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...eventually be able to abandon sexual reproduction entirely. That startling and perhaps unwelcome possibility has been demonstrated by Dr. J.B. Gurdon of Britain's Oxford University. Taking an unfertilized egg cell from an African clawed frog, Gurdon destroyed its nucleus by ultraviolet radiation, replacing it with the nucleus of an intestinal cell from a tadpole of the same species. The egg, discovering that it had a full set of chromosomes, instead of the half set found in unfertilized eggs, responded by beginning to divide as if it had been normally fertilized. The result was a tadpole that was the genetic...
Rumors swept New Hampshire's famed Phillips Exeter Academy one morning last week as the school's 766 boys were summoned to a sudden meeting. "The school is bankrupt," some joked. "Girls are going to be admitted," others hoped. When Principal William Gurdon Saltonstall, 57, uncoiled his towering frame (6 ft. 4 in.) and rose to speak, the news topped the rumors...
...Africa's biggest Peace Corps operation, which by fall will have 500 U.S. teachers in the schools and universities of Nigeria. "You'll have to find a new saint,'' he said, referring to his yearly custom of a surprise holiday that the boys call Saint Gurdon's Day, "but don't you dare forget your...
...William Gurdon Saltonstall himself went to Exeter, and was the tenth generation Saltonstall at Harvard, where he earned five varsity letters in crew, hockey and football. He joined Exeter in 1932 to teach history, and after World War II, in which he saw combat aboard the carrier Bunker Hill, returned as chairman of the history department. In 1946 he was so popular that hundreds of boys marched through the rain to cheer his appointment as Exeter's ninth principal. "Call me Salty." said he when the cheermakers stumbled over his name, and so they have ever since...
Like Exeter's Principal William Gurdon Saltonstall, whom he calls "a fast friend and a mortal competitor," Kemper is the first to ask whether his school is using its wealth wisely. The last thing he wants Andover to be is a shoehorn to slip grade-getters into prestige colleges. He worries about the lucky-me attitude that afflicts many Andover boys. He wonders how to teach them a sense of humanity and public service. He wants the school to serve. "We should be identified with public schools," he says. "Our job is to be available to anyone who wants...