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...complex organisms only after following the evolutionary development of progressively higher forms of living and intent matter from the fundamental particles. Wald's conclusion is not that this approach has something for everyone, but the best for everyone. His belief derives from a conversion of values over the last fifteen years: he finds that biology is better woven into the scientific unity of the universe than into simply historical fabric. Thus physics and chemistry come into the course occasionally so that the biology is teachable mainly at the molecular level...
...Fifteen teachers of English, history, science, and social studies from high schools scattered throughout the country will spend next year at the University as John Hay Fellows...
...Kennedy's attempt to conjure with the ghost of Bright. The Free Trade philosophy is not an American growth, for the simple reason that America is not a trading country. Last year, America's trade amounted to only three per cent of her GNP; England's exceeded fifteen per cent of hers. (This helps explain why the unprincipled British will trade with Rel China; America can afford her high-minded refusal to do so.) Even if an expansion of exports were the only effect of the Bill, it probably wouldn't make much of a dent in America's economy...
...brother. The music teacher wanted to organize a quartet and needed a 'cello; also, one day I had seen a 'cello standing in a corner of my teacher's living room. For some reason I was attracted to it." So it happened that the violin teacher began reserving fifteen minutes at the end of each lesson for work on the 'cello...
...three years after the young musician won a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Philadelphia Orchestra dismissed all of its German players, among them a 'cellist. Leopold Stokowski happened to hear Eisenberg play, and engaged him. He was just fifteen, easily the youngest person ever to play in an American orchestra. "I had to lie about my age to get a union card," muses Eisenberg. "I said I was seventeen...