Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mystery element in the tournament is the host team, Rochester University. Rochester had a 13-3 record last year and has almost the entire team back--eight lettermen. But their competition wasn't too kood. Last Saturday they won by 12 points over the same Amherst team that Harvard best by 26; that indicates that Rochester may be a cut below the other teams in the tourney...
...Elder committee finally recommended that the element of student choice be preserved, but that the degree to which the Masters of the Houses were involved in the process be reduced. It recommended that Dean Watson's office handle most of the assignment procedure...
...French playwright Jean Genet, an ex-thief and pederast who boasts about it. "Genet's statement that 'the only criterion of an act is its elegance' is virtually interchangeable, as a statement, with Wilde's 'In matters of great importance, the vital element is not sincerity, but style...
...difficult to say what has made Bloch so successful in one of the most baffling fields of modern inquiry. According to him, the element of chance has played an enormous role in his work. "Biochemistry is still a fairly new subject, and so progress is often a matter of intuition rather than logical deduction." He does admit however, that important notions occur most frequently to the prepared mind. "Success in science is an awareness of relationships. Every once in a while you recognize that two facts you have known all along are not isolated by have some logical connection...
...awards are no incentive to the scientist, is human welfare? "No," says Bloch. "If a challenging intellectual problem bears on one of the main social problems confronting mankind, the researcher is pleased." But, he says, the consequences of research are seldom a powerful element in the motivation of the scientist. "In my case, the motivation was simple curiosity. I was puzzled by a chemical structure--before it was even thought to be detrimental to health--in the same way that a jig-saw puzzle is intriguing, and I wondered how it all came about...