Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commonly accepted reasons for leaving college are not applicable to the Harvard student. He is expected to, and usually does, complete his college training within the normal four year program. To a greater extent than at most other colleges, Harvard's four year program is a formalized, patterned period of time. At many other colleges, only about 25 per cent of the original entering class graduates; and many of its members do not graduate with their class...
...thus exert their legal right to watch such U.S. coastal phenomena as missile tests at Cape Canaveral, thus present the U.S. Navy a legal opportunity to test antisubmarine hunter-killer techniques of sonar, radar, camera and what Navymen call "the Mark I eyeball" on real, live Red Star targets. Extent of U.S. submarine activity off Russia's shores: not known but presumably reciprocal...
...mathematics is the tool of the natural sciences, and the fact that the Report neglected it to the extent it did indicates that the Committee was not fully prepared to put general education in the natural sciences on a footing with the other two divisions. The program in natural sciences is set up with such a low standard of achievement that a man can leave the College knowing a little high school algebra and plane geometry, having an idea of the biological developments through history, and nothing else. It is possible to graduate from Harvard with no conception whatsoever...
Science, to a greater extent than other disciplines, carries its past along with it. Whereas in humanities, for instance, the ideas of Plato are of considerable relevance today even though they are not included in the work of modern theorists, this is not the case in the natural sciences. Modern quantum theory contains a great deal of the older work of Newton, Laplace, Poisson, Hamilton, Jacobi, and Bohr. Indeed, a present concept of the physical truth is but a modification, reforming, and improvement of older ideas...
...from the outside. Hoover has written a primer-in a sense a how-to-do-them-down-yourself book. It does not claim the philosophic depth of Theodore Draper's The Roots of American Communism (TIME, March 18, 1957), which argued that the party was to some extent a native heresy grafted onto the root stock of American radicalism, but it is valuable as a sober piece of accountancy by an official whose job, among others, is to help protect federal property -including the Constitution...