Word: experimental
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In order to "make more effective use of talent and facilities," Quincy House and Holmes Hall will experiment "with an informal affiliation" beginning this Fall. But, unlike the recently announced association for joint tutorials between Winthrop House and Comstock Hall, Quincy and Holmes are affiliating to "provide a natural and...
The 1960 cost of this program, said NASA Director Glennan, will be $485.3 million, and he warned Congress that future bills would be higher. "The cost of our space programs," he said, "will increase year by year. We expect that satellites will be widely used in meteorology-witness the Vanguard...
According to M. Stanley Livingston, Director of the Harvard-M.I.T. joint Cambridge Electron Accelerator, the magnificent scientific achievements of the past International Geophysical Year have failed miserably in the field of international public relations. The key lesson of the world-wide experiment--that in science as in politics, trade...
Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster House, called the visit an experiment which, if successful, might establish a precedent for a continuing faculty exchange between the two Houses. He stressed the importance of "informal contact between students and the visiting professor."
But the present Natural Sciences program does not seem the best way to endow the student with this basic knowledge. The non-science concentrator must be introduced into the process of hypothesis and experiment and must realize that the claims of science are limited: that measurement is always inexact; that...