Word: douglass
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Died. Andrew Ellicott Douglass, 94, eminent U.S. astronomer who partially eclipsed his heavenly studies by founding the new science of dendrochronology, a study that makes a timepiece of trees by noting the correlation between the thickness of their annual growth rings and yearly rainfall, from which he dated pueblos back to prehistory and predicted the next great Southwest drought would come in A.D. 2200; in Tucson...
Away from Heaven. In 1955 Mary Bunting was offered the deanship of Douglass College, the women's branch of New Jersey's state-run Rutgers University, and her decision was characteristic. She felt she had to show her children that people move on, even from "heaven." As it turned out, Douglass fascinated her. It was full of girls who were the first of their families to go to college-yet they really had no idea why they were there. Dean Bunting set out to promote "greater self-confidence. I didn't think these girls realized how able...
...Douglass. Mary Bunting first tried out her ideas for more confidence by letting the girls run their own multilingual course in world poetry ("It was a dandy"). She started part-time studies for married women, and made it a great success-while she herself did radiation research on serratia for the Atomic Energy Commission. When Radcliffe asked her to succeed retiring President Wilbur K. Jordan in 1959, she had doubts. Radcliffe seemed to be "cooking along," and her own campus needed help. But she saw a bigger problem: the low motivation of U.S. college girls in general. Radcliffe, "kind...
...political Left the Kraken has waked and has begun to treat America with a half-dozen bright, new lollipops: literate, exciting journals of opinion. The older liberal publications, such as the New Republic and the Reporter, still engender consistent flashes of excellence; a single dispatch of Douglass Cater is worth more than the sum of Advance's recent efforts. Even the conscience of the primitive right, the National Review exudes professional slickness. Surely liberal Republicanism deserves as much. It is a creed that puzzles me, but it appeals to many, and probably it is good politics. As explicated in Advance...
...Bunting brought more than the skills of a distinguished microbiologist to her new job. The mother of four children, she described herself as "a geneticist with nest-building experience." Since 1955 she had held the top administrative post at Douglass College, a division of Rutgers, and shown herself an energetic leader in tackling the problems of women's education. Arthur S. Adams, President of the American Council on Education, declared that President Bunting's inauguration marked "a new beginning in the life of a great college...