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...novelist and distinguished civil servant, but more because the lecture said things that were on everybody's mind. It mirrored the academic community's disquiet over a sense of division within itself, and met a prevailing current of thought favoring some sort of inter-disciplinary ecumenical movement. Snow's Godkin Lectures on "Science and Government" fill no such need and will probably not have the same kind of effect, and as an admirer of Sir Charles, I would like to record my disappointment. The saving grace of the series was not the ideas presented, for these were points that either...
...group arrived in Boston Monday. their periodic visits to Cambridge attended a lunch Wednesday with from the Russian Research and spent Thursday afternoon Robert Frost, and dined that night Adams House. Three went to C. P. final Godkin lecture, while held a long discussion with students...
Snow's renown did not come from his novels originally, but through science and government, the subject of his Godkin Lectures. He was born in 1905 in Leicester, a provincial city in England. His family was not well off, and Snow made his way by his brains. He studied at University College in Leicester, working in chemistry and graduating with First Class Honors. His work was brilliant and soon took him on to Cambridge where he continued his research in infra-red spectroscopy and was elected in 1930 a Fellow of Christ's College. At this time, while publishing scientific...
...major industry." He thinks that the lecture attracted a great deal of attention because it expressed what everyone was thinking: "Nothing that's snapped up as rapidly as that can be original." But, whatever the reason, the subject has taken much of his time and with this year's Godkin Lectures to worry about also, he has done little writing...
...second Godkin lecture on "Science and Government," Sir Charles picked up the threads of narrative where he had left off: with the conclusion of his historic "parable" concerning two English scientists and their portentous . His purpose in using the parable was to show how it is that in advanced societies, "a handful of man make secret decisions which determine in crudest sense whether we live...