Word: ge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week one of the 13 so profoundly attached to the deposed Red stepped into his job. Socialist Francis Perrin, co-worker of Joliot-Curie's at the Collège de France, was appointed by the government, nosing out Jean Thibaud, director of the Institute of Atomic Physics at Lyon and member of the right-wing UDSR party. At the same time, the middle-of-the-road government, which is trying to carry atomic fission on both its shoulders, dropped Joliot-Curie's fellow-traveling wife Irene from the Atomic Commission. This was supposed to appease...
...GE committee justified itself for not including religious training by declaring that there were too many different faiths in America to allow the teaching of any one. Dr. Bonnell charged that such a stand was inconsistent with the offering of philosophy and political science courses...
...Paris, when Communist Scientist-Professor Frédéric Joliot-Curie walked into the Collège de France auditorium for a lecture on atomic physics, he was greeted with a volley of catcalls, stink bombs and firecrackers. By the time the cops arrived, the explosive students had disappeared...
...Russian Research Center and Walker House of the Faculty of Education will definitely be displaced by the GE. building. The Administration is currently discussing new locations for the two. It is believed that the laboratory will oust only University-owned private dwellings on Oxford Street...
Burchard also noted that the introduction of GE in earnest at M.I.T. this year apparently was popular with students of superior abilities. Less zealous or competent students tended to think of the Tech GE program as something that was chewing up their time while they were trying to become engineers...