitled "Harvard Looks Ahead" Crowther states that the "combination of willingness to experiment and pursue a progressive policy with immense facilities and conservative prestige inspires a hopeful belief that the future of Harvard will be even more interesting than its past...
...back up this statement the author cites many examples of how the college is forever pushing ahead. He picks out particularly the academic policy of President Conant by which the progressiveness is expressed. To Crowther the two feaures of this academic policy are the establishment of "roving professorships" and Conant's interest in the cultivation of accurate press reporting of the progress of learning...
Important also to Crowther is the encouragement offered for the study of the history of science and learning. In this field the author states that Harvard has in Dr. Sarton, "the most learned of the historians of science...
...through Central Square. Danny Cheever's voice carries to the back of the bus, "Who's this guy Reidy?" Crowther says something to Bill Coleman. Torbert MacDonald says something to Ryan. Ryan observes how both Timmy Russell and Bob Stuart are making the trip. Through the back window. The other bus has disappeared...