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Died. George Edward Moore, 84, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, author (Philosophical Studies, Principia Ethica), whose neorealistic philosophy influenced Bertrand Russell; in Cambridge. One historian of philosophy called him the "greatest, acutest, and most skillful questioner of modern philosophy...
President Emeritus James B. Conant stressed the importance of giving prestige to two-year colleges in a recent speech at Syracuse, N.Y. Connected with the problem, he noted, was the college pressure existing in the high schools of metropolitan New York...
James B. Conant, President Emeritus of Harvard University said Tuesday night that an intensified language program, rather than increased scientific training, is the major need of American secondary schools. Conant saw no need for a stepped up program of science education at the high school level...
...Meyer has put in 40 years as a specialist in bird and animal diseases, most of the time at the University of California's Hooper Foundation for Medical Research, of which he is director emeritus. There he developed an effective way of keeping parakeets free of the psittacosis virus by frequent injections of chlortetracycline (Aureomycin). But the injection method was costly and impractical for most budgie owners. Backed by Manhattan's Hartz Mountain Products Corp. (bird feeds and medications), Dr. Meyer spent three more years finding an effective way to impregnate the birds' feed with the antibiotic...
Bard College Cyrus Eaton, industrialist LL.D. Henry M. Wriston, president emeritus, Brown University LL.D. John Kenneth Galbraith, economist and author LL.D...