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After twenty years-six longer than anyone else-A. Chester Hanford resigned as dean of the College. Not only had he carried on the tradition of Briggs and Greenough, but as Provost Buck said, he had "added new lustre to it." Having give twenty years of his life to the job, he now wanted a chance to do more research, writing, and teaching in his first love: municipal and state government...
Today, in his soft-spoken way, ex-Dean Hanford is indulging in that love. Now he can give his Government 140 lectures or take trips back up into New England to investigate small towns without worrying about the livelihood of 4,000 young men. He can teach a junior non-honors tutorial section in Adams and spend more time on his gardening...
...spite of his present life, for twenty years the name Hanford was synonymous with Harvard College. Those two decades saw the building and establishment of the Houses which he supervised. They also saw Hanford become the strongest advocate of tutorial and general examinations. Virtually alone, he proved the worth of the National Scholarships...
...were laced with occasional dynamitings; the Northwest was a pre-World War I citadel of the I.W.W. Those days are past, but the tradition remains, and "Eastern finance" is still a repugnant term. The New Deal was credited with power and irrigation, the colossus of Grand Coulee bringing alive Hanford's atomic energy plant, mushrooming cities, drawing industry and providing water for empty land. Today, in an empire lacking private local capital to meet the increasing dreams of manifest destiny, federal help still looms large, and U.S.-financed works find vigorous support even from otherwise conservative Republicans. Item...
Taking this ponderous instrument to Hanford, they set it in front of one of the great reactors and surrounded it with a massive lead shield to reduce background radiation from cosmic rays, etc. By commandeering all the lead shielding available at Hanford, they got the background count for pairs of flashes down to 2.15 a minute when the reactor was not operating. When the reactor went to work, releasing floods of neutrinos (if they exist), the count went up to 2.5 a minute...