Word: generally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onerousness of using it, granted data which are sufficient. Beyond this is the second focus of interest, essentially more attractive and more stimulating. It centers upon the possibility of creating models of individual biological processes. Such models, both mathematical and material, have of course played a considerable role in general physiology,--as aids to the clarification and the concreteness of thinking, and as springboards for new experiments. Somewhat crudely put, but not unfairly the question has arisen: Do complex, fast, computation devices provide an effective model of mental processes, or even of one general class of human cerebral operations?--even...
Professor Howard Aiken, co-inventor of the original calculating machine, and Director of the Harvard Computation Laboratory had general supervision of the project...
...Harvard Corporation will supply the $1,000,000 needed to build the Commons Hall from general University funds, while the money for the dormitories is being raised by a drive among the alumni of the Law School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The project is to be completed in September...
After two post-war modern buildings by the University's traditional architects, Coolidge, Sheply, Bulfinch, and Abbot Harvard has turned to Groplus, and in a more general sense, to its own School of Design...
...with the West. Jordan quickly made the new school the intellectual center of the West. He led it through the troublesome early years and started its amazingly rapid growth. In 1915, Ray Lyman Wilber became president and completed the job of making Stanford a leading educational institution. He anticipated general education with a "lower division" program requiring a student to divide his studies for his first two years almost equally among the three general fields, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences. Donald B. Tresidder was president from the early thirties until his sudden death two years ago. His extremely friendly...