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...very limits. She sees no reason why Radcliffe should follow Harvard's policy of making Houses as similar as possible; she is avoiding central direction in the creation of the Houses, not so much, one suspects, because she fears an error of judgment as because she has a geneticist's respect for separate units evolving separately...
This is no Brave New World deliberately presented as a nightmare by a novelist, but the proposal outlined last week in all seriousness by Nobelist Hermann J. Muller to the American Institute of Biological Sciences. It is medical progress itself, said Indiana University's Geneticist Muller, that has made such steps not only desirable but necessary. In former days, he argued, the harsh processes of natural selection kept the human species on the upgrade, but now modern medicine keeps alive the bearers of defective genes and enables them to reproduce...
...Bunting brought more than the skills of a distinguished microbiologist to her new job. The mother of four children, she described herself as "a geneticist with nest-building experience." Since 1955 she had held the top administrative post at Douglass College, a division of Rutgers, and shown herself an energetic leader in tackling the problems of women's education. Arthur S. Adams, President of the American Council on Education, declared that President Bunting's inauguration marked "a new beginning in the life of a great college...
...others: Ethnographer Antonio de Almeida, 61, Portugal (Roman Catholic); Chemist George de Hevesy, 75, born in Hungary, now living in Sweden (Roman Catholic); Physiologist Sir John Carew Eccles, 58, Australia (Roman Catholic); Geneticist Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, 71, England (Church of England); Chemist Giordano Giacomello, 71, Italy (Roman Catholic); Victor Francis Hess, 77, Austrian-born physicist who taught (1938-51) at New York's Fordham University (Roman Catholic); Chemist Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, 63, England (Church of England); Domenico Marotta, 74, director of the Superior Institute of Health, Rome (Roman Catholic). There are no Jews because, according to Academy...
...Architect Christopher Wren and Lawyer William Blackstone of Commentaries fame, to Britain's turn-of-the-century Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, and three viceroys of India (Curzon, Chelmsford, Halifax). Typically, the Fellows lean heavily to law and history. Only recently did All Souls elect its first modern scientist. Geneticist (specialty: butterflies) Edmund B. Ford, but the belated-ness of this honor fails to disturb Warden John H. A. Sparrow, a former barrister. "Is it more important to be like everyone else," he asks, "or to be like yourself...