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...find almost anywhere one looks similar examples of the effect wrought in the curriculum and in the nature of the contemporary university by widening international awareness, advancing knowledge, and increasingly sophisticated methods of research. The revolution in nuclear physics came out early in our period. Since the thirties the electron microscope has opened new ways to study the chemistry of the cell. Space engineering has now broken upon us. IN field after field the application of contemporary mathematical and statistical analysis stimulates new research. And since World War II the whole globe has become of exciting interest to scholars...
Noteworthy among events of the academic year 1961-62 was the beginning of operation of the newly built Cambridge Electron Accelerator. This research tool spins bursts of 100 billion electrons around its race track 10,000 times in 1/120th of a second and then shoots them out into the experimental hall with an energy of 6 billion electron volts, the highest electron energy yet achieved. In so doing it creates a situation permitting scientists to peer more deeply into the nature of our physical universe, into the wonder world of particles and anti-particles, than have any of their predecessors...
This summary of the activity of the academic year 1961-62 began with an account of the new Cambridge Electron Accelerator, symbol of a scientific age. The University's involvement in science, in research and in the upper reaches of graduate and professional education will grow and strengthen in the years ahead--strengthen, deepen and lead on to increasingly intense specialization...
There is the further relevant consideration that if one is today to be active at all in the sciences, almost astronomical sums are required for modern laboratories and for the enormously expensive equipment which technological advance has made available to them. For example, the Cambridge Electron Accelerator itself, which is of interest as a research tool to only a very few members of our Physics Department, cost $12 million to build and will cost between $4 million and 5 million a year to operate. Funds of this magnitude are quite beyond the power of any university department to provide...
...beginning of operation of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator and the new computing center, it also witnessed the opening of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., and the center for Italian Renaissance culture at I Tatti. Pusey also noted that the largest single building effort the University has yet undertaken, the William James Hall, will soon provide a new home for the departments of Social Relations and Psychology...