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...course Holton said, grew out of a suggestion by James T. Dakin '67. The Department now offers individual instruction in Physics 90, Dakin said yesterday, but there is still a need for discussion meetings to promote an exchange of ideas between professors and students...
When he proposed such meetings a month ago, Dakin added, faculty members "jumped at the idea." Yesterday, eight undergraduates and four professors met to plan the seminar...
...specific topics to be discussed have not yet been determined. Dakin said, but the group is considering a careful examination of five or six important scientific papers. Holton yesterday mentioned a study on nuclear physics by Enrico Fermi and a paper on relativity by Albert Einstein as possible topics...
...News for Tennessee, who nevermore comes to St. Louis. The house where Hazel Kramer lived was torn down last year, and a medical center now stands in its place. Dakin pointed the house out to me once saying: "That used to be the home of the only girl my brother ever loved." Dakin knows most of his brother's lines by heart and needs no prodding to act them out. He takes great pride in his brother's achievements...
...Thomas Lanier Williams was born in 1911 in his grandfather's rectory in Columbus, Miss. He and his older sister Rose absorbed their mother's lofty sense of status as the daughter of a clergyman in Delta country. Tom loved to tag along after the Rev. Mr. Dakin on parish calls and listen to the conversations. "Tom always was a little pitcher with big ears, and I think he still is," says Mrs. Williams. Years later, until the old man died at 98, Williams kept his grandfather with him six months a year, took him to Key West...