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...times worse than the medieval version. Clarence Darrow denounced "poverty-creating big business" as "the cause of all crime." Sinclair Lewis declared that "one-half the people in colleges could be dropped to the advantage of everybody." Lewis denounced grading as "absurd"; whether he heard or not, Dean Hanford agreed enough to propose that separate April and November hour grades be abolished. The head of the Faculty approved this and dropped midyear probations and attendance records for upperclassmen at the same time. The head of the Hygiene Department labelled Stillman Infirmary "inadequate for a university of 7000 people" and demanded...
LARGEST ATOMIC POWER output in the world is planned by Administration for Government plant at Hanford, Wash. Under Eisenhower, Congress authorized $145 million to build the plant to produce plutonium. Kennedy will ask for an extra $95 million to expand the plant to produce 700,000 kilowatts of electricity, more than Bonneville Dam, may sell it through dam authority...
...first substantial change since the General Studies plan began under President Eliot's elective system came in 1934. Then men like Dean A. C. Hanford were engaged in an uphill struggle to establish specialization and Honors concentration as a way of life in the College. Every student, even in the Natural Sciences, was involved in tutorial, and the proportion of Honors graduates was 35 per cent and rising slowly...
...Ridge, Los Alamos, Richland, Wash, and other places is much too hot for sea disposal. Instead, the U.S. has spent $120 million to build vast, concrete-encased underground steel tanks, which hold a total of 65 million lethal gallons. The largest concentration is at AEC's Hanford Works at Richland, where tanks hold 80% of the high-energy waste in the U.S. It will remain dangerous at least until the year...
Outside the sports world, Dean Hanford called for course reduction and fewer hour exams, the College held its first transoceanic radio debate with Oxford, and President Lowell celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. Soon to resign, Lowell could look back with pride on his record of educational innovation and reconstruction. Tutorials began to slowly increase contact of faculty member with student; the General Exams emphasized a carefully planned academic program of distribution and concentration; the House system helped to mold the "Old Harvard" into new patterns more suitable for the times; and the extensive building drive provided the room for growth...