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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"One can consider the French revolution as the cradle of the systematic method in modern scientific endeavor," Professor Richard Courant, the eminent mathematician, told his Lowell House listeners Friday night.

Author: By Martin J. Broekhuysen, | Title: Mathematician Traces Scientific Procedures To French Revolution | 5/22/1961 | See Source »

And, they say, Loeb Director Robert H. Chapman is in an impossible position. Answerable to both the students and the Faculty Committee, he has been forced to walk a tight-rope all year. As a result, he has had to adopt a conciliatory, rather than positive, attitude. Students were not...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Actors, Directors Strongly Criticize Loeb's Administrative Organization | 5/11/1961 | See Source »

Unlike many of his eminent colleagues, Dr. Dawson presents a specific remedy as well as a diagnosis, in The Crisis of Western Education (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), published last week.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christianity as Culture | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Last week's ceremony of the gold-headed cane harks back to 1689, when Dr. John Radcliffe, physician to the co-sovereigns William and Mary, carried a 40-in. Malacca cane, topped by a crutch-shaped gold head. At Radcliffe's death, the cane was passed on to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Gold-Headed Cane | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

For Israelis, the arrest of the eminent Dr. Israel Beer as a Communist spy just when they were trying to focus everyone's attention on the Eichmann trial was bad enough. But last week they learned that Dr. Beer was not the man they thought he was, and, furthermore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: The Great Impersonation | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

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