Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sterling Hayden, a country-boy from Boone County, Kentucky, is ridden with city dirt. He doesn't care much for the ladies (principally Jean Hagen) but admits a weakness for horses. "Math luck's just gotta change," he observes, but one fears that it never does. As farm boy turned...
V.F. Weisskopf, Morris Loeb Lecturer for the spring term and one of Rabi's lifelong friends, was in "complete agreement" with Rabi. "The real value of science for our civilization is that it aids man to understand his environment. The public has lost its understanding of science's philosophical importance...
Added Bronk: "In the spirit of research we will endeavor to preserve a flexible educational pattern and an adventurous environment for our students. We agree with Abraham Flexner, the great educator . . . 'As a democracy needs intellectual distinction, it would be fatal to exhibit too timorous a spirit.' "
Outward to Humanity. Marc loathed conflict of any kind. Man, being a creature in and of conflict, therefore revolted him. "Early in my life," he once explained to his wife, "I found man ugly, and animals seemed to me lovelier and purer; but even in them I discovered so much...
Something approaching the importance which undergraduates attach to their studies and to extra-curricular activities is depicted in Weller's book, however. Brant, the young, troubled assistant professor going nowhere, and unable to "find" himself in the role of an educator, is pictured with a right amount of pity and...