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...most famous discovery of the late Percival Lowell '76--Planet Pluto--may not be a bona fide planet after all. Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory has declared to the scientific world that Pluto is not a planet, but instead only one of Neptune's satellites...
...document the Statistical Section did recognize as the work of a bona fide traitor was a list of French military secrets that it ran across in September 1894. Historian Chapman ably retells the story of how, with a few slipshod handwriting comparisons, a War Office clique decided that studious, impersonable. wealthy and unpopular Captain Alfred Dreyfus was the logical culprit. Author Chapman argues that Dreyfus' court-martial and imprisonment at Devil's Island were mostly a tragedy of honest errors, not a conspiracy of racial malice...
...course no one can say with certainty how many students will want to come to Harvard fifteen years from now, but I would be surprised if we had then more than 5,000 bona fide first choice candidates with academic ability and personal qualities of the sort we were really interested in. Harvard's concern, as said, is with the top 5 per cent, which will mean probably about 200,000 students of the 18 year old group by the end of the 1960's. Of these more than half will be either girls or interested primarily in technical...
Five thousand may turn out to be too big or too small, but it seems to me a reasonable if generous estimate of the number of bona fide first-choice candidates of top quality we would be likely to get at the peak of the tidal wave. I emphasize it because I feel that the astronomical figures of total college enrollment which have been used so loosely have obscured the scope and nature of Harvard's problem and it is desirable to try to define as concretely as possible the magnitude of the pressure we will face...
...College expects complete student observance of its only automobile regulation, it must in all other respects continue to treat undergraduate car-owners as bona fide local citizens. It should, for example, reduce University parking fines so that they correspond to those of the city, and so that students would no longer derive a financial advantage from keeping their cars unregistered. More important, the Administration should renounce its vague policy of placing undergraduates on probation for indefinite parking violations described only as "flagrant." It should, in the words of the Council, "make a definite statement of the number and types...