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...night, after registration day was over and a buffet dinner had been served, the alumni trooped from the Harvard Club to the Metropolitain Opera House to attend a symposium addressed by Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory; Francis T. Spaulding '16, Dean-elect of the School of Education; Dean Donham; and Bruce C. Hopper, associate professor of Government...
...There is disturbing evidence that our capacity to produce new and potentially destructive instruments of power has outrun our capacity to control and direct them for constructive social ends." Dean Donham declared. "In 1989, industry spent some $215,000,000 on pure and applied science. The job was to find new products and processes and the result was to atimulate and accelerate social change
...burden of adjustment lies partly with the scientists themselves. Dean Donham stated; they must "consciously direct scientific thought toward social problems." But more important in his opinion are the responsibilities of government administrators. Here "the scope of political action must be clearly defined." Detailed control of business, in his opinion, requires great bureaucracies, which in return require a dictator with "power to break through the coils of red tape if the machine is to function...
...responsibility of labor in solving the problems which modern science has thrust upon us, Dean Donham said, "cannot be discharged merely by tactical skirmishes to secure temporary advantages for one group at the expense of others. It will not be discharged by blind opposition to technical progress, which alone can establish the basis for permanently higher standards of living...
...conclusion Dean Donham warned against the disastrous results which, lacking the cooperation he asked, might come about. "If free and orderly civilization is not to disappear in the face of constantly accelerating change, a greater sense of responsibility and a better basis for human collaboration must be discovered and put into effect. A discontented democracy cannot survive. We have no time to waste...