Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administrators, moreover, are quick to point out the advantages to Annex students of even the limited amount of independence which the sister school still maintains. The most obvious is the smaller size of Radcliffe which permits a greater degree of warmth and friendliness between students and administrators than can exist in an institution the size of Harvard...
Without analyzing individual courses, it seems fair to say that the educational means employed are perfectly suitable, once the validity of a lecture-system is admitted. All sorts of variations in the lecture-section pattern exist...
Another recourse would be the creation of a great many more junior colleges than now exist. President emeritus Conant has advocated this plan, claiming that a considerable number of the people that now go to college are interested in nothing more than be gotten out of a two year course. Furthermore, about half of the nation's college students, he maintains, drop out after two years of study...
...Gold admit that every experiment tried so far has shown the two kinds of mass to be precisely equivalent, but they think the apparatus used may have been biased in favor of equivalence. Anti-matter,* they point out, is just as respectable as ordinary matter, but none of it exists in physical laboratories, or in the solar system, or even in the Milky Way galaxy. Since it turns into a flash of energy when it encounters ordinary matter, the nearest place where antimatter could exist permanently is in a foreign galaxy made entirely of it. In this case it would...
...great deal more than their share of the global fallout. Biological concentration is even more disturbing. Grazing animals skim the fallout from large areas of grass, and it concentrates in their flesh and milk. Sea animals do the equivalent. Biologists fear that many such concentrating mechanisms may exist unsuspected. This is one reason why the U.S. Public Health Service is starting to inspect U.S. milk for undue radioactivity. West Germany is doing the same, and the Japanese are old hands at detecting radioactive fish...