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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...renaissance. He was originally appointed to a lectureship here in 1939, but was mobilized in the French Army in the fall of that year. After the fall of France, Professor Seznec returned to the United States. He has served on the faculty since 1940. Professor Seznec is a Docteur-es-Lettres of the University of Paris, and has taught at several institutions in Europe and in the United States...
...visit by a nephew to an uncle? But last week, when Hashimite nephew Prince Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq, went to call on Hashimite uncle King Abdullah in the dingy Trans-Jordan capital of Amman, many an Arab politician fidgeted. That the Regent's fellow traveler was Nuri Es-Said Pasha, perennial Prime Minister of Iraq (temporarily out of office), did not add to their comfort. Arabs suspected that a familiar bee was buzzing in the Iraqis' sedarah.* With British prompting, they thought, the Hashimite family was talking of uniting its holdings in a big Hashimite kingdom...
Today's 250 ES&AP concentrators acquire a much broader fundamental understanding of the physical sciences than the pre-war Engin. Sci. mon. They leave the level of "slide rule pushers," and although they may have to ask a lot of questions on their first few jobs, changing situations and techniques won't upset them...
Training those men is the aim of the department's top-notch scientists and engineers, such as Chaffee, Alken, Pierce, Mimno, and Berry, and the members of the Physics faculty which alternates with ES&AP in giving the courses common to both fields. The curriculum covers the whole range of engineering sciences, and covers it well, but ten full courses, eight and a half of them prescribed, must be taken within the department...
...undergraduate level, therefore, the program is essentially elementary. When the receives his S.B. degree, the ES&AP concentrator has a competent and intelligent understanding of all branches of engineering: electronics, mechanics, unclear physics, thermodynamics, and a strong groundwork in mathematics. But he has done no advanced work or specialization...